December 6, 2023 • 38 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon update In-Season tournament game between the Lakerrs and Suns. MLB Network Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the show from the Winter Meetings for all the latest on Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers.
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the in season tournament quarterfinals and the Lakers lead the
Suns by eight in the second quarter. You just need
to say tournament and the Lakers turn that light on
my car and it's it's instantaneous.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's like the damn heart light. Neil Diamond was singing about,
e t turn on you hot light that a shot
wherever you go.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I mean, look, it's a shane. The Knicks couldn't win,
but obviously the game was fixed. We need to look
into this. The Bucks scored one hundred and ninety points
against the Things tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Uh, well they were like super jock out there hitting
three point shots.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, it was seventy two seventy at halftime.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I mean, what a great half it was. I mean
had forty one points.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I know, Julius is great in a loss.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Julius even is great. Barrett was great, Brunson was great.
Rest of your squad not so much. Do you know
who was great?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The Bucks, Boy, they were great. They were fit.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
They really hammered it home. Twenty three and thirty eight
from three point they shot fourteen fewer. Yeah, free throat.
They only shot sixty eight percent from the fall line. Yeah,
it didn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
No, no, just when you hit all those threes. Nothing else, man, boy.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I tell you that's some next level stuff right there.
Yannis thirty five, eight and ten in a plus nineteen effort.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, well, listen, you gotta have that kind of game.
If you're going to eliminate the Knicks like you are,
you are trying to knock out a Titan. But you
know what, show up and roll over them, but.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Go into that box scoring clearly it's it's a blowout
late whatever. But you talk about how great it was
at halfhim like, everybody plays, everybody wins. You literally had
what three guys between the two rosters that didn't get
into the game. Yeah, so everybody at least got a
couple of minutes to.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Uh, everybody got to play. It was a great day.
It's like a youth game. Hey, I won by.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Every part of an ind season tournament game. It's the
greatest moment of my life.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
We won, We moved on in the playoffs. Everybody got
to play. No parents are mad at me. We all
had snacks after a great day.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It was a great day, juice boxes and orange slices
for all.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So we will have more on the in season tournament
as the Lakers lead Phoenix by nine again forty five
thirty six with a spot in the semis against the
New Orleans Pelicans for whoever wins this.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Game, but he's gotta be a champion.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
If you think you only up the padd O'Brien trophy,
let go that. But it might be the only one
he can stick around long enough to play for before
he gets hurt. Hey, I got We had to have
the tournament. Why because we want Zion to have a trophy,
and we got to have it early because we don't
know if he's gonna make it past game thirty of
the season. So okay, we gotta have it now.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Wow, you're your anger. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Hey, I'm not. I'm just saying we got to make
sure we got to get rid of the leakers here.
If you thought the controversy about the college football playoff
was going to lessen in the last twenty four hours,
it is not. Remember we had a little bit of
fun yesterday because Donald Trump any anytime you can find
(03:58):
something in politics to push your advantage. Uh. Trump put
out a message on social media blaming Ron DeSantis, running
against him for the GOP nomination for president, that it
was his fault because he didn't politic enough or didn't
didn't get Florida State into the college football playoff, which, okay,
(04:18):
I get it. It's kind of wink wig. No, not,
it's kind of funny.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
No.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
But then Ron DeSantis today asked for a million dollars
from this from the state's budget because he wants to
sue the College Football Playoff Committee's for not putting.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Florida State in. I want to sue. Then, he said,
I want, like whatever the money he wants, like I need, however,
many millions of dollars, and I want to set aside
a million because I want to sue the CFP. Meanwhile,
never mind that we're they're going to play the games
like six months before they get the ok for the money, No,
I want, I want to sue the College Football Playoff
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Committee because Florida State didn't get in. Here comes a bit,
here's a million dollars, go file that lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Ever, buddy, look man, it's the idea for running for office,
trying to keep your job, all of that stuff. You
gotta find the angles. How do you get the the
your constituents behind you. I mean, you know, you remember,
and you know Papi O'Daniel going back to brother or
art thou you gotta you gotta, you gotta, you know,
keep our constituents happy. You know way we're mass communicating here.
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So whatever you gotta do. And if you think there's
enough Florida State fans and a lums and supporters that
can keep you in office or help you attain the
higher office. Hey, man, get in there and sell, sell, sell,
I'm fighting for you. I'm on your side. Like he's
doing one of those you know local TV. You know
(05:46):
the guy that's helping you with consumer fraud. Today we're
gonna tackle this air conditioning company that really goes in.
It doesn't do a whole lot. They claim they're cleaning
your ducks. But that's kind of what DeSantis is doing here.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But I want to say this, if Florida State gets in,
it means somebody else is out. It's another state that
you want to vote for you. It's Texas and Michigan
and Washington and Alabama.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I mean, if he was smart, he'd go and figure
out how to get Ohio state in there.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, oh yeah, sure, let's get out.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You want to talk about important states, that's the one
you want to come on.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You know, he's got to do good stuff. And joy,
I've gotta get Georgia in. Oh let's get everybody in.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, but you're probably not losing Georgia right like those
you might be able to to look at from a
political standpoint and say, you know what, we were good there.
We're solid there with our base. But if we can
go take Ohio man.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, but if you can't go, But what if you
can't get him in, they'll still they'll turn against you
couldn't get Georgia in, I'm voting for somebody else, not
voting for I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, look, folks would have to make their decision. At
least he's fighting the good fight for you right now.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now, the serious part of this now to think about
this is you know why I feel bad for Florida State?
And it's not just hey, they were undefeated and they
still didn't get it, because because there is part about
the flawed logic that the playoff committee used.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh, use the word fair fairness, but here's you just
don't want Frostburg's white to come in.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, no, no, because there is a whole thing we'll get
we'll get into it later on this hour about the
flawed logic they used to say, we have the four
teams in the playoffs. There's a really bit of flawed logic.
But why feel bad for Florida State? Not because they
went undefeated, not because of anything, but they knew after
last Tuesday when the polls came out, they were moved
up to number four and and you had Book Corgan say, hey,
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the head of the playoff committee, Florida State, really good team,
different team without Jordan Travis. And he said it twice, right,
And we told you right, then told you last week,
a week ago. Today. They want to push Florida State out.
Don't think they're just gonna win and get in, right,
they want to push them out. Florida State knew they
had to put on a dominant performance against Louisville on Saturday.
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And what did they do? That was a bleep in
dominant performance. Right. They didn't score fifty, but you got
your third string quarterback, man, you had to go to
the wildcat to break the game open, right and and
put some points on the board. But was there ever
a point where you felt Louisville was in that game? Defensively,
Florida State seven sacks, what was it, fourteen to fifteen
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tackles for loss when they turned the ball over, when
the punter got tackled, They prevented a touchdown the last
gass tried, They got a sack on fourth down. That
was a dominant effort right on defense. As much what
they were asked to do they did.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, But as much as they were dominant. It was
one play from flipping on them the entire time. It's
like watching a Jets game. For a Patriots, the.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Jets don't dominated. You look at what this defense is
do it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
These guys are gasping for air after I mean, Frostford
just saw it. Now, Color there's defense that's killing it.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
There's a difference between hey, the defense is holding you
in it and that one player is going to lose
the game for you. And then there's Florida's States defense,
which just had the game clamped down. I never felt
they were really in trouble because Louisville couldn't do anything offensively.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Florida's chef didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well Haws's you know.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yes, in his seventies now, man, I mean it's tough
for hass to move around.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's very difficult for him. I mean they did exactly.
