August 31, 2023 • 41 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon talk with JP Morosi in studio as they all debate baseball picks and what is hot as MLB is gearing up for the postseason.
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often we open the show and we have a very
special guest with us right off the match. I think
three times in the nine years we've been doing this
show that's happened. I think Josh Norman, right, Josh normOn
once because he was live from Wegmans where we used
to work, Jake Glazer with Breaking News NFL, and now
because he waited in the studio to hang out with
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us and hang out and talk baseball, the one and
only MLB Network Insider, Fox Sports Radio Insider, and he
will be coaching the second quarter of the second game
of the season for the Michigan Wolverines. John Paul Morosi JP.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Welcome, but gentlemen, I am grateful the third ever to
be in studio. By the way, my walk up music
does hit a little differently when it's in the headphones
when you're actually in the studio. I am now fired up.
You got the goosebumps going. We're doing a show together.
We're in person for the first time ever, the three
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of us in one place.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
This is it.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I am thrilled. This is awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Hey and I and look, I can't tell you number one,
proud and happy for your career, but being able to
coach Michigan in the second quarter of game two because everybody.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Bring to grease in with the players with him. Not
everybody is getting that chance. Only fifteen or twenty people
are getting a chance to coach Michigan while Harbaugh is
serving that suspension, and you.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Are one of them.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Only roughly half of ann Arbor.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I believe it's actually been permitted to coach Michigan in
any of these first three games.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It is unique.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I was actually working on my speech to the team
on the notes function of my iPhone on the play
on the way over here, so I had some time
to reflect, which is great. We'll do the game tomorrow
and imbe Network Braves, Dodgers and LCS preview perhaps, and
then I'll fly back on Friday coach.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
The team on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
All right, I think you need to work out that
speech tomorrow during the game. You're doing, yeah, you do it.
I mean this is start throwing in yeah. When they
tossed him go and now, hey, John Paul Morossi has
the latest on Ronald d'cunya, and you have to say, you.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Know, gentlemen, great, great, great stuff. Have that a second butt.
I gotta give you my speech to the Michigan team.
I'm going to give before I'm coaching the second quarter
of Game two.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
We're here to win for Michigan. There it is, who's
got it better than us?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
There you go, I'm pretty good. They would love that
on the broadcast. They would absolutely love that. They would
love that. Just throw it in like as one lion
at a time. Yeah, raccoon. Yeah, the other day.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Obviously a scary moment on the field. You know we're
gonna have to matriculate the ball. Third down is going
to be critical. Now, super wing tea, is that you're
offen sort the super wing tea?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, so we ran the wing eye, But as I've
been saying to you guys on the air, I think
I think we have to go straight wing teas against
the Pirates of East Carolina. They probably have not seen
the wing tea in a while. No, no, so I
think it's time to bring it back. They'll be surprised.
Maybe the full house. The single wing was I mentioned
that before For those that are not familiar with it,
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are you guys know the single wing?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
We played a team in the same my freshman year.
We played a team that ran the single wing and
they beat us like forty eight to us.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
So confusing. So for those who they come out.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Of the huddle in the snake and they line up
in the line of scrimmage's like where the guys the
guys always.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Not familiar it is. It is like three dimensional chests.
So the checkers that most mortals are playing on the gridiron,
You've got you do have your usually double tight end,
or you can split them out if you want, just
to be really interesting. But you've got four backs and
the quarterback doesn't always get the snap. Sometimes you have
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the quarterback over the center and then three backs on
his right. You might have two on the right side,
one on the left. You might snap it to the
person on the end, and it's just complete chaos, and
everybody acts like they've gotten the snap, so they know
how to fold over the ball and make it look
like they've got and and you just have no idea
where the ball's going and very very hard to tackle.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That is a fantasy nightmare trying to figure out who's
a running back to.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Running back, to classify those positions.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
The great I believe back in the day when I
followed the NFL carefully, Keith Byers.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Was his own category. He was the h back. Look
him up he was.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
When I covered it. Look him up, everybody, Hey, look
him up.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Look him up.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
All the way back to eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
When I covered Major League baseball, Mordecai three fingered Brown
found a way to throw a spinball that he's just completed.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
By the way, that's a that's a very Montgomery burns.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Like, no, like that, that's an excellent I yes, By
the way, Keith Buyer's Ohio state.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Oh yeah, I'm surprised you brought up a Buckeye. I'm
very surprised.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
He was a great player for the Eagles.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now, speaking of great, now, you're actually I don't know
if you know this or not, but you're not allowed
to leave the studio ever again. Because when I came
in to see you for the first time, the Rangers
had the bases loaded, nobody out in the top of
the tenth inning against the Mets. From that moment when
I saw you and said hello, until now, the Mets
get out of it, dominate with an incredible double play
and a bases loaded hit by pitch the DJ Stewart
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game because he got a home run in the paces
loaded hit by pitch to win the game of the
tenth inning. The Mets win. Intended, it was as bad
as it could be. I saw you, said hello, and
since then everything changed. Maybe had you been here earlier
this year, everything would be okay, We're not going to
trade Pete Alonzo, and we'd be get ready.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
For the playoffs. We would not be in this predicament there.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
John Baumerosi is the flash. Yeah, the history and timeline.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
There you go the New York Mets.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And by the way, it is amazing that even in
this season that is going nowhere, when they win in
walk off fashion, you're optimistic and you look at the
fans in New York and they're they're loving it, and
it just it just shows that each individual win at
the major league level is golden. And by the way,
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this news of the Rangers demise tonight is very much
welcomed in Seattle and Houston because this three team race
in the American League West right now, I think is
one of the best things going in baseball. And Seattle's
looking very strong. They find a way to come back
and win today. And look at the Rangers had the
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second best run differential in the American League right now,
but they are really playing poorly right now. I mean,
they still probably find a way to get in because
the Jays continue to struggle, but they are making life interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
There is no more fun than what's going on that
pendant rate. And this year I picked the Mariners to
go to the World Series.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Nice I did interviews on Seattle Radio. They started off terribly.
I have not been on since. Now it's time for
my for my redemption. Right, time for the redemption.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Ride to that redemption. And by the way, it's time.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So since I've been here for eight minutes and change,
I feel very comfortable to now start making some some
production decisions for the program. I would say that when
when the Mariners and Dodgers meet in the World Series,
it would be only appropriate for this radio program to
be done from Dodger Stadium. Respect respect to your prediction.
(07:54):
I think we should also be how to respect to
the prediction. Not like that, I mean that's not like
I mean you can hold the trident.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. Julio Rodriguez, you're
in a dance.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I could do the dance every time Freddy Freeman hits
a double which is ever yet that, but the trident
thing is fun, Like I got there with a trident
and brick killed a guy with a try. It does
seem like there might be some insurance and liability problems.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I'm told the trident weighs approximately twenty pounds.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
It is really significant celebration.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Because I almost bought one from a costume shop. So
we can have one in studio. It was a five
part thing that I don't think weighs twelve ounces. Really, yeah,
so I could do some damage with the twenty pounds,
That's what I mean. You could throw it like.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
In the wall.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
That'd be pretty cool. Your sound affectibility is outstanding. You
are you are a learned man of the radio, but
you have got a vast array of skills.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, he's really performing for you here because I get
nothing right mostly most nice.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Bread jets. Now I get it, and come.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
On, but I'm telling you I am now.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I we joke about my lack of knowledge about the
contemporary NFL. But the more people that tell me the
Lions actually have a chance to win the Super Bowl,
I'm starting to get into it.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
This is a deal.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
This is a big deal that I am coming around
to this belief that that it might finally happen. I mean,
the last time they won a championship, my father was five,
nineteen fifty seven. This is in the pre lane, yes,
by ten years pre Super Bowl era.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
So this did you start buying some gear?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Now?
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Did you pick a player that you're going to get
a jersey?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I would need to know a player's name besides Jared Goff.
But I'll get there. I'll start Eric Hipple. Yes, I
remember to throw back.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
You're to throw Eric Kipple. That's pretty good. You get there.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
It was just before Chuck Long.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Nicely done, who was robbed of the Heisman? Trump?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
All right, so let's get you a little bit of
baseball here, keep you for a little while here talks
in baseball. First things first, Now you have the big
series tomorrow, you start Dodgers and the Braves. Do both
teams play this? Look, it'll be the biggest series in
baseball the rest of this week. Do both teams play
this like we want to send a message or are
you gonna see teams kind of back off a little bit,
and hey, we're gonna save our We're gonna save what's
(10:18):
in our holster for October because there's bigger fish to fry.
