July 31, 2024 • 53 mins
Jason and Mike hand out there winners and losers from the MLB Trade-Deadline. The guys react to an unbelievably fun day at the Olympics. And the Yankees backed out of a trade for Jack Flaherty due to medical concerns. Plus, a visit from the great Jon Paul Morosi!
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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As I walked into the studio tonight playing Narco on
my phone because I knew you were just inside the door,
so I started playing.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It when I was outside the big heavy door. So
you heard the boom boom boom bum bum boom. No,
it's good.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It was like you were kind of hyped behind the
curtain in the in the position waiting for your your
theme as a professional wrest.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It was like my WWE entrance.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, and then you walked in and I was like,
you know, my right hand I broke a couple of
bones maybe about two years ago, Like can we test
to see if it's all the way back? Or wanted
to smash my I never came closer to smashing somebody's
personal piece of property than.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I did in that moment. You're bum bum bum bum.
That's what means. Gen Oakland would go, oh my, what
is this? What is this? What is happening?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You can hear the music, McMahon, you know what it is.
You know who's coming in now, you know who's coming to.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
The ring because we got to use Jesse the body
again since he showed up at RAW yesterday. So it's
all good. But yeah, you're very excited. Your guy closes
out a game once again. The White Sox have a
lead going into the eighth and they blew it.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
So here we are status quo. Tuesday, a happy trade
deadline day.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Oh what a day it was.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And here's the thing, and I'm being completely honest with
you This is a this is a really rare day
because you could say to me, did my team do
well on the trade deadline?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And I'm gonna tell you sure.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
There were a thousand trades, a lot of stuff, and
nobody gave up unbelievable prospects. Most teams decided, hey, we're
gonna get what we can. We'll get a mid level
prospect and see how it goes. Some trades, some teams
give a tiny bit more than others, but it wasn't
where whoa look who got fleeced. So everybody can be
happy today. Everybody, well, there's no team I can say,
(02:38):
oh wow, you got even the Yankees, even though they need.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
To do way more.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I still don't mind what they did going to the deadline.
Everybody can be happy today. Jazz Chishom's gonna hit two
home runs every night? How would John Sterling have called
his home run?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Like? That's the big mystery of twenty twenty four. Oh,
it's all that jazz, that's what it would be.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Oh, jazz man, the jazz man coming.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I think he would do all that.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
All that jazz jazz Chisholm. That's good. A bunch of
bunch of Broadway references, no question about it. We had
that a little bit. People don't get all that jazz.
You think people don't get all that jazz.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Well, no, I'm just saying he can keep going down
the line with a bunch of random Broadway things and this,
and it could opportunity for advertising for those shows that
are about to open on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And then he finishes by going whoa, whoa.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Whoa, whoa, the dazzled suits a quick change and you
do a shot in the booth and there he is
taking Chishom's.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Rounding thirty jazz.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
That's great, like all of the to say, the big fish,
the big domino to fall was the.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
The Marlins did well well, they traded everybody. The Dodgers
did the best well. The padres here's the team poster
and it looks like something out of a horror movie
because they xed out all of the guys that are.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
No longer part of the Marlins.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You kind of like the last guy standing from Hey
they survived.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
For the sequel, you just put you just put.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
The you just you just black out their faces and
it's like, oh, you can't even see. It's just like
the out the silhouette.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
But I mean you get flarity that comes to the
Dodgers and then they just jump right on the padres today,
say yeh, you made some moves. Everybody's loving you like you.
Here's five runs in the first everybody did good. Give
me a team, Give me a team, any team white sucks.
They did well today?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
How they did well because they're staying because they got
and they got prospects.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yes, they did well.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
But they got no pride. It wasn't meaning prospect. You
tried a bunch of jags for a guy with a
broken leg, and it's like getting an extra guy and
when the spring comes, you'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Give me another team. Does he have the what is
it Adam or whatever? How long? How long does it
take you to regenerate? Yeah? I mean is he Wolverine generated?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, too soon, too soon.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Got to give people at least to where it gets
to a billion dollars. Nobody, if you didn't see it,
you don't know what you know exactly what I was
going to generate?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Uh mean, give me another team. How about? And there's
thirty teams. Phillies. Phillies did great?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
How they do great?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
They just everybody did great. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It doesn't even matter if I don't know off the
top of my head how they did. It doesn't matter
what the Cubs they did great, Comes did great, Comes
did awesome.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Cobs did fantastic.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Give me another team, Uh, Guardians Guardians awesome?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh so great.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Give me to trade with the Nationals they so we
had a National Guardian trade?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Awesome? They did great.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Give me another David Harbor show up in saking American
Rockies Rocky awesome. Rockies did great. Did they even make
a trade? Probably shouldn't. It doesn't matter. The great Rockies
did great. How about the Pirates?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Awesome? Got the Pirates did so well today? Pirates did
so well. Everybody did great. Just a flurry of activity.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'm like, I really was kept refreshing in between some
random Olympic highlights and that ninety four yard run in
the women's rugby game to cat things off, which spectacular. Yeah,
don't reach for the ball, right, it's like watching football
and the defensive back.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Make the tackle. Man, don't go for the ball. Yeah,
you know, tackle the person.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Anyway, all of those to say that my phone was
overheated by the amount of activity they did.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Every team did great.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I feel I could be a hype man for any
you did great, But what do we do now?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
The hype man's over in euro Remember Flavor flames over there.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I didn't hear anything about, Oh my goodness, look at
these prospects we gave up. Look, because that's really well,
nobody gave anything big. That's what this deadline was. There
weren't any big stars available. Okay, when you're talking about
Crochet being the biggest guy available and he says, I
want more concessions if I'm going to pitch in the postseason,
you stay in Chicago for that's great, you stay in Chicago. Congratulations,
(07:02):
good luck getting to forty wins this year. Uh, it
wasn't that kind of deadline.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It was.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It was one of those deadlines where each each team
it's so regional. Like they always say, you know, college
football is too regional. Everybody just worries about their team.
There's no big national teams and people worry about you
have to find a way to have college football really
appeal to the entire country.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, it like you used to get mad about Thursday
night football.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It was the same argument. Just to extend and change
the names and logos. No, you can't have Jackson Titans
every week. But that's the whole big problem with college football.
That's regionalized. Now we figured out, but that was baseball today.
Everything was regionalized. It was bullpen help for you, or
here's an outfield, or here's starting pitch.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
It was.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
That's why when I look at the moves around today,
when I saw them coming in and I'm like, okay,
well they didn't give up a big prospect.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Okay, that's right, there's nothing sex. But that's good because
teams made moving out look.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Not to not to use the Mets as an example,
but I will, because the Mets got five players over
the course of the last few days, and the biggest
prospect they traded was the nineteenth rank prospect in the
in the in the system, which is good. But this
is the new wave of how to be successful at
the trade deadline.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
What teams are figuring out is that gone.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Are the days of, well, we have our eight guys
every day, what do we really we need to go
all in on this one starting pitcher because that one guy.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What teams are realizing is that over the course of
one hundred and sixty two games and extra round of playoffs.
If you don't have length and depth, you're screwed because
everybody needs it. Even even the Dodgers, who have been
phenomenal have problems with depth. That's why they made the
moves that they did in the last couple of days. Right,
everybody's got problems if you don't lengthen yourself and have
(08:43):
yourself if you're a contender with all right, we have
our five starting pitchers, but we need two other guys
or maybe three more that can either start for us,
we can length them out a triple A come out
of the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
We're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Screwed if we don't, if we don't continue to remake
the bullpen, if we don't have five outfielders, because all
five outfielders are gonna play at least two games a
week between playing in the outfield and being a designated hitter.
Six infielders, because they're gonna play at least two games
a week everybody between that. And if you don't have
length and depth, you're screwing yourself at the end of
the year, because how many teams are there at the
end of the season and you just run out of gas.
(09:16):
And look at the Rangers who won the World Series
last year. They had two fantastic players and the rest
were a bunch of jags. But you know what, they
were deep. They were deep starting pitching, they were deep
in the bullpen. This is the new way to build teams.
And that's the way every team attacked the deadline. I mean,
like again, not just to use the Mets as example,
but look at the Dodgers. What were our weaknesses. They
go out, we got an outfielder, we got a reliever,
(09:37):
we got a big starting pitcher. They go out and
get Jack Flaherty, who is the big get today. They
needed to go we got a big starting pitcher, and
they did, but they lengthened themselves as well. They have
a lot of guys injured, who's coming back. Let's make
sure we have that length and depth. And that's what
teams have done this deadline, which is why I can
say you did a great job. I can congratulations, congratulate
(09:58):
even if you didn't make a trade. That means you
didn't t head for the wrong guy. It doesn't matter.
But that's the way teams are building now. And as
you see the contenders.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Because if you don't build that way.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Right, let's just say you don't you still want to
stick to the Hey, we have our five starters.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We have this.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Eventually, you're gonna get to either injuries or you're going
to get to a lack of performance and gone to
the days where you stick with a guy who's in
one sixty. All right, at some point it's we got
to cut the cord and move on, and we have
to have somebody else ready to go. And if it's
somebody off your bench that hits one sixty, there's no
other choice. But if it's a guy who off your
bench hits three twenty against lefties, guess what he's gonna
(10:33):
start against lefties and instead and maybe hit a platoon situation.
It's having that length and depth to be able to
overcome all the adversity that you face, and the teams
that build that way kind of like in the NBA
a little bit, being healthy and getting all the way through,
those of the teams are gonna go furthest in the playoffs.
It's not just going to be here a team of
the best lineup, then the three best starting pitchers go
because by the time we get to the beginning of October. Well,
(10:55):
two of those starting pitchers are injured or or one
of them's really out of gas, or two those regulars
are hurting. The people coming in form are not nearly
the level of the player they replaced. There's no Hey,
a guy who came out has a war of one
point five, the guy replacing him, his war is one
point two or whatever it's going to be. You know,
you have to be able to have that kind of
depth where it's more seamless, and those are the teams
(11:17):
that are gonna win.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Telling you, we got a lot of players hitting two
hundred and below in mention League Baseball these days, so
good luck with all of that. Yeah, but it's fine, Okay,
So we're doing it like eight fifty is the new thirty.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I got.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Dave Kingman now has hit four hundred retrospect in h
twelve consecutive seasons. Yes, Hall of Famer now, Yeah, Dave Kingman,
Will you send all the voters rats or I don't know,
we want to talk about King's performance. You can talk
about King's performance.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
So I don't know why we do that performance just
the idea you're you're playing the chess game. From multiple angles. Right,
it's the short How do I just overtake you and
dominate you? Or is it the slow play where I'm
fifteen moves ahead? I'm playing for the host season, right,
I think I'm comfortably in a spot where I'm making
the wild card. Yeah, adding some depth here is great.
(12:08):
Adding a starter to your rotation is all fine and good.
But it's all about all right, I need that guy
in October? What's he look like in October? And we're
trying to do the advanced metrics. We're trying to go
through and play through all our different scenarios to make
sure I'm healthy down the stretch. It's exactly the NBA,
given the length of a Major League Baseball season. We're
(12:30):
watching it already. I mean that's how we watched with
the Dodgers. I mean, you're pulling strings trying to keep
this thing together with the number of injuries that they've
had to battle through and the number of starters and
call ups and everything else, and every day at sea.
