November 29, 2023 • 39 mins
The NBA is selling Las Vegas in-season tournament game tickets as "buy one get three free." The Yankees are in on Soto, Bellinger, and Yamamoto. Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd loses it on a reporter. Plus, the Progressive play of the night!
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Well, we'll get to our big baseball story in a
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Speaker 3 (01:04):
Expect them to get at least two of them.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But this game has just gone final. I know we
wanted more of this after the playoffs last year. I
would love to see more of these games this year.
The Kings have just beat.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
The Warriors won twenty four one twenty three.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Malik Monk with a jumper to put the Sacramento Kings ahead,
and Steph Curry missed a thirty five footer at the
buzzer that would have won the game for the Warriors,
and so the Kings win.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It won twenty four to one twenty three.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
This sends the Warriors now to an eight and nine mark.
And just for a couple minutes about Golden State Number one.
I know people are gonna blow past my point that
I always make. Hey, it's hard to get the ball
of Steph curR at the end of the game. So
he can't get his own shot off.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
What did he get? A thirty six foot three pointer? Okay,
that's what you're gonna go, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
True, I'm not saying he couldn't met, but really, thirty
five footer that that that's what he can get, right.
It's not my fault that he's too small to get
his own shot off the end of games. It's why
he's not as effective as some of the other big
superstars in the game. Yes, what he's done is shot
making ability has turned the NBA on its ear for
the past decade, but he's never been able to get
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his own shot off at the end of games because
he's too small. He can't dribble through double teams. He
can't do it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So this is what you settle for, This is what
you get right.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
This is why the Warriors knew we got to keep
going to get guys that can take shots at the
end of games.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
The Warriors are now eight and nine, and it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Surprised me that this is where they are because early
in the season they seem to figure things out right
with Chris Paul coming off the bench and leading the
second unit.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
This is about where he's at now.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Chris Paul, we played five minutes tonight, so we have
to wait and see what the deal is with him.
But this is where I thought, Okay, they really have
it going on right now because Chris Paul can play
twenty twenty five minutes a night off the bench to
perfect place for him, and that way the Warriors finally
have a second unit much like they had in their
heyday when they were winning championships, right when they were
the dynasty. Because that's the thing is, you know, Steph
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and Clay and Draymond got all the attention.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
And then when when Kevin.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Durant got there, but when they had a great second unit,
they would go to the bench. These guys to go
to the bench with a thirteen point lead and they
would come back and the lead would be sixteen. And
it's boy, you couldn't really not only did you not
cut the lead, but you wound up you wound up losing.
You know, the Warriors got three more points and as
a result, the Warriors didn't have to play their star
players more than thirty thirty three minutes a night. Now
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things are a little bit different, and things a little
bit more different for Golden State. And to see where
they sit now is you got to stare at the
starting lineup and you go, wow, they're really missing something
because Klay Thompson is someone who was just slowly deteriorating.
He's not a guy that makes a lot of shots anymore.
(04:04):
All his nights are volume nights for Clay. That's not Hey,
look at this night, Clay, he was eight for sixteen.
No Clay has nights like tonight, six for fifteen, three
out of ten from three point range. Clay Thompson still
scores twenty points a game, but he is a volume guy,
and when you're a volume guy laid in your career,
you're not as effective. Steph is still scoring a bunch,
but if he has off nights, there's not a lot
(04:25):
of guys that can pick up the slack because look,
Draymond's not who he was, and look, Wiggins had a
big night tonight. But overall, hey, you know the the
Andrew Wiggins. Hey, this guy's a superstar. That hasn't been
the case so far this year. Right, the guy's averaging
ten points a game. So you look at Golden State
and it's okay, Well, while they figured this out, now
you'll get the starting lineup and go, oh man, they
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got problems, Like they have problems here that like I
don't know that another suit adding another are that short
of adding another superstar? Like what do you do? Can't
put everybody on the second unit? Right, We're gonna put
Clay in the second unit? You can't something That's something.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
They approached up there in the media in San Francisco, right,
just the last couple of days. I know he got
into it with a reporter. What do you suggest we do?
You know that kind of thing. So it's a little
bit contentious. You had another Draymond Green moment tonight. He
thought he took an elbow to the face. I think
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the replay would show pretty clearly he did not tried
to flop and get a call. Instead he got a
technical and so the usual cailarity ensued. But you're not
getting much offensively from him, right, If you're gonna get
your eight to ten tonight, you're hoping that the defense
and all the auxiliary stuff works out. In this case,
he had four turnovers to go against his three assists.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
That cannot stand, right, He's got to be a guy
that's helping facilitate the offense. Looney played twenty nine minutes,
just four boards, two points, still plus five on the night,
but yay, good for him. You mentioned Wiggins. This was
unc characteristic. He was efficient, he was assertive. He was
a guy that had himself a great game, and they
built a huge lead and then watched it get chipped
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away in the second half and wondering if the bench
is going to be there to round out Klay Thompson.
You know, there's a lot of basketball to be played
like That's one of the things we get into the
moment of Wow. That's a huge loss. Well, we expect
the Kings to be good. How about we yell at
them for only being nine and six at this point
(06:29):
four and one at home, big comeback win, because what
was it sixteen at one point, you know, watching the
lead balloon for Golden State, and things looked like it
was gonna be a runaway train, and instead they chipped
back and the Warriors, you know, the bench didn't give
you what you were anticipating the loss of Paul in
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this game five minutes, played only two shots, a couple
of steals before he left. Man that leaves a gaping hole.
Peyton Junior and Moody combined for eighteen points, but just
three assists between them. Right when we're trying to find
some other production out of that second unit. So it'll
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be a curiosity to see if they can pull off
a big move because they don't have the assets to
do it right. That's the other part, is you don't
have that big chip that you're able to move outside
of finding someone who just likes the idea of having
Klay Thompson on their team.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You know, and just to finish the other button on
Chris Paul, just to show you how things have turned
into a mess.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
With the Warriors right away he limped out of the
game tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And now you know, we don't know what's gonna happen, right,
Like I said, we got to wait and see what
goes on.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
It's limited to.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Five minutes tonight is watching this game down the stretch.
The Warriors had a five point six point lead with
a minute and a half left to go in this game.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And what wound up happening.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Steph Curry with a bad turnover, Draymond Green with a
bad turnover that turned into a plus five for the
Sacramento Kings. Right, Curry turns the ball over and Malik
Munk makes a three to give him the lead. Right, Okay,
so now they have the ball back, Draymond Green turns
it over and or that put him to within one.
And then Draymond Green turns it over and Malik Monk
(08:12):
makes the game winner. Like this is where Chris Paul
was supposed to be the guy I'm here for the
end of game down right, This is it right on
the guy handler. I'm gonna find where it needs to go.
It's not gonna be on Steph to bring it up
and have to worry about him dribbling around three guys
and find somebody else. So missing him there is a
really big deal. It's really tenuous for the Warriors and I.
(08:33):
And while they had it figured out early on in
the season, Ay, Chris Paul coming off the bench slowly,
you're seeing we're just seventeen games into the season. Hey,
Klay Thompson. Really, I mean, I don't know what you
can count on him for other than a lot of
shots every single night. Andrew Wiggins hasn't been the player
reacts like I say, he's averaging eleven points a night. Now,
Chris Paul, you never know when he's going to be
(08:54):
in the lineup and he's out. That's that's the thing
about Chris Paul. When he plays, he still has it,
but he's hurt all the time, and you never know
when it's gonna happen. And now you lost him tonight,
and clearly, had you had him at the end of
the game, I feel pretty confident that the Warriors would
have held onto this with Chris Paul in the lineup,
minute fifteen left in the game and they're up by six,
I feel like they would have held onto this game.
(09:15):
They would have found a way to get to the
free throw line and make their free throws, and they
would have won this game. But no, Chris Paul, things
are really tenuous for the Warriors, and it's happened in
a blink. But this is the thing, Mike, what I
always say about teams. When you get old, you don't
get old over a long period of time. You get
old overnight. It happens overnight. And I'm wondering if this
is now the getting old overnight for the Warriors, because
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you're now talking about here's all these guys that you're
worried about, and two of them are in their mid
to late thirties, and one is in is near thirty,
and maybe he's peaked already, and Andrew Wiggins. I mean,
really there's a lot of concern for the Warriors right now.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Man, Look how old you'd be going.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But legitimately, as we look at it, you're in year
what eleven twelve for Klay Thompson, shooting a career worse
forty percent from the field. They had eight more turnovers
than the Kings did tonight, including as you mentioned, those
abysmal efforts down the stretch. Now we do it all
(10:15):
the time. With the NFL, if you lose the turnover battle,
you're getting housed. And in the NBA, sometimes you can
shoot your way out of it. In this case, didn't.
