September 20, 2024 • 41 mins
In Hour 3 of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason shares some stories from his days as a production assistant at the four-letter network! Then the guys continue reacting to the Jets beating down the Patriots 24-3 in their home opener – Jason shares exactly what the vintage Aaron Rodgers performance means to him and his longtime Jets fandom. They close out the hour reacting to Ohtani's 50-50, and debate whether he'll wind up pitching in the playoffs!
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I've been waiting on this story all night to tell
you all night, waiting on this on through the Jets.
What a huge win by the Jets. Yeah, that under cash.
I told you last night. What did I say twenty
three thirteen? I told you, Come on, man, I told
you it was terrible. I told you at times nauseating.
Jets were really nauseating. Fo the Jets were really good.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Look one of the things we've talked about a lot,
Like my favorite thing talking to young running backs is
always what are you doing to get better at pass blocking,
your anticipation, your footwork, all of these things. It's like
these guys never did any event tonight. It was free
run on Jacoby Pressett. All offensive line of course gets
there there there. They don't get flowers. What's the opposite
(01:36):
of flowers in the circuit buried? Yeah, well, well, I
mean they get flowers because you do those, you know
when someone gets decimated to them. I mean, the running
backs did nothing to help Jacoby Presett out. That guy's
gonna be in an ice bath for four d's.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But look what people are forgetting and what people just
coming around to that. Hey, hey the Jets are pretty good. Yeah,
the Jets roster is really good. The defense is a
top five D.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
But there was a reason is that you were on
board before the season started, and maybe you got a
little nervous because again with Rogers for two weeks, as
we talked about, you can find the podcast after we're
done tonight, But a lot of it being that trust
of his lateral move or whatever. Tonight he did whatever
the hell he wanted it was a throwback to him
carving up the Bears.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So too.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Sorry, that's Bear's owner, Aaron Rodgers, Bears owner Bears.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know you didn't really need to pile on I
did enough myself, enough of the self flogging, and then
you come over the top and you take the flamethrower
out on me.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
That really didn't need to happen. Look, two really big
stories tonight, obviously, the Jets and Aaron Rodgers showing that
I am still Aaron Rodgers. And we'll have more on
that story coming up in about twenty minutes. Something to
look NFL needed that.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Hey, we've talked a lot about this dude for the
last four years. He'd been okay, he's still really good. Okay,
that and a lot of bad quarterbacking for two weeks.
So when we could hoist.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Him up, man, he becomes that much more of a
hero throwback to bygone days.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
But you want a story, I got a story for
you about the other incredibly large development tonight, not sho
Hao Tani becoming the first player in baseball history to
be fifty to fifty tay shirt. You have my story music. Yeah,
we're still depending on that, all right, that's my story. Okay,
make sure right that wasn't too bad? Right, No, that
(03:22):
was good good.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I mean you have a long drive to and from
the studio. He must have been working on it in
your head.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah that was that was very Yeah, you know you
I could teach you the ways of the of the freestyle,
pitch perfect, acapella, pitch perfect, how to make music with
your mouth? Okay, hey, now what else can I do
with that? But you need to do a little bit
more on the side of my little side of the mountain,
like you want to try to make it sound like
(03:51):
a horn. That's pretty good, but I'm doing I was
also kind of muffled, like, yeah, yeah, right, here we go.
You got to talk over though, Okay, can hold on.
Here we are here, here's Alex Tysher.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Here's my.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
The in America.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
That's a good thing he works out at because he
can hold his breath.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Uh. So let me get the music. The big debate,
the only debate really tonight. You know you saw right
away people wanted to run to Twitter and say, I
am an FBI agent. I am the first person to
say this is the best day in the history of
baseball by any one player. So many people wanted to
say that, and yeah, okay, yeah, the only thing that
(04:40):
comes close Bob Hornery, Bob Bob Horner, the only thing.
He had four runs in the game. Yeah, the only
thing that comes close to Otani six for six, three
home runs, ten rbi. In nineteen ninety three, Cardinals had
an outfielder, Mark Whitten. All right, Mark Hitton. Witten was
his nickname. Yeah, and not very creative, because the thing is,
(05:03):
I watch a lot of him play in the minor leagues.
He came up, he was with Syracuse, he with the
Blue jay Z got fed. He had some arm like
when he came up to the major started hitting home runs.
I'm like, he never hit this way in Triple A.
He would, but he had some like his arm like.
Watching him play right field was fun.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I remember making money on his score rookie cards. So
let's go.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So Mark Winton four home runs and twelve RBI in
a game for the Cardinals. This is back when I
was a production assistant at ESPN, And I'm going to
tell you right now that story that highlight almost didn't
make Sports Center at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Because you couldn't make it get it, or because it
was gotten by something else, an editorial.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Let me tell you because fight. I've always been waiting
for a chance to tell this story because I can't
just tell. But this is the best part, and this
is a great music for it. So it's not that
long ago nineteen ninety three. I want to know what
ESPN was like and you know, a long time ago.
Uh picture a room. Picture picture of this picture a
(06:08):
pretty big room. And there's a maybe a fourteen by
fourteen TV set every couple of feet and there's like
thirty of these TV sets in this room. And in
front of every television, a twenty two or twenty three
year old kid sits to watch a game. And then
(06:29):
when the game is over, you take the tapes you
recorded the game on. You get to edit bay, you
edit the highlight, you put it on a tape, it
goes into the tape basically, right, big big moments. Yes,
So you know that was what you did as a
production assistant to the ESPN. So you would go in
and there's you know, and everybody comes in. Everybody's big
stuff starts at like seven o'clock at night, when all
(06:50):
the games start. Everybody sits and when somebody has to
go edit. Was okay, Hey, my game's over, I'm going
to edit. If anything good comes down on postgame or
anything else, let me know. And they call that babysitting
a game. It happens. Sometimes someone has to go to
the bathroom. Hey, go to the bathroom. Someone comes and
(07:10):
sits down and watches your game for a few minutes
and write stuff down for you. So they call it
babysitting a game.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Now they get mad if you went in a Gotta
Davida bathroom break, like maybe you disappeared because.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It because it was fun to do. You were watching
a game. You're watching a baseball game, right, So this
is the second game of a double header that the
Reds and the Cardinals were playing. Now, Breads and the
Cardinals were both terrible, right, The Reds I think finished
and the Cardinals finished like twelve games out of first place,
and the Reds were like dead last in the National League.
So a September eighth game of double header of the
(07:43):
Reds and the Cardinals, right, not the most scintillating of
games to watch. But one person, it's here their job
to watch you. No, no, no, no, no, I wasn't but one
person's watching both of these games, right, So now the
first game ends, and that person goes to edit their
first game and do everything and send it in and
(08:07):
get the tape ready. And the second game comes and
the person next to them is babysitting that game. Person
who sits next to you, can you watch this game
for me? Just write down anything that happens. Okay, great,
Now you want to talk about a confluence of circumstances.
So the person who's doing whose job it was to
do both these games, goes and edits the first game.
The person babysitting the game happens to be the person
(08:28):
sitting next week. You just write down stuff the second game.
It's second game reds Cardinals. Who cares, Yeah, sure, no problem.
So the person writes down Mark Whitten comes up in
the first inning home run. Oh, Mark Witten home run.
Okay great. That person goes to edit a game.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Go.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Somebody else comes in to sit down and babysit the game.
Two of the Cardinals reds for a couple of innings
while the other person is still editing stuff, going on,
doing their thing. Mark Whitten hits another home run. They
write down Mark Whitten home run. Okay, great, that person
leaves to go babysit a different game. Somebody else comes in,
so now a third different person has come in to
(09:03):
sit down and watch this game. Witt HiT's his third
home run. But now it's getting close to being time
for sports and to go on the air. So the
room that's kind of fun and has a lot of
banter going on, Now there's a lot of chaos because
we're ten minutes from getting on the air and everybody's
going crazy. So now the third home run. But the
(09:25):
person who was who was watching the game, like didn't
know that Witten had hit two home runs. So Mark,
whittenh home run. Just write it down. So now Witten's
hit three home runs in the game, and nobody knows it,
so different nobody knows it, and like and like I said,
it's a lot of chaos. Everybody's running around editing tapes,
getting them do Keith. They're coming down to watch highlights
(09:46):
and all this different stuff. And Witten comes up again
a fourth time, and nobody's watching the game because other
stuff is happening. Just what happens. One person walking by sees,
oh oh, no, one's let me write it down. Mark
whitten home run. So now he's got four home runs
and it's like five minutes to eleven, right, and the game,
you know, baseball is that long. Nobody knows because no
(10:09):
one's watching the game. In the newsroom where all the talent,
the producers all sit, no one's watching, you know, all
these other baseball games going on that means something. No
one's watching the Cardinals and the and the Reds, right,
especially the second game of double letter Yeah, in the East,
the Cardinals finished ten games back, the Reds were sixteen
games under five hundred. No one's watching. This is ESPN, right,
worldwide leader, We're the worldwide all of these TV sets,
(10:31):
nobody's watching this game. But it's nineteen ninety three, and
so the newsroom has all the team watching different things.
