September 18, 2024 • 42 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi joins the show to discuss Dodgers DH Shohei Ohtani's chances of hitting 50 home runs and stealing 50 bases, as well as the upcoming MLB playoffs and more! Next, the hosts analyze Ohtani's odds of pitching in the playoffs and break down the Astros vs. Padres extra-inning matchup. Tune in for an action-packed hour!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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Speaker 3 (00:55):
Because I wanted to bring it to a glorious night.
Now you said not yet, right, Ye had the Mets win, right,
and then you had the Rockies one.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
But the night's out over yet?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
No, no, no, the Mets won, the Braves lost, the
Diamondbacks lost, and right now the Astros lead the Padres
three to two in the eighth, but Padres do have
the tying run on third with one out and Manny
Machado up.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'll tell you the only thing I need is is
that happens and I get what I get in my
fantasy tonight for free agency, and I'm like, wow, what
a perfect day it would be.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Start singing the lou Reed classic. I'm glad I spent
it with you. But you know, yeah, I here you
nibble around the plate here, Yeah, giving this guy anything
to hit the fact that they're they didn't just throw
up the fours was a little shocking to me.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I gotta tell you what, speaking of fantasy right for
this week, yeah, is that I've now realized what the
what the the new most frustrating thing is to me
in fantasy.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Okay, right, and I.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Know this is everybody has had this, but it really
just this is what sticks to me more than the
losses by like half a point, right, because I can't
control that, right, I can't, you know, I much to say, Oh,
I can't believe that, you know, Jalen. I'm sure Jalen
hurts his interception on the final play, Uh flipped a
lot of.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Shirts, right, and then and they didn't get from Barkley
and all of those guys stuff, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Stuff like that I can under you know, it's like, okay,
yeah it sucks, but I could let that go pretty
fast because I have no control over that. But the
newest thing because I did this last week was that
I'm I'm I'm going over free agents in in the
Dynasty leagues and Quentin Johnson is out there, and I'm like,
you know what, he caught a couple of passes week one.
He had a lot of playing time. I know, Lad
(02:30):
McConkey has a lot of a lot of the attention
I have him and in my Dynasty League, Like okay,
but I'm like, you know what, maybe maybe this is
the Quentin Johnston. Maybe this is it. Maybe he starts
getting it right. And I'm sitting there staring at his
name and I'm staring at his name, and I'm like,
do I pick him up? Do I wave so? And
so I'm like, uh no, no, I'm gonna no. No,
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it doesn't make it, don't know, it doesn't make sense
that you can't do it. And then I go and
then you watch him go off for two touchdowns and
now getting him this week if you're bidding on him,
is gonna be a lot of money, or if you're
drafting it, like he's probably the number one guy out
there that's still out there, Like there're people jumping for
Carson Steel because of the injury situation.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, yeah, but you're talking about the guy who's coming
off a big week, that's young, and that people are
gonna pick up.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And that's the most frustrating thing as I'm staring at it, going.
I stared at his name. I stared at his name,
and I sat there for like three minutes saying I
should pick him up. I should, And then I don't
do it, and I go, I'm just an idiot. How
do I not do I could have found somebody to
really wear. Just really upset me.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
No, but that's the thing, right, the inkling that there's
gonna be a game where it's gonna break out.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Now you may not have started.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Him, but again, as we've talked about for fantasy purposes forever,
it's not always just about what you're doing with your roster,
because even if you get it wrong and you miss
his two touchdowns whatever, someone else didn't get those two
touchdowns right.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So a lot of it is. I don't need this guy.
I've got enough receivers.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's all funny good, But on your bench is the
guy you're looking at and eyeballing better than one of
your other options. Like I've got a couple of guys
that are technically number ones for the first respect to teams.
But Sean Payton ain't working magic with bo Nicks no
matter how much people try to sell me on it.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It ain't having a receiver. It's like that's like saying
I got the number one receiver on Army in nineteen
forty three. Dude, it's not going to catch pass man,
not gonna catch bass.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I mean, look, it's a reception for three yards. I
guess it still counts gonna stacking them up. He caught
ten balls for thirty three years.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You have mister inside or mister outside, then they don't
need any of those guys.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No, No, go back to the full back league we
were talking about before.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Do you think there were people too bad that weren't
doing fantasy back then? Going, dude, I have mister inside
and mister outst on my fantasy team. I'm killing I've
got this thing covered, and I got Sammy ball.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I'm killing slinging it, I am killing. He is killing.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Go all the way back to the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I mean, look, I wrote a book that had the
history of football talk to a lot of fantasy football
talk to a lot of guys was all afl And
it was the Raiders. Yeah, and the scouts and the
writers and the people in the front office that started
playing fantasy football. They're credited with getting this thing going
because they had to kill time when they were riding
the trains, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And the one thing I was thinking about this is nowadays,
if you had two running backs playing on a team
and one was nicknamed mister Inside and one was mister Outside,
you would kind of know where the ball was going
depending on who was in the game and who was
getting the ball. Oh it's blanched, Okay, all right, this
run's gonna be inside. Oh no, it's Davis. This run's
gonna be outside. I don't worry about running. If mister
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Inside gets it, it's gonna be on the inside it
mister outside, Okay, that's outside.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Just so you know what, if you had the monomonoly
for that squad and that offense, you just kept singing
whose shows to your team inside outside.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
What if we cross him up and have mister inside
run outside, mister outside run inside? What if we do that?
And what if once in a while we throw a pats?
Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Did you just go all full ricky, Bobby? Maybe I
could be first.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Oh man, I'll tell you fantasy college football back in
the forties, that would have been.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Stuff, though, man watching watching some of these games, the
second guessing and certainly points left on the bench. How
many times do you throw something across the room throw
your hands up, going, I knew it, and I.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Could just see you, John. I'm sitting there, I'm staring
at my phone. I'm in bed last night and you
know the lights of pam Is sleeping and Benny sleeping
between us, and I'm just staring at it, going I
should pick him up. I should pick him up. I
should No, I'm sorry, not last night, but last week,
last week, and I'm staring going I should do it.
I should do it? No, No, no, I'll wait. It
doesn't make sense. Do I want to cut cut bait
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on this guy right now?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I probably don't. And I'm like, oh man, nothing was
more frustrating than that, I'm like, I just stared at
his name, and I was like, I knew I should
do it, and I didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I'm trying to just be better that it's a cold,
calculated business. I have no relationship to these people. Now
there are pawns on my fantasy squad. I love you
for my own purposes. I love the individuals, and I
worry about them as men and family men and teammates
and everything else. But for the purposes of my fantasy team.
I can't get attached to the draft. If I drafted
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the guy in the seventh round and he's not performing
and the team doesn't look like it's gonna crawl out
of a hole.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Like Baine, I can't stay there.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the
tirac dot Com Studios. Now elsewhere in the NFL. The
big breaking story tonight was the Dolphins put to a
tongue of Iloa on injured reserve after his latest concussion
his fourth, third, fourth, depending on how you're counting, of
the last couple of years. He is on IR gonna
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miss at least the next four games. Skyler Thompson's going
to start in the meanwhile until Tua gets back at
some point if he does get back. And when I
saw the reaction to this, it made me just shake
my head and go, this is where we're at as
sports fans, as a country, where when someone just does
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the bare minimum of what they're supposed to do, we
want to bend over backwards and say how great they are? Right, Like,
don't we no longer hold people up to higher standards,
just as Oh, when you can step over the line
and be and and and do something you're supposed to,
we want to just laud you and give you flowers.
And in my timeline today, when Ian Rappaport, I believe,
(08:11):
broke the story about too going on, ir uh, everybody
quote tweet and said the same thing, quote tweet smart
Dolphins place two on ir smart smart move by the Dolphins,
smart move, smart, smart. And that's the word I keep
seeing overall, and it just I just get to I
got to the point where I shut it off and
I just said, that's not smart. That's the easy and
(08:32):
right thing to do. This is not smart by the Dolphins.
It was an easy decision. The guy's got his fourth
bleep and concussion before he comes back to play. Put
him on ir take that decision out of his in
your hands for a while. So so thoughts can cool
and he can go over what the next steps are
for his career. You can spend time talking to him
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about his career and you figure out what is next. Right,
that's easy. That's not smart. The smart thing would be, Hey,
Tua says I'm ready to come back, I'm ready, I
pass all the tests, and the Dolphins say, we want
you to wait another two weeks. Whoa, but right in
the middle of the season. Man, we're four and five,
we're battling with the you know, for the playoffs. Here, No,
we want you to sit another couple of weeks because
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you really want you to be able to pass this
to whatever it is. That's smart. That's smart. Hey, you
know what, here's the Dolphins being smart, being proactive, saving
to it from himself, waiting an extra couple of weeks
for whatever reason. This is easy. But because we the
bar is so low that that people just can't even
don't have to step over it anymore. It's just it
just gets to me that this is not smart. This
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should have been the easy thing. This should have been
the reaction as soon as Tuus said, Hey, I'm not retiring.
