June 24, 2023 • 23 mins
Jason and Mike discuss about what Portland should do with either trading Damian Lillard or building around him.
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
We'll get to a big bold prediction for the NBA
Finals next year in a second.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But I gotta say, Mike, I was a little upset today.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Upset.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I upset because last night what did we say? Hey, Okay, Damian.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Lillard, decide what you want to do?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Do you want out?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Do you not? Either you're ready to go and you
want out and you ask out, or you want to
stay in Portland. We're done with this. Every year does
he stay? Does he want? Either you want out or
you don't. Right, that's all it is. You want just
say what you want and this could be done. And
then the Blazers say today, oh we want to build
a winner around Damian Lillard now ed skewed Henderson. It's
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like you've had eleven years to build a winner around
him and you've not built one around. Stop messing this up, right,
Stop trying to say the right things. Okay, just let
Lillard make his final decision and go for that. Don't
sit here and say, oh, you want to build a
winner around Do you want eleven years to do something?
When you have eleven years to do something, you don't
do it. It's like you know it's not gonna happen.
(01:50):
It's like saving something in your house. Oh I gotta
save that T shirt?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Why?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh I love that T shirt? You have one of
that T shirt? In eleven years, you're not gonna wear anymore. Yeah,
but I love it. No, I'm throwing it away. It's
gone to the goodwill pile. Sorry, it's gone. You've got
eleven years now. Just stay out of it. Let Lillard
decide what he wants. We go from there. Don't mess
this up. So this time next year we're going. Boy,
it didn't work out, and they want to build a round,
Scoot Henderson, maybe another draft picking oh maybe now?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
No, no, no, I want it to be done.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I wanted to be over my carbon and the Blazers
are messing this whole thing up.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Well, it's like the guns and Roses shirt that I
had to burn after last week's to Bockle.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm glad you burned it so now I can wear
it back to work.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I'm glad I burned it, rooted it for me forever.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Okay, good, Well, hey, listen, you knew that I wore
that shirt to work and you and you still decided
to wear it. I think it's okay now.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
And then you tried to defame me and my character
National airwaits Maugh Friday night, and psychologically it pained me
very much to where maybe I hit the Ayahuasca trail.
I don't know, But as far as this goes, Scoot Heedderson, yesterday,
I was like.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Let's go, damn, come on, let's get it.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
And that's where all the rhetoric is now. But Lee
Yeared doesn't start till July first. We got a lot
of things that are gonna be rumored. A lot of
your insiders are gonna start throwing stuff out from the
agencies that they work for and with.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
H and we'll have all of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Sorry, I get to throw shade now because that was
just filthy yesterday with the Scoot Henderson pick and Brandon
Miller as it related to odds and everything else. But yeah,
we still have a week for a lot more rumors.
So you're just gonna have to calm down.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Until next week. And I on the first it's over.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I know, I know, yeah, but is it really over?
Is it really over? I don't know that it's over.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't know that it's gonna be over. I don't
know that.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
They say nothing could be finalized till then.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
So even if we get rumored trades that send Lillard
to any number of destinations, none of it can happen.
Like even now the stuff that is allegedly consummated outside
of the draft day trades that involve those picks. What
else do we got a lot of, Hey, this can
still fall apart kind of opportunities.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I just I just wanted to end. I wanted to end.
I wanted to And now the Blazers are gonna mess
it all up.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Can I be mean about it and just say it's
Portland so nobody cares?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Wow? Yeah, that is very mean about it.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I mean, as much as I like celebrated his entire catalog,
we've been we've been on error here at Fox Sports
Radio together about not quite his full career, but a
good chunk of it.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And we've celebrated some big nights, some.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Big performances, uh, and big charges from Damian Lillard.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
In the past. But as we sit here, they're Portland.
There's other stories to talk about. Wow, he either gets
traded or he.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Doesn't look at you. I just wanted to end.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
And you're not helping to hate on the people of
Gear and I love them all individually. I got nothing
against Damian Lillard. Are not helping for the purpose of
this story right now. It's one of those things that
you're sitting on the porch and you'll watch it just
roll by.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Twitter.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It out about a Fresca Mike get swollen Dome the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. Meanwhile,
now that the Draft is over, and we're getting set
for free agency next or whatever trades could wind up happening.
We're getting set for that. Now, the real fun season
in the NBA, when we can actually talk about players
that people know instead of people in the draft, where
(05:27):
they played where, and oh got it? Okay, let me
tell you who is my post draft, pre free agency
pick to go to the NBA fund Lakers'. Yeah, Frostburg's
very happy if I picked the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
It is not happier if you don't pick the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's not the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
He does not want to witness. He does not want
to do a Wonder Twins move with you.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
It's better when Jason doesn't pick the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
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Speaker 1 (06:04):
I'm picking the Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I'm going Lakers, Lakers.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
It's almost like you were in a horror movie and
you just stabbed him forty seven times.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Lakers, Lakers, Lakers.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I'm picking the Lakers. Lakers, Lakers Likekers like Lakers likes
like like.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Like last night, they pulled off a big trade and
now they have thirty five million dollars to go out
and get the final missing piece or two to their team.
