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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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we'll get into the latest news involving the jets in
a couple of seconds, because, oh boy, when it rains
at poors. But the writers Guild strike is going to
end at midnight, going to get back in the morning,
You're gonna get Hollywood is gonna go back to work,
and all the different television shows and movies that have
seen progress on it stopped over the past hundred days
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for the strike, right, And it's great because it's great
that it's over, and it's great to see that that
everybody is getting paid. And you know, you saw big
time actors who get paid a lot of money standing
up for the smaller actors, and you know during the
the SAG strike and now the writer's standing up for
the writers as well, and solidarity that actors didn't show
up for shows or no I'm not going to show
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up while this is going on, and you had Drew
Barrymore go through a really public and ugly situation. I'm
gonna bring my show back and no, I'm not going
to do it without writers. So it's good that this
is over because look, we all want content, we all
love to be entertained, and Hollywood's going to get back
to doing what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, at least from the writing side.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, from the writing side. So we'll get back on
that part of it. But just understand, this is one
thing that you know, it's hard to sit back and say, Okay,
let's back an evil empire of movie studios and streaming services.
Oh yes, let's let's celebrate the individual and the actor
who needs to get paid needs to get paid money
at one hundred percent. But I'll tell you how this
is gonna end. It's gonna end with you and I
(02:10):
and everybody else saying, oh so to because they're paying
extra money. Our street dreaming service is gonna go up
in price.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's all that's gonna happen. So in the end, we're
gonna be the ones that fut the bill on this
if we want it. Oh yeah, Hulu is now going
to go up three dollars a month because we have
to do that now to offset the cost that we're
paying now for the striking to the writers. So everybody's happy,
and I'm happy it's done. I'm happy for the writers,
and I'm happy for everybody, and I have everybody continue
to work. But let's not forget. This is not something
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that had this sunshine, lollipops and rainbows ending. This is
gonna be oh guess what, you guys are gonna be
the ones that pay for it, So all of us here.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
That's right, because nobody in the studios, they're not taking
any pay.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Cuts, all right.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
The folks that were brokering the other side of this
and fighting, no, they're their percentages aren't changing. It's just
how to we grow the pie. We charge you Jason
Smith a little bit more. You want the Bear season three,
you want to see what's next beyond suits, you will
pay more.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We're all gonna pay. That's exactly how it's gonna go.
So just understand. And there is gonna be a bit
of a reorganization the next few years for streaming. Oh absolutely,
there's not gonna be as many options because there's too
many out there.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You're gonna see some streaming services are gonna merge, some
are gonna go out of business. So we'll we'll be
back to the four or five coming up soon. There'll
be four or five that are gonna make it overall.
And that's kind of where it's gonna because right now
you're like, you're like fifteen twelve. Fifteen's like, how do
you choose what to keep and what not to And
I like this one show this one network has, but
I'm not gonna keep that for forever. So I'm not
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gonna get that streaming service because it's not worth it.
I'll wait to see what happens. So you're gonna be
a big reorganization of streaming over the course of the next
few years. But understand it still doesn't mean price are
gonna go down. You can see price for everything is
gonna go up, and we're gonna pay it. Hey yeah, yes, yeah, yes.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Well and that's it right, it's you know, you got
to pass the costs along as a guy who has
watched the price of gas at his local station go
up a dime a day. The reality is there, right,
you see it time and time again. And for the
streaming services, whatever the consolidation is, the takeovers, the sales,
all of that yet to come out in the wash.
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And now you just have to solve the second part
of this because remember this is just on the writing side,
so you're three dollars per per month that you theorize.
Don't forget to add the actors side of this, So
make it a nice even five at a minimum.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Twitter, and how about a fresco Mike.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's swalling down the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen
live fromthetirec dot Com studios. So just to understand that
little bit, and now we get to the Jets. Rich Samini,
who is a jet a Samini.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
He has referenced on the show a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Jets beat reporter for the New York Post had this
bit through Bleacher Report that the Jets defensive players are
upset with head coach Robert Sala. Why are they upset
because of the confidence he is putting in Zach Wilson.
They feel that another quarterback should have lost his job
and they would have moved on to another option. And
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now you have dissension with the Jets, because of course
you have dissension with the Jets. When it rains, it pours, right,
you can't. This is how it goes to the Jets
for forty years. But let me just let's just get
the blame straight here, because Robert Sala is someone who,
since he's come in to be a head coach, has
been the head coach of the defense. His offenses have
stunk welly because he's not an offensive coach. I don't
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like any time a team hires a defensive guy as
a head coach because by and large, it's hard for
them to succeed because it's about the offensive side of
the football. And unless you're a defensive coach that brings
in an offensive genius or an offensive guru, your team
is going to struggle. Case in point, what have we
mentioned the entire time Zach Wilson's been the Jets quarterback
Robert sala has said, don't make mistake, don't make mistakes,
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don't make mistakes. Don't of course you're going to be
afraid to throw the football, and all your head coach
tells you is don't make mistakes. Now that being said,
the Jets have to understand Robert Salaz is trying to
keep everybody together.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
This is not Hey, I love Zach Wilson because I
believe he's good. It's Zach Wilson is the only guy
we have right now. We got to wait a little
bit to see if other quarterbacks shake loose because it's
still too early in the season for Kirk Cousins to
get traded, for Ryan Tannel to get traded. So I'm
just trying to keep everybody on the same page and
everybody together. Do you really think going to Tim Boyle
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is going to be the answer. They tried to go
to Mike White in the last couple of years, and
after one good game, Mike White stunk. Right, There's no
magical fix, and all he's trying to do is keep
everybody together. So I would hope the players saw this
right now if you're looking for a piece of blame,
If you really want to say, what did the Jets
do the worst with their quarterback position with Zach Wilson,
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it's in the off season when they got Aaron Rodgers.
