March 21, 2023 • 34 mins
Jason Smith with Mike Harmon discuss the crazy World Classic Baseball Game between Japan and Mexico! USA and Japan face off tomorrow night for the championship game, and Jason La Canfora - NFL Insider joins the guys!
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The way tire buying should be. Hey, buddy, buddy, Julius
Randall could score sixty and then Knicks are gonna lose.
It doesn't matter. Can I get the tops now car?
Actually they don't have a basketball since maybe I'll do
a cost of guard for you. Oh, you score sixty,
but it'll have a big font, but they lose. It's
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a final nixt yo. Yeah, I watched thirty points, Yeah,
fifty seven points for Julius Randall tonight and the Knicks
lose one forty to one. Thirty June fourth, un I'll
tell you the Wolves shoot sixty percent from the floor
and sixty percent from three point range, fety one point.
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Torrian Prince, who's averaging eight points a game, had thirty
five tonight. He didn't miss. He's eight out of eight
from three point range. Should Tom Timbedeau be fired on
principal when something like that happened? I mean, really, your
whole thing is about effort and defense. This is like
what what what is this? Who are who are you?
And who have you turned into? Like suddenly he's gonna
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unzip his head, He's gonna like Paul Westhead or you know,
just hey, all we did was trying to put points
on the board. We don't care about defense. You know,
he's a guy that decided that he wants to own
the garden, or he's retired. Lebron's not playing Nick show.
So I'm gonna go in there and I'm going to
be the Prince of New York. Let's go sixty percent
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from the floor, sixty percent from three and the Wolves
beat the Knicks one. I really, this is one of
those games like the time, really like really like really
like what like, come on, man, seriously, like really this
that really really really you know, what what do you do?
I mean I was all excited because we beat the
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crap out of the Nuggets over the weekend, and I'm like, yeah,
you gotta take us seriously now, you gotta take us
seriously now. And now you know, the Wolves come in
who are barely five hundred, not even, and they shoot
sixty percent from the floor and they win this game.
I believe the great artist Paula Abdul said it best.
Two steps forward, two steps back, and then dance with
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the cartoon cat TJ. We come together because opposites attract
dj uh. Yeah, so already was starting tonight now I'm like, yeah,
oh oh, but you just don't get to have nice things, man, No,
no act to last week. People were asking Andy mean,
we talk a lot about the World Baseball Classic, right,
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We've got great game going on in Mexico, Japan. Randy
A Rosarina is now a superhero who signs autographs during
pitching changes, robbing h flyball after flyball would be home runs. Nope,
not in my house. All of these things. Uh, and
we go back to the big injury because look, nobody,
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nobody's crying for al Twove. See how different the reaction was.
Your guy gets hurt, goes silent. Yeah yeah, and Edward
Diez gets hurt and everybody cries about what they are
playing it. Yeah that al Tuve gets hit, breaks his
hand and everybody goes, eh, consta douing business. What do
you get? Yeah, yeah, but think response cheeter Yeah yeah,
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but stay weekend. Okay, yeah, but it was out too, man.
I mean, you know, you're right, that's exactly what the
reaction was to this. And look, to be quite honest,
right now it is. It is a very big moment
right now in the World Baseball Classic United States in
the championship game tomorrow night. Mexico leads Japan right now
four three. As Mexico coming to bat now in the
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top of the eighth inning, they have just pushed across
a run to take the lead. They have runners at
second and third and two out. Uh. You know, the
winner of this game will play the United States. Otani
pitched to Otani's playing tonight, and you know, everybody's going
crazy about the batting practice he had. He's hitting almost
five hundred in the World Baseball Classic. Here's the best
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I can do for you, right, here's the best I
can do. The best I can do is yeah, And
I'm sure I'll be excited tomorrow night with the United
States playing in the championship, and it'll it'll be fun.
All the superstars are out there. But I kind of
feel like when you're watching the Olympics, right, and it's
an event that you don't really care about, but you're
rooting for the United States. You can't because we live
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in the United States. Why the United States to win?
But if they lose, you know, it's like, oh, that's
too bad. But you know that guy from Germany deserved it,
or you know that that woman from China deserved it,
or that guy from Canada, or that you know that
woman from South Korea. Whatever it does. He go, oh, yeah,
are that team from from Jamaica, whatever it is. You know,
I have Bob sled team Boy, they were great. I did.
That's kind of how I feel like it. Maybe it's
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my age because I grew up in a different time
and this was foisted upon us, Like now you have
to care about the World Baseball Classic, And all I
could think of is. I don't care about this as
much as I want my guys to stay healthy. And
here I am this year having to deal with Edwin
Diaz being done for the season because of bleeping jumping
up and down celebrating over winning a game that doesn't
really count. So maybe that's it and you have this. Yeah,
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you got to hook this next generation of fans who
have grown up knowing nothing but the World Baseball Classic, right,
because we've been doing this now for for fifteen sixteen years. Uh,
you know, it's been around enough time for now for
people who are in their mid twenties or or or
younger or thirty, say, hey, it's always been a part
of my life. And I like the World Baseball Classic.
And we see that the ratings are okay, the the
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ratings across the globe or phenomenal. Uh, the in person
attendance is fantastic, the atmosphere is electric. I mean, maybe
I'm just the wrong person. And if you ask me
this with Edwin a healthy Edwin Daz, maybe I give
you a different answer. But the best I can give
you is met I mean, last I'm sure I'll be excited.
I can do no and I get it. Right, And
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it's like we always have been using the Kevin Durant
sound clip and it applies here. I talked about it
a little bit yesterday. Dan Bayer was in with me
on Fox Sports Sunday. Uh, you know you don't like it,
don't watch, right, I can't force you to like it.
There's plenty of sporting events that you can casually go through, right.
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It might be on at someone's house, or it's on
in the bar, and you don't care enough to say, hey,
can you change that over to whatever? You leave it
on because it's still a sporting event, right. And with
the World Baseball Classic, you know, there's just all the
other ancillary parts to it that I think you know
and me, this goes back to my boring, pragmatic approach
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to the world and good business and promotion and the
fact that you've got guys who in players who have
more excitement and intrigue in this scenario than they've been
able to have in most of their professional lives. And
of course I'm looking right at you, Mike Trout, where
you know Weatherman and Eagles fan, right, those are the
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two most interesting things. And denying you know who he's
going to give his next All Star MVP truck too,
like that's been the highlights of his major league baseball
career for the most part these last couple of years,
and instead you've got him rejuvenated. What the crowd sounded
like after that trade turner Grand Slam over the weekend,
You get goosebumps watching the replay or just hearing the
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audio from it, because it is a big moment. The
players want in and the owners look, if they want
to do they could block it right. You had obviously
some big conversations with Clayton Kershaw about his participation and
where he's at physically and age and everything else, and
whether it was a good idea bad idea. You're ramping
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up just maybe a little more aggressively in terms of
your preparation than you would be if you were in
Arizona or Florida. You're still getting the work in right
at the cage and the infield, the outfield and on
the mound, and you're throwing days. So you know, it
parallels not like you're suddenly, you know, in a lumberjack
contest flipping logs. No, you're pitching up baseball just like
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you get paid to do so. All of that comes together.
