June 12, 2024 • 51 mins
Jason and Mike debate if there’s any chance Kristaps Porzingis plays in Game 3 of The Finals tomorrow night. MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the show for all the latest headlines from around the diamond. Christian McCaffrey is officially the cover athlete for Madden 25. Plus, Aaron Rodgers no shows at Jets Mandatory Minicamp!
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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(00:53):
day off before Game three of the NBA Finals. Are
going to get a Game three of the NBA Finals
next Friday night. Very excited. Yes, so just another week
and a half to go between games. We're good. It's great.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We're gonna We've got to make sure everybody's healthy, spaced out.
We can go into that Porzingis injury and try to
decipher what the hell they were actually telling us. You sure,
I just got the word tendon out of it, and
I'll just run with that. But but that week and
a half off real, all right?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, Now I no longer am surprised that we're talking
about Christaps Porzingis. Well, okay, sorry, that's what I meant
to say, Like, I get the song, play it again?
Jason talked over it. The uh as we are waiting
(01:48):
for the next game in the NBA Finals, one of
the biggest cogs of the NBA Finals now may not play.
I have gone past the Hey, I'm surprised how much
we're talking about Porzingis too, I'm not really surprised we're
talking about an injury to Porzingis, Like that's like that
you knew that was the next dominan f Hey, we're
talking about how good he's gonna be, how good he's playing,
(02:10):
what a difference maker he is. Ye, what's the next
thing we're gonna talk about? You know, he's gonna get
hurt and Tonna, Chris tops Porzingis is hurt and his
status for Game three is in question. Now.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
He walked with a pretty good gait to media availability
earlier today, but Mark Stein, who joins us on the show,
had that as part of his coverage this morning that
all of a sudden, you know, he was banged up
after Game two, said I mean you'd have to kill
me to keep me out there, basically, and he goes, well,
I hope it doesn't come to that. But now all
(02:40):
of a sudden his status is up in doubt. And
you know, he was the X factor coming into the series.
You know, we talked a lot. We'll get into Drew
Holliday and everything else, but Porzingis and what Porzingis might
be the minutes he'd be able to play effectiveness, all
of that through two games, it was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Unbelievad next yo unbelieved. A former nick say, I am
the key to the finals. But here is the injury
to christ This is the injury. This is how it's
been reported all day. Christops Porzingis has a torn medial retinaculum,
allowing dislocation of the posterior to be alice tendon in
(03:18):
his left leg. Let me read that again. A torn medial retinaculum,
allowing dislocation of the posterior to be alice tendon in
his left leg. I think this is made up. I
don't think this is there's been there's been no way
that this has been even simplified over the course of
the day. I think this is fake. I think, oh,
what sounds legit. It sounds all medical. It sounds Johnson,
(03:43):
I mean, don't. I don't think the retinaculum is something
that's I think it might be a ride West Gardens.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I took anatomy classes way back in the day. I
don't remember that being discussed.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No one's been able to say, oh, hey, this is
what this means. It's just this is the injury. And
I get good though. I get it, man, I get it,
and all the docs that well, the doctors are weighing
and say, well, it's this. How about you just tell
me it's a left leg yea. I don't want to
keep saying it's a left leg injury. I want to
be a little bit more specific, more body injury. Go
I sound like a lunatic here. I wonder if I'm
saying something I just said that. If I say this again,
(04:16):
I think this is continuing to call aliens from space
to come attack us or beetlejuice is going to show up,
or say ritinaculum, allowing dislocation of posterior to be Alice tendon.
I think I think aliens here that we can attack
the earth now lear and on to attack.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, I mean, we just celebrated Dick van Dyke winning
an Emmy at ninety eight. That sounded like super calumbratuluistic xpa.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
What the hell is this? He wasn't moving? Well, does
this mean he can play? What? I what does this mean?
I think it's fake. Talk to me like I'm a
five year old. I think it's fake.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think it's also long enough that it has to
go in two tweets.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That's just so when he is back, I'll be six.
Here is Porzingis from earlier today talking about his availability
and how he feels about playing going into games. Random situation.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, and I felt something and now I have to
do with it.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It's going to be day to day.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
See how I am tomorrow, and obviously I'm going to
do everything I can too to be out there tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
If you die out there to play.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Apply, yeah, I know, I'm I'm living by those hors.
You literally will die on the Cordio, I mean to win.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Look at the fascination of you would die out so
you would die out there? You would die out to
say it, die out there, say those words die I'll
die out there. Yeah, should say, look I'll die there. Okay, great,
but now it's like, hey, would you really die out there?
Like like like like if this leg injury, if this
you know, posterior chrysalie, whatever, the injury, and this is
bad enough, and like suddenly your leg pops off and
(05:45):
you're bleeding that like would you keep playing? Did you
drop off bristless like you were talking butterflies? Or the
label was one like maybe like final twenty seconds of
the game and you have the ball in a fast
break and your leg completely comes off and you're bleeding
to death. Do you call time out? Do you try
to call time out? Or do you go in for
the dunk to take the lead and then call time out?
(06:06):
But only if they can go by and slip by
your blood that's on the floor. Oh, not exactly what
Kyrie Irving had in mind. He takes a spill, the
ball is out of bounds, blood is everywhere. Mike Furtello
tell us what this means on the telephone, you know, mom,
as you go through the process as well, you see
the blood coming all pouring out of his knee.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Look at this, it's all trying to avoid it, but
you know the guy can't get out there with his
little mop fast enough, so it really affects play.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's all over it. Joe Mizula's suit. Look at that.
I mean, he's gotta have something new. He can't take
that ball out of play because there's blood on it. Now,
all of this, but they have to take the ball
out of play. Did that? I was watching in w
and A game the other day. Gotta take this ball
to play. I'm sorry, girl, girl got a one of
the women gotta split up on her on her forehead
and they had to because they then touched the ball.
(06:56):
They had to put the ball out of play. There's
blood balls out of the foot or Zingis could be dead. Yeah,
but we need a ball. I mean, they have a
guy that could put Peyton Pritchard in the game.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
God, see you were setting up out in scenario like
we were going full last boy scout. I'm getting this
damn layout, and poor Zingis is the defender trying to
fill the lane.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
That would mean that's kind of where you were going
there to watch that on TV. A guy running for
a touchdown and to run for a tell he pulls
out a gun and start shooting people. I mean, that
would be that was Billy Blank's Yeah, I know it,
Billy blank before he was Tybo. Yeah, that was Billy
blanks Man. He's had some other like some legal troubles
as well, like before the Rise of the Fall, the
Rise and the Fall of Billy Blankly. But think about it,
(07:39):
I mean, how many talking heads you can get on
there and this becomes part of the Hamburger character. It's like,
I'm waiting because the gambling legalize everywhere, You're gonna have
one of those situations like the Last Boy Scout. It's
gonna happen at some point. It just has to This
is a fake injury because nobody can explain it. Nobody
can explain, Oh, I think he's gonna play. I think
he's not gonna play. Maybe it's done way just specifically,
(08:01):
so nobody can project whether or not he's going to play.
Doctors getting to chime in, and if he doesn't play,
it's like, oh, look at him, he's being soft. He's
not playing. It's well, he's got a he's got a
particular retinaculum tibolus, you know, tending a say about this.
He's got a petrificus totalis going on. I'm not a doctor,
(08:24):
but he's not playing. He's not playing. Okay? You sure
about that? Oh yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna get Can
I quote you from Justin Frosberg? You know what, He's
not to play on Thursday. According that Justin Frosberg, who
doesn't know this for a fact, he just knows it
to be your crappy This is your Drew Holiday m
v P pick is still a lot, dude, it is. Listen.
(08:47):
That's that's the best part about this is that ever
my pick. Because Porzingis was the leader coming off of
game one, right, but now after game two with Drew
Holliday leading, What did I What did I tell you? Man?
Serious people going right now? Jason Smith is a genius.
He was I got sixty six to one. You found
he was one hundred to one. It said, give me
Drew Holliday for NBA Finals MVP. It's not gonna be
(09:08):
Tatum and Brown. They're gonna wind up splitting the success.
But Holiday is a guy that he's going to take
front and center because he's gonna hold Kyrie down and
he's gonna he's gonna be the guy the through line,
the big storyline throughout the NBA Finals. So what have
we seen so far? Kyrie Irving has stunk. He is
absolutely stunk. Now, whether it's a combination of the different
(09:28):
defenses that the Celtics are throwing at him with Holiday
on him the majority of the time, maybe he's hitting
the wall because again, this is the most basketball Kyrie
Irving's played in five years, right five, it's a long time,
five years most basketball's playing. So you know he's get
the wall. At some point he's busy chirping with Celtics fans.
He has been terrible. Drew Holliday is at the forefront
of that game, high in points in Game two. All
(09:49):
of a sudden, my Drew Holliday NBA Finals MVP pick.
Look how great I am right now?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Though he broke it down going through the Eastern Conference
as well, What a big hooner he was to to
how they vanquished the Eastern Conference foes very fast.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But right now, the updated odds, Tatum still the slight
favorite at plus one thirty. Jalen Brown behind him at
plus one sixty. Luca, if there's going to be a miracle,
he's at plus six hundred. Fourth in the odds at
plus seven fifty. Plus seven fifty is Drew Holliday.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Porzenkis now at forty to one, Derek White at fifty
to one, Kyrie Irving all the way to one hundred
to one after those first two miserable outings.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Telling man Drew ha told you about Drew Holliday, It's unfolding, Smithers,
it's unfolding exactly as I thought the NBA Finals was
going to unfold. Look at Drew Holiday coming in. He's
a man that Madonna made a song about back in
the nineteen eighties. Nicely done, nice, excellent.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I mean, look, it comes down to this, you know,
with Kyrie Irving, someone's got to get credit for it,
even if you're not saying, all right, the team defense
gets the MVP right well majority.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Of the time, and then they sometimes they he passes
them off and it's done a good with somebody else. Look,
and they've done exactly what I've said they're gonna do.
Let Luca get his points. You can win if Luca
gets his points and nobody else is any good. You
see what's happened in the first two games Lucas, Lucas got
triple double. Luca's gotten his put but nobody else got
triple double. There's no assists. Man, he's had he's got
(11:21):
his scoring. Yes, he's got everything, but nobody else has
and you've won both games.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, there's been absolutely no rotation in the ball. The
the offense has been pathetic for lack just to be
blunt about it. For what the the Mavericks have done
thus far, Kyrie's been out of out of sorts through
every every angle. We went back and we broke it
down a lot after game one of getting caught in
the air, caught in the switch is no rotation. Uh,
(11:49):
and open man because they didn't double team right normally
the double crashes and you've got an open man to
kick to. So how bj PJ. Washington lived the last
couple of rounds, So now you don't have that. And
Luca what's interesting is back to back games just shy
of his over under.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I will I will tell you this for poor zingis
with without knowing exactly what the broken posterior of a
patrificus totalis uh in Sandio alohamra, I think, I think
you need to go and get a basilisk thang to
reverse this without knowing this charity burbage, the fact that
(12:28):
this is not poor zingis is out and I get
the gamesmanship. You're gonna get Hey, is he playing? Is
he not? What are the Celtics gonna do? Is he not?
