July 31, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike give their 3 impactful deals of the trade-deadline. The USA Women’s Rugby win their first medal in Olympic history with a 90 Yard Try as time expired. And Jason explains why the Yankees are scared of almost every potential big trade or transaction.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, Welcome inside our three The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon. This time it counts live
from the tire Rag dot Com studios. Now a little
bit more in the story we talked about a few
minutes ago, before we get into the MLB trade deadline
and the team you gotta watch out for after today.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You mean frauds being perpetrated on nations. No, no, no,
so yes.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Obviously if you told me, hey, the officiating in today's
game between France and Japan was fixed to give France
a win, I couldn't agree with you. The calls throwing
Rutchimo out of the game, giving France a four point
play in the final seconds. This was nineteen seventy two.
United States Russia level of official Olympic game in rewind,
(01:13):
and I told you these these officials should all be
sent home, shouldn't do a game, unless unless you want
to keep him around for the gold medal game if
it turns out to be France in the United States,
because boy would I'd like to see all these hometown
calls going France's away. Lebron fouling out of a game,
(01:34):
you know, just step not getting any getting clobb or
not getting any calls. A d goes in, he scored
six quick points and gets thrown out. The wingspan is
too large on Anthony Davis. He's getting thrown out for
what too large a wingspan? You're gone. I mean part
of me would really like to see how that would
go Meanwhy you got seven five?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
That doesn't mask watching anybody play against France and for
lims like I got a clean, wide open shot. Look
at this move I made to get past that defender.
You can hear the stretch like it's an old cartoon.
You just see the shadow come over the player's face,
like what an alien ship in a movie.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Like to said, You see the person look up and
go and you see the shadow just covers them. Oh
my goodness, it's Wemby. But no, but I would I
would pay to see that. I would pay to see that.
You guys are a sign here. Why extra scrutiny. Oh well,
the first guy they threw out is Joel Embiid. Yeah,
find a way to throw it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Either that or it just becomes a forty minute battle Royale.
Guy's bludgeting the hell out of each other.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It'd be great tam Usa down to the end. Here
it's Derek White and Maam out of Bayo. That's all
they have left we found. It's now NBA jams rules apply. Hey,
one update on a story that we talked about a
lot yesterday. The triathlon will go on. Yeah, gonna have
the triathlon? How about that? Yeah? They sound away to
clean the sin in the one area that it needed
(03:03):
to be cleaner.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, I have to believe it was fifty five participants, going,
you're kidding me, right, I've trained for this for four
years and now we have water control.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I don't care if I'll tell so I'll swap E
Cola to compete in the Olympics. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I saw a couple of interviews with folks who've done
triathlons and long swims and suspect bodies of water, and
they described some of the fallout and they all said.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Do it again. Oh, here you go. You may not
feel well, but you'll have your Olympic moment. I just
got a whole bunch of shots. I had a battery
of shots right after my event, and I'm fine now,
just got injected. I got injected, So we are going
to have it. They may have the Sharks, though, and
I say, hopefully no one gets E coli, because that
is the concern that someone would get E colon. I
(03:54):
think it's inevitable. Yeah, that's true. But again under Paris
with the sharks. You know again, oxy clean could clean
it up. Let's go, let's see it. Put the work, yeah,
with the Sharks, and see how it goes. So MLB
trade deadline today, and I'll tell you many teams did well,
right many. You're happy with everybody because even if they
(04:16):
didn't make it, I'm happy. I'm This is one of
those rare days where I could say lots of teams
did well. Why because nobody gave up big prospects. Nobody.
No team got so desperate to make a big trade
they gave up prospects. They probably shouldn't have given up.
There was no Pete Crow Armstrong for Hovey BAYAZ for
two months ran. There was no trades like that. So
(04:38):
it was so it turned out to be a good
because this is what we thought the day was gonna
do again.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
A couple of teams that just showed their assets to
who they are, the Angels with the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Right well, and then there's teams you thought, hey, are
they going for it? Are they? Oh? No, the Reds
are making trades. Looks like they're punting. We can't tell
if the Rangers are punting or not. Really unsure. They're
sure they're trading players away, but they're also getting players.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
And that was the Cubs with you know, so of
the raised moves and others that were made around in
the last couple uh last two three days.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Not of mind seeing teams like the Reds punt, I go, oh,
one last team I have to worry about for the Wildcard.
So okay, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, but that means that Elie Dela Cruz is now
taking meaningless at back.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, but that's okay, But that's your guy. No, Grimace
is winning n L M v P. This year is
right in the Mets winning percentages back up to like
seven twenty one in the Grimace era, and your closer
is now a closer once again. Yes, but but Grimace
is the MVP. I mean, he's got a big deal.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
There's no lashing about the marketing and merchandising of Grimace
these last sixty days.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And you figured the charts, the Twins are somewhat purple,
doesn't matter, not purple enough, not Grimace, not Grimace. Yeah,
but we're starting to see a bunch of teams where
their random logos are mutating to where who are they playing?
Like is that a Marlins had or that that Minnesota
Twins hat. It looks like a Marlin's hat in Minnesota.
Like we're looking at it going it's awful bad. I'm like,
that's a Marlins hat. You've ruined your branding. But the
(06:00):
three teams that I can tell you that I like
the most what they did today, and one team stands
out more. I love what the Dodgers did right. Jack
Flaherty was the big fish. They went out and got him. Yes,
there are injury concerns about him, which we'll get to
in about twenty minutes. But the Yankees backed out. They
could have had Flaherty, but they were a little bit
concerned over his medicals, so they said, you no, no,
(06:21):
we're backing out. Dodgers get him in exchange for the
eighth and twenty second rated prospect. And that's the big thing,
which that's nothing. You can give up your eighth rank
prospect because who knows, your eighth rank prospect may never
be more than a bullpen arm for a couple of years.
You could do that now. Fortunately for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Going back to the backing out things just real quick though,
is that you can at least say, hey, look at
Jazz chism we got him.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, no, so everything so it kind of washes away,
at least for the moment. It's Jazz Chishm hits two
home runs every game. They're not gonna worry about it.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Did you notice he only had three and three multi
homer games in his career with the Marlins.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
He's going to New York. He's been turned to York, right.
Jazz Chisholm was a great trade, great addition for the Yankees.
Mark Lyder was a great ad for the bullpen. They
could have used more. I told you all last week
they need to make They need four new everyday players.
They have lots of guys who a hurt, but they didn't.
They weren't as aggressive as they should have been. But
the guys they get. I liked that. I like the
guys they got. But the Dodgers needed they probably needed
(07:20):
another starter. But with what they have coming back, they
went out and got the number one guy. Right, they
went out and got the number one guy available. The
Dodgers are nothing if not at the deadline. What do
we have. We make sure we fill that void. They
don't come away from the deadline with you know, it
just wasn't there for us. We needed a catcher, we
needed a right field or this wasn't no, no, no.
The Dodgers always find a way. They get what they want.
(07:42):
They got the big picture that got moved. They did great,
even biased. I like what the Mets did. We got
five new players that are going to be that They're
gonna all contribute and play. And the biggest thing they
gave up was the nineteenth ranked prospect. Right. And I've
told you, I told you earlier in the show. The
new way that teams build themselves. This is why David's Terns.
I'm telling these wind up winning an l executive in
(08:03):
THEOS because he's found a way with a bunch of
guys to build a team that is in the lead
for the wild Card right now. Because what he's done
is this is the new way teams build themselves over
the course of a season now is you have to
build depth and length to have seven starting pitchers that
you can dip from at all times and not have
to worry about calling a kid up from Triple A
(08:24):
that's going to get pounded. You need five outfielders because
they're all going to play. You need six infielders because
they're all going to play. You can't say, well, we
have our eight guys and then when injuries happen or
ineffectiveness happened, well, then guess what. We got to ride
a guys at one sixty. We got to do that, right,
We got to ride a guys at in one sixty
because you don't have anybody else. No, the Mets don't
(08:45):
have to worry about that because they're deep and they
have length. So those two teams right away, Mets and
the Dodgers, I love what they did.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, we'll look at the Dodgers and obviously you've got
so many players expected to return from injury, both in
your lineup and in your rotation. Right, and Glass now
is on the hill to start the game tonight. Kershaw's
on the comeback trail. I want to know the arm
exercises he's been doing, because he looks more swoll than
(09:12):
I remember, So I want to get on that training program.
But go on down the line. You're expecting that, and
of course Mookie bets coming back to the lineup. But
so you make the move and with flarity again for
what you gave up, Like those are guys, yeah right,
and we know what the Dodgers organization. It's not as
fool proof. Guys ascending because you used to lament. You know,
(09:35):
guys coming up and they're hitting three fifty all the time.