But to your point, yeah, if it's not your thing,
and take Edwin Diaz out of the equation for a second.
I know that's hard to do right now, but take
him out of the equation. You know, if you're you're
not into it because you want to watch the Knicks
lose despite a Julius rand. We've moved on from the net,
We've moved on from Permain, from Jermaine to what we're
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doing here. If you want to walk on from it,
you know, recalibrate your bracket for the you know, Sweet sixteen,
or you're whatever you got going on in your life.
Maybe you're just looking for the next episode of ted
Lasso or seeing if Krim's got a great question in
the in the gallery. I don't know. But the fact is,
you know this, this has gotten a little bit of traction.
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It's not for everybody, as the ratings attest to, but
you know what, damn it, I'm in you. Yes, I
get it. Yeah, Yes, it's yeah, it's the it's the
it's the you know, obviously, the pride of country, and
you know it's easy to get up for that. Go Look,
I'm mixed. Look I want to see the United States
win and and Mexico is six out outs away from
the United States Mexico game because they they're going to
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the bottom of the eighth now up five three over Japan.
But at the same time, like if the United States loses,
I'm I'm I'm getting back, Okay, I'm moving on from that.
Five minutes after the game is over, And what's going
to happen is the champagne is gonna dry and the
dust is gonna settle, and I still don't have edwin
DZ for the season. Well, no, no matter what row
this season. Now, we'll be on air tomorrow, so five
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minutes after the game, we'll be talking about what it
means for US baseball and our prospects going forward, how
much we dominate the world, and we're the best country
there's ever been created. Or were cursing the system, We're
cursing the minor leagues and wondering why we're not churning
out better players. You know how this goes? Hey, right,
the greatest countries ever? Right now? Eight seven, seven ninety
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nine on Fox? Where is the United States? Are they
the best? Is Canada better? Right now? Eight? Here's a
hot take for you. I would take Canada over the
United States right now, just because of the free healthcare
eight seven, seven ninety nine five. United States might not
even be on my mount rushmore of greatest countries. Ever,
I will tell you this. The World Happiness Report came
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out today, m and the United States is fifteenth. I
take a guest, who's first. Yeah, but there's a lot
of countries though. That's fifteen out of how many? Yeah,
I mean top five. It's not like fIF it's not
like fifteen out of It's not like we're reseating the
sweet sixteen and you are the fifteenth of the sixteen.
I get that. Okay, everybody eight happy meals, like Jason,
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we'd be number one. Well, we'd also be really poor
now because they're they're now, let me guess number one
is got to be. I get three guesses at number
one because they're all good thing, they're all in the
same area. I'm gonna say either Norway, Finland, or Sweden
one of number one, Finland number six, Norway as seven.
Finland's been number one, I think for five or six years,
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six years? Now. Do you think that's a real like
do we have that kind of like you think about
like the United States Mexico soccer rivalry, and like the
United States Russia hockey rivalry, United States Canada, Like do
do those Do those countries have a real rivalry with
each other? Because everybody across the globe just thinks for
all that, say, Finland, Sweden, Northern Scandinavian countries, do you
think they have like a real one? No, they don't.
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They don't necessarily like each other. No, Norway really don't
like each other. I want to see it. I spent
a lot of time in Sweden. Yeah. Yeah, like people
and Norway, though they go hey blank fin you yeah
blank Finland or that there's like some kind of thing
you say. I tell them I'm from Chicago and I
now live in Los Angeles. I'm the most interesting man
in the in the room, and I don't pay for
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a beer. Oh all right, I either know gangsters or
movie stars. Wow. Okay, okay, Wow, that's the assumption over there. Okay,
because I'm coming on. One of those places. Was Denmark? Sure?
Denmark still up there? No? No, no, there's why there's
always something rotten. Second, No, I mean something was rotten
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in Denmark for Shakespeare and they killed Hamlet there. I mean,
how cout great? He was indecisive. If he had he
had done something, what do you mean? He had to
come and he tried to save everybody? What do you mean, Hamlet?
But he waited too long? What happened? He did? He did?
He couldn't. He waited too long. It's been more proactive.
The latent U Gangston anxiety over his yearance wouldn't have
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been there got the top five. You've got Finland, Denmark, Iceland,
Israel and the Netherlands, all these places where it's cold
all the time. Wow, but you know what to do
when it's cold all the time. That's right, let's get
it on. Yeah, okay, wow out over there all of
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a sudden four times, man, put those four right? Like, really,
everybody wants to live where it's warm, Yet the happiest
people seem to be where it's cold all the time.
I mean, look, I love wearing like warm stuff and
Patagonia jackets and so I like that in hoodies and stuff.
But I mean I'd want to be where it's warm. No,
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I mean that's where you want to go really, So
like are the unhappiest places like like like the where
they're the temperatures are hot, like I don't understand. Yeah,
I don't know. I'm looking at the just the top.
I got top twenty four here. I don't know why
I'd stopped to twenty four where the twenty fifth was
left off the list. I don't know. But twenty four
is Romanian, twenty three is Costa Rica. I mean there's
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a lot of stuff that can kill you there, wild
animals and stuff. Uh. Slovenia is at twenty two, France
at twenty one, Lithuania, the UK at nineteen. Um somehow
Czech dias above the United Kingdom. Really that's a little curious, Yeah,
as curious Russia. Then go Belgium, then Germany, and then
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you get fifteen from the United States. Ireland just ahead
of the US, Canada at thirteen, Australia at twelve. Austria.
You talk about places where there are things that can
kill you anytime, that's one. I mean, yeah, animals, perhaps
you're what's that money, I said, Bluie, No, that's right,
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you get Louie Bluie. Very nice for Austbrook. I can't
believe that that's this think that's a bad's a bad
list man, that's a bad list. Australia is too dangerous.
Australia is entirely populated with criminals. But but, but it
might be a case in Australia, just like with the
cold countries. At the time, everything can kill you. You
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We're not even talking about him respecting it. So I wait. Yeah,
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Football League. A man taking time away from the big
ten thousand word columnies got for the Washington Post on
the Syracuse Orange number one ranked women's lacrosse team. It's
Jason locking for a Jay Long. What's happening, buddy, what's
going on? I gotta admit I have paid no attention
to lacrosse. I put it like a twenty five dollar
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bet on the Towson Tigers getting a goal and a
half with I think it was Albany coming here like
three weeks ago, and and we didn't cover, and I
haven't been I should do for all since so I
will take your word for it that the Syracuse gals
are ranked first. Yeah, I have. I'm totally checked out. Wow,
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you you stopped. That's great. You have stopped betting lacrosse.
