December 6, 2023 • 39 mins
The Knicks get knocked out of the NBA In-Season Tournament by the Bucks. Dave Roberts confirmed Dodgers met with Shohei Ohtani at Dodger Stadium. And Aaron Rodgers is frustrated with the leaks coming out of the Jets building.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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sometimes wears wins and losses and games. Sometimes team slate giants.
And that's what happened today. Have knocked out the Knicks, Mike.
The Knicks are out of the NBA In Season Tournament.
It is done for the Knicks. They will no longer
be advancing. They are out of the in season tournament.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well, they had a really good run.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Julius Randall was a first half superstar. I mean that
was a big deal. Seeing that stat line floating about
the operational efficiency.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
That was you know, I had a multi screen experience.
Can you believe this?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You had a Julius Randall multi screen experience?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
No, no, No, that awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I'm watching the Bucks and Nicks on one screen and
on the other I was watching a sporting event.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Get it on True TV. Oh, it was like you
were in March already.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You were in the.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Middle of March.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
United States China, just gone final of friendly two to one,
your final. But what was funny is just ahead of
the US's second goal to take the lead, which they've
just now blown the whistle final, they spent five minutes
extolling the virtues and greatness of the the Team China defense,
(02:03):
and then they had one of the worst clearing attempts
I've ever seen, failed by three different people before it
dribbled back out for the eventual game winners.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, that was That was kind of funny. It was
not a great first half of the United States. That
all kinds of possession. We'd never both the score. Yeah,
they're losing one nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Okay, great, that was a great header back in that
that led to the goal.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Should have been a off.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Setsh but you know, hey, they let it go one
nothing at half and eventually they scored two to win
the game. But the whole time it's like, wow, the
Chinese defense playing well, and then the two goals they
gave up two of the worst defensive sequences you will
see at any level of soccer, you.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Know what, you know, kind of funny.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
One thing I kind of like now is that True
TV And I feel bad. Well, I don't feel bad
for True TV because obviously they have you know, that's
more sports now, but that, like True TV was always
like what the hell, man, there's a game on True TV?
And it was for a few years it was WHOA
what an outlier? Now there's games on all kinds of
crazy ass chata.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You don't even know, man, You want to go watch
I want to go watch Syracuse.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
They're on the CW. What, yes, they're on the CW.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I want to watch football. What do you got?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
No, go go find Instead of SpongeBob, it's SpongeBob announcing
the damn game.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So I mean, you know, you got all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Now the game is on Fox eleven, big Fox Non?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Oh, Fox Sports one, No, no, no, Fox Sports two?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
What Fox Business Channel?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Look at Fox Business Channel. Okay, let me get that.
I think I have that right here, high gred. No,
we're missing it.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
The only thing we're missing right now is I don't
think there's been a game on the Hallmark channel yet.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well it's well okay, because now what are you going
to show a sporting event or a Hallmark Christmas movie?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Come on, man, they could have everybody in special ceremonial
Santa and elf outfit.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
They could.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
They could tell Hallmark, hey, you guys have all the
NFL games every Sunday in December. They would say, yeah, no,
we can't. We have contracts with Lacy Schemer and uh
gayal O'Grady Cook. Forevery yes, Look, we can't. People expect
holiday movies and we can't on a football game. When
people are expecting someone to move to a town in
(04:03):
Vermont get asked to plan a fall festival and fall
in love with a doctor that they knew in high
school that moved back to the town to take care
of his mom, can't we can have Eagles forty nine
ers when that is on our docket.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Just can't do it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
It was funny, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Do you see all the ads and you know the
banners that show up on your TV. And they were
advertising that new Eddie Murphy Christmas movie that came out.
I started to watch it. Seven minutes in I had
nine of the bingo cards. Lots of a Christmas movie. God,
I can't do it, Sorry, Ednie.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I love the cast.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
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(05:00):
Show Heyo Tani. Now, depending on what MLB insider you
like or don't like, the Dodgers are either in the
finals for Show Heyo tanikay or they are out of
it completely. Because earlier today we got reports many Baseball
Insiders reporting, Hey, Show Heyotani's people really want to keep
(05:21):
his free agency close to the vest. They don't want
anybody to know that he's meeting with people. Yet we
found out yesterday he met with the Blue Jays yea.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And in the rerect is damn plaining like Nora.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
D Yeah, and the Dodgers Today manager Dave Roberts talked
about how, yes, they met with Otani a few days
ago for a couple of hours. Here's Dave Roberts from
earlier today.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
It's a good possibility. I think that, yeah, we met
with him. You know, I don't want to I'd like
to be honest, and so we met with show Hey,
and we talked and I think it went well. I
think it went well. But at the end of the day,
he's his own man, and he's gonna do what best
for himself where he feels most.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Common Dave, your MIC's on, Dave.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So this either was really good for the Dodgers because,
according to Bob Nightingale, longtime Baseball insider friend of the show,
the Dodgers, Angels, and Blue Jays are the final three
teams for Rotan, So he's going to the Royals.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
However, yes, or a mystery team.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
However, we also got many reports today from insiders that hey,
Otani's people Team Otani are very upset. They don't want
anything leaked out as to his free agency plans. And
if that stuff gets leaked out, that is something they
would hold against a team in moving somewhere in free agency.
So the Dodgers either are in the finals and Dave
(06:43):
Roberts had a great meeting and it was awesome, or
the Dodgers were great and Dave Roberts just blew it
and now Otani's not going to the Dodgers. One of
those things is happening.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Mike Carmon, Yeah, I mean one of the reports, right,
I mean out of the Nightingales. Robert spoke freely and
relaxed for twenty minutes, but his face became serious as
he spent several moments reading a text masters on his phone.
After his session, he immediately huddled with Dodgers public relations officials.
Day so dam they were waving like they walk over.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
With a taser.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Why did that guy put Dave.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Roberts in a sleeper hole?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well listen, and here's what Otani said to me. Oh, sorry,
we have to take Dave out right now, you're gonna
you know, hey, how about legend Steve Garvey is gonna
come up here? Hey, come on, Steve, come out up
and talk to everybody here.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That we talked about him, talk about your Senate run. Hey,
any anything but the Otani meeting.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We got any other Dodger legends here that can come
up and talk, are coming to talk for a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You know, It's been a long time since I went
and asked a man for an autograph or anything, you know,
and being in the business we are, I want to
go ask Dave Roberts for his autograph because he's a
man of the people.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
He's like a hero.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
They should build a damn statue out front of Dodgers
Stadium right now, you knowcause he just said, screw all
the protocols and the the you know, orders of you know,
be quiet, don't don't you know, blink twice if you've
seen her talk to an Otani official or Otani himself,
if you had an audience he said the quiet part
out loud.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Good for him, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
But here here's and here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Look, because as great as Otani is right, as great
as otani Is and Buster only talked about Hey boy,
this free agency thing with otani is Is is really
getting out of control and there's these threats and there's
all kinds.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Of stuff happening. I'm like, you know, why couldn't this
have been fun?
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Right?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
What the show?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Hey otani free agency story should have been an unbelievable
time for baseball, right, it should have been, Oh my god,
this is the best player any of us have ever seen,
and he's gonna be a free agent. And now because hey,
we want to keep it.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Why does it matter?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
This is that?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I mean, I don't understand why it's such a big deal.
We want to keep it secret, who we're meeting with
what it's a right, But it's.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Any circus anyway, right, And it's not like you're inviting
people to stand outside your house as you're meeting with them,
living gated community.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Rots aren't getting on motorcycles following you going there. He
is go get it? I mean, this should have been
why why spukpuk?
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Why?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But I don't understand why this is such a big deal.
It's probably it's one thing. If hey, my family is
being bombarded whenever they see somebody in the mall. Where
is show hey going? Like if it's stuff like that
going on, I get it, But this is just oh,
we don't want people to know who we're meeting with.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Like, what the hell?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Man?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
This should be fun.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
This should be a celebration of baseball, and it should
be where is this guy going?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
This should be the the the the the free agent
tour of of of a superstar going, Oh my god,
he's talking with you. Could he actually go to the Dodger?