If he wasn't, if he was definitively out and this
was something that he wasn't gonna play, we would know this,
we would we would know that two days gonna play.
So I I gotta think he's gonna get And here's
the thing is if he is out there, even if
(12:49):
he is less than one hundred percent, that's good enough
for the Celtics because what he's been doing is stopping
the the MAVs at the rim. Specifically, Kyrie has at
that much more difficulty get into the rim. He doesn't
need to score twenty five points, right, he was great
that he had the offensive explosion in game one, that
was awesome, But he doesn't need to because everybody else
can pick up the slack. But defensively, if he's there
(13:10):
rint protecting. He can hit a couple of threes. If
he's even seventy percent of what he is, that's still
enough to give the Celtics a series. So as long
as he is out there, Celtics are. That's I mean, look,
I didn't think Porzingis would be the king and be
talking about him it's insane. But this is why I look.
I like the Celtics. I picked them their depth. Again,
I didn't think Porzingis, But if he's out there, that's
(13:31):
a big thing. Now if he's not, that's suddenly a
feeding frenzy for the Mavericks because they can suddenly have
a much more easier time getting to the hoop. They
need to heat up a little bit. You need to
see those games where Luke and Kyrie are. They're scoring
thirty a piece, but the door is much more open
for them because defensively really is where Porzingis has you know,
as much you want to talk about the points and
when he's come off the bench, that's been the big thing.
(13:52):
If he's not there, that's gonna be like, I could
see this series being two to two in a snap. Yeah,
very easily.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Blotch shot shot alter rations just clogging the lane and
no easy buckets, uh and and quick looks for for
Kyrie off the dribble except when Al Horford has been
out there a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
We've seen him in isolation.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
But yeah, you're you're not getting much contribution at all
from the secondary players of the Mavericks. Lively has been,
you know, just a guy after having a fantastic run
through the Western Conference playoffs, so yeah, a huge moment here.
Poor zingis your guy. Everything you see, this is why
you got to feel really good about the holiday. And
we keep reminding yourself of what we talked about for
(14:34):
a couple of weeks of him running through right even
after his acquisition, all the way through that it's been
a good thing because that will help offset the hate
in your heart because of the poor zingis rise.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Because it hurts you. Yeah, you're saying it doesn't, but
and you tried to play that. We didn't believe you.
It's three teams ago, yeah, and I am fine though.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It's two wins away. And he gets to hold up
the he gets to go take it in the sulky.
If he's gonna ride around with a horse, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Listen, I had to. I had to watch de Gram
and Max Schurz are not pitch and hold up the
World Series trophy. So okay, big yeah, but at least
they didn't contribute here. This guy's the key to what
they're doing. And he was once yours played in two game,
only played two games, he had forty days off ten
for that, it doesn't matter, out starring. And then he
(15:27):
showed up like he was a ww he's superstar exit
out about a fresca exit swallow doupe. Yeah. Still where
we're at, where Chris topsporzingis is the key to the
NBA Finals? Still, even after game two? What a world?
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Corey Seeger sitting in his return to Dodgers Stadium and
already the Dodgers up three to nothing. Will Smith has
just parked a three run homer in the bottom of
the first inning. A wall scraper. But as long as
(17:55):
that goes over the fence, doesn't matter how far it's hit.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Oh, I was booing the outfielder. Dodgers should have been
caught at the fence that I leave. He should have
had it.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, you saw I angry his catcher was he was salty.
Look he leaped up. He just come on, he got it.
He's full extension on his hand and he missed it.
That's a difficult play to missed it. It's a difficult
play to make. You're a pro. You're a pro. Really, yeah,
mister White Sox fan. Yeah, your approach would make plays
like that. Really, really, how do you use my team's
(18:26):
silent yes? So, how do you have any sort of judgment?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I judge everybody because I know how low the bar is,
and you're right there with him. Every pregame for your
team is the is the the announcer saying, I feel it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We're gonna win tonight. We're gonna do some kind of
Pedro Serrano jinx and we're gonna melt some melt something
in sacks today.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Former infield there with him. Uh so that I think
Steve Stone needed a day off. I think he needed
a day away.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Every day on social media. Here's a socks pregame show.
I feel it.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I feel tonight, his boyish enthusiasm. We've sacrificed to know
he's got no history and he's not grounded in reality.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
We sacrifice Ralph Carr. We are going to win tonight, Like,
I mean, that's what's going on.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Burn his jersey in a ceremony, Like it's Ted Lasso.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
What are you talking about? Joining us now on the hotline.
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(19:37):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. It is John Paul Morosi.
What's happening, bud me?
Speaker 8 (19:42):
My friend has promised that the Mets did find a
way to at least that was just split and put
on a jolly good show there in London. So well
done by the amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, and then we come everything is great. Oh, now
we got three against the Marlins. We're going to get
right back in it. Nope, they lose the night four two.
Here you go.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Well, I'll say that it's pretty funny. So actually, a
couple of days ago, I was I was talking to
my nephew out in Seattle, and he said, I said, hey,
what should the Mariners do with the trade deadline? This
is not a word of a lie. He said, they
should trade for the Mets first basement number twenty. I said,
d that's a pretty good call, buddy. I think that
(20:21):
they that is a good fit. The Mariners have the need.
And I got to tell my good friend Jason Smith
in a couple of days that, yes, I concur they
will be sellers.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
What was he playing an unlicensed video game? Met's number twenty.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
That's numbers right, right right.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Instead of having the surname or just.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
How how an elementary school student would would know that.
I think it's it's certainly asking enough of your of
your niece, nephew child to be able to at least
properly identify the players in your own market. But if
it's if it's the Met's first basement number twenty, he's
(21:02):
paying attention, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
That's like, did you play the baseball I forget which
one was. It wasn't RBI Baseball, but it was Sega
Genesis where you played and they had they had made
up players. Yeah, and I would always play New York
and Skiff was always the clean up hitter. I was like,
come on, Skiff, you gotta have a big day for me.
And that was the game. I loved that game. I
remember skipping the All Day Hardball.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
Hardball three remains one of the best baseball video games
ever made. Hardball three, which which and we're getting deep
in the weeds here, but this was the first baseball
video game that I could remember that actually depicted in
a very pixelated and rudimentary form what each ballpark looked like,
(21:45):
and you could actually swing and try to hit at
each individual ballpark. That to me was the coolest computer
game for like the twelve year old Morossi that I
could ever have imagined.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Well, I am just glad that you are allowed to
actually have conversations with people who live in Seattle, because
for every year the last few years you picked Seattle,
they have not been able to bring it true. You
did not pick them this year, and here they are
with the largest division lead in Major League Baseball as
we are in the middle of June. They're doing everything right.
(22:15):
It looks like it's all coming together eventually. Jay Rodd's
gonna hit with some power. But I think all they
had to do is say, boy, all Morosi had to
do was not pick us, and this is where I
would be. But you picked them every single year, I know.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
And so it's interesting. I acknowledged as much on this
app earlier today that's called X I believe it used
to be called Twitter. I said something earlier today about
how they're the team that no one wants to face
in October. They've got the largest division lead in the
al as you just mentioned, they've got the most innings
(22:50):
pitched by their starters of any team in baseball, so
that's usually really good recipe for success. So all these
really important elements and then comes the news later on
today that Brian Wou, one of their key starters, had
to be skipped due to a minor injury. Minor So
let's let's hope that I did not put a jinx
on the Mariners with that very optimistic but grounded in
(23:14):
reality tweet about how good their pitching is. And I
agree that Jay Rod is eventually going to pick things up.
They do have a situation. And I love this because
I've been staying this all season long. Cal Rolly walk
off Grand Slam last night. He is their most indispensable player,
(23:34):
not just because his nickname is Big Dumper, but because
he's just that important and walk off flex that is.
And apparently, just to be clear about this, he is
okay with a nickname, and I understand that actually his
family likes it too. So how about that Big Dumper,
(23:56):
big nickname. Maybe a big reward at the end of
the year belongs as well.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
In the All Star Game, Well, I mean, you got
superior glutes.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I mean, you got to activate him as he did
last night on that Grand Slam, sending me to Fortunately,
I was able to turn my microphone off and curse
right right.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
That did happen, I believe on the air. And it
was one of those unique games where it must have
been sort of a twilight type started was a fast game.
Did you notice how how much light there still was
in the sky when all those dramatics happened late in
the game.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
I know, that was great.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
It was unbelievable because in Seattle, as you know, you're
far north, it stays light very late, especially this time
of year. And I just thought that was a very
unique thing to watch that game unfold. There was still
light in the sky. How amazing was that?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Well for me, it was all darkness, clouds and thunderstorms.
So he's also got to hit more than two hundred eventually. Here, JP,
how about Thorpe tonight?
Speaker 8 (24:53):
How about Thorpe?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
He's all right, that's a good start. Hey, we're watching
the the Yankee. He's beat up on the Royals here,
Royals finally get on the board. But wad Soto having
a masterful year really kind of amazing to think he's
not even twenty six. Are we going five hundred and
six hundred? What's the final bidding at auction when we
(25:15):
get into free agency.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
It's a great question, and I know that there's been
a lot of reporting done on what those numbers could
look like. I think, based on his age, the uniqueness
of what he brings, that, if I had to guess,
and I'll stress it is a guess, free agency has
not opened clearly. So, but I do think that if
(25:37):
he gets to free agency and he continues on the
level of production he's at right now, and I expect
that both those things will be true. He keeps playing
like this, he becomes a free agent, there is a
good chance that number starts with a five, that it's
above It's at least half a mill half a billion dollars.
(25:57):
It's amazing to say half a billion dollars, and I
think it falls somewhere between five hundred and six hundred.
I think with Otani there were so many different elements
that got him up to that historic number. But the
thing that's clear to me is that, barring a change
in trajectory here, he is going to get a larger
(26:18):
deal than Aaron Judge and the question is for the Yankees,
after everything that the Dodgers did obviously last offseason, they
spent basically a billion dollars on two players, and the
Yankees to get Soto will basically have to have committed
the same thing to two players Judge plus Soto, and
if you want to add cold money on top of that,
(26:40):
you're well over a billion dollars. So it's it's very interesting,
very top heavy. And this, my friend, is one of
the things that I hear about and I'm sure you're
we have talked about it too. The have and have
not element of baseball. Right now, we're talking about these
two teams Yankees Dodgers, who played one of the most
highly race weekend series and the regular season history in
(27:04):
the last several years. That now we're talking about these
two teams being the financial goliaths that are able to
bring in these players. This is just where we are
right now as the one non salary cap sport in
North America.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
All right, John, Paul, m me last money.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
End with this.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I'm gonna give you a statement, give me agree or disagree.
You're ready, You got it? Okay, there has not been
a must see player every five days. That's strictly a pitcher,
because Otani is different since Steven Strasburg. As we see
with Paul Skeins again tonight, six innings, eight strikeout, standing
ovation leaving the game, Cardinals fans giving him a standing ovation.