This should have been the time to say, you know what,
we're moving on from Zack Wilson. Are even before you
got Aaron Rodgers, you should have signed a quarterback that
would have been your backup quarterback that could play when
you need him to. Because to come into the season
with Aaron Rodgers and Zack Wilson, that's stupid, right. You
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wanted Zack Wilson to take a step back and learn
and not have to play. You want him to be
the third string quarterback because it sounds stupid to say
the guy we had to go out and get somebody
else to replace, that's the guy we want is our
backup a case he has to play again. You didn't
want Zack Wilson as your starter at all, so you
went and got Aaron Rodgers, but Zack Wilson still your
backup quarterback. That's stupid, That makes no sense. The Jets
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needed to go out and say Okay, we get a starter,
and then we have a backup that can come in
and play. And then there's Zack Wilson. When they got
Aaron Rodgers, they could have just punted on Zach Wilson.
They could have said, you know what, Zach, go do
something someplace else. This is great. You know, we love
what you've done, but it's time for us to move on,
and you let him go because nobody would care. The
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media wouldn't care, the fans wouldn't care, the players wouldn't care.
They'd be happy with Aaron, and the Jets could have
done the right thing by going out and getting an
Andy Dalton type or someone who, if they need to
come into play, would be okay coming in and taking
over for Aaron Rodgers. Because guess what. As we've mentioned
the last couple of weeks, seventy five quarterbacks played in
the NFL last year, everybody needs their backup. Nobody goes
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in that has a great plan saying, yes, we want
to win, and we have an untested rookie backup that
we don't know that can do anything. Nobody does that.
That's why all the backup quarterbacks that talking head said,
the Jets, you go get any doll Jet.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You go to this guy, Jet, you go get this guy.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
No, none of those players are available because teams know
they may need them.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
No one's moving a guy. The Cowboys aren't moving Cooper
Rush because they may need him. If Dak Prescott gets hurt,
quarterbacks get hurt, you need a good backup. That's where
the Jets' failure was to not punt on Zach Wilson
when they had the chance to say it's not working
for you here. We've had a lot of sample sizes
now for you've had two full seasons, and maybe part
of it's our fault, which it is, maybe a big
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part of it's your fault, which it is, but it's
time to move on. We went out and got Aaron Rodgers.
Then we can have a backup, and then we can
have somebody else our third string, or if you wanted
to keep Zach and say third string, you're not going
to see the field of all this year, take a
big step back and then worry about twenty twenty four,
but you're not gonna play this year. That's where the
Jets made that mistake. And they had the money. They
had the money to go out and get a quarterback
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and say, Okay, we have money to say peg Aaron
Rodgers here. We need a really good backup that can
go in and play. That's the failure. Talk about the failure, well,
would you want to be mad at Robert Solifoor and
Joe Douglas. That's the failure not having the guy back
up at Aaron Rodgers. Because if that happens, the Jets
beat the Patriots on Sunday. I don't know if the
Jets beat the Cowboys, but it's a much closer game,
and the Jets clearly beat the Bills worse than they
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would have beat them in Week one. So you're looking
at a much different situation had the Jets taken care
of the quarterback position better in the offseason.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I think that's the hard part to the process, right,
is if you're going to keep Zach Wilson along. And
it's something we've talked about philosophically, brought it up a
little bit earlier. Is if you have to worry about
the guys psychology of who else is in that quarterback room,
you've already lost.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
It's the old Hey, I've got three of whatever and
you don't have one. It's the same thing with the
mentality of your quarterback. If they're that fragile about the
possibility of someone coming and taking their job, then then
you're gonna be in trouble because they're not fully dedicated
to pushing forward, you know, if they're continually looking over
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their shoulder for what might be happening and what someone
else is processing, or if they get their hand up
faster on what should we have done on this plane? Ooh, ooh, ooh,
going all horsehack from Welcome Back Codter. There's a timely
reference for anybody seventy five years old or older. But
the idea of being that getting a veteran backup who
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who is just kind of a guy. Sure, But when
you're looking at Aaron Rodgers, you're also talking about the
near forty year old guy and making your choice of
all right, maybe he can help Zach Wilson because you
still saw enough in practice on tape whatever that you
thought you could coax more out of him with the
future Hall of Famer in the room.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Now, how much of a guy he was working with
Zach or not?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I don't know what's real, what's imagined, What was Hollywood hype?
Because he certainly wasn't the same guy he was in
Green Bay the last couple of years that we've talked about,
away from the team, out of the room, out of discussions,
Jordan Love doing his thing, and we don't know how
great or poor their relationship either. It's all just a
lot of guesswork. But at least the optics were. He
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is a guy that was kind of salty, kind of
done with it all. So how much of a help
was he?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
What?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
He didn't want to be there for offseason workouts?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
So going and getting that veteran quarterback again who's given
him up? And the guys that are still out there,
guess what, they're still out there, Jason, you can go
claim any one of them. You can save Matt Ryan
from calling the fourth game for CBS this week if
you want.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And look, and that tells you where the Jets quarterback
position is at. That all these guys were calling the Jets,
not the Jets called them. Matt Ryan called, and uh
and and Carson Wentz.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Called, and everybody want to.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Hey, how about me? Why not?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
How about me?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I've got my presentation ready, I've got my film tape,
and I've got a power point that I can wow
you with.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Now, that's the savior. Trevor Simeon too, you Jason save
High Men.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Savior.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Trevor Simeon is gonna save them?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Sure he is.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
He is the flaming tire fire that is the New
York Football Jets. Hey, you get the Chiefs this week, Bunny?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And Taylor Swift, I'm sure she's gonna come to the game,
won't She's not gonna watch that garbage. Hopefully she's wearing
a Zach Wilson jersey. Cool would that be. I'm not
dating Travis Kellis anymore. I'm dating Zach Wilson. Oh, that
would be great. Taylor Swift likes her career, that would
be great. That would be the end of it.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
You know what, you want to talk about? A full
NFL takeover because nobody's paying attention to that trash on
the field. It's all about her. I mean, that's the
un saving grace they've had in Chicago. Here, let's how
quickly can we get Jared Payton to do another media
availability about the video he shot that got thirty million impressions. Plus,
we don't want to talk about how bad the game was.
