August 15, 2024 • 41 mins
On tonight's edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the hosts kick off the hour by reacting to Charles Barkley announcing he'd return to TNT, leaving over $100 million on the table in recent months as he was being recruited by rival networks! Next, Jason Cole NFL Insider joins the show to talk everything preseason and NFL. Finally, Jason and Mike react to Yankees Outfielder Aaron Judges Historic 300th HR! Tune in to Hour 2 for all this and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, we'll get to that big basketball story coming up
in a couple minutes, but real quick, an update on
what's going on right now with the Yankees and the
White Sox. Now this game is no longer in danger.
It was a two to one White Socks lead to
Wheel want him on the air, Yeah, I'm sure it was.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I think it was. It really hurts my fault.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Uh and not only that, so I texted my dad
and and Fabiano when it was two to one, and
I said, hey, guys, again, my internet's out. Can you
tell me who's winning the who's gonna who's winning the
rubber game of this three game series of the.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yankees and the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Fabiano waits until it's ten to two, and then he
feels safe enough to text sure.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh hey, oh yeah, we're winning, you jerk.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And my dad writes, Felix hunger, which is his big
thing of way of saying blank you to me, is
Felix hunger all the time, Felix hunger. Sometimes just get
a jiff of Tony Randall once in a while. But now, like, really,
you guys, it would ten to two is when you
felt okay enough to finally send a text to me
now when he was four to two, not five now
at ten to two, and judge, it's a home run.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Now I feel okay. Now I can text you guys.
Does that surprise you? Now I could do it? That's
Yankee fan in a nutshell. Well, not be Yankees.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
You think they'd be waiting with Baite as soon as
they took the lead to say, uh Smith, look at it.
And it was my dad, I'm saying, we'll call me
Smith Smith Smith. No, no, but this shows you what
Yankee fans think of their team. That no, no, Only
when we're up by eight against the worst team in baseball,
do I think it's okay to talk a.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Little smack a little bit. That's something there.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So now there's we can go into ego magnification and
go under the psychiatrist couch if we need to.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But it's okay. Two thousand and what nine, right? That
was the last one?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Two thousand and nine. I believe, Yes, you are cracked
two thousand and nine, two thousand and nine. But meanwhile,
for Aaron Judge, the forty third home run of his career,
of the season, of his career, forty third home run
of the season tonight to make it ten to two.
He is two for four three RBI. Grady Sizemore said
before this year, we're gonna be real cafrol. Pitching to
(02:48):
Aaron Judge, Okay, they walk Juan Soto intentionally, He's got
three walks tonight and Judge just tomahawks the next pitch
into the stands for his forty third home run. Look,
we talk about the silly numbers that Aaron Judge has.
He is first in home runs in forty three, first
and RBIs now with one hundred and ten. He's first
in ops at one point one. I believe he's ops
(03:10):
will be over one point one eight at this point,
and his batting average now he.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Is up to second in the league.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You are looking at what could be an incredibly dominant
triple crown season because the only guy that's standing ahead
of him right now, with someone who had to go
basically all for August to and in July to get there,
Bobby Witt Junior is hitting three forty nine, but Aaron
Judge now only has him in front of him, And uh, look,
he's Bobby wit Junior really gonna hit three fifty or
(03:41):
is he gonna come down a little bit suddenly? Now,
this unbelievable season Aaron Judge is having is a triple
crown season because that's all that's in front of him.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Is Bobby wit Junior.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
In July hit four eighty nine. Did Bobby Witt Junior
hitting three point thirty three this month? And Hunter home
run for him today? So yeah, it would be a
fun race. Will we celebrate the triple crown? Again, or
are we just gonna shrug like we did.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh no, no, it's Aaron Judge. Yeah, it's Aaron Judge.
Come on, man, the biggest stars in all the sports.
Aaron Judge does it. Yeah, we celebrate it, we said,
I just you know what I really wanted, I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
A football season. So I don't know how much we'll celebrate.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But the thing is with this bad like like I
don't know what the best outcome is, Like, is the
best outcome is for the Yankees to just start losing
for little bit and have to come down to like
the last day of the season, and Judge needs whatever
he needs to win the Triple Crown, But the Yankees
need to win to make the playoffs too, Like I
really could could could it really get down to a
point where, hey, Aaron Judge needs to go two for
(04:43):
four and hope that Bobby Wood Junior goes you know,
one for four, and the Yankees need to win to
make the playoffs, and and Judge does it and he
goes two for four, he gets it, but the Yankees
missed the playoffs. Like I think that would be the
best outcome. Judge is a Triple Crown winner, and I
would even care. I can tell Yankee fans you had
guy with a triple crowd and you couldn't even make
the playoffs. I think that's what I want. I would
(05:04):
trade that. I would trade the Aaron Judges triple Crown
for the Yankees to not make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It would make for great theater and a lot of
angsty Yankee fans in and around our lives and certainly nationwide,
and and some talk show hosts in New York would
be really next level to watch that happen. I kind
of dig that. Yeah, No, it's good content and people watching.
For me, it's only team, so I'll be long into
(05:31):
the Northwestern and Chicago Bears football seasons by then.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, your record right now is Eric Dickerson and Reggie
White Sony.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Every time I get another aerial shot of the temporary
construct there on Lake Michigan for the Northwestern Wildcats, oh
tear comes to my eye and I watch it fifteen
times because then it keeps me from thinking about the
White Sox.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Good. I got to be positive.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Way to keep let's god say it, and Caleb Williams everybody,
it's now an overweighted bandwagon. But that's Okay, that's okay
by the merch. Show him some love and we'll go
from there until you decide you hate him too, just
like you have every other bearish quarterback that you embraced
for three weeks before casting him off and cutting him loose.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
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Speaker 3 (06:26):
All right, now, let's get to this big basketball story.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
This is a a hundred million dollar basketball story, at
least if you want to believe Charles Barkley.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Now, when Charles.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Barkley, who has been very vocal the last few months
about the NBA on TNT and inside the NBA and
we hope we keep it, we don't want to go anywhere.
Everybody's blowing it. TNT is blowing it, everybody's blowing it.
I have to have to go to another network or
all the all this crazy ass stuff we told you
a couple weeks ago. Everything for Charles Barkley boils down
(06:57):
to the fact that he doesn't want to work anymore.
He doesn't want the NBA to leave TNT because he's
got a cushy ass gig. He doesn't work hard. He
shows up, he talks about basketball two or three nights
a week and that's it. There's no prep time, there's
no traveling for interviews. He's got the easiest gig in
the world, and he gets paid all kinds of money
because Charles Barkley is existing.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Now on his name.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Right, He's like a television show when like a show
like Cheers or something was in like it's twelve or
thirteen season and it was okay, Is it really.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
As good as it was? No, it's kind of existing
on reputation.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
People are still watching because of this, but you know
it's not nearly the show it was. Barkley doesn't want
to work hard, right, And we told you if he
goes to a new place, if he had to go
someplace else to talk basketball, whether it's ESPN or whether
it was Amazon, who's gonna get the rights of basketball?
He knows he's not just gonna get to show up
a forty five minutes before the show goes on the
air talk and then leave five minutes after it's over.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
He knows they're gonna ask him to go on other
shows and do other shows and do more you're gonna
ask him to work you want him to do. If
you're paying Charles Barkley twenty five million dollars a year,
thirty million dollars a year, you're gonna ask him to
do that.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
That's what it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Barkley's making twenty million dollars a year now from TNT.
He's got it going on. He's gonna continue on with
this contract. NBA is leaving TNT. He's gonna continue to
do whatever TNT asked him to do, which is not
gonna be anything right. He's gonna just do the bare minimum,
which is exactly why he's been so upset about this
all along. And if you think I'm lying to you,
(08:25):
you think I was making stuff up. A couple of
weeks ago. Here he is on Dad Levittard's podcast earlier
today talking about why he's staying at TNT, and he
eschewed offers that could have gotten him one hundred million
dollars or more from other networks.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
It was a great feeling, and I want to thank
all those networks for reaching out to me. It was
really humbling and cool to be honest with you, even
though they were throwing crazy numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I was like, damn.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
But as long as I got my people safe at TNT, man,
I feel really good.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Like I say, they gonna pay me.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
To go and talk about nothing, so I can't look
a give moreth in the mouth. Wait, Dan, I probably
would have had to do an honest day's work if
I went to one or old other network.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And he's right, he's telling you I would have had
to do. They would have asked me to actually do stuff. Hey,
we're not gonna pay you thirty million dollars a year
to have you on a half hour three nights a week,
which is what inside the NBA is gonna be if
it stays on TNT, even though they lose basketball. Like
I mean, I like, of course they're gonna ask him
to do more. And I understand Barkley's philosophy. I understand, Hey,
(09:29):
when you get in your sixties, do you really want
to do this? I mean, do you are you really saying, hey,
I'm gonna hit with a bigger work ethic or you're
looking to be at the point where it's hey, I'm
doing what I'm doing. I'll do this for a while
and then I'll be done.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Right. Nobody hits this big exit.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
If you didn't have the work ethic before, no one's
gonna suddenly get it. And Barkley does not have a
work ethic. He never had a work ethic. He showed up.
