June 12, 2024 • 38 mins
Jason and Mike debate if there’s any chance Kristaps Porzingis will play 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!
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before Game three of the NBA Finals. Are gonna get
a Game three of the NBA Finals next Friday night,
and very excited. Yes, so just the we can have
to go between games. We're good, it's great.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
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.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
But but that week.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And a half off reill have it all right? 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.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I get the song, play it again. Jason talked over.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It the uh as we are waiting for the next
game in the NBA Finals to be one of the
biggest cogs of the NBA Finals now may not play.
I have gone past the Hey, I'm surprised how much
(01:58):
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 Domino. Hey, we're talking
about how good he's gonna be, how good he's playing,
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.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Now. 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
(02:39):
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, unbelievad it
next Yow unbelieved a former knicksy.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm 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 his left leg. Let read that again, a
torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior to be
(03:24):
alice tendon in his left leg. I think this is
made up. I don't think this is there's 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's Johnson. I mean,
I don't think the retinaculum is something that's going thinking
(03:46):
it might be a ride which gardens.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I took anatomy classes way back in the day. I
don't remember that being discussed.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
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 sa, well, the doctors are weighing
and say, well, it's this. How about you just tell
me it's a left leg.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
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. Goh, I sound like a lunatic here. I
wonder if I'm saying something I just said that. If
I say this again, I think this is continuing to
call aliens from space to come attack us.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Or beetlejuice is gonna show up, or.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Say 'ritinaculum allowing dislocation of posterior to be Alice Tendon.
I think I think aliens here.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That we can attack the earth now near and on
to attack.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, I mean, we just celebrated Dick Van Dyke winning
an Emmy at ninety eight. That sounded like super caupratulistic XPA.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
He wasn't moving? Well, does this mean he can play?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What? I what does this mean?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I think it's fake.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Talk to me like I'm a five year old.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I think it's fake.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I think it's also long enough that it has to
go in two tweets.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
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 Game.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Three, random situation and I felt something, and now I
have to do with it. It's going to be day to day.
See how I am tomorrow, and obviously I'm going to
do everything I can too to be out there tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
If you die out there and play, they'll apply.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, I know, I'm I'm living.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
By those words.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You literally will die on the cordio. I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
To win.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Look at the fascination. 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 and 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
(05:44):
you're bleeding that like would you keep playing? Did you
just drop off? That crystalist like you were talking Butterflies
was on, like 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
it time out? Or do you go in for the
dunk to take the lead and then call time out?
(06:04):
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 you see the
blood coming all pouring out of his knee. Look at this,
(06:26):
it's all.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Trying to avoid it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
But you know the guy can't get out there with
his little mop fast enough, so it really affects play.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's all over it. Joe Miszula's suit.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I mean, he's gotta have something new.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
He can't get take that ball out of play because
there's blood on it. Now, all of this, but they.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Have to take the ball out of play.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Did that? I was watching in.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
W and A game the other day. Take this ball
to play?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
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.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
They had to put the ball out of play. There's
blood balls out of the butt. But Porzingis 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 (07:04):
Cost See, you were setting up 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 (07:15):
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 Blake before he was Tybo. Yeah, that was Billy
blanks Man. He's had some other like some legal problems
as well, like before the Rise of the Fall, the
Rise and the Fall of Billy Blankly.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
But think about it, I mean, how many talking heads
you can get on there and this becomes part of
the Hamburger character.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's like, I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Waiting because the gambling legalize everywhere, You're gonna have one
of those situations like the Last Boy Scout.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's gonna happen at some point. It just has to.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
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 this way
just specifically 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.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
A say about this.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
He's got a petrificus hotalis going on.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I'm not a doctor, but he's not playing.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He's not playing. Okay, you sure about that?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna get Can I quote
you on from Justin Frosberg?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You know what he's not to play on Thursday? Of
course that Justin Frosberg, who doesn't know this for a fact.
He just knows it to be.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Your crappy This is your Drew Holiday. M v P
pick is still a lot, dude, it is.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Listen. That's that's the best part about this 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?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Man?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
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
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,
(09:19):
the big storyline throughout the NBA Finals, and what have
we seen so far? Kyrie Irving has stunk. He is
absolutely stunk. Now, whether it's a combination of the different
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
(09:40):
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
of a sudden, my Drew Holliday NBA Finals MVP pick.