I think when you're betting lacrosse, even nominally, I mean,
I'm sure as we get closer to, you know, the
the tournament, um, I'll pay more attention. But uh, yeah,
I know the Maryland men are dominant, but Johns Hopkins
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is seemingly down. We all has been down for a while.
Colson seems to be down. Yeah, I mean a lot
of schools around here are not quite as dominant as normal.
All right, Well, anyway, I'm sure that's good. That was
a good breakdown. Will get lots of traction in those
uh discos. Do we know anybody five thousand people just
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turned their radio off at the same time? Do we
know anybody who bets lacrosse? Oh, let's get Jason Locke
for I've done it, only I didn't work out again.
I did it the first week of the season, which
was probably dumb, right, I should have probably waited until
I actually, like take in a little bit more and
have a little bit more empirical evidence. But Yeah, all right,
So let's get to this because this is kind of
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fun the last few hours. I'm gonna have an interesting
person throwing at Auburn's Pro day tomorrow, Cam Newton, because
he says, ain't thirty two people better than me in
the NFL looking for a comeback from Cam Newton? How
does this play out? Jay? Oh, geez, I don't think
there's a body of work. He's played in a super Bowl,
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you know what I mean, He's been an MVP, like
really like we're going to see something at a pro
day that that's going to rekindle interest or take this
to a new level or whatever. I look. I mean,
do I think he there's a spot for him in
the league somewhere? I mean, there could be, I guess,
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But I mean I'm torn because Jared Stidham started a
game last year, so you know what I mean, Like
Sam Ellinger started a game last year. So I don't know.
I'm conflicted. But I think Cam's had his time, and
I think Cam's body kind of started breaking down on him, right,
And I mean not to say he can't play in
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the league, but does Cam really need to be or
want to be? Is a better way to frame it
a guy who you know, is making two and a
half million dollars to basically hold a clipboard. I don't know.
So what's the feeling out there with the talk of
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Magic Johnson now joining in on the ownership possibility there
for the Commanders? Yeah, I mean, look, Harris understands what
it's like to put an organization together. He you know,
he's done at the NBA, he's done at the NHL.
He's a guy who if it is him, and I
won't be totally convinced that Bezos is entirely out of it,
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you know what I mean, until we see the final outcome,
but if it does go Harris's way, like this is
someone who understands the ins and outs and the intricacies
of the professional sports business. This is someone who has
a legion of people at a speed out who he
knows can be a marketing guru, right, can be a
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director of sales, can be a head of promotions, can
be a team president. Could you know, even on the
football operations side, someone to oversee that not necessarily someone
to be involved in the nuances of who to take
in the seventh round, but someone who as a team
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president could oversee all of the Washington Commandos, and they'll
always be the commandos to me, the commandos day to
day operations on the business side and the football side.
Like I would expect him to make you know, his
imprints on that organization sooner rather than later, if that
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is the direction that it goes in, given that he
has the level of acumen that he has in terms
of you know what I mean, how the sausage has made.
Whoever ends up taking this over will immediately be infinitely
more hardwired to succeed than Dan Snyder ever was. I mean,
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this truly is a case of nowhere to go but up,
and it to the people in that organization, it absolutely
positively feels like ding dung the witches dead, Like you
know what I mean, there's a new you know, new
boss coming to town. We just don't know who it is.
But a new day is upon us. Jay's lock and
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for with US Odyssey, Washington Post and fl Inside or
the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon. Okay, so the
other big story kind of like off track betting in
the HIMLA is like we learned about in French Fletch.
But this is just as important it's been radio silence
for Lamar Jackson. Everybody could talk to him last Wednesday, Hey,
where's everybody talking? Where's this at? And it's been like
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five days of nothing. What's happening with this? Jay No?
I mean, I think there's really the two biggest sort
of quarterback stories in the league have stagnated, Lamar and
Aaron Rodgers, and they could be should be sort of intertwined. Look,
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we've never in the history of the league seen a
situation like this very fully healthy, twenty six year old
who has basically won three of every four football games
he's played in as a professional, and who is a
few years removed from being a unanimous MVP. He's basically
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he's unrestricted free agent ish right, Like, he's not fully
of unrestricted free agent, but he's unencumbered of any of
the usual blockages that will prevent anyone from getting an
above or above board audience with him at any given time.
You can wind him, you can dine him, he can
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come to your place, you can go to his place.
I can spend as much time with him as you
want or desire, whenever, wherever you want or desire. And
yet no one has even acknowledged this right. No team
has even acknowledged just to the point where anyone has
spent an iota of time seemingly with him. I mean,
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that's that's counterintuitive, that's bizarre, that's baffling. These are the
same billionaires, many of whom were born on third base
and barely stumbled home drunkenly to home plate. Who will
interview fifteen or sixteen people for a head coaching job
knowing that they only higher one right, but they want
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to be as exhaustive as possible. They want to explore
every avenue. We want to make sure that we how
many people did Jim Mercy talk to about his head
coaching job? Eighteen? He called me at the end, and
I want to talk to him our jackson. Right, he's
in line to get possibly the fourth best quarterback in
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a not so great quarterback draft that he and Torch
and Scortch earthed his season four and hired a dude
office couch in Atlanta who loven't a good high school
football coach to try to get the first overall pick,
because the only time he hasn't been a total jamoke
in this league is when a one one difference maker
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quarterback has fallen to him. It's up in price manning
him Luck. The second time he said he's going in
multiple super Bowls with Luck, he never got close to one.
And he's sitting there at four knowing quarterbacks are going one,
two and knowing Arizona is going to trade out of three,
and he doesn't want to take the time, after interviewing
every Tom, Dick and Harry in this league for his
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head coaching job, to interview a quarterback and find out
from his own mouth what he wants, what he can
do for us, what we could do for him, and
how he could strategize in a manner by which I
might only have to give up two picks for him.
This is a guy who bit against himself four years
ago for the services too Dead to Right Philip Rivers,
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nobody else wanted. He was ready to go to Alabama
or whatever and coach high school football, and he bit
himself up to thirty million for him. But he doesn't
want to find out what Lamar Jackson should like would
cost him. Make any of this makes sense. It looks
to me like a super fishy situation. And if they
are colluding, that's all Like the root someone better, take
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one or two for the team, and pretend they care
about getting better. Pretend that this is a meritocracy, Pretend
that this is about doing whatever we can possibly do
to win and not just you know, abiding by the
whims of our other business partners. And get an audience
with this kid, because if you don't, you're going to
get a collusion lawsuit handed to you, the likes of
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which that will make the MLB one look like chump change.
