July 28, 2023 • 34 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the Mets are trading David Robertson to the Marlins. They tell you why we’ll never ever see a day like Shohei Ohtani had earlier today. The Pac-12 is on the verge of collapse.
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now coming fast and furious. You've heard Steve say, Carlos
Santana is traded today, m HM. David Robertson the Mets
deciding we are sellers. They have traded Robertson to the
Marlins in exchange for a couple of young minor leaguers.
I look at this and I go the Mets are sellers.
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The Marlins are buyers. Aaron Rodgers is a jet. The
city is flying. We're fighting an army of robots. I
have a bow and arrow. None of this makes any sense.
Like the Mets are selling and the Marlins are buying,
and this is a trade that went down a few
minutes ago. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The UFOs and Aliens are among us. We're watching historic
things with show. Hey o Tani mean, the Angels are
buyers at the trade deadline, right, chaos, the Orioles will
probably be buyers at the trade deadline. All these things
add up to the world is topsy turvy right now.
So make amends. Make that call people you haven't reached
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out to in a while. Maybe you had a little
beef with that. Maybe you just need to pause and
just be like, you know, there's a lot of strange
stuff going on, and a lot of it revolving around
the world in Major League Baseball, and you.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Know, here's here's a big byproduct of the trade starting
to come in now, right because here we are, we're
a full week ahead of the deadline, right, I mean,
don't think that we're still away. We're still a ways away.
Like it's Thursday and and you're looking at next Tuesday
being the deadline, and already we have seen Keith Hernandez Amed, Rosario,
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Lucas Giolito in a big move last night, Carlos Santana,
and now the Mets have decided and announced that we
are sellers. We're sellers, we're getting rid of guys. This
is now telling you that the teams that are open
for business are open for business, and you now have
time to put big trades together for big name players,
because it's hard to put a trade together for a
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big name player at the last minute because if suddenly,
you know, the day before the deadline, you find out, oh, hey,
Bryce Harper's out there. Remember when the Nationals did that
right before free agency, like the twenty four hours before
the deadline. Hey, we're putting Bryce Harper out there. It's like,
give it. What are you talking about, man? You gotta
give us more time. They're trying to put a trade
together for Bryce Harper. What do you what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Now that we've kicked kicked off the trade the trade
deadline season, it's more likely we're gonna see big names
dealt because if the Mets put waited a week and
put Verlander and Sures are out there the day before
teams are gonna go. Yeah, no, not not putting together
a package. There's a lot of money involved. There's too
many moving parts. What are we giving up? What's the
money gonna look like coming back? How much is Steve
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Cohen gonna cover? But the fact that now we've kicked
it off the big name the teams are gonna start
making phone calls, They'll start getting in conversations with big
name stars to go. And we talked to John Paul
Morosi last hours. Yeah, not surprised if Verlander gets dealt.
Could be the Giants, could be another team. You're gonna
see bigger names more likely to move because the trade
deadline activity has already begun and it's not something that, hey,
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the last minute, we're waiting to see if something happens.
When you wake up the morning of trade deadline day,
going what's happening? Is something happening now or the phone's
being burned up, you get more likely that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I Mean, the biggest curiosity to me and all this, Jason,
is where the line of demarcation is between teams that
are all right, we can hold the course and we
still have a puncher's chance to get into a playoff
scenario when there's only several obvious buyers are obvious sellers,
I should say, right, and most.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Of those are teams you know, how much do you
really want from?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Like the White Sox have a couple of pieces, they're
gonna get picked off, right, Lynn's gonna go somewhere, Anderson
may get dealt. But then you got contracts on guys
that are often hurt and from the White Sox perspective,
all right, they may not be available. How many guys
are you going shopping for in the bargain bins in
Kansas City or Oakland? There's not a lot of guys.
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So if you're in that two to five games above
five hundred area where we've got a really muddled mess
of teams, that it's curious to see what direction ownership
and management decide to go. Got a big weekend series,
I mean, go through the schedule. There's a couple of
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all right, make or breaks for the Angels, I think
sweeping the Yankees, like we talked about yesterday. That not
to mention just the Otawani situation in general and general
feelings that you might have had ownership GM, et cetera.
But that emboldened you. Not only hey, are we gonna
stand pat and but we're really gonna put our best
foot forward to show him that we mean business, that
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we want to keep him here, that we want to
build a winner, et cetera, et cetera. And then he
goes out and has his historic day earlier today. I'm
curious where teams right now in this moment are in
terms of trying to aggressively make calls or just waiting
for the phone to ring, because there's a lot of teams.
I'm sure that the whiteboard has a giant question mark
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on it as we sit here tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So there we go, right, the Yankees are they buying?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean really, I mean now the Yankees
have to decide, and they get a week to decide
or five days to decide. That's why you're gonna you're
gonna see more movement this year where anytime it kicks
off early, you get big names. And this is kicked
off early enough. And no is Robertson the biggest name. No,
but he's a pretty good reliever that we knew was
out there, one of the top closures that was out there.
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Potentially Nolan Aronado could be next. You had the Giolito
trade last night, so it's it's already happening. Teams have
decided we're not gonna wait till the end, and so
I'm telling you're gonna see big names be moved now.
It's gonna happen. And selfishly, for me, what do I
always say to you, my Carmen, every year, I want
the Mets to get me to the Jets, the Mets
to the Jets, The Mets, the Jets.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We already got that, Yeah, Mets.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The Jets. Right, And considering that the Jets got Aaron
Rodgers on April April twenty fourth, when the Mets were
like fourteen and eight, their high mark of the season,
it's a success the Mets guy. The Mets got me
to the Jets, right.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I got Mets.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And for me, all I want is chaos in between
the white lines already there because you've got teams and
fan bases that are gonna be fighting each other. Pundits. Man,
it's not gonna be quite erthsay and Jerry Jones against
running backs. But I mean we might get a little
of that contentiousness over these next couple of days.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I've got Sean Payton to fight now, right, he wants
some of that smoke.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So I mean it's all good.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
As everything was so bad for the Mets, like, oh,
it's so bad, it's so bad, but we have Aaron
Rodgers and that's what's important. And every time the Mets
would lose, I would go, hey, let me watch a
slow mo replay of an Aaron Rodgers throw to Garrett
Wilson or somebody else.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Ah, Jason so good, Zach wi man, Hey, dude, he's
gonna give him hell every day.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
This is how good Aaron Rodgers is. He's even making
Zach Wilson good because that's every report out of jetscapis boy,
he's a different quarterback. I'm not believing it, but like, hey,
that's great. That sounds you think he's a hologramic. Yeah, great, Yeah,
that'll be what we find out.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Actually that all ai.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He goes out there for the opening snap we find
out and saw It tries to tap him on the
helmet and his hand just goes through and he goes, wait,
what's happening, And Zach Wilson runs up, going I'm ready, coach,
put me in. I guess put me in, and Rogers
just kind of fades out and disappears. It's a hologram.
I was never really here. I was never see a
dumb dumb. It was like Luke in Last JEEDI sorry
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spoiler her. No, Luke's not really there, but boy he
had the resistance going. Yeah, I wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Does he brush off his shoulder after the one that
Sola touches a.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Suck?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Jets? That's all I say, Mike Carmon, Mets, the Jets,
Mets the Jet.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It worked out well, happened, Yeah, like Jets legitimately going
through the standings though, right as we talked with John
Paul Morosi last hour the Cubs two weeks ago, all right,
who's getting Stroman and Cody Bellinger in this reclamation year?
He's been fantastic. Is he a natural fit for the
short porch and right at Yankee Stadium? Now, all of
a sudden, they're at five hundred, they're only five v
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and a half games back in the division. Well, who's
to say that? Maybe they don't swing the other way.
