August 17, 2023 • 34 mins
With tonight's loss to the Braves, the New York Yankees have fallen to 60-61. The last time the Yankees were under .500 this late into the season was Sept. 5, 1995. Vlatko Andonovski has resigned as manager of the USWNT. And the guys solve training camp fights!
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in this era of sports and sports consumption. Sometimes stats
go in and out a year. You hear lots of
things about or you know the last time the Dodgers
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or lost on a Wednesday, Clayton Kershaw pitch. You listen
to twenty five pitchers and gotta go back to two
thousand and thirteen, you're moufs Walter.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Sometimes sometimes stat's just go by you and go okay,
but do we have something for you coming off of
the result of this game tonight? The New York Yankees
came in tonight sixty and sixty and even five hundred.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Talked to my dad about that earlier today, my dad
and I were hanging out and said, hey, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He goes, what I go? You could be under five
hundred tonight, He goes, bade Dad, and he walked away
for me. He's not to know that you two are
talking to each other again. No no, I thought he
was mad at you. No no, no, no, no, no,
no no, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
He's a right and he walked away. He didn't even
say anything, he just went. So the Yankees had a
chance to fall under five hundred tonight. How did it go?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Wan O pitch on the way ground on a third
Riley has it sends it to first. It's a sweep
over the Yankees and back to back shutouts as the
Yankees when went out scoring run in the final eighteen
innings of this series.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Uh so, yeah, not a great last couple of days
for the Yankees as they get swept to fall to
sixty and sixty one. The New York Yankees are under
five hundred. This is the latest they have been under
five hundred in a season since nineteen ninety five. In
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nineteen ninety five, they were under five hundred in the
middle of September. That's the last time this late in
the season they've been under five hundred. What happened next year?
Jeter pet had Bernie Williams, the Yankees win the World Series.
They went it again in ninety eight, they went it
again in ninety nine, win did it again in two
thousand and the Yankee dynasty rolls. And it's some kind
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of accomplishment to think about how every year, no matter what,
the Yankees were in contention for every year, basically the
last twenty eight years, they were always there. Now they
were as it went bad for them. There were years
they were under you know, the years they were knocked
out of the playoffs, didn't go But this is the
latest they've been under five hundred since nineteen ninety five.
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They are sixty and sixty one and the Yankees are
not only are they under five hundred, they're in last place.
And that's the best part about me trolling my dad, going,
hey's that last place Yankee team. You're a mess of
a worst record. I go, yeah, but we're still a
place above you in the standings. We're not even in
last place. And he goes, ah, and that's my dad.
Nothing that he can say other than other than the
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normal Yankee the Yankee response, which is fire, everybody trade, everybody,
move the team, get a new stadium.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That that's every Yankees right to do this, do this,
do this, do this.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
But I'll tell you what for all of that, that's
exactly what's gonna happen with the Yankees after this year.
They're not a knee jerk reaction team where they are
going to see a problem and say all right, let's
let's solve it right now. That's not who they are anymore.
That's that was George Steinbrenner. That's not this iteration of
the Yankees. This iteration of the Yankees is let's stay
the course, let's not trade any prospects just in case
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they turn out to be good. Brian Cashman has driven
this team straight to the middle right. It's like he's
afraid to trade prospects because if they're any good, boy,
I can't walk around this town anymore. That's really what
the Yankees have done. They'll go out and spend on
a guy. But it's not They're not gonna do it
all the time. They are getting out yankeed by Steve Cohen.
They're getting out Yankee by the Padres. They got out
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Yankee by the Padres. Not that it worked out for
the Padres, but they still got out Yankee by the Padres.
But this year, there is gonna be all kinds of change.
At the end of the year. You are talking about
wholesale changes. New manager, They're gonna make a lot of it.
You're gonna see a lot of new players on the
Yankees this year. They're gonna have no choice but to
go out and spend. And I wouldn't be surprised if
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you see the Big Trio and you see new players,
new manager, new general manager, because I don't know that
Brian Cashman can survive after this. It's been years of Hey,
we're not quite there, We're not quite there. Well, yeah,
Aaron Judge was hurting, this is happening. Well, the guys
we've brought up have not all been great. What happened
to that great pipeline of players we brought up that
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you've been scouting, that you refuse to trade it's I
would not be surprised to see complete wholesale changes for
the Yankees general manager, manager and contracts gone. And you're
gonna see them try to move out from Understanton, from
under guys. They're going to try to eat money, try
to move on. They are going to This Yankee team
you're gonna see next year is going to be unrecognizable
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from the team you see right now.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What's interesting philosophically, right, you mentioned the difference between Big
Stein and the Steinbrenner Kids spending and the efforts therein
some of the big prospects through the years. Right, We
always had the running joke in the trading card member
of Bilia and then certainly with Fantasy Baseball for years
of all Right, if it's a Yankee, Mets or Cubs prospect,
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you short them because one after or another they came
up and they struggled, and then the Cubs hit on
a number of them. Yankees obviously had that run the
glorious you know, Bernie Williams and all those guys rolling
up and obviously the captain. But we look at where
they're at now, and it's the do you accept where
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you are? Because this is an outlier season right. Otherwise,
you look at their wins since twenty seventeen and the
arrival of Aaron Judge ninety one, one hundred, one hundred
and three COVID year ninety two, ninety nine, and now
you're five hundred. Now I've been arguing that Cashman has
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rested on his laurels. You look at some of these,
you know, the contracts that they have signed, hit or miss.
Now you've got three stars at the top of things
here when you look at Judge and Stanton and Garrett Cole,
and then you're trying to figure out how to build
out the rest of that roster and what is a
very difficult vision right used to have afterthoughts, Well they're
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not afterthoughts anymore. The Orioles are eating your lunch. Right.
For all these years they couldn't get it right, and
organizationally there's still a mess. Let's not give Angelos to
anybody too much credit, but they at least hired someone
in the scouting department and to run the thing that's
actually got them on the right track to where they
look like they're going to be a problem for years
to come. Red Sox they don't stay down for long
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Blue Jays just good enough to be annoying most seasons,
and we go through, right, who are you? I'm and
the brand? What do you do here? I don't know
that I really do a lot? What do you do?
What happened in that room? But also the Rays right
on paper they look terrible. Year after here, it's like, ah,
where are the stars? And then they go and win
ninety games a year. Now they've got the Wanderfronco thing
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that we're trying to sort out what's real, what's imagine?
What reports do you run with and what do you
just sit and play in a holding pattern? And I
think that's where we're at as a holding pattern with
all of that. But they've always blocked their guy in
trying the Braves approach of hey, we lock you in
early and hope you mature into a great player. And
then we've got the Scottie Pippen deal where now you're
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grossly underpaid, but you're under contract for years. But the
point being the Yankees don't get to just go and
have their run of the division and going to the playoffs.
Are you built and equipped to get over the top?
Does your manager have the authority like how much is
Aaron Boone versus what he's being told by the front
office in terms of circumstances.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
If they're telling you gets thrown out of every game
he's doing, he's doing pretty well well.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
No, no, no, like, certainly I'm not talking about the temperament.
I'm just talking about bullpen decisions and everything else. Wondering
about that. But you know, certainly he's not. You got
to have a fall guy, so he'll be gone. I mean,
there's no question about that. And who do you go
back and who you bringing in. It's a case of
the Yankees looking at them. They don't lack for star power,
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they don't lack for talent. Obviously they need a lot, right,
they have to date deadline. What do we say. There's
no fixing this team, right, we told you the Yankees
are going to miss the playoffs. This is gonna be
the kind of year it was for them because there
was no fixing. They needed more starting pitching, they needed
more bullpen, they needed more everyday players.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Reasons you described. The Jets need nothing and the Yankees
need everything. Right, That's that's how it goes. But more
so than that in baseball this year, just think about
some of the big teams, big market, big spenders, big
star filled teams that have failed. Right, the Mets failed,
the Padres failed, the Yankees failed. What are these teams
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have in common? These are all teams that went out
in the last couple of offseasons are bringing guys up,
saying we're just gonna put guys out there that we
think are talented.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's all we're doing. And what happened? They failed? Right
the Mets decided we're gonna outspend and just bring guys in.