(27:43):
I mean, this is kind of reminds me of what
Strasburg Mania was.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Like, you're right spot on, and this is there are
very few things for a baseball player that rival getting
a standing ovation on the road in Saint Louis. My goodness,
he is. He's special, and I agree. It's we have
to just hope as baseball fans here that he stays
(28:09):
healthier for longer than Strasbourg. Strasbourg. We can't delve too
much into the recency bias necessarily of Strasbourg's being hurt
a lot since nineteen World Series. He was magnificent at
his peak. He had great starts in the postseason. It's
certainly he gets knocked and they gone fairly for the
(28:30):
twenty twelve shutdown. But Paul Skeins has every bit the potential,
every bit the gift in his arms, and what a persona.
Of course, he began his career at the Air Force Academy,
so he just has a real discipline and service ethic
to him. He's a lot of fun to watch, total package.
(28:50):
He's an American sports celebrity and I cannot wait to
see what happens next for ball schemes.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John Morosi,
the MLB Network Insider. Catch them every morning, Starnsy and
the Pope Radio station near you. And also, don't forget
your new Hall of Fame podcast, John Let's Go Going.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
I appreciate it, guys, a very ambitious podcast in which
our goal is to interview every living Hall of Famer,
and by some miracle, they have asked me to do
this to hold eleven year old Morossi, John, one day,
part of your dravel be to interview every living Hall
of Famer. I would say, come on, that just is
(29:31):
not reality, but it is, and I'm blessed and I
appreciate you guys mentioning that yes, the Johnny Bench episode
available today wherever you get your podcasts there It is.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
More info on John Paul's Twitter page at John Morosi.
Congratulations on the new gig. We will talk to you
next week, and Joey, I have a great week.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
All the best of my friends. Thanks for everything.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
There goes John Paul. You know, I remember, I wish
I could remember the name. It was Sega Genesis Baseball.
I remember playing it in college and it was all
names that were just made up for people, right, it
was just made up. And I remember Skiff because he
was my cleanup hitter, right. He was big, you know,
he's big Burl. He was the guy that all the
home runs for me. And I was like, come on, Skiff,
you're killing me, right, but you I remember the big
(30:12):
hook about the game was that once you got to
the playoffs, you couldn't save it. So I got to
the World Series, you had to play the World Series out.
You couldn't go back and save it, like play a
couple of games and save. And it took like probably
fifteen minutes or so to play a game. So it's like, okay,
maybe a little bit longer depending on how the game went.
And so it's best to seven. And so I remember
(30:34):
one night and my roommates were like, I can't believe
you're gonna graduate. I said, they said, hey, what time
we're leaving? Tomorrow's my one roommate and I would go
to breakfast and go, I go, I go. I he
pulled you through hard times. I said, no, I'm not
going to I'm not going to class tomorrow. What do
you mean? I go? I got the World Series tomorrow. Man,
you guys are all going to be gone from nine
thirty until three. I can't I don't know how long
(30:56):
it's gonna take me to win this World Series. I
can't save it. I've got the World Series tomorrow. So
like that whole night, whenever we're hanging out, walking down
the hallway, my roommate's going, hey, leave Chase the load.
He's got to get a good night sleep. He's got
the World Series tomorrow, and they all left. I'm up.
I'm like, okay, ready, I had I had a cup
of coffee, and I'm ready to go. I got the
World Series nine thirty until I don't know, like I
(31:17):
think like a level. I think like till noon. And
then then I won because I won, like in six games.
I was so excited. I went down to get lunch
and I was so happy. I'm like, I just won
the World Series. Nobody here knows it. Nobody here knows.
I just wanted to take an extra serving of as
the s crob probably ice cream, I'm sure was. I
went back to the soft serve. Yeah, one more time,
(31:38):
swirled gun. Yeah, let's go I Stepteda. I forget who
the MVP was because they named the MVP I should remember.
I mean that skiff and maybe with skiff, I don't know,
big power hitter Lefty, I think forty two home Runsie.
So basically it took balbony and flipped him. No, you know,
it was kind of like, kind of like mo vaugh almost.
Oh kind yeah, I kind of like I got mov
on here, got skiff, that power kid skiff. But coming
(32:01):
up next a big time sports tradition was announced again
today and I still can't believe people take part in it.
I can't believe people are okay with being featured on
the cover of Madden. That's next rid here Jason I
Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon live from the ti rack dot Com Studios.
Big NFL Story Today, Christian McCaffrey is on the cover
of Madden twenty five. Yeah, well, the Madden curse has
been I don't want to say dormant, but it's not
(32:46):
quite been what it was the last seven or eight years.
You've had guys on that have had down years, but
not at the heyday of when guys are getting hurt
all the time.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Not to be a jerk about it, I mean, look,
I'm not the biggest gamer like you should to talk about.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
You know, Sega genis is what it like.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
That's that's when I played a bunch right in television,
you know, all of that kind of realm. But Madden
doesn't have the same juice outside of guys complaining about
their ratings that.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
He used to. Well it's who's on the cover, guys
complaining about their ratings. That seems to be kind of that.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
The game itself doesn't seem to have the same thrust anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Exactly right. Everybody plays it, but the controversy is about,
you know, is about getting the ratings on it. So
Christian McCaffrey, though, is on the cover. Do you wonder
Madden curse is it still there? Here's McCaffrey from today
saying he was happy, he was honored he has no
problem being on the cover.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
It's a huge honor, man. I mean this is something
that you know, I think about all the times where
me and my three brothers would be in the basement
and playing Madden two thousand and one, going all the
way back to them and just having such a blast
on the Nintendo sixty four and would throw it to
my dad on every play. And then you know, fast
forward to now able to be on the cover is
(34:01):
a massive honor. I'm not superstitious at all about it.
I was so excited, man, I mean, this was this
was such an honor to be able to you know,
when I first got the call, I was, I was
in shock. Is something that I just never saw what
happened to me. I never thought that, you know, somebody
would call and tell me I'm on the cover of
MAT And so all.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Right, First of all, could you win by throwing the
ball to Ed McCaffrey on every play? I mean, could
you really? I mean I want to Ed McCaffrey on
every That's a long protracted drive right there. Not throwing
to Rod Smith. You're throwing to Ed McCaffrey drawing the double.
I don't know why you would do this. If you're
Christian McCaffrey, right, I get, Hey, I played it. It's
(34:41):
an honor, But you're a guy that's been hurt. I'm
just talking about tempting the football. I'm just sitting here saying, Okay,
if I have an injury history and I know that
for some reason, cover athletes of the game have gotten
hurt a lot, why do I want to be on it?
Why don't want to tempt that fate? If you are
you getting that much you just signed a huge deal.
(35:02):
You can be getting that much more money than I am.
On the cover of Madden twy. You got a lot
more guaranteed. So I mean, he's got his money now.
But I mean, what if I have an injury history
and there's a really bad, superstitious karma thing that I
could avoid. I'm not gonna go to it. I'm not
gonna lean into it. You're not showing you're not scared away, man,
(35:23):
No way, no way. I'm like, hey, sorry, thank you,
it's a great honor. I'll pass. Can I be on
the inside of the cover? Yeah if I'm if not
on the cover, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Like like an out and cover thing where we have
controversial art inside like, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, or put me on the back. I'll be on
the back of the I'll be on the back of
the game. Put somebody else on the front of the game,
and I'll have a quote about the game book. Put
Matthew Stafford on the front of the game. But the
uh no, if I'm him, put my homes on again?
Why would I want to do that? I don't. I
don't understand. I don't. Here's the thing. Let me put
it this way. It's like, let's just say, throughout my life,
(35:58):
I have had problems getting in car accidents, right, A
car accidents right. I don't know what it is, but
I'm just have trouble getting car right, I can't drive
sometimes something happens, okay, and then you find out that hey,
this car right here that you could buy, this car
gets in a lot of accidents. I don't know why,
but it just does. Oh okay, wait, but it's indestructible.
(36:19):
It's like a tank. No no, no. Sometimes you get hurt.
Sometimes you don't get you sometimes, but you know, you
get a car accidents, yes I do. Yeah, okay, that's good. Okay.
But here's the thing. This car that you could buy
new car. Nice car, great car, nothing wrong with great car,
popular car. But it gets in a lot of accidents.
So if I get an accidents driving, am I gonna
(36:40):
go buy a car? Then I'm gonna get in that
A lot of people are getting accidents in. Yeah, I'm
not gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
But if I get hit in that car, I'm gonna
go in and argue targeting. So it's gonna be a
more egregious penalty to the person that hit me. When
I get my injury attorney, I'm working on my behalf
with you. Who hurt you call me right now.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
But the thing is, the key is the keyston We're
doing billboards around Los Angeles right now. Yes, completely, it
is a lawyer billboard. One just says who hurt you?
Like wow Wow, Well he say, gobba gets your attention.
The key is, though, is to not get in a
car accident. It's not to get in a car accident
(37:19):
and be okay. It's to not get just avoid them. Yeah.
So if I have a problem getting in car accidents,
but this car I could drive also for some reason,
no matter who drives it, it gets a lot of accidents.
I'm not buying that. I like your analogy. Here's the problem.
He's a running back.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Christie should change his position because every hit, every run
through the line of scrimmage is a car accident. Christian
McCaffrey decided, I'm even a test drive. Let's do the
paperwork right now. I'm driving this thing out of here.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You know what you get. You get two minutes in
the money booth like you're doug after it. You don't
need to tell me anything about it and anything in
the amenities. I don't really care now. I'm just I'm
driving off the lot right now. Gotta have it, you know.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Glad he didn't have the number one taking that mob
draft he is doing this year because I tempted.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Fate last year with McCaffrey and I WoT I'm not.
I'm not, I'm not doing it. I don't I don't
get it. I don't understand why you would do that.
You don't pay.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
He's not scared, and he wanted to pay tribute to
his dad by talking all about easy Ed McCaffrey, come on.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Hey, you
thought we didn't have another great NFL controversy coming up?
Oh boy, do we got one straight ahead for you
as well, Chasing and Mike. This is Fox Sports Radio. Oh,
I mean I went back and watched Aaron ros Or
what if he stopped? What if he's starts out has
a bad year, like Josh allenys had a bad year
(38:39):
last year. You didn't think Josh allennd have that a
down year last year? Josh Allen had a down year
because that's been the thing the last few years. If
guys have not had great years being on the cover.
So you have the injury history of Christian McCaffrey, and
you have guys han't down years. Why would you do that?
Like he doesn't need it? Guys who would need it?
I would say, yeah, like hey, Garrett Wilson short, well, no,
I don't want any jet on the cover. Everybuddy looking
(38:59):
for some sort of good You did anybody what you did?
You just walked right into your own trap. I want
to get my guys out up. No, wait a minute,
I walked him.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Into the curves.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Think of guys, who needs what breeze hall on there?