They dominated exactly how they could that game. You asked
us to dominate and validate why should be in the playoff,
And here we are two weeks. You thought we'd have
a tough time winning. We beat Florida and we beat
a top fifteen ranked team. The team was Louisville was
ranked tenth coming into this game and we beat them
by ten in the conference championship, and that's not enough.
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That's why I feel bad, because the committee said, hey,
this is what you need to do, and they did it,
but they didn't score forty points. So it was all
maybe they're not any good, they're not good television, all
the reasons why they left him out, and they still
got left out because of it. Like I get if
it was a Bears Vikings game from last Monday night
and it was twelve ten and and Florida State turned
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it over four times and Louisville turned it over four times,
and the game was ugly, and there was two fumbles
and two picks, and it was just all right, you
know what, this is just an absolute mess in both
these teams. But it was a dominant performance by Florida State.
Right I watched it. I never thought Louisville was back
in this. And the one time they had that little
glimpse when when when they when they when they got
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the ball in the turnover, when when they when they
tackled the putter before you could put the ball away,
What did they do? They stiffened right away and Louisville
couldn't get anything that that's what that you asked us
to do it, and we did it, and still it
wasn't enough. That's why I feel bad for Florida State.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Well, but but again, R like, what what are we
looking for in terms of our style? And when we
talk about dominance, nobody sells defense. I try to sell
you for weeks on how good the defense was that
the Patriots. Nobody cares because it was scoringy points. The
offense sucks your Jets defense, You've been crying about it
for three months. Look how good these guys the offense stakes?
(10:58):
You know, just keep going on down on the line.
You want, you want something.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That is exactly how I say it to that stink.
That's a pretty good impression to me.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, but you want to go with the sauce, Right,
what do we do? Everybody nationally mocked Iowa the entire
damn season, and sure, you know when you look at
the offense, and all right, we fired the the oc
because they didn't score enough points per game, which is
really kind of interesting. I'd like to see how many
contracts I actually have that in there. All Right, you
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don't average twenty five a game, You're gone. Okay, Uh,
not gonna happen. We'll see you later. Let me uh,
let me just go now. Uh. But it's for Iowa.
Like if you love sitting down and watching football and
watching teams uh struggle and try to find any way
to beat what Parker was doing with that defense, then
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you had a great time. If you were looking for
a scoring fest like the Pac twelve or whatever else,
you were sorely disappointed week in week out, and for
the College Football Playoff, you think they want a team
that's like, hey, we hang our hand. You don't look
at how much defensive work we did against Louisville. Hell no,
they want someone that's gonna put some points on there.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Well, you know what, It's funny you say that, because
that's gonna get into later on this hour, the big
fatal mistake and the flawed logic that the CFP put
forth by saying, this is why we took these teams,
this is why we didn't take Florida State.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So you said that, laud as soon as they said
there were five conferences and for slots.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, but we have to deal with what happened this
past week, not what happened ten years ago. To deal
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back quarters. It's a different team. We'll have more on
the NBA coming up in a bit, but right now
it is time to find out what is happening at
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the MLB Winter Meetings. Is show Hao Tani have it
narrowed down to three teams? Is it the Angels, the Dodgers,
the Blue Jays or shoe Hao Tani's representatives mad at
the Dodgers and Blue Jays for letting slip that they
actually met with him a few days ago and maybe
now they're out of the running. Nobody better to talk
to than a long time friend of the show, Emily
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Network insider and what half of the morning show sweeping
the nation? Sternsy and the Pope? It is John Paul Morosi, JP.
What's happening, Bud?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I am doing great? Although I was told that I
was on here to break down the Detroit Pistons path
in the end season tournament? Is that? Is that not
the case?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That path ended? JP? We've moved on the path and
the path is dead.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
As I understand the rules, you have to have achieved
five victories by the first of December to qualify for
said tournament, and that I don't think the Pistons have
gotten there.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Now I think you had the Pistons. You have to
have won five games in the last year, and the
Pistons haven't gotten there at any rate.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Antani helps his teams win many more games than I
do believe Vistro Otani is the occasion for us to
visit her this evening.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Now, let me ask you, are you okay? Are you
allowed to talk about Otani and what could be happening
because we're hearing that any Otani information that gets out
will be held against any team that may want to
sign him.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
This is, in a word, absurd. It is it is absurd.
There are I have covered. I have covered a lot
of winter meetings in a lot of different ways. I've
seen stories broken in strange ways and strange hours. I
have never quite encountered something like this, And at the
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end of the day, I don't know what is more
laughable the notion that one of the most highly anticipated
free agencies is supposed to be some clandestine process that
no one talks or or speaks or whispers about, or
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be the notion that someone would make a half a
billion dollar decision for the next ten years of his
life with respect to something that a highly respected manager acknowledged,
the existence of a meeting that everyone knew happened. I mean,
this is really really tough to believe, and I understand
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why it's become an interesting story and why people are
discussing it. I am here to say Dave Roberts did
the entire world a great favor because the A acknowledged
the obvious and B refuse to live in fear of
what is by any measure, a completely absurd edict. That's it.
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That's just what it is. And however this goes, Shoe
is certainly entitled to wish for his privacy. He is.
But I would like to say this, you can't have
it all the ways. You can't say that you want
to do things that no human has ever done before
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and be compensated for them on a level no human
has ever been before in this sport and then ask
to somehow make all these decisions completely quishered away from
the public eye. It just doesn't work that way. It's
just not. This is show business, everybody, This is entertainment.
We we like to talk about things. We like to
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be entertained and have our emotions taken on ups and
downs by things. That's why we watched the games. And
if the fans didn't get excited about this free agency,
and if they didn't spend their money on on the
entertainment of buying the ticket or even buying the subscription
of the streaming service to learn about the information that's happening,
none of us would have a job. And so and
(18:27):
that includes show by the way, So this is driven
by the fans. The fans We all of us that
work in sports work because of the fans, and so
if showe has a problem with fans and executives talking
about his situation, I'm not really sure what to say.
I really I'm very rarely at a loss for words,
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but I'm really at a loss for words on this.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
One, because you know, we talked about this, Mike and
I talked about this last hour. JP is that this
sucks because the fans, we're the ones that are losing.
This should be an unbelievable moment for baseball and the
anticipation and where is he going and what could it be?
And just I want to be excited that for five
minutes the Mets could have been in it. Now the
Mets you're not, And instead it's all behind closed doors
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and it's mysterious and maybe they're met. It's like it's like, hey,
baseball deserves better for show. Hey hot for a guy
we've never seen before doing things unbelievable, he's a free agent.
This should be it should be a more fun thing
for us to be able to sell it.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Right, You're exactly right, and and there are multiple parties
involved here. There's obviously show a show as representative and
also the teams. Now last year, Aaron Judge is a
pretty private person too. But it was okay that we
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knew that he met with the Giants in San Francisco.
It was okay that we knew that he met with
the Yankees. And guess what, he went to where he
wanted to go to all along and got a great
payday and he stayed a Yankee. It was a fun story.