Was there any.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Cohesion with the Mets they did? Did the lineup flow?
Did you have guys that can get on base? Did
you have guys that can get on base followed by
guys who can hit with runners in scoring position? You
didn't have that. You didn't have that with the Padres.
The Padres have tried to bring it. Hey, we're gonna
bring as many talented guys as possible. And while yes,
bringing in as many talented guys as possible is great,
but you got to bring in a team that's able
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to flow and be able to pick each other up
and and fill holes in the lineup where maybe they're
not doing everything well. But there's certain things they can do.
And look at these three teams, right, the Mets, the Padres,
the Yankees, They're.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
All just a bunch of guys.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
They're all just about Hey, there's some talented guys out there,
but it's just a bunch of guys thrown out there
and that are playing. And you're not seeing the cohesiveness
of the teams that are the top of divisions. I
watch the Dodgers play every single night, and every time
a guy gets a base it they do that stupid
ass whola thing when they're on base, and everybody in
the dugouts doing that. You watch watch all these doubles
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because all the Dodgers do is it doubles. I had
to watch a double in a double. I had to
watch Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Do the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Right, this is not a great Dodger team. This is
probably their worst team in the past ten years. But
there's a lot of cohesiveness. You can tell they have
a great locker room, they have a great clubhouse. And
so here's why they're you know, twenty five games over
five hundred with the worst team they've had.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Look at two of the best players and yeah, I
mean your.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Stars are Your stars are playing great, but this is
not a great not a great starting rotation. Right, you're
hoping to get guys back, you don't have a great bullpen.
You're hoping to try to get through with it. But
this is what you have. This is not the strongest team.
Look at the Orioles where they are great. No, this
is a young team that all came up together. These
guys have all been with each other, been through the
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minor leagues with each other. And look where they are.
Thirty games over five hundred, right, I mean, this is
this is how it goes, right, the Braves, they've all
been together. These are all guys that came up through
the minor leagues. Doesn't matter who comes up, we're gonna hey,
if you show us you're good for eight days in
a row, we're gonna sign you to a ten year,
one hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And everything has come up for them.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
All these guys have played together Acunya, Spencer, Stryder, Albi's
everybody they've signed. You see the most dominant teams in baseball.
This is what they all have in common. They have
that togetherness, the cohesiveness that we're gonna be able to
pick each other up in the lineup, and that's why
they're winning. And I don't get that from the Mets.
I didn't get it from the Padres, and I clearly
haven't gotten it from the Yankees. And while the Mets
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and the Padres are more well, let's readjust we can
move a couple of big name players and maybe move,
we'll still spend some time. I mean, the Yankees have
to have a complete and total reorganization of the organization.
And I'm pretty sure that's what you're gonna get, because
the one thing I can say for them is that
failure is not something that the Yankees are okay with
and saying yeah, it's gonna be a couple of years.
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It's about no, no, no. They're gonna go through this offseason
and say, Okay, it's time for a new GM, it's
time for a new way to think, it's time for
a new manager, and it's time for new players. And however,
they're gonna move out from under a bunch of contracts.
That's what they're going to do. I mean, they're gonna
be unrecognizable when they come to spring training. It's gonna
be a new everything, a new day, in New York
for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Well, and just to punctuate it one last time, we
talk about organizational and philosophical shifts. First mover advantages three
teams we're talking about here too, thirty two to thirty
six to forty team batting averages. You did not adapt
to the new style of play in a shiftless Major
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League Baseball. I'm glad you got you got that f
in there. You got the f in there?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Well, you notice how I rt it in the league?
I really now you got it in there, got it
in there?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
That was good?
Speaker 6 (13:32):
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Speaker 3 (13:44):
This is who they are. We told you this is
who they were gonna be. This is where they are,
and that's who they're gonna be next spring. So say
that to your dad's face. Look forward to next spring.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I'm gonna tell my dad, Dad, Wait, do you see
what what February March are gonna be like? Man, it's
gonna be great for you. The next two months not
so much. But boy, the February Marching be great. Yeah,
I'm'm gonna call this kid up, Jeter. All kinds of changes,
all kinds of changes.
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A little bit of a little bit of skid Row
debut album there from Alex ty Shirt.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah buddy, yeah, buddy, I'll tell you what skid Row's
debut album. Here's a hot take for you. Maybe the
most underrated rock and roll album of all time?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
What do you think, Mike Carmon? The most underrated rock
and roll album of all time? Harmon obviously agrees. Harmon
agrees or we forgot you do not hear me? No, you
gotta turn your microphone on?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
No, no, no, my my microphone was I don't think
the microphone was on. I think it was your I
was screaming and seeing getting ready to sing along, showing
full seabat size. Yeah yeah, no.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
One of my favorites to watch stalk of stage.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I don't like any other because he's also what like
six six yeah, and then he would still wear boots
that gave him another two inches. On top of that,
he could play small forward in the NBA. His brother
was a goalie in the NHL for a while.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Legend Dah the He was on Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
The most underrated rock album of all time, Skid Rose dabu.
Oh dude, it's got so many great songs. I Remember
you maybe the best, maybe the best hair metal rock
ballad of all time, the ballad sure yeah, I remember you.
You had can't stand the heartache. You just played sweet
little Sister, piece of me, uh eighteen in life. Oh
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you had so many big songs, the Big Youth Gone Wilt,
Sure we had. We had to get out of that
song early because I told Tysher there's some questionable lyrics.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You gotta get out of that. So you gotta get out,
Gotta get out, gotta get out. Oh but yeah, man,
I'll tell you. Skid Rose debut album, and their second
album was so bad. It was just how dare you?
It was so bad? No, it wasn't it was it
was awful. It was so bad. No, no, no, the
song get the blank Out, I mean it is one
of the greatest ever. No, just stop, No, it's not.
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It's not.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
There's not one song on that second skid Row up
that's anything fantastic. Wasted time was no great quick saying, Jesus,
great song, Psycho, these already even real titles.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You're just keep business.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Don't tell me. Monkey business was no good.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Monkey business was You're just you're exposing yourself as a
musical I just it was no good.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
It was no taste, It.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Was no good. Nobody bought the second album because it's.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
In a darkened room.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Come on as anything else, not nearly as good as
anything else. Off terriblem You know.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
What skid Row is like, it's it's my mom's philosophy
about buying out, which you know, there's many things my
mom told me that will always stay with me the
rest of my life, and one of them is this
is She said, this is back when you know people
just put albums out. She goes, here's my rule for
buying for buying music from bands, And okay, she goes,
I buy the first album, and I buy the best
of And I said, why, she goes, because the first
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album is going to be the best, because it's the
it's the album they spend the most time working on,
and they makes you have to make sure everything is good.
And reichs it's what's going to be their big break.
And a lot of bands they work on this album
for five or six years and they play these songs
in concert so many times. You buy the first album.
Then they got to put out an album every year
or two the rest of their careers, and maybe you
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get one or two good songs of it not worth
buying the whole album. So you buy the first album
and then you buy the best of, and you have
everything you eat off that group.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And I said, I kind of like that. I kind
of like that philosophy. Now obviously it's out the windowaks
you can buy individual songs now you don't need to
buy a whole albums and everything else. But that was
that was a pretty good philosophy. You buy the first album,
you buy the best of, or you got a lot
of bands that'll give you multiple live albums or best
of with the extended lyrics, changed lyrics, and you know
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the stuff that was never meant to air. You don't
like Prince's Estate, all the stuff that was in a
vault because you know, he didn't want to release it,
and it's still an evault and it's still yeah, he's
he's still They started pumping out some stuff that I'm
pretty sure he would not have wanted to get out.
