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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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in Major League Baseball.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, we'll see what uh what other broken down piece
the White Sox can bring in highlight of my day
was that the bullpen gathering around in a circle and
pouring went out for the trade of Michael Kopek.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
There's the highlight fact that he's never turned out to
be any good or the fact that he got traded. Wow, sorry, buddy,
I mean, come on.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Man, Well he came down from injury. Come on, had
a high walk rate and all that fun stuff. But
they trade for a guy with a broken leg. Yeah, no, no, white,
So well, they're trading for the future. That's what the future.
The future, right, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Kakuchi just got traded. We just watched Frankie Montez get
traded to the Brewers. Like there's been so much activity
and we're still up against the deadline tomorrow, and you know,
I keep going back to last week, and we talked
to John PAULM. Moros. He said, this is gonna wind
up being the best, most fun deadline I've ever covered
because the sheer number of trades is going to be
immense because so many teams. We're in it. We're in it. Look,

(02:00):
teams didn't a couple of trades last week, and it's okay,
we're not waiting, and the Mets make a couple of
trades and every for some reason, everybody's the White Sox
have twenty eight win. Everybody's calling the White Sox call
I mean some sucks.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Doesn't mean that there isn't some value in the component parts. Yeah,
I mean including one guy who wants to set his
own demands. As you want to trade for me, you
want to trade for me. I need some guarantees here.
I like the cut of his jim. That's my kind
of guy. Two things have hit me today, Yeah, say one?

(02:34):
And first talking about the trade deadline, I was talking
about a great GM. I would be of a sports team.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Sure that need be an a handba Well that's the
other thing you added, that's a handball man, Because I
really think I'd be great at handball. I could be
a Winter Olympic and curling some Olympic handball. That's me.
I just just push my training for everything. That's to
the Jets. That's it's handball. Yeah, I just curling for
a couple of years and take a break, then I
go to hand by I come back. Uh is I

(03:00):
would be the worst GM. As great a GM as
I would be, I would need to like to do
like the the twenty fifth Amendment where the GM steps
aside for the trade deadline and somebody else comes in,
then I take power again because I would be the
worst GM at the trade headline, because I would want
to trade. I would trade all my prospects. I would
trade everybody if they had if they were zero for

(03:21):
four the day before, get rid of them. Get him
but Alonzo's been not Get right of man. Get somebody
else in there. I would be the worst because I
would want to trade, ride the light. I would everybody,
and they would try to talk me off it, and
I know, make this deal, make this deal. I'd be
the worst GM. But you've seen his split something the
last month. You saw what he did yesterday, weed over

(03:43):
four support. Now I've been staring at that box score
for the last two days. We had two runs the
last two days against the Braids. Let's do something. I
would be the worst. I would be the worst. Well,
but it wouldn't be a good assistant GM, because I'd
be if I was Jonah Hill and Billy Bean's office,
I'd be going, what are you doing? You haven't picked
up the phone and eight minutes call someone, get somebody
else for the pulp and get another starting pitcher seng

(04:06):
Us out for the season, pick up the phone, make
a call.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
That would be full on someone hacked my phone, because
you'd be the guy making all the calls, like why
do I Why am I getting all these calls from
from gms? Like we didn't put anything out there. It's
like I took your phone. I took your phone. Where's
I started emailing everybody and texting everybody. I was on WhatsApp.
I can deny it because it's gonna disappear. It's purely private.

(04:34):
All of those things.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I'd be, I'd be the word. I mean that, That's
how I would be. I would get so caught up
in the fever of making it and it's not like
And the thing is, I don't know that I would
trade anybody from the from the Kurt like I would.
I'd be saying, Okay, well we could get this guy.
It was a little bit below average player, but we
need a center field er, we need whatever it is,

(04:56):
and we trade one of our best prospects. But who
knows that this kid's gonna be I got nothing invested in.
Make the deal, make the deal, make the deal, and
I would That's what I would do see, you know,
I would be terrible.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
But now you're coming around to a philosophy I've been
espousing for a very long time.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
There's gonna be rarefied air, and do not.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
You know, break you know, break glass in case of emergency, guys,
in terms of prospects. Otherwise, everybody's on the block. Everybody's
on the block if it can help me now, because
the winning time is now? How many times do we
watch this in the NFL, major League Baseball, whatever. It's like,
I've got a chance, I've got a team that can
get there. Are you willing to make this move now?

(05:34):
It's like, nah, I can't sacrifice those draft picks. I
can't sacrifice you know that prospect who might be a
four A guy, you know, like a Vargas.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Kind of thing. Baby, yeah, baity. I mean there's the
history is littered with it. This is why I'd be good.
The rest of the time is because anybody else called
this for trade, I'm gonna be really hesitant because I
know my guys, and if it's a guy that I like,
I'm not gonna trade. I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna
do it. I'm not gonna trade somebody I really like.
So now if I were become a GM and I
trade you, you know I just don't like you. But
are you talking about your drinking buddies? Guys go to

(06:06):
McDonald's runs with you. McDonald's. Those are the guys that
you keep around. He'd buy me a big Mac. I
can get my own.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Bad They found you the the best big Macs or
menu in Canada.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
When McDonald's runs is what you get after a faint
I trade you. And how about this for this guy?
For the number two prospect? Yeah, I'll send you a
kid who will run to McDonald's for you for the
next three years anytime you want to. Well, I mean
you would adopt it.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Like when people teams visit Wrigley Field, Like the tradition
is you have to go over in uniform and go
to the Starbucks and do the Starbucks. You'd be making
kids go to McDonald's. And there used to be a
McDonald's right across the street. Yeah, across the street.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
There used to be right from Wrigley. I wouldn't killed it.
I wouldn't travel with the team. I wouln't know where
the McDonald's are. I wouldn't try to stay at home.
I don't travel with the team. I want you to
travel with the team. No, But the rest of the
time it'd be great. But trade deadline, I know I
would lose my head and I would just go crazy
and I wouldn't be able to sit there for I
would be on you know, I'd be Flintstonian. Bet bet