Everybody's spending time doing their thing, getting the show on
the air, and this game is falling through the cracks,
and all of a sudden, the AP hits everybody's computer
with a bulletin boom. Mark Whitten has just hit his
(10:53):
fourth home run of the game for the Cardinals and
has twelve RBI in a game, and everybody sees it.
Every goes and then I forget who it was like
the producer worked in and goes, did Mark Whitten hit
four home run? Site?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Nobody knows?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And we wanted to say you didn't know. No, nobody knew.
How did this not happen? And suddenly so the show's
about to go on and nobody knows this has happened.
Nobody knows he's got four home run site, so so
frantically I think they were able to get the fourth
home run on. Hey, Mark Win's got We'll have more
on this throughout the show, and I've been they go
back to it, but like we're getting ready to go
(11:28):
on the air, nobody knew he did four home runs
all because somebody different run. Oh it's a Mark Whit
no run, Mark when no run, Mark when no run,
working run and the guy and and nobody knows, and
that that alert hits, and thank goodness for the AP
alert because it's like, Wow, we're the world wide leader.
Nobody had any idea like the beautiful one hundred some
people working on the eleven o'clock Sports Center, nobody knew.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The beautiful thing about it is in nineteen ninety three,
though you can get away with it, uh to a
large degree, right.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Except in those two market places. Yeah, right, and the
obvious you know bottom of the hour, top of the
hour score updates, you know, in you know news radio
at that point, right, because that's before sports talk radio. Yeah,
oh yeah, that's when it was, right about the time
it's really starting to come through. So that's when the
fabulous sports babe was a.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, but yeah, wow, that's that's that's a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah. Uh so nobody knew and it was. And the
thing is is that could we have gotten away with
what would people really have cared? No, but the meeting
the next day would have been, what the hell? How
does that still protocols perceived? How is this not the
first highlight of the night. Here's a Tuesday night, right,
not a Monday night where there's football, not no, no,
(12:43):
here's a Tuesday night where you got a guy hitting
four home runs and nobody knows that's amazing. Nobody like
that tag out kind of system.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
And then you got the loan monitor that probably has
tape on top of it that says Cincinnati, Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It was.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It was insane. It was insane, and a bunch of
crumpled up pieces of paper that's say winnow run that's something. Uh,
this you're ready for you ready for this? This allows me
one more story, if you'll indulge me. Another story that
another story yet that almost didn't make the air at
ESPN because something like this, right, because it's very it's
(13:20):
very it's very similar.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So and this involves Scott Akerson, long time and Fox producer.
He was a big deal. He was a coordinated producer
at ESPN. And and Acts is a great dude, right,
he was my CP. He was a great Everybody loves
working for ACTS. And so he comes at stop. So
it's a random night in March, middle of the week.
(13:45):
NCAA tournament's going on, but there's no tournament games, just
n I t is going on. You know, n there's basketball,
there's there, there's you know again, same kind of room
at thirty people people watching games, right, and he just
comes down to say hi to the PA's, which is
kind of cool. It's always is always cool when when
cps would come down and say hi to the PA's.
Everybody liked that.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Actuals that guy. And he comes down and he goes
over to a proc where Kansas State is playing Fresno
State in the NIT right, and he's like, and no,
here's a kid, very quiet kid, who they gave the
game to to watch this game, and it's an nit, like,
what are we really going to run a highlight from it?
Let's just watch it, make sure in case anything crazy happens,
we'll get it on the air. And uh, so Acts,
(14:27):
this is how we found out. Nobody knew, nobody knew
and uh because there's bosses down there called highlight supervisors
that are supposed to be on top of everything and
there and everything. Acts comes over to this kid and
he says, uh, is that what's going on? He goes, oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Scott,
how you doing. What's going on in your game? And
he goes, well, Askia Jones for Kansas State. He goes, yeah,
he goes, he's got sixty one points a couple minutes left.
(14:49):
And he goes, he's got what. He goes, he's got
sixty one points, He's got fourteen threes. It's an NCAA record.
He goes, the guy's got sixty one points in the
college basketball game and nobody knows. Everybody stops and goes,
how does how did nobody know that this kid is watching?
Like stupid quiet kid got sixty one points and he's
(15:11):
never told anybody, And the highlight supervisors are like, oh
my god, I'm getting fired. They're they're gonna fire me
because he was just a quiet kid that didn't really
you know, was new. They gave him a game that
was just hey, here's it. You know, maybe we'll run
a highlight maybe not. And you know, at no point
did he tell you, but he any guy's got thirty
at half times, guy's got thirty five, he's got fifty.
He had sixty two in the game and twenty eight
(15:32):
minutes right, this was the This was the highlight of
the month. No one's ever scored this in the college
battle think since in a D one game they've had
many points and nobody knew. Look, if Acts didn't walk
up to this kid and say, how are you doing
like that would have never made the air. That would
have never made the air because the game would have ended.
Is anything big from your game? You should kind of
(15:52):
highlight the guy had a big night, Askia Jones, Wait, yeah,
sixty one points? What sixty one points? All because Acts?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
All because Axe came out and said because he was
being nice and shaking hands and kissing babies.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
That was that was. I mean, he's I think he's
the last d one guy to have sixty points in
a can. That's what you call having an instinct. Hey,
do you know what I feel like?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Today's the day I need to go walk the floor
and say hi to the youngsters and encourage them on
the jobs they're doing, and I do a spot check
on this internship and and young employee program.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
That we have here. Andy almost man, I'm telling you,
I love that. I could just see the kid's face too. Oh,
I still remember this. I was supposed to tell him.
I still remember the kid? You ask you Jones had
sixty one points? What sixty one?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
And then, I mean I could see him making the
reaction of like, look, he doesn't go to Duke or
North Carolina?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You care? And it's looking like it's the nit, Like
if it's a Tuesday night, and what does it matter?
It's Fresno State and Kansas State. What does it matter?
Sixty one point? Nobody knew and nobody knew leaders. Oh boy,
so we almost miss Mark Whitton and we are world
wide leader Mark Whitton Jones w w L take d
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straight ahead, Aaron Rodgers is back. Just hal back, I
think is going to surprise a lot of people. That's
next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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don't think I was worthy of getting what I got tonight.
The Mets were a huge win. They hit like nine
home runs against the Phillies. The Jets dominate the Patriots
their second straight win against New England after losing fifteen straight.
(19:12):
We're two and one. Aaron Rodgers looks great. I'm not
worthy of this. Mike Time no, and you celebrated by
buying us I know. So, I mean that's an extra win. Hey,
every time the Jets win and we're working that night,
I'll by pizza.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
So we do have another couple of yeah, primetime games.
Oh you know, they're gonna get flexed out because Aaron
Rodgers is great. And at some point we're just gonna
meet up at a bar and watch Sunday Night football.
And every time Rogers, you know, curses at Robert Saal
or something, will take a drink.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
No, it's true, that will go and we'll get to
that because Aaron Rodgers did discuss the the grabbing of
Robert Sala following the Jets second touchdown. But look, let
me just let me say this about Rogers, about this
from a fan standpoint, and this is something. Look, I'm
fifty three, okay, I have never, not once in my life,
(20:00):
had either of my football teams, the Jets or Syracuse
really i'd mcnabbed for a yeah him for a minute.
Yeah it was good, but still we still lost like
three games a year. With I can bring proof that
you know, he existed. And then I'm trying to think
of who the receiver who I have on a mini
Quinton Spots Quinton spot. Yeah, it was pretty good. You
(20:21):
gave me a Quentin Spot with autographed helmet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know what it feels like as a football
fan to have an elite ish quarterback. No, I don't,
I don't. I mean Larry David, the judge that had
two years of one year Partcels coaching team. But I
I mean like I had Testa Verdi who had a
magical nineteen ninety eight year. I had three quarters of
(20:43):
a season of Pennington in two thousand and two. A
half of a season for Brett Fava was half a year, right,
I mean it was. And then Pennington's arm fell off
and there was nothing you could do. But I had
bits and pieces. That's it. That's the best quarterback and
Ryan Fitzpatrick for a bunch of games in twenty fifteen
until he throws three picks in the final game against
the Bills and we lose the playoffs, and it was awful.
(21:04):
Those were not smart football player moments. I've had four
or five individual years where my team's quarterback play was okay.
I've never had anything like this where we have a
superstar quarterback and I know we're getting in the end zone.