He's very expressive, he's incredibly charismatic. You care what he says.
That's a gold mine. He's made a career on his personality.
And when you do that, yeah, you get lazy. And
he it's a point where I don't want to do
stuff because I don't have to. And do I really
want Is it a big deal for me? Would I
(10:04):
rather make twenty million dollars a year doing the absolute
bare minimum or thirty million dollars a year killing myself
and flying all over the place?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
And No, I don't want to do it. I'm at
the point where I have enough money.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I'm still getting paid a lot, I'm still the preeminent
guy in basketball. I'm not gonna do it. So I
completely understand it. But just understand that's that's the big
motivation for him?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Is that? Yet?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Do I believe he wants to save jobs as long
as he can at TNT Sure he's worked with these
guys for a long time.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But in the end he still talked to other networks.
He's still went in and had conversations. Right if the
offer was right, if Amazon came to him and said, hey, Charles, look,
what are you doing right now for TNT. Well, I
show up about forty five minutes before the show, We talk,
and I leave about five minutes after it's over. Okay,
what if we allow you to come in like thirty
minutes before the show. You can leave before the last
(10:52):
segment when when you know, maybe people aren't watching anymore,
and we'll pay you. We'll pay you a little bit
more money to come now. I'll give you like twenty
five He would say, I'm there. Oh, I can do
less and you'll pay me more money. I am absolutely there, Right,
of course, he would be. It's human nature. That's why
Charles Barkley is doing this.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Whole T D D D.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, he was worried that his life was gonna be upended.
If I want to be a voice of basketball, and
I do, I may have to go where the games
are and that's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
More work, and I don't want to do it.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, I mean part of it is, you know, and
is running around and crowning himself TNT Jesus is the
idea that he sends the jobs, but those are all
the people that make his job really easy. Most of
those folks would not be going to ESPN or whatever
other entity, which would mean not only does he have
to work more the car wash and everything else, he's
(11:45):
got to learn a whole new group of people to
help prep him and get it through these paces or whatever.
That's a lot of work man, new personalities, new people.
All of you out there, wherever you are globally on
the iHeartRadio app or whatever you are local affiliates here
across the United States, we appreciate all of you wherever
you're coming in.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Think about when people come into a.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Team at your your job, or if you've had to
join up on a new projects a pain in the ass.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So the less you have to do that and pivot.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Unless there's just an ungodly amount of money and a
bunch of other perks that come with it, you know
you're gonna be a little reticent to jump into that.
And for Berkley, I'd like that he said the quiet
part out loud. The thing we theorized a long time
ago that he put. He just hammered it home once.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And for all. There it is. I don't want to
work that hard. I don't want to do it. I'm sorry,
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
If he was younger, if he was a dead then
it's a different conversation. But everybody lives life differently, you know,
everybody has that court. I remember, you know, when I
was when I was in my twenties and I would
with this is before I was a radio host and
I with my wife and I had been in LA
for a couple of years and one of my bosses
was leaving Fox and he was gonna go. He was
(12:58):
remember when Roller Derby was made that run like in
the early two thousands. They wanted to it was going
to be like the new wrestling and everything else. Well,
he went to go, was going to be the main
producer for that show, and it was a big deal.
It was gonna be on. They had a lot of publicity,
and he asked if I wanted to come on and be well,
he was gonna be the executive producer and he asked
me, I wanted to come on and be the producer And
I was like wow, he goues it would be more money.
(13:18):
It would be this, that wouldn't be it wasn't so
much more money, whereas oh my god, I can't turn
it down. But it was a decent amount more money.
And I said, okay, what's the gig and what's the gig?
And he says, well, we got to go to Atlanta
and you got to be in Atlanta three days a
week for probably from August until the end of the year.
And I'm like, I can't do that. And he was
stunned when I said that, and he was surprised. I said, why, So,
(13:41):
I'm not going to be away from my wife and
my life here. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Like if it was if it was a one hundred
million dollars, I'd say, all right, well, hey, we could
move to Atlanta. That's why we moved to Atlanta for
six months.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
But I'm like, I'm not going to fly back and
forth every week and and and miss my wife for
three days.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I'm not going to do that three days a week
every week.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Oh I'm not gonna by by by the third week,
I'm gonna be done getting on a plane and coming back.
So I said no, And there's times where I've turned
down an extra work or additional work because it just
doesn't fit with my with my philosoph with my life,
with my lifestyle. It's like, hey, all right, if there's
something I can do and I can fit it in
with with with my lifestyle and what I like to do,
(14:21):
awesome that then I'll do it. But if it's not something,
if it's something that's too difficult for me, I'm gonna
say no to it. And this was a gig where
it was you know, I don't want to say it
would have been double my salary of what I was making,
but it would have been close to it. And it
still wasn't even more than a ten second conversation. My head,
I'm like, I'm not, I can't do this. I can't
do this.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, this is something I can't do. So I get it, right,
I get it.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You know a lot of different ages depending on where
you are in your life, maybe the answer is different
but you but I can still see where this is.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
This is a decision that's made where it's.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Hey, you know what what I want to do in
my life and the money isn't worth it, and I'd
rather just kind of do what I've been doing and
and and let the chips fall that way, So, you
know what, we kind of have fun with Barkley here
a little bit of it.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
No, I completely get what he's.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Doing and why he said of the way he did
well that needs gained a lot of capital with all
those people that will still be on set of TNT,
But at what point did they get to where I am?
It was fun the first time you said it, when
you said it out loud of you know, I really
loved the people, and I've loved watching the graduations and
everybody growing. When you say it the nine hundred time,
Now you're patting yourself on the back a little.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Bit too much. Yeah, yeah, and on his shoulders.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Gotta be hurting like hell for him right now from
patting himself on the back.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, I kept everybody's jobs.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I'm so the next year it's gotta be a pain
in the ass at a minimum for a lot of
those people on the set because now they feel like
they owe.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
This guy on a whole other level.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Right, there's excitement and gratitude, but also potentially a bit
of resentment because he may come back a little bit
of a different guy. You know, you wouldn't be here
if I didn't stick around and tell ESPN to stick
it right.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
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in the NFL today. Maybe at some point, Brandon, I
you will get traded or the Niners.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Will keep him.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
One thing for sure, the Vikings will be going forward
without JJ McCarthy out for the season after undergoing knee
surgery today, joining us now in the hotline to break
it all down. There is nobody better than longtime NFL insider.
You can follow him on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two.
He is a Pro Football Hall of Very Good voter.
(18:27):
There were many very good players who went in the
Hall of Fame a few days ago, j Cole, what's
happened about?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
How are you?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
They're all famous? They were all famous players, not very
good famous. That was what it was. Same.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Oh is that? Well?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Okay, so you just have to be famous now you
don't need to be good, You just be famous to
get it.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Well that I did have a funny discussion with people
like this, one guy from Buffalo, a former player, you know,
being aggravated about pitch. You know, the best players should
go in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Was it Steve Tasker?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
I can't. It was a Steve Tasker burner account. Don
don Beebie, uh like getting in his tarket. It should
for me the best player. It's for the famous players,
for the ones who make an impact and change the
fame the game. And he said, no, it's not about fame.
(19:27):
I go, it's called the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
The name.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Fame. Fame is the overriding factor. When it's a Hall
of fame. I feel like I'm doing a Bob Newhart
episode or something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Sure, no, no, that's all good. I understand. So you
don't have to be good, you just have to be famous.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You can make the Hall of fame.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
That's part of it. Yeah, it's famous, that's the Hall
of fame.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It's so Zach Wilson's mom.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
I'm glad that. That's that follow up question.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Zach Wilson's mom can make the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Not in football, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Why not my personality and she's famous?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Is this hall? Can I say?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Careful?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Yeah, I don't know that I can say this.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, let it go. I don't know what you were
going to say either. I have no idea. You pause
that long, say no, no you.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Can't right, Yeah, we'll just no. Yeah, there's a hall
there for her. It's not one we can talk about.
Let's just pay certainly not the one her friends are in.
That's a that's why I'm here anyways, moving along something.
