June 21, 2023 • 33 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon tell you if Zion Williamson will be getting traded by the Draft. Longtime MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi swings by for all the big headlines from around the diamond. And Packers CB Jaire Alexander believes Jordan Love is the best QB in the league.
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Game of the night in Major League Baseball, we have
John Paul Morosi coming up in about twenty minutes to
join US Angels and the Dodgers Freeway Series. We just
found out the Angel said, Hey, let's and probably not
trading showy Otani by the deadline. Shock right now facing
the Dodgers on Clayton Kershaw. Clayton Kershaw is perfect through
three now back to the top of the order facing
(01:10):
Otani and Mike Trout to start the bottom of the
fourth inning. Again, the Dodgers and Angels. Nothing nothing, pretty
exciting for the Angels. You look at where they are
in the standings with the fact that Mike Trout's only
hitting two fifty six. Yeah, he stinks, right, He hasn't
even hit that usual Mike Trout tear at this point.
And Anthony Rendon's back on the il as we we've
(01:34):
been talking about for a couple of years. Now, bad
money spent by Ardi moreno there, but it's watching Clayton
Kershaw deal.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's about as good as it gets.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
A filthy pitch to get Otani to chase and back
to the dugout.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
He walks oof.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Man, Well, you know, hey, Yes, the Angels lose the
at bat because Otani waves it one in the dirt,
but he didn't throw about five pitches in the at bat.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Just got to get to that Dodger bull that just
got it chet.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's about watch your mouth get to that soft stretch,
that soft underbelly Roder's bullpen. It's like watching a fishing
show when they catch that fish and the fish is
on there, and that's got all the scales and the
big sharks fin and they turn it over there, that
big white underbelly.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They just slice it open and speak of that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Did you see those poor guys that caught a six
hundred pound marlin and then it was disqualified because part
of it had been bitten by a shark. Yeah, so
three point two million dollars, Yeah, lost because while another
sea creature hammered it. Not that they hacked it up
trying to get it. Hammered it, that's pretty.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, not that they they hacked.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It up trying to get it onto the boat or
you know, mutilate it in any way. No, I was
missing part of it six hundred and thirty pounds down
to about six nineteen because a shark was a ten
pound bite from a shark that hey, shark took a show.
I just want an appetizer, and marlin is really difficulty.
You got the pointy fade that pointed it. I just
want to I just want to snack, and I'll let
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you leave me just an estimate. It might have been
a bigger chunk either way. The point is these guys
lost out. I'm three point two million dollars so you
know you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I feel bad. I feel bad that you know, Yeah,
you had this.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
This fish wins, you know, or walks or swims away
from the encounter where the shark only get caught by
two guys. Well, I mean they fought it for hours.
I mean he might have been on the line. Yeah, yes,
it was attacked by the shore. The shark walk up
and go, hey, this can go one of two ways.
What now, I could be hungry and I could eat
the entirety of you. It would be tough getting that,
you know, that fin down.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And everything was right or left shark.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I could just take a chomp out of you, like
a nice ten pounds little filetm in on chomp and
then you swim on your way and you live, all right?
I choose that, okay after right? Now, left shark was
more fun. Right had the Uh? Yeah, it was more spry,
right Smith, Well, I think the right one meant business. No,
I think the right shark was just lazy. I like
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you whatever, lying in wait for the opportunity. And here,
I mean the marlins already caught you. You didn't have
to do any of the work. The Dodgers bullpen guys
is like fishing with dynamite.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
No, that's right, it's it's not good at all. Oh,
and we've watched it time and time again.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You want to talk about a team that will be
very active, and we've talked about this for the last
couple of weeks, very active in the trademarket.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Early.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We've got scouts everywhere. This is where you could use
your riches as an organization. Uh, where we have scouts.
Where don't we have scout We.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Got scouts under the sea, under the sea, under the sea,
and TJ clearly Marlin scouts hoping to find a player
that can be part of their world when they reached
the majors.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
TJ, Your Jerk remake wasn't bad. It was better than
I thought it was. The remake was okay.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
It got it.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Remake was fine. It was it was, It was fine,
It was okay.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I just I just kept waiting for for for Javier
Barden to do something really really evil and awful.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I kept waiting, going, Oh, he's gonna kill.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Some He's he's sugre, he's gonna just all of a
sudden that tried. It's gonna start impaling people. Hey, ursla,
hey friend, No, and a's you're lucky day, Sir. I
need you to exit your car and it's the air
gun through the head.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Uh.
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Speaker 3 (05:31):
So I ask you this last.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Hour, we had the Zion Williamson Mariah Mills conversation. She's
banned from Twitter after threatening to out zign with a
sex tape. The adult film star said they were having
sex and she was very upset that he had a
gender reveal with his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It's been a big druma a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Of promises to move her and set her up and
all of that stuff. YEAHDJ, there were definitely promises in
the dark.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
DJ.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Now the big question is with Williams, and we've seen
this going into the NBA draft. Are we really gonna
see Zion get traded by Thursday? And I know that
there's a few people who have weighed in on it
and uh and said, all yet, definitely getting trade. Bill
Simmons had a big thing and oh, I know people.
I've talked to people that said, Zion Williamson's absolutely getting
(06:19):
traded by Thursday. You know how I like that. That's
what he used, the term grifter I got. I got
on top of that story.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, anything else is.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Hey, Harry and Megan a grifters, and Zion's getting traded
on Thursday. It's kind of like Larry King. It's just
gonna go one from one thing to another.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
If you see one movie all year, they get the
Men with One Red Shoe? Did you get did you
get canceled? The famous interaction with Seinfeld. So, but the
thing is is that I can't see it happening, because again,
how for Zion Williamson to get traded. If the Pelicans
are gonna move on from Zion, who they made the
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centerpiece of their friends and who was in the first
year of a huge Max deal ride five years, one
hundred and ninety three million dollars, They're not just gonna
give him away. They're not gonna cut bait and say, Okay,
we just got to get rid of the guy. No,
we signed him even though we were stupid and we
signed a guy that couldn't stay healthy and said, yes,
we're still going to give you this money. So they're
not going to give him away. Would a team take
(07:19):
a shot on Zion Williamson if the Pelicans were desperate, yes,
one hundred percent. But they're not, so no team is
going to meet the Pelicans price of what they want.
If you're a team that wants Zion Williamson, are you
really going to give up things that you that you
you are building your team with big assets to go
get him. No, because the guy's a complete dice roll.