And that was I believe involved billions. Like somebody, Pretend
they really want to get the best and the brightest
and one of the five most impactful football players on
the planet. And even if they give him an offer,
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just pretend you care enough about winning and not about
protecting the shield and camping down salaries and doing what
your fellow billionaire boys club guys would want you to do,
and find out Lamar himself where he's at, because anything
short of that is just it's begging. It's begging a
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collusion lawsuit. Yeah, right now, I just want to go
get some oxtails and I want to watch the Between
two Ferns episode that he's doing Lamar on Lamar. Well, yeah,
I look and I gotta say when your teaser, when
you're sizzle real, your teaser clip involves talking about Marty
Morning Weeg, you probably think you've either ask yourself the
wrong questions or you need you horribly desperately need a
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new editor slash producer to pick something out that's going
to make people want to watch. Now, I'm going to
watch no matter what. But yeah, Trud's productions could use
some help, and hey, I'll consult for you, guys, I'll
do it. You know, gruttise, do you think he discusses
whether he's better than Bailey Zappie or Matt Jones, Well,
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but that is I mean that. Look, there's four teams
right now who the rest of the league is really
looking at more than everybody else saying what the hell
are you doing in regard to this kid? And the
Patriots are certainly one of them is the Patriots, the
Colts is, the Jets, and the Falcons. Like, you can't
make it make sense that none of them have already
gone down there to at least hear from the kid's
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own lips where he is, what he wants, what you
could do for him, what he could do for you?
Like it, like make that makes sense, Like make that compute?
How can they you know, none of them even want
to go down the road. And maybe it will be Belichick, Um,
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he has no like. That team is so unathletic, That
team is so like non electric, non dynamic. It's plotting,
it's it's They went out this weekend and signed They
signed Juju, a wide receiver who can't move right. Then
they sign Chris Board like a special teams guy, Like
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what are you doing? Like are you what are you
even trying to do? I mean, but Lamari himself singularly
couldn't make them a whole different thing. And if all
Bill Balchick wants to do is Beaches seventeen fourteen, if
he just wants to play old school football, he wants
to play rugby, you know, he wants to play a
time at possession game, which it seems like he wants
to do. Who the hell's better equipped on the planet
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to do that from the quarterback position than Lamar Jackson.
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uh Team Japan with the comeback victory. Guys, it means
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that either show Hey or Otani or Mike Trout wins
a title in twenty twenty three. Mike Trout, he will
play for a title. How crazy is this? Yeah, they
may not play it well a man allegedly, we'll see
it when it gets onto the field tomorrow. But I mean,
this is this is crazy. I mean, you got a
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ball hit to the outfield rounding third, barreling towards the plate,
and the entire Japanese team is already rushing the field
because the throw is not gonna get there in time.
It's like one of those really crowded kind of circumstances.
If the uh the damn had busted and guys had
rolled through. It was awesome to watch the excitement, the
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tears in the eyes and and Ken Rosenthal now on
the on the call with Fox Sports One. Uh, you
know what, I think they left it as it was
to show because if you leave Otani and Rosenthal at
their normal heights, it makes Otani look that much more
like a giant. But yeah, that was incredible theater. And
let's be honest, no disrespect to Mexico here, Mike, but
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Japan USA tomorrow night for the title, is a way
better theater. Oh no, no question about it. And I
put it in that. I mean Murrakami obviously a national
hero and on this big stage, big playoffter, big play,
great series for Randy arose Ana, and we can hope
that he carries it into the regular season. As Jason
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alluded to before, a guy that a couple of years
ago set the world on fire in the playoffs and
World Series. But when you look at just the global
impact that Otani has, I know they played the Czech Republic.
I heard John paulm Rossi talking about this with Hartman
and Ormberger as I was driving home from the studio yesterday,
you know, talking about wearing a Czech Republic hat as
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he as he had his you know photo ops getting
into the airport and rolling through So to just kind
of acknowledge that the global growth of the game, the
enthusiasm and what it all meant. Are you not excited now, Smith?
I mean, come on, this is is what it's all about. Listen.
It was it was look, I love baseball, So it
was exciting in the bottom of the ninth and then
(32:17):
the game was over and I said, wow, we still
don't have DS. This is gonna end and I'm not
gonna have Edwin DS. I'm gonna send you some DFO cards.
It's gonna feel better, it's gonna Yeah, that would help.
Although no, that would just be no, that would be
like parcels. Parcels always say I don't want the injured
players around. It's a reminder of who's not there. So
all that would do is remind me of the guy
we don't have. So don't just send your notes every day? No,
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I mean, I'm not gonna send you actual notes because
that would cost me the money of a stamp and
stationary or whatever, and and really that starts to add
up over one hundred and sixty two dates. I might
as well just send you a gift card for a
consolation big Mac. Yeah, no, just send me like David
robertson stats and end cards. Oh, he's gonna wind up closing,
so just do that. Send me that instead. Well he's
(33:00):
been good sometimes, Yeah, send me that or or send
me that or more stories about how much sex Larsa
Pippen had over the course of her for a day.
I mean, think about that. I mean, as everybody printed
that off and walked into their rooms of their girlfriends
and what it's like, Hey, hey, can we negotiate off
of this top end please? That's a lot. I mean
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that makes I mean that you think about that, That
makes Scottie Pippen go man. And he had enough time
to be one of the top fifty basketball players of
all time. Well, but I think about it, he didn't
have that demand on the lower back. I mean, because
he had a lot of back injuries down the stretch.
He would be laying on the sideline stretching all the time. Dah,
that's what it was. Maybe he would have had a longer,
more productive career, not that he didn't make some two
(33:42):
hundred and fifty million dollars A yeah, it doesn't matter.
Twenty years anyway, But hey, money is only temporary, your
career is forever. And what hey, what's what's the lesson?
What's the lesson that everybody learned from Rocky? What's the
biggest lesson? You women with Mekin gives legs and that's
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what happened. No, don't trust the Russian. No, No, if
he dies, he died in Okay. No, you guys are
jumped ahead like four movies. Now we're back at the
first Rocky. No, that's the fourth one. That's the Wow,
what what what's the lesson in number two? Then? I
think the four? They got one, three, and four just
like that, nailed down to one sentence. Also, don't listen
to your wife. Well, okay, I think I think you
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can't win. Rocky four is the first one that ty
Shirt saw. Well you mean I I can't just start
at Rocky four. I got I gotta go. Oh all right? Three? Yeah,
they didn't just start with Rocky four. There were three before.
There was people before the Russian, there was there was
a country before. Yes, exactly, yes, I added, if you know,
we'll we'll we'll break it down for you. So there
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The way tire buying should be. Hey, buddy, buddy, Julius
Randall could score sixty and then Knicks are gonna lose.
It doesn't matter. Can I get the tops now car?