How about you guys. Name a band that's played in
the last ten years. Wow, Wow, look at.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You know, you know, just the other day, Tears for
Fears was just down the road.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, done, Okay, we're done, we're moving on, moving on.
You just killed the conversation. You just killed it. You
just absolutely killed me.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You have the best of you killed. It's a callback
for all the frames of the show. Tears tune in
night after night, Tears for Field here, they don't have
enough songs for about.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Tears for Fields.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
They don't have like tim too, Tears for Fear, Tears
for Fields. That's that's the Uh, that's the the tribute band.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
The tribute band that shows up.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
It'd be called the shop dressed men. I hate when
you have done to me. Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
The Chason Smith Show of Themighty Carmen Live from the
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Speaker 3 (18:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Big news coming down from the World Cup. Look, we're
gonna watch England and Spain play for the Women's World
Cup Championship. After England wins in the middle of the
night last night and the United States makes a move
that is not nearly surprising. Vlato Andanofsky, head coach women's
World Cup team, has stepped down as manager. Sources confirming
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that to ESPN earlier in the day, an announcement from
the US Soccer Federation confirming it is expected on Thursday. Now,
this is not a surprise because Adonofsky is presided over
the lowest level of accomplishment by the women's national team
in the last quarter century. You're talking about getting knocked
out in the first game of the knockout stage here
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in the World Cup and finishing winning a bronze medal
in the Olympics his first time around. That's not what
we're used to here in the United States. And that way,
they're kind of like the Yankees, where hey, the Yankees
having a bad year this year. They're under five hundred.
This is the latest they've been under five hundred in
the season in twenty eight years. You got to go
back to nineteen ninety five. We talked about it a
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few minutes ago. Same thing for the US women's national team. Hey,
we're not gonna sit here and say, oh, we'll fix
it out. We are going for new leadership and a
new head coach is going to be nominated at some point.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
They're going to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
They've talked to the players, they've talked to other coaching staff,
and they're going to be going forward. As now the
clock turns to let's get ready for the Olympics, the
next big deal for the UK women's national team next year.
They got a couple of friendlies coming up in September,
but now they're looking at what's going to happen next
for this team as we get to the Olympics. And
I gotta tell you, Mike, this is where again, much
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like the Yankees, they need some kind of leadership that
comes from outside of US soccer because for too long,
and again it happens, it's fat cat syndrome. When you're winning,
the players are able to make a lot of the decisions.
And what have we seen the last four years when
the US women's national team was at its height, right
when they won in twenty nineteen, here they are again
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overwhelming favorites. In twenty nineteen, Jill Ellis was the coach
they wanted her gone, right, there was meetings they wanted
her fired, none of them like Jill Ellis. Guess what,
Jie Ellis won the World Cup, but after it was over,
she had to go because the players didn't like her anymore.
They Dandanofsky. They liked him as an assistant and they so, yeah,
he's the guy we want. We're going to continue the
good times rolling. Then what happens things don't go well
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in the Olympics. Okay, well, we still have other friendlies
to play. We gotta get ready for the World Cup.
And now here they are again, and they lose, and
now things aren't going well, and there's questions about tactics
and substitutions, and now the players are asked again about
the coaches and the direction of the team. I get
that sometimes you ask your players about a coach or
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a manager because you want to make sure that they
haven't lost the team. Maybe you want to get some
input from your star players as to what you think
the team needs. But this has been a case now
the last years of the players having too much power
for that, because you can't win when you have the
players basically calling the shots. When you say, hey, we
like this person as our coach. We don't like this person.
You know what, Sometimes the best coach for you is
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someone that you're not gonna like, and maybe you don't
like them, but maybe they get stuff out of you
that you didn't know you had. They hated Jill Ellis.
They dominate and steamrolled to the World Cup title. Steamrolled.
They had a bit of a tough game against England
four years ago, but they were able when they stopped
the penalties. When listen there stopped the penalty on Steph Houghton,
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and they win that game. But they dominate the Netherlands,
and hey, sometimes that's coaching, right. If the players hate
me and they're playing for each other and they're following
the game plan, guess what, that's good coaching. Doesn't matter
if they hate you, that's good coaching, right. Greg Popovich
talked about it in is a Hall of Fame celebration
and speech over the weekend. I coach the players up here.
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I coach the players in their brain and I get it.
That's how I like to coach players. The girls I coach,
I coach them up here. I can put out ladders
and cones and all kinds of stuff but that's great,
but I got to coach you up here for you
to figure out the best way forward for you. And
there's different ways for different players. And you heard Popovich
talking about it at the NBA level, where yeah, it
was great that he had great players, but he figured
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out the best way to coach Tim Duncan, the best
way to coach David Robbinson, the best way to coach Monogene. Hey,
we're gonna run this pick and roll.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Guess what.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Every team in the NBA runs a pick and roll,
but we're gonna do it, and we're gonna do X,
Y and Z a little bit differently because we have
a different skill set. When you have a coach that's
able to come in with ideas, with fresh ideas and
put their imprint on it doesn't matter if you like them,
as long as you respect what they're doing and you're
gonna go out and play. And the US needs one
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of those coaches who's gonna come in and say, Okay,
this is my program.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Now, this is not your program.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
This is not Lindsay Horan's program, this is not Rose
Levell's program, this is not Julie Urch's program. They can
convince her to come out of retirement one more time.
This is not Alex Morgan's program. I don't know if
I'm coaching the team if Alex Morgan is even on
the team when we go to the Olympics, because he
was just so bad in the World Cup and she's
thirty four and she's probably done forget about four years
(23:51):
from now in the World Cup. But someone needs to
come in. They got to go outside to say this
is my team, and there's changes that have to be made.
And you can't do it when you're talking to the
players all the time and the players are saying, here's
the coaches we like, here's what I No, the job
is not for you to be comfortable. The job is
for you to be a great player, and there's different
ways to achieve that. And the United States has had
this this hiring from within for the past couple of
(24:14):
cycles now and now it's time for new ideas. You
got to come outside in and figure things out for
next year.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest part of it is,
you know, as we talk about everybody's going back to
school wherever you're at, however, you're maybe celebrating the return
of school. Maybe uh, lamenting it back to school right
as everybody gets back there, there's always the well, you know,
I heard this teacher on this side of the third
grade is really nice and everything, and the other one
(24:43):
it's kind of a hard hass.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
And you'll have some number of parents that.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Will go and try to smooth the principle and be like, hey,
little Johnny needs to be on the nice side of thing.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
You know, sometimes you get that kick in the ass.
We've talked about this.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
You need to face a little bit of adversity and
someone who going to challenge you. And but it's with
every business, with everything we do in life, Jason. If
you got folks that are performing, the numbers are there.
They don't always have to make sense, but if they are,
that gives you some cloud that gives you all sway.
You get to hire in your buddies, hire in your
best friends, get people you don't like out. And for
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the women's team, even though it wasn't always perfect and
they didn't like Jill Ellis, they won, so it was
all right, wait for it. And then the size and
scope of the women's national team and the superstar effect
for those players, it's enough to get them whatever they want,
and that's I mean, that's just a natural cycle of business.
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But then what happens they age out, you don't have
anybody in the middle, and then you have fourteen new
players join this roster for their first World Cup. Now
you weren't helped by the fact that a number of
your would be up and coming forward.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Strikers, et cetera. Were hurt.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
And then Sophia Smith did what Sophia Smith did in
penalty kicks, So how does she respond to that? And
Repino missing a penalty kick and O'Hara hitting a post
man ifs ands and butts in a game of inches
as it flows, you know, if they survive.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
That, do they find things right?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
No?
