March 22, 2023 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss Japan winning the WBC with Shohei Ohtani striking out Trout to end the series! Plus, a look into the chances of Major Franchises overpaying for Ohtani next season!
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tire buying should be well. The World Baseball Classic is over, Japan,
are your champions? Shoho Tani does it all. He closes
out the ninth fitting, striking out Mike tres Out teammate
to end it eighty seven mile an hour slider that
Trout just waived at. And I remember now now I'm
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thinking one thing, Mike Harmen, I have one thought after
this is boy, Shoyotani's gonna look awesome and it mets
uniform at the deadline. It's gonna be so Alex. So
you guys are just gonna be fighting the two of
you all night long, now, Dodge or no. He's a man.
He's done you know what as him tonight, just like
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Aaron Rodgers is still a packer. He's a member of
the crappy Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and he's got
a giant metal or whatever they gave him that makes
him look like he's flavor flame out on the field.
How let me ask you this. Let'll be honest with me.
On a level of one to ten, how excited was
Rob Manford to have to actually interact with players? What
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do you think he was at the end? I'd given
a one point five. He knew the photo would get
taken and still shots would show up on website to stuff.
You know, he's not looking forward to the video then
makes them look sullen and defeated. But the photo op
with Joe, heyo, Tony, who are you again? Uh? It
was great? Yeah? Do you think he really knew who
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show he was? You know, anybody? No idea? Yeah, no idea.
He's not listen. He goes, hey, uh here's a trophy. Well,
let's see WBC doesn't really have an owner, right, does
Japan have an owner? No, there's no own. Fine, I'll
take a couple of pictures. But then I'm done. Right,
I'm done. I'm done. I gotta go, I gotta go.
I'll take you. That's great, I'm smiling here. Okay, great? Uh,
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what do you mean I gotta What do you mean?
I gotta shake hands with the players. I don't talk
to players. I don't I this was not Okay, fine,
I'll do it just this once, but that's it. I'm
never gonna do it again. But I'll do it just
this once for you for the World Baseball Classic. Why not.
You gotta gotta do it, and then you can go
into hiding for the rest of the regular season. Give
one or two more State of Baseball addresses. Now we
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don't have to see until the All Star break when
you hand someone to keys do it, truck. Think about
this for one second. How bad that the Angels really are? Guys?
They have Trout and Otani on their team and they
can't even make the bleeping playoffs expanded playoffs. I mean no,
but just think about that for a second. But the Angels,
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I mean at least the Mets got into the play
in or whatever it was. At least the Mets did
their job. At the top of the ninth thinning, Jeff
McNeil walked Dodgers grounded into a double play. Mookie bets,
thanks for nothing, Thanks for nothing, right there? You know,
he absolutely nothing. Mookie el bets. Mookie el Bets. Uh no.
But look, we're only gonna have to worry about this
for the next four months. Then the Mets are gonna
get him and give him five hundred million dollars and
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we're good to go. You know, money's worth more in
la right, how about ten years and five hey show,
Hey you're thirty. But how about ten years and five
hundred million dollars? How about that? Is that good? Gotta
give me that? I mean, that might stretch Steve Cohen,
who I think. I think Steve Cohen makes like forty
two million dollars a month or every two weeks. He
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made forty million dollars. I think that's what he does
forty min every tweet, So he would have to give
zero to charity. By the way, Yeah, no, I don't know,
are you kidding? He has to pay, he pays. He
pays the Mets and the Mets. Well, that is a charity.
You're right, the Mets are a charity and the Mets
keep their fans happy. No, he's got to work, probably
a good Let's see. Hang on, so let's eighty million
in a month. He's got to work. Wow, he's got
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to work like almost six months to pay Shoho Tani
for the next ten years. You see how he says work.
That's a lot of stuff, man. I mean you're a head.
You do a lot of hedge funds. That means waking
up your funding and going to your other analysts and saying,
how does the math look on today? Any indices that
are moving that we need to make any larger moves on? Nah?
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We move. We shoved them from this fund to the other. Okay, cool,
I'm going back to bed Smith makes it seems like
the guy's blue collar taking his lunch, Bob man, that's
what I drive. He's up there and putting shingles on
the roof. Doesn't matter. Five hundred million for Showho Titania.
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You know what, why don't we start at that? It'll
be ten years, five hundred millions, So give me down,
Give me God. I gotta five. I got five five
out five five five five five fifteen back there in
the back. Wait, that guy looks like he's the same
guy betting against himself. I will not be beaten. Five
hundred million. The Guggenheims will sell a painting. Oh man,
they're throwing showho Toanni up in the air right now
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on the field. See this is what happened to Edwin Diaz.
You guys don't want to tempt to face. They've thrown
up in the air like here's the thing though. They
want it all. I mean, that's what's gonna happen. Yeah,
but I don't want him to get hurt. And the
Mets can't trade for but the deadline, he's gonna be
out for the season that we can't. I'm wishing that on.
What are you doing make? Tysher's gonna come down the
line and choke you out. That's his guy right here. Yeah, yeah,
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ty Shirt, Yeah, he's on yeah, no, hey, ty Shirt Otani?
Who does he play for? Japan? Yeah? I know in
Major League lead yeah, major League Japan? Right, rokay? And
what position does he play? Is gonna be on the
Dodgers soon, So it's all good. No, but what position
does he play for? Whatever? Right, so obviously a pitcher. Oh,
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very good, okay, very good, thank you? All right. And
by the way, if tishert says he's going to the Dodgers,
it's happening. Oh. World Baseball Classic Japan beats United States
three two, and look, I'll give you this, right, I
said that last hour. I am the best World Baseball
Classic fan there is because I can be excited for
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the game, and when the United States loses, I can
move on. Right, I've moved on, right, clearly, I've moved on.
It's easy. It's okay. We're now we're into the regular season.
We're getting at the end of spring training and everything.
That's awesome. You're looking at buying all the big spring
training hats on discount and all the different at websites. Yes, yes, yes,
we're moving on to the regular season. Um. But then
we get this from Rob Manfred, who had this today
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about the next World Baseball Classic. He has a desire
for the next World Baseball Classic, he said today. Quote
the WBE will return in twenty twenty six. Right, that's awesome, right, right,
I have come back in twenty twenty six. Quote it's
great the guys that we have, he told a small
scrum of reporters, but I'd like to see pitching staffs
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that are the same quality as our position players. He
wants star pitchers in the next World Baseball Classic. Many
star pitchers were told, yeah, no, you can't come and
pitch here because we're worried about you getting hurt. Why
they didn't tell Edwin Diaz that I have no idea.
The Dodgers told he's the best closer in the game. Stop.
The Dodgers told Clayton Kershaw, you can't go many two.
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So we didn't see, No, we didn't see the best
pitchers in the game coming because yeah, when you have
teams saying we don't think this is great for pitchers
because they could get hurt, what does that tell you
about having the tournament where you're at right now, when
many teams are saying, hey, they shouldn't have ed you
should have told Edwin Dez to stay home. But they didn't,
So I got to live with that. But this tells
you about the whole thing with the pitchers. But Rob
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Manford doesn't care. He said, quote, I'm not lobbying, it's
having facts to support it. Pitching and high leverage situations
like these are that actually helps players develop. So just
think about crazy. How crazy he asked, that sounds for
a second. Okay, think about this for a second, he said. Okay, Um,
pitching in high leverage situations like this helps players develop. Yeah,
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he wants to bring in star pitchers that presumably, if
you're a star pitcher, I think you're pretty well developed.
I think you pretty much know how to get things
done over the course of one hundred and sixty two
game regular season in the playoffs. This is not this
is not Hey, we're bringing up a guy from Triple
A and this is gonna help him develop because we're
gonna put him in a high leverage situation. You're talking
about the best pitchers in the world who have already
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pitched at high levels and know what they're doing, and
you're saying they can develop. He sells a guy that's
never seen a baseball game, the guy develop. You think,
Justin Verlander needs a world baseball boy Justin Verlander when
another side young people at all. But but I think
what he's saying there and allow me to try to
crawl inside the mind, Yeah, good luck with that. Well,
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and that's why I'm prefacing it as I am. Is
the idea that just like you're getting high leverage in
bats big moments, you're ramping up to opening day, and
for the pictures, it's the same thing. Not Hey, we're
gonna test him on a big stage because they're they're
coming along and they're gonna be the next start. No,
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no, no no, no, no, it's it's that your iron, Sharpen's iron.