You know, some of the magic wore off and they
became well Jags. But that's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
But they go and get the best starter that was
truly available without an exorbitant price, because I can't imagine
the Giants listened to offers for Blake Snell, but it
became a you really need to wallace the crochet thing
we talked about the white side. That was the whole thing.
The Giants, we'll eat money. And this is why you
look at the like just an owner who will do
(10:04):
that just to go back the Mets the trade deadline
last year said Okay, we're gonna eat all this money
for Max Scherzer. So in exchange, we get the number
two rated prospect in your organization, because we're gonna eat
all that money. For sure. If you're not gonna eat money,
you're not gonna get a prospect. And the Giants had
said we're not gonna eat this money, so that made
it really once they came out and said no, that's
(10:26):
our hard and fast dictum with this, you know it
wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
But yeah, it's all about adding for depth because it's
the war of attrition. It's two hundred games, as one
hundred and sixty two regular season, long postseason, and then
go back to spring training, whatever innings or at bats
and everything else that add up. So yeah, trying to
find a fifth arm that can be a starter if
need be based on injury and effectiveness, or a guy
(10:51):
that you get in trouble in game one of a
playoff series that can come in and eat four or
five innings before you go to your normal bullpen rotation.
It's it's all fun, you know, in that regard. Now
we're watching, you know, the Dodgers and and Padres. Here
Padres bolstered their bullpen. Still think needed another arm. We
talked with John Palm Morosi about it. And you know,
(11:13):
while they did add Perez, is that enough to push
it over?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
See's I love what the Padres. That's the time I
liked the bolt did watch out for them. But when
when I when I was filling in an AM five
seventy last week, we talked about, Hey, what what team
should the Dodgers be worried about? And I said, the Padres.
They're coming. They look like they figured things out. Watch
out and now here at the deadline, they're building this
(11:38):
bullpen on steroids, and I mean figurative steroids. You know,
Tanner Scott's one of the best closers in the game.
They get Jason Adam, who's really good. This is what
you need. And they are already a team that was coming,
and here they are making trades, getting the two best
guys in the bullpen. Watch out for the Padres. And
as I say this, the Padres hit two home runs
off of Blake Tryne int the bottom of the nine
(12:00):
a five to three Dodger league, which is going to
be a five to three Dodger victory. The game is
now tied at five with the Padres still bad it yeah,
in the bottom of the ninth then.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
But Giado is second of the game and then Jackson
Merrill absolutely crushed that ball.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I'm telling you watch out for the Padres. That look,
they were good last year, right we saw them. We
saw them be able to be a team that maybe
they needed to figure things out a little bit. Like
you got a lot of strong personalities. You have a
mix of big salaried players and young players coming up.
It takes a little bit of time. Now is when
I think that coalesces and these two big bullpen moves
of the deadline. I'm telling you watch out for the Boks.
(12:35):
We watched how many games are lost in the late innings.
I can't use my team as the best example, but
for the purposes of here's a great data point. There
are more blown saves by the White six games they've won.
You've blown twenty eight saves. You've won twenty seven games.
But here's where I'm gonna make you feel good, buddy.
If you just had a good closer, you'd probably be
in the playoffs. Oh good, that's all that's missing. Let's
(12:58):
say let's say it closer. Let's say you have a
different closer who blows five games. Right, that's twenty three
saves and five So that's twenty three more wins for you.
You're at fifty some odd wins and you're in the
playoff Hue, No, it's great, is it is for you? No?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
So is it is.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I did get a little bit sad to see the
overjoyed members of the White Sox fan base. Look, they're
they're small, but they are allowed at the training of
Elloy Jimenez. Now we've talked about him a bunch, mostly
off air, because the White Sox don't mention require a
lot of mentions other than coming off of the news
(13:39):
desk to mock me of the latest level of ineptitude.
But Eloy him had as a guy that they paid.
He was supposed to be one of those guys that
where they tried the Braves model. Well clearly it didn't work,
couldn't stay on the field. And now he goes to
the Orioles where he'll probably inject life into the back
end of their lineup and be a hero for them
(14:01):
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watch out for the Padres. Watch out. Well, now we're
talking tie breakers and all sorts of weird things start
start coming into play here. Coming up next, we'll have
(14:21):
another crazy story of the day from the Olympics and
why the Yankees have turned into a team that seems
to be afraid of their own shadow. Yeah, they had
a whole bunch of controversy go on after the trade
deadline expired. That's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Drama right now. Yeah, Dodgers were up five to three
over the Padres. Padres get two home runs. At the
(16:26):
bottom of the ninth inning, Manny Machado hits his second
of the game. Jackson Merrill goes deep that ties it.
Dodgers go out one, two, three in the top of
the tenth, and now the Padres have runners at first
and second automatic runner and start the inning obviously and
lead off walk. They now have first and second, nobody out,
(16:47):
and it looks like the Padres are on the cusp
of pulling snatching a victory, as they used to say,
Jim McKay would say, from the jaws of defeating.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Oh nicely done, a little Jim McKay for us on
a big Tuesday night here. You know, I hate the
ghost unner. It's still to me the worst invention.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I know you like it, but it does. I'd rather
have the robot umpire it's there, we make it both.
What if we had robot ghost runners? What would that?
Would that be enough for you who still get the
ghost Runner? But it would be a robot who's controlling it?
Is it a thirteen year old kid? I mean? Is it?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Or does someone in the bullpen have to do that?
The oldest guy on the roster has to work the joyce?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
No? I think yes, I'm thirty nine. I haven't played
a video game since Super Mario cart in two thousand
and four. See what I did there? I add an
agree agree in difficult I like that. How do you
make the guy run? Just press? Why does he just
keep jumping up and down? Be down a at left, right, left, right, left, right,
up right, be a start? Do it? That's he just
(17:45):
keeps doing a slide tackle? What the hell? Uh? So again,
we'll have more on this game coming up in a
few minutes. Kevin Wyatt will give us the latest Luisa
Riaz with a sacrifice bunt puts the winning run at third?
Is it second and third? One out in the bottom
of the time we might on this game.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Mighty, We may be done all right, Yeah, but you
can also tell everybody where you were at nine to
twenty five on a Tuesday night where someone successfully laid
down a bunt that's in a Major League Baseball game.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That is the first successful sacrifice bunt in the in
MLB since nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Could be yeah, back when Jerome Walton was bunting for hits.
It was Dan Gladden on May seventeenth, nineteen eighty nine.
Successful sacrifice bunt moved Gene Larkin into scoring position.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Where do you think the Padres are going to start
the parade route? Oh, dude, the Padres when they play
the Dodgers, like when they got the final out in
the top of the ninth and then they had to
fly out to write, they're all pounding their gloves, going in,
yelling at it. When the Padres played the Dodgers, they
looked like a little league team. Noy they behave like
a little league team that Hey we could upset the
(18:55):
big g everything. Yeah league all right, like, hey, this
is the best team in the league going tone to
toe with them. Let's get excited. Hey we got apple
slices coming, like, that's what the that's what the pile
sounds pretty good? They look like that. But before we
get to the Yankees, and the big contrary is of
trade deadline. The biggest headline today in the Olympics, in
an awesome moment, was the United States women's rugby team
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winning a medal for the first time in one hundred years. Okay,
the bronze medal match between the United States and Australia.
Whether you watch rugby or not, like, it's very similar
to football. The field is pretty long. If you get
the ball over the goal line, you get six points
and the conversion is worth one. That that's kind of
(19:38):
how it is. And the United States again bronze medal match,
and the United States women's rugby team was getting a
lot of run online, a lot of run viral in
the last couple of days, and this was a chance
for us to win our first medal in one hundred years.
Low scoring game, and it comes down to the end
and the score is twelve to six that Australia scores
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the go ahead. He points with about a minute left
to go and the final kickoff, the United States gets
the ball all the way back near their line, so
all the way back they are in the shadow of
their end zone. To make a football analogy, they're ninety
five yards away from tying this game. And there's thirty
(20:19):
seconds left. So as soon as the clock is stopped
or or as soon as play is stopped there's a turnover,
the game is over. This is the United States's last chance.
Then they gotta go ninety five yards to try to
win again. This is a low scoring game. It's twelve
to six, so it means you had three scores. This
is a low scoring game, ninety five yards away from
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winning the bronze medal. And here's what happened.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Ramsey Cedric, spiff, Cedric's away, Cedric up part of the fifteenth,
the forty.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
She's gonna take it all the way Cedric for there
you s.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
A and I'm all that sid myself. Right now it
is level at twelve.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
The piece, the conversion will win the bronze medal for
Team USA.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yes, Sammy, we got you. Calm down. It's all down
to the kick. Wow, just wow, this is gonna be
the easier kick.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Right down the mide.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
There it is.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Oh there it is Cedric with the conversion and tame
USA my.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
History in Paris, NBC Olympics. On the call. Now, first
thing's first, the entire call. When he's yelling you, Cedric.