I want to come back. You know what, Let's just
have you go on ir, take some time away, and
then we'll have a conversation in a couple of weeks. Right,
there's no reason you have to make a decision to retire,
despite the fact that everybody wanted to be the first
one to say to a retire I want a hot
take to a retire Okay, I get hot takes in sports.
(09:56):
I get I love hot takes. This is someone in
his brain and this is health right, But everybody still
wanted to do the hot takes about Tour should retire.
And they also wanted to make sure especially players, and hey,
player safety sucks in the NFL. And that's why I'm
using Tua as this political football to make sure people
understand the NFL really doesn't like and go for player
safety like you think they are. All of this was
(10:17):
something was done with just a little bit too fast
and a little bit too knee jerk, where hang on,
this is a decision that's not gonna be He's got
to retire and let's figure out the money, like this
is something that's gonna go over a long period of time. Again,
this is to a tongue of iiloa, and this is
a brain injury. Take some time, and I'm sure the
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right decision is going to be made if it comes
out and the doctors tell Tua, hey, sorry, dude, but listen,
we can't do anything more. You're so susceptible to what's
going on, and you really can't. But he decides to retire,
he'll retire if the doctors say, hey, where you're at
this kind of concussion, you're no more susceptible than you were.
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If you want to go back and play, you can. Okay,
He's gonna go back and play. If he doesn't play.
What about the money, How are we going to figure
out the money. They'll figure out the money. They'll figure
out the money that he's due. There's never gonna be
a problem with money for salary cap or something like this.
There's always going to be able to figure that out.
But that's where this conversation is right now. And it
was the easy thing to do to put him on IR.
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It wasn't the smart thing. Yes, of course, this is
not something that's about smart. This is just knowing, just
in a knee jerk reaction, what the right thing to
do is let's put him on I R and figure
it out after right. But because in sports the bar
is so low now that anytime somebody does something, oh hey,
what a great thing. The Dolphins did. No, they did
the right thing. But this was an easy thing.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Today it seem like an easy decision to make when
we talk even cursory conversations about player safety. Look at
coach Kilmer's not out there anymore, okay, John Voyd and
Varsity Blues telling you, hey, shoot him up, get him
out there when the guy's clearly broken. Is that's not
the way the NFL works anymore. Like players have some
say of I don't feel right, I can't go, and
(12:02):
they get the like, doesn't mean they're not gonna get You.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Know, anybody who's got a star who's got a kid
coming up and the kid says to him, I don't
want your life, Well, we might have that a couple
of times.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
That would be cool.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
But just the idea of hey, you're getting forced back
out there, yeah, that was that was the NFL. We
know that, right, the threatening you with your job and
your toughness and manhood and whatever else. Dealing with the fans,
I get it. All that was there. We're in a
bit of a different time these days, and particularly when
it comes to the publicity of head trauma in the NFL,
because we've seen the crusades and we've seen the people
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that have made the annihilation of youth football their main target, right,
And in terms of using these stats, we can get
into deep dive conversations on all of that. But this
becomes the one of the top stories on every morning
show for every network, not sports shows, those are obvious,
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but everything else, like in terms of, well, how how
is he going to be treated? Here's his history, here's
the video, let me show you the horrors of football,
all of those things. So at the base level, the
ir stint was obvious. Now we wait till the new
calendar week for the NFL begins here Tuesday morning, and
they make it official, and now they move forward. But
(13:18):
to your point, yeah, four weeks plus. How many neurologists
do you need to see, truly independent, not around the NFL,
not around the Dolphins. How many you're talking to your friends,
your family, All of that comes into But if he
simply gets cleared to play, guess what he's going to
want to play, and for anybody trying to rip the
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jersey off him, you can't put yourself in his shoes
like ex players can do this if they want to
a degree, but everybody's into their individuals, right, We can't
lump it all together. You played football, so everything's the same.
And just saying that he's inevitably going to have another
consion concussion, there's going to be obvious long term. In fact,
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you don't know that. You don't know that it's not true,
but you certainly can't say it, you know. One for one?
All Right, he goes back out there. This is how
it's going to end for him. Because he went through
all of last year. We got no reports about him, right,
There was never a I don't know two is gonna
miss time because of this, that, the other. Whatever he
did in that offseason, and by a little bit of
(14:22):
luck learning how to fall, whatever you want to attribute
it to, he got through last season unscathed. Who's to
say that can't happen again, right, because the oddity of
this injury and the way it was caused again going
into DeMar Hamlin, we could talk about slot and could
talk about whatever, but just the way his helmet went
down and he runs into Hamlin. It's a bit of
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a fluke, a bit of a freak thing. But to
say that you can predict that that's going to happen again.
So you have to protect him from himself. How many
people go through their lives going you don't have to
protect me from myself. I can do just fine. Two
is a grown ass man is a multi that's billion
dollar business. Everybody's looking out for the bottom line and
for two. At this point, you can you can ask
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more of people. It's okay, you can ask more of
just the bare minim.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
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Speaker 4 (16:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Something, we're gonna got John Paul Morosi coming on in second,
but just.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Something really weird.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You know, We're trying to do the show and and
and and keep track of everything going on now, and
obviously I'm paying more attention to the Astros and the Padre.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Now you're Jack dumps on the Mets wildcard race.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Now, I'm pretty sure that Josel Tuvey thought he got
hit and they didn't give him the base. And I'm
just watching him at the end of the inning because
he struck out to end the inning. I'm watching he
takes off his cleat and his sock. I think to
show the home plate umpire where he got hit and
the Empire threw him out of the game. I'm gonna
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take off my head.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
He's walking around with one shoe and with one bare foot.
Is just walking off the field.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I'm like, this is insane, literally, and his suck all
the way off. I'm gonna shaking it and cursing out
the umpire I bruise.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Bruise, I got ready?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You tell me I didn't get hit?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
What do you know? There's the indentation. You can see
the laces right there.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Joining us now in the hot line to break it
all down. Nobody better MLB Network inside are extraordinaire. You
can follow him on Twitter at John Morosi, co host
of the Morning Show Sweeping the Nation, Sternsy and the Pope,
and with the way the Mets have played the last
couple of weeks, Sternsy is in all caps. It is
John Paul Morosie. What's happening, buddy? How are you?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Sternsy indeed is in all caps. He has been so
good lately. I thought the Mets were going to win
something at the most recent Emmys, that ongoing series in
the sports world or any other world extant at this moment.
So congratulations unofficially and prematurely to the Mets for making
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the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So not there yet, Jason, come on, man, we got
the We got the Phillies and the Braves and the
Brewers and the season with Come on.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Hey, listen, I've got I've got all kinds of confidence
that I'm bringing to you right now. I am just
I'm just as confident that the best make the playoffs as
I am that the Lions will beat the Cardinals this weekend.
One Tea twenty.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Seventeen, Wow, Cardinals Defense of Love.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well, you're already making your pick. We didn't wait till
the end that Wow.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
I was just really feeling it in the moment I said,
Mets to the playoffs. Lions win on the road in
Glendale by a field goal.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I like that. He just skipped straight over any Michigan predictions.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
All right, So let's do this then. The four teams
that are battling for the wild card in the National
League Padres, Mets, Diamondbacks, Braves. The team that's getting left
out is who the Braves.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
The Braves that they're to me, and I know they've
they have very admirably stayed in this race. They've got
the guy who is expected to win the National League
Signed Award in Chris Sale. I just think they've got
too many injuries right now, not enough consistency even among
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their healthy guys. The momentum belongs to the Mets Luisa
and Ias. Now that he's struck out this week, you
do not strike out again until Game two of the
World Series. So they're good. And I think the Diamondbacks
that's been one of the other great stories this season
because they did not have a good first half. Tore
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de Bellow got them going again, and I think, really
that team has responded exceptionally well to him. I like,
I think those three teams final way to make it,
and then it's it's Diamondbacks, Padres and your Mets are
in it all right.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Now, let's do the American League. Baltimore, Kansas City, Minnesota.