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Or breakdown game film or the no show effort that
the Bears got. They still claim twenty four million people
on average were watching that game. Half the country had
it taken away at halftime found including me. I've already
written several angry letters. I'm like dufrayin you had shawshank
because I'm pissed.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
What are you talking like? I said, a lot of money.
Now write twice as many letters when you get the
Bear's game.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
But I didn't get to watch that second half live. Hey,
we had to go back and watch it on my
own time, you know, as I would have anyway. But
that second half was like NBC reruns back in the day.
It was still new to me. They deprived me of
the opportunity to watch my blood pressure fluctuate because you know,
I do have to test that every day.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I saw.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
They robbed me of.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Here's a stressful sit situation, something that could could make
things elevated, and checking where you are and how much
progress you've made. I was deprived of that by YouTube TV.
You failed me.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
No, and I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You should be able to watch no matter how bad
football it is.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
That's what you pay for.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
The packet should be able to watch and I get
it taken away from you, but I guarantee you. In
the YouTube offices today they said, hey, how many complaints
do we get about switching out of the Bears game?
You know, just this one guy in purple shorts. He's
sent a really angry video to us. Yeah, what else? No,
that's it, just that one guy. Okay, great, we can
do that again. Then that's fine.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I'm still riding for my Bully Pulp and I'm going
to show up on the Peako lot and I'm taking
over Coward Show tomorrow with my complaint.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
That's it all over Twitter and out about a Fresco
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Speaker 2 (14:53):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (15:03):
I feel like I want to watch an eighties movie
with a montage in it, like someone working out to
get in shape for a big fight, or or someone
doing a lot of different than two people that may
want a date. The guy has a crush on the girl,
and they do a lot of things together as friends,
and then he realizes maybe I have more of a
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feeling for her, and maybe she's got feelings for me.
And you see this, it's the music montage.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
This is not my eyes staring into space.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Fox Stemmorts Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon Live the tirag dot com Studios. We
have the result the biggest game in Major League Baseball tonight.
One team can breathe a sigh relief. They're still in
the chase or the playoff.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, the Dodgers whooped the Rockies.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I'm glad they are because I picked them to go
to the World Series preseason. But speaking of baseball, he
lost a legend today, as Hall of Famer and Orioles legend.
Brooks Robinson died at the age of eighty six. And
we say the word legend for a lot of guys. Yeah,
and guys are legends, but we're talking about a guy
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who was universally the greatest third baseman that ever lived.
Nobody played third base better than he did sixteen straight
Gold gloves. And oh, by the way, the Gazaliki was
just defensive player. The guy could hitiot to sixty five
for his career, had twenty eight hundred hits, nearly had
three thousand hits, won the World Series a couple of times,
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won the nineteen seventy World Series all by himself. Go
back and look at highlights of the seventy World Series ago.
Oh my goodness, how does a guy make plays like that?
You can say a lot of things. Maybe George Brett
was a better hitter, Maybe Mike Schmidt was a more
powerful hitter. Nobody played third base like Brooks Robinson. He
has always been the standard bear. He is a guy
that all great fielders are compared to, whether you're Arnado
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or Rolin, whoever it is. And he always will be
the best. Fifty years from now, it's going to be, hey,
this kid's good man. Huh yeah, you know, maybe the
next Brooks Robinson. And when it Brooks Robinson play he
played seventy five years ago. That's how good he was.
And just just watch highlights of him, Just watch the
plays he's able to make. Just how comfortable he is
at third I mean, he was made to play that position.
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And my entire life it's been Brooks Robinson is the
best there been everybody else, you can argue about who
was the best shortstop? Was it Ozzie Smith, was it
Derek Jeter, or was every other position? You can argue
about who was the best catcher, But you get to
third base, Oh it's Brooks Robinson and nobody can say,
oh what about this guy? No, no, no, you're wrong.
I mean, universally, he was the greatest third baseman who
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ever lived.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You know, one of my favorite parts about about his
life and legacy those Jason, is the fact that he
knew like his status.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
A lot of times we get the how they passed,
and you get all of the the accolades and all
of the tributes to whatever, and it's like, well, I
hope they got.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Some of this.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Well, no, no, no, Brooks Robinson was a guy who
was decorated and revered throughout the baseball world and certainly
that city of Baltimore. You know the pictures of he
and Frank Robinson up and out everywhere right now, right,
the two of the greatest in the game, same surname.
But you know from my friends and colleagues back there
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that I've been.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Doing radio spots and the city for years.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Used to go to training camps or whatever, like you
couldn't go anywhere without there being a Brooks Robinson jersey
on a wall or a picture with the proprietor, and
every one of them in the media. It's like here
I was when I met him when I was a kid,
and here I am on my first day on the
radio beat, and here I am when I retired, and
he was still coming to the ballpark. And they're all signed,
and all these things that are along the way, all the
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great stories and tributes, but sixteen straight gold gloves the
Hall of Fame career, I mean, as nearly as many
walks to strikeouts in his career, and what we think about,
you know, most third basemen and hitters, you know, back
in those era, it's kind of like quarterbacks and interceptions
in the seventies. You didn't worry about them right to
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the same to necessarily the same level. Not as free
swinging as you are now or were until this current year.
