July 20, 2023 • 33 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon bring you one of the strangest at-bats all-time. The Yankees get swept in Anaheim and finish their horrible road trip 1-5. And Jason explains why bad things are in store for Saquon Barkley if he sits out part of/entire season.
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NFL stuff to get to. The Jets and Lions make
a trade, which is like, you know, the Jets are
lines trading with them?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Did they trade them hard knocks?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah? Hey, listen, you take Denzel. You said you want
to end and you take hard knocks. That's the deal.
But there are so many weird things happening at this
moment in Major League Baseball. We have to talk about
Bryce Harper because I honestly, Mike, I have never seen
in that bat like this. I can't remember. I always
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go back to the Jason Stark thing. Hey, you know,
baseball's been around one hundred and thirty years, and every
week or two you still go, I've never seen that before.
The Phillies tonight playing are playing the Brewers and their
game is tied three to three in the bottom of
the sixth inning. This is absolutely I mean, I've never
seen this before. Bryce Harper comes up and he runs
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the count full without swinging and looks at strike three.
His bat is on his shoulder the entire time, and
every time the pitch comes in he drops his his
hands to his waist as if to say, I'm not swinging.
He does that the entire at bat and strikes out
and goes back to the dugout. I don't even know
(02:05):
what to say about this, Like is he not trying?
Was he trying to prove a point? Like I'm just
gonna go up there and not swing. You do tell
me you think you think you can win without me
swinging the bat? Oh? Blank, you I'm gonna go up
there and not swing. I've never seen this every single
pitch he gets into hitting, he gets a hitting position,
and then he drops his hands when when the pitcher
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goes in the wind up and the count runs full,
it runs three and two, and he struck out on
a pitch somewhat down the middle, and he walks back
to the dugout. I really I have never seen anything
like that before.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, I'm a bit confused for many reasons. A guy
that's coming back right, trying to get back to his
form and his playing first base has been part of
the plan and all of this stuff. And then you're
in a tie ball game and you don't you literally
don't take the bat off your shoulder for six pitches
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and you just walk back. I know the joke has
already made Grant Paulson, because then I immediately thought about it.
When you used to scream like my brothers and I
would be playing, it's like, hey, you gave me the
bad controller. Blank you you jerk, it's in work. Come
on two over, two over. So it felt like that,
It's like, all right, is something here? Did he get
a sign right? Was he? Did someone signal it from
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the dugout? Make a point that you're not gonna do this.
Did his agent do it? I mean, why do we
do it?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I mean it's almost like the kid in the Little league,
who you know, when he gets up there is still
kind of afraid of the ball a little bit and
he's not gonna swing, and he's just gonna stand there
when the ball. Come Come on, come on, come on,
swing the bat, Come on, swing the bag. That was
a good one. Come on, put another good one, get
another good one. I'm not but they're a game and
a half out of the wild glass. This is the
yet bat he's taking.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, I don't know, man, part of me though, Jason,
as I'm watching, I'm like, all right, and he's now
he's now baiting him to the three two count, and
this guy's gonna think he's not gonna take the bat
off his shoulder and he's gonna hit a colossal, uh
natural kind of thing where he blows up the light
stanchions and everything.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Instead, he just watched it go through for strengthening right
down the middle. You know, you know what it reminds
me of, and it's it's a weird I'm going back
a bit, but do you remember I believe it was
and Frostburg. You remember this. What was the game? I
think it was against the Mavericks. I want to say
where Kobe was upset because his teammates kept saying he
shoots too much? Right, this is right? This is like
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right after the the the back to back to back championships,
and Shaq was gone, and he played a game where
he refused to shoot in the first quarter where every
time he got the ball he looked disinterested and just
passed it off to somebody like and and that's what
that reminds me of, Like, Okay, I'm sitting up there
and not swing. I'm just gonna not swing and walk
back to the dugout like Kobe was trying to prove
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a point going, you really think I don't shoot? I
shoot too much. I'm one of the biggest bleeping superstars
in this league. You see what happens when I don't
When I don't shoot, And he in the entire quarter
he tanked it. He tanks that he wouldn't shoot. He
kept that every time he got it was hot potato
passed the ball. I know, is this what Bryce Harper
was trying to do? I I really I don't understand.
I know, why was he trying to say, watch, this
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guy has no control. I'm gonna go up there and
not take the bat off my shoulders and he's gonna
walk me. Or is he just bored saying I'm just
gonna see if I don't swing the bat if the
guy still walks me, they're that afraid of me. It
almost worked, It did, it did almost work. Gets away
he was But I've never I've never seen that. I've
never seen an at bat like that in Major League Baseball.
I've never have I.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Unless you can legitimately not swing. Hey, we're gonna put
him up as a decoy and this guy's gonna try
to pitch around him. We get a walk. I know
it's insane, but I'm trying. I'm grasping its straws here
because the logic is failing me at every turn.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What do you guys really think is going on here?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I don't know, because any in the nine and he
wants to get traded to the Knicks. Yeah, maybe, Oh,
that's exactly what he's doing. That's what he's doing. He's
trying to eat. It's gonna be a deal. Philadelphia is
gonna trade Bryce Harper and Joel Embiide to the Knicks,
and the Knicks are going to trade anybody from the
Mets and RJ. Barrett and Julius Randall to the Phillies.
(06:09):
That's how it's gonna go. See what we did there,
cross sport trading. We've been calling for it for years
now we put it into practice here on Fox Sports Radio.
I mean, the Brewers win the game, right, they win
five to three, and Harper comes up in the ninth
inning and he singles, and they had runners at first
and third, so they were threatening. So it's not like it.
He came up again in the ninth inning and didn't
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do anything. I just don't understand what he was trying
to do with that. I can't wait for the postgame
on this. I really can't, because this is that seems
to be one of those I want to prove a
point about something. Now what that point is, I have
no idea, because I don't know what could possibly motivate
you to walk up there and just say, on on
the bat on my shoulders, unless you're a seven year
old kid in the Little league and you come back
and go, coach, I'm sorry. The ball was too fast.
I just didn't see it. It was scared they threw that
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inside fastball. The ball kind of hissed when it went
by me. And I don't know. I said, come on,
seven year olds, don't throw a ball that hisses. It's
just a ball, right, it's just the ball. Come on
swing the back, come on swing, the back swing, the back.
I don't know what it is. I really don't. And
it's funny.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You can see what he says on the grander philosophy
of hitting. I mean, you have a lot of folks
to get upset. If people take their first strike right,
you're taking until the guy throws a strike if he's
been struggling, or a new picture coming in, who the
last couple outings has had some issues whatever that. You know,
people think. You still think. Look, he's going to try
to overcorrect. He's going to serve you a meatball. Just
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take it a little bit off to get it over
the plate. In this case, the logic fails. I mean,
there's there's nothing that computes. I mean, I can run
and I can run this through any AI that's out there.
They're not coming up with a good logical answer either.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
It almost worked, though, you know, here's the thing, and
here's the thing is that I really want to want
I want to I want to give a little bit.
I want to be fair to Bryce Harper. Will be
fair to Bryce Harper?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah right, you hate Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I have heard it, of course. I've heard of taking
a strike, right, you know, take a strike, pictures a
little strike. I've even sort of heard of taking two strikes. Hey, listen,
bases loaded, the count is three, and oh, if you walk,
we win the game. We're gonna take two strikes. All right,
So you sort of heard of taking two strikes. But
I don't know is taking three strikes a new strategy?
