July 20, 2023 • 34 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon update on everything going on in baseball. Saquon Barkley suggests he could say F U to the New York Giants if they don’t pay him. And Bryce Harper has one the strangest at-bats you’ll ever see!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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Speaker 3 (00:59):
It's really good.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's like it's like the better your impression gets, the
worse the Yankees play. I think there's a correlation there.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh my bad Yanks run the math.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I mean it's science.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I think we need some pitching and some hitting and
some bullpen. Bryce didn't swing and a new manager. That's
a different story. You're mixing your stories. I don't like sports.
It's it's okay, stick with one thing. You get too extemporaneous,
it doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I never knew Brazil had nuts.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's boom.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I fought Common for forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yes, we figured out last night on television. The John
Came Common fight scene from John Wick two is thirty
nine minutes and fifty seconds long. It is forty minutes long.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It's a whole hour. I mean it's an hour special.
Had the commercials beginning in and end, and here you go,
get Liab Shreiver to cut a voice over for the
beginning and end of that. Be done with it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I've always been an exclamation point.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Die no. I kind of like the live shriverer part
of it is. And if you thought the fight was
over when they got into the hotel, you'd be wrong.
They would stop for a drink, then they would continue fighting.
Oh that'd be it all rights itself. But yeah, but listen,
this look just really quick because I'm pretty sure my
(02:31):
dad is getting home now. Boy. I know we talked
about this with with John Paul Morosi earlier, and there
really is no solution in sight for the Yankees. They
lose again tonight to the Anaheim angel to the Los
Ange Angeles of Anaheim. They lose and get swept, and
(02:51):
now they are in last place, still in last place
in the AL East, and things aren't getting better. And
this season I don't know what the Yankees gonna do
with the deadline because they just have too many holes
to fix. Right. They're starting pitching not good enough, they're
hitting not good enough, they're bullpen not good enough. It's
this is what tells you. I mean, I'm stunned there
(03:12):
still over five hundred. I mean, quite honestly, you said,
what's the most shocking thing about the Yankees? It's not that,
oh hey, that the Yankees are, you know, the horrible
now and they're not gonna make the playoffs. It's that
they're still somehow three games over five hundred, with everything
going wrong, they are still at this point, they're still
in shouting distance of the playoffs. That to me is
(03:32):
the most shocking thing, not that they're because they've not
been good. When they're ten games over five hundred a
month and a half goo one going, how the hell
are they this? Good man? We spent the Mets, we
spent like three hundred and seventy million dollars and we
just absolutely stink. The Yankees have nobody. They're hurt, they
don't pitch, they don't it, and somehow they're ten games
over five hundred. How the hell is this happening. No,
(03:52):
this is the real surprise for the Yankees, not the
fact that they're bad, because they should be bad. When
you're injured and all of these things are happening, you
should be bad. Still there, that's the minor miracle in
this situation.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Well, in the first half, they took care of a
lot of games against the Central The Angels had some
issues early. You look at taking care of two out
of three against the Padres and just keep going on
down the line.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I mean they then.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Then some games against the White Sox are always gonna
help you out, so it it adds up. I mean,
it's fuzzy math. A lot of games against the A's
in the first half, so all of that gives you
the the early outcomes. Not to mention, you did have
Aaron Judge at that point, so you got his production,
which still leads your homer and RBI totals.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
For the season.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
There you go, Yankee fans, that guy hasn't played or
done anything in two months except wave to the good people,
and he's still your leader.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'll tell you it is really difficult, and and it's
it's hard because the Yankees are not going to the
to the playoffs. They're not gonna make moves of the deadline.
They're gonna hope they're injured players come back and they
catch fire, right the Yankee This is not the Yankees.
What are they gonna do anything, No, what they're gonna
do is hope. They're gonna hope that when they're injured
players come back, they're gonna be fine, that Aaron Judge
is gonna come back and it's gonna be okay, and
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they're gonna hit and they'll pull out a playoff spot somehow.
That's the Yankees are hoping for. That's their strategy. Not
gonna happen, knock.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
My guy wrote down. I mean, based on what we've
seen in each of his starts, Like we were talking about
with John Paul Morosi last hour, I man, the help
isn't within right. That's the hard part, right, there's there's
You're not suddenly gonna see these guys.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh wait, it's August first.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Uh. And the guy that hypnotized them suddenly snaps it
back out and they're no longer clucking like chickens uh
and being able.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
To perform Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
No, uh, they are truly uh at this point from
the organizational standpoint, unless they want to go and blow
a ton of money to bring other players in. There's
there's nothing to be done. There's nothing to be remedied.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, this is not where and he tells the ward
and yes, you're right, salvation does lie with it. No,
that's not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And you guys, Boone's gonna get fired if they can
find him.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. But it'll happen to
the end of the year. Look, this is I'll tell
you this is how the rest of the season is
gonna go for the Yankees. It's gonna go kind of
like this. They'll win some games, but they'll lose get
they'll have you. Hey, they won four out of five.
The Yankees are back. Then they'll get swept or they'll
lose two out of three, and slowly they're gonna have
other teams pass them. In the American League, for the
playoff race. They're gonna fall out of contention. The last
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week and a half, two weeks of the regular season
is going to be not meaningful at all. And after
the season is over, Aaron Boone's gonna get fired. And
that that's how it's going to end. That's how the
Yankee season ends, all right, I've seen. I'm telling you, Mike,
that's how the Yankee season ends, and ends with the
new manager and no playoffs and what's wrong with the Yankees?
And how do we get out of all of this
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money we're paying to guys where suddenly we've gotten old
and Stanton can't stay on the field and it's still
worth it paying. It's going to end with so many
questions and and you can just see it the Yankee
The Yankees are circling the drain. It's not it's not.
It's not one of those fast circling the drains. It's
one of those like you know when you go to
a museum and you have the uh oh, the penny,
(07:14):
the penny thing right where where where you start the
penny out of out of out of the road, and
it just goes all the way around you and you
sit there for like five minutes. You watch the penny
go all the way around and then it goes all
the way down through the hole and it takes forever.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
That's kind of what we stand there long enough for
that to happen, though, because I do we used to
is that we really like watching it going, Dad, how
long is it gonna take?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
How long is it gonna take? Oh, let's watch, let's watch.
I mean that's what it is, watching that penny go
and slowly go. Oh the Yankees, No, they're well, they're
getting close. They're oh, they're getting a little getto Oh
now they're at now and now we were. That's what
the Yankee season is gonna be like. Not fast down
the drain, not fast where oops went my wedding ring
slipped off and it went down the drain. No, it's
gonna be one of those all the way around, all
the way around with a penny, all the way around,
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all the way.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah. The other thing to solve the Aaron Boone conundrum,
like if you can't find him to iron, give it,
put an air tag on his person, right in his
backpack or whatever he carries. Maybe fix it to his car,
whatever you need to do, because then you'll find him
and you'll be able to move on to h Well,
(08:16):
the next guy to deal with this.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
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dot Com. Now, I hate to say I told you so,
you know. I hate to say I told youself. You
know I do.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
You know I don't really take some long time for
those words to formulate in your brain and cross your lips.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I know, I know it does. But this is a
big day because I told over a month ago. Over
a month ago, I said, you know what, the Tampa
Bay Rays have had a great start, right, They've been
the talk of the baseball season. How they jumped out.