(07:08):
when you get to that point with your fantasy team
where you look at the team you're like, Okay, I'm
I'm four and six. The trade deadline is coming up.
I gotta do something, you know what, screw it, And
I would just start sending emails to everybody that I
think I could drive some owners. I wouldn't trend because
I know you're just gonna be ridiculous, but everybody, I know,
why not recoverage from Shoulders I should have called him

(07:31):
for trade in the last twenty four hours, would have
done it. But the people I know, I'm like, I'm
just I'm gonna do it. I'm just gonna do I'm
gonna send this stuff out and do it. And I
would just cause I get Jones and like that, like
we need another starting picture. We need this, we need this,
we need and I wouldn't be able to stop myself.
I really I wouldn't. It would be someone get in
that room and and take the you know, cut the
phone lines. Uh, Susanne, make sure make sure Jason's not

(07:52):
really talking to anybody who's real. Yeah, no problem. Like
when he says, you know, put me through to Brian Cashman.
I got a buddy who's gonna pretend to be Brian Cashman.
You call his number and you just say, great, yeah,
he pretends to be Brian. Can remember you have to
be Brian Cashman. Yeah, yeh yeah, no problem, no problem.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
It sounds like, you know, going back into our history
books when we we would be Stuartering studying FDR's work,
and it was the idea of do something even if
it's wrong, because you had to keep keep track of
all the different acronyms for all the different works programs
that kind of got started. You're doing the same thing
with Trades, like I'm just gonna keep calling. Eventually we're

(08:30):
gonna hit on something that we're gonna get something where Yeah,
I mean really, we're on the eighteenth call with this
guy today. Like you're a starker what you call prank
on leave me alone. Just do whatever trade he wants
so he stops calling. Okay, just do we.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Really care about him?

Speaker 4 (08:45):
We wants eighteenth pros stops calling for twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
You want to just do it whatever, I don't do it,
do it. I don't care. I don't Just whatever whatever
it is to get him to not call anymore. Because
I gotta take his call because he's a GM. But
whatever it is to make him to get him not call.
That's the other thing. Is there an honor code amongst
gms that you actually have to take the call?

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (09:03):
I think you do. I think you do because you
never know, you never never.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Is there just that picture like outside of a studio
that don't you not let this guy in the lot,
or do not let this guy in the stadium.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
If your kid calls your cell phone, you're always going
to answer. You know, certain people go you gotta answer.
Like it's like I have a lot of folks whore
I just kind of look at it. Go then like
in the movies when they look at the phone and
throw it. Okay, you know they don't like that person. No,
I think you have to answer. I don't think because
you never know. What if that guy has a moment
of or a woman has a moment of weakness and
complete lunacy, and they're like, hey, I want to trade

(09:35):
your payne. He's making us look bad. All right, all right,
that's great. Who do you want? I don't know? Maybe
maybe who? No, maybree he'll be fine ed, all right, great,
I'll make you picked up the.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Phone as a guy telling you that he's been reading
how desperate you are on the message boards and the
fan blogs.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
I think you had you never you never know when
someone's gonna have a moment of craziness, and that would
be me, and they would have to stop, like maybe
two weeks before the deadline. They would have to have
some kind of intervention that didn't involve me. It would
be okay. So here's how we deal with Jason the
next couple weeks. Why oh the deadline's coming up? Yeah, okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
We're gonna call this one his special phone, and we're
gonna tell him that this is the direct line to
all the other gms.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Where does it actually connects? Nothing. Here's the rule. If
he tells you about somebody he wants to trade for,
you just tell them you heard he's hurt. That's all
just I don't care. But he's gonna see that he's playing. No, no, no,
doesn't need to be hurt that he's out of the lineup.
But just is hurt. And he's not a guy you
want to trade for. Everybody is hurt. Bad just bad

(10:36):
clubhouse guy. But then, but don't don't say he's hurt,
Just say you hear he's a bad clubhouse guy. But
he's gonna take take the energy of the club. You
don't want him in a bad direction. You just don't
want him, right, you don't want the guy. You don't
want him. I don't want Bryce Harper. No, I don't
want Bryce Arp. You don't want him. You don't want him.
But what's after a week? Jay's gonna run around going
everybody's hurt or is the cancer in the clubhouse. Don't worry.

(10:58):
I'll take that. That's that's what I get pay for.
I'll take that. Don't worry about He's gonna be in
his office. It's okay. Just whatever. Anybody he's interested in
is hurt. And anybody on the team or anybody in
the minor leagues, if it's a minor league, that's going
to over you tell them there was a reason, and
they're about you've heard from all the scouts. They're about
to turn.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
The little extra time in the hitting game out to
turn the corn. We're doing film review last night. They
found a little hitch in his gide up and we're
gonna get that rectified and tell tell him that it's okay,
and then put a big mac in front of him.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
And then then you tell him that he just moved
his family, he just put his kid in school. You
can't trade him. And then you give him the big man.
He's finally gotten settled.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
They put a nice down payment on a three bedroom
condo near the stadium so he can put in the
extra work.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
I mean, how many big macs you have to give him?
Probably about three a day. It's it's a three a
day big mac. The trade deadline. Then after the trade
deadline is over, we're fine. We're good.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
We'll get him back out of his normal diet and restrictions. Yeah, yeah,
so we can get him ready for next trade.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Dead Everything is fine, He'll he'll be. He gets past
it very easily. He moves forward. That'll work. But I
would be I would be the absolute worst GM I'd
be the worst guy.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Well yeah, I mean you'd be on tilt. There's no
question about that's true. Yeah, Right, center fielders struggling a
little bit. Who can we get you know you're looking
at and just war across the league and just being
desperate to like somebody, because that's the hard part for this.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Right, so many Kenny Lofton, Just get me, Kenny Lofton.
I know we can still play.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
He can still track down a fly ball or two.
You always go back to Kenny Lofton, Get me. Kenny
is going to be seventy five years old. I bet
people still think he's center fielder for the Gardens. Still
hiding out for the name change and everything else. He's
still there, but he still Rich Hill is going to
be that guy talk.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
He's coming back down. Richell is still pitching. Richell is
still get me Rich and we need somebody, need a
trade deadline? Guy, go get Rich. But it's it's a
weird day deadline.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Going back to the original point with JP last week
was just there's so many teams that are peripheral contenders.
Are we talking about the Cubs last week as a
team that if you read any bit of correspondence coming
out of Chicago. They're dead in the water, but they're
only five and a half out of the wildcard, right,

