September 20, 2024 • 42 mins
In Hour 1 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike discuss Shohei Ohtani becoming the first player in MLB history to steal 50 bases and hit 50 home runs in a single season! Plus, reacting live to Jets vs. Patriots!
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside to what could be an absolutely glorious,
maybe the most glorious Thursday of the year, The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Sure there's
not a big holiday on a Thursday or something that
could trumpet. No, no, no, there's no holidays on a Thursday.
No holidays. We sit around and eat and eat. Nah,
(00:51):
no holidays. No holiday. Yeah no, nothing like that. No, no,
no fumble celebration nothing. Look my aim. Look, we're live
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(01:13):
is to go full rob mcallaney to go Syracuse shirt
for the game and Cain Stanford tomorrow night Jets hat
to celebrate a victory, Mets pants or whatever it is.
Matt like, I want to be all all my teams like, hey,
I'm going to be doing interviews. Man. No, but if
you're doing a Rob mcallaney day, you're allowed to do it.
If you do it, So now it's no longer a
(01:34):
Hawaiian Shirt Day. It's Rob mclhanny day. Well, the Hawaiian
Shirt Day could also be Tom Sellig Friday if you
wear the Hawaiian shirt and the Detroit Tigers at but
you can if you if your team succeed, you could
go full Rob mcallaney And Okay, all my teams. I'm
wearing air, I got a scarf, I got shoes, I
got socks. You can do that. If it's a theme.
Did you get here's the reason for it? Uh No,
(01:55):
but I can. We got to work, I can. I
mean we got four hours of shopping and I actually
great sports takes Ahead. Actually looked at Southern Fanatics has
Syracuse socks on sales.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Like not a lot of money tomorrow, so here Syracuse football. Now, yeah,
we got a couple of games tomorrow night. That'll be fun.
Big ten Friday, Illinois and Nebraska. I'm gonna wear my
dark Horse playoff team showing out, and you're gonna be
uh Rob Macklin.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I want to wear all my stuff. I mean, like
Joey in the episode when he wore all of Chandler's
clothes we do lunges. I'm gonna wear all my jet stuff,
all my mess stuff, all my Syracuse stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Maddie, actually, my younger daughter, Madeline actually ran that line
earlier today, and I'm not quite sure what.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
She was referring to. She just kind of threw it out.
She put on all your clothes that started doing lunges. Well,
I think, so, oh, okay, well I know exactly well
I know, well, okay, you've seen the show. You know
what she did. Okay, then yeah, yeah, I gotta wash
the pants. I am Mike Harmon. I'm gonna go home
and do laundry. That's where we say.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
No.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It was just kind of odd, like you go ahead,
nothing to do really much of anything. I think it
was just a random one liner that she decided to
throw out. But you know, wearing these really dark, shiny
green alm. But your guy, Aaron Rodgers. Thing I love
most about it for you, Jason Smith, and you're the
future of this Jets season. He's moving laterally so that
he did not do for two weeks. I'll tell you
(03:12):
what first, Aaron Rodgers, then show heo Tani. The Jets
lead the Patriots right now, fourteen to three. They jet
their way to missing a field goal at the end
of the first half is what the Jets do. But
they have the ball after a three and out. They
are driving just past midfield. And Aaron Rodgers has looked
the best version of himself so far this season. And
(03:35):
this is to be expected, right, you know, the more
he plays. Anytime you're coming off a year.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Of not taking any snat taking four snaps and then
you don't really get the time in the preseason, it's
gonna be a build, right. Everybody is building. Justin fields
is building. Everybody is building. If you don't play or
you're john, you're building. And this has been the best
he has looked so far. He has looked the most spry.
He is completing passes that only Aaron Rodgers can throw.
(04:01):
He's throwing the ball early, he's holding onto it and
throwing it later, he's waiting for plays. He's pushing Robert
Salah after a touchdown passes. I sat to myself watching
this in the first half and I said, I said,
I'm fifty three years old. I'm fifty three years old.
This is what a star quarterback looks like. This is
what This is what it feels like to have a
(04:22):
star quarterback playing for your team. I've never had that.
I've had odd years here and there. Right, I feel
like Larry David at the one season, what part Sol's
coaching team and testa Verity was good, Like I had
Testaverdi for a year, Brett Fahr for half a year,
Pennington for a half a year, and that's it. A
couple of years of Mark Sanchez. Yeah, yeah again, that's
(04:42):
what I've had. That's all my life. But I mean
you had a couple of AFC title yeah here, but
all because the team was so good. But I've never
had a star quarterback where I could say I feel
confident on third and nine, we are getting this first
down because I know he's gonna find the right place
to go with the.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Footshef on any given, it's amazing going to be in
a game and nothing is a lost cause.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Again, never felt I've never fifty three, Mike fifty three.
I've never had that feeling that we have a star
quarterback and anything as possible and whatever the situation is.
When he we when we had third and seventeen, I said,
we're getting this. We're getting it in the first head,
We're getting it. I'm fifty and I'm still wee. Yeah,
but you have a Super Bowl, you have the eighty five,
you have the most.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Famous Super Bowl time the Bowl and there was the
second highest scoring offense, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You know you have that. You you you have that.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I don't have that, But I mean it was Steve McMichael,
Dan Hampton and wil Marshall running them up.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Uh look, it's really I mean to watch Rogers getting
everybody involved. Look, Garrett Wilson has a tough matchup to
night with Christian Gonzalz. He still caught a couple of passes.
He's finding everyone right, whether it's short out of the backfield,
whether it's Tyler Conklin over the middle. Alan Lazard is
back to being the Green Bay version of Alan Lazard,
the big making just breakings and making plays. It's It's
(05:59):
like where was Alan Lazard last year when Zach Wilson
really needed him? And and every single play I am
filled with just so much confidence. We're gonna get this.
We're getting this, We're getting.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
He's completed seventeen balls for one hundred and seventy eight
yards to eight different receivers. Lazard the leader three catches
forty eight yards with that touchdown operational efficiency only five
incompletions so far. He's only taken one sack and again
doing it with his legs. Right, He's got a couple
of scrambles for sixteen yards. He's making plays on the run.
(06:30):
It's everything you anticipated you know before the four four
and a half snap twenty twenty three campaign and going
up against Patriots. Here's an interesting stat for you because
they played that overtime game on Sunday. Last twenty years,
teams to play an overtime game and then play on
four days rest or less versus a team who didn't
play overtime that week. I want to know that subset
(06:52):
six and nine straight up three and twenty two against
the number and right now they're taking care of business.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
The curiosity is as this game goes on how much
you get into the run pass splits because they've dominated
time of possession. Defense has been swarming against Jacoby Brissett.
He's doing a bunch of jump passes and taking hit
after hit. Body blow, body blow, body blow. He's down
for the count Rogers at one hundred and ninety six
yards now. His last three hundred yard game came December
(07:21):
twenty first, twenty twenty one. You know it was against
the Bears. Yeah, the team. He owns three forty one,
four touchdowns, zero picks, het sacked three times. Yea for
tonight to throw for three hundred or more yards, he
was plus seven to fifty plus seven to fifty. Really,
(07:42):
Patriots have had zero answer he He looks the closest
to what he was when he was at his peak.
I don't think you'll you'll see him being what he
was a couple of years ago. I don't know if
the downfield ball is there, but seeing him move latterly,
we just watched him eveda sack and roll out to
the right and find a first down on a third
and nine right. The calmness in the pocket, I mean,
(08:03):
he's exuding everything he is. That is the most underrated
part of this is that he's moving around really well,
making chunk yardage happen like this. This is I'm like,
I'm like, I want to pinch myself. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Now there is a bit of controversy and I do
have to call out Amazon for this, and oh, by
the way, not not be I still want my stuff
delivered on time tomorrow. No, it's getting delivered to the
next door after it's going to be opened and looked
through and warn.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The second touchdown the Jets score, there was video you
see of Aaron Rodgers coming off the field and Robert
Salah goes to like hug him, and Rogers gives him
a push and says something and kind of stares at
him going away, and Sola kind of stares at him
and kind of smiling a little bit. And it's only
like a seven second video, and it was whoa like
(08:53):
this looked like, dude, you don't touch the quarterback. I
know you that, don't touch me. Don't you don't talk
to me? Okay, I do my own thing out here.
So looked really weird, right, And I'll tell you what
it could be. It's one of two things. Either Rogers
has pissed it at Robert Sala for whatever reason, or
this is Robert Sala and Aaron Rodgers with whatever relationship
they have. It looked like Rogers might have said, that
(09:13):
was your call, like because he threw the flag to
get to get the touchdown, because initially the Breesaw touchdown
wasn't ruled that he was in the end zone. So
it could be something. It could be nothing, right.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Had pass play in his head, could have been it
took away a passing touchdown because that got upheld.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
How about that? Hey, Aaron? Can I ask it? So
it could be something? It could not be something. But
it's a big story coming off of the first half.
And when the sideline interview going in the halftime doesn't
ask Robert Sala that boo, you have to ask that question.
He can answer it however he wants, but you have
to ask that because that's a big thing. Do you
really need this? I mean, everybody knows, they know in
(09:49):
the booth, people are on social media, they understand. Hey,
people want to know what the hell is going on
with this? And in any event you create if you're Amazon,
like wait, we're gonna create a viral moment here because
whatever he says, people are gonna go crazy over it.