Everything is pointing to this team next year in the
NBA Finals. Sacramento Kings Light the Beam hashtag Light the Beam.
(06:47):
Kings are going to the finals. First, let me tell
you about the rest of the rest of the Western Conference. Okay,
you have a lot of teams that have issues, right
the the Clippers and Memphis. Their teams that are in
the Clipper's gonna keep Paul George or they not. We
saw that Kawhi Leonard and Paul George hasn't worked, so
good luck trying to make it work. Memphis, who knows
(07:09):
Marcus Smart's a great move bringing them in and hopefully
he can set the culture there. But you have no idea.
You're missing John Morant for the first twenty five games.
Who knows when he's going to play ken They put
it all together very immature last year. The Lakers and
the Warriors are old and getting older. I mean the
Warriors at all. Let's go get Chris Paul. The dude
is washed. So now you have teams that are gonna
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come back next year with the same kind of core,
thinking we can go further.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
It's not gonna happen. Now you have the NBA champion Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yet Nuggets are great, and yes, I told you the
next five years they'll go to two more NBA Finals
and win at least one of them. But everything went
right for them this year. They didn't have injury issues.
They were able to get all the way through the season.
Jokic stayed healthy, Murray stayed healthy. You look at the
path they had to navigate in the NBA playoffs, they
were all lower seeds, the higher seeds all got knocked out.
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The odds are they're gonna get a bit of a
bounce next year, and everything is not going to go right.
When you see teams win championships, usually it's a everything
went right. We get it very rare as a team
where oh we're missing our best player. We won the title.
We're getting him back next year. It's gonna be awesome.
So they're gonna get a bounce. So when you throw
in the Western Conference, that's like, boy that this is
the state of the rest of the teams. And you
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have a young roster that has the best offense in
the league. That's run by Fox and Sabonis. This is
a terrific team, right, we saw them, like the scoreboard up,
the way they could Keegan Murray was terrific as well.
They make this trade last night that that that frees
up thirty five million dollars the Rashawn Holmes deal, which
is a good deal for Dallas. Right, he's a good player,
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but this frees him up to go get what they need,
which is maybe a two way player so they can
improve their defense a little bit, whatever they might need
for that next little bit to get over the top. Yeah,
they were a good story this year. Then we saw
how good they were bad matchup in the first round
against a team that had won championships and too much
Steph Curry. They still came within a hair's breadth of
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winning that series. Next year, now they know what the
playoffs are all about. They're young, they're talented, they're terrific.
Give me Sacramento in the NBA finals next year.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Look at you taking the the youth and saying they
will not break down.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Don't put it out there in the universe. Don't do that.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Well, I mean I gotta call what it is.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Everybody else you're saying, well, they'll break down there, they
won't stay healthy, these guys can't stayn on the court.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Well, these are all older teams, These are all that.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
But that's the point.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
So you got a young team, so you're just banking
on them being able to roll through with all that money.
Frostburg and I talking going why not go get Kuzma.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That could be the guy, right, he's he's a perfect
fit there. Yeah, he'd be able, he'd be a perfect fit.
He says he wants to go win.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Okay, prove it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Goas to go to.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Sacrament because we did a lot of talk about the
the Chris Middleton deal and if he's turning down forty,
he's looking for more.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
So you have that going on. Golden State goes into
the next iteration of the their big three and Steve Kerr, Yeah,
the big three concept is dead, but hey, let's keep
it here, uh for for the old old time giggles.
I'm gonna I'm gonna look a little deeper because I
like chaos and two made the play in how about
(10:20):
OKC just to create some chaos all.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
The way Samano did this year, all.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
The way to the top Oklahoma City. Just look, just
to make.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Some noise whether they can actually get over the top. Look,
Denver stays healthy. You ain't top of them, right, that's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
But that things like I said, everything's gotta go right again,
and does everything go right?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
For no, don't.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
But that's the thing, right, that's the beauty.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
And why they put the roll the ball back out
on the court every time is in theory. You know
you're you're gonna get gains. The Memphis Moran's gonna miss
twenty five games? Does that matter in the grand scale?
If he's back and ready and this machine is moving, Uh,
come playoffs. Curious to see where Dylan Brooks lands when
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it's all said and done. But Marcus Smart comes in
steadies it. They were a number two seed despite missing
Morant for a chunk of the season and really not
having any type of interior presence with Steven Adams hurt.