They're in pole positions right now for the playoffs. But
you have Detroit a couple of games backs. You haddle
a couple of games back. Who's getting left out there?
The three playoffs, I'll say the three playoff teams in
the American League in the wild card are going to
be hooped, all right.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I think the Twins will keep falling and the Tigers
find a waiting. They never thought I was gonna say that,
but did you see what happened tonight? And finning they
win on the road in casey against Bobby Wood Junior's Royals,
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who have not been the same team without past Wintino.
I think the Twins, though, are more vulnerable, the Tigers
have a legitimate chance to pass the buy. I know
the Twins won tonight, but this almost feels like two
thousand and nine in reverse, when when the Tigers at
every reason to win the division that year and they
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fell flast. The Twins won game, won sixty three, and
they of course went onto the playoffs. So I really
believe the Tigers, as part of this cosmic connection, find
a way to be exact revenge on the Twins fifteen
years after that great game won sixty three.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I gotta be honest, I really like the fact that
you made the Royals like a nostalgia band that has
its lead singer and everybody else is gone, and he's
got the rights to the name.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
So it's Bobby Wits Kansas.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
City Royal, Bobby Witt and the Kansas City Royals. He
is the frontman of that band. He is one of
the best talents I believe in all of American sports.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
John Paul wasn't that that game won sixty three? The
game where Jim Leland left Fernando Rodney out there for
like six innings at.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
The He's actually Rodney Rodney pitically still pitches there, So
still going that stadium where that games at place was
imploded and rebuilt. And Rodney, who is I believe it
last sec about forty eight years oldest, but he's still
in great shape, is ill on the mound, even though
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there is no longer a mound in that stadium.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's funny now I'm thinking back to those pitchers that
would you know, show up for like seventy five games,
right he was. He was a guy that was into
the mid seventies. And now we wring our hands when
a guy has his fiftieth appearance in early septem go.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
You know, you know what, Mike, I'm going to give
you the name. I'm gonna give you the name of
a White Sox pitcher who fit that description and could
probably get out for the White Sox right now if
you needed them too. And that was Got line Break,
Got Linebrenk. Now this goes back to any of the
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Padres too, has the time with the Astros. Got Line
Break was an easy, like eighty two games a year guy.
The other guy that that I thought was for about
like six or seven years. If we had properly evaluated
relievers in that first decade of this century, we would
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have and talking about this dude from dawn till dusk
every day because he was that good. Gott Shields of
the Angels, Gott Shields was everywhere. So there you go,
Scott Linebrink, Scott Shields. If you have another Scott that
you want to mention here, Scott Scott Sanderson is another
great reliever.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Scott Mitchell got former former Lions quarterback Scott Mitchell sure.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Mitchell I believe, I believe when when Scott Mitchell brought
the Lions in to the Vet to play the Eagles
in the playoffs in the mid nineties, the final score
of that game was Eagles eleventy billion, Lions twenty four.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
And here I was going to get off some wilbur
Wood and Ramiro Mendoza quips he's jeof Palm Rosi with
us here.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
MLB Network insider.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Joins us each and every week here Fox Sports Radio,
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon here from the tirerac dot Com studios.
Follow JP on Twitter at John Rossi and follow his
antics all across MLB Network on the field, covering games
and doing analysis of all thirty MLB squads. So out
here in Los Angeles, JP, Dave Roberts got some tongues
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wagging something Jason and I had theorized on the show
I Believe with you a couple of times as the
warming up with Shohei Otani perhaps getting back on a
mound before this season comes to a close, and some
are shaking their fists and anger saying what.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Are we doing? Everybody else going I want a World Series?
Where do you stand?
Speaker 5 (25:29):
The latter listen, he's he's one of their best options
to pitch in the postseason. I don't know how many
innings he can he can deliver, But two things the
reason why this are actually three things. The reason why
this is legitimate and why this is getting talked about.
Number One, they've got a ton of guys who are hurt.
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Last is the most reason of them. Number Two, jobs
are on the line right now, maybe even Dave Roberts,
And so if you're gonna put somebody up and have
their professional position in jeopardy, then the least you can
do is give him the best options that he has
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to pitch. And get out in that month. And the
other final point that I want everybody to take a
look at next time you have a chance, not now
because you're probably driving, but if you've got a chance
to look this up, find the video of Otani's most
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recent bullpen session when he was throwing in the pen,
and just look at his facial expression, body language, the
way that he's throwing, everything else. The idea here is that, oh,
we were told, oh, he's just getting ready for February.
Watch the video and then ask yourself, is this a
dude who was looking ready to throw his first pen
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in Glendale, Arizona on February twentieth, or does he want
to be on the mound in the playoffs. Just look
at the guy, the way that he's throwing. I'm not
a scout, but he is ready to go. And I
think right now, because of he has exceeded expectations and
the health of the rest of the Dodgers has has
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gone way below expectations. I believe at last counted was
like seventeen different different options that they had gone through
as starting pitchers. And I'm not saying to show he's
gonna throw seven innings here, but He's better than a
lot of what they have to offer right now, especially
with Glass now out. I think, guys, the chances of
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show A pitching in the postseason, I don't think that
we can describe them as remote anymore. It does make
too much sense.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
John Paul Morosi, I can't tweet that out there fast enough,
John Paul, that Otani's gonna cook back.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I'm there with you, man, I go, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Like Fani comes in to pitch, I'm trying to think, like,
obviously it's not gonna be a lot, right, They're not
gonna put stress on his arm. But is Otani someone
that is gonna open a game? Or is Otani someone
that's gonna close a game?
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Like, because the way the Dodgers are hurt, Like, I'm
trying to think, what's the best way to get that
extra bit of juice in the playoffs? You look at
their starting rotation now and it's Jack Flaherty and maybe
it's Cofax and Sutton and then you know, but it's
gonna be but it's gonna be a bullpen game at
some point. Now, you get that extra boost of electricity
if it's Otani into a bullpen game, but you also
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get that boost of Hey, in the ninth inning, guess
who can come in and close it out and we
can go to our relievers earlier in a game. You're
not gonna bring Otani in the sixth inning or seventh inning,
but could you bring him in the ninth inning to
close out a game? Sure? So I'm just wondering which
is the best scenario for him. Does he come in
and be an opener, does he come in and close?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
What do you like? I think it's still the ladder,
although there's an argument to be made that if he's
gonna have him do it in a regular routine where
it actually makes sense to have him start. So yeah,
I'm going to revise my answer and say starting makes
more sense because that's what he's used to. That's what
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allows you to control as many of the variables as possible,
and so I do think for that reason it listens.
Their rotation has pitched in fifteen Straits postseason games without
any starter getting an ouse in the sixth Citty not
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a one, not a one. So when you look at
the big picture here, they need more reliability deeper into games.
The really show I probably can't do it because even
if everything is perfect, he's probably gonna be a three
inning guy. But they need length. That is the key
headline here. The Dodgers need some length. And I'll say
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this again, this is still one of the most wide
open postseasons I can ever recall covering in my entire career.
I have no idea what's gonna happen, and that's why
I love it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
John Paul Morosi, MLB Network Insider, celebrity Lions picker, And now,
because you do so well with the Lions, give us
a Michigan prediction this week got a new quarterback, John Paul,
how's it gonna go?
Speaker 5 (30:25):
USC twenty four Michigan thirteen? USC winning that game by
eleven point? What's the line on that one?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
USC is favored by I haven't seen. I want to
say six and a half.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I may be wrong now I think USC both wins
and covers. That's just my guests, just in you know,
Uncle John's advice. And by the way, that was a
few minutes ago. That was a stellar move by Mike
because as you got talking about that Eagles line game
from like nineteen ninety five, I was I was almost
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going to talk about how Brett Parriman was always too
underrated in the Lions. Mighty Ancore back at that time,
and I you know, Herman Moore amazing, but Brett Parriman
really good possession receiver. The Lions need more of that now,
we need a little more. I'm on Ross Saint Brown
and he's got a channel some Brett Parriman here on
on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Heyngo USC five and a half point favorites total forty
six and a half JP on that.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Brettan Lake Paraman. I think Paaraman went to the USC,
by the way, Oh did and go to USC?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Hang on?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I mean, look up, Brett Paarman. Aren't hang on Brett Perriman.
Brett Miami Miami.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Oh okay, another of the great No.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
That was a good try though. I mean, look, have
you've gotten that right?
