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So obviously, tonight it's big decision night, Election night. We're
not going to know any of the were not going
to know the real results because the big battleground states
are still too close to call. Michigan and Pennsylvania. No, no,
I'm not lying. Michigan and Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, they're
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all too close to call, so we're probably not going
to get the results on that until sometime tomorrow. Michigan
says we're gonna have our results early, the earliest of anybody.
So look for at some point tomorrow, I know we'll
get this.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Is that to keep you away from talking about Michigan
and quarterbacks?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So you just took my punchline, buddy, But no you
jumping I got. I'm sorry I didn't get. I do
the Michigan punchlines, okay, because I do the Michigan punch No.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
No, no, that's you, that's in your house. You normally
don't do the punchlines because you're afraid of your wife.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
No, I do the Michigan punchlines or the extended family
coming down and beating you up. But there is one
race we need to update here because it look it
delves deep into the world sports. And someone who has
listened to the show for a long time. Uh, Steve
Garvey lost his US Senate race to Adam Shift tonight
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in California. Uh no, look, this is it if you
mean Adam Schefter. Adam Schefter. Adam Schefter had the had
the actual result before it was made public, and he says, hey,
iron himself, I'm going to defeat Steve Garvey.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Did he also write the press release and have someone
check it before?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Let me let me be let me be clear, Let
me be clear.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You well, you saw Adam Schefter during the during the
debates against Steve Garvey, always checking his phone while they
were debating. It was very rude, very much. Hey, if
I got a text, I gotta do this. Uh No,
But Steve Garvey's guy interviewed him a bunch of times,
listened to the show. He used to drive all the time.
He used to do a lot of stuff in Arizona
with the Dodge. He would drive back and forth La Arizona,
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la Arizona. And uh, you know it's it's tough in
California where Democrats outnumber Republicans so much.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
But he he, you know, tried to run as a
moderate Republican and he fell short. Adam shift with the win.
And you know, the one thing I would say is, Okay,
well here's Steve Garvey. Why are we doing this? Well,
because I want to know exactly and tell you exactly
how Chris Berman would announce Steve Garvey not winning the election,
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and if Steve is listening. This may this may put
a smile on his face. Well, it's better than people
reducing him to baseball guy. Yeah, they did completely.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, you know anything he's done in his light day
baseball as opposed to Adam Shiff, who is played by
Stephen Hill baseball, that law and.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Order baseball legend, Steve Garvey. So so how would Chris
Berman announced? Okay, okay, Well, and here's here's how we
would announce it. This is one of my favorites. By
the way, I remember, do not try this at home.
I am a professional and DJ Adam Shiff defeating Steve Garvey. Clearly,
it was Steve Garvey's hopes to as he lopes along
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in the election, to rustle up enough votes where he
could say I'm the new Senator from California and then
celebrate with the shot of Yager DJ, because if you
didn't have that punt, that if you didn't finish. But
that was the key I was gonna ask about Steve Yeager.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, but you got him in.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, hoping to leave Adam Shift in the dusty. But
he wasn't able to should able to be the baker
to get himself a win over Garvey, DJ, you're a
horrible human being. What I mean to think about? A hell?
What the hell goes on in your break? I'm a
standing ovation from Isaac Lowan crin right now over that.
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He is pretty impressed. You let me getting in lows.
You've got everybody say, and then Bill Russell, Now we
can get a couple of the let's get Jerry Royce.
Oh man me tell Okay, how would I go? I
think they'd be pushing it. I think the listen, the
Dodgers in field in the mid seventies is legendary. Oh,
absolutely so. I think you got to keep it to
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the infield, like that's it. Yeah, Like you gotta keep
it to the infield. Just be careful. Rod Sale'll beat
you up. The shot of Yaeger teaj lobes along in
the election to rustle up enough votes to say he's
the senator, will celebrate with a shot of Yeager. What's
that is? In my mind's eye as you do that.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'm picturing like mid seventies baseball cards. Yeah, sure, Like
there's the seventy eight tops Steve Yeger with the tinted.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Glass, Yeah, yeah, the close up of his face.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, Steve Gary with his batting stance, like just take
the damn picture.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh man. You know, that's the one thing about Garvey.
In my lifetime of watching sports, there are a handful
of guys, and I mean maybe maybe five guys where
they had the absolutely perfect swing. Five guys where they're
just so strong they swing down on the ball and
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swinging down on the ball still there able to get
the launch angle for home runs and big hits. Garvy
is one of them. Jim Rice, Mike Schmidt, David Wright
all had that swing down on the ball and be
able to just generate so much power because of it,
turn your wrists over and be able to hit the ball.
I mean, there's so few guys with that kind of swing,
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and it's amazing to watch the ball pop off the bat.
But then he's got one of my favor They could
just do it. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
Live from the tyrack dot Com Dude, it lopes along
to the election. But speaking of the Dodgers, it was
announced today show Hao Taani underwent surgery for the shoulder
injury that he suffered in the World Series. The dislocation
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that happened it was very, very difficult for him to
run the bases. He would run the base with one
hand on his shoulder so he wouldn't put his arm
out to try to stop his slide, which is exactly
what happened. So, uh, this is a big deal for
him as now he is getting set for the offseason
to get ready for spring training. Now the slight dislocation
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doesn't matter. It's another surgery that he had, this not
to his pitching shoulder. Now, this is where I'm going
with this, and this is I got to beat the
drum on this until it happens because it's the right move.
Otani's gonna be thirty years old and he's already had
two really bad elbow injuries to his pitching arm. How
much longer is he really going to be able to pitch?
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Can he still be a guy that throws one hundred
and sixty innings a year? Now you throw in this
injury which is to his non pitching shoulder. But as
he tries to ramp up to pitch in the spring,
who knows how this is going to affect his recovery
procedure and his continued rehabilitation. Maybe how long until he
can pick him and throw a ball again, not because
it's his throwing arm, because well, you're still using your
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arm to make motions like how long until he can
do that? How long until he can swing? Right? So
you're now talking about a guy that's got some time
to go before spring training hitting you think he's going
to be okay. But now this is another arm injury.
This is a guy that clearly, now as he's getting older,
is having trouble staying healthy and it's bad injuries to
stuff to areas of his body that involves pitching. I
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know the Dodgers want him to pitch, and that's why
they gave him the money. Would he be worth it
for just to hit it? Absolutely, but you want him
to pitch. I would not make him a starter when
he comes back. I would say show, hey, you're our closer.
And that makes all the sense in the world because
you would extend his life as a pitcher. He could
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maybe do it for another ten years, right when you're
only pitching one inning every couple of nights, less stress
on your arm. And clearly the Dodgers would have some
sort of if you pitch on Monday, you don't pitch
again till Wednesday. Even if you do, and that cuts
so much wear and tear on Otani, who then would
be pitching at most what sixty seventy innings a year
instead of one hundred. Ffe worried about them through one
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hundred and fifty. And if his arm blows out again,
then you know, okay, it just can't take it anymore.
But if you make him the closer, do you extend
his career as a pitcher. You make it easier in
games to where okay, he's the d H but then
he comes out of it. He pitches at the end.
You kind of lose the position, but it doesn't matter
because you're protecting a lead and you're hoping he's going
to close the game and you get off the field.
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But also think about the the juice that runs through
the team in the stadium when he takes the mound
for the ninth inning of a game. It's it's it's Edwin,
Diaz and Narco with just him stepping on the mound.
You don't need them. He come out with though, yeah,
I don't know whatever you want him to think. He
would come out, well, he come out to I love
l A. He'd come out to Randy Newman did.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It, but it doesn't matter, like that would be the
excitement level, Like do a Japanese version. Maybe maybe Decoy
would help him to the mount, would pull him to
the mount. But like you think about all the big
closer entrances with Rivera, andr Sandman and Trevor Hoffman, Hell's
Bells and Diaz with this just mad dog from the
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Gring Just that's what you just did to Decoy dragging
his He's.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Pulling a tree with no needles on it. But if
you did that for Otani, that makes sense in every
single aspect of his game. He still pitches, you get
maybe the best closer in the game for the next
few years. We've seen it before. We've seen Dennis Eckersley,
We've seen John Smoltz make those mid career adjustments, Eckersley
making it to closer, John Smoltz because of an arm injury,
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becomes a closer, and these guys are lights out in
their Hall of Famers, like you can see that. You
can see that going for Otani. You keep his pitching
prime going, it's a longer time. It fits in with
how you have to use him as on the field
in the lineup and it gives you the big jolt
of electricity when he comes in the ninth in no
matter what happens, you're winning that mental battle of the
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ninth inning because oh what here comes Otan. If we're
losing after eight, Otani's coming in the ninth, here we
go and that would be it. So when he does
come back, he comes back this year, I tell him, look,
whenever you're ready, you're gonna close. And you know he's
got the mentality to close. You watch him close out
the World Baseball Class against Mike Trout. You know he's
got the mentality to do it because it does take
a little bit more mental adjustment to go from being
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a starting pitcher to being a closer to pitching with
the pressure. I don't think Shoeotani has anything to worry about.