Look how great I am right now?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
He broke it down going through the Eastern Conference as well.
What a big component he was to to how they
vanquished the Eastern Conference foes very fast. 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.
(10:19):
Plus seven fifty is Drew Holliday. 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 (10:30):
Tell him, 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 4 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I mean, look, it comes down to this.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
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 the majority of
the time, and then they sometimes he passes them off
and it's a good giant is on with somebody else.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
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 the first two games Lucas. Lucas got
triple double. Luca's gotten his pot, but nobody else triple double.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
There's no assists man, right, but he's had he's got
his scoring.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yes, he's got everything, but nobody else has. And you've
won both games. 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
(11:41):
we broke it down a lot after game one of
getting caught in the air, caught in the switch is
no rotation, uh, and open man because they didn't double
team right normally the double crashes and you've got an
open man to kick to.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
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 (12:04):
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
(12:26):
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?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
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
he is less than one hundred percent, that's good enough
for the Celtics because what he's been doing is stopping
(12:55):
the the MAVs at the rim. Specifically, Kyrie has a
much more difficult to 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
in 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
(13:16):
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
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
(13:38):
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.
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 (13:57):
Blotch shot shot alterations, 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. We've seen him in isolation.
But yeah, you're you're not getting much contribution at all
from the secondary players of the Mavericks. Lively has been,
(14:18):
you know, just a guy after having a fantastic run
through the Western Conference playoffs, So yeah, a.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Huge moment here. Poor zingis your guy everything.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You uh see, this is why you gotta feel really
good about the holiday. And we keep your minding yourself
of what we talked about for 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 (14:45):
Because it hurts you. Yeah, you're saying it doesn't, but
and you tried to play that.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
We didn't believe you.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It's three teams ago, yeah, and I am fine though.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Two wins away and he gets to hold up, he
gets to go take it in the sulky if he's
gonna ride around with a horse, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Listen, I had to I had to watch de Gram
and Max Schurz are not pitch and hold up the
World Series trophy.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
So okay, big yeah, but at least they didn't contribute here.
This guy's a key to what they're doing. And he
was once yours played in two game, only.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Played two games, he had forty days off ten games
for that, it doesn't matter, how starring.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And then he showed up like he was a ww he's.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Superstar exit out about a Fresca exit swallow dope.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Still where we're at, Where Chris tops porzingis is the
key to the NBA Finals? Still, even after game two?
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just parked a three run homer in the bottom of
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(17:53):
that goes over the fence, doesn't matter how far it's hit.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Oh, I was booing the outfielder Dodgers way. Draw should
have been caught at the y. He should have had it. Okay,
you saw I angry his catcher was he was salty.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
H Look, he leaped up.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
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He's full extension on his hand and he missed it.
That's a difficult play to missed it. It's a difficult
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Speaker 1 (18:17):
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 silent. Yes, So how do
you have any sort of judgment?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I judge everybody mad because I know how.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Low the bar is, and you're right there with him.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Every pregame for your team is the is the the
announcer saying, I feel it.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We're gonna win tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
We're gonna do some kind of Pedro Serrano jinx and
we're gonna melt some melt something in sacks to Gordon.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
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 (18:53):
Every day on social media. Here's a socks pregame show.
I feel it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I feel it.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Tonight kind of like his boyish enthusiasm. We've sacrificed, even
though he's got no history and he's not grounding.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
In reality, we sacrificed Ralph Carr. We are going to
win tonight, Like I mean, that's what's going on.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Burn his jersey in a ceremony like it's Ted Lasso,
what are you talking about?
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Speaker 4 (19:40):
My friend has promised that the Mets did find a
way to at least bab just split and put on
a jolly good show there in London. So well done
by the amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
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.
There you go.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
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 pretty good call, buddy. I think that they
(20:20):
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 3 (20:29):
So was he playing an unlicensed video game. Met's number twenty.
That's numbers right, right right, instead of having the surname.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Or just 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 Mets first basement number twenty,
(21:00):
paying attention, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's like, did you play the baseball I forget which
one it 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 love
that game. I remember skipping the whole.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Day Hardtball 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
(21:41):
ballpark looked like, 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 (21:53):
Well, I am just glad that you are allowed to
actually have conversations with people who live in Seattle, because
forever 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.
