August 15, 2023 • 39 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon are joined by MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi for all on Wander Franco, Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers. Jason celebrates his Jets signing Dalvin Cook. And James Harden calls Daryl Morey a liar!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Didn't we have an open Like a year ago there
was these guys hate everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Did we know again? It might be two years ago.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Maybe with age we've come to accept in sure, recognizing
that positivity is really the only path.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We still hate everybody?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Now?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Okay? Well, but I mean outwardly, don't we have to
say the other I.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Mean, I hate Dolvin Cook.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
But we love the Jets. Jets, Jets, Jets. You love
the Jejets.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Jets. The Jets go to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm already tired of him.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Tug is fourteen, Well, get ready, get ready for fourteen?
And oh it'll probably smoke some Yeah, that's how I'm
gonna pass some time. You know what, Maybe I'll do
that this week and I'll bring it in Jets Jet,
No don't because you all you promised last week all
this great food and bring it in and everybody comes
in and y'all, I can't come into.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
He wouldn't have eaten it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I can't come in.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Wouldn't have eaten it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I didn't, I didn't grow tone. Now I couldn't come into. Forget.
We have his card on file.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
We just that is true.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
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coming up in a little bit, because yes, uh there, look,
I'll tell you exactly why the Jets got Dalvin Cook,
why they're going to the Super Bowl. All the big
questions we will answer, because desperation is a stinky desperate man.
Once we are the hunted giant pile of chips into
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the center of the table, you look to your friends, go, hey,
that guy re upped.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You got anything left? Lets go?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So if desperation is a stinky cologne, what is beyond desperate?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That's good question.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Hang on, Hang on, giant bunch of chips in the middle.
But we got John Paul Morosi coming up in a
couple minutes MLB Networking Cider And there's this really big, crazy,
potentially awful story out of Major League Baseball involving tamp
May Ray shortstop Wander Franco, who may be the best
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shortstop in the game at this point. He was just
signed to a big contract a couple of years ago
by the Rays, young player who was locked up, locked
into the team for the next few years. He is
now on the restricted list after social media posts questioned
the alleged nature of relationship between Franco and a younger
woman who may be underage. Now, there's not been a
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lot of details about this story. You can get online
and see all kinds of crazy ass stuff, but right
now there due to some social media posts that never
really went via, that we didn't really get to see,
that Franco may be involved in or had been involved
in a relationship with someone with a woman who was underage.
Not a lot of details outside of that are what
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are known right now. What we do know is that
he didn't make the trip with the Rays to San Francisco.
They got a three game series starting tonight they're playing
right now. And the restricted list takes a player off
the team's roster. And usually you hear about this in
the NFL when a player does something bad, he's on
the restricted list. He's here. It was a whole Deshaun
Watson case as well, and he can be on the
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restricted list now. They're not required to pay players on
the restricted list, but the Rays are continuing to pay
Franco's salary, so now it's being investigated. Both the Rays
and Major League Baseball mutually agreed that he will go
on the rest list and take leave from the team
for the duration of their current road trip. And there's
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so many things to get to. It's it's it's impossible
to go on and look a social media because you
have people saying, I know this happen, I know this happened,
I know this happened, I know this happened, I know
this happen. This is all we know, right, and it's
it's in a way it's weird because we never don't
have information. We never don't have information story. We are
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in the age of instant information, and to not have
the information to story like this is kind of odd
and it's an outlier because even with something that is
as as sensitive as as what's gained relationship with a
younger woman, we still would get that we don't have
that information. And this is playing out for now behind
closed doors. Joining us now for more on this, John
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Paul Morosi, you can follow on Twitter at John Morosi
MLB Network Insider JP. Well, what are you hearing about
Wander Franco the situation going on right now with him
the Rays in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Well, guys, uh, it's obviously a very concerning situation overall
for everybody involved it. I think that for me right now,
I'm just hearing what's been said publicly, and obviously Franco
right now is on the restricted list by mutual agreement
of Franco on and the Rays to make sure that
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MLB has time to look into the allegations that were
made and beyond that, I don't have any specifics and
I don't think a lot of other people do. I
think it's it's being done in a in a confidential fashion,
which I think is important for a matter of this
of this sensitivity and this this high level of concern,
and I think that at that point in time, you
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just have to let the process play out. And that's
been what I think the MLB has said. It's been
what the Rays have said, and really beyond that, it's
it's really inappropriate, I think, from my perspective, for to
say any more, because I just I don't think we
don't We just don't know, and I think that that's,
to me, is the important thing to say, to acknowledge
what we don't know, and right now there is not
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a lot that we know, and so I think that
we all have to wait and see what is said
and what is ascertained in the next week. And I
think that is the next interval that sort of has
been acknowledged, that the Rays and Franco have understood that
he's going to be on the restricchered list for the
next week, and then next week perhaps there will be
more information or perhaps some level of clarity as to
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what the next step forward are going to be.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
JP turning our attention to the diamond. We'll go to
the well what used to be the Mets Hurler and
Max Scherzer report over the weekend that Justin Verlander was
a bit of a diva that caused some problems in
the locker room, but everything seems right in Texas as
he dominates once again.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Well to me there, to back up a little bit
on Schurzer and Justin, I think that the two of
them have always been ultra competitors. It had not surprised
me that when they both departed that there was some
difference of opinion, let's say, about how each regarded either
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the other or being a teammate in general. None of
that was a surprise to me. It just wasn't. And
I think that to that point, Schurezer is still showing
that he's got something left to offer, and I've been
impressed by what he's done so far since coming to Texas.
You know, it's interesting the Rangers, you know, they they've
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had some injury concerns here in recent days, the Jonah
him situation. Now he's back, Josh Young is on the
IL and they're not really sure when he's going to
come back. So they've had it now really lean into
their pitching and rely on them a lot. And the
way that Max has pitched so far shows to me
that he still has something to offer, and I think
that seems going to be a tough tough out in
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the postseason. We know how deep their lineup is, and
now that they've added Shure's are on top of it,
it's pretty remarkable. I think the point I want to
make about Texas in general is let's not forget the
big picture of this team. Three years ago, they opened
the new stadium and they can't have any fans, and
they end up hosting the World Series in the bubble,
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and it was obviously a very difficult time for our
country and for baseball. And now with this new look
team and all the talent they've got, they've kind of
had a second chance to relaunch that that period of
time in their new ballpark. And on top of that,
you really have to credit ownership, because even though the
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Mets are paying a significant amount of money on Shurezer's contract,
the Rangers are still you know, there was still an
investment of prospects, an investment of some money on top
of what they thought they were going to get from
de Grom. So I think in terms of ownership groups,
you tip your cap to the ones that really invest
and spend and want to win. And I just wanted
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to give a lot of credit to the Rangers for
what they've done in their ownership group, because they deserve
a ton of credit for investing in this team, and
right now they are really really seeing the rewards of that.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And they'll be Now we're getting inside of John Paul Morosi,
our guest here The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon.
All right, JP, let's go west for a second. I'm
going to say something and you give me agree or disagree?
You're ready?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Thing?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
All right? This season now an eight and a half
game lead in the NL West. This is the most
impressive regular season the Dodgers have had in the past decade.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I agree. I agree because the reason I'll say that
this is not the most talented team, and I like
how you I like how you phrased that it's not
the most talented team. But it is in a lot
of ways the most impressive job that Dave Roberts has done.
And by the way, since Dave Roberts has come in
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as a manager, you know, we don't talk enough about him,
about what a great leader he is and how he
sets the culture. Since Dave Roberts took over this organization,
no one has won more games in Major League Baseball
than Dave Roberts. And I don't care what your payroll is,
I don't care how many stars you've got. That says
a lot about the manager. So I've been really impressed
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by Dave Roberts. I think he gets it. I think
he's got a superstar Layden club that plays very unselfish,
team oriented baseball. And I'm speaking to you tonight from Atlanta.