You should be really happy now because now Sam Darnold
is going to be starting for the Vikings this year
(20:54):
and gets a year maybe two years to to you know,
hone his skills. When Rogers stipp so sidey, you guys,
can the Jets can sign Donald?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, you know, listen, it's sometimes you just need a
little bit of time to get the Jets off of you.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
It took Gino Smith a decade.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's going to take Sam Donald four or five years
if that works.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
It took a decade to get the stench off of him.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, you know, listen, you you were calm and reasonable
most of the time.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
What what do you expect out of Sam Donald? Now?
What do you expect to see? What do you expect
from this year?
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Kind of the same thing I would expect out of
Jimmy Garoppolo or any other of these kind of big
membo quarterbacks. Right. Yeah, they're they're kind of bringing dead
heavers and that's what he is. He just you know,
he gets out there and he can fling it around.
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He can make some big plays because he's got a
big arm. He can do some you know things that
look really fun, but he's going to make a bunch
of mistakes and critical situations and when the pressure is
at the highest against the best defenses, there are going
to be times where he has that deer in headlights looking.
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You know it well from those Jets days, just like
Jimmy Garoppolo had that deer in the headlights look when
it just got a little too fast. I'm a little
too complicated, because yeah, these guys, their brains just don't
really work quite fast enough for when it gets really, really,
really tough. And yeah, that's what separates the truly great
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ones from guys who are just really super talented.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It's where you bridge good and famous.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
There you go, Smith, we just found our answer, all right,
if you were flipping a coin, Is that all it is.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Right now with the AYUK situation or do you have
a lean on this?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I was curious about the fact that he was on
the field today for the first time. I think that's
the first time that he was on the field during
a practice.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It's a hold in.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It's a hold in now. It's like loves in the sixties.
It's a hold in now.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
It's a hold in for well, I know, it's yeah,
the love ends with the Foy like he wants to
be there. They've got to come to Grimston like they
got pay him. The forty hours are quibbling about the
you know, the effects on the bottom end of their
roster when you're paying starts because they got to make
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this move to keep him because they're trying to win
a Super Bowl. Pearcel's not ready. They know that a
year from now they want to move on from Debo.
They just got to bite the bullet and do this right.
And then they're going to have to pay party at
some point when Trent Williams walk and so when Divo's
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gone and Trent Williams is gone, and Kill's going to
be gone sooner than later because his body is racked up.
At this point in time, you should want to keep
the young guy who's been healthy, who's been played saying
every game for you, who is a really terrific deep threat,
like he's a super productive guy. But Pittsburgh is willing
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to step up and give him the money he wants. Okay, well,
does that not tell you something? Pay the guy. So
you know, I think the forty nine ers, their history
has been if you go way back and deal with
all the contracts, is that they just overthink the contracts
because you know, the guys who are in charge of
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rating the contracts have a little more sway with the
owner and a little more power with the owner. And
sometimes when you're at this stage, you just have to
push your chips in a little bit, you know, you
have to push it in and just say we'll figure
it out on the backside. I remember Kevin Demoff is
a really good contract guy, saying, why am I worried
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about a million or two million on the top end players.
I can find that with my backup linebackers. And you
take a guy for three million instead of four million
or whatever it happens to be, you can fill in
those spots with guys who are a little bit cheaper.
You can't find guys who are you know, who are
difference makers. And you know, and one other problem with
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this and everyone want to put this all on the
contract guys with the forty nine ers is Shanahan has
been griping ever since the end of last season about
my dad. You know one titles with cheap wide receivers.
That was White Rod Smith and Ed McCaffrey. Right, you know,
you guys he found. It's like, yeah, I did, and
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he was really lucky. Like just you can't recreate that luck.
Sometimes you have to pay for guys.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
See.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
But I look at it like this is like, as
you mentioned, hey, after this year, Party's going to get
sixty million, McCaffrey's going to be twenty nine.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Well with sixty million, you really think he's.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Not going to get sixty million dollars a year.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
I really think he's not now because he's got because
they can squad on his rights for a couple of
years as much cheaper. So it's it's not going to
be that high a contract now because he's not he's
not really a free agent to this offseason. He's he
can still be tendered and restricted and then they can
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put him you know, then they can then they can
put the tag on him. Now he can he can
redo his contract at the end of this year. But
it's a different it's a different leverage situation. It's not
sixty million dollars a year, dak TuS goot, if he
goes free, we'll get sixty million dollars a year because
he will be free and clear. Party's not going to
be in that situation.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I don't know, but you.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Think Party's going to be okay, Okay, I'll take another
couple of years of less and and and we're gonna
we're gonna call it bad here.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
I think I think party realized is and I think
more importantly, Perty's family realizes he's got a really good situation.
Stay in a good situation with a really great coach,
with a team that knows how to use you and
how to how to take advantage of your skill set,
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and you know, don't do these holding kind of things.
This is this is silly. You know, if it's you know,
you're going to be fine at forty five to fifty
million dollars a year on a long term contract. You
don't have to kill it for sixty unless you want
to wait it out. If you want to wait it out,
play a year and there's you know, on you know,
(27:38):
restricted tag, and then play another year or two years
on a franchise tag. Then you know, that's a that's
a different set of rules, and you can play it
out and you can you can top back your dollars.
You can't really do it this year because of those
tag situations are the way it works.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
You know me, I always love when we get to
the franchise dag and everybody gets all mad, and I say, hey,
you know what, take it out of the next CBA.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Let's see what you give up to get that part
of it.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
I will say that the owners, the owners, when they
first proposed this, it was specifically for protect quarterbacks, and
it has morphed into something where oh, let's squat on guys'
rights for a year or two while we find a
way to replace them. And that's wrong, and they should
find a way to restrict it from that. That would,
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of course require that the people who run the NFLPA
understand football and squatting on rights and roster construction. Unfortunately,
they hired a guy who was a bean counter from
you know, some you know, some corporation who said, yeah,
I think he might have played football in high school.
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He knows nothing about the business season, so getting into
that kind of detail, he'll never figure it out, and
the players don't know how to figure it out either.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two, that is
at Jason Cole sixty two putting.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Stop stop, they stop, stop stop. Here's what's gonna happen
he's likedmort No, that's not.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Coming back. Yuh again.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Wow, you got a Missus murror reference in nicely done.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Take it easy, buddy, we'll talk to you. Well played, Mrroring. Yeah,
I know that's pretty nice.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Yeah, that is a good old school literature and film reference. Sure,
Hope lang Right goes to Missus Muir, nicely done, Hope
lang Right.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Sure. Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Let me just jump to you with what Jed York
said a couple of months ago when it comes to
Brock Purty uh getting his next contract.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Well, it's what the market is.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Brock is gonna ask for something that no one's ever
asked for before. I don't know how many players are
making over forty million dollars annually as a quarterback right now.
That's what the market is. And you have to accept
the reality of the world. Yeah, they're gonna want to
keep him happy and perty's gonna get sixty million dollars.
I get that you can do all this, and but
you don't want to make it. And I understand Jason
(30:23):
Cole's point. Look, you can can you can really, you
can really stick it to him if you wanted to.