Like I said, we've seen him do it. He would
be fine. That's what I doifind the Dodgers when showe
Ayotani is ready to pitch.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I like the theory of it because you will have
a number of arms coming back from injury, Like that's
the big thing you might be in the marketplace. You
know you've got the posting of more international players, including
the youngster from Japan, and he's obviously going to be
enamored with the idea. Hey, Yamamoto and Otani clearly liked
what was going on in the clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Oh and they won.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And you think about the potential for more cash infusion
with all of that, the continued marketing that rolls with that.
For Otani, you know, how many stressful innings does he
have left in the arm?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Is the question?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That's the luxury in theory that the Dodgers come into
next year. Now we've seen it for several years. There's
obviously something going on in the developmental side of things
and through the organization because you've had a lot of
miss games due to injury, so trying to figure out
where that disconnect is happening. But you've got a lot
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of guys that should be back and available to you
comes spring training. So the Otani, whether he comes back
as a closer or it, needs to pitch it all
right away. You don't have to fast track that, right.
He can take whatever time he needs to rehab, get ready,
get right. And much like we surmised and kind of
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speculated because it was kind of fun to do that
in a World Series moment.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Maybe he could.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You've heard a couple of people say, well, you know,
he was the break glass in case of emergency guy
if that game started to extend in New York, which
really is a nice curiosity, Dave Roberts saying there's no
chance in hell. I wanted that coming back to La
all of that to say, you're in a beautiful position,
because you're also not, as we've seen other organizations Cleveland
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Browns hamstrung by the fact that you're paying him top
dollar right now as a starting pitcher. Al deferred money
like you printed cash with him this year. If you
just put all of that in into an account, it's
doubling and doubling.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
And by time you actually have to pay it out.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
But for now you still have the luxury of going
back into the marketplace and absorbing another contract, whether it's
Snell or somebody else while he gets himself right. But
I do like the closing philosophy.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Telling you, man, it works every way. I don't know
how that's not what they do. If Dave Roberts is listening,
that's a free idea. There you go. Congratulations, you got it, Dave,
I just helped you well.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I mean truly just an update of what we come on.
We thought we could see a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Think about playoff Dave getting to go to Otani in
the playoffs out of the bullpen when he wants to
come on you just think about the optic of that maybe,
and in the playoffs, like coming into the seventh inning
where he's got to face the middle of the order. Like,
think a playoff Dave, how excited you would be to
do that? How about you keep my name's name out
your mouth, dude, I'm helping you. Man all about I
am helping you and it's fake ID. The Jason Smith
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Show with Mike Harmon Live from the tirerac dot Com studios.
All a lot more baseball on the way, interesting stuff
happening with Juan Soto. But coming up next, a big
NFL story that made no sense when it came out
earlier today, and it's gonna make less sense after you
hear us talk about it. That's coming up next, right here,
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Speaker 2 (14:31):
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Speaker 1 (14:43):
Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Oh, by the way, upset specials like
fourteen and three. I was going into this last weekend
right fourteen and three, like that's like unheard of. And
I'm feeling so great with Duke has beat Miami. You
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were all over the place the third quarter. They're beating
him twenty eight to seventeen. I'm up forty nine seventeen
basically going to the fourth quarter, yep, and I lose.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You want to talk bad beats, man fifty two fifty
one because I was getting twenty one more Like, come on, man,
like that's one of the worst beats.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I'm like, I got it made. I'm fifteen and three now. Nope, Nope,
that's was such an awful bad beat.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Well, I at least got the college game. I picked correctly,
because the NFL teams let me down big time.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
That's South Carolina game Cocks game.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Let me tell you, not only did they beat in
Texas A and M, they beat Texas.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
A and M very minor, minor, you know, And that's
the one thing for all the Miami I just you know,
with a Top twenty five college football Playoff poll. The
first one coming out Miami right now number four and
Cam Moore quarterback has been fantastic as much as we're
watching Miami escape every week, right because that's kind of
what I know. They've been escaping every week. But wow
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do they score points so fast and in bunches, and
they are a team that you do not want to
play because you could be down three touchdowns and five
minutes later it's tied. Like, it is amazing how fast
they can score points and no deficit is too much.
I feel like, if they're losing the game by three
touchdowns or two minutes to go in the fourth quarter,
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oh they got this, Yeah they'll score on side kick,
use the timeout score one. Yeah. Like, and they just
score so fast and so much and so many points.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well, especially given the fact that most coaches, professional and collegiate,
have no idea how to run the final two or
three minutes of a game or half. So yeah, it
always leaves the door open for an explosive squad. But yeah,
they're one of the most interesting stories of the poll
as it came out, is all right there they are?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
How great? Are they? Right?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Explosive exciting, but when when is the other shoe drop
on one of these games?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Or maybe the clock does run a little fast. So
with that, we have more college football playoff coming a
more college football coming up in a little bit. But
today was the NFL trade deadline day, and likely you
woke up to the first bit of news and you
shook your head and said, no, the Cowboys didn't really
do that. No, they actually did. They traded a fourth
round pick to get Jonathan Mingo from the Carolina Panthers.
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A good name. I know your first question, who the
hell is Jonathan Mingo? Unless you are in a dynasty
fantasy league and drafted him last year a second round
pick you may have, and maybe he's sitting on your bench.
You have no idea who this guy is.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Now, just think about this and all the craziness about
Dallas giving up a fourth round pick for a guy who, honestly,
I don't even know if he was going to be
in the NFL after this. He did have forty three
catches last year, okay, yeah, and he's got three catches
this year.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, he has a good quarterback now, he does, he does.
It doesn't matter if he was getting the snap from center.
He's terrible, and it kind of does up grade on
quarterback from the Jets, which the Steelers is incredible. It's
night and dayla man. Okay, Okay, enough, okay, just keep
telling Led mccacky to catch passes, just keep them. Uh
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Mingo's a guy. Honestly, he was probably gonna be let
go by the Panthers because when you're a second round pick,
they invested a lot in you and you can't see
the field for the Panthers. Okay, the Panthers who traded
away Deontay Johnson the other two stud receivers that they
have in there, are hurt. You aren't playing behind Xavier Laguett,
who was a first round pick and an undrafted rookie
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free agent. You're done. You know, this is not a
trade you make for a fourth round pick. This is
a trade you get a seventh round pick for or
a sixth round pick, and I give you a seventh
round pick, but you get a fourth round pick. I mean,
it's it doesn't make any sense. It's almost like Jerry
Jones decided to wake up today and say, uh, okay,
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so gotta make a headline today because it's trade deadline day.
We stink we're three and five. Dak is gonna go on?
I r oh, we'll have more on that story coming
up in a few minutes. And uh, but got to
make a move. So let me go get a guy
that I heard. I heard of him a couple of
years ago, but he's no good and probably not gonna
be in the league now. Normally I would tell Steven hey,
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seventh round pick, but we get the headlines if they
him up a fourth round pick, people make fun of
me and say, what's going on? But then I see
Mingo trending, see Jerry Jones trending, and look, this is
what I'd like to do. Is I got to win
the battle of being talked about. Gotta do it, gotta
have it, and got to do it early in the day.
Can't have it later in the day, when you know,
the Williams kid gets traded and other things that. No,
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it got to be early in the day where we
kind of own the news cycle. So I would normally
just give a second seventh round pick, but hey, fourth
round pick. That's gonna be great. Now, the hard roude
pick a little bit too much, but fourth round pick, hey,
that's gonna get people say stuff about me and about
what kind of trade this is, and everybody's talking about
the Dallas Cowboys, Like, I really don't wonder if that
was part of the reason why they give him a
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fourth round. I can't eliminate it from consideration.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I don't know what percentages I would give it on
the pie chart, but I'm not putting it at zero
at any stretch.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
But I saw it this morning.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I'm up early, right, walk the dog, hanging out with
the girls before they get off to school and work
and everything, and.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Starts to go.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
We got some activity early. Okay, cool, what do we got?