The Braves won that they arrive at three in the
morning from New York and still have the energy and
get out there and have a lotside to win over
the Yankees. It will be a surprise if the NLCS
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is not Atlanta versus the Dodgers. Now, certainly a lot
of things gonna happen. How many times have we seen
the postseason and nothing expected happens, So I think we
have to keep open that possibility. But I look at
this matchup and say to me right now that those
two teams, the Braves and the Dodgers, they're doing a
little bit differently. The Braves are just an absolute one
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through nine show of hitting. They are deep and talented,
and they just have You know, Ozzy Albi's is out
of the lineup, He's going to be out for a while.
Nicki Lopez comes in three hits, He's batt in seven
hundred right now. It's unbelievable. What's what's going on for
the Braves? Just one great player after another. So, but
I answer your question, I fully agree. I think it's
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the most impressive season because they've missed Kershoff for a while,
they've missed Buehler for all obviously an entire season at
this point in time, Dustin May gets hurt, Gonsolin initially
was out for a period of time. Look at what
they've been able to do, and they keep calling up
players in the minor leagues, especially pitchers this year who
can contribute along with outman in the outfield. So I
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and by the way, let's not forget they lost their
shortstop in spring training and Gavin Lux. So I just
think that, Yeah, I agree with you one hundred percent.
This is the most impressive regular season they have had
during this amazing streak of playoff appearances. Well, well, well
phrased with that question. Excellent job.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Holy wow, look at the like that question. I could
cutt in print. I can do all the Peyton Manning's
professorship in class and.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
You can take over there, no question about it. All right,
I'm gonna steal a line from Taylor Swifty. This is
why we can't have nice things, because you said all
those great things the Mets stink. But the fact of
the matter is jp we also say that about the
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Now show Heyo Taani with
the arm fatigue? Are we getting operations shut down on
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the pitching side here? Given their current state of affairs,
losing again tonight twelve to nothing, one hit in a
miserable performance that it keeps sinking.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Well it is. I'll say this about the Angels. They
have been through quite the topsy turvy season. I'll go
back and I'll say this because I want to be
true to what I told you guys in the last
days of July that while I understand and the baseball
rationale for why you should have traded Otani, I think
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for their fans at that time they made the right call.
They had played well enough to earn a chance. You
want to set the right standard about your organization and
let them follow through on it. And obviously, basically nothing
has gone right since they made that decision. Now we
could say that it was predictable that that was going
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to happen. And again, even on their best day in
the last part of July, their chances of making the playoffs,
if you look at a lot of the algorithms, that
was still under ten percent. And I respect that, but
I respect that they made the decision to keep going
for it, because when you've got a generational player, if
you weren't going to trade them a year ago, then
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I think that it was the right decision to keep them. Now.
Now all that being said, I think that the way
that he's handled going forward is going to be fascinating
because you've got a team in the Angels who probably
doesn't have a great chance to sign on this winter
because they continue to prove to everybody that they're just
not ready to win right now, even with Otani. So
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Otani's gonna look aund and say, wait a minute, so
why would I sign back with you if for the
first six years of my career all we've done is
not be good enough. I just I don't see it happening,
and so now, how well, what is your obligation then
I think it's the same obligation as anybody to take
care of your players. Period. That's your number one job
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as an organization to take care of your players, put
them in the best situation they can to succeed, no
matter if you're one hundred and fifty and ten or
the opposite, that you have to do right by your players.
I think with show A, you know, it's a fine line.
If he's if his arm is tired, if you can't pitch,
then he can't pitch. But if I'm a GM who's
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going to make a decision about if I'm going to
tell my owner that it's worth have a billion of
his or her dollars to spend in the offseason, and
and the owner says, well, how often did he pitch
down the stretch? And I say it says here that
he made six starts since the beginning of August, and
then and then the owner says, and we're gonna give
him half a million dollars. So like that's that's that's
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the question. And so I think that for show A,
we're reaching a very interesting point in this whole story
to where him pitching with good results and good health
is going to matter a lot more, a ton more
to him than it will to the Angels, and how
they manage that situation, I think is one of the
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most interesting storylines that we have got in the final
quarter of this regular season.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
You can fall on Twitter at John Morosi, that is
at John Morosi, MLB Network insider, who now looks like
he's not gonna get to be the head coach of
Michigan for four games this year. But that's okay. Let's
cover baseball all the way end of the season.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Now, I understand there have been big happenings in that area.
I need to go back and study it, but I
do know this. I do so the Big Ten, which
has approximately thirty five teams. Now, yeah, there was a
graphic on on on television. I saw today we got
a lot of the top ten teams in the AP pole.
I feel pretty excited about that.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, well, when you have that many teams, you got
to have some going on.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
It's a law of averages. Yeah, when you when you've
got when you've got a you know, I remember this,
there was a there was a I can't remember and
this is going to date me back to when I
really followed filed national college football on a very very
serious level. I was a younger I was a younger kid,
so I think was around the time when maybe the
Southwestern Conference was going away. But there was one of
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those glossy season preview magazines had had this massive picture
of the United States with all this dramatic It was
sort of tongue in cheek realignment. What was going to
look like? And I think it was tu Lane that
they said was going to be a conference of one
and they called it. They called it, very appropriately, the
Big Easy, meaning a one team conference that included one
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team in New Orleans. They were gonna call it the
Big Easy. And it was too late. And I love that.
This amazing the stuff you remember when you were like ten,
and that is like looking at that magazine is like
burn into my mind, like why do they have this
one conference? And the one name was the Big Easy
and one team from New Orleans. And my dad explained
it to me and then it all made sense. It
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was all good. My dad's a wise man. He taught
me a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
JP is always great stuff. Thank you so much. The
Big Easy Conference every The Jason Smithster with Mike Carmon.
Great stuff to get Yes, that O Tawny story that's
gonna be a really big deal the last six and
a half weeks of the season. Coming up next we
will get back into the biggest story in the NFL.
A huge signing today and it means the super Bowl
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Speaker 1 (18:43):
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Studios where the Jets got Dalvin Cook Today. Jets Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets,
super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl, super Bowl,
supermo Old Jets, Jets.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Jets, Jet Jet.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
How do I get your brand to stop that and
find a different track on the album? Nope, Nope, It's
gonna be Jets super Bowl from now through the entire season. Yeah,
but you got to go through and you got to
figure out other ways to syncopate, other ways to get
your your rhythm flowing.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
We just celebrated the fifty years of hip hop.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
They had that big concert at Yankee Stadium, right, all
the legends out, and you want to talk about, like
as much as I watched all the Taylor Swift stuff
from concerts and clips or whatever, I'm like, how many
more little clips of his concert can I get to
find online?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
As people started streaming?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
But we got to figure out how how we get
you to change up your rhythm and stead.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I'm just trying to make it last the next twenty
six weeks or whatever the hell. We Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets,
j Jets. Yeah, that's what you just for, Sam Darnold, Jets, Jets, Jets,
Jet Jets. Look, yeah, I'm and Iowa. Sam had that
exactly right. You used that same cadence for your celebration
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of Sam Darnold all those years ago.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Listen before you cast him off.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Listen to me. Every fifty years the Jets get something. Okay,
this is my time. It's like Haley's comment, every fifty
years the Jets fifty ish years, Hey, we get one
big season. This is that season. Then it's gonna be
another fifty years. So I gotta start dieting if I
want to be around for the next Jets Super Bowl
after this, which is gonna be when I'm like one hundred.
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So I'm gonna have to really do it. But let's
have this year. First, we had sixty nine. That was great.
Fifty itch years later, we're gonna have this year. And
then I'm looking at you know, like twenty seventy five
or something like that. For the next time the Jets
win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
You gotta figure out a bunch of different logos to
design for this run.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Aaron ro will be the quarterback, great grandson will be
the quarterback of the Jets. Now Jets Jets owner kids, sorry,
Jet's owner Aaron rod Kids that we were aware of.
Does he no, But that's okay. He will get He'll
get to that after the season.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, after Loggers he delays that.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
That's why I said, let's say yeah, okay, twenty that
would be twenty twenty four, twenty forty four, twenty sixty four. Yeah,
I mean, like we're pushing it now. It would be no, no, no,
his grandson, Aaron Rodgers' grandson, longtime Jets owner and super
Bowlin and quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
That would mean he gets to work on that right now,
and then his kid gets after it pretty early. If
you really want to get this into the half. To
get after it early, it's got to be a grand kid.