It's gonna get reposts and we're going to create a
viral roome, which is what we want to do. I
don't know how you don't ask that. I mean you
unless there's some pr guy who jumped in front and said,
(10:10):
don't ask him about the Rogers push. He'll talk about
it after the game. You have to ask him that
that that's journalistically being irresponsible to answer to not ask it.
He can answer whatever he wants to. I always I
always say that. Listen when whenever an athlete you're you're
asking him a tough question, you have to ask it.
They can answer eever they want to. You can't make
him answer how you want them to answer, but you
have to ask it. And that's a question you got
(10:31):
to know. Okay, you have to ask him about it.
You have to say, hey, what was up after the
second touchdown? Rogers kind of kind of gave you a push?
What happened? What was said? And Robert Sali could say
everything is fine, I'll get okay, ask but you have
to ask it. And that's what everybody wants to know.
And that was That's one of those Hey, you've done
a football game or two before, you kind of have
to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, I gotta say, I mean, they really did a
good job of making sure you got the three D
modeling with Andrew Whitworth in.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, I like the three D modeling.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
No, but I mean they made sure that we had
enough time to feature everything we could have possibly wanted
in that scenario in the first half.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
No, again, it's a good look.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, so I'm trying to obfuscate from the journalistic failure
of the first half. You're dominating, but hey, what the
hell was going on after the touchdown?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Why so mad? Yeah? I mean you got to you
gotta know that you have to, especially in the stare
down like it could be nothing. Hold up an iPad,
say what the hell is this?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, we're not cool just just because we're winning.
You we're not cool, Okay? You and I all right?
All right, you and we're still not cool. Cousin of
sal on Twitter, Aaron Rodgers treating Robert Sala like he's
a family member. Oh wow, that that was wow. Uh
And as we say this, Garrett Wilson doing Garrett Wilson
(11:46):
things into the end zone for a touchdown from about
five yards out. I don't know how he caught this ball.
He caught a ball on the place handeus. Well, yeah,
let's see what happens now, Robert Sala. Aaron rodd Let's see.
Let's see. Let's see Rogers over. Oh, he picks him
up and body slams him. Oh, he's grabbed Art Rodgers
by the head. He's cut off his right arm. Wow.
(12:09):
Garrett Wilson makes a really good play to get near
the end zone, to get down to the two yard line.
The next play, Rogers rolls out and a throw that
only Aaron Rodgers makes hits. Garrett Wilson makes a fingertip
catch and then contorts his body to put the ball
over the pylon for the touchdown. Make it twenty one
to three, Jets with the lead over the Patriots. Rogers
(12:32):
is hugging Garrett Wilson. Garrett Wilson is hugging other people.
I have not seen Aaron Rodgers hug. Robert Sala. I've
not seen that yet. We haven't. We haven't gotten that
far yet. I know, Nina, but we haven't seen it.
But maybe he will. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It was a good concentration though by Wilson because the
defender comes flying by nowhere near to where he's gonna
get hit, but just you know, a line of sight
kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Look, and that's one of those throws where if you're
the Patriots, you're you're the other team, you just say,
what are you gonna do? Like Rogers has been making
those throws his entire career. It's like, what are you
gonna do? I was this close to the interception, Yeah,
but what happened, Well it was a touchdown, But I
was this close to the interception. Yeah, but what was
the result of the play? But I was that close? Yeah,
but they had a touchdown, Yeah, but I just missed it.
(13:15):
You think Aaron Rodgers doesn't know he's gonna get it
there a split so you're gonna go for the ball
and he's gonna get it there a split second before
you need to, and it's gonna be a touchdown. Of
course he knows. Well.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
The other side to this is, you know, for Aaron Rodgers,
he's a student of football history. He knows how lopsided
and miserable this series has been for the last twenty
plus years. Every graphic, every talking point on the radio broadcast,
and everything you bring up here is just the sheer
domination from the Patriots side of things in this quote
(13:45):
unquote rivalry going on two decades. So to go up
here and not only win, but win convincingly in front
of a home crowd on a big Thursday night, standalone game,
he's no dummy. He knows exactly what he's doing, and
he's showing out and picking this defense apart.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Jets twenty one Patriots three, middle of the third quarter.
We'll have more on this game coming up, including a
bold statement about Aaron Rodgers that sounds crazy, but I
don't think I'm gonna get much an argument on it.
I'll argue with you. Plus Thursday, we get into an
unbelievable day, possibly the greatest single day anybody in baseball
(14:24):
history has had. Sho Heyotani is now on his way
to being a fifty five to fifty five guy who
after three home runs, six for six, ten RBIs today
in the Dodgers win over the Marlins. We'll break it
down and tell you what is absolutely next for Shoeotani
(14:45):
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Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon live Fromthtirack dot Com studios. Right now, late
third quarter, the Patriots were in field goal range. The
Jets may have just knocked them out of it. Three
straight plays. Jacoby Brissett gets hit on every one of them. Yeah,
(16:45):
and now facing a fourth and long down twenty one
to three late in the third quarter, and it's listen.
It's not all about the Jets and Aaron Rodgers. But
one thing you can see tonight right watching this game. Yes,
the Jets are the best defense of the Patriot face,
your top five defense. But watching this and you are
seeing on every play that Jacoby Brissett drops back to pass,
(17:07):
he is getting hit. He is getting hit on every play,
whether he is getting sacked, whether he is releasing the
ball and getting hit. He even got hit on the
hail Mary at the end of the first half where
it looked like he was gonna get bent in half.
So when you see this, yeah, it's been pretty cocky.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But after that miss field goal and then they were
in position for it, you were not breathing easy for
those few seconds though.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But you can see watching this game, Oh, now I
get why Drake May is not playing. I get why
Drake May is better than Brissette. And wait what he's done.
He shot. But I completely understand why Drake May is
not playing because he would get absolutely and look I
get I guess. Yes, it's tough to say, oh, you'll
out there, you'll take the beating for our number one quarterback,
(17:51):
but that's kind of how it works in the NFL.
You you've invested a lot in in Drake May, and
Jacoby Brissett knows the deal. He knows it's like to
be a backup move around the NFL. Well, that's just
kind of how it goes. But you wouldn't want Drake
May out there for this when he is your future.
That you have sinked your entire franchise. So I'm in that.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You know, you're trying to weigh it as you're watching
the offensive structure for New England and how they're dealing
with the what's immense pressure coming from the Jets. There's
been not a single play where you could say the
running back adequately stepped up the block chip or do
anything like it's free and clear runs and they're timing
(18:29):
the blitz is great, no question about it. But they're
a step slow regardless of who's been in the backfield. Like,
oh he's pass me. That's too bad. And Brissett's getting up. Sorry, sorry, sorry,
but this last player right the third and fourteen looks
like they're gonna get They had a shot down to
Henry down inside to five, call back, penalty, whatever, and
(18:51):
then third down it's third and fourteen. Brissett's on the
run and you're like, ah, that's grounded, Like nah, he's
outside the tackle box. It's like it doesn't matter. It's
all they're trying to keep it from getting killed on
the backside. Ye had nothing to do. That guy was
never gonna hit it now, but it didn't matter. It
was I'm not gonna even give him the chance to
do so. So yeah, it's it's a brutal, brutal thing.
(19:12):
By the way, Williams disappointed me though. Wasn't he supposed
to be wearing like some wizard of all No.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's his brother, Quincy Williams is wearing it. I'm like,
he's just making a big play. That would have been
a great spot for a wicked wizard of the Wizard
gotta go. They gotta go see the Wizard right after
you in New England. So twenty one to three Jets
with the lead and the ball late in the third quarter.
We'll have more on this game completely throughout the night. Obviously,
Aaron Rodgers is going to be the story. But speaking
(19:40):
of being the story, absolute baseball history today and what
people wanted to run to social media to be the
first one to say this is the greatest day a
hitter has ever had in baseball history. Shouldn't have been
in the game. Well, the thing is, look at you, hater,
Look at you when they were getting their asses. A
couple couple of weeks ago, we had one of our
(20:00):
buddies took his family. It was his birthday. He went
to Arizona and they were getting bludgeoned into third inning.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Everybody went out. But now that it's eleven three, fourteen three, Hey,
let's pile it on.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Oh ye, hater, hater, What a hater you are? Oh no,
I shot it.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I say you play the hot hand on, hater. If
you're having a day, you have a day. I just
thought it was kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You want to talk about history, because today we had
this and the pitch coming to show. Hey, old Tony,
Hey swings hits a tractor left.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
This ball's back therelas fifty.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
The first player in the history of Major League Baseball
to have a fifty fifty season.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
He is incredible.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Show hey old Tony with an opposite field home run.
Fifty fifties. There it is on the call Dodgers Radio Network,
the first player ever. As you hear, fifty to fifty.
Now he's on his way to fifty five. Fifty five
three home runs one off a position player uh to
end the game. Ten RBI in the game the dodgersoff. Uh, dude, Hey,
(21:09):
I think you said, Hey, I'm five for five with
two home runs. I'm gonna hit against I'm gonna hit
again this guy. Yeah, because hey, skip, I'm thinking sixty sixty,
let's leap down. Still got nine games. I'm thinking sixty
sixty fumbled it, that had an opportunity to catch number fifty.
The guy who did procure it, Yeah, left with it.
