March 26, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if the Dodgers have a better chance of winning the World Series over the field. Alex Ovechkin is 6 goals away from passing Wayne Gretzky. And we dish out some BOLD Sweet 16 predictions!
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Little over a day away from the beginning of the
Major League Baseball season. Got the Sweet sixteen coming up
on Thursday. We'll have some big bold predictions for the
Sweet sixteen coming up later on this hour. One surprise
Final fourteen. But I ask you this, Mike Carmon, I
ask you this hit. We've finally seen the end of
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the exhibition season. Dodgers and Angels playing the final game,
Mookie Bets playing a very thin Mookie Bets playing, so
supposedly he's going to play in the opening game for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Lease he's playing.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I gotta ask you this because generally this is a
question that gets out there, and I remember the first
time talking about something like this was for the NCAA tournament,
where where this is a great topic. I did on
the radio a long time ago saying, okay, going to
the NCAA tournament. If I said to you, you could
take any four teams you want to win the title
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or the field? What would you take? Like, who would
you take? You taking any four teams or the field?
Who would you take?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Mike, you can't take the White Sox four times?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, they think Chicago, Chicago. But now it gets to
this point is if Dick is driving the car, then
I take the card? Did give the car seventy four?
Did go to coach?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You said?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
If I said to you, you could take either the
Dodgers or the field to win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
This is how this is how big a question this is.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now is because the first time in my life I've
I debated this before deciding right, because I always would
say the field right. I always would default the field,
mainly because anytime you talk about one team or the field,
you're guaranteed a fifty percent chance of being right, because
another team is going to be playing for the championship
in the worst case scenario against the other team.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So, worst case scenarios, you're gonna have the American League
champion against the Dodgers. Right, You're guaranteed fifty percent success rate.
You're not guaranteed having the Dodgers, but generally a team
is never this overwhelming. Right, Again, this is the best
life I've seen on paper in probably thirty years. They
had to go back to like the ninety six Yankees,
and I still think the Dodgers have a better team
going in than the Yankees did. The Dodgers have no weaknesses.
(03:09):
Their lineup is the best lineup in baseball.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
The Mets can make a run at them, but the
Dodgers are the best lineup in baseball. They fix their
starting pitching, the two biggest achilles heels they have. Let's
fix our bullpen a little bit, and let's make sure
our starting pitching were not at the point where it
was having bullpen games every third game.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So what did they do.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
They went out and got pitchers this offseason and went
out and got Blake Snell. They rookie Sasaki just fell
in their lap. They got Clayton Kershaw coming back at
some point. They fix their starting pitching, They fixed the bullpen.
They have three guys who can close and innings eaters
can come in and get big outs. To watch guys
like Vesia come in and do it last year and
band to come in. It doesn't it doesn't matter. This
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is a team with zero weaknesses. So for the first
time I had to debate it before I decided No,
I'm still going with the field, simply because too many
things can go wrong. Right the Dodgers starting picked did
there could be a rash of injuries. There could be
a rash of underperforming by the Dodgers starting pitchers, right,
They could just be rashes, right, who knows?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It could be.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Look, you already had We had that mersa in infestation
years ago, remember in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, oh my goodness, that was scary. But you already have.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You have an injury situation with Mookie Bets, Freddy Freeman
missing the early parts of the first two regular season
games in Tokyo. There's too many things that can happen,
But this is how big For the first time, I
think in a long long time, this isn't This is
an absolute debate to have, whereas it was never before.
Who do you take the one favor coming in? I mean, look,
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the Dodgers, as good as they were last year, they
were still a team that almost went home against the Padres.
You know that the Mets won more games against them
than anybody else did the Yankee Yankees in the World Series.
If they didn't melt down in Game five, maybe they
win Game five and suddenly it's game So with as
good as they were last year, okay, they still came
within a hair's breadth of losing. They've improved this year,
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but is that gonna guarantee them? But that's the thing is,
for the first time, for me, this has been a debate.
I'm still going the field, but it's not the locket.
I'm just rubber stamping the field sign all the way through.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
World Series Odds plus two thirty that's where the Dodgers
sit at this moment, so prohibitive favorite. The Braves coming
in at plus eight fifty and then we start looking
at the Yankees and the Mets and the Phillies rolling through,
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so a little bit of a gap.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
And yeah, after last year.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It's really difficult to try to pick against them, right
because you saw the rash of injuries in your lineup
and in the rotation. What was it, seventeen starting pitchers
to get down the stretch. I mean all of that
to say everything that seemingly could go wrong. Did you
(06:00):
even had a pre preseason scandal that, oh yeah, threatened
to rock the clubhouse and create problems and well that
got swept away very quickly and ferreted out. But look,
folks can cast dispersions as they will. It's done, it's settled,
and now we celebrate Sasaki, Sir Sasaki coming to town.
(06:24):
So yeah, it's it's a tough task for the rest
of the National League. And I'm usually with you, right,
give me the field because stuff's gonna happen, particularly when
we're talking about a run. You mentioned the NCAA tournament.
You gotta win six and it's about being on top
of your game six times. Being efficient for baseball with
(06:46):
one hundred and sixty two games slog, they're just built
so much better to get through it. And oh yeah,
by the way, there's still a war chest if they
should need to go, Oh yeah, you need.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
One more, that Bill's not coming do for another eight
year or yeah, they're funny.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
But legitimately though, right, all the teams in Major League Baseball,
there's so many that we've already surpassed this. We can't
we can't go and look at any further. For the Dodgers,
it would just be like, all right, I guess we
still need even though we added all this pitching, we
need one more starter. Let's go into the trade market
and pick up another big salary that is still there.
(07:22):
And it's not that folks get into ideas of fairness
or whatever. Look, these are the rules of engagement as
currently established in Major League Baseball. Will we get to
a point where there's a lockout, slash strike, slash fight
and rock slinging coming up? Yes, most likely we will,
especially in the opt out of the media rights deal.
(07:43):
But in the interim, here's here's the playing field, and
the Dodgers with their newly re re signed and re
upped Dave Roberts, they're built to win, and it's a
tough task. I mean, the Braves, as we talk with
John Paul Morosi, would be the team I think would
be the next to unseen them. And that's obviously the
(08:04):
odds say that, but I think just going roster wise
to try to match it. For your Mets, they got
to get through the early pitching woes of injuries. But
as you you know, very stridently and strenuously objected to
any mention of their potential downfall.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
You basically just said, hey, will you look what we
did last year? We turned off these guys in the stars.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
No, but look, and this shows you about the path
what they think about the Dodgers. What we think about
the Dodgers is that outside of them, three of the
four best teams in baseball are all in the National League.
And I'll tell you right now, they all look better
than the Yankees. Who are I mean, Stanton might not
even play all season, what kind of The Yankees made
some big time additions in the offseason, but let you
(08:49):
know see how they go. But it doesn't matter because
the Braves and the Phillies and the Mets are all loaded.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Man, the Mets.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Added Soto, The Phillies are still fantastic. The Braves are fantastic.
They'll be healthier this year were a year ago. This
is It's not like, hey, all these teams are in
the American League and the Dodgers only have to beat
one of them. They might have to go through two
of these teams in the playoffs to try to make
it all to the World Series, where they would get
the best team in the American League. And still they're
this overwhelming favorite to get there.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Did you see the notes coming out.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Of the the Cohen meeting with Boris and Sodo.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
It's the worst meeting ever?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
He wanted to go back to the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Everything we said it was Yankees are better, Yankees are better.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I told my friends that story today that Steve Cohen
did an interview saying after a second meeting with Juan
Soto and Soda said I don't think you have the
protection the lineup that I'm looking for. He walked away,
going that was the worst meeting I was ever part of.
He's going back to the Yankees. The next day, Boris
called him and said, Hey, great meeting. I'm I'm ready
to open negotiations with you. It's like, well, Okay, so
Wan Soto loved what whatever Steve Cohen said in that
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meeting that he said was the worst meeting of his life.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Well, maybe.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Maybe it was one where it got uncomfortable enough to
where Cohen uh just dropped to any any facade and
got real with him.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Josie, you were honest with me. What were you gonna
say for rostburg One Soto?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And like Steve Cohen's money, he doesn't care about winning.