While you're at Clinton Johnson should be on the cover
of Matten twenty Fokay, I would you know? I went
why we got a side swipe in. I'm just the
man's were trying.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
To recover from a what wasn't off times catastrophic rookie season.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Yeah, try and recover from a catastrophic season in which
he kept dropping the football. I think back to this,
By the way, Josh Allen was still the number one
quarterback by you know, like forty points, right, but he
still had no But overall, it's not fantasy wise. Overall
he had a down year. Yeah, Christian McCaffrey doesn't care
about He doesn't fantasy. He wants to win. But it
was a down year for Josh Allen throwing the football
(39:45):
playoff wise, everything else was a down year for him.
It's a fantasy, doesn't stan. It's about us. That's about us.
But I'm just saying, like performance, it's played wins loss
versus individual statistical output. I mean, Josh Allen still put
fourth a tremendous ep. You know, I keep thinking back
to this episode of West Wing where the President, where
(40:08):
President Bartlett was had a photo op with a guy
who had gotten his picture taken with every president going
back like sixty years, Okay, and he goes and the
first president he took a picture with was Herbert Hoover
And it turns out, oh, so Bartlett meets me to
take a picture, and there was a big stock market
thing going on in the West Wing in this episode,
(40:28):
and he tells the guy how old were you when
you got your picture? He goes, I was nine years old.
It was on September twenty fifth, nineteen twenty nine. He's
just really the next day the stock market crash, he goes, yeah,
that was a tough day. And so bartlet's just wait
a minute. And he talks to the Charlie who was
his body man. He goes, am I crazy for thinking
to blow it off? This this this photo op, because
(40:49):
you know there's a lot of stock market stuff going on.
And the guy the president took a picture of this
guy the next day of the stock market type and
Charlie played by Deula Hill says, I can't believe you're
thinking about that. So he goes, oh, you're right, I'm
being silly. No, I can't believe you're actually thinking about
doing this. You gotta take a picture with that guy
and tomorrow there said yeah, and Barlow walked out. So
(41:10):
we got a reschedule. We got to reschedule. So I
think about this with Christian McCaffrey, I'm like, okay, injury history. Yeah,
it's great. He used to play the game. That's awesome.
I mean, in the end, is he a guy that
can look back at his career and say, hey, it
was great being on the cover that year. I got
heart right and played very well with it. But it
doesn't matter. I was on the cover of Madden cover Maden.
I mean, but I don't know, man, I wouldn't want
to bum But that's what fate with that. I mean,
(41:32):
you walk around saying the what if? Like I went
back for a second helping of Iron Quaity. I don't
think psychologically that was the best thing for me to do, right.
Guys that are in the wrestling business and then it
seems like there's a curse coming after each of them.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
With the Madden covered for a long time, that was
the thing. It's like, Wow, you really really bold, aren't you.
I don't know what it did you know for their
dating lives or their cache. I mean, the guy's a
badass in the locker room because he tends fate he
didn't care.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Wouldn't do it, man, wouldn't wouldn't temp fate? Wouldn't temp fate? Scared?
Not the not the only big NFL story of the day.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Because someone else tempting fate ex hell, wait for it.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Aaron Rodgers is not with the Jets for any camp.
It is an unexcused absence. And even though he's with
the team for record, look, he was with the team
for all the O t a's the last three weeks.
He looks like he's about ninety. I'm I'm I'm building
up to the story, build up faster these listen. I
(42:37):
saw a buster on his account yesterday. Oh Tani's banned
from baseball for life. You worry about that? Go burn
your Lindor Jersey. Oh no, no, I would. I would
be okay with Traddy Lindor to the as he's driving
him across country. Hey, mister, smile, this is great.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
You go.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Smile is on the back of the bus. Everybody than
the A's right. You're gonna love sacriment. Man, It's gonna
be awesome for the next like two or three years,
until you're thirty five. Now, it'd be great. But Rogers,
who's been with the team OTAs and by all accounts,
he looks really good. No look, passes are making their
way onto social media. He says he's about ninety percent
(43:14):
right now. Still it's a long time to go. But
he's not with the team now for their mini camp
three day mini camp. There are four players, four stars
in the NFL who are not with their teams for
Mini caamp. The Jets have two of them. Jets. Jets,
you're leading the offseason. Isn't that what you always want?
But this is the part where this story goes from.
You know, I don't really care he misses. He's been
(43:36):
here all off season. It's been great, it's awesome. Yes,
I understand we need to build together this and do this. Okay,
but this is the part where I go from blowing
the story off to just go the Jets can't not
jet for five minutes. Here's head coach Robert Sala explaining
Aaron Rodgers unexcused absence from the Jets mini camp. I
(44:00):
think that was from the other story. But dude, if
that happened, and they're all getting fired, so okay, just
so you understand, they're all fired. It's not happening with
Robert Taylor. But here was Robert Salah explaining Aaron Rodgers
absence earlier today. Aaron Rodgers, No, he's he's hot. Man
(44:20):
that t Robert sala is hot.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
He doesn't like while he was running stairs and thought
his quarterback was going to be there, and then he didn't.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
He's hot.
Speaker 5 (44:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
And here he is again from later on in the
press conference, after getting that blake you Aaron Rodgers out
of his system. Uh. Here he is later on in
the press conference, talking about Aaron rodgers absence.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Aaron and I spoke before OTIA started. He's been very
good in communication. He's been here the entire time. It's inexcused.
But he had an event that was very important to him,
which he communicated.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
He had something very important. He had something very important
he had to do. So he's not with us here.
I mean more important than the job that he said.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
We had to cut out all the bs and distractions
and everything else.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
I hear Robert Salas say that, to play it one
more time, because I can hear just the point whe
Robert sala goes. People now understand I have no power
here in this organization whatsoever. No one listens to me.
I have noticed I am a Unich Organizations Number eight
is the true head coach of this team. Play it
again by the real one, you jerky Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
Aaron and I spoke before OTIA started. He's been very
good in communication. He's been here the entire time. It's inexcused,
but he had an event that was very important to him,
which he communicated to him.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
But it's mandatory. You're here, and it's an excuse. But
he had an event that was that was very in excuse.
You had event that was it was very important to
very important, inexperience important. In other words, I really I
don't I don't make any decisions here whatsoever. He told
me he's not coming, and he's not coming, and they're
not gonna find them. They're not going to suspend, not
can do anything because the entire season rides on eight
(46:00):
all right, all of the ills the bad head coach
that he is, the bad OC that the Jets have.
They're hoping that Rogers just covers up all of those ills.
Like when you are a wall with water stains and
all kinds of stuff, funnies. I'm just I'm just gonna
put some paint over it and it's gonna look awesome. That's
Aaron Rodgers, like, here is Robert Salas say, I have
(46:22):
absolutely no power with this team. I don't make any decisions.
I just he told me he had something very important,
So it's an excused but he's not there. No, he's not.
And and is there any come uppings for it? I mean,
I mean no, not really, but but I'm gonna be
fighting in Kno. He guys know, it's inexcused.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Oh no, because people put out He's like, well, you know,
he faces fines and whatever. It was twenty five and
thirty thousand dollars whatever. It's like, yeah, all right, his
rounding errors. He didn't care. And they're not actually gonna
collect that money.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
They should, they should, they should find when they play
this on TV, Robert sala not a shot caller. That
should be the fut Robert Salad. It works pretty well.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
I have so exasperated already though, between that and the
Reddicks story, and that's circling around.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
He's uh, he's Sam Weinberg from a few good men.
I have no responsibilities here. What's smiling at you?
Speaker 8 (47:10):
Right?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
All responsibilities here? Whatsoever? I have to when Aaron Rodgers, hey,
when he tells me he's here, he's here. It's great,
it works out grabulate like Solas, He's just a dude.
He's just a guy now. He's just filling a suit.
The only reason he's there is because Rogers got hurt
last year as well. If we get them all again,
if we upset the Apple card too much, what does
that mean. Let's bring everybody back this year. We'll bring
(47:30):
our GM back, bingerur head coach back, bring everybody back.
I hope that it works. But Solid he's just a
guy now because you couldn't get rid of it because
Hacket would have been gone too. He's that's not a bit.
Rogers is the offensive cour that's what. But that's his
empty suit that he loves so much. That doesn't matter.
It's his guy friends. Solid he's a He's just a
guy who stands around and he's a cheerleader on the sidelines.
(47:53):
That's what Robert Solid does. I'm doing I'm doing this commercial.
Whe I'm brushing my teeth. They look pretty good, draws
plays in the dirt. I mean, it's all of these things.
Not that they needed to come out and say hey,
this is a big deal, or really be combative with him,
but to just say yeah, hey, there's a really important
event that Aaron had to attend to. Hey, I think
(48:15):
you have like seventy five or eighty guys here that
could say, Hey, I had an important event. I want
to do it. But this is like we talked about
with all these situations, right Lakers yesterday, find the podcast
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the pr win that they could have had. And I
(48:38):
used the.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
Term win loosely with quotes and blinking letters or whatever
in terms of hey, you know he is one of
the guys talking about Danny Hurley of one of the
guys where on the radar and we'll get into shams
and woe's slat fight because I want to put him
in the cage once and for all. But it's the
idea of you put out a statement and get get
(48:59):
ahead of it. With Robert Slay, he could have just
easily said, you know, we we had a conversation. He's
been good about communication where he starts and just leave
it there and we talked about it. He's not gonna
he wasn't able to join us for this and We've
talked about it.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
It's an important thing for us on our team. But
he can't but leave it there.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
Don't say that he's got some other important event, because
now you're minimizing you may seem like.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
So important where if it was something that was a
big deal, if it was a life or death thing,
it would have been an excused absence. They would have
easily excused thing here, So making an excused absent. So
what we talked to have to do a podcast. I
heard he was on a Putin rally. I'm going on
his stop. I'm watching steven Sagall movies. Uh yeah, I mean,
(49:45):
is he on a darkness retreat? Is he on one
of those hike retreats where you like one of those
things Tyshirt does where he walks in the desert with
no water for like five days and try to see
his future, like like what what's he doing? Like what's so?
What's so?
Speaker 6 (49:57):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (49:58):
Out of a vet?
Speaker 3 (49:58):
That's where you get the Ioti and Johnny Cash his
voice in the sky hell Homer.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
But I mean if because if it was, if it
was an important thing, it would be excuse because they
would easily excuse Rogers from all over.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
But again It just seems like you could have said
it's excused, we don't need to go into details of it.
And maybe it becomes a public thing because he's at
a rally for somebody tomorrow. I don't know, but very
easily at least.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
For basketball game watching. Caitlyn Clark, all right, everything's great, Yeah, goes.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
Throwing out a ceremonial pitch for this Savannah Bananas.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
I mean, really, this just shows you that the Jets,
I mean, he makes every single decision on this team
Jets show. That's what this is. Like the season or not,
but he makes every single and the head coach is
just a guy standing there saying I got to wear
a swell headset, right, all right?
Speaker 8 (50:49):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (50:49):
Hey man, he's cashing a pretty big check. Do I
have to pay for any of the gear they give
me to wear in game days?