This should be on the Lebron James level for Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
But instead Carmelo or all those guys as they went
around city to city that year, that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Was so fun.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
You said, Garmelo, no, no.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
No, but obviously you had the decision.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But I'm talking about you know, even even the other
guys from that class, they all went around, they had
their names on the market key, they got the whole
Blue Chips treatment with all the announcements and music and
everything else.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Make it a festival.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I don't I don't get what this is all about.
And instead it's just a Oh it's secrecy and we're
gonna find out someone's on a team. Oh he was
gonna find out the team he chooses and we're gonna
find it. Oh, maybe he's mad at the team because
they let slip that they met. He didn't say any details,
like Dave Roberts said, Well, he sat down and he
demanded this kind of money, wanted this kind of thing.
With that, you're you're going somewhere where you're gonna get
probably six hundred million dollars. It looks like you've convinced
(10:28):
teams to say, hey, he will be okay to pitch
in a couple of years. So six hundred million dollars
is completely on the table for him for you, Uh okay,
so you're you're getting that. And now suddenly this is
what it is. It's it's this should have been fun.
This should have been a celebration of baseball, and it
should have been something that, boy, hey, you're counting down
to show heyo Tawi free agency? Where is he going?
And there should be interviews and there should be all
(10:50):
kinds of fun stuff. And instead it's just okay, it's
under the cover of darkness and this is what we
have now. Everybody's different, and I get that some guys
like the publicity, like this is Aaron Rodgers, Oh my God,
he'd be in a rhinestone coat doing else.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
This is all said and done.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
It would be it would be incredible.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And so I get Otani as kind of as a
private person wants to do things a certain way. But
this is not like there anybody's asking for anything. That's
not just something that would be public record. Did you
meet with the team or no, it can't. We tell
you no, you're a free agent. It's okay, it's okay
if we know there's no there's no uh tampering happening here.
It just it should have been more fun. And I
wish that could have been communicated and that could have
(11:29):
been something that was agreed upon. Hey, it's okay, because
this is great for baseball, and you know, this would
have met you know, and imagined Rob Manford stepping into
actually say something like this. But it's just I feel like,
as fans, we were robbed of what could have been
an unbelievable week. And look, I would have spent a
couple of days going, oh, my god, the Mets could
get Otani, and then the Mets are out of the running.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
It's oh, we're out of the running for Otani.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I mean, there could have been that kind of emotion
swings and it could have been great, and instead it's just, yeah,
we're gonna find out because it's all secret.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Nothing else.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
We could have gotten public dissemination and press of the
slide decks here on Major League Baseball Network, instead of
watching guys vamp and try to make stuff up and
tell you what they had for breakfast, you could have
had all right, here was the Milwaukee Brewers pitch, and
here's Bernie Brewer coming down the slide to start it off.
(12:17):
I mean, and then team to team, here's what we
can offer as a city. If nothing else, it's a
tourism package for each of these thirty Major League Baseball
teams along the way they're thinking the organizational not that
you go too deep into plans, not to divulge at all,
but at least a little bit of fun in terms
of this process. Instead you got everybody saying, I don't know,
(12:38):
do I have real good authority to even talk about this,
because Otani's people may take out my communications and I
might eliminate my team just by saying I looked at him.
It's just a bad's place for Major League Baseball. I mean,
there's just so many guys that move the needle, get excitable,
get you excitable as a casual or if you're one
(13:01):
of the uh a fan of one of these teams
that think you're in the running for his services, you'd
like a little more.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Then I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Either they're either they get an audience with them or
they don't. You guys, do realize that everything you guys
just said for the last fourteen minutes means nothing because
the Lakers just dipped right.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Oh sorry, Well, the Lakers are, yes, playing for a
spot in the semifinals in the playing tournament.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Yet Game seven, this is amazing, Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
It's a three pointer by D'Angelo Russell and he's already
doing windmills and airplane movements going down the court.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Three nothing the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
But look, I really wish that's the case, because we're
the ones that are robbed on this and it could
have been really easy to just say, hey, why not
because you know and and not that Otani's got to
change who he is, But dude, you're gonna sign a
contract that anyone in the history of.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Sports has not signed.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
No one's getting No one in the history of the
game has gotten six hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
You're gonna get it. How about you help baseball out
a little bit?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
How about jab about jet major League Baseball and just hey,
you know what, it's okay if you say where we're
meeting and where we could be going and pontificating about
it and talking about it again, it's it's nothing. It's
not that it's a it's an invasion of privacy or
anything else. But it's just to hear that, Oh, hey,
we're gonna hold it against you if it gets out
that we met.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
I mean, come on, man, this is.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Not Hey, if my girlfriend finds out we've been hanging out,
she's gonna be mad. You can't tell anybody about this.
Let mean, that's kind of what this is there. You
took it to a whole other level.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Not that that ever happened.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I'm gonna steal your Girlfriendie, I'm going to steal your girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Not that that ever happened to me, or that I
have everything net net.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
It's just it's just a story. It's just a story. Uh, exit.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
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(15:02):
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Speaker 4 (15:07):
Yeah, but you won't be able to do that on
your phone or your fingers too fat.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Who gets Benny? Oh, oh, she wouldn't get Betty. Yeah, No,
Benny loves her. Benny loves her. Benny loves I thought.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
You were the one that walked Benny. I was a
chosing one stuff.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Now, bet No, Benny loves me.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
But but Pam feeds him a little bit more so,
so he always defaults to her.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Who who feeds me more?
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
She does? Yeah? Now, no, Benny, Benny. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Benny loves ben Benny loves her most. It's okay he
loves he loves Benny most, and then he loves me
and Zoe equally.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
After that, so it's okay.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
This means like, hey, you need to go walk him
because because he's not gonna go with he gotta go
with you. You gotta go walk him. You gotta go
take him here. You gotta go take him here. You
gotta go te you want Benny to be your number one? Okay,
you gotta walk him. So so it works out. Okay,
So son I got to play on my phone and
and she has to walk Benny.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
So that's how it goes.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Uh, exit out about a Fresco swollen dome. Jason Smith,
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if you think the craziness involving show Hey Tani is something,
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(16:16):
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Speaker 5 (16:16):
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Speaker 2 (16:17):
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pm Pacific. Lakers and Sons, What a fun ending. Lakers
were up by two.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Anthony Davis gets fouled with about six seconds left, goes
the free throw line, hits the first misses the second.
The Suns got the rebound, got the ball to KD.
They were down three with six seconds to go, and
the last six seconds went like this.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Look at four man rush they're chasing the town gets
off Purty in fro and it.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Is picked off. It's gonna get intera Hart and it's hollow.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
At the twenty, he's cutting back inside of New York.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
On the right.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Damn, I really didn't see that coming. You think I would.
I did not see that coming. Did not see that.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
That was good.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You got Ropidope, you.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Got got Dolphins. Radio J. I know the final six
seconds went like this.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
He missed.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
It is the hardest one to tie the game. Lakers Taos, Vegas.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Billy Mac, Lakers TV on the OH. The Lakers are
in the semis. It's the in season tournament, and the
Lakers look at them.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
The championship is coming.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Lebron is huge tonight and it was an incredible game,
and there's a lot to get to on it, but
let me just say this. That final where KD has
the ball, he dribbles down from mid court, and I
know it was a subtle thing, but for Tory and
Prints to not back off of him and allow KD
to have an extra dribble where he's taking the three
(18:14):
just beyond the arc. He kind of steps up and
forces KD to, okay, I gotta shoot here because the
time is ticking down, and it's an off balance thirty
five footer. That's an air ball. That's all the difference
on that play because you can easily see defense. I
don't want to found, I want to fund. You're backing off,
backing off, and KD gets another dribble and a half
and he stops right behind the three point line and
(18:35):
he hits one, and bingo, we're going to overtime. But
just the fact didn't try to foul. Just I'm getting
in your way a little bit, and you don't have
time to really dribble around me and do it because
time is ticking down. And he forces a really bad
shot by KD, a big forced one that again draws
nothing but air, and the Lakers win it, and they
go to the semifinals and a date with Zion awaits
(18:56):
in Vegas. There we go, they're playing They're playing Buck
and Pages at nine o'clock in the morning, and then
we got and we got to this. We had the
main entree with the Lakers and the Pelicans and Lebron
AND's ion.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
How great is that?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I mean, look, it'll be far more entertaining than the
Thursday night football game that will happen.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
This is true, That's true.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Damn sure.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Over Audrey either twenty nine and a half or thirty
depending where you're shopping.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
When I was looking a little bit.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Earlier, but I thought the sequence with the inbound Reeves
where he loses the ball but Lebron's granted the time out.