All I'm thinking of is Harry Potter. When Harry's getting
trolled by Dudley, don't kill Cedric hell every night, Mom.
He's just screaming, don't.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Kill Cedric, Cedric, don't kill Fedrick, and he gets.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Mad at Dudley. The beginning of Order of the Phoenix.
So that's all I'm thinking of. It's it's hysterical. But
this play, this is like, this is the Deshaun Jackson
against the Giants punt returned for a touchdown on the
final play. Like that's what this reminded me of. Ninety
five yards away and and Cedric just trucks the defender.
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And because they're all in a line, they didn't they did.
I mean, I don't know about line integrity. He's rugby,
but I gotta think you need to be back a
little bit because she just runs by everybody, and she
runs away from everyone, yep, and she I mean, I
can't get over how fast she was after running, after
running that, the person over to try to tackle her,
no one even gets close. And the conversion is easy.
(22:43):
It's an extra It's like an extra point in the NFL.
It's right there because she scored down the middle. She's
able to just kick very no angles you have, but yeah,
it's one of those as you're watching it, because it
takes a little bit to get past that line of attack, right,
just owing sideline to sideline, and then all of a
sudden you have this burst up the gut where two
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defenders try to strip the ball from her and she
just runs right through. Yeah, I mean the little spin
move and she's gone. The only thing missing was the
cutaway at the end of Tom Coughlin yelling at the punter,
why did you put it to him? Why did you
put it to the Sean Jackson? Why did you put it?
But your point about line integrity is is aft right?
Is the all right?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You've got to make the lateral, You've got to, you know,
keep the ball moving.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
But it's there's there's no second line in defense. Everybody
is battling up at the line of scrimmage. For lack
of a better Jason, your Jets should call her when
Brice Hall goes down. Oh you kidd, hey, whoa whoa,
whoa hey, you take that She's good, You take that back,
just saying you see her, Just say the Bretton. The
(23:51):
Jets should try ninety five yards something the Jets have
just say the Jet should say what your yard touchdown?
Come on a few years ago, we had a ninety
five yard touchdown. Asked me, the last one we allowed
from ninety five yards away? Oh? Last week? Yeah? The
fail Mary, Sure, yeah, no, it's a fail Mary, that
was That was one hundred yard touchdown right there. I
(24:12):
want to hear it. No, no, not really, no, no,
we don't need but that that's a play where boy,
is this the right one?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Jason, thanks for that. I appreciate that. Thanks Evan, welcome, man,
I appreciate it. Dude.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Oh just got to arrest. But like watching that play
and I'm seeing it going, someone else has to be
there to make that time because she decides I'm gonna
run through you, and and it's it's almost like because look,
you watch rugby and it's just a continued lateral to
each side. It's like it's like watching the wishbone, right,
It's like watching and option offense. You know in college
(25:01):
football you could continue to run to the side and
pitch it and pitch it and.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Pitch it, try to get to the sweep, see if
you can find an edge, and then occasionally you get
someone like ma Her and others that truck you.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
And I think it was a little bit just trying
to see where it was at where it was a
little bit of a shocker in that she was going
to try to run her over instead of all right,
we're gonna get tackled, I'm gonna pitch the ball, We're
gonna try to go and she just like it was
easy and no one was even close to that shit.
But like the woman went for to reach for the
ball instead of stopping her, and there's no backside help
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from another member of the team, nobody close, Like you
know why Greg Williams was calling on that. He called
cover zero and it didn't work.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
As is this one of those video game glitches where
everybody's still running into the into the wall instead of
turning and facing.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Play. What is happening? Uh So the United States, when's
the golden medal? When's this wins a bronze medal, first
medal in rugby in a hundred years. But I mean
she was so wide open in the open field. I
mean that was again we talked about it a little
bit earlier, the Ladecki fifteen hundred. There's nobody there. You
gotta keep paying it out so we can at least
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see someone trying to chase her down, because she's looking
back like there's nobody. Yeah, And I'm watching and they
all carry the ball like you kind of like a
loaf of bread. You gotta put your hand around it,
like I'm thinking, like a football. You gotta put your
hand around the top of the football so it can
pop it out. But they're like holding it's like a
sack of bread, like I'm just holding up. Like they
carry it high and tight like Emmitt Smith. But I'm like,
(26:35):
the top is just sticking out. They can just knock
it right out of your hand.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
High and tight, like when when Tiki Barber fixed his
fumbling issue. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah not look not Chris
Johnson would put two hands around the football and just
fall into the line of scrimmage like Larry Zanka. This
was I'm watching, going that could just benbump just pop
that ball right out.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
But yeah, the first thought I had is like, why
are you reaching for the ball? Make to play? Hey off?
She goes, hey rugby buzzer beater. What a story. They
had a lot of love.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
They got a big benefactor that's gonna fund a lot
of their their work to keep building the program going forward.
I think it was a four million dollar partnership that
got announced right after the game.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So some pretty big stuff. Yeah, it's great day, great day.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And that right Alona Meyer, who my my daughters knew
who she was. I'm like, I tried to show a highlight, like, oh,
yeah her, I've.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Been watching her for She's awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, I'm like, okay, he goes, Yeah, evidently it's a
big thing with my daughter's soccer team. Like they've known
her for quite a while and have followed her on
TikTok and Instagram for a while.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
You have to follow Cedric.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Jude kills, Cedric goes Cedric Cedric don't get that.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Guy get punched in the face more often. Oh, big
d Doubly, he became a big dude.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That's what they called. They call a big d You know,
you had that big transformation from I'm this you know,
I'm this really crappy kid, and I'm wearing all these
clothes my mom puts on me. And then by part
five he's wearing the long basketball shorts and the sneakers
that match the tak top you're wearing. You know, he
became there, became that kind of kid Dudley. Now, speaking
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of Dudley Dursley in how about that, I'm gonna warn
justin Frostburg right now you probably want to cover your
ears for the next couple of minutes, because I think
I know what the lead story in Kevin Wirired's update
and what's trending is going to be. The Dodgers had
a five to three lead going to the bottom of
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the ninth inning against San Diego. You think they could
help the Mets out here in the wildcard race and
close out of five to three win.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
They were actually at five runs at one point. They
scored in the first inning and got out to a
huge lead, So it was even worse than that before
it was that five three going into the ninth and
they had two home runs? Did San Diego in that
bottle that I had to tie it up before they
would eventually win it in ten innings, putting a cap
on a big day in Major League Baseball, A couple
of big it's involving these two teams, and the Dodgers
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were on cloud nine for much of the afternoon and
for about the first half actually going into the ninth
of this game as they acquired arguably the top starting
pitcher on the market and Jack Flowerday from the Detroit
Tigers in exchange for a couple of minor leaguers. The
Dodgers also getting Kevin Kiermeier from the Blue Jays. So
they went into today really feeling the boost, getting a
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shot in the arm, and they had a five nothing
lead in San Diego and it all came unraveled as
the Padres boosted by the fact that they're getting helping
their bullpen. Tanner Scott going from the Marlins to San Diego. Man,
he should have gone to the Dodgers. With the way
the bullpen played today. They need all the bullpen help
they can get. But Tanner Scott the Marlins closer going
to the Padres as San Diego getting the last laugh
(29:45):
of the day, winning it six ' five in extra innings.
The Marlins also trading away outfielder Brian de la la
Cruz to the Pittsburgh Pirates. A couple of other trades
or at least one other one and feature the Baltimore
Orioles acquiring outfielder Iel Jimenez from the Chicago White Sox.
In the NFL Adam Schefter, the first to report the
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Bears have signed wide receiver DJ Moore to a four year,
one hundred and ten million dollar extension. Eighty two point
six million of that garn teed. And in the Olympics,
the US back on the top. In women's gymnastics, they
win the team all around gold medal in Paris. It's
the first gold medal they won as a team since
(30:28):
twenty sixteen, and Simone bile Sooni Lea the last two
individual gold medal winners, leading the way for the United States. Elsewhere,
the US women's rugby team getting bronze, beating Australia as
time expired. It's the first medal for Team USA since
nineteen twenty four. The US men's soccer team to make
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it past the group stage for the first time since
two thousand and In tennis, American Coco golf advances and
mixed doubles with Taylor Fritz spite losing her singles match.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Back to you guys, Thank you, k dub oh oh.
