July 27, 2023 • 25 mins
Aaron Rodgers voluntarily took a $35 million pay cut on his two-year deal with the Jets. The Angels put the Shohei Ohtani trade rumors to rest with big-time deal for Lucas Giolito from the white Sox. And Lindsey Horan comes up clutch for Team USA!
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it like it's not something I put out with regular.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You can do it the way you think you can.
I think that's why you walked away from it and said, ah, no, not,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Want to know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I just decided I didn't care. It's really like I
didn't want to go Derek Carr.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Now, before we get to a thirty three million dollar story, Rogers, Rogers,
we gotta address aliens here for a second. Yeah, With
a former US intelligence official on Capitol Hill today, one
of the biggest crowds ever for a Capitol Hill hearing
testified that UFOs are real and the United States in
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possession of some UFOs and non human bodies.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
They were at that prop auction. So I was telling
you about last week. Did they buy the lightsaber?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't know. I didn't see. I didn't see who wanted.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
We got the creature from the Black Lagoon. He's holding
onto a scimitar that lights up.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
At the end.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
We're gonna pretend he's an alien?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Hey, who wears the suit? I mean, right at that injured?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Why did they suddenly have a listing for one hundred
and fifty interns.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Suddenly there's aliens and we had an alien Now do
we have we have alien bodies?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Did we kill them? Was there an alien war? Or
was it?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They couldn't survive in our atmosphere, so they died. I mean,
why do we have alien bodies? I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
They were Jets fans waiting on a significant win.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I can't wait anymore my life. I'm over five thousand
years old, and I can't wait any longer. I'm going
to die. But wait, we got Rogers, Rogers, Roger. I
can't wait anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They were in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I really, now, we gotta there's gotta be some kind
of further addressing of this topic. This can't just go away.
Oh yeah, guy says aliens and UFOs we have them.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh okay, and they say that the weak Oppenheimer comes out.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
We need we need to you know, we need we
need that. Hey, we need that Tony Stark suit of
armor around the world.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But we have to.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Stop aliens from getting in somehow.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, I mean, Roady's a scroll. I mean, look, oh
you have spoiler.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
No, look, man, if you found any entertainment news, I
didn't have to look very hard for that. That was
scrolling Yahoo alongside the Look Who's Hot?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Now? Remember stories? Remember tat too.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Remember Cap, I told you a suit of armor around
the world. I said we'd lose. You said we'll do
that together too. Well, guess what, Cap? We lost?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Well, haven't We had sightings out in the desert where
it seemed like it was a guy wearing the Iron
Man outfit.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, hey, I mean you know, I think it's time
for those so and so's to suit up. Now, Hey, Cap,
how about you put your uniform on?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
We got suit up and stand up post you you
and Iron Man.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And get It's time to get Captain Marvel back wherever
the hell she is an out of space. She's bobbed.
Get back here and suit let's go. We got aliens
that we're dealing with. We got bodies in UFOs. What
the hell come on?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Really abducted in McConnell's body today?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
You know what I.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Mean?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
That's normally a Friday news dump kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, this is like a Wednesday. We want people to
know this because you know, what I wonder is like,
let's just think that why because I always think, why
haven't we been attacked yet? Like why haven't you know?
Because that's the thing is apparently from the movies, we
know all aliens are evil and they want to take
over the planet.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Right, everything is done only with leezers.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no als want Hey look at
this man another form of life besides us that do
they want to come and kill us? All? I wonder
if you know, they don't know what television or movies
are and they get images of what's going on in
the world and they see like Iron Man and Captain
Marvel and the Hulk, and they go, we don't want
to mess with these guys.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
They got some I'm kind of defensive and Thor. This
guy Thor shows up once in a while. He used
to have a little tiny hammer. Now he's got storm Breaker. Dude,
we do not want to mess with that. They got
the Avengers, they got these other people called the X
Men too. It is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I mean, we might be able to turn Loki, but
that that I don't know, his allegiance shifts really fast.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
What about Superman in Wonder? Yeah, you know, not as impressed.
And I don't know, I think we can take them.
I don't know about them so much. I really, I
mean this, this story can't just die in the vine
right now. We have to have some kind of proof,
right like I mean, just like Bigfoot, Like somebody's got
to I mean, this guy's got to say, hey, I
can shaw. You know, here's where the proof is, and
here's where you can go to find an alien body
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or some part of a UFO. We gotta be able
to know that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Now is this where as you're walking around, there's just
one door unlocked, So they give you the one piece that.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
They want you to see. Ah, that'll satisfy him for
a while. What we got going on over there?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Come on, let's get back into the exploration. Let's send
a diver down to go find the green stuff so
we can you know, defeat Superman.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know all of these things.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The aliens are like did you see the documentary called
Independence Day? I mean that really happened. Can you believe
that that Randy Quaid was the only guy that was left,
and he didn't have a missile. He flew it right,
and he blew up all those things that crushed our
society for hundreds of millennia. I can't believe that we're
not We're not gonna be able to make it back
to this world in a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I like that your alien started to sound like Wallace Shaw.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And it's conceivable they don't have a suit of armor
around the world. Inconceivable. Let's just blow it up.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I mean, no, no, Jason, you think mermaids are next?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Uh no, mermaids are. Well, if they're in the Mariana Trench,
maybe mermaids are next. We'll find out in Meg two.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
If I am coming up soon, well, were we gonna
go see it?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Oh? I can't wait to see Meg two? Are you kidding? Oh?
Meg was so good? Meg two is gonna be even better.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
We were chuckling because when we went and saw Barbie
on Friday, we got three movies that had state.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Medaling.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
My fifteen year old for those uninitiated looks at me,
she goes, wait, I mean I know this guy, right,
I know he's you know, part of Fats and the Furious.