You'd been doing this work in Arizona or Florida anyway,
So so let's get you in here and really make
this thing take off to a whole other level. That's
what he's trying to say. I don't know. I think
he talked about developing in high leverage situations. Developers, developers, developers.
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I've got thirteen hundred toilets, listen, remember, And here's where
I find fault with your entire with your entire line
of argument. And you're gonna say, Jason, you're right, Rob
Manfred doesn't care about the well being of the players.
He does don't care. Did I say yeah, anything, doesn't care.
He just wants stars. Is it good for the players?
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I don't care. I don't care about the players. I
care about money, the game and the owners. I don't
care about the players. I don't There has not been
a commissioner who was shown he cares about the players
less than Rob Manfred. He doesn't care developing, the developing,
talking about developing, but developing. You come on pushing George
opening Day and why not do it here on a
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big stage that has great global meaning. I mean, look
at the people coming together. I really was waiting for
him to say at the end of that uh press
conference with the reporter saying, so, you know, maybe I
make them all come next time. Maybe maybe I make
the maybe I make all the pictures come, or I
find a way to suspend you from the league by
not coming for the next World Baseball Classic. I would
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say that is that would be fairly interesting if he
tried to have that kind of power. Here's a great quote,
UH Mark DeRosa, USA manager Bob Nightingale on Twitter quote
it was kind of scripted. I just wish it went
the other way. No baseball fans one tonight, Yeah yeah, no, no,
not not a baseball fans, Japanese baseball fans and anybody
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who hates America. They all won tonight America and they
went off. They have all the best players. We're excited
at that that they lost this game. No, they're all excited,
but excited. Well, I had to ask you, then, can
we believe Nightingale when he tweets something out something like that.
I think we can. I don't think we would You
like to see if I can find that quote from
somebody else? Yeah, make sure we double check that quote
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right there. I mean, could you really sit here? You
just watched a pitcher, one of the best pitchers in baseball,
the best closer, get knocked out for the year and
he and he says, yeah, I want more star pitchers
there next time. Um, the teams have told you we
don't really like the guys there for that, we don't
think this is something they should. I want more star
I mean, how tone def do you have to be? Really,
as he's the commissioner of the game, and then let's
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give that lame excuse of well it helps them develop. Guy. Really,
I'd love to I'd love to see Max Scherzer him
to make Max Scherzer cut what wouldn't be back shars
because you'd be retired. But uh, let's just just say
him he you know, he tells, he tells Otani next time, Hey,
o Todd, he really needs you to come to this
world because we think this can help you devote it.
But in terms of players that didn't come, do you
remember anybody else outside of Kershaw where it became an issue? No,
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because where there was something expressed like he wanted to
go and then couldn't, Like I don't. I don't think
there was. You know why because fans agree with me,
even if they don't say it. They don't want their
pictures there. Nobody wants their pictures at this thing. Nobody does. Jason,
do you really think for one second that Manfred knew
that Edwin d has pitched this World Baseball Classic come on,
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that he was terribly concerned that he'd be injured jumping
up and down after winning a game. Yeah, he doesn't, champion,
no idea like he was jumping up and down like
slides stallone and Carl Weathers after the race. Yeah. No,
that that's how he got hurt, telling you man, that happens,
let's get next time, jumping around. He could have been
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listening jumped by the pointers sisters and guy Rob. Manfred
walks around like Rocky Bull Bull punched them in the head.
Seems like lately everybody wants to beat me up. Hey Dad,
where'd you get that shiner? Same friend? Okay, Dad, So
Japan beats the United States three to two. We're gonna
be talking to John Paul Morosi live from the World
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Baseball Classic coming up in a little bit. But straight ahead,
we have a big time NBA story to get to
because there's some shocking things that are going to happen
tomorrow night that we gotta get our head around. That's
coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio,
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Alex SEISCHERT Can you say I don't know what you
just said? I think you could say that I got Dokazaimas. No,
I don't know who that was. You. You just rolled
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right through that right there. You know, you know what?
Maybe good since you're a big fan of Japan, tie shirt. Yes,
I'm gonna have you translate their final call. Okay, I'm down,
all right, So the World Baseball Classic is in the books.
Japan beats the United States by the final of three
to two. Sho heeo. Tani comes in, closes it out
in the ninth inning, strikes out teammate Mike Trout to
end it. So how did this sound? Well, let's see
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what it sounded like on FS one. Japan, your new
WBC champions, more than an Indianapolis. The offensive play here
and then changes gets hitting. The ball is loose and
it's alive. Now everybody that listens to the show the
last few years knows the butt fumble call by heart.
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I guarantee America Service. That was Frank Thomas and the
and uh a Rod on FS one. Then they get
in their cars and they go but Sanchez gets hit.
The ball is loose. Yet no, no no, no, I have
never seen this before in my life. No that way,
here's the final call on FS one. Old Tanny's ready,
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Trout's ready. Three two, Hey struck him out. Old Tanny
strikes out Trout and Japan's pick on top of the
Baseball World. Joe Davis and that John Smoltz on the
call there for FS one, the excitement level palpable. But
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I have a feeling that's going to pale in comparison
to what we're gonna hear from the call on Japanese team.
Remember we played you the one last night when they
won in the walk off in the night then against
Mexico and it was insane. Let's see what winning the
WBC sounded like on Japanese TV free Coming Fall. Old
Tanny Cot put out with the cop god game that
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guy that was very uh wwe I'm grabbing the mic
in the middle of the ring and I'm gonna yell
it out. It's great. One one major question off of that. Yeah,
that's an epic call and that's phenomenal. Yeah, but why
do they have more crowd noise than FS one if
the game was on FS one? Uh? Whoa. Maybe they
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just had the crowd noise louder, Maybe they had a
better parabolic mic, maybe they had maybe they're piping in
their own crowd noise you can get. Can we just
play a little bit of it's not just any right?
All right, let's let's hear it. Let's hear the the
the call on FS one again. Oh, Tommy's ready. It's
very mellow. Trout's ready. Three two, Hey, strutch him out. Okay,
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that are the crowd, Okay, all right now it's here
on Japanese coming forward. Yeah, that is really loud, especially
after the it's you know, the loudness doesn't really get
there until right after the strike, after strike three, when
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that's you can't even hear the play by play guys
say anything. He's just yelling. He could be saying any
he could be shouting out a grocery list. Uh, tomatoes,
stick of bread, the stick of butter, a loaf of bread,
bottle of milk, doesn't no one can hear. It doesn't matter,
bottle of red hut. Oh, now that isn't evan. Now
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all right, so tie shirt, what could you pull out
of that? Uh? In translating that call for us? So,
the biggest one I heard was him saying Otani was pitching.
So that's a good one right there. Yeah, that's good.
And then the real cool part was that he said
he threw it so fast that Mike Trout can no
longer play in Anaheim. Again. That was a good part too. Wow,
throw whim out of this city. Yes, he said. When
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he was yelling there, when they were doing the circling,
he said, is it possible for Otani to ascend Trout
even more? And they said he just did. Yeah. They
even got a Trout sucks in. It was pretty impressive,
just the just the the analysts yelling Trout sucks and
and did you catch at the NJ. I know it
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was kind of loud, but did you hear them say
two things we say here, like Trout can never win anything,
even a World Classic? It's crazy. Yeah, oh I didn't.
They got Dodgers in at the end. It was phenomenal.
You guys are pretty good. The American superstar fails again. Yeah, no, no,
you guy. I like that. You guys are pretty good.
I didn't. I didn't know you you could got Azul
and I heard Azul. All right, very nice the Azul.