I know he's going to make the right move. I
know he's going to make the right throw. I don't
know what that feels like. In Game one against the
(21:26):
against the forty nine ers, I'm like, okay, I could
see bits and pieces of it. Okay, that's good. I
feel encouraged. Then Sunday against the Titans, I said, oh, yeah,
he's really coming along. Now I can kind of really
see more than just glimpses, And tonight I saw the
whole thing right everything. Aaron Rodgers can still do, the
throws he can still make, how evasive he still is,
(21:47):
buying time and being able to make things happen. How
many times did we see him flushed out of the pocket,
running like the old John wouldn't be quick, but don't hurry,
quick but not hurrying, finding the open player right nine.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
The gate of the guy chasing him down, and know
he can slide and slow things down.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Just amazing. Nine receivers caught at least two passes. Whether
he was finding Garrett Wilson, Tyler Conklin, it didn't matter.
Like this was Peke Aaron Rodgers, and it was amazing
to watch and I said, I can't believe I'm seeing
this is my team with a great quarterback. I don't
I don't know what to do. I want to go
home and just order all kinds I mean, not from fanatics,
but I want to order all kinds of jet stuff
(22:26):
now like one of those nights. I just want to
order everything, because you know, fanatics, the whole thing. But
I don't know, I don't know what to do. It's
so exciting because I've never had that. I've never had that.
I've never had what Ravens fans have with Lamar Jackson
or even the you know what what Eagles fans have
now with Jalen Hurts, Bills with Josh Allen, Chiefs with Mahomes.
Never not even close and close to any of that,
(22:48):
barely at any of that. Packers go from Farv to
Rogers to Jordan. We just got.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Everybody's kidding me. I mean to oh Brady, I.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Went my division from Marino from eighty three to ninety nine,
I had two thousand off and then Brady from two
thousand and one until last year. Right like my division
from nineteen from when I was thirteen years old until
I was forty was dominated by an all time top
five quarterback in the NFL. I don't know what that
feels like. I know what it feels like to be
(23:21):
on the other side of it, but I don't know
what it feels like to be on the side like
I was on tonight. Whatever Aaron Rodgers needed to do,
I knew he was going to do third and seven,
third and seventeen. Knew he was gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, I'm that guy because I've had that Packers thing forever.
The ownership of Aaron Rodgers is not limited to him,
Like the deed got transferred from Brett Farr, the deed
got transferred to a degree from Don Mkowski for crying
out loud, going back, Lynn Dickey, he taking care of
the pay sure back in the day, Man, we want
to do this. This is a lifetime for me. But
(23:52):
watching Rogers tonight, it's that line of demarcation, like we're
trying to figure out where that divide is right between
the quarterbacks. Like you described of, I got a guy
and in my city, I got a guy. Because not
a lot of teams can say that they think they
might have their guy right in Indianapolis right now, they're
(24:13):
saying it's rough around the edges. He's missing a lot
of easy throws. I heard a quote from Greg Cosell
earlier saying he's missing high school throws.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
And watching tabe right, watching the games as we do.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You're like, that seemed like a pretty easy throw, kind
of like Bryce Young was missing.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But Kyl william it could have been a tough high
school matchup, like a five A matchup. But like Williams
modern day against somebody, go a couple of plays where
you say, Okay, I like what I see here.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
It's like and then there's the oh, that's what a
Donsay's dad just posted on Twitter, right, and go on
down the line. You have hope that you have that guy,
but you've gone a lot of years perhaps without it.
Colts not so much, bears forever, and keep going down
the line. There's very few teams that just can say
and wrap their arms around their guy, going I got
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a quarterback, ask on, hey, what's in the draft next year?
In case things go south, right, it could take a
four game losing streak and it all goes to hell.
You have one of those guys if you keep him
up right, and you had a couple of dumb procedural penalties.
But if they get Look if they get called for
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holding one hundred times and it keeps him upright, then
all is right in the world. Sure, right because sliding
left right, And that was my biggest concern. Was he
going to be able to move latterly? We didn't see
it the first two weeks. Here on the short week
said tada, look what I can do. Look at the
time I buy the throws to Conkling down the scene,
perfect timing. Fantasy owners all excited that he's back and relevant,
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but not Rogers, but Tyler Conklin because look the tight
end position. There's nothing left.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
No, it's the game. If I get nine points out
of my tight end, I'm feeling okay, nine nine Hell,
I'm hoping he shows up in the box bag. But
why is Rogers still so good right now? And okay,
you've heard, you've seen it. Why I'll give you two
reasons and you saw tonight. Why he's so good? Number one,
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we've talked about his escapability, right, Jay Glazer said, hey,
listen for Rogers. A lot of times the play doesn't
begin until it breaks down, right, What did we see him?
What has he always done? Hey, I'm able for my
use my escapability, and when it's street ball, I'm going
to find that mismatch. And was he going to have that?
Is he still going to have that kind of escapability?
I think we saw tonight He's got it right. He
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was able to get away from the rush and able
to find the right receiver time and time again. Right
Nearly three hundred yards passing and a couple of touchdowns.
So the escapability is there. The other thing is this,
and this is now starting to come back around in
the NFL. Everybody wonders why Eli Manning was such a
good quarterback here he is now Hall of Fame finalist.
And one of the things he always did was that
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he didn't get enough credit for, is that he would
always get the Giants in the right formation for the play.
The pre snap adjustments Eli Manning made, We're always top notch.
I see this mismatch here, We're gonna motion this way,
We're gonna do this and that way. I have a
fifty to fifty play with this wide receiver, and I'll
trust to Keem Nicks to make that player, Victor Cruz,
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to make that play. What he would do before the
snap was a big deal. Now pre snap reads an
adjustment has become the big thing again. Right, why are
the Saints playing so well? What we heard Jason Cale
tell us this week, all the pre snap movement they do, Now,
this is made for Derek Carr, Right, pre stat is
made for Derek Carr to be able to succeed with this,
And that's why the Saints are causing so many problems there.
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Receivers are very athletic, but that's Rogers bread and butter too.
This is a guy that I said earlier in the show,
I don't know that there's anybody in the history of
the game that knows more about the quarterback position than
Aaron Rodgers. Not that he's the best ever, he's up there,
but knows as much about the quarterback position. You just
see an interviews where we will just throw something off
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the cuff or when he's when he's on hard knocks
or on the sideline, he'll tell one of the coaches, Hey,
run this deep out to Malik Taylor, who didn't even
make the team. Why because he's going to be open
and catch a pass. Oh there it is as a
deep pass. He knows so much and what he knows
before the Snap's not always about moving with him, but
he knows where a team is going, where I can
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get that football and whatever. He is missing a little
bit athletically, and again it's just a little bit, because
you saw it tonight. Again he's still got these. Still
close to the version he was two years ago when
he was the MVP, is that he knows where he's
going with the football and he's able to see everything
a defense is doing and know where the mismatch is
and know when I can throw the football before the
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defender's back is turned, when they have a tiny bit
of a window to get the ball to the wide receiver.
The touchdown pass to Garrett Wilson was one of those plays.
How many back shoulder fades did he throw to Mike
Williams tonight? I think like seven nine. You got tired
of that. Every play can't be a back shoulder but okay, fine,
but but he can. He can still do those things,
and it's it's more than just wiy veteran crafty stuff.
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It's I'm going to beat you in my mind. I'm
gonna be you up here because you can be as physical.
But as long as I can do enough physically, I'm
gonna beat you because I know where I'm going to
the ball, because I am a million miles ahead of
where you are as a defense. And if I can
stay upright, I'm gonna still beat you. And those are
the two biggest things that Aaron Rodgers does that makes
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you see the guy is still elite, the guy is great.
And why I'm thinking about the super Bowl again after
three weeks.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
No, psychologically it's very damning for me because now I
have to go through this long season of you because
if it goes south, I gotta be the guy that
picks you up.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Man, it's just me walking around going Rogers, right.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, yeah, but if it gets but if it goes
to hell, I'm the guy that's got to pick you
up every night, not be mad, not be angry. I
hate football, all that stuff. I gotta be that guy.
But as a guy who genuinely loves the game and
the chess match of it. Right, when we talk about
when we have Glazer on, when we have Colon past appearances,
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guys like Schlaret and whomever else, it's all about the
chess game that's being played and how you read through it.
So when you're watching on Sundays. When you see it working,
there's nothing better, and there's few that I've ever gotten
to witness that when he's right and things are clicking
and he's got a team that's not getting his ass
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kicked right, because we've seen that a few times where
the line has been decimated and he's been running for
his life. As much as anything else, he's fun to
watch because it is a master's class in actually how
to play the position, how to read body language of
a defender, how to no positioning, the photographic memory of
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the hours of tape study, like all of that stuff.
We've seen it with Brady, we watch it with the Mannings.
That's the one thing with the Manning brothers when they're
working there, you just wish you could get like that
Riddler thing from the one with Tommy Lee Jones and
Jim Carrey where he could put it on so I
could read his thoughts and it won't be about cartoon guys.
It'll actually be here's what I see and like the
(30:59):
play of it. Instead we get Peyton and his history
on its when things go wrong. But that's part of
my love of the game is what Rogers does best.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
He's back. You thought you thought he couldn't do it anymore.