Speaker 8 (50:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (50:54):
I get that for free. Oh that's awesome, all right,
cool man? I like that. I mean, really, it's just
everybody else's don't minimize whatever I want to do. I'm
gonna do. That's me. That's what it is. That kind
of authority. It's all about it, man,
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day off before Game three of the NBA Finals. Are
going to get a Game three of the NBA Finals
next Friday night. Very excited. Yes, so just another week
and a half to go between games. We're good. It's great.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
We're gonna We've got to make sure everybody's healthy, spaced out.
We can go into that Porzingis injury and try to
decipher what the hell they were actually telling us. You sure,
I just got the word tendon out of it, and
I'll just run with that. But but that week and
a half off real, all right?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, Now I no longer am surprised that we're talking
about Christaps Porzingis. Well, okay, sorry, that's what I meant
to say, Like, I get the song, play it again?
Jason talked over it. The uh as we are waiting
(01:48):
for the next game in the NBA Finals, one of
the biggest cogs of the NBA Finals now may not play.
I have gone past the Hey, I'm surprised how much
we're talking about Porzingis too, I'm not really surprised we're
talking about an injury to Porzingis, Like that's like that
you knew that was the next dominan f Hey, we're
talking about how good he's gonna be, how good he's playing,
(02:10):
what a difference maker he is. Ye, what's the next
thing we're gonna talk about? You know, he's gonna get
hurt and Tonna, Chris tops Porzingis is hurt and his
status for Game three is in question. Now.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
He walked with a pretty good gait to media availability
earlier today, but Mark Stein, who joins us on the show,
had that as part of his coverage this morning that
all of a sudden, you know, he was banged up
after Game two, said I mean you'd have to kill
me to keep me out there, basically, and he goes, well,
I hope it doesn't come to that. But now all
(02:40):
of a sudden his status is up in doubt. And
you know, he was the X factor coming into the series.
You know, we talked a lot. We'll get into Drew
Holliday and everything else, but Porzingis and what Porzingis might
be the minutes he'd be able to play effectiveness, all
of that through two games, it was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Unbelievad next yo unbelieved. A former nick say, I am
the key to the finals. But here is the injury
to christ This is the injury. This is how it's
been reported all day. Christops Porzingis has a torn medial retinaculum,
allowing dislocation of the posterior to be alice tendon in
(03:18):
his left leg. Let me read that again. A torn medial retinaculum,
allowing dislocation of the posterior to be alice tendon in
his left leg. I think this is made up. I
don't think this is there's been there's been no way
that this has been even simplified over the course of
the day. I think this is fake. I think, oh,
what sounds legit. It sounds all medical. It sounds Johnson,
(03:43):
I mean, don't. I don't think the retinaculum is something
that's I think it might be a ride West Gardens.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I took anatomy classes way back in the day. I
don't remember that being discussed.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
No one's been able to say, oh, hey, this is
what this means. It's just this is the injury. And
I get good though. I get it, man, I get it,
and all the docs that well, the doctors are weighing
and say, well, it's this. How about you just tell
me it's a left leg yea. I don't want to
keep saying it's a left leg injury. I want to
be a little bit more specific, more body injury. Go
I sound like a lunatic here. I wonder if I'm
saying something I just said that. If I say this again,
(04:16):
I think this is continuing to call aliens from space
to come attack us or beetlejuice is going to show up,
or say ritinaculum, allowing dislocation of posterior to be Alice tendon.
I think I think aliens here that we can attack
the earth now lear and on to attack.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, I mean, we just celebrated Dick van Dyke winning
an Emmy at ninety eight. That sounded like super calumbratuluistic xpa.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
What the hell is this? He wasn't moving? Well, does
this mean he can play? What? I what does this mean?
I think it's fake. Talk to me like I'm a
five year old. I think it's fake.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I think it's also long enough that it has to
go in two tweets.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
That's just so when he is back, I'll be six.
Here is Porzingis from earlier today talking about his availability
and how he feels about playing going into games. Random situation.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, and I felt something and now I have to
do with it.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
It's going to be day to day.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
See how I am tomorrow, and obviously I'm going to
do everything I can too to be out there tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
If you die out there to play.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Apply, yeah, I know, I'm I'm living by those hors.
You literally will die on the Cordio, I mean to win.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Look at the fascination of you would die out so
you would die out there? You would die out to
say it, die out there, say those words die I'll
die out there. Yeah, should say, look I'll die there. Okay, great,
but now it's like, hey, would you really die out there?
Like like like like if this leg injury, if this
you know, posterior chrysalie, whatever, the injury, and this is
bad enough, and like suddenly your leg pops off and
(05:45):
you're bleeding that like would you keep playing? Did you
drop off bristless like you were talking butterflies? Or the
label was one like maybe like final twenty seconds of
the game and you have the ball in a fast
break and your leg completely comes off and you're bleeding
to death. Do you call time out? Do you try
to call time out? Or do you go in for
the dunk to take the lead and then call time out?
(06:06):
But only if they can go by and slip by
your blood that's on the floor. Oh, not exactly what
Kyrie Irving had in mind. He takes a spill, the
ball is out of bounds, blood is everywhere. Mike Furtello
tell us what this means on the telephone, you know, mom,
as you go through the process as well, you see
the blood coming all pouring out of his knee.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Look at this, it's all trying to avoid it, but
you know the guy can't get out there with his
little mop fast enough, so it really affects play.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's all over it. Joe Mizula's suit. Look at that.
I mean, he's gotta have something new. He can't take
that ball out of play because there's blood on it. Now,
all of this, but they have to take the ball
out of play. Did that? I was watching in w
and A game the other day. Gotta take this ball
to play. I'm sorry, girl, girl got a one of
the women gotta split up on her on her forehead
and they had to because they then touched the ball.
(06:56):
They had to put the ball out of play. There's
blood balls out of the foot or Zingis could be dead. Yeah,
but we need a ball. I mean, they have a
guy that could put Peyton Pritchard in the game.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
God, see you were setting up out in scenario like
we were going full last boy scout. I'm getting this
damn layout, and poor Zingis is the defender trying to
fill the lane.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
That would mean that's kind of where you were going
there to watch that on TV. A guy running for
a touchdown and to run for a tell he pulls
out a gun and start shooting people. I mean, that
would be that was Billy Blank's Yeah, I know it,
Billy blank before he was Tybo. Yeah, that was Billy
blanks Man. He's had some other like some legal troubles
as well, like before the Rise of the Fall, the
Rise and the Fall of Billy Blankly. But think about it,
(07:39):
I mean, how many talking heads you can get on
there and this becomes part of the Hamburger character. It's like,
I'm waiting because the gambling legalize everywhere, You're gonna have
one of those situations like the Last Boy Scout. It's
gonna happen at some point. It just has to This
is a fake injury because nobody can explain it. Nobody
can explain, Oh, I think he's gonna play. I think
he's not gonna play. Maybe it's done way just specifically,
(08:01):
so nobody can project whether or not he's going to play.
Doctors getting to chime in, and if he doesn't play,
it's like, oh, look at him, he's being soft. He's
not playing. It's well, he's got a he's got a
particular retinaculum tibolus, you know, tending a say about this.
He's got a petrificus totalis going on. I'm not a doctor,
(08:24):
but he's not playing. He's not playing. Okay? You sure
about that? Oh yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna get Can
I quote you from Justin Frosberg? You know what, He's
not to play on Thursday. According that Justin Frosberg, who
doesn't know this for a fact, he just knows it
to be your crappy This is your Drew Holiday m
v P pick is still a lot, dude, it is. Listen.
(08:47):
That's that's the best part about this is that ever
my pick. Because Porzingis was the leader coming off of
game one, right, but now after game two with Drew
Holliday leading, What did I What did I tell you? Man?
Serious people going right now? Jason Smith is a genius.
He was I got sixty six to one. You found
he was one hundred to one. It said, give me
Drew Holliday for NBA Finals MVP. It's not gonna be
(09:08):
Tatum and Brown. They're gonna wind up splitting the success.
But Holiday is a guy that he's going to take
front and center because he's gonna hold Kyrie down and
he's gonna he's gonna be the guy the through line,
the big storyline throughout the NBA Finals. So what have
we seen so far? Kyrie Irving has stunk. He is
absolutely stunk. Now, whether it's a combination of the different
(09:28):
defenses that the Celtics are throwing at him with Holiday
on him the majority of the time, maybe he's hitting
the wall because again, this is the most basketball Kyrie
Irving's played in five years, right five, it's a long time,
five years most basketball's playing. So you know he's get
the wall. At some point he's busy chirping with Celtics fans.
He has been terrible. Drew Holliday is at the forefront
of that game, high in points in Game two. All
(09:49):
of a sudden, my Drew Holliday NBA Finals MVP pick.
Look how great I am right now?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Though he broke it down going through the Eastern Conference
as well, What a big hooner he was to to
how they vanquished the Eastern Conference foes very fast.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But right now, the updated odds, Tatum still the slight
favorite at plus one thirty. Jalen Brown behind him at
plus one sixty. Luca, if there's going to be a miracle,
he's at plus six hundred. Fourth in the odds at
plus seven fifty. Plus seven fifty is Drew Holliday.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Porzenkis now at forty to one, Derek White at fifty
to one, Kyrie Irving all the way to one hundred
to one after those first two miserable outings.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Telling man Drew ha told you about Drew Holliday, It's unfolding, Smithers,
it's unfolding exactly as I thought the NBA Finals was
going to unfold. Look at Drew Holiday coming in. He's
a man that Madonna made a song about back in
the nineteen eighties. Nicely done, nice, excellent.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I mean, look, it comes down to this, you know,
with Kyrie Irving, someone's got to get credit for it,
even if you're not saying, all right, the team defense
gets the MVP right well majority.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Of the time, and then they sometimes they he passes
them off and it's done a good with somebody else. Look,
and they've done exactly what I've said they're gonna do.
Let Luca get his points. You can win if Luca
gets his points and nobody else is any good. You
see what's happened in the first two games Lucas, Lucas got
triple double. Luca's gotten his put but nobody else got
triple double. There's no assists. Man, he's had he's got
(11:21):
his scoring. Yes, he's got everything, but nobody else has
and you've won both games.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, there's been absolutely no rotation in the ball. The
the offense has been pathetic for lack just to be
blunt about it. For what the the Mavericks have done
thus far, Kyrie's been out of out of sorts through
every every angle. We went back and we broke it
down a lot after game one of getting caught in
the air, caught in the switch is no rotation. Uh,
(11:49):
and open man because they didn't double team right normally
the double crashes and you've got an open man to
kick to. So how bj PJ. Washington lived the last
couple of rounds, So now you don't have that. And
Luca what's interesting is back to back games just shy
of his over under.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I will I will tell you this for poor zingis
with without knowing exactly what the broken posterior of a
patrificus totalis uh in Sandio alohamra, I think, I think
you need to go and get a basilisk thang to
reverse this without knowing this charity burbage, the fact that
(12:28):
this is not poor zingis is out and I get
the gamesmanship. You're gonna get Hey, is he playing? Is
he not? What are the Celtics gonna do? Is he not?
If he wasn't, if he was definitively out and this
was something that he wasn't gonna play, we would know this,
we would we would know that two days gonna play.