So there's nothing wrong with the way it unfolded for
Aaron Judge. Now, everybody, everybody has their own prerogative to
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conduct their business as they wish. That is, without a
doubt true. But I think what you have here in
a very real way, and it can be spun however
you'd like it. But show A has asked for his
own wishes for privacy and his own discretion to be
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more important than helping to generate the greatest excitement possible
for the game. Now, some might say show has already
done all that we've ever asked for him to do,
because he's done things on the field that we've never
done before. Okay, that's I respect that perspective. But if
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we're all talking about to whom we've all been given
opportunities that we're being good caretakers of our place in
the sport to help promote it and grow it the
best that we can. And Showy has been given, I think,
a wide berth to conduct things as he wishes. Is
he doing Is he who has been given an opportunity
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unlike really any that we've seen in the history of
the game. Is he doing the most with it to
grow the game right now, in this particular week of
December of twenty twenty three. The answer is no, he's not. Now.
We might say that if he hits five hole runs
in his first game with the Dodgers or the or
the Cubs or the Blue Jays or any other tea
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he's playing for, are we gonna forget that and not
care about it as much? Probably because we don't really
have memories that go back very far, But that there's
no question that in this week of this month of
this year, baseball could be a lot richer of his
story and a lot more gratifying of a story if
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it were being conducted different. And that's that's all. It's
it's just it's it's a myth. Opportunity. He does plenty
on the field. I would never ever take away from that.
But the way that this has been choreographed, and I'll
use that word intentionally because it's being scripted in a
very particular way by his camp, has not has not
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been for the greater good of the sport this week.
And that I think that statement, I realize I'm maybe
something may take issue with it, but that's just the
reality as I proceeded.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
All right, let me let me pull you back from
all the rumor, conjecture, speculation. A lot of videos up
at John Morosi on Twitter. We know Saint Almost Steakhouse
is the place in Indianapolis for NFL people to talk
and you can get some good information when folks are
knee deep in cocktail sauce and a couple of vodkatonics.
What's the place in Nashville? Who are you stalking and where?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
So? Well, right now, so I as this may surprise you,
I have a more learning show that begins quite early
in the morning. So right now I am. I am
relaxing in my hotel rooms, trying to save my voice
for the next two days. But there are there are
innumerable lobbies that exist in this hotel that there are
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a number of good places. But we're at the opuland
here in Nashville, which to any who have ever been here,
if you were to say meet me in the lobby
or the bar and the lobby, the response will be
which one, because there are many bars in many lobbies,
so it is. It's a great place to be. I
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love it. My brother lives here, so I always enjoy
coming to Nashville for family reasons and just for being
in this great city, which I believe, by the way,
will one day be a baseball city in the major leagues.
But it's sort of a continual movement, and I do
think that some of the socialization of the old days
of the winter meetings where everybody was at the same
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bar and we were all hanging out. I experienced that
for a couple of years, but it's changed a little bit,
certainly in the last ten years. I think just the
prevalence of social media and honestly, newspapers no longer having
any deadlines ever has also contributed to that. I was
actually sharing this with my brother last night. Said back
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in the first couple of meetings that I covered, you'd
file your story. You're done. I mean, there's nothing more
to do. There was no internet to write for you
just would file your story, go to the bar and
talk to people until they turned the lights out at
the end of the night. I mean, that's basically what
you would do. And so it's a little different now.
You know, I'm doing a little more on air stuff,
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so I have to basically have myself organized and presentable
by early in the morning. So on some level, I can't.
I can't quite do like I used to guys, and
I'm a little bit I'm a little bit old, as
you guys know. I drive a minivan, okay, so I
can't wait to stay up till two o'clock in the morning.
When I bought my minivan, they said, sir, are you
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ready to turn in your card? And says, you know,
PJ time is ten o'clock. I said, yes, I can
do that. I'm on board with that. So that's kind
of where I'm at in life. But I'll tell you what,
if something happens really interesting over a cup of coffee
at six point thirty in the morning, I'll probably be
up for that. I can promise you that.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
And He'll be network inside of John Paul Morosi with
us from the meetings in Nashville. All right, Jp, I'm
going to give you a fill in the blank for
the three biggest names that we're going to see potentially
change addresses over the course the next few days. If
I said to you Otani where, Yamamoto, where, Juan Soto where?
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Matchmaker for those three players, where you are thinking what
you are hearing? Where they end up? Otani, Yamamoto and Soda.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Okay, this is what I believe believe. So this is
not sources. Same Morosi is declaring all of these things
shall happen?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I always have that proviso number one. I still believe
the Dodgers are the front runner for Otani and ultimately
have the best chance to get him, and it's going
to take a lot to convince the otherwise. So I've
got Dodgers, Otani, Yamamoto, Boston Red Sox. I think the
Red Sox with the Mets putting up a heck of
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a fight, Jason. The Mets are therein they are in
there in a big way. On the Alamoto. They like them,
and so what happens there is there a way for
the Mets to go above and beyond to get him.
I tend to think he's going to be a member
of the Boston Red Sox now Juan Soto. Even though
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the Yankees got alex Erdugo tonight in a surprising trade
with the Red Sox, I still believe the Yankees find
a way to get Juan Soto. In some ways, bringing
in Verdugo gives them a little more potential capital to trade.
Maybe they include Dugo and the deal they can do
some other things with it. But I do believe eventually
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Soto becomes a member of the New York Yankees.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Look at that, Look at that. How about Blake Snell.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Blake Snell is in a very interesting place. We have
not heard a lot about Blake Snell. I don't think
he signs this week. I don't think he signed the
next week. I think Blake Snell is going to be
someone that we talk about more as we get towards
the new year. And don't be surprised if the Cardinals.
(27:30):
The Cardinals a team that they've already added three starting pitchers,
but I think they need more. So what if they
make a late run at Blake Snell? Not now, but
this is like a January, mid January. What does Scott
Morris do prediction. And I'm going to say that he
calls up the Saint Louis Cardinals and finds a way
to get Blake Snell there.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
No, come on, this is what he's gonna do. If
the Mets are missing out at all three of those guys.
He's gonna wait, call the Mets. Mets will say, yes, Blake,
here's two hundred million for a guy who's only been
good when he's out a contract. Here, Blake, take all
our money.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's well.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
And I am a little bit concerned about the walk
total friends. He walked a lot of guys, and I
don't know how that's gonna age. And time goes on
that that really concerns me, and and he's gonna have
to find a way to overcome that.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
In those conversations, Hey, JP, last one, Can the Dodgers
bring back Bellinger, Peterson and Justin Turner get.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
The whole band back together.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Just get everybody back together?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I would say no. I would say unlikely. And the
reason why I think Bellinger's going to go to either
the Giants or the Mariners. Bellinger stays West, goes to
the Giants or the Mariners. Justin Turner a lot of
teams like him a lot. I would say the Chicago
Cubs get Justin Turner and Jock Peterson. H Jack Peterson
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goes to the mill Walkie Brewers.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Well, hey, in an offseason which we've already seen the
Yankees and Red Sox make a trade. Anything can happen JP,
absolutely anything.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Anything, and listen. I would say this, and Dodger fans
everywhere will not love hearing this, but listen up. Anyway,
Justin Turner to the Giants also is a possibility. Oh boy,
that would be a tough one to take. J JT
is of interest to the Giants and also the division
(29:32):
rival Diamondbacks. So stay turned stay tuned there.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi.
He's live in Nashville at the MLB Winter meetings. Also
will be getting up very early and if you see
him drinking coffee at six thirty in the morning, he
probably has a scoop.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Hopefully, And I got a scoop for you. Michigan thirty
five Alabama one p.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Seven already picking the mission there.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I notice how you went away from the Detroit Lions defense.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
JP, I know, well, they did find a way to
beat the Chargers, and the Chargers, as we know, have
an outstanding offense for the ages or so my NFL sources.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
JP. Thanks a lot, buddy, I know we'll talk to
you later on this week and we'll get your Lions
pick that you are still red hot with. Thank you
very much, my friend.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
They are on their way to winning a playoff game
for the second time since nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
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Speaker 1 (30:45):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon.