You know, I thought watching that there would be much
(21:29):
more of a fight for that ball, Like it didn't
seem like, hey, here's what everybody knows. This next ball
is number fifty. I thought there would be more of
a like a twenty eight days later kind of scene
going for that. We're at landed. It was.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It was a bit of a difficult spot. You had
a couple of people with the back to the to
the ball as if they didn't want to get hit
like they were. They sat in those seats and it
seemed like they were afraid that the ball was being
hit towards that section.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, a little bit odd. I'm not gonna lie now. Look,
so you've heard heard so many superls about it. This
guy's taking a selfie. Actually, oh, okay, like, hey, Otani's
at the plate. I mean this is oh I missed
the home run. This one's gonna cost you. I don't
think this is gonna be show. Hey, oh hey, how
about you come over and say hi, we'll give you
an autograph. Now this is gonna you want the fifty
to fifty ball. Uh, that's gonna cost you. And it's
(22:17):
gonna go up and look. And I don't know the uh,
the card industry and the memorability industry like you do.
But I have to think that this ball is gonna
be I don't know, twice as valuable because the ball
to clinch fifty to fifty wasn't a stolen base, right
Like if he had fifty home runs and he steals
the fiftieth base, Okay, they'll take the ball to play,
they'll give it to him, they'll give it to the
(22:38):
Baseball Hall of Fame. But when you hit the home
run for fifty to fifty, you got it. That's got
to increase the value that. I mean. I'm no double
itriple it. I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
That's just saying right when you talk about an international
marketplace that comes in not that you didn't have that
during the McGuire and Sosa and Bonds and all of
that stuff to a degree, but let's call it what
it is. We did the stat in the other other
day from the Tourism Commissioned saying, hey, ninety percent of
people that come from Japan part of their itinerary is Yeah,
(23:06):
we went to Dodger Stadium right in the exit discussion
of what did you do while you were in the States.
So you're talking about huge international market, a lot of
dollars for the high value, low numbered autograph cards and
memorabilia cards or whatever else, especially this year with all
of them being Dodger stuff. But now you add a
(23:27):
fifty to fifty, Yeah, there'll be immense bidding. And the
beauty of it is, look, if nothing else, you're probably
able to get the DNA match to the pitcher. Now
the ball itself being authenticated, well, but we just David
Caruso is going to do it. Well, but we offer glasses.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well, look at least have that, because otherwise it's just
a baseball. And he'll say, I don't know if we
caught a Marlin glasses off, but we just caught a
home run ball. Yeah, because so that was the big
deal when they tried to you know, when they shook
down the woman all the way back at the beginning
(24:04):
of the season, was well, we're not going to authenticate it.
You go to leave that show. Okay, Okay that no,
they can't. They handled that terribly sure from in a
million different ways. There's no way to describe it other
than this was just shoddy this time around.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I mean, dude leaves with the ball. Now he's got
to figure out how to get it authenticated. Here's a
picture of me getting the ball while these guys are
taking a selfie.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I mean, you have that that rolls through it and
you walk away with it and you corroborate it as
best you can. But you know, when whenever we talk
about providence and authenticity and whatever, whenever there's a bit
of a question becomes the buyer, beware situation that it
didn't go straight from this guy's hands into a security
with a security guard to a team official in Major
(24:52):
League Baseball, et cetera. But either way, yeah, I'll be
very curious how quickly this comes to market and its
final strike price.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Now look forward to say this and look, yes, was
this the best day that we've ever seen by a hitter.
The only one that gets close is Mark Whitten, Mark
hitting Witten. Oh, Yes, four home run day. Yeah, because
I got a great story about that. I'll tell it
next hour in the show. Because that happened when I
was a production assistant at ESPN, and we almost didn't
have it on Sports Center. Really we almost didn't have it.
(25:22):
It was crazy. It was one Yeah, I'll tell Okay,
we almost didn't have the highlights on Sports Center, and
I'll explain why it was. It's a crazy story. But
that was four home runs, twelve RBI, second half of
a doubleheader. This is six hits, ten RBI, three home runs,
and they clinch a playoff berth. Yeah, I can easily
(25:43):
say look and and oh. By the way, it gives
him his fiftieth home run of the year, and he's
the first fifty to fifty player in baseball history. Mark
Whitten had a bunch of home runs in RBIs. If
you had him in DFS back in nineteen ninety three,
you were feeling pretty good. But overall, yes, I can
easily say that this is the best day you have
seen a hitter in baseball. Ten RBI, six for six
three home runs. Absolutely. Yeah. Now for me, I mean,
(26:05):
hang a star on the position player one, but you
still got to hit it out. But the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
For me is, you know, as much as I hate
the Cubs, that Sandberg Suitor game is always one they
hate that game. Oh but look, you know, as a
kid in Chicago and look, I'm a White Sox guy,
but the Cubs were on in the afternoon, so I
was always able to get home. Yeah, strong arm the
TV away from mom in General Hospital to watch the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And you know that one's won that for two home runs.
But I hate that, but I will, but I'm gonna
give you something even more for this ready, yeah hit
because we always you know, look, we're prisoner of the
moment and we want to talk about things. But yeah,
look when I can easily say, well, you look offensively,
we've had guys hit four home runs, nobody's knocked in
ten runs. We've had gotten only one person's ever gotten
(26:52):
seven hits in a game, and I'm like, fifteen twenty
people have gotten six hits in a game. But you
want to look at what's forward for show Heo Tani,
You're looking at a season in which he is the
first player ever to be fifty to fifty in baseball history.
He's going to win the NLMVP. We've never seen this
before in the history of the game. Someone with fifty
(27:13):
home runs in fifty stolen bases. It's now no longer
a question. But I'd say one hundred percent. In fact,
if I if I could go to Vegas and there
was a prop bet that said, well, show Heo Tani
pitch in the postseason for the Dodgers, I will tell
you one hundred percent, show Hao Tani is going to pitch. Right.
We talked to John Paul Morosi about this the other night.
(27:33):
The Dodgers have all kinds of injuries. Obviously they haven't
opening their injury wise because there's nobody else really after
maybe a couple of innings of Yamamoto in Game two, Yes,
jobs are on the line, whether it's Dave Roberts or
in the front office. Hey, we got it. We didn't
spend five hundred million on Otani and three hundred million
on Yamamoto and one hundred and sixty on Tyler glassnew
(27:53):
and we didn't spend that to not win. But the
main thing that John Paul Morosi told is that look
at Otani's bullpens. Is he throwing a ball like the
next time he's going to hit the mound is in
February spring training or in the playoffs? Right, it's not
light toss.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Everything we've heard is the Subruder film says, here's the
different grips, here's the different arm angles and rotation that
he's putting on at the torque. That it's not just
a all right, yeah, let me see if we get
whatever that he's going at it full tilt, like, hey,
I'm ramping.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Up he comes into the playoffs, right, then, let's just
say how much is he going to pitch. Let's say
he's got to pitch a couple of games, probably go
about three innings because he doesn't have the he doesn't
have the stamina yet. Uh probably he'll his limit will
be anywhere between forty and fifty pitches. What I'm thinking,
you know, because you know they're ramping up the play
it's also a big boost for them because suddenly, hey
(28:47):
we have Otani is an opener in a game. He'll
go as long as he goes. If the Dodgers go
far in the playoffs and it doesn't have to do
enough to win the World Series, and Otani makes a
couple of starts and pitches really well in both of them. Right,
let's just say three innings eight strikeouts in one game,
four innings seven strikeouts and another. Let's say that we
(29:09):
will look back at this season and say, this is
the best season we have ever seen a player have
in the history of the game, because it's not just
about statistics. It's about achievement and what he's able to
do that no one else has. Because if you have
a fifty to fifty season, fifty first player ever, six
(29:30):
people forty forty, first player ever, and then you pitch
in the playoffs, and you pitch well, and you get
your team out of the first couple rounds into the NLCS.
Tell me a season that is more impressive than that.
You can give me Hack Wilson's one hundred and ninety
one RBI one hundred and ninety. Then when he was
dead for seventy five years, I found another RBI for him.
You could tell me all about that, but there is
(29:51):
going to be nothing that compares to Otani. Fifty to
fifty into the postseason, pitches a few times and pitches, well,
what else you, But what else is going to do it?