Speaker 5 (31:48):
You win? Rodney Rodney Pete our colleague as asscation Rodney,
he went to the US. There you go.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I remember that he's on John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
That is at John Morosi MLB Network Insider Extraordinaire watch show,
Hey Otani in the playoffs. John Paul is always buddy,
appreciate it. My best of Sternsy.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
We'll talk to you, I really think, I think, I
believe it's a chance that Tony pitches in the playoffs.
But hey, if I'm wrong, it's not gonna be the
first time I've been wrong about Otani. What's up.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
There is a walk off? I salute you, my friend
of you, buddy, great stuff talk. That's not going to
get into Otani pitching in the playoffs. We'll have that
coming up in a bit, but right now, time for
Martin Weises tell us what's trending in the wide world
of sports. M dub bottom of the ninth now for
the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
They are down eleven to two, so looks like that'll
be ending quickly unless there is a historic comeback.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Marker Strowman on the mound for the Yankees.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
Eleven to two for the al least leading Yankees, that
is the game in progress. Are now alongside with the
Houston Astros with a four to three lead over the
San Diego Padres. They're in the top of the tenth
inning in in Houston. The Guardians lost to the Twins
four to one Cleveland to top the Al Central. The
Tigers and the Royals are both squarely in the wildcard mix.
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Detroit beat Kansas City three to one in ten innings.
Royals now on a three game losing streak, Oriols still
holding on to the top al wildcard spot despite losing
to the Giants ten to nothing today. Blake Snell, with
the start for San Francisco, twelve strikeouts, one hit, six
innings pitched the thirty six and one hundred and fifteen
White Sox, trying to avoid the st record of one
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hundred and twenty. They lose tonight to the Angels five
to nothing, so that is now one hundred and sixteen
losses on the season. The Phillies beat the Brewers five
to one. Shohel Tani hit his forty eighth home run,
but the Dodgers lost to the Marlins eleven to nine.
LA was three and a half up on the Padres
in the NLS at the start of the day. Again,
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like I said, the Padres now trailing ten, four to three.
In the tenth inning, Rockies beat the Diamondbacks eight to two.
That lost means now that the Mets are tied in
the second wild card spot with Arizona. Because the Mets
beat the Nationals today ten to one, Atlanta drops six
to five to the Reds, and the A's beat the
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Cubs four to three, and the NFL to a tongue
of Iloa. Miami Dolphins quarterback is now placed on injured reserved.
He'll miss the next four games. Tyler Huntley, former Ravens quarterback,
made the Pro Bowl back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
They signed.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
The Dolphins signed him off the Ravens practice squad to
their active roster.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Robbie Chosen, Roye receiver was waived. The Kansas City.
Speaker 8 (34:33):
Chiefs assigned Forree agent running back Riem Hunt, The Cleveland
Browns signed for Age and running back Royce Freeman, and
the New York Giants places kicker Graham ganot on injured
reserve with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Jason and Mike back to you guys.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
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Speaker 1 (35:43):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. More NFL coming up in a bit. But
first of all, thanks to John Paul Morosi for stopping
by a few minutes ago. And just think about that.
We've talked about Otani pitching in the playoffs, and just
think about what the juice would be for the Dodgers.
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If your first game is Jack Flaherty and you have
all kinds of problems, right, you have nobody else's They
don't even know where Tyler glassnow is right now, like
he took he took off, left the team, and Dave
Roberts says, we don't know where he is, right So
you have nobody Kershaw's hurt, everything else. The juice you
would get of Otani being your starter, your opener for
game two would be immense and it would mitigate the
(36:29):
concern you have for just having an opener. Right right,
it's Bobby Miller and he's gonna go. But if Otani
can pitch, and you saw, you saw you heard Morosi
when he said, does Otani look like a guy getting
ready to throw his first his first pitch in Anger
next February in spring training or this fall in the playoffs?
Like that, I think that's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
The Dodgers like the plan is Otani's gonna pitch in
the playoffs, and I as long as there's a situation
where they do, yeah, like I could see the first
three game is going. Now, Hey, it's gonna be Flaherty,
maybe Yamamoto as far as he can go, because who
knows how much he gets stretched out over the next
the next week or so, next couple weeks, check and
then you have Otani pitching a and opener, like all
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of a sudden, Oh, maybe things aren't that bad for
the Dodgers in the pitching department. But that's the thing,
like we've been talking about it as he started to
ramp up a little bit and brought it up, and
the consideration of being a closer, whether it was the
back end of this season, if cleared and playoffs, or
even in the next year. As you go, uh, you
know when everybody gets all up tight about the money.
(37:31):
Number one is guaranteed. Number two. The Dodgers paid him
two million dollars this year. How many millions do you
think they made off of show? Hey o Tani merch
and the ticket sales like they're saying ninety percent of
Japanese tourists that came to California to go see Disneyland
or whatever found their way to Dodger Stadium before. Sure, yeah,
not to.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Mention bad, you know what I mean all the way through.
So anybody that gets off you paid all this money.
No no, no, no, that's all backloaded. They'll have made
so much off of him that that contract doesn't matter.
So push that to the side. If he's if you're
worried about Hey, if his arm gets hurt again, he's
going for fifty to fifty coming up with surgery.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I mean he's forty eight forty eight right now after
his home run tonight, forty eight forty and again, I
get it. You know, in terms of the Unicorn, what
makes him special as he can pitch? No, he's a
damn good hitter. They the pitching is a bonus.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
They didn't pay him seven hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
It was a business decision, okay, as long as in
the lineup one hundred and fifty times they've won, because
everybody's gonna come to the ballpark to watch him, and
if it means a World Series title or three, great,
But it's a business decision as much as it was
a baseball decision. And anybody that doesn't want to see that,
you're kidding yourself, right. They saw that showing up in
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Los Angeles. They were gonna print money and fill the
fifty one thousand every game. Not that they were slouches
in the attendance department, department, but now you add that
extra juice. Jersey sales, Jersey sales, bobble heads, all the
Chatzky's whatever they're they're print in cash, so the money
is really where this all is. And if Otani it
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goes back to the Tua conversation we had. If he's
cleared by doctors and he feels good, you're gonna tell
him no, let's save you for good.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
No chance in hell. Now from that to the high
drama happening right now in San Diego. The game is
in the bottom of the tenth inning. Astros lead the
Padres four three. He told you this crazy moment a
few minutes ago in which jose Al Tuvey was upset
after not getting a call, and he took off his
shoe to show the umpire his barefoot where he fouled
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the ball off his foot.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
That was pretty good, and they did.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
That, and it's it's crazy because altuove fouls ball off
his foot, the umpire doesn't give it to him, and
they wind up and he's out.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
He gets a jet and that ends the inning.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
He takes off his his his shoe and his sock
shows the umpire's barefoot, said this is where it is,
and you could see the replays that in absolute hit
him and the umpire just decides to throw jose L
TV out of the game.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
When I saw this, I said, wow, this is insane,
and I thought, hmmm, he took that sock and cleat
off much faster than you know, he would take off
his jersey after Yeah, a couple of hitting the ball
a couple of years ago. Don't don't pull my jersey.
But he got that sock and chew off really really fast.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Well, you know, hey, you're trying to gamesmanship, right, You're
trying to get a little edge.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Right now, they've got a review at the plate. Did
the guy try to get out of the way of
a pitch? Yeah? Right, What is it a hit by
pitch or is it you know, get overturned?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Uh, there is a hit by pitch. It has just
been called that passes understanding. I don't know what kind
of night that the umpires are having. They went out,
looked at this on replay, jerks and Profar is not
hit by a pitch at all, And somehow after replay
you've seen it pretty clear he still is awarded first base.
I did the.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Umpire right now, I'm in San Diego, Ame.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I don't know that you can have a worse night
than the umpires are having right now.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Oh no, the last inning and a half has been absurd,
and we we watched uh clearly. You know he had
a pitch clock violation. Uh, and then an uncorked wild
pitch uh that created the chaos of a tie game
before Houston takes the lead again. But there's been a
lot of barking back and forth as we had this,
you know, major League Baseball Pennant stretch, all four monitors
(41:31):
going and watching the White Sox lose uh, go Angels
uh as they get the w today uh and stop that,
you know, hot white White Sox winning streak. But now
you got Machada with the bases loaded, two outs in
a one run game.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
An insane night. I mean, you had you had this,
We had the the al two v Now you have
this hit by pitch.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Does it make any sense at all? What is happening?
Although it is the juice you might need for the last.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Hour of the show.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
But that justin Verlander looking the dugout like he looked
like you wanted to go a tacium there.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
You can't have a worse night than this. I'm telling you.