You didn't have either, right, You didn't weren't able to
complete possessions and you didn't have a guy to slow
things down and force the action. Because they shot well.
When they actually got to the follow line, they were
twenty six of thirty on the night. That's something you're
(10:37):
not gonna worry about with this team. They take care
of that and to business. But yeah, getting younger teams
aggressive down the stretch, you can find yourself into some
trouble if you don't have someone to slow it down.
So hopefully Chris Paul for them, he's not missing extended time.
Although it is the holiday holiday holiday season.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Holiday holiday holiday holiday the Jason Smith, Joor the Mike
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all three of them coming up in a few minutes.
We wanted to bring you this story first. Heere because
the game just ended very exciting at the end. Uh,
you know, Steph missing that shot.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I Curry.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
No, no, I don't. Look, I'm telling you, they're never
gonna call me for that interview. By the way, They're
just never gonna call me.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Won four titles man the the.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
In season tournament that is continuing on now in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Lakers already won it, right, No, No, And I think
they got to buy into the finals. I think that's
what it is for the Lakers. It's a bye into
the finals for them. Look, I know the Knicks one
tonight and they're in the quarter finals. They put But
like I'm looking at this going, I don't even know.
If you said to me, Hey, who are all of
the teams that are in? I couldn't get it off
the top of my head, Like who's all I would like?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I I don't know. I could te I know the
Knicks are in, and.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
The Bucks are in, the Lakers are and I give
you a few deals, but I couldn't give you all
these teams.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It's just I.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Can't get over how the NBA has come up with
a really good idea and executed it in the worst
way possible. Right, we told you a few last hour
on the show, how the NBA is selling tickets Buy
one get three free for the semi finals and finals
in Vegas? Right, because no one's buying tickets in buy
(12:27):
what get three free? It's like I'm in Steven Barry's Uh.
You know, it's so easy to have made this into
something good, right, because what do you not want to do? Right?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I know?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Always the big worry, Mike, you always have when I
have one of my ideas, you say, okay, well, when
teams are missing games, what about the money?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
How do you make up for the Money's right?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
They have this idea and I don't know how big
business comes up with we're gonna have this tournament. When
we're gonna have it the start of the season. Is
it gonna be separate from anything?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
How are we gonna know when a game is an
in tournament game? Well, we're gonna have the floor is
gonna be painted a weird color?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
What else were we gonna have? Well, that's really gonna
be it? So all the games for like a week
and a half. No, we're gonna play a game, and
then another couple of games aren't gonna happen, And then
we're gonna get back to a game, and then we're
gonna play the semi finals, then we're gonna play. It's
such a mess and fans can't keep track of it,
and it keeps the excitement at this at a very
tepid level. How easy would it have been to say, okay,
in season tournament, here's what we're gonna do. After the holidays,
(13:23):
we're gonna pay holiday holiday holiday, we're gonna play the
n season Tournament's gonna be three weeks, and we're gonna
play regular season games. Right, these games, these games can
either count for the regular season record or not count.
But it doesn't matter because everybody gets the same number
of home games and away games. You know, it doesn't matter.
If you want to count it for the regular season. Great,
If you don't want to count it, make it a
(13:43):
little bit more special, that's fine too, Right, we have
seventy five games for the regular season standings. Now that's fine,
you don't need eighty two. Right, But no one's missing anything.
You're getting all the home games. Everybody's getting their games.
Their games are on that the game. A lot of
the games are on national TV. And and you're gonna
get more money because it's more of an exclusive event
and you play the event for three weeks and you
(14:05):
have that, you get to the semi five, the the quarterfinals,
the semifinals, the finals, and then you continue on with
the regular season after right. It makes it look like
a real thing and a real tournament with a trophy,
and the players will be excited because we're all getting
five hundred grand apiece if you win this tournament. It
would have been easy to make it something like this,
and yet the NBA's like they went out of their way.
(14:26):
Let's make it the worst, most confusing, confluted thing possible,
and let's have a new idea and do everything we
tend to make it not succeed.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Well, the short term is that you're gonna looking to
add more games that are non regular season. You got
to open up the CBA. Just handing over five hundred
thousand dollars to the players on the winning team ain't
gonna get it done. So, yeah, that that becomes a
bigger thing. Right if you're gonna say, well, it's eighty
two plus now this tournament and we'll play it through
(14:57):
and yeah, it's it's not ridiculu this number of games,
but you're adding ten percent plus uh to the schedule.
They want at least ten to fifteen percent more in
their paychecks, So you got to figure out all of
that fun and excitement. So uh yeah, but if you're
going to Vegas, hey, buy one, get three free, make
some friends.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, it's it's not that difficult, though. Everybody's getting whatever
you could give.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You're still playing the same number a game, still playing
eighty two games total.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
It's just seven of these games are gonna be for
this tournament.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
If you're pulling those oh see, yeah, it's it's it's
a whole other thing.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That's a that's an easy thing to do. That's an
easy thing to have it go. Yeah, that's that's an
easy thing. I would worry about that. Oh fi, you're
talking about five hundred grand for twelve guys. Yeah, okay,
that's why we'll fit six million dollar. Yeah, well we'll
do that's fine.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
That's fine. We'll find that money somewhere.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
As long as it's staying at eighty two games. Yeah,
do whatever the hell you want.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
But so, but I think that was part of the
fight of well, how do we do this and keep
it part of the regular season?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And you and I just you and I just made
just just made this tournament even better in the last
four minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Then whatever they did planning this thing, I like the
kea that I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I'm gonna tune in to to a basketball game and
until I see the court, I have no idea what the.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Hell it is? What is it just a regular game?
Or is it a playoff game? Exit out about a
Fresco swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
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Speaker 3 (16:54):
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Speaker 3 (17:56):
No, what the hell is six tight shirt?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yes, just let it wash over you. Jason, it's so Christmasy.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That's not not very holiday. No holidays, holiday holiday. I disagree,
I completely disagree. I disagree.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
You spend a lot of time together with your family.
A lot of people come to that kind of rationalization,
realization of what they've gotten themselves into.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Day three. It's like going to Vegas. Day three is
not as fun, is it?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Maybe day four you're finished?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
So what do we want to hear my mix, my
mix CD of Mariah Carey favorites, Holiday favorites?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Or do you want to hear thrash music? I guess
what I can do both? Here we go. Let's listen.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Uh, we have a big NBA story coming your way
in about five minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
That is crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
You can't you can't get that out of your head
now though, Oh I'm dreaming is there in the third.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I'm gonna watch this video again.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
But we talked about this a few minutes ago, John Hayman,
UH and a couple of other MLB insiders Ken Rosenthal
as well as weight in on this. You're talking about
the three biggest names available in some way this offseason,
whether it's free agency or trade, Juan Soto, Cody Bellinger,
(19:14):
and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who is posted from Japan and teams
are gonna start negotiating for his rights, twenty five year
old pitcher that you know it could be the next
great pitcher in Major League Baseball. And John Hayman talked
about this, and again we're getting reports the Yankees are
going to be in on all three of these guys
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and they expect to get at least two.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Of them, which is stunning.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And maybe the Yankees are doing exactly what I said
to you. They need to be the Yankees. Why aren't
the Yankees winning because they're not the Yankees. We're not
going out and spending money and saying Dan the Torpedoes,
whatever it is. We're gonna figure out whatever money we spend,
we spend bad money, We're gonna get out from under it.
We're gonna trade prospects. We're gonna do what we can.
We're gonna be the Yankees because that's what the Yankees do.
(20:03):
That's why the Yankees win. Because they're bold and they're aggressive.
They don't drive the middle of the road. And when
I had to hear Brian Cashman last week, get mad
and try to sell it the Yankees had a great
season on a great dude. You were four games out
of last place, and you're upset making it sound like
we had a great year. You did not have a
great year. You did not have a great year. The
Yankees have bigger standards than everybody else, right, The Yankees,
(20:25):
the Dodgers, the Cowboys, the Steelers, the Lakers all have
bigger standards, and he's trying to sell us some Hey, no,
we actually had a good year. But here it is.