(13:22):
It's one good week. Oh yeah, an injury and a
bad week for one or two other teams, and all
of a sudden you're back in the mix. Right and
you saw the trade with the Rays. My mom is
said both teams are dead to her now, okay, because
they got rid of a Rosarna.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
That was it. Yeah for her, that was the end
of it. That was the last of her guys. Name
on the front of the jersey always more important than
name of the sentimental sentimental attached to a player. Done.
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(13:58):
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Jason Lock and Forward Jay. What's happening? Let it out?
It's a safe space, you know whatever.

Speaker 7 (15:52):
Man, At this point, they should honestly trade Corvin Burns.
I mean, that's how this guy really wants.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
To do, is collect prospects. If you got all that
for Cacucci over in the warehouse, what could we get
from Burns? Oh my god, we should flip it into
the greatest trade ever. Wake me up when they do
something real.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh that's a new TV show for.

Speaker 7 (16:12):
They got they got five guys playing positions, they got
no business playing tonight against Toronto's Triple A team, and
they're getting out class.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
They get a joke, pathetic.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
Well, maybe Ripken'll come back and give you a couple
of innings at short You know you probably.

Speaker 7 (16:27):
It couldn't be any worse to Jordan Westbird tonight and
it's just and the kid. The kid's got enough one
has played as a twenty four year old first year
player like Jackson Holliday. I thought he's the greatest shortstop
prospect in the history of the world, the ultimate untouchable guy,
the greatest prospect ever.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Counter Henderson finally needs a day off. Orge Matao has hurt.
They got nobody in their entire organization, the greatest farm
system ever Baseball America, year after year after year.

Speaker 7 (16:50):
Oh my great. All they care about is depth in
the future. They got two guys in the entire organization.
Apparently he touched the ball at shortstop.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Okay, you know what it is, everybody.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
If there's an opening, I would I would write a
letter for you to be jam of the Orioles.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
No, I don't know. I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Oh, come on, fantastic.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
I'm not qualified. I'm not qualified.

Speaker 7 (17:10):
And this guy's great at a lot of things, but
as the guy who puts this franchise over the top
by managing the tippy top of the organization, I got
major questions. They ma or major question He keys down
his leg at this deadline like he did last year.
You know, they got a seventy five year old owner. Now,
like you want to keep playing the long game, son

(17:31):
that that's cute. You're also gonna have to cutch nuts
and make some trade and do some real stuff Christian
Pasha and the sixth inning reliever while the Yankees are
getting Chisholm and probably Flairty like wake up.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
I mean you are twenty games over five hundred, so
there you have a little bit to play with.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, people having won here, you know, in forty one years, and.

Speaker 7 (17:51):
They didn't build a game for October last year, and
apparently they learned absolutely.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Nothing, absolutely nothing from that because they have the exact
same warts and holes as they did then, you know,
And if you want to inherit a bunch of players
and not have the balls to extend any of them
or trade any of them, and you kick the curb
with them forever, and you tell me how your prospects
are always so great, but you never actually want to
put them here until somebody gets hurt and you're forced

(18:16):
to do it. And you tell me you have all
this depth, but I don't.

Speaker 7 (18:21):
See it manifesting much at the Triple A level because
you're platooning at six different spots. So how much conviction
do you really have than anybody? And you won't trade any.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
You know you won't.

Speaker 7 (18:32):
The prices are always too high and outside of renting
Corbyn Burns for one year, and even then, you still
didn't to trade one of your tippie top prospects, like
he just keeps them off, like if you save this
stuff for a rainy day, like it's storming, it's storming.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Like their last thirty games, they're an abject failure.

Speaker 7 (18:51):
Their bottom five bullpen, their bottom three starting rotation. They've
given up six runs or more in twenty of their
last thirty games, and they've been held to three runs
or less than sixteen of them. Like they're in a
lot of trouble right now. And the GM, you know,
he's got the parade route for twenty twenty eight figured out.
I just want to find out when these games really count,

(19:12):
like in their master plan, I'm dying to know, like
which August matters, but which is the August where we
really got to go for it now, you know, because
gunners twenty seven and we've only gone in for one week.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
I just want to know what's your count and then
it'll change my fandom. I won't care about these games either,
Like when they get real about it, then you know,
maybe I will.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Jason Locking Forward with us The Jason Smith Show with
Bike Arman Love the diireg dot com Studios. All right,
let's talk some football. Let's let's get you off a
baseball for Let's talk about something more fun. The last
couple of days, we've certainly seen a lot of drama.
Jordan Love gets the big fifty five million dollar extension,
as does to a tongue of I looa today, Patrick
Mahomes says, no relation to that. I'm not overpaid. I'm

(19:54):
not underpaid. Rather, I feel good where we're at. What's
your big takeaway from what we've seen the last few
days quarterback wise?

Speaker 7 (20:00):
Yeah, I mean it's plat out and we've talked about
this for a while kind of how I thought it
would like. The Packers are a big boy organization. They
dealt with what they had to deal with with that clown.
They're on the other.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Side of that.