You have a twelve game lead, a thirteen and a
half game lead, there's no reason to kind of show
all our secrets now.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Right, it's a fair question, But I would say this,
first of all, in modern baseball, there are no secrets
anymore anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Right, with all the all the analytics.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Now, maybe strategically, do you try a fake bunt here
and there? Do you try to have someone try to
steal a base that might not typically do that?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Perhaps, or Dave Roberts, let's a guy pitch into the
seventh look at that.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I'll get the number.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Guy with a no hitter gets to go all the way.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I'll say, we do have Ryan Peppio on the mound
right now as we're watching it. I would I would
not expect Pepio to get into the seventh inning.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Tonight. We shall see about about lanceln tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well you jink you jinxed Alex Cobb last it's gone
no hitter.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
And two thirds.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, Jason, the route take, I mean he comes in
and then takes a circuitous route, and I'm saying like,
oh my god, can you might to be able.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
To catch that? Cob made a horrible route to the ball.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
It was a horrible route. Your heart, your heart breaks
for him.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I mean I was I was there for the Armando
Galla RockA game which is the.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
The the a perfect.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Game, the two thirds inning game to which all others
are compared. But so I would say this that there
is still something to compete for you. You're still worried
about home field advantage and also the structure of the playoffs.
You have enough time off, you have that buye that
both these teams are almost certain to get. So I
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think you keep you keep the foot down on the
accelerator because the last thing you want to do is
to get stale as a baseball team and have too
much time off. You need to keep honoring the big
one sixty two through the end. And again, you know,
maybe you try to have a couple of different strategic elements,
but by and large, Jason, you play this series straight up,
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play it to win. There's a lot on the line,
and I think not the least of which is the
National League MVP, which if it's not decided this weekend,
it's certainly going to be decided between these two teams.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
And then you add the element you brought up of
lance Lynn Flaying in Chicago, guy that you'd seen have
some big performances, much made about, you know, his countenance
and everything, and then he comes to the Dodgers and.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
All of a sudden, you know, culture is everything. JP. Yes,
like all of a sudden, he's a hero. On a
whole other level.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
The Dodgers make you better, and that is why.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
And I'm sure the three of us will have a
lot of conversations for a long time about show A
and what's going on where he goes. If if you
were a player who had the ability to sign with
any team and the idea was, I need to go
somewhere that's gonna make me the best player that I
can be, the best situation for me to hit my
potential mets.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
That besides.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Right, right, But it's like if you just take your
right family member, someone who's development matters.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
The most to you.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Okay, I'm it's honestly, the Dodgers have become the Harvard
Business School of the of the baseball community in terms
of this is like getting your master's degree in baseball.
They find that one thing, that one way to make
a good player great, a below average player serviceable.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
JD.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Martinez looked like he was sort of on his last
last legs a bit in Boston. All of a sudden,
now he's he's back. And I just think that it's
a remarkable story of development resources on and off the field,
the analytics, the softer skills of baseball. The Dodgers have it,
I believe better than anybody else.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
All Right, now we we got into a lot of
college football there in the beginning, because you're coaching Michigan, right,
we get a lot of baseball togain. You want to
hang for a little bit longer, let's do it. We
got to talk about Bryce Harper's home run today. Amen,
you got to tell me the Mets aren't going to
trade pee Alnzo. I will have an answer to that question.
It may not be the one that you want, which
is why you've got to stay with us.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
But you don't know, you don't know what I want.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
It may it maybe may not be stay with us.
We'll see.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Look at you knowing how to tease. Look at that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
That's next level that you know what that is. That
is what we call I would tell you that is
what we call radio analytics. Right there, that that's radio
analytics right there.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
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have questions, He's got answers. Nice, yeah, And you know,
and I dig I was just telling somebody this story
the other day. You and me and Mike were talking.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
You let's go about Italy and Piazza of the World
Baseball Classes. And I just told my friend said, what's
one of the craziest things that someone's done on your
radio show that that that you haven't told me. And
I'm like, okay, wow, what And somehow I don't know,
but I went, but I said, Okay, there's a guy
we have on who's a baseball insider, John Paul Morosi,
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and he's Italian and he likes to drop Italian phrases
on the show all the time. And one time he
did an interview with us and he dropped like four
Italian phrases. And I said, okay, okay, my challenge to you,
between now and the next time we talk to you
next week, you have to do an interview, a baseball interview,
completely in Italian.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That's right. And you can't let the people doing the
interview know why you're speaking Italian. You have to just
go on and do it, and you have to do
it between now and next week. And he said, okay,
I'll try try. I'm going this is going to be awesome.
And then you send me a little link to an
interview a couple of days later that you did an
interview with a radio station in Italy that's right about baseball.
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I did that Italian the entire time.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I exactly did didn't have to say why I'm speaking
Italian exactly it all worked out. I still go back
to that. It was a lengthy Italian baseball podcast. It happened.
I can't remember exactly the name of it. My friend
Kevin Sanatore, who lives in Italy, was one of the
co hosts, and yeah, we we just talked baseball in
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Italian for about forty five to fifty minutes. It was
a long form Italian baseball podcast. I'm not fluent, but
I try, and when I lose a word, I fake
it for a while and find a way to get
it back.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
So it's it's great around it.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, it's but you know what it does. I've often
said this sports is a fun portal to understand culture
people around the world, and you do have that empathy
for the challenge that athletes have when they come to
the US and have to do interviews in your second language.
So I always try to remember that, remember how hard
it is, and do the interviews. Yes, and speaking, which
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I thought you were gonna segue to Bryce Harper hitting
a home run in honor of a radio host personality
in Philly.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Speaking of that home run, that big home run, that
big number. Let's hear it deep, right, field renfro Back, look.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
It up and it's gone.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Number three hundred is a go ahead to.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Run home run by Harper in the bottom of the
eighth inning.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Philly's radio network on the call, Yes, as you said
that home run big three hundred an honor of a
radio personality in Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Kind of a big day.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Right.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
They didn't get the win, but everything else about it
was good.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Right. He said that there was a caller named Chuck
who called in to the local Philly radio station. And
by the way, I do think I love this about Bryce.
He doesn't even try to bore us with the old
thing that sometimes people say, Well, I never listen, I
don't care what's being said on the radio about No.
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Bryce cares deeply and he owns it, which I love
he Bryce Harper. When he left Washington, like a lot
of people wondered, Where's he gonna go? What city fits him?
Bryce is a He is a grinder. He is a
grinder with superstar talent. And the way that he has
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approached things in Philadelphia I think is exactly right for him,
It's exactly right for this city. They have an attitude
and I like the attitude that Bryce plays with the
passion that he's got. He never tries to pretend like
he's above the fray. He very much wants to be
in the middle of the fray. He loves that the
fray involves people who are really angry at times and
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upset about the team or passionate about it, and he
is motivated by that. There are some players who might
be motivated by the paycheck in different aspects of the
fame that comes with sports. I really think Bright Harper eats, sleeps,
breathes baseball. He would do this if he made a
fraction of what he's making now. He just think he
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loves the game that much. He is in baseball for
baseball period.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
We'll just go back to last week when he was
interacting with all the kids. Yeah, you had the one
female player on a squad that he went out of
his way to make.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Sure, yes, she knew how cool this was. Yeah, how
especially it was. And he was like, they're cheering in
the stands.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
He got emotional talking about it, like he's I think
that for a long time, Bryce Harper was misunderstood as
a player and.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
A sports figure.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
He called him Bieber. Oh, he was Bieber Harper for
a long time.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Oh sure, Yeah, I think he's changed though, I really do.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
He was immature and it took him a long time
to figure out and be comfortable with being a star
and being what he is.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
And now he's always.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Going to play in Philadelphia totil least fifty five years old,
right contract Well, but and and along those lines, Jason,
I think it's interesting the athletes that we see when
they make it big at night, or even in Bryce's case, younger.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
So he debuted at nineteen, but he was part of
our consciousness for years before then. You know, how do
we You know, we're all parents. You think about at
what age you start to really have consequences or in
terms of like how you evaluate your own kids. Okay,
you made this mistake at eleven, which is okay, but
you made it at fifteen, which is not okay. So
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or as they get older, like nineteen twenty twenty one.