Speaker 5 (26:15):
They still weren't scoring any goals in regulation.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
And that's the thing is that is it for every
bit of opinion that yeah, boy, if Rapino would hit
that penalty, or if Sophia Smith had done anything but
kick it off the side of her foot, if.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Oh Harry doesn't okay, yeah, maybe you win that game.
You gotta win four more games? Was this team gonda
win that many more games?
Speaker 5 (26:35):
To go to work?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But now now that's the first game of the knockout round.
The first game, it's still a lot of winning that
would have needed to be done.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
And who knows?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Are you winning in penalty kicks every time she scored
any goals?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
All right, I mean we watched it time and again.
So what happens the unrest, the venom, the poison pens
are out, and the questioning of everything you're doing, and
when your coach looks like he'd rather be anywhere else
and answering questions, he really does it, not that he
has to give you full, full disclosure, but you've got
the stoic continent countenance on the sidelines, which, okay, that's
(27:11):
fine to a point, but then we're all sitting around
and wondering, all right, substitutions anybody? Anybody getting up anybody
or like O'Hara, she substituted in what a minute and
a half before that game ended, you know, coming in
cold and getting into the penalty kick situation, like all
of that left so many questions and from his tactical approach,
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but then from the roster perspective, you see you're in
a position whereby there's just a huge set of change,
just like we were talking about with the Yankees. At
some point, You've got to just recognize you've got a
clean house. Now, where's your next coach from? Hey, these
new guys don't know these all the new women on
this team. They don't know the tactics of Jill Ellis.
(27:57):
She can come back in and be a hard ass.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
They I haven't heard anything.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Wait, isn't she the one that nobody like?
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
No, no, no, no, no, You're gonna love her.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Now, you're gonna love these trophies.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You know, see those commercials you got before you played
a minute for the US women's national team in the
World Cup.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
You see all that Jill Ellis was the coach during
that time.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Oh, she's gonna be great. You're gonna love her. Wait
a minute, but I heard like no, no, no, no, no,
come on, man, I try to try.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Don't ask anybody about it. Just say yes, just say yes.
Go But no, but you need to get outside. You
need to get new ideas in. This is not a
time to say, hey, let's let's pull together. No, this
is a time to be a little bit uncomfortable. Because
you said a lot of these players in their first
World Cup, a lot of those players in their last
World Cup. You're gonna see a bit because this this
roster was not good enough. It just wasn't good enough.
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So now there's gonna be turnover. There's gonna be the
players who are twenty one, twenty two now that you're
expecting to play big roles when they're twenty four to
twenty five, because you're looking at a lot of this
team that is older as well. Next World Cup, Lindsey
Horan's can be thirty three. Sam Us may never get
back on the field again all of a sudden. Yeah,
she was a great midfielder, maybe the best midfielder in
(29:08):
the world three years ago, but she hasn't played in
two years. She which comes back from the next World Cup,
she's gonna be thirty four. All these players are gonna
be OLDA Roselevel is gonna be in her early thirties now.
So you're talking about relying on players that are all
near the end, and when you're relying on players who
are near the end that weren't good enough. Now, yeah,
you're gonna need a lot of new players.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I mean it's gonna be a whole new thing, just
like the Yankees gonna have all new players next year.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
You as women's national team. You're gonna have a lot
of new players as we go. Follow Jason, you are
an authority when it comes to a bad roster.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I am I know about Rosco when I see one, No,
I know, I know.
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we had a lot of fisticuffs and practice across the NFL.
We had cowboys getting into it with each other. We
had the Jets and the Bucks getting into it with
each other. You had a Jets assistant coach their defensive
back which had to go to the hospital try to
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get trying to break up a fight that was on
the field.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
You got to stay out of it.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
You you had Max Crosby and Cam Akers getting out
of the joint practice between the Raiders and the Rams,
and Crosby's doing a press conference after saying cam Akers
wanted to say what he said, so we got what
he got and he's there with no.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Shirt on yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, and then
Sean McVay made sure to point out the fact that
you get in a fight a practice, you don't get
to practice right now. Kick camp akers out of practice
for that.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
But it looks like a Crosby's all big in bad.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, dude, don't punch me, dude, dude, don't punch me.
Just don't don't punch me. Due, don't. So all of
this is happening, and it's it's more of a story now,
and we see more of these because we do see
teams do more joint practices now because you don't see
the ones play a lot of preseason action anymore. How
do you get the one some action where you don't
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have to worry about injury? You have these joint practices
where you're not allowed to sack the quarterback and you
keep it as controlled as possible. Matthew Stafford saying after
practice today, Max Crossby would get within five yards on
plays he would go sack sack, which I can imagine.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I wonder if that pissed you off. To drive back
to pass and the guy is like five yards away, sack, sack, sack,
stop the play, stop the play.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
So I get it. Oh, I got you, I got you.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
No, you did not.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
It's like when you play two hand touched so I
got you with both ends. No, you got me one
hand on my hip and the other hand on your shoulder. No,
you never touched my shoulder. You did not touch me.
No fingertips hand, fingertips, cheater, cheater, cheater. Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You're seeing a lot more of this. And this is
when things get out of control because it's not as
policed as a as an NFL game is, and players
can run on the field. I have to worry about
suspension or anything else. Look, we said Aaron Donald was
swinging helmets at people, you know last year at practice
and all kind these things can get out of control
pretty fast. And this is where you see guys getting hurt.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
And I just say this, here's the best.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You want to stop fighting at practice because fighting your
practice is stupid.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It is, it's stupid. But I get it.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Because it's hot and every summer it gets hotter than
the last because the planet is getting hotter than it's
ever been. It's hot at practice. You're out there every
single day sweating. Why are you fighting other players on
other teams because you're hot and you're miserable. Would it
just kill you to have a couple of practice at night.
Maybe you have that big joint practice at night, and
(32:38):
maybe everybody's not in the in the ill frame of
mind where I want to fight the other team. I
want to pick up a guy in body slam them
like Mark Andrews did the other day when the Ravens
were playing Washington. I mean, maybe you avoid things like
that happening because it's just hot and people.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Are miserable when it's hot. So just take that.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I'm not saying you practice at night every single time.
There's something to be said for being out there and
being in the thick of the heat and being able
to make sure and build up your stamina. But hey,
once in a while, would it kill you to practice
at night many Maybe you stopp the miserableness from some players.
Maybe you stop some of the training camp fights.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I don't know. I just think that's a pretty simple solution. No,
I like it. I mean, it is simple, and it's well,
it's oversimplified. I mean, it's been hot forever in the summer. Smith,
come on, we see sweats and we see your kids.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
You said, sweat hogs that's pretty cool. Hey, welcome, Welcome back,
Mike harmonto Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
So why don't you say it's been happening? So why
can't we have Why can't you have practice night? Why
can't you once in a while, Why can't they act
like tonight and why can't you get you on the
next play?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Why can't you have a joint practice at night and
put it on TV?
Speaker 5 (33:43):
We could do.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
People would watch it.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
People would watch and look, you can have in the
local market.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
In the local market. If you said, hey, Jets and
the Bucks are having a joint practice tonight, you know,
under the lights wherever it is, and you put it
on TV in New York and in Tampa, everybody would watch.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Jason, you saw what NFL Network was doing at the
start of camp. They had people in outposts all over
the country, great interest and notes and the interviews that
they would get, the access whatever I mean, people watch people,
it's the NFL. People are sheep, they're on board. Just
put it on TV. But I do like the evening practices.
(34:25):
I think there's something to be said for that. But
it's not gonna change where we're at. Guys are gonna fight.
They're seeing people in other uniforms that they don't have
to answer to for the rest of a season. Why'd
you take a shot at me? It's like, Wow, you've
been digging me for the last week, and now you
know the other opponent comes in and you slap them
up side the head because you can get that frustration out.