The pendulum is suddenly, hey, we can take on more talent.
I mean, that's where we're at with a lot of
teams this year, which makes for a very exciting final
run to the trade deadline.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The only thing I'm upset about, and I'm honest with
the only thing I'm upset about. What say, you know,
I went to MLB shop dot com and Metskier is
not half price yet. I mean, how is it not
half price yet? We're giving up on the season.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
It's always it can't be half price, Jason.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
If it's free, it's a I wish I could get
free Mets gear. It's not half price. I'm like, where
is all of this?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
The shirts you wear do look like they were free?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, this is just this is not good. This is
just not right. I mean everything should be half price
now when you're giving up on the season, you got it.
It's half I mean, really, that's what you have to do.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You just have to go to New York. I'm sure
you're gonna find plenty of people ripping off jerseys and
being angry at the direction of this squad, So you
might be just finding stuff in piles.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yeah, call your blood brother, Jason, I'm to take Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I don't know that he's happy right now. I don't
know that.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Frank Is you should check in on him. I mean, this.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Is the worst day, the absolute word.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I just like when he starts yelling at people at
games and his buddies trying to calm him down.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeahs.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
And when he bites that mouth turning back whatever it
is that he bites at the beginning, when he gets all.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Mad, that is a curiosity.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh man, I'll tell you, the number of people that
have taken my act is unbelievable, you know, unbelievable, unbelievable.
That was a look, did the Mets are my team?
The Mets of my team? The Jets are my team?
And New Jersey Transit, Oh the Jets? Oh man. No,
I will say this, it is very difficult. Getting to
a Mets game is tough because you get on the
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subway and you're on the subway forever and I'm like,
this is the longest subway ride now. And you get
off the subway and you're like, this is a clearing
that is miles what there's nothing here except city field.
It's like there's not It's like you go where where
they would where they would have like a World's fair,
and we gotta have be able to have all the
grounds to be able to put all this stuff up
and then take it up and leave and pull the
stakes up. I mean, that's kind of where said he
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feels like I just don't see him.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
They don't call it flushing down the toilet for nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
There's nothing I can see. But I'm telling you, man,
it's here. And ver Lander's gonna go, and Sures is
gonna go, and you're gonna see other big names and
Snell's gonna go. The Padres are gonna sell. You had
John Paul Morosis saying they're gonna listen on one Soto,
They're gonna listen on Snell. There. I mean, you are
seeing the two most disappointing teams that spent all kinds
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of money. We told you a month ago it's gonna
be a big Mets Padres race who can sell off
players the fastest and the Mets. The Mets jump to
the Hey, we traded away David Robertson. Look, we're getting
two lower level minor leaguers. Robertson is thirty eight years old.
He's having a nice season. Mets get a couple of
young players. Now the Padres they got Josh Hader that's
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the other guy left to go. They're gonna trade him.
I'm telling you it's gonna be a bit. It's like
every other day it's gonna be who are the Mets
and the Padres trading? That's how the trade deadline is
gonna go. Mets get the headline, said, hey, Potters, get
the headlines tomorrow because you know they're gonna make moves.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Jays are gonna trade there, Dodgers traded. Anything's possible, that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That still baffles me. It's that it doesn't be it
if you're the Dodgers, right, and you make that trade
yesterday and you want Rosario and you hear back, like
what do I want? It's gotta be like the guys
on the other line and Moneyball. When when when? When? When?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
When Billy Bean calls the calls the Tigers and says,
pain is going, you're my first call? What's the catch?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
He's making us look bad. I want to relieve her
in cash. He's an all star. He's going to be
an all star. Yeah, okay, it's like, what's going on here?
What am I going? It's like the Dodgers get that
phone call and go. He wants they want Noah Cinderguard back. Wait, seriously,
they didn't say that. Yeah, they said Noah Sindergard. I'm
positive that's the that's the information cut. Look here it
is okay, it's not like, oh we said cinder Guard,
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but we but but we really heard outman.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You know he said the war and you're like, do
we have a thour in our in our farm Systece.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
No, it wasn't outman, Jason. They said the guy would hear?
That sucks?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
They said we want your best picture and they said
Kershaw's like, no, Kurscher, we want Cyndergard. Oh okay, that sure. Yeah,
here you go here Cindergard. It is boy. We really
don't want to give him up. We really like him
a lot. Yeah, listen, don't don't go crazy. They want Cyderguard.
Just let him have him. Don't try to skim another
prospect or somebody else. Let's just get Rosario. Where trading
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cyinder Guard.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
HiT's send, hit send normally you want to check it
fifteen times this one. You saw how long the surname is,
HiT's end.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
How long before there's a bobblehead and night of Friedman
just holding a phone for that trade?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
There should be.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
That should be the statue outside Dodger Stadium, cove over Jackie.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Him holding a phone and they and they put it
up right next to Yeah, they put it right up there.
That's I'll tell you that's some kind of trade.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
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trades are happening, the Mets trade. David robertson the Dodgers
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Speaker 5 (14:28):
Jason, Yeah, Frank, your brother, your blood brother, just put
up a new video as we talk about.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Oh no, no, oh no, no.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Oh, we can't play it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I'm just ohayb yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
I didn't think you might want to call him and
check up on him.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That'd be pretty disappointing. If we could play if Frank
the tankrant.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
The tagline is, can't deny Eppler sabotage anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
But if legitimately he was to the point of resignation
to where even the cursing is gone, I'd truly be
worried about him.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
No, there's a lot of cursing.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
No, that's what I mean, though, I it was legit
that we could play it without needing four hours of
editing work.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, I mean, look, everybody, Look, everybody's mad that the
guys the Mets got for uh, for him are lower level,
minor leaguers we expect for David Robertson's thirty eight. He's
in a walk year. What do you think you're gonna get?
I mean, just good just because the White Sox were
able to get the number two and three prospect.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
From the Angel Again it's the Angels organization.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, good reliever, good reliever.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah. Yeah, he was no solid you had solid, belie.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You were a good strikeout guy. Good.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Uh No, what two thirteen opponents batting average against?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I mean that's pretty solid.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
No, he saw about Giolito's the prize of that packords. Yeah,
you know, not to just because you got the number
two and three prospect thing everything up. Well, no, you're
not dealing with the Angels, man, you're dealing with the Marlins,
and you're if it's a thirty eight year old guy
that you're trading away in a walk gear. I mean,
the guys that got are pretty good. You're talking about
the prospect eighteen and twenty. Uh yeah, that's what you get. Now,
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if they trade Verlander and they suck up a lot
of money and they get an eighteen twenty pro then
I'm gonna be a little pissed. But this Robertson trade, Okay,
it happens.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, but that's but that's the other guys we've talked about.
When we start getting into the rankings in the organizations,
who's rankings, national folks, I mean, are they watching every
every game, every get bad, every like? That's all just
a big question mark, right, because you trade guys out
of the Dodgers organization that might be prospect number seventy four,
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but you trust their history, right of what they've been
able to do, and guys that have been able to
accelerate and become viable major league players other organizations.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm gonna have that track record.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
We talk about it with coaches and coaching staffs and
longevity and institutional control and all of that stuff to
where like, all right, I understand how they scout, how
they draft.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
There're very few baseball even fewer.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
So take all that eighteen and twenty or two and
three or whatever with a little grain of salt.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, here's the thing. I just did my rankings, and
actually the Mets got the top two rated process Marlin's
I did. That's actually number one and number two. So
it's a great trade.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Now when it all comes.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Down to and it is, the old beauty is in
the eye of the beholder rankings.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Matt's also got that big dolphin that they used to
have in center field.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Oh nice, I gotta put that in place of the apple. Yeah,
good luck with that. Uh so, yes, everything is happening
for I'm putting it out there in a universe. Look,
John Paul Morosi told us, you put it out in
the universe, putting it out Verlander's gonna go. Sure's there
is gonna go Verlanders. Sure really don't.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Put that evil on people, Ricky Bob happening.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's happening, Ricky Bobby. You're getting that Walker. You're gonna
get both. You're getting Walker and Texas Ranger. That's you're getting.