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Not only is he someone who can't stay healthy, has
proven he can't say healthy.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
He's got this knuckleheaded stuff with.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Mariah Mills hanging over him, He's having a kid, He's
he's hooking up with a with an adult film star
and potentially flying or at whatever it's.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Going to be.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Zion's not really You're not really trading for a high
point right now.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
So anybody that.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Wants Zion is gonna lowball the Pelicans. So when you
when you combine that the Pelicans are wanting to get
max value for him, and any team that wants. Zion
isn't going to give it up because they're not gonna
go crazy in trade. They're franchise, a couple of franchise players,
whatever it is to go get Zion.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Because you don't know how the guy's gonna pan out.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Tell me how is he gonna get traded exactly short
of the Pelicans that we just have to get rid
of the guy. But that's not gonna happen. So I
don't see how that happens by Thursday. It's nice in theory,
and I don't doubt for a second that the Pelicans
are pissed at Zion, and maybe this is one of
those Hey, we'll trade you by Thursday. I if you
don't you know, we'll trade you by Thursday. Hey we
need some things from you. I don't care if he
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doesn't have a good relationship with the Pelicans. They could
trade in someplace worse where you might not want to
go at all. We know where you don't want to go,
We'll trade you there. So I don't know that this
is one of those cases where Zion's getting traded as
much as this was the team using the media to
get a message out Zion.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You think things are tough now, Way do you see
where we.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Can trade you? And when it comes to you don't
know where you could wind up. And you may not
love New Orleans right now, But we just gave you
a lot of money, and we could send you someplace
you really don't want to go. Man, you could go
into into the hath of the NBA. You go someplace
you're just in an outer rim for years and years
until your rookie contract is up or you can get
healthy and start playing again. So I just don't see how. Again,
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in theory, I see why they put it out there
and what they're trying to accomplish, but it seems like
it's more of a scare tactic because I just don't
see how both sides meet and Zion gets traded.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Five years, one hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And ninety four million dollars annual average salary of nearly
thirty nine million for Zion. Obviously, when you look at
that squad, who would you rather have, Well, you'd rather
have brandon Ingram. So why he may not be the endgame?
We've seen him perform really well at times in pressure situation.
(10:00):
We don't we don't know, you know, what what he
would do on the on the biggest uh stage with them,
But in another space when you look at his contract,
what is he at five years one fifty eight and
far more reliable in terms of getting himself onto the
court and giving you a production. You know, going through
(10:22):
the Zion Williamson, he's missed more games than he's played
since coming into the league. So that's that's the difficult
part of this, where you're going, all right, we're kind
of desperate either to get him on the court and
get him to understand and there's reports of friction within
the locker room that he's not quite on the same page. Well,
he's not there, so how can he be?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He's around, and he did warm ups and we talked
about the dunks and warm ups, all of those, and
then he would get another DNP. It's like, well where
are we And we never really got a good good read,
even going back to the prior season when down the stretch,
I was like, well, there can tending, so maybe they
activate him, like well, but if they activate h'im gonna
have to give him minutes.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
It disrupts the chemistry and everything that had been built.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
When you look at ingram career, best twenty four point
seven points per game this last year career best forty
eight point four percent from the field five point five
five eight and rebounds and assists and gives you thirty
four minutes tonight now only played forty five games. So
you're in the same boat, you know, when you're saying,
all right, am I getting a full season? What's a
(11:29):
full season? Hotstuge? So when it comes to the Zion
side of the equation, it's the can you find another
team with a distressed property nicks uh and a guy
whose salary matches up Julius Randall. Sorry, we'll try to
sneeze the exact and I should have just turned the
mic off that, but I mean that's where the obvious
leap is of all right, get him to New York.
(11:49):
Maybe there's a motivation that kicks in to be playing
in that market with that squad with Jalen Bronson and
to get back on track. And for Julius Randall, we've
seen the time and again in big moments, playoff moments,
he's not that guy, even though he was a third
team All NBA guy when you needed him, Randy Van Warmer,
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like he left you just when you needed a most
so desperation for desperation could be the case here to
get Zion out of town. And I think David Griffin
and everybody associated with the Pelicans' front office would love
nothing more than to see Zion actually on the court
and performing for them. But that might have it might
(12:36):
be a little too late for that process. So if
you can go get some sort of equity in the
trade market, you go do it.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah, I just I hear. I just can't see how.
I just can't see how you're doing.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I know, but I just can't see how knowing everything
going on, Oh we're gonna trade from with all this
Mariah millstuff going on to No, but I mean, but
it's also but it's that you can't stay on the
field end. No, yeah, me in the court end you have.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
The second thing is is just a I don't want
to say, it's just a joke.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
No, it's obvious. Hey, we're really just that you're doing that.
But now now that's the cherry on top. Okay, now
we're really not doing like what do you do? We're
really not doing it.
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Speaker 4 (13:45):
Well.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Joining us now on the hotline no one better as
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the Mets and the Astros and JP. I'm jealous because
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you're getting to see Justin Verlander and Max Sherzer and
Mark kenn and Warnawescobar and Starling Marte all before they
get traded in the next few weeks.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Oh my gosh, So I was there. I was there
last night. I must acknowledge. I have since left Houston.
I'm now in New York and getting ready for our
next showcase game, which is Mariner's Yankees. So Jason, it's
my fault. It's my fault that when I was there
last night, all I saw was an unbeatable Mets team
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that won by ten runs. Brett Bady hometown Star Lake
Travis High School comes back huge night. Francisco Lindor five
RBI vintage Schurezer. That's all I saw. So today's game,
I realize a loss for the Mets, a close one
four two, but one for which I suppose in Ebstentia
(15:04):
I must take responsibility for. And you're right Erlander got
the start. But you ask the question about the trade deadline,
and while I am similarly bearish on their chances of
winning the National League East, right now, I say to you,
how many other teams are eager to take on these
salaries of forty million dollars a year pitchers? And that
(15:28):
does not appear to be a large number. I think, Jason,
for better or worse, this is your team.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
No, I get that, but I don't need you helping
out other teams by telling them what these guys are making.
I'm thinking maybe they would oversee that and overlook that
in the paperwork Oh, okay, you're.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Aware, somewhere in the vast analytic analytic haze that we
have about our sport right now, that the numbers would
just not be aware as everything came to be what
the dollars and cents were for every contract. No, I
do think that you You raise good points about perhaps
some other players who could get moved. But here's the one,
(16:07):
as we talk about the Mets who they need to
find a way to keep long term, that's Pete Alonso.
They've signed everybody except for their own guy, and at
some point the bill for that will come do as well.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
All right, So let's look at the marquee game that's
on in front of us. We've got Dodgers and Angels
and and something we've been talking about for a while
JP the show, Hey Otani, now more reports and things
you've been saying all along. We've been talking about all along,
not likely to be traded, but given their current status
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in the West run down back to the IL, might
the Angels actually be buyers?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
They should be. They should be. And here's here's why.
