June 19, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason and Mike remember and mourn the passing Willie Mays. The guys officially welcome you to the Grimace Era. Plus, a crazy moment from tonight’s Dodgers Game in Denver!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight to The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Jason, Yeah, what do you got, frustra pull the curtain
back here?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Oh what happened?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We still got S and Y on one of the
TVs here, Yes, we do, well, it's a grimace eras
so of course we do.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We can't.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It should be on all four televisions here, claim and
Willie Mays like Harmon claims.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Ken Griffy Jr. Oh no, no, no, well okay, Ken
Griffy had at a cup of coffee for what eighteen
games with the White Side. May spent the last two
years and played in the World Series with the Mets.
Mets made the World Series, yeah seventy three. Yeah, we lost,
We lost because Yogi Berra decided, you know what, I
can't you know what.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Never mind, he played forty one games. I'll have you
know for the white size.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
No, no, no, that's fine, that's fine. That's fine man.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's part of a Hall of Fame run. So I
get to claim him. He had to have been fifty
with the Mets.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
He might everything he went, everything he went through with
when he's playing in high school and then in the
Negro leagues, and then to the Major League Baseball, and
then and then to get traded to the Mets. He
might have been older. He might he might have been
fifty when he was playing. I don't know. He could
have been. He's one of those guys that if you
find out all he was actually one hundred and three,
I wouldn't doubt it because he had. He played for
so long. I mean, twenty four All Star Games. Come on, man,
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twenty all start insane, right? I mean when when? When
did you get down to it? Twenty four?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
And then you win twelve gold gloves, all the accolades,
all the stats that pile up, the signature plays, and
we're watching a play over and over again that happened
seventy years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, yeah. I mean, look that tells you the power
of that catch that this is still viewed as the
greatest play in baseball history. And I'm telling you it's
the greatest defensive play in sports history. And it happened
in nineteen fifty four, and nothing has happened to make
well maybe this is better, certainly nothing in baseball because
you see how this play continues to live. I mean,
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and we've seen great plays. Now we've seen great play.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
That's amazing place I showed you na fantastic nineteen fifty
nine tops card that had like the try painting of it.
But also remember he missed what two hundred and seventy
games approximately because.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
He had to go to the Army. Yes, I mean
he would have hit I mean, at that point, he
probably would have passed Babe Ruth, probably would have been
the all time home run leading hitter, and Barry Bonds
would have passed him because he finished with six sixty. Right,
it's one of the numbers his contemporary Hank Aaron running
alongside him.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I mean, I mean it's unbelievable, but.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Just that long to be able to play at that
level for as long as he did in the in
that day and age, right, because we're talking an age
where a lot of guys still had to go get
regular jobs in the off season.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Maybe he had some you know extra you know, endorsements
and deals and whatever else, but still they were they
were still having to go shake hands and kiss babies
on behalf of companies a lot. It wasn't like now,
it's like, all right, what do we got. We're gonna
We're gonna film three commercials in a day with three
different companies and then go back on vacation. Keep your
training up, not to mention the nutrition, the training uh
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timetables that we have and all the different products that
are out there to keep you in shape.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
We have the cryo chambers, we have the gold that
like all of these things that didn't back then. It's like, hey,
you know, walk it off, rubbed some dirt on it,
and he played and.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
He was an All Star for twenty four years. Twenty
four years. I mean not just played. Hey the guy
played twenty four years.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
No, he was an All Star for twenty But that's
just it, right, It's one thing to hang around rosters, right,
because we just celebrated the hell out of it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Right, Al Horford.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Seventeen years in the NBA and now he's a champion.
But Al Horford's not a guy playing thirty five minutes
and nights.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
He's still he'll still hit it three though he can
still do that.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Still, he can still give you some quality minutes. But
the point is he's not the focal point and he's
not your allst.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Think about this.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Lebron set the record this pass All Star Game with
twenty in the NBA. Yeah, that's four more than him. Yeah,
it's it's insane.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Ye, Like, is Bron? Is Lebron going to be around
to do four more? Like two more? Okay, but four more?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But All Star Games? Four more for him? He really
gonna be that guy. Can unless he makes himself the captain.
I'll be the captain again. Uh okay now, but I
know I'm on the All Star team if I'm the captain.
But I mean, just think about it, like, just parallel
their careers.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Right where you get into baseball, goes and plays in
the Negro leagues, then he has the Army Service, and
then you get to Major League baseball. Lebron didn't go
to college, goes straight into the NBA out of high
school and again training and whatever else. But how many
extra seasons as he played in playoff games, you know,
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and in Olympics and international play and all of that stuff.
It's really remarkable when you try to put it in
that like two decades, right, we talked about the Patriots
and winning for two decades, But to be able to
keep your body right, your mind right, and play to
that level for that long with the style.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That both those guys play too.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
He was when you look at May's flying all over
the day place on the base baths are defensively or
Lebron trying to run.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
People over in the lane. I mean, it's so amazing.
He was thirty nine years old. At at age thirty
nine and forty, he had an ops of nine hundred
those years. What do you think about that when you're
thirty nine and forty he's got an ops of nine hundred,
still hitting twenty twenty five home runs, knocking in seventy
ish runs when he's thirty nine forty years old. Okay,
(06:25):
I just think this thing about that for a second.
I mean, Willie Mays at thirty nine and forty has
an ops of nine hundred. Jeff McNeil, who was a
batting champion, can't get on base, has an ops of
six hundred and he's thirty two.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, but he's part of the Ketching Street, is part
of the Grimis era. Now right now, I'm enjoying you
in nineteen seventy three tops Willie Mays far.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yes, that's a man who's seen some things. Yeah, that
is not Willy Mays.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
That's a man who has walked, I think and lived
twenty many a weary mile.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
At that point, once you put that Mets uniform on,
you look older.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh is that it?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, it's not like the the cloak of invisibility.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, no, it's it's it's but you're safe.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
That's another prior is considered PG Yeah. Yeah, three era.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Uh yes, because now we're well he did play in
the live ball era, because live ball era was till
nineteen eighty, Modern era nineteen eighty until last week. Now
we're in the Grimace era. So it was dead ball era,
live ball era, modern era, Grimace era.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
They're gonna teach this like they do the Mesozoic and.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
The different eras of time. In the early nineteen hundred,
sometimes the home run champion would hit a few as
four home runs. Ty Cobb twice once led the National
League and American League in home runs overall with three.
Then the live ball era began, and that's we saw
more home runs, but that we wouldn't let that guy play.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We're gonna have senators arguing over whether to put Grimace
in textbooks or not.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Man, no, it's it. I mean, look, I'm gonna write
my own history. According to Harmon, and then there's a
giant picture in Grip.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
In the second week of June in twenty twenty four,
when most of the country was worried about the presidential election,
Grimace throughout the first ball in a Mets game. No
one knew the impact this would have just one week later.
It is a butterfly effect if there ever was in fact,
I find I bet you how much. At the debates
next week with Biden and Trump, they're both gonna try
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to get Grimace to be there. Hey, can you endorse me?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Keep my height?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Man? You endure? Hey endorsed by Grimace? Yes, I gotta
get that endorsement. I gotta get that adorsement.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We're trying to get our people in touch with Taylor Swift,
who's in Europe right now on the Aras tour. But
in the absence of her making any statement right now,
we get Grimm, Taylor Swift, and Grimace.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
One other crazy thing about Willie Mays. What's that You
know that Vince Scully didn't meet him till twenty six
I saw that earlier. How is that even possible? Yeah,
but I went back and watched the video. It's bleeping incredible. Yeah,
it looks like both pay Eily's like, yeah, I know
who you are, ye figure, and you called enough of
my games.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, But I mean, it's just to think of the
impact that Willie May's had right on life. And all
the stories you're seeing about Willie Mays, they're all true.
They're all incredible stories. I'll tell you this though. You
want to know what a ball or Willie Mays was,
I'll tell you this story from about seventeen years ago.
So Willy's seventy seven at this point, and the Major
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League Baseball All Star Game is in San Francisco, and
I go and I was hosting. I was at ESPN
Radio and I was doing the afternoons with Steve Klein
for that week. A former Giant Giants pitcher at the time,
he was gonna come on and he was my co host.
Great dude, Steve Flyin was a lot of fun and
I would say to him, dude, you're like nine feet tall,
how come you only throw eighty four miles an hour?
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And he had a lot of fun with it. And
so you know, I'm there and doing the shows that
we're doing at the fan fest, and you know, cal
Ripken is in front of me and he's doing some
sort of event with a bunch of kids and everything else.
