August 23, 2024 • 40 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike dive into the NFL preseason matchups, analyzing the Colts vs. Bengals and Bears vs. Chiefs games. They then discuss the Mariners' decision to fire Manager Scott Servais following a sweep by the Dodgers. Finally, Jason and Mike evaluate the Dodgers' impressive turnaround, arguing that the team has resolved many of its previous issues.
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And right now we got the big Week three of
the NFL preseason.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's underway, it's happening. The Bears are playing and they're winning.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I'm telling you, buddy, the Chiefs chaps as boring ass
as they are on hard knocks and as awful of
a show as that is telling you. Man Era of
good feeling is here. Not that it's about this, because
the Chiefs are playing backups, obviously, and if they were
playing the flag football guy who says he's better than Mahomes,
it might be different. But it doesn't matter. Everything's gonna
(01:23):
come up, Bears, buddy. I love everything about your team
this year, man, except Hard Knocks is terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No, Hard Knocks is boring. But like I theorized earlier
in the week, I reiterated for the audience nationwide and
globally listening in, this is a master strategy and leave
us the hell alone. We are so boring. Yeah, and
then as soon as the cambers go away, ib Refluse
lets his hair down, that beard gets a little mangy
and it gets loose. Yeah. In the interim, you got
(01:51):
a very boring Hard Knocks where it's all right, let's
talk about the punter.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know he's Australian. Let's get my nickname. Hey Australian,
Let's give a whole segment. Let's give him a whole segment.
We learned about him and where he's from, and let's
hear him talk, because hearing Australian people talk is fun.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Let's it's always fun. Let's make a bunch of references
to the crocodile hunter, his family, his kid, the Australian
zoo wallabies, and every other animal we may know that
could potentially kill you from Australia. No, that was great.
That was fan That's the most exciting thing in three
episodes of Hard Knocks. Williams is a nice guy. He's
(02:28):
got a sponge DJ Moore. Look at what he got.
He got his contract and then he and his family
went to the Museum of ice Cream. That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, No, that that that's a that's not really a
show like that's like you get left out of Hollywood
with that one.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That's what we're doing. That's what we can't. But you
know what got to happen, Reddy Stewart with a forty
eight yard pick sixty. Let's go turnovers, get it done. No, buddy,
I'm telling you, man, it's it's fantastic. It is, it is.
It is a great error. Now, man, it is fantastic.
You know what, though, I built that that arc long
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long ago, right, this is I'm gonna go biblical here.
It's like being you know, Noah, and I'm building this
arc and it's like, I think I need to build
it a little bigger. You know, I got word that
it's gonna be and it's gonna get big. And then
you look and all of a sudden you're in jaws.
You're like, I think I need a bigger boat, because
that's where we're at. With the amount of people trying
to jump on board my ship. What I did there?
(03:27):
Jump off board my ship? Not even wagon. There's not
an even enough room.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Not a bus, no nothing, no, no, I get you
because it's not two by two.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, no, no, there's no order here. They're coming in droves.
It's like storming the gates when they open up that
party deck. Uh in Dallas at Jerry World. This is
you know, a Taylor Swift concert where you've got to
get down into the pit because you want to get
as close there and maybe you can convince them that
you're the one that gets the lucky hat. No, this
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is what it is for the Bears right now. And
you know what, I got to figure out how to profit.
That's really the only thing left in all of this process.
And who are you? I'm an honor. This is my wife, Otter.
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
We make people happy? As we swim around. Okay, get
on the arc. Who are you?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I'm Matt Naggie. This is my wife.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Go get out, get out now you're not getting on.
You're not getting on. No, go go somebody else. Bring
those two giraffts on first. Get Matt net Naggy gets out.
He's out, He's out, out, out, out of it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Are you gonna Did you learn anything from the next
run with Kansas City that you can bring back that's
materially relevant to what we're trying to build here, you
know with this quarterback. If so, you can get in
the back of the boat.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Meanwhile, the game that does have the biggest amount of
drama happening right now, Colts and the Bengals. Why because
we are getting the best and worst and biggest question
of everybody's next favorite breakout quarterback in the NFL, Anthony Richardson.
All right, now, there's things to be worried about with
him after seeing him seeing him tonight, and there's things
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to not be worried about, but they may not be
the same things. So so far tonight, Anthony Richson in
his in his playing time, ate out of fourteen for
eighty six yards in.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
A touchdown right. Look terrific.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
On that first drive right down the field, just slicing
and dicing the ball looked fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Okay, hey, that's the best of Anthony Richardson. And then
on the next drive you kind of got this. Let's
take a listen. You can't pocket Minute's picked up Jordan
Battle right there. Touch down there.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It is Amazon Prime on the call a pick six
inside his own twenty yard like now, it looked like
potentially the receiver turned the wrong way or didn't turn
away that Richardson was expecting him to turn, and he
put the ball in a spot where were the defensive backsend,
thank you very much, so we'll see where that is.
And then you know, he got sacked later on in
the half and he fumbled. They were able to dive
(06:02):
on it. There's things to be concerned about, things not
to be concerned about. I don't care about the interception.
I don't care about the fumble. Anthony Richardson is fine.
You see how talented the guy is. The guy's like
the freaking Shaquill O'Neill when coming into the NFL, with
the freak of nature that he is. The guy's all
kinds of talented, he needs reps. The guy hasn't played
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a lot of football in four years, right, Like Trey
Lance looks like a guy that was an iron man
coming out of college compared to Anthony Richardson. Because he
didn't play a lot, he got hurt, and then then
he came into the draft, he got hurt again. He
just needs the reps and then that's gonna be fine.
When you're that talented, you're the mistakes like this, This
is stuff that you are able to erase as time
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goes on. So I'm not that concerned about it. I'm
glad he's pushing the ball downfield. I'm glad he's moving
the team. That doesn't concern me at all. But this guy,
you know, if he's going to become the next great
quarterback in the NFL, I still I can't get past
the fact that how the hell is he gonna stay
healthy for a guy that thinks he can When a
quarterback thinks he can make every play, and Anthony rich
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is one of those guys, I can make every play
no matter what. You leave yourself open to getting hit.
You make bad decisions. Now to mean bad, you turn
over the football, I mean bad decisions, you get hit,
you're stretching the wrong way, you get hit wrong, and
you're out of the lineup. He had two bad injuries
last year. He came back after one that knocked out
for the season a week five. Like he's got to
be able to protect himself going forward and not playing
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a lot of football. I don't know how long it's
gonna take him to do that. That's my real concern
is that is he good enough? He is he does
he know enough about the NFL game and understand, Okay,
this is what I can do and this is what
I can't do. Because you can't even say he knows
all that about the college game because he barely played
and now he's into the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
What can I do? What can I not do?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And when you haven't played a lot, you're gonna it's
like kind of trial and error, and trial and error
can ended in a lost season very quickly. So for him,
I'm more concerned than other guys, other threat quarterbacks. Can
they stay healthy, Can they stay in the lineup? Because
I just don't know that he knows what he doesn't
know yet if that makes sense, Like he doesn't know
what he doesn't know about the NFL, and in five
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games last year he played very reckless. He wound up
getting hurt and was out for the year, And now
I don't know that he knows enough to be able
to stay away from it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I want to pick the Colts to go far.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
They have a lot of great offensive weapons, they go
four deep at wide receiver man, and they are talented
as hell.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But wow, if he's not on the field, and I
can't trust that.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
He's going to be on the field, I can't pick
them to go crazy because if I knew he was
gonna be not They always say, well, of course, quarterback,
it's hurt, But when you have a propensity to being
injured and not playing a lot, it's a big concern.
This is not oh hey, this guy got hurt, how's
he going to be now? It's not Aaron Rodgers. He
had the freak injury. He's back this year. This is
when your style of play is. It portends to the
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fact that maybe have a tough time staying on the field.
It's hard for me to believe in that man, and
I want him to succeed because he's exciting as hell, man,
as big as he is.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
How he can move and what he can do to
delivering the football and running.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
He's fantastic to watch, but I can't pick them for
anything because I just don't know. Will he be the
quarterback after week one, Week three, Week seven, I can't
tell you. And that's a big red flag for me.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Over under wins eight and a half. We talked a
lot about Richardson today in the first episode of the
iWatch Flex season five podcasts, Up and Going, and I
kind of echoed a lot of what you just said there, Jason,
and when he comes down to it of I want
to I want to believe, and if you look at
average draft position, people are bullish and he's fifth amongst quarterbacks.