He's back. Also, who's back is Steve? To say it's
Steve because he's got what's trending in the wide world
of sports, because he had Drake may in a big
overunder throw a touchdown pass tonight and he fell just short.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Now I believe the stat I saw it tonight is
all the rookie quarterbacks that have played so much early season.
No touchdown passes over two hundred throws.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
J J.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
McCarthy still tied for the lead. They nearly scored late,
but no. Twenty four to three Jets over the Patriots
the final so fewest yards for any Patriots team in
a game since the start of nineteen ninety three. Wow,
end of last season. Under one twenty against the Jets.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Was that before that was just before they got bled
sell he got drafted. That It's like when they Tommy
Hodson was their quarterback, I think.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
And then under one forty against the Jets. Only forty
yards in the first half against the Jets when they
had four drives and four first downs. Jets defense with
seven sacks in this game, twenty four to three. The
final Aaron Rodgers two touchdown passes. Packers quarterback Jordan Love
will be a game time decision this Sunday with the
sprained mcl Bengals wide receiver t Higgins returned to limited
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practice after a hamstring injury as Cincinnati plays Monday against Washington.
Tampa Bay running back Rashad White was limited today with
the groin jury, and Seattle running back Kenneth Walker did
not practice due to an oblique injury. To Major League Baseball,
Shoeo Tani went six for six with ten RBIs and
the Dodgers won at Miami twenty to four. Saw a
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stat of okay. In all the fifty homer seasons in
major league history, who's had the most steals to go
with their fifty homers. Nobody's had even twenty five steals.
Hey go in a fifty homer season. Willie Mays with
twenty four fifty homer season back in nineteen fifty five.
This is ridiculous. Three homers today for Otani that gives
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him fifty one in counting two stolen bases, that gives
him fifty one so far. And how about just over
the course of an entire career to have a ten
RBI game and five extra base hits in a game.
And by the way, today he also had the six
hit game, the three homer game, and nobody's had all
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of that in an entire career if you add up
all their games, he did that all Just today in Miami,
the Dodgers clinch a playoff birth. They are first in
the NL West, four games over the Padres and the win.
Did Jack Flaherty stop the presses? The Dodgers actually had
a starting pitcher goes six innings. My goodness, can he
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pitch three games in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Jack you number one? Game one? Jack Flaherty Game two,
Jack Flerity game break flarerty slash TBA.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
It's like the old cartoon light Up Batting First Bugs
Bunny By. I remember somebody who didn't know baseball when
Mike Trout was really killing it a few years ago.
They turned to the person next to who said, can
Trout bad every inning?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
No, he could not.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Wouldn't that be great? That would be fine? Though. Baseball
will change that rule for Otani next year.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Just watch, Just watch Baltimore five three winners against San
Francisco on a two run home or bottom of the ninth,
but your favorite in mind Anthony Santander his forty second
of the year. The Yankees lead Baltimore in the Al
East by four games now. The Yanks clinched a playoff
spot yesterday, but New York gave up three in the
first inning today and lost at Seattle three to two.
Cleveland clinch to playoff berth with a ten inning win
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three two over Minnesota. Atlanta and the Mets each one.
Mets hit four homers in a ten to six victory
over Philadelphia on Fox TV tonight, so it's Atlanta two
games out of the final and out wild card. Regular
season ends a week from Sunday. Houston won the late
game three to one over the Angels with a two
run double in the bottom of the eighth, and the
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WNBA had its last night of the regular season tonight.
Chicago is out. It lost eighty seven to fifty four
at Connecticut Atlanta one and gets the final playoff spot.
Atlanta opens the postseason at New York on Sunday. Washington
at home defeated Indiana ninety two to ninety one Attendants
twenty thousand and seven eleven, so the postseason starts on Sunday.
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With this best of three first round, which will include
Indiana against three seed Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. If you thought
today was great for show, hey o Tani, and it
absolutely was. Why do we tell you what he could
still accomplish this season? That's next right here, Jason to
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
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Speaker 1 (35:48):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike harmon Conna. Hear from Aaron Rodgers coming up in
about ten minutes finished meeting the media. How proud and
happy he is to be a Jet. I've never heard
that either. Guy's proud and happy to be Jets. That's
so foreign. It's great. But the biggest story of the
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day Sho Hao Tani becoming the first member of the
fifty to fifty club in the history of Major League Baseball. Right,
it's three home runs today, maybe the best day that
we've ever seen by a position player. Six for six,
three home runs, ten RBI, becomes a fifty to fifty player.
Dodgers win the division or clinch of playoff. Berth so yeah, yeah,
(36:35):
so yeah, okay, something again, you and I know nothing
about no, no, but you want to know just what
could be next for Sho Haotani in a season. Let
me throw this by you. So we've already seen him
do something that we've never seen in the history of
the game. Right, he keeps doing that, right, its starting pitcher,
what he does hitting. But this year is something that
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I mean again, one hundred and forty years of Major
League baseball, fifty to fifty has never been done. He's
on his way if he gets really hot. The last
last nine game, he goes sixty to sixty, but fifty
to fifty never been done. A right, incredible headline. I
no longer think he's gonna pitch in the playoffs. I
fully expect him to. Would I would go to Vegas
and bet my money he's pitching in the playoffs for
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the Dodgers. They have injury problems. Obviously, jobs are on
the line. We talked about this with John Paul Morosi,
THEO Dave Roberts job is on the line. Maybe some
front office it didn't spend a billion dollars to lose
in the first round, and when you have a lot
of injury issues. If you have a chance for Shoeotani
to pitch, he's going to pitch. Now that being said,
they're not gonna put him out there if he's not healthy.
(37:42):
But as John Paul told us, hey watch shoeo Tani's
bullpen sessions. Does he look like a guy who's gearing
up to pitch for the next time in February, in
spring training or sometime in the playoffs? Right, he looks
like he's he's stretching out. He's gonna pitch in the playoffs.
And again, it's a UCL injury. It's over a year later. Yeah,
you come back and do it. If he comes back
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and pitch, and he will pitch in the playoffs if
he pitches well, and by that I mean he has
a cup two or three outings. He's gonna be an
opener because he's gonna be on a pitch count, obviously,
and that's what is going to be the thing. He'll
be an opener for the Dodgers when he comes back
to pitch. It's gonna be a big boost of energy
for them. And again, suddenly, if your rotation is Flowerty
and Yamamoto for a little bit as an opener, and
(38:26):
then Otani for an opener. Okay, if he pitches well,
those two or three starts, right, you know, three innings
probably gonna be his cap seven strikeouts, doesn't give up runs.
We'll look back at this year and say, that's the
best year we've seen by any player in the history
of the game. Not Barry Bonds when he hit seventy
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four home runs or seventy two home runs, Not Babe
Ruth when he hit sixty home runs, not Ted Williams
when he hit four hundred. We'll look at Otani this
year being fifty to fifty and then in the playoff
pitching the Dodgers to some kind of it. Maybe it's
the NLCS. But as long as he pitches well and
he has a couple of games where he does it,
we're gonna look back and say this is I've never
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seen a year like this. There's nobody who has ever
done anything like this in the history of the game.
That's how we're gonna look back at this year. By
showy Ton, you want to be around for Histree all
the time. I love being around for his three You're
around for absolute history.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
If you see this, Yeah, the only year like the
bonds for me. Thing for me was the year following right,
he hit seventy three, and then comes back to next
year and they walk him one hundred andninety eight times. Joe,
he barely gets anything to hit like, so he's got
to be dead set and locked in on the one
pitch a game that he actually had put anywhere near
the strike zone and he hit three seventy.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I know, Malco, No, I know.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yes, very soon, Hey, and hey, don't you dare go
down that road. He's hit the McCovey cove we got,
we got a lot well, but they weren't that following
year it was he hit three seventy.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
They weren't all home runs.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
The other is, whenever we start going down that performance
enhancing thing, it's a very dangerous thing to start wielding
for any player. Whenever it get the well, I know
my guy wasn't. I'm like, are you sure? Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
During that? Are anyone? You can't? But you can't for
someone it's never been proven for You can't say, oh, well,
he was never he was never convicted. You can't always
do the bill, Maher. I I don't know it for
a fact. I just know that It's true. You know,
you can't always do it well.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
But we had a lot of circumstantial evidence, had a
cream and I had an increased tad size.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Oh no, win, there's but there was never a suspension
for it.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
No, no, But yet, you know our our friend Rob Parker,
and you know his colleagues that vote for the Hall
of Fame. They've let some guys walk through the door,
some others not so much.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
He does that pitch as well. We're gonna say this
is the best year any of us have ever seen.
I want to see him close it out.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Just watch Dodger Stadium, the World Series Out, the World
Series seven. He just throws his glove down and walks off,
never to be seen again.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Exit up. About of Fresco Exit Swalling Dome coming up next.