(08:17):
I don't know, Like, is he is he all strategy?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Cotton?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Is he at? Is he at the at the cusp
of something brand new? Take three strikes? Could that be
a thing? Mike Carmon analysis? Analysis is? I mean he's
changing the game, is really what he's doing. We've we've
always thought he was a generational player. See what I'm
doing here, generational player who's good. The rules are going
to mold around him, and the next time he comes up,
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he's gonna get a fourth strike. I think he was
trying to bait the umpire. You don't really think I'm
gonna do this? Are you he's living on the edge. Man,
You've gone rogue. You've gone rogue.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I mean it's straight out of a draft day. You've
gone wrong. Naa na na say it with me, you
pancake eating Now, come on, umpire, stay with me, like
ride the lightning with me. Ask how exciting it is
because everybody is confused as hell.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Let's go big question though, Yeah, what do you got
for Rosburg?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
If he does draw the walk? Does he do an
epic bat flip.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That would be a legendary thing. Either that or you
literally just drop it at your feet.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
No, I don't know, but you look so. He looked
so disinterested. If they walked him, maybe he goes back
to the dugout anyway, Nah, No, I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
To first He calls for a pinch runner, like it's uh,
corporate softball.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I'm gonna pitch run before I even get to first.
It's it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Hey, hey, you out of the dugout right now? You
go to first base for me. I'm not even I'm
not even giving you. I'm ruining the sanctity of all
of this. I'm not even giving you the pleasure of
watching me walk ninety feet. No other guy you're in.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
When you're playing a scrimmage and it's like, okay, so
and so can run, all right, So you stand even
with the plate but behind the plate, and when they swing,
then you run for him. Like, was that what was
going to happen?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I we had that back in the and someone's lined
up like they're waiting for the starting gun.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Did he make contact?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
God?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
No, but I'm halfway down to first baby.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Let's go. So there's Bryce Harper's at bat. We'll bring
you play by play of that coming up very soon
against Sanes. It's absolutely bizarre. Look at it. I've never
seen anything like it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I know, yeah, but I mean you got to do
a wellness check on your on your old man.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well that's where we have to get to now because
we have this news coming in as the Yankees have
fallen further into last place in the Al East. They
are now nine games out, they have lost four in
a row. They have gotten swept by the Angels, the
Angels who hadn't won a series or back to back
games in over a month. And the Yankees come to
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Anaheim and they leave getting swept, and I feel bad
because this was the game. I got tickets from my
dad a long time ago. He went down to the game,
take out pictures before he was Yeah, you got the helmet, nachos.
He's sending us pictures and everything before the game. Hey, guys, look,
I got the helmet, na chows. You guys good. He's
sending me batting practice pictures. Yeah, but they swept and
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he had to watch that. Now he's gonna now he's
gonna try back home in the heat. He's gonna be
like I would all the way down and I had
to watch us get swept. I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
No, like he hates you more than oral hersheiser right
oof and look and I'll tell you because maybe his
air conditioning's not working in the car either.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, No, that's why he's going back in the heat,
and his air conditioning's not where he's got to take it.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You got a whole problem. Or maybe instead of keying
his car, you sabotaged his air conditioning.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, I can't to come off. My dad's in his seventies.
I can't do that to him. Man, No, come on,
I could do that to you. Are you wearing another
heavy Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I got it on right now.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, wearing your your weight lostweatshirt on. I am heay.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I took a nice walk with the dog for about
forty five minutes. Good, worked up a good lather, and
I'm sitting here now as a broadcast live with you.
I've got I've got it on. It's a sweat lodge
kind of Wednesday night. Gotta get touch toxins out, dude.
I'm listening to Tysher and he keeps telling you you
gotta do it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Look, I'll tell you we talked about it a little
bit last night when they fell firmly into last place.
They came into last night basically tied for fourth with
the Red Sox. With the Red Sox win, the Yankees lose.
Now the Yankees lose again, not again. Nine games out
of first place, they are three games over five hundred,
and they are now four games back of the final
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wildcard spot. Right the Angels are still hanging in it
a little bit. The Red Sox are ahead of them,
the Mariners are right behind them. This season for the Yankees,
I'll tell you how it's gonna end. It's gonna end
with no playoffs and a new manager. That's how this
is gonna go. They have too many holes to fill
at the deadline to say, yeah, if we get a
(12:52):
couple of people, we can do it. If you need
a couple of starting pitchers, yeah you can do that.
At the deadline. You need a couple of position players, yeah,
the deadline. You neat a couple of arms in the bullpen. Yeah,
he can do that to the deadline. What do the
Yankees need. They need a couple of bats, a couple
of arms in the bullpen, and a couple of starting pitchers.
They're hurt. They got old, and when you get old,
you get old overnight. There's no way they can solve this.
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And this is gonna wind up being Aaron Boone's final year.
The Yankees aren't gonna fire him middle of the season
because this this iteration of the Yankees doesn't do that.
But he will finish this year and it will be
somebody else managing the Yankees next year. Maybe that's why
Aaron Boon's getting thrown out of all these games. Listen,
they're gonna fire me anyway. Why am I hanging out
this long? This way, I get to leave in the
third inning and I get to go hang out, have
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a nice dinner, go home, and then come back the
next day.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Can't fire me if you can't find me. Castanza told you,
but you buried the lead. The Angels are back, baby,
there's no trade, no Tani. Let's go. It's all systems
go for the final Joe Mutz, let's go. Now Toni's
staying because they swept.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
The Yankees anyway, So there, but the Yankees trying to
get Otani. Not only did they lose, but they lose
to the Angel to allow the Angels to stay in
the race, which maybe makes them say, hey, we can
hold on to Odem. Yeah, you know what, they've screwed
themselves twice.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well, you know. The third part of this is that
they really are trying to work hard behind the scene.
I hear they have been running the mister Miagi scenes
of healing Daniel's knee on a loop, trying to figure
out how to help Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh man, look and you saw that Aaron Judge hides
a lot of things. Obviously with the Yankees offense. Yankees'
offense was great, Yank, He's great, but now look look
this is what happens. Now. He hides a lot. But
the injuries the lack of production everywhere. It's just too much.
They're gonna end without the playoffs, and it's gonna be
a new manager and that's how it's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
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up in about twenty minutes, we're gonna bring you the
Bryce Harper at bat that still has everybody shaking their heads.
I mean, I've never seen anything like this watching baseball,
(15:56):
am I I'm sorry. And again little leagues where I
know the person's not gonna swing, I understand, but I've
never seen this.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Right at any level of professional baseball. You know what
you need to learn a lesson? Go up there, don't
take that bat off your shoulder. I like the way
you've been pouting in the clubhouse and the way, you
know what, you've been wadding up the gum underneath the
phone in the hallway there. Yeah, that that's not gonna
stand you. You go up there and you wear it, you're.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Wadding up the gum. I can't believe you. You know
they put out that postgame spread last night. You know
I wanted a baloney sandwich and you ate all the baloney.
You know, I'm I'm now now you see you think
that's funny. Watch what I do when I go up
there in the sixth theyning you walk.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You're going straight out of uh the good place. You
might as well have made it shrimp, you ate all
the shrimp.