(09:34):
Guess what this guy spoiler alert, no chance at hell
top five just based on that doesn't mean he won't
get past it, right, Matthew Stafford, Once upon a time,
he started his career with a couple of big injuries.
For all that we talk about Joe LMB, the big
man in his feet and whatever, I'm not saying he
gives you every game. I'm not saying he's anywhere near
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one hundred percent in the playoffs, but guess what he
got past some of that Anthony Richardson. We need to
see him get past some of that, right, because everybody's
been predicting doom and gloom for Josh Allen for years
based on style of play. Hasn't happened. Lamar Jackson has
had his injury conserves. You know what, He's also got
two little trophies that say for two years he was
the best player in the damn game. So he was
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healthy enough to do that without discernible top end weapons
as you may have in Indianapolis. Because you look at
what they added. You already had Pittman Junior, who I
just decided was quarterback proof and I oven him in
a keya teen league, right, say, all right, that guy's
a talent. You got downs if he can stay healthy.
And then you add ad Ni Mitchell. You got three
guys and you still have Taylor in the backfield and
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you can get after it. But there's no guarantee. I mean.
One of the interesting things, you know, we forgot about
Hard Knocks, where we chronicled that first episode that had
all sorts of just little things. Nick Saban showed up
all of that stuff, was how they played on the
slipping slide. I don't know that the Colts had Anthony
Richardson play on the slipping slide or simulate the Hey,
(10:59):
you're about to go through a tunnel like you're at
Disneyland Universal Studios. Pick your favorite slot. You gotta get
down or your head is gonna get clanked by a sign. Okay,
all of these things, or in this case, a blitzing
safety cornerback or a linebacker who's got you dead on
lock right, So all of those things. I can't trust it.
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I gotta believe that the division will be better and stronger.
That's fine, but just from the individual style of play,
self preservation's gotta be first and foremost in his mind.
Live to see another play, and until we have proof
of concept, I can't back him. Eight and a half
is there over and under on wins. I was actually
trying to look up the over under on games played
(11:42):
for Joe Flacco.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I look like I like you got Joel. You want
to get Joe Flacco when every conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Goes well, in this case, it's Germaine because well he's
a cold.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I mean, look, I would I would love to be
able to sit here and say, Okay, yeah, I completely
believe in what I'm seeing from Anthony Richardson and that
he's gonna say I'd love to say that because the
ceiling for him and the Colts are they can win
this division even with the Texans. I mean, even with
the Texans being as good as they are, they could
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run away because they could score points in bunches. I mean,
you watch Richardson play last year and it looks like
for a quarter and a half, Wow, man, that Colts
are getting killed. They're losing seventeen nothing, they have no life.
And then seven minutes later he throws for a touchdown,
runs for a touchdown, and then throws for another touchdown,
and it's twenty one seventeen at half time, and it's.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Wow, look at what this kid can do. And so
his talent it's not in question at all.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And the Colts picking him, Boy did they get the
right guy as far as what he could do for
the team. But you need to be able to be available.
And you know, look, if I could feel for certain,
all right, if I go, I'll tell you how much
how good I feel about them, if I could feel
for certain, if you could tell me Anthony Richardson is
playing the entire season, if you tell me he playing
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all seventeen games, and I would say, Okay, I can
see the Colts making to the AFC Championship, like I
can see them going that far because he's that talented.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
But you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And while you can potentially do that with other team,
you could say, hey, Josh Allen all R yeah, I'll
proably play all seventeen games. My homes wll playoff seventeen
to all the buff But you can't do that with Richardson.
If you could, that's as good as he can take them,
because this team is this team is ready to take off.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They have a lot of good talent. They surrounded him
with good talent. They keep drafting wide receivers for their quarterbacks.
Oh this guy's now, Alec Pierce isn't working out. Okay,
We're gonna bring Mitchell in now and see where he's at.
And Pittman's a great receiver and we still have one
of the best running backs in the game. We're just
gonna continue to roll through talent for you.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's how they do.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's one thing the Colts have always done, no matter
who their quarterback is, We're gonna keep bringing in talent.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We're gonna keep bringing in.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Receivers and running backs and everything else and make sure
they have enough guys to throw to. It's a great
philosophy to have something a lot of quarterbacks would like
to do. So I'm never worried about where they are
talent wise offensively, but this is it, man.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's how good they can be. If I knew we
could stay healthy all year. That's how I'll put it in.
A couple of stats again, quarterback Y episode of the pod,
gonna go up. Ten guys top four thousand passing yards
a year ago, you had four thirty plus touchdown throwers
six twenty five to twenty nine, eight twenty to twenty four.
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What does that tell you? That's eighteen guys at his
means fourteen teams had eight quarterback or multiple quarterbacks or
the single quarterbacks through for nineteen touchdowns or fewer. Only
fifteen guys actually got to sixteen or seventeen games, and
obviously you got a couple of guys that were operation
shut down in the final week. Five guys played fifteen games,
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three guys played thirteen, and then it's a veritable hodgepodge
all the way down to that whole number of sixty
six different starters a year ago. The colts are praying, wishing, wanting,
hoping that rich if he's gonna miss that, that over
under because we said it last year for Lamar, we
need about thirteen and a half games, right, I think
(15:06):
that's where we put it at. I need that from
Anthony Richardson. And the key is miss a game or
two in September, save them for good and maybe you
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big second result of that to get to coming up
in a couple of seconds. However, scary moment a few
(16:36):
moments ago. Bears the Chiefs playing right now, early in
the third quarter. Bears are winning this game twenty to seven.
On a play that looked very innocent, Bears defensive back
Douglas Coleman, who played in the CFL last year and
joined the Bears earlier in this offseason, went in to
make a tackle on a kind of a swing route
(16:57):
near the sideline, and again, it didn't look bad, didn't
look like he hit his head with anything, didn't look
like he didn't, didn't butt a helmet with anybody. However,
he goes down in a heap. It is a head injury,
according to the Bears, and it was an injury. Where
as soon as it happened, both teams came across the field,
everyone was silent. They brought out the backboard to load
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him up onto an ambulance which came onto the field.
And it's one of those moments where you keep waiting,
move your hands, move your hands with your hands. I
did not see him move his hands, and I don't
believe he did. It is some sort of head or
neck injury. He's been taken to.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
The hospital right away, So we will have an update
on this as soon as we know. Very scary.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
There at least a dozen or so medical personnel that
we're moving, being extremely careful obviously getting him onto a
Kansas City Fire Department vehicle. Look, the entire Bears team
came over and essentially stood by, and the Chiefs did
as well. Again, real scary moment that they've continued to
play the game. We're hoping to update on him at
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some point soon. I guess if you could say, is
there good news? The good news seemed to be they
were taking a lot of care with him, but it
didn't seem like it was harried and rushed and it
needed to be life saving. That I mean again, I'm
just going by what we've seen, because they cut away
for a lot of it and came back, and I
saw the speed with which they loaded him on into
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the ambulance. It certainly seemed like, okay, maybe they feel
like it's under control.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I'm just telling you what we saw, what I saw
on TV and how I saw it. I don't know
anything else more than that, but just watching how things
are treated in the NFL, how injuries are over the
course of my life, I'm holding on to the fact
that maybe this is this was okay. They're being incredibly
cautious with him on the way to the hospital, and
we get a good update.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
At some point later on tonight. Yeah. I'd probably watched
this replay some thirty times, and it's just the reminder
and everybody's experienced, you know, a fall a you know,
you watch you know, your kid playing sport or whatever,
and you see big collisions and then all right, they're
up and going. This one was a tackle and nothing
(19:07):
that seemed out of out of sorts, a little awkward,
you know, as he's on his knees as he uh
makes contact, But just shows how fragile it all can be,
right and the innocuous can become something serious. To your point,
professionals out there quickly uh and acting. They're back on
(19:28):
on the field and playing, and you know, sometimes maybe
that gives us an indication of of where you're at
in the process, you know, given you know, past uh
situations that we've had. It is a preseason game, et cetera,
that that they're continuing on. But yeah, hoping for the
best and really looking for a little more insight because
(19:49):
they kept going back to the booth, they kept you know,
going to commercial and while medical personnel were administering care,
so uh eagerly waiting up dates going forward. Yeah, as
soon as we do, we'll bring it towards you. Again.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
This happened about five or seven minutes ago. Coleman goes
down and and and really it was it's you see
this and and and you immediately think back to DeMar Hamlin.
And of course I think that's kind of what we
compare all situations like this too. Now is what that
looked like. And but just how fast medical personnel had
to get out there, you knew there was something really
(20:24):
wrong with DeMar Hamlin right away, and with the speed
with which they worked. And that's that's kind of what
I mean when I when when I say I'm judging
by how the speed with which they worked at they look.