A couple of things. Number One, you're right, as first
reported on the Jason Smith Show by the three of us. Yeah,
and multiple times during the course of the season, Show
Aotani is not going to get traded by all August first. Now,
where he goes in November and December is a matter
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for an entirely different program that we'll have at some
point in time in the fall. We have no idea,
nor do we know the number that it'll sign for
at that point. But for now, for now, Mike, there
is such interest in the long term to the brand
of the Angels who left We forget are trying to
secure their long term home in Orange County. There is
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so much value to the organization to end this playoff route,
to be looked upon as a playoff team again, and
really to avoid the negativity that would surround them if
after having show A for six years, they never make
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the playoffs in any of them, that would be a shame.
It really would be a shame for the sport to
not see show in the playoffs. It certainly we've seen
what he does on the biggest stage, because he did
it in the World Baseball Classic and was brilliant. And
so now I think we have to ask the question,
how do they augment their club. I think they need
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some infield help. It could be a multi position player
like Ildemaro Vargas of the Nationals. That kind of a
player I think has has a lot of value for them.
But they need, they need something to stay competitive because
in this division you've got I think one of the
best teams in baseball, the Texas Rangers the Astros. As
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we documented earlier in the conversation that they got back
on the winning track with the game against the Mets.
Here tonight, the Angels have to hold off the Mariners
and then start working on climbing up the standings. They
need help to do so, and they need, in my estimation,
some infield depth if it's going to become a reality.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
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I'm going to give you the three hottest teams in baseball,
and you tell me if they're for real.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Okay, you're ready, Sure, I'm ready for this.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Three hottest teams in baseball. You have the Red Sox
coming off the sweep of the Yankees, now moving their
way up in the Al East. I'll be in last place,
but they're hot. Six in a row. You have the
Cincinnati Reds, winners of ten in a row. Yeah, to
take over first place in the Central Joey Vada is back.
And you have the Giants, winners of eight in a row,
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just two games back of first place in the NL West.
Red Sox, Reds Giants.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Who's for real? Who isn't?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
The Reds are for real, They really are, and they
may need a little bit more help here at the
deadline to really fortify their club. But when you are
going this good and you are this young, roll with it.
Don't try to disrupt the them that you've got too much.
Maybe sprinkle in a veteran here there, but you've already
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got Vado. Let them play, Let the kids play. They
are so much fun, and they are out They're just
out there every single night, never out of the ballgame.
They sweep the Astros, who, even though the Astros are
not in peak form right now, there's still the defending
World Series champs, and you go into their ballpark and
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sweep them. Amazing. So I am fully on the Reds bandwagon.
Red Sox, I'm luke warmon I just I don't know
if they've got the starting pitching to really compete and
carry them up the American League East. The Yankees, huge
win tonight for them, Call on the Mound. He was magnificent.
I just don't know if we're going to see the
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Red Sox make a big move in the standings when
the rest of the division is so good. I think
Toronto's pitching is better than Boston's, and I just don't
see a clear path now out west. The mL West
all of a sudden, much to Justin's dismay, has become
really wide open, and the Diamondbacks look really good. The Giants,
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to your point, Lamontewaite Junior, what a story he's been.
He might be an All Star this year. He's been
tremendous at first base. So I think the Giants, with
a new look roster, they brought up some younger talent
from the minor leagues as well. So I am of
those three teams to the degree of confidence that we'll
see them in October. I've got the Reds first, and
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then the Giants and then the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
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Speaker 4 (21:40):
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The Yankees now one of the stats I'm sure you
talked about a little bit yesterday, the fact that Luis
Arias has six more hits coming into tonight's game than
all Yankees not named Judge combined. That's not good for business.
Yet there's seven games above five hundred. Do we see
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the front office in Cashman getting a little creative here
to bring on more talent or is it just a
hope Donaldson, Judge and company get healthy?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You know, great question. First of all, Luisa Rias is
a great story and and he he made another run
at four hundred again this week to get his average
back up there. He is just a marvel to watch,
so I hope everybody tunes in enjoys watching him. The
Marlins are also a fun team to watch, and Luisa Rias,
my goodness, he is the modern day Tony Gwynn. Now,
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as for the Yankees, I do think that they need
some help. It can't just be reliant on Aaron Judge.
The guy they need internally to get going is the
one that was activated today, and that's Harris and Bader.
He's got to stay healthy. They got him a year
ago to be a mainstay in their outfield and he
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just hasn't been able to stay healthy. So they need
Bader to be a constant presence that'll help the rest
of the lineup I think fall into place. If you've noticed,
Aaron Hicks got released and he hit a homer from
Baltimore tonight in a win for the Orioles. So the
Yankees just were never able to get the best out
of Hicks. As Donaldson obviously is getting up there in
(23:41):
years as well, which has impacted his productivity. They're optimistic
that they'll get Judged back in relatively short order. And
of course, Carlos Rodon, their prized pitching signing of the offseason,
hasn't even pitched in a major league game yet for
the Yankees. He though, is on a rehab assignment as well.
So I think to your point, Mike, they need to
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get some more answers internally about exactly what they need.
I think pitching wise, they've had a lot of injuries.
Cortez has been in and out of the rotation. I
think that that rental market for starting pitchers is one
that I would expect. We'll get a little bit hotter,
and there are some medium tier names. Chase Anderson will
see if rich Hill is dealt. Of course, if the
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Pirates are really in the race, maybe you won't be.
But I'm with you that the Yankees need some help,
and perhaps most surprisingly of all, the Dodgers will need
some help in their bullpen. They've been really inconsistent there,
so I think that's one of the other things that
in teams like the Nationals have really good bullpen arms
to move Finnigan edwards. The Tigers have Foley and Lang,
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the Royals have Chapman. So there are some names out
there to start watching on the bullpen JP.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Lastly Mike brought them up. We watch them have another
five for five game last night, one for four tonight
hitting three ninety eight. How long can Luisa Rayas dance
with four hundred? How long can he dance? It's just
going to be too difficult. But how long can he
dance right up there?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I think he can keep this going for a while.
Now can he do it for the full season? Obviously
the odds are against him, They really are, probably in
a way that's even more profound than the odds that
were against the are in Judge at this time last year.
And yet let's remember this is right around the time
that we got really serious about Judge last year, and
he got there. It took him to the last couple
(25:30):
of days of the year, but he got there. For
Luisa Rayas, I do think he has helped a little
bit by two things. The fact there's no shift, which
obviously for him he's almost shift proof to begin with,
but certainly his average is jumped up in this first
year without the shift. But the other thing is modern pictures,
(25:54):
if you can handle velocity and spin in the way
that Arias can do, like he's never off balance. He
has found a way to simplify his approach down to
the essence that very few hitters in the modern game
have been able to do. And so pitchers they don't
see a lot of guys like him because other people
(26:16):
don't adjust like him, and it's great to watch. It's
great for kids to watch. It's great for people like
me who loved watching Tony Gwyn and Wade Boggs and
George Brett when we were kids, because he reminds us
of those those great maestros. With the bat of yesteryear.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
You can fall him on Twitter at John Morosi. That
is a John Morosi getting said for the Yankees JP.