Jerry Jones says the Cowboys are going to acquire a
wide receiver and someone he liked since they were in college.
In the evaluation process, Jonathan Mingo was not the name.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
That came to mind.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Like, there's a bunch of teams that could be in
the mix here, Yeah, a lot of teams, you know,
tading hopes, all of these things. And then it's a
fourth round pick, and I see, oh, it looks like
it's gonna be someone that's a fourth or fifth round picks.
Still no name, like great teaser trailers. And then finally
it's Jonathan Mingo, and it's like, look, the guy's an
NFL player. I don't mean to diminish the work that
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he's done, the one hundred plus catches he had at Old.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Miss, all those things. It's not the guy that I
was expecting. On the other end, No, of course not.
You know why, there's only one thing wrong with Jonathan
only one thing he stinks. Yeah, there's something to that.
And this is what doesn't make even more sense is
that when you understand the Cowboys and the Lakers are
the same team. When they can't win championships, they have
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to win the battle of relevancy to be talked about,
to have the status that they're still the biggest, baddest
teams on the block, the most popular team in the
sport when they're winning titles, when they're terrible, when they're
just mediocre. Right, you understand that, and that makes you
understand why Jerry Jones does what he does, why the
Lakers do what they do with drafting Brownie James and
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hiring JJ Reddick. They need to make headlines. If we're
not in the winning business, we got to be in
the headline business because that's just as good, that's value
of the franchise. That's still the image and optic that
the team is great and still thinking we can win.
This is what the Cowboys and what the Lakers do.
And Jerry Jones has made trades like this for thirty years.
This is not surprising. I laughed when I saw it,
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but I wasn't surprised because he gave a fourth round
pick for Trey Lance.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Who's that cave to make the active roster now? Right,
he has done trades like this for thirty years. This
is not surprising. But still hold him off. But this
is what makes this trade even worse. Okay, Dak Prescott
is going on ir Jerry Jones said that today likely
is gonna be placed on injured reserve, which means he
can't come back until the middle of December. Again, we
said it last night. We've seen the last Dak Prescott.
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You're not gonna see him the rest of this season.
He's not gonna come back when the Cowboys are four
and ten for the last three games.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
That's it. He doesn't want any more part of this
blank show than he's been a part of all season. Right,
he wants nothing to do with the rest of this year.
You are not gonna see him again. And that's what's
gonna happen. The Cowboys are gonna be three and ten,
four and ten, whatever it's gonna be. This is what
makes it worse. The Cowboys are done. Jerry Jones knows it,
the team knows it, and they still he still went
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out and gave up a draft asset for a guy
that's not gonna come in and make a difference. Because
me playing with a backup quarterback who knows he even
beats out Cavante Turpin for playing time. But the Cowboys
are finished. They can't run the ball, they're injured defensively,
they have nothing. And still I'm gonna trade a draft
asset for a guy that doesn't make sense. I mean,
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I don't get it. You know what I thought of earlier? Well,
I thought of back to when the Jets were like
one in seven in like twenty fourteen, I think it
was something like that ten years ago, and they traded
with the Seahawks for Percy Harvin. And I'm like, we're
one in seven. Why the hell are you making a
trade for Percy Harvin? First of all, the guy's washed. Secondly,
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what's gonna happen we're one in seven. What he's gonna
sell an? All these games? Right?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Even hurt a bunch, And as I recall correctly, was
it a question of whether he's still don't actually play
for Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But when you're done, you're done, right, And I'm sorry
the Cowboys are done, but they are. And you decided
we're gonna give up a fourth round pick, which generally
is a starting player now in the NFL, not a
great starting player, but a guy he's gonna come in
and start at You see it. You see fourth round
picks come in. You see fourth round picks on the
offensive line can have great careers, defensive line, linebackers, it
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happens safeties, you see it. And Jerry Jones decided, in
a year that's done, where we stink and our quarterbacks
out for the next month plus, let me go give
him a fourth round pick for him. That's what makes
this trade even worse, the fact they give a fourth
round pick. That's Jerry Jones. He Jerry's when you know,
he's just Jerry. He's been jerrying for thirty years. Didn't
want to be left out of the equation.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
But now that when when then he gave up a
higher pick than any other wis And that's where I
got dealt.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's where I get it for other teams because the
Jets gave up give him a fourth round pick for
Devonte Adams. Like, does Jerry Jones just go into his
off fish and lock the door and no one can
get in and Steven's knocking on our door, going, Dad,
don't call anybody. Sorry, just somebody's outside wants to come
and drop all some food. But listen, we need a
wide receiver. Who do you got Uh? I'll take the
(25:13):
Mingo kid? Uh yeah, Uh, I don't know what what what?
What's what's fair? Yeah? Fourth round pick sounds good to me.
You get me back a seventh All right, fine, I'll
have all of the paperwork sent over And then he
buzzes Stephen in, hey, get the paperwork going, and just
traded for Jonathan Mingo?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Is there any guy that we have on the roster
that goes by the nickname of Flash? Like, do you
mean you have the two of them go up against see?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Do you Flash and Mingo? I mean, do you mean Mingo?
That's that's something that Jerry Jones just did. Or do
you really think he talked to any no, I think
he did. I think he just did that. I think
that was him and temper uh and that's it, Like,
I mean, does he even know? All you do is
look and go okay. I could do five not even
five minutes, two minutes of research and go okay. So
(25:54):
Devant Adams goes for a fourth round pick. Okay, fourth
round pick, fifth round pick. This kid hasn't even broken through.
I don't need to offer more than a seventh round pick,
straight up, seventh round, or I'll give you a sixth
and you give me a seventh.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Did he not trade for Mike Williams because the Jets
would get a bigger headline for getting rid of Mike Williams?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I mean he gave up a first round pick for
a Marii Cooper when Amari Cooper is not Devontae Adams,
and the Jets gave up a fourth round pick for
Devonte Adams, Like this is just, this is just this
should not surprise you. This is this is what happens
when you have a bad owner who is in charge
of a team and has nobody checking him, they make
trades like this. That's not the support. His part is
(26:33):
just not seeing the reality and the desire for a
headline so badly. I made a trade for a wide
receiver that was a second round pick that you know,
we go back to his draft grade. Yeah, I get that,
going back to the draft grade. But we've seen it
for two years and he stinks. I that's that's the
part that I that that makes me just shake my
head and go. He knows this was a bad idea.
(26:54):
He knows he gave up too much. He knows he
shouldn't have done this, yet he did it anyway because
it makes the Cowboy win Trade deadline day, and he
doesn't walk away not doing anything where he said, I'm
gonna do all I can to try to make the
Cowboys better. What happened if you don't make a trade.
Oh look at Jerry Jones. All talk didn't get anybody.
No made a move. I got Jonathan Mingo. I mean
(27:14):
that's what he thought passive. Oh he was once upon
a time a second round pick. But we can't let
it go by.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
And talked about the evaluation and what the trade value
was for DeVante Adams. You remember distressed property quitting on a
squad and they basically acquiesced and said goodbye. They bring
in a new consultant after firing and the guts of
the coaching staff around Antonio Pierce by bringing in Norv Turner.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
How about that he's gonna fix that offense. You're like, wait,
north Turner is still around? Wait a minute, really he's
ready North Turner?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Okay, right, he'll be the interim head coach by week twelve.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Again. Hey, it's like it's nineteen ninety seven again with
Norm Turner in the Cowboys, Like, what's his face?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Used to be America's interim head coach? Right?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You know, hey, not for tonight, but for tomorrow. You
know what, I've been working on my Troy Aikman impression.
Okayh yeah, yeah, but working on my try because I
kind of have down a lot of things that he does.
So I guess it as good as Tay shirts like
he was doing yesterday. Oh when Todd Mole. My shirt's
Todd Bowles is pretty good. Very minor, very minor. Yeah, no,
you're Todd Bowles is very very minor. It's good when
(28:27):
you only say very minor, very minor. A little Morgan
Freeman though, a little, a little bit. I'm Molgan Freeman.
I just wanted to say hot to my floor.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Liked it.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Uh, Now I'm telling you I said it was good.
I said, I said it was good. I'm Algan Freeman.
Why no, no, no, you're I'm on your couch watching
your Netflix. Now you gonna sound like Baine a little bit,
mister Wayne watching a movie aud your wife. I want
the second season. With second season, the diplomat is out. Uh,
(29:02):
but he's swallowed. I need a gun. Okay, okay, and
that just thought. Now you're getting a little Now you're
a little tired. I'm tired of listening to your impressions.