We'll have more on this and more on a big
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Because I wanted to bring it to a glorious night.
Now you said not yet, right, Ye had the Mets win, right,
and then you had the Rockies one.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
But the night's out over yet?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
No, no, no, the Mets won, the Braves lost, the
Diamondbacks lost, and right now the Astros lead the Padres
three to two in the eighth, but Padres do have
the tying run on third with one out and Manny
Machado up.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I'll tell you the only thing I need is is
that happens and I get what I get in my
fantasy tonight for free agency, and I'm like, wow, what
a perfect day it would be.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Start singing the lou Reed classic. I'm glad I spent
it with you. But you know, yeah, I here you
nibble around the plate here, Yeah, giving this guy anything
to hit the fact that they're they didn't just throw
up the fours was a little shocking to me.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I gotta tell you what, speaking of fantasy right for
this week, yeah, is that I've now realized what the
what the the new most frustrating thing is to me
in fantasy.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Okay, right, and I.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Know this is everybody has had this, but it really
just this is what sticks to me more than the
losses by like half a point, right, because I can't
control that, right, I can't, you know, I much to say, Oh,
I can't believe that, you know, Jalen. I'm sure Jalen
hurts his interception on the final play, Uh flipped a
lot of.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Shirts, right, and then and they didn't get from Barkley
and all of those guys stuff, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Stuff like that I can under you know, it's like, okay,
yeah it sucks, but I could let that go pretty
fast because I have no control over that. But the
newest thing because I did this last week was that
I'm I'm I'm going over free agents in in the
Dynasty leagues and Quentin Johnson is out there, and I'm like,
you know what, he caught a couple of passes week one.
He had a lot of playing time. I know, Lad
(02:30):
McConkey has a lot of a lot of the attention
I have him and in my Dynasty League, Like okay,
but I'm like, you know what, maybe maybe this is
the Quentin Johnston. Maybe this is it. Maybe he starts
getting it right. And I'm sitting there staring at his
name and I'm staring at his name, and I'm like,
do I pick him up? Do I wave so? And
so I'm like, uh no, no, I'm gonna no. No,
(02:54):
it doesn't make it, don't know, it doesn't make sense
that you can't do it. And then I go and
then you watch him go off for two touchdowns and
now getting him this week if you're bidding on him,
is gonna be a lot of money, or if you're
drafting it, like he's probably the number one guy out
there that's still out there, Like there're people jumping for
Carson Steel because of the injury situation.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, yeah, but you're talking about the guy who's coming
off a big week, that's young, and that people are
gonna pick up.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And that's the most frustrating thing as I'm staring at it, going.
I stared at his name. I stared at his name,
and I sat there for like three minutes saying I
should pick him up. I should, And then I don't
do it, and I go, I'm just an idiot. How
do I not do I could have found somebody to
really wear. Just really upset me.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
No, but that's the thing, right, the inkling that there's
gonna be a game where it's gonna break out.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Now you may not have started.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Him, but again, as we've talked about for fantasy purposes forever,
it's not always just about what you're doing with your roster,
because even if you get it wrong and you miss
his two touchdowns whatever, someone else didn't get those two
touchdowns right.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So a lot of it is. I don't need this guy.
I've got enough receivers.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
That's all funny good, But on your bench is the
guy you're looking at and eyeballing better than one of
your other options. Like I've got a couple of guys
that are technically number ones for the first respect to teams.
But Sean Payton ain't working magic with bo Nicks no
matter how much people try to sell me on it.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It ain't having a receiver. It's like that's like saying
I got the number one receiver on Army in nineteen
forty three. Dude, it's not going to catch pass man,
not gonna catch bass.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I mean, look, it's a reception for three yards. I
guess it still counts gonna stacking them up. He caught
ten balls for thirty three years.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
You have mister inside or mister outside, then they don't
need any of those guys.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
No, No, go back to the full back league we
were talking about before.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Do you think there were people too bad that weren't
doing fantasy back then? Going, dude, I have mister inside
and mister outst on my fantasy team. I'm killing I've
got this thing covered, and I got Sammy ball.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I'm killing slinging it, I am killing. He is killing.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Go all the way back to the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
I mean, look, I wrote a book that had the
history of football talk to a lot of fantasy football
talk to a lot of guys was all afl And
it was the Raiders. Yeah, and the scouts and the
writers and the people in the front office that started
playing fantasy football. They're credited with getting this thing going
because they had to kill time when they were riding
the trains, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And the one thing I was thinking about this is nowadays,
if you had two running backs playing on a team
and one was nicknamed mister Inside and one was mister Outside,
you would kind of know where the ball was going
depending on who was in the game and who was
getting the ball. Oh it's blanched, Okay, all right, this
run's gonna be inside. Oh no, it's Davis. This run's
gonna be outside. I don't worry about running. If mister
(05:32):
Inside gets it, it's gonna be on the inside it
mister outside, Okay, that's outside.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Just so you know what, if you had the monomonoly
for that squad and that offense, you just kept singing
whose shows to your team inside outside.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
What if we cross him up and have mister inside
run outside, mister outside run inside? What if we do that?
And what if once in a while we throw a pats?
Wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Did you just go all full ricky, Bobby? Maybe I
could be first.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Oh man, I'll tell you fantasy college football back in
the forties, that would have been.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Stuff, though, man watching watching some of these games, the
second guessing and certainly points left on the bench. How
many times do you throw something across the room throw
your hands up, going, I knew it, and I.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Could just see you, John. I'm sitting there, I'm staring
at my phone. I'm in bed last night and you
know the lights of pam Is sleeping and Benny sleeping
between us, and I'm just staring at it, going I
should pick him up. I should pick him up. I
should No, I'm sorry, not last night, but last week,
last week, and I'm staring going I should do it.
I should do it? No, No, no, I'll wait. It
doesn't make sense. Do I want to cut cut bait
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on this guy right now?
Speaker 5 (06:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I probably don't. And I'm like, oh man, nothing was
more frustrating than that, I'm like, I just stared at
his name, and I was like, I knew I should
do it, and I didn't do it.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I'm trying to just be better that it's a cold,
calculated business. I have no relationship to these people. Now
there are pawns on my fantasy squad. I love you
for my own purposes. I love the individuals, and I
worry about them as men and family men and teammates
and everything else. But for the purposes of my fantasy team.
I can't get attached to the draft. If I drafted
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the guy in the seventh round and he's not performing
and the team doesn't look like it's gonna crawl out
of a hole.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Like Baine, I can't stay there.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the
tirac dot Com Studios. Now elsewhere in the NFL. The
big breaking story tonight was the Dolphins put to a
tongue of Iloa on injured reserve after his latest concussion
his fourth, third, fourth, depending on how you're counting, of
the last couple of years. He is on IR gonna
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miss at least the next four games. Skyler Thompson's going
to start in the meanwhile until Tua gets back at
some point if he does get back. And when I
saw the reaction to this, it made me just shake
my head and go, this is where we're at as
sports fans, as a country, where when someone just does
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the bare minimum of what they're supposed to do, we
want to bend over backwards and say how great they are? Right, Like,
don't we no longer hold people up to higher standards,
just as Oh, when you can step over the line
and be and and and do something you're supposed to,
we want to just laud you and give you flowers.
And in my timeline today, when Ian Rappaport, I believe,
(08:11):
broke the story about too going on, ir uh, everybody
quote tweet and said the same thing, quote tweet smart
Dolphins place two on ir smart smart move by the Dolphins,
smart move, smart, smart. And that's the word I keep
seeing overall, and it just I just get to I
got to the point where I shut it off and
I just said, that's not smart. That's the easy and
(08:32):
right thing to do. This is not smart by the Dolphins.
It was an easy decision. The guy's got his fourth
bleep and concussion before he comes back to play. Put
him on ir take that decision out of his in
your hands for a while. So so thoughts can cool
and he can go over what the next steps are
for his career. You can spend time talking to him
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about his career and you figure out what is next. Right,
that's easy. That's not smart. The smart thing would be, Hey,
Tua says I'm ready to come back, I'm ready, I
pass all the tests, and the Dolphins say, we want
you to wait another two weeks. Whoa, but right in
the middle of the season. Man, we're four and five,
we're battling with the you know, for the playoffs. Here, No,
we want you to sit another couple of weeks because
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you really want you to be able to pass this
to whatever it is. That's smart. That's smart. Hey, you
know what, here's the Dolphins being smart, being proactive, saving
to it from himself, waiting an extra couple of weeks
for whatever reason. This is easy. But because we the
bar is so low that that people just can't even
don't have to step over it anymore. It's just it
just gets to me that this is not smart. This
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should have been the easy thing. This should have been
the reaction as soon as Tuus said, Hey, I'm not retiring.
