Hour 4 - Jon Paul Morosi

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the influence baseball plays around the world after Japan wins the WBC tonight, and no one better than Jon Paul Morosi - Long time MLB Insider joins the guys live after the game! Plus, a terrible injury to Paul George that may leave him out for the rest of the year.

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Sports Radio. Greetings and welcome inside the final hour sight
of The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
Japan beats the United States three to two to win
the World Baseball Classic. Showho Tani strikes out Mike Trout
to win it for Japan. And it was just a

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couple of days ago a young enterprising reporter looking to
make a name for himself named John Paul Morossi getting
to cover the World Baseball Classic insider inside of FREMLB Network.
Nobody knows more about the BBC than John Paul does.
He joined us from the World Baseball Classic Now, where
he was a guy that said a couple of days ago,

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you know there's no other way the WBCNS than Showhyotani
versus Mike Trout with the entire tournament on the line.
Fast forward to tonight, JP played a lotto man that
was some kind of prediction. Well, good evening or good morning.
I should say, I've got some work to do to

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be able to be that prescient in other things that
probably hold a bit more importance in life. But no,
this was an extraordinary, an extraordinary night, and I was
privileged to watch it. And obviously I was working on
our world feed broadcast produced through Major League Baseball Network,
and so I was actually at field level watching it.

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And I said to myself, tonight, I just kind of
put my microphone down and I just watched because I
didn't want to be thinking too much about what's he
gonna throw here, what's Trout gonna do, what does it
mean for someone's legacy. It was just being grateful and
appreciative that we had this moment with thirty six thousand

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fans and millions and millions of people around the world
watching this one thing. And you know what, we've talked
before about what this tournament can be, and I think
that's that's probably on some level. There are still some
conversations to be had about what it will be even more,
but for now, it's about what it is and what

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it is right now. And I had players saying to
me after the game, this is one of the most
meaningful things they've ever been a part of in their lives.
Mark de Rosa, I know he feels that way. So
what more? What more can we say than just this?
This tournament is a brilliant showcase of what makes this

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sport special. And there is no greater advertisement for what
the game can be than it than what it already is.
Then what this tournament already shows us. So I just
I hope that if you're listening right now, that you
enjoyed it as much as I did, and that we
can already start thinking about the days and counting down

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to the next one. Well, JP, I just want to
say this. Shoheo Tani put out a statement about five
minutes ago saying this is the greatest moment of his life,
which will wind up being greater this moment or when
he gets traded to the Mets the deadline j two
big moments. He may have to put out a second statement,
you never know, addend him to the statement. Um, but

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this this is guys, This this goes so far beyond
to where what happens in this tournament and what happens
on this night, especially when you consider how meaningful baseball
is in Japan, it does transcend. It is a lifetime achievement.
And you've got in one case, you Darvish, who is

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who was the guy that through the last out of
the two thousand and nine WBC at Dodger Stadium. He
was still part of this now fourteen years later, which
is a pretty big achievement. To be that and great
for that long that you could be part of victorious
WBC runs fourteen years apart is a pretty powerful thing
to be able to say. And I think too that

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it does not surprise me at all that Otani described
it that way, that he described it in such extraordinary terms.
He's still obviously, in the in the scope of life,
a very young man, but I suspect that that for
a lot of these players, this is the achievement of
a lifetime because it matters that much. This is the

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national team in Japan, is what the national team means
to soccer fans in Brazil or Italy or Argentina or
Spain or Germany, to where it's constantly being discussed who
is on the national team. Who's the guy who is
the people who are the people that we trust the most,
And I think that we are getting closer to that

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in our country. We really are. I mean on the
pitching side, we may have a little more work to do,
but in the position player group, you could not have
asked for more that what we had. Sure, Aaron Judge
would have been great. But aside from that, there's not
even a single wish or a want that you could
possibly look at with this team and have. So I
just I think Tmusa did a great job. Japan was

