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Speaker 3 (00:58):
We have a topic, not stupid punda. Okay, that's then
a smart guest after, But first, I really want a
little bit more clarity on this whole Taylor Swift, Travis
Travis Kelcey thing.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, I don't think it's legit, but that's fine.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
The Daily Mail reports today that Travis Kelsey and Taylor
Swift are hanging out. Well, it's nothing called the message
quietly hanging out the Messenger.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I don't even know what that is. It's not the
Daily Mail.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It's the mean by hanging out.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Well, that's the thing. At first, I thought you're gonna
say the Daily Prophet, but it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Well, Rita Skeeter walking around the corner. They are quietly
hanging out.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
This this is this is the phrase for Travis Kelsey
and Taylors are both thirty three years old. Travis Kelsey,
I think, admitted he.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Tried to Oh no, he was trying with the friendship
bracelets and everything. So and I, by the way, with
with Taylor Swift, why wouldn't I? Okay, she's kind of
a big deal. Sure, sure, you're you're too old for her?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
That true? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
You are too old for Why is that?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah? Why you're sixteen years older than she? What does
that mean? Too old?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You're too old? You're too old, says the guy game.
You're too old, too old for any My wife is
older than me. She's my older woman. Face yeah, yeah,
I always say that, Hey, this is you know, my
wife is a year and a half older than I have.
I always say that's a year and a half older
than I have. And she doesn't like that when you
say that, does she?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
She probably does not show over. She used to not
mind it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Now I think a little bit when I say that,
I say, you know, you're my older woman face. I'm
eventual I'm gonna trade you in for a younger mom.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Kind of like early in the process, when it's a wow,
look at what she's wearing.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Now it's hey, stop looking at what she's wearing.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
We've been now, we've been together for so long. In
the beginning, it was wow that song. When you think
of that song, I was a freshman in college and
and like, well, I'm thinking of that song. I'm a
junior in high school.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
And you think that our song is a slamming screen door.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, that's not okay, you keep this up. She might
trade you in for Dan Campbell. No, she doesn't like
coffee that much. If she like coffee, but she's not
a big coffee Dan Campbell does his drink coffee, just
just drinks Coffee's not a big that's.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
True, that's true, But don't even ask to follow up.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
When I hear When I hear the phrase quietly hanging out,
I picture like two people in a library reading books,
like separately, not the same book, like different books, and
they read for a few hours. Hey was that fun?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Great, Okay, see you tomorrow, set time on the porch.
We're quietly hanging out. But like, but nobody knows, Like
nobody knows they're in this library together reading books, Like
that's the here, They're quietly bubon in the library.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I just don't believe this at all.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Like she has been attached to so many random people
in the press, like, oh, she's now dating is like really,
Like how does she have enough time? Like she's on
the other side of the country, Like what are we doing?
Travis just coming out of me? Travis keus my recording
studio in a city three thousand miles.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
His knees are hurt, hurt, he needs to hurt. Hey, hey, coach,
Yeah yeah what what what what do you got? Travis? Hey, listen,
I know I'm hurt. I'm not playing. So do you
mind if I like go on tour with Taylor a
little bit? Yeah? So problem because I gotta do another
couple those commercials where I draw mustaches on guys. So, yeah,
you take your time, I'll take my time. It'll be great.
How long until you think you're back? I don't know,
a couple of weeks? All right, Great, see you in
a couple weeks. Why don't we make up that you
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have some kind of injury. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, make
it my knee. That's more believable. Okay, great, great, great,
that's what we'll do. All right, see in a couple
of weeks. Seeing a couple of weeks, All good.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, I mean, if it's true, hey, good for him.
I just don't tailor. I just don't buy it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Taylor Swift, you don't believe. You don't believe the daily mail.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
You don't believe the daily It's not the daily mail.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You don't believe.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
That's something called the message. You don't believe that hell
is the messager.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That's like the quibble version.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
But that's like one of those bad CBS shows back
in the day.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
A messenger. Just because you don't want to believe what
xenophilias love Goood has to print in the Quibbler doesn't
mean you have to just say suddenly. Not true.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
You can't say that on air, sure I can, you know,
Phileas back to the quietly Is that because they don't
want to wake the neighbors.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Travis Kelcey is coming over, but you're Taylor Swift? Yeah,
I know, but Travis Kelcey is coming over. That doesn't
roll off the top. But what it's she?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Where's high heels?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Taylor? Taylor Swift is coming over? What don't Jason? Do
you think he can do better? Is that why we're
quietly hanging out? No, I'm just saying. I mean it
must be difficult to quietly. If quietly hang out, it's
getting very tough.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
Well, it means you're not exclusive. That's what quietly means.