We're taking We're we're being very careful, very cautious. We're
doing we need to do. And again I didn't see
a lot because NFL Network cut away and showed the
kneeling players a lot. Obviously, you know, you don't know
(20:45):
what you want to show on television. But the way
at the end when they loaded him up and you
see some of the video on the internet, Uh, Okay,
we're doing it. We're loading them up and going and
the fact they're still playing. I'm hoping we're going to
get a really good update at some point. Coming up soon,
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six sixty three six ' nine. Well, we got more
coming up in ninety seconds. A big firing our businesses, sports,
we get into it something that shocked the hell out
of all of us earlier today. But first, Steve de
Seger has what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports as.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
D Hello, gentlemen, we do have two NFL exhibitions tonight.
At Kansas City, it's Bears twenty to seven in the
lead mid third quarter, and at Cincinnati it's Colts twenty
to seven over the Bengals with six minutes left in
that game. No, Patrick Mahomes is not playing tonight, and
Caleb Williams is not playing tonight, and Joe Burrow's not
playing tonight. Anthony Richardson played, he had a touch Steve.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Steve de Berg play tonight? How about Steve bon Berline
is not playing? Did Steve Bono play? Did what about Elvis?
Did he play tonight?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Bono didn't play either, or Steve Bono?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And did anybody come off the edge? Very good? Very good.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Anthony Richardson with one touchdown pass for his team and
one touchdown pass for the other team. He threw a pier.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
He's keeping both teams in the game. Seed, He's not
easy to do.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Yeah, so kind of you know, people just give excitement
crazy about what the running capabilities are here? So one
carry three yards, one touchdown, pass one pick six.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
The Eagles acquire oh by the way, Kansas City. At
kickoff announced that center Creed Humphrey is getting a new
four year extension. The Eagles acquired wide receiver Johan Dotson
from Washington. The Commanders traded for kicker Cade York from
Cleveland and released kicker Riley Patterson. Atlanta gave defensive back
aj Terrell a four year extension. San Francisco signed tight
(22:38):
end Logan Thomas. Iowa suspended football coach Kirk Farrence for
a recruiting violation. Keegan Bradley as a one stroke lead
for the golf playoff in Colorado. One WNBA game tonight,
New York now twenty five and four after beating Dallas
again seventy nine to seventy one. The late game and
Major League Baseball is in San Diego, with the Mets
(22:58):
up one nothing going to the fourth against the Padres
on Fox TV tonight, Atlanta edge Philadelphia three to two
to save de Rice Ellyglacias with three straight strikeouts in
the ninth. The Orioles are now game and a half
back of the Yankees for first in the Al East.
New York won today six nothing over Cleveland. Aaron Judge
is forty eighth Homer. Baltimore lost six nothing at home
(23:20):
tonight to Houston. Houston's won ninth straight on the road
victories for Toronto five to three over the Angels, and
Pittsburgh was shut out Cincinnati seven nothing to win to
Paul Skens, who's eight in two. The Mariners did fire
manager Scott Servis. Former catcher Dan Wilson will be the
interim skipper. Houston is signing reliever Hector Narris, who was
(23:40):
cut by the Cubs this week. The Dodgers designated Jason
Hayward for assignment and activated Chris Taylor. The Angels gave
general manager Perry Manasseion a two year extension.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
And Jacob de Gram he's got an extension. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
he got an extension because this is ninth straight losing seasons,
so apparently he come cheap. That's all this tells me.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You got an extension.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Jacob de Gram made his first re oilstart or double
A Rangers at Frisco tonight. He threw twenty one of
his twenty nine pitches for strikes, two innings, one run
aloud for de Grom, three strikeouts, no walks.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. Let me just
say this, you know, because I want to put this out.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Hey, Phillies, stop tanking every time you play a team
it's in competition with the Mets for the wild card.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I know you hate the.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Mets and always the Mets, and especially the Mets. I got,
but you know you can't beat Atlanta. You know you're
better than them. You get swept by Arizona.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You can't beat that.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
How about you know these teams you actually try, okay,
instead of saying, hey, if we lay down a little bit, oh,
this will really.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Hurt the Mets and always the Mets. Yeah, yeah, no,
I know. Just I mean, I see, I see what's
going on here, Mike. I see it. It's a it's
a big conspiracy to hurt the Mets. I see it.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
They drop games, they beat everybody else, They beat everybody else. Oh,
we can't beat Atlanta, we can't beat aras a Gez. Surprise, surprise,
they beat the Dodgers two out of three. Okay, on no,
everybody else will beat no, no, no, no, no, we
can't beat. No, we can't beat. These teams of Mets
are in competition. No, no, that's just gonna help them. Yeah, thanks,
thanks a lot. I see what's going on.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Let's lose to the braves. I don't know that that's
part of the strategy. And I'm calling robins. I like
conspiracy theories and I'm curious as to what type of
tinfoil hat you fashion for yourself here out of Thursday night.
But yeah, it's okay, it's still a glorious Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Now, speaking of what we saw in baseball today, a
shocking story that is about two teams when you think
about it, right, the Mariners get swept by the Dodgers
last night, and we saw this following the game last night,
the Mariner's postgame show, which normally comes out look just
regular postgame show that comes on everybody's cable channel following
(25:57):
the game is over. You get your local team and
you get a postgame show where you have your analysts
talk about the game for five minutes. You go down
to the manager's press conference and you go back and
break down what he talked about. Then you have interviews
in the locker room, and that's your MLB postgame show,
Marrin's postgame show last night got canceled. It was they
went on for a couple of minutes, said Okay, that's it.
We'll see you guys tomorrow. No Scott Service interview, no
(26:17):
talking to the manager, nothing else. Apparently what happened what
I've been able to find out throughout the course of
the night last night, there was a closed door meeting
following the game. The Mariners made the decision they were
going to fire manager Scott's Service replace him, and that
was kind of when they were breaking it to the team.
Ken Rosenthal had the story earlier today, and here you
(26:38):
are on August twenty second, well after the mariners free
fall got to the point where you should say, hey,
maybe we should do something about it. Now, the Mariners decide, hey,
we're going to fire our manager and they let Scott's
Service go. The Dodgers now proving they got their schwerve
back because they are firing managers now.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
They are having managers fired by winning series.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And winning game a lot more than the Dodgers in
a second, but they are firing managers, and Scott Service
is the latest victim.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Ten and three over their last thirteen. According to a
couple of reports, the meeting last night with the players was, hey,
use the off day to reset and get ready for
the stretch run. And guess what he found out? If
it is firing through a report in the Athletic I'm sure,
but he didn't even get to have his meeting. No Topoto, no,
(27:32):
no so no, I guess I'm huh for all of.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
The and and think about this, I always say, my
team exists to make your team feel better. The way
that I see Mariners fans talk about the front office
and Jerry Depoto and how that organization is run, I
wonder how they're able to even.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Get a team to the park on time to play
a game. Like that's how much too? I mean?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Then look in Jerry Dipoto's a guy with the famous quote, Hey,
we to win fifty four percent of our games.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Like what what are you talking about? Fifty What do
you aim to win fifty four percent of our game?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Hey? Tell me if tonight's one of the fifty four percent,
I'll come to the game or I'll watch it. If
it's not one of the fifty four percent, I'm not
gonna watch.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Like what is going on?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Like he is hated so much, and he's run this
team for so long, and Marin his fan, they're all
so sick of it and so unhappy. And I look
at this and I go, well, yeah, I mean I
get look, Scott serviss is, he's a big boy.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
He knows.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Hey, when you stop playing well, you wind up getting fired.
And and yes, it is difficult to fire a manager
when your team is playing well. But man, you gave
away a twelve game lead. And the time to do
this is when, hey, the Astros caught you. Let's figure
out a way out of this. No, let's give you
some more time. Now they're five games out and they're
eight out of the Wildcard, like you were gonna do it.
(28:47):
Why do you wait till now to do it?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Now? Suddenly you have to climb uphill for the last
six weeks, when you could.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Have done it three weeks ago or a month ago,
when things at least look like, all right, we gave
away this lead. We don't like how it's going, we
need to make could change. Obviously, if Julio Rodriguez was
having a big year, things would be different.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
But it's not.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And this is how it goes. But wow, I mean,
you wait this long to say, okay, now we need
a new manager. Seriously, you wait this long to do it?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Now once to see it? Hey, why did you wait
to your ten games out? Fifteen games out?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It will be what a great, incredible run we're gonna
have when we make up fifteen games in the last
twenty five games.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
And run away to the wildcard. Like that's not happening.
