August 21, 2024 • 40 mins
In Hour 2 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys react to an interesting story where a Staten Island Little League World Series Coach called out Aaron Judge for apparently not meeting with his team at a meet-and-greet event... The only issue? He actually WAS there meeting with the youngsters. MLB reporter Jon Paul Morosi joins to hit on all of the biggest stories from around the Major League. The guys close out the hour with Jason explaining why the 49ers piss him off so much.
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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got John Paul Morosi stopping buying about twenty minutes. All
the biggest news out of Major League Baseball is things
are getting real for some teams that are hoping to
stay in the playoff race. But you know this story.
When I saw it come up this weekend, I said
to myself, please die, please go away, please go away,
please please please let this not be a big nope. Nope, nope, nope,
(01:10):
had to be a big story Little League World Series
going on right now. And I told you Staten Island
my home. Yeah, where I grew up, I played Little
League baseball. They were there three big little leagues on
Staten Island, not this one South Shore Little League which
which made it to the Little League World Series play
in Williamsport right now. They got eliminated today. They lost.
They lost their first game, they won the next two.
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They got eliminated today. Except now there is controversy raging
because Aaron Judge is at the center of something that
is so entirely stupid. I but we have to, you know,
like stupidity. So you know, the Yankees played last night
the Little League World Series game, like they do it
every year. One team, you know, to.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Exhibition spotlight game. Sure, shake hands, kissing babies, all of
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yankees go there, they meet the players, they're signing autographs
all part of the day. And the Staten Island coach
Bob Laturza is not happy with the Yankees, not happy
with Aaron Judge, very upset that Aaron Judge didn't spend
one on one time with the team because you know, hey,
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Aaron Judge, New York. This team's from Staten Island. I
think you should spend some time with us because you're
you know, worre Statt n Island, which is a borough
of New York. You should spend time with us. And
then he also got even more upset when during the
game he wouldn't turn around and wave to the kids
when he was in the field. Quote, how about turning
around a way to New York and the kids that
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think you're a hero, they're the ones who pay your salary.
Aaron Judge, who meets with kids all the time, does
a lot of outreach stuff. This is and I'm going
this is where I come on, man, this, come on
Staten Island. Come on, it's always the one autograph.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Don't sign earn this lesson through all these years, no
matter how much you do, no matter how good you
are with fans and in all sorts of circumstances at
the ballpark, leaving the hotel, hanging out, getting your car
as you're getting ready to leave, no matter what you do,
it's the one guy or the one group that doesn't
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get all that personal love and interaction that they try
to make you public enemy Number.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
One and he got. He got even more upset in
an interview, saying that he was mad that only DJ
Lemayhew Tim Hill and a few others attended a pre
arranged session with the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Like he's mad about it, I promise you get a
couple of people you know up. That's the way it works, dude.
I told you when I was a kid and Alex
Trevino came to my camp and signed my hat, I
was the happiest kid in the world. And I don't
think he ever played more than thirty games in a
season at Major League Baseball. Here's a guy who plays
for the Mets. No, but he's signing my hat.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
But this is probably as a backup catcher, and he
was gonna have a four year career.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I was so excited here, Hey, how come Aaron Judgsen
come down and talk. But that's the problem with is
that in this in this day and age, and I
sound like the old man here, But when we talk
about social media and the good, the bad, the ugly
of it all, it's the people get to see, you know,
the up close and personal. Hey, they got to meet
this celebrity, they got to meet this athlete, whatever, and
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look at what they do. Well, why don't I get
that the entitlement of that, Like we used to get excited,
We get our dollar. Basically they were dollar of outfield
seats for perfect attendance.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
We were happy as hell. Did we need to buy
a bunch of stuff at the game. No, we were
just happy to get in the door, right, That was
that was all it mattered. Now it's like, well I
didn't get nachos, and and I didn't get the ice
cream hat and everything just going on down the line.
It's like, yeah, it's like when they do those averages
of what it costs to go to a ball park,
it's because you're being silly and buying stuff ad nauseam.
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Same thing here, it's like you a baseball player, no
matter where they're at in the food chain, it was
a big deal. Wait, we have a chance, a chance
for one of those guys to show up. And then
one actually does and you're but here you're mad that
you didn't get Aaron judge, how about you call it
Mayhew who wants to meet that batting chance?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Like just because they want ALTI time alls just because
he's done and all the all the every headline of
every day with what's wrong with the Yankees? He's the top.
Always can't have DJ lem Mayhew come here. You gotta
set us a good player. So when this happens, I'm going, okay,
let this just go away. Let there be some kind
of apology. No, no apology. So the Yankees put out
a statement about this tonight, and part of their statement
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reads as such, It would have been much better if
Staten Island's coach called us to understand the facts before
bitterly reacting in such a public fashion. Reaching out to
us would have been the prudent way to act, and
would have said a fine example for his young players.
Aaron Judge always acts with kindness and respect. The coach
could learn a lot from him.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Boom, because this flows out of so last week right
that we give my home. I know, buddy down, these
guys are now gonna be public enemy number one.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He's not a hero. Now the Yankees hate you. How
does that you made? The Yankees? And now and they
put out a statement just to let you know what
what happened is that Aaron Judge did meet with a
lot of kids, sign a lot of autographs, did get
to meet a couple of the Staten Island kids pose
for a picture. The other Yankees met the kids. There
was another meet and greet where Garrett Cole was there
as well. Get mad, Garrett Cole. You'd stake you're not
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worth that thirty five million dollars a year. So there
was a lot of time where the Staten Island team
did meet the Yankees. But he's upset that no more
one on one time with Aaron Judge And hey, you
don't wave to the kids when they're calling out your
name in the field, like what like, I get it. Hey,
some guys can do that and some good, but you're
really imadd didn't look really, some guys can't do that.
(06:59):
What the one on one time?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Because you know fanatics, right, we did a couple of
reads and they're big fan Fest in New York this
last weekend, and we played some clips, right, Tom Brady
talking and all these different panel events, a huge card show.
But they had a lot of autograph signings and you know,
I reference.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Him every once in a while.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Cody Rhodes, you know, son of the American Dream, who's
had his run as champion, has been a big WWE star,
Like really at the top of the game the last
couple of years. A guy who doesn't turn down a
picture request an autograph. He pulls people that are dressed
like him out of the stands as he's walking to
the ring, delaying stuff including live television spots.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Are like, dude, you were supposed to be in the
ring three minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But he grabs like all this stuff and he's signed
and autographs and doing photos whatever, And something happened where
he had had to go, and people immediately were making
him the bad guy. Same thing, all promotion thing, all
us scheduling, nothing to do with him or any decision
he got to make. But all of a sudden there
were the viral videos of people cursing him out like
(08:05):
he was the worst person in the World's like it's anything,
but this is the guy that in every city he
goes to, shows up in kids hospital as Ben's Tide judge,
doing the same kind of stuff, but now he's trying
to vilify them, and you end up looking like the.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Ass you know. And that's the thing is that there's
certain players you would say, Okay, does this person do
a lot? How are they with kids? But like maybe
you don't really think do you really think? Aaron Judge said, no,
don't want to meet. No, take those Staten Island kids
off my schedule. I don't care. How about you calling
my name. I'm not gonna turn around and acknowledge you.
I'm not gonna tip my damp. Now it's that you're
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the fifth borough. Okay, Manhattan's better the Brons. Actually I
gotta go first. Bronx is the best. Then there's Manhattan,
then there's Brooklyn. You're fourth because Queen's has the Mets,
so you're actually fourth on the time.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And I don't wave to the number four borough in
New York, like, do you really that's Aaron Judge?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's what Aaron Judge did? I mean really? And the
Yankee said, hey, you make sure you stay away from
that Staten Island team, like you sound like no matter,
like you're playing Little League World Series and here's a
bonus thing where you get to meet the Yankees and
it's so cool. But no, no, that's not enough. But
that's not enough.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Demnagan to meet our judge is a complete total failure.
But not everybody's failing us. You fail all of us.
But the best part of it was how many videos
including John Balmrosi, who's gonna join us here in about
ten minutes. How many videos did you see of Aaron
Judge and Juan Soto out there signing autograph hands.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And meeting with a mass of humanity. I mean even
the New York Post, which hates everything, puts all kinds
of pictures in this story of Judge just surrounded by
people as he's signing.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And smiling and leaning in for selfies and all of
this stuff. And then you got this coach whose name
I'm not even gonna give the recognition.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh man, I mean every type the thing is any
time I look for some kind of story that evolves
stanton onegal, Please don't be somebody I know.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Please don't be somebody. Please don't be such. It's not
somebody you grew up with that you know. Maybe I
just don't remember something someone I know well, because I
told you this a guy you scored on and a no,
this guy waved like. This guy's older. It seems like
he's I think he's in his late sixties or so.