Really loud, if you hang out loud, you're out in public.
Quiley means behind the scenes you hang out.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It doesn't mean like they're playing loud music listening, but
quietly or is quietly hanging out more? Hey, we you know,
we don't want anybody to know, but somehow now they
found out. Kind of Yeah, you don't want people to
find out they're hanging out, and they don't want them
to find out they're not exclusive. Basically, that's what quietly means.
They're not really being quiet.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Okay, Travis Kelsey, no doubt if this is actually happening,
he's he leaked it to somebody.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I mean, look, I understand that I'm fifty and certain
entertainment reports when they come out, I'm not gonna get.
I understand that, you know, curtains for Zozo, Like, what
does that? I don't know what that means. I have
no idea.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, let's see the updated version of Bedtime for Bonzo.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I don't I don't know any of that means. I
don't know, Uh, you know K, you know, K Suede
and and B Flip decide to turn tables and I'm like,
I don't know what that means. Like that, that's all.
That's what all entertainment is to me.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Is there really a guy named B Flip?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I don't know, but that is no, I don't understand.
I like hearing.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
So why did you just create your alter ego?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Did you just fling quietly on the flippity flop flippity flop?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
So what you're saying is quietly means they're not exclusive,
but they're also trying to keep it underrest.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
So it's in the vein of quiet quitting. No, wait,
but just.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Yeah, think about Jay, It's like when we were you
were younger, right, so when you were seeing somebody but
you aren't really seeing much, you.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Just say, we're dating. That's dating. We're dating. Yeah, but
the kids don't do like that. But but that, but
quietly hanging out has a different connotation of Okay, I
get it.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Quietly means we don't want people to know, right, But
they also say, like, no cat for real, for real.
There's a whole different demographic with terms now, no cap
for real. Yeah, you know, so a lot of people
just say just staying out the way. That's what they're
trying to do. They're just staying out the.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Way he used to be, keeping on the down low.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Okay, no, but yeah, but quote quietly has such a
meaning that everybody gets. Oh, it means we don't want
people to know, and that I think that I think
that goes you know that that.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Right thinking about it, So, Jason, you're somewhere and you
want to be quiet, so somebody across the room doesn't
hear you, right, Yeah, so that's the same thing. They're
quietly seeing each other. They don't want other people to know.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Right, But what's the whole thing that they're But they're
also seeing other people well, and it's like modern day
dating piece.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
You're a tailor, Swift, people are going to know, right,
So how does it so?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
I don't understand how that's quietly.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
It's not, it's not it's not making it up. That's
what the term is. You can't just make up entertain
news that's not made up.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You're just making it.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I don't think this story is real.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I don't doubt his explanation of what quiet means, like,
I think he's.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Absolutely right on it. I just think this story is.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
See. I think they're hanging out. But I disagree with
ty Shirt's interpretation of quietly.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Taylor Swift would never waste her time with a loser
like Travis.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Okay, okay, just because he's in the a f C West,
The guy is a loser. If he was in the
a f C North, it would be okay, he'd be great. Okay,
all right, that's what so Tyser. But but.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Get this head's gonna explode.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
That guy.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's too many meanings for quietly. It's just very simple
the English language.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
You can have fourteen meanings, What is it?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
What is it? More?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Is it more?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
They don't say it, just they're not really a thing.
So they're just quietly seeing each other.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
So how does quietly mean that? Why did you say
they're not quite a thing? They're not exclusive the times
they trying. Yeah, they're hanging out. They're not exclusive to
you and me. That makes sense. I know. I would
want to make sure if I was breaking news, I
would want to make sure everybody listening knows what's going
on right, not just saying hey, everybody who's eighteen and
under gets the phrase i'm music. What about people eighteen
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to augh? They don't understand what that means? Okay, I
want to make sure people understand what that means. They
don't care. I don't care. What about the clicks. I
don't care about clicks doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Yet
it made you click because you don't get it right? Well,
because I see you know, I see Travis Tritt, Travis Kelsey,
and Taylor say you were wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I see ever leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Who had more carries on Sunday? Taylor Swift or DeAndre Swift?