I want to come back. You know what, Let's just
have you go on ir, take some time away, and
then we'll have a conversation in a couple of weeks. Right,
there's no reason you have to make a decision to retire,
despite the fact that everybody wanted to be the first
one to say to a retire I want a hot
take to a retire Okay, I get hot takes in sports.
(09:56):
I get I love hot takes. This is someone in
his brain and this is health right, But everybody still
wanted to do the hot takes about Tour should retire.
And they also wanted to make sure especially players, and hey,
player safety sucks in the NFL. And that's why I'm
using Tua as this political football to make sure people
understand the NFL really doesn't like and go for player
safety like you think they are. All of this was
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something was done with just a little bit too fast
and a little bit too knee jerk, where hang on,
this is a decision that's not gonna be He's got
to retire and let's figure out the money, like this
is something that's gonna go over a long period of time. Again,
this is to a tongue of iiloa, and this is
a brain injury. Take some time, and I'm sure the
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right decision is going to be made if it comes
out and the doctors tell Tua, hey, sorry, dude, but listen,
we can't do anything more. You're so susceptible to what's
going on, and you really can't. But he decides to retire,
he'll retire if the doctors say, hey, where you're at
this kind of concussion, you're no more susceptible than you were.
(10:58):
If you want to go back and play, you can. Okay,
He's gonna go back and play. If he doesn't play.
What about the money, How are we going to figure
out the money. They'll figure out the money. They'll figure
out the money that he's due. There's never gonna be
a problem with money for salary cap or something like this.
There's always going to be able to figure that out.
But that's where this conversation is right now. And it
was the easy thing to do to put him on IR.
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It wasn't the smart thing. Yes, of course, this is
not something that's about smart. This is just knowing, just
in a knee jerk reaction, what the right thing to
do is let's put him on I R and figure
it out after right. But because in sports the bar
is so low now that anytime somebody does something, oh hey,
what a great thing. The Dolphins did. No, they did
the right thing. But this was an easy thing.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Today it seem like an easy decision to make when
we talk even cursory conversations about player safety. Look at
coach Kilmer's not out there anymore, okay, John Voyd and
Varsity Blues telling you, hey, shoot him up, get him
out there when the guy's clearly broken. Is that's not
the way the NFL works anymore. Like players have some
say of I don't feel right, I can't go, and
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they get the like, doesn't mean they're not gonna get You.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Know, anybody who's got a star who's got a kid
coming up and the kid says to him, I don't
want your life, Well, we might have that a couple
of times.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
That would be cool.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
But just the idea of hey, you're getting forced back
out there, yeah, that was that was the NFL. We
know that, right, the threatening you with your job and
your toughness and manhood and whatever else. Dealing with the fans,
I get it. All that was there. We're in a
bit of a different time these days, and particularly when
it comes to the publicity of head trauma in the NFL,
because we've seen the crusades and we've seen the people
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that have made the annihilation of youth football their main target, right,
And in terms of using these stats, we can get
into deep dive conversations on all of that. But this
becomes the one of the top stories on every morning
show for every network, not sports shows, those are obvious,
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but everything else, like in terms of, well, how how
is he going to be treated? Here's his history, here's
the video, let me show you the horrors of football,
all of those things. So at the base level, the
ir stint was obvious. Now we wait till the new
calendar week for the NFL begins here Tuesday morning, and
they make it official, and now they move forward. But
(13:18):
to your point, yeah, four weeks plus. How many neurologists
do you need to see, truly independent, not around the NFL,
not around the Dolphins. How many you're talking to your friends,
your family, All of that comes into But if he
simply gets cleared to play, guess what he's going to
want to play, and for anybody trying to rip the
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jersey off him, you can't put yourself in his shoes
like ex players can do this if they want to
a degree, but everybody's into their individuals, right, We can't
lump it all together. You played football, so everything's the same.
And just saying that he's inevitably going to have another
consion concussion, there's going to be obvious long term. In fact,
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you don't know that. You don't know that it's not true,
but you certainly can't say it, you know. One for one?
All Right, he goes back out there. This is how
it's going to end for him. Because he went through
all of last year. We got no reports about him, right,
There was never a I don't know two is gonna
miss time because of this, that, the other. Whatever he
did in that offseason, and by a little bit of
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luck learning how to fall, whatever you want to attribute
it to, he got through last season unscathed. Who's to
say that can't happen again, right, because the oddity of
this injury and the way it was caused again going
into DeMar Hamlin, we could talk about slot and could
talk about whatever, but just the way his helmet went
down and he runs into Hamlin. It's a bit of
(14:44):
a fluke, a bit of a freak thing. But to
say that you can predict that that's going to happen again.
So you have to protect him from himself. How many
people go through their lives going you don't have to
protect me from myself. I can do just fine. Two
is a grown ass man is a multi that's billion
dollar business. Everybody's looking out for the bottom line and
for two. At this point, you can you can ask
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more of people. It's okay, you can ask more of
just the bare minim.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You can do that. The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Carmon Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios. Exit. How
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Card the National League? In American League, very special visit
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Speaker 4 (16:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Something, we're gonna got John Paul Morosi coming on in second,
but just.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Something really weird.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You know, We're trying to do the show and and
and and keep track of everything going on now, and
obviously I'm paying more attention to the Astros and the Padre.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Now you're Jack dumps on the Mets wildcard race.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Now, I'm pretty sure that Josel Tuvey thought he got
hit and they didn't give him the base. And I'm
just watching him at the end of the inning because
he struck out to end the inning. I'm watching he
takes off his cleat and his sock. I think to
show the home plate umpire where he got hit and
the Empire threw him out of the game. I'm gonna
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take off my head.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
He's walking around with one shoe and with one bare foot.
Is just walking off the field.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I'm like, this is insane, literally, and his suck all
the way off. I'm gonna shaking it and cursing out
the umpire I bruise.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Bruise, I got ready?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
You tell me I didn't get hit?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
What do you know? There's the indentation. You can see
the laces right there.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Joining us now in the hot line to break it
all down. Nobody better MLB Network inside are extraordinaire. You
can follow him on Twitter at John Morosi, co host
of the Morning Show Sweeping the Nation, Sternsy and the Pope,
and with the way the Mets have played the last
couple of weeks, Sternsy is in all caps. It is
John Paul Morosie. What's happening, buddy? How are you?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Sternsy indeed is in all caps. He has been so
good lately. I thought the Mets were going to win
something at the most recent Emmys, that ongoing series in
the sports world or any other world extant at this moment.
So congratulations unofficially and prematurely to the Mets for making
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the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
So not there yet, Jason, come on, man, we got
the We got the Phillies and the Braves and the
Brewers and the season with Come on.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
Hey, listen, I've got I've got all kinds of confidence
that I'm bringing to you right now. I am just
I'm just as confident that the best make the playoffs as
I am that the Lions will beat the Cardinals this weekend.
One Tea twenty.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Seventeen, Wow, Cardinals Defense of Love.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well, you're already making your pick. We didn't wait till
the end that Wow.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
I was just really feeling it in the moment I said,
Mets to the playoffs. Lions win on the road in
Glendale by a field goal.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
I like that. He just skipped straight over any Michigan predictions.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
All right, So let's do this then. The four teams
that are battling for the wild card in the National
League Padres, Mets, Diamondbacks, Braves. The team that's getting left
out is who the Braves.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
The Braves that they're to me, and I know they've
they have very admirably stayed in this race. They've got
the guy who is expected to win the National League
Signed Award in Chris Sale. I just think they've got
too many injuries right now, not enough consistency even among
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their healthy guys. The momentum belongs to the Mets Luisa
and Ias. Now that he's struck out this week, you
do not strike out again until Game two of the
World Series. So they're good. And I think the Diamondbacks
that's been one of the other great stories this season
because they did not have a good first half. Tore
(20:31):
de Bellow got them going again, and I think, really
that team has responded exceptionally well to him. I like,
I think those three teams final way to make it,
and then it's it's Diamondbacks, Padres and your Mets are
in it all right.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Now, let's do the American League. Baltimore, Kansas City, Minnesota.
They're in pole positions right now for the playoffs. But
you have Detroit a couple of games backs. You haddle
a couple of games back. Who's getting left out there?