If you don't have all, but you don't want to
do that with your quarterback. You want to make sure
he's signing you love him, he's staying. This is the
going rate for quarterbacks. This is what he's gonna want
to get. This is what he's gonna wind up getting
because you want to keep him happy. You gotta keep
your quarterback happy because he will buy you contention. This
is just gonna be the last year where the Niners
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will be overwhelming super Bowl favorites because when you take
the money you're paying brock Purty right now, which is
about eight bucks an hour, even if you add forty
million dollars to it, Suddenly, hey, where are you getting
the rest of that money from all other guys in
the team, And you're cutting three or four star players
to have to get under that. I mean, that's why
this is the year for the Niners. This is the
last year they'll be overwhelming super Bowl favorites like they
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are because of that contract situation.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah, I mean, as jayco went all the way through, right,
I mean, you're talking about McCaffrey's age. You look at
Debo and where he's at physically. Trent Williams just turned
thirty six a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Happy birthday. Trent Williams still dominant.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
But again, where's the edge of the cliff when it
comes to an offensive line with that many miles on
the tires?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I mean, just keep going on down the line.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
So yeah, but the it just kind of chuckle when
it gets into the franchise tag thing because everybody always
gets mad about it. It's like, you're getting the average
at the top five players. It's pretty good money, and
you guys agreed to this in the CBA. So again,
you want it out of the CBA. I love to
see the negotiation there.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
We want that gone.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Okay, now what will you give us eighteen nineteen twenty games?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Where do you want to go?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon. We want to go right
now to Kevin Wyart, who has everything that's trending in
the wide world of sports.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
Major League Baseball, we're in the dog days of August
and the Dodgers really feeling the heat in the National
League West End. They had a three to nothing lead
against the Brewers after the first inning in Milwaukee, but
the Brewers end up winning this one. They came back
to take a four to three lead. The Dodgers tied
it at four before Milwaukee gets another run in the
eight to win it five to four and take the
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third game of this four game series after the Dodgers
took the first two so they could go for the
series tie tomorrow morning, and the Dodgers, though feeling the heat,
they have a two and a half game lead on
the Diamondbacks and Padres. That's after Arizona one today eleven
to four against the Colorado Rockies. They've won twenty of
their last twenty five games coming out of the All
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Star Break. In the Padres also on a similar run
nineteen and four since the All Star Break, after they
finish off a sweep on the Pirates eight to two,
so LA's lead in the NL West now sit at
two and a half games. In the American League East,
the Orioles do bounce back from a loss to the
Nationals yesterday to beat them today for one, but the
Yankees after it looked like they might lose, so the
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White Socks.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
They were down to one for much of.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
That game, but they explode as Aaron Judge becomes the
fastest person to hit three hundred career home runs in history,
and he helps propel the Yankees to a big ten
to two victory, although again was a one run White
Sox lead up until the final innings there on the
South Side. So this lead for the Yankees in the
Al East still half a game up on Baltimore. Elsewhere
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in Major League Baseball, we do have a couple of
games still going on right now. Blue Jay's lead the
Angels seven to one, Braves on top of the Mets
nine to two, so those games look like they are
all but formalities there everything else has gone final. Royals
still hold the final wildcard spot. They're able to beat
the Twins on Wednesday four to one. The Rangers and
Red Sox go to extras. Boston wins at nine to seven.
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Rubs and Guardians Cleveland wins at six ' to one.
Philly's over the Marlins nine to five. Tigers and Mariners
go to extras where Detroit wins it three to two.
Cubs beat the Cardinals ninety two, Astros over the Rays
two wine and the Mets beat the Athletics nine to one.
Matthew Judea on going from New England to the Atlanta
Falcons as New England sending him in exchange for a
third round draft selection. JJ McCarthy going to be out
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for the season after he had to have surgery to
repair his torn at meniscus, so he has done for
the year. However, not all bad news. Jordan Addison is okay.
According to Kevin O'Connell, he did hurt his ankle in
practice and had to be carded off of the field.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
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Coming up next, we had an absolute milestone, record breaking
home run in Major League Baseball to tell you about tonight,
and the conversation is gonna get a lot bigger than
just one home run.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
That was it. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios. Jay, let's
get that big Aaron Judge home run ready number three
hundred for Aaron Judge tonight, part of the Yankees win
over the White Sox. The game, the White Sox were
winning two to one when we came on the air
and yeah, for a minute, for a hot minute, it
was wow, the Yankees gonna get kicked out of baseball
(35:49):
losing a series to the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Well, maybe that's all they needed.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
They score the next nine, punctuated by the three hundredth
home run of Aaron Judges career. He is now the
fastest player in baseball history to get to three hundred
home runs. And here's what it sounded like.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
The Captain's sitting on two hundred and ninety nine homers
three zero, Judge shives it dep left.
Speaker 9 (36:16):
Field way back and gone goodbye on a three ozer pitch,
Judge Laser's home run number three hundred, the fastest ever
to hit that.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Mark and blows this one wide open in the.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Eighth Yankees Radio Network. On the call, he said, after
the game, I was mad about the intentional walk. They
walked Sodo before him, just the second time in Judge's
career the batter before him was intentionally walked. And I
heard jud said, Oh yeah, but you're gonna walk the
guy to get to me.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
You see the year I'm having. I'm having a.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Triple crown year. Blank you home run number three hundred,
he said. Quote usually I take a three to zero pitch,
but that situation, you know, to come through. So a
little bit something extra for Aaron Judge on that home run.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Mike Well, he was motivated by the worst team in
baseball who did another dumb thing. Grady size Moore, Welcome
to your White Sox. Yeah moment, by the way, just
all the you know, talk of hey they were up
to one and blah blah blah blah blah, there were
eight hours remaining. Have you not watched the White Sox
or paid attention all year? I feel like I'm being
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stabbed every time you guys do this like this is
something new. No, this is every damn night. I have
experienced this, all right, So three hundred home run. What
one hundred and thirty two games faster than Ralph Kiner.
And now we begin the chase for four hundred.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
See how I flipped it back to positivity for Aaron
Judge intentional walk the guy in front of him. What
the hell would you not just throw the ball thirty
five feet in the air over your catcher's head. I
put him on as well. I just drill him, you
know my old stamps. I don't even throw the four.
I don't need to point down to first base. Just
plug the guy.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yeah, that's that's new. That's new. Put it in.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
At least it's something you know, hey, at least it
was at least it was something new. At least it
was something new from the white ip.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Well, on the positive side, I mean it was his
second shortest home round of the year.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Yeah, he didn't get all of it on that three.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Oh, but it doesn't matter. You just have to hit
it about three hundred and forty feet and that's what
he hit it.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
At the top of his bat. I think tomahawked it in.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
Now.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Look, here's what happens when you're six seven with a
lot of power. I mean, we had her sixty one
feet later and rounding the base.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
We're gonna walk a guy to get to Aaron Judge.
That's new third career home run on a three to
zero pitch.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
White sox is gonna white sock. He is the fastest
in Major League Baseball history to get to three hundred. However,
Aaron Judge got a late start to his career. Didn't
come up for the Yankees until he was twenty four
years old, right. He came up in twenty sixteen for
a little bit and then really burst on the scene
in twenty seven seventeen, had the big fifty home run year,
same year Cody Bellinger was big. Was all of these
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two guys are gonna carry baseball the next eight years?
At least one of them didn't took their part. He's
got three hundred now, but he's thirty two. Is he
gonna hit five hundred?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah? Is he gonna hit six hundred? I think that's
too much.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
I don't if you're gonna say, is Aaron Judge when
you know one of the best home run heres we've
ever seen a guy that's gonna wind up with now
three most likely three fifty home run.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Seasons on his resume this fast.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
It's a lot to ask to age, to not get injured,
to continue to hit forty home runs a year, but
it's still lost.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
That's sixth season at fifty a year. Yeah, that's I mean,
that's insane.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
You've seen you've seen, you've seen him take you know,
it's taken a three, four, five sixty seven these eight
years to get to three hundred. He's not gonna be
hitting home you know, all these home runs when he's
forty one years old. He's a bigger guy. It's a
it's a lot to ask. If you tell where does
he tap out? Somewhere five seventy five ish?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Is I mean?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
That's I mean, I even think that might be a lot.
He gets to five hundred without without too much of
a difficulty, but boy, to get to six hundred, that's
a lot. It's a lot to ask. It's a lot
to ask. Continue to stay healthy and to stay as
productive as you are, and to not miss time. They're
not being a strike, they're not being something to cost
you eighty games in a year. It's a lot to
ask when you're talking about six or seven seasons ahead
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of time.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
So six, I think six hundred is gonna be a
little bit too much to ask for Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Yeah, I mean Eric, but Al Trodriguez did it ahead
of his thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 6 (40:32):
Right.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
If you go through and then you start trying to
do the comps and the size of Judge, you wonder
about body is starting to break down because he's missed time.
He's a Yankee, he's a big Yankee hitter. He's miss
time due to injury. I'm not looking at you, Mike
Giancarlos Stanton over there, you know, while you're in the
lineup now. But to try to say you're gonna do
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that for another seven years, I'd love to see it.
It's good for the game, especially with the guy that
was supposed to be running alongside and Mike Trout consistently sidelined.
This is good for baseball. But yeah, that's that's a
tough ass. Let's just enjoy what we got.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah, it's a you know, the product. The unknown is
really a big thing. Like it's hard to Okay, yeah,
if he can do this, but look, there's unknown that happens.
There's injuries there again, there's work stoppages, there's there's stuffing
to take eight years to get here, Okay, another eight
when you're forty one?
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Is that gonna? I mean it's hard. Big power hitters.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Don't age, well, they don't. They don't keep hitting home
runs when they're forty forty one. Barry Bonds is the
only guy, and look what he went through to get there.
So I get five hundred absolutely Hall of Famer one percent,
six hundred one.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
More to Ty Rogers hornsby little too much to ask
for for three for six.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Hundred for him exit out about a Fresco exit Swollen
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Well, we'll get to that big basketball story coming up
in a couple minutes, but real quick, an update on
what's going on right now with the Yankees and the
White Sox. Now this game is no longer in danger.