Look there run differential is plus one forty five. Look
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how good the Rays have been. They've been the best story.
It looks showing you small markets can win all these
different things. Not only win, but they can dominate all
that now, all that happy crap that people love to say, right,
and what did I tell you? Through all of that?
The Orioles are right there. There are only a few
games behind. Watch the Orioles. They're going to win the
(09:30):
AL East. The Orioles are gonna win the AL East.
And what happened today? After a Raise loss and Orioles win,
Guess who's in first place in the AL East. Technically
it's a tie, but the Orioles have a two game
lead in the lost column. The Orioles are in first place,
and they're going to hit first place and just continue
to move. All right, This is a really good team.
(09:52):
They are solid up and down. They can still get
a little bit of pitching at the deadline, which is
which is probably what they want. But they win games,
just w like I did. For a young team to
win like this is really special because usually with young
teams it's about emotion, it's about streaks. This is every night.
They're winning five out of seven nights, five out of seven,
four out of seven, five out of seven. And it's
(10:13):
really impressive what they've done. And and some stories are
just cool, you know in sports where they sometimes everything
is this or it's that it's the greatest thing, it's
the worst thing. Some stories are just cool. And this
year in Major League Baseball, the Orioles being this good
in first place is cool. The Reds being in first
place is cool. All of these stories are cool. And
(10:35):
and here are the Oriols. Like I told you they're
gonna win the division. Here they are in first place. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I mean you're looking at the trade they make today,
because look, the Orioles actually brought on a player. Shintaro
Fujinami comes over from the A's first year in the
big leagues, you know, making you know, for major league pitchers,
fairly minimum money as you would think pitching for the A's.
(11:02):
But you look at the base stats and they're not
gonna wow you. But he's been pretty good the last
month and a half. So they're banking on more of that.
Give them another army.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I just like that.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
We're in a place where Baltimore is looking to bring
on players, and I don't think this is the end
of what they're doing. The farm system is replete with
some top notch prospects. They've already called up a number
of players this year. You've got Gunner Henderson and Rushman
and those guys that are leading the way and Kowser.
(11:34):
I mean, there's so many and there's still another several
that are almost major League ready. Don't be surprised to
see them get aggressive. As much as they'd love to
follow some of that Dodgers' history, it's like, yeah, you know,
that guy looks really nice. You know who I can
interest you in the younger model of him. It's not
really the younger model of him, but the guy we
got down in Double A, because that's what the Dodgers
(11:55):
always did. Oh you're thinking about him, Well, you know what,
I got a guy who's like him, a little bit younger,
little cheaper for you. You know, you know we we
can throw him in because the Dodgers were always really
good about giving away those best prospects. And maybe the
Orioles will will get to that same level with their
with their farm system, but right now, opportunities there to
(12:18):
go grab the brass ring. I can't wait to see
what they do. It's exciting times in Baltimore for the
first time in a long time, other than the wishing, wanting,
hoping of prospects that never worked out. Chris Davis with
that monster home run season that they paid him on
that they're still paying him on, which is a much
worse deal than Beniez by the way, I mean when
(12:38):
you when you go through the annals of it, there's
so many other guys that have been getting paid. I
mean Ken Griffy Junior got to check from the Reds.
Of course they should owe him a lot more money
for whit. No, that's right, White Sox Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Ude, dude, how long is Mookie Betts gonna get paid
by the Dodgers? Right? The bookie Bets are gonna pay
to like twenty fifty Like that's help end. Uh, you
know what I'm waiting for, honestly, just as a as
a as an aside, Remember I told you you know
the dog park. I go to these guys I see
all the time, and all they do is talk about
betting on baseball. That's all they talk about. Like a
(13:12):
month and a half ago, I told them, I said,
because they didn't know that, they didn't know who I was.
I'm a radio host or anything here that I said.
You watch the Orioles win the Al East? Really, I said, yeah,
he goes. You think I should put money on it
and I go, I wanna tell you what do with
your money, but watch the Oriols win the Al East, Like,
I want to see those guys. I haven't seen those
guys in a couple of weeks. I want to see
them now because they're gonna go like, hey, dude, man,
you were right. Well look you I'm feeling so great.
(13:33):
I got the Orioles futures for the win the Al East.
I'm feeling great right now because I want to do
it now in case. You know, the Orioles lose like
eight out of ten in fallout to see them soon.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
But remember this, the Rays ain't getting healthy anytime soon.
And you know that they're not spending any money. No
told you, man, So the opportunity is there.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Look at these teams, man, the Orioles and the Reds.
It's it's like the seventies again, the Dodgers, all these
teams that are good.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
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Speaker 3 (15:08):
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Speaker 1 (15:10):
Whoa WHOA? I think it was another joke.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
That's what you call being ready for any kind of response.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
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Speaker 1 (15:21):
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You're gonna get for Lander, and you're gonna get Sureser.
You're gonna get both of them.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Dude, you really think the Dodgers are gonna take that
garbage back back?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Absolutely when the Mets still pay half the money.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Of course we started game that will never happen.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Of course, me starting We're.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Gonna get him to not pitch in the playoffs. That's
that's right now.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
If you had to say your your best option for
starting game one of the play off his Sandy Kofax. Okay,
just realize that for a second. He's your best option.
He's seventy eight years old.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
He looks pretty damn good too, he does.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
He's taking good care of himself. I'm telling you that's
what's gonna happen. It's gonna you don't know what your
talk is gonna be great. You get it before and
it was good. I'm gonna get him, and you're gonna
get Verlander. You're gonna get everybody used to be a
Tiger when they were gonna get Rick Porcello. You're gonna
get all these sure and Prince Fielder. You'll get them both.
(16:29):
Oh yeah, you'll get everybody's dude. It's good. Well, he
was Cecil's kid, So I'm just saying you're gonna get
both of them. You don't just get Cecil Fielder, you
get Prince Fielder too.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
No, you might get the jersey that they gave him
when he was a kid hanging around the clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
How about. Oh yeah, buddy, you're gonna get It's gonna great.
You're gonna get Mickey Tettleton, get Brandon in all.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
What you're doing now, you're just you wanna want to
get Lance Parrish while you're at it.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, Kenny, Yeah, Kenny Rodgers will pitch for you too
a little bit. Yeah, you just want.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
To get a little chet lemon in.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, joels Ayah will close. You'll close for you now.
Maybe you can still throw the You're gonna have trammel
ed Whittaker is your new DP combo it's gonna work.