The other kid can be thirty nine, forty years. But
you were looking at it in the fifty year, Well, okay,
in twenty seventy, let's just say that'll be the next
time the Jets are good after this year twenty seventy,
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that's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
So we say he had a kid. Say if he
has a kid in the next two years, right then
that kid can have a kid whenever he wants. But
that kid's got to be like twenty two, twenty three,
twenty four.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Will be the end of Will Jason Smith still be
alive when Aaron Rodgers' grandson is leading the Jets.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
To Jets Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, or.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It will just be your your head in a crime
je Jets.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Jets, Jets, Jeff, that's all right, like in the Huey
Lewis video. Yeah, it's in my head.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I'm talking to everybody's back and forth?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Are you kidding with Ai? I'll be around. Oh, it
doesn't matter, I'll be around. I'll find a way. Hey,
you know who I brought back, Jason Smith. This is
gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Whoever occupies the seven to eleven PM slot Pacific Coast
time on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Wait, here's something I created for you.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I thought it was still the real Jason. I'm like
they've been on the air for like seventy years.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Now, Na, na, na, they ran all different dictionary, they're
all different people.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Uh now, look, look, why did the Jets make this Moe?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Look every fifty years and this is why the Dalvin
Cook move is such a big deal. Because the Jets
looked and said, Okay, what's our disaster scenario. That's why
this movie is so good. What's our disaster scenario? Right,
let's sit down and take a look at him. All right,
we don't start well, we start two and four, two
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and five, and things start to snow. It is a
very difficult edu, that's for sure. All right, Now, why
would we start? Why would we start two and five? To?
What what do we do? Could it be our defense? Well, no,
our defense is if our defense stinks, what are you
gonna do? We built one of the best defense in
the league. If somehow we're not good, it's gonna com
gonna be a complete total failure.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I do I do appreciate you're immediately dismissing, h What
are you gonna do it? Well?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
What you do?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
If they look good on paper? And then they have
to got to what do you get?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You have the best second there in the NFL, probably
the best defensive line. And if that fails, what do
It's not like, oh, we neglected these positions.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Robert solid right fired. So yes, that defense does it,
It's not gonna be it.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
What about Aaron Rodgers? What about Aaron Rodgers? No, Rodgers
has the receivers he wants. He has. Garrett Wilson's gonna
catch one hundred and seventy five passes this year. He
has a lot of depth with Hardman and Lazard and
Corey Davison and and and he is already showing that
I can find the right receivers. I I'm already on
the same page with them. No, what's the biggest question.
Why would the Jets be losing? Why would they be
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two and five, three and six something like that. The
only way that happens is if the Jets start losing
games out of the gate sixteen thirteen twenty to sixteen
thirteen ten because they can't run the football and teams
are able to load up on the passing game. Rogers
isn't quite the same guy as he was even three
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years ago, and without the runch the running game to
take pressure off, teams can sit back in the past
and Rogers can't be the same guy, and that would
happen if Breis Hall is not one hundred percent for
week one, you can hear till you're blue in the face. No,
Breecee Hall is is going to be on track to
come back week one, which is what everybody's saying.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Well, they're also him. If that's if that's exactly question.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Exactly, But if they can go into this year and say, Okay,
our disaster scenario is we can't run the ball because
Breecee Hall's not all the way back and the other
guys we have aren't good enough. Michael Carter is a
really good number two running back. He's not a guy
that can run the ball. Donovan Knight's been running as
their number one running back in training camp so far.
It's not been Michael Carter. You know Aban Akonda, who
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they got in the fourth round. He's a guy that's
playing against third string defenses. If the Jets got into
this season and suddenly they couldn't run the football and
they're one, one dimensional and teams are making them pay,
what the reaction going to be? How did the Jets
not take care of this? How did you go into
this season thinking Breecee Hall was going to be a
guy you can give the ball to twenty five times
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a game, and if not, you're really running these guys
out there that are practice squad players. How did you
not see this happen? And suddenly it's Solid's fault and
it's Douglas's fault, And honestly it is because you can't
sider and say, oh, Breese is coming, Brie's coming. If
Breese Hall is still not cleared and Breese Hall is
still trying to find his way back, Week one is coming.
And if you go into that not having a good
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enough running back, not being able to run the football,
and you wind up sucking because of it, that's your fault.
So what did the Jets do? They said, let's make
sure that's not an issue. So they go get Dalvin
Cook who was still a three down back, and Breshall
can come back not have to worry about running the
ball twenty times a game. You can give it to
him ten times a game, Dalvin Cook can get it
fifteen or seventeen times a game, and Breeseall, who eventually
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is gonna be healthy enough to be back to being
the workhorse running back because he's like the next iteration
of Le'Veon Bell. He's that good. But now you don't
have to worry about getting off to a slow start
because you have that covered in theory. Because you have
Dalvin Cook, who was still a Pro Bowl ran a
Pro Bowl last year. Guy ran for eleven hundred and
fifty yards. You have taken that strength and that weakness
and made it into a strength. Now teams can't sit back.
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They have to play up. They have to respect Dalvin
Cook again, who's a guy that can stand in the
field for third down as well. The Jets took their
biggest question mark and turn it into a strength. And
that's a huge deal. And that's why I'm sitting here
going Supermo, Supermo. Super Bo's the last big question mark
in the Jets took care of it.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, I mean, I don't love your receiving cores beyond Wilson.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I mean there are guys and your offensive line is
to be tested. But to the point of the running
back position. Look, George Strait his band for many many years,
they are called the ace in the hole band, and
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that's what you need. You've got to have an ace
in the hole. And that's what you did. You went
and you picked up Dalvin Cook for the fact that Brisaul,
even if he sound ish for week one, you're not
pushing him. Do you want to push him all together
coming off the injury that he had. No, I don't
want them pushing him in week nine with heavy workloads.
(27:48):
You want to have another back on the field who
can play all three downs, who is proven. And in
this case, while you look at the pantheon of running
back contracts, Aaron Rodge get back money exactly for this reason.
Go back, think you think we need one more, Yeah,
go get one more. And this is the guy that
he watched torment his squad old squad in Green Bay
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for years, watched the big play capability, watched him pick
up tough yards and make plays out of nothing. Yeah,
bring that guy in. I gave up some of my
money exactly for this. Not that you're not gonna make
me whole once we sit back down to a table,
but for now, Yeah, you're making sure that you shore
up that position. And that doesn't mean that some of
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these other guys couldn't perform well enough, especially if Rogers
is on his game, then we start getting back to
the running back position, and you know, maybe some interchangeable parts.
But for Priese Hall, I saw enough to think that
he's a guy that's special. When he's one hundred and
coming off the injury that he had, I don't bank
on that for the first half of the season. I
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don't like even if he's cleared, you want to make
sure you've got a second option because it takes one carry,
it takes one iffy run to suddenly throw that stuff
asunder one bad block. For let's face it, some of
the offensive line potential issues that you have that you're
gonna need that second guy to step up and take
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on a big roll. It's good to know that you
have a twenty touch back that's there and ready to roll.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You took that weakness turn it into a strength. And
now not only that, you were allowing Breese Hall to
come back at whatever pace he needs to come back
at and when he's ready, he's ready.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
He's under contract for a long time, and as we know,
you can control that contract for a long long.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Super Bowl, super Bowl telling you super Bowl and no weaknesses.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Now, no weakness, Patriots will get him.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now we're gonna beat the Patriots. By fifty We're gonna
run up the score, and I want Salaz send everybody
out there, no keep throwing for all those games. Belichick
was like, that's thirty eight three, why not forty five
to three? Why not fifty two three? No, we're gonna
go for two. We're gonna go for three after after after,
we're gonna try to throw a touchdown pass from midfield
for three points. We're gonna go for three on this. Yeah, buddy,
(30:06):
watch out. We're coming again every fifty years, every fifty years.