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(17:06):
the show, but that was one.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Of those well you know what I mean. We we
do try to weave. We've a lot of pop culture
references in.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Let's weave this in right now before you get to
the big Saquon Barkley story. A trade has gone down huge. Yeah,
you woke up today, check the news. Gun, Oh that
could be it. No, there was a trade. Denzel Mims
is no longer a Jet He is now a Detroit Lion. Yeah.
Disappointing second round pick for the Jets. Spent the last
three years trying to break through. He hasn't. The Lions
(17:39):
have a need. Jamison Williams suspended the first six games
of the season with the gambling situation, So Denzel Mims
has a chance to slide in and maybe be somebody
of note. The guy's always had the talent, but he's
never been able to get on the field. And I
know that the Jets have been upset to at varying
degrees with him shirking some of his responsibilities. We've heard that, hey,
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when you go out there, you have to know your responsibility.
You got to be able to block on plays. We
need you to block. You can't just go out and
go out for passes and run and run routes. So
that has been a thing that he has never been
able to get on the field. And here's a freebie
for the Lions. So Jets, we're gonna cut him. So line' say, hey,
we get a guy that's pretty talented and when he's
when he's been on the field, he was really good
in college. We'll go back to that tape because he's
had virtually no snaps the past three weeks against.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Forty two catches in three years and and also ran
in in a receiving corps that, let's face it was
not robust as he joined the squad. Now and you
add Wilson and and you change the complexion of things.
H The fact that your quarterback's stunk, oh, that the
guy before him stunk too, uh, didn't help anything. But
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for Denzel mens Uh, it says a lot when you
weren't able to distinguish yourself enough to get reps in
that offense.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
The last couple of years, dude couldn't even make it
to Hard Knocks. I mean he's like, just one day,
I'll get to heart Noe, Nope, you're going to the Lions.
Ah Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
He was building a brand. I mean he was doing
all sorts of merch. He has a whole warehouse full.
He's like, I was gonna be I had it all planned.
I was gonna become the hero of the summer. Now
I have nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Now I gonna go to Detroit. Fine, all right, Hey,
muskrat dinners for everybody, right, headed to Detroit.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
There you go. Now you're talking so then.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So that's how that's how Hard Knocks is gonna begin.
It's gonna be It's gonna be live, Schreiber saying, and
before the team could even be settled in, a trade
was made, and then you're gonna hear lit Schreiber, Go,
are we allowed to show the trade or the jet's
gonna be upset if we not. We can show the trade.
We can show Okay, oh yes, before the team even
checked in, a trade went down, and then you're gonna
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see the Denzel Mims thing and that'll go. That'll be
the whole first episode. Is a Denzel Mims trade the
whole first episode? Well, I mean they could really cheat.
Like I said, you know, we've been talking about it
a hot minute. You know, for those in with us
tonight for the first time since Hard Knocks was announced,
welcome in. Appreciate you being part of the family. But
(20:02):
like just Aaron Rodgers is off season. There's enough clips
that you could just hire an intern. Go get the
stuff for the Tonys, Go get the stuff. When he
was on the double decker tour bus, go get it.
When he was hanging out here, go when he gave
that speech in Denver about ayahuasca and its benefits, all
of that. I mean, that's an hour.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You know what I have to do a damn thing,
except for that when I got an hour of work,
someone that is a supervisor signs off on it. Add graphics,
get Shreiver to do his voiceover, and you're done.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
See this is how you should program for HBO.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Boom boom boom. Program for HBO, and I'm mad. Order
the GM of the angels. I'm not sure which.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And while you're doing it, talk to HBO because I'm
still having difficulty trying to watch Max. I don't know
what it is. Maybe because since Max split.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
From because they changed the app, so you're still doing
fed to the old app. I have that with a
Hulu account. That's really starting to tick me off. Yes,
so they're doing the same thing. It's like I upgraded,
I upgrade, I filled in my information. You don't need
a new credit card, you don't need me to pass
go or try to collect two hundred dollars. Just connect it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Every time I go to Max, because I tried, I'm,
you know, watching the other two and I'm going I don't. Yeah,
uh no, an error has occurred and it doesn't even
tell you error has occurred. Please check your your account?
What do you mean check my account?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It doesn't give you an error code, Like, it's not
like you give a call in and say, hey, it's
code three thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Jason, you have TJ max thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Uh, well, TJ Max, it's the cheaper version.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's a good uh I mean good value there it is.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, it's still it's I mean I still get some
of the same great products i'd get on Max, I
just get them cheaper. Oh. You know, normally, normally this
this program would cost you twelve ninety nine a month,
but here it's three ninety nine a month. TJ Max.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We've replaced one of the actors, so your version.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Doesn't cost as much. Meanwhile, a threat today that Saquon
Barkley may act sit out the season. He goes on
a podcast and look him getting tagged by the Giants.
Unable to work out a long term deal. After the
(22:11):
big comeback season he had last year, he has been
the poster running back for why aren't running backs getting paid?
The big NFL story that has just taken hold the
last few days. All running backs are upset that running
backs aren't getting paid. Not just the running backs not
getting paid, guys that have gotten paid or upset. Derek
Henry is upset. Christian McCaffrey is upset. Everybody is upset.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
We need solidarity. Man.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
The one thing that you can do if you're unhappy
with your situation is you cannot report to camp. Saquon
Barkley did not sign the franchise tag so he could
sit out, and as he said, sitting out, Yeah, that
could be a power play that I wind up using.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
I have no worry about going on a football field
and knowing that I'm not playing for my records, saying
if I have to play under because this is my leverage,
my love shitz. I could say you to the Giants,
I say you to my teammates and be like you
want me show you my word? I want to show
you how much how valuable I am and to the team,
I won't show up. I won't play it down. That's
the play I can use. Anybody knows me, knows that's
(23:13):
not something I want to do. But like it's something
that has It's something that crossed my mind. It say,
I never I never thought I would ever do that,
But like now I'm at a point where it's like Jesus,
like I might have to take it to this level,
and like am I willing, am I prepared to take
it to the level I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I'm like blank you to the Giants, blank you to
my teammates. Look, let me let me be clear with this.
I feel like Adam surefter, Let me be clear. Let
me be clear with this. If he sits out, it
is the worst possible decision he can make. It is
the worst decision he can make because however long you
sit out, if you miss time in the season, you
miss time before you can get back, whether you miss
(23:53):
part of the season or the whole season. This is
how your NFL future is going to unfold. If you
don't sit out, if you don't play at all, you
don't make any money. So you make no money this year,
and then next year, what's gonna happen? You're hoping for?
You gonna are you gonna make more than than a
franchise tag next year?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But you're so much?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Is somebody? Is someone gonna give you more money? No
they're not. You're gonna get somewhat of an okay contract
that a team is gonna say, you know what, this
is gonna be one year in an option and yeah,
we'll sign you. We'll give you twenty four million dollars,
but one year in an option because if you don't
have it, we're not gonna get locked into you for
another year. Because we just watched Le'Veon Bell sit out
a season and what happened. He had nothing, absolutely nothing,
(24:33):
had a two year deal with the Jets. He was
out of the NFL by the end of year too,
and he didn't even make it to the end of
season two with the Jets. So that's what's waiting for
Saquon Barkley. If he sits out the season the end
of his career. Know what, running backs don't sit out
for a year, stay fresh, play another three or four years.