Whatever it's like is he.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Taking over Hollywood. What the hell's going on?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Jason's state in the mid fifty becomes the biggest.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Actor, the biggest guy in the era.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So we'll find out again it's time for that suit
of armour around the world. Maybe we need more defense spending.
Maybe that's what it's all about. Hey, aliens are coming.
You want to be ready, don't you.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That's how you get people to vote.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And then you get the commercial. Hey, you don't want
your money to be stuck in a bank when the
aliens come. Convert everything to gold?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Right now, you better start cloning Hawkeye guys.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Exactly the day.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I mean, what was it the Weekly World News or
whatever that used to be on the news stand where
you had Fat Boy and all that crap, But it
was always about aliens. Yeah, you think we were putting
this out for as a hoax. We were trying to
let you know the whole time.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, Ad frostbur come on, Hawk, I'd be useless, man,
he's useless.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You know, he's a marksman.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, see what's your beefoot? Hawk eyed? He's fine, but
like Hawkeye fighting, you know, he's like he's a man,
he is, he's a street level superhero, Like, okay, when
something's going on that that's not too but you're talking
about in space. Hey, come on, man, really Hawkey? I mean,
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come on, guys, I'm a bow an hour away from
being Hawkeye over here.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
But look at look at the trail that he's on.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
We just we just need Captain Marvel. That's all we need.
That's all we need.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Rain Fire.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Look at what she did. She single landedly turned the
Battle of Endgame. I mean single handedly.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
She did spoilt.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I mean she was She was such an unpopular character
her new movie. Now she splits the screen time with
two other people. So, but but she's powerful. We need
Captain Marvel. That's all we need.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
What about Rebecca Romain in her blue suit?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah again, street level superhero street level not not not
above the rim. She's not you. She's not in Above
the rim superhero. Look, there's a lot of art. Black
Widow's not in Above the Rim superhero Dared not above
the rim.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
They're also just woke up today and shows violence.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Can I get you know Hayley Atwell and h calle
Berry in the mix.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
In their respective characters.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, let's seay, okay, Weather Verry Catwoman Storm. No, Okay,
you can get you can you can have Halle Berry,
but you can't have Catwoman, Catwoman street level, street level, superhero,
street level. About Dan, She's stealing, She's stealing tamons?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Are we talking Earth to Kit? Julie newmar or Lee
May Merriwell?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Now Tysher just had the original Batman movie on in
here for the last like two and a half hours.
Look the sixty six Sweet Fox with Frank Gorshon and
Caesar Romero. Ray that one on Burgess Meredith, I was
taking up a TV for a while.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
How about you think what he eats? About two hundred
two pounds?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Twitter, and about a Fresco Mike gets swollen down the
Jason smithser with Mike Harmon. Uh. But let's get to
Rogers while the Roger because maybe this story only works
on a day where we actually have the fact that
maybe there are aliens. Aaron Rodgers had his contract situation
set up and settled with the New York Jets, which
you thought was coming because he had a big contract
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for the next couple of years where he had to
get it settled, and now he did. We heard reports
last night he and the Jets agreed to new terms
and they did. Two years seventy five million dollars all
guaranteed for Aaron Rodgers. He is giving up and taking
a thirty three million dollar pay cut for the next
two years for the Jets. And it's incredible the Jets.
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This never happens to the Jets. I feel like I'm
the most luckiest guy in the world because they just
never have this kuind of luck. I want to be
a Jets so bad. I'm gonna give you back thirty
three million dollars. I want to stay here. This is
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, or
to find out that that Rogers really it's a big scheme,
and and he's and he's punking everybody. The end of
the regular the preseasons, you go back to the Packers
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are all going to laugh. And that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I mean, he did call Jordan Love too about that. Hey,
good luck, kid.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I know, I just do what happened to him. I
just don't get this luck. Don't get this luck for
the Jets. And here we are and it's happening.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I joked about.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It when when Jason Cole joined us earlier in the
show Smith that something happened at that Ayahuasca retreat, and
then the you know, talking in Denver, and obviously the
Darkness Retreat, like all of that. It's a different guy.
He wants to be in the community. He wants to
be a tourist. He's showing up every day. He's getting
giant necklaces from teammates, showing love to all, you know,
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the young receivers and players on his squad. Now he
gives up, at least short term, a bunch of money.
Look on the back end, like he got a no
trade clause and they can't franchise tag him. Those are
two of the agreements that were disclosed. It helps him out,
you know, dancing around the salary cap a little bit.
Don't need to resmooth that out. Next year, assuming all
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goes well, he'll get a long term deal, so money
sorts itself out. He'll get a ton guaranteed. He's already
had three hundred five million career earnings plus all the
commercials and investments and everything else.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So he's doing just fine.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
So anybody that's worried about it, and anybody that wants
to argue is like, well, you're giving millionaires billionaires breaks again.
It's like, you know what, sometimes there's more than cash.
He got plenty to pass around. And look, he doesn't
like his family, so giving any of them anyway. So
you know, in the end, it's his money. He can
do with it whatever he wants, whether it's take it
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and burn it in a big bonfire down at Dockweiler
Beach here in southern California, or he can just say, hey,
I want the betterment of this squad because I want
to go down not just as the Hall of Famer.
I need to pass some milestones from other guys, be
it Peyton Manning be at some of these other quarterbacks
sitting at two Super Bowl titles. But you know, all
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of it, you know portends to what should be an
exciting squad.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Right you're You're.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Guy is going to be part of Quarterback Season two.
