August 10, 2023 • 42 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk the first episode of Hard Knocks with the Jets. Jason voices his concerns with the Jets after the Panthers/Jets joint practice. Finally, the guys talk the no-hitter pitched by Phillies Michael Lorenzen !
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, then, welcome inside hour three of The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. YO live as Oh,
where's the where's the well dressed Hobo?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I am, where's the well dressed, well dressed homo?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Tight shirt? Either you're gonna play the well dressed hobo
from Frank the Tank, or you're not gonna play the
well dressed hobo.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I'm sorry, I can't hear you again over the fans said, any.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You have no funny story. It was so it's so
hot in the room that I do the show. And
when I do the show, how hot is it? No,
it's it's hot. And I told my wife and I said,
we got to turn the air conditioning on. It's just
hot in this room, you know, cause it's you know,
we moved in a new house in the last in
the last few weeks. I'm like, it's just really hot
in this room. And she was like, I said, can
we turn the air condition around? She goes, all right,
(01:16):
we turn the air aud You're trying to figure it
out and everything else. And then she comes back in
this is like, this is like twenty five minutes ago,
and I'm like, I just I just can you turn
the acon. I'm like, all right, we'll turn the AC
on and you don't have to close everything up in
the rest of the house everything, And you know, it's
it's kind of difficult because that's that's you know, now
we're closing that up because I'm hot in this room
twenty five minutes ago. And she comes back in and
(01:37):
she puts down a fan and I look at it
and I go, where do we get that fan? She goes,
I just went and bought it. I went on Facebook
marketplace and bought it, drove picked it up, brought it
back here twenty bucks. I'm like, wow, that is solving problems.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I mean, she operational efficiency right there. Baby, let's go
at the.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Time it went from Nick Cope's update to Nick Cope's
most recent update, she went out, bought a fan, brought
it back. I can put it here. This twenty bucks
for a big family. Like, all right, this is awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I told you, man, like you got, you gotta solve problems.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Hey that you know, you know what you saying? What
do you say? Adding adding value?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
That's hey? Every day do you add value?
Speaker 6 (02:13):
You know?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I was having a very Joey Tribuani kind of moment.
I was feeling like I lifted right out of things, right,
That's one of the jokes towards the end he and
Phoebe have with each other on Friends was well, everybody
else has their lives, we kind of lift right out.
I remember Joey got his spin off and it didn't
go over so well, right, I mean, nobody wanted nobody
(02:33):
wanted a second and bite at the apple. So I
was having a big, big moment, and so like, what
do I have in the fridge? I know I bought
ingredients for something. I'm gonna make a chicken fetageni alfredo.
So at nine point thirty this morning, I've made it
a giant bowl of chicken fetagdi alfredo, and it's delicious.
And I felt like I did something to add value. Now,
(02:55):
my younger daughter is is celebrating with some friends there
at the final night of this Taylor Swift thing at
Sofi Stadium, so she's jacked up. So we were making
bracelets and listening to music or whatever. So we had
our moments. But early this moment morning, I was just
having just a down time where I'm like this sucks
(03:15):
and I and I get into moods and I try to,
you know, lift myself up.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That's how I did it. Today.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I made a chicken feta chini alfredo from scratch at.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
What time time? Yeah, buddy, and you.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Know what, the dog and I enjoyed some extra parmesan cheese.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I'll have you know. That is right. That's what you
gotta do.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
You gotta find your wins and you gotta add some value.
Because nobody in that house could tell me that wasn't
a damn fine meal.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And the best thing is that is, I'm sure you
have stuff left over. I do, yeah, so you be
eating you can eat it for breakfast tomorrow. Or what
I would do is you know tonight, I would have
it tonight.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I thought you were gonna say, well, you know we'll
be in studio tomorrow, so bring an extra portion, you
know what, because you've had it before you no, no,
I've had.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
No, that's legit. But when you bring in the fetichini
Alfredo and the and the pork shoulder, like those are
the days to come in, that's like, okay, hey, Harmon's
really my best friend today?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Yeah, I got a pork gross ready for tomorrow to
marinating and brianing right now, let's go.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
We're gross ready and marinating.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Finding my wins.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Just like the defense against Aaron Rodgers and the Jets today.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Yeah, camp, oh yeah, it's all going to hell.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Corey Davis said this day would come. We were afraid
this day was gonna come.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, we were afraid there'd be a day where he'd
actually would struggle.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And that Aaron Rodgers would get mad at us.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I don't want Aaron Rodgers to get mad.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Well, especially if you're Corey Davis.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, oh no, no, yeah, yeah, because you first of all,
you're worried about staying on the team. That is right,
it looks like you're staying on the team. Now you're
worried about getting the football because they signed a bunch
of hides in the off season. Hey, these guys are
gonna get the ball because Aaron Rodgers knows them. Look,
everything is fine with the Jets. Every thing is fine.
It's always been fine, it will continue to be fine.
(05:05):
It's fine now, it's fine. It's one day they had
a rough three and out against the Carolina Panthers and
suddenly all the the pageantry of Hard Knocks goes away.
And look at this, I know everything is fine. I
watched Hard Knocks three times. I watched it last I
watched it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Did do you watch it a second time with ice
cream in your hand?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well, well, the first maybe I watched it twice with
ice cream, or maybe I watched the first time with
ice cream the second time and the third time I
was hungry again and went back and had it. It
was it was like we watched it on last night
while it unfolded. We couldn't see any of the here
into the audio, obviously, but you go back and watch
us and this is it was. It's it's watching a coronation.
(05:47):
It's watching it's it's it's like knowing that the Jets
are going to win the Super Bowl, and we're giving
you this from the beginning of the year, knowing how
it's going to end with everything he did with Rogers,
and I'm throwing with the no Look throws, and and
everybody that comes to camp is saying wonderful, glowing things
about him. We got eight. Eight is amazing. I don't
get it. You saw a defense corner Jeff Albrook saying,
(06:09):
what are you gonna do? When he throws that pass
on the out? What are you gonna do? He throws that.
I mean, we shut their bleeping blanket. He blanks down,
We got a sack, we got this. Yeah, but he
made that throat. There's nothing you can do. There's nothing
you can do when eight makes a throw like that.
I mean, nobody else in the game can make a
throw like that. And I'm sitting here going everybody's getting
on board with me. Man, we're going to the super Bowl.
(06:30):
We're going to the super Bowl. This is absolutely happening.
And I feel like it's like an out of body
experience that I'm having while watching this going. I really,
everybody's coming around to it. I knew we were gonna
be good. I know we're gonna be good. Now I'm
worried that we're gonna be too cocky and arrogant. I've
gone in one day, going from man, this is gonna
be tough, and the Jets are still gonna jet on.
Now it's like, oh no, now I worry they're too arrogant.
(06:51):
Now now they be too much. Hey, we got a
lot going on here, and I'm gonna have to worry
about them getting a reality check because they're just feeling
a little bit too big for their That's where I'm
out with the Jets.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
And then you got me laughing going you know, it's
August ninth, so I mean there's a lot of time
before a we play a game, let alone seventeen regular
season and oh, Aaron Rodgers has generally not been very
good in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
But it doesn't show. I'm okay if he's not good
in the playoffs, because you know what that means, you
got got to the playoffs. Yeah, if he's rid to play.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Gay, Look, the long road begins with the first step
a right and anything less than anything more than This
season was an abject failure, disaster, and the thirty nine
forty year old quarterback looks every bit of his forty years.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, if he was if look and I maintained this
if Rogers was gonna suck. If he was gonna suck,
he'd have played out his last year plus for fifty
million dollars with the Packers, and then he would have
retired if he was gonna suck, because he's not someone
that's gonna go out there and play. Look, all the
best players are never gonna go out there and play
when they can't do it anymore. Right, Tom Brady retired
(08:03):
a year early before he really fell off the cliff
because you could tell he was getting to that point.
Peyton Manning the same way, won the Super Bowl. Yeah
but I'm out put to me, Yeah, you were done.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
He was done. He was done.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Ye, So these guys knew and I'm walking out on
a high point. It's the same thing with Aaron Rodgers
if he thought for a second, hey, I could be
done here. He's not changing in goal because he doesn't
want to go out he Look, he's a he's a
guy that knows a lot about NFL history, well especially
hard Knock's history. It's the voice of God is here.
He knows a lot about the NFL. He doesn't want
to be one of those guys where you're you're watching it.