What else is going to be that season that says, hey,
guess what, man, this season was better. There's not going
to be one. You can always point to the numbers
and say, ah, stat with you. Yeah, great, Ted Williams
hitting four hundred. Great, you have fantastic triple crown. Yes, huh,
(30:13):
But no one's done this, No one's done this to
this level, at this level of play, which is a
higher level of play than we've ever seen before. Each year,
the level of play in baseball just gets better and
better and better and better. Right, there's better pitchers, better hitters,
better fielders. Everybody's more athletic, everybody can throw harder, everybody
makes bigger plays. You know, some of the competition when
you go back to the nineteen twenties, nineteen thirties, Okay, well,
(30:34):
how was it really in the forties and fifties? How
great was it really? The best level? What we're seeing
is what we're seeing now. He does that, and we'll
say we just saw the greatest season that a player
has had in baseball history. If you have the pitching
side to it, right, yeah, right, if he sus if
he goes and he pitches well and gives you okay,
(30:54):
that can be had. Thinking of my lifetime, I look
the two thousand and one Barry Bond year where he
hits all the home runs seventy three was ridiculous. The
following up year, to me was an even better year
when he had one hundred and ninety eight walks, right,
because every time he actually got to swing the bat,
something huge happened because he hit three seventy So like
(31:17):
that was an edge of your seat kind of thing
for Otani. Yeah, we we ride the lightning, and I
think part of it.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
And I don't mean to denigrate downgrade at whatever is
we were expecting, I think greatness, But we're expecting the
Dodgers to be good and to be a machine. So
him being part of that machine was an expectation that
we came into the year with stealing fifty bases. Come on,
that's that's absurd. And we can talk about the rules,
we could talk about the bases whatever. The fact that
(31:45):
you've got him hitting lead off and never seeded that role,
which is still kind of curious. I'd love an honest
moment with Mookie Bets every once in a while, but
this the idea that you know he was able to dominate,
still rehabing his armed this entire process, because that's the
other part of it, right, We've only gotten so much chronicled,
(32:06):
and we know the bullpen sessions, but behind the scenes,
what he's been trying to do in terms of strengthening
and the rehab in addition to going out every day
and dominating, that's the part of the equation that I
still want to get a little more clarity, if nothing else,
maybe to widen my eyes at the magnificence of this
year even more. But fifty to fifty with still another
(32:27):
week to go, A King's homecoming tomorrow in front of
the Dodger faithful. Yeah, I mean it's special all the
way around, and anybody that's trying to push it away
your kidding yourself. I mean that's day to day excellence,
no prolonged slumps, no agonizing. Hey he's on the dl
(32:48):
or IL I guess we call it now for weeks
at a time, I mean durability, and yes, being a
DH helps, but you know, you play the game as
it stands.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Said out about a Fresco exit, Swallen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend, Mike Carmen. Now you
talk about excellence day to day execution. Yeah, let's turn
things over to special delivery. Steve the Seger, who has
the entire big night in sports for us and what's
trending and it is that.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
And by the way, if Shoe a Otani is back
to full time pitching next year, that's probably one hundred
fewer at bats as a DH.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
On a season.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
But yeah, he's up to fifty one homers.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Baseball will find a way to change her. They will
change rules, whatever they need. What do you need us
to do? What do you need?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
More games?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Though? I don't think that's.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
More just for the Dodgers, just more games for the Dodger.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
He's at fifty one hovers, fifty one stolen bases this season.
Before last year, only one team ever had had one
guy hit at least fifty one homers and a separate
guy on the same team with fifty one steals. And
then last year you had Matt Olsen in the homers
category with the braves Ronald Acunya way over fifty one steals.
(34:01):
But here you've got aany doing both, same guy, same season.
Dodgers won twenty to four at Miami, as Otani went
six for six, ten RBIs, three homers, two more steals.
He's up to one hundred and twenty runs batted in
in late night baseball. The last game going is at
Houston at the Astros over the Angels in the top
(34:21):
of the ninth three to one, and yes, the Mets
were victorious again ten to six over Philadelphia. Mets hit
four home runs. Pete Alonzo with his thirty fourth the
Mets record their last twenty games sixteen and four. The
great Sarah Langs with a stat just for you.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
By the way, Yeah, what's that?
Speaker 5 (34:39):
The Mets have scored at least ten runs in three
straight games for the first time in the franchises. Wow.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
As of tonight, so the first time in Atlanta's still
two games out of the final in no wildcard.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Braves were winners fifteen three at Cincinnati today Chris Saile
the winning pitcher, eighteen and three Arizona and Seattle with
wins Baltimore and Cleveland as well tenanning win for the
Guardians to clinch playoff berth. Today tonight, it's dominance for
the Jets, up twenty one to three over the New
England Patriots early in the fourth quarter, although tackle Morgan
(35:12):
Moses did limp off after being rolled up on his
ankle as a sack was allowed. But Aaron Rodgers is
having a great game. Twenty five of thirty one through
the air for the Jets, two hundred and fifty five yards,
two touchdowns won, a ten yarder to Alan Lazard in
the first quarter, another a two yard td third quarter
to Garrett Wilson. It's early fourth quarter, twenty one to
(35:33):
three Jets ahead of the Pats, and the Patriots have
just six first downs in this game.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
There is a.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
College football game tonight and two minutes to go. South
Alabama leads its Sun Belt opener at app State forty
eight seven.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmen live from the Tirack
dot Com Studios coming up next. We'll have more on
Monday Night Football. As Steve said, twenty one to three
Jets with the lead patrio have the football in their
own end with about fourteen minutes to go in the
fourth quarter, and show Heyo Tani the first fifty to
(36:08):
fifty player in baseball history. Why is everyone talking about
the Marlins manager. Well, we'll tell you next right here.
What do you got? Skip, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (36:30):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Ohhi, Well, the Patriots turned the ball
over fumble recovered by the Jets. Greg zerline field goals
made a twenty four to three Jets of the lead.
Now with about ten minutes left to go in the game,
Aaron Rodgers right now, twenty six out of thirty three,
(36:52):
two seventy three and two touchdowns. Have yourself a day.
Have more on this game coming up in a few minutes.
But in the wake of show, Haotani becoming the first
fifty to fifty player in baseball history. Uh. The two
people that are getting the most attention right now obviously
are Otani and Marlon's manager, Skip Schumacher. Yeah, because he
(37:14):
decided to pitch to Otani when the game was out
of hand and twice twice well the free Well, once
he hits fifty, it doesn't matter. But no, nobody wants
to get up the fiftieth home run and be on
the other side the highlight of fifty home runs? But yeah,
are you gonna keep doing it?
Speaker 5 (37:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And Schumacher pitches to Otani Otani, it's his fiftieth home run,
and you could see video of Schumacher before the pitch
saying blank that we're not gonna do it. I respect
the guy too much to walk him, right, Which was
a pretty cool thing. Right you could, And that was
a great lip reading because you saw it, Sam Blake,
because you know someone said skip for first base open,
(37:53):
you want to walk him? Blank that I respect the
guy too much to do that. The game's out of hand. Yeah,
pitch to Otan. If you can hit a home run,
you hit a home run. And he hit a home run.
Here's Schumacher explaining his decision following the game.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I think that's a bad move.
Speaker 7 (38:10):
Baseball wise, karma wise, baseball god wise. You you go
after him and see if you can get him out.
And I think, out of respect for the game, we're
going to go after him. He hit the home run,
I mean, you know, that's just part of the deal.
He's hit fifty of them. He's the most talented player
I've ever seen. He is doing things that I've never
(38:33):
seen done before in the game, and if he has
a couple more of these peak years, he might be
the best ever to play the game. So I just yeah,
as a fan, yeah, I wish I was in the stands,
not in the dugout seeing it. But it's I'm proud
of like the guys that were attacking him and not
scared of him, And that's that's how you should go
(38:55):
after it. And then you know, he hit hit the
home run. I mean, I know Bomban didn't want the
home run to be hit, but he hit it.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
And so yeah, it was a.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Good day for baseball.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
A bad day for the Marlins, you know, but a
good day for you know, the game of baseball.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I can still talk about how good it was even
though we got some twenty to four.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Why isn't that special? Don't you just love the game
of baseball? Every day you never know what you get
a get on the way.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
My team, my team is behind me. Sorry guys, but
I mean we gave up twenty we gave up how
many runs? Well we read's twenty four. That guy did
what today. Gip Schumacher is a guy that was a
pretty good utility player in a good run for about
a dozen years in Major League Baseball. Guy won the
World Series, was manager of the Year last year in
the National League. And this is what he's going to
be known for, Skip showing when you go back and
(39:44):
read accounts of Otani, when people get online five ten, twenty,
twenty five, thirty forty five, fifty years from now, and
they read about Otani being the first player to fifty
to fifty, they'll read about that like I read about
Babe Roots called home run in the in the World
Series in nineteen twenty seven, and his name he is immortal,
because it's gonna come up where And Marlin's manager, Skip
(40:05):
Schumacher was shown before the pitch saying he had too
much respect for Otani to pitch to him. And and
they pitched to him, and Otani went up with a
home run. This is what this is his dark side
of the moon. You never know when history is gonna
come calling on you, and it does. This is it,
Skip Schumacher. Oh yeah, he's a guy that said blank
that let's pitch to Otani. I have too much respect
for the guy. This is what he's going to be
(40:25):
known for. I feel like I need to create a
shirt that says blank that respect and then some kind
of you.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Think somebody hasn't done that already. I think they probably,
I don't know. They're too busy trying to hawk ticket stubs.
Well yeah, it's trying to get six hundred a piece. Yeah,
well it's gonna be. And what's what's the ball at
right now? Well, according to Ravel's site, collect they went
to the leading memorabilia guys out there, Golden and Probstein
and or whatever else. Uh, they're saying two fifty to
(40:53):
three hundred grand for the ball and.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
For the back. No wow, Okay, now some of that
stuff's gonna go straight to Cooperstown. But because God keep
the back. Well no, but that, but the Dodgers own
parts in it, right like the bad is Otani's I
gotta think he he believes he still has a few
more hits left. Yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
So he's not gonna just say, hey, I had a
three home run ten RBI game.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Here o'tan's gonna say, hey, you're only paying me to
my un this year. I need the money, so I'm
gonna I'm gonna sell it. I'm gonna sell my back
when it's done standing out when member of Delia, Hey,
I got this suck. That's about a suck. Who's got it?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
I mean, I'm gonna be d a couple of band
aids for the blister I had on my big toe
after stealing third.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Anybody want to Zory. I'm a prince and I'm gonna
get in ten years. I'm gonna get fifty million dollars
a year, but I need five thousand dollars from you
to open up my account. I'm gonna make some all
kinds of money, but I got nothing right now.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
So I'm gonna say, well, he can actually send that
email out and you might have to act now.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Exit outbout a Fresca Exit swollen Dome. Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon Live from the tirect dot Com Studios. Coming up next,
more reaction to what we just saw on Thursday Night
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside to what could be an absolutely glorious,
maybe the most glorious Thursday of the year, The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Sure there's
not a big holiday on a Thursday or something that
could trumpet. No, no, no, there's no holidays on a Thursday.