More on the brilliance of Aaron Rodgers. You'll hear him
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I've been waiting on this story all night to tell
you all night, waiting on this on through the Jets.
What a huge win by the Jets. Yeah, that under cash.
I told you last night. What did I say twenty
three thirteen? I told you, Come on, man, I told
you it was terrible. I told you at times nauseating.
Jets were really nauseating. Fo the Jets were really good.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Look one of the things we've talked about a lot,
Like my favorite thing talking to young running backs is
always what are you doing to get better at pass blocking,
your anticipation, your footwork, all of these things. It's like
these guys never did any event tonight. It was free
run on Jacoby Pressett. All offensive line of course gets
there there there. They don't get flowers. What's the opposite
(01:36):
of flowers in the circuit buried? Yeah, well, well, I
mean they get flowers because you do those, you know
when someone gets decimated to them. I mean, the running
backs did nothing to help Jacoby Presett out. That guy's
gonna be in an ice bath for four d's.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But look what people are forgetting and what people just
coming around to that. Hey, hey the Jets are pretty good. Yeah,
the Jets roster is really good. The defense is a
top five D.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
But there was a reason is that you were on
board before the season started, and maybe you got a
little nervous because again with Rogers for two weeks, as
we talked about, you can find the podcast after we're
done tonight, But a lot of it being that trust
of his lateral move or whatever. Tonight he did whatever
the hell he wanted it was a throwback to him
carving up the Bears.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So too.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Sorry, that's Bear's owner, Aaron Rodgers, Bears owner Bears.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know you didn't really need to pile on I
did enough myself, enough of the self flogging, and then
you come over the top and you take the flamethrower
out on me.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
That really didn't need to happen. Look, two really big
stories tonight, obviously, the Jets and Aaron Rodgers showing that
I am still Aaron Rodgers. And we'll have more on
that story coming up in about twenty minutes. Something to
look NFL needed that.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Hey, we've talked a lot about this dude for the
last four years. He'd been okay, he's still really good. Okay,
that and a lot of bad quarterbacking for two weeks.
So when we could hoist.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Him up, man, he becomes that much more of a
hero throwback to bygone days.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
But you want a story, I got a story for
you about the other incredibly large development tonight, not sho
Hao Tani becoming the first player in baseball history to
be fifty to fifty tay shirt. You have my story music. Yeah,
we're still depending on that, all right, that's my story. Okay,
make sure right that wasn't too bad? Right, No, that
(03:22):
was good good.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I mean you have a long drive to and from
the studio. He must have been working on it in
your head.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah that was that was very Yeah, you know you
I could teach you the ways of the of the freestyle,
pitch perfect, acapella, pitch perfect, how to make music with
your mouth? Okay, hey, now what else can I do
with that? But you need to do a little bit
more on the side of my little side of the mountain,
like you want to try to make it sound like
(03:51):
a horn. That's pretty good, but I'm doing I was
also kind of muffled, like, yeah, yeah, right, here we go.
You got to talk over though, Okay, can hold on.
Here we are here, here's Alex Tysher.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Here's my.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
The in America.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
That's a good thing he works out at because he
can hold his breath.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Uh. So let me get the music. The big debate,
the only debate really tonight. You know you saw right
away people wanted to run to Twitter and say, I
am an FBI agent. I am the first person to
say this is the best day in the history of
baseball by any one player. So many people wanted to
say that, and yeah, okay, yeah, the only thing that
(04:40):
comes close Bob Hornery, Bob Bob Horner, the only thing.
He had four runs in the game. Yeah, the only
thing that comes close to Otani six for six, three
home runs, ten rbi. In nineteen ninety three, Cardinals had
an outfielder, Mark Whitten. All right, Mark Hitton. Witten was
his nickname. Yeah, and not very creative, because the thing is,
(05:03):
I watch a lot of him play in the minor leagues.
He came up, he was with Syracuse, he with the
Blue jay Z got fed. He had some arm like
when he came up to the major started hitting home runs.
I'm like, he never hit this way in Triple A.
He would, but he had some like his arm like.
Watching him play right field was fun.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I remember making money on his score rookie cards. So
let's go.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
So Mark Winton four home runs and twelve RBI in
a game for the Cardinals. This is back when I
was a production assistant at ESPN, And I'm going to
tell you right now that story that highlight almost didn't
make Sports Center at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Because you couldn't make it get it, or because it
was gotten by something else, an editorial.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Let me tell you because fight. I've always been waiting
for a chance to tell this story because I can't
just tell. But this is the best part, and this
is a great music for it. So it's not that
long ago nineteen ninety three. I want to know what
ESPN was like and you know, a long time ago.
Uh picture a room. Picture picture of this picture a
(06:08):
pretty big room. And there's a maybe a fourteen by
fourteen TV set every couple of feet and there's like
thirty of these TV sets in this room. And in
front of every television, a twenty two or twenty three
year old kid sits to watch a game. And then
(06:29):
when the game is over, you take the tapes you
recorded the game on. You get to edit bay, you
edit the highlight, you put it on a tape, it
goes into the tape basically, right, big big moments. Yes,
So you know that was what you did as a
production assistant to the ESPN. So you would go in
and there's you know, and everybody comes in. Everybody's big
stuff starts at like seven o'clock at night, when all
(06:50):
the games start. Everybody sits and when somebody has to
go edit. Was okay, Hey, my game's over, I'm going
to edit. If anything good comes down on postgame or
anything else, let me know. And they call that babysitting
a game. It happens. Sometimes someone has to go to
the bathroom. Hey, go to the bathroom. Someone comes and
(07:10):
sits down and watches your game for a few minutes
and write stuff down for you. So they call it
babysitting a game.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Now they get mad if you went in a Gotta
Davida bathroom break, like maybe you disappeared because.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It because it was fun to do. You were watching
a game. You're watching a baseball game, right, So this
is the second game of a double header that the
Reds and the Cardinals were playing. Now, Breads and the
Cardinals were both terrible, right, The Reds I think finished
and the Cardinals finished like twelve games out of first place,
and the Reds were like dead last in the National League.
So a September eighth game of double header of the
(07:43):
Reds and the Cardinals, right, not the most scintillating of
games to watch. But one person, it's here their job
to watch you. No, no, no, no, no, I wasn't but one
person's watching both of these games, right, So now the
first game ends, and that person goes to edit their
first game and do everything and send it in and
(08:07):
get the tape ready. And the second game comes and
the person next to them is babysitting that game. Person
who sits next to you, can you watch this game
for me? Just write down anything that happens. Okay, great,
Now you want to talk about a confluence of circumstances.
So the person who's doing whose job it was to
do both these games, goes and edits the first game.
The person babysitting the game happens to be the person
(08:28):
sitting next week. You just write down stuff the second game.
It's second game reds Cardinals. Who cares, Yeah, sure, no problem.
So the person writes down Mark Whitten comes up in
the first inning home run. Oh, Mark Witten home run.
Okay great. That person goes to edit a game.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Go.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Somebody else comes in to sit down and babysit the game.
Two of the Cardinals reds for a couple of innings
while the other person is still editing stuff, going on,
doing their thing. Mark Whitten hits another home run. They
write down Mark Whitten home run. Okay, great, that person
leaves to go babysit a different game. Somebody else comes in,
so now a third different person has come in to
(09:03):
sit down and watch this game. Witt HiT's his third
home run. But now it's getting close to being time
for sports and to go on the air. So the
room that's kind of fun and has a lot of
banter going on, Now there's a lot of chaos because
we're ten minutes from getting on the air and everybody's
going crazy. So now the third home run. But the
(09:25):
person who was who was watching the game, like didn't
know that Witten had hit two home runs. So Mark,
whittenh home run. Just write it down. So now Witten's
hit three home runs in the game, and nobody knows it,
so different nobody knows it, and like and like I said,
it's a lot of chaos. Everybody's running around editing tapes,
getting them do Keith. They're coming down to watch highlights
(09:46):
and all this different stuff. And Witten comes up again
a fourth time, and nobody's watching the game because other
stuff is happening. Just what happens. One person walking by sees,
oh oh, no, one's let me write it down. Mark
whitten home run. So now he's got four home runs
and it's like five minutes to eleven, right, and the game,
you know, baseball is that long. Nobody knows because no
(10:09):
one's watching the game. In the newsroom where all the talent,
the producers all sit, no one's watching, you know, all
these other baseball games going on that means something. No
one's watching the Cardinals and the and the Reds, right,
especially the second game of double letter Yeah, in the East,
the Cardinals finished ten games back, the Reds were sixteen
games under five hundred. No one's watching. This is ESPN, right,
worldwide leader, We're the worldwide all of these TV sets,
(10:31):
nobody's watching this game. But it's nineteen ninety three, and
so the newsroom has all the team watching different things.
