October 25, 2023 • 38 mins
In Hour 4 of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike react to Chris “Mad Dog” Russo’s bet regarding the Phillies losing, and question if he will follow through on actually retiring. MLB Network insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the show to breakdown how the Diamondbacks won the World Series, describes where the turning point in the series occurred, and an early World Series preview. Plus, an update from the Michigan scandal and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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Opening Night in the NBA really quick. The Suns beat
the Warriors. Warriors lose at home one oh eight, one
oh four. It was a big night for Devin Booker.
He had thirty two yet eighteen and ten from Kevin Durant,
use off Nurkic fourteen and fourteen, his first game with
the Suns, being able to overcome a big night from
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Steph Curry who had twenty seven but didn't shoot well.
Kind of a volume night for him, and a volume
night for Klay Thompson six out of eighteen for fifteen points. Now,
for both of these teams, just tell you real quick,
it's it's one game, and it's one game for the
Suns in one game for the Warriors. And the concerns
that I have for both of these teams right one game.
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The Suns, as long as you could say they're healthy,
they will be fine. They will be fine. The biggest thing,
that's everything else, there's no doubt in my mind, they
will be terrific. As long as they are healthy.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That's it. That's a lot of It's really the Sun
video game.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
But it's like the Suns, I can say, I'm confident
some teams even if they're healthy, well, are they still
going to be good? As long as they're healthy, they'll
be fine. For the Warriors, I get that we want
to make it seem like it's a rebuild and reload
type season, and here we are a right back at it.
We got knocked out of the playoffs by the Lakers
last year. But maybe Kaminga plays more minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
We don't have we don't.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
We don't have Jordan Pool anymore. We traded him away.
He was a big problem. But between Draymond when when
he when he plays, and and Chris Paul showing up,
now you know things are gonna be great. The Warriors
are old, you know. And look, I said it for
the Mets beginning of the season. The Mets, my big
concern was they were all gonna get old right away.
And what happened. The Mets got old right away. By
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the time they started playing five hundred ball, they were done.
The Warriors are old. Chris Paul is old, Steph Curry
is old, Klay Thompson is old. Yes, Steph can still
play like one of the best players in the NBA.
But Klay Thompson not the same guy. Chris Paul not
the same guy.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I think Klay Thompson tired himself out by doing that
pedal kayak thing.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, I wouldn't have kayak to the game. I think that.
I don't think that was the best move. You get
a little tired. You got it because you got a
kaya You gotta gotta movie arms.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Looking at it, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Tired lags man. I mean like he was only six
of eighteen. Yeah, you gotta do it, man, Curry eight
of twenty. I mean, like I said, knights for both
of them. Did you think that the Sons would be
you say, hey, what a defensive effort in that first game.
You held them to thirty five point six percent from
the field. Look at it this way, look at us
forty three from three point range. Who is the best
player on the court tonight, Devin Booker, who was the
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youngest player out of all of those players, Devin Booker.
I really thought you were going to then follow up
with who lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I'm like, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It's just the Warriors are old, and sometimes it doesn't happen.
It doesn't erode, it happens overnight, overnight when you get old,
and you're gonna find a lot of games where the Warriors, Hey,
we're down, we've always come back before.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oh wait a minute, we don't have the legs to
come back like we used to. That's a big thing, man,
big thing.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I'm much more concerned about the Warriors, and I'm about
the Suns. Son's helping out, that's great, But the Warriors
it's I don't know, your best three players are all
thirty five years old.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I did look weird though, to watch the Sons playing
not have to look at DeAndre Eyton out there.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It was a little weird. It was a little weird weird.
I mean, you just gotten used to him.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
There he is, He's gonna give me his twelve and
nine and we're gonna move on. Yeah, we're gonna lament
that he doesn't score more or whatever the case may be.
But in this case, you know, you get the production.
Obviously for the Warriors, a lot a lot of chatter.
I heard a lot of people bring up I mean,
kaminga look at what he did in the preseason. Do
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we learn nothing season to season? No, no, no, we
don't look or anything because we did it again with
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Oh, this guy's gonna be for Raids. Look at him.
Look at him.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I mean, you know, you and I watching O'Connell. I mean,
just to take the Raiders for instance. You know O'Connell
at Purdue and then comes into the NFL. It has
his preseasons, all right, fine, and then you've got McDaniels
after the loss to the Bears talking about Sich. Well,
you know there's stuff during the week like, okay, so
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you're saying he's no good what you're saying, but trying
to be nice about it as you started Brian Hoyre
with the Warriors. I mean, that's one of the big
things that has to go right, is that Kaminga and
Moody are two guys that are gonna have to step up.
And Moody played eighteen minutes at eleven points. But between
him and Kaminga, those are two guys they were banking
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on to take huge steps forward. Right. We've seen them
jettison some of the other would be new Greats, first
round picks and whatever. But working to that same base.
Draymond Green being in street clothes ain't gonna help you either.
Right in night one, and we've got to remember it
is night one. It is a home game. So they're like, oh,
they went on the road, be okay, that's fine, big
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television to do. But for the Suns, yeah, Devin Booker's
the guy that it stirs the drink. And just hope
Kevin Durant is healthy and available when you get to
mid April.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Exit out a bout a Fresco exit swalling down the
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Tirek
dot Com studios. Now, let's get to a topic that
became a big one today.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Now, normally I.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Don't like to talk about other personalities that do what
we do in sports living.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
But the I do my best to avoid the mad dog.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Chris Russo thing has taken on a life of its
t the MLB Network and ESPN personality who said today
at the.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Diamondbacks wait, I'll retire. I'll tell you, bikey, I don't
like it anymore. Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
He said he would retire if the Diamondbacks beat the
Phillies tonight. And the Diamondbacks beat the Phillies tonight, and
before the game happened, you know, Tory Lavello said, I'm
looking forward to him retiring. After the game, they were
all channing mad Dog in the locker room. They're going
mad Dog Dog, mad Dog. It's great, it's awesome. And
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but here's say this, I don't know if you think
I'm a bad person. I really want to see him retire.
I really want to see him retire, you know, I
really do, because you know, we've gotten to a point
now where you can see. You can see the people
that are on the radio and on TV every day,
and you can tell where all they do is spend
all day going how do I get clicks? And how
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do people write about me on industry websites? So when
I get on the when I get on TV or
to get on the internet, they're writing about me on
awful Announcing or I'm trending in the for you column
on Twitter. Because I'm not gonna trend nationwide, but I'm
trending in the four you column on Twitter. How do
I get clicks? And how do I get mentioned on
industry websites?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Right? That's how do I do that?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And and seeing where some of the personalities are going nowadays,
it's crazy because some guys and some people who you
think are big personalities, all they are now making headlines
talking about other people in the media, and I'm like, wow, man.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I can't, how do you? How do you can't you
talk about sports and make a headline? No, I can't.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I just got to talk about other shows, or I
gotta talk about ESPN, or I gotta talk about Fox.
I gotta talk about That's how I make headline. But
mad Dog is the quintessential what hot takers stand for
in sports where when all you think about is I
gotta get clicks, I got a trend, I gotta get
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mentioned on industry websites. Right, you're not doing yourself any favors,
and you're you're you're shortsighting what you do for a
living because there's but you know what, But here's the thing. Yeah, everybody,
but those guys are all making money at the end
of the day, You don't you want to look in
the mirror and go I did the best I could,
and I gave I gave the audience myself and what
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I thought all the way through. Or are you doing
where Hey, I'm okay looking in the mirror lying to
myself saying yeah yeah because I said stuff I didn't
believe just because I wanted a reaction. Now, I can't
fault great strategy because that's what sells. Now, Hey, look
at the crazy ass stupid things so and so said,
and they get attention paid to them on social media. Right,
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that's how it goes. That's now the new barometer for
success in our industry. And I can't bear to look
at that. I just got you know, look, I love
hot takes too right, I got stuff that people all
want to hot take that. Yeah, you know what, We
sit here and talk about it for a good fifteen
or twenty minutes, and then we come back to it.
