August 6, 2024 • 40 mins
Mike Harmon’s White Sox in route for 21 straight losses. The guy's debate if Daniel Jones won the Giants locker room over today. And longtime NFL Insider Jason La Canfora swings by for all the biggest stories coming out of training camps. Plus, Jason tells you what the Colorado Football Team and Grand Theft Auto have in common!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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the Mets have already won and we get to watch
your White Sox go for lost number twenty one year.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh it's and they're already losing.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, I mean, look, he came out strong, allowed sears
to mow them down on six pitches in the first Yeah,
that's six pitch top of the first is it's gonna
keep him in if he has that no hitter all
the way to the end. His pitch comes for not
going to be high enough to take him out. Highly
advantageous there. And then you get Kyle Busch comes in
in his major league debut and oh gives up a
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seven pitch walk to the first hitter he faced. But
we also had some Olympic coverage and they were doing
a third place for shooting. Yeah, and the guy looked
like a well quaffed Iowa Sam Okay, like he was
from Germany and they were doing a shoot off and
if he if Sam got a haircut, he kind of
looked like that guy. And I was just participating in
the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
That's great. Let's let's stick on the white Sox here be.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
No I have to I have to get it away
twenty you're going for twenty one, and it's one nothing
already trying to match from way back in the yesteryear
when they started the season. Oh in twenty one.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
This game in front of friends and family, there's team
people there like I would expect. I've expected more people
here for Oakley like this, Hey, we're gonna dominate this.
They are heavy favorites tonight. I forget what the year was,
but I saw it early this morning. It just went, yeah,
that sounds about right, almost a minus two hundred favorite.
But they did an We were watching the pregame and
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they had the over the aerial shot, like, why would
you show that?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Like we know it's gonna be a sparse crowd. Why
are you pulling back the curtain. There's like eight people there. Okay,
hey there's John in section three oh five.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But if you show the close up shots of no seats,
it's easy shots of no seats. If you have bad vision,
they're banking on half people. They probably can't.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
See full them because it's full behind home plate. Everybody,
come on down, all pack it.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
In all twelve seats behind home plate in Oakland Coliseum.
Already there you can see. That's all good.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Spent many a day in the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I never saw possum. I saw some other rodents, but
you know, possible maybe coming out of the bullpen tonight
be you never know.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Hey, now this guy's gonna work on a low pitch count,
so he's gonna expend.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
If the A's are winning this game, you're gonna get
to face position players. The A's aren't gonna waste actual
pictures against this line.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Get through this series.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
How about it? The best graphic we saw in the
pregame though?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, when the when the when they show that we're
watching the White Sox broadcast, right, and Harmon and I
are just going crazy over the White Sox broadcast. And
they showed the lineup, the starting lineup of the team,
which you know, which they do all the time. What
you say, here is your starting lineup tonight, And normally
you see the player's name and then their batting average.
Sometimes you get home runs and and and uh and RBIs,
but used to get you get the batting average. And
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you know, because it would look really bad for the
White Sox because they don't have any good players, they
decide to show here's what everybody's ops is against left
handed hitters.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So not even in general against left handed hitters.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Because here's in the White Sox starting lineup tonight, there
is nobody hitting over two thirty five. Ye and that's
bleep and depressing.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So they say, hey, they probably in the pre show meeting.
What do we do?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
People just want to tune out when they see everybody
hitting other two thirty five. Hey, let's just show what
their OPS is and that's all. Like the ops is
a great when you see six fifty four, you think, oh,
that's got to be good.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No, six fifty four is a bad. But that's the.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Problem is there were multiple players in the White Sox
starting a lot. If that had an OPS lower than
two thirty five, that's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I mean baseball. Yeah, at this point, just put the names.
Just put the names and where they're from. That's you do,
instead of just the names where they're from, and like
some kind of.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Random fact about that. Yes, hey, you know here's here is.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Only likes red jelly Bean, Louise Robert batting third. He's
from uh Des Moines, Iowa. And the factory really really
wants to be traded like like that.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
He was really good several years ago. Sure was once
the future, now untradeable.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Andrew Andrew Bennettendee, Uh you know the left field from Brooklyn,
New York. Yes, this is the same guy from the
Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
You know as you do. No, and I was telling
you about the tails. The Sad Tale of Ozzie Gehan,
who wanted to go back and manage his former team
and was passed over for Pedro Griffall, who's now over
one hundred games. Ozzy's a lucky one under one under
five hundred. But Ozzy was having like a bit of
a breakdown in relaying this to Frank Thomas and the host,
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saying they chose this guy over me.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, how do you think I feel? You don't want
to partner that. You don't think he would have been
doing this?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
This is like in the office when when Dwight was
going to be the vice president and Robert California said
I'm tanking it and Jim said, Dwight, don't go. So
Todd Packer took over his vice president and he got fired.
And Dwight's like, oh, dodge the bullet there. Okay, that's
exactly what he got.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, but maybe Ozzie wouldn't, or at least in his
mind he thinks he would have gotten different results.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You are you are looking up at.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
What could be twenty one losses in once upon a
time it was twenty seven and seventy two and it
was Carlton fisk Night.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, now it's key.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm telling you're gonna be twenty seven and Aaron judgeson
twenty seven?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
How long till twenty seven?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And ninety that twenty seven and Judge, now you're like, wait, wait, wait,
wait wait wait.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Was Brian Lawton eighty nine or ninety eight, ninety eight?
He was with the North Star.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I would say this, so one thing in that battery,
if anything could cool off Aaron Judge, it would be
a night with Carlton Fisk behind the plate because you
could never get into a rhythm at the plate because
he was gonna stand up and adjust his crotch and
then squat back down, say no, that's not right, get
back up, do it again, and stare you in the
eye the whole time.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Right now, your record is Carlton Fisk and Eric Decker.
Oh good, lose tonight you're Carlton Fisk and Michael Irvin.
So that's where you are. Then eighty eight yo, then
you'd be Carlton Fisk and Billy Joe Dupree.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Then we get to ninety boy, we get Julius Peppers
just went into the say then you did, okay, that's fine, meersit.
That was the only thing that gave me Solace this weekend,
Jordan's showed up for Julius Peppers. Yeah, McMichael got in,
which again long overdue, and Devin Hester walked in after.
You know, we saw the first generation of whatever that
new kickoff is. But either way, I got three bears
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in the Hall of Fame. Light is good. Life was
good for that day.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
My friend the Jason Spencer with Mike Carmon live from
the Tirech dot Com studios. We'll lot more baseball on
the way. Of course, keeping track of this game is
you know the White Socks could go to Carlton Fisk
and Michael.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, laugh it up at my expense, that's slowing down.
Get him coming in.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But we got Jason locking Forest stop and buy in
a few minutes. We had the first big brawl of.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Training camp because the Steelers one the other day was
just hey, Justin Field's running in.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's great. But you had the first brawl.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Today in a joint practice between the Giants and the Lions,
and it was partly incited by Daniel Jones. The bis
is the big viral headline today because he decides, hey,
I'm gonna go win there because you know, you had
one of the linemen getting up pretty slow off off
one of his offensive linemen. He decides, I'm going to
go in there and make sure that they don't do this.
Of course it's hot, because it's ninety eight bleeping degrees
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and they're playing and uh, little brawl breaks out. Daniel
Jones in the middle of it, inciting it as a situation.
Happens like that, you try to stand up for your guys. Yeah,
now that's a guy who's trying to win the locker room.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I will tell you this. Why did Daniel Jones do Why?
Why did Daniel Jones do that? I'll tell you why.
Because there is no one in the NFL who had
a worse off season than Daniel Jones. Why because the
Giants could have gone after quarterback and they didn't. All right, Well,
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because they paid a lot of money to Daniel Jones. Okay,
he's got one chance to figure it out, all right,
that's fine, Daniel Jones is coming back.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The Giants are sort of storting over it, all right.
But this is where I say I was wrong. I
was wrong in the impact that at the off season
Hard Knock Show had on me and on the sports world.
Who's gonna Carritch. The Giants they're so bleep and boring.
What the hell are they gonna say?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
But the two biggest things that you took away from
this Hard Knocks the offseason with the Giants is one boy,
come on man, Saquon Barkley. That treating them like they
were letting Walter Payton go. I mean just stop for
a second. Okay, he's like one Barklay. The other thing
is everybody hates Daniel Jones. They can't wait to get
rid of them, They can't wait to replace him. Joe
Shane's kid is throwing shade at Daniel Jones while he's
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in his office.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Allod you draft.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You just watched that entire Hard Knocks and you could
tell every single person the organizations like, we have to
get rid of this guy. We have to move on
from Daniel. Now, why you wouldn't draft a quarterback or
figured it out early in the season.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You should do, especially Dellaarn't.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Coming off of multiple injuries, no matter what you paid him,
that's so cost at this point.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Do you think you would have taken care of that?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
But you know the Giants, they do things differently, and
I'm sure they thought, well, we don't like the guys
we could take you.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
What are we gonna do take Drake May look at
the guy. What are we gonna do? So no, No,
let's just wait. Let's just wait and whatever happens this year.
