Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason and Mike get you all caught up from the day at The Olympics.  Jason doubles down on Steve Kerr 100% being the right guy for Team USA. And the Patriots have decided not to explore any further trade possibilities with the 49ers regarding Brandon Aiyuk. Plus, a visit from our MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi!

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Speaker 3 (00:56):
We have Olympic doings and movings on.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
But first, you know, it's always nice to see when
someone from the world of sports does something.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Bigger and in the news.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I want to spend a second here because obviously We
saw the big news today that former Minnesota wild center
Wes Walls is the Democratic nominee. It's for vice president.
He had a great career, spent this last seven years
with Minnesota. Wasn't a big score, didn't You can't go
say West Walls a lot of gold now, But he
was a glue guy. And you know who thought after

(01:28):
leaving the NHL in the early two thousands he would
be on a presidential.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Such a sting because I walked around in Hollywood the
other day and I saw the star of christov vault,
so I thought he had actually gotten the nomination.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh okay, No, No, I mean he was born in Calgary,
so there is going to be a thing. So I mean,
but I mean, they're not gonna make him the nominee
unless they know he's easy to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Wow, they're clearly gonna vet all that because I.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Hope it's a board.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I mean, look, and you look, he's going to get
votes in Boston and Philadelphia, in Detroit, Minnesota Like this
is you wanted to get the West, It's what you
got right here, right You're going You're getting Massachusetts all
the way across.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
We find the guys that have a rich tapestry of
Jersey Strode.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Upon the one of their walls.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
You know, one of those jersey quilts, not just the
T shirt quilt from the old concert shirts.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
No, this works.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Shack could run for president too, and he's got nine
or ten states covered, bounced.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Around, finished with Minnes. I mean, Minnesota was where he
became a household name. Obviously, west hal we didn't know
about that, didn't know anything about his politics. Nothing else
here ahead, Wes Walls is on the ticket.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Who knowing in wake this whole time's gonna wear his
jersey and everything else.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
How about that quiz? Did west Walls ever score twenty
goals in the season?

Speaker 2 (02:37):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
No, like really no? Or no?

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh he might have gone balls to the walls.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Frostburd flying in from the side.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
West Walls nineteen goals in two thousand and five, two
thousand eight. What are the there's two people named Walls
who have a lot to do with Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
What are the odds that? Well?

Speaker 4 (03:04):
I mean, I don't know the entire history of the surname,
but I mean I think if we look it up
and we look at the migration patterns and and where
you have local establishments of different cultures, right, the Norsemen
that have moved into uh, into the min Minnesota and
such that maybe maybe you've got the same kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's surprising me.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
I'm like, okay, well, it's like I got a bunch
of guys named Kowalski run around Chicago.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
I mean, I wonder, well, that's huge Polish population. Kow
why don't you come in here? I mean, do you
think they related?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Did you? I tried to give you a Harry Potter.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
A little bit of No. I'm thinking I hate Kowolski.
I mean, do you think they're related?

Speaker 3 (03:46):
I don't know. I mean, I mean, I can't believe
you're You're it's because there's no tea. It's because there's
no ta. It's not Walt's, it's not Walts. There's no
tea in the name. No T, no T. It's w
A l z low T no T.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
And Walls ing into waltzing in from the NHL to politics.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
TJ is Wes Walls. It's his wife named Matilda, because
that we have Waltz Matilda. Oh boy, there we go.
I mean, look, hey, good to see it, Good to
see it, guy, It's good. I had a knock around
career in the NHL. Look at it. Look at it.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
You could as send to the highest highest office that
we have opportunity. All you need is chance.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Like tonight, the A's did the great trolling cuse and
earlier today as we have our Devil's jukebox that we
call it.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
It's the amalgam of everything my daughter's listened to and
what I do.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
We actually listened to the song twenty two by Taylor Swift.
Oh No, and that's what they were playing. Yeah, to
troll the white sauce for those eighteen fans in attendance,
when you're for this game.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
When you're getting trolled by the A's, this is where
if that's not rock bottom or look in the mirror,
I don't know what is. Well, you had a bunch
of fans when guys were signing autographs trying to give
him grief.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's like, I'm not gonna sign your damn card. Go away.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
This is this is a major league team that's gonna
be playing in Sacramento. Yeah, next season in a five
hundred uh person capacity stadium.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well which I think the center field it's also five
hundred feet I.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Mean, this is really this is this is this is
who's trolling you?

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Like?

Speaker 1 (05:13):
This is this is like okay, we need some kind
of intervention, all right, but look one losses you're the windshields.
Sometimes you're the bug. As Markoffler wrote, so many there
they've been a lot of bugs, it's been, but this
has it's been the it's been the highway cars going
down the highways, angels in Vegas and this is where
it runs into a whole swarm of bugs. And it's

(05:33):
like when they pull up after the long drive and
you just see your grill is like, oh man, you
killed need to clean all of these?

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Were they before you return the rental?

Speaker 4 (05:40):
You feel guilty, so you actually take it to get
washed and you normally wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
These were these are all white Sox bugs right here.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
So the White Sox going for can we say going
for their twenty second loss? I mean, because they're not
trying for it, but they tried to boyd something. Okay,
it's a tigger accomplishment, right, it's an accomplishment, but they're
not trying to do it. So I don't know, can
we say they're trying for their twenty second loss? They're
because or are they in danger of it, but they're
actually playing the games they're in danger, they wouldn't do it,

(06:09):
Like danger implies, hey it's too dangerous, we can't do it,
but they're actually playing the game, which again is dangerous
for the White Sox, but in a baseball sense, well like,
how do we say.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
It ironically though we're talking about bugs or coincidentally, more
likely the proper word. There's a pest control ad currently
bhind home plate as well as they're playing in Oakland.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
They want to make sure as well as by the
blue bubblehead.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Hey that's coming out, so right now, the White Sox
and the A's nothing nothing as the A's bat in
the bottom of the second with a runner on first.
So this is where we sit as the Chicago White
Sox losers of twenty one in a row. Try to avoid,
try to try to win specials, try to win, try
to win, try to avoid losing their twenty second game