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one run better in the end. Doesn't mean that the
roster was flawed but from the US, and it doesn't
mean that Japan's roster was perfect. It just means that
Japan was one run better in one game. And I
would love, by the way, and I've said this before,
I would love to see a seven game series between
these teams sometime in November in the future, where you've
got half at Dodger Stadium, half at Tokyo Do or

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take your pick on the West Coast and really have
a showdown series that really is powerful and carries some
significant weight about where the game is going. So the
questions about Aaron Judge will persist. I like that Mike
Trout after the game said, so Otani got round one,
so he's already hugging him goodbye or what? Well? No,

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I mean he got round one, which means which means, well,
it means that three years from now, Trout's looking for
another chance. That's what he's That's what he's talking about.
And uh, you know, does it mean that O'tani's gonna
get traded? I mean, I don't. I'll put it this way.
I don't think this this result makes a trade any
more or less likely from an angel's perspective. I think

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it's still what it's all, what it always has been,
which is if anything, if anything, maybe I'll say this,
it opened the eyes of the of the world to
what a great competitor he is. Okay, so we know
we know what a great play or what a great
talent he is, but we're we're going to find out

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what a great competitor he is by how he handles
himself in this venue. And my gosh, oh, Flying Colors
couldn't ask for more because because I think there's there's
an emotional side of him that we just didn't see
in in an I'm because they just haven't been competitive
and relevant lately. But my gosh, he was hitting doubles

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and then you saw him pumping his fists and just
all the emotion. It's just perfect. After the final out, right,
the glove goes, the hat goes, He's amazing. That was
and that was exactly I mean, that's exactly right. I
mean I was. I watched that he that out happen
about fifty sixty feet away from me because I was
a right next to the Japan's dugout. And I'll tell you,

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one of the coolest things that I that I saw
during the game was show a running back and forth
and going back to worm up to come back. Oh,
it's beautiful. It was just a beautiful thing, the logistics
of it. And I credit on our world feed, Bill
Bowl and our producer and Jason Lobber, director for for
really just following Showa because that he was for those innings,

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he was the story. Where is he, where's he going?
Is he warming up? What's what's next? I just think
that a lot of that was just perfectly done. And
credit to Bill and Jason and Dave Fleming and Deanderlazzo upstairs.
It was just it was a lot of fun to
work on that show. John Paul Morosi with us MLB Network,
Fox Sports Radio, Inside and Live from the World Baseball Classic.
All right, now, before we get to what Rob Manford

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said earlier today, what was your favorite moment covering it?
From covering it, take us inside a little bit. Good
favorite moment of the WBC and if you even rhyme,
rhyme anything that sounds like Diaz this is your last appearance, no, uh,
your what was your favorite mo what was your favorite
moment of um? So, I would say, uh, like it's

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for me, it's the subtle times. It's when you're when
you're in uh, when you're in the manager meetings, and
I love the conversations that because it's it's the managers
are a little more relaxed. It's it's sort of for
our own background and during the broadcast, so it's not
as much for like, you know, to be shared and
tweeted immediately. It's more for our for our own background information.

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But you can obviously share it as the broadcast goes along.
And so um and so before the game yesterday, I
asked the Great Kudayama son the manager hit Decae Kurdayama
of Team Japan about if he's talked about about the
possibility of Showway pitching in the next couple of days,

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and he and his eyes, his eyes just kind of
lit up. He just kind of like looked at me
and like like raised his eyes and smiled a bit.
And uh because as the translation was coming to him,
because he speaks pretty good English, but but he had
to wait on the translation, and uh, and and the
translation came back. It's basically that the exact words were
something along the lines of we have we have had

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this conversation and for now I will keep it a secret.
It was, and it just was perfect because there was
he kind of told you without telling you, and it
was there was a little bit of a there's just
a little bit of a mystery about it all, which
is what it should be. It's like, you know, life

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still needs to be spontaneous, like we can't have it
all planned out. And and that that answer he gave
me was just so perfect. And he's just such a
wonderful man. I just it was just a really cool moment.
And I think too, you know, you get a chance
to really see how much it means to these players,
you know, Trout. I interviewed Mike a couple of different
times after US wins and how how he was saying

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it was the coolest thing he's done in baseball, and
Adam Wade right has been a World Series champion saying
basically the same thing. Guys, It's just it. It was
so just affirming of what we do and what we
believe in in international baseball that the greatest players had
the same joy. And then that you also saw great
Britain's manager Drew Spencer getting a huge win and Drew's reaction.

