Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss if Jerry Jones is really to blame for the Dallas Cowboys horrible start to the season. The Dan Campbell moving saga takes disturbing twist. The latest on Caitlin Clark’s black eye. Plus, MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi puts a bow on the regular season and gives his playoff predictions!

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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome inside a Tuesday. It's Tuesday. It's Tuesday, wed Tuesday.
It's Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
You woke up, you were all exciting.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Here we go Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
So it was a world beating Tuesday until it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
It was a world be free beating Tuesday. And then
the day there was no baseball there. Uh yes, we
could be close to seeing a record breaking performance in
Anger League Baseball as the White Sox and the Angels

(01:09):
zero zero in the seventh A loss by the White
Socks would give them the most losses in baseball history.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
How about that.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
They would own it in the record book. But like
Bill Pullman liked to say in Independence Day, we will
not go jentle into that good night. Oh they're really
going zero zero in the seventh there are dozens of
fans here in Chicago extremely excited about it. Now, I
will say attendance is pretty good tonight because we're gonna
lose Game one twenty one. I want to we're gonna

(01:37):
see a record.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
I'm sure plenty of those folks are asking for a
paper ticket to commemorate the experience.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
The only thing that's wrong with it is you're gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
End up setting a record by losing to the Angels.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, you lost to everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
No, no, that's fine, but they're not much better than
you are.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I don't know about that relative. I don't know about
that there to lose one hundred games and there's still
gonna be twenty games ahead of pretty White Sox. I
mean no, I don't know that.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
I did enjoy the fact that the White Sox decided
to ask screw it, We're just gonna do a random
logo generator as well, so logan o' hoppies at the
plate and it's got the Guardian's logo up there instead
of the Angels.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
They're all just done. Everybody's done, Like, I don't even
want to be there.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
You saw the social media there after the last loss.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, go check major League Baseball dot Com for the
MLB dot Com, for the last score.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
You talk about difficult days to come to work this
week working for the Chicago White But you know it's over.
It's just hanging over. You know, what's done. The sort
of damacles is there. It's gonna fall.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
It's just a matter of which day.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
The only thing I can say to you, it's lucky
that it's not gonna be the Cubs that gives you
the loss, Like that's the thing, Well, you won't be
the Cubs.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
But even then, like they actually had a little bit
of expectations. Yeah, there's a lot of handwritting. So it's
like all the disappointment of the Bears start and Waldron
and Caleb Williams, we should have drafted Daniel I told
you that, and Harball should have been the coach. There's
a million things that swirling around there. But the Cubs
are getting their share of derision because there was actually

(03:08):
a bit of expectation that that team could be good yea,
and instead they fall to the wayside.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Again, it doesn't matter. Look how bad the White tho,
that doesn't matter. But in the end, the clubs look
like the twenty seven Yankees compared to this. Wow, everybody
looks like Yankees.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
I like that, this is a great obfuscation of you
of you know, your Mets losing game. But it becomes
about the White Sox and lost because it all eclipse.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
The nineteen sixty two Mets, I know.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
I mean, there's a little bit of that marvelous Marv
goes into this good night.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
That's why I said this was this was a Tuesday.
That's what it is. It's it's a Tuesday. To exact anything.
You went, it's a Tuesday. Well, because here's I thought
you were gonna start drooling. Here's the thing if the Mets.
You know, the Mets lost already. So now I'm looking
at great, it's a one game lead, and Chris Saiale
is pitching tomorrow unless there's a hurricane, in which case
then who knows when they're gonna play. So they're looking

(03:59):
at being losing the first two games and needing to
win the third to not really pretty much be eliminated.
So all this good feeling of the whole season, I'm like,
oh great, the very bit. At least Francisco Lindor was
on deck in the ninth thing, just catch it. So
it makes me think that we're gonna see him tomorrow
because I mention looking for some kind of karma coming
off of this game. But tell you, man, I've gone
from all the excitement. Ready, let's go to Oh it's