(06:54):
in a row.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Try to find some positivity in the dark time because're
not trying.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
So this is where we it right now, and then
if this happens, they will just be within one loss
of the most losses in a row, biggest losing streak
in modern baseball history, the sixty one Philadelphia. So it's
Emmett Smith day potentially to twenty two in a row. Yeah,
and tomorrow is Jordan O'dowdell.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
No, no, we got it. You gotta go.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
I think we were going because we went Zeke Elliott. Yeah,
Emtt Smith. It's either tshard choice, Yeah, no, go Dowbell.
But here's the thing, though, you go Emmett. Everybody knows
Emmtt's twenty two. Yeah, you go, Jordan twenty three. Okay,
but if you go Rico Downell, people go, I don't.
I don't know a twenty four is over? He is, oh,
twenty four, Scott Show, Yeah, twenty fourth, Scoby twenty five,
Tony Oh, Jim Tomey is my homie. We could get

(07:42):
twenty five yeah, sure, okay, I'll I'll get.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Twenty five, could be Jim tell me sure, I'll go,
I'll go in that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
And then uh, well let's let's let's let's get to
let's get to twenty two and twenty three first, and
then the all time mark going into you know, prehistoric times.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, twenty twenty six, twenty six would be that. Yeah.
So so this is where so this is special.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
We are we are watching the White Sox unlike we
have ever watched a White Sox game, not if they
can and already have thirty four pitches in the bottom
of the second, even though we watched this game just
like this last night because they tied the Well, I've.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
Been watching them all along and suffering in silence. It's
only you, Johnny, come lately's.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Here in the meeting? No, No, we do all of a sudden,
it's special, dude, do I need to watch the What
do I have to see that?

Speaker 6 (08:21):
All?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
They lost? You watch? They looked out for me, asked me,
how do you want me to do? What do you
want me to do?

Speaker 4 (08:28):
And then everybody else like hey, it's twenty one, let's
pay attention, Like no, you should have been watching this
crap the whole way, like al Pacino said, and any
given Sunday, I can't do it for you.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
I'm too old. I can't. You gotta you just have
to take whatever it's happening. Oh no, I'm wearing it.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
There's no question, so nothing, nothing White Sox and the
A's as the White Sox aim to avoid, try to
play whatever it is. Yeah, they could lose twenty two.
It's right, and it's also Kurshaw Day. It is It's
curse Shaw Day as well. The Mets and Rockies are
in a rain delay.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
That was pretty good.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
They had all those shirtless dudes that were standing there
on not one of them is seen the inside of
a gym or manscaping is not hitting New York either, No, no, not.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yet, no, not not yet.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
So we have all that, but obviously today a huge
day in the Olympics. Yeah, we watched the Well, we'll
get to the US women's national team in soccer in
a little bit. Another incredible effort to get to the
gold medal game. But the men's basketball team wins another
game by more than fifteen points. It is exactly how
we thought this should go. Joel Embiid goes from a

(09:32):
DNP two days ago to being their best player today.
They roll over Brazil one twenty two to eighty seven,
and Embiid is laughing after the game. They're booing him. Okay,
that's great. What did he say after the game? Hey,
gotta take something positive for this.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
I don't care. They can boo. I don't care. You
got to embrace your heel status.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
This is why we said Steve Kerr is the perfect
guy for this team because of all the controversy that
you were told was going Jason Tatum is a DNP
all this time, we told you everything is fine, there's
no controversy. There are just people that don't know how
to talk about a team that's just going to continue winning.
And the Jason Tatum DNPCD was it his favorite thing? No?

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Of course, is it forgotten now? Yes?

Speaker 1 (10:13):
It is why because United States team, everybody's playing, they're winning,
they're into the Semis now, They've won every game by
fifteen points. If I'm Steve Kerr, this is what I
do at this point right to give you a big
blank you to everybody that wanted to say, Jason Taya's
not playing now, Joe, we told you this is an
overblown controversy, right, you think we'reing hot take No, this
is overblown. Everybody's spending time on this. There's nothing because

(10:37):
no one is upset on Team USA. No one's going
public with any kind of complaints. Everybody is fine. Does
everybody want to be playing more? Of course they do,
But this is the Olympics, this is how it goes.
And they won every game by fifteen points. Everything is fine.
Kerr is the best coach. We told you he was
a best coach. Now you're seeing Okay, he's managing the
egos and they're winning games. But if I'm Steve Kerr,

(10:58):
I do this right, I do this Okay, I am
I'm sick of all the I go full Karate kid
if I'm Steve Kerr. Remember in Karate Kead, I mean
the original, not the Jamie Smith one. No, when when
Miagi and Daniel go and they meet with Kressy after
every day, like Daniel's just getting his ass kicked by
the Cobra, Kyrie, Johnny and Dutch and everybody's kicking his

(11:18):
ass like every day. It's like, come on, I can't
even go to school, man, you guys gotta stop Elizabeth.
She is so pretty. And so he goes. He says, okay, okay, okay, Hey,
Daniel is gonna go on the tournament. Don't touch him
till then. And then he's in the tournament there and
Chresti says okay, and he says, but if he doesn't show,
it's open season on him and you right, like Chressy

(11:41):
does the big it's open season on both of your
and they walk away and Daniels, what are you doing?
I'm gonnaet killed in that turn? What did you do
that for? And Pat Marita says, what are you talking about?
I just saved you.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Three months beating. No one's gonna beat you up for
three months. I just saved you. Now you learn how
to cry.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
If I'm Steve Kerr, that's what I go full karate kid,
I go Okay, none of y'all can say anything. I
want you all to shut up when we lose. If
we lose, it's open season. I'll be here to answer
all your questions, talk about everything else. But all you
guys think you're so smart, making stuff up about this team,
making up contrast all the noise. You know what, All
you guys go spit, go spit. I don't want to

(12:17):
hear any controverts. I don't want to hear any questions,
no criticism, because all we're doing is winning.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
We're winning by fifteen to twenty. What else do you want?