(22:13):
It looks like it's all coming together. Eventually, jay Ron'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.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I know. 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
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most innings 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
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in reality tweet about how good they're 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 saying this all season long. Cal
Raley walk off Grand Slam last night. He is their
most indispensable player, not just because his nickname is Big Dumper,
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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, big nickname, Maybe a big reward at the
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end of the year he belongs as well in the
All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Well, I mean you got superior glutes. 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, that.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
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 much light there still was in
the sky when all those dramatics happened late in the game.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I know that was great.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
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 (24:43):
Well for me, it was all darkness, clouds and thunderstorms.
So he's also got to hit more than two hundred
eventually here at JP.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
How about Thorpe tonight? How about Thorpe?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
He's all right, that's great, that's a good start.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Hey, we're watching the the Yankees beat up on the
roy Here Royles 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 get him too free agency.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
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
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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.
(25:55):
It's amazing to say it 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
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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
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of that, you're well over a billion dollars. So it's
it's very interesting, very top heavy. And this, my friends,
is one of the things that I hear about and
I'm sure you're you're we have talked about it too.
The 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 rated weekends series and the
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regular season history in 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 (27:16):
All right, John, Paul me last, let me end with this.
I'm gonna give you a statement, give me agree or disagree.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You're ready, You got it?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
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. I mean, this is
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kind of reminds me of what Strasburg Mania was.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
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
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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 got fairly for the
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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.
He's an American sports celebrity and I cannot wait to
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see what happens next for ball schemes.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John
Morosi MLB Network inside to catch him every more morning.
Starns you and the Pope radio station near you. And also,
don't forget your new Hall of Fame podcast, Let's Going.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
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 told eleven year old Morosi, John, one day, part
of your dravel be to interview every living Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I would say, come on that that just is 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 (29:38):
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 have a great week.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
All the best of my friends. Thanks for everything, there
goes John Paul.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
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 up. And I remember Skiff because
he was my cleanup hitter. Right he was big, you know,
he's big, burly. He was a 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
hook about the game was that once you got to
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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
one night and my roommates were like, I can't believe
(30:35):
you're gonna graduate. I said, they said, hey, what time
were leaving tomorrow? Cause I have one roommate and I
would go to breakfast and go like I go, I he.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Pulled you through hard times.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
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
gonna be gone from nine thirty until three. I can't.
I don't know how long it's gonna take me to
win this World Series. I can't save it. I got
the World Series tomorrow. So, like that whole night, whenever
we're hanging out walking down the hallway, my roommate's going.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Hey, leave chase the load.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
He's got to get a good night's sleep. He's got
the World Series tomorrow, and they all left.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I'm up.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I'm like, okay, ready, I had a 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 think like a left. I think like till noon's
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.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I just wanted to take an extra serving of as
the salty uh.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Brob probably ice cream. I'm sure was.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I went back to the soft serve. Yeah, one more time,
swirled out of a gun.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, let's go I Stepta. 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.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
So basically it took balbony and flipped him. No, you know,
it was kind of like kind of like Mo Vaughan almost. Oh,
It's kind of like, yeah, I kind of like Mo,
like I got mov on here, I got Skiff power
Kid Skiff.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
But coming 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 right here,
Jason I Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
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Speaker 1 (32:23):
Fox 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
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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 (32:53):
Not to be a jerk about it, I mean, look,
I'm not the biggest gamer like you should talking about.
You know, Sega genis is what's that's what 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 he used to.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Well it's who's on the cover, guys complaining about their ratings.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
That seems to be kind of that.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
The game itself doesn't seem to have the same thrust anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
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 5 (33:36):
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 we would throw it
to my dad on every play. And then you know,
fast forward to now being able to be on the
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cover is an 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 somebody would call
and tell me I'm on the cover of Matt And so, all.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
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 EDG.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
McCaffrey on every I mean, that's a long protracted drive, right.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Then you're 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 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
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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 do I
want to tempt that fate? If you are you getting
that much you just signed a huge deal. You can
be getting that much more money than I am. On
the cover of Madden twy, you have a lot more guaranteed.
So I mean, he's got his money now. But I mean,
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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.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I'm not gonna maybe lean into it. You're not showing
you're not scared.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Away, man, No way, no way. I'm like, hey, sorry,
thank you, it's a great honor. I'll pass.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Can I be on the inside of the cover?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah if I'm if not on the cover, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Like like an out and cover thing where we have
controversial art inside, Like you know, like, yeah, yeah, or.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Put me on the back. I'll be on the back
of the I'll on the back of the game, but
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 him put my homes on again, why would
I want to do that?