Right now, let's find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports with special delivery Steve to Sega, Who's
got no story bigger obviously than the Mets beating the
Pirates tonight.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
And I was gonna lead with the Mets because did
you see Carlos Carrasco lowered his ERA to six point
four to oh tonight and the Mets got to win
over the.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Pirates seven to two.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Of course, there's a Pirates team that was in another
city yesterday and played two games yesterday, splitting the doubleheader
against the Reds, and the Pirates took game one yesterday
despite getting only three hits but one of them was
a three run homer after a couple walks, so they'll
take it.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Remember when the Pirates started off the season, they were
just a little bit above five hundred in like the
end of May, and it was whoa, the Pirates are good. Yeah,
not so much yet.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Now the Pirates and the Mets pretty much the same record. Yeah,
and the Padres are getting there quite frankly. The Mets
winning pitcher was not Carrasco because he lasted three innings.
Eighty eight pitches in three innings, so no decision.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Then that's working hard the man, I hate you, umpire.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
That's not helping pace the play at all when you
throw that many pitches.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Meanwhile, in San Diego, a very quick game, so a
less painful loss for Padre fans. Baltimore four to won
the final Padres record now fifty six and sixty three.
They had just four hits in this game tonight. The
lost to you Darvish. He went seven innings. The Orioles
are first in the AL, still three games over Tampa Bay,
which won at San Francisco ten to two. The Rays
(31:39):
had eighteen hits. Tyler Glasnow went six innings for the win.
Ray's All Star shortstop Wander Franco was placed on the
restricted list. MLB was investigating social media posts about a
relationship authorities in his native Dominican Republic are investigating. At Colorado,
with four runs bottom of the eighth, the Rockies beat
Arizona six to four, ending a five game losing street Boy.
(32:00):
The Arizona Diamondbacks have really gone in the tank in
the last month. Their record is now fifty nine and sixty.
They're headed south like San Diego as far as playoff possibility.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
And they're further south than that. They have passed Central America.
They're all the way down at the bottom South boll.
Maybe that ball what you had to ask if South
Pole was south, Well, I'm trying to figure of the
rotation of the earth South Pole. Are they at the
south South Pole?
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Diamondbacks mathematically are only three and a half games out
of the final NL Wild car It just seems like
more than that crazy game at Kansas City seven to six,
Royals over Seattle with two runs bottom of the ninth.
Seattle had just taken the lead with two runs top
of the ninth, but Kansas City won it on a
bunt Brady Singer No. Decision, but the case starter had
a no hitter going until two outs in the seventh.
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He lasted seven and a third, two runs allowed, eight strikeouts.
Attendance twelve thousand. In Kansas City. Bobby Witt Junior had
four hits, including an inside the park homer. Mariners two
games back of Toronto for the last al Wild Card.
Texas ripped the Angels twelve nothing. Atlanta over the Yankees
eleven to three. Do you know the Atlanta Braves are
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on pace for the home run record for any team
in a single season. They're on pace for over three
hundred this year.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Miami off the Mets all off.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
I assume they play each other again, so stay tuned.
Miami got three straight solo homers bottom of the eighth
and beat Houston five to one. Saint Louis over Oakland
seven to five with four runs bottom of the seventh,
Jordan Walker a three run triple. The Oakland a's record
thirty three and eighty six. The Dodgers have won eighth straight.
They were off tonight. They'll be hosting my Well, first Milwaukee,
(33:39):
which is won four in a row, and then Miami
later this week. Dodgers first in the nl West Georgia's
number one in the AP preseason College Football Poll after
getting sixty of the sixty three first place votes. Michigan
and Ohio State are ranked two and three. Alabama and
LSU are numbers four and five. Running Back Dalvin Cook
is signing with the Jets. Running Back is Zeke Elliott
(34:00):
says he's gonna sign with the Patriots, and a reminder
of the Women's World Cup semi finals start very late
tonight Spain versus Sweden for am Eastern time on Fox
TV from New Zealand. Sweden is the only nation to
finish in the top three in each of the last
three big events. Second at the last Olympics, third at
the last World Cup, second at the Rio Olympics.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Before that, Beck to you, what times the United States game?
What time we play crickets? Crickets? We played cricket? How
do we do? We're playing cricket? Okay? Just as well?
All right? Very good India, very big favorite over rus
in cricket, very big favorite, no doubt. Thank you, Steven.
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
coming up next. It's not often you hear a superstar
player calling his GM a liar twice. We have that
(34:43):
next right here. Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
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Speaker 1 (34:52):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
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It's not often a superstar calls his general manager a liar.
It's less often a superstar calls his general manager a
liar and then says, in case you didn't here it
the first time, he's a liar. But then again, not
(35:12):
everybody is. James Harden No.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I mean, look, he's said the quiet part really loudly
twice twice, two times.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Double Lives. It was over the weekend. Probably saw the story.
Daryl Morey six Ers GM said that we cannot trade
James Harden and we look forward to having him back
with us this season. Hardened wanted out from Philadelphia for
a while, wanted to go to the Clippers. Thought that
(35:39):
trade was happening. Apparently now it's not, and Maury says, well,
we're looking forward to having him back with us.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
He was trying to go all Obi wan Kenobi against
the stormtroopers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't need a trade.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
You're looking for We're looking for him.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
James Harden decided to go all Order sixty six on him.
He's in China for his basketball camp and an event
for Adidas, and he was asked about this situation, his
trade situation, and this is what he said to a
throng of reporters about his general manager and what's going
(36:17):
on with the seventy six ers. He is a liar
and I would never be a part of an organization.
Daryl Moorey is a liar, and I would never be
a part of an organization.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Say what again one more time?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
What a liar?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Check out the big brains on Brad. So Daryl Morey
is a liar, and I will never be a part
of an organization. He's a part of ever ever ever.
Let me say it again, and he says the same
thing again. This is why James Harden gets traded when
he wants out, because he is not afraid to go nuclear.
(37:00):
And that's how. Stop putting that out in.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
The atmosphere where hey, that's pretty good. I like that.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Listen putting that out there, we're getting embeid Well, you
want everything in New York. No, no, I want embeaid.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You just got Dalvin cooked. You're not satisfied.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Do you want someone else? James Harden is that guy
TJ like Richard marks One saying I'm not gonna stop
until I'm satisfied with djow. So this is why Harden
gets traded because he doesn't care about pushing that nuclear button,
saying I can't be here anymore. So many other stars
are afraid to say they want out because they don't
(37:34):
want to have a negative perception of them. It's why
I took Aaron Rodgers so long to get out of
Green Bay. Wh It's taking Damian Lillard so long to
get out of Portland because none of them want to say, hey,
this is bad. I want out. Oh I'm gonna look bad.
James Harden, Now this is the second time he has
gone nuclear with a franchise. This is going to force
him to be traded. He did it with Houston when
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he said situation he is untenable, can't play here anymore.
Two days later he was traded. Now he gave the
Sixers a chance to trade him, they didn't do it.
So now I'm gonna go nuclear. I'll never be a
part of this team. I'll never be a part of
this team as long as Darryl Moury is here. So
guess what. He's going to get traded sometime in the
next few weeks now, and he's gonna get his wish
because when you go nuclear, you get what you want.
(38:18):
And it's an unfortunate thing, but stars have to understand
if you really want out, that's what you have to do.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Yeah, I look at it as it's an interesting place
to make this declaration as well, because Daryl Moury doesn't
have a lot of fans in China, as you recall
from prior tweets and such that led to Rockets games
being pulled off of Chinese television, where they had enjoyed
great success from the Yao Ming era, et cetera. So, yeah,
(38:47):
that's the audience because they have a pretty loud ovation.
As he hands the microphone back to the moderator there, yeah, look,
he opped it in, So he makes it more difficult
because he could have easily just said, well, I'm not
taking the opt in and I'm gonna go my way,
but he said, wait a minute, I watched what I
did in the playoffs. I know everybody else didn't do
(39:08):
I wasn't good when they needed me to be good.
In other words, nobody else give me thirty six million dollars.
So I want my bag, and I want to be traded,
and I want David Putney to come along with me.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
And that's kind of where we're all like it exactly.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
He knows how to do it. You gotta go nuclear,
you'll get traded.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
You gotta love him for that, right, I mean, mincing
no words. It's not hey, my minion's talking to reporters,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Didn't we have an open Like a year ago there
was these guys hate everybody?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Did we know again? It might be two years ago.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Maybe with age we've come to accept in sure, recognizing
that positivity is really the only path.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
What's up?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We still hate everybody?