Speaker 7 (20:11):
They've got a rising as sending player who's actually good
for team morale and camaraderie and everything else, who served
his time on the bench like Aaron Rodgers did a
long time ago and then was brought along at the
right time.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
So he was he was going to get the reset deal.
And when you when you're that good and you get
that much money guaranteed and they only buy four years
of your service time, trust me, that's the Grand Slam deal.
And Tour was going to be an overpay somewhere in
the you know, low fifties, and it was I mean,
that's kind of where that was always going. And there's obviously,
you know, there has to be concerns about him moving

(20:47):
forward given what he's experienced in the past, and Jerry
doesn't want to spend money anymore. We've covered that one.
And I told you, guys, I mean pretty much everything
I told you last week.

Speaker 7 (20:56):
Did you listen to Dak the other day? It's like
he has a way confirmed like okay, like you you've
had your problems around here forever, and you think I'm
going to be this little guy who's always coming back
to you for the final offer or whatever, and you know,
you're giving your stupid analogies about you like to hold
on the ball forever, playing options football, and that's pretty
much said.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
You know, I'll take my ball and go home like
all these other guys are done. I'm the last guy standing.
I'll go hit the market.

Speaker 7 (21:21):
I mean he's he's openly talking about all these other
quarterbacks have changed teams. So that's where my you know,
sense was that his head was. And people I know
who know him kind of felt like, you know.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Hey, Jerry, you wanted to play it out, that's great.
Be careful what you what you look for because there
is no hometown discount and there is no offer, you know, right,
a last refusal. And if these guys are getting this
other money and I go out and have another year
like I did, somebody's gonna somebody's going to break the
bank for me, and it's not going to be you.
I'm going to move on. And you see what it's
like with a rookie quarterback again, you don't want to
pay anybody good luck by the quarterback making a couple

(21:53):
of million bucks. You see how that worked out. No,
they're going to win too many games to get a
super high draft pick. I mean they're in the end
of See they're in the NFC East, like they still
have some talent. They beat up bad teams like they
don't lose the teams they should beat. They just don't
beat anybody who's about as good as them or better
than them.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
So with Jerry kicking the can down the line, some
reports over the weekend that they did put out some
contract offers. Do they get any of these three guys
done or do we go into a lame duck twenty four?

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Oh, something's got to get done.

Speaker 7 (22:23):
I mean, I hoighly not going to pay the receiver.
Like if you're already looking and got one eye towards
a kid quarterback next year, you're going to get like
what you know what I mean, Like you're you're not
going to give them ceede lamb to catch one hundred
and ten balls, you know what I mean, to dominate
the slot and win in high traffic areas and make
make you know, high percentage throws come through for you,

(22:44):
like what planet on? Like they don't have anybody who
runs the ball there who's special? Right, the offensive line
is starting to get way up there and is in
transition and disrepair.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Who are the skill guys? Like? Who else is making
any money there? Like from a long term standpoint, Like again,
if you think the quarterback market is just too rich
for your bloody you won't pay those guys anymore, then
then you better at least pony up thirty for the
wide receiver, like or what are we doing here?

Speaker 7 (23:09):
And close up shop? Trade everybody? It's all your team,
Like I I you know which he's ever going to
do because they make money hand over fifth and obviously
Steven's gonna run it for a long time. But no,
I mean that that's got to get done. And as
great as the linebacker is, at the end of the day,
it's a linebackers again, compared to quarterback salaries, it's nothing,
and I don't think that'll be easy. But at City

(23:32):
Lamb doesn't get done in the next week, I mean,
if it doesn't get done by the second preseason game
at least like in the next couple of weeks, then
this is then then you know, Cowboys fans will walk out.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
I mean, it's it's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well, the thing that with Jerry though, is how could
he say I'm all in on this year? All on
this year. He's pushed Dak's contract to the point where
they could lose him. Can he really give CD Lamb
money and have the team go Wait a minute, so
where was this money for other players, where his money
to make us better than Like that could come back
and backfire on him too.

Speaker 7 (24:06):
I mean it could, but like.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
The guy who would be the most pissed about it
already has one foot out the door, Like who who
I mean? And I mean, who's gonna Like first of all,
he could say whatever he wants. The whole thing is
a kabookie.

Speaker 7 (24:24):
Theater act like that, This whole thing is just a charade,
Like it's a shell game.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
And I don't think anything there would change again until
like how many people are out there in Oxtar today,
Like what's he going to change? Like what people respond
like like him respond to financial you know, fiscal stimuli,
like the business of the Cowboys is still booming, Like
you don't think he's selling Jersey's hand over fist out
that you know, and laughing about the fact that Mark

(24:51):
Davis what the California kind of run his practices, but
nobody the areon coast to Mesa and and you know,
Jerry's got a whole community to himself, Like I don't
think he loses sleep over this stuff, Like you know,
dirty little secret, He's not really trying to win. He
hasn't really tried to win in a long time. And
at the same time, he's.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
Probably more profitable, profitable than he's ever been because.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
He's he stopped spending over the cap the way he
used to. I mean, look, if he can't get a bite.

Speaker 7 (25:21):
At the apple every year, and he's he's around it,
he's just being a businessman. Like it's basically I'm just
I'm around it, but I'm never really in it and
never really came to be, like I don't need to
do that reset in the market here and there and
there and there, and I let other people do that.
Like I could be in the vicinity in this crappy
division and and spend not nearly like I used to

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in the past. And that's just that's that's the.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
New norm for them.

Speaker 7 (25:47):
And I don't think it changes again until it hits
him in the pocketbook. But I don't think people are
going to stop going to those games and stop buying
his beers and stop buying his jerseys. And you know,
I just brand is pretty strong.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
Then we have the fun and exciting revisionist history because
we always like to go back to drafts outside but
not often you get a former GM who does it
John Elway going boy that Josh Allen, he would have
looked really good. Uh, the one that got away and
going back to Bradley Chubb revisionist history. But you know,
you're looking at a franchise that you do in a

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complete reset and trying to figure out whether Sean Payton's
still a genius.

Speaker 8 (26:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
I mean, look, it got away from them there.