Like when I see stuff like like like mad Dog
and now other analysts who are just getting into it,
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football players and basketball players. They see the quickest way
to the top. It's like going to the dark side
in Star Wars. Hey, you you would go through the
right side and maybe on the good side of the
force and work your way and be disciplined, or you
could just be seduced by the dark side. Because what
has Ben ben Kenobi saying, Oh no, the dark side
isn't more powerful, only quicker and faster.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And that's how people use fine is by this young
Jedi named Mike Humming. And this is what passes. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
What can I say that gets me clicked? Even if
you're saying something that's ridiculously stupid, but I can defend
it for seventy five seconds on television.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Fine anymore? Right, And if you just tell.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Me I'm crazy and you give me your argument, it
doesn't matter because all people are gonna do is pay
attention to what I say right. You can see you
could be the other guy in a debate show saying
I I can't believe you said that, and I'm gonna
stand up for the rest of the country going you're
an idiot, and I'm gonna tell you why with ABC
and D doesn't matter. It's the guy who's an idiot
who's making that, who's making the point on there. So
you know what I want from man Dog Chris Ruth.
(10:12):
And this is a guy I listened to growing up
and on wf an retire tomorrow, be a man. You
said you're gonna do it. You did it just to
get cheap clicks and to trend. Hey, people are talking
about the show, people are gonna write about me and
the industry websites. Retire. Go ahead, man, retire. Put your
money where your mouth is. You said you were gonna
do it, Go do it. Yeah, it was it just
a cheap stunt to get attention. And that's what I
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mean when I say this is where too many people
are nowadays in our business. It's let me show you
something for seventy five seconds, and I'm gonna sound ridiculously dumb,
but you know what I'm gonna get I'm gonna gettention
paid for me, so I'm gonna do this whole retire thing.
You know, No, I want you to retire, man, I
really want I want you to do it. I want
you to say I'm done. I said i'd retired. The
Diamondbacks lost, and you know what, finally, you know what,
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I get some come up and and now I'm gonna
and now I'm gonna retire. So I gotta do it
because I did that, which meanwhile, all it's gonna be
is some kind of fun thing where he's gonna get
on television and say, oh hey, Tory, leavello, you're great.
I was gonna retire, and everybody's laughing the next three
days before the World Series starts, and he just found
a way to make a cheap headline and get people
talking about him when there's no any sense of responsibility
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coming coming his way. That's why for this, No, no, dude, retire.
Put your money where you said it, right, you said it,
You said it, you want to do it. You wanted
the attention, you want the smoke, And now it's gonna
be Oh no, forget it, forget it, forget it, forget it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
No retire. I want you to do it tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, I'd be curious if you know, you were to
go back and listen to hours of radio whether at
some point, you know, he he caveatted it out or
you know, did the eye was joking. I haven't seen
that populated anywhere, and really I don't I don't care
to go do the deep dive. So when you got
your headline, get you got your attention. I think you've
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had attention for forty years. This is the one big
push you need one more time. God bless you.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And if it was the thing that inspired the Diamondbacks
to go and win a couple of games in Philadelphia, hey,
you provide a great motivation. I hope you cashed a
big ticket on the other side of it, right Hey,
look I'm motivated, and look what I was able to do.
Because right now it's just to your point, hot take nonsense.
I registered the domain hottake nonsense dot com okay, with
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the idea that we would just say the dumbest things
and see how quickly they flew through, like any topic
we were gonna do, or even stuff that became be
or c list probably to the cutting room floor. Given
that we grab live events and live reaction to things
instead of Hey, I worked on this at nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Damnit, I'm still gonna talk about it.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Maybe those go to hot take nonsense dot Com, where
we see how quickly we can get to a hot
take that sets the internet ablaze.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Exit?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
How about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Look, and before
you sit here and say, oh well Jason, he said, yeah, no, no, yeah, Look.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I come up.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I love throwing fire every night. But I believe what
I say and I back it up. And if you
don't like it, I understand.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
That's fine. I get it. Man. Just be beholden to
what you do. Be beholden to what you do.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You have, you have a canvas, paint it well, paint
it the best you can, all right, and said and said,
you can tell every single person who is just on
television screaming and yelling or on the radio screaming and yelling,
because all they want to do is say, I'm gonna
take the smallest, most unpopular part of a story and
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make it that because I want the attention on it.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Tell you what, though he had a hell of a
run he did.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
If this is it for him, it is a hell
of a run, right to pretty much break the sports
talk radio format and be everything he was in the
nineties and then reinvent himself on MLB Network and all this.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh, it's great.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
He retires from this show and they're actually giving him
a spinoff. Oh, I'm not on High Heat anymore over.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I'm on Low Simmer. That's gonna be a new show.
It's gonna come on after.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
The Jason Smith Show. Is that Winter Sun one with
Low Winter Sun? It's on after Breaking Bad? Yeah, what's
on after High Heat? Low Simmer? Why do I want
to watch that?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
It's it's a lot, it's a lot, Calmer, It's a
it's it's like it's like it's like listening to heavy
metal and then listening to jazz.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, we've got a stand up basis over there. He's
gonna help set them down. Boom boom boom Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The Jason Smithshid with Mike Carmen is live from the
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to the NLCS where the Philadelphia Phillies have fallen to
the Diamondbacks. Arizona is in the World Series. Our first
look at the World Series? What happened to the Phillies?
Did the Diamondbacks deserve to be there? Keep it right here,
(14:54):
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Speaker 1 (15:35):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. The Diamondbacks are in the World Series.
They close out the Phillies. Who's gonna win? What happened
to Philadelphia? Bryce Harper? Are the Diamondbacks really for real?
Joining us now from the NLCS, He is soaked with champagne,
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mainly because he kept telling everybody during his pregame and
postgame interviews how good the Lions are. It is MLB
Network insider extraordinaire. You can follow him on Twitter at
John Morosi. That's at John Morosi. It is the Pope,
John Paul Morosi.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
JP.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
What's happening, buddy?
Speaker 7 (16:15):
I'm doing great, Jason. I sense through the microphone. Are
you smiling through shodenfreude that the Phillies have gone down
to defeat? As a Mets fan? Is that the way
you're viewing the series?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
There's no there's no Finley veiled about it. I can
now wear my Mets gear again. I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
JP. This was big because if you coulda if you.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Could have went back in twenty eighteen until the little
Jason Smith and saying, hey, the next five years, three
teams from your division are can go to the World
Series and win it, and one of them's not the Marlins,
I would have said, yeah, sign me up. So if
I would have had to watch the Nationals and the
Braves and then the Phillies go win the World Series, JP,
I don't know, man, I'd have to I have to
i'd have to I don't know, I don't I'd have
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to just start watching lacrosse instead of baseball.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Well, i'll tell you what. First of all, lacrosse is
now an Olympic sport.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
All lacrosse insider John palmmeros.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Question right, Well, the question that you broached though, Are
the Diamondbacks for real? Yeah? It just won four to
five games against the Phillies. I'm not sure what more
they could do. Corby and Carroll first player ever in
a game seven according to opt the stats, that had
three hits and two plus stolen bases in the same
game seven. And oh, by the way, he's a rookie.
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So yes, they are for real. Young Brandon fought. What
an amazing effort by him. His brothers drove up from
Louisville to this game and one day to watch the
brothers start and fitch a great Game seven against the Phillies.
So the Diamondbacks for me, this series was won and lost.
Not tonight, but in Game four the Phillies had still
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a lead in the series. They had a lead in
the game and they let it get away. The bullpen
did not come through it all for them. Could Rob
Thompson have made a different decision or two perhaps, but
at the end of the day, he just didn't have
enough relievers that he trusted, and a lot of the
decisions that went awry I think flowed from that point.
And you've got to credit the Diamondbacks. They had I believe,
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one extra base hit in this game. Do you find
a way to win on the road in the game
seven with one extra base hit? That is extraordinary. The
Phillies at back quality obviously plummeted after Game one and two.
