October 11, 2023 • 43 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon update game 3 of the ALDS between the Orioles and Rangers. A “Fire Canada” chant has broken out at the Penguins opening night game. And we play is the song Creed or Nickelback!
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Just breathe it in, Let it wash over you, let
it wash over, you, close your eyes unless you're driving.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The oriol suck.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We're gone a sweep Baltimore because they keep pitching guys
with no experience.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Stay in your lane.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Greetings, and welcome inside. Yes, it's going to be a
greed night here.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
It is Mental Health Day that we are celebrating. So
find the Orioles fan in your life if you know one,
and give him a big hug.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
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that last night James.
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Speaker 3 (01:31):
The way tire buying should be.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, yeah, it's kind of gonna be a Creed night tonight,
which is just as bad as having a Nickelback night.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
However, what did you say? I know, I know, I didn't.
I did, I did?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
No, No, No, I did somewhat.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So can you say that no?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I said, it's a Creed night tonight?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It's a Creed? What the hell? Jason? You know, I
bet you're the amateurs.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You know, we should play a game Nickelback or Creed
and just play songs. People have to say, is that Nickelback?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Is that Creed?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's the same, But it's actually going to be a
Creed night tonight because you know how.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Things like this happen. The Rangers, who are now.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Seven outs away or I'm sorry nine outs away from
the Alcs, have decided to turn Creed into a thing.
It's become a song it's a touchstone for them. It's
a flash point. They were singing along to Creed during
the game today, kind of like you know, the Red
Sox sing along to Sweet Caroline. Now Creed's become a
(02:35):
thing and the Rangers looking to ride this momentum all
the way to the World Series. They have adopted Creed.
They couldn't adopt somebody else. They could have adopted you know,
guns n' Roses or they. They couldn't have adopted the Strut.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
No irony there.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You couldn't adopted the cult, you know, I mean, you
couldn't have really, couldn't adopted poison. Hey, we're talking dirty
to me all the time. No, we got to hold
that wonda stop.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Well, you know, I celebrate Billy Duffy at every opportunity,
There's no question about it. But yeah, it's any and
Asbury of course. But yeah, there's no irony. I mean,
it's got to be creator Nickelback.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
No, it does no, no, no, Why is it that have
to be? These bands?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Why do people keep picking bands, keep picking bands, keep peating?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Got a band, hi, everybody?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Why do people keep picking bands that are just polarized?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
People go, oh this band? Really? Why I can't people
pick somebody who's good.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Hey, you know what, you know, we're gonna hey, we're
listening to Katy Perry songs. So yeah, yeah, that's polarizing.
We're gonna listen to Queens of the Stone Age. Oh okay, hey, great,
we're listening to Talica. Is gonna be out to like
what happened to like when the Giant said, Hey, man,
Journey is our band. Hey, everybody got behind Jerney the Saint,
the White Sox around Gloria. What about Gloria? I have
been playing Gloria all the time they won the Stanley Cup,
(03:44):
and they played that twenty four and seven on the
station for a week. And why do we have to
get No, it's gonna be Nickelback, It's gonna be creep,
It's going Why is it gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Be one of those bands?
Speaker 5 (03:52):
When I notice how he keeps circling back to Nickelback
for you their tight shirt.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I don't know why I keep saying that. I'm just stupid.
I guess I don't know what am I doing and
say that Tod Look, listen, Tys is gonna have a
tough enough time pulling enough Creed songs because I gotta
explain the millennials who Creed is.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Now I don't even know they are.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, No, it's okay, it doesn't They had that one.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
All their songs I mean really do sound like so yeah,
and they're interchangeable.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
They were a band that played Thanksgiving Day at at and.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
They did and then they jumped into the kettle.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah now, ty shit, the lead singer is Apollo Creed. No, yes, yes,
does all the songs. It's awesome. It's Carl Weather's like
he's in disguise, like he's like he's got a persona
like when Garth Brooks was Chris Gaines. And now I
gotta explain the millennials.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Who rises And you might have to explain to some
people who Yeah, might have to explain to some people.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Who did they throw the talent time? Well, that's the
big thing.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Like they before they do their final encore, they make
sure that Apollo Creed thread they throw the talent in,
and then they do one more so if no one
throws the towel in concerts over, if they throw the
towel and then you hear Duke kill the damn towel,
they do a big encore and it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, it's a good concert, isn't it. And it starts
out they open up with the same song all the
time they do Living in America. He comes down from
out and then you know.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Comes up.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, Drago comes up from the bottom and they do.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
The song together. It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah yeah, I mean Dolph Lundgren has joined him on
stage so many times. So is Creed young Creed or
is that his son? Which Creed the Creed Creed Creed
the band. It's gets apollo Creed Creed son sometimes sometimes
he but he tours under the other like there's a
big thing, there's a big label award, here's.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Here's the key thing, though, is that Creed? You know
you thought he died in Rocky fourth spoiler alert, he
shows up in the Star Wars universe.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, just because he dies in Rocky four. Sorry, you
can't work again. But I only died in one movie. Nah,
you're done.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
People think you're dead in another un.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Star Wars is really wrong. Well, because you know, the
funny thing is, my uncle is the biggest Rocky movie
fan in the world, and he thought just because it
was so real to him, like he's like, how are
they bringing uh, Burgess Meredith back in this movie?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
What are you talking about? He goes, I thought he
was dead. I go, he just.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Died in the movie. He's he can be I think
it was grumpy old Nady. He goes, I know Burtis
Meredith is alive. Ago, yeah, he goes, I thought he
was dead. I go, because you thought he because he
died in Rocky sorry spoiler, because he died in Rocky three.
I go, But that didn't mean like, they don't do
that beat. They don't kill the actors for real when
you die in a movie. I don't introduce that kind
of soap operas. I mean, oh boy, I mean you
have to really, you have to really sell out for
(06:29):
your career, going, yeah, I'm okay dying if if, if
this is what.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I do, what's family. I'm gonna live forever.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
We're gonna live for No, they're sure they're gonna get
proper residuals.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I mean, maybe that's part.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Of the second after thing.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
We had doing.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
He thought, Burgess mayrit, I'm Burgess Meredith, and I'm back
from the dead.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
You know he was Batman?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Hear, and club meant, yeah, well, yeah, the original Batman
I mean way before he was Mickey, you know, but
I thought he was uh Twitter, or how about a
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Ranges before you get too far off into Creed and
we're gonna hear with arms wide open the entire night. Now, well,
at least there'll be no tears for fears because well
we have Creed that will take its place. So there's that.
(07:29):
Uh look, the Rangers again, they are not for one night, sure,
because like, what do I say it the Mets bullpen.
If I would trade the Mets bullpen sight unseen for
any other bullpen, why because the other bullpen might suck,
but at least it's new and it's something new, Like
if we're gonna hear Creed songs all night.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I'm not happy, but at least it's not tears or fears,
and Creed is new, so we have that. So it's
kind of if the suck is new or it's okay,
I can deal with it for a little bit.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Jason, you didn't know there was a Creed Tears remix?
There is no.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh wow, ty Shir would actually have to work hard
to do something to make that happen. And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, he's got working on he's got his animate podcast
that he's going to record after the night tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I actually am Yeah, you might recording it right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Steve Garvey is on Tyshert's anime podcast, yeah, to talk
about running running for senator. Yeah, and I think he's
actually running with his campaign manager isn't animate character.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So I think that's good. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Now, that's creative. You want to win and win over
new voters.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, Tyscher asked Garvy about his forearms.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
I will literally give tysher twenty dollars right now if
you can tell me who Steve Garvey is.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He is a upcoming mayor justin no he's not even
running for mayor. Oh what's running for He's.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Running for senate. Oh I thought he was running for
his life from Shylah Boff. No, well that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That's her what it does. But doesn't Garvey have to
run also against Say and Russell and Lopes And he
doesn't have to run against all three at four of
those if I have to run on different tickets together,
because somebody runs Democrats, somebody runs Independent, somebody runs Green,
and he runs Republican.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That's how it goes. It's got to be all.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Four of them running against each other, and you pick
your favorite Dodger infielder. So no, but but look the
Rangers again are are just now six outs away from
the American League Championship Series. And you know, to give
credit for a team where just think about what they're accomplishing.
This is a team that went all in to go
get Jacob de Gram in the in the beginning of
(09:23):
the season, and they paid all kinds of money to
him when he wound up getting hurt really early. And
not only is he out for this year, he's out
for all of next year. What do they do with
the trade deadline? We traded prospects. We went all in
on Max Scherzer. He was the missing piece. We gotta
hold teams off, we gotta hold off the askers. We
got to do all of these things. And Max Scherzer
is hurt and he is not pitched. He's not even
(09:46):
on the Alds roster. Who knows he's even going to
pitch again this season. They are two guys that they
are spending a ton of money on. Well, half the
money is the Mets money, for sure, But these two
guys that they are spending so much money on that
they're two huge, their biggest acquisitions, and they're still gonna
wind up in the ALCS. And they're gonna wind up
in the ALCS easy. It's not like they've had to
(10:06):
break us sweat in the first two rounds here. Well,
the Orioles starting pitchers who are coming up from single
A just to pitch, it helps them a little bit.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Well, the only sweat sweat for them, Yeah, the only
sweat was the slap fight between gms about how much
they did or didn't party?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah, were they not ready? Were they?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Did they not hydrate ahead of their final game to
give away the division?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I mean this is This is some kind of achievement
to be able to do that when you're thinking the
guys we brought in that, we gave up tons of
money and prospects, and we're getting zero from them. They're
getting zero from de Grom, and they will get zero
from de Grom. They're getting zero from Scherzer and they
probably will get zero from him. And they're still right
here and they're still way They're still saying, we're licking
(10:49):
our lips for that Tech Rangers, Astros, rematch Man, We're
ready to go. That is some kind of accomplishment. I
don't want any team to hear, Oh, we can't win.