We'll have Mora and Otani coming up in a bit,
but straight ahead. Two days later, we're still buzzing about
the CFP selection. Why Florida State is out, Why Georgia
is out, the big fault with everything they have said
to push the four teams that are into the two
teams out? What is it? We'll tell you next right here,
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Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
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Speaker 1 (31:16):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. In in season tournament quarterfinals, the Sons
have tied the Lakers in the third quarter. Maybe the
Sons do not want to go gentle into that good night.
I'm going Bill Pullman from Independence Day sixty eight, sixty eight,
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five and a half to go in the third quarter,
a spot in the semis against the Pelicans awaiting them.
Charles Barkley's gonna run out of Gasto in the fourth probably, yeah,
And you know, you're Marley's got to hit some threes,
and you know he's dancing to it. He's got a
sunburn that's gonna start hurting. It's gonna be very difficult. Look,
we talked about this earlier in the hour about you know, look,
Florida State now this whole thing. You know, Florida Governor
(31:59):
Ron de Santis want to sue the College Football Playoff
Committee because they left Florida State nowt which is just insane.
But there is a big takeaway from this that shows
you the logic that the committee is using in why
they picked the four teams they did is flawed. And
we told you last night why they picked the best
television show Alabama, Michigan, Washington, Texas. All four of those
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teams are better television than Georgia and Florida State. Right,
But what did we tell you was going to be
the reason the committee was going to say, it is
not our job to look at a team's resume. We
are picking the four best teams in college football right now.
And that's exactly what they said, exactly what Poul Corrigan said, Hey,
different team now than they were earlier in the year.
(32:45):
Different team now, different team now. Here's the incredible flaw
on that logic. So what you're telling me is early
part of the season doesn't matter. Who's the best teams
right now? Because you know what you mentioned it last night.
I could say, is LSU one of the four best
teams in the country right now, they'd be in that mix,
wouldn't they It doesn't matter if they lost three but
they lost three games early. No, they're one of the
best teams right now. It doesn't matter they lost three games.
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They lost to Florida State. Right now they're one of
the best teams in the country. So basically it's they're saying, hey,
if you're really good now, it doesn't matter what you
did earlier in the season, other wins, other games. Whatever
you did to go six and oh seven doesn't matter
that you went a ten and oh with Jordan Travis
as your quarterback. Oh, you lost the guy, So now
you really can't make it. That's such flawed logic because
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you're saying the other games don't matter when everything matters.
The whole season matters. What you do over the course
of the season matters, because if you lose games early
in the year, you get eliminated. That second loss knocks
you out. So if you're the committee, hey, if I
have two losses, doesn't matter. If I lose my first
two games and I win nine straight, I'm one of
the best. I'm the four best teams in the country.
So I got to get in right. Well, yeah, with
(33:49):
that logic you do. That's why the entire the entirety,
it's a house of cards. What they built their philosophies on.
I would have much rather they just said, look, Florida State, Yeah,
not that not that enthused, not that great an offense, Yeah,
not great television. We want to go with the other
teams that are better entertain because it's television. Show on
that everybody would have been mad, would have been really
(34:10):
really mad, but at least it would have been the
truth because to sit here and say, oh, who are
the best teams? Now? You can't discount the first ten
weeks because it all matters, and they're saying that part
of it didn't matter, and there's no way that holds up.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Yeah, I mean it comes back to the how we
evaluate teams. Look at look at when we do our
NFL analysis, right, you're still looking. Oftentimes people do full averages.
Look what they are for the year. It's like, well,
they had three really bad game. Look at the Denver
defense for instance, Right, look at what they've done. Yeah,
they took it l this week and it was mostly
on Russell Wilson. Everybody still want to thump their chest
(34:44):
about how great Russell Wilson is after this week. No,
that got pretty quiet pretty fast, didn't it. But you
watch what their defense has done. It's night and day.
They got healthy, they started playing together, and they found
some continuity and had a month run where they're turning
guys over left and right, and suddenly they're a different squad.
College football the same way.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
It takes a couple of weeks and if you happen
to have one of those marquee matchups early and you lose.
That doesn't come off the resume, right, just because the
PAC twelve was a much lesser conference in the final month.
And anybody that tries to dispute that, go back and
look at all of the teams that were all hyped
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early on between USC Colorado keep on going. Yeah, a
bunch of teams falling off the map doesn't take away
how big those games were when they were played, right,
they were number seven here, number five there or whatever,
and so or for Colorado just being on the come
up and all the national attention that those don't disappear.
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So are we doing rolling averages? All right? Just look
at the last four weeks, and we'll look at the
rankings of the last four weeks as to how they are,
strength of schedule and all of that. So, yeah, it
is a very tenuous and wishy washy argument along the
way when you start using terms like best. But we
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know that right, because best is only as good as
everything else. So you have you know, as we like
to say, and we go through. You start playing with words, right,
the old song people just love to play with words,
and that's what we're doing here.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
You know, I don't know that you would have been
better off because this is what happens. This is what happens, Larry.
This is what happens, Larry. This is what happens when
you have people voting on who should be playing for
a championship.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
It's why we have the snubs in college basketball. That's
why we have it the way we do in college football.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Biases come in.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
I don't know if it would have been better. And
I'm really I know we're you know, we're getting the
twelve team playoff last year. Everything is great, but I
don't know if we would have been better off, just saying,
you know, who gets in all five conference champions and
the conference champion that's the highest ranked or highest rated
gets a buye, you know, and then and then we
play it that way, or the first three teams get
(36:59):
a bye in there in five teams who are the
lowest rated play to get to one through four, whatever
it is. You let five teams in and play it
out from there the five conference chant and if somehow,
if Iowa had beaten Michigan, guess what Iowa gets to
get in because they beat Michigan in the in the
Big Ten championship, they won their their side of the division,
they won their division, they won the conference. They get
to go. Your five conference champions should go, and you
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have a playoff from there. However you want to play
it out, that's I don't know that that would have
been the best way. You know what, Hey, you gotta win,
gotta win your conference to get it. Okay, that's how
you get in. You win the conference.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
But I like that, And you're also telling every other
conference blank off as well as Notre Dame.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
I like what you just did.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
How fast would Notre Dame join a conference? How fast?
In eight seconds, they'd be in the ACC or the
Big Ten. Hey, hey, I know, i'd we've been pretty uh,
I know, we've been pretty pretty much jerks the last
twenty five years. You keep asking us to join. We
don't want to. No, we're ready to join now. We
always wanted to be a member of the Big Ten.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Come on, we're ready to go. Let's go. They would
get to keep our TV deal to ourselves.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
In seconds, they would join exit out about a Fresca
exit swollen dome, the Jason Smiths or with my carm
and again there's your faulty logic that the entire CFB
built their premise on. But coming up next, we have
news on show Heyo Tani. Plus, if you think we
really have a tough time getting along in our country,
I got a story that tells us maybe we can
(38:20):
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the in season tournament quarterfinals and the Lakers lead the
Suns by eight in the second quarter. You just need
to say tournament and the Lakers turn that light on
my car and it's it's instantaneous.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
It's like the damn heart light. Neil Diamond was singing about,
e t turn on you hot light that a shot
wherever you go.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I mean, look, it's a shane. The Knicks couldn't win,
but obviously the game was fixed. We need to look
into this. The Bucks scored one hundred and ninety points
against the Things tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Uh, well they were like super jock out there hitting
three point shots.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Well, it was seventy two seventy at halftime.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I mean, what a great half it was. I mean
had forty one points.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I know, Julius is great in a loss.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Julius even is great. Barrett was great, Brunson was great.