(08:37):
You know, you're you're watching a TV show on on
FS one or or ESPN six, and it's hey, guys
who hung on too long? And here's EMMITTT. Smith as
a cardinal and Joe Namath as a ram and Aaron
Rodgers as a Jet. Like, he doesn't want to be
that guy, but that's exactly what he's going to be.
Remember that, Remember that horrible year he spent with the Jets.
(08:57):
The Jets thought he was going to be great, and boy,
he's stunk. He's not gonna be that guy. And if
he thought he was gonna be, if he was anything
close to thinking, ah, maybe I might be that guy,
he would have just stayed. He wouldn't have retired because
getting fifty million dollars through the year is still getting
fifty million dollars through the year. He would have played
one more year with the Packers because let's just say
has a bad year with the Packers, right, and he
(09:18):
retires after this year, Well would they say, hey, he's done.
But look at what he's done. Hall of Fame career,
He's got a super Bowl, all these things. Yeah, he
wasn't that great at the end, but okay, but when
you go to another team and you say that, oh no, no, Now,
look at the guy trying to hang on too long.
They had to rip the uniform off him, and look
how embarrassing it is. And we talk about it, just
like we talk about Michael Jordan. Looking him playing with
(09:39):
the Wizards. He's not going to be that guy. If
he was going to be anything close, it would have
turned out differently. But he knows he's got stuff left
in the tank. He's already talking about playing two three
more years. I mean, I'm not worried about him playing
on the field. I'm worried about him getting hurt. I'm
worried about other players getting hurt. I'm worried about the
schedule being too it. I'm worried about because I' Jet fan.
(10:00):
So I'm worried about everything, right, I worried about absolutely everything.
But I'm not worried about Aaron Rodgers on the field,
playing and performing that. I am not worried about it all.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, I'm not a fan of the Jets, and I
have none of those concerns for him either. Even going
back to last year, he threw twelve interceptions. More than
half of them were either tip balls or basically timing
with the receiver was a bit off. Oh no, wait,
you should have gone to offseason workouts. Maybe you could
(10:28):
have gotten on the same page with those guys a
little bit faster.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But I digress.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Still through for thirty seven hundred yards twenty six touchdowns. Yes,
I decided to drop off from the prior two years
where he won the MVP. But he's all about image rehabilitation, right.
He took a lot of heat last year. Remember we
were on top of it first for the playoff failures
and everything going into the season, and then it became
in vogue to go after Aaron Rodgers last year. All
(10:55):
of a sudden, I was like, all right, someone rang
a bell. Okay, we can all criticize. It was like, ey,
well to my bandwagon. I've been leading along the way,
kind of like the Russell Wilson won when he wasn't
playing so well in Seattle that folks suddenly recognized, Hey,
you know what, he wasn't really good there the year before.
It wasn't all Denver, it wasn't all Hacket, but we'll
save that for another time. With Rogers, it's image rehabilitation,
(11:19):
both on and off the field. Right, all of the
stuff of the COVID era and the comments that he
would make that rankled people, and discussion points that he
tried to have and very polarizing, not agreeing, disagreeing, just
where we're at right looking in In hindsight, he was
(11:40):
a guy that made a lot of headlines in the
news beyond sports for his comments and being forthright with
his thoughts on the whole process, the NFL's policies and
everything else. But he also had kind of alienated himself
from the Packers again not showing up for offseason workouts.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
The am I gonna t am? I not?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Oh, and I want MVP. I should probably come back
to defend that. But now you have a point whereas
I all right, let's agree to separate it. Jordan Love's
time you move forward, and he picks a spot that
puts him in the spotlight franchise with fifty years of futility.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
My bears are getting there soon enough, buddy, So oh yeah,
he's sitting there, buddy.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
By time you and I are done with this show,
I'll be talking about my fifty years of futility unless
Justin Fields is him.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But I'm talking, but listen, But that's the best thing
about your team and my team. Right as bad as
we are the most famous super Bowls of all time,
you and I have won them. Right, The Jets won
the most important super Bowl. Your team is legendary that
no one is ever going to forget that. And who
any other teams you really go crazy for?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You really remember the Jets, the eighty five Bears. No
one says, well, the seventy eight Cowboy No, No, the
eighty three Steelers. No, it's the Yets and the eighty
five Bears. I mean that because because differently the way
they were able to win the Super Bowl. That's it. No,
the twoth out of I mean maybe a little bit
of the two thousand Ravens because of the year they won,
(13:12):
in their defense being as good as well.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Yeah, because then people hold on Trent Dilfer and say, look,
they won with Trent Dilfer because of the defense and
all of those things. But but you get down to it,
and it's it's all about I still have this right.
He leaned out a little bit. He's gone not on
the TV twelve method, but the same kind of thing physically,
The darkness retreats like he became this interesting guy of
(13:35):
all right, what the hell goes on in his head?
Right he's speaking at these pharma conferences in Denver. I mean,
there's just so much that that happened and transpired, so
it's it's storylines. But he's got to go out and
have a big year with the Jets to you know,
put that for verbial icing on the cake, to really
(13:56):
complete the process, because you watch, he'll be on all
the morning sho He'll be popping on and doing you know,
weekly hits and oh yeah, he's gonna be funny with
McAfee and all like it's it's already there and now
just go win. Just don't screw it up by by
becoming a Jet.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I sing on the cake. I mean, he's the last
thing I'm worried about all these other things I'm not
worried about Aaron Rodgers on the field.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Well, the schedules of pain in the ass, Yeah, look, schedules. Yeah,
you got an offensive line that I don't know, like
of every other thing on your roster. And look, I'm
usually the offensive line skeptic here on the show.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It isn't flawing. I'm I'm I'm confident that by the
beginning of the season. They'll figure it out because they
have some moving parts in place. Right now, you're wondering,
is Mackay Becton gonna win a gig? When does Dwayne
Brown come back? And then got But I'm I'm com
but but you never know, You're right. I mean, like
I said, there's so many and as a Jet fit,
I worry about everything because that's how it goes. I'm
not worried about Aeron on the field. He's on the field,
he's playing, He's gonna be great. I'm not worried about that.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Yeah, And I mean, look, he could just steal from
Vince Vaughn yelling hot route to help himself against when
his offensive line isn't holding up.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
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I did have a read for the winner on Sunday. Yeah, okay,
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But the fact that they they'll come and put the time,
I would I would want to watch because I would
feel like, this is like like a NASCAR crew showing
up like they do it in like eight seconds? Do
they all show up and they're all dressed up and
it's all now now you're too Now your car is
going that's what I want to see.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And someone drives it off really fast to show you
that the retires.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
He wait, aute, I was the city stole.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I was just saying he was testing your tires, showing
you the performance.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh so it's like the guys from Ferris Bueller's Day
Off when they take the car for ride and bring
it back at the end with all the miles on it.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
No, but I mean pretty soon it's gonna be hey,
can you do everything? Come to my house and do everything,
like while while I'm doing other things, like while I'm
at working forget you know, you put the windshield glass on,
change tires, like can you can do other things too?
How far are we away from that? We can't be
that far?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
No, See, I mean looked like so many services. I mean,
you can get people to delivery you almost anything. Your
grocery store. Someone will show up Amazon Same Day Groceries boom.
I mean there's so many companies that do it. I
don't want to name check because they're not paying me.
So it's I mean there's a lot of it out
there already, and it's only going to continue to increase,
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right that that part of the gig industry, uh as
people try to figure out, uh the eyed hustles as
they're galled, also known as second jobs. So yeah, it's
it's a changing economy. And what that means is your convenience.
You can dip into your pool while they change your tires.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Hey, I'm going swimming. Let me know when the tires
are done. We had another no hitter in Major League
Baseball tonight. Michael Lorenzen pitches the seventy third no hitter
of the year. It's the third no hitter of the week,
his second start for the Phillies after being obtained for
a minor leaguer at the deadline by Philadelphia. And here's
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how the final out sounded. Bells already lifted off this afternoon.
The first pitch so swung on head high in the
air deep.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
The three to two pitch, swinging a high five ball
center fail coming at his rojas.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
He's calling he.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Has got it. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Lorenzen leaps into the arms of real New Toe and
the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Pile out of the knockout in front of the mound.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
They settle bred no hitter Tonight by Michael Lorenzen.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
There it is Philly's radio network on the call. He
wins it seven to nothing. He did walk four, so
it wasn't that close to a perfect game.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Smart move, and he's that guy's gotta beat on me.