And the day of the game, you know, I go
down and I got my pass to be on the
field or whatever wherever I want to be pregame. Then
once the game starts, you're back up in the in
(10:09):
the I got a metal block. I'm back up in
the in the press box. So before the game, they
bring out Willie Mays, and I'm excited because I'm like,
oh man, I get to see Williams. I mean, I
can see William May because just my whole life, Willie
Mays is this larger than life character, this larger than
life guy. And he comes out and one of the
the I forget what they did with him when they
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honored him. And the last thing he did leaving the
field was in a convertible. He drove down on the
dirt which was which buttressed up against the stand so
all down the left field right field line and behind
the plate. And his thing he was doing was throwing
baseballs to kids in the stands, and I was like, oh,
pretty cool. And then he gets to a point where
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it's going and he's driving by the netting, which is up,
of course, so nobody gets you know, you don't get
hit by foul balls, and he's throwing balls into the
net At the time, I'm going, oh my god, what
do we do? Why with Will? He's up throwing the
ball to the netting. Oh my god. And it wasn't
until I got to see it later when I realized
what he was doing. Like Will, he knew he was
getting to the netting, and he starts like slouching in
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his seat, trying to move, trying to throw the balls
over the netting and into the stands to the kids
like he's seventy seven, and the baller is trying to
I can't do this. I can do this. I can
throw the ball up over the jet.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Now, I said, come on, will he like you want to,
like you mean it, Willy, come on, there's kids that
need baseballs here.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Now. He couldn't do it because it was too hard,
but he's trying, and he tried all the way like
he didn't stop, like he just went all the way around,
going I'm gonna do it at some point. I'm gonna
do it at some point. And he just kept trying
to find the right way, the right angle to throw
the ball up and throw it over the netting at
seventy seven while he's driven d being driven around in
a car, is you know, sitting in the back seat convertible.
That's what kind of baller Willie Mays was dig that.
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I mean, that was I mean, that was so great.
I'm throwing it over that. I really it was. Watching that,
I'm saying to myself, Wow, this is like my own
personal moment of what it was when you saw Ted
Williams brought out to the All Star Game when he
couldn't walk anymore, and he brought the in the in
the wheelchair and all the players ran out to the
outfield to hang out with him. They all ran out
and then all of a sudden, Ted Williams is sitting
(12:17):
there and everybody's sitting around talking. That was a great,
great moment, and I'm like, I want to get there,
because did I care about the game as much as
I cared about seeing the pregame and seeing Willie Mays?
Now I didn't. I was like, I want to see Willie.
I want to see Willie.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
This is this is it. But that's the thing, right.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
We talked about baseball and the one thing they have
always done properly, and they made a lot of missteps,
They've been pretty good at embracing technology and stuff, and
certainly in the streaming world gave me access to Chicago
White Sox baseball no matter which coast I was on
in the early stages of that, but always had celebrated
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the greatness of the game and the the all timers,
and and that's the one thing with Willy Mays. It
cuts through generation to generation, right, It's that passed on
down thing and this goes team to team, but certainly
for the the all time greats. I mean, everybody's had
a story from their dad or grandpa if you followed
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the game at all, about Willie Mays and what he
was about. For me, it was an awful lot of
grade school. All right, did I write the.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Mantel book report last time or was it the mas list?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Because you would alternate, right, and we come back and
occasionally you'd throw in uh, Jackie Robinson, or maybe you'd
actually go read another book that was nonsports related.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
My mom not I told you how much I read.
But this my mom threw out The Baseball Life of
Sandy Coas because she was so upset at how many
times I did that a book report in school school.
I'm throwing the book away. You cared because I knew
so much about Sandy Kofax and I still do because
I read that book a thousands or I still I
still stuff. I said, where's that book? I threw it away?
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You read another book. I'm like, I read books, A
book about Sandy Baseball and other Life of Sandy Kofax. Right, okay,
so no, so I get it. I mean those books,
I mean they were just and they were gold because
you learned all about the players that you didn't get
to see play, and this is this is the only
way to do so it was the only way. The
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Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Rest in Peace, Willie
Mays just an unbelievable life inside outside of Major League Baseball.
Coming up next, we have more baseball on the way,
because boy, the Rockies are continuing to melt down following
their loss with the Dodgers tonight. But the Grimace era
in Major League Baseball is open to everyone. What does
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Speaker 4 (15:26):
Five Second Dance Party. He is really doing a full
dance thing. I don't really like it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Well, when you see mom and me as many times
if I have you remember the dance Moves Fox Sports
Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
We love Yeah, first time we've played Dancing Queen and
the Grimace era here on the show, Grimis could really
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get after it. Everything is for the Grimma's era of sports.
We are here Grimmas Arab sports.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I mean we watched the AI version of Grimace's Entry
as Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah. Yeah, Now someone has taken his entrance, the one
where it went that that made it go crazy two
years ago where they followed Edwin Diaz in from the
bullpen and they played Narco for the first time, And
now someone has done it where they've superimposed Grimace instead
of Edwin Diaz coming in. When Edwin Diaz gets the mound,
they just shok Grimace.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
But the problem is when he's when he's walking towards
the mound, he looks like he's got the pelt of
Grimace tied around his neck. He's wearing it like a
cape as opposed to it actually being Grimace. So it
is a little disturbing. I do not recommend showing it
to your children.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What did they do it?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
What did they do? Eyesac guy wearing Grandma's Now this
is terrible. Uh. So, yes, the Grimace Era is here.
Uh And one of the big offshoots of the Grimace
era is with the Mets winning tonight meeting the Rangers
coming from behind. Met's still undefeated in the Bleep and
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Grimace Era. The largest lead now in Major League Baseball
in the divisions. It's not the Dodgers, it's not the Yankees.
We talk a lot about the Dodgers and the Yankees,
but the Mariners have a ten game lead in the
Al West. And if it's gonna be any year for
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the Mariners, this is it. You have a ten game lead.
The Astros stink. J Rod hasn't even really started to
hit yet, and you have a ten game lead like
this is it, Like this is what the Mariners have
been looking for for the last couple of years. Where Okay,
we have the superstar and Julia Rodriguez, we have the
team around him. This is where we have to go.
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This is our season to make this happen. And I
know the Yankees are in the way, and I know
the Dodgers there, but this is our year. It's a
ten game lead and we're not even out of the
middle of June. And to think that Julio Rodriguez, who
I'm gonna pick him for the MVP every year until
he actually wins Hill, he actually wins one, when's he
go on the never againless? No no, no, no, I can't.
It's too young to go on the never again less,
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too young to go on. But for him, for him
to not really be hitting yet, and he seems like
maybe he's breaking out of a little bit but trying
to not really be hitting, and the Marins are this
good like look out. We talk about teams that could
threaten that Yankees Dodgers World Series that all the fans want,
Mareners is one of those teams that can do it
because you know, eventually he's gonna hit. You know eventually
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he's gonna get hot, because he's too good a player,
and it's gonna happen. And the Mariners could be that
team that right now.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Look at him thus far, only thirteen extra base hits,
twenty nine rbi UH and batting average sitting at two
sixty four. Well, that's not the big the big problem,
right The batting average is fine, slugging percentages down run
generation now, but where the strength has been is. On
the pitching side, you got three starters that have each
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racked up six wins, and you've got a team era
that currently ranks fifth in Major League Baseball at three
four to two, bullpen one of the best in the game,
and then found other hitters to come up with the
clutch hits. As you say, the Astros ten games back
and they're the closest competitor at this point. So you've
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got an opportunity because they're a mess right health wise,
you just released a bray you all of these different
things that are going on that the opportunities there for Seattle.
The next few weeks are gonna be interesting as we
start hearing rumblings of names that are out there from
the pitching side, maybe a sharp some middle relief, but
also if you can get one more bat added to
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that lineup. But look, man Rodriguez starts hitting, that.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Bat might be him starting to hit because look, Seattle
loves him, right, they love him. He's got a big
deal with the Trident. Oh you're kidding. He's so much
fun to watch, the energy, the excitement, the enthusiasm which
he plays the game. But with that comes a lot
of pressure because this is hey, we love you, but
you gotta deliver and and this this is the time
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now to do it. The last couple of years, all right,
twenty twenty two they break through. Twenty twenty three wasn't
that great for him, but he did get hot near
the end of the year a little bit. This is now, Okay,
we love you, but we need to see, we need
to see.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
It's also still that reality check that we need to
pull back every now and again and recognize he's twenty three.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
He'll turn twenty four at the end of December.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
So the I want it now microwave version of all
of this stuff right of let's you know, get him
to superstart am on a whole other level as we
look for that face of the game and all of
those arguments that we have the kids doing just he's
got sixteen stolen bases, so.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Helping in different ways.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
But Raleigh Hanneger Franco, I mean, you got some guys
that have given you some good pop and run generation,
so we'll see how much.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You're able to push from there. They already want to
put him on the mount rushmore of Seattle athletes. I'm
sure because you have no are you saying athletes or
just for the maritors. Oh, Arthur, you're gonna say or
just for the city, because otherwise be on there and Julio, Rodrigo.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Lanagan and Cobain and I'm getting my guy in, damn it.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
All right, Griffy's on there, but Griffy and you expect
and Juli going to be on there. Okay, okay, all right,
we need more than four. Okay, this gotta be sports only.