We lost our guy, we lost this guy, we lost
this guy losses.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
We can't do this. We can't do that.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
The range steam with the two biggest guys we had.
We're gonna stop getting Mets players because they keep coming.
Doesn't being injured or continuing to be injured. These guys
they brought it and it doesn't matter. They are steamrolling
to the ALCS.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Think about how many owners and gms now though, have
the ability to just say, look, they didn't do anything.
We're not doing a damn thing. We're not spending any money.
Unless we can work out a deal where we take
someone else's.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Disastrous contract.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I think would be the kind way where they're picking
up most of the cash so we have no risk.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Otherwise we're not bothering.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Yeah, you want a couple of lower level prospects, sure
go on, we'll take that on as long as you're
paying ninety percent of the freight. But otherwise, just continuity
and getting out being aggressive. And watched it with the Diamondbacks,
same thing, getting getting up early and the Orioles inexperience.
The question we asked our guy John Paul Morosi last week, right,
(11:57):
whether it would be a helper in drance And here
we are. The young pitchers haven't been able to even
keep it close.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Right.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
You can look in the other series and you know
you have some some ebb and flow to where you
the game's still in the balance. This has been a
no contest.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Jason, you're missing the biggest signing of all of the Rangers.
Pains me to say it, but the reason they're really
Corey Seeger sure, Bruce Bochi and well that the.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Giant, Hey, I mean yeah, eight and eight and a quarter.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I mean, come on, look, he's also and he's a
guy who want to get into too. He's someone who
has had an unbelievable career that doesn't get the do
that he needs. You know, he's he's a guy that's
managed old school. He won three World Series in the
age of analytics with with the Giants. He brought the
Padres of the plaid. The Padres for some reason decided, hey,
(12:48):
we want a younger manager. We'll let you go to
the Giants. All he does is go there and win
World Series every other year. And now he retires and
then four years later, yeah, I can come back because
the guy knows how to bleep and coach and it
doesn't matter sometimes about analytics or anything else. And here
he is now in the Alcs when he has come
in and done his thing right. He's not a guy
(13:09):
that runs around and yells you hear. All they say
about is his calm, his call, his calm. Now is
he the right manager at the right time. Probably, You
know certain teams, Hey we don't need a call manager.
We need somebody that's gonna light a fire under us,
which is why it didn't work. For example, with the
Mets and Buck Showalter last year, because Buck was a
Let's sit back.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Let's sit back, sitting back with.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Loads one hundred games, why are we sitting back and forth?
So maybe you need somebody else, but this team that's
got a lot of money, and when there's money, there
comes pressure and all kinds of things that goes along
with it. Hey, sometimes you need that guy that can
come in and give you the calm and give you
the knowledge and just make you the best player you
can be without overloading you with analytics and what you
would hear when you're getting your pitch here in this zone,
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you're massive, you're hitting six twenty five. But when you're
out here, he doesn't do stuff like that. And still
this shows you that in twenty twenty three, there's a
place for that in the game.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Large way.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I can't say enough.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Pains me because the Rangers have both of our best
players that are not playing, but so you know, I
mean it pains me, but it's it's an unbelievable accomplishment
for both the Rangers and Bruce Bochi.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yeah, soon enough the Cubs will have Pete Alonzo. You know,
they come in threes, they say, So there you go, Yeah,
probably right, boy.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
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Speaker 7 (14:30):
One.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And there's a swing and there's a dry, deep right
field that one's on its way, that balls history way.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Up in the lower deck. Tis the Corey Seeker. You're
risking that it's one nothing Rangers in the first.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
And with arms wide open, the Rangers punch their ticket
to the ALCS DJ Fox.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Yeah,
the Rangers are into the al LCS after they sweep
the Orioles tonight. And why are we playing Creed Because
for reasons passing understanding, the Rangers have adopted Creed as
their band of choice as they make their run through
the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Now, in a game of superstition, you have to go
with it right once.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
You did at once. I mean, you gotta run through it.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I just want to make mention of the fact that
it has now come to the point where Frostburg has
surrendered because for years he fought you on the tjisms.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Came up with it on the fly. I was pretty
much pretty good. I mean it was like the Gates
of Heaven works on them.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
All day and TJ the Rangers looking like an Adonna's
Creed helping them celebrate the win. Oh yeah, that has
nothing to do with the band. But I did a
Donna's Creed, which is Michael band. But it's Michael B.
Jordan's character from Creed. That's that's yeah. I gotta explain
(16:01):
the millennials whom Michael B.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Jordan is.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, uh he's a ball dude, Come on the ball.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It was the greatest Bowl of all time.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I mean the d The dude was in the Wire
Friday Night Lights. He's a Marvel character. Guys had a
career that everybody in the world wants. He's in the
greatest shows in the history of television and in the
Wire Friday Night Lights.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, I'm a Marvel guy.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, Well I'm Jack Ryan too, Yeah, Armist.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Clark rather yeah yeah without remords, that's me, Michael B.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Jordan.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Uh So, because the Rangers have adopted Creed as their
band of choice, there's big video tonight you can see
of them singing along to with Arms Wide Open in
the middle of the game. Everybody's excited, I will say,
with Arms Wide Open. If you listen to it, it
could sound a little bit like a Pearl Jam song,
Oh a little.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Bit pro to the den.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But then you know, then Scott Stapps starts singing, you
know it's.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Not any's also a great you know what, we were
not quite going traditional mass.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
We're gonna have the guitarists there.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
We're gonna play with arms wide open.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Let's go so to celebrate this, to celebrate the night.
And when this is how we've gotten into this. Ty
Shirt's been playing Nickelback the entire night as well Creed.
We're gonna pay yeah to prove to you that Nickelback
and Creed are the same band, the same band. We're
gonna play the Nickelback Creed game. Alex ty Shirt has
(17:30):
picked deep, deep cuts from both of these bands songs.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
He plays a song from Creed from the Office and
some of the bands he was a member of, Great Bratton.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Is the wild Card and all of this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We get Creed in here, that'll be so he's gonna
play ten These are deep deep cuts, like songs they
don't even play on deep cuts because people don't know them.
So he's got really obscure songs and like the end
of the album Philer album stuff by Creed and Nickelback.
He's gonna play ten seconds of each. Yes, and we
have to guess what the band is.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yes, you can look out. Midnight Confessions could find its
way in.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Hey, congratulations, Rangers, this is the hell you.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Have wrought on us?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Now?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Is it ten seconds? So we don't get suon or walked?
Speaker 7 (18:14):
So? Well?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We could let to stop because if you hear the
singer a little bit, maybe too much or whatever.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
No, just ten seconds, we off to guess.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Gotcha, right? We do it that way, all right, tyser?
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
First song, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Alex Trebeck's eye shirt
here to welcome you into a new riveting edition.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
What too soon? Too soon?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I'm Alex Jerry Springer for another whoa even sooner? Even sooner?
And he was not Jerry Jerry. He was not a
game show, wasn't it?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He was. I feel like he was guessing if they
should love each other or not he was. It was
just different games Jesse.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I was different and he was the mayor of Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well you know why. I had a lot of love
for Jerry Springer while most of his contestants kept it
in the family. Oh Okay, sure, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Not the father I'm blame for.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Guy, he's got his own line of home pregnancy.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That's Maury Povich. You are not so, Jason. I went
in such extensive research into both the Creed and Nickelback.
I'm also now confused as to who's who. Okay, all right,
but you know the once you play the song, you
know what the answer is. Yes, Okay, hold up, there
one album, so so Creed or Nickelback. Here we go, right, do, Jason.
I'll play ten seconds from the beginning. If you guys guess,
(19:20):
then I'll go to the singer part. Then you can
see who it is.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That still might not help, but okay, alright, alright, let's
start with the first one.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Here we go. Oh my god, this is so easy. Creed, Jason,
was that three Dog Night three? That's either Creed.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That's either Creed or Nickelback. I would say, take a guess, boy,
that sounds like Creed. It sounds like Create Harmon.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I already said Creed.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Okay, yeah, that's definitely Create. Great. Okay, all right, and
let's hear the singer now, dad, that's Scott step Okay.
This song is called Sister and it's my Creed all.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Right, all right, everybody gets one very nice, very nice, all.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Right, head album feeling good?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
So now are we ready for the next one? Yes,
we're right, all right, here we go. Let me get
the cute up are? Okay? What was that? Boy?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Who?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
That sounds like the next singer of Creed?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
How many singers have they had? Uh? I'm gonna help solo?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Right, I mean in their second guy.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Right, I'm gonna say Nickelback. Okay, I'm gonna say that's
Chad Kroger doing a little bit of uh scott'sap impression.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay, yeah, Mike, Oh, I'm staying with Creed. Okay, just
come on, that's Nickelback. The answer is it's Nickelback.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Couldn't sound anything like it. You list up?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Hey, Hey, you know what? Hey, you talk about vocalists
of our time that can change their voice and be chameleons.
Yeah you put Chad Kroger on the top.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh yeah, no, he'd be on my metal stand. Yeah,
that's come on, that tame what we'll ask that question.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
When I launched I sit next.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's Avrillevine skater boy. She said see you later, boy. Yeah,
all right, let met my.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Papers here, Jason, you are the father. I'm sorry, thank you.