Rest of your squad not so much. Do you know
who was great?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
The Bucks, Boy, they were great. They were fit.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
They really hammered it home. Twenty three and thirty eight
from three point they shot fourteen fewer. Yeah, free throat.
They only shot sixty eight percent from the fall line. Yeah,
it didn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
No, no, just when you hit all those threes. Nothing else, man, boy.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I tell you that's some next level stuff right there.
Yannis thirty five, eight and ten in a plus nineteen effort.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, well, listen, you gotta have that kind of game.
If you're going to eliminate the Knicks like you are,
you are trying to knock out a Titan. But you
know what, show up and roll over them, but.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Go into that box scoring clearly it's it's a blowout
late whatever. But you talk about how great it was
at halfhim like, everybody plays, everybody wins. You literally had
what three guys between the two rosters that didn't get
into the game. Yeah, so everybody at least got a
couple of minutes to.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Uh, everybody got to play. It was a great day.
It's like a youth game. Hey, I won by.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Every part of an ind season tournament game. It's the
greatest moment of my life.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
We won, We moved on in the playoffs. Everybody got
to play. No parents are mad at me. We all
had snacks after a great day.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It was a great day, juice boxes and orange slices
for all.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So we will have more on the in season tournament
as the Lakers lead Phoenix by nine again forty five
thirty six with a spot in the semis against the
New Orleans Pelicans for whoever wins this.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Game, but he's gotta be a champion.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
If you think you only up the padd O'Brien trophy,
let go that. But it might be the only one
he can stick around long enough to play for before
he gets hurt. Hey, I got We had to have
the tournament. Why because we want Zion to have a trophy,
and we got to have it early because we don't
know if he's gonna make it past game thirty of
the season. So okay, we gotta have it now.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Wow, you're your anger. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Hey, I'm not. I'm just saying we got to make
sure we got to get rid of the leakers here.
If you thought the controversy about the college football playoff
was going to lessen in the last twenty four hours,
it is not. Remember we had a little bit of
fun yesterday because Donald Trump any anytime you can find
(03:58):
something in politics to push your advantage. Uh. Trump put
out a message on social media blaming Ron DeSantis, running
against him for the GOP nomination for president, that it
was his fault because he didn't politic enough or didn't
didn't get Florida State into the college football playoff, which, okay,
(04:18):
I get it. It's kind of wink wig. No, not,
it's kind of funny.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
No.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
But then Ron DeSantis today asked for a million dollars
from this from the state's budget because he wants to
sue the College Football Playoff Committee's for not putting.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Florida State in. I want to sue. Then, he said,
I want, like whatever the money he wants, like I need, however,
many millions of dollars, and I want to set aside
a million because I want to sue the CFP. Meanwhile,
never mind that we're they're going to play the games
like six months before they get the ok for the money, No,
I want, I want to sue the College Football Playoff
(04:53):
Committee because Florida State didn't get in. Here comes a bit,
here's a million dollars, go file that lawsuit.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Ever, buddy, look man, it's the idea for running for office,
trying to keep your job, all of that stuff. You
gotta find the angles. How do you get the the
your constituents behind you. I mean, you know, you remember,
and you know Papi O'Daniel going back to brother or
art thou you gotta you gotta, you gotta, you know,
keep our constituents happy. You know way we're mass communicating here.
(05:24):
So whatever you gotta do. And if you think there's
enough Florida State fans and a lums and supporters that
can keep you in office or help you attain the
higher office. Hey, man, get in there and sell, sell, sell,
I'm fighting for you. I'm on your side. Like he's
doing one of those you know local TV. You know
(05:46):
the guy that's helping you with consumer fraud. Today we're
gonna tackle this air conditioning company that really goes in.
It doesn't do a whole lot. They claim they're cleaning
your ducks. But that's kind of what DeSantis is doing here.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But I want to say this, if Florida State gets in,
it means somebody else is out. It's another state that
you want to vote for you. It's Texas and Michigan
and Washington and Alabama.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I mean, if he was smart, he'd go and figure
out how to get Ohio state in there.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, oh yeah, sure, let's get out.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You want to talk about important states, that's the one
you want to come on.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You know, he's got to do good stuff. And joy,
I've gotta get Georgia in. Oh let's get everybody in.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, but you're probably not losing Georgia right like those
you might be able to to look at from a
political standpoint and say, you know what, we were good there.
We're solid there with our base. But if we can
go take Ohio man.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, but if you can't go, But what if you
can't get him in, they'll still they'll turn against you
couldn't get Georgia in, I'm voting for somebody else, not
voting for I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Well, look, folks would have to make their decision. At
least he's fighting the good fight for you right now.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Now, the serious part of this now to think about
this is you know why I feel bad for Florida State?
And it's not just hey, they were undefeated and they
still didn't get it, because because there is part about
the flawed logic that the playoff committee used.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh, use the word fair fairness, but here's you just
don't want Frostburg's white to come in.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
No, no, no, because there is a whole thing we'll get
we'll get into it later on this hour about the
flawed logic they used to say, we have the four
teams in the playoffs. There's a really bit of flawed logic.
But why feel bad for Florida State? Not because they
went undefeated, not because of anything, but they knew after
last Tuesday when the polls came out, they were moved
up to number four and and you had Book Corgan say, hey,
(07:32):
the head of the playoff committee, Florida State, really good team,
different team without Jordan Travis. And he said it twice, right,
And we told you right, then told you last week,
a week ago. Today. They want to push Florida State out.
Don't think they're just gonna win and get in, right,
they want to push them out. Florida State knew they
had to put on a dominant performance against Louisville on Saturday.
(07:53):
And what did they do? That was a bleep in
dominant performance. Right. They didn't score fifty, but you got
your third string quarterback, man, you had to go to
the wildcat to break the game open, right and and
put some points on the board. But was there ever
a point where you felt Louisville was in that game? Defensively,
Florida State seven sacks, what was it, fourteen to fifteen
(08:13):
tackles for loss when they turned the ball over, when
the punter got tackled, They prevented a touchdown the last
gass tried, They got a sack on fourth down. That
was a dominant effort right on defense. As much what
they were asked to do they did.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah, But as much as they were dominant. It was
one play from flipping on them the entire time. It's
like watching a Jets game. For a Patriots, the.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Jets don't dominated. You look at what this defense is
do it.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
These guys are gasping for air after I mean, Frostford
just saw it. Now, Color there's defense that's killing it.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
There's a difference between hey, the defense is holding you
in it and that one player is going to lose
the game for you. And then there's Florida's States defense,
which just had the game clamped down. I never felt
they were really in trouble because Louisville couldn't do anything offensively.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Florida's chef didn't do anything.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well Haws's you know.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yes, in his seventies now, man, I mean it's tough
for hass to move around.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's very difficult for him. I mean they did exactly.
They dominated exactly how they could that game. You asked
us to dominate and validate why should be in the playoff,
And here we are two weeks. You thought we'd have
a tough time winning. We beat Florida and we beat
a top fifteen ranked team. The team was Louisville was
ranked tenth coming into this game and we beat them
by ten in the conference championship, and that's not enough.