It's got to be sports only.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Okay, So we'll take out it get because because Hendricks
has to get in. Yeah, okay, it's yeah, I mean
really to take it. So we'll just have another shrine
over here.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, but he'll be but maybe Griffy like bookends everybody
for now, and then Jay Rod's in the middle.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I like that, I mean there, Yeah, it's what it is.
For Rodriguez, they're already figuring out what that pose is
gonna be. And I'm gonna guess it's that dugout shot
that became a U short printed training card of him
with that trident as they started beginning those celebrations, because
that's about his cool, was it?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Guess? I don't know how you let people in the
stands with tried Si tugs. It's like, get come on.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
And it's like having the full sized baseball bat give
the way that he used to have.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
It's that jiff of the guy checking everybody going into
the Oh there's a bit with a guy half air. Yeah,
come on it, come on it, come on it. But
I'm telling you, man, watch out for the marriage he
starts hitting. That's it was about the softie or something.
What's going on. I'm just telling you, man, we never
talked about talking about teams that are that are could
wreck the Yankees Dodgers World Series, that that.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
We don't walk back to. Well, but here's the thing is,
we are.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
We are one game away right name game six, Stanley
Cup Final continues either one or two games away to
where it's full.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
On baseball season. I feel like where everything else just
goes like baseball season has just kind of started to
shut up.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
You shut up baseball. Do you hear what he said
to me? Not for you?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Well, no white two nothing win tonight, Pala. We're into
twenty plus wins.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Let's go. When's your next win? I don't know. You
got the Dodgers coming up Monday? Hey, I got the
Dodgers coming up this week. It's gonna be rough. Oh
sorry about that, buddy, I'm sorry. You know, the schedule
brings you. It's gonna be rough. But we'll have more
on the Dodgers coming up in a few minits because boy,
just just the the sheer level of excitement over that
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ninth inning and the umpiring discrepancy. I almost feel like
baseball started tonight right like a little bit like the
Grimace Era got everybody ready. But the Grimace Era is
near the end of the NBA Finals. But it doesn't
matter because the Grimace era is inclusive for everybody. Like
Grimace Era encapsulate everybody's first professional championship of the Grimace Era,
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Boston Celtics. But think about it, whatever it's whenever we
get the puff of smoke here in Los Angeles for
a new coach, they'll be wearing purple yes, exactly the
color of Royalty and Grimace, you know. And the funny
thing is, you know, the funny thing is we talked
about you know both you know, Biden and Trump would
both want Grimace's endorsement. Absolutely. Think about this, right, what's
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the color of Democrats, What's what's their color blue. It's
the color of Republicans red. When you put blue and
red together, what do you get?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You get Grimace. You get Grimaces over thirty five years old.
Let's bleep and go yeah, oh mis Grahams. Forget the
other independence, Green parties or whatever else.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's Grimace time. Welcome to political hot talk. Who should
be Grimace's vice president? Should it be Hamburglar or mayor
mccheese right now? Eight seven seven.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Hamburglar has operated while often speculation like Ocean's eleven, while
often implicated in things have never been charged.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And at what point do the the Golden Archers go
full Grimace and purple bonds purple fries.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh well they're close because now officially McDonald's Twitter account
is a picture of Grimace with a medaize.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Going three hours long. Yes, you're gonna have to call
a doctor in an hour.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Please call a doctor if the Grimace era extends too
long for you, Thank you. We got more coming up
in wet coming up in ninety seconds. But speaking of
needing a doctor, we have Brian Fenley with what's trending
in the wide world of sports? Mike, is it just me?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Or does Jason look like somebody who just got out
of arm wrestling practice.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
It feels like just what he's wearing, how he's here.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
He's gonna participate in the professional slap fighting Oh is he?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
They're just announced a training card set. He's one of
the secret.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Editions that's not officially on the checklist. It's like a
bonus when you open packs.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Well, I was also thinking maybe he would be a
good pillow fighter.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah, he's got a shoulder shoulder injury.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, he's like clowney.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
That's what he's gonna do to your pillow family.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
WHOA sorry. Jay and I were fighting and someone farted
on my god, unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I set myself up for that one, which is which
is usually what happens.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Tell us what's trending in the Grimace era.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Go ahead, all right, so we'll start with something a
little bit serious and then we'll move on from there.
But obviously the biggest story of the day, Willie Mays
passes away peacefully at ninety three years old. A Hall
of Famer, two time MVP, twenty four times an All Star,
he also won a World Series with the Giants in
nineteen fifty four. Now to some of the games that happened.
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On Tuesday, we witnessed what the Dodgers did. They scored
seven runs in the ninth inning. They went on to
win eleven to nine against the Colorado Rockies, where Tioscar
Hernandez hit a three run home run in the ninth
which would end up being the go ahead, game winning
jack but it came with some controversy because there was
a check swing call that allowed him to stay at
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the plate. The next pitch he hits the home run,
but because of the whether that was a check swing
or not, Bud Black, the manager for the Rockies, comes
in and says, hey, man, what's going on here? He
gets thrown out and the Dodgers end up winning. So
do the Yankees four to two against the Baltimore Orioles.
This after Aaron Judge came out of the game in
the fourth inning due to getting hit by a pitch
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to his left hand. X rays were negative there, so
that's an encouraging thing for him. Braves two to one
winners against the Tigers. The Red Sox they fly swatted
the Blue Jays four to three. Tyler O'Neill had a
home run in the ballgame the New York Mets. They
are thirty five and thirty seven on the young season.
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With a seven to six win against the Rangers, Pete
Alonzo with a go ahead double that came in the
ninth inning. Cubs over the Giants five to two. Mike
Harmon's white socks. They come up with that elusive win, yes,
something against the Astro. That's twenty wins on the air. Yeah, buddy,
let's go, I go. Yeah, And thirteen of those twenty
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have come at home, so that means they have won
only seven games away from home. Also wins for the
Brewers and the Athletics. And lastly, guys, we cannot forget
this Game five Stanley Cup Final. It goes to the
Edmonton Oilers and does so five to three against the
Florida Panthers. This was supposed to be a closeout game
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in Game five for the Panthers, but Connor McDavid does
something that we can all aspire to do in a
Game five in the Stanley Cup Final. Two goals, two assists,
dominates forces a Game six and now the Edmonton Oilers
are going to be able to host Game six in Alberta,
and Jason and Mike will be talking about that when
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that happens later on this week. With that, let's get
it back to Mike Carmon and Jason Smith, who just
finished up arm wrestling practice and is trying to win
a trophy. A seventh place trophy is in short order
for him.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Thank you, Brian Family. Seventh place wearing a because they
give trophies for seventh place. My triceps are looking pretty good,
so I wore cut off sleeves tonight. They do these days, Mike,
And that's a fair no. Not in the Grimace era.
Not in the Grimace era, doesn't happen anymore. I gonna
change everything. He's already changing everything. We're not even gonna
(29:20):
talk about Caitlin Clark in a couple of days. It's
gonna be just about Grimace. How are we not.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Doing the show from the Ballpit.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Right Well, I'm working on it. I'm working on I'm
also working on on free McDonald's for us. I'm working on.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Well, I mean, we should, man, how do we not
get into a room and get a deal there?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
What are you gonna say?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I was gonna say, if you do have a birthday
at the ballpit, is it okay?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
If I come?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I was speaking of invitations.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Oh boy boy, that's Brian Finley over there.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
The answer is none of us in Mike Harmon, who
are people who are not invited to Brian Fenley's wedding?
Well the reason, Jason, although's still time for her to run.
I was gonna have you guys.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
I was going to have you over for the West
Coast celebration over the weekend, but I thought, you know,
my mom and you and I just.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Just wanted to be safe.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
So I just like, I don't want you guys to
get together and listen, I got Sary.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
He had already worked all the lyrics to Stacy's mom.