Wrong game show, wrong, game show. Here we go. Third
song on the Ducats. Yeah, boy, that's sound ve.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Yeap dude started.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
It's like the start of Slither.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, it's just kind of top.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
That is Nickelback.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I'm gonna say that's Creed. I'm gonna say that green. Yeah,
I'm gonna say justin. This game is so easy, you
just go opposite of Jason.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I'm two for two, I'm two for two. It's nickelback.
All right, I got one wrong? Okay, d yeap dude.
Are we ready for another one?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Here?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Staple on the Guns and Roses Tour.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Let's go Hollywood ball baby. Oh so did we get
that in that? And that becomes a Creed?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So a halright, all right, I was gonna say Creed,
but it sounded a lot like nickelback.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
That it's definitely Creed.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But then it's see it's like the magic Johnson Twitter
thinking about Yeah, uh my first boy, my first reaction,
what was the last one?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
The last one played. I'm gonna I'm going.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Nickel back again because my first one was nickelback again.
But then I thought Creed, but now I'm changing. I'm
going nickelback. Okay, that means it's got to be Creed. Mike,
where are you going?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I'm staying with Creed.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
That's great, Well done, Mike, all right, all right? Are
you ready for another one? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, I'm on a losing streak now like the Mets
at this game. Yeah, that's too menacing to be Creed.
So that's nickelback. Okay, well, you know, because they either
take you to heaven or hell, I'll stick with Creed. Yeah,
but it's more. That's too. But it's too They don't
scare you when they do it. That that and that's
a scary song. So it's got to be nickelback.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
So Jason, you're going nickelback. Yes, I'm going nickelback. It's
got to be creepy.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yep. It's great, man. Okay, it is very tool like
though it is. Yeah. By the way, are we all
going to the Hollywood Bowl?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Did we decide that yet? To go?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Seeears for Tears for Fears?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah? Who? Am I faster pussy Cat?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, come on, man, it's I can't say that on air.
That's not Come on, am I faster? Pussy Cat's my band, man,
Come on, who am I? Johnny Down? No, no, no,
no nor Brent Muscat. Oh yeah, no no, no no no.
Did you say no no Muscat?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
He did?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Guitarists from Faster pussy Cat get.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
That moded Fast.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
That was great. Bathroom Wall minutes you must have a
new one.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I'm going to gotcha is the bathroom wall? That is
no the song you were saying, I know, bathroom Wall? Okay,
thanks by Feest pussy Cat. Uh, who was I.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I'm gonna say why?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That was tough. It seemed like, yeah, that's a lot
like Creed Right.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
No, that's Nickelback. That's for sure. Didn't work. Nickelback's yes
back and the contestant is Nickelback. That's wow, it's really Nickelback.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Is that only fifty million albums can't be wrong?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It I thought that was gonna go into bulls on
parade for a minute.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Wow, Wow Wow. Alright you guys, right now, let's.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Do one more.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Let's go one morning because because right now I've gotten
three right and I've gotten three wrong. So that doesn't
make a great game. Is this is it for me?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah? This is deciding game. Seven. You're the game.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Oh that okay, that guitar work, that's Creed.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Okay, that's guitar. If it's Creed.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
One more time, I'm gonna me.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I said Creed, it's Nickelback, And the answer is.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Nickelback. I know one more.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I gotta get to even. Will give you one more.
I gotta get to even.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
No, I can't.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I can't lose a seven on.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
The Mexican.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
You've messed like seven of them.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
All right, all right, all right, that's Nickelback. It's the
same guitar, and I got it wrong last time.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I think it was Nickelback. You're trying to get smart
on me.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Huh. That's when we came going the.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Other way because that's worked so well in this game.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You know, you guys, have your own thoughts instead of
just going the other way. Whatever Jason says, I'm gonna
go the other way, have your own thoughts.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Be your own people, all right, I'll be my own person.
That was Creed, Mike, where you go. I'm with Creed
and Jason of course is wrong.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
It's great.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Come on, man, I only every single quarters the same.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Okay, Okay, one more but this one one.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Death one more thout one.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
More, but this one were three? So if I get
it right, it's worth three, which means I'm over five hundred.
This one's worthree the last one. Make it a good one?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Hey, Hey, what's the credo about desperation? Frostburgs?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, it's a stinky cologne man, all right, but this
one's worth three.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
All right, that's Creed. Okay, that's great. No chance, that's
nickel Back. I really have I really have no idea
at this point. I'm just blinded, flying hoping to get
one right. Jason, I'm going Creed Nickelback.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Jason, What if I told you every single song I
played was from the same band tonight? Would you believe me?
I just made up each one one album? Do you
imagine if it was.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It's a double it's a double album.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Saying a different name. It's just with a different singer,
like Rockstar. When when Mark Wolber sings in Steel Dragon
is a different Jason? Would you say I said Creed,
it's Nickelback.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Oh come on, man, that's worth three or five?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay? Okay, last one? This one's this one's worth six?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Six?
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
This? Is it? If I get this right, I'm over
five hundred. If I get it wrong, then I really lose.
But I tell you there's no difference between creating Nickelback.
We're seeing this, all right?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Go ahead? One more.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
That's very Metallica esque. Yeah, only five seconds now?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Who is that?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I'm gonna sing first, I'm gonna say that's Nickelback. I'm
gonna say the mic.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Do you know the song? Harmon yeats Creed? Do you
know the song?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Really the song?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
If he knows a song that's out Jason Nickel, No,
but Harmon knew the song. That's an illegal song, That
is an illegal song. Can't do it, can't do it,
illegal song. New song that doesn't count? Ken, We gotta
go over to the it doesn't count, doesn't count. One
more song, one more song? All right, here's the next song, Kevin,
Why I guess what this is?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Last one?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
This one's this one's twelve?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Okay, Jason, how about this? You get worse wrong? Dinner
on you next time? Well, you may lie to me
and tell me I got it wrong. When I get
it right, who's gonna know? Words don't lie? All right? Well,
like I said, Jason, this could have all been creed
the whole time, so this one's worth twelve, so I
get over five hundred if I got right now. Good.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
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 (28:19):
Now in the Hotline to break it all down MLB
Network insider extraordinaire, and granted he is now brand new
Lions insider John Paul Morosi. He's on Twitter hat John
Morosi's with us now. What's happening JP?
Speaker 7 (28:34):
I'm doing well, gentlemen. I do expect the Lions winning
street to continue. We will get to that probably later
on in our conversation. But who would have expected the
Texas Rangers, one of the last teams in They are
the first team to lead Championship Series, their first LCS
appearance since twenty eleven, and as I mentioned earlier today,
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in their most recent and ALCS game, the losing pitcher
was a young right hander from the Tigers named Max Scherzer,
so we may see Max schurzera. Guys. They have not
even lost a playoff game yet after stumbling to the end,
so quite a story for Bruce Bochi and the Rangers
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right now, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And that's what I can't get past, JP, is that
here all the time. Well, these injuries hurders, These injuries
hurt us. Injuries hurders the two biggest guys that the
Rangers went and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on.
They've gotten nothing from Degram, They've gotten nothing from Scherzer,
who may not pitch again that we don't know if
he's gonna come back.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
And here they are still and may even break a sweat. JP.
It's they must think baseball is easy in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Oh, it's all we had so far five games and
watched the Orioles, tried out a bunch of guys who
were thirteen years old pitching.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
It's all worked out for us. I mean, this was
an insane run. I can't get over what they've been.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Able to accomplish.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
It's been remarkable. And now, of course, by sweeping, we
will put this rest versus rust a conversation to the
test in a new way because now within the al Playoffs,
the Rangers that they're going to be sitting down for
a number of days before the ALCS begins on the weekend.
So that's one thing they must now contend with, but
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just a team that at their best, and they've gotten
back to being their best, I think largely because Seeger
has been really impactful, obviously Mitch Garver with the Grand Slam.
It's been a lineup that is a one through nine
kind of a lineup, and they call up Evan Carter.
He ends up batting ninth for a lot of the time,
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then he gets moved up to the middle of the
lineup here for Game three. They just have a lineup
that is so consistent, so deep. Honestly, it reminds me
a bit of the lineup they had back in twenty
eleven when Nelson Cruz was winning the ALCS MVP batting seventh,
because they had Michael Young and Belchray batting ahead of him,
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so and Kinsler as well at that time Hamilton. So
this is a really really deep lineup one through nine.
The bullpen remains a concern. Chapman again was inconsistent, but
they just seem to outslug their concerns about the relief
pitching and at some point they're gonna have to figure
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that out, but that time has not arrived yet. The
first five games of what's been a dominant run through
the American League playoffs.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
So for the Orioles, a fun run a lot of
young players, you gain the valuable experience, I guess that's
what you try to take out of it. But also
recognizing that in that division, you know, there's no guarantees
you're getting back anytime soon. Running out all these young
pitchers seem to do.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Them in right, Mike, it's a very good point, and
I do think that this is a team that probably
needed to make a more impactful trade deadline move. Of course,
they did acquire Jack Flaherty, his impact was relatively minimal.
There were other guys that did change teams, or maybe
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others that could have changed teams, you know, how aggressively.