Really quick? If you look.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Taylor, So you don't believe this is true. I don't
believe it's true at all. I agree with Mike, but
I think he shot his shot and that was it.
You just don't want it to be true because it's
an AFO losers Dayton Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Wow, I know staking loser, man.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I can't believe it's former guests of the show, Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, he was.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
We spent a great picture with him. We spent twenty
minutes into the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Hanging after our asses. That was fun.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You guys said him, Hey, listen, dude, in five years
you will be the best tight end in football, on
the path of the Hall of Fame and dating Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
And now he's saying, why you gotta be so mean
and a liar? A story like this just doesn't come
out of anywhere. We're suddenly as sure it does.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You could, you could. You could hook up Taylor Swift
with anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Travis could have random shot. I think a big star
in the NFL. No, I don't think she shot him down.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
He's going out to the press saying they're hanging out quietly.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
There's no truth to this story at ust.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
He's going to she would never waste her time with
a chiefs here.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
From Patrick Mahomes. I think you talked about this earlier today.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Too, and Green.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Taylor Swift and just singing all the songs. It's like
shake it off and stuff. It's kind of cool. Hey,
could you do a song called dude, don't punch me, Dude,
don't punch us, don't punch me, Dude, don't punch me,
and the title album could be Max Crosby Dude, don't
punch me, Don't punch me. There's a big deal on
quarterback on Netflix. Just don't punch me, Dude, don't punch me.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
There's a better chance guys that she's dating and you
read Oh, I don't think so exactly. I don't think that. No,
but it's totally something like this is so random. If
you said Taylor Swift and Aaron Rodgers, I would say, no,
that's just that's just you know, hype machine going crazy.
That's not happened.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Oh he went to her show too, But I would
say says the joke was spent more time watching Taylor
Swift on that field than he got to play seventy
seconds sweet Maybe well, I mean he got into the
second minute.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Hello America.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, you gotta know the weird thing I thought about
today thinking about how he played seventy five seconds and
four snaps. I think about that line from Star Trek
the remake when they tell Chris Pine, Uh, your dad
was captain with star Fleet ship for sixteen minutes and
saved four hundred and seventy eight lives. You should be
proud of what he did. I think Aaron Rodgers, quarterback
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of the Jets for four plays in seventy five seconds,
be proud.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Of what he He didn't run into that second minute,
so that was good for him.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Now, But rod but Rogers, But Rogers, back to Rogers.
But maybe maybe Aaron Rodgers is faking the Achilles injury
to date Taylor Swift. Maybe that's happening. No, it's too
random to not be true. I kind of like I
believe the randomness of it. If it wasn't Travis Kelsey,
I would agree with you. Why but she's not dating
a dumb dumb Why you just keep saying, what did
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you guest star in the world? What is gonna date
a chief?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
What am I say?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You're gonna believe that? Hey, I'm a Taylor's agent, Jenny,
how you doing good. Yeah, listen, she would date you,
but you play for the Chiefs. What does that mean? No,
I mean you play for the chief She's not gonna
get you. She's not. There's certain teams that that are
off limits, and most of the AFC West, some of
the NFC West now AFC East, a little bit NFC South.
(13:06):
Possibly she lives in Nashville, but yeah, no this you're
out AFC.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Well, I mean she has houses everywhere that geographical thing
at all.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
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Speaker 1 (13:24):
And now you know I'm dating.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Travis Kelsey one of the greatest music videos of all time.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Watch it, love it. It's got everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Hey Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with my best friend
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SWI why not me because it's Travis kelcey.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Blank him, I'm better than him? His audio joining.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
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Major League Baseball? Are you gonna see Sho Hoo Tani
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MLB network Insider has dedicated his life to the sport
of Major League Baseball. He also came on the show
last week and gave us the lock for a week
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one of the NFL the Golden Boot, that the Lions
were gonna beat the Chiefs twenty four to twenty one.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Was twenty one twenty.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Nobody more right in the world than John Paul Morosi JP,
what's happening, buddy? How are you good? Evening?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
My friends and I've been I was watching that game
unfold last week, and I said, it's gonna happen. It's
gonna happen. The score is going to be exactly what
I said it was going to be. Now, I was
within a couple points. I said the Lions will win
by three. They won by one. That was still pretty close,
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And I would like to think was I generally correct?