Actually they don't have a basketball since maybe I'll do
a cost of guard for you. Oh, you score sixty,
but it'll have a big font, but they lose. It's
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a final nixt yo. Yeah, I watched thirty points, Yeah,
fifty seven points for Julius Randall tonight and the Knicks
lose one forty to one. Thirty June fourth, un I'll
tell you the Wolves shoot sixty percent from the floor
and sixty percent from three point range, fety one point.
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Torrian Prince, who's averaging eight points a game, had thirty
five tonight. He didn't miss. He's eight out of eight
from three point range. Should Tom Timbedeau be fired on
principal when something like that happened? I mean, really, your
whole thing is about effort and defense. This is like
what what what is this? Who are who are you?
And who have you turned into? Like suddenly he's gonna
(01:51):
unzip his head, He's gonna like Paul Westhead or you know,
just hey, all we did was trying to put points
on the board. We don't care about defense. You know,
he's a guy that decided that he wants to own
the garden, or he's retired. Lebron's not playing Nick show.
So I'm gonna go in there and I'm going to
be the Prince of New York. Let's go sixty percent
(02:12):
from the floor, sixty percent from three and the Wolves
beat the Knicks one. I really, this is one of
those games like the time, really like really like really
like what like, come on, man, seriously, like really this
that really really really you know, what what do you do?
I mean I was all excited because we beat the
(02:34):
crap out of the Nuggets over the weekend, and I'm like, yeah,
you gotta take us seriously now, you gotta take us
seriously now. And now you know, the Wolves come in
who are barely five hundred, not even, and they shoot
sixty percent from the floor and they win this game.
I believe the great artist Paula Abdul said it best.
Two steps forward, two steps back, and then dance with
(02:57):
the cartoon cat TJ. We come together because opposites attract
dj uh. Yeah, so already was starting tonight now I'm like, yeah,
oh oh, but you just don't get to have nice things, man, No,
no act to last week. People were asking Andy mean,
we talk a lot about the World Baseball Classic, right,
(03:17):
We've got great game going on in Mexico, Japan. Randy
A Rosarina is now a superhero who signs autographs during
pitching changes, robbing h flyball after flyball would be home runs. Nope,
not in my house. All of these things. Uh, and
we go back to the big injury because look, nobody,
(03:38):
nobody's crying for al Twove. See how different the reaction was.
Your guy gets hurt, goes silent. Yeah yeah, and Edward
Diez gets hurt and everybody cries about what they are
playing it. Yeah that al Tuve gets hit, breaks his
hand and everybody goes, eh, consta douing business. What do
you get? Yeah, yeah, but think response cheeter Yeah yeah,
(04:03):
but stay weekend. Okay, yeah, but it was out too, man.
I mean, you know, you're right, that's exactly what the
reaction was to this. And look, to be quite honest,
right now it is. It is a very big moment
right now in the World Baseball Classic United States in
the championship game tomorrow night. Mexico leads Japan right now
four three. As Mexico coming to bat now in the
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top of the eighth inning, they have just pushed across
a run to take the lead. They have runners at
second and third and two out. Uh. You know, the
winner of this game will play the United States. Otani
pitched to Otani's playing tonight, and you know, everybody's going
crazy about the batting practice he had. He's hitting almost
five hundred in the World Baseball Classic. Here's the best
(04:46):
I can do for you, right, here's the best I
can do. The best I can do is yeah, And
I'm sure I'll be excited tomorrow night with the United
States playing in the championship, and it'll it'll be fun.
All the superstars are out there. But I kind of
feel like when you're watching the Olympics, right, and it's
an event that you don't really care about, but you're
rooting for the United States. You can't because we live
(05:08):
in the United States. Why the United States to win?
But if they lose, you know, it's like, oh, that's
too bad. But you know that guy from Germany deserved it,
or you know that that woman from China deserved it,
or that guy from Canada, or that you know that
woman from South Korea. Whatever it does. He go, oh, yeah,
are that team from from Jamaica, whatever it is. You know,
I have Bob sled team Boy, they were great. I did.
That's kind of how I feel like it. Maybe it's
(05:29):
my age because I grew up in a different time
and this was foisted upon us, Like now you have
to care about the World Baseball Classic, And all I
could think of is. I don't care about this as
much as I want my guys to stay healthy. And
here I am this year having to deal with Edwin
Diaz being done for the season because of bleeping jumping
up and down celebrating over winning a game that doesn't
really count. So maybe that's it and you have this. Yeah,
(05:52):
you got to hook this next generation of fans who
have grown up knowing nothing but the World Baseball Classic, right,
because we've been doing this now for for fifteen sixteen years. Uh,
you know, it's been around enough time for now for
people who are in their mid twenties or or or
younger or thirty, say, hey, it's always been a part
of my life. And I like the World Baseball Classic.
And we see that the ratings are okay, the the
(06:12):
ratings across the globe or phenomenal. Uh, the in person
attendance is fantastic, the atmosphere is electric. I mean, maybe
I'm just the wrong person. And if you ask me
this with Edwin a healthy Edwin Daz, maybe I give
you a different answer. But the best I can give
you is met I mean, last I'm sure I'll be excited.
I can do no and I get it. Right, And
(06:33):
it's like we always have been using the Kevin Durant
sound clip and it applies here. I talked about it
a little bit yesterday. Dan Bayer was in with me
on Fox Sports Sunday. Uh, you know you don't like it,
don't watch, right, I can't force you to like it.
There's plenty of sporting events that you can casually go through, right.
(06:54):
It might be on at someone's house, or it's on
in the bar, and you don't care enough to say, hey,
can you change that over to whatever? You leave it
on because it's still a sporting event, right. And with
the World Baseball Classic, you know, there's just all the
other ancillary parts to it that I think you know
and me, this goes back to my boring, pragmatic approach
(07:15):
to the world and good business and promotion and the
fact that you've got guys who in players who have
more excitement and intrigue in this scenario than they've been
able to have in most of their professional lives. And
of course I'm looking right at you, Mike Trout, where
you know Weatherman and Eagles fan, right, those are the
(07:35):
two most interesting things. And denying you know who he's
going to give his next All Star MVP truck too,
like that's been the highlights of his major league baseball
career for the most part these last couple of years,
and instead you've got him rejuvenated. What the crowd sounded
like after that trade turner Grand Slam over the weekend,
You get goosebumps watching the replay or just hearing the
(07:59):
audio from it, because it is a big moment. The
players want in and the owners look, if they want
to do they could block it right. You had obviously
some big conversations with Clayton Kershaw about his participation and
where he's at physically and age and everything else, and
whether it was a good idea bad idea. You're ramping
(08:22):
up just maybe a little more aggressively in terms of
your preparation than you would be if you were in
Arizona or Florida. You're still getting the work in right
at the cage and the infield, the outfield and on
the mound, and you're throwing days. So you know, it
parallels not like you're suddenly, you know, in a lumberjack
contest flipping logs. No, you're pitching up baseball just like
(08:42):
you get paid to do so. All of that comes together.