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in this era of sports and sports consumption. Sometimes stats
go in and out a year. You hear lots of
things about or you know the last time the Dodgers
(00:56):
or lost on a Wednesday, Clayton Kershaw pitch. You listen
to twenty five pitchers and gotta go back to two
thousand and thirteen, you're moufs Walter.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Sometimes sometimes stat's just go by you and go okay,
but do we have something for you coming off of
the result of this game tonight? The New York Yankees
came in tonight sixty and sixty and even five hundred.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Talked to my dad about that earlier today, my dad
and I were hanging out and said, hey, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He goes, what I go? You could be under five
hundred tonight, He goes, bade Dad, and he walked away
for me. He's not to know that you two are
talking to each other again. No no, I thought he
was mad at you. No no, no, no, no, no,
no no, it's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
He's a right and he walked away. He didn't even
say anything, he just went. So the Yankees had a
chance to fall under five hundred tonight. How did it go?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Wan O pitch on the way ground on a third
Riley has it sends it to first. It's a sweep
over the Yankees and back to back shutouts as the
Yankees when went out scoring run in the final eighteen
innings of this series.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Uh so, yeah, not a great last couple of days
for the Yankees as they get swept to fall to
sixty and sixty one. The New York Yankees are under
five hundred. This is the latest they have been under
five hundred in a season since nineteen ninety five. In
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nineteen ninety five, they were under five hundred in the
middle of September. That's the last time this late in
the season they've been under five hundred. What happened next year?
Jeter pet had Bernie Williams, the Yankees win the World Series.
They went it again in ninety eight, they went it
again in ninety nine, win did it again in two
thousand and the Yankee dynasty rolls. And it's some kind
(02:49):
of accomplishment to think about how every year, no matter what,
the Yankees were in contention for every year, basically the
last twenty eight years, they were always there. Now they
were as it went bad for them. There were years
they were under you know, the years they were knocked
out of the playoffs, didn't go But this is the
latest they've been under five hundred since nineteen ninety five.
(03:10):
They are sixty and sixty one and the Yankees are
not only are they under five hundred, they're in last place.
And that's the best part about me trolling my dad, going,
hey's that last place Yankee team. You're a mess of
a worst record. I go, yeah, but we're still a
place above you in the standings. We're not even in
last place. And he goes, ah, and that's my dad.
Nothing that he can say other than other than the
(03:34):
normal Yankee the Yankee response, which is fire, everybody trade, everybody,
move the team, get a new stadium.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
That that's every Yankees right to do this, do this,
do this, do this.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
But I'll tell you what for all of that, that's
exactly what's gonna happen with the Yankees after this year.
They're not a knee jerk reaction team where they are
going to see a problem and say all right, let's
let's solve it right now. That's not who they are anymore.
That's that was George Steinbrenner. That's not this iteration of
the Yankees. This iteration of the Yankees is let's stay
the course, let's not trade any prospects just in case
(04:06):
they turn out to be good. Brian Cashman has driven
this team straight to the middle right. It's like he's
afraid to trade prospects because if they're any good, boy,
I can't walk around this town anymore. That's really what
the Yankees have done. They'll go out and spend on
a guy. But it's not They're not gonna do it
all the time. They are getting out yankeed by Steve Cohen.
They're getting out Yankee by the Padres. They got out
(04:28):
Yankee by the Padres. Not that it worked out for
the Padres, but they still got out Yankee by the Padres.
But this year, there is gonna be all kinds of change.
At the end of the year. You are talking about
wholesale changes. New manager, They're gonna make a lot of it.
You're gonna see a lot of new players on the
Yankees this year. They're gonna have no choice but to
go out and spend. And I wouldn't be surprised if
(04:48):
you see the Big Trio and you see new players,
new manager, new general manager, because I don't know that
Brian Cashman can survive after this. It's been years of Hey,
we're not quite there, We're not quite there. Well, yeah,
Aaron Judge was hurting, this is happening. Well, the guys
we've brought up have not all been great. What happened
to that great pipeline of players we brought up that
(05:10):
you've been scouting, that you refuse to trade it's I
would not be surprised to see complete wholesale changes for
the Yankees general manager, manager and contracts gone. And you're
gonna see them try to move out from Understanton, from
under guys. They're going to try to eat money, try
to move on. They are going to This Yankee team
you're gonna see next year is going to be unrecognizable
(05:32):
from the team you see right now.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
What's interesting philosophically, right, you mentioned the difference between Big
Stein and the Steinbrenner Kids spending and the efforts therein
some of the big prospects through the years. Right, We
always had the running joke in the trading card member
of Bilia and then certainly with Fantasy Baseball for years
of all Right, if it's a Yankee, Mets or Cubs prospect,
(05:57):
you short them because one after or another they came
up and they struggled, and then the Cubs hit on
a number of them. Yankees obviously had that run the
glorious you know, Bernie Williams and all those guys rolling
up and obviously the captain. But we look at where
they're at now, and it's the do you accept where
(06:20):
you are? Because this is an outlier season right. Otherwise,
you look at their wins since twenty seventeen and the
arrival of Aaron Judge ninety one, one hundred, one hundred
and three COVID year ninety two, ninety nine, and now
you're five hundred. Now I've been arguing that Cashman has
(06:41):
rested on his laurels. You look at some of these,
you know, the contracts that they have signed, hit or miss.
Now you've got three stars at the top of things
here when you look at Judge and Stanton and Garrett Cole,
and then you're trying to figure out how to build
out the rest of that roster and what is a
very difficult vision right used to have afterthoughts, Well they're
(07:03):
not afterthoughts anymore. The Orioles are eating your lunch. Right.
For all these years they couldn't get it right, and
organizationally there's still a mess. Let's not give Angelos to
anybody too much credit, but they at least hired someone
in the scouting department and to run the thing that's
actually got them on the right track to where they
look like they're going to be a problem for years
to come. Red Sox they don't stay down for long
(07:24):
Blue Jays just good enough to be annoying most seasons,
and we go through, right, who are you? I'm and
the brand? What do you do here? I don't know
that I really do a lot? What do you do?
What happened in that room? But also the Rays right
on paper they look terrible. Year after here, it's like, ah,
where are the stars? And then they go and win
ninety games a year. Now they've got the Wanderfronco thing
(07:46):
that we're trying to sort out what's real, what's imagine?
What reports do you run with and what do you
just sit and play in a holding pattern? And I
think that's where we're at as a holding pattern with
all of that. But they've always blocked their guy in
trying the Braves approach of hey, we lock you in
early and hope you mature into a great player. And
then we've got the Scottie Pippen deal where now you're
(08:08):
grossly underpaid, but you're under contract for years. But the
point being the Yankees don't get to just go and
have their run of the division and going to the playoffs.
Are you built and equipped to get over the top?
Does your manager have the authority like how much is
Aaron Boone versus what he's being told by the front
office in terms of circumstances.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
If they're telling you gets thrown out of every game
he's doing, he's doing pretty well well.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
No, no, no, like, certainly I'm not talking about the temperament.
I'm just talking about bullpen decisions and everything else. Wondering
about that. But you know, certainly he's not. You got
to have a fall guy, so he'll be gone. I mean,
there's no question about that. And who do you go
back and who you bringing in. It's a case of
the Yankees looking at them. They don't lack for star power,
(08:56):
they don't lack for talent. Obviously they need a lot, right,
they have to date deadline. What do we say. There's
no fixing this team, right, we told you the Yankees
are going to miss the playoffs. This is gonna be
the kind of year it was for them because there
was no fixing. They needed more starting pitching, they needed
more bullpen, they needed more everyday players.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Reasons you described. The Jets need nothing and the Yankees
need everything. Right, That's that's how it goes. But more
so than that in baseball this year, just think about
some of the big teams, big market, big spenders, big
star filled teams that have failed. Right, the Mets failed,
the Padres failed, the Yankees failed. What are these teams
(09:35):
have in common? These are all teams that went out
in the last couple of offseasons are bringing guys up,
saying we're just gonna put guys out there that we
think are talented.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's all we're doing. And what happened? They failed? Right
the Mets decided we're gonna outspend and just bring guys in.