You're getting them both.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Uh now, oh those kids were troublemakers. You can't be
doing that.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Hey, oh man, I'll scissor kick you in the back.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Of the can get by you like a spider monkey.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But let's go to a story today that you know,
it's weird because everybody knows how good show Heyo Tani is.
Everybody understands that you're seeing a guy unlike anyone you
have ever seen in the history of the game. But
it's hard when when you wait, Okay, yeah, we're seeing it,
and I'm seeing a guy that's pitching well and a
guy that's hitting well. But we are, we're seeing this
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and it hit me today, you know, watching what he
did today. And just in case you missed it, in
a double header show Heyo Tani pitched the first game
and decided to hit in the second game. And this
is what it sounded like.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
This would be the first complete game shutout, and there
it is, Show Haotani goes all nine and.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
There it is first career complete game shutout for the Unicorn.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
The soon to be two time al MVP has never
been better on a big league mound. His first career
complete game, shutout, only one hit, only four base runners.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Oh, I got another one.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Get going, Tony.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I's got it again.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
So complete game, shutout. Check two homers in the nightcap.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Check Matt vasqu Ursion. Mark ub is an angels Bally's
television with the call. You know it's weird because I
thought about this a lot. We're talking to John Paul Morosi,
is it? You know? You and me, Mike, we both
grew up loving baseball, and I could any book, baseball
book I could get my hands on, and I.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Always did that Mickey Mantles story for a book report
every year.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Oh dude, mine was Sandy Kofax. I know so many
things about I did Sandy The Baseball Life of Sandy Kofax,
like probably four straight years until my mom said, I'm
throwing the book away because you're not doing another book
report on the baseball life from Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Here the beauty mad at me.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
The grades were good enough as long as the work
was done.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Mom had no idea. Mom didn't care.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Jason, what day of the year did he not pitch
in the World Series?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He didn't. He did not pitch in the world on
October seventeenth, did not pitch the World Series. I mean,
I still remember different all different things from the book.
I remember when he was coming back from his elbow injury,
and how he used to wear a real big baggy
sweater to the to the to the field so people
wouldn't know how bad his elbow was. And he woke
up one day and he touched the desk with his
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pinky finger and there was no pain, and there was
a little bit less pain, and he went and he
started throwing and he was pitching again. I mean, I
remember all of these crazy things. His parents missed a
missed a train in Penn Station when he was with
the Dodgers, and that that crash and they barely they
were supposed to be on it and they missed it.
All these things I still know about Sandy Colfax's life.
This is doing that book report for four straight years
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the nineteen sixty six World Series when they lost to
the Orioles and sank Cofax as it was a stunning
year for him. Like all these things, but those book
I used to love reading and I used to love
reading about the instances in baseball history that you have
to make you step back and say wow. And one
of the things I remember, and I brought it up
with John Paul, was Joe Adcock of the Braves had
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a game in which he had eighteen total bases, which
to this day is a Major League Baseball record. Four
home runs in a double right, I mean, you've never
seen that before. He did it like nineteen fifty five.
I remember Bob Feller reading about him. The closest he
ever came to winning a World Series game was losing
one nothing in Game one of the World Series. So
many things I remember, and you know, the first ever
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unassisted triple play in World Series history, or or a
team scoring eleven runs in an inning on one hit.
Johnny Callison was the guy that got the hit for
the Philadelphia A's. Like, I read books like that all
the time, and I think about that today and I go,
you know what if they're writing books like that now
today for sho hey o Tani would be in that book.
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You think about something and you think about days the
players have had, and boy, this is a great day
that a player had. They had four home runs in
the game where this guy pitched a perfect game. I
don't know that you'll ever see something like we saw today.
A complete game, shutout, one hitter for Otani in the
first game, and he was mad that he gave up
the one hit he did. I'm watching the game from home,
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and he gave up that hit to center field and
he was shaking his head right away. I'm like, he
did not locate that ball where he wanted to. He
put it in the bad spot and that was the
only blemish on him all game long. Like you could tell,
this could have been a perfect game kind of day
for Otani. Everything on the black was a strike. He
had it all rolling. And then in the second game
he hits two home runs. I mean, you are never
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gonna see a day like that again in the history
of Major League baseball. Baseball's been played for hundred and
thirty years. We've never seen something like that. Now, Okay, Now,
could something of like that happen in eighteen ninety in
a doubleheader where hey, a guy pitched, you know, thirteen
innings and pitched a complete game and then at three
home runs in a second game. Yeah, but you're talking
about documented stuff in the modern era major League base
We can go back to the early nine eighteen hundreds.
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You've never seen a day like this. You have never
seen a guy have a day like this. And it's
tough because when I talk superlatives, people understand, yeah he's great, Okay,
I mean I hear promos on the stage. Hey look,
how great show you? I know, how great show? Hey Tani?
People know how great he is. But a day like today,
it even he even tops himself. You know, the day
after they decide they're gonna keep him, and they're gonna
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make trades to make the team better. They stay red hot.
They've been hot since the Yankee Series, and now that
Otani's staying. And I mean it, You'll watch baseball forever long.
You watch baseball for and a game like this, unless
he does it complete game one hitter in Game one,
two home runs in Game two, you'll never see something
like that again. You will never see a day like
this like he had today ever again. And it happened
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in front of you know, eight thousand fans in Detroit
who were there for the first game, and you know
fourteen thousand who are there for the second game. And yeah,
I got to see what you see today. Well, the
Tigers lost dude, you saw Otani doing something that was unbelievable.
That's why I'm so glad I at least have gotten
to see him play once and see you go to
a game where he's pitched once, so I can see
what what it was like with the what it's like
(24:06):
in the in the stadium when when he pitches, when
he comes up, it's just a different kind of feel.
It's just something that is that that is outside the
frame of what you get every single day and today
that day. I mean, you are never going to be
something like this again.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Also, the curiosity did they add any more promotional days
down in Anaheim before the year ends?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
They got to add them all. Now they got right
because there's a couple of trout ones on the board.
We we talked about how they canceled those weeks ago.
They're gonna x those out.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, maybe maybe they change it up.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
But I think the key in what you just said
was the how do you take it to the next
level greatness? And what we watch every fifth day pitches,
what he does at the plate now leading the league
in home runs, is you you broke down earlier six
hits from being the league leader in batting average, So
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the opportunity for a triple crown is something to watch
as we hit September as well. But the the greatest
part of it is the performance coming straight after the
Gilido Lopez trade and coming out of several weeks months
of speculation of how this season would play out, not
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only for him personally but for the Angels squad. Was
he gonna be gone before the trade deadline? What happens
as you flow and they make that announcement, We get
that through the processes and your insiders and the team
spokespeople and Otani himself a week ago, Hey, I want
to finish this off and I love this run. That
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he goes out and does this the day after the
embolden Angels go and make a move and buy in,
and yeah, they'd already made a couple of smaller deals,
but this one being a big swing on the heels
of him being taken away from the trade market and
finishing the year with the Angels. That he goes out
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and has a days a day like this. That's the
extra you know, scene or two when you start writing
the movie, right, it's the extra gravitas to what he did.