But you know, we look at his career and all
in one city twenty three years, that nineteen fifty seven
tops rookie cards, so iconic and just a lifetime of
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love in that city and always being held as the
standard and a guy that was giving with his time
to his community, to players coming up through the organization.
I hope that this year what he got to see
if it was special because the Orioles were finally back
to relevance.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You had a lot of fans tonight gather around the
Brooks Robinson statue at Camden Yards. Had a moment of
silence tonight at the game but against the Nationals, to
honor Brooks Robinson. But I don't know that anybody can
put it better than his former teammate Jim Palmer. And
you know, we talked to John paulmer Rossi earlier in
the show. And one of the most iconic plays in
all of baseball history is Brooks Robinson robbing Lee may
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have a hit in the nineteen seventy World Series. It's
very readily available. You can see it. It's one of
the best plays. Yeah, you'll never see a third base
and make a better play homes. And it's funny because
Jim Palmer was the guy pitching right, I mean, he
was pitching on this when he won the Series in seventy.
It's funny Palmer, who had a Hall of Fame career
of his own. He was throwing that pitch that you know,
Brooks Robinson made that play on here was Palmer, you know,
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Orioles legend, Hall of Famer, former bit you know it
was a big national broadcaster for a lot of years.
Remembering Brooks Robinson on Masson earlier tonight, which is where
the Orioles Games are aired, and you hear him get
emotional trying to tell stories about his teammate and his friend.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
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Speaker 5 (21:01):
You know, I got here when I was nineteen. Brooks
got here when when, you know, in nineteen fifty five.
So I think maybe he always knew what it's like
to be in the big leagues in nineteen and then
I think when you get to the big leagues, you know,
you got to get here, you got to stay here,
you got to figure out how to get better, and
then you got to decide who you want to be like.
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And for all of us, you know who knew you know,
we knew him. He was the best, so you know,
and just you know, the little things everywhere I'd go,
you know, I'd get a Brooks to be an autograph
ball and I Brooks Day would be hon it. Oh yeah,
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and I he said to tell him, I said, I
got me right right right, so big because it was
a big city.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But everywhere I'd go, people would go.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
We all know he's a great player, he won sixteen
goal gloves, but we also know how special a person
he was.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And I had really something for to keep it together
because this is you know, you're just hearing the news
and trying to go on and keep your thoughts together
and talk about Brooks Robinson. But that's the kind of
guy he was. And everybody got introduced to him in
Sleepless in Seattle, right when when Jonah gets the letter
from Annie from Meg Ryan's character who is from Baltimore,
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and he's reading the letter to Tom Hanks and he says, Dad,
I like this girl Annie. She says, first thing, anybody
who reads this has to understand that Brooks Robinson is
the greatest third basement ever, and this point is not negotiable.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
She likes Brooks Robinson. She says, he's the best. You
think he's the best too, And Tom I just goes
that's because he was the best. Like, there's nothing special
about this note. Everybody knows Brooks Robinson was the best.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I love that something from baseball.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Everybody knows Brooks Robinson is the best. Come on, Uh yeah,
mister oriole eighty six years old. Brooks Robinson, he really
was something.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
And Jason, Yeah, we don't realize because a lot of
people think the Orioles they just always sucked. But those
teams with the Robinson both Robinson brothers were some of
the best teams ever assembled on.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
That pitching stat Yeah, right, with Palmer and and Quaar
and those guys.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
The seventies, they were in the World Series almost every year.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, the late sixties into the early eighties was an
unbelievable run for the Orioles. That that started with guys
like Brooks Robinson and Frank Robinson and then got into
all the great pitching they had. They had Palmer and
Scott McGregor and and uh Steve Stone and and you
know they had at one point they had what they
had the whole thing with Oreas what they had Cy Young,
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Cy Old and Cy Present and Ci Future. Right, they
had like the four best pit you know. Cy Old
was Jim Palmer, and Cy Young was Steve Stone, and
Cy Future was Scott McGregor, and Cy President was Mike Bodaker.
I think if that the that run, that run the
Orioles had from sixty eight into the early culminating with
with you know, getting to the World Series, uh, you
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know and in seventy nine against the against the Pirates
and then uh they go they go want to win.
I mean, it's it's been really some kind of run
for the Orioles, you know, back then it was started off.
I mean, look, Brooks Robinson was there for a long time.
Frank Robinson there for a long time.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
No, now happy days again. They've reset the franchise, no
change in ownership, so still some curiosities as to what
changed in the water and showing, at least for a moment,
things can change when you have a I'll just say it,
and when you have a bad owner. No sure, folks
don't like maybe maybe you can catch lightning in the
(24:32):
bottle by hiring the right person to help in the
draft evaluation, because right now they are stocked. And what's
funny is if you hold up a picture of a
lot of those guys, you'd swear they'd been cloned.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, there's no hope for Dolan. Yea, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
No no, well no, or the McCaskey.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
He doesn't like to own the team, so it doesn't matter.