If Daniel Jones is really good, Okay, we got a quarterback,
we're already paying he's got two more years left on
his deal. If not, then we'll really make a push
in the offseason to go after a guy.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
We're paying him too much money. Now, we couldn't go
out and getst it. We didn't like the guys to
get in the draft, whatever it was. So do I
like the strategy?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Because Daniel Jones stinks. There's only one problem with him.
He stinks. It's only one problem. That's the only problem
with Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
He stinks.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And so he had the worst off season of anybody
because all he did was watch his team on TV
every week in when the coaches, the general manager, the
GM's kid. I'm sure the GM kids friends was texting
them about stuff that they don't want you, they really want.
They're hoping that you fail at some point so they
can play Tommy Cutlets for a little while and.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Then say this is great.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
He'll go appear in another couple of Italian restaurants in
New Jersey. Bottle of White, Bottle of Red. Yeah, Tommy
Cullins is great. And then we'll go get our guy
in the off season. Like I'm not saying they're hoping
he fails, but it's like they're expecting it. They're prepared
for the outcome.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
They don't think there's any other outcome other than Daniel
Jones is gonna stink. And now we got to move
on in next year. Now the other thing that comes
out of this, And I don't think Jones is the
biggest loser of all this, because I think your GM
and your coach they both showed their asses and they
both should have been fired as soon as this stuff
started to air.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, you gotta give hard Knock something.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I mean, it's Giants, but it shows their level of ineptitude.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And their inability to read a room and the recognition
that the damn red light is on and what you're
saying is going to go out to a broadcast.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
If the combination of Giants general manager is Joe Shane
and his kid, I feel pretty good. But if the
kid's making the decisions. Then maybe you got a shot,
but you're not paying the kid. That's fine, kid comes
along with Shane. But if Joe Shane's overruling him and.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
So you need to doesn't matter if he's actually gonna
take the kids inpute who actually studied. It seemed the
drafted what may have been done on TV dead versus
Brian Dables salivating. I know he lost a bunch of weight,
but he's salivating over these other quarterbacks. Okay, how about
your brain trust gets in a damn room and figures
out how to go and either improve the position or
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recognize Oh wait, we signed this guy. How do we
coach him up, get players around him and make it better?
Oh wait, we let that running back go over to Philadelphia,
But we had him trying to pinky promise that he
was gonna call us back if he got another offer. Really,
that's what you put out. So yeah, they're worse. He's
on the metal stand, but he's a distant third. Daniel
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Jones worst off season. In the end, Shane table Dable
only gets second because he lost some weight and he
looks like he added some life to him. The problem
is he still showed bad decision made making time and
time again. Well he wasn't eating as much because it's
probably a little loopy when you don't need help.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
But you gotta keep the blood sugar.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Rites understand that when you're watching game table, Oh man,
I could go after that quarterback.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That would be great.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You ready for your interview with Hard Knocks the crews. Yeah,
I gotta have a sandwich first. Hang on it, Somebody
go get me a sandwich. You know, I looked really
bad last week's episode.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I gotta make sum regulated and I hope he's great
and whatever. But from a coaching and GM position, the
two those two guys look like morons through this entire process.
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We got Jason, Lock and Ford coming. You're writ in
a second, but just a really cool moment to tell
you about right now. Freddie Freeman back in the Dodgers
lineup for the first time. His son Max is in
the hospital for a long time, now doing better, discharged.
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Freddie Freeman back in the Dodgers lineup at home, getting
a standing ovation right now. As he bats with two
outs on the top of the first inning, Freddie Freeman,
having a tough time keeping it together, took his helmet off.
They are still standing and clapping for him as he
makes his return of the Dodgers' lineup. The Phillies all
have their hats off in the field for him as well.
Just a really really cool moment right now. We'll keep
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you updated on this, Phillies and the Dodgers. Nothing. Nothing
in the bottom of the first inning, but we are
in the full swing of training camp. The Giants and
Lions nearly getting a brawl. Daniel Jones is standing up
for himself. Aaron Jones looks great. Aaron Rodgers looks great,
but he's salty.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Aaron Jones looks great as well. He did look pretty
good in the clips that I've seen with us.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Now on the.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Hotline to break it all down, nobody better. Long time
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Speaker 4 (16:04):
This is pretty I'm watching. This is pretty your most
here man. This is uh not your normal sort of
clicking knowledgement. Oh for Freddie Freeman, what a good dude.
Thankfully hopefully it looks like everything's going to be all
right there with his son. But wow, wow, wow, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
There was like a minute ovation for you had to
step out of the batter's box.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah, several times down them his chest and yeah, holy moly.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
So we'll keep you update on this great moment right
here between the Phillies and the Dodge. Now they're showing
pictures of Freddy with his family and now his kid
is doing better, which is such an awesome, awesome thing.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Now, as Fary, well, first of all, before you get
to football, I know every day I want to check
and make sure we are in your Orioles meter, how
happy or or unhappy you are?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Where are you today?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Because last week you were about at a two as
far as your level of happiness?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yeah, I mean I wish they actually got somebody who
could help fifty as nice any it's deadline, because that's
kind of I think, you know, pretty important in October baseball,
at least as far as I can tell. But no,
they you know, to split that series with the Guardians,
So they showed a lot of MOSI and fight the
last two games. But I do believe they have some
October flaws, but hopefully they can overcome them.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
All right, So now with football, we get to, uh,
what's the What's what's one of the big storylines that
stood out for you over the first few days of camp.
You're like, well, this is something I'm gonna want to
follow over the course of.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The next month.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I mean, I can't get too caught up at anything
anybody does a practice, you know, Like I just I'm
pumftable for that stuff. You know, I just I can't
get there. So you know, this guy looking good and
that guy looking good doesn't do a whole lot for me.
I gotta be honest.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Is it the quarterback?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But what at the quarterback battles? Like any of those?
We have four or five teams that have them right now.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
No, I feel like I kind of know where most
of those are going to go, you know, pending somebody
completely peeing down their leg like at least I think
I know they're where the lead is, you know, all
things being remotely equal, which way they're probably going to lead.
I think a couple will go veteran, and I think
a couple are going to want to see what they
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have all the way through with their kids, because especially
like I don't know, Denver could very well be picking,
you know, even higher than they did a year ago,
perhaps significantly higher, in which case, you know, we're talking
about quarterbacks, we say, I mean, it's sort of like
who's getting their house in order and who's not. You know, like, Okay,
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Miami checks some boxes. Are they going to regret them? Maybe,
but like they did what they sort of had to do.
You know. Then you've got a couple of other situations
where things are festering and things are smoldering, and well,
can's kind of over like everybody moving into regular season
mode here, you know, and you're getting days off before
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games and days off after games, and guess what, the
that don't play in the games anymore either, So we're
kind of down to like two or three day work weeks,
which is, you know, playing practice in the regular season.
So somebody hold ins, you know, some of these contractual loggerheads.
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We're getting to a point now where you know it
doesn't matter, and like, I just don't think it's going
to end well for some of these teams. And then
I'm talking specifically, you know Dallas in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Well, watching the San Francisco today, if you just follow
anything that was related to quasi NFL news, it was
like Norad with Brandon Ayute, only for everybody saying nothing
to see here.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yet. Yeah, Look, they weeked it up pretty good by
not addressing this before the draft. And I know that
they're used to getting their way and getting players to
capitulate to the terms and language and nuanced that they
want their contract structures. And they get a lot of
kudos from being really really smart and they've done a
(20:08):
lot of things well, but like the receivers worth thirty
million dollars a year period, Like I talked to a
GM and a contract negotiator from other teams this weekend.
I'm like, is there anything I'm listening here? No? I
mean the market is what the market is, and they
couldn't get a high enough one value for him during
the draft. What makes them think anything's going to change now?
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I mean, nothing is going to change now and instead
of them getting assets that they can use in real time.
Now it's complicated things. And that's not to say that
there aren't useful players on some of these other rosters
that could come back their way. But I just I
think they strewed this up, and I think they got
too cute, and I think they believe that they're a
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little smarter than they are and that ultimately people bend
to their will and capitulate, and they're not going to
pay this guy, say dollars, and there's three or four
other teams that will. So you're gonna have to do
the best you can on this trade. And at some
point here, I don't know, in the next couple of
days or certainly the next couple of weeks, like they're
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gonna have to admit defeat and admit that it's edition
by subtraction and this kid we drafted better be ready
to go. We still have Debo, we still have Kittle,
and we've got the best running back in the NFL.