I've watched it like ten times, like, is that really
the right call? Or is it home cooking? Be cuz Frostburg,
the Lakers are bleeping bat batt'll do it?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Yeah, wat Vegas. It wasn't it wasn't, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Austin Reeves turns the ball over great head he played
by Devin Booker, not fouling him because Reeves was struggling
with the ball a little bit. But boy, to get
that time out, that was a bit of a.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Right let me because technically if you wouldn't, if you
weren't calling the foul on the little bump as he
turned with the ball, then he technically.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Walked Yeah, yeah, no, you're right.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Or or Grayson Allen's got the ball under the hoop
for a lane in a tie game because the ball
bounces over to him and he winds up getting it
and there's nobody there.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He picks it up on the end line, looking around like,
what the hell's happening?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Uh So Thursday Pacers, Bucks, Pelicans, Lakers in the semis
in Vegas?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Did you did you notice the streamers coming down? What
a sell?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, dude, you moving on, man, moving on to the
semi finals four.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
The Lakers are in the final four.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I just like all the branding is fricking everywhere, including
what I'm scrolling through on.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
My YouTube TV in season tournament.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Real question for he fell cancel Thursday night football now
that the Lakers are playing?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Oh this?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Steelers Patriots? Yeah, come on, I gotta cancel it. Come on, Yeah,
you can't play it. You gotta move it to Friday.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Yeah. Oh do you really need to even play the game.
They need to play it.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I mean, come on, I'm watching them play on Sunday.
You're talking about It's Trubisky and Steve Grogan that are
squaring off on.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
The You wish the Jets hadn't Trubisky right about now?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, sure, I wish you had
Steve Grogan. I really have Grogan right now. But look,
the one thing there's been a lot of criticism about
about the play intern which we have more on coming
up in a few minutes, But you know, sometimes you
just have to understand, Yeah, it's fun and this is
what the NBA was hoping for. A game like tonight
(21:32):
that was played like a playoff game. Lebron at fifteen
in the fourth quarter, he was huge, This is a
fun little thing. Hey, I can I can win another term.
I can win another title, right, I can win the
padd O'Brien Trophy year and and and win.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
A title in the middle of the season.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
This is kind of what the NBA envisioned when they
saw the n season tournament. Now, there's certain changes that
need to be made to it that are just going
to augment it, but this is kind of what they
were hoping for and expected. Hey, we're into the semi finals.
We have a couple of big time teams and stars
in the mix to play. We're very excited about this.
We could get Bucks Lakers in the final. We could
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get Bucks, Pelicans could get Bucks that we could get
Giannis and Zion, or we could get Pacers Pelicans.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
But we know we could get it. We have a
lot of big matchups we could get here.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Mike, Yeah, I mean it's it's really cool on the
Eastern Conference side from straight Hey, you like watching basketball side,
but you know, the Knicks in there would have been fun.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Sure they would have put the Knicks on at night.
The Lakers would be on during.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
This time to watch the pain.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Come on, man, you want nick Lakers in the finals.
Come in Nick Laks show for the padd O'Brian trophy.
Come on, everybody celebrates the power of Yiannis.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
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Speaker 1 (22:51):
It is time to find out what is happening at
the MLB Winter Meetings. Is show Heyo Tani have it
narrowed down to three teams? Is it the Angels, the Dodgers,
Blue Jays or show Tani's representatives mad at the Dodgers
and Blue Jays for letting slip that they actually met
with him a few days ago and maybe now they're
out of the running. Nobody better to talk to than
(23:13):
a long time friend of the show, Emily Network insider
And what half of the morning show sweeping the nation?
Sternsy and the Pope? It is John Paul Morosi, JP.
What's happening, Bud?
Speaker 7 (23:25):
I am doing great. Although I was told that I
was on here to break down the Detroit Pistons path
in the end season tournament? Is that? Is that not
the case?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
That path ended? JP? We've moved on the path and
the path is dead.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
As I understand the rules, you have to have achieved
five victories by the first of December to qualify for
said tournament, and I don't think the Pistons have gotten there.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Now I think you had the Pistons. You have to
have won five games in the last year, and the
Pistons haven't gotten there at any rate.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
He helped his teams win many more games than I
do believe. Vistro Otani is the occasion for us to
visit her this evening.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now, let me ask you, are you okay? Are you
allowed to talk about Otani? And what could be happening,
because we're hearing that any Otani information that gets out
will be held against any team that may want to
sign him.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
This is, in a word, absurd. It is it is absurd.
There are I have covered. I have covered a lot
of Winter meetings in a lot of different ways. I've
seen stories broken in strange ways and strange hours. I
have never quite encountered something like this, And at the
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end of the day, I don't know what is more
laughable the notion that one of the most highly anticipated
free agencies is supposed to be some clandestine process that
no one fox ors or speaks or with verse about,
(25:01):
or be the notion that someone would make a half
a billion dollar decision for the next ten years of
his life with respect to something that a highly respected
manager acknowledged, the existence of a meeting that everyone knew happened.
I mean, this is really really tough to believe, and
(25:24):
I understand why it's become an interesting story and why
people are discussing it. I am here to say Dave
Roberts did the entire world a great favor because the
A acknowledged the obvious and B refused to live in
fear of what is by any measure, a completely absurd edict.
(25:48):
That's it, That's just what it is. And however this goes,
Shoe is certainly entitled to wish for his privacy. He is.
But I would like to say this, you can't have
it all the ways. You can't say that you want
to do things that no human has ever done before
(26:09):
and be compensated for them on a level no human
has ever been before in this sport, and then ask
to somehow make all these decisions completely cuisered away from
the public eye. It just doesn't work that way. It's
just not This is show business, everybody. This is entertainment.
We like to talk about things. We like to be
(26:32):
entertained and have our emotions taken on ups and downs
by things. That's why we watch the games. And if
the fans didn't get excited about this free agency, and
if they didn't spend their money on the entertainment of
buying the ticket or even buying the subscription of the
streaming service to learn about the information that's happening, none
of us would have a job. And that includes show hey,
(26:55):
by the way, so this is driven by the fans.
The fans We all of us that work in sports
work because of the fans, and so if Shoe has
the problem with fans and executives talking about his situation,
I'm not really sure what to say. I really I'm
very rarely at a loss for words, but I'm really
(27:17):
at a loss for words on.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
This one, because you know, we talked about this, Mike
and I talked about this last hour. JP is that
this sucks because the fans, we're the ones that are losing.
This should be an unbelievable moment for baseball and the
anticipation and where is he going and what could it be?
And just I want to be excited that for five
minutes the Mets could have been in it. Now the
Mets are not, and instead it's all behind closed doors
(27:39):
and it's mysterious and maybe they're met. It's like it's like, hey,
baseball deserves better for show. Hey hot for a guy
we've never seen before doing things unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
He's a free agent. This should be it should be
a more fun thing for us to be able to
sell it.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Right, You're exactly right, And there are multiple parties involved here.
There's obviously show a show as representative and also the teams.
Now last year, Aaron Judge is a pretty private person too,
But it was okay that we knew that he met
(28:15):
with the Giants of San Francisco. It was okay that
we knew that he met with the Yankees. And guess what,
he went to where he wanted to go to all
along and got a great payday and he stayed a
Yankee and it was a fun story. So there's nothing
wrong with the way it unfolded for Aaron Judge. Now, everybody,
everybody has their own prerogative to conduct their business as
(28:39):
they wished. That is, without a doubt true. But I
think what you have here in a very real way,
and it can be spun however you'd like it. But
Show as has asked for his own wishes for privacy
and his own discretion to be more important than helping
(29:04):
to generate the greatest excitement possible for the game. Now,
some might say show he's already done all that we've
ever asked for him to do, because he's done things
on the field that we've never done before. Okay, that's
I respect that perspective. But if we're all talking about
to whom we've all been given opportunities that we're being
(29:27):
good caretakers of our place in the sport to help
promote it and grow it the best that we can
and show he has been given, i think, a wide
birth to conduct things as he wishes. Is he doing
Is he who has been given an opportunity unlike really
any that we've seen in the history of the games.