Speaker 4 (35:50):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I don't understand. I don't.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Let me put it this way. It's like, let's just say,
throughout my life, I have had problems getting in car accidents. Right, car,
actually right. I don't know what it is, but I'm
just have trouble getting car. I can't drive sometimes mappens, okay,
and then you find out that, hey, this car right
here that you could buy, this car gets in a
(36:12):
lot of accidents. I don't know why, but it just does.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh okay, wait, but it's indistructible. It's like a tank.
No no, no.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Sometimes you get hurt. Sometimes you don't get you sometimes,
but you know, you get a car accident, 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 go buy a car? Then I'm gonna
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get in that A lot of people are getting accidents in.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah, I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
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.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
My behalf with you.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Who hurt you call me right now. But the thing is,
the key is the keyston We're doing billboards around Los
Angeles right now, yes, completely, And as a lawyer, billboard
one just says who hurt you? Like wow wow, Well,
he said, gobba, get your attention. The key is, though,
is to not get in a car accident. It's not
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to get in a car accident 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.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I'm not buying that. I like your analogy. Here's the
problem he's a running back. Christie should change his position
because every hit, every run through the line of scrimmage,
is a car accident. Christian McCaffrey decided how to even
a test drive. Let's do the paperwork right now. I'm
driving this thing out of here. You don't you get
two minutes in the money booth like you're doug after it.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
You don't need to tell me anything about it and
anything in the amenities. I don't really care now. I'm
just driving off the lot right now, gotta have it.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
You know who?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I was glad he didn't have the number one taking
that mob.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
I was just doing this year because I tempted fate
last year with McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And I woke, 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 tell Fate.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Don't not scared, and he wanted to pay tribute to
his dad by talking all about easy Ed McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Come on, exit out bouta 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
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before Game three of the NBA Finals. Are gonna get
a Game three of the NBA Finals next Friday night,
and very excited. Yes, so just the we can have
to go between games. We're good, it's great.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
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.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
But but that week.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And a half off reill have it all right? 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.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I get the song, play it again. Jason talked over.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It the uh as we are waiting for the next
game in the NBA Finals to be one of the
biggest cogs of the NBA Finals now may not play.
I have gone past the Hey, I'm surprised how much
(01:58):
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 Domino. Hey, we're talking
about how good he's gonna be, how good he's playing,
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.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Now. 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
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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, unbelievad it
next Yow unbelieved a former knicksy.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm 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 his left leg. Let read that again, a
torn medial retinaculum allowing dislocation of the posterior to be
(03:24):
alice tendon in his left leg. I think this is
made up. I don't think this is there's 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's Johnson. I mean,
I don't think the retinaculum is something that's going thinking
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it might be a ride which gardens.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I took anatomy classes way back in the day. I
don't remember that being discussed.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
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 sa, well, the doctors are weighing
and say, well, it's this. How about you just tell
me it's a left leg.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
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. Goh, I sound like a lunatic here. I
wonder if I'm saying something I just said that. If
I say this again, I think this is continuing to
call aliens from space to come attack us.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Or beetlejuice is gonna show up, or.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Say 'ritinaculum allowing dislocation of posterior to be Alice Tendon.
I think I think aliens here.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
That we can attack the earth now near and on
to attack.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, I mean, we just celebrated Dick Van Dyke winning
an Emmy at ninety eight. That sounded like super caupratulistic XPA.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
What the hell is this?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
He wasn't moving? Well, does this mean he can play?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What? I what does this mean?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I think it's fake.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Talk to me like I'm a five year old.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I think it's fake.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I think it's also long enough that it has to
go in two tweets.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
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 Game.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Three, random situation and I felt something, and now I
have to do with it. It's going to be day to day.
See how I am tomorrow, and obviously I'm going to
do everything I can too to be out there tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
If you die out there and play, they'll apply.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, I know, I'm I'm living.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
By those words.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You literally will die on the cordio. I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
To win.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Look at the fascination. 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 and 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
(05:44):
you're bleeding that like would you keep playing? Did you
just drop off? That crystalist like you were talking Butterflies
was on, like 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
it time out? Or do you go in for the
dunk to take the lead and then call time out?