Could they have made a play for a Mitch Keller
in Pittsburgh. Would Edward and Rodriguez have considered moving to
Baltimore when, of course he said no to the trade
to the Dodgers. There's a lot of what ifs there,
and I think that, Mike, the point that you make
is really important. How many times have we covered and
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talked about a team that looked like they were on
the start of something and it became a lot harder
for them to come back the following year if the
pitching doesn't quite respond. I do think this the Orioles
are going to have to really address their rotation, either
via free agency and spending some money there, or taking
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some of their young group of position players and potentially
moving them for an impactful, younger starting pitcher. But this
level of talent on the position player side is so
great that you're gonna have to surround it with more
more talent on the pitching side to make sure that
you balance out your club. But this team has all
the hallmarks of being a team that we see a
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lot at this time of year for a while. But
as Mike, as you point out, in the American League East,
you never know. Did the bread Sox make a big
play with the new GM the Yankees, they're only one
year away from having been the ALCS a year ago,
Tampa Toronto. They're both really good ball clubs, so yes,
so many things lined up this year. They'll have Jackson
(33:33):
Holiday next year, we believe, but they're still in one
of the toughest divisions that we see in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Anally Network insider John Paul Morosi with US the Jason
Smich with Mike Carmen livethtyrack dot Com Studios. All right, JP,
let's get to the series that everybody is still saying.
What the hell is going on? Diamondbacks go for the
sweep tomorrow night. Lancelyn, who gave up forty thousand home
runs this year, is going to try to stop the
skid for the Dodgers. And there's a lot of ways
to go with this. Yes, you bet and Freeman aren't hitting,
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but just watching the Dodgers, they their body language is
really bad.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
They look they look tight.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
The pitchers every time they come out of a game
they have something to say to Dave Roberts. This has
been a common theme over the course of the past
two games. They just don't seem like they're in a
great headspace right now. This is not the same team
he watched all year with doubles and dancing and the
pressure is off. If anything, they look like the pressure
is on them even more. I just don't like how
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they've been, how they've been going around. Freddie Freeman's having
bad at bats. Last night, in the seventh inning, a
ball he normally hits their left center field for a double,
he pulled for a ground out, for a double play.
They just don't seem like they're in a great headspace
right now.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I think you're spot on. And it is hard, first
of all, to have fun and to have energy when
you don't pitch well, and they have not. When you
think about it, the Dodgers have not taken an at
Matt yet in this series, either tie or ahead. They've
never had a lead, and they've been staring at significant
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deficits from the first inning all series long, and each
of the first two games, so they've never had a
chance to have that swagger that we're talking about here.
And you're exactly right in terms of the body language.
I would say that when you're down by large amounts
and you're a proud team with a lot of veteran players,
it's hard to look young and energetic in that circumstance.
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And I think it's important to point out here for
the Dodgers, they are facing a younger starter in Game
three and Brandon Fott, who did not go deep in
his start in the earlier round in the wild card round,
so they should be able to have success and if
all of a sudden they're able to get to FOT
in Game three, then maybe they get some momentum going.
(35:48):
Maybe that helps Lancelynn settle in. He was in the
very same ballpark, had a huge start for Team USA
at the World Baseball Classic in March when they needed
to win there. So I think it's entirely possible that
the Dodgers bounce back and find a way to win
Game three. It's it's it's also very difficult to predict
anything in the in the postseason. But if you look
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at this and say, Okay, you've got a team that
has not had success, that has a tremendous track record.
They've been off for two games, they get an off
data travel, they're now on the road, different hitting background,
different everything. It's they're now the underdogs in a certain sense.
They're they're facing a younger starting pitcher, Mookie and Freddie
(36:29):
will batt in the first inning. There's a lot of
potential there if you just look at the game in
isolation to say they should bounce back. They should bounce back,
they should find a way to win game Game three.
So we'll see. I'm not gonna declare that the Dodger
season is over yet. There's still a lot of baseball
left to be played.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
I like that the optimism as it were. But you know,
because sky is falling, radio is better radio. Why why
can't Mookie bets hit in October?
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Well, that's fair. I mean he did, of course hit
well enough to win a World Series with the Red
Sox and eighteen and then and then again in twenty
of course, and then he was, as I recall it,
an MVP there in the LCS level. Almost opposite of course,
Secret ended up getting it, but he'd he played at
that level. I think that Mookie, You're right, he's been off,
(37:22):
maybe pressing a little bit, but I heard his comments
after game two, and I think he's saying the right
things that he's taken responsibility. Hey, I've got to be
better not making excuses. It's been a long year. He's
had a lot of that bats, a lot of played appearances.
And this is where it's difficult sometimes to know everything
that a player is going through. At the stage of
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the year. No one's really one hundred percent. And this
might be, guys, a real evidence of the way that
youth is showing up in a huge way in these
playoffs in different ways. Again, Baltimore's got a very young
group and they just got knocked out today. I think Arizona,
whether it's Carol, they have just a really youthful, energetic group.
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Perdomo plays a ton of energy. Gabriel Moreno has played
with a ton of energy. So there's a certain edge
that they play with. They're making names for themselves, they're
really showing who they are now on the grand stage,
and and it's tough, I think, to compete with that
level of energy and emotion. So now it's just a
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matter of harnessing it. It's a little bit more challenging
to do it when you're at home. For example, the
d Backs, now that they'll be playing at home for
the first time this entire postseason, do they start feeling
some pressure now with their home fans behind them. So
a lot of questions that we don't have answered yet,
and I'm not yet prepared to say that the Dodgers
are done yet.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
You know, the one thing we were talking about this
last hour, JP, what I really miss in the playoffs,
and it's not coming back just because of the way
the game is, is that I really miss the Hey,
this pitching map with two aces, like we don't have
that anymore. Like I remember looking forward to that so
much in the nineties and the early two thousands, but
with so many teams getting in now you need to
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pitch to the final day of the season. You can't
line up your rotation. Plus you know there's not nearly
as many aces as they were in the past. You
got bullpen games in game two of divisional series. Now
I really miss I really miss that, Hey, this is
going to be to Grom versus Kershaw in game one.
We can't wait, and that and and that's that sucks
for baseball because when those games were there, it was, Hey,
(39:30):
this is must CTV to see these guys that we
watched throw zeros and strike everybody out all season long.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
And I just don't see those days coming back.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
And it's just kind of hit me with this play
with this playoff, like, yeah, here's all these pitchers and
and Kershaw getting hit so hard, Like we're not going
to see that again.
Speaker 7 (39:46):
Right well, And I think you're very correct. I go
back ninety nine that the Pedro Clemens game that was
still talked about, honestly still has talked about in New
England all these years later because of the result in
the lopside to win for the Red Sox, even though
the Yankees won the series. But you're right, it used
to be how we talked about postseason baseball, and I
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just think the game has evolved. I agree with you,
we're missing it. The game will probably never quite go
back to it. But I do think that it's incumbent
on us. People that talk about the game, share the game,
are involved in broadcasts. There are a lot of great
storylines that are that unfold during the course of a
game that don't pertain to the starting pitcher. Relief pictures
(40:29):
have their own journey. Many of them are really unique
or a rapid rise through the farm system, as you're
seeing with Kirkering with the Phillies. Jose Alvarado is a
great personal story. There are some pretty unique people and
characters who make up the tapestry of the bullpen, and
I think you're right. We tend to and we've all
(40:49):
done it. You fixate a lot on who's going to start.
There's a chance that Brandon Fott isn't even out there
in the third inning in Game three tomorrow, and even
if things don't and that's even true if things are
mostly going according to plan for the Diamondbacks, that they're
going to manage that, I think aggressively after having an
(41:09):
off day today. So I think you're spot on. It's
we have moved to a different era of the game.
We're missing something, yes, but I hope that we are
smart enough as baseball people to realize what we're still seeing,
which is the relief pitching game, and how all of
that ends up unfolding.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
All right, Lions this week, JP, what are we feeling?
Speaker 7 (41:31):
Cryon's Buccaneers. The Lions go down to Tampa. Of course,
the stadium right across the street from where the Yankees
playing spring treading. So I've been to that stadium more
often than many NFL stadiums. This Sunday, the Lions of
Coach and Dan Campbell will prevail by account of thirty
one to seventeen. It'll be thirty coming off.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
The buy and where in the creamscles you're calling for
the Buccaneers to get smoked to hot take by j.
Speaker 7 (41:59):
B at you, Yeah, Lions, thirty one bucks seventeen the Bucks,
so that they're actually throwing there, they're using their throwback uniforms.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Yes, they alls come back.
Speaker 7 (42:09):
Yeah, all right, Well that's like back in the era
of John McKay, who, as I recall it, was not
as successful in Tampa as he was at USC. Is
that correct?
Speaker 1 (42:19):
That's correct? Is playing quarterback for the Bucks.
Speaker 7 (42:22):
On a very or that there was a guy who
played at Michigan. He played briefly, He played for a
little bit in New England, and he played briefly in Tampa.
I don't think he's playing anymore though. Still I believe
he's still hosting a podcast, but no longer playing. I
believe that's correct. Is is that true as of today?
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By the way, a quick story for you. We were
before Michigan's first game of the year, probably the most,
the boldest and the most inside joke of all tailgate
flags that one could ever imagine. There was one May's
May's lettering again a blue flag that said Henson was better.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Sign him up for sports talk radio or television. Hey,
get get him on Stearnsey and the Pope. Get him
on your Show'll be.
Speaker 7 (43:17):
A top guest debut episode called let's Let's make a
trade on the air. We're probably gonna call it.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
That's at John Morosi, MLB Network insider. He will join
us again tomorrow night to break down the playoffs JP.
Until tomorrow, my friend, We'll talk to you.