You want to hit something out of the zone, going
have at it.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Also throwing one hundred and twenty four pitches, one hundred
and twenty four pitches, most of the no hitter in
a couple of years. I mean, look, he's got one
hundred and thirty two, one hundred and thirty four hundred
and twenty four pitches.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
When he got to one hundred, do you think a
chill went down the spine at Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You no, No, Dave Roberts just sat up and said,
someone has a no hitter and is pitching too many innings.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
There's a disturbin in force.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yes, that's what he is.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Say, I for a million cries, I.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Have heard that they has a no hitter being pitched.
Lord Vada, you will cancel this no hitter immediately and
then strike him down and join my side.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Uh no, that's exactly what I was really well done.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, whatever Dave Roberts is doing during the day, he
or like gets the spider sense, like Spider Man. Oh,
someone's pitching a no hitter. I gotta make a phone call.
I gotta make a I gotta get I gotta get
your Peter. Let me, let me, let me look through
hang on, Girardi. Girardi. Oh no, no, he's not their
way to let me look through the gun and find
the uh so a no hitter by Michael Lorenzen and
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again he was obtained at the deadline for a minor
league by the Phillies who decided this is when they
were gonna go try to get a picture to shore
up their starting pitching. He was one of the better
pitchers that were available at the deadline, and his no
hitter tonight he's.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Too now, no what the Phillies pitched eight innings in
the last game.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Yeah, we've been talking about Lance Lynn and eating innings
and whatever else. Man, you don't get much more than
a guy going eight one game.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Dude, Come on, but you're going from the Tigers to
the Phillies. You gotta think there's a little bit more
of an upgrade here. The little okay, here's gonna go
a little bit better here. Look, Lorenzen has been a
pretty good pitcher for his career, right, he's been pretty good.
He's someone who is obtainable and desirable at the deadline.
He proves my point that just like when you buy
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a product and it says best if used by this date. Oh,
how is that mustard still good?
Speaker 7 (27:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
It says best iff used by September twenty fourth. What's
today September eighteenth. Yeah, I'm good. Why I bought that
mustard two years ago? It doesn't matter. It's best if
used by this date. Starting pitching is best obtained at
the deadline. No other time in the year should you
go crazy to get starting pitching, Because it's not worth
it all right, long term, trying to build your team
on starting pitching isn't worth it. Trying to build a
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team around a couple of great starters doesn't work. Look
at the Mets, I've been watching the Mets try to
do this for nine years now. One year it worked
in twenty fifteen. Oh, look at the start. But that's
the only year. How many more years did those guys
have together? Hardly any? Matt Harvey was gone with the
Mets a couple of years later. Nowhere Sindergard's throwing seventy
five miles an hour now, right, Jacob de Gram can't
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stay healthy. Steven matts Is he's still in the league.
The average fan would go, I think he's still in
the league. I don't know. It doesn't work to build
on starting pitching because too much can go wrong, whether
it's ineffectiveness or injury. It doesn't work. So the best
thing to do when you need starting pitching, Hey, I'd
like to go in the off season and go get
guys that I know are gonna give me innings, right,
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guys not with an ERA is six. But give me
some guys that can average equality start, right. It's not
too much to ask. It's not too difficult to go
get guys who can can give you a quality start
every other time out there and have an ERA around
four and a half. Right, I mean that that's really
not that crazy, And as long as you have that,
when you need starting pitching, then go get it at
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the deadline. Why because that's the best time because you
can go and get an effective pitcher for two months
and you don't have to worry about anything else. Hey,
you want to sign up another year in the off season, great,
you want to let him go, great, But if you're contending,
that's when you go get your starting pitcher because you're
not worried about is this guy gonna be healthy long term?
Is this guy healthy now? No, you just trade it
(29:08):
for him. You got him for two months. The guy's
pretty good, he's gotten through the season, everything is fine.
You're going forward. You have a really good pitcher, you
go get maybe one or two of them for a
couple of months, and that's how you do it. And
if you're in contention, that's going to make the difference
in winning and losing with your team because you are
only asking elite starting pitchers to be good for two
(29:28):
plus months, which is not a lot, and then you
can move on from him. And that's how it goes.
And that's the best way to go forward with pitching,
because building the other way is too difficult. Every time
I see all this starting pitchers out in free agency,
and it's gonna be a five year deal for one
hundred and eighty five, No doubt. It's never gonna work.
It never works as good as the Rangers are playing
right now. You think Ranger fans are going, how are
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they gonna be in the offseason when they realize, oh man,
Max Scher is coming back again, it is not quite
gonna be as good as this year. And wow, Jacob
deGrom really is going to be out another full year
and we're paying him forty million dollars to be out
another full year. It doesn't work. This is how you
go get pitching starting pitt dis should be a sign
at every starting pitcher, obtain at deadline, every every elite
(30:11):
level starting pitcher, every good above average, not innings eaters. Hey,
you want a really good one above average, a good
starting pitcher, get them at the deadline. That's the only
time you should go after it.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
I was just gonna make sure we you use the
word e lead a lot now.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Lore Jo Flaco is still elite, Joe Blacco is still elle.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, it's still the name of one of my fantasy teams.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
But the sure in one of the leagues we do
with Fabiano that's getting ready to draft. It still says
Flacco is elite as the name, but I don't want
to call lorenz And elite.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
No, he's good. He's good. He's just the desirable. He's
a little bit upper level, a little bit better. He's
a little bit better than average. He's a guy you
want to go out and get.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
But this is he's ideal for a number of things. Right,
you're talking about a low four era about four, two.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Five or whatever it was.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
And he was on a one year deal, because that's
the other thing, right, He's an eight and a half
million dollar one year deal, So what you're on the
hook for is minuscule. And if he can eat innings
and the schedule, gods have found him right and he
and he's had two great starts out of the gate.
You win obviously, the extra years on deals, that's where
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that's where it is. If you're committed to even one
more year, it becomes a potential albatross, especially when you're
looking at most pitchers really don't hit there their prime
till you know you're you're right. It's it's a very
short window for most, right, you get two or three
great year It's kind of like a running back to
a degree. You can get a bunch of serviceable years,
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but in terms of dominance, it is a short window.
And then you can go like the Dodgers and just
hope that everybody suddenly is miraculously healthy for the stretch run.
Like Walker Bueller declared himself today, that's not gonna happen
very often. You're gonna have to go into the marketplace.
And and I like your theory.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
The problem is that I don't know that there's that
many arms that you can go go out into the
marketplace and just say, all right, this is going to work.
Or it's the two month rental uh that pays off
in a huge way thus far he has UH. But
look it's it's a minimal investment.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I love the UH.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
I love that it's working out and that, you know,
it's a big bet on himself that he can parlay
this into maybe a long term deal either there or
somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I mean, after the game was over and GM Dave
Dombrowski was walking through the clubhouse shaking hands Kyle Schwarburn,
Rehys Hoskins and other Phillies were clapping and laughing, yelling
great trade, great trade, great trade, shaking Dombrowski's head. Is
he got because you know he's with the Tigers for
a salon. Hey, great trade. I mean it's a it's
a it's a it's a great trade. And there there
are gonna be guys available. Like there's not always gonna
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be a Surezer or a Verlander, but hey, Lancelin is
someone who was above average, who was won in the league.
He go get him. Going the rest of the guys,
you can go get serviceable guys. Man. I mean that
that's really that's the key to being able to win,
because all you gotta do is be five hundred. Just
be five hundred that you can figure things out as
things go on in the end. And look, and the
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Phillies have done so there's a reason why, Hey, they
were in the World Series last year. They know we're
not gonna compete with the Braves. The Braves arep but
it doesn't matter. We don't have to beat the Braves.
Now we got the beat. We gotta we gotta get
in and beat the Braves in October and I'll take
our chances in a seven game series against the Braves.
Not trying to make up ten games here when all
that's going to guarantee you is you're gonna get to
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you're gonna get to skip a three game series. So
the Phillies are doing it right, man, lots of teams.
I give him credit when they're doing when they're doing
things right, they're doing it right.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
I gotta say, when you said he walked through the
locker room, I really thought you were gonna say Schwarber
and everybody did the Jerry maguire money sign like he
did to Glenn Fry.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
You're gonna pay? Oh, I know.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Right now, a guy who always makes us pay. Well,
he doesn't. Really. I was looking for a segue.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It's Nick Cope.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
He's got what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports.
Speaker 9 (34:10):
What do you got, Nick, Hey, If you got something
to pay, I'll take it all right.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Very good?
Speaker 10 (34:13):
Now.