Everybody's spending time doing their thing, getting the show on
the air, and this game is falling through the cracks,
and all of a sudden, the AP hits everybody's computer
with a bulletin boom. Mark Whitten has just hit his
(10:53):
fourth home run of the game for the Cardinals and
has twelve RBI in a game, and everybody sees it.
Every goes and then I forget who it was like
the producer worked in and goes, did Mark Whitten hit
four home run? Site?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Nobody knows?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And we wanted to say you didn't know. No, nobody knew.
How did this not happen? And suddenly so the show's
about to go on and nobody knows this has happened.
Nobody knows he's got four home run site, so so
frantically I think they were able to get the fourth
home run on. Hey, Mark Win's got We'll have more
on this throughout the show, and I've been they go
back to it, but like we're getting ready to go
(11:28):
on the air, nobody knew he did four home runs
all because somebody different run. Oh it's a Mark Whit
no run, Mark when no run, Mark when no run,
working run and the guy and and nobody knows, and
that that alert hits, and thank goodness for the AP
alert because it's like, Wow, we're the world wide leader.
Nobody had any idea like the beautiful one hundred some
people working on the eleven o'clock Sports Center, nobody knew.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The beautiful thing about it is in nineteen ninety three,
though you can get away with it, uh to a
large degree, right.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Except in those two market places. Yeah, right, and the
obvious you know bottom of the hour, top of the
hour score updates, you know, in you know news radio
at that point, right, because that's before sports talk radio. Yeah,
oh yeah, that's when it was, right about the time
it's really starting to come through. So that's when the
fabulous sports babe was a.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, but yeah, wow, that's that's that's a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah. Uh so nobody knew and it was. And the
thing is is that could we have gotten away with
what would people really have cared? No, but the meeting
the next day would have been, what the hell? How
does that still protocols perceived? How is this not the
first highlight of the night. Here's a Tuesday night, right,
not a Monday night where there's football, not no, no,
(12:43):
here's a Tuesday night where you got a guy hitting
four home runs and nobody knows that's amazing. Nobody like
that tag out kind of system.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
And then you got the loan monitor that probably has
tape on top of it that says Cincinnati, Saint Louis.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
It was.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It was insane. It was insane, and a bunch of
crumpled up pieces of paper that's say winnow run that's something. Uh,
this you're ready for you ready for this? This allows me
one more story, if you'll indulge me. Another story that
another story yet that almost didn't make the air at
ESPN because something like this, right, because it's very it's
(13:20):
very it's very similar.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
So and this involves Scott Akerson, long time and Fox producer.
He was a big deal. He was a coordinated producer
at ESPN. And and Acts is a great dude, right,
he was my CP. He was a great Everybody loves
working for ACTS. And so he comes at stop. So
it's a random night in March, middle of the week.
(13:45):
NCAA tournament's going on, but there's no tournament games, just
n I t is going on. You know, n there's basketball,
there's there, there's you know again, same kind of room
at thirty people people watching games, right, and he just
comes down to say hi to the PA's, which is
kind of cool. It's always is always cool when when
cps would come down and say hi to the PA's.
Everybody liked that.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Guy.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Actuals that guy. And he comes down and he goes
over to a proc where Kansas State is playing Fresno
State in the NIT right, and he's like, and no,
here's a kid, very quiet kid, who they gave the
game to to watch this game, and it's an nit, like,
what are we really going to run a highlight from it?
Let's just watch it, make sure in case anything crazy happens,
we'll get it on the air. And uh, so Acts,
(14:27):
this is how we found out. Nobody knew, nobody knew
and uh because there's bosses down there called highlight supervisors
that are supposed to be on top of everything and
there and everything. Acts comes over to this kid and
he says, uh, is that what's going on? He goes, oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Scott,
how you doing. What's going on in your game? And
he goes, well, Askia Jones for Kansas State. He goes, yeah,
he goes, he's got sixty one points a couple minutes left.
(14:49):
And he goes, he's got what. He goes, he's got
sixty one points, He's got fourteen threes. It's an NCAA record.
He goes, the guy's got sixty one points in the
college basketball game and nobody knows. Everybody stops and goes,
how does how did nobody know that this kid is watching?
Like stupid quiet kid got sixty one points and he's
(15:11):
never told anybody, And the highlight supervisors are like, oh
my god, I'm getting fired. They're they're gonna fire me
because he was just a quiet kid that didn't really
you know, was new. They gave him a game that
was just hey, here's it. You know, maybe we'll run
a highlight maybe not. And you know, at no point
did he tell you, but he any guy's got thirty
at half times, guy's got thirty five, he's got fifty.
He had sixty two in the game and twenty eight
(15:32):
minutes right, this was the This was the highlight of
the month. No one's ever scored this in the college
battle think since in a D one game they've had
many points and nobody knew. Look, if Acts didn't walk
up to this kid and say, how are you doing
like that would have never made the air. That would
have never made the air because the game would have ended.
Is anything big from your game? You should kind of
(15:52):
highlight the guy had a big night, Askia Jones, Wait, yeah,
sixty one points? What sixty one points? All because Acts?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
All because Axe came out and said because he was
being nice and shaking hands and kissing babies.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
That was that was. I mean, he's I think he's
the last d one guy to have sixty points in
a can. That's what you call having an instinct. Hey,
do you know what I feel like?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Today's the day I need to go walk the floor
and say hi to the youngsters and encourage them on
the jobs they're doing, and I do a spot check
on this internship and and young employee program.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
That we have here. Andy almost man, I'm telling you,
I love that. I could just see the kid's face too. Oh,
I still remember this. I was supposed to tell him.
I still remember the kid? You ask you Jones had
sixty one points? What sixty one?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
And then, I mean I could see him making the
reaction of like, look, he doesn't go to Duke or
North Carolina?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You care? And it's looking like it's the nit, Like
if it's a Tuesday night, and what does it matter?
It's Fresno State and Kansas State. What does it matter?
Sixty one point? Nobody knew and nobody knew leaders. Oh boy,
so we almost miss Mark Whitton and we are world
wide leader Mark Whitton Jones w w L take d
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don't think I was worthy of getting what I got tonight.
The Mets were a huge win. They hit like nine
home runs against the Phillies. The Jets dominate the Patriots
their second straight win against New England after losing fifteen straight.
(19:12):
We're two and one. Aaron Rodgers looks great. I'm not
worthy of this. Mike Time no, and you celebrated by
buying us I know. So, I mean that's an extra win. Hey,
every time the Jets win and we're working that night,
I'll by pizza.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
So we do have another couple of yeah, primetime games.
Oh you know, they're gonna get flexed out because Aaron
Rodgers is great. And at some point we're just gonna
meet up at a bar and watch Sunday Night football.
And every time Rogers, you know, curses at Robert Saal
or something, will take a drink.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
No, it's true, that will go and we'll get to
that because Aaron Rodgers did discuss the the grabbing of
Robert Sala following the Jets second touchdown. But look, let
me just let me say this about Rogers, about this
from a fan standpoint, and this is something. Look, I'm
fifty three, okay, I have never, not once in my life,
(20:00):
had either of my football teams, the Jets or Syracuse
really i'd mcnabbed for a yeah him for a minute.
Yeah it was good, but still we still lost like
three games a year. With I can bring proof that
you know, he existed. And then I'm trying to think
of who the receiver who I have on a mini
Quinton Spots Quinton spot. Yeah, it was pretty good. You
(20:21):
gave me a Quentin Spot with autographed helmet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know what it feels like as a football
fan to have an elite ish quarterback. No, I don't,
I don't. I mean Larry David, the judge that had
two years of one year Partcels coaching team. But I
I mean like I had Testa Verdi who had a
magical nineteen ninety eight year. I had three quarters of
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a season of Pennington in two thousand and two. A
half of a season for Brett Fava was half a year, right,
I mean it was. And then Pennington's arm fell off
and there was nothing you could do. But I had
bits and pieces. That's it. That's the best quarterback and
Ryan Fitzpatrick for a bunch of games in twenty fifteen
until he throws three picks in the final game against
the Bills and we lose the playoffs, and it was awful.
(21:04):
Those were not smart football player moments. I've had four
or five individual years where my team's quarterback play was okay.
I've never had anything like this where we have a
superstar quarterback and I know we're getting in the end zone.
I know he's going to make the right move. I
know he's going to make the right throw. I don't
know what that feels like. In Game one against the
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against the forty nine ers, I'm like, okay, I could
see bits and pieces of it. Okay, that's good. I
feel encouraged. Then Sunday against the Titans, I said, oh, yeah,
he's really coming along. Now I can kind of really
see more than just glimpses, And tonight I saw the
whole thing right everything. Aaron Rodgers can still do, the
throws he can still make, how evasive he still is,
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buying time and being able to make things happen. How
many times did we see him flushed out of the pocket,
running like the old John wouldn't be quick, but don't hurry,
quick but not hurrying, finding the open player right nine.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
The gate of the guy chasing him down, and know
he can slide and slow things down.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Just amazing. Nine receivers caught at least two passes. Whether
he was finding Garrett Wilson, Tyler Conklin, it didn't matter.