I've never got clearance. I don't know what's going on
right now because this is the there you sent. Never
(29:25):
heard my John Wick? Is you do a pretty good
John Wick. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I thought that was Nicholas Cage.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That was good Nicholas Cage. No no, oh no, no
no no. Now it's your fault Island. Let's go Okay,
what Tysher does now.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Comes out of your update time. Oh payt that's fine
with me. But we're bearing the lead here. I thought
you were going to do your Troy Aikman. Go ahead,
still work shopping it.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, because you can tell my voice a little horse.
I've done my Jerry Jones impression a little bit too
much tonight.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You've verny. You've earned your money with that Jerry Jones
so much, in fact, that I'm not thinking about it.
That's the ultimate tribute right there. To save my voice
from one O four to three. The fandomorrow, they're gonna
make fun of me.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I gotta make sure I got the right guys on
the radio start another international incident, just so you know.
That's why I traded for Mingo. He's gonna be on
the radio and interview me during the week.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Jerry Jones always playing the long game. Also playing the
long game apparently hold one. Oh all right, here we go, Yeah, yeah,
here we go.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
This goes back to your Nicholas Cage thing. This is interminable,
comes in threes.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Low ay, yes, time and the band struck up a
mighty tune.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You asked for it.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Talk about learning your lesson? Boy, oh boy? Did I
ever learned my lesson? Man? Oh man?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
It's like it's like when my kids are about to
do something dangerous. I'm like, do I stop them or
do I let them learn for themselves?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Well?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Learn, America just learned America also just learned the first
college football playoff rankings of twenty twenty four, unveiled on
Tuesday and night. Oregon number one, followed by Ohio State,
then he got Georgia at number three. Miami was fourth,
Texas at number five, rest of the top ten, Penn
State at number six, followed by Tennessee, Indiana BYU and Notre.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Dame was tenth. World champion.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Los Angeles Dodgers revealing on Tuesday that shohe Otani suffered
a torn labrim in his left shoulder when he was
injured during Game two of the World Series against the Yankees.
He underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on Tuesday and is expected
to be ready for spring training. And Tuesday suspended seventy
six er star Joel Andb three games without pay after
(32:05):
he shoved a member of the media in the locker
room after a game this past Saturday. N Be, a
vice president of basketball operations and one time bad boy himself,
Joe dumar Is said at a statement quote, While we
understand Joelle was offended by the personal nature of the
original version of the reporters column, interactions must remain professional
(32:25):
on both sides and can never turn physical unquote. Tuesday
was trade deadline day in the NFL. The Pittsburgh Steelers
made two deals. They acquired linebacker Preston Smith from the
Green Bay Packers. They also acquired receiver Mike Williams from
the New York Jets, and the Washington Commanders acquired cornerback
Marshawn Lattimore from the New Orleans Saints. Back to Jerry
(32:47):
Slash Troy slash Jason.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I don't know what's going on. I thought this is
my weekly interview. I could replace all of you with
a bunch of people. And now the Dak's on ire.
He's gonna host the show. It's gonna be Dak and
Mingo and Jerry. That's how it's gonna go. And they're
not going to ask me tough questions. That's how it's
(33:14):
gonna go. You're gonna play Mungo Jerry in the back.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Jerry, are you gonna name? The segment hosted by Dak
Prescott yackety Dak don't talk back.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I was thinking more of the Jellicle Cats with Mungo,
Jerry and Rumpleteaser. I was thinking about that. That's kind
of how it goes here. Uh, Coming up next, a
big story out of college football and an eyebrow raising
one out of baseball. Keep it here, Jason the Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (33:56):
Show with My best friend Mike Harmon live from Thetirack
dot Com studios. A couple of big stories to end
with here developed over the course of the night. The
first one involved was that tod there's no minor stories
on the show, Oi shirt, there's no minor stories.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
The first one involving Juan Soto where today Brian Cashman
Yankees GM met with he and his agent Scott Boris.
They talked about Juan Sota re signing and also with
about Pede Alonzo because Scott Boris represents Peed Alonzo as well.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
How big was the truck full of notes and stats
and printouts to make his case.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Let me show you exactly what Here's parking, Here's this,
here's that is that?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Everything?
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It's look I told you before and I know you
had the story. The one baseball insider who was projecting
Juan Soto to the Mets because they're gonna give him
the biggest contract in baseball history.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
The guy who had done nailed the fact that he
was the same source when Soda was getting ready to
go to the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Yeah, hey, I'd love to see it, and I know
Steve Cohen is itching to spend money, but I still
I can't see there being any avenue where the Yankees
get out bid for him by the Mets. I really,
it's it's impossible for me to see that because that's
the worst thing for the Yankee They could lose him
anyplace else. They can't lose a twenty six year old
(35:27):
superstar to the Mets. They can't. It's it's Brian Cashman,
I think would resign because he doesn't want to walk
around and haveing Yankee fans go the guy got us
to the World Series, hit the big home run against
the Guardians. He was We're losing him to the Mets
and have to wake up every day and watch his
highlights with the Mets.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
No, Cashman would have to make up a bunch of
random things that Soda was asking for that they couldn't do.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
They would they They can't just the money. They could
get out bid by anybody. And I'm not saying like
if the Dodgers came in with money, the Phillies, it
doesn't matter anywhere else but the Mets. I mean I
would be the most surprised. Again, not a lot in sports.
You know who's a dark horse team. I'll be the
White Sox. I'd be the most surprised guy in the world.
(36:12):
And it would be it would be the biggest Yankee
story maybe of my lifetime, that they let us big
time twenty six year old superstar go to the Mets.
I really would That would be the biggest Yankee story
of my life. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
The first off, the White Sox thing is just to
laugh because they've never spent one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
On a player, let alone five or six one hundred million.
But all it comes back to is Sodo one hundred
million for ten years for one Soto. Yeah, I'll call
you back. I'll call you back.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
The idea that Boris is his agent, which historically comes
down to who's got the biggest pocketbook as opposed to
other considerations, and Juan Soto, as best we can tell
by the quick nature of his yeap open for business
after losing the world series would suggest to me that
(37:02):
it's all about the number of what the digits are
in front of that first set of commas.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
It's again. I would if it'll be the happiest guy
in the world, I wouldn't care about being wrong. But
I just can't see it.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
But I mean, if he wanted to say, hey, the culture,
that sternsy and the you, and I'll tell you what
if that happens, Let's say, let's say hoping again.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
So if that happens, then absolutely the Yankees are getting
Pete a Lonzo because they're going to find a way
to make it like, here's a swap and we got
Pete Alonzo for what and then that watch watch that happen.
I'd love to see someone do the math to show
how that becomes an equals. You don't really believe he's six,
do you. Well, they'll they'll get him and find out
he's forty. I mean, oh man, you.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Paying seven hundred million. It fell off a cliff after
three years. We have no idea what happened where he shuttles?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
The other big developing story college football USC making a
change of quarterback. Miller Moss is out and Jade Java
is now in transfer from UNLV at a really big
year last year, Suddenly UNLV has all these good quarterbacks
there leaving. He's a little bit more no, he's a
little bit more mobile, uh than Moss is. But basically
(38:14):
Lincoln Riley is in the endgame right now. He is.
He needs a hail mary to save his job. And
you think, you think they're not gonna buy him out.
They own about seventy million dollars after this year things
are so bad. If Mayava kind of reinvigorates them and
the offense is good, they go on to run. At
the end of the year, they make a bowl game,
(38:36):
they beat UCLA. Okay, Lincoln Riley will stay another year.
But that's why this is a hail mary to save
his job, because if not USC and that unreasonable fan base,
they're gonna say, hey, this is not what we wanted.
This is really really bad. Each year is worse than
the other, and Lincoln Riley will be the x USC
head coached this offseason. Well, you can only go to
(38:56):
the podium and say we're one or two plays away.
Be it one or two or three plays away, one
or two or maybe four plays away in maybe fifty
or sixty plays from winning the last two national championship.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
It's now your coaching that comes under suspicion in the
final minutes of games if you keep losing close games
that same way. I'd love to see how that seventy
million buyout came together, though I'm.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Pretty sure you have a lot of wealthy us he
I think they can get that buyout going pretty fast.
There you go, Will Will Ferrell start it? Come on,
I think Will Ferrell will pay most of it. Everybody's
doing it, honey, Hey, Will Ferrell will do ELF two
and all that money will go to buyout. Is you
gonna sing another song? And a commercial? Coming up next?