And then you know, they've got have to make things
right with the left tackle. But like, both those guys
aren't called me there, Like I just have never thought
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that they would certainly by the trade deadline, and now
I would say not by week one.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
All right, now you mentioned the Cowboys too, Ceedee Lamb's
holding out. Dak is talking every day about a deal
that could be there. Does anybody get paid?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Does Jerry Jones pay anybody Jason before the season or
during the season.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I mean, I can't fathom that the CD Lamb doesn't
get done before the season, you know, Dak. I don't
know if I'm Dak. I'm not. I'm not way agreeable
anything like I've got, you know, the proverbial gun to
their head, and I've got the trigger talk and I'm
not flinching. I'm not giving in on anything like I'm
resetting this thing utterly and completely or somebody else will
(22:16):
do that for me nine months am. I mean, it's
it's just as simple as that. I mean, I don't
know where Jerry is in terms of like the real
world or you know, finding Cowboys star that he lives
on where who knows what what what he gets for
news Like, I don't know what he's consuming. I don't
(22:38):
know what he thinks about the realities of the NFL.
But the gibberis that he's been selling like nobody in
dak cast by and so I think they're going to
have to pay land, but he's worth and I don't
get the sense that they're willing to do what it
would probably take to get back done. Now. Running at
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a time like this is not a deal that I
think it's done in the season. I mean, if I'm
representing the player, I'm telling you go to hell. If
we will have something by week one, you know, at
that point, I'm playing out. He's been hurt before. It's
still got huge money, So they're running out of time.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
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Jason Lock And for Jason, let's rewind you Thursday Hall
of Fame game. And now we've got the setup zone
(23:42):
and the landing zone on kickoffs.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
What do you make of the first generation.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
I'm still confused, guys. I don't know about you, Like
it still looks like it's just like a you know,
a fire drill. To me, it's just it feels very
known football ish to me, Like it almost feels like
a Rugby scrum or something before, you know, before we
settle down and get back to sort of what we're
(24:09):
used to. You know. The every team has a you know,
practices that are officiating training camp practices are officiated by
NFL officiating crews, and then they meet with the media
you know before and and go over all the new
points of emphasis. So I'll be sitting in on one
of those at Ravens camp tomorrow, and I will be
(24:31):
watching more attentively than I normally watch these sort of
you know, little thirty minute symposiums because usually it's like
some nuance with holding or this or that, or you know,
we're going to really crack down on something, and then
you know, by week six they're just going to let
anything go. Anyway. Sure, this I don't really know, Like
I guess, the more I see it, the more I'll
(24:51):
probably be wondering, like it's somebody out there ballsy enough
that they didn't crack the code, you know, like it
would have to be a coach who's not worried about
his job and have to be a coach of a
team that has an offense that they're not worried about
if we do something cute here at a backfires. But like
I almost feel like, like what if the you've got
two guys back there, Like what if one sort of
(25:14):
drifts to his right and draw the whole bunch of
people to whether it throws it back across to the
other guy. Like I don't know, Like I don't know
how creative anybody's willing to get about this. I don't know,
Like I just I don't have a baseline for it.
Like part of me is like by week eight, we're
all just going to be like, you know what, I mean,
it's a total nothing burger. But there's like another part
(25:35):
of me that like, at week eight, like somebody might
be doing something that is helping them win games. I mean,
I tend to think it's more of a nothing burger
than not and sort of a last ditch attempt to
save whatever's left of the kickoff, you know, and hiding
your behind or propping up you know, help and safety
you bra Alice. But I guess it's going to kind
(25:56):
of come down to these the coaching staffs, and does
somebody think they've found, look a way to block something
up or throw a rinkle out there that other people
are prepared for.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
He's on twit or at Jason lock on four that
is at Jason lock and for check him out on
Odyssey one of five seven of the Fan in Baltimore,
Washington Post Jay as.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Always, Buddy, appreciate it, man, enjoy the games. We'll talk
to you next week.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
You guys do the same, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
You know the thing about the kickoff after seeing for
one game or he's got a chance to digest it,
and of course you know, look, I don't know how
you look at it and say that's great unless you
just want to have a hot take. Now, I'll be
the guy that says it's great, okay? Uh is that
this is going to be something where event He's right.
Eventually someone's going to come up with a, oh, this
(26:40):
is how you do it, whether it's kick return or kickoff,
They're gonna come up with something where, okay, this is
how you maximize your kick returns. Then the league is
going to have to adjust almost like it's like it's
the version of the Eagles Push push, right, like we're
gonna do this. How do you adjust. Well, okay, when
you when when your your lineman come in, they're able
to do some things.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Cracks.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So that's what it's gonna be. Now, I would have
to say it's gonna wind up being the return team
that cracks something before the kicking team because the kicking
team doesn't have a lot of options unless you have
a kicker who can really loft the ball up and
put a lot of weight a lot of air under
it so their players can can get that, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So there, so it gets a little you.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Know, even that you can't do anything.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Right, but even where you can find a way where
they can't, where there's a difficulty in receiving the ball
or a difficulty in them trying to catch the ball, like,
that's the tough thing. Like I'd have to think at
some point it would be a case of all right,
now we're just gonna we're just gonna pooch it down
the field.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Soccer guy gets a weird curve on it.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
So yeah, so I well, like I said, but I
think it's gonna be their turn team. Okay, if we
do this, we catch the ball here, this wedge is
gonna work, and we'll be because if you can free a
guy at the thing. The thing about is that if
you can free a guy like the fifteen twenty yard line,
he could be bad. But that's the theory, right, is
that it's one line of defense, and yeah, trying to
figure out the rotations to create a second level, the
(28:04):
tertiary level whatever. Like the rugby woman for USA, that
the truck that woman you want to steal the football
fromber failed and got run over.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
If you can get through the fifteen or twenty yard line,
you have a chance to make a big play. That's
why I think they're gonna crack it first, because they're
gonna see there's I don't know that there's a big
opportunity for a big play if you're kicking off. So
that's why I think it's gonna be the receiving team says, Okay,
if we find a way to crack this, we can
get past the twenty yard line, we have a chance
to go on almost everyone because you're talking about eight
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guys are already past the twenty yard you're passing eight guys.
There's three guys left, So that's gonna be a real
That's where I think if anybody's gonna crack it.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It's gonna be the receiving.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
My gut says it fizzles, because I mean, what's the
punitive effect You start at the thirty that extra five
yard they'll screw that like that.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Like what did we see on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
You're gonna start between the twenty five and the thirty
two seems about where you're gonna have on average. Okay,
I'll still kick it out the back at the end zone.
It's not punitive enough otherwise, you know, I'll give you
the five yards instead of risking that one man and
gone kind of effect, especially if you can find you know,
that spectacular returner. But I think most of most of all,
(29:15):
it's gonna be a nothing burger. Just it gets the
percentages of touchbacks down a bit. Yay victory, NFL. Nothing burger.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports was special delivery Steven Seger wide world
because of course, with the Olympics going on, so many
big events global and you probably saw earlier today one
of the more yeoman like efforts in a sporting event.
It should have been a day off of the Mets,
but they had to fly to Saint Louis play one
game for makeup before they go back to Colorado, and
(29:47):
they shut the Cardinals out six nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And great pitching from Floyd Yeomans.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yes, a flood. Yeomans was great. He was fantastic shun
so was Bruce Breni. He was awesome too.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Manya got to win with seven scoreless at Saint Louis,
six nothing, the final ten strikeouts, no walks. Meanwhile, those
White Sox that have lost twenty in a row have
tied it up. It's one to one at Oakland. People,
let's go and can I add the Oakland A's do
not have a hit in this game.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
They got three walks in a.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Sackfly A's will win two to one while getting no hit.
That's the that's the White Sox. But after that six
pitch first, we're now in the fourth. He's up to
fifty seven pitches. This sears keeping.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
An eye on this one for other reasons because in
nineteen eighty eight Baltimore started a season oh to twenty one.
That is the American League record streak. Twenty one White
Sox have lost twenty in a row. They're twenty seven
and eighty seven this season so the White Sox, as
we mentioned on last week's show, on pace for over
one hundred twenty losses this year, which would be the
modern record. The Dodgers place reliever Blake Trining on the
(30:51):
injured list with a hip injury. Dodgers activated pitcher Bruce
dark Gretorol for the first time this year. Freddy Freeman
is playing first base for LA tonight. He was out
for over week, but his son is now out of
the hospital. The three year old had eight days in
the ICU and as you mentioned this hour, Freeman getting
a huge standing ovation from the home crowd when he
batted in the first inning. Phillies and pitcher Aaron Nola
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leading against the Dodgers and pitcher Tyler Glass now two
nothing in the bottom of the second. Glass now has
five strikeouts in two innings, and it looked like he
would get the Phillies one, two, three in the top
of the second, but Andy Paez of LA, who theoretically
is a center fielder, played at fly ball this should
have been the third out, played it into a triple
and the Philly followed with an infield single, a single
(31:35):
to left wild pitch for another run. It is two
nothing fills in the second. Corey Seger with four homers
in four games. Now at Texas, he has tied it
up Rangers two to two with Houston. Game is in
the bottom of the ninth inning. Houston is second place
in the AL West game behind idle Seattle Red Sox
in the ninth leet nine to five at Kansas City.