So if it goes down miserably, you'll have it. Otherwise
you will get it. You know, the commemorative DVDs A
is it available if it all ends well. But you
know it speaks to trying to build a team, something
that the last couple of years we couldn't in good
conscious talk about Aaron Rodgers doing based on what we knew. Right,
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there's public and then there's behind the scenes. And I'm
sure he still went to work and got things done,
but publicly it was a mess, you know, asking for trade,
you know, asking out, talking about retirement, all of that stuff,
and not being there for a bunch of workouts as
you got you know, all these young receivers coming in
that it didn't bode well for him. That's not even
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getting into all the comments. Did he use these words
specifically to mislead I don't. That's a whole other argument
and discussion for folks to take up. But just from
a football perspective, it's just a completely different attitude, seemingly
reinvigorated and bought in as the world's greatest tourist.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
We just never get this luck. It's just unbelievable. I
feel like I'm wanna magic carpet ride. It's so great.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Enjoy the last couple weeks of it. Smith.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Oh, and that someone pulls that rug out, it's no
longer a whole new world and Jaafar's take it over.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's actually we're getting Jordan Rodgers. Sorry, that's who you're
getting the play quarterback for you this year. Wait, wait, wait, Sori,
it's what you get.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Here's why Brady's the greatest of all time. We had
the latest on the Women's World Cup night tonight against
the Netherlands. We have Otani, we have the Dodgers making
a trade. But let me just say this, right, we
talked a few minutes ago about Aaron Rodgers, who took
a thirty three million dollar pay cut to stay with
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the Jets. Right now, one thing I never want to
hear again. And just think back to the last two
years when you heard so many experts say, there's no
way Aaron Rodgers can get traded. Look at the dead
cap hit, look at the salary cap implications. There's no
way Aaron Rodgers can get moved. It's just impossible. It's
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just impossible. Yes, he had a prohibitive contract, and what happened.
The guy got traded, and not only that, he was
able to redo his deal with his new team to
the point where he's giving back thirty three million. Now
he'll probably get it back in some way, shape or
form over the course the next couple of years with
what we haven't been told. But don't ever say, oh,
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the money is too bad the salary cat No, Because,
as you can see, if a trade wants to happen,
if two sides want to make a deal, then you
can make the money work. He even said it the
week before the trade went down. I don't want money
to hold this trade up. I want the Jets to
know that I'm open to doing a lot of different things.
And so the trade happened. Don't ever say, oh, you
can't do it, the contract is bad.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
No. If you can trade Aaron Rodgers with that craptastic
contract that he had, you can trade anybody.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And that's what we've learned.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I mean, you watch what the Rams did and changing
things around, and how we examine real versus a imagine money.
It's all stuff on a spreadsheet, and you can maneuver things,
change signing bonuses, move things around. It's it's look, it's
a system that you you can work if your front
office is new and equipped to handle a changing world. Right,
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I'm sure there's still plenty of teams operating under old
ideas and not quite being as versed with the manipulation
of this stuff, and you can maybe maybe it's your team.
I'm not talking about the Jets because you know, obviously
they still have a lot of work left to do
of what happens for twenty twenty four with his money
fourteen to three. I don't care about your your nonsensical
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projections right now, but it's just the idea of your
if your team is willing to get after it. And look,
you know, we talk about Baseball and trade deadline, and
while you don't have a hard cap, you still do
have the luxury tax that you have to consider. So
but that is a place where teams have to operate.
We watched that in the NBA. Are we gonna go
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past this threshold to where now you're gonna penalize me
severely for the roster I've assembled. Some teams will go in,
others back away. Some of it's just as much as
getting creative, talking to your superstars and saying, all right,
here's how we smoothed this out. And you can help
the team and talk about team, but for this, yeah,
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it's it's a matter of being a bit creative, right,
It's it's like you and your accountant. Should you have
been writing off all of this stuff? Maybe maybe not,
but you did, and you dared folks to come get you.
And that everybody's sitting there in their cars going, yeah,
I did have a bunch of expenses that have put on,
but I offset it with my gambling losses.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Twitter it out about a fresca Mike hat swallow? Do
more x at How about a fresca swollen dume? So
just to know, money is never an object if there
wants to be a trade, don't ever listen to anybody
who says that can ever happen. They just sound stupid
when they do it. Now, let's get to the trades
that happened tonight in Major League Baseball. First, one earlier
in the day, very the Dodgers did because they were
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able to get a pretty solid player in I'm ed Rosario,
and in exchange for a guy that they could have
just waved, he was.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Probably gonna get waved in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I don't understand. Look, I'm at Rosario. Is he the
greatest player in the world? No, he was in the
Francisco Lindor trade, a couple of years ago, and Rosario
is a solid guy. Guy that's gonna hit about two
sixty in his best year, the two sixty, fifteen to
seventeen home run seventy RBIs can play shortstop, can play
center field. Is he a gold Glove shortstop?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Is he a gol Glove center field or no? But
he's a solid player, and considering the Dodgers have a
lot of issues right now in the middle of the infield,
he's gonna make them better immediately. This is a Dodgers
team that has overachieved despite the fact they went into
the season without making any big moves. The second big
move they made they bring back Key k Hernandez. That's
a big move. I don't get the guardians, really you
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want noa Cinderguard who you could they couldn't give away.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I didn't know. This is like the fantasy trade where
you go, boy, I didn't know So and so was
gonna give the guy away. I mean that, I mean
Noah Sinderguard who can't get anybody out and is at
the end of his major league career. And the guardian said, yes,
that's the guy we want for Ahmed Rosario I get
they had young guys coming up. They got a couple
of young players, one young short stop they liked. It
would probably take his place. But really, that's what you get.