So they'll be interesting. Phoenix top heavy. What's the rest
of that roster look like? Is that gonna be the
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equivalent of the end of Wheel of Fortune going I'll
take the ceramic dog to fill out a roster.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I don't know it could be.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
You know, one of my good friends actually does have
a ceramic dog that in this living room for like
the last fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
It's the greatest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's got it's a ceramic dog, but it's like made
it like with the little tiles, like the little they.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Look like a mosaic kind of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
He's had that in his living room. And the thing
is his kids when they were little, they were scared
of it. They're like, dude, take it out of your
living No, it's kinda stay. I'm like, yeah, that's a
that's a ceramic dog. Your kids. I worry about your kids. Ah,
they're worry about.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
The kids' a ceramic dog.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I don't want that. If my kid doesn't like a
ceramic dog, you get rid of the ceramic dog.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
No, a ceramic dog stays. Wow, kids gotta get over it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I think I think I could call child.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
So you got to learn some hard lessons in life.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Wow, it's like all the people, Hey, let's go find
the easier teacher. Blank that eventually you're gonna have to
deal with someone you don't.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Like, the boy.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
And who doesn't like you.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Mister Harmon, doesn't really say anything that makes me feel good.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
All he does is make me.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
I used to teach hands on art classes and I'd
go in and if the kids were screwing around, It's like,
see that bench out there one more time.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Jason, are you on ayahuasca right now?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I am not on.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
As far as you know, I am not.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Well, I'm gonna think you are.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Is that why you didn't drive into anything? Eight seven
seven ninety nine?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
First of all, it's only three ounces. Why would I
want to drink something We're only gonna drink three ounces
of it?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I want saying some pretty crazy stuff and stuff, man.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean you know, look, look I I you got
to hydrate after that.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
The Kings in the in the in the championship.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I like to drink my drinks set out.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
So you're saying some pretty crazy things, man ude.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
But I've been right about a lot of things.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
So what name one thing you were right about?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Nuggets and four Lakers going to the finals this year? Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers.
Like no, picking the Lakers are going now, I'm not
picking the Kings anymore, picking the Lakers just because you
don't want it Lake too late.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
You already have the Kings.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
We have.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
The whole tape doesn't matter. I'm changing out a Lakers.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
You already tweeted it out.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It's Lake.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I could I could delete that tweeting you kidding.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I could do that, really sure I could.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
As I said Aaron Rodgers was going to retire.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
No, I never said that.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I definitely did.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I've all the things I said about Aaron Rodgers. I
never said that is a That is a bad pull
by you, Alix. That's you not even pay that you
not even paying attention to what said on the show.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
I never said, hey, Jason said that.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I don't get ready Kings in the NBA Finals. It's
all happening.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
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Speaker 3 (14:10):
How long I have to wait?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
If this song doesn't fire when I press the button, I'm.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Just gonna wait until it does.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I don't care, gonna force fade Tears for Fears down
everybody's throats.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Jason, all you gotta do is shroom with me one
time and I'll stop.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Let's go do this.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
How About how about I buy Fat sALS one more
time and then you stop.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I think I'm on to some else, man. I think
I'm done with Fat sALS.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Okay, how about I buy PF Chang's one more time?
Speaker 7 (14:35):
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Speaker 1 (14:48):
H a big time NFL story coming up in a
few minutes. But if you thought that show, hey Otani,
you're just keeping the door open that he was gonna
get traded something we saw tonight, should slam that door
in your face. Right now, We've talked about this for
the last couple of weeks. The Angels are contending. Are
they the best team in the American League?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
No, they're not. Are they a playoff team right now?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
They are. They're a team that can make noise in
the American League because the Central is absolutely terrible. The
West of the Rangers will come back to the pack.
They're starting to come back to the pack a little bit,
and the AL East is beating each other up right
But right now Angels are five games over five hundred. Yes,
they're on a bit of a losing streak, but they
have played well. And it doesn't matter where you are
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at the end of this month. If you're within shouting
distance of a playoff berth, you're going to keep the
team together and you're gonna keep Sho Heo Tani. Right
now they are a half game out of the final
playoff spot. With everybody jumble together, the Astros, Yankees, Blue Jays,
Angels all a thirty five thirty six losses, this is
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something that's gonna play out over the course of the
next few weeks. Now, with every day that goes on,
we get closer to the deadline. And as long as
the Angels don't throw up on themselves, they're gonna keep
Otani and they're not gonna and then you figure out
the end of the season after it's over. But there's
too much pressure on them now to say you can't
cut bait, you can't trade him, you have to keep him.
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You gotta let him go, and maybe if he goes
through a pennant race with you, he'll want to stay right,
but there's so much pressure. Today, the Angels made a trade.
They traded two of their young pitchers, the nineteenth and
twentieth rated prospects in their system.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And to the Mets.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
As the Mets are starting to offload because they're realizing, well,
our team, everybody is forty years old. We just stink.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
We stink out loud.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So the Mets decide, all right, we're gonna start unloading
our guys. And hey, how many times have I said,
here's the guys. The Mets have to trade, right, here's
the guys. I go to sleep thinking, we gotta trade Askeabar,
gotta trade, Canna, we gotta trade to everybody, right, everybody
over thirty five has to go. And they trade Eduardo
Escobar to the Angel someone who the Mets signed to
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play third base, and he was kind of I would
say he was up and down this year. When he
was when he when he lost his gig to Brett Bait,
he actually started hitting a little bit better, but it
doesn't matter. He had been a disappointment since they gave
him the big contract last year, but he had been
good previously. The Angels have an issue, right, Rendona's heard again.
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Gee's surprise, surprise. So just the fact that they said
we are gonna trade two young prospects for a thirty
five year old infielder tells me, no matter what they're
going for it, this is not gonna be a well
we're gonna sit and see where things go and make
a movie. No, if they are sitting here at the
in the near the end of June and the trade
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season kind of opens today because here go the Angels.