As always, thanks so much, enjoy the series. We'll talk
to you next week, my friend.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I can't wait, guys, and remember this, there will come
a time this summer when we'll be having these conversations
right in the middle of games unfolding at the Women's
World Cup. I will be up watching those games with
you guys as well. I notice Italy's playing it like
one in the morning Eastern. I'll be up for those games,
I promise.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
He'll be.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
He'll be eating all kinds if a ready to go,
stay it up all night.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
What do you eat?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Espressobean?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Hey, and just do me a favor.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
As you make your your travels around Major League Baseball,
make sure you tell all the contending teams, hey, Verlander
in suzer don't make as much money as you think
they do.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
You can trade for them.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, just tell them there's a round. There's a way
to round the money to make it less less uh
problematic for you. There there's gotta be some math there
that we'll look at.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I know it's thirty six buzz, but it's really like
four million when you think about it, Doug, Doug, call me.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'll explain it to you. Thanks so much, Bundy. We'll
talk to you next week. Have fun.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Hey, buddy, it's a rounding error, right, like an office space.
We just take like a part of percent of a penny.
It's gonna take years and to find this out.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's right. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with ma My
best friend Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot
Com Studios. Who's the best quarterback in the NFL? Probably
Aaron Rodgers. But if you ask Packers cornerback to here
Alexander who's the best quarterback in the NFL, his answer
(28:18):
is Jordan Love.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Got to back your guy. But a tweet out saying
he's the best quarterback in the n f L. That's
my quarterback.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Best quarterback, not he's really good. Not we're excited now,
best quarterback in the n f Well, if you're asked
who's the best, I mean, what are you gonna do? Right,
rank him twenty second?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
No, he's the best. He's your guy. He tell he's
better than Mahomes, way better than Mahomes. You come on
him in Mahomes like Jamar Chase already picked that fight.
I mean, what's the point. Mahomes is terrible man, But
he's not. He's not Jordan Love Now Patrick who here's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, because we spend a lot of time to Obviously,
Aaron Rodgers is the story of the offseason. He's a
story of the season in the NFL. But let me
just say this. I thought it was that Russell was
in the best shape of his life. He is, and
he'll continue to tell us he's doing that hockey or whatever,
that slide thing thirty thousand feet yeah, thirty thousand feet No. No,
But he's released all these workout videos now trying to
show you that he's shedding bounds all from thirty thousand feet,
(29:18):
all from that as he's flying he's doing high knees.
Is that like the little vignette we keep getting from
Mission impossible to show you how the stunt was rigged.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
In Norway, I'm leaping over a chasm. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
If the wind picks up, it's gonna blow him directly
off course.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Now look, I'm not crazy like Ga Alexander is. Which Hey,
it's great to be confident in your guy, and I'm
happy because you and I have him in Dynasty. But
you know what Jordan Love needs a lot of credit for,
and this is what this is what I really admire
about the kid is that how he has handled the
last two and a half years. You had the Packers
(29:55):
trade up to get him, right, he was a somewhat
sought after prospect who stock up. Then it dropped a
little bit because they weren't sure what kind of quarterback
he was going to be. But he gets thrown in
the fire because now he's the guy that is the
political football that is playing between Aaron Rodgers and the Packers'
front office. And for two and a half years he
(30:16):
said nothing. He was classy, He didn't make any headlines
even when he watched I'm not playing again. I'm not
playing again. My rookie contract's gonna run out, and no
one's gonna know off I'm any good. I want to
play in the NFL. He never said anything. Even now
that Aaron Rodgers is gone. It's finally after two and
a half years. I gotta say, dude, this bleeping guy
(30:38):
man still nothing from him now, not a peep. He
could have made things go sideways. He could have gotten
impatient and said something, Oh, now you want to play
you don't think this. All of this stuff could have happened.
But nothing. So that's something I give the kid a
lot of credit for because this shows maturity beyond your
years to not want to say anything. Even Zach Wilson,
(31:02):
do you take any responsibility for that loss?
Speaker 4 (31:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Why would I do that?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Just clinched it that you're not the Jets quarterback anymore.
So as far as on the field, that's different. But man,
I don't know many quarterbacks who could handle that kind
of situation where you're in the middle of a drama
that you had nothing to do with, but you're plopped
right down in the middle of it. And to be
able to handle yourself that way for almost three years
that's really impressive.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Well, I think that's part of what comes out from
jy R.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Alexander in this process, as well as just talking about
the you know, being a consummate professional and being one
of the guys and not letting it get him down
because it takes one hit and suddenly you're the guy
that's got to run the ship. And we saw what
happened a couple of years ago, which is why Jordan
Love had to get get drafted by the Packers. And
while I'll always say that was the right move, is
(31:49):
that we had the sorry Brent Hundley experiment where they
got off to a fast start in September and then
Rogers goes down and the offense grinds to a holt
and they can't sustain any of that early success and
the season goes to hell. Oh they didn't want to
do that again. So he's riding it out and he's
(32:12):
been a good teammate, tried to learn what he can
whatever the relationship with Ian Rodgers was. But Alexander also,
this one was fun. Dobbs caught a touchdown on me
today again him a hug almost.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I was like good stuff man, because the year before
he didn't catch anything.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Of it, And that was also part of the praise.
Putting the ball in the right spot, so you know,
you stand up for your guy. And I like that
and that they're embracing it and rallying around him and recognizing, Look,
there's gonna be a lot of noise coming into the season.
To not buy into that part of it, right, Rogers
is gone. There's nothing good about belaboring any of the
(32:51):
angst of the WILLI er, won't you retire whatever conflict
he had with the coordinators and coaching staff or whatever.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Else, to just move forward? So I like this.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Put it on your quarterback as a positive. Hey, he's
spinning it and we're gonna be ready to play Jason,
we forget. He wished Mike a happy Father's Day too,
Jordan Love, that's true.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Oh he did? Yeah, how did that happen?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Well, he wished the Bears and Bears fans. Oh that's
very nice. He's a positive guy. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I'm all for it. Did he wish Bears owner Aaron
Rodgers a happy father to night?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
That?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Okay, that guy, Okay, but I would say this. It
is a I think people are underselling the packers. I
think I think they're dangerous. Twitter and how about a
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Game of the night in Major League Baseball, we have
John Paul Morosi coming up in about twenty minutes to
join US Angels and the Dodgers Freeway Series. We just
found out the Angel said, Hey, let's and probably not
trading showy Otani by the deadline. Shock right now facing
the Dodgers on Clayton Kershaw. Clayton Kershaw is perfect through
three now back to the top of the order facing
(01:10):
Otani and Mike Trout to start the bottom of the
fourth inning. Again, the Dodgers and Angels. Nothing nothing, pretty
exciting for the Angels. You look at where they are
in the standings with the fact that Mike Trout's only
hitting two fifty six. Yeah, he stinks, right, He hasn't
even hit that usual Mike Trout tear at this point.