(31:56):
Among the earlier winners Minnesota, they won five straight three
nothing the final at the Cubs. The Chiefs gave kicker
Harrison Butker a four year extension. Simone Biles took the
silver medal in the floor exercise final in Paris.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Oh. You know.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
The funny thing is I actually read that book about
a year ago, The Longest Season Story, the nineteen eighty
eight Baltimore Orioles, And you know they started out Owen
twenty one, and two things I remember from the book.
One is that they spent way too much time outside
of the Owen twenty one start, like this is what
you got to focus on, Like this is they spent
so much time in the rest of the season and
(32:31):
rookies and who came up, And I'm like.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
This is come on, you guess there is a book. Yeah,
otherwise who cares?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, they went through. And the other thing is I
can't remember anything else about it. I really, that's the
other thing I read.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
All the time. I'm like, oh yeah, what do I
remember from that book? I read it like a year
a crack, robinsoning else was ticked. I remember nothing. No,
I think cal Ripkins Senior was the manager. What about to.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
Say the Was it DJ that said he was gonna
stay on the air, stay on the roof for something until.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Oh yeah, yeah there was Oh no, I remember no.
Reagan sent to there was a big deal. Reagan sent
a letter.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Of of of of hope to the Orioles when they
were starting off. It's like pro Sarrio told.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Them, and you're going secondolence, you know, the Orioles, but
they playing ball.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
This is not DC.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, but there's still our area cause remember there was
no Nationals there. So I remember he sent a note
of hey, good luck guys, you know any more games?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
So Cal Ripken Senior started the year he'd gone sixty
seven and ninety five the year before and was replaced
Oh okay, okay, okay went did they replace him? Head
O win twenty one. They replaced six, so it's he
only got through the first six.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
What a great blank you woman from cal Ripkins Senior,
Like right around lost fifteen or six and like, look
at that. I thought I was the problem, right.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, hey with your kid is on that But look
at somebody's legs.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
My fault, Ikraber Sheets Gerhart, Fred Lynn, Toby Gerhart was
on that team. Wow, know man, Okay, Joe or Selac,
I love and Eddie and those guys. Yeah, I'm still
all went time. I decided to go deeper down down
the rabbit hole.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
We'll continue to follow this game again, one to one,
socks in the a's in the fourth. But coming up next,
what big time college football program was just compared to
grand theft auto by one of its former players.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
That's the next right here, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the tirag dot com studios. We are crossing
our t's and dotting our eyes. And you know when
I say that, it means Oh, something big is coming.
We are crossing our t's and dotting our eyes on
a big NFL story coming up in about ten minutes.
(34:49):
I made three big Bowl predictions following the NFL Draft. Yeah,
double down on this bowl prediction beginning of the summer.
And that looks like I'm about to go one for one.
Looks like the kid Bold prediction streak is just rolling
on from twenty three to twenty four, rolling through.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Kid Well, chaos is always a good thing for our
industry as long as it stays in between the white lines.
And in this particular case, it just meant that there
were some meeting rooms where well they couldn't see eye
to eye.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Ah, what do you got Frostburg by the Jets trading
back for Zach Wilson.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Uh, don't.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
That's why we call it a tease. Okay, just I
mean we call it a tees kind of a big
deal the Jemmy, you did make that prediction.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Okay, I'll tell you what it is. The Jets are
getting Zach Wilson and Sam Darnold back.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
That's the That's the thing. No, of course not, that's
not it.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
So with Aaron Rodgers, I mean they're taking their healthy
legs and building voltron or what do we doing.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Some people heard me say that and go, oh I
could see the Jets doing.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, I did not that far out of
the roma possibility. I like the tape they saw from
Minnesota up and there you go.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
And it involves a big trade and a player who
has wanted a trade for quite a long time.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
However, again that's ten minutes away. Its again, we're crossing
our wante check today. And this is just I mean,
when you see this headline, you go wow.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Really Athlon Sports and the New York Posts had this
story today.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
I only thought they did magazine that. Yeah, the big
the Biggest book comes out in April.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Yeah, that comes out like eight months before all, long
before any of the transfer portals.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Depending on what the Steelers could do in the draft.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
The gym report from Athlon Sports and again and it's
on the New York Post as well, talked about how
the program culture surrounding Deon Sanders team in Colorado has
allowed violence to run rampant in the locker room. According
to a former player quote, it's like a real life
Grand Theft auto video game. There are many distractions with fights,
(36:58):
guns and money floating around.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Send lawyers, guns and money.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Oh, that's lawyers, guns and money. This is Fun't take
there's lawyers involved. No, you'd really think there's lawyers involved.
I think so in the background rights, guns and money.
If this is really happening, then the lawyers will get involved.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
You've seen the billboards.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
One specific instance acording of the report involved Shiloh Sanders,
one of Dion's kids, and five star recruit Carmani Maclain,
who has since transferred. They got into a big altercation
late in the twenty twenty three season. Shiloh apparently slapped
him several times. Cormani is screaming, I'm gonna kill you.
Quote After that, you could tell Cormani wasn't mentally there.
It's hard when the coaches you trust are calling you
(37:40):
derogatory names on the practice field.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Now, since Shiloh already lost at eleven point eight million dollars, judgment, bankruptcy,
whatever else.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
What happens. Look the big thing about the opposite.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
I'm just thinking about Grand theft Auto Colorado Buffaloes. Right,
like you said, Grand theft Auto San Andreas, Grand theft
auto auto Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Mean get a sponsorship deal.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I mean Grandoler, Grand Theft Auto Boulder with Dion on
the cover, right with the sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Right, that's what of this?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Oh look, well, well this is something that's come out
from players who have transferred. You're going to get the
back and forth of did this happen? Dion's going to say,
nobody is still here that wants to be here. These
are all guys that should have left. This is where
we're at right now.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
The conversation with Colorado and Deon Sanders has has now changed,
and we're ask and the wrong ques, and now we
have to ask a new question and forget about the
old question. The old question was, boy, how long until
Dion wins in Colorado? And boy, what a big thing
that's going to be? Right because he owned college football
in the entire sports world in September of last year.
Then they didn't win a game, and now it's okay,
(38:43):
now another season. He's got more players in Boy, if
he wins, he is the rock star head coach in
college football. But the question used to be, oh, boy,
how long un till he wins? Can he win?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
This year?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
That changes now to how much longer is this really
going to happen. How much longer is Dion really going
to be coaching at Colorado? But for either it blows
up and he leaves, or or he gets let go,
or maybe he has a big year and he wins
and he goes someplace else, Like this is not something
that's sustainable, right, Like like what went on last September
wasn't sustainable because you eventually got to play a whole season.
(39:15):
But this whole culture and everything we're seeing this is
not sustainable. I don't know how Dion, the Dion era
in Colorado is sustainable and in a few years it's
a thirty for thirty. This is the wild stuff that happened.
You don't know the tip of it. You know the
tip of the iceberger what went on in Colorado? One's
Dion walked in like is it one more year?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Shador and Shiloh leaving and then Dion's gone? Like I
would say, you put me the over under. I would say,
after this year, Dion's not gonna be a guy. I
said that last year that his kids and Travis Hunter
leave and that's the end of it. Get them as
well placed into the NFL and helps steer things if possible. Right,
We've actually had that conversation during the off season of
(39:53):
trying to get to the Las Vegas Raiders or whatever
the case may be, you know, Lebron that stuff as
it was. But yeah, I mean, look, I have no
doubt that you've got locker rooms all over the country
where there's some level of chaos and in just a
different way of doing business and Dion doing big speeches
(40:16):
that go out and become viral sensations of hey, let's
act like the guy's making two hundred thirty million dollars,
right in terms of don't touch the quarterback, don't do this,
you know, act like we're on that next level. We
got to protect him, which, yeah, you should protect your
starting quarterback. I agree with that, but if it goes
into a larger thing of you're still playing for this
year and in this moment that it's not. Let's look
(40:37):
to the NFL and if half of this is true,
then you've got a culture that's not sustainable, whether he's
there or not.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
I mean, I really I think this year and that's
going to be it.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
He's got to go.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
He's got to go eleven and one.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Well, the magnifying guy and they get some tough games
right out of the jump.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
That big NFL story coming up next.