Speaker 7 (26:30):
You know when Peyton hurt his neck and Oswaller played
well for a while and there was a little bar declare.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
To be better than Peyton at that stage, and you
know then they.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
Got sort of remembered. He wanted to give os Waller
a ton of money too, Like they couldn't evaluate the quarterback.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Position, right, I mean Paxton Lynch that whole thing, and
like it. Yeah, it completely got away from him. I mean,
Sean's going to be there.

Speaker 7 (26:53):
A long time though, And look, if this doesn't work
out with Boonick, he will be on to the next
guy and maybe in the next guy, you know, in
the top three or top five next year.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Like I still think.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
I think time's done, and I just have thought that
for a while. I cech the door Sanders there, man,
I just I think that could end up making a
whole lot of sense for them.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
And he slips bo Nixt for whatever, you know what
I mean, for whatever, Like that's.

Speaker 7 (27:23):
Been happening for a while, right, Josh Rosen like that,
that's not a new phenomenon. So I only his hands
are tied in any way, shape or form.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
He is absolutely positively playing the wrong game, and he
does want to win, and I think eventually he will win.
I don't know if we win the Super.

Speaker 7 (27:39):
Bowl or not, but I do think he'll be able
to build that franchise in time up to one that
can at least nip at the Chiefs heels.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
But I think we're a couple of years still away
from that.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
He's on Twitter at Jason locking For. That is at
Jason locking For. Check him out on Odyssey Washington Post
one five to seven. The fan of Baltimore. Jay is
always buy the appreciate him. Thanks so much.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
We'll talk.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Be good. How about that? Shador Sanders in a year
in Denver does make a lot of Dion can still
stay in Colorado and he can kind of be the
de facto head coach of the Broncos along with Sean Payton.
Wally's coaching Colorado.

Speaker 4 (28:16):
I don't know if some of these college wizards thinks
he should be at USC.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Dude, if they, you know, if they, if they made
Bronny to the to USC work for lebron they he
can make sha door to the Broncos work. Hey, this
will work for everybody.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Now.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Kind of interesting that you didn't find a way to
carve out a minute or two to talk about Jets
camp everything.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Why all I'm doing is watching videos of slow mo
of Aaron Rodgers throwing the football. It's great.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Did you see the guy doing the play by play
of the little dust up between Rogers and Garrett Wilson
on set? I couldn't play it because of all the exports.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, but at the end it was fine. If you've
been here, it's fine. It's fine, dude, it's it's it's
if you hadn't been off of the desert, maybe that
time would have been better. Aaron Rodgers is great in
camp the last four days. Today was not a great day,
and he yelled at the team, and the team was like, okay,
we got to pick it up. Okay. I just kind
of chuckled down.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
Most of the things that get highlighted are The connection
he has with Alan.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Lazard just makes me laugh, that's all, except today. The
interception through today was in Lazard's hands. Bou the mare
for a pick, That's how it goes. But I'm telling you, man,
I'll tell Shoo Door Sanders for the Broncos. Boy, that
would be something that really was. I feel like Jason
lock and Forrest said it. And now it's just going
to have speak and somebody else is gonna have bon
Nix in the year. Wow, I got you time now

(29:36):
to find out what's trending in the wide world of
sports and tell you with everything going on, we've seen
so many great athletes today, with so many great performances,
but really none better than the Mets fifteen to two
victory over the Twins. Steve de Seger has that and
more right now.

Speaker 8 (29:51):
Isn't that the friend second place Mets that we are
talking about? As it is, Buddy Braves have lost again
eight three at Milwaukee. The Mets were fifteen two winners
over Minnesota. Jose Kintana got the victory. In fact, the
great baseball researcher Sarah Lanx points out that the Mets tonight,
in two.

Speaker 6 (30:08):
Separate innings, had at least ten men come to the plate.

Speaker 7 (30:12):
Now.

Speaker 8 (30:12):
That had happened, apparently in a game in Oakland last year,
but it hadn't happened at a Mets home game since
nineteen seventy six. Batting around twice in the same game.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Did the Mets win that game?

Speaker 7 (30:24):
They may not.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
I'm not confident. They may not.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
Not confident that seventy six, may not. I'm sure Kingman
had a good game. Mets and Yankees each score at
least fourteen runs.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Can you talk about Kingman's performance in that game? I
talk about it about his perferformance, Kingdom's performance. The Mets
and Yankees tonight each scored at least fourteen runs same
day for the first time since nineteen eighty five.

Speaker 8 (30:45):
The Yankee win was fourteen to four at Philadelphia. Aaron
Judge with his thirty eighth and thirty ninth home runs
of the season. He has ninety nine RBIs. We are
still in July. The Yankees as a team hit six
home run Jazz chiselm had two, including the one he
hit off the catcher in the ninth inning. Baltimore won
the first of a double header eleven to five over Baltimore.

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There was a rain delay at the start of game two,
so they're only in the bottom of the seventh. The
Orioles are losing Blue Jays six ' to three at Baltimore.
To start the day. The second place Yankees were a
game behind the Orioles in the Al East. Texas with
two outs bottom of the ninth leads at the Cardinals
six to three.

Speaker 6 (31:22):
It's the White Sox winning.

Speaker 8 (31:23):
Five to four over the Royals in the top of
the eighth. The White Sox have lost fourteen straight games.
Houston Astros are tied with the Pirates two to two,
top of the ninth. Yes, the MLB trade deadline is Tuesday.
The Brewers acquired pitcher Frankie Montas from the Reds. The
Royals got pitcher Michael Lorenzen from Dallas, Texas.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
Excuse me and you talk about Dallas.