Darryl Evans at first base.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yeah, you've never named more irrelevant people in your life,
and you've done the last minute.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'll tell you know what, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
When I read you can read the Mets lineup, maybe
that does it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But you know, I read this somewhere the other day,
I think it was it was on social media somewhere
where a post said, there's no joy greater than a
bunch of baseball fans just naming random guy. Right, it's
one of the best, No, But that is one of
the best parts about.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Going to a game live or going to the local bar,
like on an NFL Sunday right around Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, obviously we have.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The Rams and the Chargers, uh and but there's still
a lot of Raider fans.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But there are bars for pretty much.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Every NFL team, and when you go in there, it
is really the cross section of multiple decades of fandom
come together. Right, there's a Bear's Bar. Well, there's a
guy with a Curtis Enis jersey. There's a guy with
a Ditka jersey. There's the but Gets, there's Peyton, there's McMahon,
there's you know, Richard Dent all the way to me
(18:16):
wearing my cutler, Suresey and all the Justin fields.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Do that team for team and.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
You will have the best time with some of the
random names that people paid money to buy, the custom
that the store probably didn't even have, but they were
their favorite guy for a year or two, the glue guy,
as it were, for your favorite team.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I don't think there's Bears bars anymore though, buddy, I
think they all went out of business a few years,
you know what, not.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Out of business.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Only you can prevent him. Who's our head coach? Still,
Matt and Aggie close the bar, close it down. We'll
do something else people want to see. Let's help an
a lion's bar. More people are gonna want to see
them than the Bears.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Now, Oh man, that's they busted in the cop when
you walk through the door.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Well, I mean, look one that we had in Burbank
we went to the one time at halftime they played
street football. So they warned you not to park because
guys will go go full on park on that street
because guys will go full out trying to catch the ball.
They will run in dent your car. They'll tackle the
guy and push them into the car. Maybe the quarterbacks
(19:22):
not so accurate, so your windshield or a rear view mirror.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Takes it right your sides.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So all of that to say, uh yeah, chaos ensues
and we're only several weeks away from it.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Gentlemen, Well let me say, let me say this. We
have chaos ensued earlier today from Saquon Barkley. Right, the
last couple of days in the NFL has been made
up of running backs upset that they're not getting paid.
Whether it was guys who couldn't get a new contract
and are playing on the franchise tag like Saquon Barkley
or Josh Jacobs or Tony Pollard. Where there was running
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backs who were upset that these guys couldn't get contracts,
like Christian McCaffrey, your Derek Henry. Everybody is mad running
backs are not getting paid. And today sat Kwan Barkley
did an interview and he said, hey, if I need
the nuclear option, I can choose the nuclear option.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
I have no worry about going on a football field
and knowing that I'm not playing for my work or
saying if I have to play under it, because that's
this is my leverage. My leverage is I can say
you to the Giants, I say to my teammates and
be like, you want me show you my word? I
want to show you how much how valuable I am
to the team. I won't show up, I won't play
it down. That's the play I can use. Anybody knows me,
(20:36):
knows that's not something I want to do. But like
it's something that has It's something that crossed my mind.
It's like 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?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I don't know that. From the Money Matters podcast, surprise, surprise,
I'm gonna go on any so that has to do
with money, and people are gonna listen to what I
have to say. I hope, for Saquon Barkley's sake that
this is a bluff and it's out there just to
let the Giants know, Hey, I'm serious. I'm thinking about this.
I could say blank you to the Giants, blank you
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to my teammates. I might have to do. I might
have to do that. I hope it's a bluff, because
if he does that, it would be the worst decision
you could possibly make. And you are basically saying I'm
okay with my NFL career ending in two years. That
that's what you are. If you look at Levon Bell,
the guy just had to apologize yesterday saying I should
have never left the Steelers because what happened. He held
(21:36):
out for a year, made no money, then signed a
three year deal with the Jets, or only the first
couple of years were guaranteed, and he made it to
the end of year two not with the Jets, and
then he was out of the league and he hasn't
played since. Is that what you want, because that's the
reality of what Saquon Barkley has ahead of him. Because
let's just say he sits out for the whole season, right,
Let's take that one first. He sits out for the
(21:57):
whole season, is he really going to hit next offseason
and say, all right now, teams are gonna give me,
I can get a two year, a twenty seven million
dollar contract. Somewhere, someone's gonna give that to me. No,
the best you're gonna get is a year in an option. Hey,
we'll give you ten or twelve million dollars this year.
Then the option year might be ten million. But boy, yeah,
(22:18):
we don't know because you haven't played in a year.
Because taken a year off nevern't make anybody better. The
old adage of oh well, jeez, going through one less
year of pounding, No, you lose a lot of skill set.
Your skills erode when you don't play for a year.
So what's gonna happen is he'll sign somewhere next year
for a year in an option. He'll make his twelve
million for next year. That'll be fine. And then when
(22:41):
he has a disappointing year, because that's what's gonna happen,
the team is gonna let him go. And then he's
trying to hang on somewhere at the end of his career,
and maybe he's got another half season somewhere. He's never
getting paid again, and that's what he did. You want
to choose to sit out, that's gonna be your future.
You're gonna get one more year a twelve million dollar
and then you're gonna be lucky to try to stay
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in the league for next to no money. That's what
happens when you sit out a year. That is the
worst choice you can make. I get that you say, oh,
I want to get paid, But if you're not getting
paid coming off this year, when you had a great
year last year, you're gonna get what you want coming
off a year where you don't play. Teams are gonna say,
I just saw that movie with Le'Veon Bell. It didn't work.
He was the best running back in the league. We're
(23:22):
not giving you a lot of money now, Yeah, one
an option. So basically the best thing you're looking at is,
I'm not gonna get paid ten million this year. I'll
get paid twelve million next year. And that's really going
to be it. That's why this is a horrendous choice
if he does choose to sit out.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Yeah, it's really the curiosity right in terms of getting
your year accrued and and how that works out into
your next deal. But you're still at the running back position,
still college players coming up. All the stuff we've talked
about these last couple of days and the thing to
take and you can find the podcast everything we've said.
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Speaker 1 (24:08):
But for this Barkley.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Comment, he acts as if the Giants haven't been considering
what has to happen if he doesn't show up, Like suddenly,
everybody's gonna have their head in their hands and cry
because he doesn't show up, like his teammates will be pissed,
particularly those looking to h towards their next deals. And
as an offensive lineman, let's just face it, the numbers
(24:32):
Barkley's gonna put up are gonna make you look that
much better, right, So him not being there, and even
if you have a reasonable replacement and the numbers cobble together,
well and.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
The Matt Brida will be happy. Hey, oh I get
some carries there.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
But like legitimately, like say, say, the numbers and the
wins and the you know points per game don't change
mark markedly that you know, all right, that's fine, But
for the players on the field, I think that's one
of their concerns, not just because they want to make
sure he gets he's taken care of, and they worry
about Saquon the guy there's got to be some selfishness
(25:06):
in the locker room, as Barkley alludes to. So those
are fences he'll need to mend.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
But from the team side of things, his next man up.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Man, it's like preparing when he was hurt and wasn't
available to play. Okay, you want to come back to
the table eventually. I mean, they've been negotiating for a
long long time. This wasn't suddenly here's deadline day and
he said, hey, watch this long term contract offer disappear.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Tada. No, you didn't do any of that.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
It's all been day to day between the team and
he and his agent and management. Like you didn't suddenly
spring a surprise of hey, what if he decides not
to play now, I would say on the giant pie chart,
there's a very low percentage because it's still ten million
dollars and every week that you're not earning that five
hundred thousand dollars check. Okay, But if he's a if
(26:01):
that's where he wants to stand, he wants to stand
his ground and on principle he can't play for that money, well.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Good on him.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
He's a better man than I because I'd be like
all right, where do I sign we didn't get it done? Yeah,
and now I'm gonna go and have the best year
I can to hopefully either you for franchise tag part
two or if you don't tag me that someone still
wants me.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
That's me.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
But if he he's okay with what he's made in
his career to say, you know what, on principle, this
is good for the league, good for the NFL, and
I can affect change. I can't fault him for trying.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
That he's not but he's not going to.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I would certainly not if I were his consulieri. That
would not be my tact.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
If you were Robert Duvall, you would tell him, no,
it's not going to help. And what people have to
understand is, and now everybody's coming back pretending they didn't
say Le'Veon Bell made the smart choice by sitting out
that year. We told you when it happened. Le'Veon Bell
didn't make the smart choice. He made the safe choice. Right.