It seems older.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Think of the children. But like I said, there were
three big little leagues on Staten Island, and last I
always thought our little league was the best because we
had all great players. But then like Mid Island Little
League and South Shore and Snug Harbor, those are the
three ones. The other two each of them now have
going to Little League World Series. Snug Harbor's never gone.
I'm like, maybe our players weren't the best. Maybe they're
So this is from the other side of the island.
(10:39):
I does sound like it's lost the tail people. Uh, this
is the other side of the island. That is, you know,
a good ten miles away from where I was, not
even the less than ten miles, maybe about five six
miles because Steaten Island's you can get in the Express
waging it from one end of the Stein Island the
X in about ten minutes. So I'm like, Okay, we
never played, never played these kids, But I see this
and I just go, no, onen't really cared. Just look
(11:01):
look at Staten Island. Look, Look look how needy Staten
Island looks. Look at them here they have Aaron Judge,
all the Yankees meeting people. I can't imagine what it
would have been like if the Mets were there. But
what do you say, I mean, what do you say? Hey,
you send the Mets to here. We're in the Little
League World Series. You send the Mets. We don't want
to meet anybody on the Mets. You send those Mets. O.
You sent a real theme here. You sent a real them,
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and we'll talk to them, all right. You don't You
don't send the Mets. In fact, you don't send any
Yankee who used to be on the Mets. You just
send Yankees only guys you signed, guys that came up
true to system. You don't say anybody that even played
against the Mets in the National League you don't send.
You send other guys, and you will make sure Judge
shows up.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Like, I don't know, I love the Yankee statement. I
might actually uh you know, I love my White Sox.
I will never be a fan of another squad. But
I hate the Yankees a little less today, man.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I mean just that they've had to put out a
statement and it seems so bad, and they're still gonna
have them the team at a Yank game at some point.
But it for the kids, I know, well, I don't
think the to that. Hey, screw all you kids. You
thought it was a dream meeting us? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Whatever, I want you to lead all the pictures, but
you don't have to invite them.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
They couldn't fight the kids. Hey, kids, you come with
your parents, but the coach can't come. Okay, Dad, I'm
okay with.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Because all of a sudden, this guy's gonna be in
the middle of a bunch of pictures cheese.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And and he's gonna be like, Hey, the squeaky wheel
got the grease. I mean, dude, I like I said,
Bob las Okay, Bob, Bobby Laterza, Bob Laterza anybody else
named Laterza anybody? No, nobody, I know nobody. I know
it's all good because there are stories where there have
been have been people I know. Oh I knew that. Yeah,
I know we all have a few of those. I
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knew that. There's plenty of people that say that about me,
something about the show. What did this idiot say?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But like I just think about the just think about
the the stones to sit here and say, in the
middle of the Little League World Series while you're playing
and trying to win, right, because think about this part
of it. You're there for the kids, right, this is
this is there that you're the missing Moment's great, right,
But you know this is they're the ones on the
field playing. This is what they remember the rest of
their lives. And what are they gonna walk away with?
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We lost? And yeah, and coach got really mad at
Aaron Judge, really mad that Aaron Judge wouldn't wave to us.
We're yelling his name in the stands, like that's you
gonna take away from this? By the way, if you're
in this stance going a.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And is he turning around?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
No, because he's probably used to a bunch of people
flipping him off.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Aaron Staten Island in the house. Oh blank, you man
to turn around for Staten Island. Oh god, we'll come.
We'll fight the Bronx. I got people, come and fight
the Bronx. We're gonna come kick yours. I'm thinking about
we went to a wedding in Brooklyn. Were on a
train and come kick your f But we're walking. We're
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just taking a walking down room. We can go fight
something eat. And this guy's up front and he's doing
the usual. He's got the hose out and he's he's
watering his plants and his flower.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
He goes, hey, it's a beautiful day. I go, it's
you know, just out it's a little muggy. He goes, yeah,
but you're in Brooklyn. That's a beautiful day to be
in Brooklyn. And so as you do your relating back
to Staten Island, like, same people, same ideals.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I sound like if they fought, it would be like
that scene from Anchorman, like Okay, here come, here comes
Staten Island to fight in the Bronx. And then the
Mets would go, wait, you know, don't have a brawl
without Telemundo Spanish Languide showing up. Okay, and then they
show up and then it's okay.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Then we're taking a break from our ledge dra to
come kick some ass. Suddenly the metsman show up on
the seven line like okay, this is this is crazy.
Now what's happening here? Like that's what you did, Bob,
See what you did? This is your fault, Bob.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I can't believe. Nope, I'm gonna get really mad and
do an interview and say how mad I am that
Aaron Judge didn't do more stuff for the kid, Like
what like what like if they were paying him, Hey,
they we're paying you fifty grand, Aaron Judge, you got oh,
but he's there exciting for the kids. It's not enough.
It's not enough. We want the good Yankees.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Okay, hey, hey, show me the piece of paper that
promised you Aaron Judge was showing up. It's just like
opening a pack of baseball cards and you get a
random redemption.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Don't send d it was Judge.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Don't send Cashman, don't send Boone, don't neither of those guys.
You send Judge and maybe Soto and that's it.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Actually, you know what. You send cash Man. I got questions. Hang,
oh yeah, wait, and no Clay Holmes either. He stinks.
He was great early and if their Little League World
Series is like two months ago, great Clay holmestinks. Now okay,
he stinks. Don't send him either. Here's a list of
approved Yankees we could see. Here's some legends I want
to see as well. You could send Gidriy, you could
send Nettles, you could send Reggie.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Write them down. These are wrong names. Donny Baseball, you'll
get geta Thatt.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
No, don Donny Baseball's at that's great, but you'll get
geta and Bogs on the horse. You'll get brocious. You
go get Bernie Williams. Bring Sandman in. These are the guys.
I want my kids to see these guys right here.
These guys you gotta go see you, go see it.
These other guys. Forget about it. Forget about DJ Lemayhew,
forget about Garrickle, forget about it. Just forget about it.
Forget about these guys, forget about forget it, forget about.
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Speaker 1 (17:28):
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know Staten Island being upset to.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Though disparaging the good names and one of the good
guys in Major League Baseball and one of the few
guys that you could legitimately say is a superstar and
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Speaker 1 (17:54):
Of your game. Yeah, yeah, no, no, it is.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
It is.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
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Speaker 4 (18:21):
I would tell you this, Sternsy's team, as of this
moment still has a h about a twenty three percent
chance of making the postseason, Jason, which is a lot
higher than I thought it was going to be when
the season began. So I would say this, at least
through August twentieth, it has been a successful year for
them at despite tonight's loss to the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, no, look, and I understand it. I feel like
I'm playing with house money now. I think a lot
of teams feel like, hey, we're playing with house money.
We've contended longer than we thought. But now is when
you're going to start seeing teams that maybe struggle a
little bit, are going to fall off a little bit.
Maybe it's just a bad spot. So let's do this tonight.
I'm going to give you a team that that could
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go either way, and you tell if it's going to
be up towards the playoffs or if they're gonna be
looking forward towards next season.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Have you got it that I like it? Game Show
edition of the Jason Smission.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
All right, here we go. First team. Let's let you
know we talked about the Yankees from minutes ago. Yankees
are playing well. Is still twenty games over five hundred,
fighting out with the Orioles, the Boston Red Sox on
their way up or on their way down.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I think they're on their way up just because there's
there's space for a quality contender to be lurking there
after that top layer of wild card teams. The Mariners,
for me, I know they were winning earlier. Tonight they're
in LA, but they're tumbling back to the pack. They
are really struggling to score runs.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Whereas, did you just give us a preemptory Mariners because
you knew Harmon was going to bring it up next down?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
So preemptorily says I want to say the Mariners.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Well, Mike, Mike knows that I have predicted the Mariners
as a World Series contender for the better part of
my entire career, and we all know exactly how many
World Series the Mariners have ever played it in their
franchise history. But they're well it's the Mariner's next the
Red Sox. They are trending in the right direction. I
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think it's still gonna be a challenge for them to
catch the Yankees, but I think they've got a much
better opportunity to potentially close ranks on the Royals and
the Twins, who of course are there in the American
League Central. So they've got, as far as i'm considered,
a better chance of making the playoffs than the Mets
do of course in the National League in their case,
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and I certainly they get a better chance of making
it than the team that Mike Carbon will eventually ask
me about.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
No, I'm gonna take it locale. Never before have I
seen a team twenty two games above five hundred leading
their division with more sky is falling and terry or
columns as the Los Angeles Dodgers being chased by multiple
teams in division right, And.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
It's and here's the thing. So they're clearly going to
make the playoffs. They may not win the division because
to your point, the Padres and d Backs have played
so well where where Dodger fans and I would put
my own analysis of the of their of their situation
in the same category where fans are worried right now
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is the very justified perspective that the way this team
looks right now looks a lot like the way they've
looked in the years that they have not had success
in October, which is the starting rotation is inconsistent and injured.