Speaker 9 (34:13):
I gave you you, did you? Mike gave me a
Fry So came.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
In last night knowing Frostburg's a Dodger. Fans did a
Buster posey or Suresey. I mean, that's uh, that's that's
that's I like to cut your jim. That's gutsy man.
Speaker 9 (34:26):
Hey, there's plenty of Dodger fans around here.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
I need to balance things out a little bit and
have some Norcow blood going on down here. So just
trying to do my part.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Next time, were the body armor like Barry.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
Minds, Oh there you go. Yeah, but with all these.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Dodger fans around here, you gotta protect yourself.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
I also have those little ties he would put at
the bottom of his pants so that they didn't ride
up on his cleats. I know baseball didn't like those,
but it was all look for Barry. Yeah, all right,
All the baseball games are final tonight.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
Now.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
By the the way, the Phillies with that win, they
have now jumped the Giants for the top wildcard spot
in the National League. Giants lost to the Angels four
to one the final there in Orange County Show.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Otani has now allowed zero earned runs in his last
three starts. He also had the Dodgers shutting out the
Diamondbacks two to nothing, so LA now leads the NLS
by six games over the Giants. Elsewhere, the Astros cruise
pass the Orioles eight to two. Rangers had their eight
game winning streaks snapped by the A's, so Houston is
now within two games of Texas in the AL West.
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Cardinals beat the Race six to four, so no movement
at the top of the AL East. Blue Jay's got
a first inning home run from George Springer that was
enough to beat the Guardians one nothing. Brewers beat the
Rocky seven to six, and ten innings thanks to a
throwing air from Colorado Mets over the Cubs four to three.
He'll say. The Marlins come back to beat the Reds
five to four. Milwaukee able to stretch its lead at
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the top of the NL Central the two and a
half games, and now the Marlins have jumped both the
Cubs and the Reds. Miami currently holds that final wildcard
spot in the National League. White Sox beat the Yankees
nine to two, Braves edging the Pirates six ' five,
Red Sox over the Royals four to three, Tigers past
the Twins nine to five, and the final final of
(36:17):
the night Mariners beat the Padres six to one. College
Athletics reports say ACC presidents met Wednesday night to continue
discussions about adding Callen Stanford. There was a fair amount
of pushback among the group and they did not hold
the vote. They need twelve of fifteen schools to vote
yes for any additions to be approved. Let's go back
(36:39):
to Jason Smith and Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Thanks much, Dick, appreciate it. My friend coming up next. Hey,
we still have a lot of hard knocks to get
to and Aaron Rodgers and everything going on in college football.
But how about we revisit a couple of big bold
predictions and see where they sit right now? Smack dad,
middle of the calendar. That's coming up right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon Larry
Our Live from the tire Raq dot Com Studio.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Finally hear you, Jay, There we go.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Hey, the well dressed hobos.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Jason, when's the pool party?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
The pool party for you? May? Oh yeah, yeah, it's
gonna be mad. That's gonna be mad. That's gonna be
a may. He didn't never come.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
No, uh no, I may.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Think about It's fine, I get it.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I won't come fine.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Cloud he's got his shoulder.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I could I could think about a pool party. What
would I want in return? Never hearing tears excues again,
what could I want in return?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
You know why, Jason, if you wouldn't watch that Dungeons
and Dragons movie with me, I would have stopped what.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
You know what, though, Tysher just took this up. We
went to a vegan place?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Food did tonight? We went?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I went to a vegan place for lunch today.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
I don't believe you went.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I went to Grand Central Market in downtown LA for
lunch today. Wow place. It was actually accidental because I
didn't know that the ramen they had was vegan. But
it was still really good. It was still really really good. Hey,
I'm gonna have the garlic ramen. Uh yeah with pork.
Oh this is vegan. Oh okay, well I'll have it anyway.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Well it's a pork like product.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
That's a right. Yeah, it's close, Like I said, close enough.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
What's the closest thing you have to pork?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yea, we have mushrooms? Great, put them in.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I like, let's take that.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Let's look back at two Big Bowl predictions we made
here on the show beginning of the season. Number one,
Yankees will miss the playoffs. Yeah, where do they sit
right now?
Speaker 10 (38:49):
They stay last place in the al least still somehow
three games over five hundred, but they lose tonight to
your White Sox.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Luis Sevrino's era is over eight. He didn't even start tonight.
He was the bulk pitcher, which I guess that means
if you go to Costco you can buy something about
from Louis Areno. He was the bulk pitcher tonight. This
Yankee season just continues to circle the drain. Really, it's amazing.
I can't believe they're three games over five hundred, but
they are just circling the drain. They're falling further and
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further back in the wildcard chase. Now they have to
leap frog four teams to get in there. Five and
a half games back, and this Yankee team truck. They're
not gonna make the playoffs. And it's gonna be a
new manager and a new everything in New York next season.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Well that's the part I wanted to jump to. Is
the reports today, right Aaron Boone, he of the many dqs,
the beat it hit the shower kind of scenario, and
that he's gonna lose his job. But somehow Cashman's gonna
keep his The hell are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
How many of these? Jason Garrett of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
How many stays of execution does he get before the
hammer finally falls?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
How about Jason Garrett on Hard Knocks, Last Hands, Jason
gets the coach of the Cowboys man.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Yeah, you notice how quickly they got past him and
started getting excited about method man though, Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
He read at Bill Parcells Squad, I'll be reaching the
man in the glass coat. I'm like, oh my god,
I remember the man in the glass boot. The other
one is this beginning of the season, I told you
the Mariners were going to the World Series. Things did
not go well, So I've stayed away from talking about
the Mariners. Maybe that's all they needed. Now they have
won seven in a row. They're now two games out
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of the playoffs, one game out in the walls column.
They're ten games over five hundred. The Mariners have started
to figure it out. They are a really, really good team.
I'm telling you want to talk about a dark horse
team that Look, I'm still in on them because I'm
still bullish on him. Is a long way left. But
do you talk about a team that can beat the
Astros and can make it to the World Series. The
Mariners lineup is loaded, They're pitching is good. It just
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took them a while to figure it out, put it
all together. But here they come. Hottest team in baseball.
Watch out for Seattle.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Always work for balance and definition. Over his last fifteen days,
Julio Rodriguez everybody's favorite. Three sixty eight with four home runs,
eleven rbi. Oh yeah, six doubles as well in his
fifty seven at bats. So finally all those early season
woes have gone away, and they've got good balance through
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that lineup. Not you know, one big bopper with thirty
five home runs, No, no, no, you got a lot of
guys in the teams so up and down that line
up their trouble.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
And you can still be that Otani FRIMVP like I
said he was going to do beginning of the season.
He can still beat him out. It can still happen.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Yeah, it's a final.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Yeah. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven
seven nine nine six six three six nine is the number.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, then, welcome inside hour three of The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. YO live as Oh,
where's the where's the well dressed Hobo?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I am, where's the well dressed, well dressed homo?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Tight shirt? Either you're gonna play the well dressed hobo
from Frank the Tank, or you're not gonna play the
well dressed hobo.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I'm sorry, I can't hear you again over the fans said, any.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You have no funny story. It was so it's so
hot in the room that I do the show. And
when I do the show, how hot is it? No,
it's it's hot. And I told my wife and I said,
we got to turn the air conditioning on. It's just
hot in this room, you know, cause it's you know,
we moved in a new house in the last in
the last few weeks. I'm like, it's just really hot
in this room. And she was like, I said, can
we turn the air condition around? She goes, all right,
(01:16):
we turn the air aud You're trying to figure it
out and everything else. And then she comes back in
this is like, this is like twenty five minutes ago,
and I'm like, I just I just can you turn
the acon. I'm like, all right, we'll turn the AC
on and you don't have to close everything up in
the rest of the house everything, And you know, it's
it's kind of difficult because that's that's you know, now
we're closing that up because I'm hot in this room
twenty five minutes ago. And she comes back in and
(01:37):
she puts down a fan and I look at it
and I go, where do we get that fan? She goes,
I just went and bought it. I went on Facebook
marketplace and bought it, drove picked it up, brought it
back here twenty bucks. I'm like, wow, that is solving problems.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I mean, she operational efficiency right there. Baby, let's go
at the.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Time it went from Nick Cope's update to Nick Cope's
most recent update, she went out, bought a fan, brought
it back. I can put it here. This twenty bucks
for a big family. Like, all right, this is awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I told you, man, like you got, you gotta solve problems.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Hey that you know, you know what you saying? What
do you say? Adding adding value?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
That's hey? Every day do you add value?