It was a two to one White Socks lead to
Wheel want him on the air, Yeah, I'm sure it was.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I think it was. It really hurts my fault.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Uh and not only that, so I texted my dad
and and Fabiano when it was two to one, and
I said, hey, guys, again, my internet's out. Can you
tell me who's winning the who's gonna who's winning the
rubber game of this three game series of the.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yankees and the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Fabiano waits until it's ten to two, and then he
feels safe enough to text sure.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh hey, oh yeah, we're winning, you jerk.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And my dad writes, Felix hunger, which is his big
thing of way of saying blank you to me, is
Felix hunger all the time, Felix hunger. Sometimes just get
a jiff of Tony Randall once in a while. But now, like, really,
you guys, it would ten to two is when you
felt okay enough to finally send a text to me
now when he was four to two, not five now
at ten to two, and judge, it's a home run.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Now I feel okay. Now I can text you guys.
Does that surprise you? Now I could do it? That's
Yankee fan in a nutshell. Well, not be Yankees.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
You think they'd be waiting with Baite as soon as
they took the lead to say, uh Smith, look at it.
And it was my dad, I'm saying, we'll call me
Smith Smith Smith. No, no, but this shows you what
Yankee fans think of their team. That no, no, Only
when we're up by eight against the worst team in baseball,
do I think it's okay to talk a.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Little smack a little bit. That's something there.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
So now there's we can go into ego magnification and
go under the psychiatrist couch if we need to.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But it's okay. Two thousand and what nine, right? That
was the last one?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Two thousand and nine. I believe, Yes, you are cracked
two thousand and nine, two thousand and nine. But meanwhile,
for Aaron Judge, the forty third home run of his career,
of the season, of his career, forty third home run
of the season tonight to make it ten to two.
He is two for four three RBI. Grady Sizemore said
before this year, we're gonna be real cafrol. Pitching to
(02:48):
Aaron Judge, Okay, they walk Juan Soto intentionally, He's got
three walks tonight and Judge just tomahawks the next pitch
into the stands for his forty third home run. Look,
we talk about the silly numbers that Aaron Judge has.
He is first in home runs in forty three, first
and RBIs now with one hundred and ten. He's first
in ops at one point one. I believe he's ops
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will be over one point one eight at this point,
and his batting average now he.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Is up to second in the league.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
You are looking at what could be an incredibly dominant
triple crown season because the only guy that's standing ahead
of him right now, with someone who had to go
basically all for August to and in July to get there,
Bobby Witt Junior is hitting three forty nine, but Aaron
Judge now only has him in front of him, And uh, look,
he's Bobby wit Junior really gonna hit three fifty or
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is he gonna come down a little bit suddenly? Now,
this unbelievable season Aaron Judge is having is a triple
crown season because that's all that's in front of him.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Is Bobby wit Junior.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
In July hit four eighty nine. Did Bobby Witt Junior
hitting three point thirty three this month? And Hunter home
run for him today? So yeah, it would be a
fun race. Will we celebrate the triple crown? Again, or
are we just gonna shrug like we did.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh no, no, it's Aaron Judge. Yeah, it's Aaron Judge.
Come on, man, the biggest stars in all the sports.
Aaron Judge does it. Yeah, we celebrate it, we said,
I just you know what I really wanted, I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
A football season. So I don't know how much we'll celebrate.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
But the thing is with this bad like like I
don't know what the best outcome is, Like, is the
best outcome is for the Yankees to just start losing
for little bit and have to come down to like
the last day of the season, and Judge needs whatever
he needs to win the Triple Crown, But the Yankees
need to win to make the playoffs too, Like I
really could could could it really get down to a
point where, hey, Aaron Judge needs to go two for
(04:43):
four and hope that Bobby Wood Junior goes you know,
one for four, and the Yankees need to win to
make the playoffs, and and Judge does it and he
goes two for four, he gets it, but the Yankees
missed the playoffs. Like I think that would be the
best outcome. Judge is a Triple Crown winner, and I
would even care. I can tell Yankee fans you had
guy with a triple crowd and you couldn't even make
the playoffs. I think that's what I want. I would
(05:04):
trade that. I would trade the Aaron Judges triple Crown
for the Yankees to not make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It would make for great theater and a lot of
angsty Yankee fans in and around our lives and certainly nationwide,
and and some talk show hosts in New York would
be really next level to watch that happen. I kind
of dig that. Yeah, No, it's good content and people watching.
For me, it's only team, so I'll be long into
(05:31):
the Northwestern and Chicago Bears football seasons by then.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah, your record right now is Eric Dickerson and Reggie
White Sony.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Every time I get another aerial shot of the temporary
construct there on Lake Michigan for the Northwestern Wildcats, oh
tear comes to my eye and I watch it fifteen
times because then it keeps me from thinking about the
White Sox.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Good. I got to be positive.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Way to keep let's god say it, and Caleb Williams everybody,
it's now an overweighted bandwagon. But that's Okay, that's okay
by the merch. Show him some love and we'll go
from there until you decide you hate him too, just
like you have every other bearish quarterback that you embraced
for three weeks before casting him off and cutting him loose.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swelling Dome.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
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Speaker 3 (06:26):
All right, now, let's get to this big basketball story.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
This is a a hundred million dollar basketball story, at
least if you want to believe Charles Barkley.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Now, when Charles.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Barkley, who has been very vocal the last few months
about the NBA on TNT and inside the NBA and
we hope we keep it, we don't want to go anywhere.
Everybody's blowing it. TNT is blowing it, everybody's blowing it.
I have to have to go to another network or
all the all this crazy ass stuff we told you
a couple weeks ago. Everything for Charles Barkley boils down
(06:57):
to the fact that he doesn't want to work anymore.
He doesn't want the NBA to leave TNT because he's
got a cushy ass gig. He doesn't work hard. He
shows up, he talks about basketball two or three nights
a week and that's it. There's no prep time, there's
no traveling for interviews. He's got the easiest gig in
the world, and he gets paid all kinds of money
because Charles Barkley is existing.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Now on his name.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Right, He's like a television show when like a show
like Cheers or something was in like it's twelve or
thirteen season and it was okay, Is it really.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
As good as it was? No, it's kind of existing
on reputation.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
People are still watching because of this, but you know
it's not nearly the show it was. Barkley doesn't want
to work hard, right, And we told you if he
goes to a new place, if he had to go
someplace else to talk basketball, whether it's ESPN or whether
it was Amazon, who's gonna get the rights of basketball?
He knows he's not just gonna get to show up
a forty five minutes before the show goes on the
air talk and then leave five minutes after it's over.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
He knows they're gonna ask him to go on other
shows and do other shows and do more you're gonna
ask him to work you want him to do. If
you're paying Charles Barkley twenty five million dollars a year,
thirty million dollars a year, you're gonna ask him to
do that.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
That's what it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Barkley's making twenty million dollars a year now from TNT.
He's got it going on. He's gonna continue on with
this contract. NBA is leaving TNT. He's gonna continue to
do whatever TNT asked him to do, which is not
gonna be anything right. He's gonna just do the bare minimum,
which is exactly why he's been so upset about this
all along. And if you think I'm lying to you,
(08:25):
you think I was making stuff up. A couple of
weeks ago. Here he is on Dad Levittard's podcast earlier
today talking about why he's staying at TNT, and he
eschewed offers that could have gotten him one hundred million
dollars or more from other networks.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
It was a great feeling, and I want to thank
all those networks for reaching out to me. It was
really humbling and cool to be honest with you, even
though they were throwing crazy numbers.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I was like, damn.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
But as long as I got my people safe at TNT, man,
I feel really good.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Like I say, they gonna pay me.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
To go and talk about nothing, so I can't look
a give moreth in the mouth. Wait, Dan, I probably
would have had to do an honest day's work if
I went to one or old other network.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And he's right, he's telling you I would have had
to do. They would have asked me to actually do stuff. Hey,
we're not gonna pay you thirty million dollars a year
to have you on a half hour three nights a week,
which is what inside the NBA is gonna be if
it stays on TNT, even though they lose basketball. Like
I mean, I like, of course they're gonna ask him
to do more. And I understand Barkley's philosophy. I understand, Hey,
(09:29):
when you get in your sixties, do you really want
to do this? I mean, do you are you really saying, hey,
I'm gonna hit with a bigger work ethic or you're
looking to be at the point where it's hey, I'm
doing what I'm doing. I'll do this for a while
and then I'll be done.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Right. Nobody hits this big exit.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
If you didn't have the work ethic before, no one's
gonna suddenly get it. And Barkley does not have a
work ethic. He never had a work ethic. He showed up.