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So there it is World Baseball Classic. The victory goes
to TEA. Safe to say, guys that Otani's the greatest
player on the planet right now, that's safe to say, right, yeah,
oh yeah, absolutely, and he'll be even better when he
goes to stop. Yeah, how did I know that? I
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can't wait? Are you kidding? Buddy? Seriously, just think, just
just just just think about this. You can't say, buddy,
when you're talking like this, Buddy, I'll say, I could
tell you exact funny, I'll tell you exactly how dips
a little buddy diaper. This is exactly how this is
gonna go. Is that we're gonna get to the deadline,
get go, get Aaron Rodgers first. There's only two teams
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that are going to be able to go get him,
because they're gonna be teams that wanted that can. So
we're going to fight to the death for it. Let's
get Okay, that's fine if we If I think it's
worth it after the night what we saw from Otani,
I think I think that's the only way to do it.
Wait wait, wait, wait, you and I fight to the
death and the winner, the winning team gets outany I
was talking more like the Dodgers and Mats. But sure
I'll fight you. No, no, no, I think that because
I think I would win. I think I can win. Yeah, no,
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I think I could witt do I wait, do I
have to kill Harmon two at the end, because I'll
do that like for free, I'll I'll throw that one.
I'm like John wick, I'll do throw that one in
for free, doesn't matter, Thanks, Bunny. Jason kills everybody to
get showing out a dude, what did bobon do to you?
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Right now? My entire timeline is, anybody want to buy
this Sodanny card? How many Otanis do you have at home?
I got a nice little stack. Oh good, okay, I'd
sell him. They're a couple. They're never gonna be any
higher than they are right now. Sell him right now.
He's not getting higher than he is right now until man,
I said to value of the cards. Man, you know, listen, dude,
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you got he's gotta beadline high classic man. No, but ja,
this is what's gonna happen. We're gonna get towards a deadline.
The two teams that are going to be able to
make there's only two. Nobody else is gonna get interested
because of what they'd have to give up and the
money they'd have to spend. The Yankees don't spend money
like this. They took him all they could. They wrung
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their hands to sign Aaron Judge, and only because he
was a y they had to. Nobody else is gonna
trade for Otani except for the Mets and the Dodgers.
That's it because the Mets, you know they're smarting after
losing out on Carlos Carea. We don't know as Lega
he is done. Steve Cohen is dying to give somebody money,
and there's nobody better out there to give money to
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to go get to the deadline than show hey Otani. Right,
so you know he's gonna be all in because where
Otani away? Are you kidding? Go bring him to New
York one hundred percent because we can trade for him,
give up prospects, and if you're okay with a trade
to New York, you'll be okay with staying in New
York and playing here the rest of your career. Meanwhile,
the Dodgers are the other team their way. They didn't
spend money this offseason because there weren't a lot of
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guys they felt we have to go get because trade
turners a little. They spend all kinds of money. That's
WBC hero trade Turner. They spend all kinds of money.
Last year they won one hundred and ten games and
it didn't even get him to the NLCS, Right, so
why are we spending It's not like they're gonna stop
spending money. They're the Dodgers, They'll always spend, but there's
nobody to spend on. Let's do the smart things. Wait,
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we still have a really, really good team we're gonna
put out there, and we can trade for somebody at
the deadline. Meanwhile, because we're not in for these big
contracts anymore, we can go get show hey Otani and
keep them in southern California. And that's a whole well
the Angeles trade. Now, the Mets have a big upgrade
on that, because do the Angels really want to trade
otany the Dodgers. But if the Dodgers are not to
be the team that gives them the best package, and
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they wind up say hey, we'll take them off your hands.
We'll give all these things, the Angels are gonna have
no choice but to say yes. It's like the Packers
and the Jets. Hey, the Packers might not like what
the Jets are gonna offer for Aaron Rodgers after a bit,
but what are you gonna do. You can't keep them,
you gotta trade them, right if you're gonna lose Otani anyway?
And Altani would sign with the Dodgers, So why not
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get a whole bunch of stuff for him. So the
Mets will be the leader in the clubhouse, and Steve
Cohen's not gonna get overbid. But the only two teams
he can go, it's gonna be the Mets or the Dodgers.
That's it. There's nobody else. The Padres are not gonna
be able to find another three hundred million dollars somewhere
in couch cushies if they're able to do that and signed.
So no, no way, no way, dollars. There's no way
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unless they trade, unless they trade Tatis. Now that would
be something, would be pretty Hey, how about he comes
back and he's healthy, and we play him for a
while and then we trade him and you take a yea,
Now that's something I could see. I don't know that
anybody's diving right in on that, No, no, no, but
I think that that's gonna take a full year cycle
of trusting. Yeah, but you always say the same thing, oh,
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you need one team. Well, but as you saying, that's
still a lot of money to where there's only gonna
be so many teams, and do you want it to
be the Dodgers of the Dodgers aren't going in on
that and your Mets. You don't want that team? Oh no, no,
they would never trade him the Podgers ever trade him
to the Dodgers. I'm just saying, if suddenly he became available,
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that might make okay, we can have our own superstar
now for the next whatever years. And does thirty million
dollars years sound like a bargain for a guy who's
twenty two that were hoping? Yeah? Why not? We already
spending tons of bad money on Anthony Rendon when their contract, Baby,
what are we worried about it is? It took an
hour and a half to get it. They're still playing
Vernon Wells. Yeah, so I could see I did for
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later on and the girls still paying Steve Garvey. Are
you kidding? They're still paying him some kind of garveo.
But no, that's something that could get interesting because you
never know, it's our chance to get a young superstar
for the next ten or twelve years. And Otani might say, oh, okay,
I get to go a little further south of San Diego,
one of the greatest cities in the world. Put that
out there. I could I could see, I could see
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that kind of frame. Ron Burgundy said it's the greatest
city in a Mary. He also said it's the whales. Yeah,
oh well yeah, that was when he was down on
his luck though. He was down on his luck though.
That was when he was drinking milk on the on
the street, when things were bad and he was a
bad choice. That was a pretty bad choice. Yeah, no, no,
that was that was that time from but no, but that, Otani,
it's gonna be one of two places. That's it, because
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the Angels are not gonna lose him for nothing. And
if he was gonna stay with the Angels, they would
figure out a way to reset. And now you're gonna
have the team. You're gonna have a change of ownership
you can have to. I mean, it's the Mets and
the Dodgers, and that that's the only teams in fro Tani.
I bet you if you went to Vegas right now
and said I want to put it would be the
Mets would be the far and overwhelming favorite, and then
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it would be the Dodgers further back in second place.
Those are your two teams. I think it really comes
down down to this, and we make all the assumptions
of what players want in the grand scheme? Right, what
do they want out of their career? Do they want
to be a oh champion? Do they like what they're playing?
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Do they like it's never gonna be relative anonymity because
your shohe Otani and they can do a giveaway of
you every night of the season, right, all eighty one
home dates? What am I getting with this big there today? Oh? Yeah?
And you never have a problem selling those extra seats.
I mean that is just reality. But for him, what
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does he value because he gets to just go play
baseball in Anaheim, go to New York, or you come
up the five and all of a sudden you're in Dodgerville.
Is that a different different space? Yeah? You know, I
you know, I think a few years ago it would
have been. And that's why he hell only had a
few teams. He wanted to go to. Where am I
gonna go? Where my assimilation into Major League Baseball is
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going to be the easiest for me? Right? Did you
want to go to a big market where suddenly, you know,
you have all the Japanese media that is following him,
then you're gonna have all the American media following him
and everywhere he goes. Now, He seemed like he wanted
to say, listen, I want to play baseball. I want
to get used to to what major League baseball is like,
and a place like Anaheim is perfect for me. Who knows,
Maybe he's been at Disneyland every day, he's got a
(26:45):
streak like that other guy he doesn't even Yeah, maybe
he had like the games, he doesn't play with the Angels,
he gets to go to Disneyland. Maybe I don't need
to be here, right, But no, But that that's why
Anaheim was a great choice. Right, I'm close to the spotlight,
but I'm a little bit removed from the spotlight. Right,
I'm close enough in southern California to laws Angels, but
I'm really in Anaheim, and I'll have a chance to
assimilate and really get my bearings under me before I
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decide this is where I want to go. Maybe now
he's ready to be more of a global superstar and
wants the more bright lights of New York. Arella I
mean maybe not. Maybe he's like, yeah, I want to
go to Seattle. You know, Hey, Etro had a great
career up there, and they love him and they built
statues for him. Hey, maybe I want to go there
or some player, but she's stopped putting other cities out
there now. Well, listen, it's only the Mets, and trust
me for it's only the Mets. And they want to
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be a member of the Twins. I mean, you never know.