N Castianos I thought was the key guy for them. Tonight,
he didn't get a hit at all. He's struggled so
much as this series ended. So this is not the
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result that many people expected after the first two games
of the series. But the Diamondbacks expected it, and for
that reason, you got to credit them, and they're on
the way to the Fall Classic.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
You know, JP, you know, this is why I.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Love baseball, because at the moment I'm going to tell
you about that, I loved watching tonight maybe more than
anything else all season, just because of the unexpected excellence,
and it just blew me away watching Kevin Ginkle we
throw that slider in the seventh and eighth innings that
would start out at the batter's eyes and end in
the dirt, where where with two on and one out,
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he gets Trey Turner and Bryce Harper on weak flyouts
and then strikes out the side. That slider was incredible.
Just once in my life I want to throw a
pitch and see it break like that. Anyway, it was amazing.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
JP, You're exactly right, by the way, a twenty second
round draft pick, twenty second round draft pick. Just reflect
on that. Kevin Ginkle's journey. He was drafted three different times.
He finally signs on the third time, and you're right.
Your baseball insight, Jason is spot on. I was talking
after the game with Diamondbacks bench coach Jeff Banister, and
he just said, simply, that was the game. The Ginkle
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stretch to come in with both Turner and Harper representing
the go ahead runs with one out and then eventually
two out, for him to get those two guys and
then go more than an inning for the first time
in several weeks. It was just that was the game.
That was the game, and what a proud moment for
an Arizona Wildcat. As college baseball, he pitched there after
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junior college. He had zero offers for a scholarship when
he graduated high school.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
None. So it just it just.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Shows how great this game is and the amazing effort
by Kevin Ginkle. They do not win that championship without him.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well, you mentioned the sequence to Turner and Harper. The
duo combined to go zero for fifteen in the final
two games of this series.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
JP. Right when legend.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Making and history and folk hero status was being conferred
on all these guys from Philly for their look, their demeanor,
everything else, that balloon got deflated quite quickly.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
It did, and I just tell you how quickly it
can change in the postseason. And quality pitching was the start,
but also momentum is part of this. I really think
by the end of the series the Phillies were feeling
a bit of tension and pressure that you see for
the home team, and at the end of the day,
I don't think it was any sort of necessarily a
failure on their part. I really credit the d Backs
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for great pitch execution.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
JP.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Now, this may be a little weird, but I don't
know if this is going to be you, but I
assume there's going to be an opening on High Heat
now that mad Dog Chris Russo will be retiring from
everything he does.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Are you gonna slide in it? You and Alana Rizzo
do High Heat on MLB Network now, is that you?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
That's a great question, and actually I hope, first of all,
I know exactly what you're talking about to fill in.
I'm sure you've already covered this on the show tonight.
But my colleague Chris Russo said that he will retire
if the d Backs won both games six and seven.
He said this on Serious XM. This became well known
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to the Diamondbacks so much so that Tory Lavello referenced
it it is pregame press conference. And then in the
interview that I did with him on MLB Network tonight,
Tory Leavello, the last question I asked him was you
said before, uh, you had some thoughts for Chris Russo. So, Tory,
the floor is yours, And basically he said, uh, and
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I'm paraphrasing here, you have to watch the full clip
for the full version of it, but in so many words,
Tory said, mad Dog, we wish you well in your retirement.
We send our we send our congratulations to you. I
feel as though, and then this is my own words,
not not toys. Maybe we should do a quick little
like Mad Dog retirement tour. You know, Miguel Cabrera went
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around all the Major League stadiums. He was given all
these different gifts as part of his send off. Maybe
maybe the Mad Dogs you do the same thing around
the Winter meetings this year and get his retirement gifts.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That's not a bad way, you know what. He could
be a daily guest on On Starnsey and the Pope.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
There you go, right, So that we're moving ever closer
to the end of October, and so that means that
David Sarns has to make his decision on his manager
here pretty soon. And yeah, maybe after watching this NLCS,
perhaps he's looking at an opportunity to be more competitive
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in the analyst than he thought. It's all built on
the bullpen. And I do wonder if the Mets, and
again it's a different time, different GM, different everything, but
maybe they would have liked to run this back for
one more go with this because maybe based on the
way that the Phillies hit to your point, and the
way that the bullpen performed for the Diamondbacks, the Mets
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were not as far away from being competitive as we
thought based on the way things unfolded. So you're right
on it. It was a great point that you made
about about Harper and the key guys struggling in Game
six and seven. There's no question I think that the
pressure got amped up, but collectively the d Backs held
the Phillies, the Mighty Phillies. The three runs over two
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games just remarkable and remarkable what happened Luis Gonzalez. That
was in the ballpark tonight. By the way, Miguel Montero
now works with the Diamondbacks. He of course the hero
of the Cubs in their game seven, seven years ago.
So it's some really really cool moments and notes and
not the outcome that a lot of us saw coming
once the Phillies took that two oho series lead.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
This is his audition for high heat right now. That
was really that's pretty good right there. I got to
clip that off and send it to the producers.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Hang on, thank you again. I can't. I can't do
high heat the way that the Mad Dog can.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
You guys know that I can't.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'm not hot. Takes Bob, Well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
The one thing. The one thing I'll and maybe I'll do.
I'll do a brief, a brief mad Dog impersonation. Get
ready for this. Okay, this was several years ago. I
did my very best Midwestern argument in favor of Alan Trammel.
And then as I concluded the argument and trying to
explain why Alan Trammel is a Hall of Famer, the
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last thing I said was, you know, mad Dog, if
Alan Trammel had worn the pinstripes like Derek Jeter did,
all of you in New York would be speaking about
Alan Trammell the way that you talk about Jeter. And
as I said that statement, I saw, out of the
corner of my eye on the television monitor in front
of me, the Mad Dog standing up and he said.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Marovi, you're trying to tell me that Alan Trammel is
like Derek Jeter. You're putting Jeta and Trammel in the
same sentence.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
And it was just like my as you guys know,
if I'm working in broadcasting, the noise that was rattling
around my my earpiece was just deafening. It was like
it was it was almost like it almost it was
like that that scene in Star wars. Where where where
the the where the good guys like they have like
the stormtroopers are coming in and it like like the
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noise like makes them like lay on the ground. It
was kind of that sort of a moment and uh,
and that's what happen. So anyway, that was my one.
That's my one mad Dog story for you. I will
I will, though, I will convey your very best wishes
to Mad Dog, whether he's retiring or not, the next
time I talked to him.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
John Paul Morosi, our guest tonight Michigan or MLB Network,
longtime friend of the show here on Fox Sports Radio
at John Morosi where you find him on Twitter slash
x JN mr OS. I leave out that h because
Mom said so Hi Mom, JP. So as we start
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looking ahead, I mean, one of the things that comes
out of this, they're no longer anonymous. If nothing else,
everybody's going to celebrate the greatness that Corbyn Carroll was
in small ball pushing things ahead, which you know, me
being old and all, I really liked that it wasn't
a home run fest. But now we start looking ahead
to the Rangers, how do they cool down Garcia?
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Well, then that's a great question. It's gonna have to
be some really good pitch making from this group. And
I actually think the way that Brent Strong looks at pitching,
and obviously, how about this is what a unique story
the Astro's former pitching coach who's now going to lead
the d Backs against the Rangers. That's pretty cool. Garcia
is obviously a challenge, but every hitter has holes, and
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Brent Strom does a very good job of finding those holes.
I think that you look at the way that I
think Merril Kelly bounced back in Game six, and that
to me is where things had to change.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
It.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
There was no way the d Backs could have won
this series, obviously without getting at least one win from
one of the games that was started by Gallen or Kelly.
They had to find a way to get a win there.
And they went zero for two in the first two games,
and then Gallen lost Game five, so they were zero
to three with their best two starters, and they had
to find a way to win Game six, and they
did so. For me, the big question is can Zach
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Gallan do something different because he was the one, the
one d Backs starter who in both starts was susceptible
to the long ball, and they're gonna have to find
a way to get him on a different track. Do
they start Merrill Kelly in game one or do they
stay with the same routine and go Gallon one then
Kelly two might be something of an opener situation. In
game four, it's gonna be tough because the d Bacs
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don't really have a true fourth starter, so it's gonna
be we're gonna see a bullpen game in the World Series.