I'd love to see what they've burned out in ink
trying to print through. All Right, here's the different scenarios
(12:50):
against these starters based on who's available, given the number
of injuries. Right, you look at the pitching staff, it's
I mean, glassnow's back, just gave up a home run,
but up five to one. Machado as he rounds a basis,
but it's you've got him back, Okay, there's one.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Are those other guys coming back in full effect? And
to give you five six innings starts, because that's really
what we're playing for in Major League Baseball anymore. But
you need as many as you can, and then it
becomes a choice of what do you got to pick
through and get yourself deep in October? I guess November
at this point. But for today, Yeah, we didn't get
(13:29):
any big splashy movies Flaherty in his two nine to
five ERA and seven and five record.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
That was the big domino to fall. And you know what,
they're happy as hell in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
To have them.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
This is how you build a team. Now, you build length,
you build depth. Guess what you're in the playoffs? You're
going to the World Series. Congratulations. I could be your GM.
But it doesn't matter because you had a great day,
You had a great doesn't matter what you had a
great day today. Your baseball team had a great day.
You just went Frank Lenngelli, all a major league base.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Had a great day, every team had, Angels had a
great day. No, they did well.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Okay, they found out sweet Okay, Rendona is back on
the injured list and trout they shut down his rehabit.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Okay, I was I was at. I went with the
I played yes and with you. Everybody's great, the Angels.
There is no way to spin it today, so we
had to have one outlier for the rest. So that's fine.
I'm okay with everybody.
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And today was an Today was an unbelievably fun day
in the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Okay, well it depends on what basketball team you rooted for.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, boy, not a not a great last couple of
days for the japan basketball teams, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
But well, I mean, look, they had a shot if
they hadn't thrown, which was just nonsense.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Dude, that was like nineteen seventy two United States rush
a level officiating and that's.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Not a technical follow it's uther sportsman like play.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
All I did was try and you wrap up his
arms so he couldn't shoot an easy layup or dunk
it and you get thrown out.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh man. Uh so we will have more on that. Crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Unbelieve basketball is great, it's been fun. The home down
officiating already on display. But the highest rated event so
far in the Olympics outside of a gold medal, right
outside of you know, the events that they show every
day outside of a gold medal event where we watch
for either swimming, whatever you want, tonight's'll be insane. I
(17:51):
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Speaker 3 (17:55):
It was?
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It was because well, that's the pay per view you had.
You had athletes who wanted to prove the beds were
not anti sex. So that's gonna be on later on tonight.
That's Olympics after dark. That's no, that's that's Peacock after dark.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
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Speaker 1 (18:13):
Multiple feeds because you you had Simone Biles and I'm
sure the the Women's Olympics. Uh, ratings today that'll be huge,
way up because of the gymnastics, and we're going to
see that again tonight. Simone Biles at the end coming
up and winning the goal. Basically all she did do
is not fall down. She stepped out of bounds a
couple of times, but still had a great routine.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
When did you see the video of Great Britain where
they thought they had it. They were dancing a rapid
like oh sprinting up and cheering. It's like, wait, they
still have a score to come down.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, the thing is they only get like look, a
great score is fourteen and they only needed like eight.
So Simone Biles would have had to walk around flipping
off the judges to get under an eight.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So even though she stepped out of bounds, cup like,
oh that's bad, she's still up with what a thirteen
to nine or something.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
It's like, we won? What are you so excity?
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Is she doing the Miles Teller danced?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
That would have been the only way and uh.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Simone Biles is flipping off the judges now in the
middle of her routine. That's gonna be an automatic point deduction. Ooh,
that's a double bird. That's gonna be a double point.
That's sportsman like not going. Well, she's walking over now,
she's asking the judges, Hey, what are the Dodgers doing
at the trade deadline?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Interesting? Interesting?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So outside of gold medal matches, what we've seen for
gold medals, the highest rate Olympic event so far has
been the United States basketball team. You would say, oh,
that's not surprising. United States women basketball team in their
opener a day ago against Japan, higher than the men,
hire than anything else. Again, certain gold medal Olympic events
(19:51):
when you're when rewarding a medal that did higher, but
of the you know, here's the events to get there.
So far, this has been the highest rated event on television.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Twenty six point win. Do you think coach Reeve can
be found on a hot microphone going, see we didn't
need bleeping Clark.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I see, I would want to say it, go and
go a coach Reeve? Jason Smith, Fox Sports Radio. Do
you think that maybe three out of every ten viewers
are watching just to see you lose without Caitlyn?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Do you think that was the case.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
How many people you think hate watch just because they
wanted you to lose because you didn't take Caitlin Clark
on your team. How many three out of ten, four
out of ten, two out of ten, how many?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
What do you think, like dentists? Four out of five?
What do you think, coach? What do you think, coach?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Look, so many people are gonna say, oh, we didn't
need Caitlyn Clark. Yeah, okay, sure, it's not like when
Caitlyn Clark doesn't play there's zero interest.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
There's a lot of interest in women's basketball. They had
a half full arena though, yeah, for that match. Were well, look,
there's half full arenas. When the United States women's soccer
team plays, there's half arenas.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I mean for lots of events.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Now, it's okay, just they were the lowest attendant of
all of the first women's Games.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, but I mean, look, you see so many events,
Like right now, it's about everybody wants to go to swimming,
the event m nast because now the early events are
the they want to see. Oh, I want to see
a gold medal. Right, I would want to go see
who I want to go see. But most people go
to the Olympics. Okay, I want to see swimming. I
want to see the gold. I want to see gold
medal here. I want to see uh, because that's always first.
(21:16):
I want to see the gymnastics. I want to go
see that. So that's why you're saying as you get
towards the end, trust me, all those all those games
are going to be filled for soccer, They're gonna be
filled for basketball.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
That's just how it goes.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Just talking about like the great moments from today right
watching the basketball games, watching the rugby finish and then
trying to get into the head of the production truck
for the fifteen hundred with Ladecki. Can you zoom out
any further so we can actually see somebody else in
the pool with her?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Please please, but look it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You know this is this is this is what's fun
about the w NBA, right, because I'm like, okay, how
do we turn this Caitlin Clark thing fun? Because you
can tell that now there that that the the Olympic team, Cheryl,
They're all dying to put it out there and go
see people want to see us without Caitlin Clark, right,
people want to see people want to see us, And yeah,
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because this is what's happened. It's not that women's basketball
was just invented this year. It's the Caitlin Clark are
so incredibly popular and she brought a new audience and
it extends into the Olympics. And yeah, probably two out
of every ten people watching want.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
To see I want to see him lose. They didn't
pick Caitlin. I want them to lose. I want them.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
The thing that's fun about the way if I was
in the arena and I was rooting for another for
another country, I would completely troll that team by just
channing for the entire four quarters.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Where is Caitlin? Where is?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Because you know it burns them when they saw where
they said, you can't win without Caitlin, Like why are
they worried about that sign about Caitlin Clark? Right, Like
you see stuff that hey, look, it says we can't
win without Caitlin. So you know, just the fact they
point out to each other when their signs all over
the place and everything else. You know, that's a big
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slice of It's all in their heads about Caitlyn, how
they feel about her, how they feel about her impact.
And while we talked yesterday, would the team be better
off with Kitlyn Clarke at point guard?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Would be guard struggled yesterday to find open space, they
struggle with your pants pressure, and she has been the
best point guard in the WNBA. But I think about
Caitlyn Clark and I think about the Olympics, and I
just go, this seems like a group that is so
clicky that like would they even let people? How would
you let somebody in from outside the group? Like they've
all played together for a long time, they've all played
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in the Olympic, they're all coming into the at least
two Olympics together. I just feel like it would be
we don't need Caitlin, we don't want her on the team,
and we're gonna go win the gold which are gonna
go win the gold medal because they're better than everybody.
But hey, just get that sick. You get that seeing that,
let's point out that Caitlyn sign. It's like, Okay, Caitlyn
lives in their heads and they have some kind of
of opinion, whether it's pettiness or jealousy about you know,
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it's there because you know, they were all they were
all consulted about Caitlyn Clark. You know, the coach said, hey,
I have your back if you don't want her, because
she's been the most vocal in most anti Caitlyn Clark
Cheryl Reeve. So you know that's out there. So if
I was trolling, you know, I would just oh, Caitlin
would have made that. But every turnover by Tarassi or
Child's Kayla.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Would have made that pass. Cayla would have made that past.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Hey, Kayla would have found Angel for a backdoor on
that one.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Ah, that what happened. You missed that one. Although the
bigs aren't missing anything, which is why we're they missed
a lot.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
They had fifty six rebounds, many of would have been
you know as some have deermed it the Angel ree rebound.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But that yes, yeah, yeah, but but that's exact because
you know that that and that motivates them and it
lives in their heads. They No one thinks we can
win without Caitlyn. See we can do it without Caitlin.
It's like it's like it's a in the end, it's
kind of weird that I feel like Caitlyn Clark not
being there is the push that this Olympic team needs
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with the chip on their shoulder going oh you think
we can't win with that?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
You think we need that? This is but you binds
your motivation where you do because you lost the games.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's nineteen ninety two, right, If it's that guy you
need something, if it's that guy in there with the
sign and look, it's like any business. We talk about
this all the time. If you can work with people
that you know, you.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Trust, you get along and that whatever outside isn't going
to make its way into the business. Like you know,
always gotta be careful in partnerships and whatever else when
when you're forming companies. But like it's you want to
you want to work with people you know. And for
these guys, it's established right for these women, they've all
worked together. Tarasi is still playing at a pretty high
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level now. None of them closed out on three point
shooters for a good half which again a lot of
wide open shots there. Again, guards had trouble guards. That
was the bigger thing by twenty five your guards that
they didn't make any shots. They turned the ball over,
they made bad passes, they were unsure, they picked up
their three points shooting.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Side us side half court. They did not play well.
They needed Caitlin.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Video is up and uh we appreciate you taking a
look at it podcast from last night's show as well.
Wherever you download your audio. But it's very much like
the soccer squad. I mean, look at what you got.
You got a new coach and all of a sudden,
healthy Swanson, some attackers.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
On the wings.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
When you've got Rodman and Smith going, it's a much
different United States women's team than we looked at too, right,
new philosophy, new leadership, new voices, all of that comes
together for this iteration of the women's basketball squad. It's
one last run together because those other women, when you're
talking about Clark and Reese and maybe Becker's maybe eventually
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Juju Watkins, they're coming in short order. Doesn't mean you're
totally doing a wholesale hockey line change.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
To it all.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
But I think they recognize, hey, we've earned the right
to run it back one more time. So if they
could freeze out, anybody knew they did, and so you
exerted the power that was available to you.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Now, is it a popular opinion? Are a popular thing
to do? No?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
But you were wholeheartedly endorsed by your coach, who's all
the way through been saying everything she could to just
diminish Caitlyn Clark's effect on what they're trying to do
and then down Staley goes and does the worst thing
you could possibly do. Yeah, let's sit down and talk
about what you've seen. Hey, you got a selfie with
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Barack Obama. You did this, that's great. Hey, should you
have taken Caitlyn Clark?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Well, no, stick to the script.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I mean, we made a decision. We have to stand
by it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I mean, just think about it. It's weird because they
made the wrong decision. They know they made the wrong decision.
We know they made it because of pettiness and jealousiness
and in the.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Element that she wasn't gonna get enough minutes going to
the second game, it would be.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Hey, he get Kelsey plump, come here, Hey, Telsea gret
if you don't pick it up a little bit, Caitlyn's
gonna take some minutes from you, right, just so you know, say,
Caitlinn's gonna take some minutes here if you don't pick
it up.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
And she's sitting out the background like Dione Sanders going
I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But you have all of that, so you know, that's
why they didn't pick her. And in the end it
may wind up being the impetus that they need because
they still have the chip on their shuld I mean
when I saw them look at that sign that kid
was holding up that said you need Caitlyn Clark to
beat us, and the interest.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Level a buck man.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Can you believe you like just the fact they're looking
and see the sign about Caitlin Clark, you know how
much that is in their head.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
And the biggest thing that would have been great in
that moment was for some of them to just walk
over say give me a sharpie, let me sign that sign, Let.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Me sign that for you, Let me sign that for you.