Oh come on, but now soft he's listening to the show.
He thinks the Mariners are getting him. Maybe Eatro has
a lot of nice things to say about the people
he encountered all those years. No, the show time would
go wait it snows in part Yell, oh, yeah, you
don't want to go there? Hey, let me tell show
you time Now, you don't want to go there? You
don't want to go Well, it's not going to snow
in New York. Daniel Jeremiah's out there listening to them.
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The first question they're gonna ask show Hey, it's like, hey,
do you believe you can win more with Julio Rodriguez
than you did with Mike Trout? Oh, hang up and
listen for your answer. Wow, Hey, show, Hey, at what
point did you realize you were never going to make
it into a playoff game? Well? How many years ago?
Was that? Was that long ago? Was it just now?
When wasn't so we know you wanted to win? Does
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does winning the World Baseball Classic mean more than any
World Series ever could? Does that mean you'll stay in Anaheim? Hey? Show? Hey?
How does it feel knowing Trout was holding you back
the whole time? Hey? How did you feel playing second
fiddle to Trout? Like you was all Trout? Trout Trout
that you come in and clearly everybody still loved Trout? MVP?
(28:31):
How'd you feel about that? I can't even pitch, did you? Guys?
He couldn't even he couldn't even pitch. He was barely
healthy enough to play center field? What did you think
about that? And the Mariners have Kelenic? What do you what? Dot? Kelenic? Right? Kelvil, Kelvick?
Whatever the hell his name? Holy cal Yeah. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with
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Mike Harman weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific
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Sports Radio. That Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon, No Papa Roach one of my this is
one of my favorite aughts songs like yeah because I
tell you know, the aughts are this vast, barren wasteland
(29:12):
of pop culture. This is one of my favorite which
tells you about the odds. What year was a song?
Oh seven six? No? Oh six? Okay, I like this
is one of the biggest songs of the aughts. Right,
it's Last Resort by Papa Roach. It's so great the aus.
I love that term. Yeah that you You just wait,
right because right now we are in the end of
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the everybody loving the eighties, and we're into the nineties
being retro now, because now in the nineties is you know,
twenty five thirty, you know, almost twenty five thirty years
ago in different years, So we're getting into the nineties
being so cool now retro. Wait till another ten fifteen
years from now when people try to get into the aughts. Hey,
all this big stuff. Oh man, there was nothing. There
(29:56):
was wasteland. What are we gonna do. We're gonna dress
like Eminem. I don't know what else to do. It
was Eminem and Green Day and the Patriots. No wow, yeah, no,
I did, trust me. Fifteen year. You just wait till
people are done with the nineties and they're ready for
(30:17):
the odds and they're gonna go, oh wow, this is
really rough. This was really really difficult, just watch trust me,
crazy man. I'll tell you now a serious conversation for
computes here because it looks like John Morand could return
tomorrow night for the Memphis Grizzlies. Rant's been away from
the team for the last couple of weeks, serving a suspension,
also going through counseling after a myriad of instances which
(30:41):
was culminated by him waving a gun during a video
when he looks like he's intoxicated on Instagram from a
couple of weeks ago. Now he was at practice today.
He said, I'm willing to come off the bench for
a little while to get my stam in the back.
But as he said the counseling he was in the
last couple of weeks he needed it, but looks like
he's ready to return. I went there to learn how
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to you know, stress with stressing, you knowsitive, try to
deal with it before that you cause me to make mistakes. Now,
one big thing he said was he says, I don't
think alcohol is a problem. I don't think my drinking
alcohol is a problem. You've seen there's videos of him
online like with you know, from clubs and everything, and
(31:26):
and alleged videos in on a team plane. And let
me just say this from from someone. Trust me. This
is someone who's fifty two that has lived a little
bit longer than John Moran has. Alcohol doesn't have to
be a problem just when you're drinking, right because we
think about problems with alcohol being every time I go
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have a drink, I drink until I pass out. I
make bad decisions when I'm drinking. I'm not the same person,
and I let what the person I turned into drinking alcohol.
I'm powerless over it and it controls me. And a
lot of that stuff is true. Now you may not
be that kind of guy when you're when you're drinking
that it may not be that. Okay, Well, I feel
(32:08):
like I got it under control because you know this,
none of this stuff is happening. I feel like I
have it under control. But what he doesn't know. And
I'm gonna tell you this right now because I could
tell it because when I was when I was younger
and I was in my twenties, I drank a lot,
like I really did, like I drank a ton. And
the one thing I can tell you that it does
is you'd be surprised the power alcohol has over your
(32:30):
life when you are not drinking, because it affects your judgment.
When you're not drinking, your temper gets shorter on things,
You get a little bit more depressed because you can't
wait to get out to I don't care about this.
I'm gonna go out and have fun tonight, and you
treat people poorly, you make bad decisions, and you don't
understand that that's part of Hey, I'm just gonna go
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out and have a few drinks where I'm gonna go
out and get rid of this stress free situation. It's
it's really easy to overlook the power alcohol has over
you when it's when it's hours that you're not drinking,
when you are trying to do whatever you do for
a living, you're trying to work, you're trying to play basketball,
you do it. You gotta understand that it has power
over your life. And other times as well. And there
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were times when when when it happened to me and
I'm like and it was it was actually a time
that that when I knew I had to stop drinking
as much as I did, was it was a completely
sober moment for me where I was like, I saw
a picture of myself that I was out. Oh, someone says, oh,
I got pictures of us from being out last night.
Oh cool, let me see. And I looked like absolute death.
I was pale, and I was squinting at the light.
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And I don't remember the picture being taken. I said, I,
I can't drink anymore. I gotta stop. And not that
I stopped completely, but I knew right then that was
my wake up moment that I had to stop doing it.
And uh, and and and and to really and since then,
like I mean, I hardly drink anymore. If I have
If I have seven drinks in a year, that's a lot.
Like I just don't do anymore. And it was so
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much a part of I would go out all the time,
three four nights a week. And now now I wouldn't
go get get to the point where I didn't know
where I was and people had to drive me home.
But I still would go out and it was such
a big part of my life. But I also understood
that that in hours when I when I wasn't going out,
that affected my personality and my temper and your areas
of depression. And you got to watch that, because that's
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what alcohol does. Here, It's not about when you're drinking.
It's also about when you're not doing it. Yeah, and look,
the largest part is hopefully whatever counsel whatever talking through
all of this and the wake up call, even if
it's just the finger wagging from Adam Silver, that it
was enough to make you realize how quickly things can change.
(34:39):
I mean, we see incidents all over the place. Hell,
that guy that got beat up over a parking spot,
like stupid things happened off a very innocuous little circumstance
and the recognition of waving a gun and a club.
Nothing happened there. And again we're trying to read into
different circumstances. We don't have all of the facts in
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each of these cases. I don't know how much you
know the actual drinking is there. But to your point,
it does affect your relationship to other folks, how they're
viewing you, handling you, looking at you, know, your maturity
as you're trying to build towards the team goal. I mean,
there's a lot that goes into it. And my hope
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is that he's got a handle on it. He's got
people around that are going to support and whether it's
in a club, having a drink or staying away from it.
Whatever the case is, you need people around you. Twitter
At how about a fresca, Mike as Swollen down the
Jason Smiths or with Mike Harman. Just the best advice
I think we could give for John Morant at this moment.
With that coming up next, we'll get back into the
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tire buying should be well. The World Baseball Classic is over, Japan,
are your champions? Shoho Tani does it all. He closes
out the ninth fitting, striking out Mike tres Out teammate
to end it eighty seven mile an hour slider that
Trout just waived at. And I remember now now I'm
(01:08):
thinking one thing, Mike Harmen, I have one thought after
this is boy, Shoyotani's gonna look awesome and it mets
uniform at the deadline. It's gonna be so Alex. So
you guys are just gonna be fighting the two of
you all night long, now, Dodge or no. He's a man.