Is he doing the most with it to grow the
(29:49):
game right now, in this particular week of December of
twenty twenty three. The answer is no, he's not.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Now.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
We might say that if he hits five home runs
in his first game with the Dodgers or the or
or the Cubs or the Blue Jays or any any
other team he's playing for, are we gonna forget that
and not care about it as much? Probably because we
don't really have memories that go back very far, but
that there's no question that in this in this week
(30:17):
of this month of this year, baseball could be a
lot richer of his story and a lot more gratifying
of a story if it were being conducted differently. And
that's that's all. It's it's just it's it's a missed opportunity.
He does plenty on the field. I would never ever
take away from that. But the way that this has
(30:37):
been choreographed, and I'll use that word intentionally because it's
being scripted in a very particular way by his camp,
has not has not been for the greater good of
the sport this week. And that I think that statement,
I realize I'm maybe some may take issue with it,
but that's just the reality as I proceeded.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
All right, let me let me pull you back from
all the rumor, conjecture, speculation. A lot of videos up
at John Morosi on Twitter. We know Saint Almost Steakhouse
is the place in Indianapolis for NFL people to talk
and you can get some good information when folks are
knee deep in cocktail sauce and a couple of vodkatonics.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
What's the place in Nashville? Who are you stalking and where?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
So?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Well?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Right now, so I, as this may surprise you, I
have a morning show that begins quite early in the morning.
So right now I am. I am relaxing in my
hotel rooms, trying to save my voice for the next
two days. But there are innumerable lobbies that exist in
this hotel that there are a number of good places.
(31:44):
But we're at the opuland here in Nashville, which to
any who have ever been here, if you were to
say meet me in the lobby or the bar and
the lobby, the response would be which one, because there
are many bars in many lobbies, so it's a great
(32:05):
place to be. I love it. My brother lives here,
so I always enjoy coming to Nashville for family reasons
and just for being in this great city, which I believe,
by the way, will one day be a baseball city
in the major leagues. But it's sort of a continual movement,
and I do think that some of the socialization of
the old days of the winter meetings where everybody was
(32:28):
at the same bar and we were all hanging out.
I experienced that for a couple of years, but it's
changed a little bit, certainly in the last ten years.
I think just the prevalence of social media and honestly,
newspapers no longer having any deadlines ever has also contributed
to that. I was actually sharing this with my brother
last night. Said back in the first couple of meetings
(32:50):
that I covered, you'd file your story. You're done. I mean,
there's nothing more to do. There was no internet to
write for you just would follow your story, go to
the bar and talk to people until they turn the
lights on at the end of the night. I mean,
that's basically what you would do. And so it's a
little different now. You know, I'm doing a little more
on air stuff, so I have to basically have myself
(33:12):
organized and presentable by early in the morning. So I'm
some level I can't I can't quite do like I
used to guys. I'm a little bit I'm a little
bit old, as you guys know. I drive a minivan, okay,
so I can't really stay up till two o'clock in
the morning. Basically, when I bought my minivan, they said, sir,
are you ready to turn in your card? And says,
you know, PJ time is ten o'clock. I said, yes,
(33:35):
I can do that. I'm on board with that. So
that's kind of where I'm at in life. But I'll
tell you what, if something happens really interesting over a
cup of coffee at six point thirty in the morning,
I'll probably be up for that. I can promise you that.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
And they'll be.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Network inside of John Paul Morosi with us from the
meetings in Nashville. All right, Jp, I'm going to give
you a fill in the blank for the three biggest
names that we're going to see potentially change addresses over
the course the next few days. If I said to
you Otani where, Yamamoto, where, Juan Soto where matchmaker for
(34:09):
those three players, where you are thinking what you are hearing?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Where they end up? Otani, Yamamoto and Sodo.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Okay, this is what I believe believe. So this is
not sources same Morosi is declaring all of these things
shall happen? Okay, I always have that forviso number one.
I still believe the Dodgers are the front runner for
Otani and ultimately have the best chance to get them,
and it's going to take a lot to convince the otherwise.
So I've got Dodgers, Otani, Yamamoto, Boston Red Sox. I
(34:43):
think the Red Sox with the Mets putting up a
heck of a fight, Jason. The Mets are therein they
are in there in a big way. On the Yamamoto.
They like them, and so what happens there is there
a way for the Mets to go above and beyond
to get him. I tend to think he is going
(35:04):
to be a member of the Boston Red Sox now
Juan Soto. Even though the Yankees got alex Erdugo tonight
in a surprising trade with the Red Sox, I still
believe the Yankees find a way to get Juan Soto.
In some ways, bringing in Verdugo gives them a little
more potential capital to trade. Maybe they include Verdugo and
(35:25):
the deal they can do some other things with it.
But I do believe eventually Soto becomes a member of
the New York Yankees.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Look at that, Look at that. How about Blake Snell.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Blake Snell is in a very interesting place. We have
not heard a lot about Blake Snell. I don't think
he signs this week. I don't think he signed the
next week. I think Blake Snell is going to be
someone that we talk about more as we get towards
the new year. And don't be surprised if the Cardinals.
(35:58):
The Cardinals a team that I've already added three starting pitchers,
but I think they need more. So what if they
make a late run at Blake Snell? Not now, but
this is like a January, mid January. What does Scott
Morris do prediction, and I'm gonna say that he calls
up the Saint Louis Cardinals and finds a way to
get Blake Snell there.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
No, come on, this is what he's gonna do. If
the Mets are missing out on all three of those guys.
He's gonna wait, call the Mets. Mets will say, yeah,
it's Blake. Here's two hundred million for a guy who's
only been good when he's out a contract. Here, here
you go, Blake, take all our money.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
That's well happened.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
And I am a little bit concerned about the walk.
Total friend, he walked a lot of guys, and I
don't know how that's gonna age at the time. Goes
on that that really concerns me, and he's gonna have
to find a way to overcome that.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
In those conversations, Hey, JP, last one, Can the Dodgers
bring back Bellinger, Peterson and Justin Turner.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
Get the whole band back together?
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Just get everybody back together?
Speaker 7 (37:01):
I would say no. I would say unlikely. And the
reason why I think Bellinger's gonna go to either the
Giants or the Mariners. Bellinger stays West, goes to the
Giants or the Mariners Justin Turner A lot of teams
like him a lot. I would say that Chicago Cubs
get Justin Turner and Jock Peterson. Jack Peterson goes to
(37:27):
the mill Waukee Brewers.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
In an off season, which we've already seen the Yankees
and Red Sox make a trade. Anything can happen JP,
absolutely anything, anything, and listen.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
I would say this, and Dodger fans everywhere will not
love hearing this, but listen up. Anyway, Justin Turner to
the Giants also is a possibility. Who boy, that would
be a tough one to take. JT is of interest
to the Giants and also the division rival Diame in
(38:00):
the back. So stay turned to stay tuned there.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi.
He's live in Nashville at the MLB Winter meetings. Also
will be getting up very early and if you see
him drinking coffee at six thirty in the morning, he
probably has a.
Speaker 7 (38:15):
Scoop hopefully, And I got a scoop for you. Michigan
thirty five, Alabama twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Already picking the mission there.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
I notice how he went away from the Detroit Lions defense.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, well.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
JP, I know, well, they did find a way to
beat the Chargers, and the Chargers, as we know, have
an outstanding offense for the ages, or so my NFL sources.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
JP.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Thanks a lot, buddy, I know we'll talk to you
later on this week and we'll get your Lions pick
that you are still red hot with.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Thank you very much, my friend.
Speaker 7 (38:57):
They are on their way to winning a playoff game
for the second time since nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Book it the Legend, c JP, JP live in Nashville,
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And that's what happened today. Have knocked out the Knicks, Mike.