Speaker 6 (02:13):
You know?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I was having a very Joey Tribuani kind of moment.
I was feeling like I lifted right out of things, right,
That's one of the jokes towards the end he and
Phoebe have with each other on Friends was well, everybody
else has their lives, we kind of lift right out.
I remember Joey got his spin off and it didn't
go over so well, right, I mean, nobody wanted nobody
(02:33):
wanted a second and bite at the apple. So I
was having a big, big moment, and so like, what
do I have in the fridge? I know I bought
ingredients for something. I'm gonna make a chicken fetageni alfredo.
So at nine point thirty this morning, I've made it
a giant bowl of chicken fetagdi alfredo, and it's delicious.
And I felt like I did something to add value. Now,
(02:55):
my younger daughter is is celebrating with some friends there
at the final night of this Taylor Swift thing at
Sofi Stadium, so she's jacked up. So we were making
bracelets and listening to music or whatever. So we had
our moments. But early this moment morning, I was just
having just a down time where I'm like this sucks
(03:15):
and I and I get into moods and I try to,
you know, lift myself up.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That's how I did it. Today.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I made a chicken feta chini alfredo from scratch at.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
What time time? Yeah, buddy, and you.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Know what, the dog and I enjoyed some extra parmesan cheese.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I'll have you know. That is right. That's what you
gotta do.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
You gotta find your wins and you gotta add some value.
Because nobody in that house could tell me that wasn't
a damn fine meal.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
And the best thing is that is, I'm sure you
have stuff left over. I do, yeah, so you be
eating you can eat it for breakfast tomorrow. Or what
I would do is you know tonight, I would have
it tonight.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I thought you were gonna say, well, you know we'll
be in studio tomorrow, so bring an extra portion, you
know what, because you've had it before you no, no,
I've had.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
No, that's legit. But when you bring in the fetichini
Alfredo and the and the pork shoulder, like those are
the days to come in, that's like, okay, hey, Harmon's
really my best friend today?
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Yeah, I got a pork gross ready for tomorrow to
marinating and brianing right now, let's go.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
We're gross ready and marinating.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Finding my wins.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Just like the defense against Aaron Rodgers and the Jets today.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Yeah, camp, oh yeah, it's all going to hell.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Corey Davis said this day would come. We were afraid
this day was gonna come.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yeah, we were afraid there'd be a day where he'd
actually would struggle.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
And that Aaron Rodgers would get mad at us.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I don't want Aaron Rodgers to get mad.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Well, especially if you're Corey Davis.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, oh no, no, yeah, yeah, because you first of all,
you're worried about staying on the team. That is right,
it looks like you're staying on the team. Now you're
worried about getting the football because they signed a bunch
of hides in the off season. Hey, these guys are
gonna get the ball because Aaron Rodgers knows them. Look,
everything is fine with the Jets. Every thing is fine.
It's always been fine, it will continue to be fine.
(05:05):
It's fine now, it's fine. It's one day they had
a rough three and out against the Carolina Panthers and
suddenly all the the pageantry of Hard Knocks goes away.
And look at this, I know everything is fine. I
watched Hard Knocks three times. I watched it last I
watched it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Did do you watch it a second time with ice
cream in your hand?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Well, well, the first maybe I watched it twice with
ice cream, or maybe I watched the first time with
ice cream the second time and the third time I
was hungry again and went back and had it. It
was it was like we watched it on last night
while it unfolded. We couldn't see any of the here
into the audio, obviously, but you go back and watch
us and this is it was. It's it's watching a coronation.
(05:47):
It's watching it's it's it's like knowing that the Jets
are going to win the Super Bowl, and we're giving
you this from the beginning of the year, knowing how
it's going to end with everything he did with Rogers,
and I'm throwing with the no Look throws, and and
everybody that comes to camp is saying wonderful, glowing things
about him. We got eight. Eight is amazing. I don't
get it. You saw a defense corner Jeff Albrook saying,
(06:09):
what are you gonna do? When he throws that pass
on the out? What are you gonna do? He throws that.
I mean, we shut their bleeping blanket. He blanks down,
We got a sack, we got this. Yeah, but he
made that throat. There's nothing you can do. There's nothing
you can do when eight makes a throw like that.
I mean, nobody else in the game can make a
throw like that. And I'm sitting here going everybody's getting
on board with me. Man, we're going to the super Bowl.
(06:30):
We're going to the super Bowl. This is absolutely happening.
And I feel like it's like an out of body
experience that I'm having while watching this going. I really,
everybody's coming around to it. I knew we were gonna
be good. I know we're gonna be good. Now I'm
worried that we're gonna be too cocky and arrogant. I've
gone in one day, going from man, this is gonna
be tough, and the Jets are still gonna jet on.
Now it's like, oh no, now I worry they're too arrogant.
(06:51):
Now now they be too much. Hey, we got a
lot going on here, and I'm gonna have to worry
about them getting a reality check because they're just feeling
a little bit too big for their That's where I'm
out with the Jets.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
And then you got me laughing going you know, it's
August ninth, so I mean there's a lot of time
before a we play a game, let alone seventeen regular
season and oh, Aaron Rodgers has generally not been very
good in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
But it doesn't show. I'm okay if he's not good
in the playoffs, because you know what that means, you
got got to the playoffs. Yeah, if he's rid to play.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Gay, Look, the long road begins with the first step
a right and anything less than anything more than This
season was an abject failure, disaster, and the thirty nine
forty year old quarterback looks every bit of his forty years.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, if he was if look and I maintained this
if Rogers was gonna suck. If he was gonna suck,
he'd have played out his last year plus for fifty
million dollars with the Packers, and then he would have
retired if he was gonna suck, because he's not someone
that's gonna go out there and play. Look, all the
best players are never gonna go out there and play
when they can't do it anymore. Right, Tom Brady retired
(08:03):
a year early before he really fell off the cliff
because you could tell he was getting to that point.
Peyton Manning the same way, won the Super Bowl. Yeah
but I'm out put to me, Yeah, you were done.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
He was done. He was done.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Ye, So these guys knew and I'm walking out on
a high point. It's the same thing with Aaron Rodgers
if he thought for a second, hey, I could be
done here. He's not changing in goal because he doesn't
want to go out he Look, he's a he's a
guy that knows a lot about NFL history, well especially
hard Knock's history. It's the voice of God is here.
He knows a lot about the NFL. He doesn't want
to be one of those guys where you're you're watching it.
(08:37):
You know, you're you're watching a TV show on on
FS one or or ESPN six, and it's hey, guys
who hung on too long? And here's EMMITTT. Smith as
a cardinal and Joe Namath as a ram and Aaron
Rodgers as a Jet. Like, he doesn't want to be
that guy, but that's exactly what he's going to be.
Remember that, Remember that horrible year he spent with the Jets.
(08:57):
The Jets thought he was going to be great, and boy,
he's stunk. He's not gonna be that guy. And if
he thought he was gonna be, if he was anything
close to thinking, ah, maybe I might be that guy,
he would have just stayed. He wouldn't have retired because
getting fifty million dollars through the year is still getting
fifty million dollars through the year. He would have played
one more year with the Packers because let's just say
has a bad year with the Packers, right, and he
(09:18):
retires after this year, Well would they say, hey, he's done.
But look at what he's done. Hall of Fame career,
He's got a super Bowl, all these things. Yeah, he
wasn't that great at the end, but okay, but when
you go to another team and you say that, oh no, no, Now,
look at the guy trying to hang on too long.
They had to rip the uniform off him, and look
how embarrassing it is. And we talk about it, just
like we talk about Michael Jordan. Looking him playing with
(09:39):
the Wizards. He's not going to be that guy. If
he was going to be anything close, it would have
turned out differently. But he knows he's got stuff left
in the tank. He's already talking about playing two three
more years. I mean, I'm not worried about him playing
on the field. I'm worried about him getting hurt. I'm
worried about other players getting hurt. I'm worried about the
schedule being too it. I'm worried about because I' Jet fan.
(10:00):
So I'm worried about everything, right, I worried about absolutely everything.
But I'm not worried about Aaron Rodgers on the field,
playing and performing that. I am not worried about it all.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, I'm not a fan of the Jets, and I
have none of those concerns for him either. Even going
back to last year, he threw twelve interceptions. More than
half of them were either tip balls or basically timing
with the receiver was a bit off. Oh no, wait,
you should have gone to offseason workouts. Maybe you could
(10:28):
have gotten on the same page with those guys a
little bit faster.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But I digress.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
Still through for thirty seven hundred yards twenty six touchdowns. Yes,
I decided to drop off from the prior two years
where he won the MVP. But he's all about image rehabilitation, right.