The great Julio Cruz, former middle infielder for the White
Sox and the Mariners astro. I mean he was around
a bunch. He used to. You have the line, I
don't have to hit. I'm a spark plug. I cleaned
it up a little bit. They don't have anybody hitting.
(29:42):
They have the worst batting average in Major League Baseball
over the last fifty three games. Their ops composite is
better only than the Miami Marlins. In the Chicago White Sox. Yeah,
they lead the major league is in era. Yeah, and
they're starting pitching is the bast Yeah, this is how
bad they are. They've given this entirety because here's the
(30:03):
other thing they need to do, and this is you know,
like people always complained, we're going to get enough voices
in the NFL booze. I'm tired of these quarterbacks. They
don't say anything blah blah blah blah blah. Welcome Tom
Brady to Fox. I do not say blah blah blah.
I do not say blah blah. We got stuff promoting
catchers to manage your positions because they don't necessarily know
what they're doing either. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
You know, here's a thing, Mike. You know, catchers are
really smart. They control the game. They know every aspect
of the game. I really think, you know, you want
a catcher to be a manager that work and that's funny.
He works out because they wear what they're called the
tools of ignorance. Ah, yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, you
know what. Jeff Fisher was on the competition committee in
the NFL. You know, I don't tell you know that
Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard. He is a smart quarterback.
(30:44):
I don't if you know that or not.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
You just summarized one decade of sports talk radio and television.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And don't forget about that. You know, Clayton Kershaw and
Matthew Stafford, oh, teammates when we were younger.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Look at those white Sox hats when they were young,
but yeah, you make them now. And unfortunately Rodriguez missed
a bunch of time right, crashed into a wall. Miss
Hub wasn't hitting for any power before that. Cal Raley,
great power guy, can't hit for average. Go on down
the line from there, and Houston flipped the switch. Something changed,
(31:19):
right you had them. They were banged up, they're not hitting,
they're not playing well, and then they've absolutely caught fire.
It's like a lot like we've watched the NL West
and that gap closed because I may at one point
Seattle is so comfortably ahead. It's like, all right, eventually
Rodriguez is gonna come back. They're gonna start hitting. The
lineup's gonna give them an effort commensurate with the starting pitching,
(31:42):
and away they go. And instead, it's just been a
miserable two and a half month slog. And you had
your trade deadline, you had your All Star break, you
had all of those natural points to just say, Okay,
this is it, this isn't working. We need a new message.
Here we are August twenty second. August twenty second, Jason,
(32:03):
let's fix this exit. How about a Fresco exit swollen dome?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I mean, I see people talk about them, and I go, wow,
I'm really glad the people running the Mariners aren't running
my team.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Well, and Manascion gets an extension. Uh huh, d Angels,
He's in the same division. So man, come on, how
to underachieve and keep your job? Brought to you by
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Speaker 1 (32:27):
We got that bit on the Dodgers because all of
a sudden, the rest of Major League Baseball is going,
Oh great, here comes the best team in baseball.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
They're back.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Plus, how about this, I'll tell you a show that
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Speaker 2 (32:42):
How about that?
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Speaker 1 (33:46):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
YO live from thetirack dot com studios. Now we got
to the Scott Service party today, which is just insane.
I mean, no one gets more scoring on my timeline
on social media than Mariners' management.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And now you see why.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
We joked around. Look, the Dodgers got it back because
you know they fired a manager. Today they got Scott's
service fired. Hey did you go and apologize to Softy?
Did you call into kJ R? I did not apologize.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I did feel like you and me and Morosi we
as a group. He just send a basket of fruit
or something, a wreath of flowers or I don't know,
whatever it takes to just say hey, sorry, we did
this to your squad.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
But look, let me tell you something that's a bigger
deal is that the Dodgers are back, and suddenly all
their problems have seemed to have gone away. Not that
they don't have them, but the problems they have had
can now be covered and they seem to have gone away.
Sometimes one series can put the exclamation point on knowing
(34:54):
that you're back. And the Dodgers sweep the Mariners and
the best team in baseball, and now looks at a
lot that says, okay, we just got Max Munsey back,
and he looks like he picked up right where he
left off. He's hitting home runs and bat flipping and
and and getting making his way around the base is
incredibly slowly, just like Max Munsey does. Gavin Lux has
been great the last two months. His ops has been
(35:16):
like near near a thousand.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Their lineup suddenly is deep. Their guys are all back
from injury. Mookie Betts's back. You have a guy. And
Jack Flaherty had the big stare down with Randy Rosa
Raina last night. Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
He's a guy that's not backing away from anybody. He's
showing leadership. He has stepped in. Yes, the Dodgers have
starting pitching issues that they have to figure out over
the course of the next few weeks, like when's Tyler
Glasno really coming back, as Yochuinoba Yamamoto really going to
come back. But they were able to withstand this horrible
run of mediocrity because of all the injuries, and now
(35:51):
here they are again, best record in baseball. They've been
rolling at the last few games. They're gonna slug their
way past a lot of teams and look, when you
get to the playoffs, the pens a much bigger deal.
And Dave Roberts already says he's managing like it's the playoffs.
The Dodgers are back. I feel great about them now.
It's the best I felt about them all year, which
is bad for the other twenty nine teams in Major
(36:11):
League Baseball. Because this is supposed to be a year
where hey, wait a minute, it's wide open for anybody. Yeah,
it is kind of wide open. But wow, the Dodgers
look really, really good and that they have solved their
problems as much as they can. They are so incredibly dangerous,
and even if they don't have great starting pitching, now
that they're healthy, dell out, slug the hell out of you, man,
Max Months, he's hitting seventh. Man, Come on, the guy's
(36:33):
a forty zero run hitter. He's hitting seventh. They got
guys that keep Kevin Kiermeyer and suddenly he's playing well.
The Dodgers have gotten through a really long, extended period
and here there again once again, and they're the best
team in baseball.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
And I don't see a lot of problems ten and
three in the last thirteen. And that's with Will Smith
not hitting it for anything, and show Tony has milestones,
but overall hasn't been you know, a world beating of late. Right,
when you do the aggregate of what he's done for
the year, it's all amazing. The starting pitching. I'll take
(37:07):
some solace in what you've gotten from Kershaw right rounding
into shape, and you know, we can always worry about
velocity and whatever else, but if you're gonna legitimately get
five or six strong innings from him short in the game.
But you know, you mentioned Roberts and the playoff baseball,
what happens there, you know, back in quick, quick to
the pen. So we got to be careful right, burn
(37:29):
it out arms. But in the National League, there's only
one team that has a wrecord remaining strength of schedule
that is worse than them. It's Tips. Otherwise it's a
bunch of AL teams Detroit, Yeah, the Angels, the Rangers,
(37:49):
the A's, the aforementioned Seattle Mariners, and the Yankees, and
then the Dodgers come in composite record of four ninety.
For the remaining squad, you got a bunch against Colorado
and uh, well a couple of games of Anaheim still
to go. Uh. Then San Diego isn't much, isn't for
too far behind them, that's only two slots. Uh, Their
(38:11):
composite uh strength of schedule going forward is still sub
five hundreds. So it makes for an interesting race. But
Dave Roberts did a great job. The Hayward versus Chris
Taylor thing. Oh, still one of those. Can't you know
he's your leader, This is the guy, an emotional leader
and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
You see you Yeah, but Chris Taylor's got a lot
of You got equity backed up with the Dodgers the last.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Time I get it in contract and whatever else. It's
still a what have you done for me? I'm not saying,
Heyward's been world beating by any stretch or or you know, good,
but it's still just a kind of curious when you
start making the roster moves and trying to figure out
when guys are ready and able to come back, and
(38:58):
roster tinkering, particularly when you're on a bit of a streak,
no matter how much or how little you attribute to
a player.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
I tell you, man, that's it's a it's a tough decision.
It's very difficult, but I get it. And the dog
the Dodgers really don't have a lot of problems. Hey,
And for Hayward, at least he's got the game.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Winning home run, right, you get to see that home
run on our watch. It's it's absolutely fine. You know.
Here's the thing about Hayward.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
If he retires now he's thirty five, now, obviously he
still wants to play, but if he retires, he will
have homeward in his first major League.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
At bat and his last major league out. How about that?