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the Mets have already won and we get to watch
your White Sox go for lost number twenty one year.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Oh it's and they're already losing.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, I mean, look, he came out strong, allowed sears
to mow them down on six pitches in the first Yeah,
that's six pitch top of the first is it's gonna
keep him in if he has that no hitter all
the way to the end. His pitch comes for not
going to be high enough to take him out. Highly
advantageous there. And then you get Kyle Busch comes in
in his major league debut and oh gives up a
(01:21):
seven pitch walk to the first hitter he faced. But
we also had some Olympic coverage and they were doing
a third place for shooting. Yeah, and the guy looked
like a well quaffed Iowa Sam Okay, like he was
from Germany and they were doing a shoot off and
if he if Sam got a haircut, he kind of
looked like that guy. And I was just participating in
the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
That's great. Let's let's stick on the white Sox here be.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
No I have to I have to get it away
twenty you're going for twenty one, and it's one nothing
already trying to match from way back in the yesteryear
when they started the season. Oh in twenty one.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
This game in front of friends and family, there's team
people there like I would expect. I've expected more people
here for Oakley like this, Hey, we're gonna dominate this.
They are heavy favorites tonight. I forget what the year was,
but I saw it early this morning. It just went, yeah,
that sounds about right, almost a minus two hundred favorite.
But they did an We were watching the pregame and
(02:18):
they had the over the aerial shot, like, why would
you show that?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Like we know it's gonna be a sparse crowd. Why
are you pulling back the curtain. There's like eight people there. Okay,
hey there's John in section three oh five.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
But if you show the close up shots of no seats,
it's easy shots of no seats. If you have bad vision,
they're banking on half people. They probably can't.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
See full them because it's full behind home plate. Everybody,
come on down, all pack it.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
In all twelve seats behind home plate in Oakland Coliseum.
Already there you can see. That's all good.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Spent many a day in the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I never saw possum. I saw some other rodents, but
you know, possible maybe coming out of the bullpen tonight
be you never know.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Hey, now this guy's gonna work on a low pitch count,
so he's gonna expend.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
If the A's are winning this game, you're gonna get
to face position players. The A's aren't gonna waste actual
pictures against this line.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Get through this series.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
How about it? The best graphic we saw in the
pregame though?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, when the when the when they show that we're
watching the White Sox broadcast, right, and Harmon and I
are just going crazy over the White Sox broadcast. And
they showed the lineup, the starting lineup of the team,
which you know, which they do all the time. What
you say, here is your starting lineup tonight, And normally
you see the player's name and then their batting average.
Sometimes you get home runs and and and uh and RBIs,
but used to get you get the batting average. And
(03:41):
you know, because it would look really bad for the
White Sox because they don't have any good players, they
decide to show here's what everybody's ops is against left
handed hitters.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
So not even in general against left handed hitters.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Because here's in the White Sox starting lineup tonight, there
is nobody hitting over two thirty five. Ye and that's
bleep and depressing.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
So they say, hey, they probably in the pre show meeting.
What do we do?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
People just want to tune out when they see everybody
hitting other two thirty five. Hey, let's just show what
their OPS is and that's all. Like the ops is
a great when you see six fifty four, you think, oh,
that's got to be good.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No, six fifty four is a bad. But that's the.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Problem is there were multiple players in the White Sox
starting a lot. If that had an OPS lower than
two thirty five, that's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I mean baseball. Yeah, at this point, just put the names.
Just put the names and where they're from. That's you do,
instead of just the names where they're from, and like
some kind of.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Random fact about that. Yes, hey, you know here's here is.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Only likes red jelly Bean, Louise Robert batting third. He's
from uh Des Moines, Iowa. And the factory really really
wants to be traded like like that.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
He was really good several years ago. Sure was once
the future, now untradeable.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Andrew Andrew Bennettendee, Uh you know the left field from Brooklyn,
New York. Yes, this is the same guy from the
Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
You know as you do. No, and I was telling
you about the tails. The Sad Tale of Ozzie Gehan,
who wanted to go back and manage his former team
and was passed over for Pedro Griffall, who's now over
one hundred games. Ozzy's a lucky one under one under
five hundred. But Ozzy was having like a bit of
a breakdown in relaying this to Frank Thomas and the host,
(05:28):
saying they chose this guy over me.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, how do you think I feel? You don't want
to partner that. You don't think he would have been
doing this?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
This is like in the office when when Dwight was
going to be the vice president and Robert California said
I'm tanking it and Jim said, Dwight, don't go. So
Todd Packer took over his vice president and he got fired.
And Dwight's like, oh, dodge the bullet there. Okay, that's
exactly what he got.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Yeah, but maybe Ozzie wouldn't, or at least in his
mind he thinks he would have gotten different results.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You are you are looking up at.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
What could be twenty one losses in once upon a
time it was twenty seven and seventy two and it
was Carlton fisk Night.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, now it's key.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm telling you're gonna be twenty seven and Aaron judgeson
twenty seven?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
How long till twenty seven?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
And ninety that twenty seven and Judge, now you're like, wait, wait, wait,
wait wait wait.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Was Brian Lawton eighty nine or ninety eight, ninety eight?
He was with the North Star.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I would say this, so one thing in that battery,
if anything could cool off Aaron Judge, it would be
a night with Carlton Fisk behind the plate because you
could never get into a rhythm at the plate because
he was gonna stand up and adjust his crotch and
then squat back down, say no, that's not right, get
back up, do it again, and stare you in the
eye the whole time.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Right now, your record is Carlton Fisk and Eric Decker.
Oh good, lose tonight you're Carlton Fisk and Michael Irvin.
So that's where you are. Then eighty eight yo, then
you'd be Carlton Fisk and Billy Joe Dupree.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Then we get to ninety boy, we get Julius Peppers
just went into the say then you did, okay, that's fine, meersit.
That was the only thing that gave me Solace this weekend,
Jordan's showed up for Julius Peppers. Yeah, McMichael got in,
which again long overdue, and Devin Hester walked in after.
You know, we saw the first generation of whatever that
new kickoff is. But either way, I got three bears
(07:12):
in the Hall of Fame. Light is good. Life was
good for that day.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
My friend the Jason Spencer with Mike Carmon live from
the Tirech dot Com studios. We'll lot more baseball on
the way. Of course, keeping track of this game is
you know the White Socks could go to Carlton Fisk
and Michael.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, laugh it up at my expense, that's slowing down.
Get him coming in.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But we got Jason locking Forest stop and buy in
a few minutes. We had the first big brawl of.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Training camp because the Steelers one the other day was
just hey, Justin Field's running in.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's great. But you had the first brawl.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Today in a joint practice between the Giants and the Lions,
and it was partly incited by Daniel Jones. The bis
is the big viral headline today because he decides, hey,
I'm gonna go win there because you know, you had
one of the linemen getting up pretty slow off off
one of his offensive linemen. He decides, I'm going to
go in there and make sure that they don't do this.
Of course it's hot, because it's ninety eight bleeping degrees
(08:09):
and they're playing and uh, little brawl breaks out. Daniel
Jones in the middle of it, inciting it as a situation.
Happens like that, you try to stand up for your guys. Yeah,
now that's a guy who's trying to win the locker room.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
I will tell you this. Why did Daniel Jones do Why?
Why did Daniel Jones do that? I'll tell you why.
Because there is no one in the NFL who had
a worse off season than Daniel Jones. Why because the
Giants could have gone after quarterback and they didn't. All right, Well,
(08:46):
because they paid a lot of money to Daniel Jones. Okay,
he's got one chance to figure it out, all right,
that's fine, Daniel Jones is coming back.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The Giants are sort of storting over it, all right.
But this is where I say I was wrong. I
was wrong in the impact that at the off season
Hard Knock Show had on me and on the sports world.
Who's gonna Carritch. The Giants they're so bleep and boring.
What the hell are they gonna say?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
But the two biggest things that you took away from
this Hard Knocks the offseason with the Giants is one boy,
come on man, Saquon Barkley. That treating them like they
were letting Walter Payton go. I mean just stop for
a second. Okay, he's like one Barklay. The other thing
is everybody hates Daniel Jones. They can't wait to get
rid of them, They can't wait to replace him. Joe
Shane's kid is throwing shade at Daniel Jones while he's
(09:33):
in his office.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Allod you draft.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You just watched that entire Hard Knocks and you could
tell every single person the organizations like, we have to
get rid of this guy. We have to move on
from Daniel. Now, why you wouldn't draft a quarterback or
figured it out early in the season.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
You should do, especially Dellaarn't.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Coming off of multiple injuries, no matter what you paid him,
that's so cost at this point.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Do you think you would have taken care of that?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
But you know the Giants, they do things differently, and
I'm sure they thought, well, we don't like the guys
we could take you.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
What are we gonna do take Drake May look at
the guy. What are we gonna do? So no, No,
let's just wait. Let's just wait and whatever happens this year.