And again we're in the second half of August. The
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trade deadline is three weeks gone. There is nothing that
you can really do at this point except for cycle
through your arms, use the lead that you've got to
maybe get creative and rest guys as you need. But
there's not much you can do to snap your fingers
and have a healthy pitching staff at this stage of
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the year if you don't already have one. They've collected
a lot of arms, Mike, that are I spin rate
and that eventually break, and I would love for them.
And I'm not just trying to plug the podcast here.
Listen to the conversation that I had recently with Ferguson Jenkins,
because I want to make the point of what he
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was able to do from his durability standpoint. He threw
more than two hundred and fifty complete games in his career.
He had five years in which he threw more than
three hundred innings. I repeat five years of three hundred
plus innings. And do you know what he told me?
(22:56):
He did as an off season job, he played basketball
for the Harlem Globetrotters. We think about and that's that
is the.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Man I've seen them play.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I never saw him through a bucket of water on
anybody that he turned into confetti.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I never saw that he was.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
He played, he told me, and this is this is
an absolutely true story. He played the third quarter of
every game in that offseason. And he had a skit
in which he gave up a home run to metal
Rock Lemon. Okay, So all the technology we got now,
all the high tech, high performance, the pitching labs and
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everything else, I don't know if you want to throw
three hundred innings like Ferguson Jenkins, if you want to
throw more than two hundred and fifty complete games, you
might want to play hoops this offseason. And because all
I can tell you is what's happening now in the
major leagues is not working. Even tonight in the Yankees,
Luis He'll left the game early, apparently with an injury.
(23:59):
The Dot there's super talented team I would put them
in this in this sentence. It would not surprise me
if they win the World Series. It would not surprise
me if they lose every game they play in the
first round, because that's what they did last year. They
lost every game to play in the first round, and
they're gonna have to probably deal with the team it's
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hot in the first round, whoever they end up facing. Guys,
this year, we're still at a point and Jeff pass
and my friend made this point a few days ago.
Not a single team in this game is above six
hundred as a winning percentage. We are I have never
seen in my years covering the sport as many nominally
super talented teams have this many significant flaws. And for
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that reason, get ready for your Royals Padres World Series
or whatever whatever amazingly unforeseen matchup you could expect, because
that's exactly what this year feels like. It feels like
the World Series is gonna end in Kansas City this year.
That's just that's that's the vibe I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Wow, I told you why gave you Kansas City at
the All Star There you go.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
It's not just Malmes and Kelsey move over. It's Lugo
and Bobby Witt Junior and yep, it's just something about it. Again.
I I somewhat intentionally mentioned Kansas City, but but there
there are a number of teams. Hey why not the Twins?
And this is this is the year of why not?
This is the year of if you're good enough that
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the Brewers right now, I believe that, I think they're
times the second best record in the National League. Why not?
Why not that you could talk yourself into basically any
team with a better than a five in ORed record
right now making it to the World Series. And that's
it feels a little bit like how I typically regard
the Stanley Cup playoffs. But man, it is not the
way baseball usually operates, and it's it's pretty fun to
(25:50):
watch it happen.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay, now, did you do that for the Royals because hey,
that's your official pick? Or are you gonna now say, hey,
George Brett is going to be on the Hall of
Fame podcast. I want to make sure you got George
Brett on that he was.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
He was about six weeks ago and was also phenomenal.
By the way, George Brett was amazing. Yeah, we asked
him about anything Pine Tower Game, the World Series against
the Phillies. Everything, So but no, I think that uh yeah,
Casey was sort of top of mind, and and maybe
I'll roll with it. I guess I reserved the right
(26:23):
to make a different pick when the postseason begins. But
as far as I'm concerned, the World's got as good
of a chance as anybody else to win the World Series.
That's that's how I feel on this night.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Wow, look at that John Paul Morosi, MLB Network Inside
whether Us here the Jason smithser with Mike Carmon Live
the Tireck dot Com Studios. All right, last team, they
were terrific for most of the season. They've had a
lot of injuries, just lost another big player, Austin Riley.
They win tonight against the Phillies. Are the Braves rising
towards October or are they falling back to the pack
(26:54):
and be lucky to back back into the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
They're they're falling back to the pack. I'll be lucky
to make the playoffs. You're right, they have one three
in a row. But this is where a team like
so Our West, the Padres and d Backs. The way
they're playing, of course they right now have better records
than the Braves do. To me, they're in Mathematically, I'm
looking at it like this, You're getting three teams out
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of the West, one out of the Central. I don't know.
The Cubs to me, are not a legitimate contender. And
so then it comes down to the Braves. I mean,
the Braves are still in a pretty decent position, but
that's where your mess, Jason. They're two and a half
games back if they just keep now. The Braves have actually,
by virtue of the three game winning Street sort of
(27:40):
stabilized things a little bit, and if they make it,
it's going to be one of the great managerial jobs
by Brian Sisker and his amazing career in baseball. So
I think the Braves are losing ground. But I'm looking
at the contenders here and wondering who's actually going to
rise up and knock them back unless the total surprise
(28:01):
like and and by the way, I don't think this
will happen like the Giants all of a sudden getting other.
I don't see it that that'd be four teams from
the West, No chance. So I think it's probably Dodgers locked, Padres.
D Backs are a lock Brewers are a lock, Phillies
are a lock. And then it's probably coming down to
the Braves and the Mets. That's gonna be the drama
late in the year. Slight edge to the Braves, but
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by the way they're they're falling back to the pack.
They're making it interesting.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi,
who'll be signing autographs in Kansas City downtown for the
next time.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm actually gonna sign autographs in case
Mo and then go over to k c K. It's
just gonna be the whole tour. And and by the way,
at this time next week, we're gonna be talking about
week one of college Tobino. I know this is week zero,
which I've never quite understood, but week one next week, uh,
Michigan trying to handle the mighty Fresno State Bulldogs in
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week one. Week two against the Longhorns, that's gonna be
the big test. We'll have full team coverage on that.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
One of my friends, well was week zero, John Paul.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
It's it's kind of like you know in high school
when you would have zero period, you can't get so
you got to go back further from one. So at
zero zero period, zero week, that's kind of where it
came from, right.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Zero period. But that was always like weightlifting, swimming, and
it was always like a bonus activity as I was.
But I granted we had block scheduling. They brought in
block scheduling for us, which took us like half a
year to figure out if it was an A day
or a B day. And if you ever had scheduling,
you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
John Paul is always buddy appreciated, my friend. We'll talk
to you next week.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Sounds great, guys, all the best things and.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
JP great stuff from John Paul.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Maddy's got a zero period, that's ap kem oh yeah, yeah,
good time. You got to show up and be sharp
like I want to. Seven o'clock. Let's I had zero period.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And it was swimming and I was like, yeah, that's
all right, that's the kids, let's go. The thing is
all right. I can say this a long time. I
didn't have my senior year. I found out I didn't
have enough credits for PE because somehow, because football was
supposed to give me enough credits. Yeah, but it did.
Hey listen, kid, you're too short, you're not here too slow.
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For some reason, I don't know what it was, but
I needed an extra semester and I don't know why.
And I'm like, apparently football only counted for whatever whatever
it was, I need extra semester. And I was like,
oh my god. And my uncle was teacher at the
school and he was like, what happened to go? I
need zero period? I can't believe this, Fred, can you
do something? He goes, yea. So we talked to the
athletic director, whose job it was was to do zero
(30:42):
period swimming, which he hated. He hated, hated, so he
made a deal with me. He said, listen, come in
for first period. You'll be my you'll be my aid.
You take attendance, do the Delainey cards, and I'll check
in with you and make sure everything is fine. So
it was kind of like he didn't need to show up.
I could show up first period. He would show up
a little bit, and I was like, oh, this is
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this is I'll I.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
You can't graduate high school like you who through Syracuse,
so that graduation doesn't count either. Signed my deal with
the devil right now? No, are you how many credits
in high school? I graduated with I graduated with Okay,
this miss me really mad?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I just got a mad. I graduated. I needed like
one hundred and ten to graduate, but I was in
Scott I finished like one hundred and forty. And they
didn't tell us that until midway through our senior year.