Just think about that.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
In his descriptions at the Next Card Show, his first
swing in the majors was a home run and his
last swing in the majors could be.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
A home run.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
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And right now we got the big Week three of
the NFL preseason.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's underway, it's happening. The Bears are playing and they're winning.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I'm telling you, buddy, the Chiefs chaps as boring ass
as they are on hard knocks and as awful of
a show as that is telling you. Man Era of
good feeling is here. Not that it's about this, because
the Chiefs are playing backups, obviously, and if they were
playing the flag football guy who says he's better than Mahomes,
it might be different. But it doesn't matter. Everything's gonna
(01:23):
come up, Bears, buddy. I love everything about your team
this year, man, except Hard Knocks is terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No, Hard Knocks is boring. But like I theorized earlier
in the week, I reiterated for the audience nationwide and
globally listening in, this is a master strategy and leave
us the hell alone. We are so boring. Yeah, and
then as soon as the cambers go away, ib Refluse
lets his hair down, that beard gets a little mangy
and it gets loose. Yeah. In the interim, you got
(01:51):
a very boring Hard Knocks where it's all right, let's
talk about the punter.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know he's Australian. Let's get my nickname. Hey Australian,
Let's give a whole segment. Let's give him a whole segment.
We learned about him and where he's from, and let's
hear him talk, because hearing Australian people talk is fun.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Let's it's always fun. Let's make a bunch of references
to the crocodile hunter, his family, his kid, the Australian
zoo wallabies, and every other animal we may know that
could potentially kill you from Australia. No, that was great.
That was fan That's the most exciting thing in three
episodes of Hard Knocks. Williams is a nice guy. He's
(02:28):
got a sponge DJ Moore. Look at what he got.
He got his contract and then he and his family
went to the Museum of ice Cream. That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, No, that that that's a that's not really a
show like that's like you get left out of Hollywood
with that one.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That's what we're doing. That's what we can't. But you
know what got to happen, Reddy Stewart with a forty
eight yard pick sixty. Let's go turnovers, get it done. No, buddy,
I'm telling you, man, it's it's fantastic. It is, it is.
It is a great error. Now, man, it is fantastic.
You know what, though, I built that that arc long
(03:03):
long ago, right, this is I'm gonna go biblical here.
It's like being you know, Noah, and I'm building this
arc and it's like, I think I need to build
it a little bigger. You know, I got word that
it's gonna be and it's gonna get big. And then
you look and all of a sudden you're in jaws.
You're like, I think I need a bigger boat, because
that's where we're at. With the amount of people trying
to jump on board my ship. What I did there?
(03:27):
Jump off board my ship? Not even wagon. There's not
an even enough room.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Not a bus, no nothing, no, no, I get you
because it's not two by two.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
No, no, no, there's no order here. They're coming in droves.
It's like storming the gates when they open up that
party deck. Uh in Dallas at Jerry World. This is
you know, a Taylor Swift concert where you've got to
get down into the pit because you want to get
as close there and maybe you can convince them that
you're the one that gets the lucky hat. No, this
(03:58):
is what it is for the Bears right now. And
you know what, I got to figure out how to profit.
That's really the only thing left in all of this process.
And who are you? I'm an honor. This is my wife, Otter.
What do you do?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
We make people happy? As we swim around. Okay, get
on the arc. Who are you?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I'm Matt Naggie. This is my wife.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Go get out, get out now you're not getting on.
You're not getting on. No, go go somebody else. Bring
those two giraffts on first. Get Matt net Naggy gets out.
He's out, He's out, out, out, out of it.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Are you gonna Did you learn anything from the next
run with Kansas City that you can bring back that's
materially relevant to what we're trying to build here, you
know with this quarterback. If so, you can get in
the back of the boat.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Meanwhile, the game that does have the biggest amount of
drama happening right now, Colts and the Bengals. Why because
we are getting the best and worst and biggest question
of everybody's next favorite breakout quarterback in the NFL, Anthony Richardson.
All right, now, there's things to be worried about with
him after seeing him seeing him tonight, and there's things
(05:03):
to not be worried about, but they may not be
the same things. So so far tonight, Anthony Richson in
his in his playing time, ate out of fourteen for
eighty six yards in.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
A touchdown right. Look terrific.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
On that first drive right down the field, just slicing
and dicing the ball looked fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Okay, hey, that's the best of Anthony Richardson. And then
on the next drive you kind of got this. Let's
take a listen. You can't pocket Minute's picked up Jordan
Battle right there. Touch down there.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It is Amazon Prime on the call a pick six
inside his own twenty yard like now, it looked like
potentially the receiver turned the wrong way or didn't turn
away that Richardson was expecting him to turn, and he
put the ball in a spot where were the defensive backsend,
thank you very much, so we'll see where that is.
And then you know, he got sacked later on in
the half and he fumbled. They were able to dive
(06:02):
on it. There's things to be concerned about, things not
to be concerned about. I don't care about the interception.
I don't care about the fumble. Anthony Richardson is fine.
You see how talented the guy is. The guy's like
the freaking Shaquill O'Neill when coming into the NFL, with
the freak of nature that he is. The guy's all
kinds of talented, he needs reps. The guy hasn't played
(06:23):
a lot of football in four years, right, Like Trey
Lance looks like a guy that was an iron man
coming out of college compared to Anthony Richardson. Because he
didn't play a lot, he got hurt, and then then
he came into the draft, he got hurt again. He
just needs the reps and then that's gonna be fine.
When you're that talented, you're the mistakes like this, This
is stuff that you are able to erase as time
(06:44):
goes on. So I'm not that concerned about it. I'm
glad he's pushing the ball downfield. I'm glad he's moving
the team. That doesn't concern me at all. But this guy,
you know, if he's going to become the next great
quarterback in the NFL, I still I can't get past
the fact that how the hell is he gonna stay
healthy for a guy that thinks he can When a
quarterback thinks he can make every play, and Anthony rich
(07:06):
is one of those guys, I can make every play
no matter what. You leave yourself open to getting hit.
You make bad decisions. Now to mean bad, you turn
over the football, I mean bad decisions, you get hit,
you're stretching the wrong way, you get hit wrong, and
you're out of the lineup. He had two bad injuries
last year. He came back after one that knocked out
for the season a week five. Like he's got to
be able to protect himself going forward and not playing
(07:28):
a lot of football. I don't know how long it's
gonna take him to do that. That's my real concern
is that is he good enough? He is he does
he know enough about the NFL game and understand, Okay,
this is what I can do and this is what
I can't do. Because you can't even say he knows
all that about the college game because he barely played
and now he's into the NFL.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
What can I do? What can I not do?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And when you haven't played a lot, you're gonna it's
like kind of trial and error, and trial and error
can ended in a lost season very quickly. So for him,
I'm more concerned than other guys, other threat quarterbacks. Can
they stay healthy, Can they stay in the lineup? Because
I just don't know that he knows what he doesn't
know yet if that makes sense, Like he doesn't know
what he doesn't know about the NFL, and in five
(08:09):
games last year he played very reckless. He wound up
getting hurt and was out for the year, And now
I don't know that he knows enough to be able
to stay away from it.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I want to pick the Colts to go far.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
They have a lot of great offensive weapons, they go
four deep at wide receiver man, and they are talented
as hell.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But wow, if he's not on the field, and I
can't trust that.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
He's going to be on the field, I can't pick
them to go crazy because if I knew he was
gonna be not They always say, well, of course, quarterback,
it's hurt, But when you have a propensity to being
injured and not playing a lot, it's a big concern.
This is not oh hey, this guy got hurt, how's
he going to be now? It's not Aaron Rodgers. He
had the freak injury. He's back this year. This is
when your style of play is. It portends to the
(08:51):
fact that maybe have a tough time staying on the field.
It's hard for me to believe in that man, and
I want him to succeed because he's exciting as hell, man,
as big as he is.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
How he can move and what he can do to
delivering the football and running.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
He's fantastic to watch, but I can't pick them for
anything because I just don't know. Will he be the
quarterback after week one, Week three, Week seven, I can't
tell you. And that's a big red flag for me.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Over under wins eight and a half. We talked a
lot about Richardson today in the first episode of the
iWatch Flex season five podcasts, Up and Going, and I
kind of echoed a lot of what you just said there, Jason,
and when he comes down to it of I want
to I want to believe, and if you look at
average draft position, people are bullish and he's fifth amongst quarterbacks.
(09:34):
Guess what this guy spoiler alert, no chance at hell
top five just based on that doesn't mean he won't
get past it, right, Matthew Stafford, Once upon a time,
he started his career with a couple of big injuries.