If Daniel Jones is really good, Okay, we got a quarterback,
we're already paying he's got two more years left on
his deal. If not, then we'll really make a push
in the offseason to go after a guy.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
We're paying him too much money. Now, we couldn't go
out and getst it. We didn't like the guys to
get in the draft, whatever it was. So do I
like the strategy?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Because Daniel Jones stinks. There's only one problem with him.
He stinks. It's only one problem. That's the only problem
with Daniel Jones.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
He stinks.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And so he had the worst off season of anybody
because all he did was watch his team on TV
every week in when the coaches, the general manager, the
GM's kid. I'm sure the GM kids friends was texting
them about stuff that they don't want you, they really want.
They're hoping that you fail at some point so they
can play Tommy Cutlets for a little while and.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Then say this is great.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
He'll go appear in another couple of Italian restaurants in
New Jersey. Bottle of White, Bottle of Red. Yeah, Tommy
Cullins is great. And then we'll go get our guy
in the off season. Like I'm not saying they're hoping
he fails, but it's like they're expecting it. They're prepared
for the outcome.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
They don't think there's any other outcome other than Daniel
Jones is gonna stink. And now we got to move
on in next year. Now the other thing that comes
out of this, And I don't think Jones is the
biggest loser of all this, because I think your GM
and your coach they both showed their asses and they
both should have been fired as soon as this stuff
started to air.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Well, you gotta give hard Knock something.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I mean, it's Giants, but it shows their level of ineptitude.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And their inability to read a room and the recognition
that the damn red light is on and what you're
saying is going to go out to a broadcast.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
If the combination of Giants general manager is Joe Shane
and his kid, I feel pretty good. But if the
kid's making the decisions. Then maybe you got a shot,
but you're not paying the kid. That's fine, kid comes
along with Shane. But if Joe Shane's overruling him and.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
So you need to doesn't matter if he's actually gonna
take the kids inpute who actually studied. It seemed the
drafted what may have been done on TV dead versus
Brian Dables salivating. I know he lost a bunch of weight,
but he's salivating over these other quarterbacks. Okay, how about
your brain trust gets in a damn room and figures
out how to go and either improve the position or
(12:22):
recognize Oh wait, we signed this guy. How do we
coach him up, get players around him and make it better?
Oh wait, we let that running back go over to Philadelphia,
But we had him trying to pinky promise that he
was gonna call us back if he got another offer. Really,
that's what you put out. So yeah, they're worse. He's
on the metal stand, but he's a distant third. Daniel
(12:45):
Jones worst off season. In the end, Shane table Dable
only gets second because he lost some weight and he
looks like he added some life to him. The problem
is he still showed bad decision made making time and
time again. Well he wasn't eating as much because it's
probably a little loopy when you don't need help.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
But you gotta keep the blood sugar.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Rites understand that when you're watching game table, Oh man,
I could go after that quarterback.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
That would be great.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You ready for your interview with Hard Knocks the crews. Yeah,
I gotta have a sandwich first. Hang on it, Somebody
go get me a sandwich. You know, I looked really
bad last week's episode.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I gotta make sum regulated and I hope he's great
and whatever. But from a coaching and GM position, the
two those two guys look like morons through this entire process.
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Speaker 1 (14:49):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon Live from the Tirack dot Com studios.
We got Jason, Lock and Ford coming. You're writ in
a second, but just a really cool moment to tell
you about right now. Freddie Freeman back in the Dodgers
lineup for the first time. His son Max is in
the hospital for a long time, now doing better, discharged.
(15:11):
Freddie Freeman back in the Dodgers lineup at home, getting
a standing ovation right now. As he bats with two
outs on the top of the first inning, Freddie Freeman,
having a tough time keeping it together, took his helmet off.
They are still standing and clapping for him as he
makes his return of the Dodgers' lineup. The Phillies all
have their hats off in the field for him as well.
Just a really really cool moment right now. We'll keep
(15:31):
you updated on this, Phillies and the Dodgers. Nothing. Nothing
in the bottom of the first inning, but we are
in the full swing of training camp. The Giants and
Lions nearly getting a brawl. Daniel Jones is standing up
for himself. Aaron Jones looks great. Aaron Rodgers looks great,
but he's salty.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Aaron Jones looks great as well. He did look pretty
good in the clips that I've seen with us.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Now on the.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Hotline to break it all down, nobody better. Long time
friend of the show find him on Odyssey Washington Post
one of five to seven the fan in Baltimore. It
is Jason locking for it, Jay Low, what's happening, Bud?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
This is pretty I'm watching. This is pretty your most
here man. This is uh not your normal sort of
clicking knowledgement. Oh for Freddie Freeman, what a good dude.
Thankfully hopefully it looks like everything's going to be all
right there with his son. But wow, wow, wow, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
There was like a minute ovation for you had to
step out of the batter's box.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah, several times down them his chest and yeah, holy moly.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
So we'll keep you update on this great moment right
here between the Phillies and the Dodge. Now they're showing
pictures of Freddy with his family and now his kid
is doing better, which is such an awesome, awesome thing.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Now, as Fary, well, first of all, before you get
to football, I know every day I want to check
and make sure we are in your Orioles meter, how
happy or or unhappy you are?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Where are you today?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Because last week you were about at a two as
far as your level of happiness?
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yeah, I mean I wish they actually got somebody who
could help fifty as nice any it's deadline, because that's
kind of I think, you know, pretty important in October baseball,
at least as far as I can tell. But no,
they you know, to split that series with the Guardians,
So they showed a lot of MOSI and fight the
last two games. But I do believe they have some
October flaws, but hopefully they can overcome them.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
All right, So now with football, we get to, uh,
what's the What's what's one of the big storylines that
stood out for you over the first few days of camp.
You're like, well, this is something I'm gonna want to
follow over the course of.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The next month.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I mean, I can't get too caught up at anything
anybody does a practice, you know, Like I just I'm
pumftable for that stuff. You know, I just I can't
get there. So you know, this guy looking good and
that guy looking good doesn't do a whole lot for me.
I gotta be honest.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Is it the quarterback?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But what at the quarterback battles? Like any of those?
We have four or five teams that have them right now.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
No, I feel like I kind of know where most
of those are going to go, you know, pending somebody
completely peeing down their leg like at least I think
I know they're where the lead is, you know, all
things being remotely equal, which way they're probably going to lead.
I think a couple will go veteran, and I think
a couple are going to want to see what they
(18:18):
have all the way through with their kids, because especially
like I don't know, Denver could very well be picking,
you know, even higher than they did a year ago,
perhaps significantly higher, in which case, you know, we're talking
about quarterbacks, we say, I mean, it's sort of like
who's getting their house in order and who's not. You know, like, Okay,
(18:39):
Miami checks some boxes. Are they going to regret them? Maybe,
but like they did what they sort of had to do.
You know. Then you've got a couple of other situations
where things are festering and things are smoldering, and well,
can's kind of over like everybody moving into regular season
mode here, you know, and you're getting days off before
(18:59):
games and days off after games, and guess what, the
that don't play in the games anymore either, So we're
kind of down to like two or three day work weeks,
which is, you know, playing practice in the regular season.
So somebody hold ins, you know, some of these contractual loggerheads.
(19:19):
We're getting to a point now where you know it
doesn't matter, and like, I just don't think it's going
to end well for some of these teams. And then
I'm talking specifically, you know Dallas in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Well, watching the San Francisco today, if you just follow
anything that was related to quasi NFL news, it was
like Norad with Brandon Ayute, only for everybody saying nothing
to see here.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yet. Yeah, Look, they weeked it up pretty good by
not addressing this before the draft. And I know that
they're used to getting their way and getting players to
capitulate to the terms and language and nuanced that they
want their contract structures. And they get a lot of
kudos from being really really smart and they've done a
(20:08):
lot of things well, but like the receivers worth thirty
million dollars a year period, Like I talked to a
GM and a contract negotiator from other teams this weekend.
I'm like, is there anything I'm listening here? No? I
mean the market is what the market is, and they
couldn't get a high enough one value for him during
the draft. What makes them think anything's going to change now?
(20:30):
I mean, nothing is going to change now and instead
of them getting assets that they can use in real time.
Now it's complicated things. And that's not to say that
there aren't useful players on some of these other rosters
that could come back their way. But I just I
think they strewed this up, and I think they got
too cute, and I think they believe that they're a
(20:51):
little smarter than they are and that ultimately people bend
to their will and capitulate, and they're not going to
pay this guy, say dollars, and there's three or four
other teams that will. So you're gonna have to do
the best you can on this trade. And at some
point here, I don't know, in the next couple of
days or certainly the next couple of weeks, like they're
(21:12):
gonna have to admit defeat and admit that it's edition
by subtraction and this kid we drafted better be ready
to go. We still have Debo, we still have Kittle,
and we've got the best running back in the NFL.