The Knicks are out of the NBA In Season Tournament.
It is done for the Knicks. They will no longer
be advancing. They are out of the in season tournament.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well, they had a really good run.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Julius Randall was a first half superstar. I mean that
was a big deal. Seeing that stat line floating about
the operational efficiency.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
That was you know, I had a multi screen experience.
Can you believe this?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
You had a Julius Randall multi screen experience?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
No, no, No, that awesome.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I'm watching the Bucks and Nicks on one screen and
on the other I was watching a sporting event.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Get it on True TV. Oh, it was like you
were in March already.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
You were in the.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Middle of March.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
United States China, just gone final of friendly two to one,
your final. But what was funny is just ahead of
the US's second goal to take the lead, which they've
just now blown the whistle final, they spent five minutes
extolling the virtues and greatness of the the Team China defense,
(02:03):
and then they had one of the worst clearing attempts
I've ever seen, failed by three different people before it
dribbled back out for the eventual game winners.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Yeah, that was That was kind of funny. It was
not a great first half of the United States. That
all kinds of possession. We'd never both the score. Yeah,
they're losing one nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Okay, great, that was a great header back in that
that led to the goal.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Should have been a off.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Setsh but you know, hey, they let it go one
nothing at half and eventually they scored two to win
the game. But the whole time it's like, wow, the
Chinese defense playing well, and then the two goals they
gave up two of the worst defensive sequences you will
see at any level of soccer, you.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Know what, you know, kind of funny.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
One thing I kind of like now is that True
TV And I feel bad. Well, I don't feel bad
for True TV because obviously they have you know, that's
more sports now, but that, like True TV was always
like what the hell, man, there's a game on True TV?
And it was for a few years it was WHOA
what an outlier? Now there's games on all kinds of
crazy ass chata.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You don't even know, man, You want to go watch
I want to go watch Syracuse.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
They're on the CW. What, yes, they're on the CW.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I want to watch football. What do you got?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
No, go go find Instead of SpongeBob, it's SpongeBob announcing
the damn game.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So I mean, you know, you got all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Now the game is on Fox eleven, big Fox Non?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Oh, Fox Sports one, No, no, no, Fox Sports two?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
What Fox Business Channel?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Look at Fox Business Channel. Okay, let me get that.
I think I have that right here, high gred. No,
we're missing it.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
The only thing we're missing right now is I don't
think there's been a game on the Hallmark channel yet.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well it's well okay, because now what are you going
to show a sporting event or a Hallmark Christmas movie?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Come on, man, they could have everybody in special ceremonial
Santa and elf outfit.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
They could.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
They could tell Hallmark, hey, you guys have all the
NFL games every Sunday in December. They would say, yeah, no,
we can't. We have contracts with Lacy Schemer and uh
gayal O'Grady Cook. Forevery yes, Look, we can't. People expect
holiday movies and we can't on a football game. When
people are expecting someone to move to a town in
(04:03):
Vermont get asked to plan a fall festival and fall
in love with a doctor that they knew in high
school that moved back to the town to take care
of his mom, can't we can have Eagles forty nine
ers when that is on our docket.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Just can't do it.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
It was funny, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Do you see all the ads and you know the
banners that show up on your TV. And they were
advertising that new Eddie Murphy Christmas movie that came out.
I started to watch it. Seven minutes in I had
nine of the bingo cards. Lots of a Christmas movie. God,
I can't do it, Sorry, Ednie.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I love the cast.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
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(05:00):
Show Heyo Tani. Now, depending on what MLB insider you
like or don't like, the Dodgers are either in the
finals for Show Heyo tanikay or they are out of
it completely. Because earlier today we got reports many Baseball
Insiders reporting, Hey, Show Heyotani's people really want to keep
(05:21):
his free agency close to the vest. They don't want
anybody to know that he's meeting with people. Yet we
found out yesterday he met with the Blue Jays yea.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And in the rerect is damn plaining like Nora.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
D Yeah, and the Dodgers Today manager Dave Roberts talked
about how, yes, they met with Otani a few days
ago for a couple of hours. Here's Dave Roberts from
earlier today.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
It's a good possibility. I think that, yeah, we met
with him. You know, I don't want to I'd like
to be honest, and so we met with show Hey,
and we talked and I think it went well. I
think it went well. But at the end of the day,
he's his own man, and he's gonna do what best
for himself where he feels most.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Common Dave, your MIC's on, Dave.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
So this either was really good for the Dodgers because,
according to Bob Nightingale, longtime Baseball insider friend of the show,
the Dodgers, Angels, and Blue Jays are the final three
teams for Rotan, So he's going to the Royals.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
However, yes, or a mystery team.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
However, we also got many reports today from insiders that hey,
Otani's people Team Otani are very upset. They don't want
anything leaked out as to his free agency plans. And
if that stuff gets leaked out, that is something they
would hold against a team in moving somewhere in free agency.
So the Dodgers either are in the finals and Dave
(06:43):
Roberts had a great meeting and it was awesome, or
the Dodgers were great and Dave Roberts just blew it
and now Otani's not going to the Dodgers. One of
those things is happening.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Mike Carmon, Yeah, I mean one of the reports, right,
I mean out of the Nightingales. Robert spoke freely and
relaxed for twenty minutes, but his face became serious as
he spent several moments reading a text masters on his phone.
After his session, he immediately huddled with Dodgers public relations officials.
Day so dam they were waving like they walk over.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
With a taser.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Why did that guy put Dave.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Roberts in a sleeper hole?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Well listen, and here's what Otani said to me. Oh, sorry,
we have to take Dave out right now, you're gonna
you know, hey, how about legend Steve Garvey is gonna
come up here? Hey, come on, Steve, come out up
and talk to everybody here.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That we talked about him, talk about your Senate run. Hey,
any anything but the Otani meeting.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
We got any other Dodger legends here that can come
up and talk, are coming to talk for a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You know, It's been a long time since I went
and asked a man for an autograph or anything, you know,
and being in the business we are, I want to
go ask Dave Roberts for his autograph because he's a
man of the people.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
He's like a hero.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
They should build a damn statue out front of Dodgers
Stadium right now, you knowcause he just said, screw all
the protocols and the the you know, orders of you know,
be quiet, don't don't you know, blink twice if you've
seen her talk to an Otani official or Otani himself,
if you had an audience he said the quiet part
out loud.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Good for him, you know.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
But here here's and here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Look, because as great as Otani is right, as great
as otani Is and Buster only talked about Hey boy,
this free agency thing with otani is Is is really
getting out of control and there's these threats and there's
all kinds.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Of stuff happening. I'm like, you know, why couldn't this
have been fun?
Speaker 7 (08:31):
Right?
Speaker 5 (08:31):
What the show?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Hey otani free agency story should have been an unbelievable
time for baseball, right, it should have been, Oh my god,
this is the best player any of us have ever seen,
and he's gonna be a free agent. And now because hey,
we want to keep it.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Why does it matter?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
This is that?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I mean, I don't understand why it's such a big deal.
We want to keep it secret, who we're meeting with
what it's a right, But it's.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Any circus anyway, right, And it's not like you're inviting
people to stand outside your house as you're meeting with them,
living gated community.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Rots aren't getting on motorcycles following you going there. He
is go get it? I mean, this should have been
why why spukpuk?
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Why?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But I don't understand why this is such a big deal.
It's probably it's one thing. If hey, my family is
being bombarded whenever they see somebody in the mall. Where
is show hey going? Like if it's stuff like that
going on, I get it, But this is just oh,
we don't want people to know who we're meeting with.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Like, what the hell?
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Man?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
This should be fun.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
This should be a celebration of baseball, and it should
be where is this guy going?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Right?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
This should be the the the the the free agent
tour of of of a superstar going, Oh my god,
he's talking with you. Could he actually go to the Dodger?
This should be on the Lebron James level for Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
But instead Carmelo or all those guys as they went
around city to city that year, that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Was so fun.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
You said, Garmelo, no, no.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
No, but obviously you had the decision.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But I'm talking about you know, even even the other
guys from that class, they all went around, they had
their names on the market key, they got the whole
Blue Chips treatment with all the announcements and music and
everything else.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Make it a festival.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I don't I don't get what this is all about.