But to your point, yeah, if it's not your thing,
and take Edwin Diaz out of the equation for a second.
I know that's hard to do right now, but take
him out of the equation. You know, if you're you're
not into it because you want to watch the Knicks
lose despite a Julius rand. We've moved on from the net,
We've moved on from Permain, from Jermaine to what we're
(09:05):
doing here. If you want to walk on from it,
you know, recalibrate your bracket for the you know, Sweet sixteen,
or you're whatever you got going on in your life.
Maybe you're just looking for the next episode of ted
Lasso or seeing if Krim's got a great question in
the in the gallery. I don't know. But the fact is,
you know this, this has gotten a little bit of traction.
(09:26):
It's not for everybody, as the ratings attest to, but
you know what, damn it, I'm in you. Yes, I
get it. Yeah, Yes, it's yeah, it's the it's the
it's the you know, obviously, the pride of country, and
you know it's easy to get up for that. Go Look,
I'm mixed. Look I want to see the United States
win and and Mexico is six out outs away from
the United States Mexico game because they they're going to
(09:48):
the bottom of the eighth now up five three over Japan.
But at the same time, like if the United States loses,
I'm I'm I'm getting back, Okay, I'm moving on from that.
Five minutes after the game is over, And what's going
to happen is the champagne is gonna dry and the
dust is gonna settle, and I still don't have edwin
DZ for the season. Well, no, no matter what row
this season. Now, we'll be on air tomorrow, so five
(10:09):
minutes after the game, we'll be talking about what it
means for US baseball and our prospects going forward, how
much we dominate the world, and we're the best country
there's ever been created. Or were cursing the system, We're
cursing the minor leagues and wondering why we're not churning
out better players. You know how this goes? Hey, right,
the greatest countries ever? Right now? Eight seven, seven ninety
(10:30):
nine on Fox? Where is the United States? Are they
the best? Is Canada better? Right now? Eight? Here's a
hot take for you. I would take Canada over the
United States right now, just because of the free healthcare
eight seven, seven ninety nine five. United States might not
even be on my mount rushmore of greatest countries. Ever,
I will tell you this. The World Happiness Report came
(10:53):
out today, m and the United States is fifteenth. I
take a guest, who's first. Yeah, but there's a lot
of countries though. That's fifteen out of how many? Yeah,
I mean top five. It's not like fIF it's not
like fifteen out of It's not like we're reseating the
sweet sixteen and you are the fifteenth of the sixteen.
I get that. Okay, everybody eight happy meals, like Jason,
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we'd be number one. Well, we'd also be really poor
now because they're they're now, let me guess number one
is got to be. I get three guesses at number
one because they're all good thing, they're all in the
same area. I'm gonna say either Norway, Finland, or Sweden
one of number one, Finland number six, Norway as seven.
Finland's been number one, I think for five or six years,
(11:35):
six years? Now. Do you think that's a real like
do we have that kind of like you think about
like the United States Mexico soccer rivalry, and like the
United States Russia hockey rivalry, United States Canada, Like do
do those Do those countries have a real rivalry with
each other? Because everybody across the globe just thinks for
all that, say, Finland, Sweden, Northern Scandinavian countries, do you
think they have like a real one? No, they don't.
(11:55):
They don't necessarily like each other. No, Norway really don't
like each other. I want to see it. I spent
a lot of time in Sweden. Yeah. Yeah, like people
and Norway, though they go hey blank fin you yeah
blank Finland or that there's like some kind of thing
you say. I tell them I'm from Chicago and I
now live in Los Angeles. I'm the most interesting man
in the in the room, and I don't pay for
(12:16):
a beer. Oh all right, I either know gangsters or
movie stars. Wow. Okay, okay, Wow, that's the assumption over there. Okay,
because I'm coming on. One of those places. Was Denmark? Sure?
Denmark still up there? No? No, no, there's why there's
always something rotten. Second, No, I mean something was rotten
(12:39):
in Denmark for Shakespeare and they killed Hamlet there. I mean,
how cout great? He was indecisive. If he had he
had done something, what do you mean? He had to
come and he tried to save everybody? What do you mean, Hamlet?
But he waited too long? What happened? He did? He did?
He couldn't. He waited too long. It's been more proactive.
The latent U Gangston anxiety over his yearance wouldn't have
(13:00):
been there got the top five. You've got Finland, Denmark, Iceland,
Israel and the Netherlands, all these places where it's cold
all the time. Wow, but you know what to do
when it's cold all the time. That's right, let's get
it on. Yeah, okay, wow out over there all of
(13:20):
a sudden four times, man, put those four right? Like, really,
everybody wants to live where it's warm, Yet the happiest
people seem to be where it's cold all the time.
I mean, look, I love wearing like warm stuff and
Patagonia jackets and so I like that in hoodies and stuff.
But I mean I'd want to be where it's warm. No,
(13:40):
I mean that's where you want to go really, So
like are the unhappiest places like like like the where
they're the temperatures are hot, like I don't understand. Yeah,
I don't know. I'm looking at the just the top.
I got top twenty four here. I don't know why
I'd stopped to twenty four where the twenty fifth was
left off the list. I don't know. But twenty four
is Romanian, twenty three is Costa Rica. I mean there's
(14:01):
a lot of stuff that can kill you there, wild
animals and stuff. Uh. Slovenia is at twenty two, France
at twenty one, Lithuania, the UK at nineteen. Um somehow
Czech dias above the United Kingdom. Really that's a little curious, Yeah,
as curious Russia. Then go Belgium, then Germany, and then
(14:21):
you get fifteen from the United States. Ireland just ahead
of the US, Canada at thirteen, Australia at twelve. Austria.
You talk about places where there are things that can
kill you anytime, that's one. I mean, yeah, animals, perhaps
you're what's that money, I said, Bluie, No, that's right,
(14:42):
you get Louie Bluie. Very nice for Austbrook. I can't
believe that that's this think that's a bad's a bad
list man, that's a bad list. Australia is too dangerous.
Australia is entirely populated with criminals. But but, but it
might be a case in Australia, just like with the
cold countries. At the time, everything can kill you. You
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ten thousand word columnies got for the Washington Post on
the Syracuse Orange number one ranked women's lacrosse team. It's
Jason locking for a Jay Long. What's happening, buddy, what's
going on? I gotta admit I have paid no attention
to lacrosse. I put it like a twenty five dollar
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bet on the Towson Tigers getting a goal and a
half with I think it was Albany coming here like
three weeks ago, and and we didn't cover, and I
haven't been I should do for all since so I
will take your word for it that the Syracuse gals
are ranked first. Yeah, I have. I'm totally checked out. Wow,
(17:14):
you you stopped. That's great. You have stopped betting lacrosse.