(06:04):
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 you see the
blood coming all pouring out of his knee. Look at this,
(06:26):
it's all.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Trying to avoid it.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
But you know the guy can't get out there with
his little mop fast enough, so it really affects play.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's all over it. Joe Miszula's suit.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I mean, he's gotta have something new.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
He can't get take that ball out of play because
there's blood on it. Now, all of this, but they.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Have to take the ball out of play.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Did that? I was watching in.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
W and A game the other day. Take this ball
to play?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
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.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
They had to put the ball out of play. There's
blood balls out of the butt. But Porzingis 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 (07:04):
Cost See, you were setting up 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 (07:15):
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 Blake before he was Tybo. Yeah, that was Billy
blanks Man. He's had some other like some legal problems
as well, like before the Rise of the Fall, the
Rise and the Fall of Billy Blankly.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
But think about it, I mean, how many talking heads
you can get on there and this becomes part of
the Hamburger character.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
It's like, I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Waiting because the gambling legalize everywhere, You're gonna have one
of those situations like the Last Boy Scout.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
It's gonna happen at some point. It just has to.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
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 this way
just specifically 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.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
A say about this.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
He's got a petrificus hotalis going on.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I'm not a doctor, but he's not playing.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
He's not playing. Okay, you sure about that?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna get Can I quote
you on from Justin Frosberg?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You know what he's not to play on Thursday? Of
course that Justin Frosberg, who doesn't know this for a fact.
He just knows it to be.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Your crappy This is your Drew Holiday. M v P
pick is still a lot, dude, it is.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Listen. That's that's the best part about this 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?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Man?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
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
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,
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the big storyline throughout the NBA Finals, and what have
we seen so far? Kyrie Irving has stunk. He is
absolutely stunk. Now, whether it's a combination of the different
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
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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
of a sudden, my Drew Holliday NBA Finals MVP pick.
Look how great I am right now?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
He broke it down going through the Eastern Conference as well.
What a big component he was to to how they
vanquished the Eastern Conference foes very fast. 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.
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Plus seven fifty is Drew Holliday. 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 (10:30):
Tell him, 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 4 (10:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I mean, look, it comes down to this.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
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 the majority of
the time, and then they sometimes he passes them off
and it's a good giant is on with somebody else.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
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 the first two games Lucas. Lucas got
triple double. Luca's gotten his pot, but nobody else triple double.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
There's no assists man, right, but he's had he's got
his scoring.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yes, he's got everything, but nobody else has. And you've
won both games. 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
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we broke it down a lot after game one of
getting caught in the air, caught in the switch is
no rotation, uh, and open man because they didn't double
team right normally the double crashes and you've got an
open man to kick to.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
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 (12:04):
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
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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?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
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
he is less than one hundred percent, that's good enough
for the Celtics because what he's been doing is stopping
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the the MAVs at the rim. Specifically, Kyrie has a
much more difficult to 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
in 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
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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
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
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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.
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 (13:57):
Blotch shot shot alterations, 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. We've seen him in isolation.
But yeah, you're you're not getting much contribution at all
from the secondary players of the Mavericks. Lively has been,
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you know, just a guy after having a fantastic run
through the Western Conference playoffs, So yeah, a.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Huge moment here. Poor zingis your guy everything.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
You uh see, this is why you gotta feel really
good about the holiday. And we keep your minding yourself
of what we talked about for 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 (14:45):
Because it hurts you. Yeah, you're saying it doesn't, but
and you tried to play that.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
We didn't believe you.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It's three teams ago, yeah, and I am fine though.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Two wins away and he gets to hold up, he
gets to go take it in the sulky if he's
gonna ride around with a horse, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Listen, I had to I had to watch de Gram
and Max Schurz are not pitch and hold up the
World Series trophy.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
So okay, big yeah, but at least they didn't contribute here.
This guy's a key to what they're doing. And he
was once yours played in two game, only.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Played two games, he had forty days off ten games
for that, it doesn't matter, how starring.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
And then he showed up like he was a ww he's.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Superstar exit out about a Fresca exit swallow dope.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Still where we're at, Where Chris tops porzingis is the
key to the NBA Finals? Still, even after game two?