He's very expressive, he's incredibly charismatic. You care what he says.
That's a gold mine. He's made a career on his personality.
And when you do that, yeah, you get lazy. And
he it's a point where I don't want to do
stuff because I don't have to. And do I really
want Is it a big deal for me? Would I
(10:04):
rather make twenty million dollars a year doing the absolute
bare minimum or thirty million dollars a year killing myself
and flying all over the place?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
And No, I don't want to do it. I'm at
the point where I have enough money.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I'm still getting paid a lot, I'm still the preeminent
guy in basketball. I'm not gonna do it. So I
completely understand it. But just understand that's that's the big
motivation for him?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Is that? Yet?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Do I believe he wants to save jobs as long
as he can at TNT Sure he's worked with these
guys for a long time.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But in the end he still talked to other networks.
He's still went in and had conversations. Right if the
offer was right, if Amazon came to him and said, hey, Charles, look,
what are you doing right now for TNT. Well, I
show up about forty five minutes before the show, We talk,
and I leave about five minutes after it's over. Okay,
what if we allow you to come in like thirty
minutes before the show. You can leave before the last
(10:52):
segment when when you know, maybe people aren't watching anymore,
and we'll pay you. We'll pay you a little bit
more money to come now. I'll give you like twenty
five He would say, I'm there. Oh, I can do
less and you'll pay me more money. I am absolutely there, Right,
of course, he would be. It's human nature. That's why
Charles Barkley is doing this.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Whole T D D D.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, he was worried that his life was gonna be upended.
If I want to be a voice of basketball, and
I do, I may have to go where the games
are and that's gonna be a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
More work, and I don't want to do it.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, I mean part of it is, you know, and
is running around and crowning himself TNT Jesus is the
idea that he sends the jobs, but those are all
the people that make his job really easy. Most of
those folks would not be going to ESPN or whatever
other entity, which would mean not only does he have
to work more the car wash and everything else, he's
(11:45):
got to learn a whole new group of people to
help prep him and get it through these paces or whatever.
That's a lot of work man, new personalities, new people.
All of you out there, wherever you are globally on
the iHeartRadio app or whatever you are local affiliates here
across the United States, we appreciate all of you wherever
you're coming in.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Think about when people come into a.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Team at your your job, or if you've had to
join up on a new projects a pain in the ass.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
So the less you have to do that and pivot.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Unless there's just an ungodly amount of money and a
bunch of other perks that come with it, you know
you're gonna be a little reticent to jump into that.
And for Berkley, I'd like that he said the quiet
part out loud. The thing we theorized a long time
ago that he put. He just hammered it home once.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And for all. There it is. I don't want to
work that hard. I don't want to do it. I'm sorry,
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
If he was younger, if he was a dead then
it's a different conversation. But everybody lives life differently, you know,
everybody has that court. I remember, you know, when I
was when I was in my twenties and I would
with this is before I was a radio host and
I with my wife and I had been in LA
for a couple of years and one of my bosses
was leaving Fox and he was gonna go. He was
(12:58):
remember when Roller Derby was made that run like in
the early two thousands. They wanted to it was going
to be like the new wrestling and everything else. Well,
he went to go, was going to be the main
producer for that show, and it was a big deal.
It was gonna be on. They had a lot of publicity,
and he asked if I wanted to come on and be well,
he was gonna be the executive producer and he asked
me, I wanted to come on and be the producer And
I was like wow, he goues it would be more money.
(13:18):
It would be this, that wouldn't be it wasn't so
much more money, whereas oh my god, I can't turn
it down. But it was a decent amount more money.
And I said, okay, what's the gig and what's the gig?
And he says, well, we got to go to Atlanta
and you got to be in Atlanta three days a
week for probably from August until the end of the year.
And I'm like, I can't do that. And he was
stunned when I said that, and he was surprised. I said, why, So,
(13:41):
I'm not going to be away from my wife and
my life here. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Like if it was if it was a one hundred
million dollars, I'd say, all right, well, hey, we could
move to Atlanta. That's why we moved to Atlanta for
six months.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
But I'm like, I'm not going to fly back and
forth every week and and and miss my wife for
three days.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I'm not going to do that three days a week
every week.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Oh I'm not gonna by by by the third week,
I'm gonna be done getting on a plane and coming back.
So I said no, And there's times where I've turned
down an extra work or additional work because it just
doesn't fit with my with my philosoph with my life,
with my lifestyle. It's like, hey, all right, if there's
something I can do and I can fit it in
with with with my lifestyle and what I like to do,
(14:21):
awesome that then I'll do it. But if it's not something,
if it's something that's too difficult for me, I'm gonna
say no to it. And this was a gig where
it was you know, I don't want to say it
would have been double my salary of what I was making,
but it would have been close to it. And it
still wasn't even more than a ten second conversation. My head,
I'm like, I'm not, I can't do this. I can't
do this.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, this is something I can't do. So I get it, right,
I get it.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You know a lot of different ages depending on where
you are in your life, maybe the answer is different
but you but I can still see where this is.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
This is a decision that's made where it's.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Hey, you know what what I want to do in
my life and the money isn't worth it, and I'd
rather just kind of do what I've been doing and
and and let the chips fall that way, So, you
know what, we kind of have fun with Barkley here
a little bit of it.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
No, I completely get what he's.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Doing and why he said of the way he did
well that needs gained a lot of capital with all
those people that will still be on set of TNT,
But at what point did they get to where I am?
It was fun the first time you said it, when
you said it out loud of you know, I really
loved the people, and I've loved watching the graduations and
everybody growing. When you say it the nine hundred time,
Now you're patting yourself on the back a little.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Bit too much. Yeah, yeah, and on his shoulders.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Gotta be hurting like hell for him right now from
patting himself on the back.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, I kept everybody's jobs.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I'm so the next year it's gotta be a pain
in the ass at a minimum for a lot of
those people on the set because now they feel like
they owe.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
This guy on a whole other level.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Right, there's excitement and gratitude, but also potentially a bit
of resentment because he may come back a little bit
of a different guy. You know, you wouldn't be here
if I didn't stick around and tell ESPN to stick
it right.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Potentially the chaos is there? Exit out about a FRESC
exit swollen dome.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the Tyraq dot com studios. A big day
in the NFL today. Maybe at some point, Brandon, I
you will get traded or the Niners.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Will keep him.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
One thing for sure, the Vikings will be going forward
without JJ McCarthy out for the season after undergoing knee
surgery today, joining us now in the hotline to break
it all down. There is nobody better than longtime NFL insider.
You can follow him on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two.
He is a Pro Football Hall of Very Good voter.
(18:27):
There were many very good players who went in the
Hall of Fame a few days ago, j Cole, what's
happened about?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
How are you?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
They're all famous? They were all famous players, not very
good famous. That was what it was. Same.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Oh is that? Well?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Okay, so you just have to be famous now you
don't need to be good, You just be famous to
get it.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Well that I did have a funny discussion with people
like this, one guy from Buffalo, a former player, you know,
being aggravated about pitch. You know, the best players should
go in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Was it Steve Tasker?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
I can't. It was a Steve Tasker burner account. Don
don Beebie, uh like getting in his tarket. It should
for me the best player. It's for the famous players,
for the ones who make an impact and change the
fame the game. And he said, no, it's not about fame.
(19:27):
I go, it's called the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
The name.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Fame. Fame is the overriding factor. When it's a Hall
of fame. I feel like I'm doing a Bob Newhart
episode or something like that.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Sure, no, no, that's all good. I understand. So you
don't have to be good, you just have to be famous.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
You can make the Hall of fame.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
That's part of it. Yeah, it's famous, that's the Hall
of fame.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
It's so Zach Wilson's mom.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
I'm glad that. That's that follow up question.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Zach Wilson's mom can make the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Not in football, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Why not my personality and she's famous?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
Is this hall? Can I say?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Careful?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Yeah, I don't know that I can say this.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, let it go. I don't know what you were
going to say either. I have no idea. You pause
that long, say no, no you.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Can't right, Yeah, we'll just no. Yeah, there's a hall
there for her. It's not one we can talk about.
Let's just pay certainly not the one her friends are in.
That's a that's why I'm here anyways, moving along something.
You should be really happy now because now Sam Darnold
is going to be starting for the Vikings this year
(20:54):
and gets a year maybe two years to to you know,
hone his skills. When Rogers stipp so sidey, you guys,
can the Jets can sign Donald?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, you know, listen, it's sometimes you just need a
little bit of time to get the Jets off of you.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
It took Gino Smith a decade.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
It's going to take Sam Donald four or five years
if that works.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
It took a decade to get the stench off of him.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, you know, listen, you you were calm and reasonable
most of the time.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
What what do you expect out of Sam Donald? Now?