No holidays. We sit around and eat and eat. Nah,
(00:51):
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is to go full rob mcallaney to go Syracuse shirt
for the game and Cain Stanford tomorrow night Jets hat
to celebrate a victory, Mets pants or whatever it is.
Matt like, I want to be all all my teams like, hey,
I'm going to be doing interviews. Man. No, but if
you're doing a Rob mcallaney day, you're allowed to do it.
If you do it, So now it's no longer a
(01:34):
Hawaiian Shirt Day. It's Rob mclhanny day. Well, the Hawaiian
Shirt Day could also be Tom Sellig Friday if you
wear the Hawaiian shirt and the Detroit Tigers at but
you can if you if your team succeed, you could
go full Rob mcallaney And Okay, all my teams. I'm
wearing air, I got a scarf, I got shoes, I
got socks. You can do that. If it's a theme.
Did you get here's the reason for it? Uh No,
(01:55):
but I can. We got to work, I can. I
mean we got four hours of shopping and I actually
great sports takes Ahead. Actually looked at Southern Fanatics has
Syracuse socks on sales.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Like not a lot of money tomorrow, so here Syracuse football. Now, yeah,
we got a couple of games tomorrow night. That'll be fun.
Big ten Friday, Illinois and Nebraska. I'm gonna wear my
dark Horse playoff team showing out, and you're gonna be
uh Rob Macklin.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I want to wear all my stuff. I mean, like
Joey in the episode when he wore all of Chandler's
clothes we do lunges. I'm gonna wear all my jet stuff,
all my mess stuff, all my Syracuse stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Maddie, actually, my younger daughter, Madeline actually ran that line
earlier today, and I'm not quite sure what.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
She was referring to. She just kind of threw it out.
She put on all your clothes that started doing lunges. Well,
I think, so, oh, okay, well I know exactly well
I know, well, okay, you've seen the show. You know
what she did. Okay, then yeah, yeah, I gotta wash
the pants. I am Mike Harmon. I'm gonna go home
and do laundry. That's where we say.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
No.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It was just kind of odd, like you go ahead,
nothing to do really much of anything. I think it
was just a random one liner that she decided to
throw out. But you know, wearing these really dark, shiny
green alm. But your guy, Aaron Rodgers. Thing I love
most about it for you, Jason Smith, and you're the
future of this Jets season. He's moving laterally so that
he did not do for two weeks. I'll tell you
(03:12):
what first, Aaron Rodgers, then show heo Tani. The Jets
lead the Patriots right now, fourteen to three. They jet
their way to missing a field goal at the end
of the first half is what the Jets do. But
they have the ball after a three and out. They
are driving just past midfield. And Aaron Rodgers has looked
the best version of himself so far this season. And
(03:35):
this is to be expected, right, you know, the more
he plays. Anytime you're coming off a year.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Of not taking any snat taking four snaps and then
you don't really get the time in the preseason, it's
gonna be a build, right. Everybody is building. Justin fields
is building. Everybody is building. If you don't play or
you're john, you're building. And this has been the best
he has looked so far. He has looked the most spry.
He is completing passes that only Aaron Rodgers can throw.
(04:01):
He's throwing the ball early, he's holding onto it and
throwing it later, he's waiting for plays. He's pushing Robert
Salah after a touchdown passes. I sat to myself watching
this in the first half and I said, I said,
I'm fifty three years old. I'm fifty three years old.
This is what a star quarterback looks like. This is
what This is what it feels like to have a
(04:22):
star quarterback playing for your team. I've never had that.
I've had odd years here and there. Right, I feel
like Larry David at the one season, what part Sol's
coaching team and testa Verity was good, Like I had
Testaverdi for a year, Brett Fahr for half a year,
Pennington for a half a year, and that's it. A
couple of years of Mark Sanchez. Yeah, yeah again, that's
(04:42):
what I've had. That's all my life. But I mean
you had a couple of AFC title yeah here, but
all because the team was so good. But I've never
had a star quarterback where I could say I feel
confident on third and nine, we are getting this first
down because I know he's gonna find the right place
to go with the.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Footshef on any given, it's amazing going to be in
a game and nothing is a lost cause.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Again, never felt I've never fifty three, Mike fifty three.
I've never had that feeling that we have a star
quarterback and anything as possible and whatever the situation is.
When he we when we had third and seventeen, I said,
we're getting this. We're getting it in the first head,
We're getting it. I'm fifty and I'm still wee. Yeah,
but you have a Super Bowl, you have the eighty five,
you have the most.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Famous Super Bowl time the Bowl and there was the
second highest scoring offense, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You know you have that. You you you have that.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I don't have that, But I mean it was Steve McMichael,
Dan Hampton and wil Marshall running them up.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Uh look, it's really I mean to watch Rogers getting
everybody involved. Look, Garrett Wilson has a tough matchup to
night with Christian Gonzalz. He still caught a couple of passes.
He's finding everyone right, whether it's short out of the backfield,
whether it's Tyler Conklin over the middle. Alan Lazard is
back to being the Green Bay version of Alan Lazard,
the big making just breakings and making plays. It's It's
(05:59):
like where was Alan Lazard last year when Zach Wilson
really needed him? And and every single play I am
filled with just so much confidence. We're gonna get this.
We're getting this, We're getting.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
He's completed seventeen balls for one hundred and seventy eight
yards to eight different receivers. Lazard the leader three catches
forty eight yards with that touchdown operational efficiency only five
incompletions so far. He's only taken one sack and again
doing it with his legs. Right, He's got a couple
of scrambles for sixteen yards. He's making plays on the run.
(06:30):
It's everything you anticipated you know before the four four
and a half snap twenty twenty three campaign and going
up against Patriots. Here's an interesting stat for you because
they played that overtime game on Sunday. Last twenty years,
teams to play an overtime game and then play on
four days rest or less versus a team who didn't
play overtime that week. I want to know that subset
(06:52):
six and nine straight up three and twenty two against
the number and right now they're taking care of business.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
The curiosity is as this game goes on how much
you get into the run pass splits because they've dominated
time of possession. Defense has been swarming against Jacoby Brissett.
He's doing a bunch of jump passes and taking hit
after hit. Body blow, body blow, body blow. He's down
for the count Rogers at one hundred and ninety six
yards now. His last three hundred yard game came December
(07:21):
twenty first, twenty twenty one. You know it was against
the Bears. Yeah, the team. He owns three forty one,
four touchdowns, zero picks, het sacked three times. Yea for
tonight to throw for three hundred or more yards, he
was plus seven to fifty plus seven to fifty. Really,
(07:42):
Patriots have had zero answer he He looks the closest
to what he was when he was at his peak.
I don't think you'll you'll see him being what he
was a couple of years ago. I don't know if
the downfield ball is there, but seeing him move latterly,
we just watched him eveda sack and roll out to
the right and find a first down on a third
and nine right. The calmness in the pocket, I mean,
(08:03):
he's exuding everything he is. That is the most underrated
part of this is that he's moving around really well,
making chunk yardage happen like this. This is I'm like,
I'm like, I want to pinch myself. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Now there is a bit of controversy and I do
have to call out Amazon for this, and oh, by
the way, not not be I still want my stuff
delivered on time tomorrow. No, it's getting delivered to the
next door after it's going to be opened and looked
through and warn.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The second touchdown the Jets score, there was video you
see of Aaron Rodgers coming off the field and Robert
Salah goes to like hug him, and Rogers gives him
a push and says something and kind of stares at
him going away, and Sola kind of stares at him
and kind of smiling a little bit. And it's only
like a seven second video, and it was whoa like
(08:53):
this looked like, dude, you don't touch the quarterback. I
know you that, don't touch me. Don't you don't talk
to me? Okay, I do my own thing out here.
So looked really weird, right, And I'll tell you what
it could be. It's one of two things. Either Rogers
has pissed it at Robert Sala for whatever reason, or
this is Robert Sala and Aaron Rodgers with whatever relationship
they have. It looked like Rogers might have said, that
(09:13):
was your call, like because he threw the flag to
get to get the touchdown, because initially the Breesaw touchdown
wasn't ruled that he was in the end zone. So
it could be something. It could be nothing, right.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Had pass play in his head, could have been it
took away a passing touchdown because that got upheld.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
How about that? Hey, Aaron? Can I ask it? So
it could be something? It could not be something. But
it's a big story coming off of the first half.
And when the sideline interview going in the halftime doesn't
ask Robert Sala that boo, you have to ask that question.
He can answer it however he wants, but you have
to ask that because that's a big thing. Do you
really need this? I mean, everybody knows, they know in
(09:49):
the booth, people are on social media, they understand. Hey,
people want to know what the hell is going on
with this? And in any event you create if you're Amazon,
like wait, we're gonna create a viral moment here because
whatever he says, people are gonna go crazy over it.
It's gonna get reposts and we're going to create a
viral roome, which is what we want to do. I
don't know how you don't ask that. I mean you
unless there's some pr guy who jumped in front and said,
(10:10):
don't ask him about the Rogers push. He'll talk about
it after the game. You have to ask him that
that that's journalistically being irresponsible to answer to not ask it.
He can answer whatever he wants to. I always I
always say that. Listen when whenever an athlete you're you're
asking him a tough question, you have to ask it.