You know what I'm saying that like those immature moments,
those happened in Arrange when most kids are in college,
and we tend to regard those those mistakes a little
differently or just immaturity. Maybe I think Bryce matured before
our eyes because we were aware of him at such
a young age, and I think he's become a really
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great ambassador for American sports, for the city of Philadelphia,
for baseball especially.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Now, let me give you a round number. He's thirty
years old. He just did his three hundred homer. If
I said to you, yes or no, six hundred homers
by the time he's done, yes or no.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
For Bryce Harper, no, I think he gets five hundred,
but not six hundred. Six hundred is a huge number.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
He has a lot of years of health right now,
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
And think, let's say, think how great through thirty Miguel
Cabrera was, and he he has gotten past five hundred,
but has not yet approached six hundred and and won't
I look at what Albert Pooles did and the way
that he got to six hundred and beyond, like that's amazing.
I think that the way that Albert was able to
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have that big finish to his career last year was
just extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, but just in general, I mean, not a lot
of pressure playing in Anaheim either for all those years.
That's true, because that's the segue to where we're goingsition
the expectations were there for about a month, and we
talked about it briefly when we had you the other night, JP.
But in the aftermath of everybody being cut and everything
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else going on, how much does it alter the playoff
chases these guys going to waivers and maybe becoming available
to some of these contending squads.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
We'll find out, obviously by noon Eastern tomorrow. So it's
going to be a very interesting time in baseball as
we hear and understand who might be going different places.
Listen with the Angels, and we talked about it last night.
This is motivated by the luxury tax. It's it's a
bad look, but there's at least a baseball reason for it.
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It will actually change the dynamics of the Pennant races
less than what the old August trading period used to do. Sure,
and so I'm okay with it. It sort of becomes
a convenient punchline for what the Angels have become. I
really believe, and I mentioned this last night. I think
that they made those moves for the right reasons. Right now,
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It just it feels like this capitulation by the Angels
that just that they're now making a move trying to
improve their draft stock by two rounds because they're facing
the very real possibility that they're gonna lose show as
a free agent. What it is, more than anything, is
just sad. It's sad that we've gotten to this point
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with Showey and the Angels. It's sad that they never
made the playoffs with him. It's sad that the that
his tenure there is not gonna end with some dramatic
complete game in the playoffs, and in fact, he can't
pitch right now because of the elbow. It's just a
gigantic bummer for the for the Angels, and honestly, it's
really hard to like think about the baseball gods here
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and say, yeah, Angels, you deserve to have them for
another four or five or six years. They don't. They
really don't. They've done the best they can sort of
with him to the to this point. But there is
no way that from a credible standpoint, that the baseball
world outside of Anaheim would react with any joy if
he just re ups there, because there's more for him
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to do, and and there's nothing about the situation there
that says, yes, it's going to get better.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I'm not seeing it.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
They might be able to bump up their their draft
stock by two rounds, but what what does that really mean?
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Does it get them any closer?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
You should have had a better team and in a
more cohesive strategy that would have convinced him to stay.
He has been all about winning from the very beginning.
I admire that about him, just like I admire Bryce Harper, who,
by the way, was when Shoey was developing in Japan,
his favorite American baseball player, Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So what you're telling me, if I'm reading between the
lines here the big move in the off season Pete
lons over shoo Tani, that that that's there?
Speaker 7 (25:47):
You go.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
We have to find a way, Jason to make that work.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
And by the way, uh we we probably have more
time to talk about this is as the weeks go on,
but I'll make this point. How about Pete Alonzo plus
a maybe one more position player. I haven't figured out
exactly who it's going to be yet, but Pete Alonzo
for Vladimir Guerrero Junior. It's one year of Alonzo plus
(26:14):
plus maybe one more players sort of offset that Alonzo's
numbers better than Vlad's numbers. But Vlad for Alonzo.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Okay, all right, I'm with it.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I'm with you, but you would you would have to
probably include more along with Alonzo because it's only one year.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Guy. Well, if I could pick the guy, that'd be great.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
I would.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
I'd be open to hearing some nominations. Well, I haven't
necessarily figured out the full extent of the Mets farmcism,
which by the Versos Frasco.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, who is also by the way, on waivers. Yeah,
he's gonna sit there for a while. So so you
talked about this, you said, I'm not going to get
the answer.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
I like this.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
This Peede Alonso trade rumor has not gone away in
the last week. He's been asked about it, and he
says all the right things. I want to stay here,
I want to be a Met. I can't control a business.
Part of it.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Is that really going to happen, And Met's really going
to trade Pete Alonzo?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
They can?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
They probably should, Jason, They really should. When when you
think about where they're at. If you go back to
what Billy Eppler said to Max Schurzer reportedly that that
next year is going to be a transition year. Why
would you not trade someone who is in the last
year of his deal. There is no indication that you're
(27:25):
close to signing him. If you're already telling your own
people that it's a transition year, why why it's Alonzo
is not shoe Otani? Why why would you keep him
for one more year under these circumstances when honestly, as
a as a front office and as an ownership group,
you have shown what I believe is a sufficient level
(27:46):
of imagination to do something different. You're trying to by
by paying down the shures are in JV deals, you're
bringing back better prospects. As many people have said to me, Jason,
right now, on this day, you would rather be a
Mets fan than a Yankees fan. And the reason is,
and you've said that for your whole life. Yes, but but.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
It's not Beny days. Yeah, but yes, you're right.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
But the reason is that the Yankees are stuck and
the Mets are at least moving somewhere. They It may
not be the direction everybody wants, but they are they
are moving. Steve Cohen has taken the wheel and says,
I'm not sure what the direction say, but I'm going
this way, and I'm going this way, and and you
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know what, you'd rather be going this way? Then then
the Yankees. The Yankees are stuck at the stoplight. The
map is upside down. They're arguing over where to go.
They're going nowhere. At least the Mets they're going that way.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
But they did give you a call up in the Martian.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
The Martian.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
The Martians is getting the marsh landed Jason do Minge's
September call up.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
He's on his way. I think it's probably a little
too little, too late. But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
As as we sit in one of the great media
capitals of our nation speaking about teams from the other
great media capital of our nation in New York, it
is amazing to me, as someone who grew up in
a town that is a square mile, how such a
tremendous percentage of the top one hundred prospects in the
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game play for the Yankees or the Dodgers or the Mets,
when in fact you look years gone, years in the future.
Wait a minute, was was was Greg Bird really? The
next great?
Speaker 5 (29:35):
First?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Was was Greg Bird really? The next John Holroude?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Was he really?
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I again, that's the inherent skepticism of someone who grew
up in a town that is one square mile.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
That's that's how I look at things. He is John
Paul Morosi. You can follo him on Twitter at John Morosi.
He'll be the one giving the Michigan speech tomorrow during
the Braves Dodgers cover of this big series.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
JP.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Thank you so it's awesome to see you hanging out
with us in studio. Fantastic stuff, man.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
I had a great time.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
We went from Keith Byers to Greg Byrd all the
same radio program.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Now, if there's people on social media who want to
reach out with play ideas for you from Michigan at
Johnny recept okaway much.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I want to see the the wing tea full house, wishbones,
single wing are all welcome. You could also go five
wide and just air it out. Okay, all ideas are welcome.
It's got to make sure you diagram it properly with
all the arrows where the we're the right guard, blocks
and pulls.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
All that stuff very important. He just ran the annexation
of Puerto Rico.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I need to show my kids little giants. We have
not had enough football talk in our house.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Buddy. Thank you so much, Love you guys, thanks. Hey,
let's find out what's trending right now. Another guy we love.
It's Brian Fendley. He's got all the news right now.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
What you got You are so good at segues, Jason
and Mike, both of you. And yeah, as far as
what is trending, I got to tell you a world
record was sent tonight. It's set tonight when it comes
to a women's sporting event and the amount of attendees
at one ninety two thousand and three showed up to
watch Nebraska women's volleyball play Omaha outdoors at Memorial Stadium.