Avoid the clap Jimmy Dugan.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So I didn't think they were giving it the inscriptions.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Let's put advice exit out about a Fresca exit swollen
down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Maybe the cardboard beds help with that.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Uh, well, we'll have to we'll have to wait till
the end of the Olympics for all find out the
end of Olympics sex bed review. Okay, Well, I think
you have to count how many condoms they actually gave
out thou how many were used, and then then you'll
know the ends. Okay, I mean I don't know how
you figure out how many you are used, But well,
can't you put like a chip? Did you put like
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a little chip in the condom? You know when it's
used or not? Okay, it was opened or it wasn't.
I mean, I gotta be able to do that now, brothers,
be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Hey, hey, that was used. That was a used one.
I got.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I saw it right here. It was just ripped open
three twenty eight am. All right, I found it right there.
You're supposed to be asleep. You can put a chip
in that. Then you can put one in, can't you?
Tomorrow morning? He's gonna be a subar performance weaken Legs
the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen. Well,
we're gonna have more Olympic We do that big Olympic
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basketball story between France and Japan for earlier today.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Oh, we can do it next how.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
But however, however, no, well let's do basketball.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
However.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
We now have a little bit of controversy and craziness
surrounding the biggest trade of the MLB trade deadline. What
team backed out of trading for the biggest player due
to medical concerns? Not Cleveland and not the White Sox.
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Who have just lost their seventeenth in a row. Twenty
eight Blone saves for you guys this year, sixteen in
a row, Yeah, twenty eight blone saves.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Wow, youre saves get wins. Just think if you had
a closer who was good, maybe you'd be in first place.
Maybe that's all you're missing is a closer. You know,
Kopek could have been that guy. He was erratic.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
So whodilo is only you know as good going in
when you know it's actually higher going out.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Who backed out of a trade for the best player
that got dealt today?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That's next Radio Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (31:09):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon Live Fromthetireck dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Happy Trade Deadline Day.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
The biggest trade of the day any of the Dodgers
get starting pitcher Jack Flaherty from the Tigers.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Big deal. Dodgers absolutely needed it, but.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
He could have been a Yankee. According to Fox's Ken Rosenthal,
the Yankees dropped out of the bidding for Jack Flaherty
due to medical concerns. Now what are they Flarerty's had
a couple of injections. It's his lower back. He was injured,
came off the injured list, and he's been lights out
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since he's returned. And so while in theory, I understand, hey,
oh it's got and your conturt to we to make
this trade makes trip. This is so on brand for
the Yankees, who are scared of their own shadow. They
are scared of almost every potential big trade or transaction.
Juan Soto got dumped in their lap and it was easy.
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We got one Soto, but everything else they the Yankees
have driven to the middle right.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Like if the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Were either the the the to make a political reference,
if the Yankees were, what are you doing the far
left or the far right? Like you love the Yankees?
You hated the Yankees? They did everything bold if the
Yankees now the last five years, they're a politician that
is right down the middle and not saying anything about anything.
I can see both sides of the story. I can
see the people that are upset, I can see the
people that like this. Now I'm right down. Now we
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need some pragmatism in our world. But Yanks have decided
we don't want to do anything. It is not surprising
to me that they backed out of this trade. It's
one thing to back out. Hey, here's this, there's bad medicals,
there's all of this. You're giving up so much for
this guy. But you know the Dodgers aren't giving up
you know, the top couple of prospects they had. And
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he's come back and he's pitch and he's been pretty healthy.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You want to go back a couple of years ago
happ with the Mets with the Carlos carea deal which
they said no to U.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
But are the.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Dodgers really trading for Flarerty if he's injured, if he's
got if you I mean, I kind of trust the
Dodgers doctors. There are certain teams I don't trust. Like
if the Mets traded for him, I would go, oh boy,
we're in trouble, man, We are in a lot of trouble.
But the Dodgers aren't trading for Flarerty if he's got
real injury concerns. And again, you don't have a lot
of off of this other than what you're here, cause
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you're not seeing his medicals you're getting. You're getting whatever
reports that the team wants to give you. And it's
not like, hey, we got him in, we examined him,
we did this. Hey, I'm telling you we we can't
make this deal. This is not surprising that the Yankees
backed away, because they back away from almost everything. Hey,
we'd like to get him. Sure, but here's Brian Cashmer going,
oh boy, if this doesn't go well, they want my head.
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And I feel like that. But that's a big part
of it all the time. Now if I because remember
when he said, Hey, if I make a trade, I
gotta walk around in this town. Sure, make telling you
how worried he is about making a trade, and you
can't be that kind of GM. They made a couple
of really nice moves. Getting Jazz Chishm was great, right,
Getting Mark Lyder, who's been really good out of the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
It's not but who they thought he.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Was coming out of college. But okay, he's still been
pretty good. Yankees made a couple of good moves. I
think they need a little bit more. But if Chishm's
gonna hit a home run every game, I think they'll
be okay.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Well, you're also banking just like the Dodgers that the
guy guys are gonna come back and you're gonna get
healthy and suddenly in the middle of your lineup is
that much better everything. But when it's time for the
Yankees to be bold, they back away like they're afraid,
and like, that's what I don't know, if it's just
years and years of doing this with Brian Cashman, he's
afraid to make a big, bold move for anything because
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I don't know he is. He so battle weary from
New York going if this trade doesn't go right, the
next three weeks are gonna be awful. They're gonna talk,
they're gonna want they talking about wfa N. They're gonna
write about me in the New York Post, They're gonna
talk about me online.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
They're gonna want me out. I'm gonna lose this.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Job, not making a trade, not making trade, like that's
why I feel the Yankees right, Oh medicals Really he
had a couple of injection No, don't make the trade.
Don't make the trade. The Dodgers are gonna get him,
They're going forward. No, no, don't make the trade. Don't make
the trow We're not gonna do it like it does
not surprise because the Yankees are afraid of everything.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Well, we watched it for the last couple of years.
I mean even we were expecting. I think most anybody
that follows and covers baseball didn't think Aaron Boone was
coming back this year.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Dah, there he is.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
And Cashman's a guy that has been seemingly on the
at least the warm seat and heating up the last
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
But as we've seen with Son of Stein.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
They don't they don't like a lot of moves, they
don't shuffle up a deal, and they have gone and
spent big in bat I'd be curious what the asking
price was for the Yankees in terms of where they're at,
because the Dodgers, it's you had to give up your
number eight, number twenty two prospects. Yah, yeah, here, Okay,
that's fine, really good starter.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
That's low cost young guy.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
And even if he does work, like say the back
flares up, you're also thinking you've got all these other
guys coming back. So you made a bold move on
top of the expectation that your rotation is gonna round
itself back into form. He's a nice added chip, but
was he as much as we can say he's in need.
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You still had numbers coming back into your rotation. So
he's a nice extra piece for the Yankees. Paralyzed by
some of the New York media and just at this point,
what do you have in terms of prospects?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I know?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
And that's the thing is that an organization's number one prospect,
you think like, well, that's gonna be some of the
top two three, probably gonna come in and be all stars.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
No, not really.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Sometimes they come up in their serviceable Major leaguers for
a little while. Right, That's what you could be is
a number one prospect. So they're also relatively speaking, your
organization can suck.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
You'd have to give what the Dodgers gave up.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, you're not okay up your number eight, eight and
twenty two for jackfight.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Really you're not.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You're not okay with that your eighth best prospect who
may wind up being a guy that's a middle reliever
for a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Just think about that for a second. Like that, that's
how fraid the that was the asking price on the
Yankee side.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
They're so afraid.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Well, look the division's caught up to you. You got
lucky that Toronto fell off a cliff. But now you
got Baltimore, I mean, Jackson Holidays back up and all
of that going on. You've got the Red Sox playing
well better, except you know the post All Star mess
that it's been because of you Yankees. Just fine, it's
my fum. I'm sorry, Boston. They just find a way
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to be afraid.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Coming up next, we will preview more in the MLB
Trade deadline fear. We'll pive you the biggest sporting event tomorrow.
Keep it right here, Fox.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
TJ. Why don't we hear the song one more time?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon Bay from the ti rack dot Com Studios.
MLB Trade deadline has come and gone. Every single team
made at least seven trades today, or at least it
felt that way. Okay, but the big story right now
is about the team that didn't. Jack Flaherty was the
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big prize of the day, the Dodgers making a trade
for him. They give up their eight and twenty two
rank prospect according to MLB. On Fox's Ken Rosenthal, we
talked about this last hour. The Yankees weren't in on Flaarty,
but backed out due to medical concerns. Now we know
that Flerty's had a couple of injections for his lower back,
but after coming off the il, he's not injigg injected.
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Inject inject injected. Just got injected. I'll give you this
for a preature. Just got injected.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
You go, there, you go.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
But his last three starts have been lights out. He's
been really good. The Dodgers get Flaarty. What was going
on on with the Yankees? Nobody better to talk to
the MLB on network than MLB Network insider Extraored Mare
joining us for the second night in a row, all
new material because we had the trade deadline. It's John
Paul Morosi, John Paul, what's happening, Bud Good.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Evening, My friends.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
I am in Philadelphia, so still the same.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
City where I was twenty four hours ago, but the
circumstances dramatically different. The deadline has passed, no more trades
until November. But we've got a lot of entertainment and
of course second guessing between now and then, which is
where I suspect our conversation begins tonight.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Well, I thought when you said, hey, same location as
last night, except things are different.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
I thought, did you dress up as the Philly fanatic tonight? Nice?
Speaker 8 (39:45):
That's right, Oh, that would have been interesting.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Now I'm still I'm still wearing the same sport code
that I was wearing for my first MLB Central appearance
of the day at nine to fifteen AM.
Speaker 8 (39:56):
It's a few hours ago.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
But that's why I love the Deadline, because we get
to this talk baseball all day long. And the other
thing about Jack Flaherty and you discussed it as we
came on the air, and Ken Rosenthal's reporting on this
at the end of the day. I'm not a doctor.
I'm married to one, but I'm not one, and she
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would not really want to rent her an opinion.
Speaker 8 (40:20):
On this anyway.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
But what I would say is this, I don't know
what Jack Flaherty's medicals say. The Yankees won't tell us
what they saw, The Dodgers won't tell us what they saw,
but clearly the Dodgers felt as though he could help them.
To your point is, recent performances have been really good.
Three starts in a row in which he's given up one,
two and one runs, so he's he's in good form
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right now. And we will know in October how many
starts he makes and how many starts the comparable spot
and the Yankee rotation, whether it's Nesra Cortez Junior, whomever
it is, it's the third or fourth starter of the Yankees,
that's when we will know, well, who actually won this
trade and whose medical assessment was correct.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
You know, here's the thing, John Paul is, I don't
think the Dodgers are trading for a guy who's got
really bad medicals. And I look at the Yankees and
I'm not surprised because unless it's a guy getting dumped
in their lap like bon Soto, Brian Cashman has been
afraid of big trades for the past five or six years.
I don't know what it is. When the Yankees turned into, well,
we're not that team. We're not gonna swing for the fields,
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We're not gonna go bold. You know, the Nankees need stuff.
They were betting JD. Dave was a cleanup a week ago.
I like getting Jazz Chisholm, I like getting Mark Lighter.
Those are nice moves. But here was a big move
for a starting pitcher, and I'm not surprised the Yankees
found a way to back away from it because I
feel like they get afraid of big trades.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
What and again, it may be a bit of buyer's
remorse on the Frankie Montos deal a couple of years ago.