Like this was Peke Aaron Rodgers, and it was amazing
to watch and I said, I can't believe I'm seeing
this is my team with a great quarterback. I don't
I don't know what to do. I want to go
home and just order all kinds I mean, not from fanatics,
but I want to order all kinds of jet stuff
(22:26):
now like one of those nights. I just want to
order everything, because you know, fanatics, the whole thing. But
I don't know, I don't know what to do. It's
so exciting because I've never had that. I've never had that.
I've never had what Ravens fans have with Lamar Jackson
or even the you know what what Eagles fans have
now with Jalen Hurts, Bills with Josh Allen, Chiefs with Mahomes.
Never not even close and close to any of that,
(22:48):
barely at any of that. Packers go from Farv to
Rogers to Jordan. We just got.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Everybody's kidding me. I mean to oh Brady, I.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Went my division from Marino from eighty three to ninety nine,
I had two thousand off and then Brady from two
thousand and one until last year. Right like my division
from nineteen from when I was thirteen years old until
I was forty was dominated by an all time top
five quarterback in the NFL. I don't know what that
feels like. I know what it feels like to be
(23:21):
on the other side of it, but I don't know
what it feels like to be on the side like
I was on tonight. Whatever Aaron Rodgers needed to do,
I knew he was going to do third and seven,
third and seventeen. Knew he was gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yeah, I'm that guy because I've had that Packers thing forever.
The ownership of Aaron Rodgers is not limited to him,
Like the deed got transferred from Brett Farr, the deed
got transferred to a degree from Don Mkowski for crying
out loud, going back, Lynn Dickey, he taking care of
the pay sure back in the day, Man, we want
to do this. This is a lifetime for me. But
(23:52):
watching Rogers tonight, it's that line of demarcation, like we're
trying to figure out where that divide is right between
the quarterbacks. Like you described of, I got a guy
and in my city, I got a guy. Because not
a lot of teams can say that they think they
might have their guy right in Indianapolis right now, they're
(24:13):
saying it's rough around the edges. He's missing a lot
of easy throws. I heard a quote from Greg Cosell
earlier saying he's missing high school throws.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
And watching tabe right, watching the games as we do.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
You're like, that seemed like a pretty easy throw, kind
of like Bryce Young was missing.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But Kyl william it could have been a tough high
school matchup, like a five A matchup. But like Williams
modern day against somebody, go a couple of plays where
you say, Okay, I like what I see here.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
It's like and then there's the oh, that's what a
Donsay's dad just posted on Twitter, right, and go on
down the line. You have hope that you have that guy,
but you've gone a lot of years perhaps without it.
Colts not so much, bears forever, and keep going down
the line. There's very few teams that just can say
and wrap their arms around their guy, going I got
(24:59):
a quarterback, ask on, hey, what's in the draft next year?
In case things go south, right, it could take a
four game losing streak and it all goes to hell.
You have one of those guys if you keep him
up right, and you had a couple of dumb procedural penalties.
But if they get Look if they get called for
(25:19):
holding one hundred times and it keeps him upright, then
all is right in the world. Sure, right because sliding
left right, And that was my biggest concern. Was he
going to be able to move latterly? We didn't see
it the first two weeks. Here on the short week
said tada, look what I can do. Look at the
time I buy the throws to Conkling down the scene,
perfect timing. Fantasy owners all excited that he's back and relevant,
(25:42):
but not Rogers, but Tyler Conklin because look the tight
end position. There's nothing left.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
No, it's the game. If I get nine points out
of my tight end, I'm feeling okay, nine nine Hell,
I'm hoping he shows up in the box bag. But
why is Rogers still so good right now? And okay,
you've heard, you've seen it. Why I'll give you two
reasons and you saw tonight. Why he's so good? Number one,
(26:10):
we've talked about his escapability, right, Jay Glazer said, hey,
listen for Rogers. A lot of times the play doesn't
begin until it breaks down, right, What did we see him?
What has he always done? Hey, I'm able for my
use my escapability, and when it's street ball, I'm going
to find that mismatch. And was he going to have that?
Is he still going to have that kind of escapability?
I think we saw tonight He's got it right. He
(26:31):
was able to get away from the rush and able
to find the right receiver time and time again. Right
Nearly three hundred yards passing and a couple of touchdowns.
So the escapability is there. The other thing is this,
and this is now starting to come back around in
the NFL. Everybody wonders why Eli Manning was such a
good quarterback here he is now Hall of Fame finalist.
And one of the things he always did was that
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he didn't get enough credit for, is that he would
always get the Giants in the right formation for the play.
The pre snap adjustments Eli Manning made, We're always top notch.
I see this mismatch here, We're gonna motion this way,
We're gonna do this and that way. I have a
fifty to fifty play with this wide receiver, and I'll
trust to Keem Nicks to make that player, Victor Cruz,
(27:12):
to make that play. What he would do before the
snap was a big deal. Now pre snap reads an
adjustment has become the big thing again. Right, why are
the Saints playing so well? What we heard Jason Cale
tell us this week, all the pre snap movement they do, Now,
this is made for Derek Carr, Right, pre stat is
made for Derek Carr to be able to succeed with this,
And that's why the Saints are causing so many problems there.
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Receivers are very athletic, but that's Rogers bread and butter too.
This is a guy that I said earlier in the show,
I don't know that there's anybody in the history of
the game that knows more about the quarterback position than
Aaron Rodgers. Not that he's the best ever, he's up there,
but knows as much about the quarterback position. You just
see an interviews where we will just throw something off
(27:53):
the cuff or when he's when he's on hard knocks
or on the sideline, he'll tell one of the coaches, Hey,
run this deep out to Malik Taylor, who didn't even
make the team. Why because he's going to be open
and catch a pass. Oh there it is as a
deep pass. He knows so much and what he knows
before the Snap's not always about moving with him, but
he knows where a team is going, where I can
(28:15):
get that football and whatever. He is missing a little
bit athletically, and again it's just a little bit, because
you saw it tonight. Again he's still got these. Still
close to the version he was two years ago when
he was the MVP, is that he knows where he's
going with the football and he's able to see everything
a defense is doing and know where the mismatch is
and know when I can throw the football before the
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defender's back is turned, when they have a tiny bit
of a window to get the ball to the wide receiver.
The touchdown pass to Garrett Wilson was one of those plays.
How many back shoulder fades did he throw to Mike
Williams tonight? I think like seven nine. You got tired
of that. Every play can't be a back shoulder but okay, fine,
but but he can. He can still do those things,
and it's it's more than just wiy veteran crafty stuff.
(28:57):
It's I'm going to beat you in my mind. I'm
gonna be you up here because you can be as physical.
But as long as I can do enough physically, I'm
gonna beat you because I know where I'm going to
the ball, because I am a million miles ahead of
where you are as a defense. And if I can
stay upright, I'm gonna still beat you. And those are
the two biggest things that Aaron Rodgers does that makes
(29:18):
you see the guy is still elite, the guy is great.
And why I'm thinking about the super Bowl again after
three weeks.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
No, psychologically it's very damning for me because now I
have to go through this long season of you because
if it goes south, I gotta be the guy that
picks you up.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Man, it's just me walking around going Rogers, right.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah, yeah, but if it gets but if it goes
to hell, I'm the guy that's got to pick you
up every night, not be mad, not be angry. I
hate football, all that stuff. I gotta be that guy.
But as a guy who genuinely loves the game and
the chess match of it. Right, when we talk about
when we have Glazer on, when we have Colon past appearances,
(29:54):
guys like Schlaret and whomever else, it's all about the
chess game that's being played and how you read through it.
So when you're watching on Sundays. When you see it working,
there's nothing better, and there's few that I've ever gotten
to witness that when he's right and things are clicking
and he's got a team that's not getting his ass
(30:17):
kicked right, because we've seen that a few times where
the line has been decimated and he's been running for
his life. As much as anything else, he's fun to
watch because it is a master's class in actually how
to play the position, how to read body language of
a defender, how to no positioning, the photographic memory of
(30:38):
the hours of tape study, like all of that stuff.
We've seen it with Brady, we watch it with the Mannings.
That's the one thing with the Manning brothers when they're
working there, you just wish you could get like that
Riddler thing from the one with Tommy Lee Jones and
Jim Carrey where he could put it on so I
could read his thoughts and it won't be about cartoon guys.
It'll actually be here's what I see and like the
(30:59):
play of it. Instead we get Peyton and his history
on its when things go wrong. But that's part of
my love of the game is what Rogers does best.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
He's back. You thought you thought he couldn't do it anymore.
He's back. Also, who's back is Steve? To say it's
Steve because he's got what's trending in the wide world
of sports, because he had Drake may in a big
overunder throw a touchdown pass tonight and he fell just short.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Now I believe the stat I saw it tonight is
all the rookie quarterbacks that have played so much early season.