And then you know, they've got have to make things
right with the left tackle. But like, both those guys
aren't called me there, Like I just have never thought
(21:33):
that they would certainly by the trade deadline, and now
I would say not by week one.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
All right, now you mentioned the Cowboys too, Ceedee Lamb's
holding out. Dak is talking every day about a deal
that could be there. Does anybody get paid?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Does Jerry Jones pay anybody Jason before the season or
during the season.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
I mean, I can't fathom that the CD Lamb doesn't
get done before the season, you know, Dak. I don't
know if I'm Dak. I'm not. I'm not way agreeable
anything like I've got, you know, the proverbial gun to
their head, and I've got the trigger talk and I'm
not flinching. I'm not giving in on anything like I'm
resetting this thing utterly and completely or somebody else will
(22:16):
do that for me nine months am. I mean, it's
it's just as simple as that. I mean, I don't
know where Jerry is in terms of like the real
world or you know, finding Cowboys star that he lives
on where who knows what what what he gets for
news Like, I don't know what he's consuming. I don't
(22:38):
know what he thinks about the realities of the NFL.
But the gibberis that he's been selling like nobody in
dak cast by and so I think they're going to
have to pay land, but he's worth and I don't
get the sense that they're willing to do what it
would probably take to get back done. Now. Running at
(23:02):
a time like this is not a deal that I
think it's done in the season. I mean, if I'm
representing the player, I'm telling you go to hell. If
we will have something by week one, you know, at
that point, I'm playing out. He's been hurt before. It's
still got huge money, So they're running out of time.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
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of Fame game. And now we've got the setup zone
(23:42):
and the landing zone on kickoffs.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
What do you make of the first generation.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
I'm still confused, guys. I don't know about you, Like
it still looks like it's just like a you know,
a fire drill. To me, it's just it feels very
known football ish to me, Like it almost feels like
a Rugby scrum or something before, you know, before we
settle down and get back to sort of what we're
(24:09):
used to. You know. The every team has a you know,
practices that are officiating training camp practices are officiated by
NFL officiating crews, and then they meet with the media
you know before and and go over all the new
points of emphasis. So I'll be sitting in on one
of those at Ravens camp tomorrow, and I will be
(24:31):
watching more attentively than I normally watch these sort of
you know, little thirty minute symposiums because usually it's like
some nuance with holding or this or that, or you know,
we're going to really crack down on something, and then
you know, by week six they're just going to let
anything go. Anyway. Sure, this I don't really know, Like
I guess, the more I see it, the more I'll
(24:51):
probably be wondering, like it's somebody out there ballsy enough
that they didn't crack the code, you know, like it
would have to be a coach who's not worried about
his job and have to be a coach of a
team that has an offense that they're not worried about
if we do something cute here at a backfires. But like
I almost feel like, like what if the you've got
two guys back there, Like what if one sort of
(25:14):
drifts to his right and draw the whole bunch of
people to whether it throws it back across to the
other guy. Like I don't know, Like I don't know
how creative anybody's willing to get about this. I don't know,
Like I just I don't have a baseline for it.
Like part of me is like by week eight, we're
all just going to be like, you know what, I mean,
it's a total nothing burger. But there's like another part
(25:35):
of me that like, at week eight, like somebody might
be doing something that is helping them win games. I mean,
I tend to think it's more of a nothing burger
than not and sort of a last ditch attempt to
save whatever's left of the kickoff, you know, and hiding
your behind or propping up you know, help and safety
you bra Alice. But I guess it's going to kind
(25:56):
of come down to these the coaching staffs, and does
somebody think they've found, look a way to block something
up or throw a rinkle out there that other people
are prepared for.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
He's on twit or at Jason lock on four that
is at Jason lock and for check him out on
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Washington Post Jay as.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Always, Buddy, appreciate it, man, enjoy the games. We'll talk
to you next week.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
You guys do the same, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
You know the thing about the kickoff after seeing for
one game or he's got a chance to digest it,
and of course you know, look, I don't know how
you look at it and say that's great unless you
just want to have a hot take. Now, I'll be
the guy that says it's great, okay? Uh is that
this is going to be something where event He's right.
Eventually someone's going to come up with a, oh, this
(26:40):
is how you do it, whether it's kick return or kickoff,
They're gonna come up with something where, okay, this is
how you maximize your kick returns. Then the league is
going to have to adjust almost like it's like it's
the version of the Eagles Push push, right, like we're
gonna do this. How do you adjust. Well, okay, when
you when when your your lineman come in, they're able
to do some things.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Cracks.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
So that's what it's gonna be. Now, I would have
to say it's gonna wind up being the return team
that cracks something before the kicking team because the kicking
team doesn't have a lot of options unless you have
a kicker who can really loft the ball up and
put a lot of weight a lot of air under
it so their players can can get that, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So there, so it gets a little you.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Know, even that you can't do anything.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Right, but even where you can find a way where
they can't, where there's a difficulty in receiving the ball
or a difficulty in them trying to catch the ball, like,
that's the tough thing. Like I'd have to think at
some point it would be a case of all right,
now we're just gonna we're just gonna pooch it down
the field.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Soccer guy gets a weird curve on it.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
So yeah, so I well, like I said, but I
think it's gonna be their turn team. Okay, if we
do this, we catch the ball here, this wedge is
gonna work, and we'll be because if you can free a
guy at the thing. The thing about is that if
you can free a guy like the fifteen twenty yard line,
he could be bad. But that's the theory, right, is
that it's one line of defense, and yeah, trying to
figure out the rotations to create a second level, the
(28:04):
tertiary level whatever. Like the rugby woman for USA, that
the truck that woman you want to steal the football
fromber failed and got run over.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
If you can get through the fifteen or twenty yard line,
you have a chance to make a big play. That's
why I think they're gonna crack it first, because they're
gonna see there's I don't know that there's a big
opportunity for a big play if you're kicking off. So
that's why I think it's gonna be the receiving team says, Okay,
if we find a way to crack this, we can
get past the twenty yard line, we have a chance
to go on almost everyone because you're talking about eight
(28:34):
guys are already past the twenty yard you're passing eight guys.
There's three guys left, So that's gonna be a real
That's where I think if anybody's gonna crack it.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
It's gonna be the receiving.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
My gut says it fizzles, because I mean, what's the
punitive effect You start at the thirty that extra five
yard they'll screw that like that.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Like what did we see on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
You're gonna start between the twenty five and the thirty
two seems about where you're gonna have on average. Okay,
I'll still kick it out the back at the end zone.
It's not punitive enough otherwise, you know, I'll give you
the five yards instead of risking that one man and
gone kind of effect, especially if you can find you know,
that spectacular returner. But I think most of most of all,
(29:15):
it's gonna be a nothing burger. Just it gets the
percentages of touchbacks down a bit. Yay victory, NFL. Nothing burger.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Time not to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports was special delivery Steven Seger wide world
because of course, with the Olympics going on, so many
big events global and you probably saw earlier today one
of the more yeoman like efforts in a sporting event.
It should have been a day off of the Mets,
but they had to fly to Saint Louis play one
game for makeup before they go back to Colorado, and
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they shut the Cardinals out six nothing.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
And great pitching from Floyd Yeomans.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yes, a flood. Yeomans was great. He was fantastic shun
so was Bruce Breni. He was awesome too.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
Manya got to win with seven scoreless at Saint Louis,
six nothing, the final ten strikeouts, no walks. Meanwhile, those
White Sox that have lost twenty in a row have
tied it up. It's one to one at Oakland. People,
let's go and can I add the Oakland A's do
not have a hit in this game.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
They got three walks in a.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Sackfly A's will win two to one while getting no hit.
That's the that's the White Sox. But after that six
pitch first, we're now in the fourth. He's up to
fifty seven pitches. This sears keeping.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
An eye on this one for other reasons because in
nineteen eighty eight Baltimore started a season oh to twenty one.
That is the American League record streak. Twenty one White
Sox have lost twenty in a row. They're twenty seven
and eighty seven this season so the White Sox, as
we mentioned on last week's show, on pace for over
one hundred twenty losses this year, which would be the
modern record. The Dodgers place reliever Blake Trining on the
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injured list with a hip injury. Dodgers activated pitcher Bruce
dark Gretorol for the first time this year. Freddy Freeman
is playing first base for LA tonight. He was out
for over week, but his son is now out of
the hospital. The three year old had eight days in
the ICU and as you mentioned this hour, Freeman getting
a huge standing ovation from the home crowd when he
batted in the first inning. Phillies and pitcher Aaron Nola
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leading against the Dodgers and pitcher Tyler Glass now two
nothing in the bottom of the second. Glass now has
five strikeouts in two innings, and it looked like he
would get the Phillies one, two, three in the top
of the second, but Andy Paez of LA, who theoretically
is a center fielder, played at fly ball this should
have been the third out, played it into a triple
and the Philly followed with an infield single, a single
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to left wild pitch for another run. It is two
nothing fills in the second. Corey Seger with four homers
in four games. Now at Texas, he has tied it
up Rangers two to two with Houston. Game is in
the bottom of the ninth inning. Houston is second place
in the AL West game behind idle Seattle Red Sox
in the ninth leet nine to five at Kansas City.