They can answer eever they want to. You can't make
him answer how you want them to answer, but you
have to ask it. And that's a question you got
(10:31):
to know. Okay, you have to ask him about it.
You have to say, hey, what was up after the
second touchdown? Rogers kind of kind of gave you a push?
What happened? What was said? And Robert Sali could say
everything is fine, I'll get okay, ask but you have
to ask it. And that's what everybody wants to know.
And that was That's one of those Hey, you've done
a football game or two before, you kind of have
to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, I gotta say, I mean, they really did a
good job of making sure you got the three D
modeling with Andrew Whitworth in.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, I like the three D modeling.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
No, but I mean they made sure that we had
enough time to feature everything we could have possibly wanted
in that scenario in the first half.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
No, again, it's a good look.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah, so I'm trying to obfuscate from the journalistic failure
of the first half. You're dominating, but hey, what the
hell was going on after the touchdown?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Why so mad? Yeah? I mean you got to you
gotta know that you have to, especially in the stare
down like it could be nothing. Hold up an iPad,
say what the hell is this?
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, we're not cool just just because we're winning.
You we're not cool, Okay? You and I all right?
All right, you and we're still not cool. Cousin of
sal on Twitter, Aaron Rodgers treating Robert Sala like he's
a family member. Oh wow, that that was wow. Uh
And as we say this, Garrett Wilson doing Garrett Wilson
(11:46):
things into the end zone for a touchdown from about
five yards out. I don't know how he caught this ball.
He caught a ball on the place handeus. Well, yeah,
let's see what happens now, Robert Sala. Aaron rodd Let's see.
Let's see. Let's see Rogers over. Oh, he picks him
up and body slams him. Oh, he's grabbed Art Rodgers
by the head. He's cut off his right arm. Wow.
(12:09):
Garrett Wilson makes a really good play to get near
the end zone, to get down to the two yard line.
The next play, Rogers rolls out and a throw that
only Aaron Rodgers makes hits. Garrett Wilson makes a fingertip
catch and then contorts his body to put the ball
over the pylon for the touchdown. Make it twenty one
to three, Jets with the lead over the Patriots. Rogers
(12:32):
is hugging Garrett Wilson. Garrett Wilson is hugging other people.
I have not seen Aaron Rodgers hug. Robert Sala. I've
not seen that yet. We haven't. We haven't gotten that
far yet. I know, Nina, but we haven't seen it.
But maybe he will. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It was a good concentration though by Wilson because the
defender comes flying by nowhere near to where he's gonna
get hit, but just you know, a line of sight
kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Look, and that's one of those throws where if you're
the Patriots, you're you're the other team, you just say,
what are you gonna do? Like Rogers has been making
those throws his entire career. It's like, what are you
gonna do? I was this close to the interception, Yeah,
but what happened, Well it was a touchdown, But I
was this close to the interception. Yeah, but what was
the result of the play? But I was that close? Yeah,
but they had a touchdown, Yeah, but I just missed it.
(13:15):
You think Aaron Rodgers doesn't know he's gonna get it
there a split so you're gonna go for the ball
and he's gonna get it there a split second before
you need to, and it's gonna be a touchdown. Of
course he knows. Well.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
The other side to this is, you know, for Aaron Rodgers,
he's a student of football history. He knows how lopsided
and miserable this series has been for the last twenty
plus years. Every graphic, every talking point on the radio broadcast,
and everything you bring up here is just the sheer
domination from the Patriots side of things in this quote
(13:45):
unquote rivalry going on two decades. So to go up
here and not only win, but win convincingly in front
of a home crowd on a big Thursday night, standalone game,
he's no dummy. He knows exactly what he's doing, and
he's showing out and picking this defense apart.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Jets twenty one Patriots three, middle of the third quarter.
We'll have more on this game coming up, including a
bold statement about Aaron Rodgers that sounds crazy, but I
don't think I'm gonna get much an argument on it.
I'll argue with you. Plus Thursday, we get into an
unbelievable day, possibly the greatest single day anybody in baseball
(14:24):
history has had. Sho Heyotani is now on his way
to being a fifty five to fifty five guy who
after three home runs, six for six, ten RBIs today
in the Dodgers win over the Marlins. We'll break it
down and tell you what is absolutely next for Shoeotani
(14:45):
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Speaker 1 (16:23):
Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon live Fromthtirack dot Com studios. Right now, late
third quarter, the Patriots were in field goal range. The
Jets may have just knocked them out of it. Three
straight plays. Jacoby Brissett gets hit on every one of them. Yeah,
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and now facing a fourth and long down twenty one
to three late in the third quarter, and it's listen.
It's not all about the Jets and Aaron Rodgers. But
one thing you can see tonight right watching this game. Yes,
the Jets are the best defense of the Patriot face,
your top five defense. But watching this and you are
seeing on every play that Jacoby Brissett drops back to pass,
(17:07):
he is getting hit. He is getting hit on every play,
whether he is getting sacked, whether he is releasing the
ball and getting hit. He even got hit on the
hail Mary at the end of the first half where
it looked like he was gonna get bent in half.
So when you see this, yeah, it's been pretty cocky.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But after that miss field goal and then they were
in position for it, you were not breathing easy for
those few seconds though.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But you can see watching this game, Oh, now I
get why Drake May is not playing. I get why
Drake May is better than Brissette. And wait what he's done.
He shot. But I completely understand why Drake May is
not playing because he would get absolutely and look I
get I guess. Yes, it's tough to say, oh, you'll
out there, you'll take the beating for our number one quarterback,
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but that's kind of how it works in the NFL.
You you've invested a lot in in Drake May, and
Jacoby Brissett knows the deal. He knows it's like to
be a backup move around the NFL. Well, that's just
kind of how it goes. But you wouldn't want Drake
May out there for this when he is your future.
That you have sinked your entire franchise. So I'm in that.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
You know, you're trying to weigh it as you're watching
the offensive structure for New England and how they're dealing
with the what's immense pressure coming from the Jets. There's
been not a single play where you could say the
running back adequately stepped up the block chip or do
anything like it's free and clear runs and they're timing
(18:29):
the blitz is great, no question about it. But they're
a step slow regardless of who's been in the backfield. Like,
oh he's pass me. That's too bad. And Brissett's getting up. Sorry, sorry, sorry,
but this last player right the third and fourteen looks
like they're gonna get They had a shot down to
Henry down inside to five, call back, penalty, whatever, and
(18:51):
then third down it's third and fourteen. Brissett's on the
run and you're like, ah, that's grounded, Like nah, he's
outside the tackle box. It's like it doesn't matter. It's
all they're trying to keep it from getting killed on
the backside. Ye had nothing to do. That guy was
never gonna hit it now, but it didn't matter. It
was I'm not gonna even give him the chance to
do so. So yeah, it's it's a brutal, brutal thing.
(19:12):
By the way, Williams disappointed me though. Wasn't he supposed
to be wearing like some wizard of all No.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's his brother, Quincy Williams is wearing it. I'm like,
he's just making a big play. That would have been
a great spot for a wicked wizard of the Wizard
gotta go. They gotta go see the Wizard right after
you in New England. So twenty one to three Jets
with the lead and the ball late in the third quarter.
We'll have more on this game completely throughout the night. Obviously,
Aaron Rodgers is going to be the story. But speaking
(19:40):
of being the story, absolute baseball history today and what
people wanted to run to social media to be the
first one to say this is the greatest day a
hitter has ever had in baseball history. Shouldn't have been
in the game. Well, the thing is, look at you, hater,
Look at you when they were getting their asses. A
couple couple of weeks ago, we had one of our
(20:00):
buddies took his family. It was his birthday. He went
to Arizona and they were getting bludgeoned into third inning.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Everybody went out. But now that it's eleven three, fourteen three, Hey,
let's pile it on.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Oh ye, hater, hater, What a hater you are? Oh no,
I shot it.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I say you play the hot hand on, hater. If
you're having a day, you have a day. I just
thought it was kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You want to talk about history, because today we had
this and the pitch coming to show. Hey, old Tony,
Hey swings hits a tractor left.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
This ball's back therelas fifty.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
The first player in the history of Major League Baseball
to have a fifty fifty season.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
He is incredible.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Show hey old Tony with an opposite field home run.
Fifty fifties. There it is on the call Dodgers Radio Network,
the first player ever. As you hear, fifty to fifty.
Now he's on his way to fifty five. Fifty five
three home runs one off a position player uh to
end the game. Ten RBI in the game the dodgersoff. Uh, dude, Hey,
(21:09):
I think you said, Hey, I'm five for five with
two home runs. I'm gonna hit against I'm gonna hit
again this guy. Yeah, because hey, skip, I'm thinking sixty sixty,
let's leap down. Still got nine games. I'm thinking sixty
sixty fumbled it, that had an opportunity to catch number fifty.
The guy who did procure it, Yeah, left with it.
You know, I thought watching that there would be much
(21:29):
more of a fight for that ball, Like it didn't
seem like, hey, here's what everybody knows. This next ball
is number fifty. I thought there would be more of
a like a twenty eight days later kind of scene
going for that. We're at landed. It was.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
It was a bit of a difficult spot. You had
a couple of people with the back to the to
the ball as if they didn't want to get hit
like they were. They sat in those seats and it
seemed like they were afraid that the ball was being
hit towards that section.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, a little bit odd. I'm not gonna lie now. Look,
so you've heard heard so many superls about it. This
guy's taking a selfie. Actually, oh, okay, like, hey, Otani's
at the plate. I mean this is oh I missed
the home run. This one's gonna cost you. I don't
think this is gonna be show. Hey, oh hey, how
about you come over and say hi, we'll give you
an autograph. Now this is gonna you want the fifty
to fifty ball. Uh, that's gonna cost you. And it's
(22:17):
gonna go up and look. And I don't know the uh,
the card industry and the memorability industry like you do.
