July 19, 2023 • 29 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if Bill Belichick's coaching job is really in jeopardy. The guys are officially on Shohei Ohtani trade watch. Plus, the Progressive play of the night!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
All right, the world's ending, and I know how it's
gonna end. I know how it's going to end. You
got the answer, I got the answers. It's in the
New York Post, all right.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I do traverse that site with some regularity for stories
and randomness.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Here's your headline, human sized bat terrified social media users
and these pictures of this bat that looks like it
as veg as a person. Sure, that's Halloween out shit.
I don't know that it's real or not, but a
lot of people think it's real. Human sized bats.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's like when Antonio Benderis was a vampire.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right now, Sci Fi Channel execs a listening, going, oh,
human sized bats, Yes, that's the next movie.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's funny because they had the Shark Nato Marathon on
earlier today, So it only fits that we end up
with the human sized bat.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I mean the pictures of this bat, some people are saying, hey,
I think it might be photoshopped. It might be this.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So so the Philippines now go on a list of
things like Australia where you can't go because I'm not
going there.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Come on, man, you.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Know that she's not a guy trying to scare the
hell out of people and keep them away.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
They does say that the bats are vegan and they
eat guava and other things, which are great. But you
know what's gonna happen is someone's gonna capture one of these.
They're gonna train it to eat humans and drink blood,
and then you're gonna have a whole new I mean,
this may not be a one.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
They'd be able to clone them. So now we have
a race of super super bat and.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
They won't have to clow. We're talking about real bats
or metal bats. No, right, no, not not metal bats. Well,
I don't think you hear the ping, ping ping. No,
it'll be a while to train these bats to actually,
you know, want to kill humans and drink their blood,
and then you need some time for them to multiply,
and so it's we're talking about a few years away
(02:30):
from the end of the world with this, because they
have to escape from the Philippines. There's a whole build up.
There's a few years.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I mean, I'm not saying what's right the station period
of a I don't know, probably probably like a how
quickly can you do? Because I saw another talent is
being decimated by rabbits that have taken over. But here's
the Twitter user uh hey from the Philippines. Here.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I can confirm this.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Huge wingspan, huge wingspan, but the body it says huge
with like for use. The bodies are really not that big,
more or less the same body as a medium.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's moll sized dog. It's huge wingspan. I just want
to see a human sized bat. You know that's called
batman with the utility belt. All right, I want to
picture the human sized bat. He could get me saying
(03:25):
Napier's cleaning out axis chemicals. I just want to whisper
that to the bat and see what batman using a
metal bat? Oh eck Heart, Oh no, get me, Lieutenant Eckhart.
Human size bets. That's how we're gonna bub gun. That's
how we're all gonna die. That's why it's human sized bat.
Years away though, years I trust me, we're years away.
(03:47):
We're years away. Yeah, some time you were years away,
years away. Look at that the eguava for now. Well,
the common vampire bat has a gestation period of two
hundred nine days. But I'm sure with this bat, it's
a bigger bat.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I got, like like Robert or DJ, this vampire bat
for three good fifty seven days.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh okay, So if you could do a little Jurassic Park,
keep doubling and doubling.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, yeah, sure, you know the frog Rock where you're at.
He come the human sized bats and get us all.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah the hory no hory or or no, no, no,
the h is not silent.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes, no, no it is. I think it's after ten o'clock,
it doesn't. You watch the bats hitting threes from behind
three point line? Yeah, I got six rings. I got
six rings.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
The bats.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Seven. But who's counting? Or he's got seven he's gonna say, Okay, they.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Tried to rob the guy of a ring. I tried
to turn him into a human bat. It'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's kind of like you know, maybe you know it's
almost like Spider Man, except you turned into a human bat.
It would be pretty cool human size viderlings in the
everything else Spider Man, Spider Man.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Hey, big story out of the NFL today. I hate
to say I told you so, but this has never
been something that's been uttered by.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
This was the case of not you know, we like
to do. We usually do Tomorrow's takes the night before.
This was Today's takes a week ago, and actually more
so than that, because we've been telling you for a while. Look,
Bill Belichick is coaching for his life. He is coaching
for his career with the Patriots this year because things
(05:31):
have not gone well and he is at odds with
many aspects of the Patriots organization. We've told you this.
He's coaching for his career this year, and at the
end of the year, if they're not winning, he's out. Somehow,
he is out. We told us a week ago. We
talked about it for a while, Tuda, what do we
get today? A couple of reports Tom current Patriots insider,
(05:52):
Ben Villin Patriots insider saying, Hey, Belichick's on the hot
seat this year. I'm like, dude, I could be an
NFL insider because we talked about this a week and
a half ago. I don't need anything else. I told
you he's on the hot seat. This is it. There's
so many things going on. You already know he and
Bob Kraft have been at odds for a while. Just
the fact that Belichick said, hey, one of the least
(06:13):
spending teams in the NFL, and Craft's saying, no, no,
wait a minute. You wanted all that money for eleven
tight ends a few years ago, and I gave it
to you after Brady and we're not winning. You wanted
to sign Cam Newton, You wanted to turn your former
defensive coordinator into the offensive coordinator, but not really say
he's an offensive coordinator, because everybody runs to your back saying, oh,
he just wants to make sure Matt Patricia gets paid.
(06:33):
When is Bill Belichick making sure anything is good for
assistant coaches? Has that ever come up? Never? You know
they're on opposite sides. You know, Craft is antsy. He
wants a playoff berth and all he has seen since
Tom Brady left is this roster get worse and worse
and worse, and they all the decisions that Belichick has
made has not made the team better. They've not gone
(06:55):
after big players. They've brought. They've took chances in the draft.
Some of them panned out, some of them have not
your quarterback who you hand picked. You saw Ben viln
say he doesn't want to say his name in public.
When you get pictures of mac Jones with Tom Brady
and mccordy at the Hamptons, how is mac Jones in
this When Belichick doesn't want to say his name in public,
you know how bad this is. And they are going
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to be the biggest blank show of the year in
the NFL. Because the Patriots aren't gonna win because they're
the fourth most talented team in their division, fourth and
they're not gonna win early. They got to play Miami
twice in the first eight games. They gotta play Buffalo,
they got to play the Cowboys, they gotta play the Jets,
They have to play all teams out are better than them.