The three playoffs, I'll say the three playoff teams in
the American League in the wild card are going to
be hooped, all right.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I think the Twins will keep falling and the Tigers
find a waiting. They never thought I was gonna say that,
but did you see what happened tonight? And finning they
win on the road in casey against Bobby Wood Junior's Royals,
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who have not been the same team without past Wintino.
I think the Twins, though, are more vulnerable, the Tigers
have a legitimate chance to pass the buy. I know
the Twins won tonight, but this almost feels like two
thousand and nine in reverse, when when the Tigers at
every reason to win the division that year and they
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fell flast. The Twins won game, won sixty three, and
they of course went onto the playoffs. So I really
believe the Tigers, as part of this cosmic connection, find
a way to be exact revenge on the Twins fifteen
years after that great game won sixty three.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I gotta be honest, I really like the fact that
you made the Royals like a nostalgia band that has
its lead singer and everybody else is gone, and he's
got the rights to the name.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
So it's Bobby Wits Kansas.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
City Royal, Bobby Witt and the Kansas City Royals. He
is the frontman of that band. He is one of
the best talents I believe in all of American sports.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
John Paul wasn't that that game won sixty three? The
game where Jim Leland left Fernando Rodney out there for
like six innings at.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
The He's actually Rodney Rodney pitically still pitches there, So
still going that stadium where that games at place was
imploded and rebuilt. And Rodney, who is I believe it
last sec about forty eight years oldest, but he's still
in great shape, is ill on the mound, even though
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there is no longer a mound in that stadium.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's funny now I'm thinking back to those pitchers that
would you know, show up for like seventy five games,
right he was. He was a guy that was into
the mid seventies. And now we wring our hands when
a guy has his fiftieth appearance in early septem go.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
You know, you know what, Mike, I'm going to give
you the name. I'm gonna give you the name of
a White Sox pitcher who fit that description and could
probably get out for the White Sox right now if
you needed them too. And that was Got line Break,
Got Linebrenk. Now this goes back to any of the
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Padres too, has the time with the Astros. Got Line
Break was an easy, like eighty two games a year guy.
The other guy that that I thought was for about
like six or seven years. If we had properly evaluated
relievers in that first decade of this century, we would
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have and talking about this dude from dawn till dusk
every day because he was that good. Gott Shields of
the Angels, Gott Shields was everywhere. So there you go,
Scott Linebrink, Scott Shields. If you have another Scott that
you want to mention here, Scott Scott Sanderson is another
great reliever.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Scott Mitchell got former former Lions quarterback Scott Mitchell sure.
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Mitchell I believe, I believe when when Scott Mitchell brought
the Lions in to the Vet to play the Eagles
in the playoffs in the mid nineties, the final score
of that game was Eagles eleventy billion, Lions twenty four.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
And here I was going to get off some wilbur
Wood and Ramiro Mendoza quips he's jeof Palm Rosi with
us here.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
MLB Network insider.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Joins us each and every week here Fox Sports Radio,
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon here from the tirerac dot Com studios.
Follow JP on Twitter at John Rossi and follow his
antics all across MLB Network on the field, covering games
and doing analysis of all thirty MLB squads. So out
here in Los Angeles, JP, Dave Roberts got some tongues
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wagging something Jason and I had theorized on the show
I Believe with you a couple of times as the
warming up with Shohei Otani perhaps getting back on a
mound before this season comes to a close, and some
are shaking their fists and anger saying what.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Are we doing? Everybody else going I want a World Series?
Where do you stand?
Speaker 5 (25:29):
The latter listen, he's he's one of their best options
to pitch in the postseason. I don't know how many
innings he can he can deliver, But two things the
reason why this are actually three things. The reason why
this is legitimate and why this is getting talked about.
Number One, they've got a ton of guys who are hurt.
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Last is the most reason of them. Number Two, jobs
are on the line right now, maybe even Dave Roberts,
And so if you're gonna put somebody up and have
their professional position in jeopardy, then the least you can
do is give him the best options that he has
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to pitch. And get out in that month. And the
other final point that I want everybody to take a
look at next time you have a chance, not now
because you're probably driving, but if you've got a chance
to look this up, find the video of Otani's most
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recent bullpen session when he was throwing in the pen,
and just look at his facial expression, body language, the
way that he's throwing, everything else. The idea here is that, oh,
we were told, oh, he's just getting ready for February.
Watch the video and then ask yourself, is this a
dude who was looking ready to throw his first pen
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in Glendale, Arizona on February twentieth, or does he want
to be on the mound in the playoffs. Just look
at the guy, the way that he's throwing. I'm not
a scout, but he is ready to go. And I
think right now, because of he has exceeded expectations and
the health of the rest of the Dodgers has has
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gone way below expectations. I believe at last counted was
like seventeen different different options that they had gone through
as starting pitchers. And I'm not saying to show he's
gonna throw seven innings here, but He's better than a
lot of what they have to offer right now, especially
with Glass now out. I think, guys, the chances of
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show A pitching in the postseason, I don't think that
we can describe them as remote anymore. It does make
too much sense.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
John Paul Morosi, I can't tweet that out there fast enough,
John Paul, that Otani's gonna cook back.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
I'm there with you, man, I go, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Like Fani comes in to pitch, I'm trying to think, like,
obviously it's not gonna be a lot, right, They're not
gonna put stress on his arm. But is Otani someone
that is gonna open a game? Or is Otani someone
that's gonna close a game?
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Like, because the way the Dodgers are hurt, Like, I'm
trying to think, what's the best way to get that
extra bit of juice in the playoffs? You look at
their starting rotation now and it's Jack Flaherty and maybe
it's Cofax and Sutton and then you know, but it's
gonna be but it's gonna be a bullpen game at
some point. Now, you get that extra boost of electricity
if it's Otani into a bullpen game, but you also
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get that boost of Hey, in the ninth inning, guess
who can come in and close it out and we
can go to our relievers earlier in a game. You're
not gonna bring Otani in the sixth inning or seventh inning,
but could you bring him in the ninth inning to
close out a game? Sure? So I'm just wondering which
is the best scenario for him. Does he come in
and be an opener, does he come in and close?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
What do you like? I think it's still the ladder,
although there's an argument to be made that if he's
gonna have him do it in a regular routine where
it actually makes sense to have him start. So yeah,
I'm going to revise my answer and say starting makes
more sense because that's what he's used to. That's what
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allows you to control as many of the variables as possible,
and so I do think for that reason it listens.
Their rotation has pitched in fifteen Straits postseason games without
any starter getting an ouse in the sixth Citty not
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a one, not a one. So when you look at
the big picture here, they need more reliability deeper into games.
The really show I probably can't do it because even
if everything is perfect, he's probably gonna be a three
inning guy. But they need length. That is the key
headline here. The Dodgers need some length. And I'll say
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this again, this is still one of the most wide
open postseasons I can ever recall covering in my entire career.
I have no idea what's gonna happen, and that's why
I love it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
John Paul Morosi, MLB Network Insider, celebrity Lions picker, And now,
because you do so well with the Lions, give us
a Michigan prediction this week got a new quarterback, John Paul,
how's it gonna go?
Speaker 5 (30:25):
USC twenty four Michigan thirteen? USC winning that game by
eleven point? What's the line on that one?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
USC is favored by I haven't seen. I want to
say six and a half.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
I may be wrong now I think USC both wins
and covers. That's just my guests, just in you know,
Uncle John's advice. And by the way, that was a
few minutes ago. That was a stellar move by Mike
because as you got talking about that Eagles line game
from like nineteen ninety five, I was I was almost
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going to talk about how Brett Parriman was always too
underrated in the Lions. Mighty Ancore back at that time,
and I you know, Herman Moore amazing, but Brett Parriman
really good possession receiver. The Lions need more of that now,
we need a little more. I'm on Ross Saint Brown
and he's got a channel some Brett Parriman here on
on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Heyngo USC five and a half point favorites total forty
six and a half JP on that.
Speaker 5 (31:28):
Brettan Lake Paraman. I think Paaraman went to the USC,
by the way, Oh did and go to USC?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Hang on?
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I mean, look up, Brett Paarman. Aren't hang on Brett Perriman.
Brett Miami Miami.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Oh okay, another of the great No.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
That was a good try though. I mean, look, have
you've gotten that right?
Speaker 5 (31:48):
You win? Rodney Rodney Pete our colleague as asscation Rodney,
he went to the US. There you go.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I remember that he's on John Morosi.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
That is at John Morosi MLB Network Insider Extraordinaire watch show,
Hey Otani in the playoffs. John Paul is always buddy,
appreciate it. My best of Sternsy.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
We'll talk to you, I really think, I think, I
believe it's a chance that Tony pitches in the playoffs.