Maybe they go a little different structure. Maybe they started
writing because because the Garcia and oh, by the way,
you got somebody by the name of Corey Seeger waiting there.
So it's gonna be the slug of the Rangers against
the small ball the d Backs. The d Bacs won
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a series just like that in this in this time
around in the NLCS, they won two games in affiliates.
It's it's unreal the way this series unfolded. They won
four to five games, so they are anonymous no more.
Corbyn Carroll is a superstar and Brandon Fott is also
now a name that we're gonna link to postseason lore
because of his two games he started two wins of
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the d Backs and now they're on the World Series.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
All right, JP, Before we let you go your status
as celebrity NFL Lions picker on the lines. Last time
we'll get to talk to you before Monday Night Raiders
and the Lions. You're five and two this year picking
Lions games. You Lions insider, you what say you for
Monday Night?
Speaker 7 (29:18):
The final score Monday Night at Ford Field will be
the Detroit Lions thirty one and the Las Vegas Raiders
twenty seven. I got a thirty one to twenty seven
win for the Lions.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Ooh, got a barn burner out of JP. No belief
in the Lions defense, give it up.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
I don't know much, but I do know math, and
I do know that I saw the score from Sunday
and they gave up a lot of points against the Ravens.
So I'll say they'll give a fewer points this time around. Okay, good,
but but not by too many. This is again, this
is this is my fairly rudimentary look at things, and
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I happen to believe that the Lions will find a
way to win by four points.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
This is the kind of analysis you will get every
day on stearnsy and the Pope there it is.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah, let's five and two lions record.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
And for a second, JP, I really thought you were
gonna say, I know math, and I know thirty one
is more than twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Is gonna be my final score?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
JP is always buddy, appreciate it, looking forward to talking
next week. A couple of times during the World Series.
Enjoy the week, and good luck this weekend, because maybe
you are signaling in place to the sideline of Jim Harbaugh,
so you never know.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Good luck.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
We may have to do that obviously, though. The one
thing that is going on is Michigan does not play
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Oh okay, that's right, Deanna, next weekend, right Indiana playing.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
For due or correct state? Correct state? Yeah, yeah, other
the team that also plays for the old Oaken Buck
as it were, So yes, I would say that Michigan
has to There are some potentially some coaching roles that
are up and available, and given my giving my familiarity
with the wing tea, I'm contemplating putting in an application.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
That's my guy. JP. Take it easy, buddy, and we'll
talk to you, my friend, and joy the rest of
the week. You see you buddy, but have a great night, guys.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
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Speaker 1 (31:30):
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Speaker 2 (31:34):
What's in the bag or shark or something.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
We'll get to the play that I coming up in
a couple of minutes, but big headlines and let's start
really quick. In the NBA, Lebron plays twenty nine minutes.
The Lakers lose to the Nuggets, but it's all good.
Clipper fans are excited. Sure, Lakers lose, Yes, and Kawhi
Leonard says he's healthy. He said he's one hundred percent,
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one hundred percent. The fact that the Lakers kept him
to twenty nine minutes opening night, when they could have
extended him another seven or eight minutes, thirty five thirty
six minutes to win the game, to try to win
the game, yeah, tells me they have a plan in
place for the season to keep him healthy and recharged
enough for the playoffs, which is what they missed last
year because by the time he got to the conference finals,
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him and ad were done. Regular seasons meaningless as long
as you're winning. This tells me opening night they resisted
the urge to play in more minutes because they cut
it to three and they could have kept him until
they took him out and the Nuggets lead balloon back up.
It tells me they have a plan, which is so
anti Lakers. They don't just throw stuff at a wall
and see what sticks or react to what happened. They
have a plan, and the plan is going to be
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We're going to play Lebron these minutes. The regular season
is meaningless, they'll be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I think it wise to come back to the reality
of you're not winning the NBA title tonight. They may
be celebrating their title from last year, but if you win,
you don't get to steal their rings and tear down
any banners. So the long road is so and and
Anthony Davis went into the crowd a couple of times,
giving people scares.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So we're right on track. Yeah, I thought you're gonna
say the long road begins with a single step. Thought
you gonna say that because.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
It's one of my favorite phrases. No question.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Meanwhile, sources are reporting that the Michigan staffer who is
at the center of the controversy for the sign stealing
scandal Stallions, but non Big Ten tickets as well. Yeah,
all right, Connor Stallions. The illicit scouting ring continues to grow.
So now you're at games Michigan was playing against where
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he's allegedly recording signals. Now it's games outside of the
Big Ten, and it goes back as far as twenty
twenty one. I told you when it happened. For me,
that's the game, because this is when Michigan went from
being a three or four loss season team into being
suddenly we're elite, and we're winning the Big Ten and
we're beating Ohio State and we're going to the CFP.
This goes back to twenty twenty one. Michigan got good
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in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
There's the reason behind Michigan getting good all of a sudden.
But the big thing is, you know, the NCAA A
hates Harbaugh. The NCAA commenting on Jim Harbaugh's cheeseburger case
by saying it was more than a cheeseburger. When the
nca normally doesn't do that. You know, they have a
special thing for Jim Harbaugh. If they have the electronic evidence,
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they have his computer, Stallion's computer where they have video
evidence of him taking signals that's loaded up, that that's
sent out.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Michigan is gonna be deemed ineligible for the Big Ten
championship and they're not gonna get picked for the College
Football Playoff. That's how it's gonna go. But here's the greatness.
But if it's it's fabric of the game stuff, and
you can't go light on it, and you can't wait
because after this year, Harball could be gone.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
This is the best year in Michigan had. If you
find this evidence, it's gonna be ineligible to win the
Big Ten. And while the CFP doesn't have to answer
to the NCAA, they're not gonna take a team that's
just gotten banned for cheating. They're just not gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Oh see that they're just And that's where I would say,
because in their eyes it might not be cheating to
deserve such a punishment.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
But is it worth it to take Michigan to piss
off the end sat the other teams all the other teams.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I don't think you want the other teams. But if
they don't, don't care. I don't think they want. They
want to get in. These teams want to get in.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I want to get Michigan spot here in the in
the in the college football playoff.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Here.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I get that they're not going to pick them. Watch.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
See, I don't think it gets to this, uh terminal
you know place where where you you think it does.
I think you get a slap on the wrist. Harbaugh
gets another all right, we're gonna suspend you. Nonsense, but
it's gonna be for the year following, and whether he's
there or not is immaterial, uh to the moment. I
just I just don't think you take the number one
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team in the country and suddenly say you were good,
you got a little bit better. Yeah, we have anecdotal
evidence that some one hundred other teams in college football
are doing this. But no, since we you're such a
dislikable character, gobble gobble gobble Turkey that we're.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Gonna take you down. Okay, Okay, that wasn't me, just
excited utterance.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
People.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Remember the gobble guy. Remember the day in time you
said they're not gonna do this, remember the day and
time they do.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I think it would just be receive it better theater,
no question about the w I just don't think they
have the guts.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
We will know and they will make that decision before
the conference championship game, so they can announce the four
teams not being Michigan and have to worry about saying, oh,
we're replacing Michigan with this team. How quickly can you
get through a Freedom of Information Act, because in the
state of Michigan, that's going to go pretty slow. I
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Speaker 8 (37:04):
Night and a fly ball right field going over as
Carbon Carroll, He's under it, He's got it, and the
twenty twenty three eros on the Diamondbacks are headed to
the World Series for the second time they have their
twenty six year history. They have upset the Philadelphia Phillies.
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They come back after losing the first two games here
in Philadelphia. They went for the last five, the last
two here at Citizens Bank Park. Now they beat the
Phillies four games to three, winning a nights game by
final score of four to two.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Diamondbacks Radio Network on the call, Blank the Bravos and
whoever we play next, and always.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
The Mets, always the Mets. You're still saying blank the Mets,
im it?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
No, it's embraces and always the Mets, and always the Mets.
Now that whoever Mets gear go, where my Mets congratulat
zero one zero.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
That's right, doesn't matter. I don't care who wins, makes
no difference, not to rageous sures are go win. I
don't care. I don't believe you at all, swollen dumb
Ben Mallards. Next Fox
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Opening Night in the NBA really quick. The Suns beat
the Warriors. Warriors lose at home one oh eight, one
oh four. It was a big night for Devin Booker.