And they're not going to be a team that is
in the playoff hunt. They're gonna be very low and
(07:40):
it's gonna be circling for Bill Belichick. And at the
end of this year, he's gonna wind up out. He's
gonna wind up out either with some sort of joint
decision that it's time for me to move on. I'm leaving,
or he'll be allowed to resign, because you know, Bob
Kraft is saying, Okay, maybe Bill wasn't the genius that
we thought he was because everything was great and then
Tom left and look where we're at right now. Look
(08:01):
at out. All these personnel decisions were awful. Any other
guy makes those personnel decisions that Belichick's made over the
course of the past three years, They're fired. They're gone.
They don't get this year, they don't get. It's like
Quentin Tarantino in pulp fiction. No trial, separation, no counseling.
We're getting divorced. There is no you have one more
year than no. You are fired before this season even begins.
(08:23):
He has made so many bad miscalculations and bad mistakes
and bad personnel choices, but he's still allowed to coach.
But this is it, This is going to be it
for him this year in New England. Hey, today's takes
a week and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
No, and we've talked about it for a while, right,
I mean, they have the story going into the weekend,
which was this past weekend, which was about friends and
family are whispering that they're afraid for Bill's job, and Okay,
the division got better. Everybody's catching up the mac Jones
thing and not wanting to say his name like he's
(08:57):
beetlejuice is a little scary. I'm not gonna lie. It's
a little bit concerning there. But you bring back Bill
O'Brien right as OC and QB coach. So in theory
that pays some dividends. Did it keep you from bringing
DeAndre Hopkins into your wide receiver?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Probably, I think that would probably be the deciding factor
since trader Bill O'Brien was the guy that sent him
out of town and kind of disassembled that squad in
the Planet Houston. But you did get better at the
wide receiver position. Bring in Devonte Parker, whose hit or
miss Juju Smith Schuster was had a pretty good career
(09:35):
coming off a really good year with Kansas City. So
good you added Gasicki from the Dolphins once upon a
time a fantasy hero in this offense. Could he shine
again alongside Hunter Henry, who's a good red zone threat.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
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Speaker 1 (09:58):
You got a couple of guys really trusted. Belichick's getting
it right with tight ends. Oh no, he's got the
right guy. Now, now come on, man, he's going no, no, no, no.
Now he's got the other Bill to blame. It's Bill Squared. Okay,
it's Bill O'Brien. I need to escape goat and coming
in here. Well you're gonna pay me, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you can have whatever title you want. But I gotta
blame you things.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But you know, the defense is always gonna be sound.
Jared Mayo is still there, and you've You've got a
good offensive line, So I mean the operations are there
for a nice five hundred team. Once again, I mean
it's but but his was he wrong about the dollars?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Like overall?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Like I don't think he's saying that publicly unless he's
done the math? Now, does Robert Kraft want you saying
the math outlet?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
No? No, but people know it. But wait a minute,
But what wasn't Bill Belichick to go back now because
he's reinventing history? Now? Didn't he say after Brady left?
I vividly remember him saying, we knew this first year
was gonna be tough because we had too much money
spent on guys. So wait, so you're not spending then,
well they did. You had too much money they didn't
guys and contracts that were finishing. So you take that
(11:06):
one year, all right, we gotta we gotta take that
one in the teeth a little bit and wait. But
then the next year you went out and spent a
lot of money. Right, it's not my fault. You want
to give money to Nelson Agalre, not my fault, Not
my fault. Air, and that broke. We looked at each other,
they signed everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I think that was about as much dead air as
this show has ever had. No pregnant pauses, no cough buttons,
just day, no.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Trial separation, no don't counseling. Yes, what they gave him?
What now? If running Backs want to be mad about
that deal, running backs are mad about the money that
Patriots gave out to God, to Nelson, Johnny Smith. You
want to single them out had that, Hey, they paid
a lot of money and none of it worked out,
and anybody else would have been fired. But most teams
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would kill to go around five hundred every year yeah, yeah,
but but that's not the Patriots, I believe. I gotta
give you, I gotta give them the nod is that
they measure themselves differently. We'll be able to championship franchise.
Now for the last twenty years, basically every three years
we win a Super Bowl. That's kind of what we do.
And now it's we're just not even We're not even
(12:12):
contending anymore. beIN in our wheels. Tell you the Jets
would hang a banner for going five hundred, you know,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
We were talking about that, but if the Colts did
when they made the title game. Finley tried to get
into the argument last hour about championship banners. UCLA hasn't
hung once chaship.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
We got all of.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
These things that are just swirling about. But you know
what you celebrate how you want to celebrate twitter At.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
How about a fresca? Mike gets swollen? Dome? Get ready.
The Patriots will be the biggest blank show all season long.
You're gonna see every week. What is going on? Is
Belichick getting fired? Is he gonna make it to the end.
What's he gonna say about Bob Kraft? What's he gonna
say about mac Jones. What's Mac Jones gonna say, is
Mac Jon's gonna go around Bill Belichick's back to say, hey,
I need some help up here. They will be the
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biggest blank show of the year. You're going to be
so mad when the US they beat the Jets. Well,
but that's the thing, Frostburg.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I mean, look now we're expecting mediocrity at best for
the Patriots, whereas everybody's building your boy up on a
pedal pedestal, right he is. They're building statues to Aaron
Rodgers already.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And look at the Patriots two and fifteen, both wins,
of course against the Jets. When it goes bad, you
cut those guys loose.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
You better hope they don't go too in fifteen Smith,
they I mean they Williams watch that, Yeah, they'll Williams
just watch then want that. It'll be a fight between
them and the Raiders. You don't want that, And the
Raiders will be the team that screws it up. They
will absolutely screw up getting Caleb.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Will you stop this right now? You eight for Rosberg?
You wait, so Rogers gets to the Raiders. Just a
year later, Twitter at out about a Fresco Mike has
swollen down. The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon coming up next. Hey, we get into the
story that is going to dominate everything for the next
(13:54):
two weeks. That's straight ahead right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Be sure to catch live edition of The Jason Smith
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get to the big story that's going to take us
(15:02):
through the next two weeks in the world of sports. Well,
the Jets are coming to training camp and Rogers. But uh,
this is our first show together. Uh in all over
a week, as I spent all last week, day by
day with my team and San Bernardino and our pursuit
of the state championship. Last year, we made it to
the SEMIS made it to the championship game Saturday. We
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lost lost to Balwin Park, another team from from right
around here.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
What did you do to screw it up? Because I
know the girls played flawless. They did I think I
think I made it too hot. Okay, it's a it's
a you're full of hot air, dude.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I can tell you we could no, no, no, no, But
let me tell you something. We go out there right
and and it's it's one hundred and five degrees and
even when the game starts at six forty five it's
one hundred and two degrees. And the coaches were old
with Carlos and Tom, We're like, come on, girls, come
on girls, And Carlos is saying, come on, girls, we
gotta fight. We gotta you gotta stay, I gotta stay
(16:00):
with it. And then all right, then we look at
each other, go gods, it's it's hot, man, it is
really hot out here. It was hard, and I gotta
be honest with you, I'd like to see us play
that game in a little bit less weather. Because they
call us Westchester's. Our team were called the Westchester Vampires.