He took a lot of heat last year. Remember we
were on top of it first for the playoff failures
and everything going into the season, and then it became
in vogue to go after Aaron Rodgers last year. All
(10:55):
of a sudden, I was like, all right, someone rang
a bell. Okay, we can all criticize. It was like, ey,
well to my bandwagon. I've been leading along the way,
kind of like the Russell Wilson won when he wasn't
playing so well in Seattle that folks suddenly recognized, Hey,
you know what, he wasn't really good there the year before.
It wasn't all Denver, it wasn't all Hacket, but we'll
save that for another time. With Rogers, it's image rehabilitation,
(11:19):
both on and off the field. Right, all of the
stuff of the COVID era and the comments that he
would make that rankled people, and discussion points that he
tried to have and very polarizing, not agreeing, disagreeing, just
where we're at right looking in In hindsight, he was
(11:40):
a guy that made a lot of headlines in the
news beyond sports for his comments and being forthright with
his thoughts on the whole process, the NFL's policies and
everything else. But he also had kind of alienated himself
from the Packers again not showing up for offseason workouts.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
The am I gonna t am? I not?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Oh, and I want MVP. I should probably come back
to defend that. But now you have a point whereas
I all right, let's agree to separate it. Jordan Love's
time you move forward, and he picks a spot that
puts him in the spotlight franchise with fifty years of futility.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
My bears are getting there soon enough, buddy, So oh yeah,
he's sitting there, buddy.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
By time you and I are done with this show,
I'll be talking about my fifty years of futility unless
Justin Fields is him.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But I'm talking, but listen, But that's the best thing
about your team and my team. Right as bad as
we are the most famous super Bowls of all time,
you and I have won them. Right, The Jets won
the most important super Bowl. Your team is legendary that
no one is ever going to forget that. And who
any other teams you really go crazy for?
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You really remember the Jets, the eighty five Bears. No
one says, well, the seventy eight Cowboy No, No, the
eighty three Steelers. No, it's the Yets and the eighty
five Bears. I mean that because because differently the way
they were able to win the Super Bowl. That's it. No,
the twoth out of I mean maybe a little bit
of the two thousand Ravens because of the year they won,
(13:12):
in their defense being as good as well.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Yeah, because then people hold on Trent Dilfer and say, look,
they won with Trent Dilfer because of the defense and
all of those things. But but you get down to it,
and it's it's all about I still have this right.
He leaned out a little bit. He's gone not on
the TV twelve method, but the same kind of thing physically,
The darkness retreats like he became this interesting guy of
(13:35):
all right, what the hell goes on in his head?
Right he's speaking at these pharma conferences in Denver. I mean,
there's just so much that that happened and transpired, so
it's it's storylines. But he's got to go out and
have a big year with the Jets to you know,
put that for verbial icing on the cake, to really
(13:56):
complete the process, because you watch, he'll be on all
the morning sho He'll be popping on and doing you know,
weekly hits and oh yeah, he's gonna be funny with
McAfee and all like it's it's already there and now
just go win. Just don't screw it up by by
becoming a Jet.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I sing on the cake. I mean, he's the last
thing I'm worried about all these other things I'm not
worried about Aaron Rodgers on the field.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Well, the schedules of pain in the ass, Yeah, look, schedules. Yeah,
you got an offensive line that I don't know, like
of every other thing on your roster. And look, I'm
usually the offensive line skeptic here on the show.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
It isn't flawing. I'm I'm I'm confident that by the
beginning of the season. They'll figure it out because they
have some moving parts in place. Right now, you're wondering,
is Mackay Becton gonna win a gig? When does Dwayne
Brown come back? And then got But I'm I'm com
but but you never know, You're right. I mean, like
I said, there's so many and as a Jet fit,
I worry about everything because that's how it goes. I'm
not worried about Aeron on the field. He's on the field,
he's playing, He's gonna be great. I'm not worried about that.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Yeah, And I mean, look, he could just steal from
Vince Vaughn yelling hot route to help himself against when
his offensive line isn't holding up.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
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from the tirerech dot Com studios. So a little bit
of that, just just a little bit more hard to understand.
This is the level, this is where the Jets are
at this year. They matter for the first time this
much in fifty years. But coming up next. We had
(15:35):
absolute history in Major League Baseball tonight and a lesson
to be learned from the latest no hitter in Major
League Baseball, and it's a big one. It's next right here,
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(17:30):
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Speaker 2 (17:45):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (17:56):
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(19:00):
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I don't know that you could do this now because
people just get really mad. But a radio station in
the market where I went, it was outside of Syracuse,
they were giving away. They said, we're giving away a
set of wheels and a trip to Mexico. Right, That's
what it was. A set of wheels, a trip to Mexico.
That's what I enter here, blah blah blah, right, enter here,
(19:20):
set of wheels, a trip to Mexico. Okay, okay. And
what they gave away was four tires and a trip
to Mexico, New York, which was like a you know,
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is it. It's it's not two fight. It's not too
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Hang on, Mexico, New York.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Hang on.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It is near Oswego, which is about forty five minutes
away from from Syracuse. There's the population is about five
thousand people, and I've never been. I mean, I've driven
past it, right, but that's thin gayway. It was a
set of wheels and people thought, I'm getting a car
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(20:02):
and a trip to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
New York and I feel like I need to go there.
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That's what it was.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I mean one of the first questions, you know, the
people also ask is Mexico, New York a good place
to live?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Get the first line. Well, Mexico is a safe and
very enjoyable place to be. Oh, Mexico is the perfect
village to raise a family.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Oh really, well, who knew about that? Look at that?
Huh how about that? That's nice. I did not know that.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You know, is it a cheap place to live?
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Now?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Now suddenly Harmon wants to move to Mexico.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Now you're thinking about this, saying it's lower forty six
percent lower than the rest of the US.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
How about that? There you go, Hey, you're in New York.
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That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You know, you're not telling you it's it's Mexico.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I have questions set away.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I think the way they answered these questions, I think
they kind of conflated living in Mexico versus Mexico New York.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, and honestly, the whole thing,
the set of wheels that you go from I'm getting
car if I remember right that the person who won
loved that love the tires, like, was mainly upset about
the trip to Mexico.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Well, and got to read the fine print.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Really mad that they were going to Mexico. Were going,
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We're going to a rupert like, where we're going?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Where we're going to Mexico? Somewhere? We got someone whisper New.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
York underneath his breath after the guys said Mexico. Yeah,
I mean the and the on air reads. I mean,
because they got it, got to disclose that they didn't lie.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Set a wheel trip, and they didn't lie. Set a
wheel trip to Mexico. Trip to Mexico, crazy Mexico.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You got Oh, but I mean you got tires.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
How you can win a set of tires up to
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that's a it's a great deal.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Are you announcing the winner on Sunday. When they do that,
do you announce the winners? One? I think I announced
the winner.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I did have a read for the winner on Sunday. Yeah, okay,
I didn't get to announce it like with the drum
roll and stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
But okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
I love I love.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Being able to be part of something where you know,
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Speaker 1 (22:18):
I mean that's the best part that Honestly, when when
I when we talk about ty go wait a minute,
wait now, I get stuff like when you get a
you know, if your windshield glass brakes or gets. I
just had that happen that people people come in and
in and install it where you work. Yeah, we're coming out, right,
Do I need to come out? Nope, we'll call you
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putting the glass in. We'll bill you after you could
(22:39):
pay us with then Mozelle whatever it is, Okay, that's great.
But the fact that they they'll come and put the time,
I would I would want to watch because I would
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up like they do it in like eight seconds? Do
they all show up and they're all dressed up and
it's all now now you're too Now your car is
going that's what I want to see.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
And someone drives it off really fast to show you
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Speaker 1 (23:03):
He wait, aute, I was the city stole.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I was just saying he was testing your tires, showing
you the performance.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh so it's like the guys from Ferris Bueller's Day
Off when they take the car for ride and bring
it back at the end with all the miles on it.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
No, but I mean pretty soon it's gonna be hey,
can you do everything? Come to my house and do everything,
like while while I'm doing other things, like while I'm
at working forget you know, you put the windshield glass on,
change tires, like can you can do other things too?