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So obviously, tonight it's big decision night, Election night. We're
not going to know any of the were not going
to know the real results because the big battleground states
are still too close to call. Michigan and Pennsylvania. No, no,
I'm not lying. Michigan and Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, they're
(01:16):
all too close to call, so we're probably not going
to get the results on that until sometime tomorrow. Michigan
says we're gonna have our results early, the earliest of anybody.
So look for at some point tomorrow, I know we'll
get this.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Is that to keep you away from talking about Michigan
and quarterbacks?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
So you just took my punchline, buddy, But no you
jumping I got. I'm sorry I didn't get. I do
the Michigan punchlines, okay, because I do the Michigan punch No.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
No, no, that's you, that's in your house. You normally
don't do the punchlines because you're afraid of your wife.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
No, I do the Michigan punchlines or the extended family
coming down and beating you up. But there is one
race we need to update here because it look it
delves deep into the world sports. And someone who has
listened to the show for a long time. Uh, Steve
Garvey lost his US Senate race to Adam Shift tonight
(02:08):
in California. Uh no, look, this is it if you
mean Adam Schefter. Adam Schefter. Adam Schefter had the had
the actual result before it was made public, and he says, hey,
iron himself, I'm going to defeat Steve Garvey.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Did he also write the press release and have someone
check it before?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Let me let me be let me be clear, Let
me be clear.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You well, you saw Adam Schefter during the during the
debates against Steve Garvey, always checking his phone while they
were debating. It was very rude, very much. Hey, if
I got a text, I gotta do this. Uh No,
But Steve Garvey's guy interviewed him a bunch of times,
listened to the show. He used to drive all the time.
He used to do a lot of stuff in Arizona
with the Dodge. He would drive back and forth La Arizona,
(02:47):
la Arizona. And uh, you know it's it's tough in
California where Democrats outnumber Republicans so much.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
But he he, you know, tried to run as a
moderate Republican and he fell short. Adam shift with the win.
And you know, the one thing I would say is, Okay,
well here's Steve Garvey. Why are we doing this? Well,
because I want to know exactly and tell you exactly
how Chris Berman would announce Steve Garvey not winning the election,
(03:14):
and if Steve is listening. This may this may put
a smile on his face. Well, it's better than people
reducing him to baseball guy. Yeah, they did completely.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, you know anything he's done in his light day
baseball as opposed to Adam Shiff, who is played by
Stephen Hill baseball, that law and.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Order baseball legend, Steve Garvey. So so how would Chris
Berman announced? Okay, okay, Well, and here's here's how we
would announce it. This is one of my favorites. By
the way, I remember, do not try this at home.
I am a professional and DJ Adam Shiff defeating Steve Garvey. Clearly,
it was Steve Garvey's hopes to as he lopes along
(03:56):
in the election, to rustle up enough votes where he
could say I'm the new Senator from California and then
celebrate with the shot of Yager DJ, because if you
didn't have that punt, that if you didn't finish. But
that was the key I was gonna ask about Steve Yeager.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, yeah, but you got him in.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, hoping to leave Adam Shift in the dusty. But
he wasn't able to should able to be the baker
to get himself a win over Garvey, DJ, you're a
horrible human being. What I mean to think about? A hell?
What the hell goes on in your break? I'm a
standing ovation from Isaac Lowan crin right now over that.
(04:43):
He is pretty impressed. You let me getting in lows.
You've got everybody say, and then Bill Russell, Now we
can get a couple of the let's get Jerry Royce.
Oh man me tell Okay, how would I go? I
think they'd be pushing it. I think the listen, the
Dodgers in field in the mid seventies is legendary. Oh,
absolutely so. I think you got to keep it to
(05:03):
the infield, like that's it. Yeah, Like you gotta keep
it to the infield. Just be careful. Rod Sale'll beat
you up. The shot of Yaeger teaj lobes along in
the election to rustle up enough votes to say he's
the senator, will celebrate with a shot of Yeager. What's
that is? In my mind's eye as you do that.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I'm picturing like mid seventies baseball cards. Yeah, sure, Like
there's the seventy eight tops Steve Yeger with the tinted.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Glass, Yeah, yeah, the close up of his face.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, Steve Gary with his batting stance, like just take
the damn picture.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Oh man. You know, that's the one thing about Garvey.
In my lifetime of watching sports, there are a handful
of guys, and I mean maybe maybe five guys where
they had the absolutely perfect swing. Five guys where they're
just so strong they swing down on the ball and
(05:58):
swinging down on the ball still there able to get
the launch angle for home runs and big hits. Garvy
is one of them. Jim Rice, Mike Schmidt, David Wright
all had that swing down on the ball and be
able to just generate so much power because of it,
turn your wrists over and be able to hit the ball.
I mean, there's so few guys with that kind of swing,
(06:19):
and it's amazing to watch the ball pop off the bat.
But then he's got one of my favor They could
just do it. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
Live from the tyrack dot Com Dude, it lopes along
to the election. But speaking of the Dodgers, it was
announced today show Hao Taani underwent surgery for the shoulder
injury that he suffered in the World Series. The dislocation
(06:42):
that happened it was very, very difficult for him to
run the bases. He would run the base with one
hand on his shoulder so he wouldn't put his arm
out to try to stop his slide, which is exactly
what happened. So, uh, this is a big deal for
him as now he is getting set for the offseason
to get ready for spring training. Now the slight dislocation
(07:03):
doesn't matter. It's another surgery that he had, this not
to his pitching shoulder. Now, this is where I'm going
with this, and this is I got to beat the
drum on this until it happens because it's the right move.
Otani's gonna be thirty years old and he's already had
two really bad elbow injuries to his pitching arm. How
much longer is he really going to be able to pitch?
(07:23):
Can he still be a guy that throws one hundred
and sixty innings a year? Now you throw in this
injury which is to his non pitching shoulder. But as
he tries to ramp up to pitch in the spring,
who knows how this is going to affect his recovery
procedure and his continued rehabilitation. Maybe how long until he
can pick him and throw a ball again, not because
it's his throwing arm, because well, you're still using your
(07:46):
arm to make motions like how long until he can
do that? How long until he can swing? Right? So
you're now talking about a guy that's got some time
to go before spring training hitting you think he's going
to be okay. But now this is another arm injury.
This is a guy that clearly, now as he's getting older,
is having trouble staying healthy and it's bad injuries to
stuff to areas of his body that involves pitching. I
(08:09):
know the Dodgers want him to pitch, and that's why
they gave him the money. Would he be worth it
for just to hit it? Absolutely, but you want him
to pitch. I would not make him a starter when
he comes back. I would say show, hey, you're our closer.
And that makes all the sense in the world because
you would extend his life as a pitcher. He could
(08:30):
maybe do it for another ten years, right when you're
only pitching one inning every couple of nights, less stress
on your arm. And clearly the Dodgers would have some
sort of if you pitch on Monday, you don't pitch
again till Wednesday. Even if you do, and that cuts
so much wear and tear on Otani, who then would
be pitching at most what sixty seventy innings a year
instead of one hundred. Ffe worried about them through one
(08:52):
hundred and fifty. And if his arm blows out again,
then you know, okay, it just can't take it anymore.
But if you make him the closer, do you extend
his career as a pitcher. You make it easier in
games to where okay, he's the d H but then
he comes out of it. He pitches at the end.
You kind of lose the position, but it doesn't matter
because you're protecting a lead and you're hoping he's going
to close the game and you get off the field.
(09:13):
But also think about the the juice that runs through
the team in the stadium when he takes the mound
for the ninth inning of a game. It's it's it's Edwin,
Diaz and Narco with just him stepping on the mound.
You don't need them. He come out with though, yeah,
I don't know whatever you want him to think. He
would come out, well, he come out to I love
l A. He'd come out to Randy Newman did.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It, but it doesn't matter, like that would be the
excitement level, Like do a Japanese version. Maybe maybe Decoy
would help him to the mount, would pull him to
the mount. But like you think about all the big
closer entrances with Rivera, andr Sandman and Trevor Hoffman, Hell's
Bells and Diaz with this just mad dog from the
(09:55):
Gring Just that's what you just did to Decoy dragging
his He's.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Pulling a tree with no needles on it. But if
you did that for Otani, that makes sense in every
single aspect of his game. He still pitches, you get
maybe the best closer in the game for the next
few years. We've seen it before. We've seen Dennis Eckersley,
We've seen John Smoltz make those mid career adjustments, Eckersley
making it to closer, John Smoltz because of an arm injury,
(10:23):
becomes a closer, and these guys are lights out in
their Hall of Famers, like you can see that. You
can see that going for Otani. You keep his pitching
prime going, it's a longer time. It fits in with
how you have to use him as on the field
in the lineup and it gives you the big jolt
of electricity when he comes in the ninth in no
matter what happens, you're winning that mental battle of the
(10:43):
ninth inning because oh what here comes Otan. If we're
losing after eight, Otani's coming in the ninth, here we
go and that would be it. So when he does
come back, he comes back this year, I tell him, look,
whenever you're ready, you're gonna close. And you know he's
got the mentality to close. You watch him close out
the World Baseball Class against Mike Trout. You know he's
got the mentality to do it because it does take
a little bit more mental adjustment to go from being
(11:06):
a starting pitcher to being a closer to pitching with
the pressure. I don't think Shoeotani has anything to worry about.