Speaker 7 (43:36):
Love you guys, always love the conversation. Thanks for everything.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
See you, Pope. We're gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Let's make a trade on the air with a guy
that's running the Mets.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Just breathe it in, Let it wash over you, let
it wash over, you, close your eyes unless you're driving.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The oriol suck.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
We're gone a sweep Baltimore because they keep pitching guys
with no experience.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Stay in your lane.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Greetings, and welcome inside. Yes, it's going to be a
greed night here.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
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Speaker 4 (01:03):
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Speaker 5 (01:14):
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Speaker 3 (01:31):
The way tire buying should be.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well, yeah, it's kind of gonna be a Creed night tonight,
which is just as bad as having a Nickelback night.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
However, what did you say? I know, I know, I didn't.
I did, I did?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
No, No, No, I did somewhat.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So can you say that no?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I said, it's a Creed night tonight?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
It's a Creed? What the hell? Jason? You know, I
bet you're the amateurs.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
You know, we should play a game Nickelback or Creed
and just play songs. People have to say, is that Nickelback?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Is that Creed?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It's the same, But it's actually going to be a
Creed night tonight because you know how.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Things like this happen. The Rangers, who are now.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Seven outs away or I'm sorry nine outs away from
the Alcs, have decided to turn Creed into a thing.
It's become a song it's a touchstone for them. It's
a flash point. They were singing along to Creed during
the game today, kind of like you know, the Red
Sox sing along to Sweet Caroline. Now Creed's become a
(02:35):
thing and the Rangers looking to ride this momentum all
the way to the World Series. They have adopted Creed.
They couldn't adopt somebody else. They could have adopted you know,
guns n' Roses or they. They couldn't have adopted the Strut.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
No irony there.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
You couldn't adopted the cult, you know, I mean, you
couldn't have really, couldn't adopted poison. Hey, we're talking dirty
to me all the time. No, we got to hold
that wonda stop.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Well, you know, I celebrate Billy Duffy at every opportunity,
There's no question about it. But yeah, it's any and
Asbury of course. But yeah, there's no irony. I mean,
it's got to be creator Nickelback.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
No, it does no, no, no, Why is it that have
to be? These bands?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Why do people keep picking bands, keep picking bands, keep peating?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Got a band, hi, everybody?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Why do people keep picking bands that are just polarized?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
People go, oh this band? Really? Why I can't people
pick somebody who's good.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Hey, you know what, you know, we're gonna hey, we're
listening to Katy Perry songs. So yeah, yeah, that's polarizing.
We're gonna listen to Queens of the Stone Age. Oh okay, hey, great,
we're listening to Talica. Is gonna be out to like
what happened to like when the Giant said, Hey, man,
Journey is our band. Hey, everybody got behind Jerney the Saint,
the White Sox around Gloria. What about Gloria? I have
been playing Gloria all the time they won the Stanley Cup,
(03:44):
and they played that twenty four and seven on the
station for a week. And why do we have to
get No, it's gonna be Nickelback, It's gonna be creep,
It's going Why is it gonna.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Be one of those bands?
Speaker 5 (03:52):
When I notice how he keeps circling back to Nickelback
for you their tight shirt.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I don't know why I keep saying that. I'm just stupid.
I guess I don't know what am I doing and
say that Tod Look, listen, Tys is gonna have a
tough enough time pulling enough Creed songs because I gotta
explain the millennials who Creed is.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Now I don't even know they are.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, No, it's okay, it doesn't They had that one.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
All their songs I mean really do sound like so yeah,
and they're interchangeable.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
They were a band that played Thanksgiving Day at at and.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
They did and then they jumped into the kettle.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Yeah now, ty shit, the lead singer is Apollo Creed. No, yes, yes,
does all the songs. It's awesome. It's Carl Weather's like
he's in disguise, like he's like he's got a persona
like when Garth Brooks was Chris Gaines. And now I
gotta explain the millennials.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Who rises And you might have to explain to some
people who Yeah, might have to explain to some people.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Who did they throw the talent time? Well, that's the
big thing.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Like they before they do their final encore, they make
sure that Apollo Creed thread they throw the talent in,
and then they do one more so if no one
throws the towel in concerts over, if they throw the
towel and then you hear Duke kill the damn towel,
they do a big encore and it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, it's a good concert, isn't it. And it starts
out they open up with the same song all the
time they do Living in America. He comes down from
out and then you know.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Comes up.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, Drago comes up from the bottom and they do.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
The song together. It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah yeah, I mean Dolph Lundgren has joined him on
stage so many times. So is Creed young Creed or
is that his son? Which Creed the Creed Creed Creed
the band. It's gets apollo Creed Creed son sometimes sometimes
he but he tours under the other like there's a
big thing, there's a big label award, here's.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Here's the key thing, though, is that Creed? You know
you thought he died in Rocky fourth spoiler alert, he
shows up in the Star Wars universe.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, just because he dies in Rocky four. Sorry, you
can't work again. But I only died in one movie. Nah,
you're done.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
People think you're dead in another un.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Star Wars is really wrong. Well, because you know, the
funny thing is, my uncle is the biggest Rocky movie
fan in the world, and he thought just because it
was so real to him, like he's like, how are
they bringing uh, Burgess Meredith back in this movie?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
What are you talking about? He goes, I thought he
was dead. I go, he just.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Died in the movie. He's he can be I think
it was grumpy old Nady. He goes, I know Burtis
Meredith is alive. Ago, yeah, he goes, I thought he
was dead. I go, because you thought he because he
died in Rocky sorry spoiler, because he died in Rocky three.
I go, But that didn't mean like, they don't do
that beat. They don't kill the actors for real when
you die in a movie. I don't introduce that kind
of soap operas. I mean, oh boy, I mean you
have to really, you have to really sell out for
(06:29):
your career, going, yeah, I'm okay dying if if, if
this is what.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I do, what's family. I'm gonna live forever.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
We're gonna live for No, they're sure they're gonna get
proper residuals.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I mean, maybe that's part.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Of the second after thing.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
We had doing.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
He thought, Burgess mayrit, I'm Burgess Meredith, and I'm back
from the dead.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
You know he was Batman?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Hear, and club meant, yeah, well, yeah, the original Batman
I mean way before he was Mickey, you know, but
I thought he was uh Twitter, or how about a
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Ranges before you get too far off into Creed and
we're gonna hear with arms wide open the entire night. Now, well,
at least there'll be no tears for fears because well
we have Creed that will take its place. So there's that.
(07:29):
Uh look, the Rangers again, they are not for one night, sure,
because like, what do I say it the Mets bullpen.
If I would trade the Mets bullpen sight unseen for
any other bullpen, why because the other bullpen might suck,
but at least it's new and it's something new, Like
if we're gonna hear Creed songs all night.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I'm not happy, but at least it's not tears or fears,
and Creed is new, so we have that. So it's
kind of if the suck is new or it's okay,
I can deal with it for a little bit.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Jason, you didn't know there was a Creed Tears remix?
There is no.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Oh wow, ty Shir would actually have to work hard
to do something to make that happen. And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, he's got working on he's got his animate podcast
that he's going to record after the night tonight.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I actually am Yeah, you might recording it right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Steve Garvey is on Tyshert's anime podcast, yeah, to talk
about running running for senator. Yeah, and I think he's
actually running with his campaign manager isn't animate character.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So I think that's good. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Now, that's creative. You want to win and win over
new voters.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, Tyscher asked Garvy about his forearms.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
I will literally give tysher twenty dollars right now if
you can tell me who Steve Garvey is.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He is a upcoming mayor justin no he's not even
running for mayor. Oh what's running for He's.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Running for senate. Oh I thought he was running for
his life from Shylah Boff. No, well that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That's her what it does. But doesn't Garvey have to
run also against Say and Russell and Lopes And he
doesn't have to run against all three at four of
those if I have to run on different tickets together,
because somebody runs Democrats, somebody runs Independent, somebody runs Green,
and he runs Republican.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That's how it goes. It's got to be all.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Four of them running against each other, and you pick
your favorite Dodger infielder. So no, but but look the
Rangers again are are just now six outs away from
the American League Championship Series. And you know, to give
credit for a team where just think about what they're accomplishing.
This is a team that went all in to go
get Jacob de Gram in the in the beginning of
(09:23):
the season, and they paid all kinds of money to
him when he wound up getting hurt really early. And
not only is he out for this year, he's out
for all of next year. What do they do with
the trade deadline? We traded prospects. We went all in
on Max Scherzer. He was the missing piece. We gotta
hold teams off, we gotta hold off the askers. We
got to do all of these things. And Max Scherzer
is hurt and he is not pitched. He's not even
(09:46):
on the Alds roster. Who knows he's even going to
pitch again this season. They are two guys that they
are spending a ton of money on. Well, half the
money is the Mets money, for sure, But these two
guys that they are spending so much money on that
they're two huge, their biggest acquisitions, and they're still gonna
wind up in the ALCS. And they're gonna wind up
in the ALCS easy. It's not like they've had to
(10:06):
break us sweat in the first two rounds here. Well,
the Orioles starting pitchers who are coming up from single
A just to pitch, it helps them a little bit.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Well, the only sweat sweat for them, Yeah, the only
sweat was the slap fight between gms about how much
they did or didn't party?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah, were they not ready? Were they?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Did they not hydrate ahead of their final game to
give away the division?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I mean this is This is some kind of achievement
to be able to do that when you're thinking the
guys we brought in that, we gave up tons of
money and prospects, and we're getting zero from them. They're
getting zero from de Grom, and they will get zero
from de Grom. They're getting zero from Scherzer and they
probably will get zero from him. And they're still right
here and they're still way They're still saying, we're licking
(10:49):
our lips for that Tech Rangers, Astros, rematch Man, We're
ready to go. That is some kind of accomplishment. I
don't want any team to hear, Oh, we can't win.