And Anthony Rendon's back on the il as we we've
(01:34):
been talking about for a couple of years. Now, bad
money spent by Ardi moreno there, but it's watching Clayton
Kershaw deal.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
It's about as good as it gets.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
A filthy pitch to get Otani to chase and back
to the dugout.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
He walks oof.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Man, Well, you know, hey, Yes, the Angels lose the
at bat because Otani waves it one in the dirt,
but he didn't throw about five pitches in the at bat.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Just got to get to that Dodger bull that just
got it chet.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's about watch your mouth get to that soft stretch,
that soft underbelly Roder's bullpen. It's like watching a fishing
show when they catch that fish and the fish is
on there, and that's got all the scales and the
big sharks fin and they turn it over there, that
big white underbelly.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
They just slice it open and speak of that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Did you see those poor guys that caught a six
hundred pound marlin and then it was disqualified because part
of it had been bitten by a shark. Yeah, so
three point two million dollars, Yeah, lost because while another
sea creature hammered it. Not that they hacked it up
trying to get it. Hammered it, that's pretty.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, not that they they hacked.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It up trying to get it onto the boat or
you know, mutilate it in any way. No, I was
missing part of it six hundred and thirty pounds down
to about six nineteen because a shark was a ten
pound bite from a shark that hey, shark took a show.
I just want an appetizer, and marlin is really difficulty.
You got the pointy fade that pointed it. I just
want to I just want to snack, and I'll let
(03:01):
you leave me just an estimate. It might have been
a bigger chunk either way. The point is these guys
lost out. I'm three point two million dollars so you
know you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I feel bad. I feel bad that you know, Yeah,
you had this.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
This fish wins, you know, or walks or swims away
from the encounter where the shark only get caught by
two guys. Well, I mean they fought it for hours.
I mean he might have been on the line. Yeah, yes,
it was attacked by the shore. The shark walk up
and go, hey, this can go one of two ways.
What now, I could be hungry and I could eat
the entirety of you. It would be tough getting that,
you know, that fin down.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
And everything was right or left shark.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I could just take a chomp out of you, like
a nice ten pounds little filetm in on chomp and
then you swim on your way and you live, all right?
I choose that, okay after right? Now, left shark was
more fun. Right had the Uh? Yeah, it was more spry,
right Smith, Well, I think the right one meant business. No,
I think the right shark was just lazy. I like
(03:53):
you whatever, lying in wait for the opportunity. And here,
I mean the marlins already caught you. You didn't have
to do any of the work. The Dodgers bullpen guys
is like fishing with dynamite.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
No, that's right, it's it's not good at all. Oh,
and we've watched it time and time again.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You want to talk about a team that will be
very active, and we've talked about this for the last
couple of weeks, very active in the trademarket.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Early.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We've got scouts everywhere. This is where you could use
your riches as an organization. Uh, where we have scouts.
Where don't we have scout We.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Got scouts under the sea, under the sea, under the sea,
and TJ clearly Marlin scouts hoping to find a player
that can be part of their world when they reached
the majors.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
TJ, Your Jerk remake wasn't bad. It was better than
I thought it was. The remake was okay.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
It got it.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Remake was fine. It was it was, It was fine,
It was okay.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I just I just kept waiting for for for Javier
Barden to do something really really evil and awful.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I kept waiting, going, Oh, he's gonna kill.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Some He's he's sugre, he's gonna just all of a
sudden that tried. It's gonna start impaling people. Hey, ursla,
hey friend, No, and a's you're lucky day, Sir. I
need you to exit your car and it's the air
gun through the head.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
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Speaker 3 (05:31):
So I ask you this last.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Hour, we had the Zion Williamson Mariah Mills conversation. She's
banned from Twitter after threatening to out zign with a
sex tape. The adult film star said they were having
sex and she was very upset that he had a
gender reveal with his girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It's been a big druma a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Of promises to move her and set her up and
all of that stuff. YEAHDJ, there were definitely promises in
the dark.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
DJ.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Now the big question is with Williams, and we've seen
this going into the NBA draft. Are we really gonna
see Zion get traded by Thursday? And I know that
there's a few people who have weighed in on it
and uh and said, all yet, definitely getting trade. Bill
Simmons had a big thing and oh, I know people.
I've talked to people that said, Zion Williamson's absolutely getting
(06:19):
traded by Thursday. You know how I like that. That's
what he used, the term grifter I got. I got
on top of that story.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, anything else is.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Hey, Harry and Megan a grifters, and Zion's getting traded
on Thursday. It's kind of like Larry King. It's just
gonna go one from one thing to another.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
If you see one movie all year, they get the
Men with One Red Shoe? Did you get did you
get canceled? The famous interaction with Seinfeld. So, but the
thing is is that I can't see it happening, because again,
how for Zion Williamson to get traded. If the Pelicans
are gonna move on from Zion, who they made the
(06:59):
centerpiece of their friends and who was in the first
year of a huge Max deal ride five years, one
hundred and ninety three million dollars, They're not just gonna
give him away. They're not gonna cut bait and say, Okay,
we just got to get rid of the guy. No,
we signed him even though we were stupid and we
signed a guy that couldn't stay healthy and said, yes,
we're still going to give you this money. So they're
not going to give him away. Would a team take
(07:19):
a shot on Zion Williamson if the Pelicans were desperate, yes,
one hundred percent. But they're not, so no team is
going to meet the Pelicans price of what they want.
If you're a team that wants Zion Williamson, are you
really going to give up things that you that you
you are building your team with big assets to go
get him. No, because the guy's a complete dice roll.