It is also the Grimace Earah, I don't have the
time I used to. It's a different time for me
now we live in a different world than they do
on a Saturday whatever whatever, whatever Grimace related activities are approved.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
You take Bella for a walk that's about a tenth
of a mile, and who's.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Bella or sandwiches and alta? My dog is Benny? Oh
the same thing, Benny. No, it's a different dog, Bella.
It's a different dog. He plays with the dog park.
It actually is. I love Bella. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
Thank you very much, Brian Fenley, appreciate it. The Jason
Smith Show is my best friend Mike Garmin live from
there dot Com Studios. Coming up next, Yes, to celebrate
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the Grimacera. Maybe nothing better than the highlight. We're gonna
play for you straight ahead where the answer to the
question is the Rockies broadcast team. The question is what's
the craziest play by play call we've heard in the
last couple of weeks. Wait till you hear it. It's
coming up next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Andrew Nemart for three.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
That's not all. It doesn't matter, Double Bay, It's not
the real call.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmony.
We're live the Tireck dot Com Studios. Hey, you know
before you get to the Dodgers. I love that story
today that Ralph loren Polo was gonna outfit the US
Olympic tem How about that? I kind of like that.
And they're gonna wear jeans?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Are you gonna get the officials of the United States
Olympics team.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I will say this, I am a big Ralph Laurent
polo fan. I love the T the T shirts, I
love them friends, the I weary been wearing the T
shirts for like twenty five years. And the jeans are fantastic.
So I'm really like, it's gonna look really cool now.
I'm not a fan of the white jeans they're gonna
be wearing in the closing ceremonies. I'm like, oh, come on, man,
I just keep thinking about this Steve Corey and the
(32:21):
white jeans girl doing the fun jeans when he has
hey fun jeans here his white jeans. Not a big
fan of.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Jimmy fallon shit since it is NBC related, you know
what I mean? I look, they did, they just re
upped him, and now he's getting his white pants. Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
We used to have a coach in high school that
would say, I'm telling you guys, wash you white pants
because you think you're gonna get another pair and you're
not so wash you white pants. Wash your white pants.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
But I kind of liked it, you know, Ralph. I've
always loved you know, Ralph Lauren. I was on the
pole of the T shirt like I said, the T
shirts are great, the jeans are great, and I'm like,
this is gonna be a pretty cool look. And the
jeans they're gonna wear, the light colored jeans. I start
thinking to myself, I should get a couple of pairs
of jeans because I don't wear jeans that much anymore.
I used to wear jeans all the time, and I
kind of went from eh, eh, eh, jeans are heavy. Yeah,
(33:11):
I kind of went away from jeans, like too heavy
out here. I get hot wearing jeans, and now I
wear running pants all the time and or but I
used to wear jeans all the time until I'm like,
I mean, you're really hot, and you're in the Sopranos's hot.
You're in the Grimace era, but you're in the Sopranos.
I don't think there's pants in the Grimace era. I
don't think there is. Well, you know.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
What, he's come alongside my world. Let's go Grimace era
pants optional? Yeah, all right, as long as you're purple,
doesn't matter. Yeah, I have actually a shirt design. It's
a great logo. The game's on. Pants are optional. Okay,
so come on over now. Hey, speaking of pants.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Being optional, yeah, No, there's no segue. I was just saying, hell,
it was pretty good life. So tonight we saw good
concept in the Grimace era. Like I said, the Grimace
era is for everybody, and apparently it's more for the
Dodgers than it is for the Rockies. Yeah. Well, the
Rocky suck.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
They d haven a problem, and they only have one
real problem in.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
All of it. The Rockies blow. Here's one thing. You
only have one problem with the Rockies. They stink. Uh.
The Rockies blow a five run ninth inning lead against
the Dodgers. They give up a grand slam to Jason
Hayward and a three run homer to Tioscar Hernandez. Dodgers
(34:29):
win eleven nine. But what's got the Rockies mad is
that they thought the game should have ended after Hayward's
grand Slam. All right, makes it nine to eight. Still
got to get another run. It is coursefield, but gotta
get another run. Otani gets on and Freddie Freeman has walked,
and Hernandez comes up with two outs, and it looks
like on a check swing, it looks like it could
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potentially be strike three, but they appeal to the first
base umpire and Lance Barksdale says no, no swing, and
Bud Black goes crazy, absolutely crazy, screaming that it was
strike three. And this is where I say one of
the reasons why I say this is on the Rockies
for losing this game, because this was a point where, hey,
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you didn't get a strike three call. On Hey, don't
melt down, don't don't yell and scream. Make sure your
pitcher stays focused. Still us to get one more pitch,
but don't make it look like, oh, the game is
over because you didn't get that strike three call. And
seeing the replay, whatever it was called on the by
whatever was called it was going to be because if
they had called it a swing, yeah, it looked like
maybe he might have gone around, but they called it
(35:34):
no because you could say, well, he didn't break his wrists,
he didn't really turn his body at all. So whatever
it was gonna be was going to be the call.
And instead of a strikeout, now the Rockies have to
come back and make another pitch. And when that pitch
was made, this is what happened. Two quick Field, who.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Was lad.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So that's the Dodgers radio, Yeah, positivity, excitement. What did
it sound like for the Rockies to too and play
feels got you gotta be kidding that you went bull
hawk harrels still look out.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
To a three harbor.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
And again Angel Hernandez nowhere near house, right from a
jack to a cane. You thought these problems were gonna
go like when Angel Hernando.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
People are saying, where are the robots setting them in? Look,
we've seen it now from multiple angles and you can
argue it if you want that the bat came through
enough of the zone, but you also gave up multiple
home runs.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Ask me why I don't have a lot of sympathy
for the UH for.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Theh Is there one reason you don't have a lot
of sympathy?
Speaker 5 (36:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Look, and then look you saw Bud Black went crazy.
As soon as Hernandez's ball cleared the fence. The outflders
were screaming at Barbie running George. They screamed at him
after the game was horrible.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Pitch though it was to count and he's like, I'm
gonna throw the fastest. I mean, this is gonna be
the bugs. Bunny, what was it, the behemoth, the package,
whatever it was. Where he's spinning around like a whirling
dervish to get as much velocity as he could where
you have contrails to it, the old NHL on Fox
(37:24):
kind of thing. Uh, and and he served it up.
I didn't try to have any kind of location on it.
It was really I'm just gonna blow it past you,
and Hernandez just said thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Uh. The thing, the reason I don't have a lot
of sympathy, why don't you? It is pretty simple because
if this was a one run game, if it was
four to three and you get screwed on the check
swing and the guy it's a home run. Boy, that's
really tough. But all you had to do was protect
a five run lead in the ninth inning. So all
you had to do five row runs man five runs,
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and not only did you get one home run, you
gave up two. You have a Grand Slam and a
three runner. I'm sorry, I don't have a lot of
sympathy when you couldn't protect a five run lead. Here's
Bud Black.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
After him, talking about, uh, the emotions as folks were
running around, quote upset, That's fine with me. He wasn't
the only one of my guys that was upset, right
because you had Cave going down.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
With the bat in his hand and all that he
was mad, yeah, Cave said. Cave said after he was well,
he was. He was screaming at Barksdale right after the play.
But the reason he said he was mad is that
I yelled lanch who costes the game? And Barksdale said
to me, no, no, it wasn't even close. Wasn't even
That's why Cave got was screaming out that wasn't even close.
(38:43):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
But but you also had the the Will Smith at bat,
which was curious as well. Right with the pitch clock
running down to what was five seconds or whatever, he
tries to call time out.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, is it granted the timeout? And a fastball down
the middle strikes him out, So you you got a
gift on that strike out that Will Smith has a
non competitive at back because he wanted to call time out,
didn't get it. Pitches right down the middle for strike three,
So you got a gift on that one. But no
one's saying anything, Oh, you don't get a time out
of time out there. I'm sorry man.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
And guess who wasn't crying after that play? The Dodgers, No, no, no,
they weren't.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Will Smith said, they're in the Rockies where we was.
Will Smith asked about it. Will Smith said, hey, why this,
why this? Why this? He walked off, and Hernandez comes
up and he basically gives them the wildest win of
the season. Incredible, incredible, It's Rockies baseball. Well listen, what
a way to continue to usher in the Grimace era
(39:40):
of professional sports. Amazing, great times, Twitter, and how about
a fresco Mike at Swollen Dome for Mike. I'm Jason
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight to The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Jason, Yeah, what do you got, frustra pull the curtain
back here?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Oh what happened?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
We still got S and Y on one of the
TVs here, Yes, we do, well, it's a grimace eras
so of course we do.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We can't.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It should be on all four televisions here, claim and
Willie Mays like Harmon claims.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Ken Griffy Jr. Oh no, no, no, well okay, Ken
Griffy had at a cup of coffee for what eighteen
games with the White Side. May spent the last two
years and played in the World Series with the Mets.