We lost our guy, we lost this guy, we lost
this guy losses.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
We can't do this. We can't do that.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
The range steam with the two biggest guys we had.
We're gonna stop getting Mets players because they keep coming.
Doesn't being injured or continuing to be injured. These guys
they brought it and it doesn't matter. They are steamrolling
to the ALCS.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Think about how many owners and gms now though, have
the ability to just say, look, they didn't do anything.
We're not doing a damn thing. We're not spending any money.
Unless we can work out a deal where we take
someone else's.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Disastrous contract.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I think would be the kind way where they're picking
up most of the cash so we have no risk.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Otherwise we're not bothering.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Yeah, you want a couple of lower level prospects, sure
go on, we'll take that on as long as you're
paying ninety percent of the freight. But otherwise, just continuity
and getting out being aggressive. And watched it with the Diamondbacks,
same thing, getting getting up early and the Orioles inexperience.
The question we asked our guy John Paul Morosi last week, right,
(11:57):
whether it would be a helper in drance And here
we are. The young pitchers haven't been able to even
keep it close.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Right.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
You can look in the other series and you know
you have some some ebb and flow to where you
the game's still in the balance. This has been a
no contest.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Jason, you're missing the biggest signing of all of the Rangers.
Pains me to say it, but the reason they're really
Corey Seeger sure, Bruce Bochi and well that the.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Giant, Hey, I mean yeah, eight and eight and a quarter.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I mean, come on, look, he's also and he's a
guy who want to get into too. He's someone who
has had an unbelievable career that doesn't get the do
that he needs. You know, he's he's a guy that's
managed old school. He won three World Series in the
age of analytics with with the Giants. He brought the
Padres of the plaid. The Padres for some reason decided, hey,
(12:48):
we want a younger manager. We'll let you go to
the Giants. All he does is go there and win
World Series every other year. And now he retires and
then four years later, yeah, I can come back because
the guy knows how to bleep and coach and it
doesn't matter sometimes about analytics or anything else. And here
he is now in the Alcs when he has come
in and done his thing right. He's not a guy
(13:09):
that runs around and yells you hear. All they say
about is his calm, his call, his calm. Now is
he the right manager at the right time. Probably, You
know certain teams, Hey we don't need a call manager.
We need somebody that's gonna light a fire under us,
which is why it didn't work. For example, with the
Mets and Buck Showalter last year, because Buck was a
Let's sit back.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Let's sit back, sitting back with.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Loads one hundred games, why are we sitting back and forth?
So maybe you need somebody else, but this team that's
got a lot of money, and when there's money, there
comes pressure and all kinds of things that goes along
with it. Hey, sometimes you need that guy that can
come in and give you the calm and give you
the knowledge and just make you the best player you
can be without overloading you with analytics and what you
would hear when you're getting your pitch here in this zone,
(13:50):
you're massive, you're hitting six twenty five. But when you're
out here, he doesn't do stuff like that. And still
this shows you that in twenty twenty three, there's a
place for that in the game.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Large way.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I can't say enough.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Pains me because the Rangers have both of our best
players that are not playing, but so you know, I
mean it pains me, but it's it's an unbelievable accomplishment
for both the Rangers and Bruce Bochi.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Yeah, soon enough the Cubs will have Pete Alonzo. You know,
they come in threes, they say, So there you go, Yeah,
probably right, boy.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
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Speaker 7 (14:30):
One.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
And there's a swing and there's a dry, deep right
field that one's on its way, that balls history way.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Up in the lower deck. Tis the Corey Seeker. You're
risking that it's one nothing Rangers in the first.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
And with arms wide open, the Rangers punch their ticket
to the ALCS DJ Fox.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Yeah,
the Rangers are into the al LCS after they sweep
the Orioles tonight. And why are we playing Creed Because
for reasons passing understanding, the Rangers have adopted Creed as
their band of choice as they make their run through
the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Now, in a game of superstition, you have to go
with it right once.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
You did at once. I mean, you gotta run through it.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I just want to make mention of the fact that
it has now come to the point where Frostburg has
surrendered because for years he fought you on the tjisms.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Came up with it on the fly. I was pretty
much pretty good. I mean it was like the Gates
of Heaven works on them.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
All day and TJ the Rangers looking like an Adonna's
Creed helping them celebrate the win. Oh yeah, that has
nothing to do with the band. But I did a
Donna's Creed, which is Michael band. But it's Michael B.
Jordan's character from Creed. That's that's yeah. I gotta explain
(16:01):
the millennials whom Michael B.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Jordan is.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Okay, uh he's a ball dude, Come on the ball.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It was the greatest Bowl of all time.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I mean the d The dude was in the Wire
Friday Night Lights. He's a Marvel character. Guys had a
career that everybody in the world wants. He's in the
greatest shows in the history of television and in the
Wire Friday Night Lights.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah, I'm a Marvel guy.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah, Well I'm Jack Ryan too, Yeah, Armist.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Clark rather yeah yeah without remords, that's me, Michael B.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Jordan.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Uh So, because the Rangers have adopted Creed as their
band of choice, there's big video tonight you can see
of them singing along to with Arms Wide Open in
the middle of the game. Everybody's excited, I will say,
with Arms Wide Open. If you listen to it, it
could sound a little bit like a Pearl Jam song,
Oh a little.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Bit pro to the den.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
But then you know, then Scott Stapps starts singing, you
know it's.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Not any's also a great you know what, we were
not quite going traditional mass.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
We're gonna have the guitarists there.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
We're gonna play with arms wide open.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Let's go so to celebrate this, to celebrate the night.
And when this is how we've gotten into this. Ty
Shirt's been playing Nickelback the entire night as well Creed.
We're gonna pay yeah to prove to you that Nickelback
and Creed are the same band, the same band. We're
gonna play the Nickelback Creed game. Alex ty Shirt has
(17:30):
picked deep, deep cuts from both of these bands songs.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
He plays a song from Creed from the Office and
some of the bands he was a member of, Great Bratton.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Is the wild Card and all of this.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
We get Creed in here, that'll be so he's gonna
play ten These are deep deep cuts, like songs they
don't even play on deep cuts because people don't know them.
So he's got really obscure songs and like the end
of the album Philer album stuff by Creed and Nickelback.
He's gonna play ten seconds of each. Yes, and we
have to guess what the band is.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yes, you can look out. Midnight Confessions could find its
way in.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Hey, congratulations, Rangers, this is the hell you.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Have wrought on us?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Now?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Is it ten seconds? So we don't get suon or walked?
Speaker 7 (18:14):
So? Well?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
We could let to stop because if you hear the
singer a little bit, maybe too much or whatever.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
No, just ten seconds, we off to guess.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Gotcha, right? We do it that way, all right, tyser?
Go ahead?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
First song, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Alex Trebeck's eye shirt
here to welcome you into a new riveting edition.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
What too soon? Too soon?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I'm Alex Jerry Springer for another whoa even sooner? Even sooner?
And he was not Jerry Jerry. He was not a
game show, wasn't it?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He was. I feel like he was guessing if they
should love each other or not he was. It was
just different games Jesse.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I was different and he was the mayor of Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well you know why. I had a lot of love
for Jerry Springer while most of his contestants kept it
in the family. Oh Okay, sure, thank you.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Not the father I'm blame for.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Guy, he's got his own line of home pregnancy.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That's Maury Povich. You are not so, Jason. I went
in such extensive research into both the Creed and Nickelback.
I'm also now confused as to who's who. Okay, all right,
but you know the once you play the song, you
know what the answer is. Yes, Okay, hold up, there
one album, so so Creed or Nickelback. Here we go, right, do, Jason.
I'll play ten seconds from the beginning. If you guys guess,
(19:20):
then I'll go to the singer part. Then you can
see who it is.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That still might not help, but okay, alright, alright, let's
start with the first one.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Here we go. Oh my god, this is so easy. Creed, Jason,
was that three Dog Night three? That's either Creed.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That's either Creed or Nickelback. I would say, take a guess, boy,
that sounds like Creed. It sounds like Create Harmon.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
I already said Creed.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Okay, yeah, that's definitely Create. Great. Okay, all right, and
let's hear the singer now, dad, that's Scott step Okay.
This song is called Sister and it's my Creed all.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Right, all right, everybody gets one very nice, very nice, all.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Right, head album feeling good?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
So now are we ready for the next one? Yes,
we're right, all right, here we go. Let me get
the cute up are? Okay? What was that? Boy?
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Who?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
That sounds like the next singer of Creed?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
How many singers have they had? Uh? I'm gonna help solo?
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Right, I mean in their second guy.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Right, I'm gonna say Nickelback. Okay, I'm gonna say that's
Chad Kroger doing a little bit of uh scott'sap impression.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Okay, yeah, Mike, Oh, I'm staying with Creed. Okay, just
come on, that's Nickelback. The answer is it's Nickelback.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Couldn't sound anything like it. You list up?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Hey, Hey, you know what? Hey, you talk about vocalists
of our time that can change their voice and be chameleons.
Yeah you put Chad Kroger on the top.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh yeah, no, he'd be on my metal stand. Yeah,
that's come on, that tame what we'll ask that question.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
When I launched I sit next.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's Avrillevine skater boy. She said see you later, boy. Yeah,
all right, let met my.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Papers here, Jason, you are the father. I'm sorry, thank you.