He had thirty two yet eighteen and ten from Kevin Durant,
use off Nurkic fourteen and fourteen, his first game with
the Suns, being able to overcome a big night from
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Steph Curry who had twenty seven but didn't shoot well.
Kind of a volume night for him, and a volume
night for Klay Thompson six out of eighteen for fifteen points. Now,
for both of these teams, just tell you real quick,
it's it's one game, and it's one game for the
Suns in one game for the Warriors. And the concerns
that I have for both of these teams right one game.
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The Suns, as long as you could say they're healthy,
they will be fine. They will be fine. The biggest thing,
that's everything else, there's no doubt in my mind, they
will be terrific. As long as they are healthy.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
That's it. That's a lot of It's really the Sun
video game.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
But it's like the Suns, I can say, I'm confident
some teams even if they're healthy, well, are they still
going to be good? As long as they're healthy, they'll
be fine. For the Warriors, I get that we want
to make it seem like it's a rebuild and reload
type season, and here we are a right back at it.
We got knocked out of the playoffs by the Lakers
last year. But maybe Kaminga plays more minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
We don't have we don't.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
We don't have Jordan Pool anymore. We traded him away.
He was a big problem. But between Draymond when when
he when he plays, and and Chris Paul showing up,
now you know things are gonna be great. The Warriors
are old, you know. And look, I said it for
the Mets beginning of the season. The Mets, my big
concern was they were all gonna get old right away.
And what happened. The Mets got old right away. By
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the time they started playing five hundred ball, they were done.
The Warriors are old. Chris Paul is old, Steph Curry
is old, Klay Thompson is old. Yes, Steph can still
play like one of the best players in the NBA.
But Klay Thompson not the same guy. Chris Paul not
the same guy.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I think Klay Thompson tired himself out by doing that
pedal kayak thing.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, I wouldn't have kayak to the game. I think that.
I don't think that was the best move. You get
a little tired. You got it because you got a
kaya You gotta gotta movie arms.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Looking at it, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Tired lags man. I mean like he was only six
of eighteen. Yeah, you gotta do it, man, Curry eight
of twenty. I mean, like I said, knights for both
of them. Did you think that the Sons would be
you say, hey, what a defensive effort in that first game.
You held them to thirty five point six percent from
the field. Look at it this way, look at us
forty three from three point range. Who is the best
player on the court tonight, Devin Booker, who was the
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youngest player out of all of those players, Devin Booker.
I really thought you were going to then follow up
with who lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I'm like, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It's just the Warriors are old, and sometimes it doesn't happen.
It doesn't erode, it happens overnight, overnight when you get old,
and you're gonna find a lot of games where the Warriors, Hey,
we're down, we've always come back before.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oh wait a minute, we don't have the legs to
come back like we used to. That's a big thing, man,
big thing.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I'm much more concerned about the Warriors, and I'm about
the Suns. Son's helping out, that's great, But the Warriors
it's I don't know, your best three players are all
thirty five years old.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I did look weird though, to watch the Sons playing
not have to look at DeAndre Eyton out there.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It was a little weird. It was a little weird weird.
I mean, you just gotten used to him.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
There he is, He's gonna give me his twelve and
nine and we're gonna move on. Yeah, we're gonna lament
that he doesn't score more or whatever the case may be.
But in this case, you know, you get the production.
Obviously for the Warriors, a lot a lot of chatter.
I heard a lot of people bring up I mean,
kaminga look at what he did in the preseason. Do
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we learn nothing season to season? No, no, no, we
don't look or anything because we did it again with
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Oh, this guy's gonna be for Raids. Look at him.
Look at him.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I mean, you know, you and I watching O'Connell. I mean,
just to take the Raiders for instance. You know O'Connell
at Purdue and then comes into the NFL. It has
his preseasons, all right, fine, and then you've got McDaniels
after the loss to the Bears talking about Sich. Well,
you know there's stuff during the week like, okay, so
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you're saying he's no good what you're saying, but trying
to be nice about it as you started Brian Hoyre
with the Warriors. I mean, that's one of the big
things that has to go right, is that Kaminga and
Moody are two guys that are gonna have to step up.
And Moody played eighteen minutes at eleven points. But between
him and Kaminga, those are two guys they were banking
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on to take huge steps forward. Right. We've seen them
jettison some of the other would be new Greats, first
round picks and whatever. But working to that same base.
Draymond Green being in street clothes ain't gonna help you either.
Right in night one, and we've got to remember it
is night one. It is a home game. So they're like, oh,
they went on the road, be okay, that's fine, big
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television to do. But for the Suns, yeah, Devin Booker's
the guy that it stirs the drink. And just hope
Kevin Durant is healthy and available when you get to
mid April.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Exit out a bout a Fresco exit swalling down the
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Tirek
dot Com studios. Now, let's get to a topic that
became a big one today.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Now, normally I.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Don't like to talk about other personalities that do what
we do in sports living.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
But the I do my best to avoid the mad dog.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Chris Russo thing has taken on a life of its
t the MLB Network and ESPN personality who said today
at the.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Diamondbacks wait, I'll retire. I'll tell you, bikey, I don't
like it anymore. Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
He said he would retire if the Diamondbacks beat the
Phillies tonight. And the Diamondbacks beat the Phillies tonight, and
before the game happened, you know, Tory Lavello said, I'm
looking forward to him retiring. After the game, they were
all channing mad Dog in the locker room. They're going
mad Dog Dog, mad Dog. It's great, it's awesome. And
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but here's say this, I don't know if you think
I'm a bad person. I really want to see him retire.
I really want to see him retire, you know, I
really do, because you know, we've gotten to a point
now where you can see. You can see the people
that are on the radio and on TV every day,
and you can tell where all they do is spend
all day going how do I get clicks? And how
(07:04):
do people write about me on industry websites? So when
I get on the when I get on TV or
to get on the internet, they're writing about me on
awful Announcing or I'm trending in the for you column
on Twitter. Because I'm not gonna trend nationwide, but I'm
trending in the four you column on Twitter. How do
I get clicks? And how do I get mentioned on
industry websites?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Right? That's how do I do that?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
And and seeing where some of the personalities are going nowadays,
it's crazy because some guys and some people who you
think are big personalities, all they are now making headlines
talking about other people in the media, and I'm like, wow, man.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I can't, how do you? How do you can't you
talk about sports and make a headline? No, I can't.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I just got to talk about other shows, or I
gotta talk about ESPN, or I gotta talk about Fox.
I gotta talk about That's how I make headline. But
mad Dog is the quintessential what hot takers stand for
in sports where when all you think about is I
gotta get clicks, I got a trend, I gotta get
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mentioned on industry websites. Right, you're not doing yourself any favors,
and you're you're you're shortsighting what you do for a
living because there's but you know what, But here's the thing. Yeah, everybody,
but those guys are all making money at the end
of the day, You don't you want to look in
the mirror and go I did the best I could,
and I gave I gave the audience myself and what
(08:29):
I thought all the way through. Or are you doing
where Hey, I'm okay looking in the mirror lying to
myself saying yeah yeah because I said stuff I didn't
believe just because I wanted a reaction. Now, I can't
fault great strategy because that's what sells. Now, Hey, look
at the crazy ass stupid things so and so said,
and they get attention paid to them on social media. Right,
(08:49):
that's how it goes. That's now the new barometer for
success in our industry. And I can't bear to look
at that. I just got you know, look, I love
hot takes too right, I got stuff that people all
want to hot take that. Yeah, you know what, We
sit here and talk about it for a good fifteen
or twenty minutes, and then we come back to it.