Do you really chose the Mets right right exact? Because
nobody else was gonna pay him, nobody else the Yankees
are gonna get that much the Yankees. Steve Cohen was
gonna go the equation at all. I told you this
a year ago that you can't justify paying one soda
more than the captain Aaron Judge.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Chief, of course you can.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Steve Owen was gonna go give him more money than
Aaron Johnn sure, because.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You want him to stay.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's not my fault that that that he's I don't care.
If you're a Yankee, don't care because he's a Met.
Now if you're a Yankee, look you know who also
doesn't care. Francisco Lindor with his Big Three hundred million
dollar contract. WHOA, you're gonna give one Soto twice what
you're paying Lindor. Yeah, because that's how it goes. And
when you're twenty six years old and you're the best
(10:56):
hitter that we've seen outside of show Heyo Tani.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, happens that way. But oh, we can't do it
because they didn't want to give Juan Soto.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
A swite at Yankee Stadium, because we didn't do it
for Jeter times change, Man times change.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You're stuck.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You're stuck in Aaron twenty years ago. You're stuck in
an era twenty like Steve Cohen's money, that is it? Yeah, well,
Steve Coch, It's not like he wasn't going to get
something close. Steve Cohen wasn't getting seven hundred plus million.
He would have gotten seven hundred million from somebody.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yet, absolutely would have. He would have.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I don't think there's enough teams to fight for that
unless the uh he was willing to take a lot
of deferred payments, and I don't think borrow Boris is
going to go down that road.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
He would have been a dodger if he wanted to
get paid in twenty eighty four.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You know that's right, because that has been the thing
with lind Door. How long is he willing to play
on his thirty two a year.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I think being thirty years old now and being in
and still getting thirty million a year, no, I think
he's fine. I think Francisco Lidoor is fine. I don't
think he's worried about anything. I don't think he's saying, hey,
I need to renegotiate this deal.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
See Frostburg. I'm just trying to plant in the various seeds.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
If I think that's I think it's five. I think
it's absolutely fine.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Now, speaking either way, they're still making nine times as
much as the White Sox entire roster.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
It is a long way to go now, speaking of
the Dodgers, real quick to give you a bold prediction
pick for NLMVP. That's not show Heyotani, because clearly, coming
off of fifty to fifty year Altani is the best
player in baseball. He's always going to be the favorite.
Now doesn't mean he's gonna always have a great year.
Maybe he plays in less games, Maybe other guys in
the lineup hit better. Maybe he doesn't quite have a
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fifty to fifty type year, and can you win the
MVP when you don't have a fifty to fifty type
year after you go fifty to fifty. So, just to
throw it out there, the opening is there for someone else,
just in case. My non Otani pick for NLMVP has
got to be somebody that you can argue. His importance
is just as big to his team as Otani's. It's
hard to do it with another hitter. It's hard to say, so, no, no,
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and I'll tell you it's not Wan Soto. It's hard
for to say. It's hard to say Juan Soto means
more than show Heyotani when Otani's a better player right
and is gonna hit better.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It's hard to do. But someone who's gonna grab.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
The storylines and every fifth day we pay attention to
him like we pay attention to show hey Otani. Paul
Skeens can win NL MVP. He had an incredible year
last year. He's the picture everybody wants to see. You
need the storyline, you need the numbers, and you need
the attention, the relevancy. He has one of those Jacob
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de Grom you know, a sub one era through April
and May with tons of strikeouts. Yeah, then your debate's
gonna be Hey, is what Scheme's doing better than what
Otani is doing? And Schemes can be the guy that
can win MVP. He can take that spot light away
because he'll have it on him every fifth day.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Well, especially if you go travel to Pittsburgh to go,
you know, to your to see Mecca. You know the
one point one million dollar trading card seventy five to
one odds for you there Smith, if you want to
back that up, I went, well, a little little less
of a price shot and looking at it. Ronald Acunya Junior,
I think John Paul Morosi when he joined us kind
(14:04):
of went down that highway as well. Thirty to one.
Brave second favorite to the Dodgers to make some noise
coming off.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
A big injury.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
With the lineup and roster that they've assembled, pretty solid.
Take at thirty to one. There, Otani, Soto, Tatis, Junior, Betts,
Harper are your top five, followed by a little bit
of a surprising Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
In a contract.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
They can't trade for Kyle Tucker and then lose him, Yeah,
especially when the guy they traded for him made the astros,
look out.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
And look out. Everybody comes out, all mashing and everything. Yeah,
no question about it.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
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believe a big story today. I don't believe the math
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So there's there's something.
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There's some maths, and I say maths that I just
don't believe right now, something happened to you.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
You don't like math, No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I never like math.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But I did well at math in school because I
would pay if math is a class, like if you
go every day and pay attention, you'll do well, right, Like,
that's kind of what it was.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
He would have done well.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
When I started not doing well in math was in
college when I went to like every other class because
it was eight thirty in the morning, and I realized, okay,
I don't know I'm doing Like I went to like
I had probability and statistics my first year at Syracuse
because I had to take a math because I didn't
I didn't pass the ap math cl our teacher was
our teacher was crying at the end when hardly anybody
passed because the test was just so hard that nobody
(20:05):
did well as like eighteen calcul No no, no, she
was great.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
She left to be a principal. She actual left school
to go be a principal, but like.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
We were we but it was because of your failure.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
She said, yeah, exactly. She set us up for the
AP test.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
She was a good teacher, like we got it all wet,
everything was great, and then it was just the test
was either it was there were some stuff on the essays.
We had to do essays for math that just weren't
expected that none of us really knew how to do.
So all of us basically did really really bad. That
was the test I told you about where my my
friend said to me Jay and he looked at I'm like,
what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
We're gonna do and he showed me.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
For one of his essays, he just drew a picture
of a like a superhero with question marks on him
holding up a pencil like that was his essay, Like
he had no idea and he was an artist, so that's.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
What he drew. Like did he get partial credit?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
No, he got a two on the test like I did.
And then our numbers came in and.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
All of us two's too, Like a couple of people
got threes and one person got a four, and the
teacher was really upset. She was like crying, going, I
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for a minute, and then she started saying, you know,
maybe you should have been paying more attention over the
en and all of us were.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Like, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And I was really upset, and I remember going home
and telling my mom this, and my mom was like,
because I thought, okay, anytime I didn't do something, I
didn't get a high enough grade in school, it was
always my fault, right, Like there was always my fault, right,
like okay, and which didn't happen that off because I
was a good student, but it was always my fault.
But she said if everybody did bad, how can she
say it's your guys fault? I said, exactly, okay, great,
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my mom, all right, she gets it. Mom, she goes,
you still should have got higher than the two. I'm like,
I know I should have got hired the two. But
essays were really really hard and none of us really
knew about it. But she was like, oh, yeah, yeah,
it's not when when that happens, when everybody does poorly,
that that's not on the student, like because we're not
going into this test trying to do bad right, We're
trying to do well right.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
We're trying to do it's okay, we didn't know how
to do it.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
John Kaminski drew a picture of a superhero with a
crossword puzzle, tights and holding up a pencil in his head.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
I mean, come on, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah, that was really cold.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
That's a boss move.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I was better than my stupid ass answer I tried
to say.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
So, I really really really really really really really really
really believe the obtuse angle is. I mean, you know,
but anyway, there's maths I don't agree with. Man, I
don't agree with the first math and has happened to
come up just this week, and I had a long
conversation with my wife about it because she's on Facebook,
and she says, Hey, who's the smallest uh stadium major
(22:26):
League Baseball? And I said, well, it's the Troup, which
is the Raise, but they're not playing there this year.
She's know, it doesn't matter how many people in the
trop I go between thirty five and forty thousand.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I think somewhere, Well.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
The White Sox Stadium only holds like four hundred.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, no, that's how many people go. More people can can
and actually sit there, that's how many people go to
the games. So she said she saw this, she saw
this thing on Facebook that says, if you put every
player who ever played Major League Baseball and invited them
into the smallest stadium in the league, they wouldn't even
be close to filling it up because there's only over
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just over twenty one thousand people in the last one
hundred and fifty years have ever played Major League Baseball.