Speaker 8 (31:46):
Houston traded for pitcher Yousey Kukuchi from Toronto. Cardinals acquired
pitcher Eric Fetti from the White Sox. Saint Louis also
got outfielder Tommy fam Pitcher Jack Flaherty of the Tigers
was scratched from his start tonight before the deadline, and
the Mariners picked up veteran Justin Turner from Toronto. The
Dodgers are off tonight. They picked up shortstop Ahmed Rosario,

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utility man Tommy Edmund, and pitcher Michael Kopek. Earlier, we
had Cincinnati seven to one over the Cubs, Boston fourteen
to seven over Seattle. US women's basketball when it's Olympic
opener one O two seventy six against Japan, Asia Wilson
twenty four points, thirteen rebounds, Nigeria upset Australia seventy five

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sixty two. The Ausse's committed twenty six turnovers. Nigeria earns
its first Olympic win in women's hoops in twenty years.
US men's basketball plays Wednesday against South Sudan. Yes, US
women's soccer is playing Wednesday against Australia. The American women
two and oh so far. Did you notice Australia yesterday
when it's game six ' five over Zambia A combined

(32:51):
fifty two shots in that game. Australia was down five too,
but in the comeback they got an own goal, a
penalty kick for a goal, and a ninetieth minute score,
so the US could win its group and then play
a little easier opponent and it's quarterfinal this Saturday thanks
to that big win against Germany for one yesterday, so
the US could be avoiding number one rank Spain until

(33:11):
a possible final. And there is more on Canada. Yeah,
yesterday a last minute goal beat France in France two
to one. Canada's coach Bev Priestman was suspended for a
year for using drones to spy on opponents closed practices
in recent years, including twice in France. At the Olympics, well,
Canada's women's team, the defending gold medalist was doc points,

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sending him to last place in the standings.

Speaker 6 (33:34):
They have now appealed that back to you.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Coming up next. We got more NFL on the way.
Patrick Mahomes made a huge statement today and while he's right,
he's not right for the reasons you think he is.
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Speaker 2 (34:51):
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Speaker 1 (34:58):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith The Show with My
best friend Mike Harmon. We got a double shot, a
big basketball story is coming your way in about ten minutes,
but thanks to Jason Locking for for stopping by a
few minutes ago. We talked all the big contracts that
have been signed the last few days. Quarterbacks. We got
Tua Jordan Love getting fifty five million dollar a year extensions,

(35:19):
and today Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes was asked, hey, dude,
do you feel underpaid because your ten year, four to
fifty million dollar deal has now been surpassed because these
guys are getting fifty five million a year, And he said, no,
I feel fine. I manage my money pretty well. It
helps us, you know, we move money around a little
bit here and there, but it gives us flexibility to

(35:39):
sign players. I don't feel underpaid, and that's a cool thing.
And I know everybody's running with the whole Brady, Oh,
we took less money to bring new players in and
give the team financial flexibility and all that's good, which
then head I got, didn't do but did you go back?
It was great in theory, yeah, but still it's okay.
You can move around. He's okay with converting to signing

(36:00):
bonuses whatever it is. So I know people are running
with that, but it's really simpler than that, and it's
a different way that people are thinking about this. Like
what I say is Patrick Mahomes underpaid, And I look
at what the other guys are and I go absolutely not.
You know why because Patrick Mahomes, because of what he is,
how good he is, what he's accomplished, he is going
to see every penny of that ten year, four hundred

(36:23):
and fifty million dollar contract. Right, So he's gonna make
four hundre and fifty million dollars at a minimum, definitively
in over this ten years, in five years. Now, it's
because now you have two and let's take two and
Jordan Love right here. In five years, are two in
Jordan Love gonna sign two hundred and forty million dollar contracts? Maybe,
but likely not. These guys are gonna be in their

(36:44):
early thirties. Who knows where they are health wise.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
You don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
It's a gamble, it's a risk. Maybe they get that money,
but maybe not because this is still too in Jordan Love.
If their teams thought they were the guys forever, they
would have signed ten year deals too, but they're not.
Because Miami and Green Bay both want to know. Okay,
if they have a down year this year, l right
would bring him back in a year. All right, So
then we're looking at in two years from now. We
have to get out from under this if neither of

(37:09):
them turn out to be any good or they don't
continue to get better. They only sign him to four
year deals. If they thought they were there guys forever,
it would have been bigger deals. They would assigned a
way to do that so they could move money around
and make it easier, just like Patrick Mahomes did. But
when you combine those two things, you know that Mahomes
is gonna see every single bit of that money and
these guys may not right, and these guys may not

(37:30):
It tells you that, okay, so yeah, really he's not
underpaid because he's gonna get all of that money and
these guys may not well, and he may be right.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
It's the old Michael Jordan thing from years in the
NBA and pick you know your athlete at their peak
in whatever span that is lebron on down the line
relative to what the league is based on what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Sure, you could say they're underpaid. For your point.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
For Patrick Mahomes, he could go back and fight for more.
Got a half a billion dollar, not to mention all
the endorsements everything else that's flowing for him.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
That it's it's not you're gonna.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Quibble over over those dollars right now, and it's all
guaranteed and it's all gonna be paid out.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
And it goes back to you know the other guy that.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Played alongside Michael Jordan for years who belly ached about
the deal that he signed. You signed a long term
deal for your security so you could get your guaranteed money.
And yes, you outplayed the terms of said contract, which
is why you were warned by many, including those that
you were signing the contract.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
With, don't do this.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
You're gonna get mad because you're gonna play it with Mahomes.
It's a half a billion dollars, that's guaranteed money. Yeah,
he's so so while he's technically yes, you could say
underpaid because he's now out of the top ten or
whatever on average salary per year. And look at some
of these names out here, and this is where you

(38:54):
can do the hot take nonsense like look at he's
so much better than this guy and demonstratively better than that.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
It's the market will bear short.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
Term investment versus his long term protracted growth of that
of those dollars. It's it's all good. It's all good,
and if he's comfortable with it, everybody else just shut up.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Here. He was earlier today talking about moving on and
being okay with the money he signed for a couple
of years ago. Yes, I'm angry, But why because you
were supposed to stop at the seventh floor. Don't you
know what's gonna happen. Don't you know that he's gonna
hear that and understand that Frostburg's the game day producer