So when the sun went down, we started to play
really really well. We were like We's Chester Vampires.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Like the Bay his team's filled with those bats.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Frostber oh Man out of the Philip Beans. The weather man. No,
the weather made it tough, like we we really didn't
hit no. Look. The other team was ben Bull with Parker.
They beat us twice. Uh that was our double elimination.
But we won a couple of thrilling games. We won
a game on Thursday night where we threw out the
game winning season ending run at the plate in the
seventh inning. Uh Alyssa through to Deborah. Deborah makes the
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tag and we're all screaming after that play. The parents
are insane and it's oh my god. And I really
thought we would get that. We got there, and you know,
it was just that's still a hell of a run.
It was an unbelievable run.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Insane scheduling, unfortunate timing because of weather. Having experienced a
little of that back with the one hundred percent humidity.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Insane ago stuff. It's a different world.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Man.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You come from the southern California where it might get hot,
but you're you're not dried out. No, so yeah, it's
it's just a mess. It's like, let's just.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Warm up in the shade. Let's just stay right there,
we play under the lights. Can we just makes this
at nine o'clock game? It was scheduling nuts though, I
mean you were every day for every day. No, I
didn't know. And when we were talking about him, like
I'm calling every night, going, hey we won, I'm out
tomorrow night. And Carlos and Aaron who the manager of
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the coaches with all of us, and they were listening
to radio and uh, you were saying, Jason will be
back tomorrow night, and they're going no, No, he won't.
We won. No, we won't we won. I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I wasn't getting notified. Oh it was like I got nothing.
So I'm left needles and pins. I was left on
on read a couple of times. I'm like, is he,
you know, unable to be sold?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Right now? Did it go all horribly wrong? Did Zoey
disown him?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I mean, like everything went through here and already span
years in here going you don't hope he's okay?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Oh no, no, under his breath he's going. It was
like it in here. It was just so what is
the broadcast to play during They wouldn't even have games
during the day because it was too hot. But the
champ and that's the thing is they wouldn't have games
during the days was too hot. But the Championship on Saturday,
they said, we're gonna start at five o'clock. It's like,
this is the championship, it's the state bleeping championship, and
you're gonna start at five o'clock. How does that? How
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do all during the week and then you're gonna start
this game at five? Was it televised on the Pack
twelve network? It's back to back on the pack twelve. Now, okay,
it's that. That's all we're gonna get right now. So
that was tough.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
But why did they move the time here to start?
Let's go, I wish they did, and you like upset somebody.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And and look and the team and the team we
played like they they play in these temperatures. It's one
hundred and five degrees and I'm like, oh my god,
it's just some field advantage. It was tough. You guys
gonna practice the next season in Death Valley or what. Yeah, yeah,
that's one hundred and thirty one. It only got to
one hundred and twenty nine. By the way, we're gonna
wear Harmon's uh whatever, the sweatshirt he's got on, the
weight loss sweatshet.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know what suit, I'm gonna show a patch on him.
I'm gonna be a sponsor.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
They're all coaching your Santa suit. But let me just
say this, because I promise the girls, I'd I say
we make it to the state championship, and I'll say
this big Mac Debra Sienna hot wheels. I'm getting ready
to cry because it was wheels. Oh Sienna's fast hot wheels. Yeah,
yes day, Yeah, they allow you to pick your name. Now, yeah,
they allow you to pick your nickname to announce because
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they want to juice it up a little bit. But
I didn't hear that part. Literally thought that was her
last name. No, No, that would be gorth Now Kalia's Rodzilla,
Zoe the Ninja, Marlow Sprinkles, Cassidy Cheetah, double A, Alyssa Turbo,
Olivia Skyscraper, Quinn, Sophia Small's Pee Wee Izzy. Girls are outstanding.
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They were absolutely outstanding. And I'll tell you this because
it might have been the last game I ever coached, right,
because I don't know, and I was always getting into
high school. And actually she's gonna play for Carlos Off
the next four years of high school. WI She's really
excited about. I'm like, this is my last time. And
so I brought my flip flops and put him and
stuck him in Zoe's backpack. So, you know, at the
end of the championship, State championship, I would, you know,
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do the whole thing. I put my shoes in the
field like they do when when you're done right, and
I'm wearing my flip flops. So I go, okay, you know,
we lost I'm walking on the field for a couple
of minutes, and I go, and I go, I'm gonna
go put my my flip my shoes at the field
and put my flip flops on. I go to Zolway's backpack.
The girls are all talking, were are my flip flops?
I only have one flip flop? Zoe says, I don't know, Dad,
where are you doing? I go, how do I not
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wear my flip flops? So I couldn't put my shoes
out there. So now not only do I not, I
can't do the whole thing. I can't be the dramatic
thing and put the shoes out there. I've lost my
best pair of flip flops. So I'm like, I know
what I'll do that It means he's got multiple pairs
of flip flops, right, No, I have like two pairs
of flip flops. Now I have one. So I'm like, Okay,
you know what I'll do. I'll leave my hat out there,
so do a whole thing. I think about it. I'm
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kind of em doing it because like, I don't know
if I'm gonna coach again. This is it. Okay, I
put my hat out there. I walk out. We're getting
ready to leave and Ciana's mom, Aaron goes, Jason, is
that your hat out there on the field. I'm like, yes,
I'll go go. Oh my god, you guys aren't letting
me do anything today. I let me do anything.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Tried to give a hat to my field like you
gave all those teenage and young twenties girls.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Decided to go back out there and get the hat
and bring it out and everything and uh wait.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Complete the visual though, I mean, did you just shift
down where he had the uh the tank top on
to give him the gun show while you were putting
the hat out.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
It was one of those It was one of those
T shirts where it looked like are you stopping bullets
or are you stopping you know? Baby?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Do you wear a unifil like you were a Tommy
Lesorda No, no, no, no. We had we had the
T shirts.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
We had the T shirts for it and everything else,
and the girls had their nicknames and it was it
was unbelievable. It's every day was how do we stay
out of the heat until we have to play a game?