It's only a smart choice if you play, get hurt
(27:09):
and your career is over. But it's tackle football that
kind of happens. Le'Veon Bell didn't make fourteen million dollars
for that year, he could have made fourteen million dollars
and if he stayed healthy, guess what, he's signing a
two year deal. He's making another twenty eight million dollars. Right.
He chose the safe option, not the smart one, because
does it really look like it's smart now? Of course not.
(27:29):
It looks like what were you doing? You took a
year off and your skills eroded and you were out
of the league in two years. That's how you have
to look at this. You sit out a year, things
aren't gonna suddenly be better. You're not a twenty three
year old running back that hey, the world is out
there for you and things are really good. Saquon Barkley
is a guy that luckily had a bounce back year
(27:49):
last year. Right, he's twenty six years old. He had
a really good rookie year. He had an average to
below average second year, and then he was bad in
twenty twenty. He was bad twenty twenty one, and last
year he had a bounce back here. But you're not
someone that you look at the beginning, you're looking at, oh, hey,
twenty seven, twenty eight year old running back, we were no, No,
(28:10):
you're not gonna get that deal. It's not going to happen.
Just look, I mean some so far, so many times
people say, boy, this is the road not taking. I
don't know which way to step. No, Le'Veon Bella is
showing you don't step in my shoes. You step in
my shoes. This is how it's going to end. No
running backs are going to get paid. So you have
to do the almost famous line of Jimmy Fallon saying,
you gotta grab what you can when you can while
(28:33):
you can. You can get ten million dollars this year. Great,
you hit free agency next year or you're franchised again.
Guess what you're making thirteen million dollars. And then if
you keep playing well, you'll keep making thirty twelve fourteen
million dollars for a year. Every year after that. Keep going.
That's how you're gonna make money. This holding out not
playing ain't gonna work. It will be the worst thing
(28:53):
you can do to hold out, absolute worst.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
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Speaker 1 (29:09):
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the answer on this. This is one of the most
(29:30):
bizarre moments I've ever seen in baseball. Talking about I've
been a baseball fans. I'm four years old and baseball
has been around one hundred and twenty years, and you
still see things that you've never seen before in Major
League Baseball. Tonight, the Phillies loss of the Brewers five
to three. Right, No big deal, right, they lose who's
(29:52):
been playing well? Their first place Phillies are a couple
of games out of the playoffs. Bryce Harper, who is
not having a great sea, comes up to bat in
the sixth inning. He's facing Toby Milner, and he decides
to have a very interesting at bat to not swing,
and not only that, hold his bat down to show
you he has no intention of swinging. Take a listen. So,
(30:16):
like I said, this lefty they have in their pen.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Outside one ball, one strike, it's still not used to it,
and he's lined out to first.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
That's interesting, that's a that's what three or two? What
do you think is going on here? Man?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, I don't think he saw any of those pitches
the way you would want to that courtesy of NBC
Sports Philadelphia. He's not the best UH analyst in the
business for nothing, folks, I don't know what's going on.
Not only did Bryce Harper not swing, he's six pitch
at bat in which he struck out looking every time
(31:06):
Milner went into his wind up. And he's a lefty
with kind of a quirky motion, comes at you from
the side's having a pretty good year. Zerra is under
two and a half. Bryce Harper would just lower his
hands Laura's hand to show you I have no intention
of swinging. I'm not going to swing at any of
these bitches. And he didn't, and he strikes out looking.
Are you thinking, is he hurt? Did he go up
(31:28):
there at the end he can't swing? No, No, he
bad had played hit in the ninth, then he got
a base hit, went first a third on a single. No,
Bryce Harper was okay. I've never seen that before. Okay,
I've seen it in the Little league and sometimes some
girls I coach, yes, young girls when they don't want
to swing because the ball is coming in a little
too fast. That's I don't know. I want to swing.
Come on, stay in, stay in there, keep your head
(31:49):
and come on, get a good swing, Get a good swing.
I mean it's Bryce Harper. I'm just dropping the bat.
I'm not gonna swing. I've never and this is a
guy who's MVP, future Hall of Fame for all of
these things, and he is still yet to talk. And
the game ended like two hours ago. We got nothing
of an explanation of Bryce Harper for this.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, we didn't even get the clown question response. We
got nothing, a whole lot of silence and a lot
of speculation, but they encapsulated so well in the broadcast
so doing I had no idea because you go down
the decision tree at any point, right, this is this
is Jason Bateman in Dodgeball, just going yeah, we'll see
(32:31):
if it works out for him. Wow, what a bold strategy.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
He almost draws a walk, so I guess on that side,
almost almost intimidating enough to draw himself a walk at
the plate, because I mean, think about it before every deliri,
every delivery, It's like, what the hell is this guy doing?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Right?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
He doesn't have a lot of time to think about it,
because if it was the old rules, you would have
had the catcher coming out to talk to him.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
And be like, what what are we doing here? Why?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Why is it he swinging the bat? Why is he disengaged?
Like it would have become a much bigger deal, But
the pitch clock keeps the line moving and we get
one of the stranger results we'll ever see, defies logic.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
What do you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Maybe he had to go if you know what I mean, no, then.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
He's no, no, then he's swinging at every pitch.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
No, no, no, no, You're paralyzed with that front leg
and all of a sudden you got problems.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
So still you still just waving the ball somehow, or
you try to bunt and you don't know if you
got to go that that that there's there's worse ways
he didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Know.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, it's it's I mean, I don't understand, Like that's
like I want to I want to prove a point
about something, but it's what the hell you're trying to do? Like, really,
what if it was that entertaining he had to go
to the bathroom, we would have gotten that story at
the end of the game. Because you know, people want
to know what, what what happened. I mean again, I've
never seen this in all my years of watching baseball,
someone having that bat just like that. I'm just not
(34:04):
gonna swing. I'm just I'm just not no matter what, nobody,
what you do, I'm not gonna I've never seen it.
I don't know what the hell is going through his head.
I really don't it.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Maybe he's got a bucket list of things that he
could be the first and only to ever do.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I want to have one at bat where I don't swing.
I want to and check check it off.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Not an intentional walk. I'm just gonna watch the ball
U sail.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Maybe now tomorrow he's gonna have that bat where he
just swings in every pitch, no matter where it is. Now,
I'm gonna do that tomorrow night. I want to do
that in baseball. I really what he's you know, Vladimir
Guerrero already did that. More on this insane story, plus
a big story out of the NFL coming up next,
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Speaker 3 (00:59):
It's really good.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's like it's like the better your impression gets, the
worse the Yankees play. I think there's a correlation there.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oh my bad Yanks run the math.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
I mean it's science.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I think we need some pitching and some hitting and
some bullpen. Bryce didn't swing and a new manager. That's
a different story. You're mixing your stories. I don't like sports.