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So I just there's so many cool moments, but for me,
it's it's those it's those personal interactions where you get
a real chance to see what it means to these
managers and these players. And uh, but yeah, I think
kuiama Son telling me we've we've had that conversation and
it's going to be a secret was just was just perfect,
and it just it was just the right amount of

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intrigue and mystery that just made me smile. JP last
one boy real quick um Rob Manford talking about the
pitching side of the equation because you love what you
got a murderer's row one through nine on the mound,
incentivizing how do you maybe bolster that side of the roster?
You know, that's a great question. Uh, I don't know.

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I think that it's important to get buy in and
maybe with the right with the right players and the
right teams, we'll get a scenario where where the right
pictures are all lined up and feeling good and ready
to go. Um. I don't know that you need to
do and nor should you. By the way, there's there's
no way, no way that that anybody should feel like

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they have to, you know, financially incentivize or otherwise a
pitcher to participate First Country. I just think that's that's
just that's not what we need to do. In my opinion,
I do think that we need to get more buy
in and more information to the teams and to the
players and their agents about the value of this. And

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I'll tell you what, the pitchers who are going back
to their camps and talking about what it meant that
will do a lot of the selling for us as
as a baseball community. UM. I would if there are
incentives to do fine, but I don't think that they
should necessarily be financial. I don't think we need to
do that, because I think the tournament itself is as
great as it needs to be. And if you if

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you're a pitcher, and if you look at this and
if you say no, thanks, then I just what to
say to you, guys. It's just it's it's the coolest
competition going. It's just so much, so much fun to watch,
all right, Edwin Diaz is allowed to say no next time,
just like he's the one guy he's allowed to say.
He's allowed to say no. All right, thank oh, JP

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is always thank you so much, thanks for staying up
so late. And we'll talk to you next week, my friend.
I promise you. I'll have some some very strong and
last takes ready for you guys next week. Okay, hey,
quick recovery buddy, seasons upon us around. I feel like
I'm ready to go to the Winter Meetings. But it's not.
It's actually opposite. I'm ready to go to the Winter Meetings.

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He's the best Twitter and out about a fresca. Mike.
It's swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harman. That energy just infectus Jason. Oh, I
mean he loved it, Look, he loves it. He loves
the WBC, loves report, he loves everything about it. I
get it. It was, you know, to cover it. I
think if I was there, Yeah, how do you not
get swept up in it with the fans and and

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and and the and the way the teams are into it.
Then no, I get that part of it. I get
being immersed in it. It was. It's great for him.
You know, by the next cycle he'll be able to
speak Japanese. You watch, Oh yeah, wow, he that would
be Italian and English and Japanese for JP. That's pretty
That's a powerful man. There's no question about it. Right there.
I'm just saying like, he's gonna want to have it good.