And I said, you know what, I think, that's a
load of crap. I'm never gonna believe that math. I'm
not because two hundred and fifty people a year Because
I looked this up a few years ago when they
had the when Major League Baseball had the twenty thousandth player,
you know, back in twenty twenty one. I remember looking
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it up, going there's no way this works because two
hundred and fifty new people a year make their Major
League Baseball debut, right, Just go back the last five years,
around two hundred and fifty people a year, which is
about right. It's a little about ten people per team.
Because you have injuries and the expansion of rosters, people
come up. So that means you're saying, like, just going
back to the year two thousand, right, if two hundred
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and fifty people in Major League Baseball make their debut
every year, you're talking about that's five thousand people just
in new athletes in the last twenty five years. So
a quarter of everybody who's ever played the game is
just in the last twenty five years of a sport
that's been around for one hundred and thirty before that.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I think it's way less than two fifty though, that
make their debut every year.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
No, it's about two fifth.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Last year was two fifty, twenty twenty two was like
two forty seven, twenty one, maybe one or two No, No,
but it's it's but it's about injuries, and it's about
coming up during the season and when rosters expand, people
play more games.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
When that happened, that was a big deal for a long.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
And it's all about just like we always talk about
the the long tail on the careers of NFL players,
right when it's the average so it's three years, like, yes,
but that includes an awful lot of guys that play
one or two games that are gone major League Baseball
has a lot of those two. They count towards that
two fifty per year. But which is why the math
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is kind of fuzzy.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Here.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
By the way, the they delayed in Tampa the vote
to fix the U Tropic Canafy.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, yeah, that they're gonna be the the Nashville Rays
coming up in a couple of years, the Montreal Rays
in a couple of years, guaranteed. So I'm ever believe
that math, right, I'll never believe that math because it again.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
There's less teams, but.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Still, I mean, you're talking about different players coming it
doesn't work out. I think there's wide swaths of people
who were missed in at some way, shape or form,
Like we missed.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Them in the census. Is that what you're saying. Yeah,
maybe you missed them when the baseball census.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, when the game first started coming out, maybe early
in the twentieth century. There's a bunch of people they missed.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I guarantee it well, because it's also a thing Jason
of the you know what's the source, because it's always
the where in the innerwebs are we finding this?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Yeah, And it was a Baseball Almanac number No.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I don't think it's anything anything that's uh.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Conspiracy theory with Jesse.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I just think it's I just think it's something that
that players were missed, that lots of players were missed,
because twenty one thousand just doesn't add up.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It just doesn't, really, it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
They are like part of the nineteen nineteen black Socks.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
And they've just been eliminated from the handles of his sery.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean, let's just say you go back another twenty years,
from two thousand to nineteen eighty, right, let's just say
you're taking everybody that played and say that's just another
five thousand players, right, Just say it's five thousand, right,
just not making their debuts, just everybody who played in
the game. So what you're saying is a full half
of the players who have played in Major League Baseball
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history have all played in the last forty No, there's
no way, There's no way. But that gets to this point,
which is what I don't believe. Today, ratings for the
first weekend of the NCAA Tournament A route and TV
ratings are the highest for an opening weekend since nineteen
ninety three. There's no way this is a tournament without
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star power, that didn't have a lot of buzz coming
into it. And yes, I get that there's not a
lot of mid major teams coming in, but you can't
sit here and tell me, oh man, people really can't
wait to go see some of these teams play in
college basketball. No, you can't. You can't tell me that
I'm dying to go see. You know, the fourth and
(26:59):
fifth teams out of the Big Ten and the twelfth
to fourteenth teams out of the SEC. There's not a
lot of star power, there's no buzz. But yet this year,
this year, and last year the tournament was so was
so rough. Ratings wise, this year it's the highest it's
been in thirty three years since North Carolina beat Michigan
when Chris Weber called time out. You're telling me this year,
(27:20):
when when the average basketball fan can't name anybody outside
of Cooper Flag on their favorite ten players on their
favorite team. There's no way I'm not gonna believe this
is the highest rated opening weekend where we didn't have
a lot of upsets, we did have a lot of
you must get to the television. There wasn't a lot
you can't get There's no way this metric is the
highest rated opening weekend in thirty three years. Not when
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there's so many different ways to watch the games, where
so many different ways haven't been counted in the years past,
all of a sudden this year, Oh yeah, look, we
got more people watched ever before. No, I'm not buying it,
but I think that's part of it is that we
haven't counted people the proper way in years past. I
made a sense this joke, but it's certainly plays right
in terms of you know, exhibitions at bars, restaurants, et
(28:06):
cetera that weren't counted properly.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Now we talk about streaming and being able to pull it.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
I don't know if there were more pirates and people
getting illegal feeds in the past, or maybe more people
have really succumbed to the love of gambling. Three point
one billion dollars is what the estimated legal wagering is
on the tournament this year, So maybe they're bringing more
eyeballs as people want to watch their money and investment.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
You're also, I know, you're not counting all the bets
your brothers make, so I know there's that too.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
No, well, that's just it, right. I mean, look.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Again, it's all fuzzy fuzzy math, right. I mean, we
had a sandwich shop in Evanston when I was at
Northwestern that on Sundays didn't open till twelve oh one.
Riddle me that, Batman, Why wasn't Why was it until
after the kickoffs of those early games. But all of
that to say, hey, yeah, I mean there's some just
(29:02):
for the waves things are reported. I think there's a
different metric of being taken into account the last you know,
two years, or certainly for this year to where we're
looking at it. But look, you gotta try to sell
some positivity here, right. You can play fun with numbers
like you do with your accountant. What was that that
(29:25):
extra zero?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Don't throw that out back? Okay, yet people think you're
talking about me.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Words of Beto Cook. Don't tag me with that. Okay,
not not happening.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
You don't pay taxes?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
No, stop, stop stop, I pay I pay every job.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Stop?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Why why I pay taxes?
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Buck?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
We're on a ship in space. Don't pay taxes. How
are they gonna come after you? We just get on
the transporter, go down to the go down to the
planet's box.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Bok time now to.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Man has been compared to the mister Scott of Fox
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Speaker 6 (30:09):
Does.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
He always make sure that everybody gets down to the
planet and outside of the extras who show up just
to get killed, he always make sure Captain Kirk and
Leonard Demoy make it back.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
It's Steve de Segerang, It's Scotty, I'm an anger on
a pilot in the end, the.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Old Christian Chris Rock routine. You know who would never
make it back. Yeoman Johnson would never make it back.
He never make it back. Oh, Spock is coming back?
Kirk Yeoman Johnson. I knew he was gonna die. Oh
my god, that's so funny.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Jay Leto used to always point out that that crew
member that you notice in this episode, I haven't seen him,
and he's gone before the halftime of this episode.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
You just you won't see him again.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
NBA Late Game went to Oklahoma City, which is one
seven in a row. One at Sacramento tonight, thirty two
points for Shay gil Just Alexander one twenty one one
O five the final o. Casey's record is sixty and twelve.
Cleveland is now fifty eight and fourteen after winning at
Portland victories for Houston, again for Memphis, Detroit, and Orlando.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
With wins.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
Miami held Golden State's Jimmy Butler to eleven points in
a victory against the Warriors one twelve eighty six, and
the Knicks down to Dallas one twenty eight one thirteen
triple doubles for both Karl Anthony Towns and Josh Hart,
while the next og On Andobi scored thirty five points.
Damian Lillard of Milwaukee is out indefinitely with blood clotts
in a calf for the Celtics. Jason Tatum doubtful for
(31:34):
Wednesday after last night's sprained ankle. Nicoleokicch of Denver, with
his ankle injury, listed as doubtful for Wednesday, could mase
a sixth straight game. Saint Francis, which just played in
college basketball's first four, says it will move all of
its athletic programs to Division three in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
So excited about that birth in the NCAA turn Listen,
we're dropping way down.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
Okay, they see what college basketball has become. Let's get
out of here. Drake guard Bennett Steartz intends to play
for Iowa, whereas coach just went New Mexico guard Donovan
Dent is transferring. He was Mountain West Player of the Year.
He may have known that Xavier is hiring his coach,
Richard Patino, away from New Mexico. The Men's Sweet sixteen
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starts Thursday night. Women's Sweet sixteen begins Friday. Alea Chavez
so she'll play for Oklahoma. She was the top high
school recruit. Men's NT tournament quarterfinals tonight started with narrow
wins for Chattanooga at Bradley and North Texas at Oklahoma State.