And then Ken mentioned that in his piece of The
Athletic about how that might be useful context to what
happened with the Yankees with Flaherty. I'll say this, the
medical review on Carlos Korea's foot relative to a multi
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year deal, it's a franchise changer vis a vis A
two month rental of Jack Flaherty on an expiring contract
is very different. And I think that for a starting pitcher.
You think about the Philadelphia Phillies, who when Pedro Martinez
was on his was making the last run of his
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illustrious Hall of Fame career, do you think that was
a clean MRI? And he was still pitching in the
World Series for them in late October in a Phillies
Yankees World Series that was, of course the same matches
that we saw tonight here as Citizens Bank Park. So
I think it's all a matter of risk management. And
the Yankees seemed to think and believe that what they
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had going on right now and their overall pitching depth chart,
they were in a position where they felt okay.
Speaker 8 (42:54):
With what they had internally.
Speaker 5 (42:55):
I would suggest to you that there's certainly a lot
of issues with the Yankees with the backside of their depth.
Even Garrett Cole tonight wasn't even well enough to make
his start because he's not feeling well, fatigue is setting in.
There's a lot of issues that I've got right now,
and I think that when you talk about the New
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York Yankees and their inability to advance to a World
Series in fifteen years, often it has been a lack
of having a sufficient starting pitching depth when you get
to the postseason. If they don't have this group on
all cylinders and going, and if Cole doesn't become Garrett
Cole again, and if Cortes can't be solid, if you
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think about ro Don what he's been able to do
this year, they need to keep this group on this
trajectory of getting them deep into games, and if they
can't do that, it's going to be potentially another early
October exit for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 4 (43:52):
I dig that you got risk management in there a
couple of times, seeing as the assistant to the traveling
secretary George Costanza. There you go a speech about risk management.
All right, let's go to the padres. Obviously, I make
fun of the White Sox because of what they did
with Dylan Ceeese, kind of giving him away in the preseason.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
So they already got their starter, but they go.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
And bolster the bullpen by adding Scott couple arms.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Do they have enough rotation wise to challenge the Dodgers.
Speaker 8 (44:20):
Well, I think that's a big question.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
I was told earlier in this week that they were
going to get an impact starting pitcher.
Speaker 8 (44:27):
They didn't.
Speaker 5 (44:28):
And now, in terms of how how the moves played out,
could you potentially see the second piece they got coming
over from the Miami Marlins. Could he end up making
some starts? Potentially? Maybe that's the possibility, But I would
think in general, you're focused more on the bullpen side
of things, with Jason Adam joining Scott as this amazing
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duo at the back end of the bullpen, and listen,
they've done a good job. One thing I always say
about about aj Preller is that he goes for it.
Speaker 8 (45:00):
He is not afraid to make a move, and.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
I think that that started way back in spring training
with Dylan cease, it continued with Luis Araas and now
a very impactful several days. The second pitcher, by the way,
that I was referring to Brian Honig, who's actually had
some starts at the major league level this year with
the Marlin, so maybe they look at him as potentially
a death starting pitcher. They also ended up getting Martin Perez,
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so he wasn't a hugely impactful high end necessarily first
or second starter, but he gives you depth, and so
that's another arm we should talk about and acknowledge. They
did add Martin Peiz, so I think when I talk
about AJ Brothers teams, I love that he's not afraid
to make a move. And what you said earlier about
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the New York Yankees and Brian Cashman and not getting
the starting pitchers that it seems like they needed. We
have to look at things in retrospect and consider how
the season all came together. You also have to look
at the way the last year the Texas Rangers made
it to the World Series and won the World Series
because of the moves they made during the course of
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that season, and so so often it is that that
this day, the deadline day, determines who the last team
standing is at the end of October early November. I
think the Yankees have to hope that it's not that
case this season because they did not have the most
impactful deadline, although you have to acknowledge they.
Speaker 8 (46:22):
Did get Ja Sism a few.
Speaker 5 (46:23):
Days ago, and he just hit four home runs in
two games here at Citizens Bank Park, So I think
the offensive side of their upgrade looks great right now.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
All right, John Paul Ifi said to you, the two
teams that you like the most what they did today?
You are two big winners of the trade deadline, and
it could be from today, it could be in totality
the last few days into today. What two teams you're
giving that you like the most? What they did?
Speaker 5 (46:49):
So on the buying side, I think Baltimore did very well.
They were able to get Rogers from the Marlins in
addition to having already acquired zach Efln and to deal
with Tampa Bay. They got Alloyd Hitmenez as well from
the Chicago White Sox, and they've added some value and
I think some impacts collectively. So I like what Baltimore did. Seattle,
(47:10):
I think again incrementally that they did a pretty good
job of continuing to add talent, led by Randy rose Arena.
I love their pitching. I just I love their pitching
with what they've got there, so I think and believe
they've added enough to really give a different tenor to
this team going forward. A big win tonight at Fenway
at ten six victory for the Mariners, I think they're
on the right track. I also like the way that
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the Marlins sold. They did a really good job of
getting a ton of prospects from the Padres, and I
think in general, you look at other teams that were
aggressive in selling, I'm not quite sure anybody quite matched
up to the.
Speaker 8 (47:44):
Strength of what they were able to do with the Marlins.
Speaker 5 (47:47):
The Tigers did okay. I thought they again maybe with
the flarity dynamic, they had to do the best they
could with the injury uncertainty, and so maybe they get
a bit of a hall pass there. I think that's
probably some very important context of what the Tigers able
to do. But I think in general, the Marlins were
the best seller, and of the buying teams I liked
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with Baltimore and Seattle did the best.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
Look at that he made me be the bad guy
John Paul. As we go to the other end of
the spectrum, could you have a worse day than the
Angels did? The Angel Yeah, so here's rendon back to
the IL. Mike Trout operations shut down. Yeah, you made
a couple of moves, but there's nothing substantive there. They're
(48:30):
not on the surface, right. So I thought of those
bad headline after bad headline.
Speaker 5 (48:36):
I agree. I thought it would have been do you
think about it.
Speaker 8 (48:39):
I thought they could have had a deal for Renhifo.
They didn't.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
I thought they could have moved to other ward.
Speaker 8 (48:43):
They didn't.
Speaker 5 (48:45):
To your point, Trout is now shut down. Rendon back
to the IL. There's not a lot of good things
that have happened for this organization. I mean, you can
go far back, but really it almost it's never been
as great as it was the knighte that Trout and
O Towni faced off in the World Baseball Classic. Basically
since then, not a whole lot of good things have
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happened for them. That was like the high point, and
neither player was actually wearing an Angels jersey at the time.
Speaker 8 (49:12):
Yeah, so that that that is kind of the Yeah,
it was, Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 5 (49:20):
But I think that you're right, and and it's amazing
how it's hard to say this, how irrelevant they feel
right now after when Trout isn't playing and Otani's no
longer there. Rendon has been minimally impactful really since he
signed this contract with with the Angels. It's it's tough,
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it's it is a tough thing to contemplate what the
future of their organization is going to be at a
time where they just don't really have a lot of
recognizable players on the field for them every day. And
you're right, they traded Luis Garcia over to Boston. I
think he will help them out, but you're not going
to rebuild the team by trading seventh inning really and
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doing the best you can to potentially add value that way.
Speaker 8 (50:04):
I man Zach that Tho's come up, he's done. He's
I think he's a.
Speaker 5 (50:07):
Frontline shortstop for a long time. Shawnawell is okay over
at first. Ohapi's a good catcher, but it is not
a winning team, and I think that's a real concern
for them right now.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
He is a man still wearing the jacket he started
the day with. When speaking of that, I started the
day with you first thing I saw today on TV
when I woke up, I turned on I watched your
hit on MLB Network with Lauren Shahati.
Speaker 3 (50:28):
And let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
You look so powerful because they show you all of
Lauren Shahati and your head is so big in the
in the in the uh, in the in the in
the It started JP.
Speaker 3 (50:41):
Like, your head is so big. I feel like you're.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
About to say, I'm canceling the Avengers initiative. Let's go
arrest Captain America. Like you look powerful because your head
is so big in that monitor, come out of it
and just attack people.
Speaker 5 (50:55):
That's That's a great that's a great observation. At some point,
at some point I may ask our director why that's
the case. But I'll let the world draw its own
conclusions on that one.
Speaker 1 (51:08):
I suppose you're the great no powerful odds, what are
we talking about?
Speaker 5 (51:12):
Come on, man, I do have a few thoughts on
Major League Baseball from time to time, but I would
say that my understanding of why, I will say that, actually,
those drop down tablets that we have in studio are
pretty cool and the way they're all digitized to me like,
I'm like the least hecky guy in the world. I
(51:35):
just think it's cool that they find a way to
put me on TV every day, and I'm grateful and
blessed for that. But how it all happens, and if
I seem like the all knowing oz, hey, I appreciate
that thought and that means a lot to me.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
Thank you very much, John Paul Morosi. He's like fifteen
feet tall. You can go and see the wizard.
Speaker 5 (51:56):
I've advanced quite far from the time when I was
a five foot seven high school quarterback who couldn't even
see over his own offensive.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Line jump back.
Speaker 5 (52:05):
That made me feel That made me feel quite insignificant.
I would say, like, guys, like, we need you to
throw the ball down the field and check down from
the free safety to the strong side corner. But yeah, guys,
it's a brilliant idea.
Speaker 10 (52:16):
I can't see any of those people, okay, So I
don't know anymore, right, I can't see anybody, okay, So
so you're trying to tell me I gotta I gotta
check down? And are they in a cover two? Are
they in a cover three?
Speaker 5 (52:28):
Like? Yeah, these are all great questions. I can't answer them.
I am unable to perceive the answers.
Speaker 8 (52:34):
To the questions you're asking me. So I here's what
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5 (52:36):
I'm gonna get the snap, but I'm gonna run around
like I'm trying to save my life because I am,
and hope that I can throw the ball down the field.
Speaker 8 (52:41):
That's That's exactly what the plan is gonna be.
Speaker 5 (52:43):
And then you saw how many games we won.
Speaker 8 (52:46):
Two games and two years, guys, two games and two years.
Speaker 5 (52:48):
That's why that's why I talk about sports and don't
play them.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Hey, that was that was the Lion's plan for about
a decade. John Paul, that's not bad.
Speaker 3 (52:54):
He's there.
Speaker 5 (52:56):
They're about they're coming back, though. I think we're on
national TV like six times. I think we're gonna have
full live team coverage of my predictions. I think you're
gonna have to credential me when they're on national team.
Speaker 3 (53:07):
You think show come on now.
Speaker 5 (53:09):
Live predictions from Morossi.
Speaker 10 (53:11):
It's going to become a segment, to become a thing.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
And I'm thinking he'll pick the lines to score twenty
seven points like he did every game last He began at.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
Twenty four in there once.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Oh yeah, there's twenty four in there wasn't feeling great
about the offense that week.
Speaker 10 (53:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (53:22):
For the For our next question the press conference, we're
gonna go to John Morossi at Fox Sports Radio. Yes,
Dan Campbell, will the score tonight be twenty seven to fourteen?
Speaker 8 (53:30):
I'm feeling twenty seven fourteen.
Speaker 3 (53:34):
He's on Tyer and John Morosi at John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (53:38):
I'd love, I would pay, I would pay your plane
ticket to see you. Ask him that question the press conference.
John Paul is always buddy, appreciate. Hey, my best dis turns.
He did a great job today.
Speaker 5 (53:47):
He did.
Speaker 8 (53:48):
He did well.