I think when you're betting lacrosse, even nominally, I mean,
I'm sure as we get closer to, you know, the
the tournament, um, I'll pay more attention. But uh, yeah,
I know the Maryland men are dominant, but Johns Hopkins
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is seemingly down. We all has been down for a while.
Colson seems to be down. Yeah, I mean a lot
of schools around here are not quite as dominant as normal.
All right, Well, anyway, I'm sure that's good. That was
a good breakdown. Will get lots of traction in those
uh discos. Do we know anybody five thousand people just
(17:58):
turned their radio off at the same time? Do we
know anybody who bets lacrosse? Oh, let's get Jason Locke
for I've done it, only I didn't work out again.
I did it the first week of the season, which
was probably dumb, right, I should have probably waited until
I actually, like take in a little bit more and
have a little bit more empirical evidence. But Yeah, all right,
So let's get to this because this is kind of
(18:19):
fun the last few hours. I'm gonna have an interesting
person throwing at Auburn's Pro day tomorrow, Cam Newton, because
he says, ain't thirty two people better than me in
the NFL looking for a comeback from Cam Newton? How
does this play out? Jay? Oh, geez, I don't think
there's a body of work. He's played in a super Bowl,
(18:41):
you know what I mean, He's been an MVP, like
really like we're going to see something at a pro
day that that's going to rekindle interest or take this
to a new level or whatever. I look. I mean,
do I think he there's a spot for him in
the league somewhere? I mean, there could be, I guess,
(19:04):
But I mean I'm torn because Jared Stidham started a
game last year, so you know what I mean, Like
Sam Ellinger started a game last year. So I don't know.
I'm conflicted. But I think Cam's had his time, and
I think Cam's body kind of started breaking down on him, right,
And I mean not to say he can't play in
(19:27):
the league, but does Cam really need to be or
want to be? Is a better way to frame it
a guy who you know, is making two and a
half million dollars to basically hold a clipboard. I don't know.
So what's the feeling out there with the talk of
(19:48):
Magic Johnson now joining in on the ownership possibility there
for the Commanders? Yeah, I mean, look, Harris understands what
it's like to put an organization together. He you know,
he's done at the NBA, he's done at the NHL.
He's a guy who if it is him, and I
won't be totally convinced that Bezos is entirely out of it,
(20:08):
you know what I mean, until we see the final outcome,
but if it does go Harris's way, like this is
someone who understands the ins and outs and the intricacies
of the professional sports business. This is someone who has
a legion of people at a speed out who he
knows can be a marketing guru, right, can be a
(20:29):
director of sales, can be a head of promotions, can
be a team president. Could you know, even on the
football operations side, someone to oversee that not necessarily someone
to be involved in the nuances of who to take
in the seventh round, but someone who as a team
(20:50):
president could oversee all of the Washington Commandos, and they'll
always be the commandos to me, the commandos day to
day operations on the business side and the football side.
Like I would expect him to make you know, his
imprints on that organization sooner rather than later, if that
(21:12):
is the direction that it goes in, given that he
has the level of acumen that he has in terms
of you know what I mean, how the sausage has made.
Whoever ends up taking this over will immediately be infinitely
more hardwired to succeed than Dan Snyder ever was. I mean,
(21:36):
this truly is a case of nowhere to go but up,
and it to the people in that organization, it absolutely
positively feels like ding dung the witches dead, Like you
know what I mean, there's a new you know, new
boss coming to town. We just don't know who it is.
But a new day is upon us. Jay's lock and
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other big story kind of like off track betting in
the HIMLA is like we learned about in French Fletch.
But this is just as important it's been radio silence
for Lamar Jackson. Everybody could talk to him last Wednesday, Hey,
where's everybody talking? Where's this at? And it's been like
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five days of nothing. What's happening with this? Jay No?
I mean, I think there's really the two biggest sort
of quarterback stories in the league have stagnated, Lamar and
Aaron Rodgers, and they could be should be sort of intertwined. Look,
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we've never in the history of the league seen a
situation like this very fully healthy, twenty six year old
who has basically won three of every four football games
he's played in as a professional, and who is a
few years removed from being a unanimous MVP. He's basically
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he's unrestricted free agent ish right, Like, he's not fully
of unrestricted free agent, but he's unencumbered of any of
the usual blockages that will prevent anyone from getting an
above or above board audience with him at any given time.
You can wind him, you can dine him, he can
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come to your place, you can go to his place.
I can spend as much time with him as you
want or desire, whenever, wherever you want or desire. And
yet no one has even acknowledged this right. No team
has even acknowledged just to the point where anyone has
spent an iota of time seemingly with him. I mean,
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that's that's counterintuitive, that's bizarre, that's baffling. These are the
same billionaires, many of whom were born on third base
and barely stumbled home drunkenly to home plate. Who will
interview fifteen or sixteen people for a head coaching job
knowing that they only higher one right, but they want
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to be as exhaustive as possible. They want to explore
every avenue. We want to make sure that we how
many people did Jim Mercy talk to about his head
coaching job? Eighteen? He called me at the end, and
I want to talk to him our jackson. Right, he's
in line to get possibly the fourth best quarterback in
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a not so great quarterback draft that he and Torch
and Scortch earthed his season four and hired a dude
office couch in Atlanta who loven't a good high school
football coach to try to get the first overall pick,
because the only time he hasn't been a total jamoke
in this league is when a one one difference maker
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quarterback has fallen to him. It's up in price manning
him Luck. The second time he said he's going in
multiple super Bowls with Luck, he never got close to one.
And he's sitting there at four knowing quarterbacks are going one,
two and knowing Arizona is going to trade out of three,
and he doesn't want to take the time, after interviewing
every Tom, Dick and Harry in this league for his
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head coaching job, to interview a quarterback and find out
from his own mouth what he wants, what he can
do for us, what we could do for him, and
how he could strategize in a manner by which I
might only have to give up two picks for him.
This is a guy who bit against himself four years
ago for the services too Dead to Right Philip Rivers,
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nobody else wanted. He was ready to go to Alabama
or whatever and coach high school football, and he bit
himself up to thirty million for him. But he doesn't
want to find out what Lamar Jackson should like would
cost him. Make any of this makes sense. It looks
to me like a super fishy situation. And if they
are colluding, that's all Like the root someone better, take
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one or two for the team, and pretend they care
about getting better. Pretend that this is a meritocracy, Pretend
that this is about doing whatever we can possibly do
to win and not just you know, abiding by the
whims of our other business partners. And get an audience
with this kid, because if you don't, you're going to
get a collusion lawsuit handed to you, the likes of
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which that will make the MLB one look like chump change.