No touchdown passes over two hundred throws.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
J J.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
McCarthy still tied for the lead. They nearly scored late,
but no. Twenty four to three Jets over the Patriots
the final so fewest yards for any Patriots team in
a game since the start of nineteen ninety three. Wow,
end of last season. Under one twenty against the Jets.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Was that before that was just before they got bled
sell he got drafted. That It's like when they Tommy
Hodson was their quarterback, I think.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
And then under one forty against the Jets. Only forty
yards in the first half against the Jets when they
had four drives and four first downs. Jets defense with
seven sacks in this game, twenty four to three. The
final Aaron Rodgers two touchdown passes. Packers quarterback Jordan Love
will be a game time decision this Sunday with the
sprained mcl Bengals wide receiver t Higgins returned to limited
(32:24):
practice after a hamstring injury as Cincinnati plays Monday against Washington.
Tampa Bay running back Rashad White was limited today with
the groin jury, and Seattle running back Kenneth Walker did
not practice due to an oblique injury. To Major League Baseball,
Shoeo Tani went six for six with ten RBIs and
the Dodgers won at Miami twenty to four. Saw a
(32:45):
stat of okay. In all the fifty homer seasons in
major league history, who's had the most steals to go
with their fifty homers. Nobody's had even twenty five steals.
Hey go in a fifty homer season. Willie Mays with
twenty four fifty homer season back in nineteen fifty five.
This is ridiculous. Three homers today for Otani that gives
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him fifty one in counting two stolen bases, that gives
him fifty one so far. And how about just over
the course of an entire career to have a ten
RBI game and five extra base hits in a game.
And by the way, today he also had the six
hit game, the three homer game, and nobody's had all
(33:26):
of that in an entire career if you add up
all their games, he did that all Just today in Miami,
the Dodgers clinch a playoff birth. They are first in
the NL West, four games over the Padres and the win.
Did Jack Flaherty stop the presses? The Dodgers actually had
a starting pitcher goes six innings. My goodness, can he
(33:46):
pitch three games in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Jack you number one? Game one? Jack Flaherty Game two,
Jack Flerity game break flarerty slash TBA.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
It's like the old cartoon light Up Batting First Bugs
Bunny By. I remember somebody who didn't know baseball when
Mike Trout was really killing it a few years ago.
They turned to the person next to who said, can
Trout bad every inning?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (34:10):
No, he could not.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Wouldn't that be great? That would be fine? Though. Baseball
will change that rule for Otani next year.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Just watch, Just watch Baltimore five three winners against San
Francisco on a two run home or bottom of the ninth,
but your favorite in mind Anthony Santander his forty second
of the year. The Yankees lead Baltimore in the Al
East by four games now. The Yanks clinched a playoff
spot yesterday, but New York gave up three in the
first inning today and lost at Seattle three to two.
Cleveland clinch to playoff berth with a ten inning win
(34:39):
three two over Minnesota. Atlanta and the Mets each one.
Mets hit four homers in a ten to six victory
over Philadelphia on Fox TV tonight, so it's Atlanta two
games out of the final and out wild card. Regular
season ends a week from Sunday. Houston won the late
game three to one over the Angels with a two
run double in the bottom of the eighth, and the
(34:59):
WNBA had its last night of the regular season tonight.
Chicago is out. It lost eighty seven to fifty four
at Connecticut Atlanta one and gets the final playoff spot.
Atlanta opens the postseason at New York on Sunday. Washington
at home defeated Indiana ninety two to ninety one Attendants
twenty thousand and seven eleven, so the postseason starts on Sunday.
(35:21):
With this best of three first round, which will include
Indiana against three seed Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. If you thought
today was great for show, hey o Tani, and it
absolutely was. Why do we tell you what he could
still accomplish this season? That's next right here, Jason to
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike harmon Conna. Hear from Aaron Rodgers coming up in
about ten minutes finished meeting the media. How proud and
happy he is to be a Jet. I've never heard
that either. Guy's proud and happy to be Jets. That's
so foreign. It's great. But the biggest story of the
(36:12):
day Sho Hao Tani becoming the first member of the
fifty to fifty club in the history of Major League Baseball. Right,
it's three home runs today, maybe the best day that
we've ever seen by a position player. Six for six,
three home runs, ten RBI, becomes a fifty to fifty player.
Dodgers win the division or clinch of playoff. Berth so yeah, yeah,
(36:35):
so yeah, okay, something again, you and I know nothing
about no, no, but you want to know just what
could be next for Sho Haotani in a season. Let
me throw this by you. So we've already seen him
do something that we've never seen in the history of
the game. Right, he keeps doing that, right, its starting pitcher,
what he does hitting. But this year is something that
(36:58):
I mean again, one hundred and forty years of Major
League baseball, fifty to fifty has never been done. He's
on his way if he gets really hot. The last
last nine game, he goes sixty to sixty, but fifty
to fifty never been done. A right, incredible headline. I
no longer think he's gonna pitch in the playoffs. I
fully expect him to. Would I would go to Vegas
and bet my money he's pitching in the playoffs for
(37:20):
the Dodgers. They have injury problems. Obviously, jobs are on
the line. We talked about this with John Paul Morosi,
THEO Dave Roberts job is on the line. Maybe some
front office it didn't spend a billion dollars to lose
in the first round, and when you have a lot
of injury issues. If you have a chance for Shoeotani
to pitch, he's going to pitch. Now that being said,
they're not gonna put him out there if he's not healthy.
(37:42):
But as John Paul told us, hey watch shoeo Tani's
bullpen sessions. Does he look like a guy who's gearing
up to pitch for the next time in February, in
spring training or sometime in the playoffs? Right, he looks
like he's he's stretching out. He's gonna pitch in the playoffs.
And again, it's a UCL injury. It's over a year later. Yeah,
you come back and do it. If he comes back
(38:03):
and pitch, and he will pitch in the playoffs if
he pitches well, and by that I mean he has
a cup two or three outings. He's gonna be an
opener because he's gonna be on a pitch count, obviously,
and that's what is going to be the thing. He'll
be an opener for the Dodgers when he comes back
to pitch. It's gonna be a big boost of energy
for them. And again, suddenly, if your rotation is Flowerty
and Yamamoto for a little bit as an opener, and
(38:26):
then Otani for an opener. Okay, if he pitches well,
those two or three starts, right, you know, three innings
probably gonna be his cap seven strikeouts, doesn't give up runs.
We'll look back at this year and say, that's the
best year we've seen by any player in the history
of the game. Not Barry Bonds when he hit seventy
(38:49):
four home runs or seventy two home runs, Not Babe
Ruth when he hit sixty home runs, not Ted Williams
when he hit four hundred. We'll look at Otani this
year being fifty to fifty and then in the playoff
pitching the Dodgers to some kind of it. Maybe it's
the NLCS. But as long as he pitches well and
he has a couple of games where he does it,
we're gonna look back and say this is I've never
(39:09):
seen a year like this. There's nobody who has ever
done anything like this in the history of the game.
That's how we're gonna look back at this year. By
showy Ton, you want to be around for Histree all
the time. I love being around for his three You're
around for absolute history.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
If you see this, Yeah, the only year like the
bonds for me. Thing for me was the year following right,
he hit seventy three, and then comes back to next
year and they walk him one hundred andninety eight times. Joe,
he barely gets anything to hit like, so he's got
to be dead set and locked in on the one
pitch a game that he actually had put anywhere near
the strike zone and he hit three seventy.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I know, Malco, No, I know.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yes, very soon, Hey, and hey, don't you dare go
down that road. He's hit the McCovey cove we got,
we got a lot well, but they weren't that following
year it was he hit three seventy.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
They weren't all home runs.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
The other is, whenever we start going down that performance
enhancing thing, it's a very dangerous thing to start wielding
for any player. Whenever it get the well, I know
my guy wasn't. I'm like, are you sure? Are you sure?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
During that? Are anyone? You can't? But you can't for
someone it's never been proven for You can't say, oh, well,
he was never he was never convicted. You can't always
do the bill, Maher. I I don't know it for
a fact. I just know that It's true. You know,
you can't always do it well.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
But we had a lot of circumstantial evidence, had a
cream and I had an increased tad size.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Oh no, win, there's but there was never a suspension
for it.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
No, no, But yet, you know our our friend Rob Parker,
and you know his colleagues that vote for the Hall
of Fame. They've let some guys walk through the door,
some others not so much.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
He does that pitch as well. We're gonna say this
is the best year any of us have ever seen.
I want to see him close it out.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Just watch Dodger Stadium, the World Series Out, the World
Series seven. He just throws his glove down and walks off,
never to be seen again.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Exit up. About of Fresco Exit Swalling Dome coming up next.
More on the brilliance of Aaron Rodgers. You'll hear him
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