(31:56):
Among the earlier winners Minnesota, they won five straight three
nothing the final at the Cubs. The Chiefs gave kicker
Harrison Butker a four year extension. Simone Biles took the
silver medal in the floor exercise final in Paris.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Oh. You know.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
The funny thing is I actually read that book about
a year ago, The Longest Season Story, the nineteen eighty
eight Baltimore Orioles, And you know they started out Owen
twenty one, and two things I remember from the book.
One is that they spent way too much time outside
of the Owen twenty one start, like this is what
you got to focus on, Like this is they spent
so much time in the rest of the season and
(32:31):
rookies and who came up, And I'm like.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
This is come on, you guess there is a book. Yeah,
otherwise who cares?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, they went through. And the other thing is I
can't remember anything else about it. I really, that's the
other thing I read.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
All the time. I'm like, oh yeah, what do I
remember from that book? I read it like a year
a crack, robinsoning else was ticked. I remember nothing. No,
I think cal Ripkins Senior was the manager. What about to.
Speaker 7 (32:53):
Say the Was it DJ that said he was gonna
stay on the air, stay on the roof for something until.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Oh yeah, yeah there was Oh no, I remember no.
Reagan sent to there was a big deal. Reagan sent
a letter.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Of of of of hope to the Orioles when they
were starting off. It's like pro Sarrio told.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Them, and you're going secondolence, you know, the Orioles, but
they playing ball.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
This is not DC.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, but there's still our area cause remember there was
no Nationals there. So I remember he sent a note
of hey, good luck guys, you know any more games?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
So Cal Ripken Senior started the year he'd gone sixty
seven and ninety five the year before and was replaced
Oh okay, okay, okay went did they replace him? Head
O win twenty one. They replaced six, so it's he
only got through the first six.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
What a great blank you woman from cal Ripkins Senior,
Like right around lost fifteen or six and like, look
at that. I thought I was the problem, right.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah, hey with your kid is on that But look
at somebody's legs.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
My fault, Ikraber Sheets Gerhart, Fred Lynn, Toby Gerhart was
on that team. Wow, know man, Okay, Joe or Selac,
I love and Eddie and those guys. Yeah, I'm still
all went time. I decided to go deeper down down
the rabbit hole.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
We'll continue to follow this game again, one to one,
socks in the a's in the fourth. But coming up next,
what big time college football program was just compared to
grand theft auto by one of its former players.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
That's the next right here, Jason and Mike.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
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 (34:28):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the tirag dot com studios. We are crossing
our t's and dotting our eyes. And you know when
I say that, it means Oh, something big is coming.
We are crossing our t's and dotting our eyes on
a big NFL story coming up in about ten minutes.
(34:49):
I made three big Bowl predictions following the NFL Draft. Yeah,
double down on this bowl prediction beginning of the summer.
And that looks like I'm about to go one for one.
Looks like the kid Bold prediction streak is just rolling
on from twenty three to twenty four, rolling through.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Kid Well, chaos is always a good thing for our
industry as long as it stays in between the white lines.
And in this particular case, it just meant that there
were some meeting rooms where well they couldn't see eye
to eye.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Ah, what do you got Frostburg by the Jets trading
back for Zach Wilson.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Uh, don't.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
That's why we call it a tease. Okay, just I
mean we call it a tees kind of a big
deal the Jemmy, you did make that prediction.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Okay, I'll tell you what it is. The Jets are
getting Zach Wilson and Sam Darnold back.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
That's the That's the thing. No, of course not, that's
not it.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
So with Aaron Rodgers, I mean they're taking their healthy
legs and building voltron or what do we doing.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Some people heard me say that and go, oh I
could see the Jets doing.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, I did not that far out of
the roma possibility. I like the tape they saw from
Minnesota up and there you go.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
And it involves a big trade and a player who
has wanted a trade for quite a long time.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
However, again that's ten minutes away. Its again, we're crossing
our wante check today. And this is just I mean,
when you see this headline, you go wow.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Really Athlon Sports and the New York Posts had this
story today.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
I only thought they did magazine that. Yeah, the big
the Biggest book comes out in April.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Yeah, that comes out like eight months before all, long
before any of the transfer portals.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Depending on what the Steelers could do in the draft.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
The gym report from Athlon Sports and again and it's
on the New York Post as well, talked about how
the program culture surrounding Deon Sanders team in Colorado has
allowed violence to run rampant in the locker room. According
to a former player quote, it's like a real life
Grand Theft auto video game. There are many distractions with fights,
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guns and money floating around.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Send lawyers, guns and money.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Oh, that's lawyers, guns and money. This is Fun't take
there's lawyers involved. No, you'd really think there's lawyers involved.
I think so in the background rights, guns and money.
If this is really happening, then the lawyers will get involved.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
You've seen the billboards.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
One specific instance acording of the report involved Shiloh Sanders,
one of Dion's kids, and five star recruit Carmani Maclain,
who has since transferred. They got into a big altercation
late in the twenty twenty three season. Shiloh apparently slapped
him several times. Cormani is screaming, I'm gonna kill you.
Quote After that, you could tell Cormani wasn't mentally there.
It's hard when the coaches you trust are calling you
(37:40):
derogatory names on the practice field.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Now, since Shiloh already lost at eleven point eight million dollars, judgment, bankruptcy,
whatever else.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
What happens. Look the big thing about the opposite.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
I'm just thinking about Grand theft Auto Colorado Buffaloes. Right,
like you said, Grand theft Auto San Andreas, Grand theft
auto auto Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Mean get a sponsorship deal.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
I mean Grandoler, Grand Theft Auto Boulder with Dion on
the cover, right with the sunglasses.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Right, that's what of this?
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Oh look, well, well this is something that's come out
from players who have transferred. You're going to get the
back and forth of did this happen? Dion's going to say,
nobody is still here that wants to be here. These
are all guys that should have left. This is where
we're at right now.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
The conversation with Colorado and Deon Sanders has has now changed,
and we're ask and the wrong ques, and now we
have to ask a new question and forget about the
old question. The old question was, boy, how long until
Dion wins in Colorado? And boy, what a big thing
that's going to be? Right because he owned college football
in the entire sports world in September of last year.
Then they didn't win a game, and now it's okay,
(38:43):
now another season. He's got more players in Boy, if
he wins, he is the rock star head coach in
college football. But the question used to be, oh, boy,
how long un till he wins? Can he win?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
This year?
Speaker 1 (38:53):
That changes now to how much longer is this really
going to happen. How much longer is Dion really going
to be coaching at Colorado? But for either it blows
up and he leaves, or or he gets let go,
or maybe he has a big year and he wins
and he goes someplace else, Like this is not something
that's sustainable, right, Like like what went on last September
wasn't sustainable because you eventually got to play a whole season.
(39:15):
But this whole culture and everything we're seeing this is
not sustainable. I don't know how Dion, the Dion era
in Colorado is sustainable and in a few years it's
a thirty for thirty. This is the wild stuff that happened.
You don't know the tip of it. You know the
tip of the iceberger what went on in Colorado? One's
Dion walked in like is it one more year?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Shador and Shiloh leaving and then Dion's gone? Like I
would say, you put me the over under. I would say,
after this year, Dion's not gonna be a guy. I
said that last year that his kids and Travis Hunter
leave and that's the end of it. Get them as
well placed into the NFL and helps steer things if possible. Right,
We've actually had that conversation during the off season of
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trying to get to the Las Vegas Raiders or whatever
the case may be, you know, Lebron that stuff as
it was. But yeah, I mean, look, I have no
doubt that you've got locker rooms all over the country
where there's some level of chaos and in just a
different way of doing business and Dion doing big speeches
(40:16):
that go out and become viral sensations of hey, let's
act like the guy's making two hundred thirty million dollars,
right in terms of don't touch the quarterback, don't do this,
you know, act like we're on that next level. We
got to protect him, which, yeah, you should protect your
starting quarterback. I agree with that, but if it goes
into a larger thing of you're still playing for this
year and in this moment that it's not. Let's look
(40:37):
to the NFL and if half of this is true,
then you've got a culture that's not sustainable, whether he's
there or not.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
I mean, I really I think this year and that's
going to be it.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
He's got to go.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
He's got to go eleven and one.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Well, the magnifying guy and they get some tough games
right out of the jump.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
That big NFL story coming up next.
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