Speaker 5 (53:48):
Paul Blackburn, good trade, good trade, by the best
Speaker 3 (53:51):
And see you, buddy, have fun, see jaa thank thanks Bunny,
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my phone because I knew you were just inside the door,
so I started playing.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It when I was outside the big heavy door. So
you heard the boom boom boom bum bum boom. No,
it's good.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It was like you were kind of hyped behind the
curtain in the in the position waiting for your your
theme as a professional wrest.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It was like my WWE entrance.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, and then you walked in and I was like,
you know, my right hand I broke a couple of
bones maybe about two years ago, Like can we test
to see if it's all the way back? Or wanted
to smash my I never came closer to smashing somebody's
personal piece of property than.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I did in that moment. You're bum bum bum bum.
That's what means. Gen Oakland would go, oh my, what
is this? What is this? What is happening?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You can hear the music, McMahon, you know what it is.
You know who's coming in now, you know who's coming to.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
The ring because we got to use Jesse the body
again since he showed up at RAW yesterday. So it's
all good. But yeah, you're very excited. Your guy closes
out a game once again. The White Sox have a
lead going into the eighth and they blew it.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
So here we are status quo. Tuesday, a happy trade
deadline day.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Oh what a day it was.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
And here's the thing, and I'm being completely honest with
you This is a this is a really rare day
because you could say to me, did my team do
well on the trade deadline?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And I'm gonna tell you sure.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
There were a thousand trades, a lot of stuff, and
nobody gave up unbelievable prospects. Most teams decided, hey, we're
gonna get what we can. We'll get a mid level
prospect and see how it goes. Some trades, some teams
give a tiny bit more than others, but it wasn't
where whoa look who got fleeced. So everybody can be
happy today. Everybody, well, there's no team I can say,
(02:38):
oh wow, you got even the Yankees, even though they need.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
To do way more.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I still don't mind what they did going to the deadline.
Everybody can be happy today. Jazz Chishom's gonna hit two
home runs every night? How would John Sterling have called
his home run?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Like? That's the big mystery of twenty twenty four. Oh,
it's all that jazz, that's what it would be.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Oh, jazz man, the jazz man coming.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I think he would do all that.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
All that jazz jazz Chisholm. That's good. A bunch of
bunch of Broadway references, no question about it. We had
that a little bit. People don't get all that jazz.
You think people don't get all that jazz.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Well, no, I'm just saying he can keep going down
the line with a bunch of random Broadway things and this,
and it could opportunity for advertising for those shows that
are about to open on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And then he finishes by going whoa, whoa.
Speaker 7 (03:32):
Whoa, whoa, the dazzled suits a quick change and you
do a shot in the booth and there he is
taking Chishom's.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Rounding thirty jazz.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
That's great, like all of the to say, the big fish,
the big domino to fall was the.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
The Marlins did well well, they traded everybody. The Dodgers
did the best well. The padres here's the team poster
and it looks like something out of a horror movie
because they xed out all of the guys that are.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
No longer part of the Marlins.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You kind of like the last guy standing from Hey
they survived.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
For the sequel, you just put you just put.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
The you just you just black out their faces and
it's like, oh, you can't even see. It's just like
the out the silhouette.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
But I mean you get flarity that comes to the
Dodgers and then they just jump right on the padres today,
say yeh, you made some moves. Everybody's loving you like you.
Here's five runs in the first everybody did good. Give
me a team, Give me a team, any team white sucks.
They did well today?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
How they did well because they're staying because they got
and they got prospects.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yes, they did well.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
But they got no pride. It wasn't meaning prospect. You
tried a bunch of jags for a guy with a
broken leg, and it's like getting an extra guy and
when the spring comes, you'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Give me another team. Does he have the what is
it Adam or whatever? How long? How long does it
take you to regenerate? Yeah? I mean is he Wolverine generated?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, too soon, too soon.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Got to give people at least to where it gets
to a billion dollars. Nobody, if you didn't see it,
you don't know what you know exactly what I was
going to generate?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Uh mean, give me another team. How about? And there's
thirty teams. Phillies. Phillies did great?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
How they do great?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
They just everybody did great. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
It doesn't even matter if I don't know off the
top of my head how they did. It doesn't matter
what the Cubs they did great, Comes did great, Comes
did awesome.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Cobs did fantastic.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Give me another team, Uh, Guardians Guardians awesome?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh so great.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Give me to trade with the Nationals they so we
had a National Guardian trade?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Awesome? They did great.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Give me another David Harbor show up in saking American
Rockies Rocky awesome. Rockies did great. Did they even make
a trade? Probably shouldn't. It doesn't matter. The great Rockies
did great. How about the Pirates?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Awesome? Got the Pirates did so well today? Pirates did
so well. Everybody did great. Just a flurry of activity.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'm like, I really was kept refreshing in between some
random Olympic highlights and that ninety four yard run in
the women's rugby game to cat things off, which spectacular. Yeah,
don't reach for the ball, right, it's like watching football
and the defensive back.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Make the tackle. Man, don't go for the ball. Yeah,
you know, tackle the person.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Anyway, all of those to say that my phone was
overheated by the amount of activity they did.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Every team did great.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I feel I could be a hype man for any
you did great, But what do we do now?
Speaker 4 (06:38):
The hype man's over in euro Remember Flavor flames over there.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I didn't hear anything about, Oh my goodness, look at
these prospects we gave up. Look, because that's really well,
nobody gave anything big. That's what this deadline was. There
weren't any big stars available. Okay, when you're talking about
Crochet being the biggest guy available and he says, I
want more concessions if I'm going to pitch in the postseason,
you stay in Chicago for that's great, you stay in Chicago. Congratulations,
(07:02):
good luck getting to forty wins this year. Uh, it
wasn't that kind of deadline.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It was.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
It was one of those deadlines where each each team
it's so regional. Like they always say, you know, college
football is too regional. Everybody just worries about their team.
There's no big national teams and people worry about you
have to find a way to have college football really
appeal to the entire country.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, it like you used to get mad about Thursday
night football.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It was the same argument. Just to extend and change
the names and logos. No, you can't have Jackson Titans
every week. But that's the whole big problem with college football.
That's regionalized. Now we figured out, but that was baseball today.
Everything was regionalized. It was bullpen help for you, or
here's an outfield, or here's starting pitch.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
It was.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
That's why when I look at the moves around today,
when I saw them coming in and I'm like, okay,
well they didn't give up a big prospect.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Okay, that's right, there's nothing sex. But that's good because
teams made moving out look.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Not to not to use the Mets as an example,
but I will, because the Mets got five players over
the course of the last few days, and the biggest
prospect they traded was the nineteenth rank prospect in the
in the in the system, which is good. But this
is the new wave of how to be successful at
the trade deadline.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
What teams are figuring out is that gone.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Are the days of, well, we have our eight guys
every day, what do we really we need to go
all in on this one starting pitcher because that one guy.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What teams are realizing is that over the course of
one hundred and sixty two games and extra round of playoffs.
If you don't have length and depth, you're screwed because
everybody needs it. Even even the Dodgers, who have been
phenomenal have problems with depth. That's why they made the
moves that they did in the last couple of days. Right,
everybody's got problems if you don't lengthen yourself and have
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yourself if you're a contender with all right, we have
our five starting pitchers, but we need two other guys
or maybe three more that can either start for us,
we can length them out a triple A come out
of the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
We're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Screwed if we don't, if we don't continue to remake
the bullpen, if we don't have five outfielders, because all
five outfielders are gonna play at least two games a
week between playing in the outfield and being a designated hitter.
Six infielders, because they're gonna play at least two games
a week everybody between that. And if you don't have
length and depth, you're screwing yourself at the end of
the year, because how many teams are there at the
end of the season and you just run out of gas.
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And look at the Rangers who won the World Series
last year. They had two fantastic players and the rest
were a bunch of jags. But you know what, they
were deep. They were deep starting pitching, they were deep
in the bullpen. This is the new way to build teams.
And that's the way every team attacked the deadline. I mean,
like again, not just to use the Mets as example,
but look at the Dodgers. What were our weaknesses. They
go out, we got an outfielder, we got a reliever,
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we got a big starting pitcher. They go out and
get Jack Flaherty, who is the big get today. They
needed to go we got a big starting pitcher, and
they did, but they lengthened themselves as well. They have
a lot of guys injured, who's coming back. Let's make
sure we have that length and depth. And that's what
teams have done this deadline, which is why I can
say you did a great job. I can congratulations, congratulate
(09:58):
even if you didn't make a trade. That means you
didn't t head for the wrong guy. It doesn't matter.
But that's the way teams are building now. And as
you see the contenders.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Because if you don't build that way.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Right, let's just say you don't you still want to
stick to the Hey, we have our five starters.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We have this.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Eventually, you're gonna get to either injuries or you're going
to get to a lack of performance and gone to
the days where you stick with a guy who's in
one sixty. All right, at some point it's we got
to cut the cord and move on, and we have
to have somebody else ready to go. And if it's
somebody off your bench that hits one sixty, there's no
other choice. But if it's a guy who off your
bench hits three twenty against lefties, guess what he's gonna
(10:33):
start against lefties and instead and maybe hit a platoon situation.
It's having that length and depth to be able to
overcome all the adversity that you face, and the teams
that build that way kind of like in the NBA
a little bit, being healthy and getting all the way through,
those of the teams are gonna go furthest in the playoffs.
It's not just going to be here a team of
the best lineup, then the three best starting pitchers go
because by the time we get to the beginning of October. Well,
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two of those starting pitchers are injured or or one
of them's really out of gas, or two those regulars
are hurting. The people coming in form are not nearly
the level of the player they replaced. There's no Hey,
a guy who came out has a war of one
point five, the guy replacing him, his war is one
point two or whatever it's going to be. You know,
you have to be able to have that kind of
depth where it's more seamless, and those are the teams
(11:17):
that are gonna win.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Telling you, we got a lot of players hitting two
hundred and below in mention League Baseball these days, so
good luck with all of that. Yeah, but it's fine, Okay,
So we're doing it like eight fifty is the new thirty.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I got.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Dave Kingman now has hit four hundred retrospect in h
twelve consecutive seasons. Yes, Hall of Famer now, Yeah, Dave Kingman,
Will you send all the voters rats or I don't know,
we want to talk about King's performance. You can talk
about King's performance.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
So I don't know why we do that performance just
the idea you're you're playing the chess game. From multiple angles. Right,
it's the short How do I just overtake you and
dominate you? Or is it the slow play where I'm
fifteen moves ahead? I'm playing for the host season, right,
I think I'm comfortably in a spot where I'm making
the wild card. Yeah, adding some depth here is great.
(12:08):
Adding a starter to your rotation is all fine and good.
But it's all about all right, I need that guy
in October? What's he look like in October? And we're
trying to do the advanced metrics. We're trying to go
through and play through all our different scenarios to make
sure I'm healthy down the stretch. It's exactly the NBA,
given the length of a Major League Baseball season. We're
(12:30):
watching it already. I mean that's how we watched with
the Dodgers. I mean, you're pulling strings trying to keep
this thing together with the number of injuries that they've
had to battle through and the number of starters and
call ups and everything else, and every day at sea.
I'd love to see what they've burned out in ink
trying to print through. All Right, here's the different scenarios
(12:50):
against these starters based on who's available, given the number
of injuries. Right, you look at the pitching staff, it's
I mean, glassnow's back, just gave up a home run,
but up five to one. Machado as he rounds a basis,
but it's you've got him back, Okay, there's one.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Are those other guys coming back in full effect? And
to give you five six innings starts, because that's really
what we're playing for in Major League Baseball anymore. But
you need as many as you can, and then it
becomes a choice of what do you got to pick
through and get yourself deep in October? I guess November
at this point. But for today, Yeah, we didn't get
(13:29):
any big splashy movies Flaherty in his two nine to
five ERA and seven and five record.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
That was the big domino to fall. And you know what,
they're happy as hell in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
To have them.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
This is how you build a team. Now, you build length,
you build depth. Guess what you're in the playoffs? You're
going to the World Series. Congratulations. I could be your GM.