For all that we talk about Joe LMB, the big
man in his feet and whatever, I'm not saying he
gives you every game. I'm not saying he's anywhere near
(09:55):
one hundred percent in the playoffs, but guess what he
got past some of that Anthony Richardson. We need to
see him get past some of that, right, because everybody's
been predicting doom and gloom for Josh Allen for years
based on style of play. Hasn't happened. Lamar Jackson has
had his injury conserves. You know what, He's also got
two little trophies that say for two years he was
the best player in the damn game. So he was
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healthy enough to do that without discernible top end weapons
as you may have in Indianapolis. Because you look at
what they added. You already had Pittman Junior, who I
just decided was quarterback proof and I oven him in
a keya teen league, right, say, all right, that guy's
a talent. You got downs if he can stay healthy.
And then you add ad Ni Mitchell. You got three
guys and you still have Taylor in the backfield and
(10:38):
you can get after it. But there's no guarantee. I mean.
One of the interesting things, you know, we forgot about
Hard Knocks, where we chronicled that first episode that had
all sorts of just little things. Nick Saban showed up
all of that stuff, was how they played on the
slipping slide. I don't know that the Colts had Anthony
Richardson play on the slipping slide or simulate the Hey,
(10:59):
you're about to go through a tunnel like you're at
Disneyland Universal Studios. Pick your favorite slot. You gotta get
down or your head is gonna get clanked by a sign. Okay,
all of these things, or in this case, a blitzing
safety cornerback or a linebacker who's got you dead on
lock right, So all of those things. I can't trust it.
(11:20):
I gotta believe that the division will be better and stronger.
That's fine, but just from the individual style of play,
self preservation's gotta be first and foremost in his mind.
Live to see another play, and until we have proof
of concept, I can't back him. Eight and a half
is there over and under on wins. I was actually
trying to look up the over under on games played
(11:42):
for Joe Flacco.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I look like I like you got Joel. You want
to get Joe Flacco when every conversation.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Goes well, in this case, it's Germaine because well he's
a cold.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
I mean, look, I would I would love to be
able to sit here and say, Okay, yeah, I completely
believe in what I'm seeing from Anthony Richardson and that
he's gonna say I'd love to say that because the
ceiling for him and the Colts are they can win
this division even with the Texans. I mean, even with
the Texans being as good as they are, they could
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run away because they could score points in bunches. I mean,
you watch Richardson play last year and it looks like
for a quarter and a half, Wow, man, that Colts
are getting killed. They're losing seventeen nothing, they have no life.
And then seven minutes later he throws for a touchdown,
runs for a touchdown, and then throws for another touchdown,
and it's twenty one seventeen at half time, and it's.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Wow, look at what this kid can do. And so
his talent it's not in question at all.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And the Colts picking him, Boy did they get the
right guy as far as what he could do for
the team. But you need to be able to be available.
And you know, look, if I could feel for certain,
all right, if I go, I'll tell you how much
how good I feel about them, if I could feel
for certain, if you could tell me Anthony Richardson is
playing the entire season, if you tell me he playing
(13:00):
all seventeen games, and I would say, Okay, I can
see the Colts making to the AFC Championship, like I
can see them going that far because he's that talented.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
But you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And while you can potentially do that with other team,
you could say, hey, Josh Allen all R yeah, I'll
proably play all seventeen games. My homes wll playoff seventeen
to all the buff But you can't do that with Richardson.
If you could, that's as good as he can take them,
because this team is this team is ready to take off.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They have a lot of good talent. They surrounded him
with good talent. They keep drafting wide receivers for their quarterbacks.
Oh this guy's now, Alec Pierce isn't working out. Okay,
We're gonna bring Mitchell in now and see where he's at.
And Pittman's a great receiver and we still have one
of the best running backs in the game. We're just
gonna continue to roll through talent for you.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
That's how they do.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That's one thing the Colts have always done, no matter
who their quarterback is, We're gonna keep bringing in talent.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We're gonna keep bringing in.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Receivers and running backs and everything else and make sure
they have enough guys to throw to. It's a great
philosophy to have something a lot of quarterbacks would like
to do. So I'm never worried about where they are
talent wise offensively, but this is it, man.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
That's how good they can be. If I knew we
could stay healthy all year. That's how I'll put it in.
A couple of stats again, quarterback Y episode of the pod,
gonna go up. Ten guys top four thousand passing yards
a year ago, you had four thirty plus touchdown throwers
six twenty five to twenty nine, eight twenty to twenty four.
(14:22):
What does that tell you? That's eighteen guys at his
means fourteen teams had eight quarterback or multiple quarterbacks or
the single quarterbacks through for nineteen touchdowns or fewer. Only
fifteen guys actually got to sixteen or seventeen games, and
obviously you got a couple of guys that were operation
shut down in the final week. Five guys played fifteen games,
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three guys played thirteen, and then it's a veritable hodgepodge
all the way down to that whole number of sixty
six different starters a year ago. The colts are praying, wishing, wanting,
hoping that rich if he's gonna miss that, that over
under because we said it last year for Lamar, we
need about thirteen and a half games, right, I think
(15:06):
that's where we put it at. I need that from
Anthony Richardson. And the key is miss a game or
two in September, save them for good and maybe you
got a shot exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome.
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big second result of that to get to coming up
in a couple of seconds. However, scary moment a few
(16:36):
moments ago. Bears the Chiefs playing right now, early in
the third quarter. Bears are winning this game twenty to seven.
On a play that looked very innocent, Bears defensive back
Douglas Coleman, who played in the CFL last year and
joined the Bears earlier in this offseason, went in to
make a tackle on a kind of a swing route
(16:57):
near the sideline, and again, it didn't look bad, didn't
look like he hit his head with anything, didn't look
like he didn't, didn't butt a helmet with anybody. However,
he goes down in a heap. It is a head injury,
according to the Bears, and it was an injury. Where
as soon as it happened, both teams came across the field,
everyone was silent. They brought out the backboard to load
(17:19):
him up onto an ambulance which came onto the field.
And it's one of those moments where you keep waiting,
move your hands, move your hands with your hands. I
did not see him move his hands, and I don't
believe he did. It is some sort of head or
neck injury. He's been taken to.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
The hospital right away, So we will have an update
on this as soon as we know. Very scary.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
There at least a dozen or so medical personnel that
we're moving, being extremely careful obviously getting him onto a
Kansas City Fire Department vehicle. Look, the entire Bears team
came over and essentially stood by, and the Chiefs did
as well. Again, real scary moment that they've continued to
play the game. We're hoping to update on him at
(17:59):
some point soon. I guess if you could say, is
there good news? The good news seemed to be they
were taking a lot of care with him, but it
didn't seem like it was harried and rushed and it
needed to be life saving. That I mean again, I'm
just going by what we've seen, because they cut away
for a lot of it and came back, and I
saw the speed with which they loaded him on into
(18:21):
the ambulance. It certainly seemed like, okay, maybe they feel
like it's under control.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I'm just telling you what we saw, what I saw
on TV and how I saw it. I don't know
anything else more than that, but just watching how things
are treated in the NFL, how injuries are over the
course of my life, I'm holding on to the fact
that maybe this is this was okay. They're being incredibly
cautious with him on the way to the hospital, and
we get a good update.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
At some point later on tonight. Yeah. I'd probably watched
this replay some thirty times, and it's just the reminder
and everybody's experienced, you know, a fall a you know,
you watch you know, your kid playing sport or whatever,
and you see big collisions and then all right, they're
up and going. This one was a tackle and nothing
(19:07):
that seemed out of out of sorts, a little awkward,
you know, as he's on his knees as he uh
makes contact, But just shows how fragile it all can be,
right and the innocuous can become something serious. To your point,
professionals out there quickly uh and acting. They're back on
(19:28):
on the field and playing, and you know, sometimes maybe
that gives us an indication of of where you're at
in the process, you know, given you know, past uh
situations that we've had. It is a preseason game, et cetera,
that that they're continuing on. But yeah, hoping for the
best and really looking for a little more insight because
(19:49):
they kept going back to the booth, they kept you know,
going to commercial and while medical personnel were administering care,
so uh eagerly waiting up dates going forward. Yeah, as
soon as we do, we'll bring it towards you. Again.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
This happened about five or seven minutes ago. Coleman goes
down and and and really it was it's you see
this and and and you immediately think back to DeMar Hamlin.
And of course I think that's kind of what we
compare all situations like this too. Now is what that
looked like. And but just how fast medical personnel had
to get out there, you knew there was something really
(20:24):
wrong with DeMar Hamlin right away, and with the speed
with which they worked. And that's that's kind of what
I mean when I when when I say I'm judging
by how the speed with which they worked at they look.