What a world? What a time to be a.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
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Speaker 2 (16:13):
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Speaker 1 (17:31):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon live from the tire Rack dot Com Studios. Uh,
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
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that goes over the fence, doesn't matter how far it's hit.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Oh, I was booing the outfielder Dodgers way. Draw should
have been caught at the y. He should have had it. Okay,
you saw I angry his catcher was he was salty.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
H Look, he leaped up.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
He just go on. He got it.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
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.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You're a pro.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
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 silent. Yes, So how do
you have any sort of judgment?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I judge everybody mad because I know how.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Low the bar is, and you're right there with him.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Every pregame for your team is the is the the
announcer saying, I feel it.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
We're gonna win tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
We're gonna do some kind of Pedro Serrano jinx and
we're gonna melt some melt something in sacks to Gordon.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
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 (18:53):
Every day on social media. Here's a socks pregame show.
I feel it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I feel it.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Tonight kind of like his boyish enthusiasm. We've sacrificed, even
though he's got no history and he's not grounding.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
In reality, we sacrificed Ralph Carr. We are going to
win tonight, Like I mean, that's what's going on.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Burn his jersey in a ceremony like it's Ted Lasso,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Joining us now on the hotline. We could have another
five hundred million dollar conversation. Yeah, let's go really really soon.
Is the pope of Major League Baseball? Insiders MLB Network
doing double duty NHL Stanley Cup Final as well morning
show host Cernsey and the Pope. He's on Twitter at
John Morosi. It is John Paul Morosi. What's happening, bud me?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
My friend has promised that the Mets did find a
way to at least bab just split and put on
a jolly good show there in London. So well done
by the amazing.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
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.
There you go.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
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 pretty good call, buddy. I think that they
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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 3 (20:29):
So was he playing an unlicensed video game. Met's number twenty.
That's numbers right, right right, instead of having the surname.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Or just 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 Mets first basement number twenty,
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paying attention, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
That's like, did you play the baseball I forget which
one it 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 love
that game. I remember skipping the whole.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Day Hardtball 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
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ballpark looked like, 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 (21:53):
Well, I am just glad that you are allowed to
actually have conversations with people who live in Seattle, because
forever 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.
(22:13):
It looks like it's all coming together. Eventually, jay Ron'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.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
I know. 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
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most innings 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
(23:11):
in reality tweet about how good they're 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 saying this all season long. Cal
Raley walk off Grand Slam last night. He is their
most indispensable player, not just because his nickname is Big Dumper,
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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, big nickname, Maybe a big reward at the
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end of the year he belongs as well in the
All Star Game.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Well, I mean you got superior glutes. 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, that.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
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 much light there still was in
the sky when all those dramatics happened late in the game.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I know that was great.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
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 (24:43):
Well for me, it was all darkness, clouds and thunderstorms.
So he's also got to hit more than two hundred
eventually here at JP.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
How about Thorpe tonight? How about Thorpe?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
He's all right, that's great, that's a good start.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Hey, we're watching the the Yankees beat up on the
roy Here Royles 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 get him too free agency.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
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
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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.
(25:55):
It's amazing to say it 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
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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
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of that, you're well over a billion dollars. So it's
it's very interesting, very top heavy. And this, my friends,
is one of the things that I hear about and
I'm sure you're you're we have talked about it too.
The 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 rated weekends series and the
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regular season history in 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 (27:16):
All right, John, Paul me last, let me end with this.
I'm gonna give you a statement, give me agree or disagree.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You're ready, You got it?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
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. I mean, this is
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kind of reminds me of what Strasburg Mania was.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
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
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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 got fairly for the
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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.
He's an American sports celebrity and I cannot wait to
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see what happens next for ball schemes.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John
Morosi MLB Network inside to catch him every more morning.
Starns you and the Pope radio station near you. And also,
don't forget your new Hall of Fame podcast, Let's Going.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
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 told eleven year old Morosi, John, one day, part
of your dravel be to interview every living Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I would say, come on that that just is 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 (29:38):
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 have a great week.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
All the best of my friends. Thanks for everything, there
goes John Paul.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
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 up. And I remember Skiff because
he was my cleanup hitter. Right he was big, you know,
he's big, burly. He was a 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
hook about the game was that once you got to
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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
one night and my roommates were like, I can't believe
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you're gonna graduate. I said, they said, hey, what time
were leaving tomorrow? Cause I have one roommate and I
would go to breakfast and go like I go, I he.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Pulled you through hard times.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
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
gonna be gone from nine thirty until three. I can't.