Speaker 1 (12:25):
As you we are dominating this field, unlike you thought
a team in twenty twenty four can dominate another field.
If we lose, I will sit up here at this
press conference it'll be open season on me. You ask
me any bleeping question you want now, clearly, Steve Kerran, No,
if we lose, it's gonna be open season anyway.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
But make it seem like you're getting them something. No,
make it. I'm giving you.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
I will sit here and I will do until you
drop press conference. I'll sit here for three hours. You're
gonna ask me everything you want to. I will tell
you everything about this team, but you do it only
if we lose. If as we're winning, everybody shuts up.
How's that for a deal?

Speaker 4 (12:58):
That's what I do if I'm seeing went over the
top today and they actually covered too, because it was
twenty seven and a half and they took care of
their backers, which they hadn't done and hadn't done well,
and Jason Tatum didn't play well again.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
But that's a whole other thing for another time.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
The whole point was it was laughable listening to the
hot take nonsense as it showed up in my Twitter
feed and my Instagram feed of people now going and
indicting players for their entire NBA careers because of maybe
a little bit of a fit problem with Team US.
I'm like, really, that's how far we're gonna take this nonsense.

(13:32):
We're gonna start disparaging everything they've accomplished in the NBA
over a couple of exhibition games. Yes, Steve Kerr with Egos,
we talked about it as this all began and all
the quote problems.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
He's the guy that knows how to pull the strings,
get it.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Jason Tatum talked about it and his needing to be humbled.
Joel embiid if he really had a problem, you'll hear
about it eventually.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
You know you're gonna hear it about it eventually.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
But in the end, he's embracing the villain status over
there and letting folks boo him. Comes up with the
big effort today. Anthony Edwards great once again and the
machine rolls.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
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We have news coming into our studio right now. Last
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One of those teams has just backed out. We have

(14:35):
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Speaker 3 (15:58):
I'm not losing yet so far. Kur Shaw day for
the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Zip zip in the second the White Sox trying to
avoid their twenty second loss in a row.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Nothing, nothing with the A's in the third inning.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
You know what was the best part of yesterday's game though?
The best image ended well that other than the Vargas
shot in the back of the dugout realizing that he'd
gone from, as they say, the penthouse to the outhouse,
were the two guys wearing a black T shirt, the
other guy in a green T shirt, and they.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Both said sell. Yeah, yeah, everybody wants everybody sell.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
That's the commonality there. Please our team, everybody sell, sell
to each other. It doesn't matter. Well we'll play in Sacramento,
doesn't matter, we'll move just so you sell to us,
will sell to you? How about that?

Speaker 4 (16:47):
And then it was Grimace Day with the trash pandas
there's a lot of stuff going on.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, Mets need Grimmace. Tonight they're down five to three
and the sixth inning of the Rockies rocket. But big
news in the NFL from Adam Schefter. This was just
a few minutes old. Last night we told you that
Brandon Ayuk of the forty nine ers was potentially maybe
a day away from being dealt as the Niners had
completed the framework of trades with the Browns and the

(17:15):
Patriots in exchange for Brandon Ayuk. We don't know what
the compensation would have been. However, it was thrown out there.
Mary kay Cabot had the story last night that potentially
the Browns would be sending or could have been sending
Amari Cooper back, and the Patriots could be sending Kendrick
Bourne back to make it work that way. Now, we
didn't know if those are the guys they were, just

(17:35):
who was thrown out there, and it was up to
Ayuk is this a deal that he would accept and
we would go forward? And I said there was a
mystery team, but we'll get to the mystery. The White
Sox are not the mystery team.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
No, there's no mystery. At Homewark.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
The guy getting secret messages says it done yet not
the mystery, I'm back in. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter,
this news again just a few minutes old. After inquiring
about Brandon Ayuk's availability. The Patriots have decided not to
explore any further trade possibilities with the forty nine ers.

(18:08):
Regarding their standout wide receiver, Patriots are excited about their
young receivers and want to focus on them.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Okay, the last one.

Speaker 5 (18:15):
You know.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
The thing is now with Schefter, I get now. It's
so easy to spot when he's doing the pr for
the team. Oh sure, like, Oh, they're excited about their
young receivers and want to.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
Focus on him.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
Okay, not And I'm just gonna say that they're excited,
we're excited about the Just make sure you put in
your in you. I'm gonna give you the scoop, Schefter. Yeah,
but you make sure you say we're excited about our
young receivers.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
All right, excited about our young receivers. Here's the core
to Mario Douglas, fifth round pick and twenty.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
I like to Mario Douglas, I like Pop Douglass. He's
he if he got hurt a little bit. They didn't
have great quarterback play, but he could have like a
tank Dell type impact on it.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Unter Henry and Austin Hoopa still drives the boat. Sure,
the aforementioned Kendrick Bourne. They brought in Jalen Rieger. Yeah,
as part of the depth, Jalen Poke, Javon Baker and
then you've got kJ Osborne on the wings of love
from Minnesota in.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
The clouds above to gear the flying.

Speaker 4 (19:14):
See if John Macon hit a couple of long passes,
think about that.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
I mean, you use that as a commercial and DJ
Drake May would say, yes, you belong to me. Let
me tell you this right because I was a page back.
Patriots did the right thing and pulling out of this trade.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
They didn't pull.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Out, they did the right thing or whatever their interest is.
They did the right thing in no longer pursuing this trade.
And now you told them to beat it. Well, if
that happened, he would have been he'd be a Brown.
Then he'd be a Brown. I told you the Steelers.
Steelers are still in this. Let's do he wants to
go to Pitts. Let's let's deal with what we know

(19:51):
right now. The Patriots went out and they made a
big offer. The framework was in place for a deal
and now the pit whatever it is. I said, No,
this is a g great outcome for New England because
I understand, Hey, let's go get somebody. Let's go get
a wide receiver to team up with our young franchise quarterback,
whether it's Drake May or maybe Joe Milton or if