By the way, Happy early birthday Harry Potter born in
July thirty first, nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Let's go birthday, Harry A lot of birthdays today in
the celebrity world.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Has Harry Potter Daniel Radlett getting getting to the point
where I think maybe in a couple of years you're
gonna hear Harry Potter and the Curse Child will start
filming early next year in Scotland, and it's it's almost
about time they're old enough to play the characters that
they are in Curse Child. We're I think we're gonna
get and he can do the RDJ. He's gotten a
lot of love with the Tony Awards and celebrity for
(31:33):
some of the other film roles he's done. Now it's
time to go get the cash grab of going back
to Harry Potter or though you say he comes back
to Harry Potter, but he plays voldemorton good Yeah, we
can do the villain turn. I'm cool with that. You
know the crazy that we went to see Curse Child
in London Harry Potter so good right. Did you see
it in the two parts? Yes?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yes, Okay, well you saw its original format because for
folks that don't know, like they've done a thing post
COVID where they they merged it, which is weird. Yeah,
I've seen it. I've seen it's on one like three
and a half hour, as opposed to too separate, go
out to dinner and go talk about it and then
come back for per two.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I mean when it was one to three thirty or
one to three forty five was part one, and then
we went to dinner, go eat, and then and then
we went back at seven o'clock, seven to nine forty five.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
But it's cool, right. The theater has been totally transformed.
The mergency standard is different, like every it's.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
A different career, except it's a theater that was built
three hundred years ago, and the seats are really close
together and tidy, and I'm like, we did that comfortable.
We did that. When we saw Phantom of the Opera.
It was the same thing. I'm like, this is awful
and I'm saying I going, oh man, my butt is
asleep and I gotta move. This is oh this is
so tough. But I'm like, how are you gonna do
(32:48):
magic on stage? Like I And I'm like, oh no,
no they stage. Yeah, that magic was amazing. We got
to see it up in San Francisco years ago. It
was Uh, that's a show that's worth seeing for sure.
So happy early Harry Potter would be hanging on twenty
forty four. Harry Potter will be forty four today July thirty.
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But that forty four for Harry Potter. Good for him.
Happy birthday, Harry. He's had a good run too, He's
oh yeah, he's had a good run. Yes, he's had
a good well. He saved the world a couple of times. Well,
I mean, look, a lot of trauma. Yeah, a lot
of low points. Yeah, everybody had fights with his best friends.
Everybody that wanted to be just wanted to say, I
remember when your parents died. Yeah, great, thanks, thanks. I
(33:28):
appreciate that he had a headmaster who had I kind
of used him, you know, I remember when your parents died. Yes,
I thank you, Yes, I know. Thank yeah, I know
I live with that every day. Yeah, yeah, no, I remember,
I remember. Yeah, No, thanks you score, thank you, Yeah,
thank you. The Jason smithser with Mike Carmen live from
the Tirack dot Com Studios. Coming up next, we get
into the big controversy surrounding the MLB trade deadline. The
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biggest player dealt almost went to a different team, but
they backed out. I'll tell you all about it next
right here, Jason Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
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Speaker 1 (34:08):
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Speaker 2 (34:25):
What I mean?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Come on listening to that song? You've not played it once? No,
you look like a guy from Abercrombie and Fitch. I
do right now? Tell if I had one wish. MLB
trade deadline has come and gone. Biggest move of the day.
Biggest move with the deadline, Jack Flaherty goes to the
Dodgers and after tonight the Dodgers need more pitching, although
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more of the bullpen variety, but the biggest move. Dodgers
gave up prospects number eight and twenty two is part
of the deal for Flarerty, so not a big return,
but still good enough for the Tigers to say, oh, okay,
well we kind of have to move on. The Yankees
were in it late and pulled out. They could have
(35:08):
had Jack Flaherty, but they pulled out due to medical concerns. Now,
what is it with Flaherty. He was on the injured list.
It's a lower back thing with him. He's had a
couple of shots over the course of this season, but
he's healthy. His last three starts have been great, and
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the Dodgers make a trade for him. It does not
surprise me. The Yankees backed out because the Yankees are afraid.
Brian Cashman is afraid. The Yankees are scared of their
own shadow. They won't make a move for a big
name anymore. They're just afraid to make any kind of
gutsy trade, like one soda was dumped in their lap.
(35:50):
So okay, all right, get But every other time the
Yankees have to make a big move with the deadline
or somewhere else, Brian Cashman shies away because he's afraid
of what happens if the trade doesn't work out, if
the player they trade away becomes a star. Because he
thinks everybody coming up in the minor league is a star.
He's afraid, and he is driven to the middle of
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the road. And this is why the Yankees need a
new GM and new leadership. Because he is no longer
the gutsy GM that goes out and gets whatever the
Yankees need. Yankees made a couple of good moves, right,
getting Jazz Chisholm, great move. Right getting Mark Lighter not
quite the guy we thought he was coming out of college,
but still a pretty good reliever the Yankees needed more.
You had a chance to go get Jack Flaherty. Yeah, okay.
Are you worried a little about injury. Yeah, but it's
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not like you have to give up your number one
and two ranked prospects. Who are the ones you think
are gonna come to the majors and be stars. You're
talking eight and twenty two, where maybe the eight and
twenty two ranked prospects are bench players for it. Maybe
that's their ceiling in the majors or their bullpen arms
for a couple of seasons. It's no surprise the Yankees
backed away from this because they found a reason to
be afraid. Oh, we can't do it. We don't know
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about the medicals, so we're backing away. Well, I get
backing away, I Carlos Korea, because you're giving the guy
three hundred and fifty million dollars, which is what the
Mets did. You know before last year. I get that
because that's the investment you're trying to make. This is
a guy who's been healthy pitching that can help you
win the World Series this year and has said, no,
it's not worth it, really, really, it's not worth it.
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Not worthy for this guy, not worthy for prospects number
eight and twenty two to give up. The Yankees are afraid.
They are so. And I don't know what turned Brian
Cashman into a guy who's afraid to make a big deal.
Maybe he's afraid that the New York Post is gonna
have headlines about him, they'll talk about him on television,
The'll talk about him on the radio like we are
I don't want that, can have it. But he is
afraid to make gutsy deals. And this is not who
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the Yankees are well, but that's the thing. You're you're
under the magnifying glass. And certainly when you've got Sternsy
and the Pope on the other side rival ring, you know,
in the rivalry that is there and being aggressive as
they were at the deadline trying to shore things up,
and the run they've been on in the Grimace era
(37:58):
that you know you're worried about the back end, you know,
fish rap fodder and fan sentiment and what have you.
You know, you look at their last fifteen years or so,
you've had some really big additions. You know, not to
downplay the arrival of Stanton or when Garrett Cole came in,
but you go to trade deadlines. Okay, Anthony Rizzo came in,
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you got in Carnassion a few years ago, and you've
made some moves that short term gave you some juice,
but nothing on the grand scale. These last couple of years,
made a couple of moves. As we talked with John
Paul Morosi earlier in the show, maybe snake bitten by
the mantas moved from a couple of years ago when
it gets the medicals and things of that nature. But
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I get it, there weren't a tot of huge names
out there. I just expected more.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I'm wondering how much of this is Steinbrunner at the top.
That's kind of restricted him, because you've already got massive
payroll and a farm system where I don't know what
they are as a farm system right now. I know
what mine is. It's as bad as the Major League
broduct for the for the White Sox. But when we
start talking about you're gonna have to give up a
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couple of prospects to go get the best of the
starting pitchers that are available, that just seems silly to me,
that that that you're not gonna push in in a
division that's now catching up and has caught up to you. Right,
It used to be we got enough talent, we'll outslug
you over the course of a season. Well, the Orioles
aren't going away now. The Red Sox are always going
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to be a thorn in the side. So why you
know you don't have enough?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You know you don't. That's the thing that gets me
is that you know you don't have enough. You know
you're banking on players coming back from injury, which is okay,
hope is not a strategy you think guys are.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Guys that generally come back from injury and then go
right back on. We're talking about Rizzo and Stanton at
this point. But are you banking on them?
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah, when you're hurt this late in the year, how
much are you really going to see them? The metsa
code I Sanga for one one start, it was glorious
wasn't it. It was great, It was really good. But
the Yankee they need this and they still didn't do it. Really,
I think Brian Cashman just is afraid. Like maybe he
drives down the street like a like a police officer
gonna yell, hey, cash when you suck, why don't you
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make that trade, make the left ear, make the leftiers
a detail up here. You suck, cash Man.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
But it goes back to, you know, the Steinber things
like in old days, Boon's gone and Cashman, despite the
long run of success, at some point you cut it off.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
The Yankees are afraid. They're scaredy kitch, They're scared of
their own shadow. That's the Yankees. Exit out bout a
Fresca exit Swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Carman coming up next. You're not gonna
believe what the highest rated event of the Olympics has
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, Welcome inside our three The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon. This time it counts live
from the tire Rag dot Com studios. Now a little
bit more in the story we talked about a few
minutes ago, before we get into the MLB trade deadline
and the team you gotta watch out for after today.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You mean frauds being perpetrated on nations. No, no, no,
so yes.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Obviously if you told me, hey, the officiating in today's
game between France and Japan was fixed to give France
a win, I couldn't agree with you. The calls throwing
Rutchimo out of the game, giving France a four point
play in the final seconds. This was nineteen seventy two.