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It was a three set wind for Nebraska, but ninety
two thousand and change showed up a new world record
when it comes to attendance of a women's sporting event.
Ninety two thousand is more than the sum of the
fans that have been to all of the Mets home
games collectively, by the way, So there's that they all.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Left the game a lot happier Mets fans do.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yes, what that's the Mets spring training T shirt you're
wearing right now?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Horse?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Because I knew JP was going to be had, I
had to represent with Mets gear tonight that and back
when there.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Was hope, Yeah, there was hope.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
Why aren't you wearing your cleats and then the glove
that you take to every ball game you go to.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Why aren't you shaving doing an update while you like,
you know, I don't need to say I don't wear cleat.
You're the guy that brings a razor in in shaves.
You bring in that Narrolko Sana. That's Santa COMMERCIALI get
every year of Sanna going on the snow with the
Narroco blades and he's shaving the snow like shaving a face.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Yes, something like that.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Hey, by the way, I'm not sure what you're on,
but but we're gonna go with it because that's what
we do. By the way, forty nine ers said coach
Kyle Shanaan was asked about Nick Bosa dealing with the
contract dispute. Shannon said that there is no way that
he is going to be trading, although Bosa might miss
a little bit of time here as they try to
work out a new deal for him. Dolphins gentleal manager
(32:36):
Chris Greer mentioned the negotiations on a new deal with
quarterback two or tongue about it will resume in the
off season. So if you're media in a press conference
during the season and you bring it up, you're not
gonna get an answer. As far as Major League Baseball,
let's look at that really quickly. Some notable games, including
the Mets that elusive win six to five against the
Rangers in ten innings, as they get it done in
(32:59):
very Mets fashion, my pitch with bases loaded in the
tenth Speaking of a win in today.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Any way possible, doesn't matter. Get him on the walk
off hit over one of my favorites, get him in.
Speaker 8 (33:11):
Yeah, and you still put yourself through watching all these
games even though they're now just twelve games over five hundred,
So I guess you can never count them out. You
can't can out the race because they are thirty games
over five hundred.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Three to nothing.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
They won against the Marlins, Mariners five to four against
the Athletics. They have won twenty one times in the
month of August, as a franchise record in a calendar month.
And lastly, guys, we do have the US Open going
on a growing list of American men. Taylor Fritz is
up a set and a break in his second round
match right now. Ben Shelton onto the third round along
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with You've got a couple of other guys, Tommy Paul,
he is in there as well, in Francis Tiafo, so.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Could be sure. Yeah, yeah he's in there.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah sure, really yeah, Venus Garrolitis, Yeah, Jimmy Butler's.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
David Lee, yeah, former NBA guy, yeah, watching.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Pat Cash, Yeah. All they all all legends all there.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Unbelievable. You're just showing off with your tennis lexicon.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Thank you very much, Pride Friendly.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Now to bring things full circle, John Palmrosi before he leaves,
I got you know, we just talked about that. We're
gonna getting too this coming up in a bit that
Nebraska volleyball amazing largest women's crowd in world sports.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
History cells out in forty eight hours. Fans started coming
in JP earlier in the day for.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
The uh the the pre event right that had the
big main event was Nebraska playing Omaha, and then they
had the opening exhibition match between Nebraska Kearney Division D
two and Pride of Michigan Wayne State.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Wayne State University was there, the Warriors. I love that.
I love that, and I believe I have to check
the box score. But the great Harper Murray of Ann
Arbor is playing on Nebraska's volleyball team, so we sent her.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Do you know a volleyball insider as well? NHL MLB
volleyball insider too.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
I watch a lot of field hockey now because my
daughters play field hockey. It's a great sport. So I
try to be you try to have global perspective on
different sports. So all right, we send our best to
the corn Huskers. That's just it's an amazing event. I
love the way they're growing women's sports there and so
congratulations are Harper.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's awesome there. It is Wayne style type. A lot
of my white family goes to Wayne State too. Wayne
State's another another pretty big destination there.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Wayne State. Nice.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
But coming up next, yes, we get into this unbelievable story,
some numbers that are going to just knock your socks off.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
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spending the first forty five minutes of the show with us.
Great stuff on Bryce Harper, Dodgers and the Braves, Pete
Alonzo potential trade all these things. Hey, Lonzo vladd Junior,
I'm up for that. Yeah, that'll be part of the
podcast as it goes up tonight. But yeah, Flad Guerrero Junior,
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how about that. Now, we have some big stuff in
the NFL coming your way in about ten minutes. But
the story that is starting to own the night in
sports is just a fantastic one. The largest crowd ever
to win witness a women's sporting event.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Okay, think about this.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Not largest crowd this year, not largest crowding, the largest
crowd ever ever in the history of sports worldwide, largest
crowd to ever witness a women's sporting event in Memorial Stadium.
Tonight in Lincoln, Nebraska, ninety two thousand and three fans
watched the five time NCAA champion Nebraska Cornhuskers volleyball team
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take on Omaha. It was a three set sweep. They
announced the attendance, everybody goes crazy. Ninety two thousand fans,
breaking the previous records and breaking the United States record,
which was ninety thousand. I was one of them in
the Rose Bowl in nineteen ninety nine to watch United
States women win the World Cup in penalties over China,
(38:17):
and Brandy Chestain becomes a cult hero for the last
twenty years. Bigger crowd than that. We saw reports of
this the last couple of days. Hey, they're looking for
ninety thousand people for this volleyball match. I'm going, Wow,
that would be really something that they can put ninety
two thousand people.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
That is amazing.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Well, he said when it was announced in February, it
was the quote Volleyball Day in Nebraska. Tickets went on
sale in April and in three days. Right, because I've
been monitoring this kind of stuff, because they just put
tickets on sale for next year's WrestleMania and Philadelphia. You
had this big aw event that was just over in London,
(38:53):
and you're tracking tickets that we're talking eighty thousand. And
when you start getting live events that aren't you know,
whatever Taylor Swift or Metallica concert, you know, we're talking
next level stuff. They said, add eighty two thousand tickets
sold through three days, which represents four percent of the
status population. So I mean you talk about the large
(39:15):
s of it and the fact that everybody rallied to it.
Now you've got multi you know, defending Champ, all of
this stuff that goes through.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
But still to say.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Hey, we're getting ninety two thousand people in here. Like
as this story started to percolate the last few days, right,
more and more being written on it, waiting to see
it in live and in living color, because I mean,
it's like going to a wrestling event with that kind
of stadium, because, let's face it, volleyball court not that big.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
No, no, no, hard to see if you're you're looking down,
You're not looking down at a big football field.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
No, you need one of those. Which school was it
that had the makeshift? Hey, we're under construction. Was it Vanderbilt?
Speaker 6 (39:55):
Yeah? Anyways, like, hey, here's a crane that's gonna lift
a video board for it. Can I can't even see
where the ball is.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I can't even see what's Yes, doesn't matter, makes no difference.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
I'm just here for the helmet nachos. Although I would
sen would be a half volleyball nachos, well, it would
be still be a good sale. How do you think
it felt to be Omaha, Hey, hey, you're the sacrificial
lamb coming in here. That's gonna against Nebraska and ninety.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
Get part of the gate?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Are gonna be cheering against you? Did you get to
negotiate part of the game. I'm sure they got one
percent of the gate. I'm sure you were able to
negotiate with Trev Alberts a little bit of the gate.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Yeah you're feeling all right, yeah, but still we'll wear
it to be part of history. Absolutely, to be on
that tape. What happened? What was the biggest memory, best
moment you had in your life?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Oh? Man, we got killed in the volleyball game in
from the ninety thousand people. But that's a great memory. Yes, yes, yes,
twenty five, fourteen, twenty five, fourteen, twenty five, thirteen. I
mean that's still to be able to look around and
see that many faces. I mean, come on, ninety fives.
Speaker 6 (40:54):
And the thing is, volleyball's a fast sport, Like you
get to twenty five pretty fast. Oh that's it.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
It's not like these games take forever. It's a it's
a you get done. It's like the new pace of
play for baseball. But the whole time, like and this
is my ignorance of the the growth of the sport.