How far are we away from that? We can't be
that far?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
No, See, I mean looked like so many services. I mean,
you can get people to delivery you almost anything. Your
grocery store. Someone will show up Amazon Same Day Groceries boom.
I mean there's so many companies that do it. I
don't want to name check because they're not paying me.
So it's I mean there's a lot of it out
there already, and it's only going to continue to increase,
(23:54):
right that that part of the gig industry, uh as
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You can dip into your pool while they change your tires.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Hey, I'm going swimming. Let me know when the tires
are done. We had another no hitter in Major League
Baseball tonight. Michael Lorenzen pitches the seventy third no hitter
of the year. It's the third no hitter of the week,
his second start for the Phillies after being obtained for
a minor leaguer at the deadline by Philadelphia. And here's
(24:36):
how the final out sounded. Bells already lifted off this afternoon.
The first pitch so swung on head high in the
air deep.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
The three to two pitch, swinging a high five ball
center fail coming at his rojas.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
He's calling he.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Has got it. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Lorenzen leaps into the arms of real New Toe and
the Phillies.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Pile out of the knockout in front of the mound.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
They settle bred no hitter Tonight by Michael Lorenzen.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
There it is Philly's radio network on the call. He
wins it seven to nothing. He did walk four, so
it wasn't that close to a perfect game.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Smart move, and he's that guy's gotta beat on me.
You want to hit something out of the zone, going
have at it.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Also throwing one hundred and twenty four pitches, one hundred
and twenty four pitches, most of the no hitter in
a couple of years. I mean, look, he's got one
hundred and thirty two, one hundred and thirty four hundred
and twenty four pitches.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
When he got to one hundred, do you think a
chill went down the spine at Dave Roberts.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
You no, No, Dave Roberts just sat up and said,
someone has a no hitter and is pitching too many innings.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
There's a disturbin in force.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yes, that's what he is.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Say, I for a million cries, I.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Have heard that they has a no hitter being pitched.
Lord Vada, you will cancel this no hitter immediately and
then strike him down and join my side.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Uh no, that's exactly what I was really well done.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, whatever Dave Roberts is doing during the day, he
or like gets the spider sense, like Spider Man. Oh,
someone's pitching a no hitter. I gotta make a phone call.
I gotta make a I gotta get I gotta get
your Peter. Let me, let me, let me look through
hang on, Girardi. Girardi. Oh no, no, he's not their
way to let me look through the gun and find
the uh so a no hitter by Michael Lorenzen and
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again he was obtained at the deadline for a minor
league by the Phillies who decided this is when they
were gonna go try to get a picture to shore
up their starting pitching. He was one of the better
pitchers that were available at the deadline, and his no
hitter tonight he's.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Too now, no what the Phillies pitched eight innings in
the last game.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Yeah, we've been talking about Lance Lynn and eating innings
and whatever else. Man, you don't get much more than
a guy going eight one game.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Dude, Come on, but you're going from the Tigers to
the Phillies. You gotta think there's a little bit more
of an upgrade here. The little okay, here's gonna go
a little bit better here. Look, Lorenzen has been a
pretty good pitcher for his career, right, he's been pretty good.
He's someone who is obtainable and desirable at the deadline.
He proves my point that just like when you buy
(27:16):
a product and it says best if used by this date. Oh,
how is that mustard still good?
Speaker 7 (27:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
It says best iff used by September twenty fourth. What's
today September eighteenth. Yeah, I'm good. Why I bought that
mustard two years ago? It doesn't matter. It's best if
used by this date. Starting pitching is best obtained at
the deadline. No other time in the year should you
go crazy to get starting pitching, Because it's not worth
it all right, long term, trying to build your team
on starting pitching isn't worth it. Trying to build a
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team around a couple of great starters doesn't work. Look
at the Mets, I've been watching the Mets try to
do this for nine years now. One year it worked
in twenty fifteen. Oh, look at the start. But that's
the only year. How many more years did those guys
have together? Hardly any? Matt Harvey was gone with the
Mets a couple of years later. Nowhere Sindergard's throwing seventy
five miles an hour now, right, Jacob de Gram can't
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stay healthy. Steven matts Is he's still in the league.
The average fan would go, I think he's still in
the league. I don't know. It doesn't work to build
on starting pitching because too much can go wrong, whether
it's ineffectiveness or injury. It doesn't work. So the best
thing to do when you need starting pitching, Hey, I'd
like to go in the off season and go get
guys that I know are gonna give me innings, right,
(28:26):
guys not with an ERA is six. But give me
some guys that can average equality start, right. It's not
too much to ask. It's not too difficult to go
get guys who can can give you a quality start
every other time out there and have an ERA around
four and a half. Right, I mean that that's really
not that crazy, And as long as you have that,
when you need starting pitching, then go get it at
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the deadline. Why because that's the best time because you
can go and get an effective pitcher for two months
and you don't have to worry about anything else. Hey,
you want to sign up another year in the off season, great,
you want to let him go, great, But if you're contending,
that's when you go get your starting pitcher because you're
not worried about is this guy gonna be healthy long term?
Is this guy healthy now? No, you just trade it
(29:08):
for him. You got him for two months. The guy's
pretty good, he's gotten through the season, everything is fine.
You're going forward. You have a really good pitcher, you
go get maybe one or two of them for a
couple of months, and that's how you do it. And
if you're in contention, that's going to make the difference
in winning and losing with your team because you are
only asking elite starting pitchers to be good for two
(29:28):
plus months, which is not a lot, and then you
can move on from him. And that's how it goes.
And that's the best way to go forward with pitching,
because building the other way is too difficult. Every time
I see all this starting pitchers out in free agency,
and it's gonna be a five year deal for one
hundred and eighty five, No doubt. It's never gonna work.
It never works as good as the Rangers are playing
right now. You think Ranger fans are going, how are
(29:50):
they gonna be in the offseason when they realize, oh man,
Max Scher is coming back again, it is not quite
gonna be as good as this year. And wow, Jacob
deGrom really is going to be out another full year
and we're paying him forty million dollars to be out
another full year. It doesn't work. This is how you
go get pitching starting pitt dis should be a sign
at every starting pitcher, obtain at deadline, every every elite
(30:11):
level starting pitcher, every good above average, not innings eaters. Hey,
you want a really good one above average, a good
starting pitcher, get them at the deadline. That's the only
time you should go after it.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
I was just gonna make sure we you use the
word e lead a lot now.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Lore Jo Flaco is still elite, Joe Blacco is still elle.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, it's still the name of one of my fantasy teams.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
But the sure in one of the leagues we do
with Fabiano that's getting ready to draft. It still says
Flacco is elite as the name, but I don't want
to call lorenz And elite.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
No, he's good. He's good. He's just the desirable. He's
a little bit upper level, a little bit better. He's
a little bit better than average. He's a guy you
want to go out and get.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
But this is he's ideal for a number of things. Right,
you're talking about a low four era about four, two.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Five or whatever it was.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
And he was on a one year deal, because that's
the other thing, right, He's an eight and a half
million dollar one year deal, So what you're on the
hook for is minuscule. And if he can eat innings
and the schedule, gods have found him right and he
and he's had two great starts out of the gate.
You win obviously, the extra years on deals, that's where
(31:26):
that's where it is. If you're committed to even one
more year, it becomes a potential albatross, especially when you're
looking at most pitchers really don't hit there their prime
till you know you're you're right. It's it's a very
short window for most, right, you get two or three
great year It's kind of like a running back to
a degree. You can get a bunch of serviceable years,
(31:47):
but in terms of dominance, it is a short window.
And then you can go like the Dodgers and just
hope that everybody suddenly is miraculously healthy for the stretch run.
Like Walker Bueller declared himself today, that's not gonna happen
very often. You're gonna have to go into the marketplace.
And and I like your theory.
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
The problem is that I don't know that there's that
many arms that you can go go out into the
marketplace and just say, all right, this is going to work.
Or it's the two month rental uh that pays off
in a huge way thus far he has UH. But
look it's it's a minimal investment.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
I love the UH.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
I love that it's working out and that, you know,
it's a big bet on himself that he can parlay
this into maybe a long term deal either there or
somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I mean, after the game was over and GM Dave
Dombrowski was walking through the clubhouse shaking hands Kyle Schwarburn,
Rehys Hoskins and other Phillies were clapping and laughing, yelling
great trade, great trade, great trade, shaking Dombrowski's head. Is
he got because you know he's with the Tigers for
a salon. Hey, great trade. I mean it's a it's
a it's a it's a great trade. And there there
are gonna be guys available. Like there's not always gonna
(32:56):
be a Surezer or a Verlander, but hey, Lancelin is
someone who was above average, who was won in the league.