(20:14):
Jacoby Brissett has the job all season so we want
I get it. But everything with about the Patriots doesn't
jibe with getting Brandon Ayuk brand new because twenty fives
me twenty six in the season starts, right, You're gonna
sign him to a probably a three year deal. Let's
just say a three year deal. He's gonna get thirty
million dollars a year. By the time you're really ready
to compete a right, you still look, who knows if

(20:35):
Drake May's even going to see the field this year? Right,
there's a lot of questions all of a sudden, Wait,
if this guy's not been given the job. Number one
overall picking the draft got the job, Number two got
the job, Number three doesn't get the job.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Wait, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (20:46):
I told you, I feel that the Patriots felt we
had to take they were pressure to taking because we're
picking third and we got to get the third best quarterback.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
If we're going to be that bad again, here's the quarterback,
even if we don't love him.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
So quarterback, you have the question about a quarterback. You
have a brand new head coach who you think is
gonna be okay, right, do you think Ma's gonna be fine?
But you don't know. This is a team that is
starting absolutely over again. And when you are starting absolutely over,
getting a wide receiver in the middle of the prime
of his career that's not gonna do it for you.

(21:20):
You want to say, hey, let's hit it with a
guy who's twenty one, twenty two, so you know we
can if he's really we lock him up for most
of his career, or we have him during the front
side of his prime. You know what, by the time
the Patriots are any good brand, who's gonna be twenty
nine cent. I want another deal. I want to get moved.
I want it's it's it's bad timing. I know it
just seems to around a wide receive though, and I
know it just seems like it's just a couple of years,

(21:42):
but it's big years because these contracts aren't no they're
not gonna get Brandon who can Suddenly it's gonna be Hey,
here's a five year deal for three No.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
It's not gonna work though. Way it'll be a three
inch year deal.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
Yeah, it sucks. Anybody wants to get paid, but he
wants to get paid. You're gonna get paid. There are
multiple teams that will pay. If you're pushing your out
of San Francisco, you want to get paid more than
you want to win. He's he's absolutely been choosing getting
paid over because we've known this from after the draft.
It's been Instagram messages with his girlfriend making it no,

(22:13):
making it combative that I want to get paid and
if you're not gonna pay me, I want out. He
just wants to get.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
Paid, still wondering what the chasm is, Like that's the
one thing out of San Francisco we haven't gotten a
good leak out of, right because we've gotten a bit
of everything. Either Christian McCaffrey doing that yeah, my former teammate,
you know, yeah, yeah, sure, script during is or maybe
not so much during an interview earlier today, but just
the idea of.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Like how big is that gap? Because they actually have money,
it's big.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
It's big enough to where Brandon Aiyuk has known for
a while they're not gonna pay me. He's known for
a long time they're not gonna pay.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
That's it, right.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
But to me, it's one of those situations like we
really can't come to an agreement on let's cut you
off a little more this year, and then we part ways.
I mean, obviously they don't want to do a band
aid deal. Here's a little bit extra money for this.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
No, he no, no.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
But the thing is he knows that I'm worth thirty
million dollars a year, and I'm going to strike now
because I have the leverage and I'm worth it now.
If I come onto this team this year and I
play one more year and suddenly maybe I don't catch
the passes because now you have Pearcel coming in and
it just doesn't work for me in.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
The system right who knows does available?

Speaker 1 (23:23):
If I can get thirty million dollars a year, right now,
I'm gonna go get thirty million dollars a year. I
know I can go get sure and it doesn't matter
where I get it from. As long as I get im.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
I've checked than fine, But I don't buy the we're
pulling out of this.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
We love our young receiver.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
It does no, no, no, they don't love their But however,
it ended whether it was the Patriots pulling out or
Brandon Ayuk saying, I'm not sure this is a great
outcome for the will You're not gonna this is not
how you've.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
Been over under is four and a half. You're not
building around a wide receiver. You just don't like that.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Where's that the difference maker in anything?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Right? Then?

Speaker 4 (23:57):
The running joke is Tyreek Hill is the number one
player on this NFL one hundred list. Patrick Mahomes is
one back to back Super bowls without him. Okay, so
and you get hot at the right time. All of
that stuff. You don't need to re relitigate last season
or that before it, but just the idea that you

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know he's going to be that big a difference making. Again,
four and a half wins is your total? What are
you going to go to five and a half?

Speaker 7 (24:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:22):
And bringing him in thirty million dollars. It feels desperate,
It feels all this is how we we have to
get somebody in to show you that this is a
good This is a destination like he's not. No, it's
their way to show the free agents and everybody else
that there could be getting after this year. Hey, this

(24:44):
is a good place to complain. Now, this is not Belichick.
It's good here. Hey, everybody respects Brandon. Let me call
brand and say, hey, how are things in New England?
All things are great. I love coach. It's great, it's great,
it's awesome. Okay, I'll make sure to go give New
England a fair shake. You're looking to buy, to buy
players that are telling you that can tell the league, hey,
it's okay to be here, right, that's what get the

(25:06):
Jets getting Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers me, just think about that. Hey,
he's telling you it's okay to go to the Jets.
WHOA wait what Yes, he's telling you it's okay to
go to But here's the problem for everybody else.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
If they do a little bit more deductive reasoning and
watch how the tea leaves or how the situation is
unfolded and read the tea leaves, well, is that I'm
not getting the control that Aaron Rodgers did if I
go there. No, But I got to choose my own cure.
I got to get my old buddies from Green Bay
some big time paychecks.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
But it's the same philosophy of I'm telling you that
Jets are okay, all right, Okay, maybe we all go.
Maybe I'm the captain, I know, okay, but this is
this is this is the strategy that they're trying to employ.
We need to get some big players in here so
it seems like we know what we're doing and we're
not just throwing stuff at the wall with a bunch

(25:59):
of young players. Because did Belichick leave the cabinet empty?
Which he did so the talent evaluator terrible coach. Yeah,
I mean it's it's which is you're really completely starting over.
Like the Patriots are a team that I wouldn't be surprised.
This is how bad they are. And I love talking
about how bad the Patriots are gonna be. This is
so awesome. The Patriots are gonna be so bad. I

(26:20):
wouldn't be surprised they picked third this year if they
have the number one pick in the draft next year.
Because I'm not sold on Drake May. I'm not sold
in anything they have going on on offense. I mean,
how many times you're gonna get the ball? Rom Andre Stevenson.
You give it to him on first and second down,
throw it to him on third down. Eventually the guy's
gonna just me.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
Defense might be okay, but how many times do you
score in twenty one points?