He's done you know what as him tonight, just like
(01:28):
Aaron Rodgers is still a packer. He's a member of
the crappy Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and he's got
a giant metal or whatever they gave him that makes
him look like he's flavor flame out on the field.
How let me ask you this. Let'll be honest with me.
On a level of one to ten, how excited was
Rob Manford to have to actually interact with players? What
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do you think he was at the end? I'd given
a one point five. He knew the photo would get
taken and still shots would show up on website to stuff.
You know, he's not looking forward to the video then
makes them look sullen and defeated. But the photo op
with Joe, heyo, Tony, who are you again? Uh? It
was great? Yeah? Do you think he really knew who
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show he was? You know, anybody? No idea? Yeah, no idea.
He's not listen. He goes, hey, uh here's a trophy. Well,
let's see WBC doesn't really have an owner, right, does
Japan have an owner? No, there's no own. Fine, I'll
take a couple of pictures. But then I'm done. Right,
I'm done. I'm done. I gotta go, I gotta go.
I'll take you. That's great, I'm smiling here. Okay, great? Uh,
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what do you mean I gotta What do you mean?
I gotta shake hands with the players. I don't talk
to players. I don't I this was not Okay, fine,
I'll do it just this once, but that's it. I'm
never gonna do it again. But I'll do it just
this once for you for the World Baseball Classic. Why not.
You gotta gotta do it, and then you can go
into hiding for the rest of the regular season. Give
one or two more State of Baseball addresses. Now we
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don't have to see until the All Star break when
you hand someone to keys do it, truck. Think about
this for one second. How bad that the Angels really are? Guys?
They have Trout and Otani on their team and they
can't even make the bleeping playoffs expanded playoffs. I mean no,
but just think about that for a second. But the Angels,
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I mean at least the Mets got into the play
in or whatever it was. At least the Mets did
their job. At the top of the ninth thinning, Jeff
McNeil walked Dodgers grounded into a double play. Mookie bets,
thanks for nothing, Thanks for nothing, right there? You know,
he absolutely nothing. Mookie el bets. Mookie el Bets. Uh no.
But look, we're only gonna have to worry about this
for the next four months. Then the Mets are gonna
get him and give him five hundred million dollars and
(03:38):
we're good to go. You know, money's worth more in
la right, how about ten years and five hey show,
Hey you're thirty. But how about ten years and five
hundred million dollars? How about that? Is that good? Gotta
give me that? I mean, that might stretch Steve Cohen,
who I think. I think Steve Cohen makes like forty
two million dollars a month or every two weeks. He
(03:59):
made forty million dollars. I think that's what he does
forty min every tweet, So he would have to give
zero to charity. By the way, Yeah, no, I don't know,
are you kidding? He has to pay, he pays. He
pays the Mets and the Mets. Well, that is a charity.
You're right, the Mets are a charity and the Mets
keep their fans happy. No, he's got to work, probably
a good Let's see. Hang on, so let's eighty million
in a month. He's got to work. Wow, he's got
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to work like almost six months to pay Shoho Tani
for the next ten years. You see how he says work.
That's a lot of stuff, man. I mean you're a head.
You do a lot of hedge funds. That means waking
up your funding and going to your other analysts and saying,
how does the math look on today? Any indices that
are moving that we need to make any larger moves on? Nah?
(04:42):
We move. We shoved them from this fund to the other. Okay, cool,
I'm going back to bed Smith makes it seems like
the guy's blue collar taking his lunch, Bob man, that's
what I drive. He's up there and putting shingles on
the roof. Doesn't matter. Five hundred million for Showho Titania.
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You know what, why don't we start at that? It'll
be ten years, five hundred millions, So give me down,
Give me God. I gotta five. I got five five
out five five five five five fifteen back there in
the back. Wait, that guy looks like he's the same
guy betting against himself. I will not be beaten. Five
hundred million. The Guggenheims will sell a painting. Oh man,
they're throwing showho Toanni up in the air right now
(05:25):
on the field. See this is what happened to Edwin Diaz.
You guys don't want to tempt to face. They've thrown
up in the air like here's the thing though. They
want it all. I mean, that's what's gonna happen. Yeah,
but I don't want him to get hurt. And the
Mets can't trade for but the deadline, he's gonna be
out for the season that we can't. I'm wishing that on.
What are you doing make? Tysher's gonna come down the
line and choke you out. That's his guy right here. Yeah, yeah,
(05:47):
ty Shirt, Yeah, he's on yeah, no, hey, ty Shirt Otani?
Who does he play for? Japan? Yeah? I know in
Major League lead yeah, major League Japan? Right, rokay? And
what position does he play? Is gonna be on the
Dodgers soon, So it's all good. No, but what position
does he play for? Whatever? Right, so obviously a pitcher. Oh,
(06:08):
very good, okay, very good, thank you? All right. And
by the way, if tishert says he's going to the Dodgers,
it's happening. Oh. World Baseball Classic Japan beats United States
three two, and look, I'll give you this, right, I
said that last hour. I am the best World Baseball
Classic fan there is because I can be excited for
(06:29):
the game, and when the United States loses, I can
move on. Right, I've moved on, right, clearly, I've moved on.
It's easy. It's okay. We're now we're into the regular season.
We're getting at the end of spring training and everything.
That's awesome. You're looking at buying all the big spring
training hats on discount and all the different at websites. Yes, yes, yes,
we're moving on to the regular season. Um. But then
we get this from Rob Manfred, who had this today
(06:52):
about the next World Baseball Classic. He has a desire
for the next World Baseball Classic, he said today. Quote
the WBE will return in twenty twenty six. Right, that's awesome, right, right,
I have come back in twenty twenty six. Quote it's
great the guys that we have, he told a small
scrum of reporters, but I'd like to see pitching staffs
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that are the same quality as our position players. He
wants star pitchers in the next World Baseball Classic. Many
star pitchers were told, yeah, no, you can't come and
pitch here because we're worried about you getting hurt. Why
they didn't tell Edwin Diaz that I have no idea.
The Dodgers told he's the best closer in the game. Stop.
The Dodgers told Clayton Kershaw, you can't go many two.
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So we didn't see, No, we didn't see the best
pitchers in the game coming because yeah, when you have
teams saying we don't think this is great for pitchers
because they could get hurt, what does that tell you
about having the tournament where you're at right now, when
many teams are saying, hey, they shouldn't have ed you
should have told Edwin Dez to stay home. But they didn't,
So I got to live with that. But this tells
you about the whole thing with the pitchers. But Rob
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Manford doesn't care. He said, quote, I'm not lobbying, it's
having facts to support it. Pitching and high leverage situations
like these are that actually helps players develop. So just
think about crazy. How crazy he asked, that sounds for
a second. Okay, think about this for a second, he said. Okay, Um,
pitching in high leverage situations like this helps players develop. Yeah,
(08:18):
he wants to bring in star pitchers that presumably, if
you're a star pitcher, I think you're pretty well developed.
I think you pretty much know how to get things
done over the course of one hundred and sixty two
game regular season in the playoffs. This is not this
is not Hey, we're bringing up a guy from Triple
A and this is gonna help him develop because we're
gonna put him in a high leverage situation. You're talking
about the best pitchers in the world who have already
(08:39):
pitched at high levels and know what they're doing, and
you're saying they can develop. He sells a guy that's
never seen a baseball game, the guy develop. You think,
Justin Verlander needs a world baseball boy Justin Verlander when
another side young people at all. But but I think
what he's saying there and allow me to try to
crawl inside the mind, Yeah, good luck with that. Well,
(09:02):
and that's why I'm prefacing it as I am. Is
the idea that just like you're getting high leverage in
bats big moments, you're ramping up to opening day, and
for the pictures, it's the same thing. Not Hey, we're
gonna test him on a big stage because they're they're
coming along and they're gonna be the next start. No,
(09:22):
no, no no, no, no, it's it's that your iron, Sharpen's iron.