Like when I see stuff like like like mad Dog
and now other analysts who are just getting into it,
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football players and basketball players. They see the quickest way
to the top. It's like going to the dark side
in Star Wars. Hey, you you would go through the
right side and maybe on the good side of the
force and work your way and be disciplined, or you
could just be seduced by the dark side. Because what
has Ben ben Kenobi saying, Oh no, the dark side
isn't more powerful, only quicker and faster.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And that's how people use fine is by this young
Jedi named Mike Humming. And this is what passes. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
What can I say that gets me clicked? Even if
you're saying something that's ridiculously stupid, but I can defend
it for seventy five seconds on television.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Fine anymore? Right, And if you just tell.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Me I'm crazy and you give me your argument, it
doesn't matter because all people are gonna do is pay
attention to what I say right. You can see you
could be the other guy in a debate show saying
I I can't believe you said that, and I'm gonna
stand up for the rest of the country going you're
an idiot, and I'm gonna tell you why with ABC
and D doesn't matter. It's the guy who's an idiot
who's making that, who's making the point on there. So
you know what I want from man Dog Chris Ruth.
(10:12):
And this is a guy I listened to growing up
and on wf an retire tomorrow, be a man. You
said you're gonna do it. You did it just to
get cheap clicks and to trend. Hey, people are talking
about the show, people are gonna write about me and
the industry websites. Retire. Go ahead, man, retire. Put your
money where your mouth is. You said you were gonna
do it, Go do it. Yeah, it was it just
a cheap stunt to get attention. And that's what I
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mean when I say this is where too many people
are nowadays in our business. It's let me show you
something for seventy five seconds, and I'm gonna sound ridiculously dumb,
but you know what I'm gonna get I'm gonna gettention
paid for me, so I'm gonna do this whole retire thing.
You know, No, I want you to retire, man, I
really want I want you to do it. I want
you to say I'm done. I said i'd retired. The
Diamondbacks lost, and you know what, finally, you know what,
(10:53):
I get some come up and and now I'm gonna
and now I'm gonna retire. So I gotta do it
because I did that, which meanwhile, all it's gonna be
is some kind of fun thing where he's gonna get
on television and say, oh hey, Tory, leavello, you're great.
I was gonna retire, and everybody's laughing the next three
days before the World Series starts, and he just found
a way to make a cheap headline and get people
talking about him when there's no any sense of responsibility
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coming coming his way. That's why for this, No, no, dude, retire.
Put your money where you said it, right, you said it,
You said it, you want to do it. You wanted
the attention, you want the smoke, And now it's gonna
be Oh no, forget it, forget it, forget it, forget it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
No retire. I want you to do it tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Yeah, I'd be curious if you know, you were to
go back and listen to hours of radio whether at
some point, you know, he he caveatted it out or
you know, did the eye was joking. I haven't seen
that populated anywhere, and really I don't I don't care
to go do the deep dive. So when you got
your headline, get you got your attention. I think you've
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had attention for forty years. This is the one big
push you need one more time. God bless you.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
And if it was the thing that inspired the Diamondbacks
to go and win a couple of games in Philadelphia, hey,
you provide a great motivation. I hope you cashed a
big ticket on the other side of it, right Hey,
look I'm motivated, and look what I was able to do.
Because right now it's just to your point, hot take nonsense.
I registered the domain hottake nonsense dot com okay, with
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the idea that we would just say the dumbest things
and see how quickly they flew through, like any topic
we were gonna do, or even stuff that became be
or c list probably to the cutting room floor. Given
that we grab live events and live reaction to things
instead of Hey, I worked on this at nine o'clock.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Damnit, I'm still gonna talk about it.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Maybe those go to hot take nonsense dot Com, where
we see how quickly we can get to a hot
take that sets the internet ablaze.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Exit?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
How about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Look, and before
you sit here and say, oh well Jason, he said, yeah, no, no, yeah, Look.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I come up.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I love throwing fire every night. But I believe what
I say and I back it up. And if you
don't like it, I understand.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
That's fine. I get it. Man. Just be beholden to
what you do. Be beholden to what you do.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You have, you have a canvas, paint it well, paint
it the best you can, all right, and said and said,
you can tell every single person who is just on
television screaming and yelling or on the radio screaming and yelling,
because all they want to do is say, I'm gonna
take the smallest, most unpopular part of a story and
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make it that because I want the attention on it.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Tell you what, though he had a hell of a
run he did.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
If this is it for him, it is a hell
of a run, right to pretty much break the sports
talk radio format and be everything he was in the
nineties and then reinvent himself on MLB Network and all this.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh, it's great.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
He retires from this show and they're actually giving him
a spinoff. Oh, I'm not on High Heat anymore over.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I'm on Low Simmer. That's gonna be a new show.
It's gonna come on after.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
The Jason Smith Show. Is that Winter Sun one with
Low Winter Sun? It's on after Breaking Bad? Yeah, what's
on after High Heat? Low Simmer? Why do I want
to watch that?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
It's it's a lot, it's a lot, Calmer, It's a
it's it's like it's like it's like listening to heavy
metal and then listening to jazz.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, we've got a stand up basis over there. He's
gonna help set them down. Boom boom boom Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
The Jason Smithshid with Mike Carmen is live from the
tire Right dot Com Studio's phone number eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox. Coming up next, we go live
to the NLCS where the Philadelphia Phillies have fallen to
the Diamondbacks. Arizona is in the World Series. Our first
look at the World Series? What happened to the Phillies?
Did the Diamondbacks deserve to be there? Keep it right here,
(14:54):
We're live after the NLCS. Next Jason and Mike Fox,
two NBA ins, podcasting twice a week to plug you
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Speaker 5 (15:05):
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Speaker 1 (15:35):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. The Diamondbacks are in the World Series.
They close out the Phillies. Who's gonna win? What happened
to Philadelphia? Bryce Harper? Are the Diamondbacks really for real?
Joining us now from the NLCS, He is soaked with champagne,
(16:00):
mainly because he kept telling everybody during his pregame and
postgame interviews how good the Lions are. It is MLB
Network insider extraordinaire. You can follow him on Twitter at
John Morosi. That's at John Morosi. It is the Pope,
John Paul Morosi.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
JP.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
What's happening, buddy?
Speaker 7 (16:15):
I'm doing great, Jason. I sense through the microphone. Are
you smiling through shodenfreude that the Phillies have gone down
to defeat? As a Mets fan? Is that the way
you're viewing the series?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
There's no there's no Finley veiled about it. I can
now wear my Mets gear again. I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
JP. This was big because if you coulda if you.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Could have went back in twenty eighteen until the little
Jason Smith and saying, hey, the next five years, three
teams from your division are can go to the World
Series and win it, and one of them's not the Marlins,
I would have said, yeah, sign me up. So if
I would have had to watch the Nationals and the
Braves and then the Phillies go win the World Series, JP,
I don't know, man, I'd have to I have to
i'd have to I don't know, I don't I'd have
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to just start watching lacrosse instead of baseball.
Speaker 7 (17:01):
Well, i'll tell you what. First of all, lacrosse is
now an Olympic sport.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
All lacrosse insider John palmmeros.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Question right, Well, the question that you broached though, Are
the Diamondbacks for real? Yeah? It just won four to
five games against the Phillies. I'm not sure what more
they could do. Corby and Carroll first player ever in
a game seven according to opt the stats, that had
three hits and two plus stolen bases in the same
game seven. And oh, by the way, he's a rookie.
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So yes, they are for real. Young Brandon fought. What
an amazing effort by him. His brothers drove up from
Louisville to this game and one day to watch the
brothers start and fitch a great Game seven against the Phillies.
So the Diamondbacks for me, this series was won and lost.
Not tonight, but in Game four the Phillies had still
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a lead in the series. They had a lead in
the game and they let it get away. The bullpen
did not come through it all for them. Could Rob
Thompson have made a different decision or two perhaps, but
at the end of the day, he just didn't have
enough relievers that he trusted, and a lot of the
decisions that went awry I think flowed from that point.
And you've got to credit the Diamondbacks. They had I believe,
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one extra base hit in this game. Do you find
a way to win on the road in the game
seven with one extra base hit? That is extraordinary. The
Phillies at back quality obviously plummeted after Game one and two.