It's not happening. He's gonna make less money because again,
(24:53):
remember ten million dollars you are not getting this year, right,
it's not Donna. Ten million dollars you are not getting.
If you sit out just part of the season or
part of the way until you come into the season
you rush yourself back into shape. What's gonna happen. You're
either gonna be a injured or be ineffective, or a
combination of both. That is not also not gonna get
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you paid. After the season is over. You will then
never get paid again because you're coming off an injury
plague season or a season which you were ineffective, and
no team is gonna say, oh yeah, yeah, no, we're
good with you sitting out. We were good with all
of that. We think all of that was a was
a byproduct of you sitting out and missing time. Yeah,
we're good. Here's thirty million dollars the next two years.
That's not happening. If you sit out, you are putting
(25:36):
into big time peril your future as an NFL running back,
right because either you're not gonna get paid for this
year or you're most likely not going to be as
good as you were a year ago, which, of course,
if you're not getting paid big off of a big
year last year, you're not gonna get paid big next
year coming off a subpar season. Nothing can happen but
bad if you sit out and do this, So say
(25:58):
quond bar, I know it sucks, but the best thing
to do. Play for the ten million. Make ten million
dollars this year. Hey, it'sal like you're not making anything.
Make ten million dollars this year, hit free agency again
next year. If they franchise you again, it's probably gonna
be thirteen million dollars for next year. That's about what
the the number is gonna be at for running back.
So in the end, hey, two years twenty three million
dollars guaranteed ain't the worst thing in the world. Maybe
(26:21):
you'll be able to move on. The Giants will say, Okay,
we're not gonna franchise you again. We're gonna trade you
someplace else. And someone gives you a decent contract for
a couple of years, and you get to make get
a two year deal for twenty five million next year.
It will be ten million this year and then twelve
million and thirteen million. Everything is on the table if
you play and play well, nothing is on the table
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and everything is off the table. In fact, there's no table.
They take the table away if you sit out either
a part of or all of this season.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, I think when you get down to it, it's
always don't be penny wise and pound foolish. Right, you've
got the larger picture of what's the back end of
your career going to be, because that's where we're at
right We're firmly in the back end of Saquon Barkley's career.
And because it's just the running back world. You're not
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going away for a year and bulking up and coming
back as a tight end. You're not re establishing positional
eligibility somewhere else like fantasy owners arbitrarily. You know what,
my guy should be reclassified as a wide receiver because
he hangs out. No, that's not the way it works.
That's not happening. Guys have tried that. Tight ends tried that.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
It didn't work.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You're still a running back and leaving ten million on
the table.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
And I appreciate his thoughts.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I appreciate everybody's angst and anguish over this, and they
don't want to be reminded the conversation we had with
Jason Cole about the twenty eleven CBA and everything that
got put in about the rookie Wade scale, and obviously
when we talk about the fact that the franchise tag
exists at all. I get it. It's not your ideal space,
(27:57):
but these are the rules of engage. You sit out,
I don't know what your leverage is. You piss off
your teammates. They may understand, but now you're jeopardizing how
good and what they put on tape right, how well
the season for them as they try to work towards
their next deal and all of those things. Right, there's
(28:18):
the domino effect and telling me how much Daniel Jones
got paid, because that's been the sounding thing for everybody.
It's like, you could just cancel that noise. Okay, it's
apples and oranges. You don't say, well, we like, but
we don't love Daniel Jones. So you know what, let's
roll the dice. Given the state of quarterbacking in the NFL,
(28:39):
you just don't do it. You think that with another
year with your offense set, assuming Barkley shows up as
we would expect them to, that Daniel Jones with a
bolstered roster, a better wide receiving corps and Barkley doing
his magic. That it all pretends to bigger numbers to
(29:00):
make people feel better about it, right, because they're worried
about the numbers, not the fact that they got to
the stake in playoffs. So for Sakwon Barkley, I hope
his team around him is counseling him well to get
past the fields, to get past the emotions. I can't
tell you how they feel, but I can't tell you
where the logic in all this process flows, and it
(29:23):
is getting back in having a hell of a year.
And whether you franchise Tag another thirteen million or you're
able to work out a two year deal after another
big effort with the Giants. Either way, you can't leave
that money to the wayside because it ain't coming back
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we spent some time talking about what maybe the strangest
that bat you'll ever see in Major League Baseball and
I'm not over selling this. In the sixth inning of
the Brewers five to three win over the Philly tonight,
Bryce Harper took seven pitches, got up to bat, and
every time that Hoby Miller threw a pitch, he just
dropped his hands to his waist and was taking the pitch,
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and he got all the way to a full count.
Hobby Miller threw a strike for strike three. Harper goes
back to the dugout. Have never seen that before in
all my years of baseball. Here's how it sounded on
NBC Sports Philadelphia. So, like I said, this left that
they have in her pen.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Outside one ball, one strike, it's still not used to it.
And he's lined out to first. That's interesting, three or two?
Anything's going on here?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Man?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
I don't think he saw any of those pictures the
way you would want to.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I think his controller died.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Come on, hey, hey, hey, come on, hey, it's not working.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You gave me the broken one. Man.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Oh man. Uh. They asked Hoby Miller after the game,
what did you think of this? And Hobby Milner said, quote,
he just stuck to a game plan. And credit to
him for sticking to it. I guess was the game
plan just I'm not gonna swing.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I'm not gonna swing. That's my old strategy. I'm not
gonna swing. I really want to. I want to hear
from Bryce Harper, who again, we don't know that he's
even spoken after the game, right.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
That's a clown question, bro.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
You know that's kind of where we're headed with this,
isn't it?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
How come you didn't swing? I don't understand. And it's
not like he was injured or anything else, because he
went back out there in the you know, hitting the
ninth and he got a base hit. So I I
don't know. I mean, is he I don't know? Is
he quiet quitting? Is that? Is that what Bryce Harper?
Quiet quitting? Is that that what it is?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I don't think our team's any good. This was instead
of being James Harden and going to the podium saying
I can't win with this team and forcing his way out,
this was the way Harper did it. He did it
with a silent bat.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I'm just I've decided to not swing. I've had it
with Philadelphia. I am quiet quitting right now.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I mean, you would have gotten more aggressiveness from that
man's sized bat. In the Philippines we were talking about.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Oh oh, I really I don't. I don't understand. I
don't understand what that was all about. I really don't.
I mean, I mean, how do you walk back and
what do you say if you're the manager, if you
go showed that, Hey, can someone walk down and checking
make sure Bryce is okay. I don't want to do
it like you got to be the guy that said, hey,
will you go see if Clayton Kershaw is good for
another inning. I don't want to go down and say
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I'm taking you out after seven. So someone go down
and talk to Bryce and make sure he's okay, like like, hey,
do you do it?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You're all Stewie, Hey there big gang hit there.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You good? You good?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
And then you duck and cover might transpire.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
That's just so strange, Like what what is he really
trying to do? I mean, really that was I'm just
gonna go up there and he's a lefty, so I'm
gonna try to walk as if it's not swing. I
don't I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I have no idea. Man.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
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NFL stuff to get to. The Jets and Lions make
a trade, which is like, you know, the Jets are
lines trading with them?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Did they trade them hard knocks?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah? Hey, listen, you take Denzel. You said you want
to end and you take hard knocks. That's the deal.