It's like, is there a concert at the end. There's
some other people, but legitimately is that what you're and
(41:20):
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often we open the show and we have a very
special guest with us right off the match. I think
three times in the nine years we've been doing this
show that's happened. I think Josh Norman, right, Josh normOn
once because he was live from Wegmans where we used
to work, Jake Glazer with Breaking News NFL, and now
because he waited in the studio to hang out with
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us and hang out and talk baseball, the one and
only MLB Network Insider, Fox Sports Radio Insider, and he
will be coaching the second quarter of the second game
of the season for the Michigan Wolverines. John Paul Morosi JP.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Welcome, but gentlemen, I am grateful the third ever to
be in studio. By the way, my walk up music
does hit a little differently when it's in the headphones
when you're actually in the studio. I am now fired up.
You got the goosebumps going. We're doing a show together.
We're in person for the first time ever, the three
(01:47):
of us in one place.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
This is it.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
I am thrilled. This is awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Hey and I and look, I can't tell you number one,
proud and happy for your career, but being able to
coach Michigan in the second quarter of game two because everybody.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Bring to grease in with the players with him. Not
everybody is getting that chance. Only fifteen or twenty people
are getting a chance to coach Michigan while Harbaugh is
serving that suspension, and you.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Are one of them.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Only roughly half of ann Arbor.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I believe it's actually been permitted to coach Michigan in
any of these first three games.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
It is unique.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
I was actually working on my speech to the team
on the notes function of my iPhone on the play
on the way over here, so I had some time
to reflect, which is great. We'll do the game tomorrow
and imbe Network Braves, Dodgers and LCS preview perhaps, and
then I'll fly back on Friday coach.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
The team on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
All right, I think you need to work out that
speech tomorrow during the game. You're doing, yeah, you do it.
I mean this is start throwing in yeah. When they
tossed him go and now, hey, John Paul Morossi has
the latest on Ronald d'cunya, and you have to say, you.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Know, gentlemen, great, great, great stuff. Have that a second butt.
I gotta give you my speech to the Michigan team.
I'm going to give before I'm coaching the second quarter
of Game two.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
We're here to win for Michigan. There it is, who's
got it better than us?
Speaker 6 (03:05):
There you go, I'm pretty good. They would love that
on the broadcast. They would absolutely love that. They would
love that. Just throw it in like as one lion
at a time. Yeah, raccoon. Yeah, the other day.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Obviously a scary moment on the field. You know we're
gonna have to matriculate the ball. Third down is going
to be critical. Now, super wing tea, is that you're
offen sort the super wing tea?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, so we ran the wing eye, But as I've
been saying to you guys on the air, I think
I think we have to go straight wing teas against
the Pirates of East Carolina. They probably have not seen
the wing tea in a while. No, no, so I
think it's time to bring it back. They'll be surprised.
Maybe the full house. The single wing was I mentioned
that before For those that are not familiar with it,
(03:46):
are you guys know the single wing?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
We played a team in the same my freshman year.
We played a team that ran the single wing and
they beat us like forty eight to us.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
So confusing. So for those who they come out.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Of the huddle in the snake and they line up
in the line of scrimmage's like where the guys the
guys always.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Not familiar it is. It is like three dimensional chests.
So the checkers that most mortals are playing on the gridiron,
You've got you do have your usually double tight end,
or you can split them out if you want, just
to be really interesting. But you've got four backs and
the quarterback doesn't always get the snap. Sometimes you have
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the quarterback over the center and then three backs on
his right. You might have two on the right side,
one on the left. You might snap it to the
person on the end, and it's just complete chaos, and
everybody acts like they've gotten the snap, so they know
how to fold over the ball and make it look
like they've got and and you just have no idea
where the ball's going and very very hard to tackle.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
That is a fantasy nightmare trying to figure out who's
a running back to.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Running back, to classify those positions.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
The great I believe back in the day when I
followed the NFL carefully, Keith Byers.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Was his own category. He was the h back. Look
him up he was.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
When I covered it. Look him up, everybody, Hey, look
him up.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Look him up.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
All the way back to eighty seven.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
When I covered Major League baseball, Mordecai three fingered Brown
found a way to throw a spinball that he's just completed.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
By the way, that's a that's a very Montgomery burns.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Like, no, like that, that's an excellent I yes, By
the way, Keith Buyer's Ohio state.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Oh yeah, I'm surprised you brought up a Buckeye. I'm
very surprised.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
He was a great player for the Eagles.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Now, speaking of great, now, you're actually I don't know
if you know this or not, but you're not allowed
to leave the studio ever again. Because when I came
in to see you for the first time, the Rangers
had the bases loaded, nobody out in the top of
the tenth inning against the Mets. From that moment when
I saw you and said hello, until now, the Mets
get out of it, dominate with an incredible double play
and a bases loaded hit by pitch the DJ Stewart
(05:52):
game because he got a home run in the paces
loaded hit by pitch to win the game of the
tenth inning. The Mets win. Intended, it was as bad
as it could be. I saw you, said hello, and
since then everything changed. Maybe had you been here earlier
this year, everything would be okay, We're not going to
trade Pete Alonzo, and we'd be get ready.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
For the playoffs. We would not be in this predicament there.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
John Baumerosi is the flash. Yeah, the history and timeline.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
There you go the New York Mets.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
And by the way, it is amazing that even in
this season that is going nowhere, when they win in
walk off fashion, you're optimistic and you look at the
fans in New York and they're they're loving it, and
it just it just shows that each individual win at
the major league level is golden. And by the way,
(06:38):
this news of the Rangers demise tonight is very much
welcomed in Seattle and Houston because this three team race
in the American League West right now, I think is
one of the best things going in baseball. And Seattle's
looking very strong. They find a way to come back
and win today. And look at the Rangers had the
(06:59):
second best run differential in the American League right now,
but they are really playing poorly right now. I mean,
they still probably find a way to get in because
the Jays continue to struggle, but they are making life interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
There is no more fun than what's going on that
pendant rate. And this year I picked the Mariners to
go to the World Series.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Nice I did interviews on Seattle Radio. They started off terribly.
I have not been on since. Now it's time for
my for my redemption. Right, time for the redemption.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Ride to that redemption. And by the way, it's time.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So since I've been here for eight minutes and change,
I feel very comfortable to now start making some some
production decisions for the program. I would say that when
when the Mariners and Dodgers meet in the World Series,
it would be only appropriate for this radio program to
be done from Dodger Stadium. Respect respect to your prediction.
(07:54):
I think we should also be how to respect to
the prediction. Not like that, I mean that's not like
I mean you can hold the trident.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. Julio Rodriguez, you're
in a dance.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I could do the dance every time Freddy Freeman hits
a double which is ever yet that, but the trident
thing is fun, Like I got there with a trident
and brick killed a guy with a try. It does
seem like there might be some insurance and liability problems.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
I'm told the trident weighs approximately twenty pounds.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
It is really significant celebration.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Because I almost bought one from a costume shop. So
we can have one in studio. It was a five
part thing that I don't think weighs twelve ounces. Really, yeah,
so I could do some damage with the twenty pounds,
That's what I mean. You could throw it like.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
In the wall.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
That'd be pretty cool. Your sound affectibility is outstanding. You
are you are a learned man of the radio, but
you have got a vast array of skills.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, he's really performing for you here because I get
nothing right mostly most nice.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Bread jets. Now I get it, and come.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
On, but I'm telling you I am now.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
I we joke about my lack of knowledge about the
contemporary NFL. But the more people that tell me the
Lions actually have a chance to win the Super Bowl,
I'm starting to get into it.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
This is a deal.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
This is a big deal that I am coming around
to this belief that that it might finally happen. I mean,
the last time they won a championship, my father was five,
nineteen fifty seven. This is in the pre lane, yes,
by ten years pre Super Bowl era.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
So this did you start buying some gear?
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Now?
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Did you pick a player that you're going to get
a jersey?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I would need to know a player's name besides Jared Goff.
But I'll get there. I'll start Eric Hipple. Yes, I
remember to throw back.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
You're to throw Eric Kipple. That's pretty good. You get there.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
It was just before Chuck Long.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Nicely done, who was robbed of the Heisman? Trump?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
All right, so let's get you a little bit of
baseball here, keep you for a little while here talks
in baseball. First things first, Now you have the big
series tomorrow, you start Dodgers and the Braves. Do both
teams play this? Look, it'll be the biggest series in
baseball the rest of this week. Do both teams play
this like we want to send a message or are
you gonna see teams kind of back off a little bit,
and hey, we're gonna save our We're gonna save what's
(10:18):
in our holster for October because there's bigger fish to fry.