When you trade for a thirty five year old infielder
because you're looking to fill a hole, however long you
need to fill a hole. Four in you're trading to
young pitchers who have been pretty decent in the minor
league now lower level. Mind, there's the guy who pitched.
The guys are pitching at Double A. But when you're
trading those guys, yeah, you are not going to be
selling at the deadline. This trade for Escobar should tell
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you that Otani isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Oh, you're taking your shot.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
And while I don't know how much juice you get
out of this is a guy that has had multiple
twenty plus home run seasons. He's struggled miserably at a
good batting average in the month of May but limited
at bats, hitting two hundred in his limited opportunities in
the month of June strikes out about a third of
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the time. All of those things announce and out. But
let's call it what it is. You're gonna do everything
you can to slap some band aids on things to
see if you can't stay in this race. Because we've
talked about it with Ardi Morino, it's the all right,
we may lose him at the end of all of this,
but I'm not going to be the guy that traded
him away for a bunch of prospects. So instead they
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go into the draft, and again, I don't know how
much much value he'll have coming over Escobar in this deal,
but you trade away a couple of the guys that
are coming up in your system, something that was a
big push the last couple of drafts they drafted. That
one draft that all they did was take pictures. So
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you're looking at trying to beef that up behind Otani.
But it's a win now kind of proposition. I would
like to think that maybe you've got a couple of
guys in your organization in the prospect world that maybe
you can sell a little harder than that and bring
back someone a little more steady and not a let's
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hope we find his stroke again just because he's hitting
in the lineup with Trout and Otani. But you got
to start somewhere. And if this is the market that materialized,
it's Domino number one.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, And don't I don't think for a second the
Angels are going to be bad enough where suddenly they
fall into one of those They've lost twelve out of
thirteen and now forget it, right, Like the American League
is not that great, and you have too many teams
that are just sitting a couple of games over five hundred,
between three and five games over. That's a tough thing
for me to see. Now, could always happen, right, Like
you know what happened to the Pirates. They were in
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first place and Pirates fans are going pinch me, I'm dreaming.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Then they lost twelve.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
In a row and it's we stink another year like this,
Oh boy, and now we're as bad as the Mets. Great,
But I just don't see that happening with the Angels.
They've been playing too good over the course of this year.
And look when Otani, it's a home run every game
and he pitches every fifth day. Yeah, you're gonna win
a couple of those games just by accident. So the
only thing that would cause that to happen would be
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that kind of swoon. They're just not a swoon team.
I mean other years they were. This year they're not
a swoon team. Other teams you can see it, you
can see the energy on a team where you can
get negative really fast, but especially surrounding Otani, and the
energy brings the ballpark and brings the team that hey,
players want to see him play in the playoff. It's
a little bit of different story for the Angels this year. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
I think the other part is even if it does
go to hell and they lose a ton again, it
doesn't matter Ardy Moreno already did his exploratory searches as
to what he would be able to get for the team,
right So, does that mean that you've got a guy
Does that indicate a level of stability looking at years
down the road and whether he can bring back enough
(21:23):
assets to win Hell No, that's a guy that's going
to try to get everything he can out of the
cash register right now, which means as he and he
doesn't want to be the guy that sends Otani off
I mean, they've got a an Otani puzzle night on
the twenty seventh against the White Size.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We can't trade him till he get rid of all
of this stuff. Yeah, but it's all the way through September.
Then we're not trading them, not.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Gonna trade him.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Would rather have him be the jilted lover left standing
in the aisle and standing at the altar. Then then
give him away and be that, because like that that's
a villainy kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, oh no, it's that's that's definitely big. That's a
hill turn without even needing to say it. That's straight straight.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Right, And I think I think there's something to that.
It's like you'd rather be the Oh I guess he
just didn't want to play here with us in Anaheim anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Twitter and out about a Fresca. Mike gets swollen dome.
So that's all the evidence you need. Otani is staying
in a you trade for it, water wetske bar. You're
not gonna trade for Escobar and then dumb Otani not
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I don't know that we could do that one for.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
One, not gonna do you know who's saved Otani from
being shipped out of town for him, only to say
we're trading Otani a month later.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
You're not gonna do it, dude.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
After the last couple of nights, Otani might just demand
a trade.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Not happening.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Not happening. Have you seen the highlights?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, he seems to be hitting home run, seems to
be hit lost three in a row.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
He's doing everything he can to put them in position,
and then they blow it.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
And if you squint really closely, what's the highlights are
now becoming? Uh, spliced together with little snippets of the
one man gang the hell out of people in the
wrestling world back and.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Was leading all the Angel stats.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I think the only category he's not leading in his
saves and losses.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, well, no, he might be leading in he might
be leading in saving.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
SAME's losses and holds.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Good because I think they're actually allowing him to save
his own start. I think they're allowing him they change
the rules for that.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Now he's gonna spectacular.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He pitches the first seven innings, then goes to play
first base, and then he comes back to pitch the
ninth and he's saving. Is that That's how they're gonna
do it.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yeah, Frostburg has already asked me to procure all the
show Heyotani Dodgers cards as they become.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
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Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
We'll get to a big bold prediction for the NBA
Finals next year in a second.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
But I gotta say, Mike, I was a little upset today.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Upset.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I upset because last night what did we say? Hey, Okay, Damian.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Lillard, decide what you want to do?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Do you want out?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Do you not? Either you're ready to go and you
want out and you ask out, or you want to
stay in Portland. We're done with this. Every year does
he stay? Does he want? Either you want out or
you don't. Right, that's all it is. You want just
say what you want and this could be done. And
then the Blazers say today, oh we want to build
a winner around Damian Lillard now ed skewed Henderson. It's
(01:28):
like you've had eleven years to build a winner around
him and you've not built one around. Stop messing this up, right,
Stop trying to say the right things. Okay, just let
Lillard make his final decision and go for that. Don't
sit here and say, oh, you want to build a
winner around Do you want eleven years to do something?