I don't know how long it's gonna take me to
win this World Series. I can't save it. I got
the World Series tomorrow. So, like that whole night, whenever
we're hanging out walking down the hallway, my roommate's going.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Hey, leave chase the load.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
He's got to get a good night's sleep. He's got
the World Series tomorrow, and they all left.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I'm up.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
I'm like, okay, ready, I had a 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 think like a left. I think like till noon's
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.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I just wanted to take an extra serving of as
the salty uh.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Brob probably ice cream. I'm sure was.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I went back to the soft serve. Yeah, one more time,
swirled out of a gun.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, let's go I Stepta. 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.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
So basically it took balbony and flipped him. No, you know,
it was kind of like kind of like Mo Vaughan almost. Oh,
It's kind of like, yeah, I kind of like Mo,
like I got mov on here, I got Skiff power
Kid Skiff.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
But coming 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 right here,
Jason I Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (32:23):
Fox 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
(32:44):
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 (32:53):
Not to be a jerk about it, I mean, look,
I'm not the biggest gamer like you should talking about.
You know, Sega genis is what's that's what 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 he used to.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Well it's who's on the cover, guys complaining about their ratings.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
That seems to be kind of that.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
The game itself doesn't seem to have the same thrust anymore.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
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 5 (33:36):
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 we would throw it
to my dad on every play. And then you know,
fast forward to now being able to be on the
(33:59):
cover is an 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 somebody would call
and tell me I'm on the cover of Matt And so, all.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
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 EDG.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
McCaffrey on every I mean, that's a long protracted drive, right.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Then you're 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 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
(34:47):
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 do I
want to tempt that fate? If you are you getting
that much you just signed a huge deal. You can
be getting that much more money than I am. On
the cover of Madden twy, you have a lot more guaranteed.
So I mean, he's got his money now. But I mean,
(35:07):
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.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I'm not gonna maybe lean into it. You're not showing
you're not scared.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Away, man, No way, no way. I'm like, hey, sorry,
thank you, it's a great honor. I'll pass.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Can I be on the inside of the cover?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah if I'm if not on the cover, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Like like an out and cover thing where we have
controversial art inside, Like you know, like, yeah, yeah, or.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Put me on the back. I'll be on the back
of the I'll on the back of the game, but
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 him put my homes on again, why would
I want to do that?
Speaker 4 (35:50):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
I don't understand. I don't.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Let me put it this way. It's like, let's just say,
throughout my life, I have had problems getting in car accidents. Right, car,
actually right. I don't know what it is, but I'm
just have trouble getting car. I can't drive sometimes mappens, okay,
and then you find out that, hey, this car right
here that you could buy, this car gets in a
(36:12):
lot of accidents. I don't know why, but it just does.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Oh okay, wait, but it's indistructible. It's like a tank.
No no, no.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Sometimes you get hurt. Sometimes you don't get you sometimes,
but you know, you get a car accident, 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 go buy a car? Then I'm gonna
(36:40):
get in that A lot of people are getting accidents in.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah, I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
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.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
My behalf with you.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Who hurt you call me right now. But the thing is,
the key is the keyston We're doing billboards around Los
Angeles right now, yes, completely, And as a lawyer, billboard
one just says who hurt you? Like wow wow, Well,
he said, gobba, get your attention. The key is, though,
is to not get in a car accident. It's not
(37:15):
to get in a car accident 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.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I'm not buying that. I like your analogy. Here's the
problem he's a running back. Christie should change his position
because every hit, every run through the line of scrimmage,
is a car accident. Christian McCaffrey decided how to even
a test drive. Let's do the paperwork right now. I'm
driving this thing out of here. You don't you get
two minutes in the money booth like you're doug after it.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
You don't need to tell me anything about it and
anything in the amenities. I don't really care now. I'm
just driving off the lot right now, gotta have it.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
You know who?
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I was glad he didn't have the number one taking
that mob.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
I was just doing this year because I tempted fate
last year with McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And I woke, 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 tell Fate.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Don't not scared, and he wanted to pay tribute to
his dad by talking all about easy Ed McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Come on, exit out bouta 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, Jason and Mike, this is Fox Sports Radio.
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