But I have to think that this ball is gonna
be I don't know, twice as valuable because the ball
to clinch fifty to fifty wasn't a stolen base, right
Like if he had fifty home runs and he steals
the fiftieth base, Okay, they'll take the ball to play,
they'll give it to him, they'll give it to the
(22:38):
Baseball Hall of Fame. But when you hit the home
run for fifty to fifty, you got it. That's got
to increase the value that. I mean. I'm no double
itriple it. I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
That's just saying right when you talk about an international
marketplace that comes in not that you didn't have that
during the McGuire and Sosa and Bonds and all of
that stuff to a degree, but let's call it what
it is. We did the stat in the other other
day from the Tourism Commissioned saying, hey, ninety percent of
people that come from Japan part of their itinerary is Yeah,
(23:06):
we went to Dodger Stadium right in the exit discussion
of what did you do while you were in the States.
So you're talking about huge international market, a lot of
dollars for the high value, low numbered autograph cards and
memorabilia cards or whatever else, especially this year with all
of them being Dodger stuff. But now you add a
(23:27):
fifty to fifty, Yeah, there'll be immense bidding. And the
beauty of it is, look, if nothing else, you're probably
able to get the DNA match to the pitcher. Now
the ball itself being authenticated, well, but we just David
Caruso is going to do it. Well, but we offer glasses.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Well, look at least have that, because otherwise it's just
a baseball. And he'll say, I don't know if we
caught a Marlin glasses off, but we just caught a
home run ball. Yeah, because so that was the big
deal when they tried to you know, when they shook
down the woman all the way back at the beginning
(24:04):
of the season, was well, we're not going to authenticate it.
You go to leave that show. Okay, Okay that no,
they can't. They handled that terribly sure from in a
million different ways. There's no way to describe it other
than this was just shoddy this time around.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I mean, dude leaves with the ball. Now he's got
to figure out how to get it authenticated. Here's a
picture of me getting the ball while these guys are
taking a selfie.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I mean, you have that that rolls through it and
you walk away with it and you corroborate it as
best you can. But you know, when whenever we talk
about providence and authenticity and whatever, whenever there's a bit
of a question becomes the buyer, beware situation that it
didn't go straight from this guy's hands into a security
with a security guard to a team official in Major
(24:52):
League Baseball, et cetera. But either way, yeah, I'll be
very curious how quickly this comes to market and its
final strike price.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Now look forward to say this and look, yes, was
this the best day that we've ever seen by a hitter.
The only one that gets close is Mark Whitten, Mark
hitting Witten. Oh, Yes, four home run day. Yeah, because
I got a great story about that. I'll tell it
next hour in the show. Because that happened when I
was a production assistant at ESPN, and we almost didn't
have it on Sports Center. Really we almost didn't have it.
(25:22):
It was crazy. It was one Yeah, I'll tell Okay,
we almost didn't have the highlights on Sports Center, and
I'll explain why it was. It's a crazy story. But
that was four home runs, twelve RBI, second half of
a doubleheader. This is six hits, ten RBI, three home runs,
and they clinch a playoff berth. Yeah, I can easily
(25:43):
say look and and oh. By the way, it gives
him his fiftieth home run of the year, and he's
the first fifty to fifty player in baseball history. Mark
Whitten had a bunch of home runs in RBIs. If
you had him in DFS back in nineteen ninety three,
you were feeling pretty good. But overall, yes, I can
easily say that this is the best day you have
seen a hitter in baseball. Ten RBI, six for six
three home runs. Absolutely. Yeah. Now for me, I mean,
(26:05):
hang a star on the position player one, but you
still got to hit it out. But the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
For me is, you know, as much as I hate
the Cubs, that Sandberg Suitor game is always one they
hate that game. Oh but look, you know, as a
kid in Chicago and look, I'm a White Sox guy,
but the Cubs were on in the afternoon, so I
was always able to get home. Yeah, strong arm the
TV away from mom in General Hospital to watch the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And you know that one's won that for two home runs.
But I hate that, but I will, but I'm gonna
give you something even more for this ready, yeah hit
because we always you know, look, we're prisoner of the
moment and we want to talk about things. But yeah,
look when I can easily say, well, you look offensively,
we've had guys hit four home runs, nobody's knocked in
ten runs. We've had gotten only one person's ever gotten
(26:52):
seven hits in a game, and I'm like, fifteen twenty
people have gotten six hits in a game. But you
want to look at what's forward for show Heo Tani,
You're looking at a season in which he is the
first player ever to be fifty to fifty in baseball history.
He's going to win the NLMVP. We've never seen this
before in the history of the game. Someone with fifty
(27:13):
home runs in fifty stolen bases. It's now no longer
a question. But I'd say one hundred percent. In fact,
if I if I could go to Vegas and there
was a prop bet that said, well, show Heo Tani
pitch in the postseason for the Dodgers, I will tell
you one hundred percent, show Hao Tani is going to pitch. Right.
We talked to John Paul Morosi about this the other night.
(27:33):
The Dodgers have all kinds of injuries. Obviously they haven't
opening their injury wise because there's nobody else really after
maybe a couple of innings of Yamamoto in Game two, Yes,
jobs are on the line, whether it's Dave Roberts or
in the front office. Hey, we got it. We didn't
spend five hundred million on Otani and three hundred million
on Yamamoto and one hundred and sixty on Tyler glassnew
(27:53):
and we didn't spend that to not win. But the
main thing that John Paul Morosi told is that look
at Otani's bullpens. Is he throwing a ball like the
next time he's going to hit the mound is in
February spring training or in the playoffs? Right, it's not
light toss.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Everything we've heard is the Subruder film says, here's the
different grips, here's the different arm angles and rotation that
he's putting on at the torque. That it's not just
a all right, yeah, let me see if we get
whatever that he's going at it full tilt, like, hey,
I'm ramping.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Up he comes into the playoffs, right, then, let's just
say how much is he going to pitch. Let's say
he's got to pitch a couple of games, probably go
about three innings because he doesn't have the he doesn't
have the stamina yet. Uh probably he'll his limit will
be anywhere between forty and fifty pitches. What I'm thinking,
you know, because you know they're ramping up the play
it's also a big boost for them because suddenly, hey
(28:47):
we have Otani is an opener in a game. He'll
go as long as he goes. If the Dodgers go
far in the playoffs and it doesn't have to do
enough to win the World Series, and Otani makes a
couple of starts and pitches really well in both of them. Right,
let's just say three innings eight strikeouts in one game,
four innings seven strikeouts and another. Let's say that we
(29:09):
will look back at this season and say, this is
the best season we have ever seen a player have
in the history of the game, because it's not just
about statistics. It's about achievement and what he's able to
do that no one else has. Because if you have
a fifty to fifty season, fifty first player ever, six
(29:30):
people forty forty, first player ever, and then you pitch
in the playoffs, and you pitch well, and you get
your team out of the first couple rounds into the NLCS.
Tell me a season that is more impressive than that.
You can give me Hack Wilson's one hundred and ninety
one RBI one hundred and ninety. Then when he was
dead for seventy five years, I found another RBI for him.
You could tell me all about that, but there is
(29:51):
going to be nothing that compares to Otani. Fifty to
fifty into the postseason, pitches a few times and pitches, well,
what else you, But what else is going to do it?
What else is going to be that season that says, hey,
guess what, man, this season was better. There's not going
to be one. You can always point to the numbers
and say, ah, stat with you. Yeah, great, Ted Williams
hitting four hundred. Great, you have fantastic triple crown. Yes, huh,
(30:13):
But no one's done this, No one's done this to
this level, at this level of play, which is a
higher level of play than we've ever seen before. Each year,
the level of play in baseball just gets better and
better and better and better. Right, there's better pitchers, better hitters,
better fielders. Everybody's more athletic, everybody can throw harder, everybody
makes bigger plays. You know, some of the competition when
you go back to the nineteen twenties, nineteen thirties, Okay, well,
(30:34):
how was it really in the forties and fifties? How
great was it really? The best level? What we're seeing
is what we're seeing now. He does that, and we'll
say we just saw the greatest season that a player
has had in baseball history. If you have the pitching
side to it, right, yeah, right, if he sus if
he goes and he pitches well and gives you okay,
(30:54):
that can be had. Thinking of my lifetime, I look
the two thousand and one Barry Bond year where he
hits all the home runs seventy three was ridiculous. The
following up year, to me was an even better year
when he had one hundred and ninety eight walks, right,
because every time he actually got to swing the bat,
something huge happened because he hit three seventy So like
(31:17):
that was an edge of your seat kind of thing
for Otani. Yeah, we we ride the lightning, and I
think part of it.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
And I don't mean to denigrate downgrade at whatever is
we were expecting, I think greatness, But we're expecting the
Dodgers to be good and to be a machine. So
him being part of that machine was an expectation that
we came into the year with stealing fifty bases. Come on,
that's that's absurd. And we can talk about the rules,
we could talk about the bases whatever. The fact that
(31:45):
you've got him hitting lead off and never seeded that role,
which is still kind of curious. I'd love an honest
moment with Mookie Bets every once in a while, but
this the idea that you know he was able to dominate,
still rehabing his armed this entire process, because that's the
other part of it, right, We've only gotten so much chronicled,
(32:06):
and we know the bullpen sessions, but behind the scenes,
what he's been trying to do in terms of strengthening
and the rehab in addition to going out every day
and dominating, that's the part of the equation that I
still want to get a little more clarity, if nothing else,
maybe to widen my eyes at the magnificence of this
year even more. But fifty to fifty with still another
(32:27):
week to go, A King's homecoming tomorrow in front of
the Dodger faithful. Yeah, I mean it's special all the
way around, and anybody that's trying to push it away
your kidding yourself. I mean that's day to day excellence,
no prolonged slumps, no agonizing. Hey he's on the dl
(32:48):
or IL I guess we call it now for weeks
at a time, I mean durability, and yes, being a
DH helps, but you know, you play the game as
it stands.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Said out about a Fresco exit, Swallen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend, Mike Carmen. Now you
talk about excellence day to day execution. Yeah, let's turn
things over to special delivery. Steve the Seger, who has
the entire big night in sports for us and what's
trending and it is that.