Speaker 1 (26:39):
No, if they pick first in the draft, I am
not surprised you pick first in the draft again, how
is Brandon?

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Are you gonna help you?

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Because if you pick first the draft again, you're getting
a quarterback and guess what you're doing. You're trading Drake May.
That's how it's gonna go. I mean, this is where
you are, so starting over. This is one of those
moves that not only is great for Brandon Ayuk because
he not going to a team that's going to be terrible.
He's gonna get paid by somebody because he's a really
good receiver. But it's better for the Patriots because it's

(27:07):
this stops them from making what would have been a
huge mistake.

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah, and either of these AFC teams if he goes
to the North, be it the Browns of the Steelers,
or if there's some other team that decides to re
engage and get involved. Here, you're talking about teams that
are no better than eighth to tenth in the conference,
So good luck with that, Brandon. I I don't like winning, but.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Again, you know you're giving up winning. I'd rather get
paid than win. I've been to a super Bowl. It's okay.
I'd rather get paid.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
In the end. Is about the respect and feeling you're
getting what you're earning.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Winning what you deserve. Winning is great.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
If I'll tell you if I was on the Mets
and they said, hey, you could potentially win here, that's great.
Or hey, you know the White Sox want to give
you thirty Get me to the White Sox. Now get
me million dollars year. I'll lose one hundred and thirty
games a year, but you're gonna give me thirty million
dollars a year. Get me to the White Sox. Will
do whatever they want to do. I'll do whatever they want.
I'll go out, I'll go out in the community. I'll
start big charities. I'll do whatever you want. I'll call

(28:07):
into the radio shows, the team radio shows everywhere, I mean.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
The radio shows that tell me how our team is.
I'll be on the post.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Whatever you want, man, I'll be your I'll be your
political correspondent. I'll be your entertainment correspondent. Whatever you want,
you get white Sox. Yes, got thirty million dollars. Yes,
I will be there. I get to go right out
to Chicago. Absolutely, get me there.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Hey, is it really true they turn the river green
once a year? That's really cool. It's always kind of green.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Well, it's just a little at some point, the colors
just kind of stays there.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Well, yeah, but it's it's it's just a little bit brighter. Okay,
if you really walk down, it's it's kind of there.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Okay, where would you Okay, if you accidentally have any
kind of sinks to the bottom, but if you accidentally
had to inhale a lungfull of water from the Chicago
River or the sin.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Chicago River, marginally bear so it's closed marginally okay, okay,
all right, all right, I wanted to see where you're
at because we're still dumping all sorts of crap. Yes, literally, yeah,
in there.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
And now, how do we know that that green stuff
that they've been dying for all these years? How do
we know the stuff when they started doing that wasn't toxic?

Speaker 1 (29:14):
How do we know it doesn't turn you into a superhero? Well,
I am diving in we know, how do we know?
Vince Vaughan could wind up being a superherow.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
About to have.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
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Speaker 3 (30:08):
Wow, I can't believe you just said that. So yeah,
here we go. I was I was Steve Carrell.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
When he at the end of the office catch on
the flippity flip and he tried to throw the basketball
over his head.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
Then they show him they can get it, like fifteen times.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
He finally does.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
He goes really catch on the flippity flipe on the
flippity and.

Speaker 7 (30:25):
What you're wearing you look like the warm ups for basketball,
like you know, you take them off.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
Right.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
It's a gun.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
It's a guns out there. He's got the team USA. Yeah,
it's a team USA tank top. It's a guns out there. Today.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
It's a Tricep day. Today.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
I always say, don't skip leg day. Got to get
the extra try work in.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Yeah. Yeah, he's pretty good at that.

Speaker 7 (30:42):
As you gents were talking about eloquently the news around
Brandon Ayuk. This, according to Adam Schefter and ESPN, is
that the Patriots are no longer interested in his services,
as Ayuk has vehemently stated his disgust and wanting to
stay or at least he wants more money and he's
not getting it with San Francisco, so willing to look
elsewhere so that saga continues. The Cowboys moving wide receiver

(31:04):
Cede Lamb to the reserve did not report list. Russell
Wilson is going to be starting on the Steelers' first
depth chart.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Read into that what you will.

Speaker 7 (31:14):
Forty nine Ers running back Christian McCaffrey is most likely
going to miss all of the preseason with a strained calf.
Titans starting guard Sadik Charles retires at the age of
twenty five years old. Kyler Murray not going to play
in the preseason, according to Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon.
And yeah, at the Olympics, let's go there, teamsa men's basketball,

(31:36):
they take it to Brazil one twenty two to eighty
seven in the quarterfinal. Lebron James twelve points, nine assists,
and four turnovers. That was a team high, those four turnovers.
But this team now turns it over to the semifinal
where they're going to take on a really good Serbian
squad again in the semifinals.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
And with track and field going on as.

Speaker 7 (31:57):
Well at the Olympics, American Cole hot with the man
bun there with with all of that, he takes the
gold medal and the men's fifteen hundred.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
What a race that was all of a sudden, he
comes from behind with like in the back stretch and
he passes both of them to win the race.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Well, you know, people talking about does he look like
a slot receiver?

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Oh yeah, definitely, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, like Wes Welker.
He's gonna turn yeah, I mean, but he twitchy. He
turns it on just at the lex, okay, because he
gets elbowed out of the way and you think, oh boy,
he's gonna finish third. No, no, no, he says, blank you
and he's able to overcome both of them, and they
were both the favorites in that race, and he's able
to go and win.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
But it's like that race that went viral a couple
of weeks ago, right where hey kind of going down
the final stretch, kind of cadillacing it and all of
a sudden get passed.