But hey, if I'm wrong, it's not gonna be the
first time I've been wrong about Otani. What's up.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
There is a walk off? I salute you, my friend
of you, buddy, great stuff talk. That's not going to
get into Otani pitching in the playoffs. We'll have that
coming up in a bit, but right now, time for
Martin Weises tell us what's trending in the wide world
of sports. M dub bottom of the ninth now for
the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
They are down eleven to two, so looks like that'll
be ending quickly unless there is a historic comeback.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Marker Strowman on the mound for the Yankees.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
Eleven to two for the al least leading Yankees, that
is the game in progress. Are now alongside with the
Houston Astros with a four to three lead over the
San Diego Padres. They're in the top of the tenth
inning in in Houston. The Guardians lost to the Twins
four to one Cleveland to top the Al Central. The
Tigers and the Royals are both squarely in the wildcard mix.
(33:09):
Detroit beat Kansas City three to one in ten innings.
Royals now on a three game losing streak, Oriols still
holding on to the top al wildcard spot despite losing
to the Giants ten to nothing today. Blake Snell, with
the start for San Francisco, twelve strikeouts, one hit, six
innings pitched the thirty six and one hundred and fifteen
White Sox, trying to avoid the st record of one
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hundred and twenty. They lose tonight to the Angels five
to nothing, so that is now one hundred and sixteen
losses on the season. The Phillies beat the Brewers five
to one. Shohel Tani hit his forty eighth home run,
but the Dodgers lost to the Marlins eleven to nine.
LA was three and a half up on the Padres
in the NLS at the start of the day. Again,
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like I said, the Padres now trailing ten, four to three.
In the tenth inning, Rockies beat the Diamondbacks eight to two.
That lost means now that the Mets are tied in
the second wild card spot with Arizona. Because the Mets
beat the Nationals today ten to one, Atlanta drops six
to five to the Reds, and the A's beat the
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Cubs four to three, and the NFL to a tongue
of Iloa. Miami Dolphins quarterback is now placed on injured reserved.
He'll miss the next four games. Tyler Huntley, former Ravens quarterback,
made the Pro Bowl back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
They signed.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
The Dolphins signed him off the Ravens practice squad to
their active roster.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Robbie Chosen, Roye receiver was waived. The Kansas City.
Speaker 8 (34:33):
Chiefs assigned Forree agent running back Riem Hunt, The Cleveland
Browns signed for Age and running back Royce Freeman, and
the New York Giants places kicker Graham ganot on injured
reserve with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Jason and Mike back to you guys.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
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Speaker 1 (35:43):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. More NFL coming up in a bit. But
first of all, thanks to John Paul Morosi for stopping
by a few minutes ago. And just think about that.
We've talked about Otani pitching in the playoffs, and just
think about what the juice would be for the Dodgers.
(36:06):
If your first game is Jack Flaherty and you have
all kinds of problems, right, you have nobody else's They
don't even know where Tyler glassnow is right now, like
he took he took off, left the team, and Dave
Roberts says, we don't know where he is, right So
you have nobody Kershaw's hurt, everything else. The juice you
would get of Otani being your starter, your opener for
game two would be immense and it would mitigate the
(36:29):
concern you have for just having an opener. Right right,
it's Bobby Miller and he's gonna go. But if Otani
can pitch, and you saw, you saw you heard Morosi
when he said, does Otani look like a guy getting
ready to throw his first his first pitch in Anger
next February in spring training or this fall in the playoffs?
Like that, I think that's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
The Dodgers like the plan is Otani's gonna pitch in
the playoffs, and I as long as there's a situation
where they do, yeah, like I could see the first
three game is going. Now, Hey, it's gonna be Flaherty,
maybe Yamamoto as far as he can go, because who
knows how much he gets stretched out over the next
the next week or so, next couple weeks, check and
then you have Otani pitching a and opener, like all
(37:11):
of a sudden, Oh, maybe things aren't that bad for
the Dodgers in the pitching department. But that's the thing,
like we've been talking about it as he started to
ramp up a little bit and brought it up, and
the consideration of being a closer, whether it was the
back end of this season, if cleared and playoffs, or
even in the next year. As you go, uh, you
know when everybody gets all up tight about the money.
(37:31):
Number one is guaranteed. Number two. The Dodgers paid him
two million dollars this year. How many millions do you
think they made off of show? Hey o Tani merch
and the ticket sales like they're saying ninety percent of
Japanese tourists that came to California to go see Disneyland
or whatever found their way to Dodger Stadium before. Sure, yeah,
not to.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Mention bad, you know what I mean all the way through.
So anybody that gets off you paid all this money.
No no, no, no, that's all backloaded. They'll have made
so much off of him that that contract doesn't matter.
So push that to the side. If he's if you're
worried about Hey, if his arm gets hurt again, he's
going for fifty to fifty coming up with surgery.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
I mean he's forty eight forty eight right now after
his home run tonight, forty eight forty and again, I
get it. You know, in terms of the Unicorn, what
makes him special as he can pitch? No, he's a
damn good hitter. They the pitching is a bonus.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
They didn't pay him seven hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
It was a business decision, okay, as long as in
the lineup one hundred and fifty times they've won, because
everybody's gonna come to the ballpark to watch him, and
if it means a World Series title or three, great,
But it's a business decision as much as it was
a baseball decision. And anybody that doesn't want to see that,
you're kidding yourself, right. They saw that showing up in
(38:49):
Los Angeles. They were gonna print money and fill the
fifty one thousand every game. Not that they were slouches
in the attendance department, department, but now you add that
extra juice. Jersey sales, Jersey sales, bobble heads, all the
Chatzky's whatever they're they're print in cash, so the money
is really where this all is. And if Otani it
(39:10):
goes back to the Tua conversation we had. If he's
cleared by doctors and he feels good, you're gonna tell
him no, let's save you for good.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
No chance in hell. Now from that to the high
drama happening right now in San Diego. The game is
in the bottom of the tenth inning. Astros lead the
Padres four three. He told you this crazy moment a
few minutes ago in which jose Al Tuvey was upset
after not getting a call, and he took off his
shoe to show the umpire his barefoot where he fouled
(39:38):
the ball off his foot.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
That was pretty good, and they did.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
That, and it's it's crazy because altuove fouls ball off
his foot, the umpire doesn't give it to him, and
they wind up and he's out.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
He gets a jet and that ends the inning.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
He takes off his his his shoe and his sock
shows the umpire's barefoot, said this is where it is,
and you could see the replays that in absolute hit
him and the umpire just decides to throw jose L
TV out of the game.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
When I saw this, I said, wow, this is insane,
and I thought, hmmm, he took that sock and cleat
off much faster than you know, he would take off
his jersey after Yeah, a couple of hitting the ball
a couple of years ago. Don't don't pull my jersey.
But he got that sock and chew off really really fast.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Well, you know, hey, you're trying to gamesmanship, right, You're
trying to get a little edge.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Right now, they've got a review at the plate. Did
the guy try to get out of the way of
a pitch? Yeah? Right, What is it a hit by
pitch or is it you know, get overturned?
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Uh, there is a hit by pitch. It has just
been called that passes understanding. I don't know what kind
of night that the umpires are having. They went out,
looked at this on replay, jerks and Profar is not
hit by a pitch at all, And somehow after replay
you've seen it pretty clear he still is awarded first base.
I did the.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Umpire right now, I'm in San Diego, Ame.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I don't know that you can have a worse night
than the umpires are having right now.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Oh no, the last inning and a half has been absurd,
and we we watched uh clearly. You know he had
a pitch clock violation. Uh, and then an uncorked wild
pitch uh that created the chaos of a tie game
before Houston takes the lead again. But there's been a
lot of barking back and forth as we had this,
you know, major League Baseball Pennant stretch, all four monitors
(41:31):
going and watching the White Sox lose uh, go Angels
uh as they get the w today uh and stop that,
you know, hot white White Sox winning streak. But now
you got Machada with the bases loaded, two outs in
a one run game.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
An insane night. I mean, you had you had this,
We had the the al two v Now you have
this hit by pitch.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Does it make any sense at all? What is happening?
Although it is the juice you might need for the last.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Hour of the show.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
But that justin Verlander looking the dugout like he looked
like you wanted to go a tacium there.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
You can't have a worse night than this. I'm telling you.
We'll have more on this and more on a big
quarterback story out of the NFL Coming up next right here,
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