(04:21):
doom and gloom. It's it's happening that it's Chris Sale.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
That's happening to doom and gloom feelings again, former White
Sox piece, long long ago.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's happening several teams ago, just like twenty twenty two
when the Braves needed to sweep, they did. They need
to sweep, They're going to It's just how it works.
They still have to jet. Just how it works. Well,
that's true, that's true.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
You got Josh Hart thrown out of first pitch for
the Yanks, and.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
In two Sundays the Knick start playing basketball.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
We're already starting to get the pressers going and everything
goes getting back towards the NBA. So you'll be able
to leave this disappointment of a finish of a season
behind pretty fast.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Well, here's what I like to do in situations like this.
Pund is no no punt, pud check Jack. I like
to do that. You know, it's funny you say that
because you know, my daughter's playing flag football this fall,
and uh, it's the first time the school has had it.
They're very excited about this. And when you want to punt,
there's no punt, right, you just move the ball like

(05:14):
you all the way back to the other team's twenty yards.
There's punching, right. So the thing is is that when
it gets to me, when they flip it over to
fourth down, you actually the coach has to yell out
what he wants. So so incomplete pass on third down,
the chain flips over to fourth of here pud pod
because he's got to yell it to the referee. So
the referee we're punting, punt punt. Okay.

Speaker 6 (05:40):
You could have seen Zoe Barren down and waiting to
receive the punch.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
She broke the halo violation and later out and she.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Goes, what what it wasn't me. It wasn't me. I
didn't done foul anybody. I didn't punch.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
You've taught her a couple of victory dances, so she
might dance over the opponent.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
But the best thing to do in situations like this
is always to look at a team that has it
worse than you. So I think what happened today with
the Dallas Cowboys, it's worse than Who's got it? Well,
at least you had no expen No, no, no.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
But see like this is a long time coming. This
is just a culmination of an entire summer of sadness.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, no it is, it is. It's watched. But you
weren't happy in the spring either, so I would say
it's springing.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
I know it's going to be bad.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
It's just a matter of how bad. It's like you
got broken up with and she went to the spring
dance with someone else, and then was dating somebody else
after school into the summer, and then came back to
school in the falls. You're dating a third person.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
It's like you read my journal. Yeah that's for my
short story. I shouldn't be adapted by Lifetime television.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
So let's get to the Dallas Cowboys, because boy did
Jerry Jones have a great my fault today from his
weekly appearance on radio in Dallas. So the Cowboys they
win week one, everything is awesome, and they get boat
raced in week two, and they get boat raced in
week three before come back at the end makes it
looked like it was a closer look good. But Jerry Jones,

(07:03):
I will give him the nod for this before I
just then tearr Jerry Jones apart. I give Jerry Jones
the nod for this because the one and two start.
He was asked, Hey, Jerry, whose fault is this? And
Jerry said, uh, it's mine.

Speaker 7 (07:17):
W FAA TV this morning had a pull, you know,
saying who was to blame for the one and two start?

Speaker 1 (07:23):
The players in the field, everything.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Seventy percent said that you were the one to blame.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Is that fair?

Speaker 8 (07:29):
That's very fair. That's very fair. It's well known that
no decision is ultimately made there for what I either
have a acquiess or prove it. That's very fair. How
could you think otherwise?

Speaker 1 (07:43):
See? All right, First of all, he somehow made and
that's what I love about Jerry Jones. He somehow made it,
taking taking responsibility for a bad start. Yet still maybe
it's all about me well.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
Energy like a super villain. Course it's fair, right, And
I said, wait, I didn't know he could do that.
No else Man Steven doesn't make decisions. Jerry Junior doesn't
make decisions. Nobody I'm making them all. Yeah, that's very
fair to say. That's my fault.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
My fault.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Guy was waiting for pushback, waiting for Jerry to fight.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
It's like, damn it, you gave me nothing. What's your
next question, what's the next one? What do you got now?
There's two big things to take away from this one.
Something different about Jerry Jones. I always like, hey, what's
something different we can say about Jerry Jones and the
Cowboys and the start here. His first thing is that
it really is amazing that Jerry Jones is in like
year thirty of the Cowboys being all about him. There's

(08:36):
no owner in sports. We give the time of day
two more than just for a day or two days
here and there when there's somehow in the news for something.
I mean, Arthur Blank got his come cuffy and when
Bryce Young gets bench, David Tepper becomes a topic for
a couple of days. But Jerry Jones has made the
Cowboys about him. We talk about the owner. He is