Speaker 7 (32:41):
Yeah, gotta be careful, you got any care Finish the job, family,
You gotta finish the job. You know who also finished
the job? Gabby Thomas as she wins gold for the
Americans in the women's two hundred meter sprint. And then, lastly,
in Major League Baseball. Yeah, let's go there. Some games
are ongoing, some games are done, but the Padres are
up four to nothing against the Pirates. That's the that's
the thing. They had an extended rain delay, but they're

(33:02):
back in playing now. Red Sox sixth Royals three, bottom
of the eighth. There no wonder Jason's been quiet tonight
about his Mets because they're currently losing to a forty
one and seventy two Rockies team.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Five to three.

Speaker 7 (33:16):
Is the score in Favorite of Colorado in the seventh inning.
Oh my goodness, Mike Harmon's White Sox have a lead.
It's not the seventh yet, Fenley, not the seventh. Go
and check the stats of the White Sox. What it
would be if the games all ended after six innings.
It'd be like a World Series contender something like that. No,
maybe not in theory. In theory, two to one Athletics.

(33:37):
That's in the fourth inning. And lastly, guys, we got
that Dodger game going on. That's Dodgers and Phillies scoreless
in the top of the third. Of course, justin Frossburg
is watching that one with earnest interest.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah, that'll work. Ernest is not here, he's just watching
it by himself. Hey, Vern, thank you, Brian, I appreciate it, buddy.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
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Sports Radio the Jason Smith Show with my friend Mike Harmon.
Don't look now, but uh, the White Sox have a
two to one lead over the A's has the A's
bat in the bottom of the fifth minutes go the
White Socks get out of this and suddenly there's an
unscheduled rainstorm and open huge storm. White Sox win this

(35:17):
game and avoid there that game we've been ever getting
executive loss. Now they would be three in the morning,
we're waiting to resume it.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
We're gonna keep playing, don't you worry.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Uh, we'll have more on this game coming up again
as a White Sox looking to avoid their continued chase
into baseball history. So Charles Barkley, Yeah, who was very
upset that Turner was going to be losing NBA rights
childlike at times. Yeah, was upset at Turner, was upset
at everybody name.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
Happen.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Nah. And then he said, you know what, I'm gonna retire.
I'm not gonna come back. This next year is gonna
be my last year.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Really. I remember when he said it. We said, really,
we're not gonna even violin? Is that gonna really? Really? Really?

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Because remember he still has almost all of his ten
year Turner extension that he decided to tell you what
he was making, which is worth.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Twenty million dollars a year. Today, Charles Barkley said, you know,
I thought about.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
It, and my accountant said, I thought. The lawyer said,
and I'm not going to retire. I'm gonna stay with
TNT in whatever role they have for me.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
Is he gonna show it on an aw telecast, maybe
host a game show, maybe become an impractical joker, Ernie Charles.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
Barkley on im practical jokers, Uh, Ernie Johnson's going to
stay in some capacity with TNT. Shaquille O'Neill, Kenny Smith.
We don't know inside the NBA. They could still do
inside the NBA after this year. They're just not gonna
have any NBA yet.

Speaker 8 (36:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
They're not leading into breaking into or re capping games.
So why did we get this reversal of fortune from
Charles Barkley. It's very simple. When he first retired, he
thought he was helping. I'm gonna pull a power play.
I'm go me threatening to retire, is gonna get TNT
to keep the NBA. And the NBA said that's great, thanks,
We're going with Amazon. Oh, no, wait a minute, Barkley

(37:19):
is staying because he doesn't want to work hard anymore.
He hasn't worked hard in years, by his own admission,
I'm not telling you anything. He doesn't say he doesn't
like to work hard. He likes to show up on set,
talk about basketball for three hours and go home.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
That's what he does and anywhere else he goes.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
If he's a broadcaster, like if ESPN keeps him, Amazon
keeps him, They're gonna want him to do a lot
of stuff.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
They're paying him that from that rain. This is gonna
be we want you to do this. We want you.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
NBA Games want you some WNBA Games, wants you to
be in studio, wants you to a studio show.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
We're gonna pay you twenty million dollars a year. You're
gonna do a lot of stuff.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
We're gonna show up on every damn show that you're
the car wash as they've called it for years.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Uh, get ready, bring your soap. Charles Barkley does not
want to do that. Charles Barkley wants to roll out
of bed, show up at Turner an hour before he's
got to go on the air. Yeah, we're gonna talk
about the jazz. We're gonna talk about the King's Eye.
Got it.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
We're good, It's fun. Here's a chemistry were you have.
It's a great show.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
That's why he's staying with TNT because he doesn't want
to work hard and TNT, what are they gonna really
ask of him all of a sudden. They're not gonna say, well, Charles, no, NBA,
we want you all these different things. No, I'm not
gonna do any of that. I'll whatever you have basketball
wise for me, I'll do. We'll figure it out. I'll stay.
No one else is gonna pay me twenty million dollars
a year to do the absolute minimum, because that's what

(38:37):
Charles Barkley wants to do. So after time, Okay, I
tried the power play. TNT didn't keep the NBA because
I firmly believe he wanted TNT to keep it and he
thought maybe he could try to help with that. But
now he does. Okay, so I'm gonna go back because
they're gonna pay me twenty million dollars and whatever they
have for me that they may have. I may have
months where I'm not doing anything because they're not gonna
suddenly after pay me to do nothing but this show.

(38:58):
They're not gonna sudden say, okay, I want you on
an outdoor show, we want you on a Formula one show.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
It No, that's not gonna happen. You're gonna be hosting
dinner in a movie on Friday night. No, they're not
gonna do that.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
He's going to do whatever bare minimum basketball wise he
has done, and that's how it's gonna continue to go
through his contract or are they that's why he's staying,
or they replace whatever the basketball content is and guess what,
he's an entertainer, because that's what he is at this point.
And so the other part is I think there's probably
lawyers involved with a lot of it, just like with
the lawsuit about them losing it, which it's Hey, at

(39:32):
least cut us off a check and we'll go away quietly.