Was there any.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Cohesion with the Mets they did? Did the lineup flow?
Did you have guys that can get on base? Did
you have guys that can get on base followed by
guys who can hit with runners in scoring position? You
didn't have that. You didn't have that with the Padres.
The Padres have tried to bring it. Hey, we're gonna
bring as many talented guys as possible. And while yes,
bringing in as many talented guys as possible is great,
but you got to bring in a team that's able
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to flow and be able to pick each other up
and and fill holes in the lineup where maybe they're
not doing everything well. But there's certain things they can do.
And look at these three teams, right, the Mets, the Padres,
the Yankees, They're.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
All just a bunch of guys.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
They're all just about Hey, there's some talented guys out there,
but it's just a bunch of guys thrown out there
and that are playing. And you're not seeing the cohesiveness
of the teams that are the top of divisions. I
watch the Dodgers play every single night, and every time
a guy gets a base it they do that stupid
ass whola thing when they're on base, and everybody in
the dugouts doing that. You watch watch all these doubles
(10:52):
because all the Dodgers do is it doubles. I had
to watch a double in a double. I had to
watch Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Do the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Right, this is not a great Dodger team. This is
probably their worst team in the past ten years. But
there's a lot of cohesiveness. You can tell they have
a great locker room, they have a great clubhouse. And
so here's why they're you know, twenty five games over
five hundred with the worst team they've had.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Look at two of the best players and yeah, I
mean your.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Stars are Your stars are playing great, but this is
not a great not a great starting rotation. Right, you're
hoping to get guys back, you don't have a great bullpen.
You're hoping to try to get through with it. But
this is what you have. This is not the strongest team.
Look at the Orioles where they are great. No, this
is a young team that all came up together. These
guys have all been with each other, been through the
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minor leagues with each other. And look where they are.
Thirty games over five hundred, right, I mean, this is
this is how it goes, right, the Braves, they've all
been together. These are all guys that came up through
the minor leagues. Doesn't matter who comes up, we're gonna hey,
if you show us you're good for eight days in
a row, we're gonna sign you to a ten year,
one hundred million dollar contract.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And everything has come up for them.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
All these guys have played together Acunya, Spencer, Stryder, Albi's
everybody they've signed. You see the most dominant teams in baseball.
This is what they all have in common. They have
that togetherness, the cohesiveness that we're gonna be able to
pick each other up in the lineup, and that's why
they're winning. And I don't get that from the Mets.
I didn't get it from the Padres, and I clearly
haven't gotten it from the Yankees. And while the Mets
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and the Padres are more well, let's readjust we can
move a couple of big name players and maybe move,
we'll still spend some time. I mean, the Yankees have
to have a complete and total reorganization of the organization.
And I'm pretty sure that's what you're gonna get, because
the one thing I can say for them is that
failure is not something that the Yankees are okay with
and saying yeah, it's gonna be a couple of years.
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It's about no, no, no. They're gonna go through this offseason
and say, Okay, it's time for a new GM, it's
time for a new way to think, it's time for
a new manager, and it's time for new players. And however,
they're gonna move out from under a bunch of contracts.
That's what they're going to do. I mean, they're gonna
be unrecognizable when they come to spring training. It's gonna
be a new everything, a new day, in New York
for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Well, and just to punctuate it one last time, we
talk about organizational and philosophical shifts. First mover advantages three
teams we're talking about here too, thirty two to thirty
six to forty team batting averages. You did not adapt
to the new style of play in a shiftless Major
(13:22):
League Baseball. I'm glad you got you got that f
in there. You got the f in there?
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Well, you notice how I rt it in the league?
I really now you got it in there, got it
in there?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
That was good?
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Well I should have just said that Twitter, And how
about a Fresca x at how about a Fresco Mike
hat swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike carbon I mean, this is the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
This is who they are. We told you this is
who they were gonna be. This is where they are,
and that's who they're gonna be next spring. So say
that to your dad's face. Look forward to next spring.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I'm gonna tell my dad, Dad, Wait, do you see
what what February March are gonna be like? Man, it's
gonna be great for you. The next two months not
so much. But boy, the February Marching be great. Yeah,
I'm'm gonna call this kid up, Jeter. All kinds of changes,
all kinds of changes.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
The Jason Smith Show with My bets friend Mike Harmon.
A little bit of a little bit of skid Row
debut album there from Alex ty Shirt.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah buddy, yeah, buddy, I'll tell you what skid Row's
debut album. Here's a hot take for you. Maybe the
most underrated rock and roll album of all time?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
What do you think, Mike Carmon? The most underrated rock
and roll album of all time? Harmon obviously agrees. Harmon
agrees or we forgot you do not hear me? No, you
gotta turn your microphone on?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
No, no, no, my my microphone was I don't think
the microphone was on. I think it was your I
was screaming and seeing getting ready to sing along, showing
full seabat size. Yeah yeah, no.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
One of my favorites to watch stalk of stage.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I don't like any other because he's also what like
six six yeah, and then he would still wear boots
that gave him another two inches. On top of that,
he could play small forward in the NBA. His brother
was a goalie in the NHL for a while.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Legend Dah the He was on Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
The most underrated rock album of all time, Skid Rose dabu.
Oh dude, it's got so many great songs. I Remember
you maybe the best, maybe the best hair metal rock
ballad of all time, the ballad sure yeah, I remember you.
You had can't stand the heartache. You just played sweet
little Sister, piece of me, uh eighteen in life. Oh
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you had so many big songs, the Big Youth Gone Wilt,
Sure we had. We had to get out of that
song early because I told Tysher there's some questionable lyrics.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You gotta get out of that. So you gotta get out,
Gotta get out, gotta get out. Oh but yeah, man,
I'll tell you. Skid Rose debut album, and their second
album was so bad. It was just how dare you?
It was so bad? No, it wasn't it was it
was awful. It was so bad. No, no, no, the
song get the blank Out, I mean it is one
of the greatest ever. No, just stop, No, it's not.
(16:09):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
There's not one song on that second skid Row up
that's anything fantastic. Wasted time was no great quick saying, Jesus,
great song, Psycho, these already even real titles.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
You're just keep business.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Don't tell me. Monkey business was no good.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Monkey business was You're just you're exposing yourself as a
musical I just it was no good.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
It was no taste, It.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Was no good. Nobody bought the second album because it's.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
In a darkened room.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Come on as anything else, not nearly as good as
anything else. Off terriblem You know.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
What skid Row is like, it's it's my mom's philosophy
about buying out, which you know, there's many things my
mom told me that will always stay with me the
rest of my life, and one of them is this
is She said, this is back when you know people
just put albums out. She goes, here's my rule for
buying for buying music from bands, And okay, she goes,
I buy the first album, and I buy the best
of And I said, why, she goes, because the first
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album is going to be the best, because it's the
it's the album they spend the most time working on,
and they makes you have to make sure everything is good.
And reichs it's what's going to be their big break.
And a lot of bands they work on this album
for five or six years and they play these songs
in concert so many times. You buy the first album.
Then they got to put out an album every year
or two the rest of their careers, and maybe you
(17:23):
get one or two good songs of it not worth
buying the whole album. So you buy the first album
and then you buy the best of, and you have
everything you eat off that group.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
And I said, I kind of like that. I kind
of like that philosophy. Now obviously it's out the windowaks
you can buy individual songs now you don't need to
buy a whole albums and everything else. But that was
that was a pretty good philosophy. You buy the first album,
you buy the best of, or you got a lot
of bands that'll give you multiple live albums or best
of with the extended lyrics, changed lyrics, and you know
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the stuff that was never meant to air. You don't
like Prince's Estate, all the stuff that was in a
vault because you know, he didn't want to release it,
and it's still an evault and it's still yeah, he's
he's still They started pumping out some stuff that I'm
pretty sure he would not have wanted to get out.