They expect them to land at least two of these
of these three guys, and you know what, to land
two of those three guys, you're gonna be over five
hundred million dollars. Could be over up to seven hundred
(20:46):
million dollars with two of the other because Yamamoto's probably
gonna get two hundred million. And if you're Won Soto,
if you're trading for him and you're gonna sign him,
that's gonna be five hundred million dollars. So all of
a sudden, maybe the Yankees are listening. Maybe I'm rebuilding
the Aggy dynasty right here on the show with you,
Mike Carmon.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Well, you know what we are nationwide, the iHeartRadio app,
all the four hundred plus affiliates. Man, it's gonna be
out there in the universe. People are talking, people are chattering,
and maybe Cashman, realizing he needed some help, he turned
where so many have before him.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
For advice, career counseling and all those things, and obviously
stein Brenner, you know, trying to figure out at.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
This point what they are.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
You got a very difficult division, right, because nobody's a
rollover anymore. For years, you could count on the fact
that the Orioles had a lot of guys that were
prospects that were gonna be never worse. That isn't the
case anymore. That is a very young team that's gonna
be around and be a pain in the ass for
a while. The Blue Jays are gonna be around and
be a pain. The Red Sox they're always a thorn
(21:57):
in your side, right, Just keep on going down the line.
You know, within the division and across the American League,
you know there's there are plenty of contenders out there,
So a reversal of fortune, you know, especially after Cashman's
comments about gian Carlos Stanton getting hurt and.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
All, yeah, no, that that'd be a very welcome thing.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
For the Yankee fans to not be reminded of that
fact and to maybe bolster that lineup in rotation to
give some support because pitching wise, you had the cy
young Winner and Cole and not a whole lot else
from the lineup perspective. When your superstars are missing thirty
plus games. Look, Aaron Judge was great, his efficiency in
the games that he played outstanding. Problem is he missed
(22:39):
a month. So and you know Stanton generally does as well.
I'm gonna try to be nice by using the word
generally there, but yes, certainly, the long term cost of
it is huge, absolutely immense. You know, four hundred and
five hundred million dollars if you're going to bring him in.
Ballinger is interesting, right, come back player of the year
(22:59):
with the CUB. He's been rumored all over the place.
You know, this is a Where's Waldo kind of experiment.
I've seen his name with about nine different teams in
the last twenty four hours. The photoshop photos are all
over the place. Hey, he'd look good our uniform. He'd
look good as the centerpiece here and you bring in
show Heyo Toni no, no, no'll come on now, let's
(23:20):
not be silly. And as for Yamamoto, I mean, what
does he want? Right? We get to the same question
that we've had with show Heyo Tani. Of all right,
what does he really desire? We keep hearing I want
to win? Is that I need that plus five hundred
million or I'll take less to go to a team
that's actually ready to win, or I'll take the short
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term deal in Anaheim. And while I get my arm, right,
I think with Yamamoto, I wonder how much there there's
a connection to be made there in terms of comfort, acclamation,
et cetera. You know, trying to read the tea leaves
of how this plays out in terms of that process.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And the thing is, you know me, you know I'm
anti paying for pitching, right, but of these three guys,
he's the guy I go after because I'm not gonna
buy Bellinger. Right, I'm not buying Bellinger after three years
of not being very good, suddenly he's rediscovered himself in
the contract year and hey guess what now I'm not
gonna buy it.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, it's hard to buy can't buy Bellinger? Yeah. I
think if the Cubs.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Were smart, they just say, look at look at what
you were able to do in this in this ballpark.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, I mean, stay here, here's here's a deal.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I'm not I can't go.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
It's too much your risk to say, hey now, because
I'm gonna likely get the Bellinger that the Dodgers had.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
For the three years before they let him go. And
Soto is really tough.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Tough for me too, because what it's gonna take to
get him, which if reports are are right that the
Padres want two top hundred prospects, which means in a team,
you're gonna want to top eight prospects from eighteen. Right,
you're talking about top hundred prospects. Let's just say each
team has three pro in the top hundred, right, so
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you want you want two of the top three prospects
that a team has. That's pretty steep. And then you're
not gonna trade those guys and not sign them a
long term and Wan Soto's already turned down a four
hundred million dollar contract, and that was a couple of
years ago you turned down. He's not signing for anything
less than five hundred million. That's what he's gonna want.
So the calls for that is immense. Plus do I
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want to spend that kind of money for a guy
as good as he is? And Juan Soto is a
really good player, right, He's got a good war he's
got a great ops. Right in the end, Juan Soto's
a guy you look at what his career averages are.
Just to give you an example, he's a career thirty
home run, one hundred RBI, two eighty hitter.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Right, that's kind of what he is for his career.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Now, just to give you a just to let you know,
there's about twenty five guys in Major League Baseball last
year that put up around those numbers. Right, some somewhere
around thirty home runs, ninety five or more RBIs hitting
between two seventy five and or higher. There's about twenty
five guys who did that last year. None of those
guys are getting five hundred.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Million, right.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I mean olsen o'tani Acunya, Marcelo Zuna, Mookie Betts, Dolas
Garcia did it, Austin Riley.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Max Muncie two twelve. I won't even put him on
the list. Right, You had Soto do it? J D.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Martinez, Corey Seeger, Christian Walker, Ozzie Albi's did it. Rafael
Devers did it? Francisco Lindor. You counting like FRANCESSA. Now, look,
but I tell you're doing twenty seven twenty. I'm going
through these guys and all did Freddy Freeman did it?
Nick Castellanos did it. Marcus Semion did it? Right, Kyle
Tucker did it. I'm still going. I'm still going with
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guys that are doing that.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
No one Aronado did it.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
These guys were all around thirty and one hundred and
hitting that way. So it's not to say that Juan
Soto is not a really good player, because he is.
But he's not Miguel Cabrera. Where Cabrera was hit forty
five homers. Kno getting one hundred, and Fi already runs
in at three twenty. That's not who Wan Sodo is, right,
I'm not gonna pay a guy to be Miguel Cabrera
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in his prime when I'm not gonna get that. So,
I mean to if it was just one thing, but
you have to give up a couple two of your
three biggest prospects, and you got to sign him for
five hundred million. That's too much, I mean. So that's
why of the three, I would go. And and you
know me, I don't like pitching as much like everyday guys.
But the other guys are too scary. Bellinger clearly scary,
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and and and so is one. Even though it's not
my money, I'm not making out I'm not making out
any any checks on it. It's a really big gamble,
because what it's gonna take to get one Soda.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
To play for your team.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Yeah, I think the the curiosity and I only brought
up FRANCESSA one knowing that Alexkisher's gonna be quick with it.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
But you just started reading off the full name. What
about this guy?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
What about I don't know the contract situations of all
of those guys.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
But although, but none of those guys are getting five
hundred million dollars. But none of those guys five hundred million.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
You've got the name recognition, you've got the history right,
it's it's.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
A repeat did number right.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Those are career averages that you're talking about versus potential
single season outliers. And Juan Soto is going to be
available for you now. And so that's the question, do
you have a guy like.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
That on your roster?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
If not, here's what it's going to cost to get
you on that's available right now. With the track record
of doing this year after year, even in playing in
a lot of ballparks that were not exactly hit or
friendly right in the NL West. That's one thing you
can say about most of the stadiums. They are not
the greatest for going around and augmenting your numbers. So
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when we look at Sodo, yeah, no, Kabodie, I like
the cut of your jib as far as the pitching side,
you know why, because we don't know what the hell
he is. And as a major league pitcher, Bellinger, we've
seen it. Had a nice comeback here, fantastic. You saw
the struggles Soto. To your point, it is a five
hundred million dollar investment. So it's a nice big wager
(29:02):
this other one. Whether it's two or two fifty or
whatever it gets to, it's what's in the box, right,
you can have this shiny new car, or you can
have what's in the box. And once watch some footage
from overseas, let's talk to a bunch of folks who
have scouted and watched his work overseas, and then we say,
(29:24):
all right, how well does this apply to our situation
here and what does it mean for box office? If
the box office goes anywhere close to what show Haotani
has been on an annual basis, and I mean fifty
percent of what show Hayotani has been for the Angels,
for Major League Baseball on an annual basis, it's money.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, spent the best result. The best game was probably
Tim McMahon of ESPN versus Jason Kidd that that was
probably the best game tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
So good because I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Tim McMahon, who has worked for esp for a while,
it's been, you know, for at least a decade or so,
got into it with Jason Kidd following the Mavericks win
over the Rockets tonight. The Mavericks having a pretty good
start to the year. They're eleven and six, and Tim
McMahon and we can't play it for you because there's
too many bleeps in it because Jamon Kid curses so
(30:19):
many times. But Tim McMahon asked him a question, ostensibly
something about Kyrie Irving and talked about last season, which
didn't go well for the Mavericks, and Jason Kidd got
really mad and with a bunch of curses, talked about
how Tim McMahon should write some positive stuff. Write some
positive blank. You're bringing up last year, and you only
bring up last year because things are going okay for
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us this year. Write some positive blank. You asked me
a question, I'm giving you a blank in answer, Write
some positive stuff. And it's a great back and forth,
and it's all over social media and it's really entertaining
to watch. Again, if you don't like curse words, don't
watch it. We're kind of summing it up for you
right here. But it's just really weird to see this
(31:00):
back and forth, to see finally a coach just say,
how about you write something positive? How about your instead
of because I know negativity cells and we have too
much negativity in this country. And you know Jason Kid
who's been had controversy following him around his NBA career,
he's the guy saying let's focus on positive and.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Jason to be positive, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And and in theory, I agree with Jason kids pot
because I'm not gonna sit here and say I know everything.