Guys would have won, you mean embraced. It's one hundred
and five degrees. Fuck it up. And the dude, it's
one oh five, this is a championship game.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Eat everything you got.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
We tried that. We tried that, We tried it's a
dry heat. We said before the championship game. The coaches
we said, all right, let's let's you know, let's make
sure the girls are in a good frame of mind
every because it was the hottest. It was you stood eating. No, No,
the girls all had cooling towels. So the girls have
cooling towels. Are like, okay, we're all doing different things.
And and and Carlos comes up and he goes, man,
it's hot. I go, I know, I know, because I
think I need a cooling towel. And I said, dude,
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you can't wear a cooling tel. The girls are gonna
see goes Oh, no, you're right, you're right, you're right.
I said, yeah, all right. Five minutes later he comes back,
he's got to make cooling towel. Audience. It's just hot.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's just hot.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It was so hot.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I couldn't I couldn't get the congratulations to the girls.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That was great, it was amazing. The girls are the
girls are fantastic, and and it was it sucks. It
sucks because this is the end of the year and
this you know, now the girls all go their different ways,
and now you only have one different things and now
I gotta get a pack of you. And I love
those flip flops. Yeah, hop around it. It's hot. I
couldn't do the hat, the shoes that were done.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You did the hat, the mom just I mean, if
someone was recording it was I mean they watched you
have to go back out. Yeah, Jay Samson as your
hat out there, I'm like, it's a really big hat.
That's gotta be Coach Smith's and the big hat out
there on the field, I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Uh so, yeah, hey, we's Chester Vampires. It was some
kind of season.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
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Speaker 1 (23:27):
The story that will have everybody talking for the next
two weeks Otani Watch twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow
wow wow wow wow wow.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I need wo wow wow wow wow wow wow. Every
day We're gonna get a new story about Otani every
single day. The rays are interested, the giants are interested.
The Yankees would like Otani, but the Angels aren't gonna
trade Otanni to the Yankees. Every the last twenty four hours,
you've seen different. I could make stuff up and people go, wow, Okay, yeah,
why not you all of this is legitimate? Why not?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
This is a I report in market X. We have
to be interested in calling, right. I put it out there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
The Nationals want Otani really now, but everybody's saying whatever
they want to. It's okay Otan every single day Otani
And I love Ben Verlander, who was on social media
today and said, I hope people just start appreciating how
great he is and not talk about where Otani is
gonna end up. Dude, how how how compelling is just
saying wow, Otani's great? I mean, come on, man, hasn't
(24:31):
that been like the underlying story for since he came
to the stage. The best player any of us have
ever seen could get traded in the next two weeks.
That's a pretty big bleep in the mill. That's the story.
It's the only story. Every day Otani watch Wow, And
I'm telling you they're gonna have no choice but to
(24:51):
trade him as they fall through the standings where they
have with no Mic Trout. That's gonna make it a
little bit easier. They've gone from a position of strength.
We're seven eight games over five hundred, we have the
the possession of the third wildcard. We have a three
game lead. Now they're well behind. They're five six games behind.
They got to jump a bunch of teams to get
past them, including the Yankees, who stink. Is it really
(25:15):
gonna get better? It's not? And you're not going to
add to this team? Uh, and you're certainly not gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Tried right, their biggest swing right and Mike Mustache, it's
it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
A non choice. That is two months of Otani and
five million dollars of whatever we're gonna make. Is that worth?
And however many bobblehead knights we have of Otani? Is
that worth not getting two really really good players that
could potentially be cornerstones of the team, because hey, how
(25:51):
do we get Mike Trout draft right, how do we
get him? How do we get him? Young player? Uh?
Is it really gonna be Can they really just say
this is what we're gonna do, because he's gonna walk
away at the end of the season. If they're not
gonna win. He's not gonna resign another year. No Pennant race.
You can tell he's excited. He got the taste of
it in the World Baseball Classic. I love that he's
bat flipping after home runs and Angels are beating the Yankees,
and it's been a credible last couple of nights for
(26:13):
him for Otani with his home runs. But are you
really gonna say, yeah, we're just gonna put him out
there for the next couple months on them walk away
for nothing. You have to get something for him, and
you're gonna get something really good. Again, the best player
any of us have ever seen is gonna be traded,
even if it's for a two month rental. You're gonna
get a really good package from Mere. Not gonna get
prospect number nineteen and twenty, You're gonna get two with
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the top five that a team has to offer, Because
any team is gonna say, he likes it here, he
likes what we have going on, he'll wanta re sign here.
You're gonna get something. But you can't just say, hey,
in a season that's not gonna end anyway, Hey, we'll
take two months of Otani versus maybe getting a guy
who could be the next Mike Trout or a couple
of players who could really help us over the next decade.
(26:55):
Because but we've had so far with Otani and Trout
that hasn't worked.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
No, and that's why I ride it out to its cold,
and we did all we could for a decade. Didn't work.
You know what, I'm gonna get all the revenue I can.
I'm not gonna do any refunds to any of the
Japanese sponsors and advertisers. No, we're right, there's no There's
only one more that I could I could see here
(27:19):
one more promotional item that has anything to do with Otani,
and it's a Tops Trading card team set that they're
given out in August. Otherwise, you got the City Connect
rally monkey, a Trucker hat with their logo, Trout Hockey jersey,
a Trout Silver Slugger bobblehead, which means they're hoping he's
(27:39):
back and playing to celebrate those days. Uh, because guys
usually perform pretty well on their bobbleheads. Sure days, but
sometimes you have maybe you have to just combine him
into two. Hey, the first three innings will be this
Sotani bobblehead and everybod's got to leave the party one
But there's nothing. There's nothing left Otani wise, almost like
they knew. I still say, I go down with the ship.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Forget it, man. The Dodgers had Japanese Heritage night when
we were playing us. Come on, man, you got a
couple of prospects. Aren't getting us over? So I just
ride it out to the bitter end. Decides to stay.
You gotta get something. No, you gotta got something. Yeah,
I gotta get something. What do you get a bucket
of balls to really good? This is how how you
(28:23):
get better.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Don't Your organization's gotta change from top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Sure to bring it in two or three prospects. It
does nothing. It's better than having nothing. If I thought
they could have Otani at the end of the year,
I would say, OK. If there was any shot of
him staying, I would say, yeah. But they don't. You
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
All right, the world's ending, and I know how it's
gonna end. I know how it's going to end. You
got the answer, I got the answers. It's in the
New York Post, all right.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I do traverse that site with some regularity for stories
and randomness.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Here's your headline, human sized bat terrified social media users
and these pictures of this bat that looks like it
as veg as a person. Sure, that's Halloween out shit.