It's it's okay, stick with one thing. You get too extemporaneous,
it doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I never knew Brazil had nuts.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's boom.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I fought Common for forty minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yes, we figured out last night on television. The John
Came Common fight scene from John Wick two is thirty
nine minutes and fifty seconds long. It is forty minutes long.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It's a whole hour. I mean it's an hour special.
Had the commercials beginning in and end, and here you go,
get Liab Shreiver to cut a voice over for the
beginning and end of that. Be done with it.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I've always been an exclamation point.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Die no. I kind of like the live shriverer part
of it is. And if you thought the fight was
over when they got into the hotel, you'd be wrong.
They would stop for a drink, then they would continue fighting.
Oh that'd be it all rights itself. But yeah, but listen,
this look just really quick because I'm pretty sure my
(02:31):
dad is getting home now. Boy. I know we talked
about this with with John Paul Morosi earlier, and there
really is no solution in sight for the Yankees. They
lose again tonight to the Anaheim angel to the Los
Ange Angeles of Anaheim. They lose and get swept, and
(02:51):
now they are in last place, still in last place
in the AL East, and things aren't getting better. And
this season I don't know what the Yankees gonna do
with the deadline because they just have too many holes
to fix. Right. They're starting pitching not good enough, they're
hitting not good enough, they're bullpen not good enough. It's
this is what tells you. I mean, I'm stunned there
(03:12):
still over five hundred. I mean, quite honestly, you said,
what's the most shocking thing about the Yankees? It's not that,
oh hey, that the Yankees are, you know, the horrible
now and they're not gonna make the playoffs. It's that
they're still somehow three games over five hundred, with everything
going wrong, they are still at this point, they're still
in shouting distance of the playoffs. That to me is
(03:32):
the most shocking thing, not that they're because they've not
been good. When they're ten games over five hundred a
month and a half goo one going, how the hell
are they this? Good man? We spent the Mets, we
spent like three hundred and seventy million dollars and we
just absolutely stink. The Yankees have nobody. They're hurt, they
don't pitch, they don't it, and somehow they're ten games
over five hundred. How the hell is this happening. No,
(03:52):
this is the real surprise for the Yankees, not the
fact that they're bad, because they should be bad. When
you're injured and all of these things are happening, you
should be bad. Still there, that's the minor miracle in
this situation.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Well, in the first half, they took care of a
lot of games against the Central The Angels had some
issues early. You look at taking care of two out
of three against the Padres and just keep going on
down the line.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I mean they then.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Then some games against the White Sox are always gonna
help you out, so it it adds up. I mean,
it's fuzzy math. A lot of games against the A's
in the first half, so all of that gives you
the the early outcomes. Not to mention, you did have
Aaron Judge at that point, so you got his production,
which still leads your homer and RBI totals.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
For the season.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
There you go, Yankee fans, that guy hasn't played or
done anything in two months except wave to the good people,
and he's still your leader.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I'll tell you it is really difficult, and and it's
it's hard because the Yankees are not going to the
to the playoffs. They're not gonna make moves of the deadline.
They're gonna hope they're injured players come back and they
catch fire, right the Yankee This is not the Yankees.
What are they gonna do anything, No, what they're gonna
do is hope. They're gonna hope that when they're injured
players come back, they're gonna be fine, that Aaron Judge
is gonna come back and it's gonna be okay, and
(05:14):
they're gonna hit and they'll pull out a playoff spot somehow.
That's the Yankees are hoping for. That's their strategy. Not
gonna happen, knock.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
My guy wrote down. I mean, based on what we've
seen in each of his starts, Like we were talking about
with John Paul Morosi last hour, I man, the help
isn't within right. That's the hard part, right, there's there's
You're not suddenly gonna see these guys.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Oh wait, it's August first.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Uh. And the guy that hypnotized them suddenly snaps it
back out and they're no longer clucking like chickens uh
and being able.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
To perform Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
No, uh, they are truly uh at this point from
the organizational standpoint, unless they want to go and blow
a ton of money to bring other players in. There's
there's nothing to be done. There's nothing to be remedied.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, this is not where and he tells the ward
and yes, you're right, salvation does lie with it. No,
that's not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And you guys, Boone's gonna get fired if they can
find him.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. But it'll happen to
the end of the year. Look, this is I'll tell
you this is how the rest of the season is
gonna go for the Yankees. It's gonna go kind of
like this. They'll win some games, but they'll lose get
they'll have you. Hey, they won four out of five.
The Yankees are back. Then they'll get swept or they'll
lose two out of three, and slowly they're gonna have
other teams pass them. In the American League, for the
playoff race. They're gonna fall out of contention. The last
(06:31):
week and a half, two weeks of the regular season
is going to be not meaningful at all. And after
the season is over, Aaron Boone's gonna get fired. And
that that's how it's going to end. That's how the
Yankee season ends, all right, I've seen. I'm telling you, Mike,
that's how the Yankee season ends, and ends with the
new manager and no playoffs and what's wrong with the Yankees?
And how do we get out of all of this
(06:52):
money we're paying to guys where suddenly we've gotten old
and Stanton can't stay on the field and it's still
worth it paying. It's going to end with so many
questions and and you can just see it the Yankee
The Yankees are circling the drain. It's not it's not.
It's not one of those fast circling the drains. It's
one of those like you know when you go to
a museum and you have the uh oh, the penny,
(07:14):
the penny thing right where where where you start the
penny out of out of out of the road, and
it just goes all the way around you and you
sit there for like five minutes. You watch the penny
go all the way around and then it goes all
the way down through the hole and it takes forever.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
That's kind of what we stand there long enough for
that to happen, though, because I do we used to
is that we really like watching it going, Dad, how
long is it gonna take?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
How long is it gonna take? Oh, let's watch, let's watch.
I mean that's what it is, watching that penny go
and slowly go. Oh the Yankees, No, they're well, they're
getting close. They're oh, they're getting a little getto Oh
now they're at now and now we were. That's what
the Yankee season is gonna be like. Not fast down
the drain, not fast where oops went my wedding ring
slipped off and it went down the drain. No, it's
gonna be one of those all the way around, all
the way around with a penny, all the way around,
(07:54):
all the way.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yeah. The other thing to solve the Aaron Boone conundrum,
like if you can't find him to iron, give it,
put an air tag on his person, right in his
backpack or whatever he carries. Maybe fix it to his car,
whatever you need to do, because then you'll find him
and you'll be able to move on to h Well,
(08:16):
the next guy to deal with this.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
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dot Com. Now, I hate to say I told you so,
you know. I hate to say I told youself. You
know I do.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
You know I don't really take some long time for
those words to formulate in your brain and cross your lips.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I know, I know it does. But this is a
big day because I told over a month ago. Over
a month ago, I said, you know what, the Tampa
Bay Rays have had a great start, right, They've been
the talk of the baseball season. How they jumped out.
Look there run differential is plus one forty five. Look
(09:10):
how good the Rays have been. They've been the best story.
It looks showing you small markets can win all these
different things. Not only win, but they can dominate all
that now, all that happy crap that people love to say, right,
and what did I tell you? Through all of that?
The Orioles are right there. There are only a few
games behind. Watch the Orioles. They're going to win the
(09:30):
AL East. The Orioles are gonna win the AL East.