In the NHL. Winnipeg in overtime beat Washington three to
(32:37):
two to clinch a playoff spot. Victories for Vegas and Colorado.
LA took the late game three to one over the Rangers.
The King's home record twenty six and three plus four
overtime loses. That is kind of good. Toronto seven to
two over Philadelphia. Tampa Bay a six to one winner
against Pittsburgh. Argentina beat Brazil in a World Cup qualifier
four to one, led to nothing after twelve minutes. The
(33:00):
US will co host next year's tournament. Brazil still has
not won a game in Argentina for sixteen years. The
New York Giants are giving quarterback Russell Wilson a one
year deal, pending of physical They also have quarterback Jamis
Winston Now. The Patriots are signing wide receiver Stefan Diggs.
Stanford fired football coach Troy Taylor. Baseball's opening day is Thursday.
(33:21):
The MLB exhibition season ended tonight with the Dodgers for
to one win at the Angels, allowing the Halos just
one hit, and Dodger shortstop Mookie bats finally returned after
an illness, went oh for three but says he's fine
for Thursday.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Coming up next, we'll give you some Big Bowl predictions
for the Sweet sixteen and a football story we can
all get behind, every one of us.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That's next, Jason to Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (33:55):
Oh my goodness, and the Staten Island Ferry comes in last.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
You know, I'm all ready.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
The Mets announced today that they're gonna have their own
version of the Sausage Race as the President's Race by
having the Burroughs Race next year. I don't mean Burroughs
like donkeys, like the Five Boroughs Manhattan.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
It wouldn't be kind of cool to donkeys.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
And I'm already telling you because I'm excited. My hometown,
Staten Island, Staten Island Ferry is never gonna win. That
that's gonna be. That's gonna be the borough that will.
They may win like once or twice all year, like
they're never gonna win. It's always gonna be. Queen's is
gonna win. Obviously, Manhattan'll win once in a while. But
Staten Island will never win. It's never gonna win.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
Wow, you're saying it's fixed.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
No, Yeah, Staten Island's always been. We've always been the
forgotten borough. I don't know what borough. We've always been
where a real borough as far as you know. The
Staten Island Ferry. He owns a Staten Island ferry. Him
and Pete Davidson own a Staten Island ferry.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I think it's the state.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
No, there's lots of that. There's lots of fairy I've been.
I spent the vast majority of my teenage into early
twenty years on the Staten Island Ferry.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
There's a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
There's a lot. It's a lot of a lot, a
lot of stories. If those ships could talk you.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
This is very minor league stuff for the Mets.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Now everybody had would the Brewers have it? The Nationals
have it? I realized two teams that aren't very good.
But other teams have stuff like you.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Guys just playing the Savannah bananas.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Well, at least we're having something real.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You guys do the the Dodgers do the race of
the cars all through Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
That's all on the done on the scoreboard. At least
that Mets.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You're having people in person having Staten Island Ferry make
un it's not well.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
The potential for injury is large.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Yeah, sure, sure sure.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
And if I don't bishop a person that runs out
of the stands to become part of the race.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
And look, next time I go back, I will ask
to hey, could I be the Staten Island Ferry. That
could be the Yeah, celebrity Sartin Island Ferry runner. Well,
now that you're I don't think you can be the
Staten Island Ferry. They would they would bump me up.
They would just put stuff out of I'd wear a
suit or something chisel.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Now you going to do that?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Well, that's how I win. I'm a I'm a sleek
boat cutting through the water.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Jason Smith the cutter.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
So one big.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Football story we can all get behind before we get
to the Big Bowl. Predictions for the Sweet six team.
Andrew Luck today, the GM president of the Player Operations
operator of development running the Stanford Cardinal football program, fired
head coach Troy Taylor today. Taylor, who was in trouble
off the field for how he treated employees and people
(36:29):
who were in the program, also did not win a
lot of games the last couple of years. How they
beat Syracuse I have no idea because it kept us
out of the playoff anyway, Andrew Luck made the decision
moving on from Troy Taylor. Dear Captain Andrew Luck, I
know that the front has been very difficult. Please send
mother back.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
We're not able to Withstandny.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
We can't keep five guys upright moving forward in our
pursuit of excellence.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Hire yourself as the next head coach. Nobody says no,
Andrew Luck should be the next head coach in Stanford.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
He could be the head coach in GM, right, you
could do both jobs.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You don't need to be someone anymore in college football
because it's about the NIL portal.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
When it's about.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Handling transfers and just building a program, you don't need
to be someone who I started off as a graduate assistant.
Then it was a defensive backs coach, then there was
assistant defensive coordinator, then defense. You don't need to do
that anymore. You're not like that way. Look at Fran
Brown at Syracuse. He was a defensive backs coach and
but he was the best recruiter in the country. Two
years running, Syracuse said, come run our program.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
What did he do?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
He brought in guys from Alabama, He flipped guys from Georgia,
he flipped Kyle McCord from Ohio State. And what happened.
Syracuse won ten games, finish in the top twenty for
the first time in twenty years. We're a football school now.
I can't wait. It was so exciting. This is the
kind of coaches you need now, someone that's going to
be able to draw the talent in the Hey, I'll
hire a great offensive coordinator, a great defensive coordinator, and
(37:54):
clearly Andrew Luck. Look he's got the cachet. He's got
the experience, he's got the knowledge to be able to
be the head coach.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He knows enough about football, I'm pretty sure, especially what
it means to coach. The guy's a pretty sharp guy.
This is how you do it. People will come to
Stanford to be his OC and his DC and help
build the program. He needs to be able to run
the program like a CEO. It's what all the great
head coaches do. And Stanford's looking for a big push,
something to help, something to energize the program, energize recruiting.
(38:24):
Andrew Luck is that guy. I don't know if he
can nominate himself, but if i'm some alumni, I get
it going tomorrow. Andrew, come take over the program. You
be the head coach, take over the team.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Just saying you take a page out of what Dion's done,
Not that he didn't.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Coach, right.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
He had a few years of getting himself ready and
acclimated and then brought his son, Travis Hunter and several
others to Colorado where they started to build. But there's
your template, there's your opportunity. Look at all the guys
that Dion's brought in, former players, Hall of famers, guys
(38:58):
that are ready to you really immerse themselves, but can
relate to a lot of what the players are going through.
They're young enough, just barely removed from the game. I
think you've got a chance to start a new tradition
here for a squad that's been irrelevant since twenty eighteen.
You went three and nine in your first year in
(39:20):
a new conference, So why not throw something against the
wall and see if it sticks with a guy who
most respected and expected to be a potential Hall of
Fame kind of candidate before he walked away citing the
injuries in the number of times he was bludgeoned. One
thing we know is that, unlike Dion, he will build
(39:41):
an offensive line for whatever.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
Arabat.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yes, don't worry about it. I got your back, but
trust me, I know what it's like to not have
an offensive line.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I will build that for you.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
There's a special Nil fund being set up which it's
based on the tree.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
The tree mascot strong like oak.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
From college bask from college football to college basketball. We're
getting set for the Sweet sixteen coming up on opening
day of Major League Jason, what time does St. John's play?
Saint John's plays. Just ask Richard Patino. He's the next
head coach.
Speaker 6 (40:11):
Is Xavier he does he bring that woman in the
red sweater with him.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
I'll say this right now, Duke looks like an overwhelming
favorite to win it, all right, they just do. But
I'll give you this bold prediction for the Sweet sixteen.
Texas Tech is now coming out of that region that
Saint John's is in Florida. They're gonna be in the
Final four. They do it all on offense. They did
it with threes in their first game. The Bigs did
it against Drake. Florida doesn't look like they're that good.
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Texas Tech's going to the Final four.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Angry salty Sparty, and then he gets a date with Michigan.
Before it's all over, Let's go plus nine.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome for Mike.