You have a twelve game lead, a thirteen and a
half game lead, there's no reason to kind of show
all our secrets now.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Right, it's a fair question, But I would say this,
first of all, in modern baseball, there are no secrets
anymore anyway.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Right, with all the all the analytics.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Now, maybe strategically, do you try a fake bunt here
and there? Do you try to have someone try to
steal a base that might not typically do that?
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Perhaps, or Dave Roberts, let's a guy pitch into the
seventh look at that.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
I'll get the number.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Guy with a no hitter gets to go all the way.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I'll say, we do have Ryan Peppio on the mound
right now as we're watching it. I would I would
not expect Pepio to get into the seventh inning.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Tonight. We shall see about about lanceln tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well you jink you jinxed Alex Cobb last it's gone
no hitter.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
And two thirds.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, Jason, the route take, I mean he comes in
and then takes a circuitous route, and I'm saying like,
oh my god, can you might to be able.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
To catch that? Cob made a horrible route to the ball.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
It was a horrible route. Your heart, your heart breaks
for him.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
I mean I was I was there for the Armando
Galla RockA game which is the.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
The the a perfect.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Game, the two thirds inning game to which all others
are compared. But so I would say this that there
is still something to compete for you. You're still worried
about home field advantage and also the structure of the playoffs.
You have enough time off, you have that buye that
both these teams are almost certain to get. So I
(11:54):
think you keep you keep the foot down on the
accelerator because the last thing you want to do is
to get stale as a baseball team and have too
much time off. You need to keep honoring the big
one sixty two through the end. And again, you know,
maybe you try to have a couple of different strategic elements,
but by and large, Jason, you play this series straight up,
(12:17):
play it to win. There's a lot on the line,
and I think not the least of which is the
National League MVP, which if it's not decided this weekend,
it's certainly going to be decided between these two teams.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
And then you add the element you brought up of
lance Lynn Flaying in Chicago, guy that you'd seen have
some big performances, much made about, you know, his countenance
and everything, and then he comes to the Dodgers and.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
All of a sudden, you know, culture is everything. JP. Yes,
like all of a sudden, he's a hero. On a
whole other level.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
The Dodgers make you better, and that is why.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
And I'm sure the three of us will have a
lot of conversations for a long time about show A
and what's going on where he goes. If if you
were a player who had the ability to sign with
any team and the idea was, I need to go
somewhere that's gonna make me the best player that I
can be, the best situation for me to hit my
potential mets.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
That besides.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Right, right, But it's like if you just take your
right family member, someone who's development matters.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
The most to you.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Okay, I'm it's honestly, the Dodgers have become the Harvard
Business School of the of the baseball community in terms
of this is like getting your master's degree in baseball.
They find that one thing, that one way to make
a good player great, a below average player serviceable.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
JD.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Martinez looked like he was sort of on his last
last legs a bit in Boston. All of a sudden,
now he's he's back. And I just think that it's
a remarkable story of development resources on and off the field,
the analytics, the softer skills of baseball. The Dodgers have it,
I believe better than anybody else.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
All Right, now we we got into a lot of
college football there in the beginning, because you're coaching Michigan, right,
we get a lot of baseball togain. You want to
hang for a little bit longer, let's do it. We
got to talk about Bryce Harper's home run today. Amen,
you got to tell me the Mets aren't going to
trade pee Alnzo. I will have an answer to that question.
It may not be the one that you want, which
is why you've got to stay with us.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
But you don't know, you don't know what I want.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
It may it maybe may not be stay with us.
We'll see.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Look at you knowing how to tease. Look at that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
That's next level that you know what that is. That
is what we call I would tell you that is
what we call radio analytics. Right there, that that's radio
analytics right there.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
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MLB Network. It is MLB Insider Extraordinator John PAULMERROSI. We
have questions, He's got answers. Nice, yeah, And you know,
and I dig I was just telling somebody this story
the other day. You and me and Mike were talking.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
You let's go about Italy and Piazza of the World
Baseball Classes. And I just told my friend said, what's
one of the craziest things that someone's done on your
radio show that that that you haven't told me. And
I'm like, okay, wow, what And somehow I don't know,
but I went, but I said, Okay, there's a guy
we have on who's a baseball insider, John Paul Morosi,
(16:20):
and he's Italian and he likes to drop Italian phrases
on the show all the time. And one time he
did an interview with us and he dropped like four
Italian phrases. And I said, okay, okay, my challenge to you,
between now and the next time we talk to you
next week, you have to do an interview, a baseball interview,
completely in Italian.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
That's right. And you can't let the people doing the
interview know why you're speaking Italian. You have to just
go on and do it, and you have to do
it between now and next week. And he said, okay,
I'll try try. I'm going this is going to be awesome.
And then you send me a little link to an
interview a couple of days later that you did an
interview with a radio station in Italy that's right about baseball.
(16:59):
I did that Italian the entire time.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I exactly did didn't have to say why I'm speaking
Italian exactly it all worked out. I still go back
to that. It was a lengthy Italian baseball podcast. It happened.
I can't remember exactly the name of it. My friend
Kevin Sanatore, who lives in Italy, was one of the
co hosts, and yeah, we we just talked baseball in
(17:23):
Italian for about forty five to fifty minutes. It was
a long form Italian baseball podcast. I'm not fluent, but
I try, and when I lose a word, I fake
it for a while and find a way to get
it back.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
So it's it's great around it.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, it's but you know what it does. I've often
said this sports is a fun portal to understand culture
people around the world, and you do have that empathy
for the challenge that athletes have when they come to
the US and have to do interviews in your second language.
So I always try to remember that, remember how hard
it is, and do the interviews. Yes, and speaking, which
(18:01):
I thought you were gonna segue to Bryce Harper hitting
a home run in honor of a radio host personality
in Philly.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Speaking of that home run, that big home run, that
big number. Let's hear it deep, right, field renfro Back, look.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
It up and it's gone.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Number three hundred is a go ahead to.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Run home run by Harper in the bottom of the
eighth inning.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Philly's radio network on the call, Yes, as you said
that home run big three hundred an honor of a
radio personality in Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Kind of a big day.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Right.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
They didn't get the win, but everything else about it
was good.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Right. He said that there was a caller named Chuck
who called in to the local Philly radio station. And
by the way, I do think I love this about Bryce.
He doesn't even try to bore us with the old
thing that sometimes people say, Well, I never listen, I
don't care what's being said on the radio about No.
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Bryce cares deeply and he owns it, which I love
he Bryce Harper. When he left Washington, like a lot
of people wondered, Where's he gonna go? What city fits him?
Bryce is a He is a grinder. He is a
grinder with superstar talent. And the way that he has
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approached things in Philadelphia I think is exactly right for him,
It's exactly right for this city. They have an attitude
and I like the attitude that Bryce plays with the
passion that he's got. He never tries to pretend like
he's above the fray. He very much wants to be
in the middle of the fray. He loves that the
fray involves people who are really angry at times and
(19:46):
upset about the team or passionate about it, and he
is motivated by that. There are some players who might
be motivated by the paycheck in different aspects of the
fame that comes with sports. I really think Bright Harper eats, sleeps,
breathes baseball. He would do this if he made a
fraction of what he's making now. He just think he
(20:07):
loves the game that much. He is in baseball for
baseball period.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
We'll just go back to last week when he was
interacting with all the kids. Yeah, you had the one
female player on a squad that he went out of
his way to make.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Sure, yes, she knew how cool this was. Yeah, how
especially it was. And he was like, they're cheering in
the stands.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
He got emotional talking about it, like he's I think
that for a long time, Bryce Harper was misunderstood as
a player and.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
A sports figure.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
He called him Bieber. Oh, he was Bieber Harper for
a long time.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Oh sure, Yeah, I think he's changed though, I really do.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
He was immature and it took him a long time
to figure out and be comfortable with being a star
and being what he is.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
And now he's always.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Going to play in Philadelphia totil least fifty five years old,
right contract Well, but and and along those lines, Jason,
I think it's interesting the athletes that we see when
they make it big at night, or even in Bryce's case, younger.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
So he debuted at nineteen, but he was part of
our consciousness for years before then. You know, how do
we You know, we're all parents. You think about at
what age you start to really have consequences or in
terms of like how you evaluate your own kids. Okay,
you made this mistake at eleven, which is okay, but
you made it at fifteen, which is not okay. So
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or as they get older, like nineteen twenty twenty one.