Mets made the World Series, yeah seventy three. Yeah, we lost,
We lost because Yogi Berra decided, you know what, I
can't you know what.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Never mind, he played forty one games. I'll have you
know for the white size.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
No, no, no, that's fine, that's fine. That's fine man.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's part of a Hall of Fame run. So I
get to claim him. He had to have been fifty
with the Mets.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
He might everything he went, everything he went through with
when he's playing in high school and then in the
Negro leagues, and then to the Major League Baseball, and
then and then to get traded to the Mets. He
might have been older. He might he might have been
fifty when he was playing. I don't know. He could
have been. He's one of those guys that if you
find out all he was actually one hundred and three,
I wouldn't doubt it because he had. He played for
so long. I mean, twenty four All Star Games. Come on, man,
(01:51):
twenty all start insane, right? I mean when when? When
did you get down to it? Twenty four?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
And then you win twelve gold gloves, all the accolades,
all the stats that pile up, the signature plays, and
we're watching a play over and over again that happened
seventy years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, yeah. I mean, look that tells you the power
of that catch that this is still viewed as the
greatest play in baseball history. And I'm telling you it's
the greatest defensive play in sports history. And it happened
in nineteen fifty four, and nothing has happened to make
well maybe this is better, certainly nothing in baseball because
you see how this play continues to live. I mean,
(02:32):
and we've seen great plays. Now we've seen great play.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
That's amazing place I showed you na fantastic nineteen fifty
nine tops card that had like the try painting of it.
But also remember he missed what two hundred and seventy
games approximately because.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
He had to go to the Army. Yes, I mean
he would have hit I mean, at that point, he
probably would have passed Babe Ruth, probably would have been
the all time home run leading hitter, and Barry Bonds
would have passed him because he finished with six sixty. Right,
it's one of the numbers his contemporary Hank Aaron running
alongside him.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I mean, I mean it's unbelievable, but.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Just that long to be able to play at that
level for as long as he did in the in
that day and age, right, because we're talking an age
where a lot of guys still had to go get
regular jobs in the off season.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Maybe he had some you know extra you know, endorsements
and deals and whatever else, but still they were they
were still having to go shake hands and kiss babies
on behalf of companies a lot. It wasn't like now,
it's like, all right, what do we got. We're gonna
We're gonna film three commercials in a day with three
different companies and then go back on vacation. Keep your
training up, not to mention the nutrition, the training uh
(03:47):
timetables that we have and all the different products that
are out there to keep you in shape.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
We have the cryo chambers, we have the gold that
like all of these things that didn't back then. It's like, hey,
you know, walk it off, rubbed some dirt on it,
and he played and.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
He was an All Star for twenty four years. Twenty
four years. I mean not just played. Hey the guy
played twenty four years.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
No, he was an All Star for twenty But that's
just it, right, It's one thing to hang around rosters, right,
because we just celebrated the hell out of it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Right, Al Horford.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Seventeen years in the NBA and now he's a champion.
But Al Horford's not a guy playing thirty five minutes
and nights.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
He's still he'll still hit it three though he can
still do that.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Still, he can still give you some quality minutes. But
the point is he's not the focal point and he's
not your allst.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Think about this.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Lebron set the record this pass All Star Game with
twenty in the NBA. Yeah, that's four more than him. Yeah,
it's it's insane.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Ye, Like, is Bron? Is Lebron going to be around
to do four more? Like two more? Okay, but four more?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
But All Star Games? Four more for him? He really
gonna be that guy. Can unless he makes himself the captain.
I'll be the captain again. Uh okay now, but I
know I'm on the All Star team if I'm the captain.
But I mean, just think about it, like, just parallel
their careers.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Right where you get into baseball, goes and plays in
the Negro leagues, then he has the Army Service, and
then you get to Major League baseball. Lebron didn't go
to college, goes straight into the NBA out of high
school and again training and whatever else. But how many
extra seasons as he played in playoff games, you know,
(05:32):
and in Olympics and international play and all of that stuff.
It's really remarkable when you try to put it in
that like two decades, right, we talked about the Patriots
and winning for two decades, But to be able to
keep your body right, your mind right, and play to
that level for that long with the style.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
That both those guys play too.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
He was when you look at May's flying all over
the day place on the base baths are defensively or
Lebron trying to run.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
People over in the lane. I mean, it's so amazing.
He was thirty nine years old. At at age thirty
nine and forty, he had an ops of nine hundred
those years. What do you think about that when you're
thirty nine and forty he's got an ops of nine hundred,
still hitting twenty twenty five home runs, knocking in seventy
ish runs when he's thirty nine forty years old. Okay,
(06:25):
I just think this thing about that for a second.
I mean, Willie Mays at thirty nine and forty has
an ops of nine hundred. Jeff McNeil, who was a
batting champion, can't get on base, has an ops of
six hundred and he's thirty two.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, but he's part of the Ketching Street, is part
of the Grimis era. Now right now, I'm enjoying you
in nineteen seventy three tops Willie Mays far.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yes, that's a man who's seen some things. Yeah, that
is not Willy Mays.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
That's a man who has walked, I think and lived
twenty many a weary mile.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
At that point, once you put that Mets uniform on,
you look older.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh is that it?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yeah, it's not like the the cloak of invisibility.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, no, it's it's it's but you're safe.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
That's another prior is considered PG Yeah. Yeah, three era.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Uh yes, because now we're well he did play in
the live ball era, because live ball era was till
nineteen eighty, Modern era nineteen eighty until last week. Now
we're in the Grimace era. So it was dead ball era,
live ball era, modern era, Grimace era.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
They're gonna teach this like they do the Mesozoic and.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
The different eras of time. In the early nineteen hundred,
sometimes the home run champion would hit a few as
four home runs. Ty Cobb twice once led the National
League and American League in home runs overall with three.
Then the live ball era began, and that's we saw
more home runs, but that we wouldn't let that guy play.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
We're gonna have senators arguing over whether to put Grimace
in textbooks or not.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Man, no, it's it. I mean, look, I'm gonna write
my own history. According to Harmon, and then there's a
giant picture in Grip.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
In the second week of June in twenty twenty four,
when most of the country was worried about the presidential election,
Grimace throughout the first ball in a Mets game. No
one knew the impact this would have just one week later.
It is a butterfly effect if there ever was in fact,
I find I bet you how much. At the debates
next week with Biden and Trump, they're both gonna try
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to get Grimace to be there. Hey, can you endorse me?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Keep my height?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Man? You endure? Hey endorsed by Grimace? Yes, I gotta
get that endorsement. I gotta get that adorsement.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We're trying to get our people in touch with Taylor Swift,
who's in Europe right now on the Aras tour. But
in the absence of her making any statement right now,
we get Grimm, Taylor Swift, and Grimace.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That's what it is.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
One other crazy thing about Willie Mays. What's that You
know that Vince Scully didn't meet him till twenty six
I saw that earlier. How is that even possible? Yeah,
but I went back and watched the video. It's bleeping incredible. Yeah,
it looks like both pay Eily's like, yeah, I know
who you are, ye figure, and you called enough of
my games.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, But I mean, it's just to think of the
impact that Willie May's had right on life. And all
the stories you're seeing about Willie Mays, they're all true.
They're all incredible stories. I'll tell you this though. You
want to know what a ball or Willie Mays was,
I'll tell you this story from about seventeen years ago.
So Willy's seventy seven at this point, and the Major
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League Baseball All Star Game is in San Francisco, and
I go and I was hosting. I was at ESPN
Radio and I was doing the afternoons with Steve Klein
for that week. A former Giant Giants pitcher at the time,
he was gonna come on and he was my co host.
Great dude, Steve Flyin was a lot of fun and
I would say to him, dude, you're like nine feet tall,
how come you only throw eighty four miles an hour?
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And he had a lot of fun with it. And
so you know, I'm there and doing the shows that
we're doing at the fan fest, and you know, cal
Ripken is in front of me and he's doing some
sort of event with a bunch of kids and everything else.