So I I gotta think he's gonna get And here's
the thing is if he is out there, even if
(12:49):
he is less than one hundred percent, that's good enough
for the Celtics because what he's been doing is stopping
the the MAVs at the rim. Specifically, Kyrie has at
that much more difficulty get into the rim. He doesn't
need to score twenty five points, right, he was great
that he had the offensive explosion in game one, that
was awesome, But he doesn't need to because everybody else
can pick up the slack. But defensively, if he's there
(13:10):
rint protecting. He can hit a couple of threes. If
he's even seventy percent of what he is, that's still
enough to give the Celtics a series. So as long
as he is out there, Celtics are. That's I mean, look,
I didn't think Porzingis would be the king and be
talking about him it's insane. But this is why I look.
I like the Celtics. I picked them their depth. Again,
I didn't think Porzingis, But if he's out there, that's
(13:31):
a big thing. Now if he's not, that's suddenly a
feeding frenzy for the Mavericks because they can suddenly have
a much more easier time getting to the hoop. They
need to heat up a little bit. You need to
see those games where Luke and Kyrie are. They're scoring
thirty a piece, but the door is much more open
for them because defensively really is where Porzingis has you know,
as much you want to talk about the points and
when he's come off the bench, that's been the big thing.
(13:52):
If he's not there, that's gonna be like, I could
see this series being two to two in a snap. Yeah,
very easily.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Blotch shot shot alter rations just clogging the lane and
no easy buckets, uh and and quick looks for for
Kyrie off the dribble except when Al Horford has been
out there a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
We've seen him in isolation.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
But yeah, you're you're not getting much contribution at all
from the secondary players of the Mavericks. Lively has been,
you know, just a guy after having a fantastic run
through the Western Conference playoffs, so yeah, a huge moment here.
Poor zingis your guy. Everything you see, this is why
you got to feel really good about the holiday. And
we keep reminding yourself of what we talked about for
(14:34):
a couple of weeks of him running through right even
after his acquisition, all the way through that it's been
a good thing because that will help offset the hate
in your heart because of the poor zingis rise.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Because it hurts you. Yeah, you're saying it doesn't, but
and you tried to play that. We didn't believe you.
It's three teams ago, yeah, and I am fine though.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It's two wins away. And he gets to hold up
the he gets to go take it in the sulky.
If he's gonna ride around with a horse, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Listen, I had to. I had to watch de Gram
and Max Schurz are not pitch and hold up the
World Series trophy. So okay, big yeah, but at least
they didn't contribute here. This guy's the key to what
they're doing. And he was once yours played in two game,
only played two games, he had forty days off ten
for that, it doesn't matter, out starring. And then he
(15:27):
showed up like he was a ww he's superstar exit
out about a fresca exit swallow doupe. Yeah. Still where
we're at, where Chris topsporzingis is the key to the
NBA Finals? Still, even after game two? What a world?
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Speaker 1 (17:32):
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Corey Seeger sitting in his return to Dodgers Stadium and
already the Dodgers up three to nothing. Will Smith has
just parked a three run homer in the bottom of
the first inning. A wall scraper. But as long as
(17:55):
that goes over the fence, doesn't matter how far it's hit.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Oh, I was booing the outfielder. Dodgers should have been
caught at the fence that I leave. He should have
had it.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Okay, you saw I angry his catcher was he was salty.
Look he leaped up. He just come on, he got it.
He's full extension on his hand and he missed it.
That's a difficult play to missed it. It's a difficult
play to make. You're a pro. You're a pro. Really, yeah,
mister White Sox fan. Yeah, your approach would make plays
like that. Really, really, how do you use my team's
(18:26):
silent yes? So, how do you have any sort of judgment?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I judge everybody because I know how low the bar is,
and you're right there with him. Every pregame for your
team is the is the the announcer saying, I feel it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
We're gonna win tonight. We're gonna do some kind of
Pedro Serrano jinx and we're gonna melt some melt something
in sacks today.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Former infield there with him. Uh so that I think
Steve Stone needed a day off. I think he needed
a day away.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Every day on social media. Here's a socks pregame show.
I feel it.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I feel tonight, his boyish enthusiasm. We've sacrificed to know
he's got no history and he's not grounded in reality.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
We sacrifice Ralph Carr. We are going to win tonight, Like,
I mean, that's what's going on.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Burn his jersey in a ceremony, Like it's Ted Lasso.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
What are you talking about? Joining us now on the hotline.
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(19:37):
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Speaker 8 (19:42):
My friend has promised that the Mets did find a
way to at least that was just split and put
on a jolly good show there in London. So well
done by the amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, and then we come everything is great. Oh, now
we got three against the Marlins. We're going to get
right back in it. Nope, they lose the night four two.
Here you go.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
Well, I'll say that it's pretty funny. So actually, a
couple of days ago, I was I was talking to
my nephew out in Seattle, and he said, I said, hey,
what should the Mariners do with the trade deadline? This
is not a word of a lie. He said, they
should trade for the Mets first basement number twenty. I said,
d that's a pretty good call, buddy. I think that
(20:21):
they that is a good fit. The Mariners have the need.
And I got to tell my good friend Jason Smith
in a couple of days that, yes, I concur they
will be sellers.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
What was he playing an unlicensed video game? Met's number twenty.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
That's numbers right, right right.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Instead of having the surname or just.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
How how an elementary school student would would know that.
I think it's it's certainly asking enough of your of
your niece, nephew child to be able to at least
properly identify the players in your own market. But if
it's if it's the Met's first basement number twenty, he's
(21:02):
paying attention, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
That's like, did you play the baseball I forget which
one was. It wasn't RBI Baseball, but it was Sega
Genesis where you played and they had they had made
up players. Yeah, and I would always play New York
and Skiff was always the clean up hitter. I was like,
come on, Skiff, you gotta have a big day for me.
And that was the game. I loved that game. I
remember skipping the All Day Hardball.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
Hardball three remains one of the best baseball video games
ever made. Hardball three, which which and we're getting deep
in the weeds here, but this was the first baseball
video game that I could remember that actually depicted in
a very pixelated and rudimentary form what each ballpark looked like,
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and you could actually swing and try to hit at
each individual ballpark. That to me was the coolest computer
game for like the twelve year old Morossi that I
could ever have imagined.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Well, I am just glad that you are allowed to
actually have conversations with people who live in Seattle, because
for every year the last few years you picked Seattle,
they have not been able to bring it true. You
did not pick them this year, and here they are
with the largest division lead in Major League Baseball as
we are in the middle of June. They're doing everything right.
(22:15):
It looks like it's all coming together eventually. Jay Rodd's
gonna hit with some power. But I think all they
had to do is say, boy, all Morosi had to
do was not pick us, and this is where I
would be. But you picked them every single year, I know.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
And so it's interesting. I acknowledged as much on this
app earlier today that's called X I believe it used
to be called Twitter. I said something earlier today about
how they're the team that no one wants to face
in October. They've got the largest division lead in the
al as you just mentioned, they've got the most innings
(22:50):
pitched by their starters of any team in baseball, so
that's usually really good recipe for success. So all these
really important elements and then comes the news later on
today that Brian Wou, one of their key starters, had
to be skipped due to a minor injury. Minor So
let's let's hope that I did not put a jinx
on the Mariners with that very optimistic but grounded in
(23:14):
reality tweet about how good their pitching is. And I
agree that Jay Rod is eventually going to pick things up.
They do have a situation. And I love this because
I've been staying this all season long. Cal Rolly walk
off Grand Slam last night. He is their most indispensable player,
(23:34):
not just because his nickname is Big Dumper, but because
he's just that important and walk off flex that is.
And apparently, just to be clear about this, he is
okay with a nickname, and I understand that actually his
family likes it too. So how about that Big Dumper,
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big nickname. Maybe a big reward at the end of
the year belongs as well.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
In the All Star Game, Well, I mean, you got
superior glutes.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
I mean, you got to activate him as he did
last night on that Grand Slam, sending me to Fortunately,
I was able to turn my microphone off and curse
right right.
Speaker 8 (24:14):
That did happen, I believe on the air. And it
was one of those unique games where it must have
been sort of a twilight type started was a fast game.
Did you notice how how much light there still was
in the sky when all those dramatics happened late in
the game.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
I know, that was great.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
It was unbelievable because in Seattle, as you know, you're
far north, it stays light very late, especially this time
of year. And I just thought that was a very
unique thing to watch that game unfold. There was still
light in the sky. How amazing was that?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Well for me, it was all darkness, clouds and thunderstorms.
So he's also got to hit more than two hundred eventually. Here, JP,
how about Thorpe tonight?
Speaker 8 (24:53):
How about Thorpe?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
He's all right, that's a good start. Hey, we're watching
the the Yankee. He's beat up on the Royals here,
Royals finally get on the board. But wad Soto having
a masterful year really kind of amazing to think he's
not even twenty six. Are we going five hundred and
six hundred? What's the final bidding at auction when we
(25:15):
get into free agency.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
It's a great question, and I know that there's been
a lot of reporting done on what those numbers could
look like. I think, based on his age, the uniqueness
of what he brings, that, if I had to guess,
and I'll stress it is a guess, free agency has
not opened clearly. So, but I do think that if
(25:37):
he gets to free agency and he continues on the
level of production he's at right now, and I expect
that both those things will be true. He keeps playing
like this, he becomes a free agent, there is a
good chance that number starts with a five, that it's
above It's at least half a mill half a billion dollars.
(25:57):
It's amazing to say half a billion dollars, and I
think it falls somewhere between five hundred and six hundred.
I think with Otani there were so many different elements
that got him up to that historic number. But the
thing that's clear to me is that, barring a change
in trajectory here, he is going to get a larger
(26:18):
deal than Aaron Judge and the question is for the Yankees,
after everything that the Dodgers did obviously last offseason, they
spent basically a billion dollars on two players, and the
Yankees to get Soto will basically have to have committed
the same thing to two players Judge plus Soto, and
if you want to add cold money on top of that,
(26:40):
you're well over a billion dollars. So it's it's very interesting,
very top heavy. And this, my friend, is one of
the things that I hear about and I'm sure you're
we have talked about it too. The have and have
not element of baseball. Right now, we're talking about these
two teams Yankees Dodgers, who played one of the most
highly race weekend series and the regular season history in
(27:04):
the last several years. That now we're talking about these
two teams being the financial goliaths that are able to
bring in these players. This is just where we are
right now as the one non salary cap sport in
North America.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
All right, John, Paul, m me last money.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
End with this.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I'm gonna give you a statement, give me agree or disagree.
You're ready, You got it? Okay, there has not been
a must see player every five days. That's strictly a pitcher,
because Otani is different since Steven Strasburg. As we see
with Paul Skeins again tonight, six innings, eight strikeout, standing
ovation leaving the game, Cardinals fans giving him a standing ovation.