(07:42):
Not only is he someone who can't stay healthy, has
proven he can't say healthy.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
He's got this knuckleheaded stuff with.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Mariah Mills hanging over him, He's having a kid, He's
he's hooking up with a with an adult film star
and potentially flying or at whatever it's.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Going to be.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Zion's not really You're not really trading for a high
point right now.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
So anybody that.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Wants Zion is gonna lowball the Pelicans. So when you
when you combine that the Pelicans are wanting to get
max value for him, and any team that wants. Zion
isn't going to give it up because they're not gonna
go crazy in trade. They're franchise, a couple of franchise players,
whatever it is to go get Zion.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Because you don't know how the guy's gonna pan out.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Tell me how is he gonna get traded exactly short
of the Pelicans that we just have to get rid
of the guy. But that's not gonna happen. So I
don't see how that happens by Thursday. It's nice in theory,
and I don't doubt for a second that the Pelicans
are pissed at Zion, and maybe this is one of
those Hey, we'll trade you by Thursday. I if you
don't you know, we'll trade you by Thursday. Hey we
need some things from you. I don't care if he
(08:43):
doesn't have a good relationship with the Pelicans. They could
trade in someplace worse where you might not want to
go at all. We know where you don't want to go,
We'll trade you there. So I don't know that this
is one of those cases where Zion's getting traded as
much as this was the team using the media to
get a message out Zion.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
You think things are tough now, Way do you see
where we.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Can trade you? And when it comes to you don't
know where you could wind up. And you may not
love New Orleans right now, But we just gave you
a lot of money, and we could send you someplace
you really don't want to go. Man, you could go
into into the hath of the NBA. You go someplace
you're just in an outer rim for years and years
until your rookie contract is up or you can get
healthy and start playing again. So I just don't see how. Again,
(09:27):
in theory, I see why they put it out there
and what they're trying to accomplish, but it seems like
it's more of a scare tactic because I just don't
see how both sides meet and Zion gets traded.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Five years, one hundred.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
And ninety four million dollars annual average salary of nearly
thirty nine million for Zion. Obviously, when you look at
that squad, who would you rather have, Well, you'd rather
have brandon Ingram. So why he may not be the endgame?
We've seen him perform really well at times in pressure situation.
(10:00):
We don't we don't know, you know, what what he
would do on the on the biggest uh stage with them,
But in another space when you look at his contract,
what is he at five years one fifty eight and
far more reliable in terms of getting himself onto the
court and giving you a production. You know, going through
(10:22):
the Zion Williamson, he's missed more games than he's played
since coming into the league. So that's that's the difficult
part of this, where you're going, all right, we're kind
of desperate either to get him on the court and
get him to understand and there's reports of friction within
the locker room that he's not quite on the same page. Well,
he's not there, so how can he be?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He's around, and he did warm ups and we talked
about the dunks and warm ups, all of those, and
then he would get another DNP. It's like, well where
are we And we never really got a good good read,
even going back to the prior season when down the stretch,
I was like, well, there can tending, so maybe they
activate him, like well, but if they activate h'im gonna
have to give him minutes.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
It disrupts the chemistry and everything that had been built.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
When you look at ingram career, best twenty four point
seven points per game this last year career best forty
eight point four percent from the field five point five
five eight and rebounds and assists and gives you thirty
four minutes tonight now only played forty five games. So
you're in the same boat, you know, when you're saying,
all right, am I getting a full season? What's a
(11:29):
full season? Hotstuge? So when it comes to the Zion
side of the equation, it's the can you find another
team with a distressed property nicks uh and a guy
whose salary matches up Julius Randall. Sorry, we'll try to
sneeze the exact and I should have just turned the
mic off that, but I mean that's where the obvious
leap is of all right, get him to New York.
(11:49):
Maybe there's a motivation that kicks in to be playing
in that market with that squad with Jalen Bronson and
to get back on track. And for Julius Randall, we've
seen the time and again in big moments, playoff moments,
he's not that guy, even though he was a third
team All NBA guy when you needed him, Randy Van Warmer,
(12:12):
like he left you just when you needed a most
so desperation for desperation could be the case here to
get Zion out of town. And I think David Griffin
and everybody associated with the Pelicans' front office would love
nothing more than to see Zion actually on the court
and performing for them. But that might have it might
(12:36):
be a little too late for that process. So if
you can go get some sort of equity in the
trade market, you go do it.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yeah, I just I hear. I just can't see how.
I just can't see how you're doing.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I know, but I just can't see how knowing everything
going on, Oh we're gonna trade from with all this
Mariah millstuff going on to No, but I mean, but
it's also but it's that you can't stay on the
field end. No, yeah, me in the court end you have.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
The second thing is is just a I don't want
to say, it's just a joke.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
No, it's obvious. Hey, we're really just that you're doing that.
But now now that's the cherry on top. Okay, now
we're really not doing like what do you do? We're
really not doing it.
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Well.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Joining us now on the hotline no one better as
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the Mets and the Astros and JP. I'm jealous because
(14:08):
you're getting to see Justin Verlander and Max Sherzer and
Mark kenn and Warnawescobar and Starling Marte all before they
get traded in the next few weeks.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Oh my gosh, So I was there. I was there
last night. I must acknowledge. I have since left Houston.
I'm now in New York and getting ready for our
next showcase game, which is Mariner's Yankees. So Jason, it's
my fault. It's my fault that when I was there
last night, all I saw was an unbeatable Mets team
(14:43):
that won by ten runs. Brett Bady hometown Star Lake
Travis High School comes back huge night. Francisco Lindor five
RBI vintage Schurezer. That's all I saw. So today's game,
I realize a loss for the Mets, a close one
four two, but one for which I suppose in Ebstentia
(15:04):
I must take responsibility for. And you're right Erlander got
the start. But you ask the question about the trade deadline,
and while I am similarly bearish on their chances of
winning the National League East, right now, I say to you,
how many other teams are eager to take on these
salaries of forty million dollars a year pitchers? And that
(15:28):
does not appear to be a large number. I think, Jason,
for better or worse, this is your team.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
No, I get that, but I don't need you helping
out other teams by telling them what these guys are making.
I'm thinking maybe they would oversee that and overlook that
in the paperwork Oh, okay, you're.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Aware, somewhere in the vast analytic analytic haze that we
have about our sport right now, that the numbers would
just not be aware as everything came to be what
the dollars and cents were for every contract. No, I
do think that you You raise good points about perhaps
some other players who could get moved. But here's the one,
(16:07):
as we talk about the Mets who they need to
find a way to keep long term, that's Pete Alonso.
They've signed everybody except for their own guy, and at
some point the bill for that will come do as well.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
All right, So let's look at the marquee game that's
on in front of us. We've got Dodgers and Angels
and and something we've been talking about for a while
JP the show, Hey Otani, now more reports and things
you've been saying all along. We've been talking about all along,
not likely to be traded, but given their current status
(16:39):
in the West run down back to the IL, might
the Angels actually be buyers?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
They should be. They should be. And here's here's why.
A couple of things. Number One, you're right, as first
reported on the Jason Smith Show by the three of us. Yeah,
and multiple times during the course of the season, Show
Aotani is not going to get traded by all August first. Now,
where he goes in November and December is a matter
(17:05):
for an entirely different program that we'll have at some
point in time in the fall. We have no idea,
nor do we know the number that it'll sign for
at that point. But for now, for now, Mike, there
is such interest in the long term to the brand
of the Angels who left We forget are trying to
secure their long term home in Orange County. There is
(17:29):
so much value to the organization to end this playoff route,
to be looked upon as a playoff team again, and
really to avoid the negativity that would surround them if
after having show A for six years, they never make
(17:51):
the playoffs in any of them, that would be a shame.