And the day of the game, you know, I go
down and I got my pass to be on the
field or whatever wherever I want to be pregame. Then
once the game starts, you're back up in the in
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the I got a metal block. I'm back up in
the in the press box. So before the game, they
bring out Willie Mays, and I'm excited because I'm like,
oh man, I get to see Williams. I mean, I
can see William May because just my whole life, Willie
Mays is this larger than life character, this larger than
life guy. And he comes out and one of the
the I forget what they did with him when they
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honored him. And the last thing he did leaving the
field was in a convertible. He drove down on the
dirt which was which buttressed up against the stand so
all down the left field right field line and behind
the plate. And his thing he was doing was throwing
baseballs to kids in the stands, and I was like, oh,
pretty cool. And then he gets to a point where
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it's going and he's driving by the netting, which is up,
of course, so nobody gets you know, you don't get
hit by foul balls, and he's throwing balls into the
net At the time, I'm going, oh my god, what
do we do? Why with Will? He's up throwing the
ball to the netting. Oh my god. And it wasn't
until I got to see it later when I realized
what he was doing. Like Will, he knew he was
getting to the netting, and he starts like slouching in
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his seat, trying to move, trying to throw the balls
over the netting and into the stands to the kids
like he's seventy seven, and the baller is trying to
I can't do this. I can do this. I can
throw the ball up over the jet.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Now, I said, come on, will he like you want to,
like you mean it, Willy, come on, there's kids that
need baseballs here.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Now. He couldn't do it because it was too hard,
but he's trying, and he tried all the way like
he didn't stop, like he just went all the way around,
going I'm gonna do it at some point. I'm gonna
do it at some point. And he just kept trying
to find the right way, the right angle to throw
the ball up and throw it over the netting at
seventy seven while he's driven d being driven around in
a car, is you know, sitting in the back seat convertible.
That's what kind of baller Willie Mays was dig that.
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I mean, that was I mean, that was so great.
I'm throwing it over that. I really it was. Watching that,
I'm saying to myself, Wow, this is like my own
personal moment of what it was when you saw Ted
Williams brought out to the All Star Game when he
couldn't walk anymore, and he brought the in the in
the wheelchair and all the players ran out to the
outfield to hang out with him. They all ran out
and then all of a sudden, Ted Williams is sitting
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there and everybody's sitting around talking. That was a great,
great moment, and I'm like, I want to get there,
because did I care about the game as much as
I cared about seeing the pregame and seeing Willie Mays?
Now I didn't. I was like, I want to see Willie.
I want to see Willie.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
This is this is it. But that's the thing, right.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
We talked about baseball and the one thing they have
always done properly, and they made a lot of missteps,
They've been pretty good at embracing technology and stuff, and
certainly in the streaming world gave me access to Chicago
White Sox baseball no matter which coast I was on
in the early stages of that, but always had celebrated
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the greatness of the game and the the all timers,
and and that's the one thing with Willy Mays. It
cuts through generation to generation, right, It's that passed on
down thing and this goes team to team, but certainly
for the the all time greats. I mean, everybody's had
a story from their dad or grandpa if you followed
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the game at all, about Willie Mays and what he
was about. For me, it was an awful lot of
grade school. All right, did I write the.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Mantel book report last time or was it the mas list?
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Because you would alternate, right, and we come back and
occasionally you'd throw in uh, Jackie Robinson, or maybe you'd
actually go read another book that was nonsports related.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
My mom not I told you how much I read.
But this my mom threw out The Baseball Life of
Sandy Coas because she was so upset at how many
times I did that a book report in school school.
I'm throwing the book away. You cared because I knew
so much about Sandy Kofax and I still do because
I read that book a thousands or I still I
still stuff. I said, where's that book? I threw it away?
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You read another book. I'm like, I read books, A
book about Sandy Baseball and other Life of Sandy Kofax. Right, okay,
so no, so I get it. I mean those books,
I mean they were just and they were gold because
you learned all about the players that you didn't get
to see play, and this is this is the only
way to do so it was the only way. The
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Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Rest in Peace, Willie
Mays just an unbelievable life inside outside of Major League Baseball.
Coming up next, we have more baseball on the way,
because boy, the Rockies are continuing to melt down following
their loss with the Dodgers tonight. But the Grimace era
in Major League Baseball is open to everyone. What does
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that mean? That's all about Coming up next, right here, Jason.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 4 (15:26):
Five Second Dance Party. He is really doing a full
dance thing. I don't really like it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Well, when you see mom and me as many times
if I have you remember the dance Moves Fox Sports
Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
We love Yeah, first time we've played Dancing Queen and
the Grimace era here on the show, Grimis could really
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get after it. Everything is for the Grimma's era of sports.
We are here Grimmas Arab sports.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I mean we watched the AI version of Grimace's Entry
as Edwin Diaz.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Yeah. Yeah, Now someone has taken his entrance, the one
where it went that that made it go crazy two
years ago where they followed Edwin Diaz in from the
bullpen and they played Narco for the first time, And
now someone has done it where they've superimposed Grimace instead
of Edwin Diaz coming in. When Edwin Diaz gets the mound,
they just shok Grimace.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
But the problem is when he's when he's walking towards
the mound, he looks like he's got the pelt of
Grimace tied around his neck. He's wearing it like a
cape as opposed to it actually being Grimace. So it
is a little disturbing. I do not recommend showing it
to your children.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What did they do it?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
What did they do? Eyesac guy wearing Grandma's Now this
is terrible. Uh. So, yes, the Grimace Era is here.
Uh And one of the big offshoots of the Grimace
era is with the Mets winning tonight meeting the Rangers
coming from behind. Met's still undefeated in the Bleep and
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Grimace Era. The largest lead now in Major League Baseball
in the divisions. It's not the Dodgers, it's not the Yankees.
We talk a lot about the Dodgers and the Yankees,
but the Mariners have a ten game lead in the
Al West. And if it's gonna be any year for
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the Mariners, this is it. You have a ten game lead.
The Astros stink. J Rod hasn't even really started to
hit yet, and you have a ten game lead like
this is it, Like this is what the Mariners have
been looking for for the last couple of years. Where Okay,
we have the superstar and Julia Rodriguez, we have the
team around him. This is where we have to go.
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This is our season to make this happen. And I
know the Yankees are in the way, and I know
the Dodgers there, but this is our year. It's a
ten game lead and we're not even out of the
middle of June. And to think that Julio Rodriguez, who
I'm gonna pick him for the MVP every year until
he actually wins Hill, he actually wins one, when's he
go on the never againless? No no, no, no, I can't.
It's too young to go on the never again less,
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too young to go on. But for him, for him
to not really be hitting yet, and he seems like
maybe he's breaking out of a little bit but trying
to not really be hitting, and the Marins are this
good like look out. We talk about teams that could
threaten that Yankees Dodgers World Series that all the fans want,
Mareners is one of those teams that can do it
because you know, eventually he's gonna hit. You know eventually
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he's gonna get hot, because he's too good a player,
and it's gonna happen. And the Mariners could be that
team that right now.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Look at him thus far, only thirteen extra base hits,
twenty nine rbi UH and batting average sitting at two
sixty four. Well, that's not the big the big problem,
right The batting average is fine, slugging percentages down run
generation now, but where the strength has been is. On
the pitching side, you got three starters that have each
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racked up six wins, and you've got a team era
that currently ranks fifth in Major League Baseball at three
four to two, bullpen one of the best in the game,
and then found other hitters to come up with the
clutch hits. As you say, the Astros ten games back
and they're the closest competitor at this point. So you've
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got an opportunity because they're a mess right health wise,
you just released a bray you all of these different
things that are going on that the opportunities there for Seattle.
The next few weeks are gonna be interesting as we
start hearing rumblings of names that are out there from
the pitching side, maybe a sharp some middle relief, but
also if you can get one more bat added to
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that lineup. But look, man Rodriguez starts hitting, that.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Bat might be him starting to hit because look, Seattle
loves him, right, they love him. He's got a big
deal with the Trident. Oh you're kidding. He's so much
fun to watch, the energy, the excitement, the enthusiasm which
he plays the game. But with that comes a lot
of pressure because this is hey, we love you, but
you gotta deliver and and this this is the time
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now to do it. The last couple of years, all right,
twenty twenty two they break through. Twenty twenty three wasn't
that great for him, but he did get hot near
the end of the year a little bit. This is now, Okay,
we love you, but we need to see, we need
to see.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
It's also still that reality check that we need to
pull back every now and again and recognize he's twenty three.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
He'll turn twenty four at the end of December.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
So the I want it now microwave version of all
of this stuff right of let's you know, get him
to superstart am on a whole other level as we
look for that face of the game and all of
those arguments that we have the kids doing just he's
got sixteen stolen bases, so.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Helping in different ways.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
But Raleigh Hanneger Franco, I mean, you got some guys
that have given you some good pop and run generation,
so we'll see how much.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
You're able to push from there. They already want to
put him on the mount rushmore of Seattle athletes. I'm
sure because you have no are you saying athletes or
just for the maritors. Oh, Arthur, you're gonna say or
just for the city, because otherwise be on there and Julio, Rodrigo.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Lanagan and Cobain and I'm getting my guy in, damn it.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
All right, Griffy's on there, but Griffy and you expect
and Juli going to be on there. Okay, okay, all right,
we need more than four. Okay, this gotta be sports only.