When you have eleven years to do something, you don't
do it. It's like you know it's not gonna happen.
(01:50):
It's like saving something in your house. Oh I gotta
save that T shirt?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Why?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh I love that T shirt? You have one of
that T shirt? In eleven years, you're not gonna wear anymore. Yeah,
but I love it. No, I'm throwing it away. It's
gone to the goodwill pile. Sorry, it's gone. You've got
eleven years now. Just stay out of it. Let Lillard
decide what he wants. We go from there. Don't mess
this up. So this time next year we're going. Boy,
it didn't work out, and they want to build a round,
Scoot Henderson, maybe another draft picking oh maybe now?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
No, no, no, I want it to be done.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I wanted to be over my carbon and the Blazers
are messing this whole thing up.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Well, it's like the guns and Roses shirt that I
had to burn after last week's to Bockle.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I'm glad you burned it so now I can wear
it back to work.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
That's good.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I'm glad I burned it, rooted it for me forever.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Okay, good, Well, hey, listen, you knew that I wore
that shirt to work and you and you still decided
to wear it. I think it's okay now.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
And then you tried to defame me and my character
National airwaits Maugh Friday night, and psychologically it pained me
very much to where maybe I hit the Ayahuasca trail.
I don't know, But as far as this goes, Scoot Heedderson, yesterday,
I was like.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Let's go, damn, come on, let's get it.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
And that's where all the rhetoric is now. But Lee
Yeared doesn't start till July first. We got a lot
of things that are gonna be rumored. A lot of
your insiders are gonna start throwing stuff out from the
agencies that they work for and with.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
H and we'll have all of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Sorry, I get to throw shade now because that was
just filthy yesterday with the Scoot Henderson pick and Brandon
Miller as it related to odds and everything else. But yeah,
we still have a week for a lot more rumors.
So you're just gonna have to calm down.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Until next week. And I on the first it's over.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I know, I know, yeah, but is it really over?
Is it really over? I don't know that it's over.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't know that it's gonna be over. I don't
know that.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
They say nothing could be finalized till then.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
So even if we get rumored trades that send Lillard
to any number of destinations, none of it can happen.
Like even now the stuff that is allegedly consummated outside
of the draft day trades that involve those picks. What
else do we got a lot of, Hey, this can
still fall apart kind of opportunities.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I just I just wanted to end. I wanted to end.
I wanted to And now the Blazers are gonna mess
it all up.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Can I be mean about it and just say it's
Portland so nobody cares?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Wow? Yeah, that is very mean about it.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I mean, as much as I like celebrated his entire catalog,
we've been we've been on error here at Fox Sports
Radio together about not quite his full career, but a
good chunk of it.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And we've celebrated some big nights, some.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Big performances, uh, and big charges from Damian Lillard.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
In the past. But as we sit here, they're Portland.
There's other stories to talk about. Wow, he either gets
traded or he.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Doesn't look at you. I just wanted to end.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
And you're not helping to hate on the people of
Gear and I love them all individually. I got nothing
against Damian Lillard. Are not helping for the purpose of
this story right now. It's one of those things that
you're sitting on the porch and you'll watch it just
roll by.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Twitter.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
It out about a Fresca Mike get swollen Dome the
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. Meanwhile,
now that the Draft is over, and we're getting set
for free agency next or whatever trades could wind up happening.
We're getting set for that. Now, the real fun season
in the NBA, when we can actually talk about players
that people know instead of people in the draft, where
(05:27):
they played where, and oh got it? Okay, let me
tell you who is my post draft, pre free agency
pick to go to the NBA fund Lakers'. Yeah, Frostburg's
very happy if I picked the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
It is not happier if you don't pick the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It's not the Lakers.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
He does not want to witness. He does not want
to do a Wonder Twins move with you.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
It's better when Jason doesn't pick the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
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Speaker 1 (06:04):
I'm picking the Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I'm going Lakers, Lakers.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
It's almost like you were in a horror movie and
you just stabbed him forty seven times.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Lakers, Lakers, Lakers.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I'm picking the Lakers. Lakers, Lakers Likekers like Lakers likes
like like.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Like last night, they pulled off a big trade and
now they have thirty five million dollars to go out
and get the final missing piece or two to their team.
Everything is pointing to this team next year in the
NBA Finals. Sacramento Kings Light the Beam hashtag Light the Beam.