And what happened today? After a Raise loss and Orioles win,
Guess who's in first place in the AL East. Technically
it's a tie, but the Orioles have a two game
lead in the lost column. The Orioles are in first place,
and they're going to hit first place and just continue
to move. All right, This is a really good team.
(09:52):
They are solid up and down. They can still get
a little bit of pitching at the deadline, which is
which is probably what they want. But they win games,
just w like I did. For a young team to
win like this is really special because usually with young
teams it's about emotion, it's about streaks. This is every night.
They're winning five out of seven nights, five out of seven,
four out of seven, five out of seven. And it's
(10:13):
really impressive what they've done. And and some stories are
just cool, you know in sports where they sometimes everything
is this or it's that it's the greatest thing, it's
the worst thing. Some stories are just cool. And this
year in Major League Baseball, the Orioles being this good
in first place is cool. The Reds being in first
place is cool. All of these stories are cool. And
(10:35):
and here are the Oriols. Like I told you they're
gonna win the division. Here they are in first place. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I mean you're looking at the trade they make today,
because look, the Orioles actually brought on a player. Shintaro
Fujinami comes over from the A's first year in the
big leagues, you know, making you know, for major league pitchers,
fairly minimum money as you would think pitching for the A's.
(11:02):
But you look at the base stats and they're not
gonna wow you. But he's been pretty good the last
month and a half. So they're banking on more of that.
Give them another army.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I just like that.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
We're in a place where Baltimore is looking to bring
on players, and I don't think this is the end
of what they're doing. The farm system is replete with
some top notch prospects. They've already called up a number
of players this year. You've got Gunner Henderson and Rushman
and those guys that are leading the way and Kowser.
(11:34):
I mean, there's so many and there's still another several
that are almost major League ready. Don't be surprised to
see them get aggressive. As much as they'd love to
follow some of that Dodgers' history, it's like, yeah, you know,
that guy looks really nice. You know who I can
interest you in the younger model of him. It's not
really the younger model of him, but the guy we
got down in Double A, because that's what the Dodgers
(11:55):
always did. Oh you're thinking about him, Well, you know what,
I got a guy who's like him, a little bit younger,
little cheaper for you. You know, you know we we
can throw him in because the Dodgers were always really
good about giving away those best prospects. And maybe the
Orioles will will get to that same level with their
with their farm system, but right now, opportunities there to
(12:18):
go grab the brass ring. I can't wait to see
what they do. It's exciting times in Baltimore for the
first time in a long time, other than the wishing, wanting,
hoping of prospects that never worked out. Chris Davis with
that monster home run season that they paid him on
that they're still paying him on, which is a much
worse deal than Beniez by the way, I mean when
(12:38):
you when you go through the annals of it, there's
so many other guys that have been getting paid. I
mean Ken Griffy Junior got to check from the Reds.
Of course they should owe him a lot more money
for whit. No, that's right, White Sox Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Ude, dude, how long is Mookie Betts gonna get paid
by the Dodgers? Right? The bookie Bets are gonna pay
to like twenty fifty Like that's help end. Uh, you
know what I'm waiting for, honestly, just as a as
a as an aside, Remember I told you you know
the dog park. I go to these guys I see
all the time, and all they do is talk about
betting on baseball. That's all they talk about. Like a
(13:12):
month and a half ago, I told them, I said,
because they didn't know that, they didn't know who I was.
I'm a radio host or anything here that I said.
You watch the Orioles win the Al East? Really, I said, yeah,
he goes. You think I should put money on it
and I go, I wanna tell you what do with
your money, but watch the Oriols win the Al East, Like,
I want to see those guys. I haven't seen those
guys in a couple of weeks. I want to see
them now because they're gonna go like, hey, dude, man,
you were right. Well look you I'm feeling so great.
(13:33):
I got the Orioles futures for the win the Al East.
I'm feeling great right now because I want to do
it now in case. You know, the Orioles lose like
eight out of ten in fallout to see them soon.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
But remember this, the Rays ain't getting healthy anytime soon.
And you know that they're not spending any money. No
told you, man, So the opportunity is there.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Look at these teams, man, the Orioles and the Reds.
It's it's like the seventies again, the Dodgers, all these
teams that are good.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Gave us that month bill. It's the seventh at the
shows tonight.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
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Speaker 3 (15:01):
Should you know who's gonna need four new tires?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Justin Firlander when the Mets traded with the Dodgers so
we can drive out to l a.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Oh you when I slash yours?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Whoa WHOA? I think it was another joke.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
That's what you call being ready for any kind of response.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
The Dodgers, I.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Have to go there. Whoa by buddy, Buddy.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
But there's a good thing you got, tire rack dot Com.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
He's pitching so well now, but you're gonna get him.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
It's getting four new tires you're getting.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
You're getting Justin Firlander and new Tox you're getting, Buddy.
You're gonna get for Lander, and you're gonna get Sureser.
You're gonna get both of them.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Dude, you really think the Dodgers are gonna take that
garbage back back?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Absolutely when the Mets still pay half the money.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Of course we started game that will never happen.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Of course, me starting We're.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Gonna get him to not pitch in the playoffs. That's
that's right now.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
If you had to say your your best option for
starting game one of the play off his Sandy Kofax. Okay,
just realize that for a second. He's your best option.
He's seventy eight years old.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
He looks pretty damn good too, he does.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
He's taking good care of himself. I'm telling you that's
what's gonna happen. It's gonna you don't know what your
talk is gonna be great. You get it before and
it was good. I'm gonna get him, and you're gonna
get Verlander. You're gonna get everybody used to be a
Tiger when they were gonna get Rick Porcello. You're gonna
get all these sure and Prince Fielder. You'll get them both.
(16:29):
Oh yeah, you'll get everybody's dude. It's good. Well, he
was Cecil's kid, So I'm just saying you're gonna get
both of them. You don't just get Cecil Fielder, you
get Prince Fielder too.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
No, you might get the jersey that they gave him
when he was a kid hanging around the clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
How about. Oh yeah, buddy, you're gonna get It's gonna great.
You're gonna get Mickey Tettleton, get Brandon in all.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
What you're doing now, you're just you wanna want to
get Lance Parrish while you're at it.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, Kenny, Yeah, Kenny Rodgers will pitch for you too
a little bit. Yeah, you just want.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
To get a little chet lemon in.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Yeah, joels Ayah will close. You'll close for you now.
Maybe you can still throw the You're gonna have trammel
ed Whittaker is your new DP combo it's gonna work.