But there are so many weird things happening at this
moment in Major League Baseball. We have to talk about
Bryce Harper because I honestly, Mike, I have never seen
in that bat like this. I can't remember. I always
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go back to the Jason Stark thing. Hey, you know,
baseball's been around one hundred and thirty years, and every
week or two you still go, I've never seen that before.
The Phillies tonight playing are playing the Brewers and their
game is tied three to three in the bottom of
the sixth inning. This is absolutely I mean, I've never
seen this before. Bryce Harper comes up and he runs
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the count full without swinging and looks at strike three.
His bat is on his shoulder the entire time, and
every time the pitch comes in he drops his his
hands to his waist as if to say, I'm not swinging.
He does that the entire at bat and strikes out
and goes back to the dugout. I don't even know
(02:05):
what to say about this, Like is he not trying?
Was he trying to prove a point? Like I'm just
gonna go up there and not swing. You do tell
me you think you think you can win without me
swinging the bat? Oh? Blank, you I'm gonna go up
there and not swing. I've never seen this every single
pitch he gets into hitting, he gets a hitting position,
and then he drops his hands when when the pitcher
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goes in the wind up and the count runs full,
it runs three and two, and he struck out on
a pitch somewhat down the middle, and he walks back
to the dugout. I really I have never seen anything
like that before.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah, I'm a bit confused for many reasons. A guy
that's coming back right, trying to get back to his
form and his playing first base has been part of
the plan and all of this stuff. And then you're
in a tie ball game and you don't you literally
don't take the bat off your shoulder for six pitches
(02:59):
and you just walk back. I know the joke has
already made Grant Paulson, because then I immediately thought about it.
When you used to scream like my brothers and I
would be playing, it's like, hey, you gave me the
bad controller. Blank you you jerk, it's in work. Come
on two over, two over. So it felt like that,
It's like, all right, is something here? Did he get
a sign right? Was he? Did someone signal it from
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the dugout? Make a point that you're not gonna do this.
Did his agent do it? I mean, why do we
do it?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I mean it's almost like the kid in the Little league,
who you know, when he gets up there is still
kind of afraid of the ball a little bit and
he's not gonna swing, and he's just gonna stand there
when the ball. Come Come on, come on, come on,
swing the bat, Come on, swing the bag. That was
a good one. Come on, put another good one, get
another good one. I'm not but they're a game and
a half out of the wild glass. This is the
yet bat he's taking.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, I don't know, man, part of me though, Jason,
as I'm watching, I'm like, all right, and he's now
he's now baiting him to the three two count, and
this guy's gonna think he's not gonna take the bat
off his shoulder and he's gonna hit a colossal, uh
natural kind of thing where he blows up the light
stanchions and everything.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Instead, he just watched it go through for strengthening right
down the middle. You know, you know what it reminds
me of, and it's it's a weird I'm going back
a bit, but do you remember I believe it was
and Frostburg. You remember this. What was the game? I
think it was against the Mavericks. I want to say
where Kobe was upset because his teammates kept saying he
shoots too much? Right, this is right? This is like
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right after the the the back to back to back championships,
and Shaq was gone, and he played a game where
he refused to shoot in the first quarter where every
time he got the ball he looked disinterested and just
passed it off to somebody like and and that's what
that reminds me of, Like, Okay, I'm sitting up there
and not swing. I'm just gonna not swing and walk
back to the dugout like Kobe was trying to prove
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a point going, you really think I don't shoot? I
shoot too much. I'm one of the biggest bleeping superstars
in this league. You see what happens when I don't
When I don't shoot, And he in the entire quarter
he tanked it. He tanks that he wouldn't shoot. He
kept that every time he got it was hot potato
passed the ball. I know, is this what Bryce Harper
was trying to do? I I really I don't understand.
I know, why was he trying to say, watch, this
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guy has no control. I'm gonna go up there and
not take the bat off my shoulders and he's gonna
walk me. Or is he just bored saying I'm just
gonna see if I don't swing the bat if the
guy still walks me, they're that afraid of me. It
almost worked, It did, it did almost work. Gets away
he was But I've never I've never seen that. I've
never seen an at bat like that in Major League Baseball.
I've never have I.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Unless you can legitimately not swing. Hey, we're gonna put
him up as a decoy and this guy's gonna try
to pitch around him. We get a walk. I know
it's insane, but I'm trying. I'm grasping its straws here
because the logic is failing me at every turn.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
What do you guys really think is going on here?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I don't know, because any in the nine and he
wants to get traded to the Knicks. Yeah, maybe, Oh,
that's exactly what he's doing. That's what he's doing. He's
trying to eat. It's gonna be a deal. Philadelphia is
gonna trade Bryce Harper and Joel Embiide to the Knicks,
and the Knicks are going to trade anybody from the
Mets and RJ. Barrett and Julius Randall to the Phillies.
(06:09):
That's how it's gonna go. See what we did there,
cross sport trading. We've been calling for it for years
now we put it into practice here on Fox Sports Radio.
I mean, the Brewers win the game, right, they win
five to three, and Harper comes up in the ninth
inning and he singles, and they had runners at first
and third, so they were threatening. So it's not like it.
He came up again in the ninth inning and didn't
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do anything. I just don't understand what he was trying
to do with that. I can't wait for the postgame
on this. I really can't, because this is that seems
to be one of those I want to prove a
point about something. Now what that point is, I have
no idea, because I don't know what could possibly motivate
you to walk up there and just say, on on
the bat on my shoulders, unless you're a seven year
old kid in the Little league and you come back
and go, coach, I'm sorry. The ball was too fast.
I just didn't see it. It was scared they threw that
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inside fastball. The ball kind of hissed when it went
by me. And I don't know. I said, come on,
seven year olds, don't throw a ball that hisses. It's
just a ball, right, it's just the ball. Come on
swing the back, come on swing, the back swing, the back.
I don't know what it is. I really don't. And
it's funny.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You can see what he says on the grander philosophy
of hitting. I mean, you have a lot of folks
to get upset. If people take their first strike right,
you're taking until the guy throws a strike if he's
been struggling, or a new picture coming in, who the
last couple outings has had some issues whatever that. You know,
people think. You still think. Look, he's going to try
to overcorrect. He's going to serve you a meatball. Just
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take it a little bit off to get it over
the plate. In this case, the logic fails. I mean,
there's there's nothing that computes. I mean, I can run
and I can run this through any AI that's out there.
They're not coming up with a good logical answer either.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
It almost worked, though, you know, here's the thing, and
here's the thing is that I really want to want
I want to I want to give a little bit.
I want to be fair to Bryce Harper. Will be
fair to Bryce Harper?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah right, you hate Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I have heard it, of course. I've heard of taking
a strike, right, you know, take a strike, pictures a
little strike. I've even sort of heard of taking two strikes. Hey, listen,
bases loaded, the count is three, and oh, if you walk,
we win the game. We're gonna take two strikes. All right,
So you sort of heard of taking two strikes. But
I don't know is taking three strikes a new strategy?