And can I now add football soothsayer to my biography?
Is that fair?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
JP? Just the fact you and I were the only
ones that had the Lions winning the game doesn't matter.
You and I will never have to pay for a
drink in the Great state of Michigan again.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Am I accurate in saying Mike did not have similar
confidence in my Detroit.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You're he's he had the Chiefs by double digits. I had, yea,
I said, thirty four to twenty four. You said I
got the Chiefs the Chiefs thirty four to twenty four.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That's not we can bring that back.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I don't think I could play, But either way, I
did think they would win the game. Now, the down,
Johnny L. Travis Kelsey did not help match.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
JP hates you now, youn't me. That's fine. Didn't believe
in this team. Didn't believe in it. Now he's not
going to give you good baseball.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
He's a man who has openly acknowledged the fact that
he doesn't watch the NFL.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
So forgive me, now, guys, I have now by watching
at least half of the game, lab I have, I
have acquired knowledge of the NFL. All right, My NFL
knowledge has grown like three or four x in.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
The last No, that's good.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Sure, So I.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Was impressed as I can. What I can discern is
that the drafting of Jack Campbell from Iowa was not
necessarily the consensus pick. But I thought he had a
pretty good game as an outside linebacker out there on
the edge. He had an impactful football game, again from
my untrained eye. So you are getting here the unvarnished,
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completely unbiased, and there is no influence on whatever zeitgeist
existed previous to last Thursday. Last Thursday is the dawn
of my contemporary football knowledge, and in that era, the
lines are one to zero and unbeatable.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
All Right, If I showed you a picture of ten
random football players, ten random football players, could you pick
out Jared Goff on the first try?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I could pick out Golf But but see now listen,
I'm adding to the list Aiden Hutchinson. I had forgotten
that he was on the Lions. Okay, I of course
knew that he was. He played for Michigan. I know that.
And they brought back the last guy who had played
for Michigan, so I know him, and that was named
So everybody.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Who's played for Michigan Barry Sanders came back.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Sure, Campbell makes four and I'll tell you that basically,
and I can just share this observation with you. Everybody
in the state of Michigan last Thursday was wearing a
Barry Sanders jersey. My friend kN Alberta went on Morning Joe.
He was wearing a Barry Sanders Jersey. There were so
many people in the in the the state of Michigan.
(17:44):
It was basically as if there is probably a photo
of like a McCombe County or Graship County court proceeding
in which in which the judge, both council and the
accused were all wearing very Sanders Jersey. I'm certain that
that photo exists.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Now, just a curiosity if he accused could outrun them
all and channel has entered Barry Sanders to flee for freedom.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
All right, he is, by the.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Way, so so at the risk, at the risk of
sending this conversation completely off the rails within the first
three minutes. Jason Smith, Yeah, Jason Smith, what what do
you think about the new job that my teammate has
as of today?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
The new job that your teammate has. Oh well, hey,
are you kidding? We're going to win the World Series
next year. I'm digging David Stearns to the ments, so
I am digging that they wanted to hire him for
three years.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
So David Sterns, We've talked about this before, but David
Searns was both my teammates on the illustrious Harvard JB
baseball team and really a colleague and oh yeah, and
have a colleague of mine at the Harvard Trimson newspaper. Briefly,
I will tell you a quick story about David Stearns.
I will share this with you because I have shared
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it before and it is so good. We were at
a hockey practice and this is trust me, it's worth it.
David Ceterns had written again as a young journalist, I
was like mentoring him at the Crimson. Stearns had written
a column about the Harvard men hockey team that was,
shall we say, mildly critical, if not fully acerbic, and
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downright critical of how they had played in the bean Pot,
which if you are from Boston you know how important
that is. So they had played poorly in the bean Pot.
David Searns, as a freshman, criticized them roundly. And David
Starns and I were covering practice together like two days later,
and all of a sudden, here comes a hockey puck
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into the section of seats where we were watching in practice.