(06:47):
Kings are going to the finals. First, let me tell
you about the rest of the rest of the Western Conference. Okay,
you have a lot of teams that have issues, right
the the Clippers and Memphis. Their teams that are in
the Clipper's gonna keep Paul George or they not. We
saw that Kawhi Leonard and Paul George hasn't worked, so
good luck trying to make it work. Memphis, who knows
(07:09):
Marcus Smart's a great move bringing them in and hopefully
he can set the culture there. But you have no idea.
You're missing John Morant for the first twenty five games.
Who knows when he's going to play ken They put
it all together very immature last year. The Lakers and
the Warriors are old and getting older. I mean the
Warriors at all. Let's go get Chris Paul. The dude
is washed. So now you have teams that are gonna
(07:29):
come back next year with the same kind of core,
thinking we can go further.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
It's not gonna happen. Now you have the NBA champion Nuggets.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yet Nuggets are great, and yes, I told you the
next five years they'll go to two more NBA Finals
and win at least one of them. But everything went
right for them this year. They didn't have injury issues.
They were able to get all the way through the season.
Jokic stayed healthy, Murray stayed healthy. You look at the
path they had to navigate in the NBA playoffs, they
were all lower seeds, the higher seeds all got knocked out.
(07:59):
The odds are they're gonna get a bit of a
bounce next year, and everything is not going to go right.
When you see teams win championships, usually it's a everything
went right. We get it very rare as a team
where oh we're missing our best player. We won the title.
We're getting him back next year. It's gonna be awesome.
So they're gonna get a bounce. So when you throw
in the Western Conference, that's like, boy that this is
the state of the rest of the teams. And you
(08:20):
have a young roster that has the best offense in
the league. That's run by Fox and Sabonis. This is
a terrific team, right, we saw them, like the scoreboard up,
the way they could Keegan Murray was terrific as well.
They make this trade last night that that that frees
up thirty five million dollars the Rashawn Holmes deal, which
is a good deal for Dallas. Right, he's a good player,
(08:41):
but this frees him up to go get what they need,
which is maybe a two way player so they can
improve their defense a little bit, whatever they might need
for that next little bit to get over the top. Yeah,
they were a good story this year. Then we saw
how good they were bad matchup in the first round
against a team that had won championships and too much
Steph Curry. They still came within a hair's breadth of
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winning that series. Next year, now they know what the
playoffs are all about. They're young, they're talented, they're terrific.
Give me Sacramento in the NBA finals next year.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Look at you taking the the youth and saying they
will not break down.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's good.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Don't put it out there in the universe. Don't do that.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Well, I mean I gotta call what it is.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Everybody else you're saying, well, they'll break down there, they
won't stay healthy, these guys can't stayn on the court.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Well, these are all older teams, These are all that.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
But that's the point.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
So you got a young team, so you're just banking
on them being able to roll through with all that money.
Frostburg and I talking going why not go get Kuzma.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That could be the guy, right, he's he's a perfect
fit there. Yeah, he'd be able, he'd be a perfect fit.
He says he wants to go win.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Okay, prove it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Goas to go to.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Sacrament because we did a lot of talk about the
the Chris Middleton deal and if he's turning down forty,
he's looking for more.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
So you have that going on. Golden State goes into
the next iteration of the their big three and Steve Kerr, Yeah,
the big three concept is dead, but hey, let's keep
it here, uh for for the old old time giggles.
I'm gonna I'm gonna look a little deeper because I
like chaos and two made the play in how about
(10:20):
OKC just to create some chaos all.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
The way Samano did this year, all.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
The way to the top Oklahoma City. Just look, just
to make.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Some noise whether they can actually get over the top. Look,
Denver stays healthy. You ain't top of them, right, that's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
But that things like I said, everything's gotta go right again,
and does everything go right?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
For no, don't.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
But that's the thing, right, that's the beauty.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
And why they put the roll the ball back out
on the court every time is in theory. You know
you're you're gonna get gains. The Memphis Moran's gonna miss
twenty five games? Does that matter in the grand scale?
If he's back and ready and this machine is moving, Uh,
come playoffs. Curious to see where Dylan Brooks lands when
(11:05):
it's all said and done. But Marcus Smart comes in
steadies it. They were a number two seed despite missing
Morant for a chunk of the season and really not
having any type of interior presence with Steven Adams hurt.