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You don't get something a little bit better for Ahmed Rosario.
I don't understand. I don't understand. You don't get someone
like no without fair trade is not a trade. You
complete off the guardians bam boozele one. You rip them
off and held them on.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
No. Look, man, he's got some Jedi mind tricks he's doing.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
It's like one of the Billy Bean trades when he
when he calls Steve Phillipson moneyball. Why don't you get
the feeling you're picking my pocket? No, you're picking mine.
Can we say it's done?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah? But click.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I think he was gonna say something. I would get
the answer you want you hang up the phone. I
mean really that I don't understand how this is the
trade that was done, like Cindergart. Really really for a
guy who's like I don't know if I can get
anybody out anymore, and I don't. That's the trade. That's
who the Guardian said, Yes, that's what we want.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
He's not worth a bucket of balls.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I mean, did they not he took him and gave
us some player. Do they not know anything about him
and think he still throws ninety eight ninety nine or
do they not know? They's oh, it's the same guy
from twenty fifteen, from eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
But is this the one that you walk off from.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I can't, I can't top this trade. I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, I mean, look at this trade. Man, I don't
know that I'm doing anything better than that ever in
my life. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I don't get that trade to guard.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
They're gonna build an Andrew Friedman statue for this.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
One, all these ex players clamoring.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It's like I had a near Hall of Fame career.
All no, no, no, I'll tell he.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Rosario makes the Dodgers better right away, and they gave
up nothing to get him. The guy's gonna play every
day and you hit at the bottom of the lineup,
but he's he's a solid player and they needed more
solidity and they just got it for nothing.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
It's like you become part of the game show with
him and it's deal or no deal, yeah, and you
feel pressured that you have to hit the plunger if
he's on the phone.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Look, I mean, maybe he just plays against lefties because
he's great against lefties, but he could play every day.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I don't I understand what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
With the Guardians. I don't understand. They've come a long
way from being that team that pushed Billy Bean out
in Moneyball. Suckers in your price range, no disrespect, Stop
saying that. All right, let's keep talking, let's get let's
keep talking, let's keep talking.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
But that trade just the appetizer to what went down
about an hour or so ago. We got that coming
up in ninety seconds.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But first, be sure to catch live editions of The
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Speaker 1 (21:56):
So the Angels give us a double barrel of stories tonight.
First we get the reports earlier in the day that
they have taken Shoeo Tani off of the trade market.
They weren't gonna trade him. They're going to keep him
and let's see how the rest of the season goes.
Then they go out tonight and they make a trade
clearly for this year. They trade with Mike Harmon's White
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Sox and they get Lucas Giolito. You know, they get
Ronaldo Lopez, a starter and reliever who were both solid,
not spectacular. Gielito a little bit better and he never
really became the pitcher they thought he was gonna be,
but he is still pretty solid. They give up the
number two and three prospects in their organization for these players. Now,
(22:37):
I'm gonna say, look, I've had a little bit of
time to digest this trade, but nothing has changed. I
love the guts at the Angels. I love going to
make this move. They gave up way too much for
guys who were Lucas Giolito, Ronaldo Lopez if you're talking
about Blake Snell or a top shelf starter that's available,
and Marcus Stroman if he's available. Yeah, you give you
(22:57):
number two, number three, But you look at the Padres
were giving up number two and number three prospects for
Juan Soto, and neither of these guys is Juan Soto.
The Angels got took You should be happy your White
Sox actually came out with a really good end of
the deal here, even though the Angels got better for
this year, and I love the guts. Boy, there's no
way they had to give up the number two and
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three prospects in the organization they got taken on that one.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, I think when you get down to it, right,
you take the best of available deal and now you
have a couple of days here. But maybe you're trying
to steal one extra start, a little extra bullpen work
from Lopez and you're still gonna stay active. According to
the reports, this takes them over the luxury tax threshold,
so you know, it shows a good faith effort to
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try to finish this season strong. But look, we have
no idea. Like the names you mentioned in terms of starters,
they're along the line, particularly Snell. You go to Stroman,
guys that are in that list that would have been
alongside with Otani.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Maybe they're traded, maybe they're not.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We don't know, right, I mean, look, you should always
be picking up the phone if there's trade offers, you know,
coming in, because you and you never know when you're
gonna get wowed and someone just comes completely over the top.
Otani's a weird was a weird situation. You know that
that's developed over these last couple of weeks. But in
this particular deal, you might have just decided, Look, this
(24:23):
is what we've got. We know what these prospects are.
And rankings are like fantasy rankings like stuff. You read
here's someone's top ten list and you eviscerate it. It's
like that guy doesn't even play that position. What do
you what do you got them there for?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
And I'm not speaking of any specific radio or television
person that may have done that, But it's just the
idea that we all agree that rankings very subjective the
person looking through. Yeah, you put some numbers in, you've
got your algorithm, and you can justify it. But there's
always a little bit of art that goes with. As
Frostburg says science that it's just science. It's not the case.
(25:01):
There's still gonna be a little bit of the eye
test that goes through. And maybe the number two and
three prospects they were good with. White Sox need a catcher,
that much is sure. And let me tell you, Tim
Anderson's hitting three ninety five in the second half. You
got my guy, Aaron Bummer, one of the great names
in baseball, Lance Lint. White Sox are gonna be very
active here over these next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Get in there and.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Sell, sells sell. They might not be done with the
angels before it's all said and done.