United States Russia level of official Olympic game in rewind,
(01:13):
and I told you these these officials should all be
sent home, shouldn't do a game, unless unless you want
to keep him around for the gold medal game if
it turns out to be France in the United States,
because boy would I'd like to see all these hometown
calls going France's away. Lebron fouling out of a game,
(01:34):
you know, just step not getting any getting clobb or
not getting any calls. A d goes in, he scored
six quick points and gets thrown out. The wingspan is
too large on Anthony Davis. He's getting thrown out for
what too large a wingspan? You're gone. I mean part
of me would really like to see how that would
go Meanwhy you got seven five?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
That doesn't mask watching anybody play against France and for
lims like I got a clean, wide open shot. Look
at this move I made to get past that defender.
You can hear the stretch like it's an old cartoon.
You just see the shadow come over the player's face,
like what an alien ship in a movie.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Like to said, You see the person look up and
go and you see the shadow just covers them. Oh
my goodness, it's Wemby. But no, but I would I
would pay to see that. I would pay to see that.
You guys are a sign here. Why extra scrutiny. Oh well,
the first guy they threw out is Joel Embiid. Yeah,
find a way to throw it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Either that or it just becomes a forty minute battle Royale.
Guy's bludgeting the hell out of each other.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It'd be great tam Usa down to the end. Here
it's Derek White and Maam out of Bayo. That's all
they have left we found. It's now NBA jams rules apply. Hey,
one update on a story that we talked about a
lot yesterday. The triathlon will go on. Yeah, gonna have
the triathlon? How about that? Yeah? They sound away to
clean the sin in the one area that it needed
(03:03):
to be cleaner.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, I have to believe it was fifty five participants, going,
you're kidding me, right, I've trained for this for four
years and now we have water control.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I don't care if I'll tell so I'll swap E
Cola to compete in the Olympics. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I saw a couple of interviews with folks who've done
triathlons and long swims and suspect bodies of water, and
they described some of the fallout and they all said.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Do it again. Oh, here you go. You may not
feel well, but you'll have your Olympic moment. I just
got a whole bunch of shots. I had a battery
of shots right after my event, and I'm fine now,
just got injected. I got injected, So we are going
to have it. They may have the Sharks, though, and
I say, hopefully no one gets E coli, because that
is the concern that someone would get E colon. I
(03:54):
think it's inevitable. Yeah, that's true. But again under Paris
with the sharks. You know again, oxy clean could clean
it up. Let's go, let's see it. Put the work, yeah,
with the Sharks, and see how it goes. So MLB
trade deadline today, and I'll tell you many teams did well,
right many. You're happy with everybody because even if they
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didn't make it, I'm happy. I'm This is one of
those rare days where I could say lots of teams
did well. Why because nobody gave up big prospects. Nobody.
No team got so desperate to make a big trade
they gave up prospects. They probably shouldn't have given up.
There was no Pete Crow Armstrong for Hovey BAYAZ for
two months ran. There was no trades like that. So
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it was so it turned out to be a good
because this is what we thought the day was gonna
do again.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
A couple of teams that just showed their assets to
who they are, the Angels with the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Right well, and then there's teams you thought, hey, are
they going for it? Are they? Oh? No, the Reds
are making trades. Looks like they're punting. We can't tell
if the Rangers are punting or not. Really unsure. They're
sure they're trading players away, but they're also getting players.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
And that was the Cubs with you know, so of
the raised moves and others that were made around in
the last couple uh last two three days.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Not of mind seeing teams like the Reds punt, I go, oh,
one last team I have to worry about for the Wildcard.
So okay, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, but that means that Elie Dela Cruz is now
taking meaningless at back.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, but that's okay, But that's your guy. No, Grimace
is winning n L M v P. This year is
right in the Mets winning percentages back up to like
seven twenty one in the Grimace era, and your closer
is now a closer once again. Yes, but but Grimace
is the MVP. I mean, he's got a big deal.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
There's no lashing about the marketing and merchandising of Grimace
these last sixty days.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
And you figured the charts, the Twins are somewhat purple,
doesn't matter, not purple enough, not Grimace, not Grimace. Yeah,
but we're starting to see a bunch of teams where
their random logos are mutating to where who are they playing?
Like is that a Marlins had or that that Minnesota
Twins hat. It looks like a Marlin's hat in Minnesota.
Like we're looking at it going it's awful bad. I'm like,
that's a Marlins hat. You've ruined your branding. But the
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three teams that I can tell you that I like
the most what they did today, and one team stands
out more. I love what the Dodgers did right. Jack
Flaherty was the big fish. They went out and got him. Yes,
there are injury concerns about him, which we'll get to
in about twenty minutes. But the Yankees backed out. They
could have had Flaherty, but they were a little bit
concerned over his medicals, so they said, you no, no,
(06:21):
we're backing out. Dodgers get him in exchange for the
eighth and twenty second rated prospect. And that's the big thing,
which that's nothing. You can give up your eighth rank
prospect because who knows, your eighth rank prospect may never
be more than a bullpen arm for a couple of years.
You could do that now. Fortunately for the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Going back to the backing out things just real quick though,
is that you can at least say, hey, look at
Jazz chism we got him.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Yeah, no, so everything so it kind of washes away,
at least for the moment. It's Jazz Chishm hits two
home runs every game. They're not gonna worry about it.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Did you notice he only had three and three multi
homer games in his career with the Marlins.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
He's going to New York. He's been turned to York, right.
Jazz Chisholm was a great trade, great addition for the Yankees.
Mark Lyder was a great ad for the bullpen. They
could have used more. I told you all last week
they need to make They need four new everyday players.
They have lots of guys who a hurt, but they didn't.
They weren't as aggressive as they should have been. But
the guys they get. I liked that. I like the
guys they got. But the Dodgers needed they probably needed
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another starter. But with what they have coming back, they
went out and got the number one guy. Right, they
went out and got the number one guy available. The
Dodgers are nothing if not at the deadline. What do
we have. We make sure we fill that void. They
don't come away from the deadline with you know, it
just wasn't there for us. We needed a catcher, we
needed a right field or this wasn't no, no, no.
The Dodgers always find a way. They get what they want.
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They got the big picture that got moved. They did great,
even biased. I like what the Mets did. We got
five new players that are going to be that They're
gonna all contribute and play. And the biggest thing they
gave up was the nineteenth ranked prospect. Right. And I've
told you, I told you earlier in the show. The
new way that teams build themselves. This is why David's Terns.
I'm telling these wind up winning an l executive in
(08:03):
THEOS because he's found a way with a bunch of
guys to build a team that is in the lead
for the wild Card right now. Because what he's done
is this is the new way teams build themselves over
the course of a season now is you have to
build depth and length to have seven starting pitchers that
you can dip from at all times and not have
to worry about calling a kid up from Triple A
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that's going to get pounded. You need five outfielders because
they're all going to play. You need six infielders because
they're all going to play. You can't say, well, we
have our eight guys and then when injuries happen or
ineffectiveness happened, well, then guess what. We got to ride
a guys at one sixty. We got to do that, right,
We got to ride a guys at in one sixty
because you don't have anybody else. No, the Mets don't
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have to worry about that because they're deep and they
have length. So those two teams right away, Mets and
the Dodgers, I love what they did.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, we'll look at the Dodgers and obviously you've got
so many players expected to return from injury, both in
your lineup and in your rotation. Right, and Glass now
is on the hill to start the game tonight. Kershaw's
on the comeback trail. I want to know the arm
exercises he's been doing, because he looks more swoll than
(09:12):
I remember, So I want to get on that training program.
But go on down the line. You're expecting that, and
of course Mookie bets coming back to the lineup. But
so you make the move and with flarity again for
what you gave up, Like those are guys, yeah right,
and we know what the Dodgers organization. It's not as
fool proof. Guys ascending because you used to lament. You know,
(09:35):
guys coming up and they're hitting three fifty all the time.
You know, some of the magic wore off and they
became well Jags. But that's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
But they go and get the best starter that was
truly available without an exorbitant price, because I can't imagine
the Giants listened to offers for Blake Snell, but it
became a you really need to wallace the crochet thing
we talked about the white side. That was the whole thing.