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Little over a day away from the beginning of the
Major League Baseball season. Got the Sweet sixteen coming up
on Thursday. We'll have some big bold predictions for the
Sweet sixteen coming up later on this hour. One surprise
Final fourteen. But I ask you this, Mike Carmon, I
ask you this hit. We've finally seen the end of
(01:17):
the exhibition season. Dodgers and Angels playing the final game,
Mookie Bets playing a very thin Mookie Bets playing, so
supposedly he's going to play in the opening game for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Lease he's playing.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I gotta ask you this because generally this is a
question that gets out there, and I remember the first
time talking about something like this was for the NCAA tournament,
where where this is a great topic. I did on
the radio a long time ago saying, okay, going to
the NCAA tournament. If I said to you, you could
take any four teams you want to win the title
(01:53):
or the field? What would you take? Like, who would
you take? You taking any four teams or the field?
Who would you take?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Mike, you can't take the White Sox four times?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, they think Chicago, Chicago. But now it gets to
this point is if Dick is driving the car, then
I take the card? Did give the car seventy four?
Did go to coach?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
You said?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
If I said to you, you could take either the
Dodgers or the field to win the World Series.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
This is how this is how big a question this is.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now is because the first time in my life I've
I debated this before deciding right, because I always would
say the field right. I always would default the field,
mainly because anytime you talk about one team or the field,
you're guaranteed a fifty percent chance of being right, because
another team is going to be playing for the championship
in the worst case scenario against the other team.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So, worst case scenarios, you're gonna have the American League
champion against the Dodgers. Right, You're guaranteed fifty percent success rate.
You're not guaranteed having the Dodgers, but generally a team
is never this overwhelming. Right, Again, this is the best
life I've seen on paper in probably thirty years. They
had to go back to like the ninety six Yankees,
and I still think the Dodgers have a better team
going in than the Yankees did. The Dodgers have no weaknesses.
(03:09):
Their lineup is the best lineup in baseball.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
The Mets can make a run at them, but the
Dodgers are the best lineup in baseball. They fix their
starting pitching, the two biggest achilles heels they have. Let's
fix our bullpen a little bit, and let's make sure
our starting pitching were not at the point where it
was having bullpen games every third game.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So what did they do.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
They went out and got pitchers this offseason and went
out and got Blake Snell. They rookie Sasaki just fell
in their lap. They got Clayton Kershaw coming back at
some point. They fix their starting pitching, They fixed the bullpen.
They have three guys who can close and innings eaters
can come in and get big outs. To watch guys
like Vesia come in and do it last year and
band to come in. It doesn't it doesn't matter. This
(03:48):
is a team with zero weaknesses. So for the first
time I had to debate it before I decided No,
I'm still going with the field, simply because too many
things can go wrong. Right the Dodgers starting picked did
there could be a rash of injuries. There could be
a rash of underperforming by the Dodgers starting pitchers, right,
They could just be rashes, right, who knows?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
It could be.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Look, you already had We had that mersa in infestation
years ago, remember in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, oh my goodness, that was scary. But you already have.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
You have an injury situation with Mookie Bets, Freddy Freeman
missing the early parts of the first two regular season
games in Tokyo. There's too many things that can happen,
But this is how big For the first time, I
think in a long long time, this isn't This is
an absolute debate to have, whereas it was never before.
Who do you take the one favor coming in? I mean, look,
(04:37):
the Dodgers, as good as they were last year, they
were still a team that almost went home against the Padres.
You know that the Mets won more games against them
than anybody else did the Yankee Yankees in the World Series.
If they didn't melt down in Game five, maybe they
win Game five and suddenly it's game So with as
good as they were last year, okay, they still came
within a hair's breadth of losing. They've improved this year,
(04:58):
but is that gonna guarantee them? But that's the thing is,
for the first time, for me, this has been a debate.
I'm still going the field, but it's not the locket.
I'm just rubber stamping the field sign all the way through.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
World Series Odds plus two thirty that's where the Dodgers
sit at this moment, so prohibitive favorite. The Braves coming
in at plus eight fifty and then we start looking
at the Yankees and the Mets and the Phillies rolling through,
(05:31):
so a little bit of a gap.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
And yeah, after last year.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
It's really difficult to try to pick against them, right
because you saw the rash of injuries in your lineup
and in the rotation. What was it, seventeen starting pitchers
to get down the stretch. I mean all of that
to say everything that seemingly could go wrong. Did you
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even had a pre preseason scandal that, oh yeah, threatened
to rock the clubhouse and create problems and well that
got swept away very quickly and ferreted out. But look,
folks can cast dispersions as they will. It's done, it's settled,
and now we celebrate Sasaki, Sir Sasaki coming to town.
(06:24):
So yeah, it's it's a tough task for the rest
of the National League. And I'm usually with you, right,
give me the field because stuff's gonna happen, particularly when
we're talking about a run. You mentioned the NCAA tournament.
You gotta win six and it's about being on top
of your game six times. Being efficient for baseball with
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one hundred and sixty two games slog, they're just built
so much better to get through it. And oh yeah,
by the way, there's still a war chest if they
should need to go, Oh yeah, you need.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
One more, that Bill's not coming do for another eight
year or yeah, they're funny.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
But legitimately though, right, all the teams in Major League Baseball,
there's so many that we've already surpassed this. We can't
we can't go and look at any further. For the Dodgers,
it would just be like, all right, I guess we
still need even though we added all this pitching, we
need one more starter. Let's go into the trade market
and pick up another big salary that is still there.
(07:22):
And it's not that folks get into ideas of fairness
or whatever. Look, these are the rules of engagement as
currently established in Major League Baseball. Will we get to
a point where there's a lockout, slash strike, slash fight
and rock slinging coming up? Yes, most likely we will,
especially in the opt out of the media rights deal.
(07:43):
But in the interim, here's here's the playing field, and
the Dodgers with their newly re re signed and re
upped Dave Roberts, they're built to win, and it's a
tough task. I mean, the Braves, as we talk with
John Paul Morosi, would be the team I think would
be the next to unseen them. And that's obviously the
(08:04):
odds say that, but I think just going roster wise
to try to match it. For your Mets, they got
to get through the early pitching woes of injuries. But
as you you know, very stridently and strenuously objected to
any mention of their potential downfall.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
You basically just said, hey, will you look what we
did last year? We turned off these guys in the stars.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
No, but look, and this shows you about the path
what they think about the Dodgers. What we think about
the Dodgers is that outside of them, three of the
four best teams in baseball are all in the National League.
And I'll tell you right now, they all look better
than the Yankees. Who are I mean, Stanton might not
even play all season, what kind of The Yankees made
some big time additions in the offseason, but let you
(08:49):
know see how they go. But it doesn't matter because
the Braves and the Phillies and the Mets are all loaded.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Man, the Mets.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Added Soto, The Phillies are still fantastic. The Braves are fantastic.
They'll be healthier this year were a year ago. This
is It's not like, hey, all these teams are in
the American League and the Dodgers only have to beat
one of them. They might have to go through two
of these teams in the playoffs to try to make
it all to the World Series, where they would get
the best team in the American League. And still they're
this overwhelming favorite to get there.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Did you see the notes coming out.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Of the the Cohen meeting with Boris and Sodo.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
It's the worst meeting ever?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
He wanted to go back to the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Everything we said it was Yankees are better, Yankees are better.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I told my friends that story today that Steve Cohen
did an interview saying after a second meeting with Juan
Soto and Soda said I don't think you have the
protection the lineup that I'm looking for. He walked away,
going that was the worst meeting I was ever part of.
He's going back to the Yankees. The next day, Boris
called him and said, Hey, great meeting. I'm I'm ready
to open negotiations with you. It's like, well, Okay, so
Wan Soto loved what whatever Steve Cohen said in that
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meeting that he said was the worst meeting of his life.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Well, maybe.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Maybe it was one where it got uncomfortable enough to
where Cohen uh just dropped to any any facade and
got real with him.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Josie, you were honest with me. What were you gonna
say for rostburg One Soto?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And like Steve Cohen's money, he doesn't care about winning.
Do you really chose the Mets right right exact? Because
nobody else was gonna pay him, nobody else the Yankees
are gonna get that much the Yankees. Steve Cohen was
gonna go the equation at all. I told you this
a year ago that you can't justify paying one soda
more than the captain Aaron Judge.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Chief, of course you can.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Steve Owen was gonna go give him more money than
Aaron Johnn sure, because.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You want him to stay.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
It's not my fault that that that he's I don't care.