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Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah you have to tip me for that?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Oh really, Oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
That's extra.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I thought we were doing a radio show in ye
we are extent might be fun.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, I gotta I gotta rehearse it. I gotta practice
it like it's not something I put out with regular.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
You can do it the way you think you can.
I think that's why you walked away from it and said, ah, no, not,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Want to know.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I just decided I didn't care. It's really like I
didn't want to go Derek Carr.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Now, before we get to a thirty three million dollar story, Rogers, Rogers,
we gotta address aliens here for a second. Yeah, With
a former US intelligence official on Capitol Hill today, one
of the biggest crowds ever for a Capitol Hill hearing
testified that UFOs are real and the United States in
(01:51):
possession of some UFOs and non human bodies.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
They were at that prop auction. So I was telling
you about last week. Did they buy the lightsaber?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't know. I didn't see. I didn't see who wanted.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
We got the creature from the Black Lagoon. He's holding
onto a scimitar that lights up.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
At the end.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
We're gonna pretend he's an alien?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Hey, who wears the suit? I mean, right at that injured?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Why did they suddenly have a listing for one hundred
and fifty interns.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Suddenly there's aliens and we had an alien Now do
we have we have alien bodies?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Did we kill them? Was there an alien war? Or
was it?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
They couldn't survive in our atmosphere, so they died. I mean,
why do we have alien bodies? I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
They were Jets fans waiting on a significant win.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I can't wait anymore my life. I'm over five thousand
years old, and I can't wait any longer. I'm going
to die. But wait, we got Rogers, Rogers, Roger. I
can't wait anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They were in the middle of the desert.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
I really, now, we gotta there's gotta be some kind
of further addressing of this topic. This can't just go away.
Oh yeah, guy says aliens and UFOs we have them.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh okay, and they say that the weak Oppenheimer comes out.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
We need we need to you know, we need we
need that. Hey, we need that Tony Stark suit of
armor around the world.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But we have to.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Stop aliens from getting in somehow.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, I mean, Roady's a scroll. I mean, look, oh
you have spoiler.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
No, look, man, if you found any entertainment news, I
didn't have to look very hard for that. That was
scrolling Yahoo alongside the Look Who's Hot?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Now? Remember stories? Remember tat too.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Remember Cap, I told you a suit of armor around
the world. I said we'd lose. You said we'll do
that together too. Well, guess what, Cap? We lost?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Well, haven't We had sightings out in the desert where
it seemed like it was a guy wearing the Iron
Man outfit.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Well, hey, I mean you know, I think it's time
for those so and so's to suit up. Now, Hey, Cap,
how about you put your uniform on?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
We got suit up and stand up post you you
and Iron Man.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
And get It's time to get Captain Marvel back wherever
the hell she is an out of space. She's bobbed.
Get back here and suit let's go. We got aliens
that we're dealing with. We got bodies in UFOs. What
the hell come on?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Really abducted in McConnell's body today?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
You know what I.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Mean?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
That's normally a Friday news dump kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, this is like a Wednesday. We want people to
know this because you know, what I wonder is like,
let's just think that why because I always think, why
haven't we been attacked yet? Like why haven't you know?
Because that's the thing is apparently from the movies, we
know all aliens are evil and they want to take
over the planet.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Right, everything is done only with leezers.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no als want Hey look at
this man another form of life besides us that do
they want to come and kill us? All? I wonder
if you know, they don't know what television or movies
are and they get images of what's going on in
the world and they see like Iron Man and Captain
Marvel and the Hulk, and they go, we don't want
to mess with these guys.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
They got some I'm kind of defensive and Thor. This
guy Thor shows up once in a while. He used
to have a little tiny hammer. Now he's got storm Breaker. Dude,
we do not want to mess with that. They got
the Avengers, they got these other people called the X
Men too. It is unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I mean, we might be able to turn Loki, but
that that I don't know, his allegiance shifts really fast.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
What about Superman in Wonder? Yeah, you know, not as impressed.
And I don't know, I think we can take them.
I don't know about them so much. I really, I
mean this, this story can't just die in the vine
right now. We have to have some kind of proof,
right like I mean, just like Bigfoot, Like somebody's got
to I mean, this guy's got to say, hey, I
can shaw. You know, here's where the proof is, and
here's where you can go to find an alien body
(05:39):
or some part of a UFO. We gotta be able
to know that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Now is this where as you're walking around, there's just
one door unlocked, So they give you the one piece that.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
They want you to see. Ah, that'll satisfy him for
a while. What we got going on over there?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Come on, let's get back into the exploration. Let's send
a diver down to go find the green stuff so
we can you know, defeat Superman.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know all of these things.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
The aliens are like did you see the documentary called
Independence Day? I mean that really happened. Can you believe
that that Randy Quaid was the only guy that was left,
and he didn't have a missile. He flew it right,
and he blew up all those things that crushed our
society for hundreds of millennia. I can't believe that we're
not We're not gonna be able to make it back
to this world in a long time.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I like that your alien started to sound like Wallace Shaw.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
And it's conceivable they don't have a suit of armor
around the world. Inconceivable. Let's just blow it up.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I mean, no, no, Jason, you think mermaids are next?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Uh no, mermaids are. Well, if they're in the Mariana Trench,
maybe mermaids are next. We'll find out in Meg two.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
If I am coming up soon, well, were we gonna
go see it?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Oh? I can't wait to see Meg two? Are you kidding? Oh?
Meg was so good? Meg two is gonna be even better.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
We were chuckling because when we went and saw Barbie
on Friday, we got three movies that had state.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Medaling.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
My fifteen year old for those uninitiated looks at me,
she goes, wait, I mean I know this guy, right,
I know he's you know, part of Fats and the Furious.