We're taking We're we're being very careful, very cautious. We're
doing we need to do. And again I didn't see
a lot because NFL Network cut away and showed the
kneeling players a lot. Obviously, you know, you don't know
(20:45):
what you want to show on television. But the way
at the end when they loaded him up and you
see some of the video on the internet, Uh, Okay,
we're doing it. We're loading them up and going and
the fact they're still playing. I'm hoping we're going to
get a really good update at some point. Coming up soon,
The Jason Smith Show with Mike car We're live from
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six sixty three six ' nine. Well, we got more
coming up in ninety seconds. A big firing our businesses, sports,
we get into it something that shocked the hell out
of all of us earlier today. But first, Steve de
Seger has what's trending right now in the wide world
of sports as.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
D Hello, gentlemen, we do have two NFL exhibitions tonight.
At Kansas City, it's Bears twenty to seven in the
lead mid third quarter, and at Cincinnati it's Colts twenty
to seven over the Bengals with six minutes left in
that game. No, Patrick Mahomes is not playing tonight, and
Caleb Williams is not playing tonight, and Joe Burrow's not
playing tonight. Anthony Richardson played, he had a touch Steve.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Steve de Berg play tonight? How about Steve bon Berline
is not playing? Did Steve Bono play? Did what about Elvis?
Did he play tonight?
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Bono didn't play either, or Steve Bono?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And did anybody come off the edge? Very good? Very good.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Anthony Richardson with one touchdown pass for his team and
one touchdown pass for the other team. He threw a pier.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
He's keeping both teams in the game. Seed, He's not
easy to do.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Yeah, so kind of you know, people just give excitement
crazy about what the running capabilities are here? So one
carry three yards, one touchdown, pass one pick six.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
The Eagles acquire oh by the way, Kansas City. At
kickoff announced that center Creed Humphrey is getting a new
four year extension. The Eagles acquired wide receiver Johan Dotson
from Washington. The Commanders traded for kicker Cade York from
Cleveland and released kicker Riley Patterson. Atlanta gave defensive back
aj Terrell a four year extension. San Francisco signed tight
(22:38):
end Logan Thomas. Iowa suspended football coach Kirk Farrence for
a recruiting violation. Keegan Bradley as a one stroke lead
for the golf playoff in Colorado. One WNBA game tonight,
New York now twenty five and four after beating Dallas
again seventy nine to seventy one. The late game and
Major League Baseball is in San Diego, with the Mets
(22:58):
up one nothing going to the fourth against the Padres
on Fox TV tonight, Atlanta edge Philadelphia three to two
to save de Rice Ellyglacias with three straight strikeouts in
the ninth. The Orioles are now game and a half
back of the Yankees for first in the Al East.
New York won today six nothing over Cleveland. Aaron Judge
is forty eighth Homer. Baltimore lost six nothing at home
(23:20):
tonight to Houston. Houston's won ninth straight on the road
victories for Toronto five to three over the Angels, and
Pittsburgh was shut out Cincinnati seven nothing to win to
Paul Skens, who's eight in two. The Mariners did fire
manager Scott Servis. Former catcher Dan Wilson will be the
interim skipper. Houston is signing reliever Hector Narris, who was
(23:40):
cut by the Cubs this week. The Dodgers designated Jason
Hayward for assignment and activated Chris Taylor. The Angels gave
general manager Perry Manasseion a two year extension.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
And Jacob de Gram he's got an extension. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
he got an extension because this is ninth straight losing seasons,
so apparently he come cheap. That's all this tells me.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You got an extension.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Jacob de Gram made his first re oilstart or double
A Rangers at Frisco tonight. He threw twenty one of
his twenty nine pitches for strikes, two innings, one run
aloud for de Grom, three strikeouts, no walks.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. Let me just
say this, you know, because I want to put this out.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Hey, Phillies, stop tanking every time you play a team
it's in competition with the Mets for the wild card.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I know you hate the.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Mets and always the Mets, and especially the Mets. I got,
but you know you can't beat Atlanta. You know you're
better than them. You get swept by Arizona.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
You can't beat that.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
How about you know these teams you actually try, okay,
instead of saying, hey, if we lay down a little bit, oh,
this will really.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Hurt the Mets and always the Mets. Yeah, yeah, no,
I know. Just I mean, I see, I see what's
going on here, Mike. I see it. It's a it's
a big conspiracy to hurt the Mets. I see it.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
They drop games, they beat everybody else, They beat everybody else. Oh,
we can't beat Atlanta, we can't beat aras a Gez. Surprise, surprise,
they beat the Dodgers two out of three. Okay, on no,
everybody else will beat no, no, no, no, no, we
can't beat. No, we can't beat. These teams of Mets
are in competition. No, no, that's just gonna help them. Yeah, thanks,
thanks a lot. I see what's going on.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Let's lose to the braves. I don't know that that's
part of the strategy. And I'm calling robins. I like
conspiracy theories and I'm curious as to what type of
tinfoil hat you fashion for yourself here out of Thursday night.
But yeah, it's okay, it's still a glorious Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Now, speaking of what we saw in baseball today, a
shocking story that is about two teams when you think
about it, right, the Mariners get swept by the Dodgers
last night, and we saw this following the game last night,
the Mariner's postgame show, which normally comes out look just
regular postgame show that comes on everybody's cable channel following
(25:57):
the game is over. You get your local team and
you get a postgame show where you have your analysts
talk about the game for five minutes. You go down
to the manager's press conference and you go back and
break down what he talked about. Then you have interviews
in the locker room, and that's your MLB postgame show,
Marrin's postgame show last night got canceled. It was they
went on for a couple of minutes, said Okay, that's it.
We'll see you guys tomorrow. No Scott Service interview, no
(26:17):
talking to the manager, nothing else. Apparently what happened what
I've been able to find out throughout the course of
the night last night, there was a closed door meeting
following the game. The Mariners made the decision they were
going to fire manager Scott's Service replace him, and that
was kind of when they were breaking it to the team.
Ken Rosenthal had the story earlier today, and here you
(26:38):
are on August twenty second, well after the mariners free
fall got to the point where you should say, hey,
maybe we should do something about it. Now, the Mariners decide, hey,
we're going to fire our manager and they let Scott's
Service go. The Dodgers now proving they got their schwerve
back because they are firing managers now.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
They are having managers fired by winning series.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And winning game a lot more than the Dodgers in
a second, but they are firing managers, and Scott Service
is the latest victim.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Ten and three over their last thirteen. According to a
couple of reports, the meeting last night with the players was, hey,
use the off day to reset and get ready for
the stretch run. And guess what he found out? If
it is firing through a report in the Athletic I'm sure,
but he didn't even get to have his meeting. No Topoto, no,
(27:32):
no so no, I guess I'm huh for all of.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
The and and think about this, I always say, my
team exists to make your team feel better. The way
that I see Mariners fans talk about the front office
and Jerry Depoto and how that organization is run, I
wonder how they're able to even.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Get a team to the park on time to play
a game. Like that's how much too? I mean?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Then look in Jerry Dipoto's a guy with the famous quote, Hey,
we to win fifty four percent of our games.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Like what what are you talking about? Fifty What do
you aim to win fifty four percent of our game?
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Hey? Tell me if tonight's one of the fifty four percent,
I'll come to the game or I'll watch it. If
it's not one of the fifty four percent, I'm not
gonna watch.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Like what is going on?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Like he is hated so much, and he's run this
team for so long, and Marin his fan, they're all
so sick of it and so unhappy. And I look
at this and I go, well, yeah, I mean I
get look, Scott serviss is, he's a big boy.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
He knows.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Hey, when you stop playing well, you wind up getting fired.
And and yes, it is difficult to fire a manager
when your team is playing well. But man, you gave
away a twelve game lead. And the time to do
this is when, hey, the Astros caught you. Let's figure
out a way out of this. No, let's give you
some more time. Now they're five games out and they're
eight out of the Wildcard, like you were gonna do it.
(28:47):
Why do you wait till now to do it?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Now? Suddenly you have to climb uphill for the last
six weeks, when you could.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Have done it three weeks ago or a month ago,
when things at least look like, all right, we gave
away this lead. We don't like how it's going, we
need to make could change. Obviously, if Julio Rodriguez was
having a big year, things would be different.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
But it's not.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
And this is how it goes. But wow, I mean,
you wait this long to say, okay, now we need
a new manager. Seriously, you wait this long to do it?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Now once to see it? Hey, why did you wait
to your ten games out? Fifteen games out?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
It will be what a great, incredible run we're gonna
have when we make up fifteen games in the last
twenty five games.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
And run away to the wildcard. Like that's not happening.