(08:17):
I don't know, Like, is he is he all strategy?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Cotton?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Is he at? Is he at the at the cusp
of something brand new? Take three strikes? Could that be
a thing? Mike Carmon analysis? Analysis is? I mean he's
changing the game, is really what he's doing. We've we've
always thought he was a generational player. See what I'm
doing here, generational player who's good. The rules are going
to mold around him, and the next time he comes up,
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he's gonna get a fourth strike. I think he was
trying to bait the umpire. You don't really think I'm
gonna do this? Are you he's living on the edge. Man,
You've gone rogue. You've gone rogue.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I mean it's straight out of a draft day. You've
gone wrong. Naa na na say it with me, you
pancake eating Now, come on, umpire, stay with me, like
ride the lightning with me. Ask how exciting it is
because everybody is confused as hell.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Let's go big question though, Yeah, what do you got
for Rosburg?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
If he does draw the walk? Does he do an
epic bat flip.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That would be a legendary thing. Either that or you
literally just drop it at your feet.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
No, I don't know, but you look so. He looked
so disinterested. If they walked him, maybe he goes back
to the dugout anyway, Nah, No, I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
To first He calls for a pinch runner, like it's uh,
corporate softball.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I'm gonna pitch run before I even get to first.
It's it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Hey, hey, you out of the dugout right now? You
go to first base for me. I'm not even I'm
not even giving you. I'm ruining the sanctity of all
of this. I'm not even giving you the pleasure of
watching me walk ninety feet. No other guy you're in.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
When you're playing a scrimmage and it's like, okay, so
and so can run, all right, So you stand even
with the plate but behind the plate, and when they swing,
then you run for him. Like, was that what was
going to happen?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I we had that back in the and someone's lined
up like they're waiting for the starting gun.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Did he make contact?
Speaker 1 (10:07):
God?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
No, but I'm halfway down to first baby.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Let's go. So there's Bryce Harper's at bat. We'll bring
you play by play of that coming up very soon
against Sanes. It's absolutely bizarre. Look at it. I've never
seen anything like it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I know, yeah, but I mean you got to do
a wellness check on your on your old man.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Well that's where we have to get to now because
we have this news coming in as the Yankees have
fallen further into last place in the Al East. They
are now nine games out, they have lost four in
a row. They have gotten swept by the Angels, the
Angels who hadn't won a series or back to back
games in over a month. And the Yankees come to
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Anaheim and they leave getting swept, and I feel bad
because this was the game. I got tickets from my
dad a long time ago. He went down to the game,
take out pictures before he was Yeah, you got the helmet, nachos.
He's sending us pictures and everything before the game. Hey, guys, look,
I got the helmet, na chows. You guys good. He's
sending me batting practice pictures. Yeah, but they swept and
(11:07):
he had to watch that. Now he's gonna now he's
gonna try back home in the heat. He's gonna be
like I would all the way down and I had
to watch us get swept. I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
No, like he hates you more than oral hersheiser right
oof and look and I'll tell you because maybe his
air conditioning's not working in the car either.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No, No, that's why he's going back in the heat,
and his air conditioning's not where he's got to take it.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
You got a whole problem. Or maybe instead of keying
his car, you sabotaged his air conditioning.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, I can't to come off. My dad's in his seventies.
I can't do that to him. Man, No, come on,
I could do that to you. Are you wearing another
heavy Uh?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I got it on right now.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, wearing your your weight lostweatshirt on. I am heay.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I took a nice walk with the dog for about
forty five minutes. Good, worked up a good lather, and
I'm sitting here now as a broadcast live with you.
I've got I've got it on. It's a sweat lodge
kind of Wednesday night. Gotta get touch toxins out, dude.
I'm listening to Tysher and he keeps telling you you
gotta do it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Look, I'll tell you we talked about it a little
bit last night when they fell firmly into last place.
They came into last night basically tied for fourth with
the Red Sox. With the Red Sox win, the Yankees lose.
Now the Yankees lose again, not again. Nine games out
of first place, they are three games over five hundred,
and they are now four games back of the final
(12:32):
wildcard spot. Right the Angels are still hanging in it
a little bit. The Red Sox are ahead of them,
the Mariners are right behind them. This season for the Yankees,
I'll tell you how it's gonna end. It's gonna end
with no playoffs and a new manager. That's how this
is gonna go. They have too many holes to fill
at the deadline to say, yeah, if we get a
(12:52):
couple of people, we can do it. If you need
a couple of starting pitchers, yeah you can do that.
At the deadline. You need a couple of position players, yeah,
the deadline. You neat a couple of arms in the bullpen. Yeah,
he can do that to the deadline. What do the
Yankees need. They need a couple of bats, a couple
of arms in the bullpen, and a couple of starting pitchers.
They're hurt. They got old, and when you get old,
you get old overnight. There's no way they can solve this.
(13:14):
And this is gonna wind up being Aaron Boone's final year.
The Yankees aren't gonna fire him middle of the season
because this this iteration of the Yankees doesn't do that.
But he will finish this year and it will be
somebody else managing the Yankees next year. Maybe that's why
Aaron Boon's getting thrown out of all these games. Listen,
they're gonna fire me anyway. Why am I hanging out
this long? This way, I get to leave in the
third inning and I get to go hang out, have
(13:34):
a nice dinner, go home, and then come back the
next day.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Can't fire me if you can't find me. Castanza told you,
but you buried the lead. The Angels are back, baby,
there's no trade, no Tani. Let's go. It's all systems
go for the final Joe Mutz, let's go. Now Toni's
staying because they swept.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
The Yankees anyway, So there, but the Yankees trying to
get Otani. Not only did they lose, but they lose
to the Angel to allow the Angels to stay in
the race, which maybe makes them say, hey, we can
hold on to Odem. Yeah, you know what, they've screwed
themselves twice.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well, you know. The third part of this is that
they really are trying to work hard behind the scene.
I hear they have been running the mister Miagi scenes
of healing Daniel's knee on a loop, trying to figure
out how to help Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh man, look and you saw that Aaron Judge hides
a lot of things. Obviously with the Yankees offense. Yankees'
offense was great, Yank, He's great, but now look look
this is what happens. Now. He hides a lot. But
the injuries the lack of production everywhere. It's just too much.
They're gonna end without the playoffs, and it's gonna be
a new manager and that's how it's gonna go.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
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Bryce Harper at bat that still has everybody shaking their heads.
I mean, I've never seen anything like this watching baseball,
(15:56):
am I I'm sorry. And again little leagues where I
know the person's not gonna swing, I understand, but I've
never seen this.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Right at any level of professional baseball. You know what
you need to learn a lesson? Go up there, don't
take that bat off your shoulder. I like the way
you've been pouting in the clubhouse and the way, you
know what, you've been wadding up the gum underneath the
phone in the hallway there. Yeah, that that's not gonna
stand you. You go up there and you wear it, you're.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Wadding up the gum. I can't believe you. You know
they put out that postgame spread last night. You know
I wanted a baloney sandwich and you ate all the baloney.