Whatever it's like is he.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Taking over Hollywood. What the hell's going on?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Jason's state in the mid fifty becomes the biggest.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Actor, the biggest guy in the era.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So we'll find out again it's time for that suit
of armour around the world. Maybe we need more defense spending.
Maybe that's what it's all about. Hey, aliens are coming.
You want to be ready, don't you.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
That's how you get people to vote.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
And then you get the commercial. Hey, you don't want
your money to be stuck in a bank when the
aliens come. Convert everything to gold?
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Right now, you better start cloning Hawkeye guys.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Exactly the day.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I mean, what was it the Weekly World News or
whatever that used to be on the news stand where
you had Fat Boy and all that crap, But it
was always about aliens. Yeah, you think we were putting
this out for as a hoax. We were trying to
let you know the whole time.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yeah, Ad frostbur come on, Hawk, I'd be useless, man,
he's useless.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
You know, he's a marksman.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, see what's your beefoot? Hawk eyed? He's fine, but
like Hawkeye fighting, you know, he's like he's a man,
he is, he's a street level superhero, Like, okay, when
something's going on that that's not too but you're talking
about in space. Hey, come on, man, really Hawkey? I mean,
(08:18):
come on, guys, I'm a bow an hour away from
being Hawkeye over here.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
But look at look at the trail that he's on.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
We just we just need Captain Marvel. That's all we need.
That's all we need.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Rain Fire.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Look at what she did. She single landedly turned the
Battle of Endgame. I mean single handedly.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
She did spoilt.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I mean she was She was such an unpopular character
her new movie. Now she splits the screen time with
two other people. So, but but she's powerful. We need
Captain Marvel. That's all we need.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
What about Rebecca Romain in her blue suit?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah again, street level superhero street level not not not
above the rim. She's not you. She's not in Above
the rim superhero. Look, there's a lot of art. Black
Widow's not in Above the Rim superhero Dared not above
the rim.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
They're also just woke up today and shows violence.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Can I get you know Hayley Atwell and h calle
Berry in the mix.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
In their respective characters.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, let's seay, okay, Weather Verry Catwoman Storm. No, Okay,
you can get you can you can have Halle Berry,
but you can't have Catwoman, Catwoman street level, street level, superhero,
street level. About Dan, She's stealing, She's stealing tamons?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Are we talking Earth to Kit? Julie newmar or Lee
May Merriwell?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Now Tysher just had the original Batman movie on in
here for the last like two and a half hours.
Look the sixty six Sweet Fox with Frank Gorshon and
Caesar Romero. Ray that one on Burgess Meredith, I was
taking up a TV for a while.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
How about you think what he eats? About two hundred
two pounds?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Twitter, and about a Fresco Mike gets swollen down the
Jason smithser with Mike Harmon. Uh. But let's get to
Rogers while the Roger because maybe this story only works
on a day where we actually have the fact that
maybe there are aliens. Aaron Rodgers had his contract situation
set up and settled with the New York Jets, which
you thought was coming because he had a big contract
(10:12):
for the next couple of years where he had to
get it settled, and now he did. We heard reports
last night he and the Jets agreed to new terms
and they did. Two years seventy five million dollars all
guaranteed for Aaron Rodgers. He is giving up and taking
a thirty three million dollar pay cut for the next
two years for the Jets. And it's incredible the Jets.
(10:36):
This never happens to the Jets. I feel like I'm
the most luckiest guy in the world because they just
never have this kuind of luck. I want to be
a Jets so bad. I'm gonna give you back thirty
three million dollars. I want to stay here. This is
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, or
to find out that that Rogers really it's a big scheme,
and and he's and he's punking everybody. The end of
the regular the preseasons, you go back to the Packers
(10:58):
are all going to laugh. And that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I mean, he did call Jordan Love too about that. Hey,
good luck, kid.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I know, I just do what happened to him. I
just don't get this luck. Don't get this luck for
the Jets. And here we are and it's happening.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I joked about.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It when when Jason Cole joined us earlier in the
show Smith that something happened at that Ayahuasca retreat, and
then the you know, talking in Denver, and obviously the
Darkness Retreat, like all of that. It's a different guy.
He wants to be in the community. He wants to
be a tourist. He's showing up every day. He's getting
giant necklaces from teammates, showing love to all, you know,
(11:35):
the young receivers and players on his squad. Now he
gives up, at least short term, a bunch of money.
Look on the back end, like he got a no
trade clause and they can't franchise tag him. Those are
two of the agreements that were disclosed. It helps him out,
you know, dancing around the salary cap a little bit.
Don't need to resmooth that out. Next year, assuming all
(11:57):
goes well, he'll get a long term deal, so money
sorts itself out. He'll get a ton guaranteed. He's already
had three hundred five million career earnings plus all the
commercials and investments and everything else.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So he's doing just fine.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
So anybody that's worried about it, and anybody that wants
to argue is like, well, you're giving millionaires billionaires breaks again.
It's like, you know what, sometimes there's more than cash.
He got plenty to pass around. And look, he doesn't
like his family, so giving any of them anyway. So
you know, in the end, it's his money. He can
do with it whatever he wants, whether it's take it
(12:33):
and burn it in a big bonfire down at Dockweiler
Beach here in southern California, or he can just say, hey,
I want the betterment of this squad because I want
to go down not just as the Hall of Famer.
I need to pass some milestones from other guys, be
it Peyton Manning be at some of these other quarterbacks
sitting at two Super Bowl titles. But you know, all
(12:54):
of it, you know portends to what should be an
exciting squad.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Right you're You're.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Guy is going to be part of Quarterback Season two.