How about you guys. Name a band that's played in
the last ten years. Wow, Wow, look at.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You know, you know, just the other day, Tears for
Fears was just down the road.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, done, Okay, we're done, we're moving on, moving on.
You just killed the conversation. You just killed it. You
just absolutely killed me.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You have the best of you killed. It's a callback
for all the frames of the show. Tears tune in
night after night, Tears for Field here, they don't have
enough songs for about.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Tears for Fields.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
They don't have like tim too, Tears for Fear, Tears
for Fields. That's that's the Uh, that's the the tribute band.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
The tribute band that shows up.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
It'd be called the shop dressed men. I hate when
you have done to me. Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
The Chason Smith Show of Themighty Carmen Live from the
ti rack dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Big news coming down from the World Cup. Look, we're
gonna watch England and Spain play for the Women's World
Cup Championship. After England wins in the middle of the
night last night and the United States makes a move
that is not nearly surprising. Vlato Andanofsky, head coach women's
World Cup team, has stepped down as manager. Sources confirming
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that to ESPN earlier in the day, an announcement from
the US Soccer Federation confirming it is expected on Thursday. Now,
this is not a surprise because Adonofsky is presided over
the lowest level of accomplishment by the women's national team
in the last quarter century. You're talking about getting knocked
out in the first game of the knockout stage here
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in the World Cup and finishing winning a bronze medal
in the Olympics his first time around. That's not what
we're used to here in the United States. And that way,
they're kind of like the Yankees, where hey, the Yankees
having a bad year this year. They're under five hundred.
This is the latest they've been under five hundred in
the season in twenty eight years. You got to go
back to nineteen ninety five. We talked about it a
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few minutes ago. Same thing for the US women's national team. Hey,
we're not gonna sit here and say, oh, we'll fix
it out. We are going for new leadership and a
new head coach is going to be nominated at some point.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
They're going to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
They've talked to the players, they've talked to other coaching staff,
and they're going to be going forward. As now the
clock turns to let's get ready for the Olympics, the
next big deal for the UK women's national team next year.
They got a couple of friendlies coming up in September,
but now they're looking at what's going to happen next
for this team as we get to the Olympics. And
I gotta tell you, Mike, this is where again, much
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like the Yankees, they need some kind of leadership that
comes from outside of US soccer because for too long,
and again it happens, it's fat cat syndrome. When you're winning,
the players are able to make a lot of the decisions.
And what have we seen the last four years when
the US women's national team was at its height, right
when they won in twenty nineteen, here they are again
(20:46):
overwhelming favorites. In twenty nineteen, Jill Ellis was the coach
they wanted her gone, right, there was meetings they wanted
her fired, none of them like Jill Ellis. Guess what,
Jie Ellis won the World Cup, but after it was over,
she had to go because the players didn't like her anymore.
They Dandanofsky. They liked him as an assistant and they so, yeah,
he's the guy we want. We're going to continue the
good times rolling. Then what happens things don't go well
(21:09):
in the Olympics. Okay, well, we still have other friendlies
to play. We gotta get ready for the World Cup.
And now here they are again, and they lose, and
now things aren't going well, and there's questions about tactics
and substitutions, and now the players are asked again about
the coaches and the direction of the team. I get
that sometimes you ask your players about a coach or
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a manager because you want to make sure that they
haven't lost the team. Maybe you want to get some
input from your star players as to what you think
the team needs. But this has been a case now
the last years of the players having too much power
for that, because you can't win when you have the
players basically calling the shots. When you say, hey, we
like this person as our coach. We don't like this person.
You know what, Sometimes the best coach for you is
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someone that you're not gonna like, and maybe you don't
like them, but maybe they get stuff out of you
that you didn't know you had. They hated Jill Ellis.
They dominate and steamrolled to the World Cup title. Steamrolled.
They had a bit of a tough game against England
four years ago, but they were able when they stopped
the penalties. When listen there stopped the penalty on Steph Houghton,
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and they win that game. But they dominate the Netherlands,
and hey, sometimes that's coaching, right. If the players hate
me and they're playing for each other and they're following
the game plan, guess what, that's good coaching. Doesn't matter
if they hate you, that's good coaching, right. Greg Popovich
talked about it in is a Hall of Fame celebration
and speech over the weekend. I coach the players up here.
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I coach the players in their brain and I get it.
That's how I like to coach players. The girls I coach,
I coach them up here. I can put out ladders
and cones and all kinds of stuff but that's great,
but I got to coach you up here for you
to figure out the best way forward for you. And
there's different ways for different players. And you heard Popovich
talking about it at the NBA level, where yeah, it
was great that he had great players, but he figured
(22:55):
out the best way to coach Tim Duncan, the best
way to coach David Robbinson, the best way to coach Monogene. Hey,
we're gonna run this pick and roll.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
Guess what.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Every team in the NBA runs a pick and roll,
but we're gonna do it, and we're gonna do X,
Y and Z a little bit differently because we have
a different skill set. When you have a coach that's
able to come in with ideas, with fresh ideas and
put their imprint on it doesn't matter if you like them,
as long as you respect what they're doing and you're
gonna go out and play. And the US needs one
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of those coaches who's gonna come in and say, Okay,
this is my program.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Now, this is not your program.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
This is not Lindsay Horan's program, this is not Rose
Levell's program, this is not Julie Urch's program. They can
convince her to come out of retirement one more time.
This is not Alex Morgan's program. I don't know if
I'm coaching the team if Alex Morgan is even on
the team when we go to the Olympics, because he
was just so bad in the World Cup and she's
thirty four and she's probably done forget about four years
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from now in the World Cup. But someone needs to
come in. They got to go outside to say this
is my team, and there's changes that have to be made.
And you can't do it when you're talking to the
players all the time and the players are saying, here's
the coaches we like, here's what I No, the job
is not for you to be comfortable. The job is
for you to be a great player, and there's different
ways to achieve that. And the United States has had
this this hiring from within for the past couple of
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cycles now and now it's time for new ideas. You
got to come outside in and figure things out for
next year.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Yeah, I mean, I think the biggest part of it is,
you know, as we talk about everybody's going back to
school wherever you're at, however, you're maybe celebrating the return
of school. Maybe uh, lamenting it back to school right
as everybody gets back there, there's always the well, you know,
I heard this teacher on this side of the third
grade is really nice and everything, and the other one
(24:43):
it's kind of a hard hass.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
And you'll have some number of parents that.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Will go and try to smooth the principle and be like, hey,
little Johnny needs to be on the nice side of thing.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
You know, sometimes you get that kick in the ass.
We've talked about this.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
You need to face a little bit of adversity and
someone who going to challenge you. And but it's with
every business, with everything we do in life, Jason. If
you got folks that are performing, the numbers are there.
They don't always have to make sense, but if they are,
that gives you some cloud that gives you all sway.
You get to hire in your buddies, hire in your
best friends, get people you don't like out. And for
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the women's team, even though it wasn't always perfect and
they didn't like Jill Ellis, they won, so it was
all right, wait for it. And then the size and
scope of the women's national team and the superstar effect
for those players, it's enough to get them whatever they want,
and that's I mean, that's just a natural cycle of business.
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But then what happens they age out, you don't have
anybody in the middle, and then you have fourteen new
players join this roster for their first World Cup. Now
you weren't helped by the fact that a number of
your would be up and coming forward.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Strikers, et cetera. Were hurt.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
And then Sophia Smith did what Sophia Smith did in
penalty kicks, So how does she respond to that? And
Repino missing a penalty kick and O'Hara hitting a post
man ifs ands and butts in a game of inches
as it flows, you know, if they survive.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
That, do they find things right?
Speaker 3 (26:15):
No?