I don't know that it's real or not, but a
lot of people think it's real. Human sized bats.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's like when Antonio Benderis was a vampire.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right now, Sci Fi Channel execs a listening, going, oh,
human sized bats, Yes, that's the next movie.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's funny because they had the Shark Nato Marathon on
earlier today, So it only fits that we end up
with the human sized bat.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I mean the pictures of this bat, some people are saying, hey,
I think it might be photoshopped. It might be this.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So so the Philippines now go on a list of
things like Australia where you can't go because I'm not
going there.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Come on, man, you.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Know that she's not a guy trying to scare the
hell out of people and keep them away.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
They does say that the bats are vegan and they
eat guava and other things, which are great. But you
know what's gonna happen is someone's gonna capture one of these.
They're gonna train it to eat humans and drink blood,
and then you're gonna have a whole new I mean,
this may not be a one.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
They'd be able to clone them. So now we have
a race of super super bat and.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
They won't have to clow. We're talking about real bats
or metal bats. No, right, no, not not metal bats. Well,
I don't think you hear the ping, ping ping. No,
it'll be a while to train these bats to actually,
you know, want to kill humans and drink their blood,
and then you need some time for them to multiply,
and so it's we're talking about a few years away
(02:30):
from the end of the world with this, because they
have to escape from the Philippines. There's a whole build up.
There's a few years.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I mean, I'm not saying what's right the station period
of a I don't know, probably probably like a how
quickly can you do? Because I saw another talent is
being decimated by rabbits that have taken over. But here's
the Twitter user uh hey from the Philippines. Here.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I can confirm this.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Huge wingspan, huge wingspan, but the body it says huge
with like for use. The bodies are really not that big,
more or less the same body as a medium.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It's moll sized dog. It's huge wingspan. I just want
to see a human sized bat. You know that's called
batman with the utility belt. All right, I want to
picture the human sized bat. He could get me saying
(03:25):
Napier's cleaning out axis chemicals. I just want to whisper
that to the bat and see what batman using a
metal bat? Oh eck Heart, Oh no, get me, Lieutenant Eckhart.
Human size bets. That's how we're gonna bub gun. That's
how we're all gonna die. That's why it's human sized bat.
Years away though, years I trust me, we're years away.
(03:47):
We're years away. Yeah, some time you were years away,
years away. Look at that the eguava for now. Well,
the common vampire bat has a gestation period of two
hundred nine days. But I'm sure with this bat, it's
a bigger bat.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I got, like like Robert or DJ, this vampire bat
for three good fifty seven days.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh okay, So if you could do a little Jurassic Park,
keep doubling and doubling.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah, yeah, sure, you know the frog Rock where you're at.
He come the human sized bats and get us all.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah the hory no hory or or no, no, no,
the h is not silent.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes, no, no it is. I think it's after ten o'clock,
it doesn't. You watch the bats hitting threes from behind
three point line? Yeah, I got six rings. I got
six rings.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
The bats.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Seven. But who's counting? Or he's got seven he's gonna say, Okay, they.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Tried to rob the guy of a ring. I tried
to turn him into a human bat. It'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
That's kind of like you know, maybe you know it's
almost like Spider Man, except you turned into a human bat.
It would be pretty cool human size viderlings in the
everything else Spider Man, Spider Man.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Hey, big story out of the NFL today. I hate
to say I told you so, but this has never
been something that's been uttered by.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
This was the case of not you know, we like
to do. We usually do Tomorrow's takes the night before.
This was Today's takes a week ago, and actually more
so than that, because we've been telling you for a while. Look,
Bill Belichick is coaching for his life. He is coaching
for his career with the Patriots this year because things
(05:31):
have not gone well and he is at odds with
many aspects of the Patriots organization. We've told you this.
He's coaching for his career this year, and at the
end of the year, if they're not winning, he's out. Somehow,
he is out. We told us a week ago. We
talked about it for a while, Tuda, what do we
get today? A couple of reports Tom current Patriots insider,
(05:52):
Ben Villin Patriots insider saying, Hey, Belichick's on the hot
seat this year. I'm like, dude, I could be an
NFL insider because we talked about this a week and
a half ago. I don't need anything else. I told
you he's on the hot seat. This is it. There's
so many things going on. You already know he and
Bob Kraft have been at odds for a while. Just
the fact that Belichick said, hey, one of the least
(06:13):
spending teams in the NFL, and Craft's saying, no, no,
wait a minute. You wanted all that money for eleven
tight ends a few years ago, and I gave it
to you after Brady and we're not winning. You wanted
to sign Cam Newton, You wanted to turn your former
defensive coordinator into the offensive coordinator, but not really say
he's an offensive coordinator, because everybody runs to your back saying, oh,
he just wants to make sure Matt Patricia gets paid.
(06:33):
When is Bill Belichick making sure anything is good for
assistant coaches? Has that ever come up? Never? You know
they're on opposite sides. You know, Craft is antsy. He
wants a playoff berth and all he has seen since
Tom Brady left is this roster get worse and worse
and worse, and they all the decisions that Belichick has
made has not made the team better. They've not gone
(06:55):
after big players. They've brought. They've took chances in the draft.
Some of them panned out, some of them have not
your quarterback who you hand picked. You saw Ben viln
say he doesn't want to say his name in public.
When you get pictures of mac Jones with Tom Brady
and mccordy at the Hamptons, how is mac Jones in
this When Belichick doesn't want to say his name in public,
you know how bad this is. And they are going
(07:18):
to be the biggest blank show of the year in
the NFL. Because the Patriots aren't gonna win because they're
the fourth most talented team in their division, fourth and
they're not gonna win early. They got to play Miami
twice in the first eight games. They gotta play Buffalo,
they got to play the Cowboys, they gotta play the Jets,
They have to play all teams out are better than them.
And they're not going to be a team that is
in the playoff hunt. They're gonna be very low and
(07:40):
it's gonna be circling for Bill Belichick. And at the
end of this year, he's gonna wind up out. He's
gonna wind up out either with some sort of joint
decision that it's time for me to move on. I'm leaving,
or he'll be allowed to resign, because you know, Bob
Kraft is saying, Okay, maybe Bill wasn't the genius that
we thought he was because everything was great and then
Tom left and look where we're at right now. Look
(08:01):
at out. All these personnel decisions were awful. Any other
guy makes those personnel decisions that Belichick's made over the
course of the past three years, They're fired. They're gone.