Speaker 5 (33:18):
And by the way, if Shoe a Otani is back
to full time pitching next year, that's probably one hundred
fewer at bats as a DH.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
On a season.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
But yeah, he's up to fifty one homers.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Baseball will find a way to change her. They will
change rules, whatever they need. What do you need us
to do? What do you need?
Speaker 2 (33:34):
More games?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Though? I don't think that's.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
More just for the Dodgers, just more games for the Dodger.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
He's at fifty one hovers, fifty one stolen bases this season.
Before last year, only one team ever had had one
guy hit at least fifty one homers and a separate
guy on the same team with fifty one steals. And
then last year you had Matt Olsen in the homers
category with the braves Ronald Acunya way over fifty one steals.
(34:01):
But here you've got aany doing both, same guy, same season.
Dodgers won twenty to four at Miami, as Otani went
six for six, ten RBIs, three homers, two more steals.
He's up to one hundred and twenty runs batted in
in late night baseball. The last game going is at
Houston at the Astros over the Angels in the top
(34:21):
of the ninth three to one, and yes, the Mets
were victorious again ten to six over Philadelphia. Mets hit
four home runs. Pete Alonzo with his thirty fourth the
Mets record their last twenty games sixteen and four. The
great Sarah Langs with a stat just for you.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
By the way, Yeah, what's that?
Speaker 5 (34:39):
The Mets have scored at least ten runs in three
straight games for the first time in the franchises. Wow.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
As of tonight, so the first time in Atlanta's still
two games out of the final in no wildcard.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Braves were winners fifteen three at Cincinnati today Chris Saile
the winning pitcher, eighteen and three Arizona and Seattle with
wins Baltimore and Cleveland as well tenanning win for the
Guardians to clinch playoff berth. Today tonight, it's dominance for
the Jets, up twenty one to three over the New
England Patriots early in the fourth quarter, although tackle Morgan
(35:12):
Moses did limp off after being rolled up on his
ankle as a sack was allowed. But Aaron Rodgers is
having a great game. Twenty five of thirty one through
the air for the Jets, two hundred and fifty five yards,
two touchdowns won, a ten yarder to Alan Lazard in
the first quarter, another a two yard td third quarter
to Garrett Wilson. It's early fourth quarter, twenty one to
(35:33):
three Jets ahead of the Pats, and the Patriots have
just six first downs in this game.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
There is a.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
College football game tonight and two minutes to go. South
Alabama leads its Sun Belt opener at app State forty
eight seven.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmen live from the Tirack
dot Com Studios coming up next. We'll have more on
Monday Night Football. As Steve said, twenty one to three
Jets with the lead patrio have the football in their
own end with about fourteen minutes to go in the
fourth quarter, and show Heyo Tani the first fifty to
(36:08):
fifty player in baseball history. Why is everyone talking about
the Marlins manager. Well, we'll tell you next right here.
What do you got? Skip, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Ohhi, Well, the Patriots turned the ball
over fumble recovered by the Jets. Greg zerline field goals
made a twenty four to three Jets of the lead.
Now with about ten minutes left to go in the game,
Aaron Rodgers right now, twenty six out of thirty three,
(36:52):
two seventy three and two touchdowns. Have yourself a day.
Have more on this game coming up in a few minutes.
But in the wake of show, Haotani becoming the first
fifty to fifty player in baseball history. Uh. The two
people that are getting the most attention right now obviously
are Otani and Marlon's manager, Skip Schumacher. Yeah, because he
(37:14):
decided to pitch to Otani when the game was out
of hand and twice twice well the free Well, once
he hits fifty, it doesn't matter. But no, nobody wants
to get up the fiftieth home run and be on
the other side the highlight of fifty home runs? But yeah,
are you gonna keep doing it?
Speaker 5 (37:31):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
And Schumacher pitches to Otani Otani, it's his fiftieth home run,
and you could see video of Schumacher before the pitch
saying blank that we're not gonna do it. I respect
the guy too much to walk him, right, Which was
a pretty cool thing. Right you could, And that was
a great lip reading because you saw it, Sam Blake,
because you know someone said skip for first base open,
(37:53):
you want to walk him? Blank that I respect the
guy too much to do that. The game's out of hand. Yeah,
pitch to Otan. If you can hit a home run,
you hit a home run. And he hit a home run.
Here's Schumacher explaining his decision following the game.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I think that's a bad move.
Speaker 7 (38:10):
Baseball wise, karma wise, baseball god wise. You you go
after him and see if you can get him out.
And I think, out of respect for the game, we're
going to go after him. He hit the home run,
I mean, you know, that's just part of the deal.
He's hit fifty of them. He's the most talented player
I've ever seen. He is doing things that I've never
(38:33):
seen done before in the game, and if he has
a couple more of these peak years, he might be
the best ever to play the game. So I just yeah,
as a fan, yeah, I wish I was in the stands,
not in the dugout seeing it. But it's I'm proud
of like the guys that were attacking him and not
scared of him, And that's that's how you should go
(38:55):
after it. And then you know, he hit hit the
home run. I mean, I know Bomban didn't want the
home run to be hit, but he hit it.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
And so yeah, it was a.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Good day for baseball.
Speaker 7 (39:07):
A bad day for the Marlins, you know, but a
good day for you know, the game of baseball.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I can still talk about how good it was even
though we got some twenty to four.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Why isn't that special? Don't you just love the game
of baseball? Every day you never know what you get
a get on the way.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
My team, my team is behind me. Sorry guys, but
I mean we gave up twenty we gave up how
many runs? Well we read's twenty four. That guy did
what today. Gip Schumacher is a guy that was a
pretty good utility player in a good run for about
a dozen years in Major League Baseball. Guy won the
World Series, was manager of the Year last year in
the National League. And this is what he's going to
be known for, Skip showing when you go back and
(39:44):
read accounts of Otani, when people get online five ten, twenty,
twenty five, thirty forty five, fifty years from now, and
they read about Otani being the first player to fifty
to fifty, they'll read about that like I read about
Babe Roots called home run in the in the World
Series in nineteen twenty seven, and his name he is immortal,
because it's gonna come up where And Marlin's manager, Skip
(40:05):
Schumacher was shown before the pitch saying he had too
much respect for Otani to pitch to him. And and
they pitched to him, and Otani went up with a
home run. This is what this is his dark side
of the moon. You never know when history is gonna
come calling on you, and it does. This is it,
Skip Schumacher. Oh yeah, he's a guy that said blank
that let's pitch to Otani. I have too much respect
for the guy. This is what he's going to be
(40:25):
known for. I feel like I need to create a
shirt that says blank that respect and then some kind
of you.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Think somebody hasn't done that already. I think they probably,
I don't know. They're too busy trying to hawk ticket stubs.
Well yeah, it's trying to get six hundred a piece. Yeah,
well it's gonna be. And what's what's the ball at
right now? Well, according to Ravel's site, collect they went
to the leading memorabilia guys out there, Golden and Probstein
and or whatever else. Uh, they're saying two fifty to
(40:53):
three hundred grand for the ball and.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
For the back. No wow, Okay, now some of that
stuff's gonna go straight to Cooperstown. But because God keep
the back. Well no, but that, but the Dodgers own
parts in it, right like the bad is Otani's I
gotta think he he believes he still has a few
more hits left. Yeah, yeah, sure.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
So he's not gonna just say, hey, I had a
three home run ten RBI game.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Here o'tan's gonna say, hey, you're only paying me to
my un this year. I need the money, so I'm
gonna I'm gonna sell it. I'm gonna sell my back
when it's done standing out when member of Delia, Hey,
I got this suck. That's about a suck. Who's got it?
Speaker 3 (41:28):
I mean, I'm gonna be d a couple of band
aids for the blister I had on my big toe
after stealing third.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Anybody want to Zory. I'm a prince and I'm gonna
get in ten years. I'm gonna get fifty million dollars
a year, but I need five thousand dollars from you
to open up my account. I'm gonna make some all
kinds of money, but I got nothing right now.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
So I'm gonna say, well, he can actually send that
email out and you might have to act now.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Exit outbout a Fresca Exit swollen Dome. Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon Live from the tirect dot Com Studios. Coming up next,
more reaction to what we just saw on Thursday Night
Football and an amazing story involving show Otani and his feet.
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