(08:58):
the guy man like you think about that. We don't
talk about any Mark Cuban on and off for a
long time, but really not market so. But Jerry we've
made it. He's found a way to make the biggest,
most popular team in football about him for three decades.
I mean, all the big star players they have had
coming through Dallas and it's been about him. Now here's

(09:22):
the other part of it, okay, is that if he
wants to sit here and talk about Blaine, right, Like,
what's Tom Cruise's line from a few good men? Hey,
my dad taught me that winning a trial is about
assigning Blaine. He's gonna give us our clients. We're gonna
give him Kendrick, Right, You're gonna give me the players.
I'm gonna give you Jerry Jones. If you're looking at
the Cowboys underachieving now for the better part of thirty years. Okay. Now,

(09:44):
it's not like he didn't achieve because he took over
the team and he made a lot of big moves
that were unpopular at the time. But look, he won
three Super Bowls. Right, Hey, Tom Landry had enough that
not a popular move. Jimmy Johnson comes in, Cowboys have
a dynasty. But Jerry Jones is that player who and
we talk about players like this a lot where if

(10:04):
you're if you're looking at him as an owner, who
is he? He's that player who had a lot of success,
a lot of surprising success really early in his career,
and as a result, never understood what he had to
do to keep it going. That's fair. Like he's like, like,
you know, you know that, I've heard that a lot
about the career was like Miles Austin. Right when Miles

(10:26):
Austin showed up in Dallas and suddenly he's amazing. His
friend's like, wow, who knew he was this good? When
you have so much success and it's and it's it's unexpected. Right,
because there's guys coming out of school, I know what
I'd have to do to prepare to be a star.
I get into the league, I know how to prepare
to be a star. I can handle it, move on.
But there's players that when when they get to the
when they get to the league and all of a sudden, hey,

(10:47):
for whatever reason, that first couple of years, Hey I
got the league. At my I'm doing whatever I want
to do. This is great. Lots of guys don't know
what it takes to sustain that, and as a result,
they never learn you can't do things this. You always
have to evolve, You always have to figure out when
the defensive backs, figure out what to do. You have

(11:07):
to figure out a way when you start slowing down
a little bit, you have to figure out a better
way to get in and out of your breaks. Whatever
it is. But that's who Jerry Jones you want to
talk about. Jerry Jones is my fault. He's someone that
had tremendous amount of success early and he came in
with all his money and I'm making these unpiping moves
of what happened. He brings in a great head coach.
He's got three Hall of Famers at quarterback, running back,
and wide receiver. And it was great, right. He had

(11:29):
so much success that early in his career as an owner,
he's not known how to get past, how to figure
things out the rest of the way, how to build
a roster that can sustain competing over a long period
of time. Can't tell me you can't do it. I
watch the Patriots do it for twenty years, right. I
watch the Steelers do it every year. They are over
five hundred, they were in the playoffs. He has never
figured it out because he had so much great success

(11:52):
the first few years that after that, Okay, this is
just gonna happen because I'm the owner of the Cowboys,
and I can do whatever I want. But then you
can't bring in the right head coach, and you can't
get the quarterback right. Then you can't get the rest
of the team right. You start overpaying. And this is
almost thirty years of the Cowboys underachieving. So if you
want to break down Jerry Jones, say it's my fault,
it's my fault. Yeah, what we saw this last year

(12:12):
of him not going out and signing anybody. Yeah, we
knew the Cowboys were gonna think, oh, but I'm gonna
give Dak and CD money. You had Dak and CD
last year. You need to go out and get better players.
You can't tell me you didn't have money for Derek Henry.
You had money because you hadn't given any money to
Dak or CD Lamb at that point, you could have
given money to Derek Carry.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
Don't give me the well, couldn't couldn't afford Derek Henry. So, yeah,
couldn't afford Mark Henry either. W W spon's a guy's
named Henry. Can't afford him. Couldn't afford Henry Thomas, and
he hadn't done E Teason's nineteen eighty three. So that's
that's Jerry Jones's why this is no surprise. He's never
learned how do I sustain that initial success? And instead

(12:49):
this is why the Cowboys are where they are.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
I mean, Henry Thomas did go on to a tremendous
career as a character actor.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
I mean he's shown up in a lot of dramas
through the years.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
But that to say, you know, we talked about Trevor
Lawrence last night, right, he's on the other end of
the spectrum of a star that now it's all right,
what's your next act? Right, Kyler Murray? That was the
you dominated all of these levels. What's your next act?
You brought up the other side of it of unexpected success.
It's like, all right, this seems to be working. How