N Castianos I thought was the key guy for them. Tonight,
he didn't get a hit at all. He's struggled so
much as this series ended. So this is not the
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result that many people expected after the first two games
of the series. But the Diamondbacks expected it, and for
that reason, you got to credit them, and they're on
the way to the Fall Classic.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
You know, JP, you know, this is why I.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Love baseball, because at the moment I'm going to tell
you about that, I loved watching tonight maybe more than
anything else all season, just because of the unexpected excellence,
and it just blew me away watching Kevin Ginkle we
throw that slider in the seventh and eighth innings that
would start out at the batter's eyes and end in
the dirt, where where with two on and one out,
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he gets Trey Turner and Bryce Harper on weak flyouts
and then strikes out the side. That slider was incredible.
Just once in my life I want to throw a
pitch and see it break like that. Anyway, it was amazing.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
JP, You're exactly right, by the way, a twenty second
round draft pick, twenty second round draft pick. Just reflect
on that. Kevin Ginkle's journey. He was drafted three different times.
He finally signs on the third time, and you're right.
Your baseball insight, Jason is spot on. I was talking
after the game with Diamondbacks bench coach Jeff Banister, and
he just said, simply, that was the game. The Ginkle
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stretch to come in with both Turner and Harper representing
the go ahead runs with one out and then eventually
two out, for him to get those two guys and
then go more than an inning for the first time
in several weeks. It was just that was the game.
That was the game, and what a proud moment for
an Arizona Wildcat. As college baseball, he pitched there after
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junior college. He had zero offers for a scholarship when
he graduated high school.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
None. So it just it just.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Shows how great this game is and the amazing effort
by Kevin Ginkle. They do not win that championship without him.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well, you mentioned the sequence to Turner and Harper. The
duo combined to go zero for fifteen in the final
two games of this series.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
JP. Right when legend.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Making and history and folk hero status was being conferred
on all these guys from Philly for their look, their demeanor,
everything else, that balloon got deflated quite quickly.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
It did, and I just tell you how quickly it
can change in the postseason. And quality pitching was the start,
but also momentum is part of this. I really think
by the end of the series the Phillies were feeling
a bit of tension and pressure that you see for
the home team, and at the end of the day,
I don't think it was any sort of necessarily a
failure on their part. I really credit the d Backs
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for great pitch execution.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
JP.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Now, this may be a little weird, but I don't
know if this is going to be you, but I
assume there's going to be an opening on High Heat
now that mad Dog Chris Russo will be retiring from
everything he does.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Are you gonna slide in it? You and Alana Rizzo
do High Heat on MLB Network now, is that you?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
That's a great question, and actually I hope, first of all,
I know exactly what you're talking about to fill in.
I'm sure you've already covered this on the show tonight.
But my colleague Chris Russo said that he will retire
if the d Backs won both games six and seven.
He said this on Serious XM. This became well known
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to the Diamondbacks so much so that Tory Lavello referenced
it it is pregame press conference. And then in the
interview that I did with him on MLB Network tonight,
Tory Leavello, the last question I asked him was you
said before, uh, you had some thoughts for Chris Russo. So, Tory,
the floor is yours, And basically he said, uh, and
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I'm paraphrasing here, you have to watch the full clip
for the full version of it, but in so many words,
Tory said, mad Dog, we wish you well in your retirement.
We send our we send our congratulations to you. I
feel as though, and then this is my own words,
not not toys. Maybe we should do a quick little
like Mad Dog retirement tour. You know, Miguel Cabrera went
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around all the Major League stadiums. He was given all
these different gifts as part of his send off. Maybe
maybe the Mad Dogs you do the same thing around
the Winter meetings this year and get his retirement gifts.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
That's not a bad way, you know what. He could
be a daily guest on On Starnsey and the Pope.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
There you go, right, So that we're moving ever closer
to the end of October, and so that means that
David Sarns has to make his decision on his manager
here pretty soon. And yeah, maybe after watching this NLCS,
perhaps he's looking at an opportunity to be more competitive
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in the analyst than he thought. It's all built on
the bullpen. And I do wonder if the Mets, and
again it's a different time, different GM, different everything, but
maybe they would have liked to run this back for
one more go with this because maybe based on the
way that the Phillies hit to your point, and the
way that the bullpen performed for the Diamondbacks, the Mets
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were not as far away from being competitive as we
thought based on the way things unfolded. So you're right
on it. It was a great point that you made
about about Harper and the key guys struggling in Game
six and seven. There's no question I think that the
pressure got amped up, but collectively the d Backs held
the Phillies, the Mighty Phillies. The three runs over two
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games just remarkable and remarkable what happened Luis Gonzalez. That
was in the ballpark tonight. By the way, Miguel Montero
now works with the Diamondbacks. He of course the hero
of the Cubs in their game seven, seven years ago.
So it's some really really cool moments and notes and
not the outcome that a lot of us saw coming
once the Phillies took that two oho series lead.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
This is his audition for high heat right now. That
was really that's pretty good right there. I got to
clip that off and send it to the producers.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Hang on, thank you again. I can't. I can't do
high heat the way that the Mad Dog can.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
You guys know that I can't.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
I'm not hot. Takes Bob, Well, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
The one thing. The one thing I'll and maybe I'll do.
I'll do a brief, a brief mad Dog impersonation. Get
ready for this. Okay, this was several years ago. I
did my very best Midwestern argument in favor of Alan Trammel.
And then as I concluded the argument and trying to
explain why Alan Trammel is a Hall of Famer, the
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last thing I said was, you know, mad Dog, if
Alan Trammel had worn the pinstripes like Derek Jeter did,
all of you in New York would be speaking about
Alan Trammell the way that you talk about Jeter. And
as I said that statement, I saw, out of the
corner of my eye on the television monitor in front
of me, the Mad Dog standing up and he said.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Marovi, you're trying to tell me that Alan Trammel is
like Derek Jeter. You're putting Jeta and Trammel in the
same sentence.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
And it was just like my as you guys know,
if I'm working in broadcasting, the noise that was rattling
around my my earpiece was just deafening. It was like
it was it was almost like it almost it was
like that that scene in Star wars. Where where where
the the where the good guys like they have like
the stormtroopers are coming in and it like like the
(25:54):
noise like makes them like lay on the ground. It
was kind of that sort of a moment and uh,
and that's what happen. So anyway, that was my one.
That's my one mad Dog story for you. I will
I will, though, I will convey your very best wishes
to Mad Dog, whether he's retiring or not, the next
time I talked to him.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
John Paul Morosi, our guest tonight Michigan or MLB Network,
longtime friend of the show here on Fox Sports Radio
at John Morosi where you find him on Twitter slash
x JN mr OS. I leave out that h because
Mom said so Hi Mom, JP. So as we start
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looking ahead, I mean, one of the things that comes
out of this, they're no longer anonymous. If nothing else,
everybody's going to celebrate the greatness that Corbyn Carroll was
in small ball pushing things ahead, which you know, me
being old and all, I really liked that it wasn't
a home run fest. But now we start looking ahead
to the Rangers, how do they cool down Garcia?
Speaker 7 (26:52):
Well, then that's a great question. It's gonna have to
be some really good pitch making from this group. And
I actually think the way that Brent Strong looks at pitching,
and obviously, how about this is what a unique story
the Astro's former pitching coach who's now going to lead
the d Backs against the Rangers. That's pretty cool. Garcia
is obviously a challenge, but every hitter has holes, and
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Brent Strom does a very good job of finding those holes.
I think that you look at the way that I
think Merril Kelly bounced back in Game six, and that
to me is where things had to change.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
It.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
There was no way the d Backs could have won
this series, obviously without getting at least one win from
one of the games that was started by Gallen or Kelly.
They had to find a way to get a win there.
And they went zero for two in the first two games,
and then Gallen lost Game five, so they were zero
to three with their best two starters, and they had
to find a way to win Game six, and they
did so. For me, the big question is can Zach
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Gallan do something different because he was the one, the
one d Backs starter who in both starts was susceptible
to the long ball, and they're gonna have to find
a way to get him on a different track. Do
they start Merrill Kelly in game one or do they
stay with the same routine and go Gallon one then
Kelly two might be something of an opener situation. In
game four, it's gonna be tough because the d Bacs
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don't really have a true fourth starter, so it's gonna
be we're gonna see a bullpen game in the World Series.