It's like, oh, emboldened by the Angels move and buying
in on him. Well, he came through it a big way,
and then you play all your highlights.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You know. And I had to go back when when
I'm watching the game today and Matt Vestkersen says, here's
the kind of year he's having. If he had six
more hits, he'd be leading the American League in hitting, right,
And that's this is a non sho Hao Toddy trade
deadline stories A And I'm like, no way, And I
had to go check it. I'm like, is he right?
Because he's when you have four hundred at bats, is
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six hits worth twenty points? I don't know about that, man,
because look, you have the leaders that you know, Yanni
Diez is hitting three eighteen, you know, at the top
of the American League. You know, It's not like you
have a guy, you know, hitting three seventy five, like
Ariyas is good luck trying to do that. So I
go and I check, and sure enough, I'm like, oh
my god, yeah, the math does check. If he had
six more hits, he'd be leading the league in hitting,
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which shows you how close he is to leading the
league in hitting. So in a year we're talking about
Otani doing what he's doing, you got to put a
triple crown back on the table for him, because he's
gonna win the home run crown. He's got a he's
got a ten home run lead over over over your guy.
Uh and and he's only four RBIs back of the lead.
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And so when you couple those with yeah, he gets
a little hot hitting and can you know, raise his
average from two ninety eight to three ten, three twelve,
that could be enough and and triple crown. And it's suddenly,
for a guy that gets all the plautits and all
the accolades and playing at a level that we haven't seen,
he can still supersede them, and he can still get
higher than them. And that's that's crazy because you would
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think at some point, okay, this is Otani ceiling and
there is no ceiling for the guy. No.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
And that's the beauty of it, right.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You're wondering where it goes from here, what the team
can do, because obviously team sport, we want to tie
it back to success because we'll always talk about the
greatest that never did X, Y and z. At the
rate they're going, and unfortunately for his teammate Mike Trout.
That's kind of what his career is. And we're looking
at the size of that contract in the years of
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years ahead and where his body is at this point.
And look, he was struggling before he got hurt. But
for Otani, it's the all right, how do you parlay
that individual brilliance? How does it work? And can you
get the team construct over? I mean that's the fascinating
part going over right Ardi Moreno, how much is he
(28:34):
really willing to go over the into the luxury tax
world to try to best give the best effort for
this squad this year. I think it's a fascinating final
five days here and then obviously the book of Otani
just getting started.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
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Speaker 1 (28:57):
This is a story about college for well, you can't
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Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We have more NFL,
more big night trades going down in Major League Baseball
coming up in a few minutes, but a story that
continues to gain more and more momentum over the course
(29:17):
of the past couple of days is now another episode
chapter in the reorganization of conferences in college Football's like
it's a trade deadline for college football. It's coming up.
Colorado's board has approved their return to the Big twelve.
So now Dion Sanders Colorado, who right now was holding
the PAC twelve up all by themselves, Hey, they are leaving,
(29:39):
all right, They're going back to the Big twelve. The
ACC has said today they are absolutely open to expanding
their membership. And where things looked really dicey for a
long time because I would always say, oh, in two years,
these teams are leaving. Is this really gonna happen? College
football changes every five minutes, right, that's college football changes
(30:01):
every five minutes. Are you really going to see the
day where USC is playing a Big ten schedule? Really
gonna see when Oklahoma moves to the bat? Are really
gonna see these days happen? But I gotta be honest
with you Today, the last couple of days, I'm seeing
a lot of clarity because what's gonna happen is as
a football conference, the PAC twelve is done. This double
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barrel of they can't get a television contract, the teams
are leaving. There's no marquee teams that are there. Washington
wants to leave, you know, Oregon's gonna want to leave, Arizona.
All these schools are gonna want to leave, and they'll
wind up getting sucked up by the Big Ten. Look,
I keep telling you, the Big Ten's gonna wind up
being the Big twenty in the next five years.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
It's good. I already had that brand domain registered.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, that door is good. Yeah, that war is good. Good.
So what's gonna happen is now, is that we're gonna
get to that point that John Calipari talked about ten
years ago. At this point, we're gonna have the four
major super conferences and there's no longer gonna be a
debate about well do we let in an undefeated team
from the PAC twelve, and we're gonna have the four
major conferences. They are gonna be the ACC, the SEC,
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the Big twelve, and the and the Big Ten. However
they wind up rebrand the Big Twelve will be the
Big sixteen, the Big Ten will be the Big twenty.
The ACC is the ACC, the SEC is the SEC.
That's how it's gonna go. And the PAC twelve is
going to just drift off into anonymity and no one's
gonna care. So now I can actually see this happening,
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and I can see UCLA and USC playing Big ten schedules,
and and in Oklahoma and Texas moving and here's Colorado
back in the Big twelve. It looks like we have
our four survivors. And the PAC twelve had a chance
to try to jump in when they had when they
could have, because hey, they could have pulled a couple
of teams come play USC. You said they could have
pulled Oklahoma, they could have pulled Tech. They could have
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pulled a couple of teams. NH. It didn't work. So
now this is this is the conference that's gonna wind
up being shut to decide, and you're gonna get playoffs
and everything else from the Power four conferences. And that's
how it's going to go. Within the next two years,
We're not even gonna talk about the PAC twelve anymore.
It's going to be done.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
You have just a y on the day that they
announce a big statement, ready ready for this statement from
the PAC twelve conference, did they say blank? Q? Larry Scott,
I think it's in the invisible ink. So we'll have
to test that out or hold it up to Maybe
it's a black light situation. I'm not quite sure. PAC
twelve comprised of world leading universities, blah blah blah blah blah.
(32:29):
Today's decision by the University of Colorado has done nothing
to disrupt our commitment talking about athletic success and classroom
and all.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
But here's the best.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
The second second paragraph is key and this came out
right about as we were going on here. Quote, we
are focused on concluding our media rights deal and securing
our continued success and growth. Immediately following the conclusion of
our media rights deal, we will embrace expansion opportunities and
bring new fans, markets, and excitement and value to the
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PAC twelve.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Do you think by expansion they mean we're gonna expand
into another conference and we're gonna be the PAC twelve
like the PAC twelve brought to you by the Big twelve. Well,
but the Big twelve presents PAC twelve football.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Well, this is where you start picking off the weak
members of the herd, where you can find the holes
in other athletic programs that maybe want to get out
of their own conference deals or teams that might get
relegated from other conferences, opportunities may they avail themselves to
you in short order. But yeah, look, we know the
(33:36):
PAC twelve. We've been talking about it forever in terms
of the media rights deal, the headquarters, the building that
they had up in San Francisco, all of that just
one bad move after the next. So now it's the
what's the next iteration look like? And yeah, I think
that consolidation occurs, but I don't know if it happens
that fast. But because I think the PAC twelve is
not gonna go down without a fight.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
The fight. What docks are gonna be there for you?
Speaker 5 (34:00):
It's a final.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
They don't have a TV contract. Everybody's in the face
over man, hey, man, night is over.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
There's plenty of streaming services that are still desperate to
get in the game.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Peacock lost three billion this year.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
A dude, it's over, man, it's over for the PAC twelve.
It's all over.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
They playing the unoriginal content that they.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Give it, the three count Pack twelve beat ariginal commercials.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Whenever they know you were ringing the ten bell like
they were honoring a falling with.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
The conference was done. The second, Larry Scott took over.
What a bum Twitter?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
And how about a fresco sorry exit? How about a
fresco Mike is swollen dome? Coming up next, we get
back to the biggest story of the day in the NFL.
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now coming fast and furious. You've heard Steve say, Carlos
Santana is traded today, m HM. David Robertson the Mets
deciding we are sellers. They have traded Robertson to the
Marlins in exchange for a couple of young minor leaguers.
I look at this and I go the Mets are sellers.