He hasn't like owning a team. He owns that. I
don't like owning a team.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh you really that you kind of own it exactly
the way you should. Then, since you don't like them,
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we'll get into the latest news involving the jets in
a couple of seconds, because, oh boy, when it rains
at poors. But the writers Guild strike is going to
end at midnight, going to get back in the morning,
You're gonna get Hollywood is gonna go back to work,
and all the different television shows and movies that have
seen progress on it stopped over the past hundred days
(01:10):
for the strike, right, And it's great because it's great
that it's over, and it's great to see that that
everybody is getting paid. And you know, you saw big
time actors who get paid a lot of money standing
up for the smaller actors, and you know during the
the SAG strike and now the writer's standing up for
the writers as well, and solidarity that actors didn't show
up for shows or no I'm not going to show
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up while this is going on, and you had Drew
Barrymore go through a really public and ugly situation. I'm
gonna bring my show back and no, I'm not going
to do it without writers. So it's good that this
is over because look, we all want content, we all
love to be entertained, and Hollywood's going to get back
to doing what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, at least from the writing side.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, from the writing side. So we'll get back on
that part of it. But just understand, this is one
thing that you know, it's hard to sit back and say, Okay,
let's back an evil empire of movie studios and streaming services.
Oh yes, let's let's celebrate the individual and the actor
who needs to get paid needs to get paid money
at one hundred percent. But I'll tell you how this
is gonna end. It's gonna end with you and I
(02:10):
and everybody else saying, oh so to because they're paying
extra money. Our street dreaming service is gonna go up
in price.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
That's all that's gonna happen. So in the end, we're
gonna be the ones that fut the bill on this
if we want it. Oh yeah, Hulu is now going
to go up three dollars a month because we have
to do that now to offset the cost that we're
paying now for the striking to the writers. So everybody's happy,
and I'm happy it's done. I'm happy for the writers,
and I'm happy for everybody, and I have everybody continue
to work. But let's not forget. This is not something
(02:39):
that had this sunshine, lollipops and rainbows ending. This is
gonna be oh guess what, you guys are gonna be
the ones that pay for it, So all of us here.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
That's right, because nobody in the studios, they're not taking
any pay.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Cuts, all right.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
The folks that were brokering the other side of this
and fighting, no, they're their percentages aren't changing. It's just
how to we grow the pie. We charge you Jason
Smith a little bit more. You want the Bear season three,
you want to see what's next beyond suits, you will
pay more.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We're all gonna pay. That's exactly how it's gonna go.
So just understand. And there is gonna be a bit
of a reorganization the next few years for streaming. Oh absolutely,
there's not gonna be as many options because there's too
many out there.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You're gonna see some streaming services are gonna merge, some
are gonna go out of business. So we'll we'll be
back to the four or five coming up soon. There'll
be four or five that are gonna make it overall.
And that's kind of where it's gonna because right now
you're like, you're like fifteen twelve. Fifteen's like, how do
you choose what to keep and what not to And
I like this one show this one network has, but
I'm not gonna keep that for forever. So I'm not
(03:46):
gonna get that streaming service because it's not worth it.
I'll wait to see what happens. So you're gonna be
a big reorganization of streaming over the course of the next
few years. But understand it still doesn't mean price are
gonna go down. You can see price for everything is
gonna go up, and we're gonna pay it. Hey yeah, yes, yeah, yes.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Well and that's it right, it's you know, you got
to pass the costs along as a guy who has
watched the price of gas at his local station go
up a dime a day. The reality is there, right,
you see it time and time again. And for the
streaming services, whatever the consolidation is, the takeovers, the sales,
all of that yet to come out in the wash.
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And now you just have to solve the second part
of this because remember this is just on the writing side,
so you're three dollars per per month that you theorize.
Don't forget to add the actors side of this, So
make it a nice even five at a minimum.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Twitter, and how about a fresco Mike.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's swalling down the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen
live fromthetirec dot Com studios. So just to understand that
little bit, and now we get to the Jets. Rich Samini,
who is a jet a Samini.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
He has referenced on the show a lot.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Jets beat reporter for the New York Post had this
bit through Bleacher Report that the Jets defensive players are
upset with head coach Robert Sala. Why are they upset
because of the confidence he is putting in Zach Wilson.
They feel that another quarterback should have lost his job
and they would have moved on to another option. And
(05:19):
now you have dissension with the Jets, because of course
you have dissension with the Jets. When it rains, it pours, right,
you can't. This is how it goes to the Jets
for forty years. But let me just let's just get
the blame straight here, because Robert Sala is someone who,
since he's come in to be a head coach, has
been the head coach of the defense. His offenses have
stunk welly because he's not an offensive coach. I don't
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like any time a team hires a defensive guy as
a head coach because by and large, it's hard for
them to succeed because it's about the offensive side of
the football. And unless you're a defensive coach that brings
in an offensive genius or an offensive guru, your team
is going to struggle. Case in point, what have we
mentioned the entire time Zach Wilson's been the Jets quarterback
Robert sala has said, don't make mistake, don't make mistakes,
(06:01):
don't make mistakes. Don't of course you're going to be
afraid to throw the football, and all your head coach
tells you is don't make mistakes. Now that being said,
the Jets have to understand Robert Salaz is trying to
keep everybody together.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
This is not Hey, I love Zach Wilson because I
believe he's good. It's Zach Wilson is the only guy
we have right now. We got to wait a little
bit to see if other quarterbacks shake loose because it's
still too early in the season for Kirk Cousins to
get traded, for Ryan Tannel to get traded. So I'm
just trying to keep everybody on the same page and
everybody together. Do you really think going to Tim Boyle
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is going to be the answer. They tried to go
to Mike White in the last couple of years, and
after one good game, Mike White stunk. Right, There's no
magical fix, and all he's trying to do is keep
everybody together. So I would hope the players saw this
right now if you're looking for a piece of blame,
If you really want to say, what did the Jets
do the worst with their quarterback position with Zach Wilson,
(06:54):
it's in the off season when they got Aaron Rodgers.