Darryl Evans at first base.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Yeah, you've never named more irrelevant people in your life,
and you've done the last minute.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'll tell you know what, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
When I read you can read the Mets lineup, maybe
that does it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
But you know, I read this somewhere the other day,
I think it was it was on social media somewhere
where a post said, there's no joy greater than a
bunch of baseball fans just naming random guy. Right, it's
one of the best, No, But that is one of
the best parts about.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Going to a game live or going to the local bar,
like on an NFL Sunday right around Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, obviously we have.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The Rams and the Chargers, uh and but there's still
a lot of Raider fans.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But there are bars for pretty much.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Every NFL team, and when you go in there, it
is really the cross section of multiple decades of fandom
come together. Right, there's a Bear's Bar. Well, there's a
guy with a Curtis Enis jersey. There's a guy with
a Ditka jersey. There's the but Gets, there's Peyton, there's McMahon,
there's you know, Richard Dent all the way to me
(18:16):
wearing my cutler, Suresey and all the Justin fields.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Do that team for team and.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
You will have the best time with some of the
random names that people paid money to buy, the custom
that the store probably didn't even have, but they were
their favorite guy for a year or two, the glue guy,
as it were, for your favorite team.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I don't think there's Bears bars anymore though, buddy, I
think they all went out of business a few years,
you know what, not.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Out of business.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Only you can prevent him. Who's our head coach? Still,
Matt and Aggie close the bar, close it down. We'll
do something else people want to see. Let's help an
a lion's bar. More people are gonna want to see
them than the Bears.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Now, Oh man, that's they busted in the cop when
you walk through the door.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Well, I mean, look one that we had in Burbank
we went to the one time at halftime they played
street football. So they warned you not to park because
guys will go go full on park on that street
because guys will go full out trying to catch the ball.
They will run in dent your car. They'll tackle the
guy and push them into the car. Maybe the quarterbacks
(19:22):
not so accurate, so your windshield or a rear view mirror.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Takes it right your sides.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
So all of that to say, uh yeah, chaos ensues
and we're only several weeks away from it.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Gentlemen, Well let me say, let me say this. We
have chaos ensued earlier today from Saquon Barkley. Right, the
last couple of days in the NFL has been made
up of running backs upset that they're not getting paid.
Whether it was guys who couldn't get a new contract
and are playing on the franchise tag like Saquon Barkley
or Josh Jacobs or Tony Pollard. Where there was running
(19:56):
backs who were upset that these guys couldn't get contracts,
like Christian McCaffrey, your Derek Henry. Everybody is mad running
backs are not getting paid. And today sat Kwan Barkley
did an interview and he said, hey, if I need
the nuclear option, I can choose the nuclear option.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
I have no worry about going on a football field
and knowing that I'm not playing for my work or
saying if I have to play under it, because that's
this is my leverage. My leverage is I can say
you to the Giants, I say to my teammates and
be like, you want me show you my word? I
want to show you how much how valuable I am
to the team. I won't show up, I won't play
it down. That's the play I can use. Anybody knows me,
(20:36):
knows that's not something I want to do. But like
it's something that has It's something that crossed my mind.
It's like 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?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I don't know that. From the Money Matters podcast, surprise, surprise,
I'm gonna go on any so that has to do
with money, and people are gonna listen to what I
have to say. I hope, for Saquon Barkley's sake that
this is a bluff and it's out there just to
let the Giants know, Hey, I'm serious. I'm thinking about this.
I could say blank you to the Giants, blank you
(21:14):
to my teammates. I might have to do. I might
have to do that. I hope it's a bluff, because
if he does that, it would be the worst decision
you could possibly make. And you are basically saying I'm
okay with my NFL career ending in two years. That
that's what you are. If you look at Levon Bell,
the guy just had to apologize yesterday saying I should
have never left the Steelers because what happened. He held
(21:36):
out for a year, made no money, then signed a
three year deal with the Jets, or only the first
couple of years were guaranteed, and he made it to
the end of year two not with the Jets, and
then he was out of the league and he hasn't
played since. Is that what you want, because that's the
reality of what Saquon Barkley has ahead of him. Because
let's just say he sits out for the whole season, right,
Let's take that one first. He sits out for the
(21:57):
whole season, is he really going to hit next offseason
and say, all right now, teams are gonna give me,
I can get a two year, a twenty seven million
dollar contract. Somewhere, someone's gonna give that to me. No,
the best you're gonna get is a year in an option. Hey,
we'll give you ten or twelve million dollars this year.
Then the option year might be ten million. But boy, yeah,
(22:18):
we don't know because you haven't played in a year.
Because taken a year off nevern't make anybody better. The
old adage of oh well, jeez, going through one less
year of pounding, No, you lose a lot of skill set.
Your skills erode when you don't play for a year.
So what's gonna happen is he'll sign somewhere next year
for a year in an option. He'll make his twelve
million for next year. That'll be fine. And then when
(22:41):
he has a disappointing year, because that's what's gonna happen,
the team is gonna let him go. And then he's
trying to hang on somewhere at the end of his career,
and maybe he's got another half season somewhere. He's never
getting paid again, and that's what he did. You want
to choose to sit out, that's gonna be your future.
You're gonna get one more year a twelve million dollar
and then you're gonna be lucky to try to stay
(23:01):
in the league for next to no money. That's what
happens when you sit out a year. That is the
worst choice you can make. I get that you say, oh,
I want to get paid, But if you're not getting
paid coming off this year, when you had a great
year last year, you're gonna get what you want coming
off a year where you don't play. Teams are gonna say,
I just saw that movie with Le'Veon Bell. It didn't work.
He was the best running back in the league. We're
(23:22):
not giving you a lot of money now, Yeah, one
an option. So basically the best thing you're looking at is,
I'm not gonna get paid ten million this year. I'll
get paid twelve million next year. And that's really going
to be it. That's why this is a horrendous choice
if he does choose to sit out.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Yeah, it's really the curiosity right in terms of getting
your year accrued and and how that works out into
your next deal. But you're still at the running back position,
still college players coming up. All the stuff we've talked
about these last couple of days and the thing to
take and you can find the podcast everything we've said.
(23:56):
Go find wherever you download your audio The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carr and give it five stars, We'll
love you forever, go and evangelize because you know today's
day news yesterday is generally how we operate.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
But for this Barkley.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Comment, he acts as if the Giants haven't been considering
what has to happen if he doesn't show up, Like suddenly,
everybody's gonna have their head in their hands and cry
because he doesn't show up, like his teammates will be pissed,
particularly those looking to h towards their next deals. And
as an offensive lineman, let's just face it, the numbers
(24:32):
Barkley's gonna put up are gonna make you look that
much better, right, So him not being there, and even
if you have a reasonable replacement and the numbers cobble together,
well and.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
The Matt Brida will be happy. Hey, oh I get
some carries there.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
But like legitimately, like say, say, the numbers and the
wins and the you know points per game don't change
mark markedly that you know, all right, that's fine, But
for the players on the field, I think that's one
of their concerns, not just because they want to make
sure he gets he's taken care of, and they worry
about Saquon the guy there's got to be some selfishness
(25:06):
in the locker room, as Barkley alludes to. So those
are fences he'll need to mend.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
But from the team side of things, his next man up.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Man, it's like preparing when he was hurt and wasn't
available to play. Okay, you want to come back to
the table eventually. I mean, they've been negotiating for a
long long time. This wasn't suddenly here's deadline day and
he said, hey, watch this long term contract offer disappear.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Tada. No, you didn't do any of that.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
It's all been day to day between the team and
he and his agent and management. Like you didn't suddenly
spring a surprise of hey, what if he decides not
to play now, I would say on the giant pie chart,
there's a very low percentage because it's still ten million
dollars and every week that you're not earning that five
hundred thousand dollars check. Okay, But if he's a if
(26:01):
that's where he wants to stand, he wants to stand
his ground and on principle he can't play for that money, well.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Good on him.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
He's a better man than I because I'd be like
all right, where do I sign we didn't get it done? Yeah,
and now I'm gonna go and have the best year
I can to hopefully either you for franchise tag part
two or if you don't tag me that someone still
wants me.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
That's me.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
But if he he's okay with what he's made in
his career to say, you know what, on principle, this
is good for the league, good for the NFL, and
I can affect change. I can't fault him for trying.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
That he's not but he's not going to.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
I would certainly not if I were his consulieri. That
would not be my tact.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
If you were Robert Duvall, you would tell him, no,
it's not going to help. And what people have to
understand is, and now everybody's coming back pretending they didn't
say Le'Veon Bell made the smart choice by sitting out
that year. We told you when it happened. Le'Veon Bell
didn't make the smart choice. He made the safe choice. Right.