But it doesn't matter because you had a great day,
You had a great doesn't matter what you had a
great day today. Your baseball team had a great day.
You just went Frank Lenngelli, all a major league base.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Had a great day, every team had, Angels had a
great day. No, they did well.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Okay, they found out sweet Okay, Rendona is back on
the injured list and trout they shut down his rehabit.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Okay, I was I was at. I went with the
I played yes and with you. Everybody's great, the Angels.
There is no way to spin it today, so we
had to have one outlier for the rest. So that's fine.
I'm okay with everybody.
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And today was an Today was an unbelievably fun day
in the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Okay, well it depends on what basketball team you rooted for.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, boy, not a not a great last couple of
days for the japan basketball teams, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
But well, I mean, look, they had a shot if
they hadn't thrown, which was just nonsense.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Dude, that was like nineteen seventy two United States rush
a level officiating and that's.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Not a technical follow it's uther sportsman like play.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
All I did was try and you wrap up his
arms so he couldn't shoot an easy layup or dunk
it and you get thrown out.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh man. Uh so we will have more on that. Crazy.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Unbelieve basketball is great, it's been fun. The home down
officiating already on display. But the highest rated event so
far in the Olympics outside of a gold medal, right
outside of you know, the events that they show every
day outside of a gold medal event where we watch
for either swimming, whatever you want, tonight's'll be insane. I
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guess exactly, Yeah, go ahead, Frostburg. Is it cardboard beds?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
It was?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
It was because well, that's the pay per view you had.
You had athletes who wanted to prove the beds were
not anti sex. So that's gonna be on later on tonight.
That's Olympics after dark. That's no, that's that's Peacock after dark.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Hey down, Well, you know, subscription required.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Multiple feeds because you you had Simone Biles and I'm
sure the the Women's Olympics. Uh, ratings today that'll be huge,
way up because of the gymnastics, and we're going to
see that again tonight. Simone Biles at the end coming
up and winning the goal. Basically all she did do
is not fall down. She stepped out of bounds a
couple of times, but still had a great routine.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
When did you see the video of Great Britain where
they thought they had it. They were dancing a rapid
like oh sprinting up and cheering. It's like, wait, they
still have a score to come down.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Well, the thing is they only get like look, a
great score is fourteen and they only needed like eight.
So Simone Biles would have had to walk around flipping
off the judges to get under an eight.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
So even though she stepped out of bounds, cup like,
oh that's bad, she's still up with what a thirteen
to nine or something.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
It's like, we won? What are you so excity?
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Is she doing the Miles Teller danced?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
That would have been the only way and uh.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Simone Biles is flipping off the judges now in the
middle of her routine. That's gonna be an automatic point deduction. Ooh,
that's a double bird. That's gonna be a double point.
That's sportsman like not going. Well, she's walking over now,
she's asking the judges, Hey, what are the Dodgers doing
at the trade deadline?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Interesting? Interesting?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
So outside of gold medal matches, what we've seen for
gold medals, the highest rate Olympic event so far has
been the United States basketball team. You would say, oh,
that's not surprising. United States women basketball team in their
opener a day ago against Japan, higher than the men,
hire than anything else. Again, certain gold medal Olympic events
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when you're when rewarding a medal that did higher, but
of the you know, here's the events to get there.
So far, this has been the highest rated event on television.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Twenty six point win. Do you think coach Reeve can
be found on a hot microphone going, see we didn't
need bleeping Clark.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I see, I would want to say it, go and
go a coach Reeve? Jason Smith, Fox Sports Radio. Do
you think that maybe three out of every ten viewers
are watching just to see you lose without Caitlyn?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Do you think that was the case.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
How many people you think hate watch just because they
wanted you to lose because you didn't take Caitlin Clark
on your team. How many three out of ten, four
out of ten, two out of ten, how many?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
What do you think, like dentists? Four out of five?
What do you think, coach? What do you think, coach?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Look, so many people are gonna say, oh, we didn't
need Caitlyn Clark. Yeah, okay, sure, it's not like when
Caitlyn Clark doesn't play there's zero interest.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
There's a lot of interest in women's basketball. They had
a half full arena though, yeah, for that match. Were well, look,
there's half full arenas. When the United States women's soccer
team plays, there's half arenas.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
I mean for lots of events.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Now, it's okay, just they were the lowest attendant of
all of the first women's Games.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, but I mean, look, you see so many events,
Like right now, it's about everybody wants to go to swimming,
the event m nast because now the early events are
the they want to see. Oh, I want to see
a gold medal. Right, I would want to go see
who I want to go see. But most people go
to the Olympics. Okay, I want to see swimming. I
want to see the gold. I want to see gold
medal here. I want to see uh, because that's always first.
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I want to see the gymnastics. I want to go
see that. So that's why you're saying as you get
towards the end, trust me, all those all those games
are going to be filled for soccer, They're gonna be
filled for basketball.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
That's just how it goes.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Just talking about like the great moments from today right
watching the basketball games, watching the rugby finish and then
trying to get into the head of the production truck
for the fifteen hundred with Ladecki. Can you zoom out
any further so we can actually see somebody else in
the pool with her?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Please please, but look it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
You know this is this is this is what's fun
about the w NBA, right, because I'm like, okay, how
do we turn this Caitlin Clark thing fun? Because you
can tell that now there that that the the Olympic team, Cheryl,
They're all dying to put it out there and go
see people want to see us without Caitlin Clark, right,
people want to see people want to see us, And yeah,
(22:08):
because this is what's happened. It's not that women's basketball
was just invented this year. It's the Caitlin Clark are
so incredibly popular and she brought a new audience and
it extends into the Olympics. And yeah, probably two out
of every ten people watching want.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
To see I want to see him lose. They didn't
pick Caitlin. I want them to lose. I want them.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
The thing that's fun about the way if I was
in the arena and I was rooting for another for
another country, I would completely troll that team by just
channing for the entire four quarters.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Where is Caitlin? Where is?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Because you know it burns them when they saw where
they said, you can't win without Caitlin, Like why are
they worried about that sign about Caitlin Clark? Right, Like
you see stuff that hey, look, it says we can't
win without Caitlin. So you know, just the fact they
point out to each other when their signs all over
the place and everything else. You know, that's a big
(23:05):
slice of It's all in their heads about Caitlyn, how
they feel about her, how they feel about her impact.
And while we talked yesterday, would the team be better
off with Kitlyn Clarke at point guard?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Would be guard struggled yesterday to find open space, they
struggle with your pants pressure, and she has been the
best point guard in the WNBA. But I think about
Caitlyn Clark and I think about the Olympics, and I
just go, this seems like a group that is so
clicky that like would they even let people? How would
you let somebody in from outside the group? Like they've
all played together for a long time, they've all played
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in the Olympic, they're all coming into the at least
two Olympics together. I just feel like it would be
we don't need Caitlin, we don't want her on the team,
and we're gonna go win the gold which are gonna
go win the gold medal because they're better than everybody.
But hey, just get that sick. You get that seeing that,
let's point out that Caitlyn sign. It's like, Okay, Caitlyn
lives in their heads and they have some kind of
of opinion, whether it's pettiness or jealousy about you know,
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it's there because you know, they were all they were
all consulted about Caitlyn Clark. You know, the coach said, hey,
I have your back if you don't want her, because
she's been the most vocal in most anti Caitlyn Clark
Cheryl Reeve. So you know that's out there. So if
I was trolling, you know, I would just oh, Caitlin
would have made that. But every turnover by Tarassi or
Child's Kayla.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Would have made that pass. Cayla would have made that past.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Hey, Kayla would have found Angel for a backdoor on
that one.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Ah, that what happened. You missed that one. Although the
bigs aren't missing anything, which is why we're they missed
a lot.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
They had fifty six rebounds, many of would have been
you know as some have deermed it the Angel ree rebound.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
But that yes, yeah, yeah, but but that's exact because
you know that that and that motivates them and it
lives in their heads. They No one thinks we can
win without Caitlyn. See we can do it without Caitlin.
It's like it's like it's a in the end, it's
kind of weird that I feel like Caitlyn Clark not
being there is the push that this Olympic team needs
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with the chip on their shoulder going oh you think
we can't win with that?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
You think we need that? This is but you binds
your motivation where you do because you lost the games.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's nineteen ninety two, right, If it's that guy you
need something, if it's that guy in there with the
sign and look, it's like any business. We talk about
this all the time. If you can work with people
that you know, you.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Trust, you get along and that whatever outside isn't going
to make its way into the business. Like you know,
always gotta be careful in partnerships and whatever else when
when you're forming companies. But like it's you want to
you want to work with people you know. And for
these guys, it's established right for these women, they've all
worked together. Tarasi is still playing at a pretty high
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level now. None of them closed out on three point
shooters for a good half which again a lot of
wide open shots there. Again, guards had trouble guards. That
was the bigger thing by twenty five your guards that
they didn't make any shots. They turned the ball over,
they made bad passes, they were unsure, they picked up
their three points shooting.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Side us side half court. They did not play well.
They needed Caitlin.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Video is up and uh we appreciate you taking a
look at it podcast from last night's show as well.
Wherever you download your audio. But it's very much like
the soccer squad. I mean, look at what you got.
You got a new coach and all of a sudden,
healthy Swanson, some attackers.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
On the wings.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
When you've got Rodman and Smith going, it's a much
different United States women's team than we looked at too, right,
new philosophy, new leadership, new voices, all of that comes
together for this iteration of the women's basketball squad. It's
one last run together because those other women, when you're
talking about Clark and Reese and maybe Becker's maybe eventually
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Juju Watkins, they're coming in short order. Doesn't mean you're
totally doing a wholesale hockey line change.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
To it all.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
But I think they recognize, hey, we've earned the right
to run it back one more time. So if they
could freeze out, anybody knew they did, and so you
exerted the power that was available to you.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Now, is it a popular opinion? Are a popular thing
to do? No?
Speaker 4 (27:04):
But you were wholeheartedly endorsed by your coach, who's all
the way through been saying everything she could to just
diminish Caitlyn Clark's effect on what they're trying to do
and then down Staley goes and does the worst thing
you could possibly do. Yeah, let's sit down and talk
about what you've seen. Hey, you got a selfie with
(27:24):
Barack Obama. You did this, that's great. Hey, should you
have taken Caitlyn Clark?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Well, no, stick to the script.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I mean, we made a decision. We have to stand
by it.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I mean, just think about it. It's weird because they
made the wrong decision. They know they made the wrong decision.
We know they made it because of pettiness and jealousiness
and in the.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Element that she wasn't gonna get enough minutes going to
the second game, it would be.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Hey, he get Kelsey plump, come here, Hey, Telsea gret
if you don't pick it up a little bit, Caitlyn's
gonna take some minutes from you, right, just so you know, say,
Caitlinn's gonna take some minutes here if you don't pick
it up.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
And she's sitting out the background like Dione Sanders going
I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But you have all of that, so you know, that's
why they didn't pick her. And in the end it
may wind up being the impetus that they need because
they still have the chip on their shuld I mean
when I saw them look at that sign that kid
was holding up that said you need Caitlyn Clark to
beat us, and the interest.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Level a buck man.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Can you believe you like just the fact they're looking
and see the sign about Caitlin Clark, you know how
much that is in their head.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
And the biggest thing that would have been great in
that moment was for some of them to just walk
over say give me a sharpie, let me sign that sign, Let.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Me sign that for you, Let me sign that for you.