Tim McMahon has written about the the Mavericks. You know,
I know Rick Carlisle I think got into it with
him when he coached the Mavericks. A wow, I'm not
gonna pretend to sit here and say this, but you know,
really that's the thing is that we have to find
it's really weird, some kind of feel like a Pollyanna,
is that we have to find a way to make
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positivity sell more than it does because in sports generally
and breaking news. You know, that's the whole thing is
whenever something there's a breaking news story somewhere that's in
the beginning of this genesis. It's not a big stut
of sports thing. It's on anything else. But when you
hear the phrase breaking news, is it ever any good?
Breaking news is always? Breaking news is always something bad?
We have breaking news coming in and your conditioned to go, oh,
(32:07):
something bad has happened, and and but what is it?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I gotta know?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
And that has really been what sells, and it kind
of does. And when you get to now to compare
it to sports stuff, it's like, Okay, I could sit
here and talk about how great Patrick Mahomes is, but
how compelling is that. Hey, there's other teams that have issues,
and maybe some people think this quarterback is good. This
quarterback is not. This is something to talk about. It's
hard to just sit back and say, boy, this guy
(32:33):
is great, this guy is awesome, he's so good. Well,
where's the compelling thing. I know how good he is
because I see him play every Sunday. I know Patrick
Mahomes is great. He had to tell me something, so
it gets more difficult. But I agree with the with
the overarching point, we gotta find a way to make
positivity sell. I mean, I know I feel weird about it,
feel corny, but I'm like, we gotta find a way
to make positivity sell a little bit at something.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
And if I could, I'd throw in f bombs like
Jason kindy. Yes, I know Patrick Mahomes is good, but
what the blanke is wrong with his receivers?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Why can't they catch a ball? What is going on here? Oh?
There you go, there's Harmon Harmon again.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Mike Harmon, who Mark Cuban stole money from him, so
that's why he's old salted tonight.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Hey, I'm the nicest guy you're ever gonna meet.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
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Damn right, I am exit out about a Fresca exit
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Well, you know me, Mike, I hate to say I
told you so, and I really hate to say I
told you so about this story because I hate the
fact that I was right about it. You know, a
couple weeks ago in the Heyday and all the hubub
of Aaron Rodgers is practiced.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
He's gonna come back to practice soon. He's ready gonna
come back.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I told you, Aaron Rodgers is coming back. The Jets
season is over. They stink, they can't score. They're not
gonna win six out of seven to close the season.
They're done. And Aaron Rodgers had the carrot at the
end of the stick for the Jets.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I'm coming back. I'm coming back. I'm coming back.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
And even as recently as a week ago we heard, Hey,
I want to start practicing the beginning of December and
my target date is the twenty fourth to come back
to playing. I played the last three games all round,
and I told you Rogers isn't coming back because by
the time he's finally ready to hit the field, the
Jets are going to be four and eight of four
and nine because they stink, because the offense stinks, because
(35:05):
Zach Wilson stinks. They didn't do anything to say, hey,
what happens if Aaron Rodgers can't play, Oh, we'll play
the guy we benched for him last year?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Like, in what world does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Where all the guy that's not good enough to play,
if he has to play, We're okay. That's stupid, right,
It's stupid, and not only that they refuse to move
the system around to take advantage of what Zack Wilson does. Well, so, yeah,
I told you the Jets season was over. But Aaron
Rodgers coming back. Yeah, here he is today from the
Pat McAfee show, saying that, well, upon further of you
(35:37):
me coming back, I don't know so much about that.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
How about knew? Was? Yeah? That was it?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
With an accent that hey, you know, I'm paying you
a million dollars, Aaron, to come on here and do it,
you know, not gimming? How about now here's Aaron Rodgers
from earlier today, and this is the play of the night.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
It's always been First, am I healthy? And then are
we alive? Are we in it? Are we playing good
enough to make a run? Can I step in and
protect myself and play at the level that I feel
like I'm capable of playing.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Oh so he's never gonna play for the Jets again.
If he's only coming back, he's never gonna play again.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
He basically just broke the news right there, and we're
parsing the words better than anybody else possibly could. He
has already said I'm never returning to the Jets. I
am looking for a new team.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
It was just a few a few days ago that
some insiders talked to Hey, the Jets status in the
standings doesn't pay any bearing on He wants to come
back no matter what, probably because Hey, I want to
be a medical marvel. I want to show you that
I can do things that nobody else in the history
of health is done. I'm gonna come back after a
(36:54):
torn achilles like three months later. But now, oh, hey,
well the season's over. Well, I'm not gonna do that.
I'm not I'm not going to be that stupid to
try to come back when when we're finished and risking injury. Yeah,
I could get reps in the offense and reps, but
the whole season's finished.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I'm not coming back to play.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, upon further review, I've had second thoughts. He's not
coming back, all right. I told you wasn't coming back.
He's not coming back, all right. This was it was
a fool's errand to think so. And I like the
fact that he threw it out there and wanted to
keep everything alive and and and you know, and keep
that out there. Hey, just hold on, be five hundred.
So when I come back, we can make a run
win two of our last three or our last three games.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
That was great. But now he's hit reality and it's okay.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Not only is the team bad, the offensive line is
terrible because Joe Douglas, who was an offensive line guru,
can't get the offensive line.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I told you the jetson to a new head coach,
new GM. Right, we talked about it last night. They
just do And so now now it's a much different
tune for Aaron Rodgers with Yeah, now, a lot of
things depend on me coming back. There's a lot of
check marks out there. He's not coming back. He's not
playing all right. I wish you would. I wish it
was different, but it's not. We're not going to see
huntil next year. And now it's hard for me to
even get excited for next year because I'm saying, is
(38:06):
he really gonna play? Like, oh, it looks great in
the preseason everything. Is he really gonna play? Is?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
How many stats are we gonna get? Five? Seven, ten?
How excited can I really be about Aaron Rodgins? See?
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I was trying to get y'all positive, and you know,
we had the holiday holiday holiday music on and off
all night, and here you are, Joe pessimism, getting ready
to go eat yourself several large sandwiches to push away
your feelings for the way this story's making you feel.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Hey, hey, hey, I eat several large sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
If I'm in a great mood or a weird mood,
I still eat several large.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
There is something to be said for that. But yeah,
it's a difficult proposition. You know, we did the the
preview of tomorrow's I Watch a Flex Podcast. We came
up with a list of ten teams where you could start,
and you'd say I'd only start one or maybe zero players.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Guess where the Jets work for me.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
So that's where you're at in terms of what you're
coming back to, Aaron Rodgers, unless suddenly you can raise
all of your band of Merriment from Seasons Pass from
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Expect them to get at least two of them.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
But this game has just gone final. I know we
wanted more of this after the playoffs last year. I
would love to see more of these games this year.