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And let's face it, Japan's gonna put up another great squad,
so I think he'd love to see. If he can't
do it, Translator B will be there to make sure
any of the phraseologies get cleaned up. But that's JP.
That's the challenge. Yeah, we just can't field anymore Mets.
Get some real players on the team. Come on, stop
the Mets. Jess steal on basin ninth thinging that's exactly

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how you said it, Shy. We can't have it, spark,
we can't have nice things, can't have it. The Dodgers failed.
The Mets did not. It was a Dodgers. They fail.
Wetting Oani life is good. They failed. They fail. Be
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(15:08):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my bass
friend Mike Harman on camera. You know that doesn't make
it better, right, well, no, at least like I'm getting
paid for it, and you can document your performance. You
think you're getting royal performance. Talk about his performan talk
about his performance. The guy had three scenes. Okay, So

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tonight in the NBA, the Thunder beat the Clippers one
on one to one hund No matter what happens with
the with the Thunder, they still refuse to go away.
They're still gonna be that five hundred teen that's gonna
keep motoring on into the playoffs. Gildess Alexander had thirty one,
the Clippers fall to thirty eight and thirty five, but
more importantly, Paul George in this game in thirty five

(15:54):
minutes eighteen points, seven rebounds, five assists, but left the
game after a really scary looking knee injury. Knees are
not supposed to bend away. Paul George's knee bends. Uh.
He went up for a rebound, he came down on
his knee, on his leg and his leg bent backwards. Um.
There is no update on him from Tehron Lou. Hopefully

(16:18):
there will be some kind of UM update tomorrow. But
that's not one of those things that looks good, that
tells you, hey, uh, you know Paul George will be
back at some point soon. All right, you were already
talking about where where? You know, ten games are so
left in the regular season. I don't know, man, I'm
not a doctor. Maybe we should call Rich Hornberger because
you know he's a dot doctor. He's a doctor. But text, man.

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We did text him, Yeah, we did text him for
his opinion on UM. We texted him, said, hey, doctor Rich,
can you tell us what you think about this? And
he said he may never be able to see it. Yes,
I love Ritchie, Ritchie, but it's it's kind of hard

(17:02):
for me to see this being an injury that Paul
George comes back from. Somewhat soon. I mean we're again,
we're talking about we're talking about the Clippers now have
nine games left and then to come back with the
playoffs right there, and it's likely going to be a
playing round. I mean, that's gonna be tough. And and look,
without him, at least for the next nine games, who

(17:23):
knows where the Clippers could finish in the West because
right now, hey, okay, thirty eight and thirty five, you're
feeling all right being in fifth place, but you got
a bunch of teams at thirty six that are in six, seventh,
eighth place. The t Woolves have thirty seven losses. They're
shut up. There's a lot of teams that are only
one game or two games behind you in the lost column.

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And this could without without Paul George, this could turn
from a hey, Clippers team that feels pretty good about
being the top six two, here's a Clippers team that
hopefully won't fall out of the playing round. And they
were a very trendy pick many people after the All
Star break, where all the Hippers now they're healthy, they
get all this stuff, and now look where they are
after the last couple of weeks. No, and that's it.
It was all about being judicious with minutes and dare

(18:09):
I say the dreaded load management and trying to figure
out how to coax these guys into the playoffs. You've
watched it over time, some big wins, but all in
all five and five in the last ten, not really
making progress, but still above the proverbial fold. And what
has been going on with Golden State that can't win
on the road on the eight and twenty nine away

(18:31):
from home, these thunder that they've got another game with
them I think Thursday, right, so off day tomorrow and
then back to that again, so you know, you add
it all up. Dallas can't get out of their own way,
Minnesota's trying to get healthy, the Lakers are back, Austin
Reeves is now a fifty million dollar player. Can we

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talk about that that suddenly happened over the last couple
of weeks. And then obviously the Pelicans, these Blazers, Damian
Lillard's talking about operations shutdown. I mean, it's just gotten
bad at the bottom of the Western Conference. But for
the Clippers at thirty eight and thirty five, yeah, can
they hold it together to get across the finish line

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and in the playoffs. Yes, sure, what does that mean
on the grand scheme unless all of a sudden Kawhi
Leonards got some superhuman monstar thing going on in him. Yeah,
it's done. Yeah, that's that's tough. Man. This is one
of those seasons for the Clippers where you go, they
just they when they couldn't ever get started, and they