And that was I believe involved billions. Like somebody, Pretend
they really want to get the best and the brightest
and one of the five most impactful football players on
the planet. And even if they give him an offer,
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just pretend you care enough about winning and not about
protecting the shield and camping down salaries and doing what
your fellow billionaire boys club guys would want you to do,
and find out Lamar himself where he's at, because anything
short of that is just it's begging. It's begging a
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collusion lawsuit. Yeah, right now, I just want to go
get some oxtails and I want to watch the Between
two Ferns episode that he's doing Lamar on Lamar. Well, yeah,
I look and I gotta say when your teaser, when
you're sizzle real, your teaser clip involves talking about Marty
Morning Weeg, you probably think you've either ask yourself the
wrong questions or you need you horribly desperately need a
(27:31):
new editor slash producer to pick something out that's going
to make people want to watch. Now, I'm going to
watch no matter what. But yeah, Trud's productions could use
some help, and hey, I'll consult for you, guys, I'll
do it. You know, gruttise, do you think he discusses
whether he's better than Bailey Zappie or Matt Jones, Well,
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but that is I mean that. Look, there's four teams
right now who the rest of the league is really
looking at more than everybody else saying what the hell
are you doing in regard to this kid? And the
Patriots are certainly one of them is the Patriots, the
Colts is, the Jets, and the Falcons. Like, you can't
make it make sense that none of them have already
gone down there to at least hear from the kid's
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own lips where he is, what he wants, what you
could do for him, what he could do for you?
Like it, like make that makes sense, Like make that compute?
How can they you know, none of them even want
to go down the road. And maybe it will be Belichick, Um,
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he has no like. That team is so unathletic, That
team is so like non electric, non dynamic. It's plotting,
it's it's They went out this weekend and signed They
signed Juju, a wide receiver who can't move right. Then
they sign Chris Board like a special teams guy, Like
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what are you doing? Like are you what are you
even trying to do? I mean, but Lamari himself singularly
couldn't make them a whole different thing. And if all
Bill Balchick wants to do is Beaches seventeen fourteen, if
he just wants to play old school football, he wants
to play rugby, you know, he wants to play a
time at possession game, which it seems like he wants
to do. Who the hell's better equipped on the planet
(29:21):
to do that from the quarterback position than Lamar Jackson.
You can follow on Twitter at Jason Locke and four
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and your official lacrosse oddsmaker here with the Fox Sports
Radio Jay has always buddy, great stuff. Man, We'll talk
to you. Thanks, gentlemen, Thanks Jason. Be sure to catch
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Life to the tirerac dot Com Studios And do you
believe in unlikelihood? All right? That straight from Gary call
uh Team Japan with the comeback victory. Guys, it means
(30:06):
that either show Hey or Otani or Mike Trout wins
a title in twenty twenty three. Mike Trout, he will
play for a title. How crazy is this? Yeah, they
may not play it well a man allegedly, we'll see
it when it gets onto the field tomorrow. But I mean,
this is this is crazy. I mean, you got a
(30:27):
ball hit to the outfield rounding third, barreling towards the plate,
and the entire Japanese team is already rushing the field
because the throw is not gonna get there in time.
It's like one of those really crowded kind of circumstances.
If the uh the damn had busted and guys had
rolled through. It was awesome to watch the excitement, the
(30:51):
tears in the eyes and and Ken Rosenthal now on
the on the call with Fox Sports One. Uh, you
know what, I think they left it as it was
to show because if you leave Otani and Rosenthal at
their normal heights, it makes Otani look that much more
like a giant. But yeah, that was incredible theater. And
let's be honest, no disrespect to Mexico here, Mike, but
(31:12):
Japan USA tomorrow night for the title, is a way
better theater. Oh no, no question about it. And I
put it in that. I mean Murrakami obviously a national
hero and on this big stage, big playoffter, big play,
great series for Randy arose Ana, and we can hope
that he carries it into the regular season. As Jason
(31:33):
alluded to before, a guy that a couple of years
ago set the world on fire in the playoffs and
World Series. But when you look at just the global
impact that Otani has, I know they played the Czech Republic.
I heard John paulm Rossi talking about this with Hartman
and Ormberger as I was driving home from the studio yesterday,
you know, talking about wearing a Czech Republic hat as
(31:57):
he as he had his you know photo ops getting
into the airport and rolling through So to just kind
of acknowledge that the global growth of the game, the
enthusiasm and what it all meant. Are you not excited now, Smith?
I mean, come on, this is is what it's all about. Listen.
It was it was look, I love baseball, So it
was exciting in the bottom of the ninth and then
(32:17):
the game was over and I said, wow, we still
don't have DS. This is gonna end and I'm not
gonna have Edwin DS. I'm gonna send you some DFO cards.
It's gonna feel better, it's gonna Yeah, that would help.
Although no, that would just be no, that would be
like parcels. Parcels always say I don't want the injured
players around. It's a reminder of who's not there. So
all that would do is remind me of the guy
we don't have. So don't just send your notes every day? No,
(32:40):
I mean, I'm not gonna send you actual notes because
that would cost me the money of a stamp and
stationary or whatever, and and really that starts to add
up over one hundred and sixty two dates. I might
as well just send you a gift card for a
consolation big Mac. Yeah, no, just send me like David
robertson stats and end cards. Oh, he's gonna wind up closing,
so just do that. Send me that instead. Well he's
(33:00):
been good sometimes, Yeah, send me that or or send
me that or more stories about how much sex Larsa
Pippen had over the course of her for a day.
I mean, think about that. I mean, as everybody printed
that off and walked into their rooms of their girlfriends
and what it's like, Hey, hey, can we negotiate off
of this top end please? That's a lot. I mean
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that makes I mean that you think about that, That
makes Scottie Pippen go man. And he had enough time
to be one of the top fifty basketball players of
all time. Well, but I think about it, he didn't
have that demand on the lower back. I mean, because
he had a lot of back injuries down the stretch.
He would be laying on the sideline stretching all the time. Dah,
that's what it was. Maybe he would have had a longer,
more productive career, not that he didn't make some two
(33:42):
hundred and fifty million dollars A yeah, it doesn't matter.
Twenty years anyway, But hey, money is only temporary, your
career is forever. And what hey, what's what's the lesson?
What's the lesson that everybody learned from Rocky? What's the
biggest lesson? You women with Mekin gives legs and that's
(34:04):
what happened. No, don't trust the Russian. No, No, if
he dies, he died in Okay. No, you guys are
jumped ahead like four movies. Now we're back at the
first Rocky. No, that's the fourth one. That's the Wow,
what what what's the lesson in number two? Then? I
think the four? They got one, three, and four just
like that, nailed down to one sentence. Also, don't listen
to your wife. Well, okay, I think I think you
(34:26):
can't win. Rocky four is the first one that ty
Shirt saw. Well you mean I I can't just start
at Rocky four. I got I gotta go. Oh all right? Three? Yeah,
they didn't just start with Rocky four. There were three before.
There was people before the Russian, there was there was
a country before. Yes, exactly, yes, I added, if you know,
we'll we'll we'll break it down for you. So there
(34:48):
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