If you're a Yankee, don't care because he's a Met.
Now if you're a Yankee, look you know who also
doesn't care. Francisco Lindor with his Big Three hundred million
dollar contract. WHOA, you're gonna give one Soto twice what
you're paying Lindor. Yeah, because that's how it goes. And
when you're twenty six years old and you're the best
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hitter that we've seen outside of show Heyo Tani.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, happens that way. But oh, we can't do it
because they didn't want to give Juan Soto.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
A swite at Yankee Stadium, because we didn't do it
for Jeter times change, Man times change.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You're stuck.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
You're stuck in Aaron twenty years ago. You're stuck in
an era twenty like Steve Cohen's money, that is it? Yeah, well,
Steve Coch, It's not like he wasn't going to get
something close. Steve Cohen wasn't getting seven hundred plus million.
He would have gotten seven hundred million from somebody.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yet, absolutely would have. He would have.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I don't think there's enough teams to fight for that
unless the uh he was willing to take a lot
of deferred payments, and I don't think borrow Boris is
going to go down that road.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
He would have been a dodger if he wanted to
get paid in twenty eighty four.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You know that's right, because that has been the thing
with lind Door. How long is he willing to play
on his thirty two a year.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I think being thirty years old now and being in
and still getting thirty million a year, no, I think
he's fine. I think Francisco Lidoor is fine. I don't
think he's worried about anything. I don't think he's saying, hey,
I need to renegotiate this deal.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
See Frostburg. I'm just trying to plant in the various seeds.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
If I think that's I think it's five. I think
it's absolutely fine.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Now, speaking either way, they're still making nine times as
much as the White Sox entire roster.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
It is a long way to go now, speaking of
the Dodgers, real quick to give you a bold prediction
pick for NLMVP. That's not show Heyotani, because clearly, coming
off of fifty to fifty year Altani is the best
player in baseball. He's always going to be the favorite.
Now doesn't mean he's gonna always have a great year.
Maybe he plays in less games, Maybe other guys in
the lineup hit better. Maybe he doesn't quite have a
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fifty to fifty type year, and can you win the
MVP when you don't have a fifty to fifty type
year after you go fifty to fifty. So, just to
throw it out there, the opening is there for someone else,
just in case. My non Otani pick for NLMVP has
got to be somebody that you can argue. His importance
is just as big to his team as Otani's. It's
hard to do it with another hitter. It's hard to say, so, no, no,
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and I'll tell you it's not Wan Soto. It's hard
for to say. It's hard to say Juan Soto means
more than show Heyotani when Otani's a better player right
and is gonna hit better.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
It's hard to do. But someone who's gonna grab.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
The storylines and every fifth day we pay attention to
him like we pay attention to show hey Otani. Paul
Skeens can win NL MVP. He had an incredible year
last year. He's the picture everybody wants to see. You
need the storyline, you need the numbers, and you need
the attention, the relevancy. He has one of those Jacob
(13:25):
de Grom you know, a sub one era through April
and May with tons of strikeouts. Yeah, then your debate's
gonna be Hey, is what Scheme's doing better than what
Otani is doing? And Schemes can be the guy that
can win MVP. He can take that spot light away
because he'll have it on him every fifth day.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Well, especially if you go travel to Pittsburgh to go,
you know, to your to see Mecca. You know the
one point one million dollar trading card seventy five to
one odds for you there Smith, if you want to
back that up, I went, well, a little little less
of a price shot and looking at it. Ronald Acunya Junior,
I think John Paul Morosi when he joined us kind
(14:04):
of went down that highway as well. Thirty to one.
Brave second favorite to the Dodgers to make some noise
coming off.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
A big injury.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
With the lineup and roster that they've assembled, pretty solid.
Take at thirty to one. There, Otani, Soto, Tatis, Junior, Betts,
Harper are your top five, followed by a little bit
of a surprising Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
In a contract.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
They can't trade for Kyle Tucker and then lose him, Yeah,
especially when the guy they traded for him made the astros,
look out.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
And look out. Everybody comes out, all mashing and everything. Yeah,
no question about it.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Exit out about a Fresca exit SWALLINGO. Matt Twite's called
a bold prediction. Paul Skeins n LMVP coming up next,
numbers surrounding the NCAA tournament. I just absolutely refuse to
believe a big story today. I don't believe the math
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invite Putin to come to watch this. I I oh, yes, yeah, yeah.
I mean you're talking about a Russian player owning the
greatest record in all of of of hockey history.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm sure that'll happen.
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Speaker 3 (19:21):
So there's there's something.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
There's some maths, and I say maths that I just
don't believe right now, something happened to you.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
You don't like math, No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I never like math.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But I did well at math in school because I
would pay if math is a class, like if you
go every day and pay attention, you'll do well, right, Like,
that's kind of what it was.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
He would have done well.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
When I started not doing well in math was in
college when I went to like every other class because
it was eight thirty in the morning, and I realized, okay,
I don't know I'm doing Like I went to like
I had probability and statistics my first year at Syracuse
because I had to take a math because I didn't
I didn't pass the ap math cl our teacher was
our teacher was crying at the end when hardly anybody
passed because the test was just so hard that nobody
(20:05):
did well as like eighteen calcul No no, no, she
was great.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
She left to be a principal. She actual left school
to go be a principal, but like.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
We were we but it was because of your failure.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
She said, yeah, exactly. She set us up for the
AP test.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
She was a good teacher, like we got it all wet,
everything was great, and then it was just the test
was either it was there were some stuff on the essays.
We had to do essays for math that just weren't
expected that none of us really knew how to do.
So all of us basically did really really bad. That
was the test I told you about where my my
friend said to me Jay and he looked at I'm like,
what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (20:35):
We're gonna do and he showed me.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
For one of his essays, he just drew a picture
of a like a superhero with question marks on him
holding up a pencil like that was his essay, Like
he had no idea and he was an artist, so that's.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
What he drew. Like did he get partial credit?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
No, he got a two on the test like I did.
And then our numbers came in and.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
All of us two's too, Like a couple of people
got threes and one person got a four, and the
teacher was really upset. She was like crying, going, I
can't believe no me, And we thought we felt bad
for a minute, and then she started saying, you know,
maybe you should have been paying more attention over the
en and all of us were.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Like, oh, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
And I was really upset, and I remember going home
and telling my mom this, and my mom was like,
because I thought, okay, anytime I didn't do something, I
didn't get a high enough grade in school, it was
always my fault, right, Like there was always my fault, right,
like okay, and which didn't happen that off because I
was a good student, but it was always my fault.
But she said if everybody did bad, how can she
say it's your guys fault? I said, exactly, okay, great,
(21:31):
my mom, all right, she gets it. Mom, she goes,
you still should have got higher than the two. I'm like,
I know I should have got hired the two. But
essays were really really hard and none of us really
knew about it. But she was like, oh, yeah, yeah,
it's not when when that happens, when everybody does poorly,
that that's not on the student, like because we're not
going into this test trying to do bad right, We're
trying to do well right.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
We're trying to do it's okay, we didn't know how
to do it.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
John Kaminski drew a picture of a superhero with a
crossword puzzle, tights and holding up a pencil in his head.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
I mean, come on, that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah, that was really cold.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
That's a boss move.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I was better than my stupid ass answer I tried
to say.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
So, I really really really really really really really really
really believe the obtuse angle is. I mean, you know,
but anyway, there's maths I don't agree with. Man, I
don't agree with the first math and has happened to
come up just this week, and I had a long
conversation with my wife about it because she's on Facebook,
and she says, Hey, who's the smallest uh stadium major
(22:26):
League Baseball? And I said, well, it's the Troup, which
is the Raise, but they're not playing there this year.
She's know, it doesn't matter how many people in the
trop I go between thirty five and forty thousand.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I think somewhere, Well.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
The White Sox Stadium only holds like four hundred.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
No, no, that's how many people go. More people can can
and actually sit there, that's how many people go to
the games. So she said she saw this, she saw
this thing on Facebook that says, if you put every
player who ever played Major League Baseball and invited them
into the smallest stadium in the league, they wouldn't even
be close to filling it up because there's only over
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just over twenty one thousand people in the last one
hundred and fifty years have ever played Major League Baseball.