The Kings have just beat.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
The Warriors won twenty four one twenty three.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Malik Monk with a jumper to put the Sacramento Kings ahead,
and Steph Curry missed a thirty five footer at the
buzzer that would have won the game for the Warriors,
and so the Kings win.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It won twenty four to one twenty three.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
This sends the Warriors now to an eight and nine mark.
And just for a couple minutes about Golden State Number one.
I know people are gonna blow past my point that
I always make. Hey, it's hard to get the ball
of Steph curR at the end of the game. So
he can't get his own shot off.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
What did he get? A thirty six foot three pointer? Okay,
that's what you're gonna go, right. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
True, I'm not saying he couldn't met, but really, thirty
five footer that that that's what he can get, right.
It's not my fault that he's too small to get
his own shot off the end of games. It's why
he's not as effective as some of the other big
superstars in the game. Yes, what he's done is shot
making ability has turned the NBA on its ear for
the past decade, but he's never been able to get
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his own shot off at the end of games because
he's too small. He can't dribble through double teams. He
can't do it.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So this is what you settle for, This is what
you get right.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
This is why the Warriors knew we got to keep
going to get guys that can take shots at the
end of games.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
The Warriors are now eight and nine, and it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Surprised me that this is where they are because early
in the season they seem to figure things out right
with Chris Paul coming off the bench and leading the
second unit.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
This is about where he's at now.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Chris Paul, we played five minutes tonight, so we have
to wait and see what the deal is with him.
But this is where I thought, Okay, they really have
it going on right now because Chris Paul can play
twenty twenty five minutes a night off the bench to
perfect place for him, and that way the Warriors finally
have a second unit much like they had in their
heyday when they were winning championships, right when they were
the dynasty. Because that's the thing is, you know, Steph
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and Clay and Draymond got all the attention.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
And then when when Kevin.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Durant got there, but when they had a great second unit,
they would go to the bench. These guys to go
to the bench with a thirteen point lead and they
would come back and the lead would be sixteen. And
it's boy, you couldn't really not only did you not
cut the lead, but you wound up you wound up losing.
You know, the Warriors got three more points and as
a result, the Warriors didn't have to play their star
players more than thirty thirty three minutes a night. Now
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things are a little bit different, and things a little
bit more different for Golden State. And to see where
they sit now is you got to stare at the
starting lineup and you go, wow, they're really missing something
because Klay Thompson is someone who was just slowly deteriorating.
He's not a guy that makes a lot of shots anymore.
(04:04):
All his nights are volume nights for Clay. That's not Hey,
look at this night, Clay, he was eight for sixteen.
No Clay has nights like tonight, six for fifteen, three
out of ten from three point range. Clay Thompson still
scores twenty points a game, but he is a volume guy,
and when you're a volume guy laid in your career,
you're not as effective. Steph is still scoring a bunch,
but if he has off nights, there's not a lot
(04:25):
of guys that can pick up the slack because look,
Draymond's not who he was, and look, Wiggins had a
big night tonight. But overall, hey, you know the the
Andrew Wiggins. Hey, this guy's a superstar. That hasn't been
the case so far this year. Right, the guy's averaging
ten points a game. So you look at Golden State
and it's okay, Well, while they figured this out, now
you'll get the starting lineup and go, oh man, they
(04:46):
got problems, Like they have problems here that like I
don't know that another suit adding another are that short
of adding another superstar? Like what do you do? Can't
put everybody on the second unit? Right, We're gonna put
Clay in the second unit? You can't something That's something.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
They approached up there in the media in San Francisco, right,
just the last couple of days. I know he got
into it with a reporter. What do you suggest we do?
You know that kind of thing. So it's a little
bit contentious. You had another Draymond Green moment tonight. He
thought he took an elbow to the face. I think
(05:21):
the replay would show pretty clearly he did not tried
to flop and get a call. Instead he got a
technical and so the usual cailarity ensued. But you're not
getting much offensively from him, right, If you're gonna get
your eight to ten tonight, you're hoping that the defense
and all the auxiliary stuff works out. In this case,
he had four turnovers to go against his three assists.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Right.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
That cannot stand, right, He's got to be a guy
that's helping facilitate the offense. Looney played twenty nine minutes,
just four boards, two points, still plus five on the night,
but yay, good for him. You mentioned Wiggins. This was
unc characteristic. He was efficient, he was assertive. He was
a guy that had himself a great game, and they
built a huge lead and then watched it get chipped
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away in the second half and wondering if the bench
is going to be there to round out Klay Thompson.
You know, there's a lot of basketball to be played
like That's one of the things we get into the
moment of Wow. That's a huge loss. Well, we expect
the Kings to be good. How about we yell at
them for only being nine and six at this point
(06:29):
four and one at home, big comeback win, because what
was it sixteen at one point, you know, watching the
lead balloon for Golden State, and things looked like it
was gonna be a runaway train, and instead they chipped
back and the Warriors, you know, the bench didn't give
you what you were anticipating the loss of Paul in
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this game five minutes, played only two shots, a couple
of steals before he left. Man that leaves a gaping hole.
Peyton Junior and Moody combined for eighteen points, but just
three assists between them. Right when we're trying to find
some other production out of that second unit. So it'll
(07:10):
be a curiosity to see if they can pull off
a big move because they don't have the assets to
do it right. That's the other part, is you don't
have that big chip that you're able to move outside
of finding someone who just likes the idea of having
Klay Thompson on their team.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
You know, and just to finish the other button on
Chris Paul, just to show you how things have turned
into a mess.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
With the Warriors right away he limped out of the
game tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And now you know, we don't know what's gonna happen, right,
Like I said, we got to wait and see what
goes on.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
It's limited to.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Five minutes tonight is watching this game down the stretch.
The Warriors had a five point six point lead with
a minute and a half left to go in this game.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
And what wound up happening.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Steph Curry with a bad turnover, Draymond Green with a
bad turnover that turned into a plus five for the
Sacramento Kings. Right, Curry turns the ball over and Malik
Munk makes a three to give him the lead. Right, Okay,
so now they have the ball back, Draymond Green turns
it over and or that put him to within one.
And then Draymond Green turns it over and Malik Monk
(08:12):
makes the game winner. Like this is where Chris Paul
was supposed to be the guy I'm here for the
end of game down right, This is it right on
the guy handler. I'm gonna find where it needs to go.
It's not gonna be on Steph to bring it up
and have to worry about him dribbling around three guys
and find somebody else. So missing him there is a
really big deal. It's really tenuous for the Warriors and I.
(08:33):
And while they had it figured out early on in
the season, Ay, Chris Paul coming off the bench slowly,
you're seeing we're just seventeen games into the season. Hey,
Klay Thompson. Really, I mean, I don't know what you
can count on him for other than a lot of
shots every single night. Andrew Wiggins hasn't been the player
reacts like I say, he's averaging eleven points a night. Now,
Chris Paul, you never know when he's going to be
(08:54):
in the lineup and he's out. That's that's the thing
about Chris Paul. When he plays, he still has it,
but he's hurt all the time, and you never know
when it's gonna happen. And now you lost him tonight,
and clearly, had you had him at the end of
the game, I feel pretty confident that the Warriors would
have held onto this with Chris Paul in the lineup,
minute fifteen left in the game and they're up by six,
I feel like they would have held onto this game.
(09:15):
They would have found a way to get to the
free throw line and make their free throws, and they
would have won this game. But no, Chris Paul, things
are really tenuous for the Warriors, and it's happened in
a blink. But this is the thing, Mike, what I
always say about teams. When you get old, you don't
get old over a long period of time. You get
old overnight. It happens overnight. And I'm wondering if this
is now the getting old overnight for the Warriors, because
(09:37):
you're now talking about here's all these guys that you're
worried about, and two of them are in their mid
to late thirties, and one is in is near thirty,
and maybe he's peaked already, and Andrew Wiggins. I mean,
really there's a lot of concern for the Warriors right now.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Man, Look how old you'd be going.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But legitimately, as we look at it, you're in year
what eleven twelve for Klay Thompson, shooting a career worse
forty percent from the field. They had eight more turnovers
than the Kings did tonight, including as you mentioned, those
abysmal efforts down the stretch. Now we do it all
(10:15):
the time. With the NFL, if you lose the turnover battle,
you're getting housed. And in the NBA, sometimes you can
shoot your way out of it. In this case, didn't.