The great Julio Cruz, former middle infielder for the White
Sox and the Mariners astro. I mean he was around
a bunch. He used to. You have the line, I
don't have to hit. I'm a spark plug. I cleaned
it up a little bit. They don't have anybody hitting.
(29:42):
They have the worst batting average in Major League Baseball
over the last fifty three games. Their ops composite is
better only than the Miami Marlins. In the Chicago White Sox. Yeah,
they lead the major league is in era. Yeah, and
they're starting pitching is the bast Yeah, this is how
bad they are. They've given this entirety because here's the
(30:03):
other thing they need to do, and this is you know,
like people always complained, we're going to get enough voices
in the NFL booze. I'm tired of these quarterbacks. They
don't say anything blah blah blah blah blah. Welcome Tom
Brady to Fox. I do not say blah blah blah.
I do not say blah blah. We got stuff promoting
catchers to manage your positions because they don't necessarily know
what they're doing either. You know.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
You know, here's a thing, Mike. You know, catchers are
really smart. They control the game. They know every aspect
of the game. I really think, you know, you want
a catcher to be a manager that work and that's funny.
He works out because they wear what they're called the
tools of ignorance. Ah, yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, you
know what. Jeff Fisher was on the competition committee in
the NFL. You know, I don't tell you know that
Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard. He is a smart quarterback.
(30:44):
I don't if you know that or not.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
You just summarized one decade of sports talk radio and television.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
And don't forget about that. You know, Clayton Kershaw and
Matthew Stafford, oh, teammates when we were younger.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Look at those white Sox hats when they were young,
but yeah, you make them now. And unfortunately Rodriguez missed
a bunch of time right, crashed into a wall. Miss
Hub wasn't hitting for any power before that. Cal Raley,
great power guy, can't hit for average. Go on down
the line from there, and Houston flipped the switch. Something changed,
(31:19):
right you had them. They were banged up, they're not hitting,
they're not playing well, and then they've absolutely caught fire.
It's like a lot like we've watched the NL West
and that gap closed because I may at one point
Seattle is so comfortably ahead. It's like, all right, eventually
Rodriguez is gonna come back. They're gonna start hitting. The
lineup's gonna give them an effort commensurate with the starting pitching,
(31:42):
and away they go. And instead, it's just been a
miserable two and a half month slog. And you had
your trade deadline, you had your All Star break, you
had all of those natural points to just say, Okay,
this is it, this isn't working. We need a new message.
Here we are August twenty second. August twenty second, Jason,
(32:03):
let's fix this exit. How about a Fresco exit swollen dome?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I mean, I see people talk about them, and I go, wow,
I'm really glad the people running the Mariners aren't running
my team.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Well, and Manascion gets an extension. Uh huh, d Angels,
He's in the same division. So man, come on, how
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Speaker 1 (32:27):
We got that bit on the Dodgers because all of
a sudden, the rest of Major League Baseball is going,
Oh great, here comes the best team in baseball.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
They're back.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
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How about that?
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Speaker 1 (33:46):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
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to the Scott Service party today, which is just insane.
I mean, no one gets more scoring on my timeline
on social media than Mariners' management.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And now you see why.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
We joked around. Look, the Dodgers got it back because
you know they fired a manager. Today they got Scott's
service fired. Hey did you go and apologize to Softy?
Did you call into kJ R? I did not apologize.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
I did feel like you and me and Morosi we
as a group. He just send a basket of fruit
or something, a wreath of flowers or I don't know,
whatever it takes to just say hey, sorry, we did
this to your squad.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
But look, let me tell you something that's a bigger
deal is that the Dodgers are back, and suddenly all
their problems have seemed to have gone away. Not that
they don't have them, but the problems they have had
can now be covered and they seem to have gone away.
Sometimes one series can put the exclamation point on knowing
(34:54):
that you're back. And the Dodgers sweep the Mariners and
the best team in baseball, and now looks at a
lot that says, okay, we just got Max Munsey back,
and he looks like he picked up right where he
left off. He's hitting home runs and bat flipping and
and and getting making his way around the base is
incredibly slowly, just like Max Munsey does. Gavin Lux has
been great the last two months. His ops has been
(35:16):
like near near a thousand.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Their lineup suddenly is deep. Their guys are all back
from injury. Mookie Betts's back. You have a guy. And
Jack Flaherty had the big stare down with Randy Rosa
Raina last night. Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
He's a guy that's not backing away from anybody. He's
showing leadership. He has stepped in. Yes, the Dodgers have
starting pitching issues that they have to figure out over
the course of the next few weeks, like when's Tyler
Glasno really coming back, as Yochuinoba Yamamoto really going to
come back. But they were able to withstand this horrible
run of mediocrity because of all the injuries, and now
(35:51):
here they are again, best record in baseball. They've been
rolling at the last few games. They're gonna slug their
way past a lot of teams and look, when you
get to the playoffs, the pens a much bigger deal.
And Dave Roberts already says he's managing like it's the playoffs.
The Dodgers are back. I feel great about them now.
It's the best I felt about them all year, which
is bad for the other twenty nine teams in Major
(36:11):
League Baseball. Because this is supposed to be a year
where hey, wait a minute, it's wide open for anybody. Yeah,
it is kind of wide open. But wow, the Dodgers
look really, really good and that they have solved their
problems as much as they can. They are so incredibly dangerous,
and even if they don't have great starting pitching, now
that they're healthy, dell out, slug the hell out of you, man,
Max Months, he's hitting seventh. Man, Come on, the guy's
(36:33):
a forty zero run hitter. He's hitting seventh. They got
guys that keep Kevin Kiermeyer and suddenly he's playing well.
The Dodgers have gotten through a really long, extended period
and here there again once again, and they're the best
team in baseball.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
And I don't see a lot of problems ten and
three in the last thirteen. And that's with Will Smith
not hitting it for anything, and show Tony has milestones,
but overall hasn't been you know, a world beating of late. Right,
when you do the aggregate of what he's done for
the year, it's all amazing. The starting pitching. I'll take
(37:07):
some solace in what you've gotten from Kershaw right rounding
into shape, and you know, we can always worry about
velocity and whatever else, but if you're gonna legitimately get
five or six strong innings from him short in the game.
But you know, you mentioned Roberts and the playoff baseball,
what happens there, you know, back in quick, quick to
the pen. So we got to be careful right, burn
(37:29):
it out arms. But in the National League, there's only
one team that has a wrecord remaining strength of schedule
that is worse than them. It's Tips. Otherwise it's a
bunch of AL teams Detroit, Yeah, the Angels, the Rangers,
(37:49):
the A's, the aforementioned Seattle Mariners, and the Yankees, and
then the Dodgers come in composite record of four ninety.
For the remaining squad, you got a bunch against Colorado
and uh, well a couple of games of Anaheim still
to go. Uh. Then San Diego isn't much, isn't for
too far behind them, that's only two slots. Uh, Their
(38:11):
composite uh strength of schedule going forward is still sub
five hundreds. So it makes for an interesting race. But
Dave Roberts did a great job. The Hayward versus Chris
Taylor thing. Oh, still one of those. Can't you know
he's your leader, This is the guy, an emotional leader
and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
You see you Yeah, but Chris Taylor's got a lot
of You got equity backed up with the Dodgers the last.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Time I get it in contract and whatever else. It's
still a what have you done for me? I'm not saying,
Heyward's been world beating by any stretch or or you know, good,
but it's still just a kind of curious when you
start making the roster moves and trying to figure out
when guys are ready and able to come back, and
(38:58):
roster tinkering, particularly when you're on a bit of a streak,
no matter how much or how little you attribute to
a player.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
I tell you, man, that's it's a it's a tough decision.
It's very difficult, but I get it. And the dog
the Dodgers really don't have a lot of problems. Hey,
And for Hayward, at least he's got the game.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Winning home run, right, you get to see that home
run on our watch. It's it's absolutely fine. You know.
Here's the thing about Hayward.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
If he retires now he's thirty five, now, obviously he
still wants to play, but if he retires, he will
have homeward in his first major League.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
At bat and his last major league out. How about that?
Just think about that.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
In his descriptions at the Next Card Show, his first
swing in the majors was a home run and his
last swing in the majors could be.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
A home run.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Talk about symmetry. O, man, that's something exit out about
a Fresca exit swollen dome. Yeah, we got that new
ted Lasso show, I guarantee coming up next. Plus, you
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