And all of a sudden, as the puck rattles in
the seats like directly between us. I mean, this was
like a near miss Sterns turns to me. My nickname
at the time was Pope because Pope jump Paul the
second was still on the throne. So Pope was my
nickname in college. So he turns me, he says, Pope, Pope,
(20:19):
I think that was on purpose. I looked at him
and said Commish because that was the name of his column,
David Stern. His nickname was commission So Pope and Commissioner,
the Pope and the Commissioner watching practice together. So so uh,
it turns me and said, Pope, Pope, I think that
was on purpose, And I said, Commish, I think you're right.
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And not long after that, the commission decided that newspaper
column writing maybe not quite the thing he wanted to do.
So now, as of this day, he is president of
your New York mess.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
So w if that puck doesn't come at him, he
might have a different president right now.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Well, madam, he's probably writing for the New York Post
about critically about whoever they hired. Okay, that's what that
had that hockey fuck not come within our vicinity at
that practice. He is still a newspaper writer. He is
breaking news. He is joining you every Tuesday night at
a Jason Smith show to talk about what the Mets
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need to do better to get back to the playoffs.
That is the alternate universe that spun off its axis
at the moment the hockey puck shot toward David Stearns
and John Morosi. That is an absolutely true story.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Yeah, I'm a little concern that you're referring to each
other by nicknames and addressing this, But that's.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
A whole other pupsionte The Pope says, hey, I'll have
a beer.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
That's a whole other things.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
In fairness, if I happen to cover his instructory press conference,
I will not refer to him as the Commission, nor
will he describe me as the Pope or the pontiffs.
We are now in a professional realm. But but yes,
that that story, all of it is absolutely one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You can't take that back now. I don't go doing that.
You have history.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
That's part of the part of the charm of this.
You can't hide that. You're the pokm the Commission forever more.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
And he looks back. He says, the Commission, all you
crazy ass Boston people.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
You know what, until I'm running the medicine twenty years
stick it right in the sundowt John god Lock.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
I just thought, I thought to myself, do I tell
Jason the story tonight or do I wait? I think
I probably need to tell him the story to Knighte
and so that's what I decided to do.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
It's awesome Storylin's great, So Tani.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
He's missed a lot of time with the oblique and
we're never seeing him in an angel's uniform again.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Nine straight games missed now with the oblique, and at
this point it's remarkable. I'm not an American League MVP
voter this year, I still believe he's got the award
sewn up, no questions asked, because he basically had five
months worth, depending how you want to say it, of
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two seasons, right, I mean in terms of hitting and pitching.
So he's done way, way more than anybody could have
ever asked. He's earned the award. That's settled. I think
the question now is, and this is ultimately where we're
at on this, what does he want to do? What
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does he want to do in the near term. I'm
sure as he sees it, and I have so much
respect for show A. He respects the obligation to his employer,
to the game, to his teammates, and I think all
of those reasons are why we all admire him so much.
But I think at the end of the day, there's
a larger question of, Okay, what is the best for
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his future and for the future of what he can
do for the game? Is his best role to come
back as a as a reliever of DH DH only?
Obviously if it's a DH only is not going to
make nearly the money he would have made doing the
two way occupation. So I think that it sure seems
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to me like he still wants to pitch in some form,
And to be honest, if I'm being selfish, we all
love watching him do what he does. So I do
think that he will pitch again in the major leagues.
I firmly believe that. Will it be in an Angel uniform?
I tend to doubt that right now, And will he
play again this season? Guys? If it were me advising him,
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I would say, why risk it? But I do think
that it's certainly a multi layered conversation. And the point,
the key point to make here, guys, is it's not
the elbow that's keeping him out. Now it's the oblique,
which is a very different conversation. And at that point,
I'm just not sure what more there is to prove,
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or earn or accomplish this year year in an angel's uniform.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
The Pope John Paul Morosi with us here on FLOG
Sports Radio Only Network Insider from John Paul with Mike Hartwell,
now you're I.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
May I may rue the day in which I told
the story replete with nicknames. That's probably j Probably where
I went awry, that was probably the miscopulation on my book.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I'll be honest with you, JP. I mean, you know,
we've known each other now for a few years. The
first time you were on the show, I wanted to
call you the Pope, but I don't know that it
is and not, and it's never come up. And now
you've opened the door of that. So now you're now
the Pope.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Very very few people have people in college will still
call me the pope. High school, I was just Johnny.