And instead it's just a Oh it's secrecy and we're
gonna find out someone's on a team. Oh he was
gonna find out the team he chooses and we're gonna
find it. Oh, maybe he's mad at the team because
they let slip that they met. He didn't say any details,
like Dave Roberts said, Well, he sat down and he
demanded this kind of money, wanted this kind of thing.
With that, you're you're going somewhere where you're gonna get
probably six hundred million dollars. It looks like you've convinced
(10:28):
teams to say, hey, he will be okay to pitch
in a couple of years. So six hundred million dollars
is completely on the table for him for you, Uh okay,
so you're you're getting that. And now suddenly this is
what it is. It's it's this should have been fun.
This should have been a celebration of baseball, and it
should have been something that, boy, hey, you're counting down
to show heyo Tawi free agency? Where is he going?
And there should be interviews and there should be all
(10:50):
kinds of fun stuff. And instead it's just okay, it's
under the cover of darkness and this is what we
have now. Everybody's different, and I get that some guys
like the publicity, like this is Aaron Rodgers, Oh my God,
he'd be in a rhinestone coat doing else.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
This is all said and done.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
It would be it would be incredible.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And so I get Otani as kind of as a
private person wants to do things a certain way. But
this is not like there anybody's asking for anything. That's
not just something that would be public record. Did you
meet with the team or no, it can't. We tell
you no, you're a free agent. It's okay, it's okay
if we know there's no there's no uh tampering happening here.
It just it should have been more fun. And I
wish that could have been communicated and that could have
(11:29):
been something that was agreed upon. Hey, it's okay, because
this is great for baseball, and you know, this would
have met you know, and imagined Rob Manford stepping into
actually say something like this. But it's just I feel like,
as fans, we were robbed of what could have been
an unbelievable week. And look, I would have spent a
couple of days going, oh, my god, the Mets could
get Otani, and then the Mets are out of the running.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
It's oh, we're out of the running for Otani.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I mean, there could have been that kind of emotion
swings and it could have been great, and instead it's just, yeah,
we're gonna find out because it's all secret.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Nothing else.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
We could have gotten public dissemination and press of the
slide decks here on Major League Baseball Network, instead of
watching guys vamp and try to make stuff up and
tell you what they had for breakfast, you could have
had all right, here was the Milwaukee Brewers pitch, and
here's Bernie Brewer coming down the slide to start it off.
(12:17):
I mean, and then team to team, here's what we
can offer as a city. If nothing else, it's a
tourism package for each of these thirty Major League Baseball
teams along the way they're thinking the organizational not that
you go too deep into plans, not to divulge at all,
but at least a little bit of fun in terms
of this process. Instead you got everybody saying, I don't know,
(12:38):
do I have real good authority to even talk about this,
because Otani's people may take out my communications and I
might eliminate my team just by saying I looked at him.
It's just a bad's place for Major League Baseball. I mean,
there's just so many guys that move the needle, get excitable,
get you excitable as a casual or if you're one
(13:01):
of the uh a fan of one of these teams
that think you're in the running for his services, you'd
like a little more.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Then I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Either they're either they get an audience with them or
they don't. You guys, do realize that everything you guys
just said for the last fourteen minutes means nothing because
the Lakers just dipped right.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Oh sorry, Well, the Lakers are, yes, playing for a
spot in the semifinals in the playing tournament.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Yet Game seven, this is amazing, Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
It's a three pointer by D'Angelo Russell and he's already
doing windmills and airplane movements going down the court.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Three nothing the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
But look, I really wish that's the case, because we're
the ones that are robbed on this and it could
have been really easy to just say, hey, why not
because you know and and not that Otani's got to
change who he is, But dude, you're gonna sign a
contract that anyone in the history of.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Sports has not signed.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
No one's getting No one in the history of the
game has gotten six hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
You're gonna get it. How about you help baseball out
a little bit?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
How about jab about jet major League Baseball and just hey,
you know what, it's okay if you say where we're
meeting and where we could be going and pontificating about
it and talking about it again, it's it's nothing. It's
not that it's a it's an invasion of privacy or
anything else. But it's just to hear that, Oh, hey,
we're gonna hold it against you if it gets out
that we met.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
I mean, come on, man, this is.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Not Hey, if my girlfriend finds out we've been hanging out,
she's gonna be mad. You can't tell anybody about this.
Let mean, that's kind of what this is there. You
took it to a whole other level.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Not that that ever happened.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I'm gonna steal your Girlfriendie, I'm going to steal your girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Not that that ever happened to me, or that I
have everything net net.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
It's just it's just a story. It's just a story. Uh, exit.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
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Speaker 4 (15:07):
Yeah, but you won't be able to do that on
your phone or your fingers too fat.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Who gets Benny? Oh, oh, she wouldn't get Betty. Yeah, No,
Benny loves her. Benny loves her. Benny loves I thought.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
You were the one that walked Benny. I was a
chosing one stuff.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Now, bet No, Benny loves me.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
But but Pam feeds him a little bit more so,
so he always defaults to her.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Who who feeds me more?
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
She does? Yeah? Now, no, Benny, Benny. It's okay.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Benny loves ben Benny loves her most. It's okay he
loves he loves Benny most, and then he loves me
and Zoe equally.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
After that, so it's okay.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
This means like, hey, you need to go walk him
because because he's not gonna go with he gotta go
with you. You gotta go walk him. You gotta go
take him here. You gotta go take him here. You
gotta go te you want Benny to be your number one? Okay,
you gotta walk him. So so it works out. Okay,
So son I got to play on my phone and
and she has to walk Benny.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
So that's how it goes.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Uh, exit out about a Fresco swollen dome. Jason Smith,
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if you think the craziness involving show Hey Tani is something,
way do we tell you coming up next from the
NFL involving a superstar quarterback, his team's head coach, and
a media member. He was texting, Yeah, it's that story
(16:16):
that's next right here.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
This is Fox.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. Lakers and Sons, What a fun ending. Lakers
were up by two.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Anthony Davis gets fouled with about six seconds left, goes
the free throw line, hits the first misses the second.
The Suns got the rebound, got the ball to KD.
They were down three with six seconds to go, and
the last six seconds went like this.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Look at four man rush they're chasing the town gets
off Purty in fro and it.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Is picked off. It's gonna get intera Hart and it's hollow.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
At the twenty, he's cutting back inside of New York.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
On the right.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Damn, I really didn't see that coming. You think I would.
I did not see that coming. Did not see that.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
That was good.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You got Ropidope, you.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Got got Dolphins. Radio J. I know the final six
seconds went like this.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
He missed.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
It is the hardest one to tie the game. Lakers Taos, Vegas.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
Billy Mac, Lakers TV on the OH. The Lakers are
in the semis. It's the in season tournament, and the
Lakers look at them.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
The championship is coming.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Lebron is huge tonight and it was an incredible game,
and there's a lot to get to on it, but
let me just say this. That final where KD has
the ball, he dribbles down from mid court, and I
know it was a subtle thing, but for Tory and
Prints to not back off of him and allow KD
to have an extra dribble where he's taking the three
(18:14):
just beyond the arc. He kind of steps up and
forces KD to, okay, I gotta shoot here because the
time is ticking down, and it's an off balance thirty
five footer. That's an air ball. That's all the difference
on that play because you can easily see defense. I
don't want to found, I want to fund. You're backing off,
backing off, and KD gets another dribble and a half
and he stops right behind the three point line and
(18:35):
he hits one, and bingo, we're going to overtime. But
just the fact didn't try to foul. Just I'm getting
in your way a little bit, and you don't have
time to really dribble around me and do it because
time is ticking down. And he forces a really bad
shot by KD, a big forced one that again draws
nothing but air, and the Lakers win it, and they
go to the semifinals and a date with Zion awaits
(18:56):
in Vegas. There we go, they're playing They're playing Buck
and Pages at nine o'clock in the morning, and then
we got and we got to this. We had the
main entree with the Lakers and the Pelicans and Lebron
AND's ion.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
How great is that?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I mean, look, it'll be far more entertaining than the
Thursday night football game that will happen.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
This is true, That's true.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Damn sure.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Over Audrey either twenty nine and a half or thirty
depending where you're shopping.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
When I was looking a little bit.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Earlier, but I thought the sequence with the inbound Reeves
where he loses the ball but Lebron's granted the time out.