So they'll be interesting. Phoenix top heavy. What's the rest
of that roster look like? Is that gonna be the
(11:25):
equivalent of the end of Wheel of Fortune going I'll
take the ceramic dog to fill out a roster.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I don't know it could be.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
You know, one of my good friends actually does have
a ceramic dog that in this living room for like
the last fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
It's the greatest thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's got it's a ceramic dog, but it's like made
it like with the little tiles, like the little they.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Look like a mosaic kind of Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
He's had that in his living room. And the thing
is his kids when they were little, they were scared
of it. They're like, dude, take it out of your
living No, it's kinda stay. I'm like, yeah, that's a
that's a ceramic dog. Your kids. I worry about your kids. Ah,
they're worry about.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
The kids' a ceramic dog.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I don't want that. If my kid doesn't like a
ceramic dog, you get rid of the ceramic dog.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
No, a ceramic dog stays. Wow, kids gotta get over it.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I think I think I could call child.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
So you got to learn some hard lessons in life.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Wow, it's like all the people, Hey, let's go find
the easier teacher. Blank that eventually you're gonna have to
deal with someone you don't.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Like, the boy.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
And who doesn't like you.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Mister Harmon, doesn't really say anything that makes me feel good.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
All he does is make me.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
I used to teach hands on art classes and I'd
go in and if the kids were screwing around, It's like,
see that bench out there one more time.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Jason, are you on ayahuasca right now?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I am not on.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
As far as you know, I am not.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Well, I'm gonna think you are.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Is that why you didn't drive into anything? Eight seven
seven ninety nine?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
First of all, it's only three ounces. Why would I
want to drink something We're only gonna drink three ounces
of it?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I want saying some pretty crazy stuff and stuff, man.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I mean you know, look, look I I you got
to hydrate after that.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
The Kings in the in the in the championship.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I like to drink my drinks set out.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
So you're saying some pretty crazy things, man ude.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
But I've been right about a lot of things.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
So what name one thing you were right about?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Nuggets and four Lakers going to the finals this year? Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers, Lakers.
Like no, picking the Lakers are going now, I'm not
picking the Kings anymore, picking the Lakers just because you
don't want it Lake too late.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
You already have the Kings.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
We have.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
The whole tape doesn't matter. I'm changing out a Lakers.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
You already tweeted it out.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It's Lake.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I could I could delete that tweeting you kidding.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I could do that, really sure I could.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
As I said Aaron Rodgers was going to retire.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
No, I never said that.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I definitely did.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
No.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I've all the things I said about Aaron Rodgers. I
never said that is a That is a bad pull
by you, Alix. That's you not even pay that you
not even paying attention to what said on the show.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
I never said, hey, Jason said that.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I don't get ready Kings in the NBA Finals. It's
all happening.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
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Speaker 3 (14:10):
How long I have to wait?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
If this song doesn't fire when I press the button, I'm.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Just gonna wait until it does.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I don't care, gonna force fade Tears for Fears down
everybody's throats.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Jason, all you gotta do is shroom with me one
time and I'll stop.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Let's go do this.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
How About how about I buy Fat sALS one more
time and then you stop.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
I think I'm on to some else, man. I think
I'm done with Fat sALS.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Okay, how about I buy PF Chang's one more time?
Speaker 7 (14:35):
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Speaker 1 (14:48):
H a big time NFL story coming up in a
few minutes. But if you thought that show, hey Otani,
you're just keeping the door open that he was gonna
get traded something we saw tonight, should slam that door
in your face. Right now, We've talked about this for
the last couple of weeks. The Angels are contending. Are
they the best team in the American League?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
No, they're not. Are they a playoff team right now?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
They are. They're a team that can make noise in
the American League because the Central is absolutely terrible. The
West of the Rangers will come back to the pack.
They're starting to come back to the pack a little bit,
and the AL East is beating each other up right
But right now Angels are five games over five hundred. Yes,
they're on a bit of a losing streak, but they
have played well. And it doesn't matter where you are
(15:35):
at the end of this month. If you're within shouting
distance of a playoff berth, you're going to keep the
team together and you're gonna keep Sho Heo Tani. Right
now they are a half game out of the final
playoff spot. With everybody jumble together, the Astros, Yankees, Blue Jays,
Angels all a thirty five thirty six losses, this is
(15:55):
something that's gonna play out over the course of the
next few weeks. Now, with every day that goes on,
we get closer to the deadline. And as long as
the Angels don't throw up on themselves, they're gonna keep
Otani and they're not gonna and then you figure out
the end of the season after it's over. But there's
too much pressure on them now to say you can't
cut bait, you can't trade him, you have to keep him.
(16:16):
You gotta let him go, and maybe if he goes
through a pennant race with you, he'll want to stay right,
but there's so much pressure. Today, the Angels made a trade.
They traded two of their young pitchers, the nineteenth and
twentieth rated prospects in their system.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And to the Mets.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
As the Mets are starting to offload because they're realizing, well,
our team, everybody is forty years old. We just stink.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
We stink out loud.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So the Mets decide, all right, we're gonna start unloading
our guys. And hey, how many times have I said,
here's the guys. The Mets have to trade, right, here's
the guys. I go to sleep thinking, we gotta trade Askeabar,
gotta trade, Canna, we gotta trade to everybody, right, everybody
over thirty five has to go. And they trade Eduardo
Escobar to the Angel someone who the Mets signed to
(17:05):
play third base, and he was kind of I would
say he was up and down this year. When he
was when he when he lost his gig to Brett Bait,
he actually started hitting a little bit better, but it
doesn't matter. He had been a disappointment since they gave
him the big contract last year, but he had been
good previously. The Angels have an issue, right, Rendona's heard again.
(17:26):
Gee's surprise, surprise. So just the fact that they said
we are gonna trade two young prospects for a thirty
five year old infielder tells me, no matter what they're
going for it, this is not gonna be a well
we're gonna sit and see where things go and make
a movie. No, if they are sitting here at the
in the near the end of June and the trade
(17:49):
season kind of opens today because here go the Angels.