But but of course, now to be fair, as as
a good number of our listeners may may be correctly
pointing out, now we are now fully two popes after
John Paul. So uh, there the nickname for a time
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was was quite accurate and quite of the moment. Now
perhaps a little less so.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, but what when you hear John Paul, you think
of Pope? I mean, no matter what that's you, do
you think of Pope?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I was not.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I was not specifically named after the pope. However, I
was named after the initial John Paul ascended to the throne.
That is that is accurate? All right?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
JP. Lastly, here look one of the big questions going
into the playoffs. As we get through the last couple
of weeks, the Braves are going to enter the postseason
as the favorite in the National League. The Dodgers will
ender the postseason as the second favorite. How concerned do
you Dodgers wise the pitching be able to be able
to hold up in the postseason? Is there something that
Dodgers can do? Is there a magic pill? Can Sandy
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Kofax pitch? Is there something that Dodgers can do when
we get to that NLCS Dodgers Braves.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
I'll say this, and this is with complete respect to
the Dodger organization, which I have great respect for and
admire tremendously for all they've achieved. I am not at
all convinced that they will be in the NLCS this year.
I'm really not, And that is not a hot take
if you look at it at the way the Brewers
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have pitched, especially recently, and if you line up what
the Brewers have in terms of a rotation, Balta Wood
Rift burns the three of them. The way they're going
right now, the Brewers have three pitchers, three starters who
are objectively performing at a higher level than what the
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Dodgers have right now. Of really any of their starters,
Pepio has done at a very briefing amount of time.
Kirshaw obviously has been limited by injury. The command has
not been there. He's going to Hall of Fame. We
all know that. But it's about what you're doing right now.
And just if I'm being honest with you, guys, I
think the Brewers now, the Brewer lineup is not nearly
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as good as the Dodger lineup, but the postseason is
dominated by pitching and execution, and the Brewers are playing
good ball right now. They're going to be a tough
tough out for the Dodgers in the playoffs. I again,
the Dodgers that they always find a way to get
the most out of their pitching. I'm just not sure
if they've got enough healthy pitching to compete with what
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I believe is a very much informed Milwaukee Brewers pitching staff.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Ah hi, JP, I said, lastly, but really quick. You
got to give us this because you were red hot.
You had the Lions winning Week one Seahawks Lions home
opener for Detroit Sunday. What's your final score?
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Lions twenty four, Seattle Seahawks ten were on performance by
the Lions, their defense splitted. If they held Mahomes to
less than three touchdowns, they can certainly hold the Seahawks
to fewer than two. I mean, this is not this
is not some like esoteric super analytical football take for you. Again,
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I'm from a small town of Michigan. It's a square mile.
I'm just telling you what I see, and I see
a pretty good football team. I'm actually learning some of
the names they played pretty well. You know. This is
like going back to the to the hero of like
Ray Crockett and Benny Blades in the secondary. But I
think they've got a pretty good group back there. I
like the way they're playing. The Lions moved to two
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and zero with an emphatic victory over the Seahawks on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
For Benny Blades, Ray Crockett and the rest of the
nineteen ninety three Detroit Lions team. It is the Pope
John Paul Morosi MLB networking socider. You can follow on
Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Rossi JP.
As always, Bundy, great stuff. We'll talk to you next
week there go.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
And also I wish to send quote fanamente to the
Italian national team a big win in the euro quality
mind today as well, we had a lot going on, guys,
so I could graduate the mets on hiring Cerndy and
all the best you guys as well to.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
See you, Bunny.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I liked that he was doing a thing like in
caveating it out like he was the young frozen cave
man lawyer.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I'm a simple man, a simple I'm learning the names
of some of the players.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
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Speaker 1 (30:13):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from the Tirack dot com studios.
And let me tell you, I don't like to use
names and name call, but I got a call for
one of is. Sometimes sometimes I hear people say stuff
and they're just stupid. And I heard a lot of
stupid today. I heard tons of stupid all over the
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place from experts, analysts, whether it's former players, former GM,
whatever it was. I heard so much stupid when it
comes to what's next for the Jets with Aaron Rodgers
being out now, yes, Aaron Rodgers is out. It sucks.
The Jets need to go get any of the greatest
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hits quarterbacks that we've heard. Hey, man, is there any
place I can get all of those unbelievably well past
their prime quarterbacks the two thousands and one place for
a great, low, low price. Yes, whether it's Cartson Wentz
or Chad Henny or Case Keenan, Jets gotta go get
a quarterback. The Jets gotta go. No, that's just stupid.