I've watched it like ten times, like, is that really
the right call? Or is it home cooking? Be cuz Frostburg,
the Lakers are bleeping bat batt'll do it?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Yeah, wat Vegas. It wasn't it wasn't, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Austin Reeves turns the ball over great head he played
by Devin Booker, not fouling him because Reeves was struggling
with the ball a little bit. But boy, to get
that time out, that was a bit of a.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Right let me because technically if you wouldn't, if you
weren't calling the foul on the little bump as he
turned with the ball, then he technically.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Walked Yeah, yeah, no, you're right.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Or or Grayson Allen's got the ball under the hoop
for a lane in a tie game because the ball
bounces over to him and he winds up getting it
and there's nobody there.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
He picks it up on the end line, looking around like,
what the hell's happening?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Uh So Thursday Pacers, Bucks, Pelicans, Lakers in the semis
in Vegas?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Did you did you notice the streamers coming down? What
a sell?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, dude, you moving on, man, moving on to the
semi finals four.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
The Lakers are in the final four.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I just like all the branding is fricking everywhere, including
what I'm scrolling through on.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
My YouTube TV in season tournament.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
Real question for he fell cancel Thursday night football now
that the Lakers are playing?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Oh this?
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Steelers Patriots? Yeah, come on, I gotta cancel it. Come on, Yeah,
you can't play it. You gotta move it to Friday.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Yeah. Oh do you really need to even play the game.
They need to play it.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I mean, come on, I'm watching them play on Sunday.
You're talking about It's Trubisky and Steve Grogan that are
squaring off on.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
The You wish the Jets hadn't Trubisky right about now?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Uh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, sure, I wish you had
Steve Grogan. I really have Grogan right now. But look,
the one thing there's been a lot of criticism about
about the play intern which we have more on coming
up in a few minutes, But you know, sometimes you
just have to understand, Yeah, it's fun and this is
what the NBA was hoping for. A game like tonight
(21:32):
that was played like a playoff game. Lebron at fifteen
in the fourth quarter, he was huge, This is a
fun little thing. Hey, I can I can win another term.
I can win another title, right, I can win the
padd O'Brien Trophy year and and and win.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
A title in the middle of the season.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
This is kind of what the NBA envisioned when they
saw the n season tournament. Now, there's certain changes that
need to be made to it that are just going
to augment it, but this is kind of what they
were hoping for and expected. Hey, we're into the semi finals.
We have a couple of big time teams and stars
in the mix to play. We're very excited about this.
We could get Bucks Lakers in the final. We could
(22:07):
get Bucks, Pelicans could get Bucks that we could get
Giannis and Zion, or we could get Pacers Pelicans.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
But we know we could get it. We have a
lot of big matchups we could get here.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Mike, Yeah, I mean it's it's really cool on the
Eastern Conference side from straight Hey, you like watching basketball side,
but you know, the Knicks in there would have been fun.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Sure they would have put the Knicks on at night.
The Lakers would be on during.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
This time to watch the pain.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Come on, man, you want nick Lakers in the finals.
Come in Nick Laks show for the padd O'Brian trophy.
Come on, everybody celebrates the power of Yiannis.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
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 (22:51):
It is time to find out what is happening at
the MLB Winter Meetings. Is show Heyo Tani have it
narrowed down to three teams? Is it the Angels, the Dodgers,
Blue Jays or show Tani's representatives mad at the Dodgers
and Blue Jays for letting slip that they actually met
with him a few days ago and maybe now they're
out of the running. Nobody better to talk to than
(23:13):
a long time friend of the show, Emily Network insider
And what half of the morning show sweeping the nation?
Sternsy and the Pope? It is John Paul Morosi, JP.
What's happening, Bud?
Speaker 7 (23:25):
I am doing great. Although I was told that I
was on here to break down the Detroit Pistons path
in the end season tournament? Is that? Is that not
the case?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
That path ended? JP? We've moved on the path and
the path is dead.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
As I understand the rules, you have to have achieved
five victories by the first of December to qualify for
said tournament, and I don't think the Pistons have gotten there.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Now I think you had the Pistons. You have to
have won five games in the last year, and the
Pistons haven't gotten there at any rate.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
He helped his teams win many more games than I
do believe. Vistro Otani is the occasion for us to
visit her this evening.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Now, let me ask you, are you okay? Are you
allowed to talk about Otani? And what could be happening,
because we're hearing that any Otani information that gets out
will be held against any team that may want to
sign him.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
This is, in a word, absurd. It is it is absurd.
There are I have covered. I have covered a lot
of Winter meetings in a lot of different ways. I've
seen stories broken in strange ways and strange hours. I
have never quite encountered something like this, And at the
(24:40):
end of the day, I don't know what is more
laughable the notion that one of the most highly anticipated
free agencies is supposed to be some clandestine process that
no one fox ors or speaks or with verse about,
(25:01):
or be the notion that someone would make a half
a billion dollar decision for the next ten years of
his life with respect to something that a highly respected
manager acknowledged, the existence of a meeting that everyone knew happened.
I mean, this is really really tough to believe, and
(25:24):
I understand why it's become an interesting story and why
people are discussing it. I am here to say Dave
Roberts did the entire world a great favor because the
A acknowledged the obvious and B refused to live in
fear of what is by any measure, a completely absurd edict.
(25:48):
That's it, That's just what it is. And however this goes,
Shoe is certainly entitled to wish for his privacy. He is.
But I would like to say this, you can't have
it all the ways. You can't say that you want
to do things that no human has ever done before
(26:09):
and be compensated for them on a level no human
has ever been before in this sport, and then ask
to somehow make all these decisions completely cuisered away from
the public eye. It just doesn't work that way. It's
just not This is show business, everybody. This is entertainment.
We like to talk about things. We like to be
(26:32):
entertained and have our emotions taken on ups and downs
by things. That's why we watch the games. And if
the fans didn't get excited about this free agency, and
if they didn't spend their money on the entertainment of
buying the ticket or even buying the subscription of the
streaming service to learn about the information that's happening, none
of us would have a job. And that includes show hey,
(26:55):
by the way, so this is driven by the fans.
The fans We all of us that work in sports
work because of the fans, and so if Shoe has
the problem with fans and executives talking about his situation,
I'm not really sure what to say. I really I'm
very rarely at a loss for words, but I'm really
(27:17):
at a loss for words on.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
This one, because you know, we talked about this, Mike
and I talked about this last hour. JP is that
this sucks because the fans, we're the ones that are losing.
This should be an unbelievable moment for baseball and the
anticipation and where is he going and what could it be?
And just I want to be excited that for five
minutes the Mets could have been in it. Now the
Mets are not, and instead it's all behind closed doors
(27:39):
and it's mysterious and maybe they're met. It's like it's like, hey,
baseball deserves better for show. Hey hot for a guy
we've never seen before doing things unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
He's a free agent. This should be it should be
a more fun thing for us to be able to
sell it.
Speaker 7 (27:53):
Right, You're exactly right, And there are multiple parties involved here.
There's obviously show a show as representative and also the teams.
Now last year, Aaron Judge is a pretty private person too,
But it was okay that we knew that he met
(28:15):
with the Giants of San Francisco. It was okay that
we knew that he met with the Yankees. And guess what,
he went to where he wanted to go to all
along and got a great payday and he stayed a
Yankee and it was a fun story. So there's nothing
wrong with the way it unfolded for Aaron Judge. Now, everybody,
everybody has their own prerogative to conduct their business as
(28:39):
they wished. That is, without a doubt true. But I
think what you have here in a very real way,
and it can be spun however you'd like it. But
Show as has asked for his own wishes for privacy
and his own discretion to be more important than helping
(29:04):
to generate the greatest excitement possible for the game. Now,
some might say show he's already done all that we've
ever asked for him to do, because he's done things
on the field that we've never done before. Okay, that's
I respect that perspective. But if we're all talking about
to whom we've all been given opportunities that we're being
(29:27):
good caretakers of our place in the sport to help
promote it and grow it the best that we can
and show he has been given, i think, a wide
birth to conduct things as he wishes. Is he doing
Is he who has been given an opportunity unlike really
any that we've seen in the history of the games.