Speaker 5 (39:35):
Right.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
We talked about it. Match the offer. You really couldn't
match the offer. Apples to apples. It might be a different,
lesser apple, or maybe a plumb, but the fact is
that moves on and you're sitting sitting there going I
really want to collect the rest of what is it
about one hundred and seventy five million dollars by the
math that he's put out there. You want to collect that.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
Right, you're not gonna walk? Are you're gonna get that
now from somewhere? Are they gonna pay you twenty million dollars?
Somebody will, But we want you to do all of
these things. But that's what I mean again, all things
being equal.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
Much like the TNT bid wasn't equal to Amazon, even
if the dollars made sense, the work and everything that's
got to go in underneath it is not same thing
with Charles leaving for another another entity, be a much
different animal and harder work because you're not working with
Ernie and Kenny and Shack.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Again, I'm getting paid twenty million dollars to work the
least minimum that I have to. Okay, I'm gonna stay
here and do this. The worst retirement ever easy?

Speaker 3 (40:34):
WHOA, I don't know. I don't know. Brady's retirement wasn't great.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
It lasted longer than this, but we but we knew
Barkley's wasn't a real one.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
No, that's the thing. We knew that wasn't really I.

Speaker 4 (40:44):
Mean, I didn't think it's Okadie's was either, But yeah,
I still think he's got time.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
To come back.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
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Oh five Second Dance Party Fox Sports Radio. The Jason
Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, so
far Kershaw day for the Dodgers. Phillies lead the Dodgers
one nothing. Philly's bat in the top of the beginning,
they have two on and two out. Meanwhile, the Chicago
White Sox and the seventh inning stretch.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Lead the A's four to one.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah, they are nine outs away from breaking that twenty
one game losing streak, only twenty eight blown saves on
the ear.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
If you had Bobby Howard, you'd be fine.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
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Speaker 5 (42:13):
Believe me, my friends, I believe the White Sox will
win their first game tonight. Since Mbop by Hanson was
released in April of nineteen ninety seven, I have not
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that's why we tune into the Jason Smith Show because

(42:34):
we like to be surprised.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
And as you can continue on to say, mop mop
mop bop doop?

Speaker 3 (42:39):
Did it out now? Doo up?

Speaker 4 (42:41):
What I'm picturing left my name off and he made
fun of the White Sox's dying.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
I'm picturing we'd.

Speaker 5 (42:47):
Say that's so. Bobop is one of those songs not
to digress too much, but that it is right before
one of those segments on Saturday Night Live where they say,
let's do a CD of long as that you almost
know the words too, and a bust of people try
to sing this song and actually transcribe what the words are,
and none of it would make sense.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
I'm picturing John Paulmrosi in April of nineteen ninety seven.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
As a as a.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Fifteen year old jumping around. The song comes on the radio.
He's in at the house by himself. He turns it
up as loud as he can, dances from room to
room like Tom Cruise and Risky Business and his underwear,
yelling out, Bob dude, if I closed on.

Speaker 8 (43:30):
That, John Paul, uh more, Okay, and listen to me.
What I wouldn't give to have to have the hair
flow now the way that Hanson had it back in
the day. That was pretty strong.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
Yeah, I'll tell you strong, I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
And now they all have like like forty five kids
between them, It's like crazy.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
How about that? Yeah, I just saw a thing like
where is Hanson? Now? They each have like seven kids.
It's insane.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
So they can do the thing like the old Menudo skit,
I think, yeah, I think they could. I think they
could the next run of Hanson.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Uh Hey, we got a lot to get to, but
let me start here with you, John Paul, because you
were at Dodger Stadium last night the ovation for Freddie
Freeman when he comes to the plate for the first time,
he had missed a lot of time. His son extremely
sick in the hospital, was was let out.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
Everything is now fine.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
It was really emotional to see that standing ovation, both
teams stood for him. It was it was more than
just hey, here's a nice hand for Freddie Freeman. This
is one of those moments that makes you step back
and go, wow, look at this. He's crying. I'm crying.
Everybody's crying. What was it like to see that?

Speaker 5 (44:34):
Yeah, it was remarkable.

Speaker 8 (44:35):
And I was there.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
Actually, I saw Freddy on his way into the ballpark.
I was just right outside the Dodger Clubhouse around two
o'clock and he was there with Charlie, his oldest son.
I gave Freddie hugg I just welcomed him back. I mean,
I've known him for a long time over the years,
just here in Major League Baseball and one of the
most universally beloved people in the sport. And so I

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think that everybody in the game was supporting him, had
had their thoughts with him. I thought it was pointed
that after the game last night, he talked about how
many times Bryce Harper had texted him. There was just
a lot of love for Freddie, and I think a
couple of thoughts that it resonates that baseball players are

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both extraordinary and also regular people like everybody else in
that when he was at the Children's Hospital of Orange County,
he talked about this before the game yesterday that he
felt like you look to the to the next room,
in the room after that, and up and down the hall,
and there are so many kids there, and they all

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have different reasons for being there, and you put yourself
in the shoes of the parents who were getting varying
degrees of news, and it's not all good news. And
I think that's that's the sobering reality of kids all
around the world who are sick and the compassion that
needs to go out to them and their parents, whether

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they play Major League Baseball or if they work down
the street. And I think that that, to me is
a is a really powerful lesson of last night. And
I think that Freddie, and to be clear, his son Maximus,
who's three, with Giambres syndrome, because you have to relearn
how to walk. The paralysis went all the way up
to his shoulders and it was affecting his breathing in
a diaphragm. So it's a very traumatic experience that does

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not dissipate right away. It's going to probably be months
upon months of physical therapy to be able to get
back to As Freddie said his open that he's on
the field at a family day at spring training. But it's
a long road. He's got to re learn how to
do everything, and that's tough. But I think that Freddie
showed such grace and acknowledgement and support of the staff