You'd been doing this work in Arizona or Florida anyway,
So so let's get you in here and really make
this thing take off to a whole other level. That's
what he's trying to say. I don't know. I think
he talked about developing in high leverage situations. Developers, developers, developers.
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I've got thirteen hundred toilets, listen, remember, And here's where
I find fault with your entire with your entire line
of argument. And you're gonna say, Jason, you're right, Rob
Manfred doesn't care about the well being of the players.
He does don't care. Did I say yeah, anything, doesn't care.
He just wants stars. Is it good for the players?
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I don't care. I don't care about the players. I
care about money, the game and the owners. I don't
care about the players. I don't There has not been
a commissioner who was shown he cares about the players
less than Rob Manfred. He doesn't care developing, the developing,
talking about developing, but developing. You come on pushing George
opening Day and why not do it here on a
(10:25):
big stage that has great global meaning. I mean, look
at the people coming together. I really was waiting for
him to say at the end of that uh press
conference with the reporter saying, so, you know, maybe I
make them all come next time. Maybe maybe I make
the maybe I make all the pictures come, or I
find a way to suspend you from the league by
not coming for the next World Baseball Classic. I would
(10:46):
say that is that would be fairly interesting if he
tried to have that kind of power. Here's a great quote,
UH Mark DeRosa, USA manager Bob Nightingale on Twitter quote
it was kind of scripted. I just wish it went
the other way. No baseball fans one tonight, Yeah yeah, no, no,
not not a baseball fans, Japanese baseball fans and anybody
(11:09):
who hates America. They all won tonight America and they
went off. They have all the best players. We're excited
at that that they lost this game. No, they're all excited,
but excited. Well, I had to ask you, then, can
we believe Nightingale when he tweets something out something like that.
I think we can. I don't think we would You
like to see if I can find that quote from
somebody else? Yeah, make sure we double check that quote
(11:31):
right there. I mean, could you really sit here? You
just watched a pitcher, one of the best pitchers in baseball,
the best closer, get knocked out for the year and
he and he says, yeah, I want more star pitchers
there next time. Um, the teams have told you we
don't really like the guys there for that, we don't
think this is something they should. I want more star
I mean, how tone def do you have to be? Really,
as he's the commissioner of the game, and then let's
(11:53):
give that lame excuse of well it helps them develop. Guy. Really,
I'd love to I'd love to see Max Scherzer him
to make Max Scherzer cut what wouldn't be back shars
because you'd be retired. But uh, let's just just say
him he you know, he tells, he tells Otani next time, Hey,
o Todd, he really needs you to come to this
world because we think this can help you devote it.
But in terms of players that didn't come, do you
remember anybody else outside of Kershaw where it became an issue? No,
(12:18):
because where there was something expressed like he wanted to
go and then couldn't, Like I don't. I don't think
there was. You know why because fans agree with me,
even if they don't say it. They don't want their
pictures there. Nobody wants their pictures at this thing. Nobody does. Jason,
do you really think for one second that Manfred knew
that Edwin d has pitched this World Baseball Classic come on,
(12:38):
that he was terribly concerned that he'd be injured jumping
up and down after winning a game. Yeah, he doesn't, champion,
no idea like he was jumping up and down like
slides stallone and Carl Weathers after the race. Yeah. No,
that that's how he got hurt, telling you man, that happens,
let's get next time, jumping around. He could have been
(12:59):
listening jumped by the pointers sisters and guy Rob. Manfred
walks around like Rocky Bull Bull punched them in the head.
Seems like lately everybody wants to beat me up. Hey Dad,
where'd you get that shiner? Same friend? Okay, Dad, So
Japan beats the United States three to two. We're gonna
be talking to John Paul Morosi live from the World
(13:21):
Baseball Classic coming up in a little bit. But straight ahead,
we have a big time NBA story to get to
because there's some shocking things that are going to happen
tomorrow night that we gotta get our head around. That's
coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio,
World Baseball Classic the United States goes down to defeat.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
(13:42):
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My bas friend Mike Harmon. Don he's on you, says
Alex SEISCHERT Can you say I don't know what you
just said? I think you could say that I got Dokazaimas. No,
I don't know who that was. You. You just rolled
(14:03):
right through that right there. You know, you know what?
Maybe good since you're a big fan of Japan, tie shirt. Yes,
I'm gonna have you translate their final call. Okay, I'm down,
all right, So the World Baseball Classic is in the books.
Japan beats the United States by the final of three
to two. Sho heeo. Tani comes in, closes it out
in the ninth inning, strikes out teammate Mike Trout to
end it. So how did this sound? Well, let's see
(14:26):
what it sounded like on FS one. Japan, your new
WBC champions, more than an Indianapolis. The offensive play here
and then changes gets hitting. The ball is loose and
it's alive. Now everybody that listens to the show the
last few years knows the butt fumble call by heart.
(14:46):
I guarantee America Service. That was Frank Thomas and the
and uh a Rod on FS one. Then they get
in their cars and they go but Sanchez gets hit.
The ball is loose. Yet no, no no, no, I have
never seen this before in my life. No that way,
here's the final call on FS one. Old Tanny's ready,
(15:07):
Trout's ready. Three two, Hey struck him out. Old Tanny
strikes out Trout and Japan's pick on top of the
Baseball World. Joe Davis and that John Smoltz on the
call there for FS one, the excitement level palpable. But
(15:28):
I have a feeling that's going to pale in comparison
to what we're gonna hear from the call on Japanese team.
Remember we played you the one last night when they
won in the walk off in the night then against
Mexico and it was insane. Let's see what winning the
WBC sounded like on Japanese TV free Coming Fall. Old
Tanny Cot put out with the cop god game that
(16:12):
guy that was very uh wwe I'm grabbing the mic
in the middle of the ring and I'm gonna yell
it out. It's great. One one major question off of that. Yeah,
that's an epic call and that's phenomenal. Yeah, but why
do they have more crowd noise than FS one if
the game was on FS one? Uh? Whoa. Maybe they
(16:33):
just had the crowd noise louder, Maybe they had a
better parabolic mic, maybe they had maybe they're piping in
their own crowd noise you can get. Can we just
play a little bit of it's not just any right?
All right, let's let's hear it. Let's hear the the
the call on FS one again. Oh, Tommy's ready. It's
very mellow. Trout's ready. Three two, Hey, strutch him out. Okay,
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that are the crowd, Okay, all right now it's here
on Japanese coming forward. Yeah, that is really loud, especially
after the it's you know, the loudness doesn't really get
there until right after the strike, after strike three, when
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that's you can't even hear the play by play guys
say anything. He's just yelling. He could be saying any
he could be shouting out a grocery list. Uh, tomatoes,
stick of bread, the stick of butter, a loaf of bread,
bottle of milk, doesn't no one can hear. It doesn't matter,
bottle of red hut. Oh, now that isn't evan. Now
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all right, so tie shirt, what could you pull out
of that? Uh? In translating that call for us? So,
the biggest one I heard was him saying Otani was pitching.
So that's a good one right there. Yeah, that's good.
And then the real cool part was that he said
he threw it so fast that Mike Trout can no
longer play in Anaheim. Again. That was a good part too. Wow,
throw whim out of this city. Yes, he said. When
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he was yelling there, when they were doing the circling,
he said, is it possible for Otani to ascend Trout
even more? And they said he just did. Yeah. They
even got a Trout sucks in. It was pretty impressive,
just the just the the analysts yelling Trout sucks and
and did you catch at the NJ. I know it
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was kind of loud, but did you hear them say
two things we say here, like Trout can never win anything,
even a World Classic? It's crazy. Yeah, oh I didn't.
They got Dodgers in at the end. It was phenomenal.
You guys are pretty good. The American superstar fails again. Yeah, no, no,
you guy. I like that. You guys are pretty good.
I didn't. I didn't know you you could got Azul
and I heard Azul. All right, very nice the Azul.