Would I said slack?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I could have done No, I could have stopped like
midway through my bleeping junior year. You don't tell me, Oh,
you have one hundred and forty crowd? What are one
hundred and ten? Wha wha wha we to be an
extra pin were talking about? Man I was passed. Man,
I was.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Past a lot of extra hours of homework. You didn't.
That's why I was okay with that. Coming in for
first periods and okay, I'll take a ten to induce
sdyle I help you out here. Okay, that's great. Yeah,
you're saying they perpetrated fraud on it. Let's go sue
the school. Thirty more credits, coach thirty more credits. And
we had one of them all down, and we had
and we had one of our administrators come in middle
of senior year trying to convince us all to go
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crazy for these two classes the last semester to give
us the International Baccalaureate diploma. And he says, it's just
gonna help you getting to college. And I was the
one and he didn't like me because I was going
to raise my hand and go, we've all applied. I'm waiting,
how is this going to help me get in? I've
already applied to all my college. I'm not I'm not
going to this France. This is this is like middle
(32:28):
of December. It's like we've already applied. What are you
talking about. He was really mad because he wanted us
to do it, because you're a pretty good scholarship class.
And I even said you should go talk to the juniors.
And he walked out and he was like a huge
guy at the school. And my English teacher looked at
me and said, I am glad you're graduating, Jason. I'm
glad for you. You got another six months and that's
(32:52):
in your eye. You do have your application to see
Eracu's in. Have they processed it yet?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
You know what he said, He's got a very big
chair on the board. Go talk to the and your
go talk to the junior. Don't don't give me waste
my time about the International Baccalaureate.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
The block this guy, Now, I've never had Beeheim as
your monster. I had gone to.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Might have gone somewhere where they had. I'd gone to
Sunny Buffalo. That's what I would have gone to.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Nice right now, Joe a guy who couldn't get into
Suny Buffalo so he went to u c l A instead.
It's Brian fen. My mom went to u C. L Aye.
Mom did, Yeah, Mom, I worked there.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
You went to Greensborosboro and asked Jim Beheim when he
thinks about Greensboro.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
You guys heard about that back and forth in the tournament.
We beat you guys.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
It was pretty close, and I know you we probably
a little bit more of us at that point.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, it was the n I t I didn't really care. Well,
it sounds like you do by the way you're chronicling it.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
But yeah, he's just got a frightening memory, is all
that is he does.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Well, you've got such both of you guys have these
big heads, and so there's so many brain cells in
both of them that know, wonder, your memories are almost godlike.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Wow, exactly. I like that. I like I was gonna
have a line, boy, but I can't remember when this
update started, because boy, you should have been given scores
by now. But instead I'll say, hey, thank you, Brian.
That was really good.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Yeah, yeah, just you're not expecting a compliment, but.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yeah, no, I I was. But Padres being good, I
wasn't expecting. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And speaking of those Mets,
let's start there.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
As you look at Major League Baseball, they are two
and a half games out of that final a third
and final wildcard spot. After their lost tonight Mets sixty
five and sixty one on the air, they fall victim
to the Baltimore Orioles nine to five, James McCann hitting
a two run home run.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
In the game.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
There was another team in New York and they played
against another really good team in the American League.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Twelfth Dunning.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Here's the pitch, swung and smashed the first got it
up by Noel.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
He'll go to the bank himself. Bowl game. What a
bowl game, what a win.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
In twelve, Cleveland knocks off the Yankees nine to five.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
Guardians Radio network. That spoiled a forty fifth home run
of the season for Aaron Judge. Yeah, we mentioned the
Orioles winning, so did the Braves three to one against
the Phillies. Brewers get it done against the Cardinals three
to two, wins for the Angels, the Red Sox, and
the Rays. We're also watching a couple of games, actually three,
to be totally frank with.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You, that are still up and running.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Dodgers have a couple of solo home runs, the last
one from Max Muncie, but they're still trailing the Mariners
three to two, top of the fifth, White Sox are
getting bombarded by the Giants three to one in the seventh,
and my Padres are now losing. They had tied up
at three and now the Twins have scored two and
unanswered five to three in their favor as the Pods
are up to bat now in the bottom of the eighth.
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And lastly, guys, when it comes to the world of
the NFL, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says, as you guys
were talking about might have been the ultimate word salad,
that his team is making progress towards reaching a long
term deal with wide receiver CD Lamb. But Jason Mike
in Air quotes progress, what does that really mean if
nothing has really happened?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
It means there's no contract this literally, Thank you, Brian Frienlely.
Coming up next, a big time NFL team with Super
Bowl plans. It's starting to piss me off that they're good.
Really yeah, I'll tell you why. Coming up next, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
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Speaker 1 (36:33):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
live from the Tirack dot Com Studios. You know, thanks
to John Paul Morose for stopping by. Oh yeah, now
we're back into the NFL. Let's go. The more time
goes on, the more upset I get that the forty
nine ers are this good, right because I watch them
(36:55):
make decisions either front office or coaching wise, and I go,
how are you still just stepping in it after all
these years?
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Because you go back and say, all right, look what
they did with the quarterback situation. How they held it
hostage for so long they couldn't make a decision on
Trey Lance and make bad decisions on Jimmy Garoppolo, and
what happens they wind up getting a guy, mister irrelevant,
who they're going to have to pay sixty million dollars
a year too. Well, go back fall in it for that.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Go back to twenty seventeen when they were all strutting
around because they got over on the Bears, right, the
famous Mitchell Trubisky carrier. Yeah, Okay, they got Fred Warner
out of it. Yeah, but the best player that came
out of that that group of selections in the trade
was Alvin Kamara for the Saints. Sure off a spin
off of that pick. So they were trading on that
(37:44):
as super geniuses long before the Trey Lance So and
we lived the quarterback controversies for the past four years.
They draft Lance, they don't give them the team. Jimmy's
a guy. Let's bring Jimmy back. But Jimmy gets them
somewhere when they don't believe in him at all, they
give the job to Trey Lance. They still get to
(38:04):
the NFC Championship game when Jimmy comes in because Lance
gets hurt. Then they realize we can't stick with Jimmy anymore.
We can't stick with Trey Lance. They hit it big
with Brock Purdy. I'm like, wow, you talk about just
stepping in it. And then I watched like what they
did this past weekend, which was put Brock Purdy out there, Yeah,
without three offensive linemen who were hurt, and no starting
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skill position players at running back, wide receiver or George Kettle.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
I'm a big fan of tempting the football game. Gads
and Perdy got hit pretty hard on a few plays.
He played twelve plays, And I'm saying to myself, you
don't deserve to have this success if you do something
stupid like putt your franchise quarterback out there. That's all
by the way, the last year, you're not paying him
any money, and you put him out there behind backup
(38:51):
players on the offensive line without any skill position guys,
and he gets hit and hit and hit, and he's okay,
and he's gonna come back and probably play this weekend.
Like I see it, I go, I'm passed at the
forty nine ers are successful because they run this team
sometimes counterintuitive to how a business should run, but yet
they find a way to make money. It's like a
(39:12):
I mean, it's like a business that does all the
worst decisions you can make. We're gonna be closed on
Saturday and Sunday, Nope, we're closed on Saturday and Sunday.
We're gonna have sales. No, we're gonna jack the prices up. Well,
people aren't gonna come in, but yet they get a
lot of business people come in. By you go, it
doesn't make sense that this that this business makes as
much money as it does. I see the decisions of
forty nine ers make and I go, some of these
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are just stupid and just the thing that and they
still are successful, and their success pisses me off.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
But that's the thing is that they get the rest
of it right and they fall into the most important
position of them all. And this is where we start
the argument, that is the the chicken and egg thing
of is brock perty any good because you have some
bund instead of he's a blow average. It's like, really,
(40:00):
that's what we're gonna do. We're just gonna dismiss him categorically.
Yes he's got a good support staff, and yes they
have a good system. He still has to execute plays
in real time on a football field that doesn't happen
consistently by accident. By the way, nine hundred and thirty
four thousand. His salary this year top is about what
fifty five million?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Yeah, yeah, there you go, Doug. He's getting there, he's
getting there. Watch them. What you gonna say. Just give
me a million dollars a year. I'll signed for the
next ten years. I'm gonna help you out like nice
job security.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
But then you become Scottie Pippen and then you get
mad for forty years.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Upsets me. It upsets me. There this good. It's not
your fault. Speaking of quarterbacks, got another big story coming
up next Fox
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got John Paul Morosi stopping buying about twenty minutes. All
the biggest news out of Major League Baseball is things
are getting real for some teams that are hoping to
stay in the playoff race. But you know this story.