(09:40):
That's why I feel bad, because the committee said, hey,
this is what you need to do, and they did it,
but they didn't score forty points. So it was all
maybe they're not any good, they're not good television, all
the reasons why they left him out, and they still
got left out because of it. Like I get if
it was a Bears Vikings game from last Monday night
and it was twelve ten and and Florida State turned
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it over four times and Louisville turned it over four times,
and the game was ugly, and there was two fumbles
and two picks, and it was just all right, you
know what, this is just an absolute mess in both
these teams. But it was a dominant performance by Florida State.
Right I watched it. I never thought Louisville was back
in this. And the one time they had that little
glimpse when when when they when they when they got
(10:22):
the ball in the turnover, when when they when they
tackled the putter before you could put the ball away,
What did they do? They stiffened right away and Louisville
couldn't get anything that that's what that you asked us
to do it, and we did it, and still it
wasn't enough. That's why I feel bad for Florida State.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Well, but but again, R like, what what are we
looking for in terms of our style? And when we
talk about dominance, nobody sells defense. I try to sell
you for weeks on how good the defense was that
the Patriots. Nobody cares because it was scoringy points. The
offense sucks your Jets defense, You've been crying about it
for three months. Look how good these guys the offense stakes?
(10:58):
You know, just keep going on down on the line.
You want, you want something.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
That is exactly how I say it to that stink.
That's a pretty good impression to me.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Well, but you want to go with the sauce, Right,
what do we do? Everybody nationally mocked Iowa the entire
damn season, and sure, you know when you look at
the offense, and all right, we fired the the oc
because they didn't score enough points per game, which is
really kind of interesting. I'd like to see how many
contracts I actually have that in there. All Right, you
(11:27):
don't average twenty five a game, You're gone. Okay, Uh,
not gonna happen. We'll see you later. Let me uh,
let me just go now. Uh. But it's for Iowa.
Like if you love sitting down and watching football and
watching teams uh struggle and try to find any way
to beat what Parker was doing with that defense, then
(11:48):
you had a great time. If you were looking for
a scoring fest like the Pac twelve or whatever else,
you were sorely disappointed week in week out, and for
the College Football Playoff, you think they want a team
that's like, hey, we hang our hand. You don't look
at how much defensive work we did against Louisville. Hell no,
they want someone that's gonna put some points on there.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Well, you know what, It's funny you say that, because
that's gonna get into later on this hour, the big
fatal mistake and the flawed logic that the CFP put
forth by saying, this is why we took these teams,
this is why we didn't take Florida State.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So you said that, laud as soon as they said
there were five conferences and for slots.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, but we have to deal with what happened this
past week, not what happened ten years ago. To deal
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Is Otani really set that it's being leaked out what
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back quarters. It's a different team. We'll have more on
the NBA coming up in a bit, but right now
it is time to find out what is happening at
(14:26):
the MLB Winter Meetings. Is show Hao Tani have it
narrowed down to three teams? Is it the Angels, the Dodgers,
the Blue Jays or shoe Hao Tani's representatives mad at
the Dodgers and Blue Jays for letting slip that they
actually met with him a few days ago and maybe
now they're out of the running. Nobody better to talk
to than a long time friend of the show, Emily
(14:47):
Network insider and what half of the morning show sweeping
the nation? Sternsy and the Pope? It is John Paul Morosi, JP.
What's happening, Bud?
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I am doing great? Although I was told that I
was on here to break down the Detroit Pistons path
in the end season tournament? Is that? Is that not
the case?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
That path ended? JP? We've moved on the path and
the path is dead.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
As I understand the rules, you have to have achieved
five victories by the first of December to qualify for
said tournament, and that I don't think the Pistons have
gotten there.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Now I think you had the Pistons. You have to
have won five games in the last year, and the
Pistons haven't gotten there at any rate.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Antani helps his teams win many more games than I
do believe Vistro Otani is the occasion for us to
visit her this evening.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Now, let me ask you, are you okay? Are you
allowed to talk about Otani and what could be happening
because we're hearing that any Otani information that gets out
will be held against any team that may want to
sign him.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
This is, in a word, absurd. It is it is absurd.
There are I have covered. I have covered a lot
of winter meetings in a lot of different ways. I've
seen stories broken in strange ways and strange hours. I
have never quite encountered something like this, And at the
(16:13):
end of the day, I don't know what is more
laughable the notion that one of the most highly anticipated
free agencies is supposed to be some clandestine process that
no one talks or or speaks or whispers about, or
(16:34):
be the notion that someone would make a half a
billion dollar decision for the next ten years of his
life with respect to something that a highly respected manager acknowledged,
the existence of a meeting that everyone knew happened. I mean,
this is really really tough to believe, and I understand
(16:58):
why it's become an interesting story and why people are
discussing it. I am here to say Dave Roberts did
the entire world a great favor because the A acknowledged
the obvious and B refuse to live in fear of
what is by any measure, a completely absurd edict. That's it.
(17:21):
That's just what it is. And however this goes, Shoe
is certainly entitled to wish for his privacy. He is.
But I would like to say this, you can't have
it all the ways. You can't say that you want
to do things that no human has ever done before
(17:42):
and be compensated for them on a level no human
has ever been before in this sport and then ask
to somehow make all these decisions completely quishered away from
the public eye. It just doesn't work that way. It's
just not. This is show business, everybody, This is entertainment.
We we like to talk about things. We like to
(18:05):
be entertained and have our emotions taken on ups and
downs by things. That's why we watched the games. And
if the fans didn't get excited about this free agency,
and if they didn't spend their money on on the
entertainment of buying the ticket or even buying the subscription
of the streaming service to learn about the information that's happening,
none of us would have a job. And so and
(18:27):
that includes show by the way, So this is driven
by the fans. The fans We all of us that
work in sports work because of the fans, and so
if showe has a problem with fans and executives talking
about his situation, I'm not really sure what to say.
I really I'm very rarely at a loss for words,
(18:49):
but I'm really at a loss for words on this.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
One, because you know, we talked about this, Mike and
I talked about this last hour. JP is that this
sucks because the fans, we're the ones that are losing.
This should be an unbelievable moment for baseball and the
anticipation and where is he going and what could it be?
And just I want to be excited that for five
minutes the Mets could have been in it. Now the
Mets you're not, And instead it's all behind closed doors
(19:11):
and it's mysterious and maybe they're met. It's like it's like, hey,
baseball deserves better for show. Hey hot for a guy
we've never seen before doing things unbelievable, he's a free agent.
This should be it should be a more fun thing
for us to be able to sell it.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Right, You're exactly right, and and there are multiple parties
involved here. There's obviously show a show as representative and
also the teams. Now last year, Aaron Judge is a
pretty private person too. But it was okay that we
(19:47):
knew that he met with the Giants in San Francisco.
It was okay that we knew that he met with
the Yankees. And guess what, he went to where he
wanted to go to all along and got a great
payday and he stayed a Yankee. It was a fun story.