(27:43):
I mean, this is kind of reminds me of what
Strasburg Mania was.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
Like, you're right spot on, and this is there are
very few things for a baseball player that rival getting
a standing ovation on the road in Saint Louis. My goodness,
he is. He's special, and I agree. It's we have
to just hope as baseball fans here that he stays
(28:09):
healthier for longer than Strasbourg. Strasbourg. We can't delve too
much into the recency bias necessarily of Strasbourg's being hurt
a lot since nineteen World Series. He was magnificent at
his peak. He had great starts in the postseason. It's
certainly he gets knocked and they gone fairly for the
(28:30):
twenty twelve shutdown. But Paul Skeins has every bit the potential,
every bit the gift in his arms, and what a persona.
Of course, he began his career at the Air Force Academy,
so he just has a real discipline and service ethic
to him. He's a lot of fun to watch, total package.
(28:50):
He's an American sports celebrity and I cannot wait to
see what happens next for ball schemes.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John Morosi,
the MLB Network Insider. Catch them every morning, Starnsy and
the Pope Radio station near you. And also, don't forget
your new Hall of Fame podcast, John Let's Go Going.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
I appreciate it, guys, a very ambitious podcast in which
our goal is to interview every living Hall of Famer,
and by some miracle, they have asked me to do
this to hold eleven year old Morossi, John, one day,
part of your dravel be to interview every living Hall
of Famer. I would say, come on, that just is
(29:31):
not reality, but it is, and I'm blessed and I
appreciate you guys mentioning that yes, the Johnny Bench episode
available today wherever you get your podcasts there It is.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
More info on John Paul's Twitter page at John Morosi.
Congratulations on the new gig. We will talk to you
next week, and Joey, I have a great week.
Speaker 8 (29:48):
All the best of my friends. Thanks for everything.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
There goes John Paul. You know, I remember, I wish
I could remember the name. It was Sega Genesis Baseball.
I remember playing it in college and it was all
names that were just made up for people, right, it
was just made up. And I remember Skiff because he
was my cleanup hitter, right. He was big, you know,
he's big Burl. He was the guy that all the
home runs for me. And I was like, come on, Skiff,
you're killing me, right, but you I remember the big
(30:12):
hook about the game was that once you got to
the playoffs, you couldn't save it. So I got to
the World Series, you had to play the World Series out.
You couldn't go back and save it, like play a
couple of games and save. And it took like probably
fifteen minutes or so to play a game. So it's like, okay,
maybe a little bit longer depending on how the game went.
And so it's best to seven. And so I remember
(30:34):
one night and my roommates were like, I can't believe
you're gonna graduate. I said, they said, hey, what time
we're leaving? Tomorrow's my one roommate and I would go
to breakfast and go, I go, I go. I he
pulled you through hard times. I said, no, I'm not
going to I'm not going to class tomorrow. What do
you mean? I go? I got the World Series tomorrow. Man,
you guys are all going to be gone from nine
thirty until three. I can't I don't know how long
(30:56):
it's gonna take me to win this World Series. I
can't save it. I've got the World Series tomorrow. So
like that whole night, whenever we're hanging out, walking down
the hallway, my roommate's going, hey, leave Chase the load.
He's got to get a good night sleep. He's got
the World Series tomorrow, and they all left. I'm up.
I'm like, okay, ready, I had I had a cup
of coffee, and I'm ready to go. I got the
World Series nine thirty until I don't know, like I
(31:17):
think like a level. I think like till noon. And
then then I won because I won, like in six games.
I was so excited. I went down to get lunch
and I was so happy. I'm like, I just won
the World Series. Nobody here knows it. Nobody here knows.
I just wanted to take an extra serving of as
the s crob probably ice cream, I'm sure was. I
went back to the soft serve. Yeah, one more time,
(31:38):
swirled gun. Yeah, let's go I Stepteda. I forget who
the MVP was because they named the MVP I should remember.
I mean that skiff and maybe with skiff, I don't know,
big power hitter Lefty, I think forty two home Runsie.
So basically it took balbony and flipped him. No, you know,
it was kind of like, kind of like mo vaugh almost.
Oh kind yeah, I kind of like I got mov
on here, got skiff, that power kid skiff. But coming
(32:01):
up next a big time sports tradition was announced again
today and I still can't believe people take part in it.
I can't believe people are okay with being featured on
the cover of Madden. That's next rid here Jason I
Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon live from the ti rack dot Com Studios.
Big NFL Story Today, Christian McCaffrey is on the cover
of Madden twenty five. Yeah, well, the Madden curse has
been I don't want to say dormant, but it's not
(32:46):
quite been what it was the last seven or eight years.
You've had guys on that have had down years, but
not at the heyday of when guys are getting hurt
all the time.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Not to be a jerk about it, I mean, look,
I'm not the biggest gamer like you should to talk about.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
You know, Sega genis is what it like.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
That's that's when I played a bunch right in television,
you know, all of that kind of realm. But Madden
doesn't have the same juice outside of guys complaining about
their ratings that.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
He used to. Well it's who's on the cover, guys
complaining about their ratings. That seems to be kind of that.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
The game itself doesn't seem to have the same thrust anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Exactly right. Everybody plays it, but the controversy is about,
you know, is about getting the ratings on it. So
Christian McCaffrey, though, is on the cover. Do you wonder
Madden curse is it still there? Here's McCaffrey from today
saying he was happy, he was honored he has no
problem being on the cover.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
It's a huge honor, man. I mean this is something
that you know, I think about all the times where
me and my three brothers would be in the basement
and playing Madden two thousand and one, going all the
way back to them and just having such a blast
on the Nintendo sixty four and would throw it to
my dad on every play. And then you know, fast
forward to now able to be on the cover is
(34:01):
a massive honor. I'm not superstitious at all about it.
I was so excited, man, I mean, this was this
was such an honor to be able to you know,
when I first got the call, I was, I was
in shock. Is something that I just never saw what
happened to me. I never thought that, you know, somebody
would call and tell me I'm on the cover of
MAT And so all.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Right, First of all, could you win by throwing the
ball to Ed McCaffrey on every play? I mean, could
you really? I mean I want to Ed McCaffrey on
every That's a long protracted drive right there. Not throwing
to Rod Smith. You're throwing to Ed McCaffrey drawing the double.
I don't know why you would do this. If you're
Christian McCaffrey, right, I get, Hey, I played it. It's
(34:41):
an honor, But you're a guy that's been hurt. I'm
just talking about tempting the football. I'm just sitting here saying, Okay,
if I have an injury history and I know that
for some reason, cover athletes of the game have gotten
hurt a lot, why do I want to be on it?
Why don't want to tempt that fate? If you are
you getting that much you just signed a huge deal.
(35:02):
You can be getting that much more money than I am.
On the cover of Madden twy. You got a lot
more guaranteed. So I mean, he's got his money now.
But I mean, what if I have an injury history
and there's a really bad, superstitious karma thing that I
could avoid. I'm not gonna go to it. I'm not
gonna lean into it. You're not showing you're not scared away, man,
(35:23):
No way, no way. I'm like, hey, sorry, thank you,
it's a great honor. I'll pass. Can I be on
the inside of the cover? Yeah if I'm if not
on the cover, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Like like an out and cover thing where we have
controversial art inside like, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, or put me on the back. I'll be on
the back of the I'll be on the back of
the game. Put somebody else on the front of the game,
and I'll have a quote about the game book. Put
Matthew Stafford on the front of the game. But the
uh no, if I'm him, put my homes on again?
Why would I want to do that? I don't. I
don't understand. I don't. Here's the thing. Let me put
it this way. It's like, let's just say, throughout my life,
(35:58):
I have had problems getting in car accidents, right, A
car accidents right. I don't know what it is, but
I'm just have trouble getting car right, I can't drive
sometimes something happens, okay, and then you find out that hey,
this car right here that you could buy, this car
gets in a lot of accidents. I don't know why,
but it just does. Oh okay, wait, but it's indestructible.
(36:19):
It's like a tank. No no, no. Sometimes you get hurt.
Sometimes you don't get you sometimes, but you know, you
get a car accidents, yes I do. Yeah, okay, that's good. Okay.
But here's the thing. This car that you could buy
new car. Nice car, great car, nothing wrong with great car,
popular car. But it gets in a lot of accidents.
So if I get an accidents driving, am I gonna
(36:40):
go buy a car? Then I'm gonna get in that
A lot of people are getting accidents in. Yeah, I'm
not gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
But if I get hit in that car, I'm gonna
go in and argue targeting. So it's gonna be a
more egregious penalty to the person that hit me. When
I get my injury attorney, I'm working on my behalf
with you. Who hurt you call me right now.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
But the thing is, the key is the keyston We're
doing billboards around Los Angeles right now. Yes, completely, it
is a lawyer billboard. One just says who hurt you?
Like wow Wow, Well he say, gobba gets your attention.
The key is, though, is to not get in a
car accident. It's not to get in a car accident
(37:19):
and be okay. It's to not get just avoid them. Yeah.
So if I have a problem getting in car accidents,
but this car I could drive also for some reason,
no matter who drives it, it gets a lot of accidents.
I'm not buying that. I like your analogy. Here's the problem.
He's a running back.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Christie should change his position because every hit, every run
through the line of scrimmage is a car accident. Christian
McCaffrey decided, I'm even a test drive. Let's do the
paperwork right now. I'm driving this thing out of here.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You know what you get. You get two minutes in
the money booth like you're doug after it. You don't
need to tell me anything about it and anything in
the amenities. I don't really care now. I'm just I'm
driving off the lot right now. Gotta have it, you know.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Glad he didn't have the number one taking that mob
draft he is doing this year because I tempted.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Fate last year with McCaffrey and I WoT I'm not.
I'm not, I'm not doing it. I don't I don't
get it. I don't understand why you would do that.
You don't pay.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
He's not scared, and he wanted to pay tribute to
his dad by talking all about easy Ed McCaffrey, come on.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Hey, you
thought we didn't have another great NFL controversy coming up?
Oh boy, do we got one straight ahead for you
as well, Chasing and Mike. This is Fox Sports Radio. Oh,
I mean I went back and watched Aaron ros Or
what if he stopped? What if he's starts out has
a bad year, like Josh allenys had a bad year
(38:39):
last year. You didn't think Josh allennd have that a
down year last year? Josh Allen had a down year
because that's been the thing the last few years. If
guys have not had great years being on the cover.
So you have the injury history of Christian McCaffrey, and
you have guys han't down years. Why would you do that?
Like he doesn't need it? Guys who would need it?
I would say, yeah, like hey, Garrett Wilson short, well, no,
I don't want any jet on the cover. Everybuddy looking
(38:59):
for some sort of good You did anybody what you did?
You just walked right into your own trap. I want
to get my guys out up. No, wait a minute,
I walked him.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Into the curves.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Think of guys, who needs what breeze hall on there?
While you're at Clinton Johnson should be on the cover
of Matten twenty Fokay, I would you know? I went
why we got a side swipe in. I'm just the
man's were trying.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
To recover from a what wasn't off times catastrophic rookie season.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Yeah, try and recover from a catastrophic season in which
he kept dropping the football. I think back to this,
By the way, Josh Allen was still the number one
quarterback by you know, like forty points, right, but he
still had no But overall, it's not fantasy wise. Overall
he had a down year. Yeah, Christian McCaffrey doesn't care
about He doesn't fantasy. He wants to win. But it
was a down year for Josh Allen throwing the football
(39:45):
playoff wise, everything else was a down year for him.