You didn't have either, right, You didn't weren't able to
complete possessions and you didn't have a guy to slow
things down and force the action. Because they shot well.
When they actually got to the follow line, they were
twenty six of thirty on the night. That's something you're
(10:37):
not gonna worry about with this team. They take care
of that and to business. But yeah, getting younger teams
aggressive down the stretch, you can find yourself into some
trouble if you don't have someone to slow it down.
So hopefully Chris Paul for them, he's not missing extended time.
Although it is the holiday holiday holiday season.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Holiday holiday holiday holiday the Jason Smith, Joor the Mike
Carmen Live from the Tyreck dot Com Studios. We'll get
to those three superstars and and one team enveloped with
all three of them coming up in a few minutes.
We wanted to bring you this story first. Heere because
the game just ended very exciting at the end. Uh,
you know, Steph missing that shot.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I Curry.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
No, no, I don't. Look, I'm telling you, they're never
gonna call me for that interview. By the way, They're
just never gonna call me.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Won four titles man the the.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
In season tournament that is continuing on now in the NBA.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Lakers already won it, right, No, No, And I think
they got to buy into the finals. I think that's
what it is for the Lakers. It's a bye into
the finals for them. Look, I know the Knicks one
tonight and they're in the quarter finals. They put But
like I'm looking at this going, I don't even know.
If you said to me, Hey, who are all of
the teams that are in? I couldn't get it off
the top of my head, Like who's all I would like?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I I don't know. I could te I know the
Knicks are in, and.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
The Bucks are in, the Lakers are and I give
you a few deals, but I couldn't give you all
these teams.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It's just I.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Can't get over how the NBA has come up with
a really good idea and executed it in the worst
way possible. Right, we told you a few last hour
on the show, how the NBA is selling tickets Buy
one get three free for the semi finals and finals
in Vegas? Right, because no one's buying tickets in buy
(12:27):
what get three free? It's like I'm in Steven Barry's Uh.
You know, it's so easy to have made this into
something good, right, because what do you not want to do? Right?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I know?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Always the big worry, Mike, you always have when I
have one of my ideas, you say, okay, well, when
teams are missing games, what about the money?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
How do you make up for the Money's right?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
They have this idea and I don't know how big
business comes up with we're gonna have this tournament. When
we're gonna have it the start of the season. Is
it gonna be separate from anything?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
How are we gonna know when a game is an
in tournament game? Well, we're gonna have the floor is
gonna be painted a weird color?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
What else were we gonna have? Well, that's really gonna
be it? So all the games for like a week
and a half. No, we're gonna play a game, and
then another couple of games aren't gonna happen, And then
we're gonna get back to a game, and then we're
gonna play the semi finals, then we're gonna play. It's
such a mess and fans can't keep track of it,
and it keeps the excitement at this at a very
tepid level. How easy would it have been to say, okay,
in season tournament, here's what we're gonna do. After the holidays,
(13:23):
we're gonna pay holiday holiday holiday, we're gonna play the
n season Tournament's gonna be three weeks, and we're gonna
play regular season games. Right, these games, these games can
either count for the regular season record or not count.
But it doesn't matter because everybody gets the same number
of home games and away games. You know, it doesn't matter.
If you want to count it for the regular season. Great,
If you don't want to count it, make it a
(13:43):
little bit more special, that's fine too, Right, we have
seventy five games for the regular season standings. Now that's fine,
you don't need eighty two. Right, But no one's missing anything.
You're getting all the home games. Everybody's getting their games.
Their games are on that the game. A lot of
the games are on national TV. And and you're gonna
get more money because it's more of an exclusive event
and you play the event for three weeks and you
(14:05):
have that, you get to the semi five, the the quarterfinals,
the semifinals, the finals, and then you continue on with
the regular season after right. It makes it look like
a real thing and a real tournament with a trophy,
and the players will be excited because we're all getting
five hundred grand apiece if you win this tournament. It
would have been easy to make it something like this,
and yet the NBA's like they went out of their way.
(14:26):
Let's make it the worst, most confusing, confluted thing possible,
and let's have a new idea and do everything we
tend to make it not succeed.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Well, the short term is that you're gonna looking to
add more games that are non regular season. You got
to open up the CBA. Just handing over five hundred
thousand dollars to the players on the winning team ain't
gonna get it done. So, yeah, that that becomes a
bigger thing. Right if you're gonna say, well, it's eighty
two plus now this tournament and we'll play it through
(14:57):
and yeah, it's it's not ridiculu this number of games,
but you're adding ten percent plus uh to the schedule.
They want at least ten to fifteen percent more in
their paychecks, So you got to figure out all of
that fun and excitement. So uh yeah, but if you're
going to Vegas, hey, buy one, get three free, make
some friends.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, it's it's not that difficult, though. Everybody's getting whatever
you could give.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
You're still playing the same number a game, still playing
eighty two games total.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
It's just seven of these games are gonna be for
this tournament.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
If you're pulling those oh see, yeah, it's it's it's
a whole other thing.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
That's a that's an easy thing to do. That's an
easy thing to have it go. Yeah, that's that's an
easy thing. I would worry about that. Oh fi, you're
talking about five hundred grand for twelve guys. Yeah, okay,
that's why we'll fit six million dollar. Yeah, well we'll
do that's fine.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
That's fine. We'll find that money somewhere.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
As long as it's staying at eighty two games. Yeah,
do whatever the hell you want.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
But so, but I think that was part of the
fight of well, how do we do this and keep
it part of the regular season?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And you and I just you and I just made
just just made this tournament even better in the last
four minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Then whatever they did planning this thing, I like the
kea that I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
I'm gonna tune in to to a basketball game and
until I see the court, I have no idea what the.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Hell it is? What is it just a regular game?
Or is it a playoff game? Exit out about a
Fresco swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon live from the
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Speaker 3 (16:29):
At the end, we'll talk about one.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
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Speaker 2 (16:43):
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Speaker 3 (16:54):
I miss.
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Speaker 3 (17:56):
No, what the hell is six tight shirt?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yes, just let it wash over you. Jason, it's so Christmasy.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That's not not very holiday. No holidays, holiday holiday. I disagree,
I completely disagree. I disagree.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
You spend a lot of time together with your family.
A lot of people come to that kind of rationalization,
realization of what they've gotten themselves into.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Day three. It's like going to Vegas. Day three is
not as fun, is it?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Maybe day four you're finished?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
So what do we want to hear my mix, my
mix CD of Mariah Carey favorites, Holiday favorites?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Or do you want to hear thrash music? I guess
what I can do both? Here we go. Let's listen.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Uh, we have a big NBA story coming your way
in about five minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
That is crazy.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
You can't you can't get that out of your head
now though, Oh I'm dreaming is there in the third.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I'm gonna watch this video again.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
But we talked about this a few minutes ago, John Hayman,
UH and a couple of other MLB insiders Ken Rosenthal
as well as weight in on this. You're talking about
the three biggest names available in some way this offseason,
whether it's free agency or trade, Juan Soto, Cody Bellinger,
(19:14):
and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who is posted from Japan and teams
are gonna start negotiating for his rights, twenty five year
old pitcher that you know it could be the next
great pitcher in Major League Baseball. And John Hayman talked
about this, and again we're getting reports the Yankees are
going to be in on all three of these guys
(19:35):
and they expect to get at least two.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Of them, which is stunning.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
And maybe the Yankees are doing exactly what I said
to you. They need to be the Yankees. Why aren't
the Yankees winning because they're not the Yankees. We're not
going out and spending money and saying Dan the Torpedoes,
whatever it is. We're gonna figure out whatever money we spend,
we spend bad money, We're gonna get out from under it.
We're gonna trade prospects. We're gonna do what we can.
We're gonna be the Yankees because that's what the Yankees do.
(20:03):
That's why the Yankees win. Because they're bold and they're aggressive.
They don't drive the middle of the road. And when
I had to hear Brian Cashman last week, get mad
and try to sell it the Yankees had a great
season on a great dude. You were four games out
of last place, and you're upset making it sound like
we had a great year. You did not have a
great year. You did not have a great year. The
Yankees have bigger standards than everybody else, right, The Yankees,
(20:25):
the Dodgers, the Cowboys, the Steelers, the Lakers all have
bigger standards, and he's trying to sell us some Hey, no,
we actually had a good year. But here it is.