(13:19):
do I get better? For Jerry Jones, everything he touched
early turned to gold, and he credited himself for all,
not Jimmy Johnson, not any of the other influences that
he had in terms of building those rosters. It all
became look in the mirror, I'm the guy, and well.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
That's how you lost Jimmy Johnson.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
Why he said, I can have Barry Switzer coming and coaching,
and that's what he did.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
But that's the boy, right is it became all about
for thirty years, and every once in a while Steven
locks him in the closet and prevents him from doing
making a move and getting the player that he really wants,
either in the draft or getting on the phone when
they take it away and give him one of those
toy telephones. Uh, like he's not talking to gms about
potential acquisitions. The fact that he made it about himself

(14:06):
like he was a football wizard, and over thirty years
has never been wise enough to realize that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Thirty bleeping years. Man, he had a four year run
of dominance.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
Next years my year, right, those drafts all worked, All
three of those guys, three of the greatest.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
At their position you've ever seen. Troikman gets nearly enough
love for what he did for that squad. But that's
another argument another time. But after that, at no point,
not at after a five year of futility, a ten
year of futility, celebrating commemorating all of those teams of yesteryear,
when you had the twentieth anniversary of the first Super Bowl,

(14:45):
that should have probably been enough to tell you, man,
I probably want to go back to the way we
did things. Then we were a lot better. Hey, you
think you think Emma can still run it a little bit,
you think, But he gets off the couch in that commercial.
It gets trucks.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
I know that, I know the Donald kid is sleeping
during the Rams games. Maybe Emmett can just run a
couple couple of times.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
This a couple of times this is run just kind
of show the young guys how to do it well.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
At this point, Emmett ain't gonna be much worse than
the run game that Jerry's trotting out there.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
But that's who Jerry jones with unexpected success early and
you never learn how to sustain it. And look what
happens a.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
Bunch of yes people around him. Man, someone just gotta
shake him and say, Jerry.

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Speaker 2 (16:43):
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Speaker 1 (16:55):
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Speaker 6 (17:00):
Uh we are live right now. Yeah, check us out
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Speaker 1 (17:07):
But that's okay.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Now I'm just showing my age. Yeah, I got the
big glasses on. I was gonna put those shiny sunglasses
on that are over there, trying to cover up the
circles under my eyes.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
Steal somebody, so no.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
No, just for the no, no no, And then I
would disinfect them and leave them back on the desk
because I found out, as I found out.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Before the show tonight, because we're ordering food. We welcome
back justin Frostburg. Yeah, after being out the last couple
of weeks, who came back for time. Look, I'll tell
you Frostburg has been out. He's been trying to procure
three or four show. Heyo, Tani home run balls. I
don't know how many he's got, but no, but I
got dirt.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
You got, you got the dirt, dirt, dirt. They're selling
dirt at Dodgers Dirt.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
No, no, no, the Dodge right now, Dodgers padres big
series this week one nothing, Dodgers, the Dodgers. And I
don't know where is it in the in the home?
Is it at Chavez Ravine or they sell it? Like
where are they selling this? Well? Where else is Dodgers stading? Okay, well,
I don't know if they were selling it there you
can that's the ground show. He walked on you that's
the only place you could sell. And this is how
they're selling it, dirt from Dodgers, from from the batter's box,

(18:12):
and they're put pumping it as dirt show. Hey, Otani
walked on this season.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
It's good to see that they got on board.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
That walked on. How great is that?

Speaker 9 (18:23):
No, see a piece of Dodger Stadium, the ground O
Tawny stood on. There it is is about here in
his momentous four season.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
There you go, there you go? How much?

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Oh I don't know, but you know what I was much?
Is that a hundred bucks a little. Because we've seen
this done. Tops has done some products.