You know what I'm saying that like those immature moments,
those happened in Arrange when most kids are in college,
and we tend to regard those those mistakes a little
differently or just immaturity. Maybe I think Bryce matured before
our eyes because we were aware of him at such
a young age, and I think he's become a really
(21:46):
great ambassador for American sports, for the city of Philadelphia,
for baseball especially.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Now, let me give you a round number. He's thirty
years old. He just did his three hundred homer. If
I said to you, yes or no, six hundred homers
by the time he's done, yes or no.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
For Bryce Harper, no, I think he gets five hundred,
but not six hundred. Six hundred is a huge number.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
He has a lot of years of health right now,
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
And think, let's say, think how great through thirty Miguel
Cabrera was, and he he has gotten past five hundred,
but has not yet approached six hundred and and won't
I look at what Albert Pooles did and the way
that he got to six hundred and beyond, like that's amazing.
I think that the way that Albert was able to
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have that big finish to his career last year was
just extraordinary.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, but just in general, I mean, not a lot
of pressure playing in Anaheim either for all those years.
That's true, because that's the segue to where we're goingsition
the expectations were there for about a month, and we
talked about it briefly when we had you the other night, JP.
But in the aftermath of everybody being cut and everything
(22:59):
else going on, how much does it alter the playoff
chases these guys going to waivers and maybe becoming available
to some of these contending squads.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
We'll find out, obviously by noon Eastern tomorrow. So it's
going to be a very interesting time in baseball as
we hear and understand who might be going different places.
Listen with the Angels, and we talked about it last night.
This is motivated by the luxury tax. It's it's a
bad look, but there's at least a baseball reason for it.
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It will actually change the dynamics of the Pennant races
less than what the old August trading period used to do. Sure,
and so I'm okay with it. It sort of becomes
a convenient punchline for what the Angels have become. I
really believe, and I mentioned this last night. I think
that they made those moves for the right reasons. Right now,
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It just it feels like this capitulation by the Angels
that just that they're now making a move trying to
improve their draft stock by two rounds because they're facing
the very real possibility that they're gonna lose show as
a free agent. What it is, more than anything, is
just sad. It's sad that we've gotten to this point
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with Showey and the Angels. It's sad that they never
made the playoffs with him. It's sad that the that
his tenure there is not gonna end with some dramatic
complete game in the playoffs, and in fact, he can't
pitch right now because of the elbow. It's just a
gigantic bummer for the for the Angels, and honestly, it's
really hard to like think about the baseball gods here
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and say, yeah, Angels, you deserve to have them for
another four or five or six years. They don't. They
really don't. They've done the best they can sort of
with him to the to this point. But there is
no way that from a credible standpoint, that the baseball
world outside of Anaheim would react with any joy if
he just re ups there, because there's more for him
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to do, and and there's nothing about the situation there
that says, yes, it's going to get better.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I'm not seeing it.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
They might be able to bump up their their draft
stock by two rounds, but what what does that really mean?
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Does it get them any closer?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
You should have had a better team and in a
more cohesive strategy that would have convinced him to stay.
He has been all about winning from the very beginning.
I admire that about him, just like I admire Bryce Harper, who,
by the way, was when Shoey was developing in Japan,
his favorite American baseball player, Bryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So what you're telling me, if I'm reading between the
lines here the big move in the off season Pete
lons over shoo Tani, that that that's there?
Speaker 7 (25:47):
You go.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
We have to find a way, Jason to make that work.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
And by the way, uh we we probably have more
time to talk about this is as the weeks go on,
but I'll make this point. How about Pete Alonzo plus
a maybe one more position player. I haven't figured out
exactly who it's going to be yet, but Pete Alonzo
for Vladimir Guerrero Junior. It's one year of Alonzo plus
(26:14):
plus maybe one more players sort of offset that Alonzo's
numbers better than Vlad's numbers. But Vlad for Alonzo.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Okay, all right, I'm with it.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I'm with you, but you would you would have to
probably include more along with Alonzo because it's only one year.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Guy. Well, if I could pick the guy, that'd be great.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
I would.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
I'd be open to hearing some nominations. Well, I haven't
necessarily figured out the full extent of the Mets farmcism,
which by the Versos Frasco.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, who is also by the way, on waivers. Yeah,
he's gonna sit there for a while. So so you
talked about this, you said, I'm not going to get
the answer.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
I like this.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
This Peede Alonso trade rumor has not gone away in
the last week. He's been asked about it, and he
says all the right things. I want to stay here,
I want to be a Met. I can't control a business.
Part of it.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Is that really going to happen, And Met's really going
to trade Pete Alonzo?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
They can?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
They probably should, Jason, They really should. When when you
think about where they're at. If you go back to
what Billy Eppler said to Max Schurzer reportedly that that
next year is going to be a transition year. Why
would you not trade someone who is in the last
year of his deal. There is no indication that you're
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close to signing him. If you're already telling your own
people that it's a transition year, why why it's Alonzo
is not shoe Otani? Why why would you keep him
for one more year under these circumstances when honestly, as
a as a front office and as an ownership group,
you have shown what I believe is a sufficient level
(27:46):
of imagination to do something different. You're trying to by
by paying down the shures are in JV deals, you're
bringing back better prospects. As many people have said to me, Jason,
right now, on this day, you would rather be a
Mets fan than a Yankees fan. And the reason is,
and you've said that for your whole life. Yes, but but.
Speaker 6 (28:05):
It's not Beny days. Yeah, but yes, you're right.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
But the reason is that the Yankees are stuck and
the Mets are at least moving somewhere. They It may
not be the direction everybody wants, but they are they
are moving. Steve Cohen has taken the wheel and says,
I'm not sure what the direction say, but I'm going
this way, and I'm going this way, and and you
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know what, you'd rather be going this way? Then then
the Yankees. The Yankees are stuck at the stoplight. The
map is upside down. They're arguing over where to go.
They're going nowhere. At least the Mets they're going that way.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
But they did give you a call up in the Martian.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
The Martian.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
The Martians is getting the marsh landed Jason do Minge's
September call up.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
He's on his way. I think it's probably a little
too little, too late. But here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
As as we sit in one of the great media
capitals of our nation speaking about teams from the other
great media capital of our nation in New York, it
is amazing to me, as someone who grew up in
a town that is a square mile, how such a
tremendous percentage of the top one hundred prospects in the
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game play for the Yankees or the Dodgers or the Mets,
when in fact you look years gone, years in the future.
Wait a minute, was was was Greg Bird really? The
next great?
Speaker 5 (29:35):
First?
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Was was Greg Bird really? The next John Holroude?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Was he really?
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I again, that's the inherent skepticism of someone who grew
up in a town that is one square mile.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
That's that's how I look at things. He is John
Paul Morosi. You can follo him on Twitter at John Morosi.
He'll be the one giving the Michigan speech tomorrow during
the Braves Dodgers cover of this big series.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
JP.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Thank you so it's awesome to see you hanging out
with us in studio. Fantastic stuff, man.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
I had a great time.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
We went from Keith Byers to Greg Byrd all the
same radio program.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Now, if there's people on social media who want to
reach out with play ideas for you from Michigan at
Johnny recept okaway much.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I want to see the the wing tea full house, wishbones,
single wing are all welcome. You could also go five
wide and just air it out. Okay, all ideas are welcome.
It's got to make sure you diagram it properly with
all the arrows where the we're the right guard, blocks
and pulls.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
All that stuff very important. He just ran the annexation
of Puerto Rico.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
I can't believe that.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I need to show my kids little giants. We have
not had enough football talk in our house.
Speaker 6 (30:48):
Buddy. Thank you so much, Love you guys, thanks. Hey,
let's find out what's trending right now. Another guy we love.
It's Brian Fendley. He's got all the news right now.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
What you got You are so good at segues, Jason
and Mike, both of you. And yeah, as far as
what is trending, I got to tell you a world
record was sent tonight. It's set tonight when it comes
to a women's sporting event and the amount of attendees
at one ninety two thousand and three showed up to
watch Nebraska women's volleyball play Omaha outdoors at Memorial Stadium.