So there's nothing wrong with the way it unfolded for
Aaron Judge. Now, everybody, everybody has their own prerogative to
(20:10):
conduct their business as they wish. That is, without a
doubt true. But I think what you have here in
a very real way, and it can be spun however
you'd like it. But show A has asked for his
own wishes for privacy and his own discretion to be
(20:32):
more important than helping to generate the greatest excitement possible
for the game. Now, some might say show has already
done all that we've ever asked for him to do,
because he's done things on the field that we've never
done before. Okay, that's I respect that perspective. But if
(20:53):
we're all talking about to whom we've all been given
opportunities that we're being good caretakers of our place in
the sport to help promote it and grow it the
best that we can. And Showy has been given, I think,
a wide berth to conduct things as he wishes. Is
he doing Is he who has been given an opportunity
(21:16):
unlike really any that we've seen in the history of
the game. Is he doing the most with it to
grow the game right now, in this particular week of
December of twenty twenty three. The answer is no, he's not. Now.
We might say that if he hits five hole runs
in his first game with the Dodgers or the or
the Cubs or the Blue Jays or any other tea
(21:36):
he's playing for, are we gonna forget that and not
care about it as much? Probably because we don't really
have memories that go back very far, But that there's
no question that in this week of this month of
this year, baseball could be a lot richer of his
story and a lot more gratifying of a story if
(21:58):
it were being conducted different. And that's that's all. It's
it's just it's it's a myth. Opportunity. He does plenty
on the field. I would never ever take away from that.
But the way that this has been choreographed, and I'll
use that word intentionally because it's being scripted in a
very particular way by his camp, has not has not
(22:19):
been for the greater good of the sport this week.
And that I think that statement, I realize I'm maybe
something may take issue with it, but that's just the
reality as I proceeded.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
All right, let me let me pull you back from
all the rumor, conjecture, speculation. A lot of videos up
at John Morosi on Twitter. We know Saint Almost Steakhouse
is the place in Indianapolis for NFL people to talk
and you can get some good information when folks are
knee deep in cocktail sauce and a couple of vodkatonics.
What's the place in Nashville? Who are you stalking and where?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
So? Well, right now, so I as this may surprise you,
I have a more learning show that begins quite early
in the morning. So right now I am. I am
relaxing in my hotel rooms, trying to save my voice
for the next two days. But there are there are
innumerable lobbies that exist in this hotel that there are
(23:15):
a number of good places. But we're at the opuland
here in Nashville, which to any who have ever been here,
if you were to say meet me in the lobby
or the bar and the lobby, the response will be
which one, because there are many bars in many lobbies,
so it is. It's a great place to be. I
(23:39):
love it. My brother lives here, so I always enjoy
coming to Nashville for family reasons and just for being
in this great city, which I believe, by the way,
will one day be a baseball city in the major leagues.
But it's sort of a continual movement, and I do
think that some of the socialization of the old days
of the winter meetings where everybody was at the same
(24:01):
bar and we were all hanging out. I experienced that
for a couple of years, but it's changed a little bit,
certainly in the last ten years. I think just the
prevalence of social media and honestly, newspapers no longer having
any deadlines ever has also contributed to that. I was
actually sharing this with my brother last night. Said back
(24:21):
in the first couple of meetings that I covered, you'd
file your story. You're done. I mean, there's nothing more
to do. There was no internet to write for you
just would file your story, go to the bar and
talk to people until they turned the lights out at
the end of the night. I mean, that's basically what
you would do. And so it's a little different now.
You know, I'm doing a little more on air stuff,
(24:42):
so I have to basically have myself organized and presentable
by early in the morning. So on some level, I can't.
I can't quite do like I used to guys, and
I'm a little bit I'm a little bit old, as
you guys know. I drive a minivan, okay, so I
can't wait to stay up till two o'clock in the morning.
When I bought my minivan, they said, sir, are you
(25:02):
ready to turn in your card? And says, you know,
PJ time is ten o'clock. I said, yes, I can
do that. I'm on board with that. So that's kind
of where I'm at in life. But I'll tell you what,
if something happens really interesting over a cup of coffee
at six point thirty in the morning, I'll probably be
up for that. I can promise you that.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
And He'll be network inside of John Paul Morosi with
us from the meetings in Nashville. All right, Jp, I'm
going to give you a fill in the blank for
the three biggest names that we're going to see potentially
change addresses over the course the next few days. If
I said to you Otani where, Yamamoto, where, Juan Soto where?
(25:41):
Matchmaker for those three players, where you are thinking what
you are hearing? Where they end up? Otani, Yamamoto and Soda.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Okay, this is what I believe believe. So this is
not sources. Same Morosi is declaring all of these things
shall happen?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I always have that proviso number one. I still believe
the Dodgers are the front runner for Otani and ultimately
have the best chance to get him, and it's going
to take a lot to convince the otherwise. So I've
got Dodgers, Otani, Yamamoto, Boston Red Sox. I think the
Red Sox with the Mets putting up a heck of
(26:20):
a fight, Jason. The Mets are therein they are in
there in a big way. On the Alamoto. They like them,
and so what happens there is there a way for
the Mets to go above and beyond to get him.
I tend to think he's going to be a member
of the Boston Red Sox now Juan Soto. Even though
(26:41):
the Yankees got alex Erdugo tonight in a surprising trade
with the Red Sox, I still believe the Yankees find
a way to get Juan Soto. In some ways, bringing
in Verdugo gives them a little more potential capital to trade.
Maybe they include Dugo and the deal they can do
some other things with it. But I do believe eventually
(27:03):
Soto becomes a member of the New York Yankees.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Look at that, Look at that. How about Blake Snell.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Blake Snell is in a very interesting place. We have
not heard a lot about Blake Snell. I don't think
he signs this week. I don't think he signed the
next week. I think Blake Snell is going to be
someone that we talk about more as we get towards
the new year. And don't be surprised if the Cardinals.
(27:30):
The Cardinals a team that they've already added three starting pitchers,
but I think they need more. So what if they
make a late run at Blake Snell? Not now, but
this is like a January, mid January. What does Scott
Morris do prediction. And I'm going to say that he
calls up the Saint Louis Cardinals and finds a way
to get Blake Snell there.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
No, come on, this is what he's gonna do. If
the Mets are missing out at all three of those guys.
He's gonna wait, call the Mets. Mets will say, yes, Blake,
here's two hundred million for a guy who's only been
good when he's out a contract. Here, Blake, take all
our money.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
That's well.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
And I am a little bit concerned about the walk
total friends. He walked a lot of guys, and I
don't know how that's gonna age. And time goes on
that that really concerns me, and and he's gonna have
to find a way to overcome that.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
In those conversations, Hey, JP, last one, Can the Dodgers
bring back Bellinger, Peterson and Justin Turner get.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
The whole band back together.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Just get everybody back together?
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I would say no. I would say unlikely. And the
reason why I think Bellinger's going to go to either
the Giants or the Mariners. Bellinger stays West, goes to
the Giants or the Mariners. Justin Turner a lot of
teams like him a lot. I would say the Chicago
Cubs get Justin Turner and Jock Peterson. H Jack Peterson
(28:59):
goes to the mill Walkie Brewers.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Well, hey, in an offseason which we've already seen the
Yankees and Red Sox make a trade. Anything can happen JP,
absolutely anything.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Anything, and listen. I would say this, and Dodger fans
everywhere will not love hearing this, but listen up. Anyway,
Justin Turner to the Giants also is a possibility. Oh boy,
that would be a tough one to take. J JT
is of interest to the Giants and also the division
(29:32):
rival Diamondbacks. So stay turned stay tuned there.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi.