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Now?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Okay? Well, but I mean outwardly, don't we have to
say the other I.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Mean, I hate Dolvin Cook.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
But we love the Jets. Jets, Jets, Jets. You love
the Jejets.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Jets. The Jets go to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm already tired of him.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Tug is fourteen, Well, get ready, get ready for fourteen?
And oh it'll probably smoke some Yeah, that's how I'm
gonna pass some time. You know what, Maybe I'll do
that this week and I'll bring it in Jets Jet,
No don't because you all you promised last week all
this great food and bring it in and everybody comes
in and y'all, I can't come into.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
He wouldn't have eaten it.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I can't come in.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Wouldn't have eaten it.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I didn't, I didn't grow tone. Now I couldn't come into. Forget.
We have his card on file.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
We just that is true.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
We will order from Fat Salas on Harmon's card. We'll
do We'll do that, uh tonight, sandwich with lunch meat,
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should be. We'll have more on the Jets and Dalvincook
coming up in a little bit, because yes, uh there, look,
I'll tell you exactly why the Jets got Dalvin Cook,
why they're going to the Super Bowl. All the big
questions we will answer, because desperation is a stinky desperate man.
Once we are the hunted giant pile of chips into
(02:09):
the center of the table, you look to your friends, go, hey,
that guy re upped.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
You got anything left? Lets go?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
So if desperation is a stinky cologne, what is beyond desperate?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
That's good question.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Hang on, Hang on, giant bunch of chips in the middle.
But we got John Paul Morosi coming up in a
couple minutes MLB Networking Cider And there's this really big, crazy,
potentially awful story out of Major League Baseball involving tamp
May Ray shortstop Wander Franco, who may be the best
(02:41):
shortstop in the game at this point. He was just
signed to a big contract a couple of years ago
by the Rays, young player who was locked up, locked
into the team for the next few years. He is
now on the restricted list after social media posts questioned
the alleged nature of relationship between Franco and a younger
woman who may be underage. Now, there's not been a
(03:02):
lot of details about this story. You can get online
and see all kinds of crazy ass stuff, but right
now there due to some social media posts that never
really went via, that we didn't really get to see,
that Franco may be involved in or had been involved
in a relationship with someone with a woman who was underage.
Not a lot of details outside of that are what
(03:25):
are known right now. What we do know is that
he didn't make the trip with the Rays to San Francisco.
They got a three game series starting tonight they're playing
right now. And the restricted list takes a player off
the team's roster. And usually you hear about this in
the NFL when a player does something bad, he's on
the restricted list. He's here. It was a whole Deshaun
Watson case as well, and he can be on the
(03:46):
restricted list now. They're not required to pay players on
the restricted list, but the Rays are continuing to pay
Franco's salary, so now it's being investigated. Both the Rays
and Major League Baseball mutually agreed that he will go
on the rest list and take leave from the team
for the duration of their current road trip. And there's
(04:07):
so many things to get to. It's it's it's impossible
to go on and look a social media because you
have people saying, I know this happen, I know this happened,
I know this happened, I know this happened, I know
this happen. This is all we know, right, and it's
it's in a way it's weird because we never don't
have information. We never don't have information story. We are
(04:27):
in the age of instant information, and to not have
the information to story like this is kind of odd
and it's an outlier because even with something that is
as as sensitive as as what's gained relationship with a
younger woman, we still would get that we don't have
that information. And this is playing out for now behind
closed doors. Joining us now for more on this, John
(04:50):
Paul Morosi, you can follow on Twitter at John Morosi
MLB Network Insider JP. Well, what are you hearing about
Wander Franco the situation going on right now with him
the Rays in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Well, guys, uh, it's obviously a very concerning situation overall
for everybody involved it. I think that for me right now,
I'm just hearing what's been said publicly, and obviously Franco
right now is on the restricted list by mutual agreement
of Franco on and the Rays to make sure that
(05:23):
MLB has time to look into the allegations that were
made and beyond that, I don't have any specifics and
I don't think a lot of other people do. I
think it's it's being done in a in a confidential fashion,
which I think is important for a matter of this
of this sensitivity and this this high level of concern,
and I think that at that point in time, you
(05:44):
just have to let the process play out. And that's
been what I think the MLB has said. It's been
what the Rays have said, and really beyond that, it's
it's really inappropriate, I think, from my perspective, for to
say any more, because I just I don't think we
don't We just don't know, and I think that that's,
to me, is the important thing to say, to acknowledge
what we don't know, and right now there is not
(06:05):
a lot that we know, and so I think that
we all have to wait and see what is said
and what is ascertained in the next week. And I
think that is the next interval that sort of has
been acknowledged, that the Rays and Franco have understood that
he's going to be on the restricchered list for the
next week, and then next week perhaps there will be
more information or perhaps some level of clarity as to
(06:27):
what the next step forward are going to be.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
JP turning our attention to the diamond. We'll go to
the well what used to be the Mets Hurler and
Max Scherzer report over the weekend that Justin Verlander was
a bit of a diva that caused some problems in
the locker room, but everything seems right in Texas as
he dominates once again.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Well to me there, to back up a little bit
on Schurzer and Justin, I think that the two of
them have always been ultra competitors. It had not surprised
me that when they both departed that there was some
difference of opinion, let's say, about how each regarded either
(07:10):
the other or being a teammate in general. None of
that was a surprise to me. It just wasn't. And
I think that to that point, Schurezer is still showing
that he's got something left to offer, and I've been
impressed by what he's done so far since coming to Texas.
You know, it's interesting the Rangers, you know, they they've
(07:32):
had some injury concerns here in recent days, the Jonah
him situation. Now he's back, Josh Young is on the
IL and they're not really sure when he's going to
come back. So they've had it now really lean into
their pitching and rely on them a lot. And the
way that Max has pitched so far shows to me
that he still has something to offer, and I think
that seems going to be a tough tough out in
(07:54):
the postseason. We know how deep their lineup is, and
now that they've added Shure's are on top of it,
it's pretty remarkable. I think the point I want to
make about Texas in general is let's not forget the
big picture of this team. Three years ago, they opened
the new stadium and they can't have any fans, and
they end up hosting the World Series in the bubble,
(08:15):
and it was obviously a very difficult time for our
country and for baseball. And now with this new look
team and all the talent they've got, they've kind of
had a second chance to relaunch that that period of
time in their new ballpark. And on top of that,
you really have to credit ownership, because even though the
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Mets are paying a significant amount of money on Shurezer's contract,
the Rangers are still you know, there was still an
investment of prospects, an investment of some money on top
of what they thought they were going to get from
de Grom. So I think in terms of ownership groups,
you tip your cap to the ones that really invest
and spend and want to win. And I just wanted
(08:57):
to give a lot of credit to the Rangers for
what they've done in their ownership group, because they deserve
a ton of credit for investing in this team, and
right now they are really really seeing the rewards of that.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
And they'll be Now we're getting inside of John Paul Morosi,
our guest here The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon.
All right, JP, let's go west for a second. I'm
going to say something and you give me agree or disagree?
You're ready?
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Thing?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
All right? This season now an eight and a half
game lead in the NL West. This is the most
impressive regular season the Dodgers have had in the past decade.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I agree. I agree because the reason I'll say that
this is not the most talented team, and I like
how you I like how you phrased that it's not
the most talented team. But it is in a lot
of ways the most impressive job that Dave Roberts has done.
And by the way, since Dave Roberts has come in
(09:52):
as a manager, you know, we don't talk enough about him,
about what a great leader he is and how he
sets the culture. Since Dave Roberts took over this organization,
no one has won more games in Major League Baseball
than Dave Roberts. And I don't care what your payroll is,
I don't care how many stars you've got. That says
a lot about the manager. So I've been really impressed
(10:14):
by Dave Roberts. I think he gets it. I think
he's got a superstar Layden club that plays very unselfish,
team oriented baseball. And I'm speaking to you tonight from Atlanta.