It really would be a shame for the sport to
not see show in the playoffs. It certainly we've seen
what he does on the biggest stage, because he did
it in the World Baseball Classic and was brilliant. And
so now I think we have to ask the question,
how do they augment their club. I think they need
(18:14):
some infield help. It could be a multi position player
like Ildemaro Vargas of the Nationals. That kind of a
player I think has has a lot of value for them.
But they need, they need something to stay competitive because
in this division you've got I think one of the
best teams in baseball, the Texas Rangers the Astros. As
(18:36):
we documented earlier in the conversation that they got back
on the winning track with the game against the Mets.
Here tonight, the Angels have to hold off the Mariners
and then start working on climbing up the standings. They
need help to do so, and they need, in my estimation,
some infield depth if it's going to become a reality.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
John Paul Morose the m'llb Insider with us here The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen LIFM Studios. All right, Jp,
I'm going to give you the three hottest teams in baseball,
and you tell me if they're for real.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Okay, you're ready, Sure, I'm ready for this.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Three hottest teams in baseball. You have the Red Sox
coming off the sweep of the Yankees, now moving their
way up in the Al East. I'll be in last place,
but they're hot. Six in a row. You have the
Cincinnati Reds, winners of ten in a row. Yeah, to
take over first place in the Central Joey Vada is back.
And you have the Giants, winners of eight in a row,
(19:33):
just two games back of first place in the NL West.
Red Sox, Reds Giants.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Who's for real? Who isn't?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
The Reds are for real, They really are, and they
may need a little bit more help here at the
deadline to really fortify their club. But when you are
going this good and you are this young, roll with it.
Don't try to disrupt the them that you've got too much.
Maybe sprinkle in a veteran here there, but you've already
(20:03):
got Vado. Let them play, Let the kids play. They
are so much fun, and they are out They're just
out there every single night, never out of the ballgame.
They sweep the Astros, who, even though the Astros are
not in peak form right now, there's still the defending
World Series champs, and you go into their ballpark and
(20:27):
sweep them. Amazing. So I am fully on the Reds bandwagon.
Red Sox, I'm luke warmon I just I don't know
if they've got the starting pitching to really compete and
carry them up the American League East. The Yankees, huge
win tonight for them, Call on the Mound. He was magnificent.
I just don't know if we're going to see the
(20:49):
Red Sox make a big move in the standings when
the rest of the division is so good. I think
Toronto's pitching is better than Boston's, and I just don't
see a clear path now out west. The mL West
all of a sudden, much to Justin's dismay, has become
really wide open, and the Diamondbacks look really good. The Giants,
(21:13):
to your point, Lamontewaite Junior, what a story he's been.
He might be an All Star this year. He's been
tremendous at first base. So I think the Giants, with
a new look roster, they brought up some younger talent
from the minor leagues as well. So I am of
those three teams to the degree of confidence that we'll
see them in October. I've got the Reds first, and
(21:34):
then the Giants and then the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, Joey Botto playing meaningful baseball is good for the game.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
He's John Paul Morosi at John Morosi where you find
him on Twitter. Jo N MRSI leave out the h
because Mom said so, Hi Mom. JP part of the
MLB Network, NHLN Network. We watched the Stanley Cup Final
last week. Joins us each and every week on the
program here Jason Smith Show with Me Mike Carmen on
(22:01):
Fox Sports Radio from the Tirac dot Com Studios and JP.
The Yankees now one of the stats I'm sure you
talked about a little bit yesterday, the fact that Luis
Arias has six more hits coming into tonight's game than
all Yankees not named Judge combined. That's not good for business.
Yet there's seven games above five hundred. Do we see
(22:25):
the front office in Cashman getting a little creative here
to bring on more talent or is it just a
hope Donaldson, Judge and company get healthy?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You know, great question. First of all, Luisa Rias is
a great story and and he he made another run
at four hundred again this week to get his average
back up there. He is just a marvel to watch,
so I hope everybody tunes in enjoys watching him. The
Marlins are also a fun team to watch, and Luisa Rias,
my goodness, he is the modern day Tony Gwynn. Now,
(22:59):
as for the Yankees, I do think that they need
some help. It can't just be reliant on Aaron Judge.
The guy they need internally to get going is the
one that was activated today, and that's Harris and Bader.
He's got to stay healthy. They got him a year
ago to be a mainstay in their outfield and he
(23:20):
just hasn't been able to stay healthy. So they need
Bader to be a constant presence that'll help the rest
of the lineup I think fall into place. If you've noticed,
Aaron Hicks got released and he hit a homer from
Baltimore tonight in a win for the Orioles. So the
Yankees just were never able to get the best out
of Hicks. As Donaldson obviously is getting up there in
(23:41):
years as well, which has impacted his productivity. They're optimistic
that they'll get Judged back in relatively short order. And
of course, Carlos Rodon, their prized pitching signing of the offseason,
hasn't even pitched in a major league game yet for
the Yankees. He though, is on a rehab assignment as well.
So I think to your point, Mike, they need to
(24:04):
get some more answers internally about exactly what they need.
I think pitching wise, they've had a lot of injuries.
Cortez has been in and out of the rotation. I
think that that rental market for starting pitchers is one
that I would expect. We'll get a little bit hotter,
and there are some medium tier names. Chase Anderson will
see if rich Hill is dealt. Of course, if the
(24:26):
Pirates are really in the race, maybe you won't be.
But I'm with you that the Yankees need some help,
and perhaps most surprisingly of all, the Dodgers will need
some help in their bullpen. They've been really inconsistent there,
so I think that's one of the other things that
in teams like the Nationals have really good bullpen arms
to move Finnigan edwards. The Tigers have Foley and Lang,
(24:47):
the Royals have Chapman. So there are some names out
there to start watching on the bullpen JP.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Lastly Mike brought them up. We watch them have another
five for five game last night, one for four tonight
hitting three ninety eight. How long can Luisa Rayas dance
with four hundred? How long can he dance? It's just
going to be too difficult. But how long can he
dance right up there?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I think he can keep this going for a while.
Now can he do it for the full season? Obviously
the odds are against him, They really are, probably in
a way that's even more profound than the odds that
were against the are in Judge at this time last year.
And yet let's remember this is right around the time
that we got really serious about Judge last year, and
he got there. It took him to the last couple
(25:30):
of days of the year, but he got there. For
Luisa Rayas, I do think he has helped a little
bit by two things. The fact there's no shift, which
obviously for him he's almost shift proof to begin with,
but certainly his average is jumped up in this first
year without the shift. But the other thing is modern pictures,
(25:54):
if you can handle velocity and spin in the way
that Arias can do, like he's never off balance. He
has found a way to simplify his approach down to
the essence that very few hitters in the modern game
have been able to do. And so pitchers they don't
see a lot of guys like him because other people
(26:16):
don't adjust like him, and it's great to watch. It's
great for kids to watch. It's great for people like
me who loved watching Tony Gwyn and Wade Boggs and
George Brett when we were kids, because he reminds us
of those those great maestros. With the bat of yesteryear.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
You can fall him on Twitter at John Morosi. That
is a John Morosi getting said for the Yankees JP.