Like I said, we've seen him do it. He would
be fine. That's what I doifind the Dodgers when showe
Ayotani is ready to pitch.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I like the theory of it because you will have
a number of arms coming back from injury, Like that's
the big thing you might be in the marketplace. You
know you've got the posting of more international players, including
the youngster from Japan, and he's obviously going to be
enamored with the idea. Hey, Yamamoto and Otani clearly liked
what was going on in the clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Oh and they won.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
And you think about the potential for more cash infusion
with all of that, the continued marketing that rolls with that.
For Otani, you know, how many stressful innings does he
have left in the arm?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Is the question?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
That's the luxury in theory that the Dodgers come into
next year. Now we've seen it for several years. There's
obviously something going on in the developmental side of things
and through the organization because you've had a lot of
miss games due to injury, so trying to figure out
where that disconnect is happening. But you've got a lot
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of guys that should be back and available to you
comes spring training. So the Otani, whether he comes back
as a closer or it, needs to pitch it all
right away. You don't have to fast track that, right.
He can take whatever time he needs to rehab, get ready,
get right. And much like we surmised and kind of
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speculated because it was kind of fun to do that
in a World Series moment.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Maybe he could.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You've heard a couple of people say, well, you know,
he was the break glass in case of emergency guy
if that game started to extend in New York, which
really is a nice curiosity, Dave Roberts saying there's no
chance in hell. I wanted that coming back to La
all of that to say, you're in a beautiful position,
because you're also not, as we've seen other organizations Cleveland
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Browns hamstrung by the fact that you're paying him top
dollar right now as a starting pitcher. Al deferred money
like you printed cash with him this year. If you
just put all of that in into an account, it's
doubling and doubling.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
And by time you actually have to pay it out.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
But for now you still have the luxury of going
back into the marketplace and absorbing another contract, whether it's
Snell or somebody else while he gets himself right. But
I do like the closing philosophy.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Telling you, man, it works every way. I don't know
how that's not what they do. If Dave Roberts is listening,
that's a free idea. There you go. Congratulations, you got it, Dave,
I just helped you well.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I mean truly just an update of what we come on.
We thought we could see a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Think about playoff Dave getting to go to Otani in
the playoffs out of the bullpen when he wants to
come on you just think about the optic of that maybe,
and in the playoffs, like coming into the seventh inning
where he's got to face the middle of the order. Like,
think a playoff Dave, how excited you would be to
do that? How about you keep my name's name out
your mouth, dude, I'm helping you. Man all about I
am helping you and it's fake ID. The Jason Smith
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Show with Mike Harmon Live from the tirerac dot Com studios.
All a lot more baseball on the way, interesting stuff
happening with Juan Soto. But coming up next, a big
NFL story that made no sense when it came out
earlier today, and it's gonna make less sense after you
hear us talk about it. That's coming up next, right here,
Ason to Mike, Fox Sports Radio Fire.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Fox Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Oh, by the way, upset specials like
fourteen and three. I was going into this last weekend
right fourteen and three, like that's like unheard of. And
I'm feeling so great with Duke has beat Miami. You
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were all over the place the third quarter. They're beating
him twenty eight to seventeen. I'm up forty nine seventeen
basically going to the fourth quarter, yep, and I lose.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
You want to talk bad beats, man fifty two fifty
one because I was getting twenty one more Like, come on, man,
like that's one of the worst beats.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I'm like, I got it made. I'm fifteen and three now. Nope, Nope,
that's was such an awful bad beat.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Well, I at least got the college game. I picked correctly,
because the NFL teams let me down big time.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
That's South Carolina game Cocks game.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Let me tell you, not only did they beat in
Texas A and M, they beat Texas.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
A and M very minor, minor, you know, And that's
the one thing for all the Miami I just you know,
with a Top twenty five college football Playoff poll. The
first one coming out Miami right now number four and
Cam Moore quarterback has been fantastic as much as we're
watching Miami escape every week, right because that's kind of
what I know. They've been escaping every week. But wow
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do they score points so fast and in bunches, and
they are a team that you do not want to
play because you could be down three touchdowns and five
minutes later it's tied. Like, it is amazing how fast
they can score points and no deficit is too much.
I feel like, if they're losing the game by three
touchdowns or two minutes to go in the fourth quarter,
(16:28):
oh they got this, Yeah they'll score on side kick,
use the timeout score one. Yeah. Like, and they just
score so fast and so much and so many points.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well, especially given the fact that most coaches, professional and collegiate,
have no idea how to run the final two or
three minutes of a game or half. So yeah, it
always leaves the door open for an explosive squad. But yeah,
they're one of the most interesting stories of the poll
as it came out, is all right there they are?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
How great? Are they? Right?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Explosive exciting, but when when is the other shoe drop
on one of these games?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Or maybe the clock does run a little fast. So
with that, we have more college football playoff coming a
more college football coming up in a little bit. But
today was the NFL trade deadline day, and likely you
woke up to the first bit of news and you
shook your head and said, no, the Cowboys didn't really
do that. No, they actually did. They traded a fourth
round pick to get Jonathan Mingo from the Carolina Panthers.
(17:31):
A good name. I know your first question, who the
hell is Jonathan Mingo? Unless you are in a dynasty
fantasy league and drafted him last year a second round
pick you may have, and maybe he's sitting on your bench.
You have no idea who this guy is.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Now, just think about this and all the craziness about
Dallas giving up a fourth round pick for a guy who, honestly,
I don't even know if he was going to be
in the NFL after this. He did have forty three
catches last year, okay, yeah, and he's got three catches
this year.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, he has a good quarterback now, he does, he does.
It doesn't matter if he was getting the snap from center.
He's terrible, and it kind of does up grade on
quarterback from the Jets, which the Steelers is incredible. It's
night and dayla man. Okay, Okay, enough, okay, just keep
telling Led mccacky to catch passes, just keep them. Uh
(18:23):
Mingo's a guy. Honestly, he was probably gonna be let
go by the Panthers because when you're a second round pick,
they invested a lot in you and you can't see
the field for the Panthers. Okay, the Panthers who traded
away Deontay Johnson the other two stud receivers that they
have in there, are hurt. You aren't playing behind Xavier Laguett,
who was a first round pick and an undrafted rookie
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free agent. You're done. You know, this is not a
trade you make for a fourth round pick. This is
a trade you get a seventh round pick for or
a sixth round pick, and I give you a seventh
round pick, but you get a fourth round pick. I mean,
it's it doesn't make any sense. It's almost like Jerry
Jones decided to wake up today and say, uh, okay,
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so gotta make a headline today because it's trade deadline day.
We stink we're three and five. Dak is gonna go on?
I r oh, we'll have more on that story coming
up in a few minutes. And uh, but got to
make a move. So let me go get a guy
that I heard. I heard of him a couple of
years ago, but he's no good and probably not gonna
be in the league now. Normally I would tell Steven hey,
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seventh round pick, but we get the headlines if they
him up a fourth round pick, people make fun of
me and say, what's going on? But then I see
Mingo trending, see Jerry Jones trending, and look, this is
what I'd like to do. Is I got to win
the battle of being talked about. Gotta do it, gotta
have it, and got to do it early in the day.
Can't have it later in the day, when you know,
the Williams kid gets traded and other things that. No,
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it got to be early in the day where we
kind of own the news cycle. So I would normally
just give a second seventh round pick, but hey, fourth
round pick. That's gonna be great. Now, the hard roude
pick a little bit too much, but fourth round pick, hey,
that's gonna get people say stuff about me and about
what kind of trade this is, and everybody's talking about
the Dallas Cowboys, Like, I really don't wonder if that
was part of the reason why they give him a
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fourth round. I can't eliminate it from consideration.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I don't know what percentages I would give it on
the pie chart, but I'm not putting it at zero
at any stretch.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
But I saw it this morning.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I'm up early, right, walk the dog, hanging out with
the girls before they get off to school and work
and everything, and.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Starts to go.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
We got some activity early. Okay, cool, what do we got?