They don't get this year, they don't get. It's like
Quentin Tarantino in pulp fiction. No trial, separation, no counseling.
We're getting divorced. There is no you have one more
year than no. You are fired before this season even begins.
(08:23):
He has made so many bad miscalculations and bad mistakes
and bad personnel choices, but he's still allowed to coach.
But this is it, This is going to be it
for him this year in New England. Hey, today's takes
a week and a half ago.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
No, and we've talked about it for a while, right,
I mean, they have the story going into the weekend,
which was this past weekend, which was about friends and
family are whispering that they're afraid for Bill's job, and Okay,
the division got better. Everybody's catching up the mac Jones
thing and not wanting to say his name like he's
(08:57):
beetlejuice is a little scary. I'm not gonna lie. It's
a little bit concerning there. But you bring back Bill
O'Brien right as OC and QB coach. So in theory
that pays some dividends. Did it keep you from bringing
DeAndre Hopkins into your wide receiver?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Probably, I think that would probably be the deciding factor
since trader Bill O'Brien was the guy that sent him
out of town and kind of disassembled that squad in
the Planet Houston. But you did get better at the
wide receiver position. Bring in Devonte Parker, whose hit or
miss Juju Smith Schuster was had a pretty good career
(09:35):
coming off a really good year with Kansas City. So
good you added Gasicki from the Dolphins once upon a
time a fantasy hero in this offense. Could he shine
again alongside Hunter Henry, who's a good red zone threat.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
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Speaker 1 (09:58):
You got a couple of guys really trusted. Belichick's getting
it right with tight ends. Oh no, he's got the
right guy. Now, now come on, man, he's going no, no, no, no.
Now he's got the other Bill to blame. It's Bill Squared. Okay,
it's Bill O'Brien. I need to escape goat and coming
in here. Well you're gonna pay me, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you can have whatever title you want. But I gotta
blame you things.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But you know, the defense is always gonna be sound.
Jared Mayo is still there, and you've You've got a
good offensive line, So I mean the operations are there
for a nice five hundred team. Once again, I mean
it's but but his was he wrong about the dollars?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Like overall?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Like I don't think he's saying that publicly unless he's
done the math? Now, does Robert Kraft want you saying
the math outlet?
Speaker 1 (10:44):
No? No, but people know it. But wait a minute,
But what wasn't Bill Belichick to go back now because
he's reinventing history? Now? Didn't he say after Brady left?
I vividly remember him saying, we knew this first year
was gonna be tough because we had too much money
spent on guys. So wait, so you're not spending then,
well they did. You had too much money they didn't
guys and contracts that were finishing. So you take that
(11:06):
one year, all right, we gotta we gotta take that
one in the teeth a little bit and wait. But
then the next year you went out and spent a
lot of money. Right, it's not my fault. You want
to give money to Nelson Agalre, not my fault, Not
my fault. Air, and that broke. We looked at each other,
they signed everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I think that was about as much dead air as
this show has ever had. No pregnant pauses, no cough buttons,
just day, no.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Trial separation, no don't counseling. Yes, what they gave him?
What now? If running Backs want to be mad about
that deal, running backs are mad about the money that
Patriots gave out to God, to Nelson, Johnny Smith. You
want to single them out had that, Hey, they paid
a lot of money and none of it worked out,
and anybody else would have been fired. But most teams
(11:51):
would kill to go around five hundred every year yeah, yeah,
but but that's not the Patriots, I believe. I gotta
give you, I gotta give them the nod is that
they measure themselves differently. We'll be able to championship franchise.
Now for the last twenty years, basically every three years
we win a Super Bowl. That's kind of what we do.
And now it's we're just not even We're not even
(12:12):
contending anymore. beIN in our wheels. Tell you the Jets
would hang a banner for going five hundred, you know,
I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
We were talking about that, but if the Colts did
when they made the title game. Finley tried to get
into the argument last hour about championship banners. UCLA hasn't
hung once chaship.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
We got all of.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
These things that are just swirling about. But you know
what you celebrate how you want to celebrate twitter At.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
How about a fresca? Mike gets swollen? Dome? Get ready.
The Patriots will be the biggest blank show all season long.
You're gonna see every week. What is going on? Is
Belichick getting fired? Is he gonna make it to the end.
What's he gonna say about Bob Kraft? What's he gonna
say about mac Jones. What's Mac Jones gonna say, is
Mac Jon's gonna go around Bill Belichick's back to say, hey,
I need some help up here. They will be the
(12:55):
biggest blank show of the year. You're going to be
so mad when the US they beat the Jets. Well,
but that's the thing, Frostburg.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I mean, look now we're expecting mediocrity at best for
the Patriots, whereas everybody's building your boy up on a
pedal pedestal, right he is. They're building statues to Aaron
Rodgers already.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And look at the Patriots two and fifteen, both wins,
of course against the Jets. When it goes bad, you
cut those guys loose.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
You better hope they don't go too in fifteen Smith,
they I mean they Williams watch that, Yeah, they'll Williams
just watch then want that. It'll be a fight between
them and the Raiders. You don't want that, And the
Raiders will be the team that screws it up. They
will absolutely screw up getting Caleb.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Will you stop this right now? You eight for Rosberg?
You wait, so Rogers gets to the Raiders. Just a
year later, Twitter at out about a Fresco Mike has
swollen down. The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon coming up next. Hey, we get into the
story that is going to dominate everything for the next
(13:54):
two weeks. That's straight ahead right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Be sure to catch live edition of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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I feel like you play this song extra loud? Actually
do turn up as eig as I can. Eh fussy.
Nobody wants that. Nobody wants that.
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buying should be. So in a couple's we're going to
get to the big story that's going to take us
(15:02):
through the next two weeks in the world of sports. Well,
the Jets are coming to training camp and Rogers. But uh,
this is our first show together. Uh in all over
a week, as I spent all last week, day by
day with my team and San Bernardino and our pursuit
of the state championship. Last year, we made it to
the SEMIS made it to the championship game Saturday. We
(15:25):
lost lost to Balwin Park, another team from from right
around here.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
What did you do to screw it up? Because I
know the girls played flawless. They did I think I
think I made it too hot. Okay, it's a it's
a you're full of hot air, dude.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
I can tell you we could no, no, no, no, But
let me tell you something. We go out there right
and and it's it's one hundred and five degrees and
even when the game starts at six forty five it's
one hundred and two degrees. And the coaches were old
with Carlos and Tom, We're like, come on, girls, come
on girls, And Carlos is saying, come on, girls, we
gotta fight. We gotta you gotta stay, I gotta stay
(16:00):
with it. And then all right, then we look at
each other, go gods, it's it's hot, man, it is
really hot out here. It was hard, and I gotta
be honest with you, I'd like to see us play
that game in a little bit less weather. Because they
call us Westchester's. Our team were called the Westchester Vampires.