So if it goes down miserably, you'll have it. Otherwise
you will get it. You know, the commemorative DVDs A
is it available if it all ends well. But you
know it speaks to trying to build a team, something
that the last couple of years we couldn't in good
conscious talk about Aaron Rodgers doing based on what we knew. Right,
(13:21):
there's public and then there's behind the scenes. And I'm
sure he still went to work and got things done,
but publicly it was a mess, you know, asking for trade,
you know, asking out, talking about retirement, all of that stuff,
and not being there for a bunch of workouts as
you got you know, all these young receivers coming in
that it didn't bode well for him. That's not even
(13:42):
getting into all the comments. Did he use these words
specifically to mislead I don't. That's a whole other argument
and discussion for folks to take up. But just from
a football perspective, it's just a completely different attitude, seemingly
reinvigorated and bought in as the world's greatest tourist.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
We just never get this luck. It's just unbelievable. I
feel like I'm wanna magic carpet ride. It's so great.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Enjoy the last couple weeks of it. Smith.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Oh, and that someone pulls that rug out, it's no
longer a whole new world and Jaafar's take it over.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's actually we're getting Jordan Rodgers. Sorry, that's who you're
getting the play quarterback for you this year. Wait, wait, wait, Sori,
it's what you get.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
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Speaker 1 (14:29):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Here's why Brady's the greatest of all time. We had
the latest on the Women's World Cup night tonight against
the Netherlands. We have Otani, we have the Dodgers making
a trade. But let me just say this, right, we
talked a few minutes ago about Aaron Rodgers, who took
a thirty three million dollar pay cut to stay with
(14:50):
the Jets. Right now, one thing I never want to
hear again. And just think back to the last two
years when you heard so many experts say, there's no
way Aaron Rodgers can get traded. Look at the dead
cap hit, look at the salary cap implications. There's no
way Aaron Rodgers can get moved. It's just impossible. It's
(15:11):
just impossible. Yes, he had a prohibitive contract, and what happened.
The guy got traded, and not only that, he was
able to redo his deal with his new team to
the point where he's giving back thirty three million. Now
he'll probably get it back in some way, shape or
form over the course the next couple of years with
what we haven't been told. But don't ever say, oh,
(15:32):
the money is too bad the salary cat No, Because,
as you can see, if a trade wants to happen,
if two sides want to make a deal, then you
can make the money work. He even said it the
week before the trade went down. I don't want money
to hold this trade up. I want the Jets to
know that I'm open to doing a lot of different things.
And so the trade happened. Don't ever say, oh, you
can't do it, the contract is bad.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
No. If you can trade Aaron Rodgers with that craptastic
contract that he had, you can trade anybody.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And that's what we've learned.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I mean, you watch what the Rams did and changing
things around, and how we examine real versus a imagine money.
It's all stuff on a spreadsheet, and you can maneuver things,
change signing bonuses, move things around. It's it's look, it's
a system that you you can work if your front
office is new and equipped to handle a changing world. Right,
(16:25):
I'm sure there's still plenty of teams operating under old
ideas and not quite being as versed with the manipulation
of this stuff, and you can maybe maybe it's your team.
I'm not talking about the Jets because you know, obviously
they still have a lot of work left to do
of what happens for twenty twenty four with his money
fourteen to three. I don't care about your your nonsensical
(16:49):
projections right now, but it's just the idea of your
if your team is willing to get after it. And look,
you know, we talk about Baseball and trade deadline, and
while you don't have a hard cap, you still do
have the luxury tax that you have to consider. So
but that is a place where teams have to operate.
We watched that in the NBA. Are we gonna go
(17:10):
past this threshold to where now you're gonna penalize me
severely for the roster I've assembled. Some teams will go in,
others back away. Some of it's just as much as
getting creative, talking to your superstars and saying, all right,
here's how we smoothed this out. And you can help
the team and talk about team, but for this, yeah,
(17:32):
it's it's a matter of being a bit creative, right,
It's it's like you and your accountant. Should you have
been writing off all of this stuff? Maybe maybe not,
but you did, and you dared folks to come get you.
And that everybody's sitting there in their cars going, yeah,
I did have a bunch of expenses that have put on,
but I offset it with my gambling losses.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Twitter it out about a fresca Mike hat swallow? Do
more x at How about a fresca swollen dume? So
just to know, money is never an object if there
wants to be a trade, don't ever listen to anybody
who says that can ever happen. They just sound stupid
when they do it. Now, let's get to the trades
that happened tonight in Major League Baseball. First, one earlier
in the day, very the Dodgers did because they were
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able to get a pretty solid player in I'm ed Rosario,
and in exchange for a guy that they could have
just waved, he was.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Probably gonna get waved in a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I don't understand. Look, I'm at Rosario. Is he the
greatest player in the world? No, he was in the
Francisco Lindor trade, a couple of years ago, and Rosario
is a solid guy. Guy that's gonna hit about two
sixty in his best year, the two sixty, fifteen to
seventeen home run seventy RBIs can play shortstop, can play
center field. Is he a gold Glove shortstop?
Speaker 3 (18:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Is he a gol Glove center field or no? But
he's a solid player, and considering the Dodgers have a
lot of issues right now in the middle of the infield,
he's gonna make them better immediately. This is a Dodgers
team that has overachieved despite the fact they went into
the season without making any big moves. The second big
move they made they bring back Key k Hernandez. That's
a big move. I don't get the guardians, really you
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want noa Cinderguard who you could they couldn't give away.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I didn't know. This is like the fantasy trade where
you go, boy, I didn't know So and so was
gonna give the guy away. I mean that, I mean
Noah Sinderguard who can't get anybody out and is at
the end of his major league career. And the guardian said, yes,
that's the guy we want for Ahmed Rosario I get
they had young guys coming up. They got a couple
of young players, one young short stop they liked. It
would probably take his place. But really, that's what you get.