When I saw it come up this weekend, I said
to myself, please die, please go away, please go away,
please please please let this not be a big nope. Nope, nope, nope,
(01:10):
had to be a big story Little League World Series
going on right now. And I told you Staten Island
my home. Yeah, where I grew up, I played Little
League baseball. They were there three big little leagues on
Staten Island, not this one South Shore Little League which
which made it to the Little League World Series play
in Williamsport right now. They got eliminated today. They lost.
They lost their first game, they won the next two.
(01:31):
They got eliminated today. Except now there is controversy raging
because Aaron Judge is at the center of something that
is so entirely stupid. I but we have to, you know,
like stupidity. So you know, the Yankees played last night
the Little League World Series game, like they do it
every year. One team, you know, to.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Exhibition spotlight game. Sure, shake hands, kissing babies, all of
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yankees go there, they meet the players, they're signing autographs
all part of the day. And the Staten Island coach
Bob Laturza is not happy with the Yankees, not happy
with Aaron Judge, very upset that Aaron Judge didn't spend
one on one time with the team because you know, hey,
(02:19):
Aaron Judge, New York. This team's from Staten Island. I
think you should spend some time with us because you're
you know, worre Statt n Island, which is a borough
of New York. You should spend time with us. And
then he also got even more upset when during the
game he wouldn't turn around and wave to the kids
when he was in the field. Quote, how about turning
around a way to New York and the kids that
(02:40):
think you're a hero, they're the ones who pay your salary.
Aaron Judge, who meets with kids all the time, does
a lot of outreach stuff. This is and I'm going
this is where I come on, man, this, come on
Staten Island. Come on, it's always the one autograph.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Don't sign earn this lesson through all these years, no
matter how much you do, no matter how good you
are with fans and in all sorts of circumstances at
the ballpark, leaving the hotel, hanging out, getting your car
as you're getting ready to leave, no matter what you do,
it's the one guy or the one group that doesn't
(03:19):
get all that personal love and interaction that they try
to make you public enemy Number.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
One and he got. He got even more upset in
an interview, saying that he was mad that only DJ
Lemayhew Tim Hill and a few others attended a pre
arranged session with the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Like he's mad about it, I promise you get a
couple of people you know up. That's the way it works, dude.
I told you when I was a kid and Alex
Trevino came to my camp and signed my hat, I
was the happiest kid in the world. And I don't
think he ever played more than thirty games in a
season at Major League Baseball. Here's a guy who plays
for the Mets. No, but he's signing my hat.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
But this is probably as a backup catcher, and he
was gonna have a four year career.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I was so excited here, Hey, how come Aaron Judgsen
come down and talk. But that's the problem with is
that in this in this day and age, and I
sound like the old man here, But when we talk
about social media and the good, the bad, the ugly
of it all, it's the people get to see, you know,
the up close and personal. Hey, they got to meet
this celebrity, they got to meet this athlete, whatever, and
(04:25):
look at what they do. Well, why don't I get
that the entitlement of that, Like we used to get excited,
We get our dollar. Basically they were dollar of outfield
seats for perfect attendance.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
We were happy as hell. Did we need to buy
a bunch of stuff at the game. No, we were
just happy to get in the door, right, That was
that was all it mattered. Now it's like, well I
didn't get nachos, and and I didn't get the ice
cream hat and everything just going on down the line.
It's like, yeah, it's like when they do those averages
of what it costs to go to a ball park,
it's because you're being silly and buying stuff ad nauseam.
(05:00):
Same thing here, it's like you a baseball player, no
matter where they're at in the food chain, it was
a big deal. Wait, we have a chance, a chance
for one of those guys to show up. And then
one actually does and you're but here you're mad that
you didn't get Aaron judge, how about you call it
Mayhew who wants to meet that batting chance?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Like just because they want ALTI time alls just because
he's done and all the all the every headline of
every day with what's wrong with the Yankees? He's the top.
Always can't have DJ lem Mayhew come here. You gotta
set us a good player. So when this happens, I'm going, okay,
let this just go away. Let there be some kind
of apology. No, no apology. So the Yankees put out
a statement about this tonight, and part of their statement
(05:44):
reads as such, It would have been much better if
Staten Island's coach called us to understand the facts before
bitterly reacting in such a public fashion. Reaching out to
us would have been the prudent way to act, and
would have said a fine example for his young players.
Aaron Judge always acts with kindness and respect. The coach
could learn a lot from him.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Boom, because this flows out of so last week right
that we give my home. I know, buddy down, these
guys are now gonna be public enemy number one.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
He's not a hero. Now the Yankees hate you. How
does that you made? The Yankees? And now and they
put out a statement just to let you know what
what happened is that Aaron Judge did meet with a
lot of kids, sign a lot of autographs, did get
to meet a couple of the Staten Island kids pose
for a picture. The other Yankees met the kids. There
was another meet and greet where Garrett Cole was there
as well. Get mad, Garrett Cole. You'd stake you're not
(06:37):
worth that thirty five million dollars a year. So there
was a lot of time where the Staten Island team
did meet the Yankees. But he's upset that no more
one on one time with Aaron Judge And hey, you
don't wave to the kids when they're calling out your
name in the field, like what like, I get it. Hey,
some guys can do that and some good, but you're
really imadd didn't look really, some guys can't do that.
(06:59):
What the one on one time?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Because you know fanatics, right, we did a couple of
reads and they're big fan Fest in New York this
last weekend, and we played some clips, right, Tom Brady
talking and all these different panel events, a huge card show.
But they had a lot of autograph signings and you know,
I reference.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Him every once in a while.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Cody Rhodes, you know, son of the American Dream, who's
had his run as champion, has been a big WWE star,
Like really at the top of the game the last
couple of years. A guy who doesn't turn down a
picture request an autograph. He pulls people that are dressed
like him out of the stands as he's walking to
the ring, delaying stuff including live television spots.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Are like, dude, you were supposed to be in the
ring three minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
But he grabs like all this stuff and he's signed
and autographs and doing photos whatever, And something happened where
he had had to go, and people immediately were making
him the bad guy. Same thing, all promotion thing, all
us scheduling, nothing to do with him or any decision
he got to make. But all of a sudden there
were the viral videos of people cursing him out like
(08:05):
he was the worst person in the World's like it's anything,
but this is the guy that in every city he
goes to, shows up in kids hospital as Ben's Tide judge,
doing the same kind of stuff, but now he's trying
to vilify them, and you end up looking like the.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Ass you know. And that's the thing is that there's
certain players you would say, Okay, does this person do
a lot? How are they with kids? But like maybe
you don't really think do you really think? Aaron Judge said, no,
don't want to meet. No, take those Staten Island kids
off my schedule. I don't care. How about you calling
my name. I'm not gonna turn around and acknowledge you.
I'm not gonna tip my damp. Now it's that you're
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the fifth borough. Okay, Manhattan's better the Brons. Actually I
gotta go first. Bronx is the best. Then there's Manhattan,
then there's Brooklyn. You're fourth because Queen's has the Mets,
so you're actually fourth on the time.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And I don't wave to the number four borough in
New York, like, do you really that's Aaron Judge?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's what Aaron Judge did? I mean really? And the
Yankee said, hey, you make sure you stay away from
that Staten Island team, like you sound like no matter,
like you're playing Little League World Series and here's a
bonus thing where you get to meet the Yankees and
it's so cool. But no, no, that's not enough. But
that's not enough.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Demnagan to meet our judge is a complete total failure.
But not everybody's failing us. You fail all of us.
But the best part of it was how many videos
including John Balmrosi, who's gonna join us here in about
ten minutes. How many videos did you see of Aaron
Judge and Juan Soto out there signing autograph hands.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And meeting with a mass of humanity. I mean even
the New York Post, which hates everything, puts all kinds
of pictures in this story of Judge just surrounded by
people as he's signing.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And smiling and leaning in for selfies and all of
this stuff. And then you got this coach whose name
I'm not even gonna give the recognition.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh man, I mean every type the thing is any
time I look for some kind of story that evolves
stanton onegal, Please don't be somebody I know.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Please don't be somebody. Please don't be such. It's not
somebody you grew up with that you know. Maybe I
just don't remember something someone I know well, because I
told you this a guy you scored on and a no,
this guy waved like. This guy's older. It seems like
he's I think he's in his late sixties or so.