What do you expect to see? What do you expect
from this year?
Speaker 6 (21:31):
Kind of the same thing I would expect out of
Jimmy Garoppolo or any other of these kind of big
membo quarterbacks. Right. Yeah, they're they're kind of bringing dead
heavers and that's what he is. He just you know,
he gets out there and he can fling it around.
(21:53):
He can make some big plays because he's got a
big arm. He can do some you know things that
look really fun, but he's going to make a bunch
of mistakes and critical situations and when the pressure is
at the highest against the best defenses, there are going
to be times where he has that deer in headlights looking.
(22:14):
You know it well from those Jets days, just like
Jimmy Garoppolo had that deer in the headlights look when
it just got a little too fast. I'm a little
too complicated, because yeah, these guys, their brains just don't
really work quite fast enough for when it gets really, really,
really tough. And yeah, that's what separates the truly great
(22:37):
ones from guys who are just really super talented.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
It's where you bridge good and famous.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
There you go, Smith, we just found our answer, all right,
if you were flipping a coin, Is that all it is.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Right now with the AYUK situation or do you have
a lean on this?
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I was curious about the fact that he was on
the field today for the first time. I think that's
the first time that he was on the field during
a practice.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
It's a hold in.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It's a hold in now. It's like loves in the sixties.
It's a hold in now.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
It's a hold in for well, I know, it's yeah,
the love ends with the Foy like he wants to
be there. They've got to come to Grimston like they
got pay him. The forty hours are quibbling about the
you know, the effects on the bottom end of their
roster when you're paying starts because they got to make
(23:28):
this move to keep him because they're trying to win
a Super Bowl. Pearcel's not ready. They know that a
year from now they want to move on from Debo.
They just got to bite the bullet and do this right.
And then they're going to have to pay party at
some point when Trent Williams walk and so when Divo's
(23:48):
gone and Trent Williams is gone, and Kill's going to
be gone sooner than later because his body is racked up.
At this point in time, you should want to keep
the young guy who's been healthy, who's been played saying
every game for you, who is a really terrific deep threat,
like he's a super productive guy. But Pittsburgh is willing
(24:13):
to step up and give him the money he wants. Okay, well,
does that not tell you something? Pay the guy. So
you know, I think the forty nine ers, their history
has been if you go way back and deal with
all the contracts, is that they just overthink the contracts
because you know, the guys who are in charge of
(24:34):
rating the contracts have a little more sway with the
owner and a little more power with the owner. And
sometimes when you're at this stage, you just have to
push your chips in a little bit, you know, you
have to push it in and just say we'll figure
it out on the backside. I remember Kevin Demoff is
a really good contract guy, saying, why am I worried
(24:57):
about a million or two million on the top end players.
I can find that with my backup linebackers. And you
take a guy for three million instead of four million
or whatever it happens to be, you can fill in
those spots with guys who are a little bit cheaper.
You can't find guys who are you know, who are
difference makers. And you know, and one other problem with
(25:19):
this and everyone want to put this all on the
contract guys with the forty nine ers is Shanahan has
been griping ever since the end of last season about
my dad. You know one titles with cheap wide receivers.
That was White Rod Smith and Ed McCaffrey. Right, you know,
you guys he found. It's like, yeah, I did, and
(25:41):
he was really lucky. Like just you can't recreate that luck.
Sometimes you have to pay for guys.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
See.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
But I look at it like this is like, as
you mentioned, hey, after this year, Party's going to get
sixty million, McCaffrey's going to be twenty nine.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Well with sixty million, you really think he's.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Not going to get sixty million dollars a year.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
I really think he's not now because he's got because
they can squad on his rights for a couple of
years as much cheaper. So it's it's not going to
be that high a contract now because he's not he's
not really a free agent to this offseason. He's he
can still be tendered and restricted and then they can
(26:24):
put him you know, then they can then they can
put the tag on him. Now he can he can
redo his contract at the end of this year. But
it's a different it's a different leverage situation. It's not
sixty million dollars a year, dak TuS goot, if he
goes free, we'll get sixty million dollars a year because
he will be free and clear. Party's not going to
be in that situation.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
I don't know, but you.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Think Party's going to be okay, Okay, I'll take another
couple of years of less and and and we're gonna
we're gonna call it bad here.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
I think I think party realized is and I think
more importantly, Perty's family realizes he's got a really good situation.
Stay in a good situation with a really great coach,
with a team that knows how to use you and
how to how to take advantage of your skill set,
(27:17):
and you know, don't do these holding kind of things.
This is this is silly. You know, if it's you know,
you're going to be fine at forty five to fifty
million dollars a year on a long term contract. You
don't have to kill it for sixty unless you want
to wait it out. If you want to wait it out,
play a year and there's you know, on you know,
(27:38):
restricted tag, and then play another year or two years
on a franchise tag. Then you know, that's a that's
a different set of rules, and you can play it
out and you can you can top back your dollars.
You can't really do it this year because of those
tag situations are the way it works.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
You know me, I always love when we get to
the franchise dag and everybody gets all mad, and I say, hey,
you know what, take it out of the next CBA.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Let's see what you give up to get that part
of it.
Speaker 8 (28:05):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
I will say that the owners, the owners, when they
first proposed this, it was specifically for protect quarterbacks, and
it has morphed into something where oh, let's squat on guys'
rights for a year or two while we find a
way to replace them. And that's wrong, and they should
find a way to restrict it from that. That would,
(28:30):
of course require that the people who run the NFLPA
understand football and squatting on rights and roster construction. Unfortunately,
they hired a guy who was a bean counter from
you know, some you know, some corporation who said, yeah,
I think he might have played football in high school.
(28:51):
He knows nothing about the business season, so getting into
that kind of detail, he'll never figure it out, and
the players don't know how to figure it out either.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two, that is
at Jason Cole sixty two putting.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Stop stop, they stop, stop stop. Here's what's gonna happen
he's likedmort No, that's not.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Coming back. Yuh again.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Wow, you got a Missus murror reference in nicely done.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Take it easy, buddy, we'll talk to you. Well played, Mrroring. Yeah,
I know that's pretty nice.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Yeah, that is a good old school literature and film reference. Sure,
Hope lang Right goes to Missus Muir, nicely done, Hope
lang Right.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Sure. Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Let me just jump to you with what Jed York
said a couple of months ago when it comes to
Brock Purty uh getting his next contract.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Well, it's what the market is.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Brock is gonna ask for something that no one's ever
asked for before. I don't know how many players are
making over forty million dollars annually as a quarterback right now.
That's what the market is. And you have to accept
the reality of the world. Yeah, they're gonna want to
keep him happy and perty's gonna get sixty million dollars.
I get that you can do all this, and but
you don't want to make it. And I understand Jason
(30:23):
Cole's point. Look, you can can you can really, you
can really stick it to him if you wanted to.