He's live in Nashville at the MLB Winter meetings. Also
will be getting up very early and if you see
him drinking coffee at six thirty in the morning, he
probably has a scoop.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Hopefully, And I got a scoop for you. Michigan thirty
five Alabama one p.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Seven already picking the mission there.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
I notice how you went away from the Detroit Lions defense.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Well.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
JP, I know, well, they did find a way to
beat the Chargers, and the Chargers, as we know, have
an outstanding offense for the ages or so my NFL sources.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
JP. Thanks a lot, buddy, I know we'll talk to
you later on this week and we'll get your Lions
pick that you are still red hot with. Thank you
very much, my friend.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
They are on their way to winning a playoff game
for the second time since nineteen fifty seven.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
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Speaker 1 (30:45):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon.
We'll have Mora and Otani coming up in a bit,
but straight ahead. Two days later, we're still buzzing about
the CFP selection. Why Florida State is out, Why Georgia
is out, the big fault with everything they have said
to push the four teams that are into the two
teams out? What is it? We'll tell you next right here,
(31:06):
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. In in season tournament quarterfinals, the Sons
have tied the Lakers in the third quarter. Maybe the
Sons do not want to go gentle into that good night.
I'm going Bill Pullman from Independence Day sixty eight, sixty eight,
(31:37):
five and a half to go in the third quarter,
a spot in the semis against the Pelicans awaiting them.
Charles Barkley's gonna run out of Gasto in the fourth probably, yeah,
And you know, you're Marley's got to hit some threes,
and you know he's dancing to it. He's got a
sunburn that's gonna start hurting. It's gonna be very difficult. Look,
we talked about this earlier in the hour about you know, look,
Florida State now this whole thing. You know, Florida Governor
(31:59):
Ron de Santis want to sue the College Football Playoff
Committee because they left Florida State nowt which is just insane.
But there is a big takeaway from this that shows
you the logic that the committee is using in why
they picked the four teams they did is flawed. And
we told you last night why they picked the best
television show Alabama, Michigan, Washington, Texas. All four of those
(32:23):
teams are better television than Georgia and Florida State. Right,
But what did we tell you was going to be
the reason the committee was going to say, it is
not our job to look at a team's resume. We
are picking the four best teams in college football right now.
And that's exactly what they said, exactly what Poul Corrigan said, Hey,
different team now than they were earlier in the year.
(32:45):
Different team now, different team now. Here's the incredible flaw
on that logic. So what you're telling me is early
part of the season doesn't matter. Who's the best teams
right now? Because you know what you mentioned it last night.
I could say, is LSU one of the four best
teams in the country right now, they'd be in that mix,
wouldn't they It doesn't matter if they lost three but
they lost three games early. No, they're one of the
best teams right now. It doesn't matter they lost three games.
(33:06):
They lost to Florida State. Right now they're one of
the best teams in the country. So basically it's they're saying, hey,
if you're really good now, it doesn't matter what you
did earlier in the season, other wins, other games. Whatever
you did to go six and oh seven doesn't matter
that you went a ten and oh with Jordan Travis
as your quarterback. Oh, you lost the guy, So now
you really can't make it. That's such flawed logic because
(33:28):
you're saying the other games don't matter when everything matters.
The whole season matters. What you do over the course
of the season matters, because if you lose games early
in the year, you get eliminated. That second loss knocks
you out. So if you're the committee, hey, if I
have two losses, doesn't matter. If I lose my first
two games and I win nine straight, I'm one of
the best. I'm the four best teams in the country.
So I got to get in right. Well, yeah, with
(33:49):
that logic you do. That's why the entire the entirety,
it's a house of cards. What they built their philosophies on.
I would have much rather they just said, look, Florida State, Yeah,
not that not that enthused, not that great an offense, Yeah,
not great television. We want to go with the other
teams that are better entertain because it's television. Show on
that everybody would have been mad, would have been really
(34:10):
really mad, but at least it would have been the
truth because to sit here and say, oh, who are
the best teams? Now? You can't discount the first ten
weeks because it all matters, and they're saying that part
of it didn't matter, and there's no way that holds up.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Yeah, I mean it comes back to the how we
evaluate teams. Look at look at when we do our
NFL analysis, right, you're still looking. Oftentimes people do full averages.
Look what they are for the year. It's like, well,
they had three really bad game. Look at the Denver
defense for instance, Right, look at what they've done. Yeah,
they took it l this week and it was mostly
on Russell Wilson. Everybody still want to thump their chest
(34:44):
about how great Russell Wilson is after this week. No,
that got pretty quiet pretty fast, didn't it. But you
watch what their defense has done. It's night and day.
They got healthy, they started playing together, and they found
some continuity and had a month run where they're turning
guys over left and right, and suddenly they're a different squad.
College football the same way.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
It takes a couple of weeks and if you happen
to have one of those marquee matchups early and you lose.
That doesn't come off the resume, right, just because the
PAC twelve was a much lesser conference in the final month.
And anybody that tries to dispute that, go back and
look at all of the teams that were all hyped
(35:26):
early on between USC Colorado keep on going. Yeah, a
bunch of teams falling off the map doesn't take away
how big those games were when they were played, right,
they were number seven here, number five there or whatever,
and so or for Colorado just being on the come
up and all the national attention that those don't disappear.
(35:46):
So are we doing rolling averages? All right? Just look
at the last four weeks, and we'll look at the
rankings of the last four weeks as to how they are,
strength of schedule and all of that. So, yeah, it
is a very tenuous and wishy washy argument along the
way when you start using terms like best. But we
(36:06):
know that right, because best is only as good as
everything else. So you have you know, as we like
to say, and we go through. You start playing with words, right,
the old song people just love to play with words,
and that's what we're doing here.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
You know, I don't know that you would have been
better off because this is what happens. This is what happens, Larry.
This is what happens, Larry. This is what happens when
you have people voting on who should be playing for
a championship.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
It's why we have the snubs in college basketball. That's
why we have it the way we do in college football.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Biases come in.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
I don't know if it would have been better. And
I'm really I know we're you know, we're getting the
twelve team playoff last year. Everything is great, but I
don't know if we would have been better off, just saying,
you know, who gets in all five conference champions and
the conference champion that's the highest ranked or highest rated
gets a buye, you know, and then and then we
play it that way, or the first three teams get
(36:59):
a bye in there in five teams who are the
lowest rated play to get to one through four, whatever
it is. You let five teams in and play it
out from there the five conference chant and if somehow,
if Iowa had beaten Michigan, guess what Iowa gets to
get in because they beat Michigan in the in the
Big Ten championship, they won their their side of the division,
they won their division, they won the conference. They get
to go. Your five conference champions should go, and you
(37:21):
have a playoff from there. However you want to play
it out, that's I don't know that that would have
been the best way. You know what, Hey, you gotta win,
gotta win your conference to get it. Okay, that's how
you get in. You win the conference.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
But I like that, And you're also telling every other
conference blank off as well as Notre Dame.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
I like what you just did.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
How fast would Notre Dame join a conference? How fast?
In eight seconds, they'd be in the ACC or the
Big Ten. Hey, hey, I know, i'd we've been pretty uh,
I know, we've been pretty pretty much jerks the last
twenty five years. You keep asking us to join. We
don't want to. No, we're ready to join now. We
always wanted to be a member of the Big Ten.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Come on, we're ready to go. Let's go. They would
get to keep our TV deal to ourselves.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
In seconds, they would join exit out about a Fresca
exit swollen dome, the Jason Smiths or with my carm
and again there's your faulty logic that the entire CFB
built their premise on. But coming up next, we have
news on show Heyo Tani. Plus, if you think we
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(38:20):
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!