It's got to be sports only.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Okay, So we'll take out it get because because Hendricks
has to get in. Yeah, okay, it's yeah, I mean
really to take it. So we'll just have another shrine
over here.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, but he'll be but maybe Griffy like bookends everybody
for now, and then Jay Rod's in the middle.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I like that, I mean there, Yeah, it's what it is.
For Rodriguez, they're already figuring out what that pose is
gonna be. And I'm gonna guess it's that dugout shot
that became a U short printed training card of him
with that trident as they started beginning those celebrations, because
that's about his cool, was it?
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Guess? I don't know how you let people in the
stands with tried Si tugs. It's like, get come on.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
And it's like having the full sized baseball bat give
the way that he used to have.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
It's that jiff of the guy checking everybody going into
the Oh there's a bit with a guy half air. Yeah,
come on it, come on it, come on it. But
I'm telling you, man, watch out for the marriage he
starts hitting. That's it was about the softie or something.
What's going on. I'm just telling you, man, we never
talked about talking about teams that are that are could
wreck the Yankees Dodgers World Series, that that.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
We don't walk back to. Well, but here's the thing is,
we are.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
We are one game away right name game six, Stanley
Cup Final continues either one or two games away to
where it's full.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
On baseball season. I feel like where everything else just
goes like baseball season has just kind of started to
shut up.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
You shut up baseball. Do you hear what he said
to me? Not for you?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Well, no white two nothing win tonight, Pala. We're into
twenty plus wins.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Let's go. When's your next win? I don't know. You
got the Dodgers coming up Monday? Hey, I got the
Dodgers coming up this week. It's gonna be rough. Oh
sorry about that, buddy, I'm sorry. You know, the schedule
brings you. It's gonna be rough. But we'll have more
on the Dodgers coming up in a few minits because boy,
just just the the sheer level of excitement over that
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ninth inning and the umpiring discrepancy. I almost feel like
baseball started tonight right like a little bit like the
Grimace Era got everybody ready. But the Grimace Era is
near the end of the NBA Finals. But it doesn't
matter because the Grimace era is inclusive for everybody. Like
Grimace Era encapsulate everybody's first professional championship of the Grimace Era,
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Boston Celtics. But think about it, whatever it's whenever we
get the puff of smoke here in Los Angeles for
a new coach, they'll be wearing purple yes, exactly the
color of Royalty and Grimace, you know. And the funny
thing is, you know, the funny thing is we talked
about you know both you know, Biden and Trump would
both want Grimace's endorsement. Absolutely. Think about this, right, what's
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the color of Democrats, What's what's their color blue. It's
the color of Republicans red. When you put blue and
red together, what do you get?
Speaker 4 (24:13):
You get Grimace. You get Grimaces over thirty five years old.
Let's bleep and go yeah, oh mis Grahams. Forget the
other independence, Green parties or whatever else.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
It's Grimace time. Welcome to political hot talk. Who should
be Grimace's vice president? Should it be Hamburglar or mayor
mccheese right now? Eight seven seven.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Hamburglar has operated while often speculation like Ocean's eleven, while
often implicated in things have never been charged.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And at what point do the the Golden Archers go
full Grimace and purple bonds purple fries.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Oh well they're close because now officially McDonald's Twitter account
is a picture of Grimace with a medaize.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Going three hours long. Yes, you're gonna have to call
a doctor in an hour.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Please call a doctor if the Grimace era extends too
long for you, Thank you. We got more coming up
in wet coming up in ninety seconds. But speaking of
needing a doctor, we have Brian Fenley with what's trending
in the wide world of sports? Mike, is it just me?
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Or does Jason look like somebody who just got out
of arm wrestling practice.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
It feels like just what he's wearing, how he's here.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
He's gonna participate in the professional slap fighting Oh is he?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
They're just announced a training card set. He's one of
the secret.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Editions that's not officially on the checklist. It's like a
bonus when you open packs.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Well, I was also thinking maybe he would be a
good pillow fighter.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Yeah, he's got a shoulder shoulder injury.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, he's like clowney.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
That's what he's gonna do to your pillow family.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
WHOA sorry. Jay and I were fighting and someone farted
on my god, unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
I set myself up for that one, which is which
is usually what happens.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Tell us what's trending in the Grimace era.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Go ahead, all right, so we'll start with something a
little bit serious and then we'll move on from there.
But obviously the biggest story of the day, Willie Mays
passes away peacefully at ninety three years old. A Hall
of Famer, two time MVP, twenty four times an All Star,
he also won a World Series with the Giants in
nineteen fifty four. Now to some of the games that happened.
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On Tuesday, we witnessed what the Dodgers did. They scored
seven runs in the ninth inning. They went on to
win eleven to nine against the Colorado Rockies, where Tioscar
Hernandez hit a three run home run in the ninth
which would end up being the go ahead, game winning
jack but it came with some controversy because there was
a check swing call that allowed him to stay at
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the plate. The next pitch he hits the home run,
but because of the whether that was a check swing
or not, Bud Black, the manager for the Rockies, comes
in and says, hey, man, what's going on here? He
gets thrown out and the Dodgers end up winning. So
do the Yankees four to two against the Baltimore Orioles.
This after Aaron Judge came out of the game in
the fourth inning due to getting hit by a pitch
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to his left hand. X rays were negative there, so
that's an encouraging thing for him. Braves two to one
winners against the Tigers. The Red Sox they fly swatted
the Blue Jays four to three. Tyler O'Neill had a
home run in the ballgame the New York Mets. They
are thirty five and thirty seven on the young season.
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With a seven to six win against the Rangers, Pete
Alonzo with a go ahead double that came in the
ninth inning. Cubs over the Giants five to two. Mike
Harmon's white socks. They come up with that elusive win, yes,
something against the Astro. That's twenty wins on the air. Yeah, buddy,
let's go, I go. Yeah, And thirteen of those twenty
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have come at home, so that means they have won
only seven games away from home. Also wins for the
Brewers and the Athletics. And lastly, guys, we cannot forget
this Game five Stanley Cup Final. It goes to the
Edmonton Oilers and does so five to three against the
Florida Panthers. This was supposed to be a closeout game
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in Game five for the Panthers, but Connor McDavid does
something that we can all aspire to do in a
Game five in the Stanley Cup Final. Two goals, two assists,
dominates forces a Game six and now the Edmonton Oilers
are going to be able to host Game six in Alberta,
and Jason and Mike will be talking about that when
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that happens later on this week. With that, let's get
it back to Mike Carmon and Jason Smith, who just
finished up arm wrestling practice and is trying to win
a trophy. A seventh place trophy is in short order
for him.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Thank you, Brian Family. Seventh place wearing a because they
give trophies for seventh place. My triceps are looking pretty good,
so I wore cut off sleeves tonight. They do these days, Mike,
And that's a fair no. Not in the Grimace era.
Not in the Grimace era, doesn't happen anymore. I gonna
change everything. He's already changing everything. We're not even gonna
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talk about Caitlin Clark in a couple of days. It's
gonna be just about Grimace. How are we not.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Doing the show from the Ballpit.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Right Well, I'm working on it. I'm working on I'm
also working on on free McDonald's for us. I'm working on.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Well, I mean, we should, man, how do we not
get into a room and get a deal there?
Speaker 1 (29:38):
What are you gonna say?
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I was gonna say, if you do have a birthday
at the ballpit, is it okay?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
If I come?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I was speaking of invitations.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Oh boy boy, that's Brian Finley over there.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
The answer is none of us in Mike Harmon, who
are people who are not invited to Brian Fenley's wedding?
Well the reason, Jason, although's still time for her to run.
I was gonna have you guys.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
I was going to have you over for the West
Coast celebration over the weekend, but I thought, you know,
my mom and you and I just.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Just wanted to be safe.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
So I just like, I don't want you guys to
get together and listen, I got Sary.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
He had already worked all the lyrics to Stacy's mom.