And I said, you know what, I think, that's a
load of crap. I'm never gonna believe that math. I'm
not because two hundred and fifty people a year Because
I looked this up a few years ago when they
had the when Major League Baseball had the twenty thousandth player,
you know, back in twenty twenty one. I remember looking
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it up, going there's no way this works because two
hundred and fifty new people a year make their Major
League Baseball debut, right, Just go back the last five years,
around two hundred and fifty people a year, which is
about right. It's a little about ten people per team.
Because you have injuries and the expansion of rosters, people
come up. So that means you're saying, like, just going
back to the year two thousand, right, if two hundred
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and fifty people in Major League Baseball make their debut
every year, you're talking about that's five thousand people just
in new athletes in the last twenty five years. So
a quarter of everybody who's ever played the game is
just in the last twenty five years of a sport
that's been around for one hundred and thirty before that.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I think it's way less than two fifty though, that
make their debut every year.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
No, it's about two fifth.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Last year was two fifty, twenty twenty two was like
two forty seven, twenty one, maybe one or two No, No,
but it's it's but it's about injuries, and it's about
coming up during the season and when rosters expand, people
play more games.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
When that happened, that was a big deal for a long.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
And it's all about just like we always talk about
the the long tail on the careers of NFL players,
right when it's the average so it's three years, like, yes,
but that includes an awful lot of guys that play
one or two games that are gone major League Baseball
has a lot of those two. They count towards that
two fifty per year. But which is why the math
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is kind of fuzzy.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Here.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
By the way, the they delayed in Tampa the vote
to fix the U Tropic Canafy.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, yeah, that they're gonna be the the Nashville Rays
coming up in a couple of years, the Montreal Rays
in a couple of years, guaranteed. So I'm ever believe
that math, right, I'll never believe that math because it again.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
There's less teams, but.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Still, I mean, you're talking about different players coming it
doesn't work out. I think there's wide swaths of people
who were missed in at some way, shape or form,
Like we missed.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Them in the census. Is that what you're saying. Yeah,
maybe you missed them when the baseball census.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, when the game first started coming out, maybe early
in the twentieth century. There's a bunch of people they missed.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I guarantee it well, because it's also a thing Jason
of the you know what's the source, because it's always
the where in the innerwebs are we finding this?
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Yeah, And it was a Baseball Almanac number No.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I don't think it's anything anything that's uh.
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Conspiracy theory with Jesse.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I just think it's I just think it's something that
that players were missed, that lots of players were missed,
because twenty one thousand just doesn't add up.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
It just doesn't, really, it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
They are like part of the nineteen nineteen black Socks.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
And they've just been eliminated from the handles of his sery.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean, let's just say you go back another twenty years,
from two thousand to nineteen eighty, right, let's just say
you're taking everybody that played and say that's just another
five thousand players, right, Just say it's five thousand, right,
just not making their debuts, just everybody who played in
the game. So what you're saying is a full half
of the players who have played in Major League Baseball
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history have all played in the last forty No, there's
no way, There's no way. But that gets to this point,
which is what I don't believe. Today, ratings for the
first weekend of the NCAA Tournament A route and TV
ratings are the highest for an opening weekend since nineteen
ninety three. There's no way this is a tournament without
(26:39):
star power, that didn't have a lot of buzz coming
into it. And yes, I get that there's not a
lot of mid major teams coming in, but you can't
sit here and tell me, oh man, people really can't
wait to go see some of these teams play in
college basketball. No, you can't. You can't tell me that
I'm dying to go see. You know, the fourth and
(26:59):
fifth teams out of the Big Ten and the twelfth
to fourteenth teams out of the SEC. There's not a
lot of star power, there's no buzz. But yet this year,
this year, and last year the tournament was so was
so rough. Ratings wise, this year it's the highest it's
been in thirty three years since North Carolina beat Michigan
when Chris Weber called time out. You're telling me this year,
(27:20):
when when the average basketball fan can't name anybody outside
of Cooper Flag on their favorite ten players on their
favorite team. There's no way I'm not gonna believe this
is the highest rated opening weekend where we didn't have
a lot of upsets, we did have a lot of
you must get to the television. There wasn't a lot
you can't get There's no way this metric is the
highest rated opening weekend in thirty three years. Not when
(27:43):
there's so many different ways to watch the games, where
so many different ways haven't been counted in the years past,
all of a sudden this year, Oh yeah, look, we
got more people watched ever before. No, I'm not buying it,
but I think that's part of it is that we
haven't counted people the proper way in years past. I
made a sense this joke, but it's certainly plays right
in terms of you know, exhibitions at bars, restaurants, et
(28:06):
cetera that weren't counted properly.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Now we talk about streaming and being able to pull it.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
I don't know if there were more pirates and people
getting illegal feeds in the past, or maybe more people
have really succumbed to the love of gambling. Three point
one billion dollars is what the estimated legal wagering is
on the tournament this year, So maybe they're bringing more
eyeballs as people want to watch their money and investment.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
You're also, I know, you're not counting all the bets
your brothers make, so I know there's that too.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
No, well, that's just it, right. I mean, look.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Again, it's all fuzzy fuzzy math, right. I mean, we
had a sandwich shop in Evanston when I was at
Northwestern that on Sundays didn't open till twelve oh one.
Riddle me that, Batman, Why wasn't Why was it until
after the kickoffs of those early games. But all of
that to say, hey, yeah, I mean there's some just
(29:02):
for the waves things are reported. I think there's a
different metric of being taken into account the last you know,
two years, or certainly for this year to where we're
looking at it. But look, you gotta try to sell
some positivity here, right. You can play fun with numbers
like you do with your accountant. What was that that
(29:25):
extra zero?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Don't throw that out back? Okay, yet people think you're
talking about me.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Words of Beto Cook. Don't tag me with that. Okay,
not not happening.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
You don't pay taxes?
Speaker 3 (29:44):
No, stop, stop stop, I pay I pay every job.
Speaker 6 (29:48):
Stop?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Why why I pay taxes?
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Buck?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
We're on a ship in space. Don't pay taxes. How
are they gonna come after you? We just get on
the transporter, go down to the go down to the
planet's box.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Bok time now to.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Man has been compared to the mister Scott of Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Does.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
He always make sure that everybody gets down to the
planet and outside of the extras who show up just
to get killed, he always make sure Captain Kirk and
Leonard Demoy make it back.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
It's Steve de Segerang, It's Scotty, I'm an anger on
a pilot in the end, the.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Old Christian Chris Rock routine. You know who would never
make it back. Yeoman Johnson would never make it back.
He never make it back. Oh, Spock is coming back?
Kirk Yeoman Johnson. I knew he was gonna die. Oh
my god, that's so funny.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Jay Leto used to always point out that that crew
member that you notice in this episode, I haven't seen him,
and he's gone before the halftime of this episode.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
You just you won't see him again.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
NBA Late Game went to Oklahoma City, which is one
seven in a row. One at Sacramento tonight, thirty two
points for Shay gil Just Alexander one twenty one one
O five the final o. Casey's record is sixty and twelve.
Cleveland is now fifty eight and fourteen after winning at
Portland victories for Houston, again for Memphis, Detroit, and Orlando.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
With wins.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
Miami held Golden State's Jimmy Butler to eleven points in
a victory against the Warriors one twelve eighty six, and
the Knicks down to Dallas one twenty eight one thirteen
triple doubles for both Karl Anthony Towns and Josh Hart,
while the next og On Andobi scored thirty five points.
Damian Lillard of Milwaukee is out indefinitely with blood clotts
in a calf for the Celtics. Jason Tatum doubtful for
(31:34):
Wednesday after last night's sprained ankle. Nicoleokicch of Denver, with
his ankle injury, listed as doubtful for Wednesday, could mase
a sixth straight game. Saint Francis, which just played in
college basketball's first four, says it will move all of
its athletic programs to Division three in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
So excited about that birth in the NCAA turn Listen,
we're dropping way down.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
Okay, they see what college basketball has become. Let's get
out of here. Drake guard Bennett Steartz intends to play
for Iowa, whereas coach just went New Mexico guard Donovan
Dent is transferring. He was Mountain West Player of the Year.