If you don't have all, but you don't want to
do that with your quarterback. You want to make sure
he's signing you love him, he's staying. This is the
going rate for quarterbacks. This is what he's gonna want
to get. This is what he's gonna wind up getting
because you want to keep him happy. You gotta keep
your quarterback happy because he will buy you contention. This
is just gonna be the last year where the Niners
(30:43):
will be overwhelming super Bowl favorites because when you take
the money you're paying brock Purty right now, which is
about eight bucks an hour, even if you add forty
million dollars to it, Suddenly, hey, where are you getting
the rest of that money from all other guys in
the team, And you're cutting three or four star players
to have to get under that. I mean, that's why
this is the year for the Niners. This is the
last year they'll be overwhelming super Bowl favorites like they
(31:04):
are because of that contract situation.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah, I mean, as jayco went all the way through, right,
I mean, you're talking about McCaffrey's age. You look at
Debo and where he's at physically. Trent Williams just turned
thirty six a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Happy birthday. Trent Williams still dominant.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
But again, where's the edge of the cliff when it
comes to an offensive line with that many miles on
the tires?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I mean, just keep going on down the line.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
So yeah, but the it just kind of chuckle when
it gets into the franchise tag thing because everybody always
gets mad about it. It's like, you're getting the average
at the top five players. It's pretty good money, and
you guys agreed to this in the CBA. So again,
you want it out of the CBA. I love to
see the negotiation there.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
We want that gone.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Okay, now what will you give us eighteen nineteen twenty games?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Where do you want to go?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon. We want to go right
now to Kevin Wyart, who has everything that's trending in
the wide world of sports.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
Major League Baseball, we're in the dog days of August
and the Dodgers really feeling the heat in the National
League West End. They had a three to nothing lead
against the Brewers after the first inning in Milwaukee, but
the Brewers end up winning this one. They came back
to take a four to three lead. The Dodgers tied
it at four before Milwaukee gets another run in the
eight to win it five to four and take the
(32:28):
third game of this four game series after the Dodgers
took the first two so they could go for the
series tie tomorrow morning, and the Dodgers, though feeling the heat,
they have a two and a half game lead on
the Diamondbacks and Padres. That's after Arizona one today eleven
to four against the Colorado Rockies. They've won twenty of
their last twenty five games coming out of the All
(32:49):
Star Break. In the Padres also on a similar run
nineteen and four since the All Star Break, after they
finish off a sweep on the Pirates eight to two,
so LA's lead in the NL West now sit at
two and a half games. In the American League East,
the Orioles do bounce back from a loss to the
Nationals yesterday to beat them today for one, but the
Yankees after it looked like they might lose, so the
(33:11):
White Socks.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
They were down to one for much of.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
That game, but they explode as Aaron Judge becomes the
fastest person to hit three hundred career home runs in history,
and he helps propel the Yankees to a big ten
to two victory, although again was a one run White
Sox lead up until the final innings there on the
South Side. So this lead for the Yankees in the
Al East still half a game up on Baltimore. Elsewhere
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in Major League Baseball, we do have a couple of
games still going on right now. Blue Jay's lead the
Angels seven to one, Braves on top of the Mets
nine to two, so those games look like they are
all but formalities there everything else has gone final. Royals
still hold the final wildcard spot. They're able to beat
the Twins on Wednesday four to one. The Rangers and
Red Sox go to extras. Boston wins at nine to seven.
(34:00):
Rubs and Guardians Cleveland wins at six ' to one.
Philly's over the Marlins nine to five. Tigers and Mariners
go to extras where Detroit wins it three to two.
Cubs beat the Cardinals ninety two, Astros over the Rays
two wine and the Mets beat the Athletics nine to one.
Matthew Judea on going from New England to the Atlanta
Falcons as New England sending him in exchange for a
third round draft selection. JJ McCarthy going to be out
(34:22):
for the season after he had to have surgery to
repair his torn at meniscus, so he has done for
the year. However, not all bad news. Jordan Addison is okay.
According to Kevin O'Connell, he did hurt his ankle in
practice and had to be carded off of the field.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
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Speaker 1 (34:55):
Coming up next, we had an absolute milestone, record breaking
home run in Major League Baseball to tell you about tonight,
and the conversation is gonna get a lot bigger than
just one home run.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
That was it. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
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 (35:21):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
Mike Harmon, Well Dressed Hobo.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios. Jay, let's
get that big Aaron Judge home run ready number three
hundred for Aaron Judge tonight, part of the Yankees win
over the White Sox. The game, the White Sox were
winning two to one when we came on the air
and yeah, for a minute, for a hot minute, it
was wow, the Yankees gonna get kicked out of baseball
(35:49):
losing a series to the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Well, maybe that's all they needed.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
They score the next nine, punctuated by the three hundredth
home run of Aaron Judges career. He is now the
fastest player in baseball history to get to three hundred
home runs. And here's what it sounded like.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
The Captain's sitting on two hundred and ninety nine homers
three zero, Judge shives it dep left.
Speaker 9 (36:16):
Field way back and gone goodbye on a three ozer pitch,
Judge Laser's home run number three hundred, the fastest ever
to hit that.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Mark and blows this one wide open in the.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Eighth Yankees Radio Network. On the call, he said, after
the game, I was mad about the intentional walk. They
walked Sodo before him, just the second time in Judge's
career the batter before him was intentionally walked. And I
heard jud said, Oh yeah, but you're gonna walk the
guy to get to me.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
You see the year I'm having. I'm having a.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Triple crown year. Blank you home run number three hundred,
he said. Quote usually I take a three to zero pitch,
but that situation, you know, to come through. So a
little bit something extra for Aaron Judge on that home run.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Mike Well, he was motivated by the worst team in
baseball who did another dumb thing. Grady size Moore, Welcome
to your White Sox. Yeah moment, by the way, just
all the you know, talk of hey they were up
to one and blah blah blah blah blah, there were
eight hours remaining. Have you not watched the White Sox
or paid attention all year? I feel like I'm being
(37:25):
stabbed every time you guys do this like this is
something new. No, this is every damn night. I have
experienced this, all right, So three hundred home run. What
one hundred and thirty two games faster than Ralph Kiner.
And now we begin the chase for four hundred.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
See how I flipped it back to positivity for Aaron
Judge intentional walk the guy in front of him. What
the hell would you not just throw the ball thirty
five feet in the air over your catcher's head. I
put him on as well. I just drill him, you
know my old stamps. I don't even throw the four.
I don't need to point down to first base. Just
plug the guy.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yeah, that's that's new. That's new. Put it in.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
At least it's something you know, hey, at least it
was at least it was something new. At least it
was something new from the white ip.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Well, on the positive side, I mean it was his
second shortest home round of the year.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Yeah, he didn't get all of it on that three.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Oh, but it doesn't matter. You just have to hit
it about three hundred and forty feet and that's what
he hit it.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
At the top of his bat. I think tomahawked it in.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
Now.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Look, here's what happens when you're six seven with a
lot of power. I mean, we had her sixty one
feet later and rounding the base.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
We're gonna walk a guy to get to Aaron Judge.
That's new third career home run on a three to
zero pitch.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
White sox is gonna white sock. He is the fastest
in Major League Baseball history to get to three hundred. However,
Aaron Judge got a late start to his career. Didn't
come up for the Yankees until he was twenty four
years old, right. He came up in twenty sixteen for
a little bit and then really burst on the scene
in twenty seven seventeen, had the big fifty home run year,
same year Cody Bellinger was big. Was all of these
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two guys are gonna carry baseball the next eight years?
At least one of them didn't took their part. He's
got three hundred now, but he's thirty two. Is he
gonna hit five hundred?
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah? Is he gonna hit six hundred? I think that's
too much.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
I don't if you're gonna say, is Aaron Judge when
you know one of the best home run heres we've
ever seen a guy that's gonna wind up with now
three most likely three fifty home run.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Seasons on his resume this fast.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
It's a lot to ask to age, to not get injured,
to continue to hit forty home runs a year, but
it's still lost.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
That's sixth season at fifty a year. Yeah, that's I mean,
that's insane.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
You've seen you've seen, you've seen him take you know,
it's taken a three, four, five sixty seven these eight
years to get to three hundred. He's not gonna be
hitting home you know, all these home runs when he's
forty one years old. He's a bigger guy. It's a
it's a lot to ask. If you tell where does
he tap out? Somewhere five seventy five ish?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Is I mean?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
That's I mean, I even think that might be a lot.
He gets to five hundred without without too much of
a difficulty, but boy, to get to six hundred, that's
a lot. It's a lot to ask. It's a lot
to ask. Continue to stay healthy and to stay as
productive as you are, and to not miss time. They're
not being a strike, they're not being something to cost
you eighty games in a year. It's a lot to
ask when you're talking about six or seven seasons ahead
(40:23):
of time.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
So six, I think six hundred is gonna be a
little bit too much to ask for Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Yeah, I mean Eric, but Al Trodriguez did it ahead
of his thirtieth birthday.
Speaker 6 (40:32):
Right.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
If you go through and then you start trying to
do the comps and the size of Judge, you wonder
about body is starting to break down because he's missed time.
He's a Yankee, he's a big Yankee hitter. He's miss
time due to injury. I'm not looking at you, Mike
Giancarlos Stanton over there, you know, while you're in the
lineup now. But to try to say you're gonna do
(40:53):
that for another seven years, I'd love to see it.
It's good for the game, especially with the guy that
was supposed to be running alongside and Mike Trout consistently sidelined.
This is good for baseball. But yeah, that's that's a
tough ass. Let's just enjoy what we got.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah, it's a you know, the product. The unknown is
really a big thing. Like it's hard to Okay, yeah,
if he can do this, but look, there's unknown that happens.
There's injuries there again, there's work stoppages, there's there's stuffing
to take eight years to get here, Okay, another eight
when you're forty one?
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Is that gonna? I mean it's hard. Big power hitters.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Don't age, well, they don't. They don't keep hitting home
runs when they're forty forty one. Barry Bonds is the
only guy, and look what he went through to get there.
So I get five hundred absolutely Hall of Famer one percent,
six hundred one.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
More to Ty Rogers hornsby little too much to ask
for for three for six.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Hundred for him exit out about a Fresco exit Swollen
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