Avoid the clap Jimmy Dugan.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So I didn't think they were giving it the inscriptions.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
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down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Maybe the cardboard beds help with that.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Uh, well, we'll have to we'll have to wait till
the end of the Olympics for all find out the
end of Olympics sex bed review. Okay, Well, I think
you have to count how many condoms they actually gave
out thou how many were used, and then then you'll
know the ends. Okay, I mean I don't know how
you figure out how many you are used, But well,
can't you put like a chip? Did you put like
(29:19):
a little chip in the condom? You know when it's
used or not? Okay, it was opened or it wasn't.
I mean, I gotta be able to do that now, brothers,
be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Hey, hey, that was used. That was a used one.
I got.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I saw it right here. It was just ripped open
three twenty eight am. All right, I found it right there.
You're supposed to be asleep. You can put a chip
in that. Then you can put one in, can't you?
Tomorrow morning? He's gonna be a subar performance weaken Legs
the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen. Well,
we're gonna have more Olympic We do that big Olympic
(29:53):
basketball story between France and Japan for earlier today.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Oh, we can do it next how.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
But however, however, no, well let's do basketball.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
However.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
We now have a little bit of controversy and craziness
surrounding the biggest trade of the MLB trade deadline. What
team backed out of trading for the biggest player due
to medical concerns? Not Cleveland and not the White Sox.
(30:27):
Who have just lost their seventeenth in a row. Twenty
eight Blone saves for you guys this year, sixteen in
a row, Yeah, twenty eight blone saves.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Wow, youre saves get wins. Just think if you had
a closer who was good, maybe you'd be in first place.
Maybe that's all you're missing is a closer. You know,
Kopek could have been that guy. He was erratic.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
So whodilo is only you know as good going in
when you know it's actually higher going out.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Who backed out of a trade for the best player
that got dealt today?
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That's next Radio Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
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Speaker 1 (31:09):
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Speaker 3 (31:16):
Happy Trade Deadline Day.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
The biggest trade of the day any of the Dodgers
get starting pitcher Jack Flaherty from the Tigers.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Big deal. Dodgers absolutely needed it, but.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
He could have been a Yankee. According to Fox's Ken Rosenthal,
the Yankees dropped out of the bidding for Jack Flaherty
due to medical concerns. Now what are they Flarerty's had
a couple of injections. It's his lower back. He was injured,
came off the injured list, and he's been lights out
(31:53):
since he's returned. And so while in theory, I understand, hey,
oh it's got and your conturt to we to make
this trade makes trip. This is so on brand for
the Yankees, who are scared of their own shadow. They
are scared of almost every potential big trade or transaction.
Juan Soto got dumped in their lap and it was easy.
(32:15):
We got one Soto, but everything else they the Yankees
have driven to the middle right.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
Like if the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Were either the the the to make a political reference,
if the Yankees were, what are you doing the far
left or the far right? Like you love the Yankees?
You hated the Yankees? They did everything bold if the
Yankees now the last five years, they're a politician that
is right down the middle and not saying anything about anything.
I can see both sides of the story. I can
see the people that are upset, I can see the
people that like this. Now I'm right down. Now we
(32:44):
need some pragmatism in our world. But Yanks have decided
we don't want to do anything. It is not surprising
to me that they backed out of this trade. It's
one thing to back out. Hey, here's this, there's bad medicals,
there's all of this. You're giving up so much for
this guy. But you know the Dodgers aren't giving up
you know, the top couple of prospects they had. And
(33:05):
he's come back and he's pitch and he's been pretty healthy.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You want to go back a couple of years ago
happ with the Mets with the Carlos carea deal which
they said no to U.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
But are the.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Dodgers really trading for Flarerty if he's injured, if he's
got if you I mean, I kind of trust the
Dodgers doctors. There are certain teams I don't trust. Like
if the Mets traded for him, I would go, oh boy,
we're in trouble, man, We are in a lot of trouble.
But the Dodgers aren't trading for Flarerty if he's got
real injury concerns. And again, you don't have a lot
of off of this other than what you're here, cause
(33:34):
you're not seeing his medicals you're getting. You're getting whatever
reports that the team wants to give you. And it's
not like, hey, we got him in, we examined him,
we did this. Hey, I'm telling you we we can't
make this deal. This is not surprising that the Yankees
backed away, because they back away from almost everything. Hey,
we'd like to get him. Sure, but here's Brian Cashmer going,
oh boy, if this doesn't go well, they want my head.
(33:55):
And I feel like that. But that's a big part
of it all the time. Now if I because remember
when he said, Hey, if I make a trade, I
gotta walk around in this town. Sure, make telling you
how worried he is about making a trade, and you
can't be that kind of GM. They made a couple
of really nice moves. Getting Jazz Chishm was great, right,
Getting Mark Lyder, who's been really good out of the bullpen.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
It's not but who they thought he.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Was coming out of college. But okay, he's still been
pretty good. Yankees made a couple of good moves. I
think they need a little bit more. But if Chishm's
gonna hit a home run every game, I think they'll
be okay.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Well, you're also banking just like the Dodgers that the
guy guys are gonna come back and you're gonna get
healthy and suddenly in the middle of your lineup is
that much better everything. But when it's time for the
Yankees to be bold, they back away like they're afraid,
and like, that's what I don't know, if it's just
years and years of doing this with Brian Cashman, he's
afraid to make a big, bold move for anything because
(34:44):
I don't know he is. He so battle weary from
New York going if this trade doesn't go right, the
next three weeks are gonna be awful. They're gonna talk,
they're gonna want they talking about wfa N. They're gonna
write about me in the New York Post, They're gonna
talk about me online.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
They're gonna want me out. I'm gonna lose this.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Job, not making a trade, not making trade, like that's
why I feel the Yankees right, Oh medicals Really he
had a couple of injection No, don't make the trade.
Don't make the trade. The Dodgers are gonna get him,
They're going forward. No, no, don't make the trade. Don't make
the trow We're not gonna do it like it does
not surprise because the Yankees are afraid of everything.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Well, we watched it for the last couple of years.
I mean even we were expecting. I think most anybody
that follows and covers baseball didn't think Aaron Boone was
coming back this year.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Dah, there he is.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
And Cashman's a guy that has been seemingly on the
at least the warm seat and heating up the last
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
But as we've seen with Son of Stein.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
They don't they don't like a lot of moves, they
don't shuffle up a deal, and they have gone and
spent big in bat I'd be curious what the asking
price was for the Yankees in terms of where they're at,
because the Dodgers, it's you had to give up your
number eight, number twenty two prospects. Yah, yeah, here, Okay,
that's fine, really good starter.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
That's low cost young guy.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
And even if he does work, like say the back
flares up, you're also thinking you've got all these other
guys coming back. So you made a bold move on
top of the expectation that your rotation is gonna round
itself back into form. He's a nice added chip, but
was he as much as we can say he's in need.
(36:19):
You still had numbers coming back into your rotation. So
he's a nice extra piece for the Yankees. Paralyzed by
some of the New York media and just at this point,
what do you have in terms of prospects?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I know?
Speaker 1 (36:35):
And that's the thing is that an organization's number one prospect,
you think like, well, that's gonna be some of the
top two three, probably gonna come in and be all stars.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
No, not really.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Sometimes they come up in their serviceable Major leaguers for
a little while. Right, That's what you could be is
a number one prospect. So they're also relatively speaking, your
organization can suck.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
You'd have to give what the Dodgers gave up.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, you're not okay up your number eight, eight and
twenty two for jackfight.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Really you're not.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You're not okay with that your eighth best prospect who
may wind up being a guy that's a middle reliever
for a couple of years.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Just think about that for a second. Like that, that's
how fraid the that was the asking price on the
Yankee side.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
They're so afraid.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Well, look the division's caught up to you. You got
lucky that Toronto fell off a cliff. But now you
got Baltimore, I mean, Jackson Holidays back up and all
of that going on. You've got the Red Sox playing
well better, except you know the post All Star mess
that it's been because of you Yankees. Just fine, it's
my fum. I'm sorry, Boston. They just find a way
(37:40):
to be afraid.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Coming up next, we will preview more in the MLB
Trade deadline fear. We'll pive you the biggest sporting event tomorrow.
Keep it right here, Fox.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
TJ. Why don't we hear the song one more time?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon Bay from the ti rack dot Com Studios.
MLB Trade deadline has come and gone. Every single team
made at least seven trades today, or at least it
felt that way. Okay, but the big story right now
is about the team that didn't. Jack Flaherty was the
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big prize of the day, the Dodgers making a trade
for him. They give up their eight and twenty two
rank prospect according to MLB. On Fox's Ken Rosenthal, we
talked about this last hour. The Yankees weren't in on Flaarty,
but backed out due to medical concerns. Now we know
that Flerty's had a couple of injections for his lower back,
but after coming off the il, he's not injigg injected.
(38:42):
Inject inject injected. Just got injected. I'll give you this
for a preature. Just got injected.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
You go, there, you go.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
But his last three starts have been lights out. He's
been really good. The Dodgers get Flaarty. What was going
on on with the Yankees? Nobody better to talk to
the MLB on network than MLB Network insider Extraored Mare
joining us for the second night in a row, all
new material because we had the trade deadline. It's John
Paul Morosi, John Paul, what's happening, Bud Good.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Evening, My friends.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
I am in Philadelphia, so still the same.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
City where I was twenty four hours ago, but the
circumstances dramatically different. The deadline has passed, no more trades
until November. But we've got a lot of entertainment and
of course second guessing between now and then, which is
where I suspect our conversation begins tonight.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Well, I thought when you said, hey, same location as
last night, except things are different.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
I thought, did you dress up as the Philly fanatic tonight? Nice?
Speaker 8 (39:45):
That's right, Oh, that would have been interesting.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Now I'm still I'm still wearing the same sport code
that I was wearing for my first MLB Central appearance
of the day at nine to fifteen AM.
Speaker 8 (39:56):
It's a few hours ago.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
But that's why I love the Deadline, because we get
to this talk baseball all day long. And the other
thing about Jack Flaherty and you discussed it as we
came on the air, and Ken Rosenthal's reporting on this
at the end of the day. I'm not a doctor.
I'm married to one, but I'm not one, and she
(40:18):
would not really want to rent her an opinion.
Speaker 8 (40:20):
On this anyway.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
But what I would say is this, I don't know
what Jack Flaherty's medicals say. The Yankees won't tell us
what they saw, The Dodgers won't tell us what they saw,
but clearly the Dodgers felt as though he could help them.
To your point is, recent performances have been really good.
Three starts in a row in which he's given up one,
two and one runs, so he's he's in good form
(40:44):
right now. And we will know in October how many
starts he makes and how many starts the comparable spot
and the Yankee rotation, whether it's Nesra Cortez Junior, whomever
it is, it's the third or fourth starter of the Yankees,
that's when we will know, well, who actually won this
trade and whose medical assessment was correct.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
You know, here's the thing, John Paul is, I don't
think the Dodgers are trading for a guy who's got
really bad medicals. And I look at the Yankees and
I'm not surprised because unless it's a guy getting dumped
in their lap like bon Soto, Brian Cashman has been
afraid of big trades for the past five or six years.
I don't know what it is. When the Yankees turned into, well,
we're not that team. We're not gonna swing for the fields,
(41:26):
We're not gonna go bold. You know, the Nankees need stuff.
They were betting JD. Dave was a cleanup a week ago.
I like getting Jazz Chisholm, I like getting Mark Lighter.
Those are nice moves. But here was a big move
for a starting pitcher, and I'm not surprised the Yankees
found a way to back away from it because I
feel like they get afraid of big trades.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
What and again, it may be a bit of buyer's
remorse on the Frankie Montos deal a couple of years ago.
And then Ken mentioned that in his piece of The
Athletic about how that might be useful context to what
happened with the Yankees with Flaherty. I'll say this, the
medical review on Carlos Korea's foot relative to a multi
(42:05):
year deal, it's a franchise changer vis a vis A
two month rental of Jack Flaherty on an expiring contract
is very different. And I think that for a starting pitcher.