It is also the Grimace Earah, I don't have the
time I used to. It's a different time for me
now we live in a different world than they do
on a Saturday whatever whatever, whatever Grimace related activities are approved.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
You take Bella for a walk that's about a tenth
of a mile, and who's.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Bella or sandwiches and alta? My dog is Benny? Oh
the same thing, Benny. No, it's a different dog, Bella.
It's a different dog. He plays with the dog park.
It actually is. I love Bella. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
Thank you very much, Brian Fenley, appreciate it. The Jason
Smith Show is my best friend Mike Garmin live from
there dot Com Studios. Coming up next, Yes, to celebrate
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the Grimacera. Maybe nothing better than the highlight. We're gonna
play for you straight ahead where the answer to the
question is the Rockies broadcast team. The question is what's
the craziest play by play call we've heard in the
last couple of weeks. Wait till you hear it. It's
coming up next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Andrew Nemart for three.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
That's not all. It doesn't matter, Double Bay, It's not
the real call.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmony.
We're live the Tireck dot Com Studios. Hey, you know
before you get to the Dodgers. I love that story
today that Ralph loren Polo was gonna outfit the US
Olympic tem How about that? I kind of like that.
And they're gonna wear jeans?
Speaker 4 (31:56):
Are you gonna get the officials of the United States
Olympics team.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I will say this, I am a big Ralph Laurent
polo fan. I love the T the T shirts, I
love them friends, the I weary been wearing the T
shirts for like twenty five years. And the jeans are fantastic.
So I'm really like, it's gonna look really cool now.
I'm not a fan of the white jeans they're gonna
be wearing in the closing ceremonies. I'm like, oh, come on, man,
I just keep thinking about this Steve Corey and the
(32:21):
white jeans girl doing the fun jeans when he has
hey fun jeans here his white jeans. Not a big
fan of.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Jimmy fallon shit since it is NBC related, you know
what I mean? I look, they did, they just re
upped him, and now he's getting his white pants. Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
We used to have a coach in high school that
would say, I'm telling you guys, wash you white pants
because you think you're gonna get another pair and you're
not so wash you white pants. Wash your white pants.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
But I kind of liked it, you know, Ralph. I've
always loved you know, Ralph Lauren. I was on the
pole of the T shirt like I said, the T
shirts are great, the jeans are great, and I'm like,
this is gonna be a pretty cool look. And the
jeans they're gonna wear, the light colored jeans. I start
thinking to myself, I should get a couple of pairs
of jeans because I don't wear jeans that much anymore.
I used to wear jeans all the time, and I
kind of went from eh, eh, eh, jeans are heavy. Yeah,
(33:11):
I kind of went away from jeans, like too heavy
out here. I get hot wearing jeans, and now I
wear running pants all the time and or but I
used to wear jeans all the time until I'm like,
I mean, you're really hot, and you're in the Sopranos's hot.
You're in the Grimace era, but you're in the Sopranos.
I don't think there's pants in the Grimace era. I
don't think there is. Well, you know.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
What, he's come alongside my world. Let's go Grimace era
pants optional? Yeah, all right, as long as you're purple,
doesn't matter. Yeah, I have actually a shirt design. It's
a great logo. The game's on. Pants are optional. Okay,
so come on over now. Hey, speaking of pants.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Being optional, yeah, No, there's no segue. I was just saying, hell,
it was pretty good life. So tonight we saw good
concept in the Grimace era. Like I said, the Grimace
era is for everybody, and apparently it's more for the
Dodgers than it is for the Rockies. Yeah. Well, the
Rocky suck.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
They d haven a problem, and they only have one
real problem in.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
All of it. The Rockies blow. Here's one thing. You
only have one problem with the Rockies. They stink. Uh.
The Rockies blow a five run ninth inning lead against
the Dodgers. They give up a grand slam to Jason
Hayward and a three run homer to Tioscar Hernandez. Dodgers
(34:29):
win eleven nine. But what's got the Rockies mad is
that they thought the game should have ended after Hayward's
grand Slam. All right, makes it nine to eight. Still
got to get another run. It is coursefield, but gotta
get another run. Otani gets on and Freddie Freeman has walked,
and Hernandez comes up with two outs, and it looks
like on a check swing, it looks like it could
(34:51):
potentially be strike three, but they appeal to the first
base umpire and Lance Barksdale says no, no swing, and
Bud Black goes crazy, absolutely crazy, screaming that it was
strike three. And this is where I say one of
the reasons why I say this is on the Rockies
for losing this game, because this was a point where, hey,
(35:13):
you didn't get a strike three call. On Hey, don't
melt down, don't don't yell and scream. Make sure your
pitcher stays focused. Still us to get one more pitch,
but don't make it look like, oh, the game is
over because you didn't get that strike three call. And
seeing the replay, whatever it was called on the by
whatever was called it was going to be because if
they had called it a swing, yeah, it looked like
maybe he might have gone around, but they called it
(35:34):
no because you could say, well, he didn't break his wrists,
he didn't really turn his body at all. So whatever
it was gonna be was going to be the call.
And instead of a strikeout, now the Rockies have to
come back and make another pitch. And when that pitch
was made, this is what happened. Two quick Field, who.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Was lad.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So that's the Dodgers radio, Yeah, positivity, excitement. What did
it sound like for the Rockies to too and play
feels got you gotta be kidding that you went bull
hawk harrels still look out.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
To a three harbor.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
And again Angel Hernandez nowhere near house, right from a
jack to a cane. You thought these problems were gonna
go like when Angel Hernando.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
People are saying, where are the robots setting them in? Look,
we've seen it now from multiple angles and you can
argue it if you want that the bat came through
enough of the zone, but you also gave up multiple
home runs.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Ask me why I don't have a lot of sympathy
for the UH for.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Theh Is there one reason you don't have a lot
of sympathy?
Speaker 5 (36:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Look, and then look you saw Bud Black went crazy.
As soon as Hernandez's ball cleared the fence. The outflders
were screaming at Barbie running George. They screamed at him
after the game was horrible.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Pitch though it was to count and he's like, I'm
gonna throw the fastest. I mean, this is gonna be
the bugs. Bunny, what was it, the behemoth, the package,
whatever it was. Where he's spinning around like a whirling
dervish to get as much velocity as he could where
you have contrails to it, the old NHL on Fox
(37:24):
kind of thing. Uh, and and he served it up.
I didn't try to have any kind of location on it.
It was really I'm just gonna blow it past you,
and Hernandez just said thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Uh. The thing, the reason I don't have a lot
of sympathy, why don't you? It is pretty simple because
if this was a one run game, if it was
four to three and you get screwed on the check
swing and the guy it's a home run. Boy, that's
really tough. But all you had to do was protect
a five run lead in the ninth inning. So all
you had to do five row runs man five runs,
(38:01):
and not only did you get one home run, you
gave up two. You have a Grand Slam and a
three runner. I'm sorry, I don't have a lot of
sympathy when you couldn't protect a five run lead. Here's
Bud Black.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
After him, talking about, uh, the emotions as folks were
running around, quote upset, That's fine with me. He wasn't
the only one of my guys that was upset, right
because you had Cave going down.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
With the bat in his hand and all that he
was mad, yeah, Cave said. Cave said after he was well,
he was. He was screaming at Barksdale right after the play.
But the reason he said he was mad is that
I yelled lanch who costes the game? And Barksdale said
to me, no, no, it wasn't even close. Wasn't even
That's why Cave got was screaming out that wasn't even close.
(38:43):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
But but you also had the the Will Smith at bat,
which was curious as well. Right with the pitch clock
running down to what was five seconds or whatever, he
tries to call time out.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Yeah, is it granted the timeout? And a fastball down
the middle strikes him out, So you you got a
gift on that strike out that Will Smith has a
non competitive at back because he wanted to call time out,
didn't get it. Pitches right down the middle for strike three,
So you got a gift on that one. But no
one's saying anything, Oh, you don't get a time out
of time out there. I'm sorry man.
Speaker 3 (39:12):
And guess who wasn't crying after that play? The Dodgers, No, no, no,
they weren't.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Will Smith said, they're in the Rockies where we was.
Will Smith asked about it. Will Smith said, hey, why this,
why this? Why this? He walked off, and Hernandez comes
up and he basically gives them the wildest win of
the season. Incredible, incredible, It's Rockies baseball. Well listen, what
a way to continue to usher in the Grimace era
(39:40):
of professional sports. Amazing, great times, Twitter, and how about
a fresco Mike at Swollen Dome for Mike. I'm Jason
coming up next to my buddy Ben Mallor. This is
Fox Sports Radio. Grimacio
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