The Giants, we'll eat money. And this is why you
look at the like just an owner who will do
(10:04):
that just to go back the Mets the trade deadline
last year said Okay, we're gonna eat all this money
for Max Scherzer. So in exchange, we get the number
two rated prospect in your organization, because we're gonna eat
all that money. For sure. If you're not gonna eat money,
you're not gonna get a prospect. And the Giants had
said we're not gonna eat this money, so that made
it really once they came out and said no, that's
(10:26):
our hard and fast dictum with this, you know it
wasn't gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
But yeah, it's all about adding for depth because it's
the war of attrition. It's two hundred games, as one
hundred and sixty two regular season, long postseason, and then
go back to spring training, whatever innings or at bats
and everything else that add up. So yeah, trying to
find a fifth arm that can be a starter if
need be based on injury and effectiveness, or a guy
(10:51):
that you get in trouble in game one of a
playoff series that can come in and eat four or
five innings before you go to your normal bullpen rotation.
It's it's all fun, you know, in that regard. Now
we're watching, you know, the Dodgers and and Padres. Here
Padres bolstered their bullpen. Still think needed another arm. We
talked with John Palm Morosi about it. And you know,
(11:13):
while they did add Perez, is that enough to push
it over?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
See's I love what the Padres. That's the time I
liked the bolt did watch out for them. But when
when I when I was filling in an AM five
seventy last week, we talked about, Hey, what what team
should the Dodgers be worried about? And I said, the Padres.
They're coming. They look like they figured things out. Watch
out and now here at the deadline, they're building this
(11:38):
bullpen on steroids, and I mean figurative steroids. You know,
Tanner Scott's one of the best closers in the game.
They get Jason Adam, who's really good. This is what
you need. And they are already a team that was coming,
and here they are making trades, getting the two best
guys in the bullpen. Watch out for the Padres. And
as I say this, the Padres hit two home runs
off of Blake Tryne int the bottom of the nine
(12:00):
a five to three Dodger league, which is going to
be a five to three Dodger victory. The game is
now tied at five with the Padres still bad it yeah,
in the bottom of the ninth then.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
But Giado is second of the game and then Jackson
Merrill absolutely crushed that ball.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I'm telling you watch out for the Padres. That look,
they were good last year, right we saw them. We
saw them be able to be a team that maybe
they needed to figure things out a little bit. Like
you got a lot of strong personalities. You have a
mix of big salaried players and young players coming up.
It takes a little bit of time. Now is when
I think that coalesces and these two big bullpen moves
of the deadline. I'm telling you watch out for the Boks.
(12:35):
We watched how many games are lost in the late innings.
I can't use my team as the best example, but
for the purposes of here's a great data point. There
are more blown saves by the White six games they've won.
You've blown twenty eight saves. You've won twenty seven games.
But here's where I'm gonna make you feel good, buddy.
If you just had a good closer, you'd probably be
in the playoffs. Oh good, that's all that's missing. Let's
(12:58):
say let's say it closer. Let's say you have a
different closer who blows five games. Right, that's twenty three
saves and five So that's twenty three more wins for you.
You're at fifty some odd wins and you're in the
playoff Hue, No, it's great, is it is for you? No?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
So is it is.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I did get a little bit sad to see the
overjoyed members of the White Sox fan base. Look, they're
they're small, but they are allowed at the training of
Elloy Jimenez. Now we've talked about him a bunch, mostly
off air, because the White Sox don't mention require a
lot of mentions other than coming off of the news
(13:39):
desk to mock me of the latest level of ineptitude.
But Eloy him had as a guy that they paid.
He was supposed to be one of those guys that
where they tried the Braves model. Well clearly it didn't work,
couldn't stay on the field. And now he goes to
the Orioles where he'll probably inject life into the back
end of their lineup and be a hero for them
(14:01):
into the playoffs. Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen
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Mike Carman live from the tyrack dot Com studios. So
I'm telling you Dodgers were great, Mets were great. Padre
watch out for the Padres. Watch out. Well, now we're
talking tie breakers and all sorts of weird things start
start coming into play here. Coming up next, we'll have
(14:21):
another crazy story of the day from the Olympics and
why the Yankees have turned into a team that seems
to be afraid of their own shadow. Yeah, they had
a whole bunch of controversy go on after the trade
deadline expired. That's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Show with My best friend Mike Harmon Biggest Drama, Biggest
Drama right now. Yeah, Dodgers were up five to three
over the Padres. Padres get two home runs. At the
(16:26):
bottom of the ninth inning, Manny Machado hits his second
of the game. Jackson Merrill goes deep that ties it.
Dodgers go out one, two, three in the top of
the tenth, and now the Padres have runners at first
and second automatic runner and start the inning obviously and
lead off walk. They now have first and second, nobody out,
(16:47):
and it looks like the Padres are on the cusp
of pulling snatching a victory, as they used to say,
Jim McKay would say, from the jaws of defeating.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Oh nicely done, a little Jim McKay for us on
a big Tuesday night here. You know, I hate the
ghost unner. It's still to me the worst invention.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I know you like it, but it does. I'd rather
have the robot umpire it's there, we make it both.
What if we had robot ghost runners? What would that?
Would that be enough for you who still get the
ghost Runner? But it would be a robot who's controlling it?
Is it a thirteen year old kid? I mean? Is it?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Or does someone in the bullpen have to do that?
The oldest guy on the roster has to work the joyce?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
No? I think yes, I'm thirty nine. I haven't played
a video game since Super Mario cart in two thousand
and four. See what I did there? I add an
agree agree in difficult I like that. How do you
make the guy run? Just press? Why does he just
keep jumping up and down? Be down a at left, right, left, right, left, right,
up right, be a start? Do it? That's he just
(17:45):
keeps doing a slide tackle? What the hell? Uh? So again,
we'll have more on this game coming up in a
few minutes. Kevin Wyatt will give us the latest Luisa
Riaz with a sacrifice bunt puts the winning run at third?
Is it second and third? One out in the bottom
of the time we might on this game.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Mighty, We may be done all right, Yeah, but you
can also tell everybody where you were at nine to
twenty five on a Tuesday night where someone successfully laid
down a bunt that's in a Major League Baseball game.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
That is the first successful sacrifice bunt in the in
MLB since nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Could be yeah, back when Jerome Walton was bunting for hits.
It was Dan Gladden on May seventeenth, nineteen eighty nine.
Successful sacrifice bunt moved Gene Larkin into scoring position.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Where do you think the Padres are going to start
the parade route? Oh, dude, the Padres when they play
the Dodgers, like when they got the final out in
the top of the ninth and then they had to
fly out to write, they're all pounding their gloves, going in,
yelling at it. When the Padres played the Dodgers, they
looked like a little league team. Noy they behave like
a little league team that Hey we could upset the
(18:55):
big g everything. Yeah league all right, like, hey, this
is the best team in the league going tone to
toe with them. Let's get excited. Hey we got apple
slices coming, like, that's what the that's what the pile
sounds pretty good? They look like that. But before we
get to the Yankees, and the big contrary is of
trade deadline. The biggest headline today in the Olympics, in
an awesome moment, was the United States women's rugby team
(19:18):
winning a medal for the first time in one hundred years. Okay,
the bronze medal match between the United States and Australia.
Whether you watch rugby or not, like, it's very similar
to football. The field is pretty long. If you get
the ball over the goal line, you get six points
and the conversion is worth one. That that's kind of
(19:38):
how it is. And the United States again bronze medal match,
and the United States women's rugby team was getting a
lot of run online, a lot of run viral in
the last couple of days, and this was a chance
for us to win our first medal in one hundred years.
Low scoring game, and it comes down to the end
and the score is twelve to six that Australia scores
(19:59):
the go ahead. He points with about a minute left
to go and the final kickoff, the United States gets
the ball all the way back near their line, so
all the way back they are in the shadow of
their end zone. To make a football analogy, they're ninety
five yards away from tying this game. And there's thirty
(20:19):
seconds left. So as soon as the clock is stopped
or or as soon as play is stopped there's a turnover,
the game is over. This is the United States's last chance.
Then they gotta go ninety five yards to try to
win again. This is a low scoring game. It's twelve
to six, so it means you had three scores. This
is a low scoring game, ninety five yards away from
(20:41):
winning the bronze medal. And here's what happened.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Ramsey Cedric, spiff, Cedric's away, Cedric up part of the fifteenth,
the forty.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
She's gonna take it all the way Cedric for there
you s.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
A and I'm all that sid myself. Right now it
is level at twelve.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
The piece, the conversion will win the bronze medal for
Team USA.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yes, Sammy, we got you. Calm down. It's all down
to the kick. Wow, just wow, this is gonna be
the easier kick.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Right down the mide.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
There it is.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Oh there it is Cedric with the conversion and tame
USA my.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
History in Paris, NBC Olympics. On the call. Now, first
thing's first, the entire call. When he's yelling you, Cedric.