You think about the Philadelphia Phillies, who when Pedro Martinez
was on his was making the last run of his
(42:25):
illustrious Hall of Fame career, do you think that was
a clean MRI? And he was still pitching in the
World Series for them in late October in a Phillies
Yankees World Series that was, of course the same matches
that we saw tonight here as Citizens Bank Park. So
I think it's all a matter of risk management. And
the Yankees seemed to think and believe that what they
(42:46):
had going on right now and their overall pitching depth chart,
they were in a position where they felt okay.
Speaker 8 (42:54):
With what they had internally.
Speaker 5 (42:55):
I would suggest to you that there's certainly a lot
of issues with the Yankees with the backside of their depth.
Even Garrett Cole tonight wasn't even well enough to make
his start because he's not feeling well, fatigue is setting in.
There's a lot of issues that I've got right now,
and I think that when you talk about the New
(43:15):
York Yankees and their inability to advance to a World
Series in fifteen years, often it has been a lack
of having a sufficient starting pitching depth when you get
to the postseason. If they don't have this group on
all cylinders and going, and if Cole doesn't become Garrett
Cole again, and if Cortes can't be solid, if you
(43:40):
think about ro Don what he's been able to do
this year, they need to keep this group on this
trajectory of getting them deep into games, and if they
can't do that, it's going to be potentially another early
October exit for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 4 (43:52):
I dig that you got risk management in there a
couple of times, seeing as the assistant to the traveling
secretary George Costanza. There you go a speech about risk management.
All right, let's go to the padres. Obviously, I make
fun of the White Sox because of what they did
with Dylan Ceeese, kind of giving him away in the preseason.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
So they already got their starter, but they go.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
And bolster the bullpen by adding Scott couple arms.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
Do they have enough rotation wise to challenge the Dodgers.
Speaker 8 (44:20):
Well, I think that's a big question.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
I was told earlier in this week that they were
going to get an impact starting pitcher.
Speaker 8 (44:27):
They didn't.
Speaker 5 (44:28):
And now, in terms of how how the moves played out,
could you potentially see the second piece they got coming
over from the Miami Marlins. Could he end up making
some starts? Potentially? Maybe that's the possibility, But I would
think in general, you're focused more on the bullpen side
of things, with Jason Adam joining Scott as this amazing
(44:51):
duo at the back end of the bullpen, and listen,
they've done a good job. One thing I always say
about about aj Preller is that he goes for it.
Speaker 8 (45:00):
He is not afraid to make a move, and.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
I think that that started way back in spring training
with Dylan cease, it continued with Luis Araas and now
a very impactful several days. The second pitcher, by the way,
that I was referring to Brian Honig, who's actually had
some starts at the major league level this year with
the Marlin, so maybe they look at him as potentially
a death starting pitcher. They also ended up getting Martin Perez,
(45:24):
so he wasn't a hugely impactful high end necessarily first
or second starter, but he gives you depth, and so
that's another arm we should talk about and acknowledge. They
did add Martin Peiz, so I think when I talk
about AJ Brothers teams, I love that he's not afraid
to make a move. And what you said earlier about
(45:44):
the New York Yankees and Brian Cashman and not getting
the starting pitchers that it seems like they needed. We
have to look at things in retrospect and consider how
the season all came together. You also have to look
at the way the last year the Texas Rangers made
it to the World Series and won the World Series
because of the moves they made during the course of
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that season, and so so often it is that that
this day, the deadline day, determines who the last team
standing is at the end of October early November. I
think the Yankees have to hope that it's not that
case this season because they did not have the most
impactful deadline, although you have to acknowledge they.
Speaker 8 (46:22):
Did get Ja Sism a few.
Speaker 5 (46:23):
Days ago, and he just hit four home runs in
two games here at Citizens Bank Park, So I think
the offensive side of their upgrade looks great right now.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
All right, John Paul Ifi said to you, the two
teams that you like the most what they did today?
You are two big winners of the trade deadline, and
it could be from today, it could be in totality
the last few days into today. What two teams you're
giving that you like the most? What they did?
Speaker 5 (46:49):
So on the buying side, I think Baltimore did very well.
They were able to get Rogers from the Marlins in
addition to having already acquired zach Efln and to deal
with Tampa Bay. They got Alloyd Hitmenez as well from
the Chicago White Sox, and they've added some value and
I think some impacts collectively. So I like what Baltimore did. Seattle,
(47:10):
I think again incrementally that they did a pretty good
job of continuing to add talent, led by Randy rose Arena.
I love their pitching. I just I love their pitching
with what they've got there, so I think and believe
they've added enough to really give a different tenor to
this team going forward. A big win tonight at Fenway
at ten six victory for the Mariners, I think they're
on the right track. I also like the way that
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the Marlins sold. They did a really good job of
getting a ton of prospects from the Padres, and I
think in general, you look at other teams that were
aggressive in selling, I'm not quite sure anybody quite matched
up to the.
Speaker 8 (47:44):
Strength of what they were able to do with the Marlins.
Speaker 5 (47:47):
The Tigers did okay. I thought they again maybe with
the flarity dynamic, they had to do the best they
could with the injury uncertainty, and so maybe they get
a bit of a hall pass there. I think that's
probably some very important context of what the Tigers able
to do. But I think in general, the Marlins were
the best seller, and of the buying teams I liked
(48:07):
with Baltimore and Seattle did the best.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
Look at that he made me be the bad guy
John Paul. As we go to the other end of
the spectrum, could you have a worse day than the
Angels did? The Angel Yeah, so here's rendon back to
the IL. Mike Trout operations shut down. Yeah, you made
a couple of moves, but there's nothing substantive there. They're
(48:30):
not on the surface, right. So I thought of those
bad headline after bad headline.
Speaker 5 (48:36):
I agree. I thought it would have been do you
think about it.
Speaker 8 (48:39):
I thought they could have had a deal for Renhifo.
They didn't.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
I thought they could have moved to other ward.
Speaker 8 (48:43):
They didn't.
Speaker 5 (48:45):
To your point, Trout is now shut down. Rendon back
to the IL. There's not a lot of good things
that have happened for this organization. I mean, you can
go far back, but really it almost it's never been
as great as it was the knighte that Trout and
O Towni faced off in the World Baseball Classic. Basically
since then, not a whole lot of good things have
(49:07):
happened for them. That was like the high point, and
neither player was actually wearing an Angels jersey at the time.
Speaker 8 (49:12):
Yeah, so that that that is kind of the Yeah,
it was, Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 5 (49:20):
But I think that you're right, and and it's amazing
how it's hard to say this, how irrelevant they feel
right now after when Trout isn't playing and Otani's no
longer there. Rendon has been minimally impactful really since he
signed this contract with with the Angels. It's it's tough,
(49:41):
it's it is a tough thing to contemplate what the
future of their organization is going to be at a
time where they just don't really have a lot of
recognizable players on the field for them every day. And
you're right, they traded Luis Garcia over to Boston. I
think he will help them out, but you're not going
to rebuild the team by trading seventh inning really and
(50:01):
doing the best you can to potentially add value that way.
Speaker 8 (50:04):
I man Zach that Tho's come up, he's done. He's
I think he's a.
Speaker 5 (50:07):
Frontline shortstop for a long time. Shawnawell is okay over
at first. Ohapi's a good catcher, but it is not
a winning team, and I think that's a real concern
for them right now.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
He is a man still wearing the jacket he started
the day with. When speaking of that, I started the
day with you first thing I saw today on TV
when I woke up, I turned on I watched your
hit on MLB Network with Lauren Shahati.
Speaker 3 (50:28):
And let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
You look so powerful because they show you all of
Lauren Shahati and your head is so big in the
in the in the uh, in the in the in
the It started JP.
Speaker 3 (50:41):
Like, your head is so big. I feel like you're.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
About to say, I'm canceling the Avengers initiative. Let's go
arrest Captain America. Like you look powerful because your head
is so big in that monitor, come out of it
and just attack people.
Speaker 5 (50:55):
That's That's a great that's a great observation. At some point,
at some point I may ask our director why that's
the case. But I'll let the world draw its own
conclusions on that one.
Speaker 1 (51:08):
I suppose you're the great no powerful odds, what are
we talking about?
Speaker 5 (51:12):
Come on, man, I do have a few thoughts on
Major League Baseball from time to time, but I would
say that my understanding of why, I will say that, actually,
those drop down tablets that we have in studio are
pretty cool and the way they're all digitized to me like,
I'm like the least hecky guy in the world. I
(51:35):
just think it's cool that they find a way to
put me on TV every day, and I'm grateful and
blessed for that. But how it all happens, and if
I seem like the all knowing oz, hey, I appreciate
that thought and that means a lot to me.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
Thank you very much, John Paul Morosi. He's like fifteen
feet tall. You can go and see the wizard.
Speaker 5 (51:56):
I've advanced quite far from the time when I was
a five foot seven high school quarterback who couldn't even
see over his own offensive.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Line jump back.
Speaker 5 (52:05):
That made me feel That made me feel quite insignificant.
I would say, like, guys, like, we need you to
throw the ball down the field and check down from
the free safety to the strong side corner. But yeah, guys,
it's a brilliant idea.
Speaker 10 (52:16):
I can't see any of those people, okay, So I
don't know anymore, right, I can't see anybody, okay, So
so you're trying to tell me I gotta I gotta
check down? And are they in a cover two? Are
they in a cover three?
Speaker 5 (52:28):
Like? Yeah, these are all great questions. I can't answer them.
I am unable to perceive the answers.
Speaker 8 (52:34):
To the questions you're asking me. So I here's what
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5 (52:36):
I'm gonna get the snap, but I'm gonna run around
like I'm trying to save my life because I am,
and hope that I can throw the ball down the field.
Speaker 8 (52:41):
That's That's exactly what the plan is gonna be.
Speaker 5 (52:43):
And then you saw how many games we won.
Speaker 8 (52:46):
Two games and two years, guys, two games and two years.
Speaker 5 (52:48):
That's why that's why I talk about sports and don't
play them.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Hey, that was that was the Lion's plan for about
a decade. John Paul, that's not bad.
Speaker 3 (52:54):
He's there.
Speaker 5 (52:56):
They're about they're coming back, though. I think we're on
national TV like six times. I think we're gonna have
full live team coverage of my predictions. I think you're
gonna have to credential me when they're on national team.
Speaker 3 (53:07):
You think show come on now.
Speaker 5 (53:09):
Live predictions from Morossi.
Speaker 10 (53:11):
It's going to become a segment, to become a thing.
Speaker 1 (53:12):
And I'm thinking he'll pick the lines to score twenty
seven points like he did every game last He began at.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
Twenty four in there once.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Oh yeah, there's twenty four in there wasn't feeling great
about the offense that week.
Speaker 10 (53:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (53:22):
For the For our next question the press conference, we're
gonna go to John Morossi at Fox Sports Radio. Yes,
Dan Campbell, will the score tonight be twenty seven to fourteen?
Speaker 8 (53:30):
I'm feeling twenty seven fourteen.
Speaker 3 (53:34):
He's on Tyer and John Morosi at John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (53:38):
I'd love, I would pay, I would pay your plane
ticket to see you. Ask him that question the press conference.
John Paul is always buddy, appreciate. Hey, my best dis turns.
He did a great job today.
Speaker 5 (53:47):
He did.
Speaker 8 (53:48):
He did well.
Speaker 5 (53:48):
Paul Blackburn, good trade, good trade, by the best
Speaker 3 (53:51):
And see you, buddy, have fun, see jaa thank thanks Bunny,
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