As always, thanks so much, enjoy the series. We'll talk
to you next week, my friend.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I can't wait, guys, and remember this, there will come
a time this summer when we'll be having these conversations
right in the middle of games unfolding at the Women's
World Cup. I will be up watching those games with
you guys as well. I notice Italy's playing it like
one in the morning Eastern. I'll be up for those games,
I promise.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
He'll be.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
He'll be eating all kinds if a ready to go,
stay it up all night.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
What do you eat?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Espressobean?
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Hey, and just do me a favor.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
As you make your your travels around Major League Baseball,
make sure you tell all the contending teams, hey, Verlander
in suzer don't make as much money as you think
they do.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
You can trade for them.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yeah, just tell them there's a round. There's a way
to round the money to make it less less uh
problematic for you. There there's gotta be some math there
that we'll look at.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I know it's thirty six buzz, but it's really like
four million when you think about it, Doug, Doug, call me.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'll explain it to you. Thanks so much, Bundy. We'll
talk to you next week. Have fun.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Hey, buddy, it's a rounding error, right, like an office space.
We just take like a part of percent of a penny.
It's gonna take years and to find this out.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's right. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (27:57):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with ma My
best friend Mike Harmon live from the tire rack dot
Com Studios. Who's the best quarterback in the NFL? Probably
Aaron Rodgers. But if you ask Packers cornerback to here
Alexander who's the best quarterback in the NFL, his answer
(28:18):
is Jordan Love.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Got to back your guy. But a tweet out saying
he's the best quarterback in the n f L. That's
my quarterback.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Best quarterback, not he's really good. Not we're excited now,
best quarterback in the n f Well, if you're asked
who's the best, I mean, what are you gonna do? Right,
rank him twenty second?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
No, he's the best. He's your guy. He tell he's
better than Mahomes, way better than Mahomes. You come on
him in Mahomes like Jamar Chase already picked that fight.
I mean, what's the point. Mahomes is terrible man, But
he's not. He's not Jordan Love Now Patrick who here's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Yeah, because we spend a lot of time to Obviously,
Aaron Rodgers is the story of the offseason. He's a
story of the season in the NFL. But let me
just say this. I thought it was that Russell was
in the best shape of his life. He is, and
he'll continue to tell us he's doing that hockey or whatever,
that slide thing thirty thousand feet yeah, thirty thousand feet No. No,
But he's released all these workout videos now trying to
show you that he's shedding bounds all from thirty thousand feet,
(29:18):
all from that as he's flying he's doing high knees.
Is that like the little vignette we keep getting from
Mission impossible to show you how the stunt was rigged.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
In Norway, I'm leaping over a chasm. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
If the wind picks up, it's gonna blow him directly
off course.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Now look, I'm not crazy like Ga Alexander is. Which Hey,
it's great to be confident in your guy, and I'm
happy because you and I have him in Dynasty. But
you know what Jordan Love needs a lot of credit for,
and this is what this is what I really admire
about the kid is that how he has handled the
last two and a half years. You had the Packers
(29:55):
trade up to get him, right, he was a somewhat
sought after prospect who stock up. Then it dropped a
little bit because they weren't sure what kind of quarterback
he was going to be. But he gets thrown in
the fire because now he's the guy that is the
political football that is playing between Aaron Rodgers and the Packers'
front office. And for two and a half years he
(30:16):
said nothing. He was classy, He didn't make any headlines
even when he watched I'm not playing again. I'm not
playing again. My rookie contract's gonna run out, and no
one's gonna know off I'm any good. I want to
play in the NFL. He never said anything. Even now
that Aaron Rodgers is gone. It's finally after two and
a half years. I gotta say, dude, this bleeping guy
(30:38):
man still nothing from him now, not a peep. He
could have made things go sideways. He could have gotten
impatient and said something, Oh, now you want to play
you don't think this. All of this stuff could have happened.
But nothing. So that's something I give the kid a
lot of credit for because this shows maturity beyond your
years to not want to say anything. Even Zach Wilson,
(31:02):
do you take any responsibility for that loss?
Speaker 4 (31:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Why would I do that?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Just clinched it that you're not the Jets quarterback anymore.
So as far as on the field, that's different. But man,
I don't know many quarterbacks who could handle that kind
of situation where you're in the middle of a drama
that you had nothing to do with, but you're plopped
right down in the middle of it. And to be
able to handle yourself that way for almost three years
that's really impressive.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Well, I think that's part of what comes out from
jy R.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Alexander in this process, as well as just talking about
the you know, being a consummate professional and being one
of the guys and not letting it get him down
because it takes one hit and suddenly you're the guy
that's got to run the ship. And we saw what
happened a couple of years ago, which is why Jordan
Love had to get get drafted by the Packers. And
while I'll always say that was the right move, is
(31:49):
that we had the sorry Brent Hundley experiment where they
got off to a fast start in September and then
Rogers goes down and the offense grinds to a holt
and they can't sustain any of that early success and
the season goes to hell. Oh they didn't want to
do that again. So he's riding it out and he's
(32:12):
been a good teammate, tried to learn what he can
whatever the relationship with Ian Rodgers was. But Alexander also,
this one was fun. Dobbs caught a touchdown on me
today again him a hug almost.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
I was like good stuff man, because the year before
he didn't catch anything.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Of it, And that was also part of the praise.
Putting the ball in the right spot, so you know,
you stand up for your guy. And I like that
and that they're embracing it and rallying around him and recognizing, Look,
there's gonna be a lot of noise coming into the season.
To not buy into that part of it, right, Rogers
is gone. There's nothing good about belaboring any of the
(32:51):
angst of the WILLI er, won't you retire whatever conflict
he had with the coordinators and coaching staff or whatever.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Else, to just move forward? So I like this.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Put it on your quarterback as a positive. Hey, he's
spinning it and we're gonna be ready to play Jason,
we forget. He wished Mike a happy Father's Day too,
Jordan Love, that's true.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Oh he did? Yeah, how did that happen?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Well, he wished the Bears and Bears fans. Oh that's
very nice. He's a positive guy. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I'm all for it. Did he wish Bears owner Aaron
Rodgers a happy father to night?
Speaker 2 (33:24):
That?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Okay, that guy, Okay, but I would say this. It
is a I think people are underselling the packers. I
think I think they're dangerous. Twitter and how about a
fresco Mike gets swollen down the Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon. We get into a big
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