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It's stupid because there's nothing in reality. It's just well,
j just go to quarterback because I don't like Zack Wilson. Hey,
you know what, I don't like Zach Wilson either. But
Zack Wilson is the best candidate. It's not a great
did it's not a great option, but it's the best
option because any quarterback that you want to Jets want
to get a backup quarterback, no one's gonna trade them.
They're gonna hold onto their backups because they may have
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to play. So it's nice to say, oh, the Jets
can go get No, they can't because no one's gonna
trade their backup quarterback to the Jets because they need them,
because they know they're gonna play. So that's out all
the guys. Matt Ryan Carson wentz. There's a reason why
these guys are unemployed right now because they stink. There's
a reason why they stink. So it's easy to say, oh,
the Jets yet, Yeah, but none of those options are better.
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It's just spid to say that because there's no Oh
Tom Brady, I go, you're right, go get Tom Brady, right, Yeah,
Tom Brady's not coming back to play football for the Jets.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
It's not happening. That was the thing that irked me most.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I did a good job of disconnecting this morning, got
the kids off as to what they were doing for
the day, walked the dog, wandered a bit, listened to
some music, just kind of zoned out. Then I finally
sat down. All right, let's start hunkering down what's going
on today? The day after Rogers, all this and my
timeline was just flooded with the headline of analyst X
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and insert them from any location, TV radio, all the
same dopey thing that we talked about and dismissed in
two sentences last night. Yes, Tom Brady is head and
shoulders above everything else. He ain't coming back. Oh, so
let's talk about the practical matter of what the Jets
do moving forward. We did that last night. Go find
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the podcast that was it, But everything was attributed to
all these guys who make a lot of money, had
big profiles with big thought pieces that they're writing. Staffs
and producers came up with about Tom Brady and why
the Jets need to go get Tom Brady. Yes, make
the call. Captain Obvious called in. He had that at
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take too.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
People who have.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
No idea what the hell's going on in the NFL
or who any of these other people are. Well, someone
should go get Tom Brady. They got a guy hurt,
Go get Tom Brady. Oh, okay, that's easy. But otherwise
it becomes this pot poirie of has bins or never
was or guys that are in the broadcast booth saying
I'm still working out, still in shape, right, Matt Ryan.
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It's really beyond the financials. Are you coming out of
the booth for whatever they're paying you for a veteran's
minimum to come back up Zach Wilson as a break
glass in case of emergency?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
No, I don't think so. And do you want to
go and grab one of these other players?
Speaker 3 (33:52):
No? And in terms of the trade market we saw
last year, we talked about it again last night. It
was something we harped on all last year. Seventy plus
seventy five, seventy seven, whatever that final number was. In
terms of quarterbacks that played last year. If you're banking
on your quarterback to go seventeen games.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I got news for you. Go play the lottery while
you're at it.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
It just does not happen. And some of the others, Hey,
they should reunite with Sam Darnold. Yeah, because San Francisco
is gonna suddenly after getting rid of trailance. Say you
know what, Rock Perdy in his reconstructed life there. He's
gonna we know, he's running seventeen games. There's no no
danger there at all. It's like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
None of those traderer have Now. They'll sign somebody, they'll
sign a warm body because they need a backup quarterback.
But the best way forward is with a guy that
has been with the team, that has been with the offense,
that knows how to run the offense a little bit.
It's gonna have Aaron Rodgers over his shoulder. Look again,
it's not my favorite, it's not one of my sure
top five or ten, but it's the best option out
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there because just to go get another guy. I just
don't like Zaklis. I don't like Zach Wilson. But all
these guys are unemployed for a reason. If they were good,
one of the other thirty one teams would assigned them somewhere.
But they all are past their prime. It's just stupid
to say, oh, you can't have that. There's no realistic
option out there that's going to be better than Zach Wilson.
If there was, I would say, yeah, they gotta go
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do that, but there's not.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
There just isn't no and that's the remarkable thing of
all this. If these guys were that coveted, they'd be
out a roster somewhere, somehow, they would have found their way,
And most teams are carrying a third guy on a
practice squad or whatever is the Are they going to
be a better option than Wilson.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
No chance.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
It's just stupid to say, oh no, there's no other
person out there.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Sometimes you can do a segment on something else
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Coming up next, another quarterback, more drama, a bos