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in the pediatric intensive care unit at the Totoh's Hospital
of Orange County, mentioning the staff or the doctors, the
nurses overnight it's a massive motional toll. And then oh,
by the way, here comes Aaron Nola with with the
curveball and and the fastball everything that he throws. And
as Freddie said to me last night after the game,

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it's hard to hit a major legue pitch when your
when your eyes are are watering and you're crying. And
I think it was it was a real moment.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
It was, it was.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
It was an ovation that I will never forget hearing.
I looked up at the field and Garrett Stubbs, a
Philly's catcher, was hugging Freddy first base unplayer Hunter Wendells
that was actually clapping as well, which you don't often see.
It was just it was a really powerful human moment
and a reminder of how big and how small baseball
can be.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
Job Baul Morosi with us here MLB networked at Fox
Sports Radio Insider for US here Jason Smith Show with
me Mike Harmon from the diyrac dot com studios. So
we advanced today, It's Curshaw Day. What did we get
out of this? Four innings, pitched five hits, one five strikeouts,
and eighty one pitches met checked a bunch of boxes

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here only leading down one nothing against.

Speaker 5 (48:02):
A really good team too. And I think, Mike, that's
really crucial that this was a postseason dress rehearsal. And
I think that for most Dodger fans, they would probably
say that that's how they feel about this, that yes,
they want to have Kershaw be on point now and
Jack Clarity coming in and Glass now last night, but

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their season begins in Game one of the playoffs. I
think we can also pretty comfortable they're going to be
there unless something catastrophic happens in their divisional races. But
I think they're pretty good standing. So the question here
is can you get yourself ready for October, and I
would suggest that Clayton probably came back to the rotation

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maybe a little bit earlier than he expected, or maybe
then would have been optimal because of just the state
of the Dodger pitching staff at the time he came back.
That was right when glass Now was just coming back,
and then they had had a bunch of injuries and
they were using openers, and they had just let go
of James Paxton. So Kershaw came in maybe a little

(49:07):
bit earlier than he was really fully ready to go.
And I think now tonight is more indicative of the
pitcher that he can be. Listen, He's probably not going
to be going eight innings in a playoff game, but
they need him to get through two and a half
times through the lineup maybe, and that's a solid start
from him. I think it's important to realize that the
guys who are going to be carrying the workload for

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this team in October, it's got to be glass Now
in Flairty, and Kershaw's probably your third starter if you're
talking about just stuff and what he can do. Yamamoto,
you hope that he's there. So there's a lot of
questions the Dodgers' rotation in the playoffs has had a
lot of questions in recent years. It's why they're won
in six in the last two postseasons, and I think
to that end tonight was an important step. But they're

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going to need to have multiple starters going deep into
games for the mathematics of their pitching staff to work
out of the month of October, John Paul helped me.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
Out with something here, because we're gonna travel three thousand
miles east to talk about the Yankees every few days.
It's the Yankees. It's awful. They don't have a great
trade deadline, they didn't get everything they need. Look at
they get swept by the Mets in the Subway Series
and everything is bad, and there pitching doesn't work out
for them. And yet now they're back to being twenty

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one games over five hundred. They're in first place. They're
a game out of having the best record of the
American League. Are the Yankees in trouble or are the
Yankees fine? Like every few days it seems to be
like everything is bad, but yet they keep winning.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
Well, they're flawed, but they're still almost as good as
anybody else in the American League. I still think that
they're a little bit vulnerable as a playoff team because
I'm just not sure about their lineup depths in terms
of how many guys are really going that are going
to allow you to win a playoff series who are
not named so to in Judge now, Jazz Chisham has

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been amazing since coming over, which I think is a
real godsend for them, and I think that they need
better versions of some of their complimentary players. Stanton right now,
for all of his salary, is a complimentary player. He's
got to be really good. Redugo needs to be good.
VAULTI I think, is at a really underrated excellent season.

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He's got eleven homers and twenty solen bases as a shortstop.
That's pretty good. And so I think that they're a
very good team. I'm not quite comfortable saying they're a
great team yet, just because I wonder about how they
will navigate. For example, if they have to face the

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Guardians in a playoff series, they have to face the
Mariners in a playoff series, There's some really good pitching
teams there that might cause them some fits. But I
think that in general, their trade deadline was better than
people realized, because Chisholm was exactly what they needed. And
then the other piece of this is Baltimore just had
the tough news Crazy Rodriguez was scratched from the start tonight.

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Who knows what that means with some shoulder and back
issues that area that can be really concerning, especially at
this late hour of the season. Of course, you cannot
make any trade deadline moves now that you're in the
month of August. So that's what I'm wondering about now,
the Baltimore Oriols, and they're pitching situations. But I think
the Yankees for me, are imperfect. But I look around

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and say, there'll be a tough team in the playoffs
as long as they don't have the tougher pitching matchups
against teams like Cleveland and Seattle, which I think could
probably exploit their weaknesses.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
Is there any team man Ivy League JP that you're
kind of watching that's a little off the pace that
these final six weeks could make a run.

Speaker 5 (52:43):
Well, Arizona the way that they of course finally get
at Ron Rodriguez back tonight. They've got an excellent manager,
Colby Carroll's gotten going a bit I think that's a
team to watch. They of course were the National League
champions last year, and then Houston if from bra Valdez
comes within one one hitter of throwing a no hitter tonight,

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they just have such great muscle memory as an organization, they.

Speaker 8 (53:07):
Know how to win this time of year.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
And I know they're a team that in a lot
of other cities around the country. They're not super popular,
but they win a lot of games. They've got a
lot of players who have a tremendous track record in
October that goes far beyond whatever happened in twenty seventeen.
So I like what they've got. We'll see what Tucker
can give them late in the season. I know he's
been out for a while, but they're pitching is finally

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coming into focus, and Valdez's masterpiece tonight was just the
latest evidence of that.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John
Morosi MLB Network Insider Extraordinary. John Paul is always buddy,
appreciate the time. We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Have fun.

Speaker 5 (53:45):
Sounds great. My friends always enjoy the conversation and look
forward to the next one.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Be good brother. There goes John Paul