Jerry Jones says the Cowboys are going to acquire a
wide receiver and someone he liked since they were in college.
In the evaluation process, Jonathan Mingo was not the name.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
That came to mind.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Like, there's a bunch of teams that could be in
the mix here, Yeah, a lot of teams, you know,
tading hopes, all of these things. And then it's a
fourth round pick, and I see, oh, it looks like
it's gonna be someone that's a fourth or fifth round picks.
Still no name, like great teaser trailers. And then finally
it's Jonathan Mingo, and it's like, look, the guy's an
NFL player. I don't mean to diminish the work that
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he's done, the one hundred plus catches he had at Old.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Miss, all those things. It's not the guy that I
was expecting. On the other end, No, of course not.
You know why, there's only one thing wrong with Jonathan
only one thing he stinks. Yeah, there's something to that.
And this is what doesn't make even more sense is
that when you understand the Cowboys and the Lakers are
the same team. When they can't win championships, they have
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to win the battle of relevancy to be talked about,
to have the status that they're still the biggest, baddest
teams on the block, the most popular team in the
sport when they're winning titles, when they're terrible, when they're
just mediocre. Right, you understand that, and that makes you
understand why Jerry Jones does what he does, why the
Lakers do what they do with drafting Brownie James and
(21:54):
hiring JJ Reddick. They need to make headlines. If we're
not in the winning business, we got to be in
the headline business because that's just as good, that's value
of the franchise. That's still the image and optic that
the team is great and still thinking we can win.
This is what the Cowboys and what the Lakers do.
And Jerry Jones has made trades like this for thirty years.
This is not surprising. I laughed when I saw it,
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but I wasn't surprised because he gave a fourth round
pick for Trey Lance.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Who's that cave to make the active roster now? Right,
he has done trades like this for thirty years. This
is not surprising. But still hold him off. But this
is what makes this trade even worse. Okay, Dak Prescott
is going on ir Jerry Jones said that today likely
is gonna be placed on injured reserve, which means he
can't come back until the middle of December. Again, we
said it last night. We've seen the last Dak Prescott.
(22:40):
You're not gonna see him the rest of this season.
He's not gonna come back when the Cowboys are four
and ten for the last three games.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
That's it. He doesn't want any more part of this
blank show than he's been a part of all season. Right,
he wants nothing to do with the rest of this year.
You are not gonna see him again. And that's what's
gonna happen. The Cowboys are gonna be three and ten,
four and ten, whatever it's gonna be. This is what
makes it worse. The Cowboys are done. Jerry Jones knows it,
the team knows it, and they still he still went
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out and gave up a draft asset for a guy
that's not gonna come in and make a difference. Because
me playing with a backup quarterback who knows he even
beats out Cavante Turpin for playing time. But the Cowboys
are finished. They can't run the ball, they're injured defensively,
they have nothing. And still I'm gonna trade a draft
asset for a guy that doesn't make sense. I mean,
(23:29):
I don't get it. You know what I thought of earlier? Well,
I thought of back to when the Jets were like
one in seven in like twenty fourteen, I think it
was something like that ten years ago, and they traded
with the Seahawks for Percy Harvin. And I'm like, we're
one in seven. Why the hell are you making a
trade for Percy Harvin? First of all, the guy's washed. Secondly,
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what's gonna happen we're one in seven. What he's gonna
sell an? All these games? Right?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Even hurt a bunch, And as I recall correctly, was
it a question of whether he's still don't actually play
for Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
But when you're done, you're done, right, And I'm sorry
the Cowboys are done, but they are. And you decided
we're gonna give up a fourth round pick, which generally
is a starting player now in the NFL, not a
great starting player, but a guy he's gonna come in
and start at You see it. You see fourth round
picks come in. You see fourth round picks on the
offensive line can have great careers, defensive line, linebackers, it
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happens safeties, you see it. And Jerry Jones decided, in
a year that's done, where we stink and our quarterbacks
out for the next month plus, let me go give
him a fourth round pick for him. That's what makes
this trade even worse, the fact they give a fourth
round pick. That's Jerry Jones. He Jerry's when you know,
he's just Jerry. He's been jerrying for thirty years. Didn't
want to be left out of the equation.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
But now that when when then he gave up a
higher pick than any other wis And that's where I
got dealt.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
That's where I get it for other teams because the
Jets gave up give him a fourth round pick for
Devonte Adams. Like, does Jerry Jones just go into his
off fish and lock the door and no one can
get in and Steven's knocking on our door, going, Dad,
don't call anybody. Sorry, just somebody's outside wants to come
and drop all some food. But listen, we need a
wide receiver. Who do you got Uh? I'll take the
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Mingo kid? Uh yeah, Uh, I don't know what what what?
What's what's fair? Yeah? Fourth round pick sounds good to me.
You get me back a seventh All right, fine, I'll
have all of the paperwork sent over And then he
buzzes Stephen in, hey, get the paperwork going, and just
traded for Jonathan Mingo?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Is there any guy that we have on the roster
that goes by the nickname of Flash? Like, do you
mean you have the two of them go up against see?
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Do you Flash and Mingo? I mean, do you mean Mingo?
That's that's something that Jerry Jones just did. Or do
you really think he talked to any no, I think
he did. I think he just did that. I think
that was him and temper uh and that's it, Like,
I mean, does he even know? All you do is
look and go okay. I could do five not even
five minutes, two minutes of research and go okay. So
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Devant Adams goes for a fourth round pick. Okay, fourth
round pick, fifth round pick. This kid hasn't even broken through.
I don't need to offer more than a seventh round pick,
straight up, seventh round, or I'll give you a sixth
and you give me a seventh.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Did he not trade for Mike Williams because the Jets
would get a bigger headline for getting rid of Mike Williams?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
I mean he gave up a first round pick for
a Marii Cooper when Amari Cooper is not Devontae Adams,
and the Jets gave up a fourth round pick for
Devonte Adams, Like this is just, this is just this
should not surprise you. This is this is what happens
when you have a bad owner who is in charge
of a team and has nobody checking him, they make
trades like this. That's not the support. His part is
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just not seeing the reality and the desire for a
headline so badly. I made a trade for a wide
receiver that was a second round pick that you know,
we go back to his draft grade. Yeah, I get that,
going back to the draft grade. But we've seen it
for two years and he stinks. I that's that's the
part that I that that makes me just shake my
head and go. He knows this was a bad idea.
(26:54):
He knows he gave up too much. He knows he
shouldn't have done this, yet he did it anyway because
it makes the Cowboy win Trade deadline day, and he
doesn't walk away not doing anything where he said, I'm
gonna do all I can to try to make the
Cowboys better. What happened if you don't make a trade.
Oh look at Jerry Jones. All talk didn't get anybody.
No made a move. I got Jonathan Mingo. I mean
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that's what he thought passive. Oh he was once upon
a time a second round pick. But we can't let
it go by.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
And talked about the evaluation and what the trade value
was for DeVante Adams. You remember distressed property quitting on a
squad and they basically acquiesced and said goodbye. They bring
in a new consultant after firing and the guts of
the coaching staff around Antonio Pierce by bringing in Norv Turner.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
How about that he's gonna fix that offense. You're like, wait,
north Turner is still around? Wait a minute, really he's
ready North Turner?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Okay, right, he'll be the interim head coach by week twelve.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Again. Hey, it's like it's nineteen ninety seven again with
Norm Turner in the Cowboys, Like, what's his face?
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Used to be America's interim head coach? Right?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
You know, hey, not for tonight, but for tomorrow. You
know what, I've been working on my Troy Aikman impression.
Okayh yeah, yeah, but working on my try because I
kind of have down a lot of things that he does.
So I guess it as good as Tay shirts like
he was doing yesterday. Oh when Todd Mole. My shirt's
Todd Bowles is pretty good. Very minor, very minor. Yeah, no,
you're Todd Bowles is very very minor. It's good when
(28:27):
you only say very minor, very minor. A little Morgan
Freeman though, a little, a little bit. I'm Molgan Freeman.
I just wanted to say hot to my floor.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Liked it.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Uh, Now I'm telling you I said it was good.
I said, I said it was good. I'm Algan Freeman.
Why no, no, no, you're I'm on your couch watching
your Netflix. Now you gonna sound like Baine a little bit,
mister Wayne watching a movie aud your wife. I want
the second season. With second season, the diplomat is out. Uh,
(29:02):
but he's swallowed. I need a gun. Okay, okay, and
that just thought. Now you're getting a little Now you're
a little tired. I'm tired of listening to your impressions.