(19:35):
You don't get something a little bit better for Ahmed Rosario.
I don't understand. I don't understand. You don't get someone
like no without fair trade is not a trade. You
complete off the guardians bam boozele one. You rip them
off and held them on.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
No. Look, man, he's got some Jedi mind tricks he's doing.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
It's like one of the Billy Bean trades when he
when he calls Steve Phillipson moneyball. Why don't you get
the feeling you're picking my pocket? No, you're picking mine.
Can we say it's done?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah? But click.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I think he was gonna say something. I would get
the answer you want you hang up the phone. I
mean really that I don't understand how this is the
trade that was done, like Cindergart. Really really for a
guy who's like I don't know if I can get
anybody out anymore, and I don't. That's the trade. That's
who the Guardian said, Yes, that's what we want.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
He's not worth a bucket of balls.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I mean, did they not he took him and gave
us some player. Do they not know anything about him
and think he still throws ninety eight ninety nine or
do they not know? They's oh, it's the same guy
from twenty fifteen, from eight years ago.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
But is this the one that you walk off from.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
I can't, I can't top this trade. I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, I mean, look at this trade. Man, I don't
know that I'm doing anything better than that ever in
my life. I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I don't get that trade to guard.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
They're gonna build an Andrew Friedman statue for this.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
One, all these ex players clamoring.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
It's like I had a near Hall of Fame career.
All no, no, no, I'll tell he.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Rosario makes the Dodgers better right away, and they gave
up nothing to get him. The guy's gonna play every
day and you hit at the bottom of the lineup,
but he's he's a solid player and they needed more
solidity and they just got it for nothing.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
It's like you become part of the game show with
him and it's deal or no deal, yeah, and you
feel pressured that you have to hit the plunger if
he's on the phone.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Look, I mean, maybe he just plays against lefties because
he's great against lefties, but he could play every day.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I don't I understand what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
With the Guardians. I don't understand. They've come a long
way from being that team that pushed Billy Bean out
in Moneyball. Suckers in your price range, no disrespect, Stop
saying that. All right, let's keep talking, let's get let's
keep talking, let's keep talking.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
But that trade just the appetizer to what went down
about an hour or so ago. We got that coming
up in ninety seconds.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But first, be sure to catch live editions of The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
So the Angels give us a double barrel of stories tonight.
First we get the reports earlier in the day that
they have taken Shoeo Tani off of the trade market.
They weren't gonna trade him. They're going to keep him
and let's see how the rest of the season goes.
Then they go out tonight and they make a trade
clearly for this year. They trade with Mike Harmon's White
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Sox and they get Lucas Giolito. You know, they get
Ronaldo Lopez, a starter and reliever who were both solid,
not spectacular. Gielito a little bit better and he never
really became the pitcher they thought he was gonna be,
but he is still pretty solid. They give up the
number two and three prospects in their organization for these players. Now,
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I'm gonna say, look, I've had a little bit of
time to digest this trade, but nothing has changed. I
love the guts at the Angels. I love going to
make this move. They gave up way too much for
guys who were Lucas Giolito, Ronaldo Lopez if you're talking
about Blake Snell or a top shelf starter that's available,
and Marcus Stroman if he's available. Yeah, you give you
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number two, number three, But you look at the Padres
were giving up number two and number three prospects for
Juan Soto, and neither of these guys is Juan Soto.
The Angels got took You should be happy your White
Sox actually came out with a really good end of
the deal here, even though the Angels got better for
this year, and I love the guts. Boy, there's no
way they had to give up the number two and
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three prospects in the organization they got taken on that one.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, I think when you get down to it, right,
you take the best of available deal and now you
have a couple of days here. But maybe you're trying
to steal one extra start, a little extra bullpen work
from Lopez and you're still gonna stay active. According to
the reports, this takes them over the luxury tax threshold,
so you know, it shows a good faith effort to
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try to finish this season strong. But look, we have
no idea. Like the names you mentioned in terms of starters,
they're along the line, particularly Snell. You go to Stroman,
guys that are in that list that would have been
alongside with Otani.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Maybe they're traded, maybe they're not.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We don't know, right, I mean, look, you should always
be picking up the phone if there's trade offers, you know,
coming in, because you and you never know when you're
gonna get wowed and someone just comes completely over the top.
Otani's a weird was a weird situation. You know that
that's developed over these last couple of weeks. But in
this particular deal, you might have just decided, Look, this
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is what we've got. We know what these prospects are.
And rankings are like fantasy rankings like stuff. You read
here's someone's top ten list and you eviscerate it. It's
like that guy doesn't even play that position. What do
you what do you got them there for?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (24:37):
And I'm not speaking of any specific radio or television
person that may have done that, But it's just the
idea that we all agree that rankings very subjective the
person looking through. Yeah, you put some numbers in, you've
got your algorithm, and you can justify it. But there's
always a little bit of art that goes with. As
Frostburg says science that it's just science. It's not the case.
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There's still gonna be a little bit of the eye
test that goes through. And maybe the number two and
three prospects they were good with. White Sox need a catcher,
that much is sure. And let me tell you, Tim
Anderson's hitting three ninety five in the second half. You
got my guy, Aaron Bummer, one of the great names
in baseball, Lance Lint. White Sox are gonna be very
active here over these next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Get in there and.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Sell, sells sell. They might not be done with the
angels before it's all said and done.
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