(39:36):
for Chargers status time. It's personally, you're gonna get a
stat from somebody. You're gonna get a statement from somebody
close to mahomes Is gonna say, we're gonna remember that.
You remember that next time we play, and suddenly he's
gonna throw like eight touchdowns against you. You just screwed
frost protect the fans with the Raiders last week. Yeah,
they just depletely screwed him. What if he screwed himself? No, no,

(39:57):
the Raiders do with the Kermit Doll. Mahomes Is gonna
throw nine touchdowns against them next year. They screwed themselves.
Now you just screwed the chargers. Well, first off, that
wasn't Kermit, that was Mahomes. And second off, how do
you know Justin didn't want to play that? No, I
know he did. He doesn't want that smoke. He doesn't
want Mahomes He Mahomes No, I know, but he doesn't
want to smoke. Though, doesn't mean just because you don't

(40:17):
like something doesn't mean I want that smoke. We don't
want that.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
I want that smoke. No, you don't care, You don't care,
I don't care. No, you want to smoke because it
brings the clicks. First you get the money, then you
get the power.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
But you just screwed the chargers. Now now great, okay,
all right, they're welcome. Hey, uh well I got Mahomes
in a couple of fantasy leagues.

Speaker 4 (40:36):
So that works out pretty there. Yeah, he's a motivated
Patrick Mahomes. But the old salary thing, it's always just funny,
like it's the great debate, does this guy deserve the
money someone else paid it?

Speaker 1 (40:49):
It's not your cash, not underpaid. But again, not for
the reason you think he's gonna see every dollar that
the other guys aren't coming up next, Not one, but
two basketball games, a breakdown from today Jason and Mike.
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Speaker 2 (41:07):
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Speaker 1 (41:18):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. We'll probably smoke some meat. Speaking of
smoking meat, how about that Mets win tonight over the
Twins fifteen to two Mets. That's my team's going thirteen
on Mondays. Yeah, and you're not really great on the
other days either. There's not like we've blown twenty seven saves?
What what day week? What day of the week is

(41:40):
your best record?

Speaker 4 (41:41):
I would say probably Thursday because you don't play those games.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
Yeah, okay, getaway Day? Yeah good? Hey, the what sucks?
Seven and eighteen? Then we really get on the plane. Well,
our guys are expert packers. Well, our next guest talk
to us a week ago and gave us the Big
Bowl prediction. This would be the best tray deadline he
has worked on in his twenty plus years in the business,
and so far he is absolutely one hundred percent of

(42:07):
profit MLB Network. Fox Sports Radio baseball insider reporter John
Paul Morosi joining us now in the hotline. John Paul,
I'll tell you, man, you're right. You hit it right
on the head. We've seen a deadline and a half
already and we still have another day to go. I
love this.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
I love this time of year, and I love this
deadline in particular because you're exactly right. If we just
called it off as of midnight Eastern time, which is
not long from right now, and we just said, okay,
all the deals are done, we would call this a
very active deadline. But oh, we have got another day
to go. And my theory on this is that when

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teams have the opportunity to make moves in advance, like
they've done, that it leaves time to get creative on
the final day, and when that happens, blockbusters can occur.
This is like twenty years ago when Nomar went to
the Cubs that kind of a trade that just totally

(43:08):
shocked everybody. I'm hoping that we see something like that tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
All right, now, before we get to tomorrow, let's take
that a very active deadline the last few days. The
one or two trade you like the most from either perspective. Well,
we've seen a lot of Soccacucci get traded tonight, montask
got traded tonight. One or two trades that you liked
the most so far.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Well, a couple of things. I think that the Blue
Jays did exceptionally well with the package of prospects they
got back from the Astros for Yusa Ka Kucci. They
did very very well. I did not think I had
people telling me that independently that Joey Lo Perfido by
himself would not be available, and yet he was part

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of a three player package that went to Toronto in
this deal. So good on Ross Atkins. I know he's
had a lot of heat on him in the last
year or so, but he's done very well at this deadline,
so I think that was a tremendously successful turn. I'm
a little surprised that the Tigers haven't traded Jack Flaherty yet,
which tells me that they must think that, based on

(44:10):
the price for rental starting pitchers, that they've got a
better deal out there, So we will see about him.
The other thing, I believe the Seattle Mariners did a
very good job of gradually adding to their ball club
since we last talked. They've added Randy a Rose Arena,
Jimmy Garcia, and then today Justin Turner. Now, Turner is

(44:32):
not the player that he once was with the Dodgers,
but he is a veteran who tends to, I think,
put forward very good at bats and make a positive
impact on this teammates. And this is a Mariners team
that just needs more professional hitters. And they've got the
electrifying player in a Ros Arena and the veteran in Turner.
Both of them, of course, they played against each other

(44:53):
in the twenty twenty World Series, so you've got some
playoff experience now on a team that's still looking to
make their mark in October. Like this deal from Seattle's.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
Perspective, Boy, just think if the White Sox hadn't pulled
the trigger on that Dylan c steal in March, what
he could command, that's all.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
That's a great call. We would be talking again. It's
a great point. Think about Dylan Cees and what his
value would be relative to what we're talking about. For
Terrek Scrubel, for example, It's a very interesting proposition. Now,
maybe maybe the White Sox would struggle to do better
than what they did I mean, they did pretty well

(45:32):
in the trade with the Podres, but you're right, I mean,
the right combination of teams is out there looking for
starting pitching. And really what takes tomorrow from a great
deadline to an all timer is if Schooble gets traded.
That's what would make this from a great deadline to
just one that we're going to be writing epic poems about.