It's a fantasy, doesn't stan. It's about us. That's about us.
But I'm just saying, like performance, it's played wins loss
versus individual statistical output. I mean, Josh Allen still put
fourth a tremendous ep. You know, I keep thinking back
to this episode of West Wing where the President, where
(40:08):
President Bartlett was had a photo op with a guy
who had gotten his picture taken with every president going
back like sixty years, Okay, and he goes and the
first president he took a picture with was Herbert Hoover
And it turns out, oh, so Bartlett meets me to
take a picture, and there was a big stock market
thing going on in the West Wing in this episode,
(40:28):
and he tells the guy how old were you when
you got your picture? He goes, I was nine years old.
It was on September twenty fifth, nineteen twenty nine. He's
just really the next day the stock market crash, he goes, yeah,
that was a tough day. And so bartlet's just wait
a minute. And he talks to the Charlie who was
his body man. He goes, am I crazy for thinking
to blow it off? This this this photo op, because
(40:49):
you know there's a lot of stock market stuff going on.
And the guy the president took a picture of this
guy the next day of the stock market type and
Charlie played by Deula Hill says, I can't believe you're
thinking about that. So he goes, oh, you're right, I'm
being silly. No, I can't believe you're actually thinking about
doing this. You gotta take a picture with that guy
and tomorrow there said yeah, and Barlow walked out. So
(41:10):
we got a reschedule. We got to reschedule. So I
think about this with Christian McCaffrey, I'm like, okay, injury history. Yeah,
it's great. He used to play the game. That's awesome.
I mean, in the end, is he a guy that
can look back at his career and say, hey, it
was great being on the cover that year. I got
heart right and played very well with it. But it
doesn't matter. I was on the cover of Madden cover Maden.
I mean, but I don't know, man, I wouldn't want
to bum But that's what fate with that. I mean,
(41:32):
you walk around saying the what if? Like I went
back for a second helping of Iron Quaity. I don't
think psychologically that was the best thing for me to do, right.
Guys that are in the wrestling business and then it
seems like there's a curse coming after each of them.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
With the Madden covered for a long time, that was
the thing. It's like, Wow, you really really bold, aren't you.
I don't know what it did you know for their
dating lives or their cache. I mean, the guy's a
badass in the locker room because he tends fate he
didn't care.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Wouldn't do it, man, wouldn't wouldn't temp fate? Wouldn't temp fate? Scared?
Not the not the only big NFL story of the day.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Because someone else tempting fate ex hell, wait for it.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Aaron Rodgers is not with the Jets for any camp.
It is an unexcused absence. And even though he's with
the team for record, look, he was with the team
for all the O t a's the last three weeks.
He looks like he's about ninety. I'm I'm I'm building
up to the story, build up faster these listen. I
(42:37):
saw a buster on his account yesterday. Oh Tani's banned
from baseball for life. You worry about that? Go burn
your Lindor Jersey. Oh no, no, I would. I would
be okay with Traddy Lindor to the as he's driving
him across country. Hey, mister, smile, this is great.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
You go.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Smile is on the back of the bus. Everybody than
the A's right. You're gonna love sacriment. Man, It's gonna
be awesome for the next like two or three years,
until you're thirty five. Now, it'd be great. But Rogers,
who's been with the team OTAs and by all accounts,
he looks really good. No look, passes are making their
way onto social media. He says he's about ninety percent
(43:14):
right now. Still it's a long time to go. But
he's not with the team now for their mini camp
three day mini camp. There are four players, four stars
in the NFL who are not with their teams for
Mini caamp. The Jets have two of them. Jets. Jets,
you're leading the offseason. Isn't that what you always want?
But this is the part where this story goes from.
You know, I don't really care he misses. He's been
(43:36):
here all off season. It's been great, it's awesome. Yes,
I understand we need to build together this and do this. Okay,
but this is the part where I go from blowing
the story off to just go the Jets can't not
jet for five minutes. Here's head coach Robert Sala explaining
Aaron Rodgers unexcused absence from the Jets mini camp. I
(44:00):
think that was from the other story. But dude, if
that happened, and they're all getting fired, so okay, just
so you understand, they're all fired. It's not happening with
Robert Taylor. But here was Robert Salah explaining Aaron Rodgers
absence earlier today. Aaron Rodgers, No, he's he's hot. Man
(44:20):
that t Robert sala is hot.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
He doesn't like while he was running stairs and thought
his quarterback was going to be there, and then he didn't.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
He's hot.
Speaker 5 (44:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
And here he is again from later on in the
press conference, after getting that blake you Aaron Rodgers out
of his system. Uh. Here he is later on in
the press conference, talking about Aaron rodgers absence.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Aaron and I spoke before OTIA started. He's been very
good in communication. He's been here the entire time. It's inexcused.
But he had an event that was very important to him,
which he communicated.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
He had something very important. He had something very important
he had to do. So he's not with us here.
I mean more important than the job that he said.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
We had to cut out all the bs and distractions
and everything else.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
I hear Robert Salas say that, to play it one
more time, because I can hear just the point whe
Robert sala goes. People now understand I have no power
here in this organization whatsoever. No one listens to me.
I have noticed I am a Unich Organizations Number eight
is the true head coach of this team. Play it
again by the real one, you jerky Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (45:26):
Aaron and I spoke before OTIA started. He's been very
good in communication. He's been here the entire time. It's inexcused,
but he had an event that was very important to him,
which he communicated to him.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
But it's mandatory. You're here, and it's an excuse. But
he had an event that was that was very in excuse.
You had event that was it was very important to
very important, inexperience important. In other words, I really I
don't I don't make any decisions here whatsoever. He told
me he's not coming, and he's not coming, and they're
not gonna find them. They're not going to suspend, not
can do anything because the entire season rides on eight
(46:00):
all right, all of the ills the bad head coach
that he is, the bad OC that the Jets have.
They're hoping that Rogers just covers up all of those ills.
Like when you are a wall with water stains and
all kinds of stuff, funnies. I'm just I'm just gonna
put some paint over it and it's gonna look awesome. That's
Aaron Rodgers, like, here is Robert Salas say, I have
(46:22):
absolutely no power with this team. I don't make any decisions.
I just he told me he had something very important,
So it's an excused but he's not there. No, he's not.
And and is there any come uppings for it? I mean,
I mean no, not really, but but I'm gonna be
fighting in Kno. He guys know, it's inexcused.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Oh no, because people put out He's like, well, you know,
he faces fines and whatever. It was twenty five and
thirty thousand dollars whatever. It's like, yeah, all right, his
rounding errors. He didn't care. And they're not actually gonna
collect that money.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
They should, they should, they should find when they play
this on TV, Robert sala not a shot caller. That
should be the fut Robert Salad. It works pretty well.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
I have so exasperated already though, between that and the
Reddicks story, and that's circling around.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
He's uh, he's Sam Weinberg from a few good men.
I have no responsibilities here. What's smiling at you?
Speaker 8 (47:10):
Right?
Speaker 1 (47:10):
All responsibilities here? Whatsoever? I have to when Aaron Rodgers, hey,
when he tells me he's here, he's here. It's great,
it works out grabulate like Solas, He's just a dude.
He's just a guy now. He's just filling a suit.
The only reason he's there is because Rogers got hurt
last year as well. If we get them all again,
if we upset the Apple card too much, what does
that mean. Let's bring everybody back this year. We'll bring
(47:30):
our GM back, bingerur head coach back, bring everybody back.
I hope that it works. But Solid he's just a
guy now because you couldn't get rid of it because
Hacket would have been gone too. He's that's not a bit.
Rogers is the offensive cour that's what. But that's his
empty suit that he loves so much. That doesn't matter.
It's his guy friends. Solid he's a He's just a
guy who stands around and he's a cheerleader on the sidelines.
(47:53):
That's what Robert Solid does. I'm doing I'm doing this commercial.
Whe I'm brushing my teeth. They look pretty good, draws
plays in the dirt. I mean, it's all of these things.
Not that they needed to come out and say hey,
this is a big deal, or really be combative with him,
but to just say yeah, hey, there's a really important
event that Aaron had to attend to. Hey, I think
(48:15):
you have like seventy five or eighty guys here that
could say, Hey, I had an important event. I want
to do it. But this is like we talked about
with all these situations, right Lakers yesterday, find the podcast
wherever you get your audio, the iHeartRadio app Curious with
you wherever you go globally talking about the Lakers right
the pr win that they could have had. And I
(48:38):
used the.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
Term win loosely with quotes and blinking letters or whatever
in terms of hey, you know he is one of
the guys talking about Danny Hurley of one of the
guys where on the radar and we'll get into shams
and woe's slat fight because I want to put him
in the cage once and for all. But it's the
idea of you put out a statement and get get
(48:59):
ahead of it. With Robert Slay, he could have just
easily said, you know, we we had a conversation. He's
been good about communication where he starts and just leave
it there and we talked about it. He's not gonna
he wasn't able to join us for this and We've
talked about it.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
It's an important thing for us on our team. But
he can't but leave it there.
Speaker 3 (49:17):
Don't say that he's got some other important event, because
now you're minimizing you may seem like.
Speaker 1 (49:23):
So important where if it was something that was a
big deal, if it was a life or death thing,
it would have been an excused absence. They would have
easily excused thing here, So making an excused absent. So
what we talked to have to do a podcast. I
heard he was on a Putin rally. I'm going on
his stop. I'm watching steven Sagall movies. Uh yeah, I mean,
(49:45):
is he on a darkness retreat? Is he on one
of those hike retreats where you like one of those
things Tyshirt does where he walks in the desert with
no water for like five days and try to see
his future, like like what what's he doing? Like what's so?
What's so?
Speaker 6 (49:57):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (49:58):
Out of a vet?
Speaker 3 (49:58):
That's where you get the Ioti and Johnny Cash his
voice in the sky hell Homer.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
But I mean if because if it was, if it
was an important thing, it would be excuse because they
would easily excuse Rogers from all over.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
But again It just seems like you could have said
it's excused, we don't need to go into details of it.
And maybe it becomes a public thing because he's at
a rally for somebody tomorrow. I don't know, but very
easily at least.
Speaker 1 (50:28):
For basketball game watching. Caitlyn Clark, all right, everything's great, Yeah, goes.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
Throwing out a ceremonial pitch for this Savannah Bananas.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
I mean, really, this just shows you that the Jets,
I mean, he makes every single decision on this team
Jets show. That's what this is. Like the season or not,
but he makes every single and the head coach is
just a guy standing there saying I got to wear
a swell headset, right, all right?
Speaker 8 (50:49):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (50:49):
Hey man, he's cashing a pretty big check. Do I
have to pay for any of the gear they give
me to wear in game days?
Speaker 8 (50:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (50:54):
I get that for free. Oh that's awesome, all right,
cool man? I like that. I mean, really, it's just
everybody else's don't minimize whatever I want to do. I'm
gonna do. That's me. That's what it is. That kind
of authority. It's all about it, man,
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