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finally get started and they trade for Russell Westbrook and
that screws up the chemistry so much and now here's
no Paul George. It's like, I mean it, we talked
about this a couple of weeks ago. Is that at
the end of this year, if the Clippers are and
they went from a point where hey, we look like
maybe we can make some noises you maybe we could

(19:57):
potentially do it too. Now it's it's another year of
disappointment that they're gonna blow up this roster and it's
gonna be Kauai and Paul George and it's going to
be a new day for the Clippers because they've tried
it now for a while and it just hasn't worked.
For whatever reason, it just has been what they expect.
They thought Kawhi was the missing piece We're gonna go

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to NBA Finals and win and he's not been healthy,
and then Paul George hasn't been healthy and it just
hasn't worked. This is this is gonna end for the Clippers,
and we're gonna get to the offseason. It's gonna be
a feeding frenzy. Hey, Kauhi, who wants Kawhi? Who still
thinks you're You're a Kawhi? Let it away from winning
a championship. Let's make a deal Paul George. Let's see

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because we're paying him a lot of it. I really,
I think it's gonna be an entirely all new look
Clippers team next year. Oh, I have no doubt. I mean,
we're gonna see a lot of change, and we've already
been talking about it. That's this weird thing of where
we're at in the cycle of the NBA. So we
were talking about in the off season and possible changes
before we even tipped off. This seems like, let's look

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at the free agents for after how about we actually
figure out what's going on. How About we watched a
couple of weeks, maybe a couple of months mode management.
Nobody cares until March right after football's over. Everybody pays attention,
and then we get down to the stretch run, and
then we can start talking about the playoffs, and then
we can start talking about free agency. But we've seen

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all of the banners. We've seen all of the giant
attempts at billboards and hype machines and Balmer with his
groundbreaking ceremony a couple of weeks ago talking about how
many toilets he's gonna have because right now, and people
want to throw up in their mouths after watching this.
I broke my leg playing basketball in high school and
I saw that and I just recoiled from in my seat,

(21:46):
just like, my god, the way his need bent back.
So it's that is a tough one because I remember
we were on air. I was telling Prospered. I remember
I was at training camp with the out in Arizona.
You want to remote when broadcast out of the mobile
tire act dot Com Fox Sports Radio studios, and that

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was when they were doing the Olympic stuff and George
got hurt there. Yeah, right, I was. I was on
air with you guys, and I was a couple of
seconds ahead on what I was watching. I was like,
oh my god, so this is all your fault. Yeah,
so I blame me. That's Harmon's fault. One hundred percent.
It's all Harmon's fault. Yeah yeah. I mean, look, I
look to blame Harmon at any time. POSI, No, we

(22:28):
figured that. Where can I do this? This one? You
actually have proof? Yeah? This one? Yeah? No, Yeah, you're
right it is. I'll wear it. It's my fault. Be
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We've talked to John Paul Morose, who joined a few
minutes ago. You talked about, you know, all the emotion
you heard of him talking about the World Baseball Classic,

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and he has said many times there is no team
under more pressure the first three months of the baseball
season than the Angels because they're gonna have to make
a decision on show. Heyo Tani and he's someone that
has talked about free agency and exploring it. And the
Angels can't lose him for nothing. They'd love to keep him.
But if you want to explore free agency, that means

(23:10):
you kind of want to leave, you know, there's I
want to explore free agency. But here's five hundred million dollars. Oh,
I'm going to stay. You're gonna have a change of
ownership at some point. It's going to be really awkward.
So you know Otani wants to leave, Well, he took
him off the market though right too looked at it,
so it was potentially worth it. Dah. Yeah. But if

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a guy wants to sell, you know, he's not suddenly
I'm changing my mind. I'm keeping the team. It's I'm
gonna sell at some point. It's just like selling a house. Ah.
You know, we're not getting the bids I want. We're
gonna go off market for a little bit and we'll
go back on We'll sell the house. So what's gonna
happen is the Angels are not a good team. They're
not going to contend, and all eyes are going to
be on what are the Angels going to do with