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The Marlins are buyers. Aaron Rodgers is a jet. The
city is flying. We're fighting an army of robots. I
have a bow and arrow. None of this makes any sense.
Like the Mets are selling and the Marlins are buying,
and this is a trade that went down a few
minutes ago. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The UFOs and Aliens are among us. We're watching historic
things with show. Hey o Tani mean, the Angels are
buyers at the trade deadline, right, chaos, the Orioles will
probably be buyers at the trade deadline. All these things
add up to the world is topsy turvy right now.
So make amends. Make that call people you haven't reached
(01:51):
out to in a while. Maybe you had a little
beef with that. Maybe you just need to pause and
just be like, you know, there's a lot of strange
stuff going on, and a lot of it revolving around
the world in Major League Baseball, and you.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Know, here's here's a big byproduct of the trade starting
to come in now, right because here we are, we're
a full week ahead of the deadline, right, I mean,
don't think that we're still away. We're still a ways away.
Like it's Thursday and and you're looking at next Tuesday
being the deadline, and already we have seen Keith Hernandez Amed, Rosario,
(02:28):
Lucas Giolito in a big move last night, Carlos Santana,
and now the Mets have decided and announced that we
are sellers. We're sellers, we're getting rid of guys. This
is now telling you that the teams that are open
for business are open for business, and you now have
time to put big trades together for big name players,
because it's hard to put a trade together for a
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big name player at the last minute because if suddenly,
you know, the day before the deadline, you find out, oh, hey,
Bryce Harper's out there. Remember when the Nationals did that
right before free agency, like the twenty four hours before
the deadline. Hey, we're putting Bryce Harper out there. It's like,
give it. What are you talking about, man? You gotta
give us more time. They're trying to put a trade
together for Bryce Harper. What do you what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Now that we've kicked kicked off the trade the trade
deadline season, it's more likely we're gonna see big names
dealt because if the Mets put waited a week and
put Verlander and Sures are out there the day before
teams are gonna go. Yeah, no, not not putting together
a package. There's a lot of money involved. There's too
many moving parts. What are we giving up? What's the
money gonna look like coming back? How much is Steve
(03:33):
Cohen gonna cover? But the fact that now we've kicked
it off the big name the teams are gonna start
making phone calls, They'll start getting in conversations with big
name stars to go. And we talked to John Paul
Morosi last hours. Yeah, not surprised if Verlander gets dealt.
Could be the Giants, could be another team. You're gonna
see bigger names more likely to move because the trade
deadline activity has already begun and it's not something that, hey,
(03:56):
the last minute, we're waiting to see if something happens.
When you wake up the morning of trade deadline day,
going what's happening? Is something happening now or the phone's
being burned up, you get more likely that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I Mean, the biggest curiosity to me and all this, Jason,
is where the line of demarcation is between teams that
are all right, we can hold the course and we
still have a puncher's chance to get into a playoff
scenario when there's only several obvious buyers are obvious sellers,
I should say, right, and most.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Of those are teams you know, how much do you
really want from?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Like the White Sox have a couple of pieces, they're
gonna get picked off, right, Lynn's gonna go somewhere, Anderson
may get dealt. But then you got contracts on guys
that are often hurt and from the White Sox perspective,
all right, they may not be available. How many guys
are you going shopping for in the bargain bins in
Kansas City or Oakland? There's not a lot of guys.
(04:49):
So if you're in that two to five games above
five hundred area where we've got a really muddled mess
of teams, that it's curious to see what direction ownership
and management decide to go. Got a big weekend series,
I mean, go through the schedule. There's a couple of
(05:10):
all right, make or breaks for the Angels, I think
sweeping the Yankees, like we talked about yesterday. That not
to mention just the Otawani situation in general and general
feelings that you might have had ownership GM, et cetera.
But that emboldened you. Not only hey, are we gonna
stand pat and but we're really gonna put our best
foot forward to show him that we mean business, that
(05:33):
we want to keep him here, that we want to
build a winner, et cetera, et cetera. And then he
goes out and has his historic day earlier today. I'm
curious where teams right now in this moment are in
terms of trying to aggressively make calls or just waiting
for the phone to ring, because there's a lot of teams.
I'm sure that the whiteboard has a giant question mark
(05:56):
on it as we sit here tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So there we go, right, the Yankees are they buying?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean really, I mean now the Yankees
have to decide, and they get a week to decide
or five days to decide. That's why you're gonna you're
gonna see more movement this year where anytime it kicks
off early, you get big names. And this is kicked
off early enough. And no is Robertson the biggest name. No,
but he's a pretty good reliever that we knew was
out there, one of the top closures that was out there.
(06:25):
Potentially Nolan Aronado could be next. You had the Giolito
trade last night, so it's it's already happening. Teams have
decided we're not gonna wait till the end, and so
I'm telling you're gonna see big names be moved now.
It's gonna happen. And selfishly, for me, what do I
always say to you, my Carmen, every year, I want
the Mets to get me to the Jets, the Mets
to the Jets, The Mets, the Jets.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We already got that, Yeah, Mets.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The Jets. Right, And considering that the Jets got Aaron
Rodgers on April April twenty fourth, when the Mets were
like fourteen and eight, their high mark of the season,
it's a success the Mets guy. The Mets got me
to the Jets, right.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I got Mets.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And for me, all I want is chaos in between
the white lines already there because you've got teams and
fan bases that are gonna be fighting each other. Pundits. Man,
it's not gonna be quite erthsay and Jerry Jones against
running backs. But I mean we might get a little
of that contentiousness over these next couple of days.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I've got Sean Payton to fight now, right, he wants
some of that smoke.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So I mean it's all good.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
As everything was so bad for the Mets, like, oh,
it's so bad, it's so bad, but we have Aaron
Rodgers and that's what's important. And every time the Mets
would lose, I would go, hey, let me watch a
slow mo replay of an Aaron Rodgers throw to Garrett
Wilson or somebody else.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Ah, Jason so good, Zach wi man, Hey, dude, he's
gonna give him hell every day.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
This is how good Aaron Rodgers is. He's even making
Zach Wilson good because that's every report out of jetscapis boy,
he's a different quarterback. I'm not believing it, but like, hey,
that's great. That sounds you think he's a hologramic. Yeah, great, Yeah,
that'll be what we find out.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Actually that all ai.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
He goes out there for the opening snap we find
out and saw It tries to tap him on the
helmet and his hand just goes through and he goes, wait,
what's happening, And Zach Wilson runs up, going I'm ready, coach,
put me in. I guess put me in, and Rogers
just kind of fades out and disappears. It's a hologram.
I was never really here. I was never see a
dumb dumb. It was like Luke in Last JEEDI sorry
(08:17):
spoiler her. No, Luke's not really there, but boy he
had the resistance going. Yeah, I wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Does he brush off his shoulder after the one that
Sola touches a.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Suck?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Jets? That's all I say, Mike Carmon, Mets, the Jets,
Mets the Jet.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
It worked out well, happened, Yeah, like Jets legitimately going
through the standings though, right as we talked with John
Paul Morosi last hour the Cubs two weeks ago, all right,
who's getting Stroman and Cody Bellinger in this reclamation year?
He's been fantastic. Is he a natural fit for the
short porch and right at Yankee Stadium? Now, all of
a sudden, they're at five hundred, they're only five v
(08:54):
and a half games back in the division. Well, who's
to say that? Maybe they don't swing the other way.
The pendulum is suddenly, hey, we can take on more talent.
I mean, that's where we're at with a lot of
teams this year, which makes for a very exciting final
run to the trade deadline.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The only thing I'm upset about, and I'm honest with
the only thing I'm upset about. What say, you know,
I went to MLB shop dot com and Metskier is
not half price yet. I mean, how is it not
half price yet? We're giving up on the season.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
It's always it can't be half price, Jason.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
If it's free, it's a I wish I could get
free Mets gear. It's not half price. I'm like, where
is all of this?