(45:54):
And that's basically Terrek Scubel or someone of that of
that caliber. Not really anybody else does that's name caliber,
but that's basically what we're waiting on here tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
Well, what about Blake Snell zero point? He's got an
option year right, the two year player option at the
end of this one.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Yes, and why But to me, why it's so interesting
with Blake Snell is is that because of the option
yere that you're talking about, that makes it a little
bit problematic because it complicates matters for the acquiring team.
Are you going to pay the price and assume that
that he's going to opt out, or let's say that

(46:34):
he pulls the hamstring next week or or has some
other sort of injury, or he pitches poorly, then you're
on the hook. For thirty million bucks next year, and
that's that's a difficult proposition. So you're going to have to,
I think, have some flexibility in those conversations and a
lot of trust to be able to figure out what
that looks like. Now, would you have a deal contingent

(46:57):
on an extension or reworking the deal? Maybe, But I
don't know. Guys, that to me seems a little bit,
it seems a little bit challenging to wrap your mind around.
And so for me, it's scoople Is is the guy
everybody wants to get. He's got two years of control
beyond this year. He's he's the guy that I think
there's such focus on. Snell is only under contract for

(47:18):
that one more year next year. I think he'd be
an easier guy to move, but for this option that
makes it more complicated. So but the one team that
I've heard about Snell today which really interested me was
the Podres. Maybe going back to San Diego, you Darvish
is still away from the team. They are trying to
get impactful starting pitchers. So do not be surprised that

(47:41):
the Podres make a big splash tomorrow. I would say
Snell is the more likely guy, but don't rule out
the possibility of Jack Flaerty as well.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Hey in the metsica trade with the Rangers and get
Shirzer into ground back. Yeah, they're selling why not.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
It's totally unschooled. But what's the It's like what I
I see now on social media. It's like unthread or
thread unspooled whatever they say. It's like, we're going to
unspool it and roll it all right back. But the Rangers,
it's interesting that they traded the Rensen, but they also
turn around and acquired Carson Kelly from Detroit, so you

(48:16):
get a like a half season of a co catcher
to pair with Jonaheim. They're kind of in the middle
of a couple of different things. The Rangers are. But
the Mets, I tell you what I mean for me,
they probably need to look for a starting picture Chason, right.
I mean when you look at their rotation, they thought

(48:37):
they had saying now they don't, and they're in a
playoff spot. So you really, I know that you weren't
planning on being a buyer, but you are right now
and you have to sort of act like it. So
I think that's what I see with the Mets.

Speaker 7 (48:50):
Right now.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
I realized it was unexpected, but you got to lean
into it now, David Sterns and it's going to certainly
be a full segment on Sternsey and the Pope tomorrow morning.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Nicely done.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
So Michael Kopek comes over from the White Sox, Tommy
Edmund and Oliver Gonzalez comes over from the Cardinals in
that three team deal by early afternoon tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
What to do on the Dodgers, That's a great question
because it feels like there's still one starting pitcher short.
I know they've been active today, you get Kopeck. Kopek
is certainly still a very talented pitcher, but he is
straight out of central casting. For what the Dodgers have

(49:33):
developed and brought in for a long time is a
guy with big stuff who doesn't necessarily stay healthy or
take you deep into games on a consistent basis. And
this recipe for them has not been enough to win
the World Series with the exception of the twenty twenty event.

(49:53):
And I just think that that, to me is a
bit of a red flag. If if I'm the Dodgers,
you can not be totally comfortable with your rotation. Yet,
given that Bobby Miller is struggling. Given that Walker Bueler
is struggling, there needs to be I think one more
starting pitcher acquired helpful, certainly to have to have the

(50:13):
addition there, but I just think that they need more
than Copek if they're really serious about when in the
World Series this year, they need one more guy that
they can pair up with Zach Wheeler against Zach Wheeler
in an NLCS game or in a World Series game
against the Aces of the American League that they I

(50:34):
believe they have to get one more starting pitcher and
maybe you know, the bullpen I think is in a
pretty good spot. They're expecting Brazier to come back and
make an impact and Graderol as well in the second half.
I think they'll be okay there, but I think there's
still one starter short.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
All right, so let's go back and let's finish where
you began here. But potentially when you see all these trades,
this is when blockbusters happen. If I said to you,
complete the sentence so you would not be surprised to
see what blockbuster trade happen.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Scruble to the Orioles. That's the one that I think
it's by the way the Tigers have conducted their business
so far and the way the Orioles have conducted their
business so far, that possibility is still there because the
Tigers haven't moved him or Flirty for that matter, and

(51:25):
and the Orioles have not given up yet the prospects
that they would need to give up to get this
deal done, and they're under new ownership. That to me
is the is the variable here. New ownership can change
the conversation, and so that's what I'm seeing with this
Baltimo Orioles team. Potentially, if the new owner ownership comes in,

(51:45):
the Rubinstein group comes in and says, listen, we've got
a special team. Clearly, we've got a tremendous base of prospects,
but they can't all play in our lineup every day.
At some point, you need to make tough decisions about
who your guys are and who you guy your guys
are not going to be. And I think the baltim Orioles,
my friends have arrived at that point and they have

(52:06):
a chance to by six pm tomorrow declare to the
entire baseball world they intend to win the World Series
in twenty twenty four. And they can do that by
trading for Terrek Scoople, even if it means putting in
Jackson Holiday or Samuel Bassaio or Kobe Mayo, that's what
they would have to do. And I believe there's still
a chance. I'm not gonna say it's a high chance,

(52:27):
but it's a coin flip right now as to whether
or not that happens.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Woo great stuff from MLB insider John Paul Morosi's on
Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi. So well, Joe,
you'll join us tomorrow night as we break down what
we saw kind of an easy day for you. Tomorrow,
we'll get caught up on.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Y rightlift yeah, light lift tomorrow and what we'll do
is is, well, will replay anything that we said tonight
that sounds prescient and if nothing, nothing came to pass.
This was all just off the record and heard by
a number of friends here tonight.

Speaker 1 (53:03):
All right, And I promise you if you tell me
one move, the Mets are going to make that sterns
he tells you, I will not fingers crossed tell anybody
else about it.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
You know there there will be there will be a
couple of texts that David sterns sent tomorrow, I'm sure,
but whether or not he responds to them or says
he's too busy is a separate conversation. So we're gonna
we're gonna do our best. Let's think of whatever information
I can.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
All right, thanks so much, John Paul will talk to
you in twenty four hours. Enjoy the day.