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show hey Otani at the deadline, and I maintain there's
two teams that are gonna go in on Otani. The
lesser team will be the Dodgers because they have the
money to spend. Otani might push to stay in Southern
California if he's ready for that step up because when
he came into the Major League baseball a few years ago,
it was, well, I kind of want to dip my
toe in here and get used to what life in
Major League Baseball is like. I don't know if I

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want to be a big star in a big market.
Anaheim was perfect because you're just outside the big market.
But at the same time, you're you know, you're look,
you're in the shadow of the Dodgers. So he might
push and say, I want to stay here in Southern
count but I'm ready to be a Dodger, And if
there's nobody else out there, then the Angels might not
have a choice. Well, we'll get a bunch of prospects,
a bunch of good players. If he's going to leave anyway,

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and the Dodgers were going to sign him anyway, if
we trade him there, we trade him there. It's where
he ends up. But I'm telling you this, the team
he's going to end up with is the Mets, because
there's only two teams You're gonna go in on Otani
because only two teams that will trade for him, knowing
full well we have the ability to sign him as
a free agent in the off season. Right nobody else

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is going to spend that money, and Steve Cohen is pissed.
He is going to spend a bunch of money on
Carlos Karea. It didn't work out. He had Major League
Baseball owners say, oh, I can't believe you're doing. This
is a reason why we don't go over three hundred
million dollars payroll. What are you doing? He's got to
talk to people. No, He's like, blank you blank you
blank you. You don't like I was going to spend
three million on Carlos Korea. You wait until Shohio Tani

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comes up. Hey, show ay, you want five hundred million
dollars for ten years, you want six hundred million for
ten year, you want sixty million a year. I'm ready
to give it to you. I can give it to
you because I don't care. He is itching to buy
another player, to buy another superstar, and there's no bigger
feather in his cap than going to get Shohio Tani
at the deadline. So when it comes down to it,
it's gonna be one team above all else, and Cohen's

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not gonna be overbid. You're gonna look at a team
that might well, maybe we can offer one prospect wise,
what else do you want. We'll give you more prospects,
we'll give you more, We'll give you whatever you want.
I am not going to be outbid for Shohyo Tanni.
I will get him. So I'm firmly I'm firmly ready
for the fact. And this kind of takes the loss
of Edwin daz A and blunts it a little bit.

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And that when the deadline comes, the Mets are gonna
have Shoheotani because nobody else is gonna trade for him
to spend that kind of money. Right, The Yankees don't
do that anymore. The Red Sox aren't gonna do it.
Nobody else is gonna. The Padres. You think they would,
but they're already paying seven guys three hundred million dollars.
So there's nobody else there unless they want to trade
for Nano Tatis junior. But there's nobody else is going
to spend that kind of money that we'll say, yes,

(26:23):
let's go in on Otani for this, knowing full well
he's gonna walk in a few months. No, you're gonna
trade for Otani knowing you're going to keep Him's gonna
be just like the Wan Soto trade. The Padres traded
for Sodo, going Okay, we know we're gonna keep him
for We're gonna have him for at least three Pennant races,
so that's good enough for us. It's a long term,
it's a longish term thing for him before he can
become a free agent. And that's gonna be the situation

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with Otani. We're gonna trade for him knowing we're gonna
be the team that's gonna sign him and he's gonna
stay with us for the rest of his career or
however long it goes well. I like that. I mean
there's always a mystery team that I'll find it to
an kind of like the Aaron Rodgers situation. Who knows
someone maybe lurking in the shadows. See what I did
to you? There's there's no mystery team. Maybe they decided

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they just can't work together, and Aaron behind the scene.
He's got to touch somebody else. Dude, there's no mystery team.
No Aaron Rodgers is gonna be a jet it's there.
I'm just trying to get your angst written. It's not
gonna buddy, I just lost Edwin ds for the season.
How bout that? Was last week, buddy, how about you
taking it in a long time ago. That's not a
long time ago. It's just happened, especially with the World