When you trade for a thirty five year old infielder
because you're looking to fill a hole, however long you
need to fill a hole. Four in you're trading to
young pitchers who have been pretty decent in the minor
league now lower level. Mind, there's the guy who pitched.
The guys are pitching at Double A. But when you're
trading those guys, yeah, you are not going to be
selling at the deadline. This trade for Escobar should tell
(18:12):
you that Otani isn't going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Oh, you're taking your shot.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
And while I don't know how much juice you get
out of this is a guy that has had multiple
twenty plus home run seasons. He's struggled miserably at a
good batting average in the month of May but limited
at bats, hitting two hundred in his limited opportunities in
the month of June strikes out about a third of
(18:36):
the time. All of those things announce and out. But
let's call it what it is. You're gonna do everything
you can to slap some band aids on things to
see if you can't stay in this race. Because we've
talked about it with Ardi Morino, it's the all right,
we may lose him at the end of all of this,
but I'm not going to be the guy that traded
him away for a bunch of prospects. So instead they
(19:00):
go into the draft, and again, I don't know how
much much value he'll have coming over Escobar in this deal,
but you trade away a couple of the guys that
are coming up in your system, something that was a
big push the last couple of drafts they drafted. That
one draft that all they did was take pictures. So
(19:21):
you're looking at trying to beef that up behind Otani.
But it's a win now kind of proposition. I would
like to think that maybe you've got a couple of
guys in your organization in the prospect world that maybe
you can sell a little harder than that and bring
back someone a little more steady and not a let's
(19:41):
hope we find his stroke again just because he's hitting
in the lineup with Trout and Otani. But you got
to start somewhere. And if this is the market that materialized,
it's Domino number one.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, And don't I don't think for a second the
Angels are going to be bad enough where suddenly they
fall into one of those They've lost twelve out of
thirteen and now forget it, right, Like the American League
is not that great, and you have too many teams
that are just sitting a couple of games over five hundred,
between three and five games over. That's a tough thing
for me to see. Now, could always happen, right, Like
you know what happened to the Pirates. They were in
(20:15):
first place and Pirates fans are going pinch me, I'm dreaming.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Then they lost twelve.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
In a row and it's we stink another year like this,
Oh boy, and now we're as bad as the Mets. Great,
But I just don't see that happening with the Angels.
They've been playing too good over the course of this year.
And look when Otani, it's a home run every game
and he pitches every fifth day. Yeah, you're gonna win
a couple of those games just by accident. So the
only thing that would cause that to happen would be
(20:40):
that kind of swoon. They're just not a swoon team.
I mean other years they were. This year they're not
a swoon team. Other teams you can see it, you
can see the energy on a team where you can
get negative really fast, but especially surrounding Otani, and the
energy brings the ballpark and brings the team that hey,
players want to see him play in the playoff. It's
a little bit of different story for the Angels this year. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
I think the other part is even if it does
go to hell and they lose a ton again, it
doesn't matter Ardy Moreno already did his exploratory searches as
to what he would be able to get for the team,
right So, does that mean that you've got a guy
Does that indicate a level of stability looking at years
down the road and whether he can bring back enough
(21:23):
assets to win Hell No, that's a guy that's going
to try to get everything he can out of the
cash register right now, which means as he and he
doesn't want to be the guy that sends Otani off
I mean, they've got a an Otani puzzle night on
the twenty seventh against the White Size.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We can't trade him till he get rid of all
of this stuff. Yeah, but it's all the way through September.
Then we're not trading them, not.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Gonna trade him.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Would rather have him be the jilted lover left standing
in the aisle and standing at the altar. Then then
give him away and be that, because like that that's
a villainy kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, oh no, it's that's that's definitely big. That's a
hill turn without even needing to say it. That's straight straight.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Right, And I think I think there's something to that.
It's like you'd rather be the Oh I guess he
just didn't want to play here with us in Anaheim anymore.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Twitter and out about a Fresca. Mike gets swollen dome.
So that's all the evidence you need. Otani is staying
in a you trade for it, water wetske bar. You're
not gonna trade for Escobar and then dumb Otani not
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I don't know that we could do that one for.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
One, not gonna do you know who's saved Otani from
being shipped out of town for him, only to say
we're trading Otani a month later.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
You're not gonna do it, dude.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
After the last couple of nights, Otani might just demand
a trade.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Not happening.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Not happening. Have you seen the highlights?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Yeah, he seems to be hitting home run, seems to
be hit lost three in a row.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
He's doing everything he can to put them in position,
and then they blow it.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
And if you squint really closely, what's the highlights are
now becoming? Uh, spliced together with little snippets of the
one man gang the hell out of people in the
wrestling world back and.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Was leading all the Angel stats.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I think the only category he's not leading in his
saves and losses.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, well, no, he might be leading in he might
be leading in saving.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
SAME's losses and holds.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Good because I think they're actually allowing him to save
his own start. I think they're allowing him they change
the rules for that.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Now he's gonna spectacular.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He pitches the first seven innings, then goes to play
first base, and then he comes back to pitch the
ninth and he's saving. Is that That's how they're gonna
do it.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
Yeah, Frostburg has already asked me to procure all the
show Heyotani Dodgers cards as they become.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
Get him now, Mike
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