He go get him. Going the rest of the guys,
you can go get serviceable guys. Man. I mean that
that's really that's the key to being able to win,
because all you gotta do is be five hundred. Just
be five hundred that you can figure things out as
things go on in the end. And look, and the
(33:16):
Phillies have done so there's a reason why, Hey, they
were in the World Series last year. They know we're
not gonna compete with the Braves. The Braves arep but
it doesn't matter. We don't have to beat the Braves.
Now we got the beat. We gotta we gotta get
in and beat the Braves in October and I'll take
our chances in a seven game series against the Braves.
Not trying to make up ten games here when all
that's going to guarantee you is you're gonna get to
(33:37):
you're gonna get to skip a three game series. So
the Phillies are doing it right, man, lots of teams.
I give him credit when they're doing when they're doing
things right, they're doing it right.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
I gotta say, when you said he walked through the
locker room, I really thought you were gonna say Schwarber
and everybody did the Jerry maguire money sign like he
did to Glenn Fry.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
You're gonna pay? Oh, I know.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Right now, a guy who always makes us pay. Well,
he doesn't. Really. I was looking for a segue.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It's Nick Cope.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
He's got what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports.
Speaker 9 (34:10):
What do you got, Nick, Hey, If you got something
to pay, I'll take it all right.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Very good?
Speaker 10 (34:13):
Now.
Speaker 9 (34:13):
I gave you you, did you? Mike gave me a
Fry So came.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
In last night knowing Frostburg's a Dodger. Fans did a
Buster posey or Suresey. I mean, that's uh, that's that's
that's I like to cut your jim. That's gutsy man.
Speaker 9 (34:26):
Hey, there's plenty of Dodger fans around here.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
I need to balance things out a little bit and
have some Norcow blood going on down here. So just
trying to do my part.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Next time, were the body armor like Barry.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
Minds, Oh there you go. Yeah, but with all these.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Dodger fans around here, you gotta protect yourself.
Speaker 9 (34:45):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
I also have those little ties he would put at
the bottom of his pants so that they didn't ride
up on his cleats. I know baseball didn't like those,
but it was all look for Barry. Yeah, all right,
All the baseball games are final tonight.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
Now.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
By the the way, the Phillies with that win, they
have now jumped the Giants for the top wildcard spot
in the National League. Giants lost to the Angels four
to one the final there in Orange County Show.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Otani has now allowed zero earned runs in his last
three starts. He also had the Dodgers shutting out the
Diamondbacks two to nothing, so LA now leads the NLS
by six games over the Giants. Elsewhere, the Astros cruise
pass the Orioles eight to two. Rangers had their eight
game winning streaks snapped by the A's, so Houston is
now within two games of Texas in the AL West.
(35:33):
Cardinals beat the Race six to four, so no movement
at the top of the AL East. Blue Jay's got
a first inning home run from George Springer that was
enough to beat the Guardians one nothing. Brewers beat the
Rocky seven to six, and ten innings thanks to a
throwing air from Colorado Mets over the Cubs four to three.
He'll say. The Marlins come back to beat the Reds
five to four. Milwaukee able to stretch its lead at
(35:55):
the top of the NL Central the two and a
half games, and now the Marlins have jumped both the
Cubs and the Reds. Miami currently holds that final wildcard
spot in the National League. White Sox beat the Yankees
nine to two, Braves edging the Pirates six ' five,
Red Sox over the Royals four to three, Tigers past
the Twins nine to five, and the final final of
(36:17):
the night Mariners beat the Padres six to one. College
Athletics reports say ACC presidents met Wednesday night to continue
discussions about adding Callen Stanford. There was a fair amount
of pushback among the group and they did not hold
the vote. They need twelve of fifteen schools to vote
yes for any additions to be approved. Let's go back
(36:39):
to Jason Smith and Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Thanks much, Dick, appreciate it. My friend coming up next. Hey,
we still have a lot of hard knocks to get
to and Aaron Rodgers and everything going on in college football.
But how about we revisit a couple of big bold
predictions and see where they sit right now? Smack dad,
middle of the calendar. That's coming up right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon Larry
Our Live from the tire Raq dot Com Studio.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Finally hear you, Jay, There we go.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Hey, the well dressed hobos.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Jason, when's the pool party?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
The pool party for you? May? Oh yeah, yeah, it's
gonna be mad. That's gonna be mad. That's gonna be
a may. He didn't never come.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
No, uh no, I may.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Think about It's fine, I get it.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
I won't come fine.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Cloud he's got his shoulder.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I could I could think about a pool party. What
would I want in return? Never hearing tears excues again,
what could I want in return?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
You know why, Jason, if you wouldn't watch that Dungeons
and Dragons movie with me, I would have stopped what.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
You know what, though, Tysher just took this up. We
went to a vegan place?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Food did tonight? We went?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
I went to a vegan place for lunch today.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
I don't believe you went.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I went to Grand Central Market in downtown LA for
lunch today. Wow place. It was actually accidental because I
didn't know that the ramen they had was vegan. But
it was still really good. It was still really really good. Hey,
I'm gonna have the garlic ramen. Uh yeah with pork.
Oh this is vegan. Oh okay, well I'll have it anyway.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Well it's a pork like product.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
That's a right. Yeah, it's close, Like I said, close enough.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
What's the closest thing you have to pork?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Yea, we have mushrooms? Great, put them in.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
I like, let's take that.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Let's look back at two Big Bowl predictions we made
here on the show beginning of the season. Number one,
Yankees will miss the playoffs. Yeah, where do they sit
right now?
Speaker 10 (38:49):
They stay last place in the al least still somehow
three games over five hundred, but they lose tonight to
your White Sox.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Luis Sevrino's era is over eight. He didn't even start tonight.
He was the bulk pitcher, which I guess that means
if you go to Costco you can buy something about
from Louis Areno. He was the bulk pitcher tonight. This
Yankee season just continues to circle the drain. Really, it's amazing.
I can't believe they're three games over five hundred, but
they are just circling the drain. They're falling further and
(39:23):
further back in the wildcard chase. Now they have to
leap frog four teams to get in there. Five and
a half games back, and this Yankee team truck. They're
not gonna make the playoffs. And it's gonna be a
new manager and a new everything in New York next season.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Well that's the part I wanted to jump to. Is
the reports today, right Aaron Boone, he of the many dqs,
the beat it hit the shower kind of scenario, and
that he's gonna lose his job. But somehow Cashman's gonna
keep his The hell are we doing here?
Speaker 3 (39:58):
How many of these? Jason Garrett of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
How many stays of execution does he get before the
hammer finally falls?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
How about Jason Garrett on Hard Knocks, Last Hands, Jason
gets the coach of the Cowboys man.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
Yeah, you notice how quickly they got past him and
started getting excited about method man though, Yeah yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
He read at Bill Parcells Squad, I'll be reaching the
man in the glass coat. I'm like, oh my god,
I remember the man in the glass boot. The other
one is this beginning of the season, I told you
the Mariners were going to the World Series. Things did
not go well, So I've stayed away from talking about
the Mariners. Maybe that's all they needed. Now they have
won seven in a row. They're now two games out
(40:38):
of the playoffs, one game out in the walls column.
They're ten games over five hundred. The Mariners have started
to figure it out. They are a really, really good team.
I'm telling you want to talk about a dark horse
team that Look, I'm still in on them because I'm
still bullish on him. Is a long way left. But
do you talk about a team that can beat the
Astros and can make it to the World Series. The
Mariners lineup is loaded, They're pitching is good. It just
(41:00):
took them a while to figure it out, put it
all together. But here they come. Hottest team in baseball.
Watch out for Seattle.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Always work for balance and definition. Over his last fifteen days,
Julio Rodriguez everybody's favorite. Three sixty eight with four home runs,
eleven rbi. Oh yeah, six doubles as well in his
fifty seven at bats. So finally all those early season
woes have gone away, and they've got good balance through
(41:27):
that lineup. Not you know, one big bopper with thirty
five home runs, No, no, no, you got a lot of
guys in the teams so up and down that line
up their trouble.
Speaker 1 (41:36):
And you can still be that Otani FRIMVP like I
said he was going to do beginning of the season.
He can still beat him out. It can still happen.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
Yeah, it's a final.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Yeah. Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven
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