All I'm thinking of is Harry Potter. When Harry's getting
trolled by Dudley, don't kill Cedric hell every night, Mom.
He's just screaming, don't.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Kill Cedric, Cedric, don't kill Fedrick, and he gets.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Mad at Dudley. The beginning of Order of the Phoenix.
So that's all I'm thinking of. It's it's hysterical. But
this play, this is like, this is the Deshaun Jackson
against the Giants punt returned for a touchdown on the
final play. Like that's what this reminded me of. Ninety
five yards away and and Cedric just trucks the defender.
(22:22):
And because they're all in a line, they didn't they did.
I mean, I don't know about line integrity. He's rugby,
but I gotta think you need to be back a
little bit because she just runs by everybody, and she
runs away from everyone, yep, and she I mean, I
can't get over how fast she was after running, after
running that, the person over to try to tackle her,
no one even gets close. And the conversion is easy.
(22:43):
It's an extra It's like an extra point in the NFL.
It's right there because she scored down the middle. She's
able to just kick very no angles you have, but yeah,
it's one of those as you're watching it, because it
takes a little bit to get past that line of attack, right,
just owing sideline to sideline, and then all of a
sudden you have this burst up the gut where two
(23:06):
defenders try to strip the ball from her and she
just runs right through. Yeah, I mean the little spin
move and she's gone. The only thing missing was the
cutaway at the end of Tom Coughlin yelling at the punter,
why did you put it to him? Why did you
put it to the Sean Jackson? Why did you put it?
But your point about line integrity is is aft right?
Is the all right?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You've got to make the lateral, You've got to, you know,
keep the ball moving.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
But it's there's there's no second line in defense. Everybody
is battling up at the line of scrimmage. For lack
of a better Jason, your Jets should call her when
Brice Hall goes down. Oh you kidd, hey, whoa whoa,
whoa hey, you take that She's good, You take that back,
just saying you see her, Just say the Bretton. The
(23:51):
Jets should try ninety five yards something the Jets have
just say the Jet should say what your yard touchdown?
Come on a few years ago, we had a ninety
five yard touchdown. Asked me, the last one we allowed
from ninety five yards away? Oh? Last week? Yeah? The
fail Mary, Sure, yeah, no, it's a fail Mary, that
was That was one hundred yard touchdown right there. I
(24:12):
want to hear it. No, no, not really, no, no,
we don't need but that that's a play where boy,
is this the right one?
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Jason, thanks for that. I appreciate that. Thanks Evan, welcome, man,
I appreciate it. Dude.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Oh just got to arrest. But like watching that play
and I'm seeing it going, someone else has to be
there to make that time because she decides I'm gonna
run through you, and and it's it's almost like because look,
you watch rugby and it's just a continued lateral to
each side. It's like it's like watching the wishbone, right,
It's like watching and option offense. You know in college
(25:01):
football you could continue to run to the side and
pitch it and pitch it and.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Pitch it, try to get to the sweep, see if
you can find an edge, and then occasionally you get
someone like ma Her and others that truck you.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
And I think it was a little bit just trying
to see where it was at where it was a
little bit of a shocker in that she was going
to try to run her over instead of all right,
we're gonna get tackled, I'm gonna pitch the ball, We're
gonna try to go and she just like it was
easy and no one was even close to that shit.
But like the woman went for to reach for the
ball instead of stopping her, and there's no backside help
(25:36):
from another member of the team, nobody close, Like you
know why Greg Williams was calling on that. He called
cover zero and it didn't work.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
As is this one of those video game glitches where
everybody's still running into the into the wall instead of
turning and facing.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Play. What is happening? Uh So the United States, when's
the golden medal? When's this wins a bronze medal, first
medal in rugby in a hundred years. But I mean
she was so wide open in the open field. I
mean that was again we talked about it a little
bit earlier, the Ladecki fifteen hundred. There's nobody there. You
gotta keep paying it out so we can at least
(26:14):
see someone trying to chase her down, because she's looking
back like there's nobody. Yeah, And I'm watching and they
all carry the ball like you kind of like a
loaf of bread. You gotta put your hand around it,
like I'm thinking, like a football. You gotta put your
hand around the top of the football so it can
pop it out. But they're like holding it's like a
sack of bread, like I'm just holding up. Like they
carry it high and tight like Emmitt Smith. But I'm like,
(26:35):
the top is just sticking out. They can just knock
it right out of your hand.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
High and tight, like when when Tiki Barber fixed his
fumbling issue. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah not look not Chris
Johnson would put two hands around the football and just
fall into the line of scrimmage like Larry Zanka. This
was I'm watching, going that could just benbump just pop
that ball right out.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
But yeah, the first thought I had is like, why
are you reaching for the ball? Make to play? Hey off?
She goes, hey rugby buzzer beater. What a story. They
had a lot of love.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
They got a big benefactor that's gonna fund a lot
of their their work to keep building the program going forward.
I think it was a four million dollar partnership that
got announced right after the game.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So some pretty big stuff. Yeah, it's great day, great day.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And that right Alona Meyer, who my my daughters knew
who she was. I'm like, I tried to show a highlight, like, oh,
yeah her, I've.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Been watching her for She's awesome.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, I'm like, okay, he goes, Yeah, evidently it's a
big thing with my daughter's soccer team. Like they've known
her for quite a while and have followed her on
TikTok and Instagram for a while.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
You have to follow Cedric.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Jude kills, Cedric goes Cedric Cedric don't get that.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Guy get punched in the face more often. Oh, big
d Doubly, he became a big dude.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That's what they called. They call a big d You know,
you had that big transformation from I'm this you know,
I'm this really crappy kid, and I'm wearing all these
clothes my mom puts on me. And then by part
five he's wearing the long basketball shorts and the sneakers
that match the tak top you're wearing. You know, he
became there, became that kind of kid Dudley. Now, speaking
(28:12):
of Dudley Dursley in how about that, I'm gonna warn
justin Frostburg right now you probably want to cover your
ears for the next couple of minutes, because I think
I know what the lead story in Kevin Wirired's update
and what's trending is going to be. The Dodgers had
a five to three lead going to the bottom of
(28:32):
the ninth inning against San Diego. You think they could
help the Mets out here in the wildcard race and
close out of five to three win.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
They were actually at five runs at one point. They
scored in the first inning and got out to a
huge lead, So it was even worse than that before
it was that five three going into the ninth and
they had two home runs? Did San Diego in that
bottle that I had to tie it up before they
would eventually win it in ten innings, putting a cap
on a big day in Major League Baseball, A couple
of big it's involving these two teams, and the Dodgers
(29:02):
were on cloud nine for much of the afternoon and
for about the first half actually going into the ninth
of this game as they acquired arguably the top starting
pitcher on the market and Jack Flowerday from the Detroit
Tigers in exchange for a couple of minor leaguers. The
Dodgers also getting Kevin Kiermeier from the Blue Jays. So
they went into today really feeling the boost, getting a
(29:22):
shot in the arm, and they had a five nothing
lead in San Diego and it all came unraveled as
the Padres boosted by the fact that they're getting helping
their bullpen. Tanner Scott going from the Marlins to San Diego. Man,
he should have gone to the Dodgers. With the way
the bullpen played today. They need all the bullpen help
they can get. But Tanner Scott the Marlins closer going
to the Padres as San Diego getting the last laugh
(29:45):
of the day, winning it six ' five in extra innings.
The Marlins also trading away outfielder Brian de la la
Cruz to the Pittsburgh Pirates. A couple of other trades
or at least one other one and feature the Baltimore
Orioles acquiring outfielder Iel Jimenez from the Chicago White Sox.
In the NFL Adam Schefter, the first to report the
(30:06):
Bears have signed wide receiver DJ Moore to a four year,
one hundred and ten million dollar extension. Eighty two point
six million of that garn teed. And in the Olympics,
the US back on the top. In women's gymnastics, they
win the team all around gold medal in Paris. It's
the first gold medal they won as a team since
(30:28):
twenty sixteen, and Simone bile Sooni Lea the last two
individual gold medal winners, leading the way for the United States. Elsewhere,
the US women's rugby team getting bronze, beating Australia as
time expired. It's the first medal for Team USA since
nineteen twenty four. The US men's soccer team to make
(30:49):
it past the group stage for the first time since
two thousand and In tennis, American Coco golf advances and
mixed doubles with Taylor Fritz spite losing her singles match.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Back to you guys, Thank you, k dub oh oh.