It seems older.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Think of the children. But like I said, there were
three big little leagues on Staten Island, and last I
always thought our little league was the best because we
had all great players. But then like Mid Island Little
League and South Shore and Snug Harbor, those are the
three ones. The other two each of them now have
going to Little League World Series. Snug Harbor's never gone.
I'm like, maybe our players weren't the best. Maybe they're
So this is from the other side of the island.
(10:39):
I does sound like it's lost the tail people. Uh, this
is the other side of the island. That is, you know,
a good ten miles away from where I was, not
even the less than ten miles, maybe about five six
miles because Steaten Island's you can get in the Express
waging it from one end of the Stein Island the
X in about ten minutes. So I'm like, Okay, we
never played, never played these kids, But I see this
and I just go, no, onen't really cared. Just look
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look at Staten Island. Look, Look look how needy Staten
Island looks. Look at them here they have Aaron Judge,
all the Yankees meeting people. I can't imagine what it
would have been like if the Mets were there. But
what do you say, I mean, what do you say? Hey,
you send the Mets to here. We're in the Little
League World Series. You send the Mets. We don't want
to meet anybody on the Mets. You send those Mets. O.
You sent a real theme here. You sent a real them,
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and we'll talk to them, all right. You don't You
don't send the Mets. In fact, you don't send any
Yankee who used to be on the Mets. You just
send Yankees only guys you signed, guys that came up
true to system. You don't say anybody that even played
against the Mets in the National League you don't send.
You send other guys, and you will make sure Judge
shows up.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Like, I don't know, I love the Yankee statement. I
might actually uh you know, I love my White Sox.
I will never be a fan of another squad. But
I hate the Yankees a little less today, man.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I mean just that they've had to put out a
statement and it seems so bad, and they're still gonna
have them the team at a Yank game at some point.
But it for the kids, I know, well, I don't
think the to that. Hey, screw all you kids. You
thought it was a dream meeting us? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Whatever, I want you to lead all the pictures, but
you don't have to invite them.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
They couldn't fight the kids. Hey, kids, you come with
your parents, but the coach can't come. Okay, Dad, I'm
okay with.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Because all of a sudden, this guy's gonna be in
the middle of a bunch of pictures cheese.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And and he's gonna be like, Hey, the squeaky wheel
got the grease. I mean, dude, I like I said,
Bob las Okay, Bob, Bobby Laterza, Bob Laterza anybody else
named Laterza anybody? No, nobody, I know nobody. I know
it's all good because there are stories where there have
been have been people I know. Oh I knew that. Yeah,
I know we all have a few of those. I
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knew that. There's plenty of people that say that about me,
something about the show. What did this idiot say?
Speaker 4 (12:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But like I just think about the just think about
the the stones to sit here and say, in the
middle of the Little League World Series while you're playing
and trying to win, right, because think about this part
of it. You're there for the kids, right, this is
this is there that you're the missing Moment's great, right,
But you know this is they're the ones on the
field playing. This is what they remember the rest of
their lives. And what are they gonna walk away with?
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We lost? And yeah, and coach got really mad at
Aaron Judge, really mad that Aaron Judge wouldn't wave to us.
We're yelling his name in the stands, like that's you
gonna take away from this? By the way, if you're
in this stance going a.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And is he turning around?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
No, because he's probably used to a bunch of people
flipping him off.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Aaron Staten Island in the house. Oh blank, you man
to turn around for Staten Island. Oh god, we'll come.
We'll fight the Bronx. I got people, come and fight
the Bronx. We're gonna come kick yours. I'm thinking about
we went to a wedding in Brooklyn. Were on a
train and come kick your f But we're walking. We're
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just taking a walking down room. We can go fight
something eat. And this guy's up front and he's doing
the usual. He's got the hose out and he's he's
watering his plants and his flower.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
He goes, hey, it's a beautiful day. I go, it's
you know, just out it's a little muggy. He goes, yeah,
but you're in Brooklyn. That's a beautiful day to be
in Brooklyn. And so as you do your relating back
to Staten Island, like, same people, same ideals.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I sound like if they fought, it would be like
that scene from Anchorman, like Okay, here come, here comes
Staten Island to fight in the Bronx. And then the
Mets would go, wait, you know, don't have a brawl
without Telemundo Spanish Languide showing up. Okay, and then they
show up and then it's okay.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Then we're taking a break from our ledge dra to
come kick some ass. Suddenly the metsman show up on
the seven line like okay, this is this is crazy.
Now what's happening here? Like that's what you did, Bob,
See what you did? This is your fault, Bob.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
I can't believe. Nope, I'm gonna get really mad and
do an interview and say how mad I am that
Aaron Judge didn't do more stuff for the kid, Like
what like what like if they were paying him, Hey,
they we're paying you fifty grand, Aaron Judge, you got oh,
but he's there exciting for the kids. It's not enough.
It's not enough. We want the good Yankees.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Okay, hey, hey, show me the piece of paper that
promised you Aaron Judge was showing up. It's just like
opening a pack of baseball cards and you get a
random redemption.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Don't send d it was Judge.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Don't send Cashman, don't send Boone, don't neither of those guys.
You send Judge and maybe Soto and that's it.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Actually, you know what. You send cash Man. I got questions. Hang,
oh yeah, wait, and no Clay Holmes either. He stinks.
He was great early and if their Little League World
Series is like two months ago, great Clay holmestinks. Now okay,
he stinks. Don't send him either. Here's a list of
approved Yankees we could see. Here's some legends I want
to see as well. You could send Gidriy, you could
send Nettles, you could send Reggie.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Write them down. These are wrong names. Donny Baseball, you'll
get geta Thatt.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
No, don Donny Baseball's at that's great, but you'll get
geta and Bogs on the horse. You'll get brocious. You
go get Bernie Williams. Bring Sandman in. These are the guys.
I want my kids to see these guys right here.
These guys you gotta go see you, go see it.
These other guys. Forget about it. Forget about DJ Lemayhew,
forget about Garrickle, forget about it. Just forget about it.
Forget about these guys, forget about forget it, forget about.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
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Speaker 1 (17:28):
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Big Night, Major League Baseball and I don't mean you
know Staten Island being upset to.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Though disparaging the good names and one of the good
guys in Major League Baseball and one of the few
guys that you could legitimately say is a superstar and
he is your face.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Of your game. Yeah, yeah, no, no, it is.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
It is.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
It's very very strange. But join us now in the hotline,
tell us break down all the big news. Who is fading?
Who is rising? Is a guy who was always rising
with us? He is on Twitter at John Morosi MLB
Network insider extraordinaire co host of the morning show Sternsy
and the Pope taking America by storm. It is MLB Networks,
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John Palm Morosi. What's happening, Bud Well.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
I would tell you this, Sternsy's team, as of this
moment still has a h about a twenty three percent
chance of making the postseason, Jason, which is a lot
higher than I thought it was going to be when
the season began. So I would say this, at least
through August twentieth, it has been a successful year for
them at despite tonight's loss to the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, no, look, and I understand it. I feel like
I'm playing with house money now. I think a lot
of teams feel like, hey, we're playing with house money.
We've contended longer than we thought. But now is when
you're going to start seeing teams that maybe struggle a
little bit, are going to fall off a little bit.
Maybe it's just a bad spot. So let's do this tonight.
I'm going to give you a team that that could
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go either way, and you tell if it's going to
be up towards the playoffs or if they're gonna be
looking forward towards next season.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Have you got it that I like it? Game Show
edition of the Jason Smission.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
All right, here we go. First team. Let's let you
know we talked about the Yankees from minutes ago. Yankees
are playing well. Is still twenty games over five hundred,
fighting out with the Orioles, the Boston Red Sox on
their way up or on their way down.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
I think they're on their way up just because there's
there's space for a quality contender to be lurking there
after that top layer of wild card teams. The Mariners,
for me, I know they were winning earlier. Tonight they're
in LA, but they're tumbling back to the pack. They
are really struggling to score runs.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Whereas, did you just give us a preemptory Mariners because
you knew Harmon was going to bring it up next down?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
So preemptorily says I want to say the Mariners.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Well, Mike, Mike knows that I have predicted the Mariners
as a World Series contender for the better part of
my entire career, and we all know exactly how many
World Series the Mariners have ever played it in their
franchise history. But they're well it's the Mariner's next the
Red Sox. They are trending in the right direction. I
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think it's still gonna be a challenge for them to
catch the Yankees, but I think they've got a much
better opportunity to potentially close ranks on the Royals and
the Twins, who of course are there in the American
League Central. So they've got, as far as i'm considered,
a better chance of making the playoffs than the Mets
do of course in the National League in their case,
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and I certainly they get a better chance of making
it than the team that Mike Carbon will eventually ask
me about.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
No, I'm gonna take it locale. Never before have I
seen a team twenty two games above five hundred leading
their division with more sky is falling and terry or
columns as the Los Angeles Dodgers being chased by multiple
teams in division right, And.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
It's and here's the thing. So they're clearly going to
make the playoffs. They may not win the division because
to your point, the Padres and d Backs have played
so well where where Dodger fans and I would put
my own analysis of the of their of their situation
in the same category where fans are worried right now
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is the very justified perspective that the way this team
looks right now looks a lot like the way they've
looked in the years that they have not had success
in October, which is the starting rotation is inconsistent and injured.