Wrong game show, wrong, game show. Here we go. Third
song on the Ducats. Yeah, boy, that's sound ve.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Yeap dude started.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
It's like the start of Slither.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, it's just kind of top.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
That is Nickelback.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
I'm gonna say that's Creed. I'm gonna say that green. Yeah,
I'm gonna say justin. This game is so easy, you
just go opposite of Jason.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I'm two for two, I'm two for two. It's nickelback.
All right, I got one wrong? Okay, d yeap dude.
Are we ready for another one?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Here?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Staple on the Guns and Roses Tour.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Let's go Hollywood ball baby. Oh so did we get
that in that? And that becomes a Creed?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So a halright, all right, I was gonna say Creed,
but it sounded a lot like nickelback.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
That it's definitely Creed.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But then it's see it's like the magic Johnson Twitter
thinking about Yeah, uh my first boy, my first reaction,
what was the last one?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
The last one played. I'm gonna I'm going.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Nickel back again because my first one was nickelback again.
But then I thought Creed, but now I'm changing. I'm
going nickelback. Okay, that means it's got to be Creed. Mike,
where are you going?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
I'm staying with Creed.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
That's great, Well done, Mike, all right, all right? Are
you ready for another one? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, I'm on a losing streak now like the Mets
at this game. Yeah, that's too menacing to be Creed.
So that's nickelback. Okay, well, you know, because they either
take you to heaven or hell, I'll stick with Creed. Yeah,
but it's more. That's too. But it's too They don't
scare you when they do it. That that and that's
a scary song. So it's got to be nickelback.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
So Jason, you're going nickelback. Yes, I'm going nickelback. It's
got to be creepy.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yep. It's great, man. Okay, it is very tool like
though it is. Yeah. By the way, are we all
going to the Hollywood Bowl?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Did we decide that yet? To go?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
Seeears for Tears for Fears?
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah? Who? Am I faster pussy Cat?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
No, come on, man, it's I can't say that on air.
That's not Come on, am I faster? Pussy Cat's my band, man,
Come on, who am I? Johnny Down? No, no, no,
no nor Brent Muscat. Oh yeah, no no, no no no.
Did you say no no Muscat?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
He did?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Guitarists from Faster pussy Cat get.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
That moded Fast.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
That was great. Bathroom Wall minutes you must have a
new one.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I'm going to gotcha is the bathroom wall? That is
no the song you were saying, I know, bathroom Wall? Okay,
thanks by Feest pussy Cat. Uh, who was I.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I'm gonna say why?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
That was tough. It seemed like, yeah, that's a lot
like Creed Right.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
No, that's Nickelback. That's for sure. Didn't work. Nickelback's yes
back and the contestant is Nickelback. That's wow, it's really Nickelback.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Is that only fifty million albums can't be wrong?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
It I thought that was gonna go into bulls on
parade for a minute.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Wow, Wow Wow. Alright you guys, right now, let's.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Do one more.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Let's go one morning because because right now I've gotten
three right and I've gotten three wrong. So that doesn't
make a great game. Is this is it for me?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah? This is deciding game. Seven. You're the game.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Oh that okay, that guitar work, that's Creed.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Okay, that's guitar. If it's Creed.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
One more time, I'm gonna me.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I said Creed, it's Nickelback, And the answer is.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Nickelback. I know one more.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I gotta get to even. Will give you one more.
I gotta get to even.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
No, I can't.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
I can't lose a seven on.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
The Mexican.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
You've messed like seven of them.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
All right, all right, all right, that's Nickelback. It's the
same guitar, and I got it wrong last time.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I think it was Nickelback. You're trying to get smart
on me.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Huh. That's when we came going the.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Other way because that's worked so well in this game.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
You know, you guys, have your own thoughts instead of
just going the other way. Whatever Jason says, I'm gonna
go the other way, have your own thoughts.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Be your own people, all right, I'll be my own person.
That was Creed, Mike, where you go. I'm with Creed
and Jason of course is wrong.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
It's great.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
Come on, man, I only every single quarters the same.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Okay, Okay, one more but this one one.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Death one more thout one.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
More, but this one were three? So if I get
it right, it's worth three, which means I'm over five hundred.
This one's worthree the last one. Make it a good one?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Hey, Hey, what's the credo about desperation? Frostburgs?
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yeah, it's a stinky cologne man, all right, but this
one's worth three.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
All right, that's Creed. Okay, that's great. No chance, that's
nickel Back. I really have I really have no idea
at this point. I'm just blinded, flying hoping to get
one right. Jason, I'm going Creed Nickelback.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Jason, What if I told you every single song I
played was from the same band tonight? Would you believe me?
I just made up each one one album? Do you
imagine if it was.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It's a double it's a double album.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Saying a different name. It's just with a different singer,
like Rockstar. When when Mark Wolber sings in Steel Dragon
is a different Jason? Would you say I said Creed,
it's Nickelback.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Oh come on, man, that's worth three or five?
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay? Okay, last one? This one's this one's worth six?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Six?
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
This? Is it? If I get this right, I'm over
five hundred. If I get it wrong, then I really lose.
But I tell you there's no difference between creating Nickelback.
We're seeing this, all right?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Go ahead? One more.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
That's very Metallica esque. Yeah, only five seconds now?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Who is that?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I'm gonna sing first, I'm gonna say that's Nickelback. I'm
gonna say the mic.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Do you know the song? Harmon yeats Creed? Do you
know the song?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Really the song?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
If he knows a song that's out Jason Nickel, No,
but Harmon knew the song. That's an illegal song, That
is an illegal song. Can't do it, can't do it,
illegal song. New song that doesn't count? Ken, We gotta
go over to the it doesn't count, doesn't count. One
more song, one more song? All right, here's the next song, Kevin,
Why I guess what this is?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Last one?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
This one's this one's twelve?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Okay, Jason, how about this? You get worse wrong? Dinner
on you next time? Well, you may lie to me
and tell me I got it wrong. When I get
it right, who's gonna know? Words don't lie? All right? Well,
like I said, Jason, this could have all been creed
the whole time, so this one's worth twelve, so I
get over five hundred if I got right now. Good.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (28:19):
Now in the Hotline to break it all down MLB
Network insider extraordinaire, and granted he is now brand new
Lions insider John Paul Morosi. He's on Twitter hat John
Morosi's with us now. What's happening JP?
Speaker 7 (28:34):
I'm doing well, gentlemen. I do expect the Lions winning
street to continue. We will get to that probably later
on in our conversation. But who would have expected the
Texas Rangers, one of the last teams in They are
the first team to lead Championship Series, their first LCS
appearance since twenty eleven, and as I mentioned earlier today,
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in their most recent and ALCS game, the losing pitcher
was a young right hander from the Tigers named Max Scherzer,
so we may see Max schurzera. Guys. They have not
even lost a playoff game yet after stumbling to the end,
so quite a story for Bruce Bochi and the Rangers
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right now, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
And that's what I can't get past, JP, is that
here all the time. Well, these injuries hurders, These injuries
hurt us. Injuries hurders the two biggest guys that the
Rangers went and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on.
They've gotten nothing from Degram, They've gotten nothing from Scherzer,
who may not pitch again that we don't know if
he's gonna come back.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
And here they are still and may even break a sweat. JP.
It's they must think baseball is easy in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Oh, it's all we had so far five games and
watched the Orioles, tried out a bunch of guys who
were thirteen years old pitching.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
It's all worked out for us. I mean, this was
an insane run. I can't get over what they've been.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Able to accomplish.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
It's been remarkable. And now, of course, by sweeping, we
will put this rest versus rust a conversation to the
test in a new way because now within the al Playoffs,
the Rangers that they're going to be sitting down for
a number of days before the ALCS begins on the weekend.
So that's one thing they must now contend with, but
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just a team that at their best, and they've gotten
back to being their best, I think largely because Seeger
has been really impactful, obviously Mitch Garver with the Grand Slam.
It's been a lineup that is a one through nine
kind of a lineup, and they call up Evan Carter.
He ends up batting ninth for a lot of the time,
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then he gets moved up to the middle of the
lineup here for Game three. They just have a lineup
that is so consistent, so deep. Honestly, it reminds me
a bit of the lineup they had back in twenty
eleven when Nelson Cruz was winning the ALCS MVP batting seventh,
because they had Michael Young and Belchray batting ahead of him,
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so and Kinsler as well at that time Hamilton. So
this is a really really deep lineup one through nine.
The bullpen remains a concern. Chapman again was inconsistent, but
they just seem to outslug their concerns about the relief
pitching and at some point they're gonna have to figure
(31:18):
that out, but that time has not arrived yet. The
first five games of what's been a dominant run through
the American League playoffs.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
So for the Orioles, a fun run a lot of
young players, you gain the valuable experience, I guess that's
what you try to take out of it. But also
recognizing that in that division, you know, there's no guarantees
you're getting back anytime soon. Running out all these young
pitchers seem to do.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Them in right, Mike, it's a very good point, and
I do think that this is a team that probably
needed to make a more impactful trade deadline move. Of course,
they did acquire Jack Flaherty, his impact was relatively minimal.
There were other guys that did change teams, or maybe
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others that could have changed teams, you know, how aggressively.