Speaker 5 (09:31):
The shirts you wear do look like they were free?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah, this is just this is not good. This is
just not right. I mean everything should be half price
now when you're giving up on the season, you got it.
It's half I mean, really, that's what you have to do.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You just have to go to New York. I'm sure
you're gonna find plenty of people ripping off jerseys and
being angry at the direction of this squad, So you
might be just finding stuff in piles.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yeah, call your blood brother, Jason, I'm to take Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I don't know that he's happy right now. I don't
know that.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Frank Is you should check in on him. I mean, this.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Is the worst day, the absolute word.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
I just like when he starts yelling at people at
games and his buddies trying to calm him down.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeahs.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
And when he bites that mouth turning back whatever it
is that he bites at the beginning, when he gets all.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Mad, that is a curiosity.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Oh man, I'll tell you, the number of people that
have taken my act is unbelievable, you know, unbelievable, unbelievable.
That was a look, did the Mets are my team?
The Mets of my team? The Jets are my team?
And New Jersey Transit, Oh the Jets? Oh man. No,
I will say this, it is very difficult. Getting to
a Mets game is tough because you get on the
(10:45):
subway and you're on the subway forever and I'm like,
this is the longest subway ride now. And you get
off the subway and you're like, this is a clearing
that is miles what there's nothing here except city field.
It's like there's not It's like you go where where
they would where they would have like a World's fair,
and we gotta have be able to have all the
grounds to be able to put all this stuff up
and then take it up and leave and pull the
stakes up. I mean, that's kind of where said he
(11:05):
feels like I just don't see him.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
They don't call it flushing down the toilet for nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
There's nothing I can see. But I'm telling you, man,
it's here. And ver Lander's gonna go, and Sures is
gonna go, and you're gonna see other big names and
Snell's gonna go. The Padres are gonna sell. You had
John Paul Morosis saying they're gonna listen on one Soto,
They're gonna listen on Snell. There. I mean, you are
seeing the two most disappointing teams that spent all kinds
(11:32):
of money. We told you a month ago it's gonna
be a big Mets Padres race who can sell off
players the fastest and the Mets. The Mets jump to
the Hey, we traded away David Robertson. Look, we're getting
two lower level minor leaguers. Robertson is thirty eight years old.
He's having a nice season. Mets get a couple of
young players. Now the Padres they got Josh Hader that's
(11:53):
the other guy left to go. They're gonna trade him.
I'm telling you it's gonna be a bit. It's like
every other day it's gonna be who are the Mets
and the Padres trading? That's how the trade deadline is
gonna go. Mets get the headline, said, hey, Potters, get
the headlines tomorrow because you know they're gonna make moves.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Jays are gonna trade there, Dodgers traded. Anything's possible, that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
That still baffles me. It's that it doesn't be it
if you're the Dodgers, right, and you make that trade
yesterday and you want Rosario and you hear back, like
what do I want? It's gotta be like the guys
on the other line and Moneyball. When when when? When? When?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
When Billy Bean calls the calls the Tigers and says,
pain is going, you're my first call? What's the catch?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
He's making us look bad. I want to relieve her
in cash. He's an all star. He's going to be
an all star. Yeah, okay, it's like, what's going on here?
What am I going? It's like the Dodgers get that
phone call and go. He wants they want Noah Cinderguard back. Wait, seriously,
they didn't say that. Yeah, they said Noah Sindergard. I'm
positive that's the that's the information cut. Look here it
is okay, it's not like, oh we said cinder Guard,
(12:56):
but we but but we really heard outman.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You know he said the war and you're like, do
we have a thour in our in our farm Systece.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
No, it wasn't outman, Jason. They said the guy would hear?
That sucks?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
They said we want your best picture and they said
Kershaw's like, no, Kurscher, we want Cyndergard. Oh okay, that sure. Yeah,
here you go here Cindergard. It is boy. We really
don't want to give him up. We really like him
a lot. Yeah, listen, don't don't go crazy. They want Cyderguard.
Just let him have him. Don't try to skim another
prospect or somebody else. Let's just get Rosario. Where trading
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cyinder Guard.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
HiT's send, hit send normally you want to check it
fifteen times this one. You saw how long the surname is,
HiT's end.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
How long before there's a bobblehead and night of Friedman
just holding a phone for that trade?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
There should be.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
That should be the statue outside Dodger Stadium, cove over Jackie.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Him holding a phone and they and they put it
up right next to Yeah, they put it right up there.
That's I'll tell you that's some kind of trade.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
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Speaker 1 (14:02):
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trades are happening, the Mets trade. David robertson the Dodgers
could be getting Nolan Arenado.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Jason, Yeah, Frank, your brother, your blood brother, just put
up a new video as we talk about.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Oh no, no, oh no, no.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Oh, we can't play it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I'm just ohayb yeah, okay.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
I didn't think you might want to call him and
check up on him.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That'd be pretty disappointing. If we could play if Frank
the tankrant.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
The tagline is, can't deny Eppler sabotage anymore.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
But if legitimately he was to the point of resignation
to where even the cursing is gone, I'd truly be
worried about him.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
No, there's a lot of cursing.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
No, that's what I mean, though, I it was legit
that we could play it without needing four hours of
editing work.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, I mean, look, everybody, Look, everybody's mad that the
guys the Mets got for uh, for him are lower level,
minor leaguers we expect for David Robertson's thirty eight. He's
in a walk year. What do you think you're gonna get?
I mean, just good just because the White Sox were
able to get the number two and three prospect.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
From the Angel Again it's the Angels organization.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, good reliever, good reliever.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah. Yeah, he was no solid you had solid, belie.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
You were a good strikeout guy. Good.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Uh No, what two thirteen opponents batting average against?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I mean that's pretty solid.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
No, he saw about Giolito's the prize of that packords. Yeah,
you know, not to just because you got the number
two and three prospect thing everything up. Well, no, you're
not dealing with the Angels, man, you're dealing with the Marlins,
and you're if it's a thirty eight year old guy
that you're trading away in a walk gear. I mean,
the guys that got are pretty good. You're talking about
the prospect eighteen and twenty. Uh yeah, that's what you get. Now,
(16:01):
if they trade Verlander and they suck up a lot
of money and they get an eighteen twenty pro then
I'm gonna be a little pissed. But this Robertson trade, Okay,
it happens.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, but that's but that's the other guys we've talked about.
When we start getting into the rankings in the organizations,
who's rankings, national folks, I mean, are they watching every
every game, every get bad, every like? That's all just
a big question mark, right, because you trade guys out
of the Dodgers organization that might be prospect number seventy four,
(16:30):
but you trust their history, right of what they've been
able to do, and guys that have been able to
accelerate and become viable major league players other organizations.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I'm gonna have that track record.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
We talk about it with coaches and coaching staffs and
longevity and institutional control and all of that stuff to
where like, all right, I understand how they scout, how
they draft.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
There're very few baseball even fewer.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
So take all that eighteen and twenty or two and
three or whatever with a little grain of salt.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, here's the thing. I just did my rankings, and
actually the Mets got the top two rated process Marlin's
I did. That's actually number one and number two. So
it's a great trade.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Now when it all comes.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Down to and it is, the old beauty is in
the eye of the beholder rankings.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Matt's also got that big dolphin that they used to
have in center field.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Oh nice, I gotta put that in place of the apple. Yeah,
good luck with that. Uh so, yes, everything is happening
for I'm putting it out there in a universe. Look,
John Paul Morosi told us, you put it out in
the universe, putting it out Verlander's gonna go. Sure's there
is gonna go Verlanders. Sure really don't.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Put that evil on people, Ricky Bob happening.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It's happening, Ricky Bobby. You're getting that Walker. You're gonna
get both. You're getting Walker and Texas Ranger. That's you're getting.