And again we're in the second half of August. The
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trade deadline is three weeks gone. There is nothing that
you can really do at this point except for cycle
through your arms, use the lead that you've got to
maybe get creative and rest guys as you need. But
there's not much you can do to snap your fingers
and have a healthy pitching staff at this stage of
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the year if you don't already have one. They've collected
a lot of arms, Mike, that are I spin rate
and that eventually break, and I would love for them.
And I'm not just trying to plug the podcast here.
Listen to the conversation that I had recently with Ferguson Jenkins,
because I want to make the point of what he
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was able to do from his durability standpoint. He threw
more than two hundred and fifty complete games in his career.
He had five years in which he threw more than
three hundred innings. I repeat five years of three hundred
plus innings. And do you know what he told me?
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He did as an off season job, he played basketball
for the Harlem Globetrotters. We think about and that's that
is the.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Man I've seen them play.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I never saw him through a bucket of water on
anybody that he turned into confetti.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I never saw that he was.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
He played, he told me, and this is this is
an absolutely true story. He played the third quarter of
every game in that offseason. And he had a skit
in which he gave up a home run to metal
Rock Lemon. Okay, So all the technology we got now,
all the high tech, high performance, the pitching labs and
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everything else, I don't know if you want to throw
three hundred innings like Ferguson Jenkins, if you want to
throw more than two hundred and fifty complete games, you
might want to play hoops this offseason. And because all
I can tell you is what's happening now in the
major leagues is not working. Even tonight in the Yankees,
Luis He'll left the game early, apparently with an injury.
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The Dot there's super talented team I would put them
in this in this sentence. It would not surprise me
if they win the World Series. It would not surprise
me if they lose every game they play in the
first round, because that's what they did last year. They
lost every game to play in the first round, and
they're gonna have to probably deal with the team it's
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hot in the first round, whoever they end up facing. Guys,
this year, we're still at a point and Jeff pass
and my friend made this point a few days ago.
Not a single team in this game is above six
hundred as a winning percentage. We are I have never
seen in my years covering the sport as many nominally
super talented teams have this many significant flaws. And for
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that reason, get ready for your Royals Padres World Series
or whatever whatever amazingly unforeseen matchup you could expect, because
that's exactly what this year feels like. It feels like
the World Series is gonna end in Kansas City this year.
That's just that's that's the vibe I'm getting.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Wow, I told you why gave you Kansas City at
the All Star There you go.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
It's not just Malmes and Kelsey move over. It's Lugo
and Bobby Witt Junior and yep, it's just something about it. Again.
I I somewhat intentionally mentioned Kansas City, but but there
there are a number of teams. Hey why not the Twins?
And this is this is the year of why not?
This is the year of if you're good enough that
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the Brewers right now, I believe that, I think they're
times the second best record in the National League. Why not?
Why not that you could talk yourself into basically any
team with a better than a five in ORed record
right now making it to the World Series. And that's
it feels a little bit like how I typically regard
the Stanley Cup playoffs. But man, it is not the
way baseball usually operates, and it's it's pretty fun to
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watch it happen.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Okay, now, did you do that for the Royals because hey,
that's your official pick? Or are you gonna now say, hey,
George Brett is going to be on the Hall of
Fame podcast. I want to make sure you got George
Brett on that he was.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
He was about six weeks ago and was also phenomenal.
By the way, George Brett was amazing. Yeah, we asked
him about anything Pine Tower Game, the World Series against
the Phillies. Everything, So but no, I think that uh yeah,
Casey was sort of top of mind, and and maybe
I'll roll with it. I guess I reserved the right
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to make a different pick when the postseason begins. But
as far as I'm concerned, the World's got as good
of a chance as anybody else to win the World Series.
That's that's how I feel on this night.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Wow, look at that John Paul Morosi, MLB Network Inside
whether Us here the Jason smithser with Mike Carmon Live
the Tireck dot Com Studios. All right, last team, they
were terrific for most of the season. They've had a
lot of injuries, just lost another big player, Austin Riley.
They win tonight against the Phillies. Are the Braves rising
towards October or are they falling back to the pack
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and be lucky to back back into the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
They're they're falling back to the pack. I'll be lucky
to make the playoffs. You're right, they have one three
in a row. But this is where a team like
so Our West, the Padres and d Backs. The way
they're playing, of course they right now have better records
than the Braves do. To me, they're in Mathematically, I'm
looking at it like this, You're getting three teams out
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of the West, one out of the Central. I don't know.
The Cubs to me, are not a legitimate contender. And
so then it comes down to the Braves. I mean,
the Braves are still in a pretty decent position, but
that's where your mess, Jason. They're two and a half
games back if they just keep now. The Braves have actually,
by virtue of the three game winning Street sort of
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stabilized things a little bit, and if they make it,
it's going to be one of the great managerial jobs
by Brian Sisker and his amazing career in baseball. So
I think the Braves are losing ground. But I'm looking
at the contenders here and wondering who's actually going to
rise up and knock them back unless the total surprise
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like and and by the way, I don't think this
will happen like the Giants all of a sudden getting other.
I don't see it that that'd be four teams from
the West, No chance. So I think it's probably Dodgers locked, Padres.
D Backs are a lock Brewers are a lock, Phillies
are a lock. And then it's probably coming down to
the Braves and the Mets. That's gonna be the drama
late in the year. Slight edge to the Braves, but
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by the way they're they're falling back to the pack.
They're making it interesting.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi,
who'll be signing autographs in Kansas City downtown for the
next time.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm actually gonna sign autographs in case
Mo and then go over to k c K. It's
just gonna be the whole tour. And and by the way,
at this time next week, we're gonna be talking about
week one of college Tobino. I know this is week zero,
which I've never quite understood, but week one next week, uh,
Michigan trying to handle the mighty Fresno State Bulldogs in
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week one. Week two against the Longhorns, that's gonna be
the big test. We'll have full team coverage on that.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
One of my friends, well was week zero, John Paul.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
It's it's kind of like you know in high school
when you would have zero period, you can't get so
you got to go back further from one. So at
zero zero period, zero week, that's kind of where it
came from, right.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Zero period. But that was always like weightlifting, swimming, and
it was always like a bonus activity as I was.
But I granted we had block scheduling. They brought in
block scheduling for us, which took us like half a
year to figure out if it was an A day
or a B day. And if you ever had scheduling,
you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
John Paul is always buddy appreciated, my friend. We'll talk
to you next week.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Sounds great, guys, all the best things and.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
JP great stuff from John Paul.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Maddy's got a zero period, that's ap kem oh yeah, yeah,
good time. You got to show up and be sharp
like I want to. Seven o'clock. Let's I had zero period.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
And it was swimming and I was like, yeah, that's
all right, that's the kids, let's go. The thing is
all right. I can say this a long time. I
didn't have my senior year. I found out I didn't
have enough credits for PE because somehow, because football was
supposed to give me enough credits. Yeah, but it did.
Hey listen, kid, you're too short, you're not here too slow.
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For some reason, I don't know what it was, but
I needed an extra semester and I don't know why.
And I'm like, apparently football only counted for whatever whatever
it was, I need extra semester. And I was like,
oh my god. And my uncle was teacher at the
school and he was like, what happened to go? I
need zero period? I can't believe this, Fred, can you
do something? He goes, yea. So we talked to the
athletic director, whose job it was was to do zero
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period swimming, which he hated. He hated, hated, so he
made a deal with me. He said, listen, come in
for first period. You'll be my you'll be my aid.
You take attendance, do the Delainey cards, and I'll check
in with you and make sure everything is fine. So
it was kind of like he didn't need to show up.
I could show up first period. He would show up
a little bit, and I was like, oh, this is
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this is I'll I.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
You can't graduate high school like you who through Syracuse,
so that graduation doesn't count either. Signed my deal with
the devil right now? No, are you how many credits
in high school? I graduated with I graduated with Okay,
this miss me really mad?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I just got a mad. I graduated. I needed like
one hundred and ten to graduate, but I was in
Scott I finished like one hundred and forty. And they
didn't tell us that until midway through our senior year.