They expect them to land at least two of these
of these three guys, and you know what, to land
two of those three guys, you're gonna be over five
hundred million dollars. Could be over up to seven hundred
(20:46):
million dollars with two of the other because Yamamoto's probably
gonna get two hundred million. And if you're Won Soto,
if you're trading for him and you're gonna sign him,
that's gonna be five hundred million dollars. So all of
a sudden, maybe the Yankees are listening. Maybe I'm rebuilding
the Aggy dynasty right here on the show with you,
Mike Carmon.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Well, you know what we are nationwide, the iHeartRadio app,
all the four hundred plus affiliates. Man, it's gonna be
out there in the universe. People are talking, people are chattering,
and maybe Cashman, realizing he needed some help, he turned
where so many have before him.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
For advice, career counseling and all those things, and obviously
stein Brenner, you know, trying to figure out at.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
This point what they are.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
You got a very difficult division, right, because nobody's a
rollover anymore. For years, you could count on the fact
that the Orioles had a lot of guys that were
prospects that were gonna be never worse. That isn't the
case anymore. That is a very young team that's gonna
be around and be a pain in the ass for
a while. The Blue Jays are gonna be around and
be a pain. The Red Sox they're always a thorn
(21:57):
in your side, right, Just keep on going down the line.
You know, within the division and across the American League,
you know there's there are plenty of contenders out there,
So a reversal of fortune, you know, especially after Cashman's
comments about gian Carlos Stanton getting hurt and.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
All, yeah, no, that that'd be a very welcome thing.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
For the Yankee fans to not be reminded of that
fact and to maybe bolster that lineup in rotation to
give some support because pitching wise, you had the cy
young Winner and Cole and not a whole lot else
from the lineup perspective. When your superstars are missing thirty
plus games. Look, Aaron Judge was great, his efficiency in
the games that he played outstanding. Problem is he missed
(22:39):
a month. So and you know Stanton generally does as well.
I'm gonna try to be nice by using the word
generally there, but yes, certainly, the long term cost of
it is huge, absolutely immense. You know, four hundred and
five hundred million dollars if you're going to bring him in.
Ballinger is interesting, right, come back player of the year
(22:59):
with the CUB. He's been rumored all over the place.
You know, this is a Where's Waldo kind of experiment.
I've seen his name with about nine different teams in
the last twenty four hours. The photoshop photos are all
over the place. Hey, he'd look good our uniform. He'd
look good as the centerpiece here and you bring in
show Heyo Toni no, no, no'll come on now, let's
(23:20):
not be silly. And as for Yamamoto, I mean, what
does he want? Right? We get to the same question
that we've had with show Heyo Tani. Of all right,
what does he really desire? We keep hearing I want
to win? Is that I need that plus five hundred
million or I'll take less to go to a team
that's actually ready to win, or I'll take the short
(23:41):
term deal in Anaheim. And while I get my arm, right,
I think with Yamamoto, I wonder how much there there's
a connection to be made there in terms of comfort, acclamation,
et cetera. You know, trying to read the tea leaves
of how this plays out in terms of that process.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
And the thing is, you know me, you know I'm
anti paying for pitching, right, but of these three guys,
he's the guy I go after because I'm not gonna
buy Bellinger. Right, I'm not buying Bellinger after three years
of not being very good, suddenly he's rediscovered himself in
the contract year and hey guess what now I'm not
gonna buy it.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, it's hard to buy can't buy Bellinger? Yeah. I
think if the Cubs.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Were smart, they just say, look at look at what
you were able to do in this in this ballpark.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, I mean, stay here, here's here's a deal.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I'm not I can't go.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
It's too much your risk to say, hey now, because
I'm gonna likely get the Bellinger that the Dodgers had.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
For the three years before they let him go. And
Soto is really tough.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Tough for me too, because what it's gonna take to
get him, which if reports are are right that the
Padres want two top hundred prospects, which means in a team,
you're gonna want to top eight prospects from eighteen. Right,
you're talking about top hundred prospects. Let's just say each
team has three pro in the top hundred, right, so
(25:01):
you want you want two of the top three prospects
that a team has. That's pretty steep. And then you're
not gonna trade those guys and not sign them a
long term and Wan Soto's already turned down a four
hundred million dollar contract, and that was a couple of
years ago you turned down. He's not signing for anything
less than five hundred million. That's what he's gonna want.
So the calls for that is immense. Plus do I
(25:23):
want to spend that kind of money for a guy
as good as he is? And Juan Soto is a
really good player, right, He's got a good war he's
got a great ops. Right in the end, Juan Soto's
a guy you look at what his career averages are.
Just to give you an example, he's a career thirty
home run, one hundred RBI, two eighty hitter.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Right, that's kind of what he is for his career.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Now, just to give you a just to let you know,
there's about twenty five guys in Major League Baseball last
year that put up around those numbers. Right, some somewhere
around thirty home runs, ninety five or more RBIs hitting
between two seventy five and or higher. There's about twenty
five guys who did that last year. None of those
guys are getting five hundred.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Million, right.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I mean olsen o'tani Acunya, Marcelo Zuna, Mookie Betts, Dolas
Garcia did it, Austin Riley.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Max Muncie two twelve. I won't even put him on
the list. Right, You had Soto do it? J D.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Martinez, Corey Seeger, Christian Walker, Ozzie Albi's did it. Rafael
Devers did it? Francisco Lindor. You counting like FRANCESSA. Now, look,
but I tell you're doing twenty seven twenty. I'm going
through these guys and all did Freddy Freeman did it?
Nick Castellanos did it. Marcus Semion did it? Right, Kyle
Tucker did it. I'm still going. I'm still going with
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guys that are doing that.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
No one Aronado did it.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
These guys were all around thirty and one hundred and
hitting that way. So it's not to say that Juan
Soto is not a really good player, because he is.
But he's not Miguel Cabrera. Where Cabrera was hit forty
five homers. Kno getting one hundred, and Fi already runs
in at three twenty. That's not who Wan Sodo is, right,
I'm not gonna pay a guy to be Miguel Cabrera
(27:06):
in his prime when I'm not gonna get that. So,
I mean to if it was just one thing, but
you have to give up a couple two of your
three biggest prospects, and you got to sign him for
five hundred million. That's too much, I mean. So that's
why of the three, I would go. And and you
know me, I don't like pitching as much like everyday guys.
But the other guys are too scary. Bellinger clearly scary,
(27:26):
and and and so is one. Even though it's not
my money, I'm not making out I'm not making out
any any checks on it. It's a really big gamble,
because what it's gonna take to get one Soda.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
To play for your team.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Yeah, I think the the curiosity and I only brought
up FRANCESSA one knowing that Alexkisher's gonna be quick with it.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
But you just started reading off the full name. What
about this guy?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
What about I don't know the contract situations of all
of those guys.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
But although, but none of those guys are getting five
hundred million dollars. But none of those guys five hundred million.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
You've got the name recognition, you've got the history right,
it's it's.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
A repeat did number right.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Those are career averages that you're talking about versus potential
single season outliers. And Juan Soto is going to be
available for you now. And so that's the question, do
you have a guy like.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
That on your roster?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
If not, here's what it's going to cost to get
you on that's available right now. With the track record
of doing this year after year, even in playing in
a lot of ballparks that were not exactly hit or
friendly right in the NL West. That's one thing you
can say about most of the stadiums. They are not
the greatest for going around and augmenting your numbers. So
(28:38):
when we look at Sodo, yeah, no, Kabodie, I like
the cut of your jib as far as the pitching side,
you know why, because we don't know what the hell
he is. And as a major league pitcher, Bellinger, we've
seen it. Had a nice comeback here, fantastic. You saw
the struggles Soto. To your point, it is a five
hundred million dollar investment. So it's a nice big wager
(29:02):
this other one. Whether it's two or two fifty or
whatever it gets to, it's what's in the box, right,
you can have this shiny new car, or you can
have what's in the box. And once watch some footage
from overseas, let's talk to a bunch of folks who
have scouted and watched his work overseas, and then we say,
(29:24):
all right, how well does this apply to our situation
here and what does it mean for box office? If
the box office goes anywhere close to what show Haotani
has been on an annual basis, and I mean fifty
percent of what show Hayotani has been for the Angels,
for Major League Baseball on an annual basis, it's money.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, spent the best result. The best game was probably
Tim McMahon of ESPN versus Jason Kidd that that was
probably the best game tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
So good because I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Tim McMahon, who has worked for esp for a while,
it's been, you know, for at least a decade or so,
got into it with Jason Kidd following the Mavericks win
over the Rockets tonight. The Mavericks having a pretty good
start to the year. They're eleven and six, and Tim
McMahon and we can't play it for you because there's
too many bleeps in it because Jamon Kid curses so
(30:19):
many times. But Tim McMahon asked him a question, ostensibly
something about Kyrie Irving and talked about last season, which
didn't go well for the Mavericks, and Jason Kidd got
really mad and with a bunch of curses, talked about
how Tim McMahon should write some positive stuff. Write some
positive blank. You're bringing up last year, and you only
bring up last year because things are going okay for
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us this year. Write some positive blank. You asked me
a question, I'm giving you a blank in answer, Write
some positive stuff. And it's a great back and forth,
and it's all over social media and it's really entertaining
to watch. Again, if you don't like curse words, don't
watch it. We're kind of summing it up for you
right here. But it's just really weird to see this
(31:00):
back and forth, to see finally a coach just say,
how about you write something positive? How about your instead
of because I know negativity cells and we have too
much negativity in this country. And you know Jason Kid
who's been had controversy following him around his NBA career,
he's the guy saying let's focus on positive and.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Jason to be positive, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
And and in theory, I agree with Jason kids pot
because I'm not gonna sit here and say I know everything.