So when the sun went down, we started to play
really really well. We were like We's Chester Vampires.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Like the Bay his team's filled with those bats.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Frostber oh Man out of the Philip Beans. The weather man. No,
the weather made it tough, like we we really didn't
hit no. Look. The other team was ben Bull with Parker.
They beat us twice. Uh that was our double elimination.
But we won a couple of thrilling games. We won
a game on Thursday night where we threw out the
game winning season ending run at the plate in the
seventh inning. Uh Alyssa through to Deborah. Deborah makes the
(16:48):
tag and we're all screaming after that play. The parents
are insane and it's oh my god. And I really
thought we would get that. We got there, and you know,
it was just that's still a hell of a run.
It was an unbelievable run.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Insane scheduling, unfortunate timing because of weather. Having experienced a
little of that back with the one hundred percent humidity.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Insane ago stuff. It's a different world.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Man.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You come from the southern California where it might get hot,
but you're you're not dried out. No, so yeah, it's
it's just a mess. It's like, let's just.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Warm up in the shade. Let's just stay right there,
we play under the lights. Can we just makes this
at nine o'clock game? It was scheduling nuts though, I
mean you were every day for every day. No, I
didn't know. And when we were talking about him, like
I'm calling every night, going, hey we won, I'm out
tomorrow night. And Carlos and Aaron who the manager of
(17:40):
the coaches with all of us, and they were listening
to radio and uh, you were saying, Jason will be
back tomorrow night, and they're going no, No, he won't.
We won. No, we won't we won. I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I wasn't getting notified. Oh it was like I got nothing.
So I'm left needles and pins. I was left on
on read a couple of times. I'm like, is he,
you know, unable to be sold?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Right now? Did it go all horribly wrong? Did Zoey
disown him?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I mean, like everything went through here and already span
years in here going you don't hope he's okay?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Oh no, no, under his breath he's going. It was
like it in here. It was just so what is
the broadcast to play during They wouldn't even have games
during the day because it was too hot. But the
champ and that's the thing is they wouldn't have games
during the days was too hot. But the Championship on Saturday,
they said, we're gonna start at five o'clock. It's like,
this is the championship, it's the state bleeping championship, and
you're gonna start at five o'clock. How does that? How
(18:32):
do all during the week and then you're gonna start
this game at five? Was it televised on the Pack
twelve network? It's back to back on the pack twelve. Now, okay,
it's that. That's all we're gonna get right now. So
that was tough.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
But why did they move the time here to start?
Let's go, I wish they did, and you like upset somebody.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And and look and the team and the team we
played like they they play in these temperatures. It's one
hundred and five degrees and I'm like, oh my god,
it's just some field advantage. It was tough. You guys
gonna practice the next season in Death Valley or what. Yeah, yeah,
that's one hundred and thirty one. It only got to
one hundred and twenty nine. By the way, we're gonna
wear Harmon's uh whatever, the sweatshirt he's got on, the
weight loss sweatshet.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You know what suit, I'm gonna show a patch on him.
I'm gonna be a sponsor.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
They're all coaching your Santa suit. But let me just
say this, because I promise the girls, I'd I say
we make it to the state championship, and I'll say
this big Mac Debra Sienna hot wheels. I'm getting ready
to cry because it was wheels. Oh Sienna's fast hot wheels. Yeah,
yes day, Yeah, they allow you to pick your name. Now, yeah,
they allow you to pick your nickname to announce because
(19:34):
they want to juice it up a little bit. But
I didn't hear that part. Literally thought that was her
last name. No, No, that would be gorth Now Kalia's Rodzilla,
Zoe the Ninja, Marlow Sprinkles, Cassidy Cheetah, double A, Alyssa Turbo,
Olivia Skyscraper, Quinn, Sophia Small's Pee Wee Izzy. Girls are outstanding.
(19:54):
They were absolutely outstanding. And I'll tell you this because
it might have been the last game I ever coached, right,
because I don't know, and I was always getting into
high school. And actually she's gonna play for Carlos Off
the next four years of high school. WI She's really
excited about. I'm like, this is my last time. And
so I brought my flip flops and put him and
stuck him in Zoe's backpack. So, you know, at the
end of the championship, State championship, I would, you know,
(20:17):
do the whole thing. I put my shoes in the
field like they do when when you're done right, and
I'm wearing my flip flops. So I go, okay, you know,
we lost I'm walking on the field for a couple
of minutes, and I go, and I go, I'm gonna
go put my my flip my shoes at the field
and put my flip flops on. I go to Zolway's backpack.
The girls are all talking, were are my flip flops?
I only have one flip flop? Zoe says, I don't know, Dad,
where are you doing? I go, how do I not
(20:38):
wear my flip flops? So I couldn't put my shoes
out there. So now not only do I not, I
can't do the whole thing. I can't be the dramatic
thing and put the shoes out there. I've lost my
best pair of flip flops. So I'm like, I know
what I'll do that It means he's got multiple pairs
of flip flops, right, No, I have like two pairs
of flip flops. Now I have one. So I'm like, Okay,
you know what I'll do. I'll leave my hat out there,
so do a whole thing. I think about it. I'm
(20:59):
kind of em doing it because like, I don't know
if I'm gonna coach again. This is it. Okay, I
put my hat out there. I walk out. We're getting
ready to leave and Ciana's mom, Aaron goes, Jason, is
that your hat out there on the field. I'm like, yes,
I'll go go. Oh my god, you guys aren't letting
me do anything today. I let me do anything.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Tried to give a hat to my field like you
gave all those teenage and young twenties girls.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Decided to go back out there and get the hat
and bring it out and everything and uh wait.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Complete the visual though, I mean, did you just shift
down where he had the uh the tank top on
to give him the gun show while you were putting
the hat out.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
It was one of those It was one of those
T shirts where it looked like are you stopping bullets
or are you stopping you know? Baby?