This should have been the time to say, you know what,
we're moving on from Zack Wilson. Are even before you
got Aaron Rodgers, you should have signed a quarterback that
would have been your backup quarterback that could play when
you need him to. Because to come into the season
with Aaron Rodgers and Zack Wilson, that's stupid, right. You
(07:14):
wanted Zack Wilson to take a step back and learn
and not have to play. You want him to be
the third string quarterback because it sounds stupid to say
the guy we had to go out and get somebody
else to replace, that's the guy we want is our
backup a case he has to play again. You didn't
want Zack Wilson as your starter at all, so you
went and got Aaron Rodgers, but Zack Wilson still your
backup quarterback. That's stupid, That makes no sense. The Jets
(07:35):
needed to go out and say Okay, we get a starter,
and then we have a backup that can come in
and play. And then there's Zack Wilson. When they got
Aaron Rodgers, they could have just punted on Zach Wilson.
They could have said, you know what, Zach, go do
something someplace else. This is great. You know, we love
what you've done, but it's time for us to move on,
and you let him go because nobody would care. The
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media wouldn't care, the fans wouldn't care, the players wouldn't care.
They'd be happy with Aaron, and the Jets could have
done the right thing by going out and getting an
Andy Dalton type or someone who, if they need to
come into play, would be okay coming in and taking
over for Aaron Rodgers. Because guess what. As we've mentioned
the last couple of weeks, seventy five quarterbacks played in
the NFL last year, everybody needs their backup. Nobody goes
(08:17):
in that has a great plan saying, yes, we want
to win, and we have an untested rookie backup that
we don't know that can do anything. Nobody does that.
That's why all the backup quarterbacks that talking head said,
the Jets, you go get any doll Jet.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You go to this guy, Jet, you go get this guy.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
No, none of those players are available because teams know
they may need them.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
No one's moving a guy. The Cowboys aren't moving Cooper
Rush because they may need him. If Dak Prescott gets hurt,
quarterbacks get hurt, you need a good backup. That's where
the Jets' failure was to not punt on Zach Wilson
when they had the chance to say it's not working
for you here. We've had a lot of sample sizes
now for you've had two full seasons, and maybe part
of it's our fault, which it is, maybe a big
(08:53):
part of it's your fault, which it is, but it's
time to move on. We went out and got Aaron Rodgers.
Then we can have a backup, and then we can
have somebody else our third string, or if you wanted
to keep Zach and say third string, you're not going
to see the field of all this year, take a
big step back and then worry about twenty twenty four,
but you're not gonna play this year. That's where the
Jets made that mistake. And they had the money. They
had the money to go out and get a quarterback
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and say, Okay, we have money to say peg Aaron
Rodgers here. We need a really good backup that can
go in and play. That's the failure. Talk about the failure, well,
would you want to be mad at Robert Solifoor and
Joe Douglas. That's the failure not having the guy back
up at Aaron Rodgers. Because if that happens, the Jets
beat the Patriots on Sunday. I don't know if the
Jets beat the Cowboys, but it's a much closer game,
and the Jets clearly beat the Bills worse than they
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would have beat them in Week one. So you're looking
at a much different situation had the Jets taken care
of the quarterback position better in the offseason.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I think that's the hard part to the process, right,
is if you're going to keep Zach Wilson along. And
it's something we've talked about philosophically, brought it up a
little bit earlier. Is if you have to worry about
the guys psychology of who else is in that quarterback room,
you've already lost.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Man.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
It's the old Hey, I've got three of whatever and
you don't have one. It's the same thing with the
mentality of your quarterback. If they're that fragile about the
possibility of someone coming and taking their job, then then
you're gonna be in trouble because they're not fully dedicated
to pushing forward, you know, if they're continually looking over
(10:22):
their shoulder for what might be happening and what someone
else is processing, or if they get their hand up
faster on what should we have done on this plane? Ooh, ooh, ooh,
going all horsehack from Welcome Back Codter. There's a timely
reference for anybody seventy five years old or older. But
the idea of being that getting a veteran backup who
(10:45):
who is just kind of a guy. Sure, But when
you're looking at Aaron Rodgers, you're also talking about the
near forty year old guy and making your choice of
all right, maybe he can help Zach Wilson because you
still saw enough in practice on tape whatever that you
thought you could coax more out of him with the
future Hall of Famer in the room.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Now, how much of a guy he was working with
Zach or not?
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I don't know what's real, what's imagined, What was Hollywood hype?
Because he certainly wasn't the same guy he was in
Green Bay the last couple of years that we've talked about,
away from the team, out of the room, out of discussions,
Jordan Love doing his thing, and we don't know how
great or poor their relationship either. It's all just a
lot of guesswork. But at least the optics were. He
(11:33):
is a guy that was kind of salty, kind of
done with it all. So how much of a help
was he?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
What?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
He didn't want to be there for offseason workouts?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
So going and getting that veteran quarterback again who's given
him up? And the guys that are still out there,
guess what, they're still out there, Jason, you can go
claim any one of them. You can save Matt Ryan
from calling the fourth game for CBS this week if
you want.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And look, and that tells you where the Jets quarterback
position is at. That all these guys were calling the Jets,
not the Jets called them. Matt Ryan called, and uh
and and Carson Wentz.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Called, and everybody want to.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Hey, how about me? Why not?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
How about me?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
I've got my presentation ready, I've got my film tape,
and I've got a power point that I can wow
you with.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Now, that's the savior. Trevor Simeon too, you Jason save
High Men.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Savior.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Trevor Simeon is gonna save them?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Sure he is.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Sure.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
He is the flaming tire fire that is the New
York Football Jets. Hey, you get the Chiefs this week, Bunny?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:36):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
And Taylor Swift, I'm sure she's gonna come to the game,
won't She's not gonna watch that garbage. Hopefully she's wearing
a Zach Wilson jersey. Cool would that be. I'm not
dating Travis Kellis anymore. I'm dating Zach Wilson. Oh, that
would be great. Taylor Swift likes her career, that would
be great. That would be the end of it.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
You know what, you want to talk about? A full
NFL takeover because nobody's paying attention to that trash on
the field. It's all about her. I mean, that's the
un saving grace they've had in Chicago. Here, let's how
quickly can we get Jared Payton to do another media
availability about the video he shot that got thirty million impressions. Plus,
we don't want to talk about how bad the game was.