By the way, Happy early birthday Harry Potter born in
July thirty first, nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Let's go birthday, Harry A lot of birthdays today in
the celebrity world.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Has Harry Potter Daniel Radlett getting getting to the point
where I think maybe in a couple of years you're
gonna hear Harry Potter and the Curse Child will start
filming early next year in Scotland, and it's it's almost
about time they're old enough to play the characters that
they are in Curse Child. We're I think we're gonna
get and he can do the RDJ. He's gotten a
lot of love with the Tony Awards and celebrity for
(31:33):
some of the other film roles he's done. Now it's
time to go get the cash grab of going back
to Harry Potter or though you say he comes back
to Harry Potter, but he plays voldemorton good Yeah, we
can do the villain turn. I'm cool with that. You
know the crazy that we went to see Curse Child
in London Harry Potter so good right. Did you see
it in the two parts? Yes?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Yes, Okay, well you saw its original format because for
folks that don't know, like they've done a thing post
COVID where they they merged it, which is weird. Yeah,
I've seen it. I've seen it's on one like three
and a half hour, as opposed to too separate, go
out to dinner and go talk about it and then
come back for per two.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I mean when it was one to three thirty or
one to three forty five was part one, and then
we went to dinner, go eat, and then and then
we went back at seven o'clock, seven to nine forty five.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
But it's cool, right. The theater has been totally transformed.
The mergency standard is different, like every it's.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
A different career, except it's a theater that was built
three hundred years ago, and the seats are really close
together and tidy, and I'm like, we did that comfortable.
We did that. When we saw Phantom of the Opera.
It was the same thing. I'm like, this is awful
and I'm saying I going, oh man, my butt is
asleep and I gotta move. This is oh this is
so tough. But I'm like, how are you gonna do
(32:48):
magic on stage? Like I And I'm like, oh no,
no they stage. Yeah, that magic was amazing. We got
to see it up in San Francisco years ago. It
was Uh, that's a show that's worth seeing for sure.
So happy early Harry Potter would be hanging on twenty
forty four. Harry Potter will be forty four today July thirty.
(33:08):
But that forty four for Harry Potter. Good for him.
Happy birthday, Harry. He's had a good run too, He's
oh yeah, he's had a good run. Yes, he's had
a good well. He saved the world a couple of times. Well,
I mean, look, a lot of trauma. Yeah, a lot
of low points. Yeah, everybody had fights with his best friends.
Everybody that wanted to be just wanted to say, I
remember when your parents died. Yeah, great, thanks, thanks. I
(33:28):
appreciate that he had a headmaster who had I kind
of used him, you know, I remember when your parents died. Yes,
I thank you, Yes, I know. Thank yeah, I know
I live with that every day. Yeah, yeah, no, I remember,
I remember. Yeah, No, thanks you score, thank you, Yeah,
thank you. The Jason smithser with Mike Carmen live from
the Tirack dot Com Studios. Coming up next, we get
into the big controversy surrounding the MLB trade deadline. The
(33:52):
biggest player dealt almost went to a different team, but
they backed out. I'll tell you all about it next
right here, Jason Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
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Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. You know, ty Shirt,
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Speaker 2 (34:25):
What I mean?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Come on listening to that song? You've not played it once? No,
you look like a guy from Abercrombie and Fitch. I
do right now? Tell if I had one wish. MLB
trade deadline has come and gone. Biggest move of the day.
Biggest move with the deadline, Jack Flaherty goes to the
Dodgers and after tonight the Dodgers need more pitching, although
(34:48):
more of the bullpen variety, but the biggest move. Dodgers
gave up prospects number eight and twenty two is part
of the deal for Flarerty, so not a big return,
but still good enough for the Tigers to say, oh, okay,
well we kind of have to move on. The Yankees
were in it late and pulled out. They could have
(35:08):
had Jack Flaherty, but they pulled out due to medical concerns. Now,
what is it with Flaherty. He was on the injured list.
It's a lower back thing with him. He's had a
couple of shots over the course of this season, but
he's healthy. His last three starts have been great, and
(35:28):
the Dodgers make a trade for him. It does not
surprise me. The Yankees backed out because the Yankees are afraid.
Brian Cashman is afraid. The Yankees are scared of their
own shadow. They won't make a move for a big
name anymore. They're just afraid to make any kind of
gutsy trade, like one soda was dumped in their lap.
(35:50):
So okay, all right, get But every other time the
Yankees have to make a big move with the deadline
or somewhere else, Brian Cashman shies away because he's afraid
of what happens if the trade doesn't work out, if
the player they trade away becomes a star. Because he
thinks everybody coming up in the minor league is a star.
He's afraid, and he is driven to the middle of
(36:11):
the road. And this is why the Yankees need a
new GM and new leadership. Because he is no longer
the gutsy GM that goes out and gets whatever the
Yankees need. Yankees made a couple of good moves, right,
getting Jazz Chisholm, great move. Right getting Mark Lighter not
quite the guy we thought he was coming out of college,
but still a pretty good reliever the Yankees needed more.
You had a chance to go get Jack Flaherty. Yeah, okay.
Are you worried a little about injury. Yeah, but it's
(36:33):
not like you have to give up your number one
and two ranked prospects. Who are the ones you think
are gonna come to the majors and be stars. You're
talking eight and twenty two, where maybe the eight and
twenty two ranked prospects are bench players for it. Maybe
that's their ceiling in the majors or their bullpen arms
for a couple of seasons. It's no surprise the Yankees
backed away from this because they found a reason to
be afraid. Oh, we can't do it. We don't know
(36:55):
about the medicals, so we're backing away. Well, I get
backing away, I Carlos Korea, because you're giving the guy
three hundred and fifty million dollars, which is what the
Mets did. You know before last year. I get that
because that's the investment you're trying to make. This is
a guy who's been healthy pitching that can help you
win the World Series this year and has said, no,
it's not worth it, really, really, it's not worth it.
(37:16):
Not worthy for this guy, not worthy for prospects number
eight and twenty two to give up. The Yankees are afraid.
They are so. And I don't know what turned Brian
Cashman into a guy who's afraid to make a big deal.
Maybe he's afraid that the New York Post is gonna
have headlines about him, they'll talk about him on television,
The'll talk about him on the radio like we are
I don't want that, can have it. But he is
afraid to make gutsy deals. And this is not who
(37:38):
the Yankees are well, but that's the thing. You're you're
under the magnifying glass. And certainly when you've got Sternsy
and the Pope on the other side rival ring, you know,
in the rivalry that is there and being aggressive as
they were at the deadline trying to shore things up,
and the run they've been on in the Grimace era
(37:58):
that you know you're worried about the back end, you know,
fish rap fodder and fan sentiment and what have you.
You know, you look at their last fifteen years or so,
you've had some really big additions. You know, not to
downplay the arrival of Stanton or when Garrett Cole came in,
but you go to trade deadlines. Okay, Anthony Rizzo came in,
(38:22):
you got in Carnassion a few years ago, and you've
made some moves that short term gave you some juice,
but nothing on the grand scale. These last couple of years,
made a couple of moves. As we talked with John
Paul Morosi earlier in the show, maybe snake bitten by
the mantas moved from a couple of years ago when
it gets the medicals and things of that nature. But
(38:44):
I get it, there weren't a tot of huge names
out there. I just expected more.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I'm wondering how much of this is Steinbrunner at the top.
That's kind of restricted him, because you've already got massive
payroll and a farm system where I don't know what
they are as a farm system right now. I know
what mine is. It's as bad as the Major League
broduct for the for the White Sox. But when we
start talking about you're gonna have to give up a
(39:10):
couple of prospects to go get the best of the
starting pitchers that are available, that just seems silly to me,
that that that you're not gonna push in in a
division that's now catching up and has caught up to you. Right,
It used to be we got enough talent, we'll outslug
you over the course of a season. Well, the Orioles
aren't going away now. The Red Sox are always going
(39:30):
to be a thorn in the side. So why you
know you don't have enough?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You know you don't. That's the thing that gets me
is that you know you don't have enough. You know
you're banking on players coming back from injury, which is okay,
hope is not a strategy you think guys are.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Guys that generally come back from injury and then go
right back on. We're talking about Rizzo and Stanton at
this point. But are you banking on them?
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah, when you're hurt this late in the year, how
much are you really going to see them? The metsa
code I Sanga for one one start, it was glorious
wasn't it. It was great, It was really good. But
the Yankee they need this and they still didn't do it. Really,
I think Brian Cashman just is afraid. Like maybe he
drives down the street like a like a police officer
gonna yell, hey, cash when you suck, why don't you
(40:12):
make that trade, make the left ear, make the leftiers
a detail up here. You suck, cash Man.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
But it goes back to, you know, the Steinber things
like in old days, Boon's gone and Cashman, despite the
long run of success, at some point you cut it off.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
The Yankees are afraid. They're scaredy kitch, They're scared of
their own shadow. That's the Yankees. Exit out bout a
Fresca exit Swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Carman coming up next. You're not gonna
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