The Braves won that they arrive at three in the
morning from New York and still have the energy and
get out there and have a lotside to win over
the Yankees. It will be a surprise if the NLCS
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is not Atlanta versus the Dodgers. Now, certainly a lot
of things gonna happen. How many times have we seen
the postseason and nothing expected happens, So I think we
have to keep open that possibility. But I look at
this matchup and say to me right now that those
two teams, the Braves and the Dodgers, they're doing a
little bit differently. The Braves are just an absolute one
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through nine show of hitting. They are deep and talented,
and they just have You know, Ozzy Albi's is out
of the lineup, He's going to be out for a while.
Nicki Lopez comes in three hits, He's batt in seven
hundred right now. It's unbelievable. What's what's going on for
the Braves? Just one great player after another. So, but
I answer your question, I fully agree. I think it's
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the most impressive season because they've missed Kershoff for a while,
they've missed Buehler for all obviously an entire season at
this point in time, Dustin May gets hurt, Gonsolin initially
was out for a period of time. Look at what
they've been able to do, and they keep calling up
players in the minor leagues, especially pitchers this year who
can contribute along with outman in the outfield. So I
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and by the way, let's not forget they lost their
shortstop in spring training and Gavin Lux. So I just
think that, Yeah, I agree with you one hundred percent.
This is the most impressive regular season they have had
during this amazing streak of playoff appearances. Well, well, well
phrased with that question. Excellent job.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Holy wow, look at the like that question. I could
cutt in print. I can do all the Peyton Manning's
professorship in class and.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
You can take over there, no question about it. All right,
I'm gonna steal a line from Taylor Swifty. This is
why we can't have nice things, because you said all
those great things the Mets stink. But the fact of
the matter is jp we also say that about the
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Now show Heyo Taani with
the arm fatigue? Are we getting operations shut down on
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the pitching side here? Given their current state of affairs,
losing again tonight twelve to nothing, one hit in a
miserable performance that it keeps sinking.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Well it is. I'll say this about the Angels. They
have been through quite the topsy turvy season. I'll go
back and I'll say this because I want to be
true to what I told you guys in the last
days of July that while I understand and the baseball
rationale for why you should have traded Otani, I think
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for their fans at that time they made the right call.
They had played well enough to earn a chance. You
want to set the right standard about your organization and
let them follow through on it. And obviously, basically nothing
has gone right since they made that decision. Now we
could say that it was predictable that that was going
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to happen. And again, even on their best day in
the last part of July, their chances of making the playoffs,
if you look at a lot of the algorithms, that
was still under ten percent. And I respect that, but
I respect that they made the decision to keep going
for it, because when you've got a generational player, if
you weren't going to trade them a year ago, then
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I think that it was the right decision to keep them. Now.
Now all that being said, I think that the way
that he's handled going forward is going to be fascinating
because you've got a team in the Angels who probably
doesn't have a great chance to sign on this winter
because they continue to prove to everybody that they're just
not ready to win right now, even with Otani. So
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Otani's gonna look aund and say, wait a minute, so
why would I sign back with you if for the
first six years of my career all we've done is
not be good enough. I just I don't see it happening,
and so now, how well, what is your obligation then
I think it's the same obligation as anybody to take
care of your players. Period. That's your number one job
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as an organization to take care of your players, put
them in the best situation they can to succeed, no
matter if you're one hundred and fifty and ten or
the opposite, that you have to do right by your players.
I think with show A, you know, it's a fine line.
If he's if his arm is tired, if you can't pitch,
then he can't pitch. But if I'm a GM who's
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going to make a decision about if I'm going to
tell my owner that it's worth have a billion of
his or her dollars to spend in the offseason, and
and the owner says, well, how often did he pitch
down the stretch? And I say it says here that
he made six starts since the beginning of August, and
then and then the owner says, and we're gonna give
him half a million dollars. So like that's that's that's
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the question. And so I think that for show A,
we're reaching a very interesting point in this whole story
to where him pitching with good results and good health
is going to matter a lot more, a ton more
to him than it will to the Angels, and how
they manage that situation, I think is one of the
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most interesting storylines that we have got in the final
quarter of this regular season.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
You can fall on Twitter at John Morosi, that is
at John Morosi, MLB Network insider, who now looks like
he's not gonna get to be the head coach of
Michigan for four games this year. But that's okay. Let's
cover baseball all the way end of the season.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Now, I understand there have been big happenings in that area.
I need to go back and study it, but I
do know this. I do so the Big Ten, which
has approximately thirty five teams. Now, yeah, there was a
graphic on on on television. I saw today we got
a lot of the top ten teams in the AP pole.
I feel pretty excited about that.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, well, when you have that many teams, you got
to have some going on.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
It's a law of averages. Yeah, when you when you've
got when you've got a you know, I remember this,
there was a there was a I can't remember and
this is going to date me back to when I
really followed filed national college football on a very very
serious level. I was a younger I was a younger kid,
so I think was around the time when maybe the
Southwestern Conference was going away. But there was one of
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those glossy season preview magazines had had this massive picture
of the United States with all this dramatic It was
sort of tongue in cheek realignment. What was going to
look like? And I think it was tu Lane that
they said was going to be a conference of one
and they called it. They called it, very appropriately, the
Big Easy, meaning a one team conference that included one
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team in New Orleans. They were gonna call it the
Big Easy. And it was too late. And I love that.
This amazing the stuff you remember when you were like ten,
and that is like looking at that magazine is like
burn into my mind, like why do they have this
one conference? And the one name was the Big Easy
and one team from New Orleans. And my dad explained
it to me and then it all made sense. It
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was all good. My dad's a wise man. He taught
me a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
JP is always great stuff. Thank you so much. The
Big Easy Conference every The Jason Smithster with Mike Carmon.
Great stuff to get Yes, that O Tawny story that's
gonna be a really big deal the last six and
a half weeks of the season. Coming up next we
will get back into the biggest story in the NFL.
A huge signing today and it means the super Bowl
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for one team. That's next Fox. He's Mike Carmen, I'm
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Speaker 6 (17:56):
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Speaker 1 (18:43):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
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Studios where the Jets got Dalvin Cook Today. Jets Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets,
super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl, super Bowl,
supermo Old Jets, Jets.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Jets, Jet Jet.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
How do I get your brand to stop that and
find a different track on the album? Nope, Nope, It's
gonna be Jets super Bowl from now through the entire season. Yeah,
but you got to go through and you got to
figure out other ways to syncopate, other ways to get
your your rhythm flowing.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
We just celebrated the fifty years of hip hop.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
They had that big concert at Yankee Stadium, right, all
the legends out, and you want to talk about, like
as much as I watched all the Taylor Swift stuff
from concerts and clips or whatever, I'm like, how many
more little clips of his concert can I get to
find online?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
As people started streaming?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
But we got to figure out how how we get
you to change up your rhythm and stead.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I'm just trying to make it last the next twenty
six weeks or whatever the hell. We Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets,
j Jets. Yeah, that's what you just for, Sam Darnold, Jets, Jets, Jets,
Jet Jets. Look, yeah, I'm and Iowa. Sam had that
exactly right. You used that same cadence for your celebration
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of Sam Darnold all those years ago.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Listen before you cast him off.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Listen to me. Every fifty years the Jets get something. Okay,
this is my time. It's like Haley's comment, every fifty
years the Jets fifty ish years, Hey, we get one
big season. This is that season. Then it's gonna be
another fifty years. So I gotta start dieting if I
want to be around for the next Jets Super Bowl
after this, which is gonna be when I'm like one hundred.
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So I'm gonna have to really do it. But let's
have this year. First, we had sixty nine. That was great.
Fifty itch years later, we're gonna have this year. And
then I'm looking at you know, like twenty seventy five
or something like that. For the next time the Jets
win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
You gotta figure out a bunch of different logos to
design for this run.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Aaron ro will be the quarterback, great grandson will be
the quarterback of the Jets. Now Jets Jets owner kids, sorry,
Jet's owner Aaron rod Kids that we were aware of.
Does he no, But that's okay. He will get He'll
get to that after the season.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, after Loggers he delays that.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Nah.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
That's why I said, let's say yeah, okay, twenty that
would be twenty twenty four, twenty forty four, twenty sixty four. Yeah,
I mean, like we're pushing it now. It would be no, no, no,
his grandson, Aaron Rodgers' grandson, longtime Jets owner and super
Bowlin and quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
That would mean he gets to work on that right now,
and then his kid gets after it pretty early. If
you really want to get this into the half. To
get after it early, it's got to be a grand kid.