Could they have made a play for a Mitch Keller
in Pittsburgh. Would Edward and Rodriguez have considered moving to
Baltimore when, of course he said no to the trade
to the Dodgers. There's a lot of what ifs there,
and I think that, Mike, the point that you make
is really important. How many times have we covered and
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talked about a team that looked like they were on
the start of something and it became a lot harder
for them to come back the following year if the
pitching doesn't quite respond. I do think this the Orioles
are going to have to really address their rotation, either
via free agency and spending some money there, or taking
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some of their young group of position players and potentially
moving them for an impactful, younger starting pitcher. But this
level of talent on the position player side is so
great that you're gonna have to surround it with more
more talent on the pitching side to make sure that
you balance out your club. But this team has all
the hallmarks of being a team that we see a
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lot at this time of year for a while. But
as Mike, as you point out, in the American League East,
you never know. Did the bread Sox make a big
play with the new GM the Yankees, they're only one
year away from having been the ALCS a year ago,
Tampa Toronto. They're both really good ball clubs, so yes,
so many things lined up this year. They'll have Jackson
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Holiday next year, we believe, but they're still in one
of the toughest divisions that we see in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Anally Network insider John Paul Morosi with US the Jason
Smich with Mike Carmen livethtyrack dot Com Studios. All right, JP,
let's get to the series that everybody is still saying.
What the hell is going on? Diamondbacks go for the
sweep tomorrow night. Lancelyn, who gave up forty thousand home
runs this year, is going to try to stop the
skid for the Dodgers. And there's a lot of ways
to go with this. Yes, you bet and Freeman aren't hitting,
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but just watching the Dodgers, they their body language is
really bad.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
They look they look tight.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
The pitchers every time they come out of a game
they have something to say to Dave Roberts. This has
been a common theme over the course of the past
two games. They just don't seem like they're in a
great headspace right now. This is not the same team
he watched all year with doubles and dancing and the
pressure is off. If anything, they look like the pressure
is on them even more. I just don't like how
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they've been, how they've been going around. Freddie Freeman's having
bad at bats. Last night, in the seventh inning, a
ball he normally hits their left center field for a double,
he pulled for a ground out, for a double play.
They just don't seem like they're in a great headspace
right now.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I think you're spot on. And it is hard, first
of all, to have fun and to have energy when
you don't pitch well, and they have not. When you
think about it, the Dodgers have not taken an at
Matt yet in this series, either tie or ahead. They've
never had a lead, and they've been staring at significant
(35:04):
deficits from the first inning all series long, and each
of the first two games, so they've never had a
chance to have that swagger that we're talking about here.
And you're exactly right in terms of the body language.
I would say that when you're down by large amounts
and you're a proud team with a lot of veteran players,
it's hard to look young and energetic in that circumstance.
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And I think it's important to point out here for
the Dodgers, they are facing a younger starter in Game
three and Brandon Fott, who did not go deep in
his start in the earlier round in the wild card round,
so they should be able to have success and if
all of a sudden they're able to get to FOT
in Game three, then maybe they get some momentum going.
(35:48):
Maybe that helps Lancelynn settle in. He was in the
very same ballpark, had a huge start for Team USA
at the World Baseball Classic in March when they needed
to win there. So I think it's entirely possible that
the Dodgers bounce back and find a way to win
Game three. It's it's it's also very difficult to predict
anything in the in the postseason. But if you look
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at this and say, Okay, you've got a team that
has not had success, that has a tremendous track record.
They've been off for two games, they get an off
data travel, they're now on the road, different hitting background,
different everything. It's they're now the underdogs in a certain sense.
They're they're facing a younger starting pitcher, Mookie and Freddie
(36:29):
will batt in the first inning. There's a lot of
potential there if you just look at the game in
isolation to say they should bounce back. They should bounce back,
they should find a way to win game Game three.
So we'll see. I'm not gonna declare that the Dodger
season is over yet. There's still a lot of baseball
left to be played.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
I like that the optimism as it were. But you know,
because sky is falling, radio is better radio. Why why
can't Mookie bets hit in October?
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Well, that's fair. I mean he did, of course hit
well enough to win a World Series with the Red
Sox and eighteen and then and then again in twenty
of course, and then he was, as I recall it,
an MVP there in the LCS level. Almost opposite of course,
Secret ended up getting it, but he'd he played at
that level. I think that Mookie, You're right, he's been off,
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maybe pressing a little bit, but I heard his comments
after game two, and I think he's saying the right
things that he's taken responsibility. Hey, I've got to be
better not making excuses. It's been a long year. He's
had a lot of that bats, a lot of played appearances.
And this is where it's difficult sometimes to know everything
that a player is going through. At the stage of
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the year. No one's really one hundred percent. And this
might be, guys, a real evidence of the way that
youth is showing up in a huge way in these
playoffs in different ways. Again, Baltimore's got a very young
group and they just got knocked out today. I think Arizona,
whether it's Carol, they have just a really youthful, energetic group.
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Perdomo plays a ton of energy. Gabriel Moreno has played
with a ton of energy. So there's a certain edge
that they play with. They're making names for themselves, they're
really showing who they are now on the grand stage,
and and it's tough, I think, to compete with that
level of energy and emotion. So now it's just a
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matter of harnessing it. It's a little bit more challenging
to do it when you're at home. For example, the
d Backs, now that they'll be playing at home for
the first time this entire postseason, do they start feeling
some pressure now with their home fans behind them. So
a lot of questions that we don't have answered yet,
and I'm not yet prepared to say that the Dodgers
are done yet.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
You know, the one thing we were talking about this
last hour, JP, what I really miss in the playoffs,
and it's not coming back just because of the way
the game is, is that I really miss the Hey,
this pitching map with two aces, like we don't have
that anymore. Like I remember looking forward to that so
much in the nineties and the early two thousands, but
with so many teams getting in now you need to
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pitch to the final day of the season. You can't
line up your rotation. Plus you know there's not nearly
as many aces as they were in the past. You
got bullpen games in game two of divisional series. Now
I really miss I really miss that, Hey, this is
going to be to Grom versus Kershaw in game one.
We can't wait, and that and and that's that sucks
for baseball because when those games were there, it was, Hey,
(39:30):
this is must CTV to see these guys that we
watched throw zeros and strike everybody out all season long.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
And I just don't see those days coming back.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
And it's just kind of hit me with this play
with this playoff, like, yeah, here's all these pitchers and
and Kershaw getting hit so hard, Like we're not going
to see that again.
Speaker 7 (39:46):
Right well, And I think you're very correct. I go
back ninety nine that the Pedro Clemens game that was
still talked about, honestly still has talked about in New
England all these years later because of the result in
the lopside to win for the Red Sox, even though
the Yankees won the series. But you're right, it used
to be how we talked about postseason baseball, and I
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just think the game has evolved. I agree with you,
we're missing it. The game will probably never quite go
back to it. But I do think that it's incumbent
on us. People that talk about the game, share the game,
are involved in broadcasts. There are a lot of great
storylines that are that unfold during the course of a
game that don't pertain to the starting pitcher. Relief pictures
(40:29):
have their own journey. Many of them are really unique
or a rapid rise through the farm system, as you're
seeing with Kirkering with the Phillies. Jose Alvarado is a
great personal story. There are some pretty unique people and
characters who make up the tapestry of the bullpen, and
I think you're right. We tend to and we've all
(40:49):
done it. You fixate a lot on who's going to start.
There's a chance that Brandon Fott isn't even out there
in the third inning in Game three tomorrow, and even
if things don't and that's even true if things are
mostly going according to plan for the Diamondbacks, that they're
going to manage that, I think aggressively after having an
(41:09):
off day today. So I think you're spot on. It's
we have moved to a different era of the game.
We're missing something, yes, but I hope that we are
smart enough as baseball people to realize what we're still seeing,
which is the relief pitching game, and how all of
that ends up unfolding.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
All right, Lions this week, JP, what are we feeling?
Speaker 7 (41:31):
Cryon's Buccaneers. The Lions go down to Tampa. Of course,
the stadium right across the street from where the Yankees
playing spring treading. So I've been to that stadium more
often than many NFL stadiums. This Sunday, the Lions of
Coach and Dan Campbell will prevail by account of thirty
one to seventeen. It'll be thirty coming off.
Speaker 5 (41:53):
The buy and where in the creamscles you're calling for
the Buccaneers to get smoked to hot take by j.
Speaker 7 (41:59):
B at you, Yeah, Lions, thirty one bucks seventeen the Bucks,
so that they're actually throwing there, they're using their throwback uniforms.
Speaker 4 (42:07):
Yes, they alls come back.
Speaker 7 (42:09):
Yeah, all right, Well that's like back in the era
of John McKay, who, as I recall it, was not
as successful in Tampa as he was at USC. Is
that correct?
Speaker 1 (42:19):
That's correct? Is playing quarterback for the Bucks.
Speaker 7 (42:22):
On a very or that there was a guy who
played at Michigan. He played briefly, He played for a
little bit in New England, and he played briefly in Tampa.
I don't think he's playing anymore though. Still I believe
he's still hosting a podcast, but no longer playing. I
believe that's correct. Is is that true as of today?
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By the way, a quick story for you. We were
before Michigan's first game of the year, probably the most,
the boldest and the most inside joke of all tailgate
flags that one could ever imagine. There was one May's
May's lettering again a blue flag that said Henson was better.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Sign him up for sports talk radio or television. Hey,
get get him on Stearnsey and the Pope. Get him
on your Show'll be.
Speaker 7 (43:17):
A top guest debut episode called let's Let's make a
trade on the air. We're probably gonna call it.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
That's at John Morosi, MLB Network insider. He will join
us again tomorrow night to break down the playoffs JP.
Until tomorrow, my friend, We'll talk to you.
Speaker 7 (43:36):
Love you guys, always love the conversation. Thanks for everything.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
See you, Pope. We're gonna make it.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Let's make a trade on the air with a guy
that's running the Mets.
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