Would I said slack?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I could have done No, I could have stopped like
midway through my bleeping junior year. You don't tell me, Oh,
you have one hundred and forty crowd? What are one
hundred and ten? Wha wha wha we to be an
extra pin were talking about? Man I was passed. Man,
I was.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Past a lot of extra hours of homework. You didn't.
That's why I was okay with that. Coming in for
first periods and okay, I'll take a ten to induce
sdyle I help you out here. Okay, that's great. Yeah,
you're saying they perpetrated fraud on it. Let's go sue
the school. Thirty more credits, coach thirty more credits. And
we had one of them all down, and we had
and we had one of our administrators come in middle
of senior year trying to convince us all to go
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crazy for these two classes the last semester to give
us the International Baccalaureate diploma. And he says, it's just
gonna help you getting to college. And I was the
one and he didn't like me because I was going
to raise my hand and go, we've all applied. I'm waiting,
how is this going to help me get in? I've
already applied to all my college. I'm not I'm not
going to this France. This is this is like middle
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of December. It's like we've already applied. What are you
talking about. He was really mad because he wanted us
to do it, because you're a pretty good scholarship class.
And I even said you should go talk to the juniors.
And he walked out and he was like a huge
guy at the school. And my English teacher looked at
me and said, I am glad you're graduating, Jason. I'm
glad for you. You got another six months and that's
(32:52):
in your eye. You do have your application to see
Eracu's in. Have they processed it yet?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
You know what he said, He's got a very big
chair on the board. Go talk to the and your
go talk to the junior. Don't don't give me waste
my time about the International Baccalaureate.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
The block this guy, Now, I've never had Beeheim as
your monster. I had gone to.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Might have gone somewhere where they had. I'd gone to
Sunny Buffalo. That's what I would have gone to.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Nice right now, Joe a guy who couldn't get into
Suny Buffalo so he went to u c l A instead.
It's Brian fen. My mom went to u C. L Aye.
Mom did, Yeah, Mom, I worked there.
Speaker 7 (33:31):
You went to Greensborosboro and asked Jim Beheim when he
thinks about Greensboro.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
You guys heard about that back and forth in the tournament.
We beat you guys.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
It was pretty close, and I know you we probably
a little bit more of us at that point.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, it was the n I t I didn't really care. Well,
it sounds like you do by the way you're chronicling it.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
But yeah, he's just got a frightening memory, is all
that is he does.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Well, you've got such both of you guys have these
big heads, and so there's so many brain cells in
both of them that know, wonder, your memories are almost godlike.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Wow, exactly. I like that. I like I was gonna
have a line, boy, but I can't remember when this
update started, because boy, you should have been given scores
by now. But instead I'll say, hey, thank you, Brian.
That was really good.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
Yeah, yeah, just you're not expecting a compliment, but.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yeah, no, I I was. But Padres being good, I
wasn't expecting. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And speaking of those Mets,
let's start there.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
As you look at Major League Baseball, they are two
and a half games out of that final a third
and final wildcard spot. After their lost tonight Mets sixty
five and sixty one on the air, they fall victim
to the Baltimore Orioles nine to five, James McCann hitting
a two run home run.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
In the game.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
There was another team in New York and they played
against another really good team in the American League.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Twelfth Dunning.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Here's the pitch, swung and smashed the first got it
up by Noel.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
He'll go to the bank himself. Bowl game. What a
bowl game, what a win.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
In twelve, Cleveland knocks off the Yankees nine to five.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
Guardians Radio network. That spoiled a forty fifth home run
of the season for Aaron Judge. Yeah, we mentioned the
Orioles winning, so did the Braves three to one against
the Phillies. Brewers get it done against the Cardinals three
to two, wins for the Angels, the Red Sox, and
the Rays. We're also watching a couple of games, actually three,
to be totally frank with.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You, that are still up and running.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Dodgers have a couple of solo home runs, the last
one from Max Muncie, but they're still trailing the Mariners
three to two, top of the fifth, White Sox are
getting bombarded by the Giants three to one in the seventh,
and my Padres are now losing. They had tied up
at three and now the Twins have scored two and
unanswered five to three in their favor as the Pods
are up to bat now in the bottom of the eighth.
(35:48):
And lastly, guys, when it comes to the world of
the NFL, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says, as you guys
were talking about might have been the ultimate word salad,
that his team is making progress towards reaching a long
term deal with wide receiver CD Lamb. But Jason Mike
in Air quotes progress, what does that really mean if
nothing has really happened?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
It means there's no contract this literally, Thank you, Brian Frienlely.
Coming up next, a big time NFL team with Super
Bowl plans. It's starting to piss me off that they're good.
Really yeah, I'll tell you why. Coming up next, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
live from the Tirack dot Com Studios. You know, thanks
to John Paul Morose for stopping by. Oh yeah, now
we're back into the NFL. Let's go. The more time
goes on, the more upset I get that the forty
nine ers are this good, right because I watch them
(36:55):
make decisions either front office or coaching wise, and I go,
how are you still just stepping in it after all
these years?
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Right?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Because you go back and say, all right, look what
they did with the quarterback situation. How they held it
hostage for so long they couldn't make a decision on
Trey Lance and make bad decisions on Jimmy Garoppolo, and
what happens they wind up getting a guy, mister irrelevant,
who they're going to have to pay sixty million dollars
a year too. Well, go back fall in it for that.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Go back to twenty seventeen when they were all strutting
around because they got over on the Bears, right, the
famous Mitchell Trubisky carrier. Yeah, Okay, they got Fred Warner
out of it. Yeah, but the best player that came
out of that that group of selections in the trade
was Alvin Kamara for the Saints. Sure off a spin
off of that pick. So they were trading on that
(37:44):
as super geniuses long before the Trey Lance So and
we lived the quarterback controversies for the past four years.
They draft Lance, they don't give them the team. Jimmy's
a guy. Let's bring Jimmy back. But Jimmy gets them
somewhere when they don't believe in him at all, they
give the job to Trey Lance. They still get to
(38:04):
the NFC Championship game when Jimmy comes in because Lance
gets hurt. Then they realize we can't stick with Jimmy anymore.
We can't stick with Trey Lance. They hit it big
with Brock Purdy. I'm like, wow, you talk about just
stepping in it. And then I watched like what they
did this past weekend, which was put Brock Purdy out there, Yeah,
without three offensive linemen who were hurt, and no starting
(38:28):
skill position players at running back, wide receiver or George Kettle.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
I'm a big fan of tempting the football game. Gads
and Perdy got hit pretty hard on a few plays.
He played twelve plays, And I'm saying to myself, you
don't deserve to have this success if you do something
stupid like putt your franchise quarterback out there. That's all
by the way, the last year, you're not paying him
any money, and you put him out there behind backup
(38:51):
players on the offensive line without any skill position guys,
and he gets hit and hit and hit, and he's okay,
and he's gonna come back and probably play this weekend.
Like I see it, I go, I'm passed at the
forty nine ers are successful because they run this team
sometimes counterintuitive to how a business should run, but yet
they find a way to make money. It's like a
(39:12):
I mean, it's like a business that does all the
worst decisions you can make. We're gonna be closed on
Saturday and Sunday, Nope, we're closed on Saturday and Sunday.
We're gonna have sales. No, we're gonna jack the prices up. Well,
people aren't gonna come in, but yet they get a
lot of business people come in. By you go, it
doesn't make sense that this that this business makes as
much money as it does. I see the decisions of
forty nine ers make and I go, some of these
(39:33):
are just stupid and just the thing that and they
still are successful, and their success pisses me off.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
But that's the thing is that they get the rest
of it right and they fall into the most important
position of them all. And this is where we start
the argument, that is the the chicken and egg thing
of is brock perty any good because you have some
bund instead of he's a blow average. It's like, really,
(40:00):
that's what we're gonna do. We're just gonna dismiss him categorically.
Yes he's got a good support staff, and yes they
have a good system. He still has to execute plays
in real time on a football field that doesn't happen
consistently by accident. By the way, nine hundred and thirty
four thousand. His salary this year top is about what
fifty five million?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Yeah, yeah, there you go, Doug. He's getting there, he's
getting there. Watch them. What you gonna say. Just give
me a million dollars a year. I'll signed for the
next ten years. I'm gonna help you out like nice
job security.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
But then you become Scottie Pippen and then you get
mad for forty years.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Upsets me. It upsets me. There this good. It's not
your fault. Speaking of quarterbacks, got another big story coming
up next Fox
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