Speaker 5 (26:15):
They still weren't scoring any goals in regulation.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
And that's the thing is that is it for every
bit of opinion that yeah, boy, if Rapino would hit
that penalty, or if Sophia Smith had done anything but
kick it off the side of her foot, if.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Oh Harry doesn't okay, yeah, maybe you win that game.
You gotta win four more games? Was this team gonda
win that many more games?
Speaker 5 (26:35):
To go to work?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But now now that's the first game of the knockout round.
The first game, it's still a lot of winning that
would have needed to be done.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
And who knows?
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Are you winning in penalty kicks every time she scored
any goals?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
No?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
All right, I mean we watched it time and again.
So what happens the unrest, the venom, the poison pens
are out, and the questioning of everything you're doing, and
when your coach looks like he'd rather be anywhere else
and answering questions, he really does it, not that he
has to give you full, full disclosure, but you've got
the stoic continent countenance on the sidelines, which, okay, that's
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fine to a point, but then we're all sitting around
and wondering, all right, substitutions anybody? Anybody getting up anybody
or like O'Hara, she substituted in what a minute and
a half before that game ended, you know, coming in
cold and getting into the penalty kick situation, like all
of that left so many questions and from his tactical approach,
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but then from the roster perspective, you see you're in
a position whereby there's just a huge set of change,
just like we were talking about with the Yankees. At
some point, You've got to just recognize you've got a
clean house. Now, where's your next coach from? Hey, these
new guys don't know these all the new women on
this team. They don't know the tactics of Jill Ellis.
(27:57):
She can come back in and be a hard ass.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
They I haven't heard anything.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Wait, isn't she the one that nobody like?
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
No, no, no, no, no, You're gonna love her.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Now, you're gonna love these trophies.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You know, see those commercials you got before you played
a minute for the US women's national team in the
World Cup.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
You see all that Jill Ellis was the coach during
that time.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Oh, she's gonna be great. You're gonna love her. Wait
a minute, but I heard like no, no, no, no, no,
come on, man, I try to try.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Don't ask anybody about it. Just say yes, just say yes.
Go But no, but you need to get outside. You
need to get new ideas in. This is not a
time to say, hey, let's let's pull together. No, this
is a time to be a little bit uncomfortable. Because
you said a lot of these players in their first
World Cup, a lot of those players in their last
World Cup. You're gonna see a bit because this this
roster was not good enough. It just wasn't good enough.
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So now there's gonna be turnover. There's gonna be the
players who are twenty one, twenty two now that you're
expecting to play big roles when they're twenty four to
twenty five, because you're looking at a lot of this
team that is older as well. Next World Cup, Lindsey
Horan's can be thirty three. Sam Us may never get
back on the field again all of a sudden. Yeah,
she was a great midfielder, maybe the best midfielder in
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the world three years ago, but she hasn't played in
two years. She which comes back from the next World Cup,
she's gonna be thirty four. All these players are gonna
be OLDA Roselevel is gonna be in her early thirties now.
So you're talking about relying on players that are all
near the end, and when you're relying on players who
are near the end that weren't good enough. Now, yeah,
you're gonna need a lot of new players.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
I mean it's gonna be a whole new thing, just
like the Yankees gonna have all new players next year.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
You as women's national team. You're gonna have a lot
of new players as we go. Follow Jason, you are
an authority when it comes to a bad roster.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I am I know about Rosco when I see one, No,
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon Live fromthetirag dot com studios where today, Hey,
we had a lot of fisticuffs and practice across the NFL.
We had cowboys getting into it with each other. We
had the Jets and the Bucks getting into it with
each other. You had a Jets assistant coach their defensive
back which had to go to the hospital try to
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get trying to break up a fight that was on
the field.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
You got to stay out of it.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
You you had Max Crosby and Cam Akers getting out
of the joint practice between the Raiders and the Rams,
and Crosby's doing a press conference after saying cam Akers
wanted to say what he said, so we got what
he got and he's there with no.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Shirt on yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, and then
Sean McVay made sure to point out the fact that
you get in a fight a practice, you don't get
to practice right now. Kick camp akers out of practice
for that.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
But it looks like a Crosby's all big in bad.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, dude, don't punch me, dude, dude, don't punch me.
Just don't don't punch me. Due, don't. So all of
this is happening, and it's it's more of a story now,
and we see more of these because we do see
teams do more joint practices now because you don't see
the ones play a lot of preseason action anymore. How
do you get the one some action where you don't
(31:07):
have to worry about injury? You have these joint practices
where you're not allowed to sack the quarterback and you
keep it as controlled as possible. Matthew Stafford saying after
practice today, Max Crossby would get within five yards on
plays he would go sack sack, which I can imagine.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I wonder if that pissed you off. To drive back
to pass and the guy is like five yards away, sack, sack, sack,
stop the play, stop the play.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
So I get it. Oh, I got you, I got you.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
No, you did not.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
It's like when you play two hand touched so I
got you with both ends. No, you got me one
hand on my hip and the other hand on your shoulder. No,
you never touched my shoulder. You did not touch me.
No fingertips hand, fingertips, cheater, cheater, cheater. Uh.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You're seeing a lot more of this. And this is
when things get out of control because it's not as
policed as a as an NFL game is, and players
can run on the field. I have to worry about
suspension or anything else. Look, we said Aaron Donald was
swinging helmets at people, you know last year at practice
and all kind these things can get out of control
pretty fast. And this is where you see guys getting hurt.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
And I just say this, here's the best.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
You want to stop fighting at practice because fighting your
practice is stupid.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It is, it's stupid. But I get it.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Because it's hot and every summer it gets hotter than
the last because the planet is getting hotter than it's
ever been. It's hot at practice. You're out there every
single day sweating. Why are you fighting other players on
other teams because you're hot and you're miserable. Would it
just kill you to have a couple of practice at night.
Maybe you have that big joint practice at night, and
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maybe everybody's not in the in the ill frame of
mind where I want to fight the other team. I
want to pick up a guy in body slam them
like Mark Andrews did the other day when the Ravens
were playing Washington. I mean, maybe you avoid things like
that happening because it's just hot and people.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Are miserable when it's hot. So just take that.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I'm not saying you practice at night every single time.
There's something to be said for being out there and
being in the thick of the heat and being able
to make sure and build up your stamina. But hey,
once in a while, would it kill you to practice
at night many Maybe you stopp the miserableness from some players.
Maybe you stop some of the training camp fights.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I don't know. I just think that's a pretty simple solution. No,
I like it. I mean, it is simple, and it's well,
it's oversimplified. I mean, it's been hot forever in the summer. Smith,
come on, we see sweats and we see your kids.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
You said, sweat hogs that's pretty cool. Hey, welcome, Welcome back,
Mike harmonto Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
So why don't you say it's been happening? So why
can't we have Why can't you have practice night? Why
can't you once in a while, Why can't they act
like tonight and why can't you get you on the
next play?
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Why can't you have a joint practice at night and
put it on TV?
Speaker 5 (33:43):
We could do.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
People would watch it.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
People would watch and look, you can have in the
local market.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
In the local market. If you said, hey, Jets and
the Bucks are having a joint practice tonight, you know,
under the lights wherever it is, and you put it
on TV in New York and in Tampa, everybody would watch.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Jason, you saw what NFL Network was doing at the
start of camp. They had people in outposts all over
the country, great interest and notes and the interviews that
they would get, the access whatever I mean, people watch people,
it's the NFL. People are sheep, they're on board. Just
put it on TV. But I do like the evening practices.
(34:25):
I think there's something to be said for that. But
it's not gonna change where we're at. Guys are gonna fight.
They're seeing people in other uniforms that they don't have
to answer to for the rest of a season. Why'd
you take a shot at me? It's like, Wow, you've
been digging me for the last week, and now you
know the other opponent comes in and you slap them
up side the head because you can get that frustration out.
(34:46):
We have more NFL on the way. Next, we got
a big story out of the league. Straight ahead. This
is Fox Sports Radio.
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