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So there it is World Baseball Classic. The victory goes
to TEA. Safe to say, guys that Otani's the greatest
player on the planet right now, that's safe to say, right, yeah,
oh yeah, absolutely, and he'll be even better when he
goes to stop. Yeah, how did I know that? I
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can't wait? Are you kidding? Buddy? Seriously, just think, just
just just just think about this. You can't say, buddy,
when you're talking like this, Buddy, I'll say, I could
tell you exact funny, I'll tell you exactly how dips
a little buddy diaper. This is exactly how this is
gonna go. Is that we're gonna get to the deadline,
get go, get Aaron Rodgers first. There's only two teams
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that are going to be able to go get him,
because they're gonna be teams that wanted that can. So
we're going to fight to the death for it. Let's
get Okay, that's fine if we If I think it's
worth it after the night what we saw from Otani,
I think I think that's the only way to do it.
Wait wait, wait, wait, you and I fight to the
death and the winner, the winning team gets outany I
was talking more like the Dodgers and Mats. But sure
I'll fight you. No, no, no, I think that because
I think I would win. I think I can win. Yeah, no,
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I think I could witt do I wait, do I
have to kill Harmon two at the end, because I'll
do that like for free, I'll I'll throw that one.
I'm like John wick, I'll do throw that one in
for free, doesn't matter, Thanks, Bunny. Jason kills everybody to
get showing out a dude, what did bobon do to you?
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Right now? My entire timeline is, anybody want to buy
this Sodanny card? How many Otanis do you have at home?
I got a nice little stack. Oh good, okay, I'd
sell him. They're a couple. They're never gonna be any
higher than they are right now. Sell him right now.
He's not getting higher than he is right now until man,
I said to value of the cards. Man, you know, listen, dude,
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you got he's gotta beadline high classic man. No, but ja,
this is what's gonna happen. We're gonna get towards a deadline.
The two teams that are going to be able to
make there's only two. Nobody else is gonna get interested
because of what they'd have to give up and the
money they'd have to spend. The Yankees don't spend money
like this. They took him all they could. They wrung
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their hands to sign Aaron Judge, and only because he
was a y they had to. Nobody else is gonna
trade for Otani except for the Mets and the Dodgers.
That's it because the Mets, you know they're smarting after
losing out on Carlos Carea. We don't know as Lega
he is done. Steve Cohen is dying to give somebody money,
and there's nobody better out there to give money to
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to go get to the deadline than show hey Otani. Right,
so you know he's gonna be all in because where
Otani away? Are you kidding? Go bring him to New
York one hundred percent because we can trade for him,
give up prospects, and if you're okay with a trade
to New York, you'll be okay with staying in New
York and playing here the rest of your career. Meanwhile,
the Dodgers are the other team their way. They didn't
spend money this offseason because there weren't a lot of
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guys they felt we have to go get because trade
turners a little. They spend all kinds of money. That's
WBC hero trade Turner. They spend all kinds of money.
Last year they won one hundred and ten games and
it didn't even get him to the NLCS, Right, so
why are we spending It's not like they're gonna stop
spending money. They're the Dodgers, They'll always spend, but there's
nobody to spend on. Let's do the smart things. Wait,
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we still have a really, really good team we're gonna
put out there, and we can trade for somebody at
the deadline. Meanwhile, because we're not in for these big
contracts anymore, we can go get show hey Otani and
keep them in southern California. And that's a whole well
the Angeles trade. Now, the Mets have a big upgrade
on that, because do the Angels really want to trade
otany the Dodgers. But if the Dodgers are not to
be the team that gives them the best package, and
(22:22):
they wind up say hey, we'll take them off your hands.
We'll give all these things, the Angels are gonna have
no choice but to say yes. It's like the Packers
and the Jets. Hey, the Packers might not like what
the Jets are gonna offer for Aaron Rodgers after a bit,
but what are you gonna do. You can't keep them,
you gotta trade them, right if you're gonna lose Otani anyway?
And Altani would sign with the Dodgers, So why not
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get a whole bunch of stuff for him. So the
Mets will be the leader in the clubhouse, and Steve
Cohen's not gonna get overbid. But the only two teams
he can go, it's gonna be the Mets or the Dodgers.
That's it. There's nobody else. The Padres are not gonna
be able to find another three hundred million dollars somewhere
in couch cushies if they're able to do that and signed.
So no, no way, no way, dollars. There's no way
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unless they trade, unless they trade Tatis. Now that would
be something, would be pretty Hey, how about he comes
back and he's healthy, and we play him for a
while and then we trade him and you take a yea,
Now that's something I could see. I don't know that
anybody's diving right in on that, No, no, no, but
I think that that's gonna take a full year cycle
of trusting. Yeah, but you always say the same thing, oh,
(23:28):
you need one team. Well, but as you saying, that's
still a lot of money to where there's only gonna
be so many teams, and do you want it to
be the Dodgers of the Dodgers aren't going in on
that and your Mets. You don't want that team? Oh no, no,
they would never trade him the Podgers ever trade him
to the Dodgers. I'm just saying, if suddenly he became available,
(23:50):
that might make okay, we can have our own superstar
now for the next whatever years. And does thirty million
dollars years sound like a bargain for a guy who's
twenty two that were hoping? Yeah? Why not? We already
spending tons of bad money on Anthony Rendon when their contract, Baby,
what are we worried about it is? It took an
hour and a half to get it. They're still playing
Vernon Wells. Yeah, so I could see I did for
(24:14):
later on and the girls still paying Steve Garvey. Are
you kidding? They're still paying him some kind of garveo.
But no, that's something that could get interesting because you
never know, it's our chance to get a young superstar
for the next ten or twelve years. And Otani might say, oh, okay,
I get to go a little further south of San Diego,
one of the greatest cities in the world. Put that
out there. I could I could see, I could see
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that kind of frame. Ron Burgundy said it's the greatest
city in a Mary. He also said it's the whales. Yeah,
oh well yeah, that was when he was down on
his luck though. He was down on his luck though.
That was when he was drinking milk on the on
the street, when things were bad and he was a
bad choice. That was a pretty bad choice. Yeah, no, no,
that was that was that time from but no, but that, Otani,
it's gonna be one of two places. That's it, because
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the Angels are not gonna lose him for nothing. And
if he was gonna stay with the Angels, they would
figure out a way to reset. And now you're gonna
have the team. You're gonna have a change of ownership
you can have to. I mean, it's the Mets and
the Dodgers, and that that's the only teams in fro Tani.
I bet you if you went to Vegas right now
and said I want to put it would be the
Mets would be the far and overwhelming favorite, and then
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it would be the Dodgers further back in second place.
Those are your two teams. I think it really comes
down down to this, and we make all the assumptions
of what players want in the grand scheme? Right, what
do they want out of their career? Do they want
to be a oh champion? Do they like what they're playing?
(25:38):
Do they like it's never gonna be relative anonymity because
your shohe Otani and they can do a giveaway of
you every night of the season, right, all eighty one
home dates? What am I getting with this big there today? Oh? Yeah?
And you never have a problem selling those extra seats.
I mean that is just reality. But for him, what
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does he value because he gets to just go play
baseball in Anaheim, go to New York, or you come
up the five and all of a sudden you're in Dodgerville.
Is that a different different space? Yeah? You know, I
you know, I think a few years ago it would
have been. And that's why he hell only had a
few teams. He wanted to go to. Where am I
gonna go? Where my assimilation into Major League Baseball is
(26:24):
going to be the easiest for me? Right? Did you
want to go to a big market where suddenly, you know,
you have all the Japanese media that is following him,
then you're gonna have all the American media following him
and everywhere he goes. Now, He seemed like he wanted
to say, listen, I want to play baseball. I want
to get used to to what major League baseball is like,
and a place like Anaheim is perfect for me. Who knows,
Maybe he's been at Disneyland every day, he's got a
(26:45):
streak like that other guy he doesn't even Yeah, maybe
he had like the games, he doesn't play with the Angels,
he gets to go to Disneyland. Maybe I don't need
to be here, right, But no, But that that's why
Anaheim was a great choice. Right, I'm close to the spotlight,
but I'm a little bit removed from the spotlight. Right,
I'm close enough in southern California to laws Angels, but
I'm really in Anaheim, and I'll have a chance to
assimilate and really get my bearings under me before I
(27:06):
decide this is where I want to go. Maybe now
he's ready to be more of a global superstar and
wants the more bright lights of New York. Arella I
mean maybe not. Maybe he's like, yeah, I want to
go to Seattle. You know, Hey, Etro had a great
career up there, and they love him and they built
statues for him. Hey, maybe I want to go there
or some player, but she's stopped putting other cities out
there now. Well, listen, it's only the Mets, and trust
me for it's only the Mets. And they want to
(27:27):
be a member of the Twins. I mean, you never know.