You know, I'm I'm now now you see you think
that's funny. Watch what I do when I go up
there in the sixth theyning you walk.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You're going straight out of uh the good place. You
might as well have made it shrimp, you ate all
the shrimp.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
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(17:06):
the show, but that was one.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Of those well you know what I mean. We we
do try to weave. We've a lot of pop culture
references in.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Let's weave this in right now before you get to
the big Saquon Barkley story. A trade has gone down huge. Yeah,
you woke up today, check the news. Gun, Oh that
could be it. No, there was a trade. Denzel Mims
is no longer a Jet He is now a Detroit Lion. Yeah.
Disappointing second round pick for the Jets. Spent the last
three years trying to break through. He hasn't. The Lions
(17:39):
have a need. Jamison Williams suspended the first six games
of the season with the gambling situation, So Denzel Mims
has a chance to slide in and maybe be somebody
of note. The guy's always had the talent, but he's
never been able to get on the field. And I
know that the Jets have been upset to at varying
degrees with him shirking some of his responsibilities. We've heard that, hey,
(18:00):
when you go out there, you have to know your responsibility.
You got to be able to block on plays. We
need you to block. You can't just go out and
go out for passes and run and run routes. So
that has been a thing that he has never been
able to get on the field. And here's a freebie
for the Lions. So Jets, we're gonna cut him. So line' say, hey,
we get a guy that's pretty talented and when he's
when he's been on the field, he was really good
in college. We'll go back to that tape because he's
had virtually no snaps the past three weeks against.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Forty two catches in three years and and also ran
in in a receiving corps that, let's face it was
not robust as he joined the squad. Now and you
add Wilson and and you change the complexion of things.
H The fact that your quarterback's stunk, oh, that the
guy before him stunk too, uh, didn't help anything. But
(18:45):
for Denzel mens Uh, it says a lot when you
weren't able to distinguish yourself enough to get reps in
that offense.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
The last couple of years, dude couldn't even make it
to Hard Knocks. I mean he's like, just one day,
I'll get to heart Noe, Nope, you're going to the Lions.
Ah Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
He was building a brand. I mean he was doing
all sorts of merch. He has a whole warehouse full.
He's like, I was gonna be I had it all planned.
I was gonna become the hero of the summer. Now
I have nothing.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Now I gonna go to Detroit. Fine, all right, Hey,
muskrat dinners for everybody, right, headed to Detroit.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
There you go. Now you're talking so then.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
So that's how that's how Hard Knocks is gonna begin.
It's gonna be It's gonna be live, Schreiber saying, and
before the team could even be settled in, a trade
was made, and then you're gonna hear lit Schreiber, Go,
are we allowed to show the trade or the jet's
gonna be upset if we not. We can show the trade.
We can show Okay, oh yes, before the team even
checked in, a trade went down, and then you're gonna
(19:42):
see the Denzel Mims thing and that'll go. That'll be
the whole first episode. Is a Denzel Mims trade the
whole first episode? Well, I mean they could really cheat.
Like I said, you know, we've been talking about it
a hot minute. You know, for those in with us
tonight for the first time since Hard Knocks was announced,
welcome in. Appreciate you being part of the family. But
(20:02):
like just Aaron Rodgers is off season. There's enough clips
that you could just hire an intern. Go get the
stuff for the Tonys, Go get the stuff. When he
was on the double decker tour bus, go get it.
When he was hanging out here, go when he gave
that speech in Denver about ayahuasca and its benefits, all
of that. I mean, that's an hour.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You know what I have to do a damn thing,
except for that when I got an hour of work,
someone that is a supervisor signs off on it. Add graphics,
get Shreiver to do his voiceover, and you're done.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
See this is how you should program for HBO.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Boom boom boom. Program for HBO, and I'm mad. Order
the GM of the angels. I'm not sure which.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And while you're doing it, talk to HBO because I'm
still having difficulty trying to watch Max. I don't know
what it is. Maybe because since Max split.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
From because they changed the app, so you're still doing
fed to the old app. I have that with a
Hulu account. That's really starting to tick me off. Yes,
so they're doing the same thing. It's like I upgraded,
I upgrade, I filled in my information. You don't need
a new credit card, you don't need me to pass
go or try to collect two hundred dollars. Just connect it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Every time I go to Max, because I tried, I'm,
you know, watching the other two and I'm going I don't. Yeah,
uh no, an error has occurred and it doesn't even
tell you error has occurred. Please check your your account?
What do you mean check my account?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
It doesn't give you an error code, Like, it's not
like you give a call in and say, hey, it's
code three thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Jason, you have TJ max thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Uh, well, TJ Max, it's the cheaper version.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It's a good uh I mean good value there it is.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, it's still it's I mean I still get some
of the same great products i'd get on Max, I
just get them cheaper. Oh. You know, normally, normally this
this program would cost you twelve ninety nine a month,
but here it's three ninety nine a month. TJ Max.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We've replaced one of the actors, so your version.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Doesn't cost as much. Meanwhile, a threat today that Saquon
Barkley may act sit out the season. He goes on
a podcast and look him getting tagged by the Giants.
Unable to work out a long term deal. After the
(22:11):
big comeback season he had last year, he has been
the poster running back for why aren't running backs getting paid?
The big NFL story that has just taken hold the
last few days. All running backs are upset that running
backs aren't getting paid. Not just the running backs not
getting paid, guys that have gotten paid or upset. Derek
Henry is upset. Christian McCaffrey is upset. Everybody is upset.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
We need solidarity. Man.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
The one thing that you can do if you're unhappy
with your situation is you cannot report to camp. Saquon
Barkley did not sign the franchise tag so he could
sit out, and as he said, sitting out, Yeah, that
could be a power play that I wind up using.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
I have no worry about going on a football field
and knowing that I'm not playing for my records, saying
if I have to play under because this is my leverage,
my love shitz. I could say you to the Giants,
I say you to my teammates and be like you
want me show you my word? I want to show
you how much how valuable I am and to the team,
I won't show up. I won't play it down. That's
the play I can use. Anybody knows me, knows that's
(23:13):
not something I want to do. But like it's something
that has It's something that crossed my mind. It say,
I never I never thought I would ever do that,
But like now I'm at a point where it's like Jesus,
like I might have to take it to this level,
and like am I willing, am I prepared to take
it to the level I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I'm like blank you to the Giants, blank you to
my teammates. Look, let me let me be clear with this.
I feel like Adam surefter, Let me be clear. Let
me be clear with this. If he sits out, it
is the worst possible decision he can make. It is
the worst decision he can make because however long you
sit out, if you miss time in the season, you
miss time before you can get back, whether you miss
(23:53):
part of the season or the whole season. This is
how your NFL future is going to unfold. If you
don't sit out, if you don't play at all, you
don't make any money. So you make no money this year,
and then next year, what's gonna happen? You're hoping for?
You gonna are you gonna make more than than a
franchise tag next year?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But you're so much?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Is somebody? Is someone gonna give you more money? No
they're not. You're gonna get somewhat of an okay contract
that a team is gonna say, you know what, this
is gonna be one year in an option and yeah,
we'll sign you. We'll give you twenty four million dollars,
but one year in an option because if you don't
have it, we're not gonna get locked into you for
another year. Because we just watched Le'Veon Bell sit out
a season and what happened. He had nothing, absolutely nothing,
(24:33):
had a two year deal with the Jets. He was
out of the NFL by the end of year too,
and he didn't even make it to the end of
season two with the Jets. So that's what's waiting for
Saquon Barkley. If he sits out the season the end
of his career. Know what, running backs don't sit out
for a year, stay fresh, play another three or four years.