He may have known that Xavier is hiring his coach,
Richard Patino, away from New Mexico. The Men's Sweet sixteen
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starts Thursday night. Women's Sweet sixteen begins Friday. Alea Chavez
so she'll play for Oklahoma. She was the top high
school recruit. Men's NT tournament quarterfinals tonight started with narrow
wins for Chattanooga at Bradley and North Texas at Oklahoma State.
In the NHL. Winnipeg in overtime beat Washington three to
(32:37):
two to clinch a playoff spot. Victories for Vegas and Colorado.
LA took the late game three to one over the Rangers.
The King's home record twenty six and three plus four
overtime loses. That is kind of good. Toronto seven to
two over Philadelphia. Tampa Bay a six to one winner
against Pittsburgh. Argentina beat Brazil in a World Cup qualifier
four to one, led to nothing after twelve minutes. The
(33:00):
US will co host next year's tournament. Brazil still has
not won a game in Argentina for sixteen years. The
New York Giants are giving quarterback Russell Wilson a one
year deal, pending of physical They also have quarterback Jamis
Winston Now. The Patriots are signing wide receiver Stefan Diggs.
Stanford fired football coach Troy Taylor. Baseball's opening day is Thursday.
(33:21):
The MLB exhibition season ended tonight with the Dodgers for
to one win at the Angels, allowing the Halos just
one hit, and Dodger shortstop Mookie bats finally returned after
an illness, went oh for three but says he's fine
for Thursday.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Coming up next, we'll give you some Big Bowl predictions
for the Sweet sixteen and a football story we can
all get behind, every one of us.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That's next, Jason to Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Oh my goodness, and the Staten Island Ferry comes in last.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
You know, I'm all ready.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
The Mets announced today that they're gonna have their own
version of the Sausage Race as the President's Race by
having the Burroughs Race next year. I don't mean Burroughs
like donkeys, like the Five Boroughs Manhattan.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
It wouldn't be kind of cool to donkeys.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
And I'm already telling you because I'm excited. My hometown,
Staten Island, Staten Island Ferry is never gonna win. That
that's gonna be. That's gonna be the borough that will.
They may win like once or twice all year, like
they're never gonna win. It's always gonna be. Queen's is
gonna win. Obviously, Manhattan'll win once in a while. But
Staten Island will never win. It's never gonna win.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
Wow, you're saying it's fixed.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
No, Yeah, Staten Island's always been. We've always been the
forgotten borough. I don't know what borough. We've always been
where a real borough as far as you know. The
Staten Island Ferry. He owns a Staten Island ferry. Him
and Pete Davidson own a Staten Island ferry.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I think it's the state.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
No, there's lots of that. There's lots of fairy I've been.
I spent the vast majority of my teenage into early
twenty years on the Staten Island Ferry.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
There's a lot.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
There's a lot. It's a lot of a lot, a
lot of stories. If those ships could talk you.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
This is very minor league stuff for the Mets.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Now everybody had would the Brewers have it? The Nationals
have it? I realized two teams that aren't very good.
But other teams have stuff like you.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Guys just playing the Savannah bananas.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Well, at least we're having something real.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You guys do the the Dodgers do the race of
the cars all through Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
That's all on the done on the scoreboard. At least
that Mets.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You're having people in person having Staten Island Ferry make
un it's not well.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
The potential for injury is large.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Yeah, sure, sure sure.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
And if I don't bishop a person that runs out
of the stands to become part of the race.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
And look, next time I go back, I will ask
to hey, could I be the Staten Island Ferry. That
could be the Yeah, celebrity Sartin Island Ferry runner. Well,
now that you're I don't think you can be the
Staten Island Ferry. They would they would bump me up.
They would just put stuff out of I'd wear a
suit or something chisel.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Now you going to do that?
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Well, that's how I win. I'm a I'm a sleek
boat cutting through the water.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Jason Smith the cutter.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
So one big.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Football story we can all get behind before we get
to the Big Bowl. Predictions for the Sweet six team.
Andrew Luck today, the GM president of the Player Operations
operator of development running the Stanford Cardinal football program, fired
head coach Troy Taylor today. Taylor, who was in trouble
off the field for how he treated employees and people
(36:29):
who were in the program, also did not win a
lot of games the last couple of years. How they
beat Syracuse I have no idea because it kept us
out of the playoff anyway, Andrew Luck made the decision
moving on from Troy Taylor. Dear Captain Andrew Luck, I
know that the front has been very difficult. Please send
mother back.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
We're not able to Withstandny.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
We can't keep five guys upright moving forward in our
pursuit of excellence.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Hire yourself as the next head coach. Nobody says no,
Andrew Luck should be the next head coach in Stanford.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
He could be the head coach in GM, right, you
could do both jobs.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
You don't need to be someone anymore in college football
because it's about the NIL portal.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
When it's about.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Handling transfers and just building a program, you don't need
to be someone who I started off as a graduate assistant.
Then it was a defensive backs coach, then there was
assistant defensive coordinator, then defense. You don't need to do
that anymore. You're not like that way. Look at Fran
Brown at Syracuse. He was a defensive backs coach and
but he was the best recruiter in the country. Two
years running, Syracuse said, come run our program.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
What did he do?
Speaker 1 (37:32):
He brought in guys from Alabama, He flipped guys from Georgia,
he flipped Kyle McCord from Ohio State. And what happened.
Syracuse won ten games, finish in the top twenty for
the first time in twenty years. We're a football school now.
I can't wait. It was so exciting. This is the
kind of coaches you need now, someone that's going to
be able to draw the talent in the Hey, I'll
hire a great offensive coordinator, a great defensive coordinator, and
(37:54):
clearly Andrew Luck. Look he's got the cachet. He's got
the experience, he's got the knowledge to be able to
be the head coach.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He knows enough about football, I'm pretty sure, especially what
it means to coach. The guy's a pretty sharp guy.
This is how you do it. People will come to
Stanford to be his OC and his DC and help
build the program. He needs to be able to run
the program like a CEO. It's what all the great
head coaches do. And Stanford's looking for a big push,
something to help, something to energize the program, energize recruiting.
(38:24):
Andrew Luck is that guy. I don't know if he
can nominate himself, but if i'm some alumni, I get
it going tomorrow. Andrew, come take over the program. You
be the head coach, take over the team.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
Just saying you take a page out of what Dion's done,
Not that he didn't.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Coach, right.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
He had a few years of getting himself ready and
acclimated and then brought his son, Travis Hunter and several
others to Colorado where they started to build. But there's
your template, there's your opportunity. Look at all the guys
that Dion's brought in, former players, Hall of famers, guys
(38:58):
that are ready to you really immerse themselves, but can
relate to a lot of what the players are going through.
They're young enough, just barely removed from the game. I
think you've got a chance to start a new tradition
here for a squad that's been irrelevant since twenty eighteen.
You went three and nine in your first year in
(39:20):
a new conference, So why not throw something against the
wall and see if it sticks with a guy who
most respected and expected to be a potential Hall of
Fame kind of candidate before he walked away citing the
injuries in the number of times he was bludgeoned. One
thing we know is that, unlike Dion, he will build
(39:41):
an offensive line for whatever.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
Arabat.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yes, don't worry about it. I got your back, but
trust me, I know what it's like to not have
an offensive line.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I will build that for you.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
There's a special Nil fund being set up which it's
based on the tree.
Speaker 6 (39:56):
The tree mascot strong like oak.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
From college bask from college football to college basketball. We're
getting set for the Sweet sixteen coming up on opening
day of Major League Jason, what time does St. John's play?
Saint John's plays. Just ask Richard Patino. He's the next
head coach.
Speaker 6 (40:11):
Is Xavier he does he bring that woman in the
red sweater with him.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
I'll say this right now, Duke looks like an overwhelming
favorite to win it, all right, they just do. But
I'll give you this bold prediction for the Sweet sixteen.
Texas Tech is now coming out of that region that
Saint John's is in Florida. They're gonna be in the
Final four. They do it all on offense. They did
it with threes in their first game. The Bigs did
it against Drake. Florida doesn't look like they're that good.
(40:36):
Texas Tech's going to the Final four.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Angry salty Sparty, and then he gets a date with Michigan.
Before it's all over, Let's go plus nine.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome for Mike.
I'm Jason coming up next, my buddy Ben Malor. You
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