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Do you wear a unifil like you were a Tommy
Lesorda No, no, no, no. We had we had the
T shirts.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
We had the T shirts for it and everything else,
and the girls had their nicknames and it was it
was unbelievable. It's every day was how do we stay
out of the heat until we have to play a game?
Guys would have won, you mean embraced. It's one hundred
and five degrees. Fuck it up. And the dude, it's
one oh five, this is a championship game.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Eat everything you got.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
We tried that. We tried that, We tried it's a
dry heat. We said before the championship game. The coaches
we said, all right, let's let's you know, let's make
sure the girls are in a good frame of mind
every because it was the hottest. It was you stood eating. No, No,
the girls all had cooling towels. So the girls have
cooling towels. Are like, okay, we're all doing different things.
And and and Carlos comes up and he goes, man,
it's hot. I go, I know, I know, because I
think I need a cooling towel. And I said, dude,
(22:23):
you can't wear a cooling tel. The girls are gonna
see goes Oh, no, you're right, you're right, you're right.
I said, yeah, all right. Five minutes later he comes back,
he's got to make cooling towel. Audience. It's just hot.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's just hot.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It was so hot.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I couldn't I couldn't get the congratulations to the girls.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That was great, it was amazing. The girls are the
girls are fantastic, and and it was it sucks. It
sucks because this is the end of the year and
this you know, now the girls all go their different ways,
and now you only have one different things and now
I gotta get a pack of you. And I love
those flip flops. Yeah, hop around it. It's hot. I
couldn't do the hat, the shoes that were done.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
You did the hat, the mom just I mean, if
someone was recording it was I mean they watched you
have to go back out. Yeah, Jay Samson as your
hat out there, I'm like, it's a really big hat.
That's gotta be Coach Smith's and the big hat out
there on the field, I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Uh so, yeah, hey, we's Chester Vampires. It was some
kind of season.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
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I need wo wow wow wow wow wow wow. Every
day We're gonna get a new story about Otani every
single day. The rays are interested, the giants are interested.
The Yankees would like Otani, but the Angels aren't gonna
trade Otanni to the Yankees. Every the last twenty four hours,
you've seen different. I could make stuff up and people go, wow, Okay, yeah,
why not you all of this is legitimate? Why not?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
This is a I report in market X. We have
to be interested in calling, right. I put it out there.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
The Nationals want Otani really now, but everybody's saying whatever
they want to. It's okay Otan every single day Otani
And I love Ben Verlander, who was on social media
today and said, I hope people just start appreciating how
great he is and not talk about where Otani is
gonna end up. Dude, how how how compelling is just
saying wow, Otani's great? I mean, come on, man, hasn't
(24:31):
that been like the underlying story for since he came
to the stage. The best player any of us have
ever seen could get traded in the next two weeks.
That's a pretty big bleep in the mill. That's the story.
It's the only story. Every day Otani watch Wow, And
I'm telling you they're gonna have no choice but to
(24:51):
trade him as they fall through the standings where they
have with no Mic Trout. That's gonna make it a
little bit easier. They've gone from a position of strength.
We're seven eight games over five hundred, we have the
the possession of the third wildcard. We have a three
game lead. Now they're well behind. They're five six games behind.
They got to jump a bunch of teams to get
past them, including the Yankees, who stink. Is it really
(25:15):
gonna get better? It's not? And you're not going to
add to this team? Uh, and you're certainly not gonna.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Tried right, their biggest swing right and Mike Mustache, it's
it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
A non choice. That is two months of Otani and
five million dollars of whatever we're gonna make. Is that worth?
And however many bobblehead knights we have of Otani? Is
that worth not getting two really really good players that
could potentially be cornerstones of the team, because hey, how
(25:51):
do we get Mike Trout draft right, how do we
get him? How do we get him? Young player? Uh?
Is it really gonna be Can they really just say
this is what we're gonna do, because he's gonna walk
away at the end of the season. If they're not
gonna win. He's not gonna resign another year. No Pennant race.
You can tell he's excited. He got the taste of
it in the World Baseball Classic. I love that he's
bat flipping after home runs and Angels are beating the Yankees,
and it's been a credible last couple of nights for
(26:13):
him for Otani with his home runs. But are you
really gonna say, yeah, we're just gonna put him out
there for the next couple months on them walk away
for nothing. You have to get something for him, and
you're gonna get something really good. Again, the best player
any of us have ever seen is gonna be traded,
even if it's for a two month rental. You're gonna
get a really good package from Mere. Not gonna get
prospect number nineteen and twenty, You're gonna get two with
(26:34):
the top five that a team has to offer, Because
any team is gonna say, he likes it here, he
likes what we have going on, he'll wanta re sign here.
You're gonna get something. But you can't just say, hey,
in a season that's not gonna end anyway, Hey, we'll
take two months of Otani versus maybe getting a guy
who could be the next Mike Trout or a couple
of players who could really help us over the next decade.
(26:55):
Because but we've had so far with Otani and Trout
that hasn't worked.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
No, and that's why I ride it out to its cold,
and we did all we could for a decade. Didn't work.
You know what, I'm gonna get all the revenue I can.
I'm not gonna do any refunds to any of the
Japanese sponsors and advertisers. No, we're right, there's no There's
only one more that I could I could see here
(27:19):
one more promotional item that has anything to do with Otani,
and it's a Tops Trading card team set that they're
given out in August. Otherwise, you got the City Connect
rally monkey, a Trucker hat with their logo, Trout Hockey jersey,
a Trout Silver Slugger bobblehead, which means they're hoping he's
(27:39):
back and playing to celebrate those days. Uh, because guys
usually perform pretty well on their bobbleheads. Sure days, but
sometimes you have maybe you have to just combine him
into two. Hey, the first three innings will be this
Sotani bobblehead and everybod's got to leave the party one
But there's nothing. There's nothing left Otani wise, almost like
they knew. I still say, I go down with the ship.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Forget it, man. The Dodgers had Japanese Heritage night when
we were playing us. Come on, man, you got a
couple of prospects. Aren't getting us over? So I just
ride it out to the bitter end. Decides to stay.
You gotta get something. No, you gotta got something. Yeah,
I gotta get something. What do you get a bucket
of balls to really good? This is how how you
(28:23):
get better.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Don't Your organization's gotta change from top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Sure to bring it in two or three prospects. It
does nothing. It's better than having nothing. If I thought
they could have Otani at the end of the year,
I would say, OK. If there was any shot of
him staying, I would say, yeah. But they don't. You
gotta help. Gotta help. Mike Harmon Twitter at how about
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