I've never got clearance. I don't know what's going on
right now because this is the there you sent. Never
(29:25):
heard my John Wick? Is you do a pretty good
John Wick. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I thought that was Nicholas Cage.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That was good Nicholas Cage. No no, oh no, no
no no. Now it's your fault Island. Let's go Okay,
what Tysher does now.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Comes out of your update time. Oh payt that's fine
with me. But we're bearing the lead here. I thought
you were going to do your Troy Aikman. Go ahead,
still work shopping it.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, because you can tell my voice a little horse.
I've done my Jerry Jones impression a little bit too
much tonight.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
You've verny. You've earned your money with that Jerry Jones
so much, in fact, that I'm not thinking about it.
That's the ultimate tribute right there. To save my voice
from one O four to three. The fandomorrow, they're gonna
make fun of me.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I gotta make sure I got the right guys on
the radio start another international incident, just so you know.
That's why I traded for Mingo. He's gonna be on
the radio and interview me during the week.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Jerry Jones always playing the long game. Also playing the
long game apparently hold one. Oh all right, here we go, Yeah, yeah,
here we go.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
This goes back to your Nicholas Cage thing. This is interminable,
comes in threes.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Low ay, yes, time and the band struck up a
mighty tune.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
You asked for it.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Talk about learning your lesson? Boy, oh boy? Did I
ever learned my lesson? Man? Oh man?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
It's like it's like when my kids are about to
do something dangerous. I'm like, do I stop them or
do I let them learn for themselves?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Well?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Learn, America just learned America also just learned the first
college football playoff rankings of twenty twenty four, unveiled on
Tuesday and night. Oregon number one, followed by Ohio State,
then he got Georgia at number three. Miami was fourth,
Texas at number five, rest of the top ten, Penn
State at number six, followed by Tennessee, Indiana BYU and Notre.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Dame was tenth. World champion.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Los Angeles Dodgers revealing on Tuesday that shohe Otani suffered
a torn labrim in his left shoulder when he was
injured during Game two of the World Series against the Yankees.
He underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on Tuesday and is expected
to be ready for spring training. And Tuesday suspended seventy
six er star Joel Andb three games without pay after
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he shoved a member of the media in the locker
room after a game this past Saturday. N Be, a
vice president of basketball operations and one time bad boy himself,
Joe dumar Is said at a statement quote, While we
understand Joelle was offended by the personal nature of the
original version of the reporters column, interactions must remain professional
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on both sides and can never turn physical unquote. Tuesday
was trade deadline day in the NFL. The Pittsburgh Steelers
made two deals. They acquired linebacker Preston Smith from the
Green Bay Packers. They also acquired receiver Mike Williams from
the New York Jets, and the Washington Commanders acquired cornerback
Marshawn Lattimore from the New Orleans Saints. Back to Jerry
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Slash Troy slash Jason.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I don't know what's going on. I thought this is
my weekly interview. I could replace all of you with
a bunch of people. And now the Dak's on ire.
He's gonna host the show. It's gonna be Dak and
Mingo and Jerry. That's how it's gonna go. And they're
not going to ask me tough questions. That's how it's
(33:14):
gonna go. You're gonna play Mungo Jerry in the back.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Jerry, are you gonna name? The segment hosted by Dak
Prescott yackety Dak don't talk back.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I was thinking more of the Jellicle Cats with Mungo,
Jerry and Rumpleteaser. I was thinking about that. That's kind
of how it goes here. Uh, Coming up next, a
big story out of college football and an eyebrow raising
one out of baseball. Keep it here, Jason the Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Show with My best friend Mike Harmon live from Thetirack
dot Com studios. A couple of big stories to end
with here developed over the course of the night. The
first one involved was that tod there's no minor stories
on the show, Oi shirt, there's no minor stories.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
The first one involving Juan Soto where today Brian Cashman
Yankees GM met with he and his agent Scott Boris.
They talked about Juan Sota re signing and also with
about Pede Alonzo because Scott Boris represents Peed Alonzo as well.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
How big was the truck full of notes and stats
and printouts to make his case.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Let me show you exactly what Here's parking, Here's this,
here's that is that?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Everything?
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It's look I told you before and I know you
had the story. The one baseball insider who was projecting
Juan Soto to the Mets because they're gonna give him
the biggest contract in baseball history.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
The guy who had done nailed the fact that he
was the same source when Soda was getting ready to
go to the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Yeah, hey, I'd love to see it, and I know
Steve Cohen is itching to spend money, but I still
I can't see there being any avenue where the Yankees
get out bid for him by the Mets. I really,
it's it's impossible for me to see that because that's
the worst thing for the Yankee They could lose him
anyplace else. They can't lose a twenty six year old
(35:27):
superstar to the Mets. They can't. It's it's Brian Cashman,
I think would resign because he doesn't want to walk
around and haveing Yankee fans go the guy got us
to the World Series, hit the big home run against
the Guardians. He was We're losing him to the Mets
and have to wake up every day and watch his
highlights with the Mets.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
No, Cashman would have to make up a bunch of
random things that Soda was asking for that they couldn't do.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
They would they They can't just the money. They could
get out bid by anybody. And I'm not saying like
if the Dodgers came in with money, the Phillies, it
doesn't matter anywhere else but the Mets. I mean I
would be the most surprised. Again, not a lot in sports.
You know who's a dark horse team. I'll be the
White Sox. I'd be the most surprised guy in the world.
(36:12):
And it would be it would be the biggest Yankee
story maybe of my lifetime, that they let us big
time twenty six year old superstar go to the Mets.
I really would That would be the biggest Yankee story
of my life. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
The first off, the White Sox thing is just to
laugh because they've never spent one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
On a player, let alone five or six one hundred million.
But all it comes back to is Sodo one hundred
million for ten years for one Soto. Yeah, I'll call
you back. I'll call you back.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
The idea that Boris is his agent, which historically comes
down to who's got the biggest pocketbook as opposed to
other considerations, and Juan Soto, as best we can tell
by the quick nature of his yeap open for business
after losing the world series would suggest to me that
(37:02):
it's all about the number of what the digits are
in front of that first set of commas.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
It's again. I would if it'll be the happiest guy
in the world, I wouldn't care about being wrong. But
I just can't see it.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
But I mean, if he wanted to say, hey, the culture,
that sternsy and the you, and I'll tell you what
if that happens, Let's say, let's say hoping again.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
So if that happens, then absolutely the Yankees are getting
Pete a Lonzo because they're going to find a way
to make it like, here's a swap and we got
Pete Alonzo for what and then that watch watch that happen.
I'd love to see someone do the math to show
how that becomes an equals. You don't really believe he's six,
do you. Well, they'll they'll get him and find out
he's forty. I mean, oh man, you.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Paying seven hundred million. It fell off a cliff after
three years. We have no idea what happened where he shuttles?
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
The other big developing story college football USC making a
change of quarterback. Miller Moss is out and Jade Java
is now in transfer from UNLV at a really big
year last year, Suddenly UNLV has all these good quarterbacks
there leaving. He's a little bit more no, he's a
little bit more mobile, uh than Moss is. But basically
(38:14):
Lincoln Riley is in the endgame right now. He is.
He needs a hail mary to save his job. And
you think, you think they're not gonna buy him out.
They own about seventy million dollars after this year things
are so bad. If Mayava kind of reinvigorates them and
the offense is good, they go on to run. At
the end of the year, they make a bowl game,
(38:36):
they beat UCLA. Okay, Lincoln Riley will stay another year.
But that's why this is a hail mary to save
his job, because if not USC and that unreasonable fan base,
they're gonna say, hey, this is not what we wanted.
This is really really bad. Each year is worse than
the other, and Lincoln Riley will be the x USC
head coached this offseason. Well, you can only go to
(38:56):
the podium and say we're one or two plays away.
Be it one or two or three plays away, one
or two or maybe four plays away in maybe fifty
or sixty plays from winning the last two national championship.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
It's now your coaching that comes under suspicion in the
final minutes of games if you keep losing close games
that same way. I'd love to see how that seventy
million buyout came together, though I'm.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Pretty sure you have a lot of wealthy us he
I think they can get that buyout going pretty fast.
There you go, Will Will Ferrell start it? Come on,
I think Will Ferrell will pay most of it. Everybody's
doing it, honey, Hey, Will Ferrell will do ELF two
and all that money will go to buyout. Is you
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