You're getting them both.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Uh now, oh those kids were troublemakers. You can't be
doing that.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Hey, oh man, I'll scissor kick you in the back.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Of the can get by you like a spider monkey.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But let's go to a story today that you know,
it's weird because everybody knows how good show Heyo Tani is.
Everybody understands that you're seeing a guy unlike anyone you
have ever seen in the history of the game. But
it's hard when when you wait, Okay, yeah, we're seeing it,
and I'm seeing a guy that's pitching well and a
guy that's hitting well. But we are, we're seeing this
(18:24):
and it hit me today, you know, watching what he
did today. And just in case you missed it, in
a double header show Heyo Tani pitched the first game
and decided to hit in the second game. And this
is what it sounded like.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
This would be the first complete game shutout, and there
it is, Show Haotani goes all nine and.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
There it is first career complete game shutout for the Unicorn.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
The soon to be two time al MVP has never
been better on a big league mound. His first career
complete game, shutout, only one hit, only four base runners.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Oh, I got another one.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Get going, Tony.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I's got it again.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
So complete game, shutout. Check two homers in the nightcap.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Check Matt vasqu Ursion. Mark ub is an angels Bally's
television with the call. You know it's weird because I
thought about this a lot. We're talking to John Paul Morosi,
is it? You know? You and me, Mike, we both
grew up loving baseball, and I could any book, baseball
book I could get my hands on, and I.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Always did that Mickey Mantles story for a book report
every year.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Oh dude, mine was Sandy Kofax. I know so many
things about I did Sandy The Baseball Life of Sandy Kofax,
like probably four straight years until my mom said, I'm
throwing the book away because you're not doing another book
report on the baseball life from Sandy Kofax.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Here the beauty mad at me.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
The grades were good enough as long as the work
was done.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Mom had no idea. Mom didn't care.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Jason, what day of the year did he not pitch
in the World Series?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
He didn't. He did not pitch in the world on
October seventeenth, did not pitch the World Series. I mean,
I still remember different all different things from the book.
I remember when he was coming back from his elbow injury,
and how he used to wear a real big baggy
sweater to the to the to the field so people
wouldn't know how bad his elbow was. And he woke
up one day and he touched the desk with his
(20:29):
pinky finger and there was no pain, and there was
a little bit less pain, and he went and he
started throwing and he was pitching again. I mean, I
remember all of these crazy things. His parents missed a
missed a train in Penn Station when he was with
the Dodgers, and that that crash and they barely they
were supposed to be on it and they missed it.
All these things I still know about Sandy Colfax's life.
This is doing that book report for four straight years
(20:52):
the nineteen sixty six World Series when they lost to
the Orioles and sank Cofax as it was a stunning
year for him. Like all these things, but those book
I used to love reading and I used to love
reading about the instances in baseball history that you have
to make you step back and say wow. And one
of the things I remember, and I brought it up
with John Paul, was Joe Adcock of the Braves had
(21:13):
a game in which he had eighteen total bases, which
to this day is a Major League Baseball record. Four
home runs in a double right, I mean, you've never
seen that before. He did it like nineteen fifty five.
I remember Bob Feller reading about him. The closest he
ever came to winning a World Series game was losing
one nothing in Game one of the World Series. So
many things I remember, and you know, the first ever
(21:34):
unassisted triple play in World Series history, or or a
team scoring eleven runs in an inning on one hit.
Johnny Callison was the guy that got the hit for
the Philadelphia A's. Like, I read books like that all
the time, and I think about that today and I go,
you know what if they're writing books like that now
today for sho hey o Tani would be in that book.
(21:54):
You think about something and you think about days the
players have had, and boy, this is a great day
that a player had. They had four home runs in
the game where this guy pitched a perfect game. I
don't know that you'll ever see something like we saw today.
A complete game, shutout, one hitter for Otani in the
first game, and he was mad that he gave up
the one hit he did. I'm watching the game from home,
(22:16):
and he gave up that hit to center field and
he was shaking his head right away. I'm like, he
did not locate that ball where he wanted to. He
put it in the bad spot and that was the
only blemish on him all game long. Like you could tell,
this could have been a perfect game kind of day
for Otani. Everything on the black was a strike. He
had it all rolling. And then in the second game
he hits two home runs. I mean, you are never
(22:38):
gonna see a day like that again in the history
of Major League baseball. Baseball's been played for hundred and
thirty years. We've never seen something like that. Now, Okay, Now,
could something of like that happen in eighteen ninety in
a doubleheader where hey, a guy pitched, you know, thirteen
innings and pitched a complete game and then at three
home runs in a second game. Yeah, but you're talking
about documented stuff in the modern era major League base
We can go back to the early nine eighteen hundreds.
(23:01):
You've never seen a day like this. You have never
seen a guy have a day like this. And it's
tough because when I talk superlatives, people understand, yeah he's great, Okay,
I mean I hear promos on the stage. Hey look,
how great show you? I know, how great show? Hey Tani?
People know how great he is. But a day like today,
it even he even tops himself. You know, the day
after they decide they're gonna keep him, and they're gonna
(23:22):
make trades to make the team better. They stay red hot.
They've been hot since the Yankee Series, and now that
Otani's staying. And I mean it, You'll watch baseball forever long.
You watch baseball for and a game like this, unless
he does it complete game one hitter in Game one,
two home runs in Game two, you'll never see something
like that again. You will never see a day like
this like he had today ever again. And it happened
(23:44):
in front of you know, eight thousand fans in Detroit
who were there for the first game, and you know
fourteen thousand who are there for the second game. And yeah,
I got to see what you see today. Well, the
Tigers lost dude, you saw Otani doing something that was unbelievable.
That's why I'm so glad I at least have gotten
to see him play once and see you go to
a game where he's pitched once, so I can see
what what it was like with the what it's like
(24:06):
in the in the stadium when when he pitches, when
he comes up, it's just a different kind of feel.
It's just something that is that that is outside the
frame of what you get every single day and today
that day. I mean, you are never going to be
something like this again.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Also, the curiosity did they add any more promotional days
down in Anaheim before the year ends?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
They got to add them all. Now they got right
because there's a couple of trout ones on the board.
We we talked about how they canceled those weeks ago.
They're gonna x those out.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, maybe maybe they change it up.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
But I think the key in what you just said
was the how do you take it to the next
level greatness? And what we watch every fifth day pitches,
what he does at the plate now leading the league
in home runs, is you you broke down earlier six
hits from being the league leader in batting average, So
(24:54):
the opportunity for a triple crown is something to watch
as we hit September as well. But the the greatest
part of it is the performance coming straight after the
Gilido Lopez trade and coming out of several weeks months
of speculation of how this season would play out, not
(25:15):
only for him personally but for the Angels squad. Was
he gonna be gone before the trade deadline? What happens
as you flow and they make that announcement, We get
that through the processes and your insiders and the team
spokespeople and Otani himself a week ago, Hey, I want
to finish this off and I love this run. That
(25:37):
he goes out and does this the day after the
embolden Angels go and make a move and buy in,
and yeah, they'd already made a couple of smaller deals,
but this one being a big swing on the heels
of him being taken away from the trade market and
finishing the year with the Angels. That he goes out
(25:58):
and has a days a day like this. That's the
extra you know, scene or two when you start writing
the movie, right, it's the extra gravitas to what he did.