Oh come on, but now soft he's listening to the show.
He thinks the Mariners are getting him. Maybe Eatro has
a lot of nice things to say about the people
he encountered all those years. No, the show time would
go wait it snows in part Yell, oh, yeah, you
don't want to go there? Hey, let me tell show
you time Now, you don't want to go there? You
don't want to go Well, it's not going to snow
in New York. Daniel Jeremiah's out there listening to them.
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The first question they're gonna ask show Hey, it's like, hey,
do you believe you can win more with Julio Rodriguez
than you did with Mike Trout? Oh, hang up and
listen for your answer. Wow, Hey, show, Hey, at what
point did you realize you were never going to make
it into a playoff game? Well? How many years ago?
Was that? Was that long ago? Was it just now?
When wasn't so we know you wanted to win? Does
(28:10):
does winning the World Baseball Classic mean more than any
World Series ever could? Does that mean you'll stay in Anaheim? Hey? Show? Hey?
How does it feel knowing Trout was holding you back
the whole time? Hey? How did you feel playing second
fiddle to Trout? Like you was all Trout? Trout Trout
that you come in and clearly everybody still loved Trout? MVP?
(28:31):
How'd you feel about that? I can't even pitch, did you? Guys?
He couldn't even he couldn't even pitch. He was barely
healthy enough to play center field? What did you think
about that? And the Mariners have Kelenic? What do you what? Dot? Kelenic? Right? Kelvil, Kelvick?
Whatever the hell his name? Holy cal Yeah. Be sure
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Mike Harmon, No Papa Roach one of my this is
one of my favorite aughts songs like yeah because I
tell you know, the aughts are this vast, barren wasteland
(29:12):
of pop culture. This is one of my favorite which
tells you about the odds. What year was a song?
Oh seven six? No? Oh six? Okay, I like this
is one of the biggest songs of the aughts. Right,
it's Last Resort by Papa Roach. It's so great the aus.
I love that term. Yeah that you You just wait,
right because right now we are in the end of
(29:34):
the everybody loving the eighties, and we're into the nineties
being retro now, because now in the nineties is you know,
twenty five thirty, you know, almost twenty five thirty years
ago in different years, So we're getting into the nineties
being so cool now retro. Wait till another ten fifteen
years from now when people try to get into the aughts. Hey,
all this big stuff. Oh man, there was nothing. There
(29:56):
was wasteland. What are we gonna do. We're gonna dress
like Eminem. I don't know what else to do. It
was Eminem and Green Day and the Patriots. No wow, yeah, no,
I did, trust me. Fifteen year. You just wait till
people are done with the nineties and they're ready for
(30:17):
the odds and they're gonna go, oh wow, this is
really rough. This was really really difficult, just watch trust me,
crazy man. I'll tell you now a serious conversation for
computes here because it looks like John Morand could return
tomorrow night for the Memphis Grizzlies. Rant's been away from
the team for the last couple of weeks, serving a suspension,
also going through counseling after a myriad of instances which
(30:41):
was culminated by him waving a gun during a video
when he looks like he's intoxicated on Instagram from a
couple of weeks ago. Now he was at practice today.
He said, I'm willing to come off the bench for
a little while to get my stam in the back.
But as he said the counseling he was in the
last couple of weeks he needed it, but looks like
he's ready to return. I went there to learn how
(31:04):
to you know, stress with stressing, you knowsitive, try to
deal with it before that you cause me to make mistakes. Now,
one big thing he said was he says, I don't
think alcohol is a problem. I don't think my drinking
alcohol is a problem. You've seen there's videos of him
online like with you know, from clubs and everything, and
(31:26):
and alleged videos in on a team plane. And let
me just say this from from someone. Trust me. This
is someone who's fifty two that has lived a little
bit longer than John Moran has. Alcohol doesn't have to
be a problem just when you're drinking, right because we
think about problems with alcohol being every time I go
(31:48):
have a drink, I drink until I pass out. I
make bad decisions when I'm drinking. I'm not the same person,
and I let what the person I turned into drinking alcohol.
I'm powerless over it and it controls me. And a
lot of that stuff is true. Now you may not
be that kind of guy when you're when you're drinking
that it may not be that. Okay, Well, I feel
(32:08):
like I got it under control because you know this,
none of this stuff is happening. I feel like I
have it under control. But what he doesn't know. And
I'm gonna tell you this right now because I could
tell it because when I was when I was younger
and I was in my twenties, I drank a lot,
like I really did, like I drank a ton. And
the one thing I can tell you that it does
is you'd be surprised the power alcohol has over your
(32:30):
life when you are not drinking, because it affects your judgment.
When you're not drinking, your temper gets shorter on things,
You get a little bit more depressed because you can't
wait to get out to I don't care about this.
I'm gonna go out and have fun tonight, and you
treat people poorly, you make bad decisions, and you don't
understand that that's part of Hey, I'm just gonna go
(32:51):
out and have a few drinks where I'm gonna go
out and get rid of this stress free situation. It's
it's really easy to overlook the power alcohol has over
you when it's when it's hours that you're not drinking,
when you are trying to do whatever you do for
a living, you're trying to work, you're trying to play basketball,
you do it. You gotta understand that it has power
over your life. And other times as well. And there
(33:12):
were times when when when it happened to me and
I'm like and it was it was actually a time
that that when I knew I had to stop drinking
as much as I did, was it was a completely
sober moment for me where I was like, I saw
a picture of myself that I was out. Oh, someone says, oh,
I got pictures of us from being out last night.
Oh cool, let me see. And I looked like absolute death.
I was pale, and I was squinting at the light.
(33:33):
And I don't remember the picture being taken. I said, I,
I can't drink anymore. I gotta stop. And not that
I stopped completely, but I knew right then that was
my wake up moment that I had to stop doing it.
And uh, and and and and to really and since then,
like I mean, I hardly drink anymore. If I have
If I have seven drinks in a year, that's a lot.
Like I just don't do anymore. And it was so
(33:54):
much a part of I would go out all the time,
three four nights a week. And now now I wouldn't
go get get to the point where I didn't know
where I was and people had to drive me home.
But I still would go out and it was such
a big part of my life. But I also understood
that that in hours when I when I wasn't going out,
that affected my personality and my temper and your areas
of depression. And you got to watch that, because that's
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what alcohol does. Here, It's not about when you're drinking.
It's also about when you're not doing it. Yeah, and look,
the largest part is hopefully whatever counsel whatever talking through
all of this and the wake up call, even if
it's just the finger wagging from Adam Silver, that it
was enough to make you realize how quickly things can change.
(34:39):
I mean, we see incidents all over the place. Hell,
that guy that got beat up over a parking spot,
like stupid things happened off a very innocuous little circumstance
and the recognition of waving a gun and a club.
Nothing happened there. And again we're trying to read into
different circumstances. We don't have all of the facts in
(35:01):
each of these cases. I don't know how much you
know the actual drinking is there. But to your point,
it does affect your relationship to other folks, how they're
viewing you, handling you, looking at you, know, your maturity
as you're trying to build towards the team goal. I mean,
there's a lot that goes into it. And my hope
(35:23):
is that he's got a handle on it. He's got
people around that are going to support and whether it's
in a club, having a drink or staying away from it.
Whatever the case is, you need people around you. Twitter
At how about a fresca, Mike as Swollen down the
Jason Smiths or with Mike Harman. Just the best advice
I think we could give for John Morant at this moment.
With that coming up next, we'll get back into the
(35:45):
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