The other kid can be thirty nine, forty years. But
you were looking at it in the fifty year, Well, okay,
in twenty seventy, let's just say that'll be the next
time the Jets are good after this year twenty seventy,
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that's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
So we say he had a kid. Say if he
has a kid in the next two years, right then
that kid can have a kid whenever he wants. But
that kid's got to be like twenty two, twenty three,
twenty four.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Will be the end of Will Jason Smith still be
alive when Aaron Rodgers' grandson is leading the Jets.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
To Jets Jets, Jets, Jets, Jets, or.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It will just be your your head in a crime
je Jets.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Jets, Jets, Jeff, that's all right, like in the Huey
Lewis video. Yeah, it's in my head.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I'm talking to everybody's back and forth?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Are you kidding with Ai? I'll be around. Oh, it
doesn't matter, I'll be around. I'll find a way. Hey,
you know who I brought back, Jason Smith. This is
gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Whoever occupies the seven to eleven PM slot Pacific Coast
time on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Wait, here's something I created for you.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I thought it was still the real Jason. I'm like
they've been on the air for like seventy years.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Now, Na, na, na, they ran all different dictionary, they're
all different people.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Uh now, look, look, why did the Jets make this Moe?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Look every fifty years and this is why the Dalvin
Cook move is such a big deal. Because the Jets
looked and said, Okay, what's our disaster scenario. That's why
this movie is so good. What's our disaster scenario? Right,
let's sit down and take a look at him. All right,
we don't start well, we start two and four, two
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and five, and things start to snow. It is a
very difficult edu, that's for sure. All right, Now, why
would we start? Why would we start two and five? To?
What what do we do? Could it be our defense? Well, no,
our defense is if our defense stinks, what are you
gonna do? We built one of the best defense in
the league. If somehow we're not good, it's gonna com
gonna be a complete total failure.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I do I do appreciate you're immediately dismissing, h What
are you gonna do it? Well?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
What you do?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
If they look good on paper? And then they have
to got to what do you get?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
You have the best second there in the NFL, probably
the best defensive line. And if that fails, what do
It's not like, oh, we neglected these positions.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Robert solid right fired. So yes, that defense does it,
It's not gonna be it.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
What about Aaron Rodgers? What about Aaron Rodgers? No, Rodgers
has the receivers he wants. He has. Garrett Wilson's gonna
catch one hundred and seventy five passes this year. He
has a lot of depth with Hardman and Lazard and
Corey Davison and and and he is already showing that
I can find the right receivers. I I'm already on
the same page with them. No, what's the biggest question.
Why would the Jets be losing? Why would they be
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two and five, three and six something like that. The
only way that happens is if the Jets start losing
games out of the gate sixteen thirteen twenty to sixteen
thirteen ten because they can't run the football and teams
are able to load up on the passing game. Rogers
isn't quite the same guy as he was even three
(24:30):
years ago, and without the runch the running game to
take pressure off, teams can sit back in the past
and Rogers can't be the same guy, and that would
happen if Breis Hall is not one hundred percent for
week one, you can hear till you're blue in the face. No,
Breecee Hall is is going to be on track to
come back week one, which is what everybody's saying.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Well, they're also him. If that's if that's exactly question.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Exactly, But if they can go into this year and say, Okay,
our disaster scenario is we can't run the ball because
Breecee Hall's not all the way back and the other
guys we have aren't good enough. Michael Carter is a
really good number two running back. He's not a guy
that can run the ball. Donovan Knight's been running as
their number one running back in training camp so far.
It's not been Michael Carter. You know Aban Akonda, who
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they got in the fourth round. He's a guy that's
playing against third string defenses. If the Jets got into
this season and suddenly they couldn't run the football and
they're one, one dimensional and teams are making them pay,
what the reaction going to be? How did the Jets
not take care of this? How did you go into
this season thinking Breecee Hall was going to be a
guy you can give the ball to twenty five times
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a game, and if not, you're really running these guys
out there that are practice squad players. How did you
not see this happen? And suddenly it's Solid's fault and
it's Douglas's fault, And honestly it is because you can't
sider and say, oh, Breese is coming, Brie's coming. If
Breese Hall is still not cleared and Breese Hall is
still trying to find his way back, Week one is coming.
And if you go into that not having a good
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enough running back, not being able to run the football,
and you wind up sucking because of it, that's your fault.
So what did the Jets do? They said, let's make
sure that's not an issue. So they go get Dalvin
Cook who was still a three down back, and Breshall
can come back not have to worry about running the
ball twenty times a game. You can give it to
him ten times a game, Dalvin Cook can get it
fifteen or seventeen times a game, and Breeseall, who eventually
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is gonna be healthy enough to be back to being
the workhorse running back because he's like the next iteration
of Le'Veon Bell. He's that good. But now you don't
have to worry about getting off to a slow start
because you have that covered in theory. Because you have
Dalvin Cook, who was still a Pro Bowl ran a
Pro Bowl last year. Guy ran for eleven hundred and
fifty yards. You have taken that strength and that weakness
and made it into a strength. Now teams can't sit back.
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They have to play up. They have to respect Dalvin
Cook again, who's a guy that can stand in the
field for third down as well. The Jets took their
biggest question mark and turn it into a strength. And
that's a huge deal. And that's why I'm sitting here
going Supermo, Supermo. Super Bo's the last big question mark
in the Jets took care of it.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, I mean, I don't love your receiving cores beyond Wilson.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I mean there are guys and your offensive line is
to be tested. But to the point of the running
back position. Look, George Strait his band for many many years,
they are called the ace in the hole band, and
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that's what you need. You've got to have an ace
in the hole. And that's what you did. You went
and you picked up Dalvin Cook for the fact that Brisaul,
even if he sound ish for week one, you're not
pushing him. Do you want to push him all together
coming off the injury that he had. No, I don't
want them pushing him in week nine with heavy workloads.
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You want to have another back on the field who
can play all three downs, who is proven. And in
this case, while you look at the pantheon of running
back contracts, Aaron Rodge get back money exactly for this reason.
Go back, think you think we need one more, Yeah,
go get one more. And this is the guy that
he watched torment his squad old squad in Green Bay
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for years, watched the big play capability, watched him pick
up tough yards and make plays out of nothing. Yeah,
bring that guy in. I gave up some of my
money exactly for this. Not that you're not gonna make
me whole once we sit back down to a table,
but for now, Yeah, you're making sure that you shore
up that position. And that doesn't mean that some of
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these other guys couldn't perform well enough, especially if Rogers
is on his game, then we start getting back to
the running back position, and you know, maybe some interchangeable parts.
But for Priese Hall, I saw enough to think that
he's a guy that's special. When he's one hundred and
coming off the injury that he had, I don't bank
on that for the first half of the season. I
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don't like even if he's cleared, you want to make
sure you've got a second option because it takes one carry,
it takes one iffy run to suddenly throw that stuff
asunder one bad block. For let's face it, some of
the offensive line potential issues that you have that you're
gonna need that second guy to step up and take
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on a big roll. It's good to know that you
have a twenty touch back that's there and ready to roll.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You took that weakness turn it into a strength. And
now not only that, you were allowing Breese Hall to
come back at whatever pace he needs to come back
at and when he's ready, he's ready.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
He's under contract for a long time, and as we know,
you can control that contract for a long long.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Super Bowl, super Bowl telling you super Bowl and no weaknesses.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Now, no weakness, Patriots will get him.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now we're gonna beat the Patriots. By fifty We're gonna
run up the score, and I want Salaz send everybody
out there, no keep throwing for all those games. Belichick
was like, that's thirty eight three, why not forty five
to three? Why not fifty two three? No, we're gonna
go for two. We're gonna go for three after after after,
we're gonna try to throw a touchdown pass from midfield
for three points. We're gonna go for three on this. Yeah, buddy,
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watch out. We're coming again every fifty years, every fifty years.