It's only a smart choice if you play, get hurt
(27:09):
and your career is over. But it's tackle football that
kind of happens. Le'Veon Bell didn't make fourteen million dollars
for that year, he could have made fourteen million dollars
and if he stayed healthy, guess what, he's signing a
two year deal. He's making another twenty eight million dollars. Right.
He chose the safe option, not the smart one, because
does it really look like it's smart now? Of course not.
(27:29):
It looks like what were you doing? You took a
year off and your skills eroded and you were out
of the league in two years. That's how you have
to look at this. You sit out a year, things
aren't gonna suddenly be better. You're not a twenty three
year old running back that hey, the world is out
there for you and things are really good. Saquon Barkley
is a guy that luckily had a bounce back year
(27:49):
last year. Right, he's twenty six years old. He had
a really good rookie year. He had an average to
below average second year, and then he was bad in
twenty twenty. He was bad twenty twenty one, and last
year he had a bounce back here. But you're not
someone that you look at the beginning, you're looking at, oh, hey,
twenty seven, twenty eight year old running back, we were no, No,
(28:10):
you're not gonna get that deal. It's not going to happen.
Just look, I mean some so far, so many times
people say, boy, this is the road not taking. I
don't know which way to step. No, Le'Veon Bella is
showing you don't step in my shoes. You step in
my shoes. This is how it's going to end. No
running backs are going to get paid. So you have
to do the almost famous line of Jimmy Fallon saying,
you gotta grab what you can when you can while
(28:33):
you can. You can get ten million dollars this year. Great,
you hit free agency next year or you're franchised again.
Guess what you're making thirteen million dollars. And then if
you keep playing well, you'll keep making thirty twelve fourteen
million dollars for a year. Every year after that. Keep going.
That's how you're gonna make money. This holding out not
playing ain't gonna work. It will be the worst thing
(28:53):
you can do to hold out, absolute worst.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
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Speaker 1 (29:09):
Different Songs, two different songs too, Still Like Prince, two
different songs. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon live from the ti rack
dot Com studios, where we're still waiting to find out
the answer on this. This is one of the most
(29:30):
bizarre moments I've ever seen in baseball. Talking about I've
been a baseball fans. I'm four years old and baseball
has been around one hundred and twenty years, and you
still see things that you've never seen before in Major
League Baseball. Tonight, the Phillies loss of the Brewers five
to three. Right, No big deal, right, they lose who's
(29:52):
been playing well? Their first place Phillies are a couple
of games out of the playoffs. Bryce Harper, who is
not having a great sea, comes up to bat in
the sixth inning. He's facing Toby Milner, and he decides
to have a very interesting at bat to not swing,
and not only that, hold his bat down to show
you he has no intention of swinging. Take a listen. So,
(30:16):
like I said, this lefty they have in their pen.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Outside one ball, one strike, it's still not used to it,
and he's lined out to first.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
That's interesting, that's a that's what three or two? What
do you think is going on here? Man?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Yeah, I don't think he saw any of those pitches
the way you would want to that courtesy of NBC
Sports Philadelphia. He's not the best UH analyst in the
business for nothing, folks, I don't know what's going on.
Not only did Bryce Harper not swing, he's six pitch
at bat in which he struck out looking every time
(31:06):
Milner went into his wind up. And he's a lefty
with kind of a quirky motion, comes at you from
the side's having a pretty good year. Zerra is under
two and a half. Bryce Harper would just lower his
hands Laura's hand to show you I have no intention
of swinging. I'm not going to swing at any of
these bitches. And he didn't, and he strikes out looking.
Are you thinking, is he hurt? Did he go up
(31:28):
there at the end he can't swing? No, No, he
bad had played hit in the ninth, then he got
a base hit, went first a third on a single. No,
Bryce Harper was okay. I've never seen that before. Okay,
I've seen it in the Little league and sometimes some
girls I coach, yes, young girls when they don't want
to swing because the ball is coming in a little
too fast. That's I don't know. I want to swing.
Come on, stay in, stay in there, keep your head
(31:49):
and come on, get a good swing, Get a good swing.
I mean it's Bryce Harper. I'm just dropping the bat.
I'm not gonna swing. I've never and this is a
guy who's MVP, future Hall of Fame for all of
these things, and he is still yet to talk. And
the game ended like two hours ago. We got nothing
of an explanation of Bryce Harper for this.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, we didn't even get the clown question response. We
got nothing, a whole lot of silence and a lot
of speculation, but they encapsulated so well in the broadcast
so doing I had no idea because you go down
the decision tree at any point, right, this is this
is Jason Bateman in Dodgeball, just going yeah, we'll see
(32:31):
if it works out for him. Wow, what a bold strategy.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
He almost draws a walk, so I guess on that side,
almost almost intimidating enough to draw himself a walk at
the plate, because I mean, think about it before every deliri,
every delivery, It's like, what the hell is this guy doing?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Right?
Speaker 4 (32:53):
He doesn't have a lot of time to think about it,
because if it was the old rules, you would have
had the catcher coming out to talk to him.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
And be like, what what are we doing here? Why?
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Why is it he swinging the bat? Why is he disengaged?
Like it would have become a much bigger deal, But
the pitch clock keeps the line moving and we get
one of the stranger results we'll ever see, defies logic.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
What do you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Maybe he had to go if you know what I mean, no, then.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
He's no, no, then he's swinging at every pitch.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
No, no, no, no, You're paralyzed with that front leg
and all of a sudden you got problems.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
So still you still just waving the ball somehow, or
you try to bunt and you don't know if you
got to go that that that there's there's worse ways
he didn't.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Know.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, it's it's I mean, I don't understand, Like that's
like I want to I want to prove a point
about something, but it's what the hell you're trying to do? Like, really,
what if it was that entertaining he had to go
to the bathroom, we would have gotten that story at
the end of the game. Because you know, people want
to know what, what what happened. I mean again, I've
never seen this in all my years of watching baseball,
someone having that bat just like that. I'm just not
(34:04):
gonna swing. I'm just I'm just not no matter what, nobody,
what you do, I'm not gonna I've never seen it.
I don't know what the hell is going through his head.
I really don't it.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Maybe he's got a bucket list of things that he
could be the first and only to ever do.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I want to have one at bat where I don't swing.
I want to and check check it off.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Not an intentional walk. I'm just gonna watch the ball
U sail.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Maybe now tomorrow he's gonna have that bat where he
just swings in every pitch, no matter where it is. Now,
I'm gonna do that tomorrow night. I want to do
that in baseball. I really what he's you know, Vladimir
Guerrero already did that. More on this insane story, plus
a big story out of the NFL coming up next,
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