(27:29):
Baseball Classic just ending, I mean, because now you're thinking
about the future in one hundred and sixty two games
with buddy. Just buddy, I'm gonna punch you. Just just
get just take it easy for a minute. Okay, mystery team,
But that's long with you, because I got nothing but
love for you, buddy. You know you know that. No,
you got lots of other crap. You just karate chopped

(27:51):
you to the face. The face. No, but the idea
being that for Otani, I mean, it looked as much
as Frostper might have been cursing every appearance and trained
Turner tonight. That's a lot of money they didn't spend
on him in there. What does that open up, though, Frostburg,
what's his problem? It opens the door for Otani, is

(28:12):
what it does. Mike. Yes, boy, wouldn't you like to
have him hitting a home run every time up like
he did in the WBC? That would have been awesome. Yeah,
he's gonna hit seven hundred for the Phillies and they're
gonna win the East. Oh no, that's not gonna happen. No, no, no, no, no,
that's not Look what he did to you there, No,
that's not gonna happen. Coming into tag team and beat
me up, and he totally went, he'll turn on you.

(28:35):
I mean it was just like he always got Frostburg
always goes, he'll turn He's he's a heel. He's never
been a good guy. He's always been the heel. Yeah,
he's got a point talent balid points sir. Yeah, but
it's gonna be a Met. Get ready for Otani the Met.
Worry about getting Aaron Rodgers first? Okay, does he immediately

(28:58):
become mister Met, displacing the long time mascot. Listen, you
just watch you just watch if the Jets dangle, you know,
dragged their feet a bit getting Aaron Rodgers. Steven Coon
will buy the Jets, but just to go get Aaron Rodger.
Let's gonna make that move right now. Let's gonna make
that move. I can now you're just trying to talk
that into exist. Please buy all the my favorite teams. Hey,

(29:19):
James Dolan, you can keep the garden. Listen to Aaron
Rodgers realized that Woody Johnson is Johnson and John We
brought it up on the show a couple of weeks ago.
I think that, Wait, you're the guy. Wait that's you
wait like like Frostburg tonight. Wait, that was bad Bunny
in uh in Bunny, Really that was bad money the

(29:41):
twitter and out about a fresca Mike at swollen dome
Otani mets get used to its coming up next the
play of the night. Well, it can only be one thing,
but it might not be exactly the way you think
you're gonna hear it. It's coming up next right here,
Jason and Mike fucks. Be sure to catch live editions
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(30:04):
ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
and the iHeart Radio app. Is that what the Google
machine's telling you? But but in that time, we could
get like five more John Wick movies, So that'd be
really cool, man, Are you well we're gonna get this
series in between, right? Oh? I can't wait for john
Wick four. Isn't it out tomorrow night? Yeah? This week tonight? Yeah? Yeah,

(30:25):
oh yeah, I'm doing a midnight Smith. You didn't even
put out a flyer like, are we going put out?
Are we going? Jay? Do you guys want to go
see John Wick Thursday night? Yeah? You guys want to
go see Tomorrow is not Thursday? You got another night?
You got another night. I'm down. Let's go Thursday night.
Let's go. If you can make Thursday tomorrow night, I'm in. Yeah,
that'd be pretty cool. Not many people could do something

(30:47):
like that though. That'd be dude, if you could pull
that out. Oh wow, what it's all limp and dangle.
I will leave it in a while, Mike, you know
what I meant. Wow, Okay, let's okay, Well, it is
that hour off than we are running. It was limp
and Dangley. You guys are lunatics. Time now for the

(31:08):
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Learn more at Progressive dot com or call one eight
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to two. Japan wins the World Baseball Classic. The play
by play on Fox Sports one pretty awesome from Joe

(31:28):
Davidson John Smaltz. But how about the call on Japanese
TV as they win, as Shohio Tani strikes out Mike
Trout and the game fall. God did he end with Calabunga?