Maybe they go a little different structure. Maybe they started
writing because because the Garcia and oh, by the way,
you got somebody by the name of Corey Seeger waiting there.
So it's gonna be the slug of the Rangers against
the small ball the d Backs. The d Bacs won
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a series just like that in this in this time
around in the NLCS, they won two games in affiliates.
It's it's unreal the way this series unfolded. They won
four to five games, so they are anonymous no more.
Corbyn Carroll is a superstar and Brandon Fott is also
now a name that we're gonna link to postseason lore
because of his two games he started two wins of
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the d Backs and now they're on the World Series.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
All right, JP, Before we let you go your status
as celebrity NFL Lions picker on the lines. Last time
we'll get to talk to you before Monday Night Raiders
and the Lions. You're five and two this year picking
Lions games. You Lions insider, you what say you for
Monday Night?
Speaker 7 (29:18):
The final score Monday Night at Ford Field will be
the Detroit Lions thirty one and the Las Vegas Raiders
twenty seven. I got a thirty one to twenty seven
win for the Lions.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Ooh, got a barn burner out of JP. No belief
in the Lions defense, give it up.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
I don't know much, but I do know math, and
I do know that I saw the score from Sunday
and they gave up a lot of points against the Ravens.
So I'll say they'll give a fewer points this time around. Okay, good,
but but not by too many. This is again, this
is this is my fairly rudimentary look at things, and
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I happen to believe that the Lions will find a
way to win by four points.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
This is the kind of analysis you will get every
day on stearnsy and the Pope there it is.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah, let's five and two lions record.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
And for a second, JP, I really thought you were
gonna say, I know math, and I know thirty one
is more than twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Is gonna be my final score?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
JP is always buddy, appreciate it, looking forward to talking
next week. A couple of times during the World Series.
Enjoy the week, and good luck this weekend, because maybe
you are signaling in place to the sideline of Jim Harbaugh,
so you never know.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Good luck.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
We may have to do that obviously, though. The one
thing that is going on is Michigan does not play
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Oh okay, that's right, Deanna, next weekend, right Indiana playing.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
For due or correct state? Correct state? Yeah, yeah, other
the team that also plays for the old Oaken Buck
as it were, So yes, I would say that Michigan
has to There are some potentially some coaching roles that
are up and available, and given my giving my familiarity
with the wing tea, I'm contemplating putting in an application.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
That's my guy. JP. Take it easy, buddy, and we'll
talk to you, my friend, and joy the rest of
the week. You see you buddy, but have a great night, guys.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
App Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My
best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
What's in the bag or shark or something.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
We'll get to the play that I coming up in
a couple of minutes, but big headlines and let's start
really quick. In the NBA, Lebron plays twenty nine minutes.
The Lakers lose to the Nuggets, but it's all good.
Clipper fans are excited. Sure, Lakers lose, Yes, and Kawhi
Leonard says he's healthy. He said he's one hundred percent,
(31:58):
one hundred percent. The fact that the Lakers kept him
to twenty nine minutes opening night, when they could have
extended him another seven or eight minutes, thirty five thirty
six minutes to win the game, to try to win
the game, yeah, tells me they have a plan in
place for the season to keep him healthy and recharged
enough for the playoffs, which is what they missed last
year because by the time he got to the conference finals,
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him and ad were done. Regular seasons meaningless as long
as you're winning. This tells me opening night they resisted
the urge to play in more minutes because they cut
it to three and they could have kept him until
they took him out and the Nuggets lead balloon back up.
It tells me they have a plan, which is so
anti Lakers. They don't just throw stuff at a wall
and see what sticks or react to what happened. They
have a plan, and the plan is going to be
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We're going to play Lebron these minutes. The regular season
is meaningless, they'll be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I think it wise to come back to the reality
of you're not winning the NBA title tonight. They may
be celebrating their title from last year, but if you win,
you don't get to steal their rings and tear down
any banners. So the long road is so and and
Anthony Davis went into the crowd a couple of times,
giving people scares.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So we're right on track. Yeah, I thought you're gonna
say the long road begins with a single step. Thought
you gonna say that because.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
It's one of my favorite phrases. No question.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Meanwhile, sources are reporting that the Michigan staffer who is
at the center of the controversy for the sign stealing
scandal Stallions, but non Big Ten tickets as well. Yeah,
all right, Connor Stallions. The illicit scouting ring continues to grow.
So now you're at games Michigan was playing against where
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he's allegedly recording signals. Now it's games outside of the
Big Ten, and it goes back as far as twenty
twenty one. I told you when it happened. For me,
that's the game, because this is when Michigan went from
being a three or four loss season team into being
suddenly we're elite, and we're winning the Big Ten and
we're beating Ohio State and we're going to the CFP.
This goes back to twenty twenty one. Michigan got good
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in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
There's the reason behind Michigan getting good all of a sudden.
But the big thing is, you know, the NCAA A
hates Harbaugh. The NCAA commenting on Jim Harbaugh's cheeseburger case
by saying it was more than a cheeseburger. When the
nca normally doesn't do that. You know, they have a
special thing for Jim Harbaugh. If they have the electronic evidence,
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they have his computer, Stallion's computer where they have video
evidence of him taking signals that's loaded up, that that's
sent out.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Michigan is gonna be deemed ineligible for the Big Ten
championship and they're not gonna get picked for the College
Football Playoff. That's how it's gonna go. But here's the greatness.
But if it's it's fabric of the game stuff, and
you can't go light on it, and you can't wait
because after this year, Harball could be gone.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
This is the best year in Michigan had. If you
find this evidence, it's gonna be ineligible to win the
Big Ten. And while the CFP doesn't have to answer
to the NCAA, they're not gonna take a team that's
just gotten banned for cheating. They're just not gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Oh see that they're just And that's where I would say,
because in their eyes it might not be cheating to
deserve such a punishment.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
But is it worth it to take Michigan to piss
off the end sat the other teams all the other teams.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
I don't think you want the other teams. But if
they don't, don't care. I don't think they want. They
want to get in. These teams want to get in.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
I want to get Michigan spot here in the in
the in the college football playoff.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Here.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I get that they're not going to pick them. Watch.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
See, I don't think it gets to this, uh terminal
you know place where where you you think it does.
I think you get a slap on the wrist. Harbaugh
gets another all right, we're gonna suspend you. Nonsense, but
it's gonna be for the year following, and whether he's
there or not is immaterial, uh to the moment. I
just I just don't think you take the number one
(35:49):
team in the country and suddenly say you were good,
you got a little bit better. Yeah, we have anecdotal
evidence that some one hundred other teams in college football
are doing this. But no, since we you're such a
dislikable character, gobble gobble gobble Turkey that we're.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Gonna take you down. Okay, Okay, that wasn't me, just
excited utterance.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
People.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Remember the gobble guy. Remember the day in time you
said they're not gonna do this, remember the day and
time they do.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
I think it would just be receive it better theater,
no question about the w I just don't think they
have the guts.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
We will know and they will make that decision before
the conference championship game, so they can announce the four
teams not being Michigan and have to worry about saying, oh,
we're replacing Michigan with this team. How quickly can you
get through a Freedom of Information Act, because in the
state of Michigan, that's going to go pretty slow. I
think they're gonna drag their feet, won't they. Time now
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Speaker 8 (37:04):
Night and a fly ball right field going over as
Carbon Carroll, He's under it, He's got it, and the
twenty twenty three eros on the Diamondbacks are headed to
the World Series for the second time they have their
twenty six year history. They have upset the Philadelphia Phillies.
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They come back after losing the first two games here
in Philadelphia. They went for the last five, the last
two here at Citizens Bank Park. Now they beat the
Phillies four games to three, winning a nights game by
final score of four to two.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Diamondbacks Radio Network on the call, Blank the Bravos and
whoever we play next, and always.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
The Mets, always the Mets. You're still saying blank the Mets,
im it?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
No, it's embraces and always the Mets, and always the Mets.
Now that whoever Mets gear go, where my Mets congratulat
zero one zero.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
That's right, doesn't matter. I don't care who wins, makes
no difference, not to rageous sures are go win. I
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