(13:13):
Or breakdown game film or the no show effort that
the Bears got. They still claim twenty four million people
on average were watching that game. Half the country had
it taken away at halftime found including me. I've already
written several angry letters. I'm like dufrayin you had shawshank
because I'm pissed.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
What are you talking like? I said, a lot of money.
Now write twice as many letters when you get the
Bear's game.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
But I didn't get to watch that second half live. Hey,
we had to go back and watch it on my
own time, you know, as I would have anyway. But
that second half was like NBC reruns back in the day.
It was still new to me. They deprived me of
the opportunity to watch my blood pressure fluctuate because you know,
I do have to test that every day.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I saw.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
They robbed me of.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Here's a stressful sit situation, something that could could make
things elevated, and checking where you are and how much
progress you've made. I was deprived of that by YouTube TV.
You failed me.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
No, and I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You should be able to watch no matter how bad
football it is.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
That's what you pay for.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
The packet should be able to watch and I get
it taken away from you, but I guarantee you. In
the YouTube offices today they said, hey, how many complaints
do we get about switching out of the Bears game?
You know, just this one guy in purple shorts. He's
sent a really angry video to us. Yeah, what else? No,
that's it, just that one guy. Okay, great, we can
do that again. Then that's fine.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I'm still riding for my Bully Pulp and I'm going
to show up on the Peako lot and I'm taking
over Coward Show tomorrow with my complaint.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
That's it all over Twitter and out about a Fresco
Mike get swollen down The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon live from the Ti rag dot com studios.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm PS on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I feel like I want to watch an eighties movie
with a montage in it, like someone working out to
get in shape for a big fight, or or someone
doing a lot of different than two people that may
want a date. The guy has a crush on the girl,
and they do a lot of things together as friends,
and then he realizes maybe I have more of a
(15:25):
feeling for her, and maybe she's got feelings for me.
And you see this, it's the music montage.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
This is not my eyes staring into space.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Fox Stemmorts Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon Live the tirag dot com Studios. We
have the result the biggest game in Major League Baseball tonight.
One team can breathe a sigh relief. They're still in
the chase or the playoff.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah, the Dodgers whooped the Rockies.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I'm glad they are because I picked them to go
to the World Series preseason. But speaking of baseball, he
lost a legend today, as Hall of Famer and Orioles legend.
Brooks Robinson died at the age of eighty six. And
we say the word legend for a lot of guys. Yeah,
and guys are legends, but we're talking about a guy
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who was universally the greatest third baseman that ever lived.
Nobody played third base better than he did sixteen straight
Gold gloves. And oh, by the way, the Gazaliki was
just defensive player. The guy could hitiot to sixty five
for his career, had twenty eight hundred hits, nearly had
three thousand hits, won the World Series a couple of times,
(16:33):
won the nineteen seventy World Series all by himself. Go
back and look at highlights of the seventy World Series ago.
Oh my goodness, how does a guy make plays like that?
You can say a lot of things. Maybe George Brett
was a better hitter, Maybe Mike Schmidt was a more
powerful hitter. Nobody played third base like Brooks Robinson. He
has always been the standard bear. He is a guy
that all great fielders are compared to, whether you're Arnado
(16:57):
or Rolin, whoever it is. And he always will be
the best. Fifty years from now, it's going to be, hey,
this kid's good man. Huh yeah, you know, maybe the
next Brooks Robinson. And when it Brooks Robinson play he
played seventy five years ago. That's how good he was.
And just just watch highlights of him, Just watch the
plays he's able to make. Just how comfortable he is
at third I mean, he was made to play that position.
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And my entire life it's been Brooks Robinson is the
best there been everybody else, you can argue about who
was the best shortstop? Was it Ozzie Smith, was it
Derek Jeter, or was every other position? You can argue
about who was the best catcher, But you get to
third base, Oh it's Brooks Robinson and nobody can say,
oh what about this guy? No, no, no, you're wrong.
I mean, universally, he was the greatest third baseman who
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ever lived.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
You know, one of my favorite parts about about his
life and legacy those Jason, is the fact that he
knew like his status.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
A lot of times we get the how they passed,
and you get all of the the accolades and all
of the tributes to whatever, and it's like, well, I
hope they got.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Some of this.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Well, no, no, no, Brooks Robinson was a guy who
was decorated and revered throughout the baseball world and certainly
that city of Baltimore. You know the pictures of he
and Frank Robinson up and out everywhere right now, right,
the two of the greatest in the game, same surname.