(32:11):
Sounded like it now from Conifi Baseball play side of Vacaville.
And they've got the check mark. I don't know if
they bought it or whatever, but evidently Mike Trout had
three swinging strikes in only twenty four of his sixty
one hundred seventy four career plate appearance before this appearance

(32:34):
against Showy Otani. And I want to know what happened
to Otani's glove, because he strikes him out, he fires
it down towards the dugout. Hopefully someone came scrambling out
to take that and it didn't end up in somebody's
memorabilia pile, or if it did. Let's start bidding. Let's go.
You want you want a great story about a glove missing?

(32:54):
You want a great story about if you've got one? Sure, Oh,
this is a great This is a great story. This
is the this is the second best story. Rob Dibble
ever told me you were gonna go with that red
sock playing first base against the Mets in eighty six no, no, no, no, no, no,
this is this is the this it's the second best story.
That's pretty good. Rob Dibble ever told me, I gotta
wait for a good time to tell the first one

(33:15):
because I can't just tell him explain. Oh my god, Okay, yeah.
Rob Dibble, one of the best relievers in Major League
Baseball in the eighties and nineties, went on to a
long career afterwards on television. Our former teammate here at
Fox Sports Radio. He he hosted UM Nights with Amy
Van dyken Uh in the in the late aughts here

(33:35):
at Fox Sports Radio. So he told me this story once.
It was awesome. He got into you know, Rob, Rob Dibble,
someone who threw inside all the time, and there was
a dust up after he threw inside to somebody in
a series. I forget what it was, and he said
somebody on the other team. He had a friend of
the team told him and said next game we play,

(33:57):
it's gonna be on. And Rob was like, yeah, okay, yeah,
we'll see, we'll see. So um, the next time they
know they played, Rob Dibble threw inside or he hit
somebody whatever it was, and there was a brawl and
Rob Dibble lost his glove. He couldn't find it, and
he didn't know where he used that glove for so
many years. And he told me that he found out

(34:18):
after the game that a friend told him that they
were all so pissed on the other team that they
cut his glove up in the locker and we're passing
out pieces to everybody, and Rob was so mad. He goes, well,
I gotta I gotta hit somebody the next time, right,
So the next time he goes, and you can see
this on the video, the next time we play this team,
I go, I gotta hit somebody because they did that

(34:38):
to my glove. He was really mad and he goes.
You could see it, and the play by play guy
you know, is calling it and he goes and here's
a pitch. You know something's gonna happen. Oh, he's hit.
There's another brawl, and Dibble throws his glove into the
dugout and now here he is fighting. He said, I
didn't want anything to happen to my glove, so he
knew when he hit somebody there was gonna be a brawl.
So he turned and threw his glove into his dugout

(35:00):
so nobody would steal it at the fight and many
you can't fall to good strategy, right, Oh my god,
I can't believe that. I gotta see that, just I
could just see I turned it. I fired into my
dugout so nobody would grab it and walk off with it. Night,
lose it again, no glove, no love. There you go

(35:23):
and here that's a pretty good story. Again, that's only
the second best story that robbed Dibble every time? Second best,
second best? What's the best? I can't tell it yet,
I can't it involved. I'll tell you this. It involves Loopinella. Yeah, no,
we don't have enough dumps. When there comes where, there
comes time where a loo Pinella story, I will tell
that story. I promise. Can't wait until we have a

(35:44):
time for a loo Pinella story, because honestly, I can't
believe Dibble was still in the majors after this story.
I can't. I can't believe he was still in the
major leagues after the story. I really what a night though,
oh Man World Baseball Classic tie shirts, happy one. He's
so excited. Friend will turn on friend, foe on foe.
He's going home to watch bullet Train and he's gonna

(36:08):
go buy all WBC Japan Merch on eBay, He's all excited.
You guys want one, Let's go. Ben Baller's next Fox