Tim McMahon has written about the the Mavericks. You know,
I know Rick Carlisle I think got into it with
him when he coached the Mavericks. A wow, I'm not
gonna pretend to sit here and say this, but you know,
really that's the thing is that we have to find
it's really weird, some kind of feel like a Pollyanna,
is that we have to find a way to make
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positivity sell more than it does because in sports generally
and breaking news. You know, that's the whole thing is
whenever something there's a breaking news story somewhere that's in
the beginning of this genesis. It's not a big stut
of sports thing. It's on anything else. But when you
hear the phrase breaking news, is it ever any good?
Breaking news is always? Breaking news is always something bad?
We have breaking news coming in and your conditioned to go, oh,
(32:07):
something bad has happened, and and but what is it?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I gotta know?
Speaker 1 (32:11):
And that has really been what sells, and it kind
of does. And when you get to now to compare
it to sports stuff, it's like, Okay, I could sit
here and talk about how great Patrick Mahomes is, but
how compelling is that. Hey, there's other teams that have issues,
and maybe some people think this quarterback is good. This
quarterback is not. This is something to talk about. It's
hard to just sit back and say, boy, this guy
(32:33):
is great, this guy is awesome, he's so good. Well,
where's the compelling thing. I know how good he is
because I see him play every Sunday. I know Patrick
Mahomes is great. He had to tell me something, so
it gets more difficult. But I agree with the with
the overarching point, we gotta find a way to make
positivity sell. I mean, I know I feel weird about it,
feel corny, but I'm like, we gotta find a way
to make positivity sell a little bit at something.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
And if I could, I'd throw in f bombs like
Jason kindy. Yes, I know Patrick Mahomes is good, but
what the blanke is wrong with his receivers?
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Why can't they catch a ball? What is going on here? Oh?
There you go, there's Harmon Harmon again.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Mike Harmon, who Mark Cuban stole money from him, so
that's why he's old salted tonight.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Hey, I'm the nicest guy you're ever gonna meet.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Mike's eaton, ramen noodles.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Damn right, I am exit out about a Fresca exit
swollen dome.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
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Speaker 3 (33:46):
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Speaker 1 (34:10):
Well, you know me, Mike, I hate to say I
told you so, and I really hate to say I
told you so about this story because I hate the
fact that I was right about it. You know, a
couple weeks ago in the Heyday and all the hubub
of Aaron Rodgers is practiced.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
He's gonna come back to practice soon. He's ready gonna
come back.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I told you, Aaron Rodgers is coming back. The Jets
season is over. They stink, they can't score. They're not
gonna win six out of seven to close the season.
They're done. And Aaron Rodgers had the carrot at the
end of the stick for the Jets.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
I'm coming back. I'm coming back. I'm coming back.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
And even as recently as a week ago we heard, Hey,
I want to start practicing the beginning of December and
my target date is the twenty fourth to come back
to playing. I played the last three games all round,
and I told you Rogers isn't coming back because by
the time he's finally ready to hit the field, the
Jets are going to be four and eight of four
and nine because they stink, because the offense stinks, because
(35:05):
Zach Wilson stinks. They didn't do anything to say, hey,
what happens if Aaron Rodgers can't play, Oh, we'll play
the guy we benched for him last year?
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Like, in what world does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Where all the guy that's not good enough to play,
if he has to play, We're okay. That's stupid, right,
It's stupid, and not only that they refuse to move
the system around to take advantage of what Zack Wilson does. Well, so, yeah,
I told you the Jets season was over. But Aaron
Rodgers coming back. Yeah, here he is today from the
Pat McAfee show, saying that, well, upon further of you
(35:37):
me coming back, I don't know so much about that.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
How about knew? Was? Yeah? That was it?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
With an accent that hey, you know, I'm paying you
a million dollars, Aaron, to come on here and do it,
you know, not gimming? How about now here's Aaron Rodgers
from earlier today, and this is the play of the night.
Speaker 6 (35:59):
It's always been First, am I healthy? And then are
we alive? Are we in it? Are we playing good
enough to make a run? Can I step in and
protect myself and play at the level that I feel
like I'm capable of playing.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Oh so he's never gonna play for the Jets again.
If he's only coming back, he's never gonna play again.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
He basically just broke the news right there, and we're
parsing the words better than anybody else possibly could. He
has already said I'm never returning to the Jets. I
am looking for a new team.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
You know.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
It was just a few a few days ago that
some insiders talked to Hey, the Jets status in the
standings doesn't pay any bearing on He wants to come
back no matter what, probably because Hey, I want to
be a medical marvel. I want to show you that
I can do things that nobody else in the history
of health is done. I'm gonna come back after a
(36:54):
torn achilles like three months later. But now, oh, hey,
well the season's over. Well, I'm not gonna do that.
I'm not I'm not going to be that stupid to
try to come back when when we're finished and risking injury. Yeah,
I could get reps in the offense and reps, but
the whole season's finished.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
I'm not coming back to play.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, upon further review, I've had second thoughts. He's not
coming back, all right. I told you wasn't coming back.
He's not coming back, all right. This was it was
a fool's errand to think so. And I like the
fact that he threw it out there and wanted to
keep everything alive and and and you know, and keep
that out there. Hey, just hold on, be five hundred.
So when I come back, we can make a run
win two of our last three or our last three games.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
That was great. But now he's hit reality and it's okay.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Not only is the team bad, the offensive line is
terrible because Joe Douglas, who was an offensive line guru,
can't get the offensive line.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
I told you the jetson to a new head coach,
new GM. Right, we talked about it last night. They
just do And so now now it's a much different
tune for Aaron Rodgers with Yeah, now, a lot of
things depend on me coming back. There's a lot of
check marks out there. He's not coming back. He's not
playing all right. I wish you would. I wish it
was different, but it's not. We're not going to see
huntil next year. And now it's hard for me to
even get excited for next year because I'm saying, is
(38:06):
he really gonna play? Like, oh, it looks great in
the preseason everything. Is he really gonna play? Is?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
How many stats are we gonna get? Five? Seven, ten?
How excited can I really be about Aaron Rodgins? See?
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I was trying to get y'all positive, and you know,
we had the holiday holiday holiday music on and off
all night, and here you are, Joe pessimism, getting ready
to go eat yourself several large sandwiches to push away
your feelings for the way this story's making you feel.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Hey, hey, hey, I eat several large sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
If I'm in a great mood or a weird mood,
I still eat several large.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
There is something to be said for that. But yeah,
it's a difficult proposition. You know, we did the the
preview of tomorrow's I Watch a Flex Podcast. We came
up with a list of ten teams where you could start,
and you'd say I'd only start one or maybe zero players.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Guess where the Jets work for me.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
So that's where you're at in terms of what you're
coming back to, Aaron Rodgers, unless suddenly you can raise
all of your band of Merriment from Seasons Pass from
the Dead Jats, Yo.
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