But you know from my friends and colleagues back there
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that I've been.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Doing radio spots and the city for years.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Used to go to training camps or whatever, like you
couldn't go anywhere without there being a Brooks Robinson jersey
on a wall or a picture with the proprietor, and
every one of them in the media. It's like here
I was when I met him when I was a kid,
and here I am on my first day on the
radio beat, and here I am when I retired, and
he was still coming to the ballpark. And they're all signed,
and all these things that are along the way, all the
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great stories and tributes, but sixteen straight gold gloves the
Hall of Fame career, I mean, as nearly as many
walks to strikeouts in his career, and what we think about,
you know, most third basemen and hitters, you know, back
in those era, it's kind of like quarterbacks and interceptions
in the seventies. You didn't worry about them right to
(19:12):
the same to necessarily the same level. Not as free
swinging as you are now or were until this current year.
But you know, we look at his career and all
in one city twenty three years, that nineteen fifty seven
tops rookie cards, so iconic and just a lifetime of
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love in that city and always being held as the
standard and a guy that was giving with his time
to his community, to players coming up through the organization.
I hope that this year what he got to see
if it was special because the Orioles were finally back
to relevance.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
You had a lot of fans tonight gather around the
Brooks Robinson statue at Camden Yards. Had a moment of
silence tonight at the game but against the Nationals, to
honor Brooks Robinson. But I don't know that anybody can
put it better than his former teammate Jim Palmer. And
you know, we talked to John paulmer Rossi earlier in
the show. And one of the most iconic plays in
all of baseball history is Brooks Robinson robbing Lee may
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have a hit in the nineteen seventy World Series. It's
very readily available. You can see it. It's one of
the best plays. Yeah, you'll never see a third base
and make a better play homes. And it's funny because
Jim Palmer was the guy pitching right, I mean, he
was pitching on this when he won the Series in seventy.
It's funny Palmer, who had a Hall of Fame career
of his own. He was throwing that pitch that you know,
Brooks Robinson made that play on here was Palmer, you know,
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Orioles legend, Hall of Famer, former bit you know it
was a big national broadcaster for a lot of years.
Remembering Brooks Robinson on Masson earlier tonight, which is where
the Orioles Games are aired, and you hear him get
emotional trying to tell stories about his teammate and his friend.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 5 (21:01):
You know, I got here when I was nineteen. Brooks
got here when when, you know, in nineteen fifty five.
So I think maybe he always knew what it's like
to be in the big leagues in nineteen and then
I think when you get to the big leagues, you know,
you got to get here, you got to stay here,
you got to figure out how to get better, and
then you got to decide who you want to be like.
(21:22):
And for all of us, you know who knew you know,
we knew him. He was the best, so you know,
and just you know, the little things everywhere I'd go,
you know, I'd get a Brooks to be an autograph
ball and I Brooks Day would be hon it. Oh yeah,
(21:43):
and I he said to tell him, I said, I
got me right right right, so big because it was
a big city.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
But everywhere I'd go, people would go.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
We all know he's a great player, he won sixteen
goal gloves, but we also know how special a person
he was.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
And I had really something for to keep it together
because this is you know, you're just hearing the news
and trying to go on and keep your thoughts together
and talk about Brooks Robinson. But that's the kind of
guy he was. And everybody got introduced to him in
Sleepless in Seattle, right when when Jonah gets the letter
from Annie from Meg Ryan's character who is from Baltimore,
(22:18):
and he's reading the letter to Tom Hanks and he says, Dad,
I like this girl Annie. She says, first thing, anybody
who reads this has to understand that Brooks Robinson is
the greatest third basement ever, and this point is not negotiable.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
She likes Brooks Robinson. She says, he's the best. You
think he's the best too, And Tom I just goes
that's because he was the best. Like, there's nothing special
about this note. Everybody knows Brooks Robinson was the best.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I love that something from baseball.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Everybody knows Brooks Robinson is the best. Come on, Uh yeah,
mister oriole eighty six years old. Brooks Robinson, he really
was something.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
And Jason, Yeah, we don't realize because a lot of
people think the Orioles they just always sucked. But those
teams with the Robinson both Robinson brothers were some of
the best teams ever assembled on.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
That pitching stat Yeah, right, with Palmer and and Quaar
and those guys.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
The seventies, they were in the World Series almost every year.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, the late sixties into the early eighties was an
unbelievable run for the Orioles. That that started with guys
like Brooks Robinson and Frank Robinson and then got into
all the great pitching they had. They had Palmer and
Scott McGregor and and uh Steve Stone and and you
know they had at one point they had what they
had the whole thing with Oreas what they had Cy Young,
(23:34):
Cy Old and Cy Present and Ci Future. Right, they
had like the four best pit you know. Cy Old
was Jim Palmer, and Cy Young was Steve Stone, and
Cy Future was Scott McGregor, and Cy President was Mike Bodaker.
I think if that the that run, that run the
Orioles had from sixty eight into the early culminating with
with you know, getting to the World Series, uh, you
(23:55):
know and in seventy nine against the against the Pirates
and then uh they go they go want to win.
I mean, it's it's been really some kind of run
for the Orioles, you know, back then it was started off.
I mean, look, Brooks Robinson was there for a long time.
Frank Robinson there for a long time.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
No, now happy days again. They've reset the franchise, no
change in ownership, so still some curiosities as to what
changed in the water and showing, at least for a moment,
things can change when you have a I'll just say it,
and when you have a bad owner. No sure, folks
don't like maybe maybe you can catch lightning in the
(24:32):
bottle by hiring the right person to help in the
draft evaluation, because right now they are stocked. And what's
funny is if you hold up a picture of a
lot of those guys, you'd swear they'd been cloned.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, there's no hope for Dolan. Yea, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
No no, well no, or the McCaskey.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
He doesn't like to own the team, so it doesn't matter.
He hasn't like owning a team. He owns that. I
don't like owning a team.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Oh you really that you kind of own it exactly
the way you should. Then, since you don't like them,
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