(31:18):
It was a three set wind for Nebraska, but ninety
two thousand and change showed up a new world record
when it comes to attendance of a women's sporting event.
Ninety two thousand is more than the sum of the
fans that have been to all of the Mets home
games collectively, by the way, So there's that they all.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Left the game a lot happier Mets fans do.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
Yes, what that's the Mets spring training T shirt you're
wearing right now?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Horse?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Because I knew JP was going to be had, I
had to represent with Mets gear tonight that and back
when there.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
Was hope, Yeah, there was hope.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
Why aren't you wearing your cleats and then the glove
that you take to every ball game you go to.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Why aren't you shaving doing an update while you like,
you know, I don't need to say I don't wear cleat.
You're the guy that brings a razor in in shaves.
You bring in that Narrolko Sana. That's Santa COMMERCIALI get
every year of Sanna going on the snow with the
Narroco blades and he's shaving the snow like shaving a face.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
Yes, something like that.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Hey, by the way, I'm not sure what you're on,
but but we're gonna go with it because that's what
we do. By the way, forty nine ers said coach
Kyle Shanaan was asked about Nick Bosa dealing with the
contract dispute. Shannon said that there is no way that
he is going to be trading, although Bosa might miss
a little bit of time here as they try to
work out a new deal for him. Dolphins gentleal manager
(32:36):
Chris Greer mentioned the negotiations on a new deal with
quarterback two or tongue about it will resume in the
off season. So if you're media in a press conference
during the season and you bring it up, you're not
gonna get an answer. As far as Major League Baseball,
let's look at that really quickly. Some notable games, including
the Mets that elusive win six to five against the
Rangers in ten innings, as they get it done in
(32:59):
very Mets fashion, my pitch with bases loaded in the
tenth Speaking of a win in today.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Any way possible, doesn't matter. Get him on the walk
off hit over one of my favorites, get him in.
Speaker 8 (33:11):
Yeah, and you still put yourself through watching all these
games even though they're now just twelve games over five hundred,
So I guess you can never count them out. You
can't can out the race because they are thirty games
over five hundred.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Three to nothing.
Speaker 8 (33:23):
They won against the Marlins, Mariners five to four against
the Athletics. They have won twenty one times in the
month of August, as a franchise record in a calendar month.
And lastly, guys, we do have the US Open going
on a growing list of American men. Taylor Fritz is
up a set and a break in his second round
match right now. Ben Shelton onto the third round along
(33:45):
with You've got a couple of other guys, Tommy Paul,
he is in there as well, in Francis Tiafo, so.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
Could be sure. Yeah, yeah he's in there.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah sure, really yeah, Venus Garrolitis, Yeah, Jimmy Butler's.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
David Lee, yeah, former NBA guy, yeah, watching.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Pat Cash, Yeah. All they all all legends all there.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Unbelievable. You're just showing off with your tennis lexicon.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Thank you very much, Pride Friendly.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Now to bring things full circle, John Palmrosi before he leaves,
I got you know, we just talked about that. We're
gonna getting too this coming up in a bit that
Nebraska volleyball amazing largest women's crowd in world sports.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
History cells out in forty eight hours. Fans started coming
in JP earlier in the day for.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
The uh the the pre event right that had the
big main event was Nebraska playing Omaha, and then they
had the opening exhibition match between Nebraska Kearney Division D
two and Pride of Michigan Wayne State.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Wayne State University was there, the Warriors. I love that.
I love that, and I believe I have to check
the box score. But the great Harper Murray of Ann
Arbor is playing on Nebraska's volleyball team, so we sent her.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Do you know a volleyball insider as well? NHL MLB
volleyball insider too.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
I watch a lot of field hockey now because my
daughters play field hockey. It's a great sport. So I
try to be you try to have global perspective on
different sports. So all right, we send our best to
the corn Huskers. That's just it's an amazing event. I
love the way they're growing women's sports there and so
congratulations are Harper.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's awesome there. It is Wayne style type. A lot
of my white family goes to Wayne State too. Wayne
State's another another pretty big destination there.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
Wayne State. Nice.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
But coming up next, yes, we get into this unbelievable story,
some numbers that are going to just knock your socks off.
Keep it right here, Jason and Mike Live from the
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Great stuff on Bryce Harper, Dodgers and the Braves, Pete
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how about that. Now, we have some big stuff in
the NFL coming your way in about ten minutes. But
the story that is starting to own the night in
sports is just a fantastic one. The largest crowd ever
to win witness a women's sporting event.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Okay, think about this.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Not largest crowd this year, not largest crowding, the largest
crowd ever ever in the history of sports worldwide, largest
crowd to ever witness a women's sporting event in Memorial Stadium.
Tonight in Lincoln, Nebraska, ninety two thousand and three fans
watched the five time NCAA champion Nebraska Cornhuskers volleyball team
(37:56):
take on Omaha. It was a three set sweep. They
announced the attendance, everybody goes crazy. Ninety two thousand fans,
breaking the previous records and breaking the United States record,
which was ninety thousand. I was one of them in
the Rose Bowl in nineteen ninety nine to watch United
States women win the World Cup in penalties over China,
(38:17):
and Brandy Chestain becomes a cult hero for the last
twenty years. Bigger crowd than that. We saw reports of
this the last couple of days. Hey, they're looking for
ninety thousand people for this volleyball match. I'm going, Wow,
that would be really something that they can put ninety
two thousand people.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
That is amazing.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Well, he said when it was announced in February, it
was the quote Volleyball Day in Nebraska. Tickets went on
sale in April and in three days. Right, because I've
been monitoring this kind of stuff, because they just put
tickets on sale for next year's WrestleMania and Philadelphia. You
had this big aw event that was just over in London,
(38:53):
and you're tracking tickets that we're talking eighty thousand. And
when you start getting live events that aren't you know,
whatever Taylor Swift or Metallica concert, you know, we're talking
next level stuff. They said, add eighty two thousand tickets
sold through three days, which represents four percent of the
status population. So I mean you talk about the large
(39:15):
s of it and the fact that everybody rallied to it.
Now you've got multi you know, defending Champ, all of
this stuff that goes through.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
But still to say.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Hey, we're getting ninety two thousand people in here. Like
as this story started to percolate the last few days, right,
more and more being written on it, waiting to see
it in live and in living color, because I mean,
it's like going to a wrestling event with that kind
of stadium, because, let's face it, volleyball court not that big.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
No, no, no, hard to see if you're you're looking down,
You're not looking down at a big football field.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
No, you need one of those. Which school was it
that had the makeshift? Hey, we're under construction. Was it Vanderbilt?
Speaker 6 (39:55):
Yeah? Anyways, like, hey, here's a crane that's gonna lift
a video board for it. Can I can't even see
where the ball is.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I can't even see what's Yes, doesn't matter, makes no difference.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
I'm just here for the helmet nachos. Although I would
sen would be a half volleyball nachos, well, it would
be still be a good sale. How do you think
it felt to be Omaha, Hey, hey, you're the sacrificial
lamb coming in here. That's gonna against Nebraska and ninety.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
Get part of the gate?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Are gonna be cheering against you? Did you get to
negotiate part of the game. I'm sure they got one
percent of the gate. I'm sure you were able to
negotiate with Trev Alberts a little bit of the gate.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Yeah you're feeling all right, yeah, but still we'll wear
it to be part of history. Absolutely, to be on
that tape. What happened? What was the biggest memory, best
moment you had in your life?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Oh? Man, we got killed in the volleyball game in
from the ninety thousand people. But that's a great memory. Yes, yes, yes,
twenty five, fourteen, twenty five, fourteen, twenty five, thirteen. I
mean that's still to be able to look around and
see that many faces. I mean, come on, ninety fives.
Speaker 6 (40:54):
And the thing is, volleyball's a fast sport, Like you
get to twenty five pretty fast. Oh that's it.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
You know.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
It's not like these games take forever. It's a it's
a you get done. It's like the new pace of
play for baseball. But the whole time, like and this
is my ignorance of the the growth of the sport.
It's like, is there a concert at the end. There's
some other people, but legitimately is that what you're and
(41:20):
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