Right now, let's find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports with special delivery Steve to Sega, Who's
got no story bigger obviously than the Mets beating the
Pirates tonight.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
And I was gonna lead with the Mets because did
you see Carlos Carrasco lowered his ERA to six point
four to oh tonight and the Mets got to win
over the.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Pirates seven to two.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Of course, there's a Pirates team that was in another
city yesterday and played two games yesterday, splitting the doubleheader
against the Reds, and the Pirates took game one yesterday
despite getting only three hits but one of them was
a three run homer after a couple walks, so they'll
take it.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Remember when the Pirates started off the season, they were
just a little bit above five hundred in like the
end of May, and it was whoa, the Pirates are good. Yeah,
not so much yet.
Speaker 7 (30:53):
Now the Pirates and the Mets pretty much the same record. Yeah,
and the Padres are getting there quite frankly. The Mets
winning pitcher was not Carrasco because he lasted three innings.
Eighty eight pitches in three innings, so no decision.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Then that's working hard the man, I hate you, umpire.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
That's not helping pace the play at all when you
throw that many pitches.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Meanwhile, in San Diego, a very quick game, so a
less painful loss for Padre fans. Baltimore four to won
the final Padres record now fifty six and sixty three.
They had just four hits in this game tonight. The
lost to you Darvish. He went seven innings. The Orioles
are first in the AL, still three games over Tampa Bay,
which won at San Francisco ten to two. The Rays
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had eighteen hits. Tyler Glasnow went six innings for the win.
Ray's All Star shortstop Wander Franco was placed on the
restricted list. MLB was investigating social media posts about a
relationship authorities in his native Dominican Republic are investigating. At Colorado,
with four runs bottom of the eighth, the Rockies beat
Arizona six to four, ending a five game losing street Boy.
(32:00):
The Arizona Diamondbacks have really gone in the tank in
the last month. Their record is now fifty nine and sixty.
They're headed south like San Diego as far as playoff possibility.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
And they're further south than that. They have passed Central America.
They're all the way down at the bottom South boll.
Maybe that ball what you had to ask if South
Pole was south, Well, I'm trying to figure of the
rotation of the earth South Pole. Are they at the
south South Pole?
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Diamondbacks mathematically are only three and a half games out
of the final NL Wild car It just seems like
more than that crazy game at Kansas City seven to six,
Royals over Seattle with two runs bottom of the ninth.
Seattle had just taken the lead with two runs top
of the ninth, but Kansas City won it on a
bunt Brady Singer No. Decision, but the case starter had
a no hitter going until two outs in the seventh.
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He lasted seven and a third, two runs allowed, eight strikeouts.
Attendance twelve thousand. In Kansas City. Bobby Witt Junior had
four hits, including an inside the park homer. Mariners two
games back of Toronto for the last al Wild Card.
Texas ripped the Angels twelve nothing. Atlanta over the Yankees
eleven to three. Do you know the Atlanta Braves are
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on pace for the home run record for any team
in a single season. They're on pace for over three
hundred this year.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Miami off the Mets all off.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
I assume they play each other again, so stay tuned.
Miami got three straight solo homers bottom of the eighth
and beat Houston five to one. Saint Louis over Oakland
seven to five with four runs bottom of the seventh,
Jordan Walker a three run triple. The Oakland a's record
thirty three and eighty six. The Dodgers have won eighth straight.
They were off tonight. They'll be hosting my Well, first Milwaukee,
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which is won four in a row, and then Miami
later this week. Dodgers first in the nl West Georgia's
number one in the AP preseason College Football Poll after
getting sixty of the sixty three first place votes. Michigan
and Ohio State are ranked two and three. Alabama and
LSU are numbers four and five. Running Back Dalvin Cook
is signing with the Jets. Running Back is Zeke Elliott
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says he's gonna sign with the Patriots, and a reminder
of the Women's World Cup semi finals start very late
tonight Spain versus Sweden for am Eastern time on Fox
TV from New Zealand. Sweden is the only nation to
finish in the top three in each of the last
three big events. Second at the last Olympics, third at
the last World Cup, second at the Rio Olympics.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Before that, Beck to you, what times the United States game?
What time we play crickets? Crickets? We played cricket? How
do we do? We're playing cricket? Okay? Just as well?
All right? Very good India, very big favorite over rus
in cricket, very big favorite, no doubt. Thank you, Steven.
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
coming up next. It's not often you hear a superstar
player calling his GM a liar twice. We have that
(34:43):
next right here. Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Carmon Live from the tirerac dot Com studios.
It's not often a superstar calls his general manager a liar.
It's less often a superstar calls his general manager a
liar and then says, in case you didn't here it
the first time, he's a liar. But then again, not
(35:12):
everybody is. James Harden No.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I mean, look, he's said the quiet part really loudly
twice twice, two times.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Double Lives. It was over the weekend. Probably saw the story.
Daryl Morey six Ers GM said that we cannot trade
James Harden and we look forward to having him back
with us this season. Hardened wanted out from Philadelphia for
a while, wanted to go to the Clippers. Thought that
(35:39):
trade was happening. Apparently now it's not, and Maury says, well,
we're looking forward to having him back with us.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
He was trying to go all Obi wan Kenobi against
the stormtroopers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't need a trade.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
You're looking for We're looking for him.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
James Harden decided to go all Order sixty six on him.
He's in China for his basketball camp and an event
for Adidas, and he was asked about this situation, his
trade situation, and this is what he said to a
throng of reporters about his general manager and what's going
(36:17):
on with the seventy six ers. He is a liar
and I would never be a part of an organization.
Daryl Moorey is a liar, and I would never be
a part of an organization.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Say what again one more time?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
What a liar?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Check out the big brains on Brad. So Daryl Morey
is a liar, and I will never be a part
of an organization. He's a part of ever ever ever.
Let me say it again, and he says the same
thing again. This is why James Harden gets traded when
he wants out, because he is not afraid to go nuclear.
(37:00):
And that's how. Stop putting that out in.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
The atmosphere where hey, that's pretty good. I like that.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Listen putting that out there, we're getting embeid Well, you
want everything in New York. No, no, I want embeaid.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You just got Dalvin cooked. You're not satisfied.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Do you want someone else? James Harden is that guy
TJ like Richard marks One saying I'm not gonna stop
until I'm satisfied with djow. So this is why Harden
gets traded because he doesn't care about pushing that nuclear button,
saying I can't be here anymore. So many other stars
are afraid to say they want out because they don't
(37:34):
want to have a negative perception of them. It's why
I took Aaron Rodgers so long to get out of
Green Bay. Wh It's taking Damian Lillard so long to
get out of Portland because none of them want to say, hey,
this is bad. I want out. Oh I'm gonna look bad.
James Harden, Now this is the second time he has
gone nuclear with a franchise. This is going to force
him to be traded. He did it with Houston when
(37:55):
he said situation he is untenable, can't play here anymore.
Two days later he was traded. Now he gave the
Sixers a chance to trade him, they didn't do it.
So now I'm gonna go nuclear. I'll never be a
part of this team. I'll never be a part of
this team as long as Darryl Moury is here. So
guess what. He's going to get traded sometime in the
next few weeks now, and he's gonna get his wish
because when you go nuclear, you get what you want.
(38:18):
And it's an unfortunate thing, but stars have to understand
if you really want out, that's what you have to do.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Yeah, I look at it as it's an interesting place
to make this declaration as well, because Daryl Moury doesn't
have a lot of fans in China, as you recall
from prior tweets and such that led to Rockets games
being pulled off of Chinese television, where they had enjoyed
great success from the Yao Ming era, et cetera. So, yeah,
(38:47):
that's the audience because they have a pretty loud ovation.
As he hands the microphone back to the moderator there, yeah, look,
he opped it in, So he makes it more difficult
because he could have easily just said, well, I'm not
taking the opt in and I'm gonna go my way,
but he said, wait a minute, I watched what I
did in the playoffs. I know everybody else didn't do
(39:08):
I wasn't good when they needed me to be good.
In other words, nobody else give me thirty six million dollars.
So I want my bag, and I want to be traded,
and I want David Putney to come along with me.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
And that's kind of where we're all like it exactly.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
He knows how to do it. You gotta go nuclear,
you'll get traded.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
You gotta love him for that, right, I mean, mincing
no words. It's not hey, my minion's talking to reporters,
not at all.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
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