It's not happening. He's gonna make less money because again,
(24:53):
remember ten million dollars you are not getting this year, right,
it's not Donna. Ten million dollars you are not getting.
If you sit out just part of the season or
part of the way until you come into the season
you rush yourself back into shape. What's gonna happen. You're
either gonna be a injured or be ineffective, or a
combination of both. That is not also not gonna get
(25:14):
you paid. After the season is over. You will then
never get paid again because you're coming off an injury
plague season or a season which you were ineffective, and
no team is gonna say, oh yeah, yeah, no, we're
good with you sitting out. We were good with all
of that. We think all of that was a was
a byproduct of you sitting out and missing time. Yeah,
we're good. Here's thirty million dollars the next two years.
That's not happening. If you sit out, you are putting
(25:36):
into big time peril your future as an NFL running back,
right because either you're not gonna get paid for this
year or you're most likely not going to be as
good as you were a year ago, which, of course,
if you're not getting paid big off of a big
year last year, you're not gonna get paid big next
year coming off a subpar season. Nothing can happen but
bad if you sit out and do this, So say
(25:58):
quond bar, I know it sucks, but the best thing
to do. Play for the ten million. Make ten million
dollars this year. Hey, it'sal like you're not making anything.
Make ten million dollars this year, hit free agency again
next year. If they franchise you again, it's probably gonna
be thirteen million dollars for next year. That's about what
the the number is gonna be at for running back.
So in the end, hey, two years twenty three million
dollars guaranteed ain't the worst thing in the world. Maybe
(26:21):
you'll be able to move on. The Giants will say, Okay,
we're not gonna franchise you again. We're gonna trade you
someplace else. And someone gives you a decent contract for
a couple of years, and you get to make get
a two year deal for twenty five million next year.
It will be ten million this year and then twelve
million and thirteen million. Everything is on the table if
you play and play well, nothing is on the table
(26:41):
and everything is off the table. In fact, there's no table.
They take the table away if you sit out either
a part of or all of this season.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, I think when you get down to it, it's
always don't be penny wise and pound foolish. Right, you've
got the larger picture of what's the back end of
your career going to be, because that's where we're at
right We're firmly in the back end of Saquon Barkley's career.
And because it's just the running back world. You're not
(27:09):
going away for a year and bulking up and coming
back as a tight end. You're not re establishing positional
eligibility somewhere else like fantasy owners arbitrarily. You know what,
my guy should be reclassified as a wide receiver because
he hangs out. No, that's not the way it works.
That's not happening. Guys have tried that. Tight ends tried that.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
It didn't work.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
You're still a running back and leaving ten million on
the table.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
And I appreciate his thoughts.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I appreciate everybody's angst and anguish over this, and they
don't want to be reminded the conversation we had with
Jason Cole about the twenty eleven CBA and everything that
got put in about the rookie Wade scale, and obviously
when we talk about the fact that the franchise tag
exists at all. I get it. It's not your ideal space,
(27:57):
but these are the rules of engage. You sit out,
I don't know what your leverage is. You piss off
your teammates. They may understand, but now you're jeopardizing how
good and what they put on tape right, how well
the season for them as they try to work towards
their next deal and all of those things. Right, there's
(28:18):
the domino effect and telling me how much Daniel Jones
got paid, because that's been the sounding thing for everybody.
It's like, you could just cancel that noise. Okay, it's
apples and oranges. You don't say, well, we like, but
we don't love Daniel Jones. So you know what, let's
roll the dice. Given the state of quarterbacking in the NFL,
(28:39):
you just don't do it. You think that with another
year with your offense set, assuming Barkley shows up as
we would expect them to, that Daniel Jones with a
bolstered roster, a better wide receiving corps and Barkley doing
his magic. That it all pretends to bigger numbers to
(29:00):
make people feel better about it, right, because they're worried
about the numbers, not the fact that they got to
the stake in playoffs. So for Sakwon Barkley, I hope
his team around him is counseling him well to get
past the fields, to get past the emotions. I can't
tell you how they feel, but I can't tell you
where the logic in all this process flows, and it
(29:23):
is getting back in having a hell of a year.
And whether you franchise Tag another thirteen million or you're
able to work out a two year deal after another
big effort with the Giants. Either way, you can't leave
that money to the wayside because it ain't coming back
for you. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
(29:46):
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we spent some time talking about what maybe the strangest
that bat you'll ever see in Major League Baseball and
I'm not over selling this. In the sixth inning of
the Brewers five to three win over the Philly tonight,
Bryce Harper took seven pitches, got up to bat, and
every time that Hoby Miller threw a pitch, he just
dropped his hands to his waist and was taking the pitch,
(30:32):
and he got all the way to a full count.
Hobby Miller threw a strike for strike three. Harper goes
back to the dugout. Have never seen that before in
all my years of baseball. Here's how it sounded on
NBC Sports Philadelphia. So, like I said, this left that
they have in her pen.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Outside one ball, one strike, it's still not used to it.
And he's lined out to first. That's interesting, three or two?
Anything's going on here?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Man?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
I don't think he saw any of those pictures the
way you would want to.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I think his controller died.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Come on, hey, hey, hey, come on, hey, it's not working.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
You gave me the broken one. Man.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Oh man. Uh. They asked Hoby Miller after the game,
what did you think of this? And Hobby Milner said, quote,
he just stuck to a game plan. And credit to
him for sticking to it. I guess was the game
plan just I'm not gonna swing.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I'm not gonna swing. That's my old strategy. I'm not
gonna swing. I really want to. I want to hear
from Bryce Harper, who again, we don't know that he's
even spoken after the game, right.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
That's a clown question, bro.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
You know that's kind of where we're headed with this,
isn't it?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
How come you didn't swing? I don't understand. And it's
not like he was injured or anything else, because he
went back out there in the you know, hitting the
ninth and he got a base hit. So I I
don't know. I mean, is he I don't know? Is
he quiet quitting? Is that? Is that what Bryce Harper?
Quiet quitting? Is that that what it is?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I don't think our team's any good. This was instead
of being James Harden and going to the podium saying
I can't win with this team and forcing his way out,
this was the way Harper did it. He did it
with a silent bat.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I'm just I've decided to not swing. I've had it
with Philadelphia. I am quiet quitting right now.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
I mean, you would have gotten more aggressiveness from that
man's sized bat. In the Philippines we were talking about.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Oh oh, I really I don't. I don't understand. I
don't understand what that was all about. I really don't.
I mean, I mean, how do you walk back and
what do you say if you're the manager, if you
go showed that, Hey, can someone walk down and checking
make sure Bryce is okay. I don't want to do
it like you got to be the guy that said, hey,
will you go see if Clayton Kershaw is good for
another inning. I don't want to go down and say
(33:07):
I'm taking you out after seven. So someone go down
and talk to Bryce and make sure he's okay, like like, hey,
do you do it?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
You're all Stewie, Hey there big gang hit there.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You good? You good?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
And then you duck and cover might transpire.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
That's just so strange, Like what what is he really
trying to do? I mean, really that was I'm just
gonna go up there and he's a lefty, so I'm
gonna try to walk as if it's not swing. I
don't I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I have no idea. Man.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
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