Is he doing the most with it to grow the
(29:49):
game right now, in this particular week of December of
twenty twenty three. The answer is no, he's not.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Now.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
We might say that if he hits five home runs
in his first game with the Dodgers or the or
or the Cubs or the Blue Jays or any any
other team he's playing for, are we gonna forget that
and not care about it as much? Probably because we
don't really have memories that go back very far, but
that there's no question that in this in this week
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of this month of this year, baseball could be a
lot richer of his story and a lot more gratifying
of a story if it were being conducted differently. And
that's that's all. It's it's just it's it's a missed opportunity.
He does plenty on the field. I would never ever
take away from that. But the way that this has
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been choreographed, and I'll use that word intentionally because it's
being scripted in a very particular way by his camp,
has not has not been for the greater good of
the sport this week. And that I think that statement,
I realize I'm maybe some may take issue with it,
but that's just the reality as I proceeded.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
All right, let me let me pull you back from
all the rumor, conjecture, speculation. A lot of videos up
at John Morosi on Twitter. We know Saint Almost Steakhouse
is the place in Indianapolis for NFL people to talk
and you can get some good information when folks are
knee deep in cocktail sauce and a couple of vodkatonics.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
What's the place in Nashville? Who are you stalking and where?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
So?
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Well?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Right now, so I, as this may surprise you, I
have a morning show that begins quite early in the morning.
So right now I am. I am relaxing in my
hotel rooms, trying to save my voice for the next
two days. But there are innumerable lobbies that exist in
this hotel that there are a number of good places.
(31:44):
But we're at the opuland here in Nashville, which to
any who have ever been here, if you were to
say meet me in the lobby or the bar and
the lobby, the response would be which one, because there
are many bars in many lobbies, so it's a great
(32:05):
place to be. I love it. My brother lives here,
so I always enjoy coming to Nashville for family reasons
and just for being in this great city, which I believe,
by the way, will one day be a baseball city
in the major leagues. But it's sort of a continual movement,
and I do think that some of the socialization of
the old days of the winter meetings where everybody was
(32:28):
at the same bar and we were all hanging out.
I experienced that for a couple of years, but it's
changed a little bit, certainly in the last ten years.
I think just the prevalence of social media and honestly,
newspapers no longer having any deadlines ever has also contributed
to that. I was actually sharing this with my brother
last night. Said back in the first couple of meetings
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that I covered, you'd file your story. You're done. I mean,
there's nothing more to do. There was no internet to
write for you just would follow your story, go to
the bar and talk to people until they turn the
lights on at the end of the night. I mean,
that's basically what you would do. And so it's a
little different now. You know, I'm doing a little more
on air stuff, so I have to basically have myself
(33:12):
organized and presentable by early in the morning. So I'm
some level I can't I can't quite do like I
used to guys. I'm a little bit I'm a little
bit old, as you guys know. I drive a minivan, okay,
so I can't really stay up till two o'clock in
the morning. Basically, when I bought my minivan, they said, sir,
are you ready to turn in your card? And says,
you know, PJ time is ten o'clock. I said, yes,
(33:35):
I can do that. I'm on board with that. So
that's kind of where I'm at in life. But I'll
tell you what, if something happens really interesting over a
cup of coffee at six point thirty in the morning,
I'll probably be up for that. I can promise you that.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
And they'll be.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Network inside of John Paul Morosi with us from the
meetings in Nashville. All right, Jp, I'm going to give
you a fill in the blank for the three biggest
names that we're going to see potentially change addresses over
the course the next few days. If I said to
you Otani where, Yamamoto, where, Juan Soto where matchmaker for
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those three players, where you are thinking what you are hearing?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Where they end up? Otani, Yamamoto and Sodo.
Speaker 7 (34:17):
Okay, this is what I believe believe. So this is
not sources same Morosi is declaring all of these things
shall happen? Okay, I always have that forviso number one.
I still believe the Dodgers are the front runner for
Otani and ultimately have the best chance to get them,
and it's going to take a lot to convince the otherwise.
So I've got Dodgers, Otani, Yamamoto, Boston Red Sox. I
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think the Red Sox with the Mets putting up a
heck of a fight, Jason. The Mets are therein they
are in there in a big way. On the Yamamoto.
They like them, and so what happens there is there
a way for the Mets to go above and beyond
to get him. I tend to think he is going
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to be a member of the Boston Red Sox now
Juan Soto. Even though the Yankees got alex Erdugo tonight
in a surprising trade with the Red Sox, I still
believe the Yankees find a way to get Juan Soto.
In some ways, bringing in Verdugo gives them a little
more potential capital to trade. Maybe they include Verdugo and
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the deal they can do some other things with it.
But I do believe eventually Soto becomes a member of
the New York Yankees.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Look at that, Look at that. How about Blake Snell.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Blake Snell is in a very interesting place. We have
not heard a lot about Blake Snell. I don't think
he signs this week. I don't think he signed the
next week. I think Blake Snell is going to be
someone that we talk about more as we get towards
the new year. And don't be surprised if the Cardinals.
(35:58):
The Cardinals a team that I've already added three starting pitchers,
but I think they need more. So what if they
make a late run at Blake Snell? Not now, but
this is like a January, mid January. What does Scott
Morris do prediction, and I'm gonna say that he calls
up the Saint Louis Cardinals and finds a way to
get Blake Snell there.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
No, come on, this is what he's gonna do. If
the Mets are missing out on all three of those guys.
He's gonna wait, call the Mets. Mets will say, yeah,
it's Blake. Here's two hundred million for a guy who's
only been good when he's out a contract. Here, here
you go, Blake, take all our money.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
That's well happened.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
And I am a little bit concerned about the walk.
Total friend, he walked a lot of guys, and I
don't know how that's gonna age at the time. Goes
on that that really concerns me, and he's gonna have
to find a way to overcome that.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
In those conversations, Hey, JP, last one, Can the Dodgers
bring back Bellinger, Peterson and Justin Turner.
Speaker 7 (36:55):
Get the whole band back together?
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Just get everybody back together?
Speaker 7 (37:01):
I would say no. I would say unlikely. And the
reason why I think Bellinger's gonna go to either the
Giants or the Mariners. Bellinger stays West, goes to the
Giants or the Mariners Justin Turner A lot of teams
like him a lot. I would say that Chicago Cubs
get Justin Turner and Jock Peterson. Jack Peterson goes to
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the mill Waukee Brewers.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
In an off season, which we've already seen the Yankees
and Red Sox make a trade. Anything can happen JP,
absolutely anything, anything, and listen.
Speaker 7 (37:39):
I would say this, and Dodger fans everywhere will not
love hearing this, but listen up. Anyway, Justin Turner to
the Giants also is a possibility. Who boy, that would
be a tough one to take. JT is of interest
to the Giants and also the division rival Diame in
(38:00):
the back. So stay turned to stay tuned there.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi.
He's live in Nashville at the MLB Winter meetings. Also
will be getting up very early and if you see
him drinking coffee at six thirty in the morning, he
probably has a.
Speaker 7 (38:15):
Scoop hopefully, And I got a scoop for you. Michigan
thirty five, Alabama twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Already picking the mission there.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
I notice how he went away from the Detroit Lions defense.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, well.
Speaker 7 (38:32):
JP, I know, well, they did find a way to
beat the Chargers, and the Chargers, as we know, have
an outstanding offense for the ages, or so my NFL sources.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
JP.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Thanks a lot, buddy, I know we'll talk to you
later on this week and we'll get your Lions pick
that you are still red hot with.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Thank you very much, my friend.
Speaker 7 (38:57):
They are on their way to winning a playoff game
for the second time since nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Book it the Legend, c JP, JP live in Nashville,
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