It's like, oh, emboldened by the Angels move and buying
in on him. Well, he came through it a big way,
and then you play all your highlights.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You know. And I had to go back when when
I'm watching the game today and Matt Vestkersen says, here's
the kind of year he's having. If he had six
more hits, he'd be leading the American League in hitting, right,
And that's this is a non sho Hao Toddy trade
deadline stories A And I'm like, no way, And I
had to go check it. I'm like, is he right?
Because he's when you have four hundred at bats, is
(26:40):
six hits worth twenty points? I don't know about that, man,
because look, you have the leaders that you know, Yanni
Diez is hitting three eighteen, you know, at the top
of the American League. You know, It's not like you
have a guy, you know, hitting three seventy five, like
Ariyas is good luck trying to do that. So I
go and I check, and sure enough, I'm like, oh
my god, yeah, the math does check. If he had
six more hits, he'd be leading the league in hitting,
(27:01):
which shows you how close he is to leading the
league in hitting. So in a year we're talking about
Otani doing what he's doing, you got to put a
triple crown back on the table for him, because he's
gonna win the home run crown. He's got a he's
got a ten home run lead over over over your guy.
Uh and and he's only four RBIs back of the lead.
(27:22):
And so when you couple those with yeah, he gets
a little hot hitting and can you know, raise his
average from two ninety eight to three ten, three twelve,
that could be enough and and triple crown. And it's suddenly,
for a guy that gets all the plautits and all
the accolades and playing at a level that we haven't seen,
he can still supersede them, and he can still get
higher than them. And that's that's crazy because you would
(27:43):
think at some point, okay, this is Otani ceiling and
there is no ceiling for the guy. No.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
And that's the beauty of it, right.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You're wondering where it goes from here, what the team
can do, because obviously team sport, we want to tie
it back to success because we'll always talk about the
greatest that never did X, Y and z. At the
rate they're going, and unfortunately for his teammate Mike Trout.
That's kind of what his career is. And we're looking
at the size of that contract in the years of
(28:13):
years ahead and where his body is at this point.
And look, he was struggling before he got hurt. But
for Otani, it's the all right, how do you parlay
that individual brilliance? How does it work? And can you
get the team construct over? I mean that's the fascinating
part going over right Ardi Moreno, how much is he
(28:34):
really willing to go over the into the luxury tax
world to try to best give the best effort for
this squad this year. I think it's a fascinating final
five days here and then obviously the book of Otani
just getting started.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
This is a story about college for well, you can't
keep track of it. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We have more NFL,
more big night trades going down in Major League Baseball
coming up in a few minutes, but a story that
continues to gain more and more momentum over the course
(29:17):
of the past couple of days is now another episode
chapter in the reorganization of conferences in college Football's like
it's a trade deadline for college football. It's coming up.
Colorado's board has approved their return to the Big twelve.
So now Dion Sanders Colorado, who right now was holding
the PAC twelve up all by themselves, Hey, they are leaving,
(29:39):
all right, They're going back to the Big twelve. The
ACC has said today they are absolutely open to expanding
their membership. And where things looked really dicey for a
long time because I would always say, oh, in two years,
these teams are leaving. Is this really gonna happen? College
football changes every five minutes, right, that's college football changes
(30:01):
every five minutes. Are you really going to see the
day where USC is playing a Big ten schedule? Really
gonna see when Oklahoma moves to the bat? Are really
gonna see these days happen? But I gotta be honest
with you Today, the last couple of days, I'm seeing
a lot of clarity because what's gonna happen is as
a football conference, the PAC twelve is done. This double
(30:23):
barrel of they can't get a television contract, the teams
are leaving. There's no marquee teams that are there. Washington
wants to leave, you know, Oregon's gonna want to leave, Arizona.
All these schools are gonna want to leave, and they'll
wind up getting sucked up by the Big Ten. Look,
I keep telling you, the Big Ten's gonna wind up
being the Big twenty in the next five years.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
It's good. I already had that brand domain registered.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Yeah, that door is good. Yeah, that war is good. Good.
So what's gonna happen is now, is that we're gonna
get to that point that John Calipari talked about ten
years ago. At this point, we're gonna have the four
major super conferences and there's no longer gonna be a
debate about well do we let in an undefeated team
from the PAC twelve, and we're gonna have the four
major conferences. They are gonna be the ACC, the SEC,
(31:06):
the Big twelve, and the and the Big Ten. However
they wind up rebrand the Big Twelve will be the
Big sixteen, the Big Ten will be the Big twenty.
The ACC is the ACC, the SEC is the SEC.
That's how it's gonna go. And the PAC twelve is
going to just drift off into anonymity and no one's
gonna care. So now I can actually see this happening,
(31:27):
and I can see UCLA and USC playing Big ten schedules,
and and in Oklahoma and Texas moving and here's Colorado
back in the Big twelve. It looks like we have
our four survivors. And the PAC twelve had a chance
to try to jump in when they had when they
could have, because hey, they could have pulled a couple
of teams come play USC. You said they could have
pulled Oklahoma, they could have pulled Tech. They could have
(31:48):
pulled a couple of teams. NH. It didn't work. So
now this is this is the conference that's gonna wind
up being shut to decide, and you're gonna get playoffs
and everything else from the Power four conferences. And that's
how it's going to go. Within the next two years,
We're not even gonna talk about the PAC twelve anymore.
It's going to be done.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
You have just a y on the day that they
announce a big statement, ready ready for this statement from
the PAC twelve conference, did they say blank? Q? Larry Scott,
I think it's in the invisible ink. So we'll have
to test that out or hold it up to Maybe
it's a black light situation. I'm not quite sure. PAC
twelve comprised of world leading universities, blah blah blah blah blah.
(32:29):
Today's decision by the University of Colorado has done nothing
to disrupt our commitment talking about athletic success and classroom
and all.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
But here's the best.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
The second second paragraph is key and this came out
right about as we were going on here. Quote, we
are focused on concluding our media rights deal and securing
our continued success and growth. Immediately following the conclusion of
our media rights deal, we will embrace expansion opportunities and
bring new fans, markets, and excitement and value to the
(33:02):
PAC twelve.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Do you think by expansion they mean we're gonna expand
into another conference and we're gonna be the PAC twelve
like the PAC twelve brought to you by the Big twelve. Well,
but the Big twelve presents PAC twelve football.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Well, this is where you start picking off the weak
members of the herd, where you can find the holes
in other athletic programs that maybe want to get out
of their own conference deals or teams that might get
relegated from other conferences, opportunities may they avail themselves to
you in short order. But yeah, look, we know the
(33:36):
PAC twelve. We've been talking about it forever in terms
of the media rights deal, the headquarters, the building that
they had up in San Francisco, all of that just
one bad move after the next. So now it's the
what's the next iteration look like? And yeah, I think
that consolidation occurs, but I don't know if it happens
that fast. But because I think the PAC twelve is
not gonna go down without a fight.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
The fight. What docks are gonna be there for you?
Speaker 5 (34:00):
It's a final.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
They don't have a TV contract. Everybody's in the face
over man, hey, man, night is over.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
There's plenty of streaming services that are still desperate to
get in the game.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
Peacock lost three billion this year.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
A dude, it's over, man, it's over for the PAC twelve.
It's all over.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
They playing the unoriginal content that they.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Give it, the three count Pack twelve beat ariginal commercials.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Whenever they know you were ringing the ten bell like
they were honoring a falling with.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
The conference was done. The second, Larry Scott took over.
What a bum Twitter?
Speaker 1 (34:35):
And how about a fresco sorry exit? How about a
fresco Mike is swollen dome? Coming up next, we get
back to the biggest story of the day in the NFL.
I may wind up having to fight a head coach.
That's next, right here, Fox
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