Speaker 9 (18:43):
The opening day it looks like a uh a disc
of homeplate dirt is ninety nine dollars.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
I love this. I love this.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
He deferred all his salary. Look at how much money
they're printing money. They're doing snow angels in money. I
showed you that the Tops now product right the fifty
to fifty card, they printed six hundred and fifty three
thousand copies of If this was if this.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Was a movie, you'd be able to eat the dirt
and get superpowers. Oh wow, yeah. Suddenly, well, you know,
like a like a kid. He shouldn't have eaten the dirt.
But he goes to baseball practice after and he's just
launching bombs, going. Oh, all of a sudden, I can
I can understanding eats his own dirt. No, no, he
should he walked on. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know how he gets his something.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
I think you gotta be careful you start talking about
guys ingesting anything and getting special power.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
That's why I just said, if it was a movie.
I said, if it's a movie, if it was a movie,
that would be it, Yeah, would say a movie, and
then suddenly I got yeah, we could do that.

Speaker 6 (19:46):
Don't eat dirt. Okay, let me know what. Kids were
healthier when they eat dirt. Don't eat dirt, okay. No
one eat dirt, no one? Does no one eat any
dirt of any kind. Did you not eat any dirt
as a kid?

Speaker 5 (19:59):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:59):
No? Are you sure? No? Did you eat the yellow snow? Probably? Yeah,
I'm sure you did. Oh it looks like lemon. No no, no, no,
put it down, put it, put it down, put it down.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Hey, suckers born every minute and sometimes you need hydration.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Don't eat dirt, all right, don't don't No one eat dirt.
No no, no one eat done. But I mean dirt.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
Finally, manicure and choose that dirt Dodger Stadium. That's not
that's not just any dirt.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Don't eat Where were you yesterday when I bought it?
Don't eat No. Still, if you buy it, that's great,
don't eat it. I hate it.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Is it like the things that they did with sea
monkeys back in the day at the back of the act.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Wait, here's all you need, here's all you need to know.
Hang it, here's all you need know alex tyshirt. Okay,
is there any protein, any sort of benefit from eating dirt? Yeah? No,
come on, yeah, let's go. Here we go.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
The band's back together, dude, Jason, come on.

Speaker 10 (20:53):
A company called dirt that sells you some of the
best dirt in the world.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
The best damn dirt.

Speaker 10 (20:58):
Money combuy amino acids, like, dude, let's go.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Hang on.

Speaker 10 (21:03):
If microt buy them is a huge thing.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, here's the thing. Here's the thing, here's
the thing to stand on that dirt. You would if
that was the case. If that was the case, then
how come every movie I see wait, whether it's pokes Apocalyptic,
there's no food anywhere. There's plenty of dirt. You just
eat dirt. You'd be fine. Right, it's like a diet. Okay,
you can't survive off of dirt. You just said you

(21:28):
could eat it. You had all kinds of It's like
going into Jampa Juice. It's like what you described this dirt.
Look at all these enzymes and critical minerals. I go
into jama Juice and I see the stuff on the menu.
I go, how am I even alive? You're missing these
critical things? Jason?

Speaker 10 (21:42):
Oh, I gotta get You know that all of the
fruits and vegetables come from dirt, right, Yeah, but you can't.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Eat the if there would be no such thing as
and and no one get hungry anywhere, it'd be like, oh,
post apocalyptic. How you doing? I got them a dirt farmer.
Oh that's great. What are you doing?

Speaker 4 (21:55):
You're being You just said you can do it as
a supplementation. You could grab one.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, what'd you do? Last night? I listened to that
crazy ass show with Jason and Mike. Yeah, what they
talk about. Jason was telling people not to eat dirt,
but everybody else on the show said to eat it,
eat it. That's the show. Yeah, that was the show.
Eat the brick. Okay, that was it? Okay, great, I
didn't know that, being honest, they really said that. Yeah. No,
the guy they were, Jason was the only smart one.
He's the only guy saying don't eat the dirt. Everybody

(22:24):
else was saying, eat the dirt, eat the dirt. Don't
eat the dirt, right, don't eat the dirt?

Speaker 5 (22:27):
All right?

Speaker 1 (22:28):
No, what know what, No one eat the dirt, dude,
look it up, go ahead your Google machine. No, because
that would be the case, there would be no hunger,
people would be able to eat dirt.

Speaker 10 (22:35):
Jason, extreme, How can't just eat dirt? But it's okay
to eat dirt?

Speaker 1 (22:41):
To the extreme, a rock of mic like a vandal.
Letge you watch a chump like a candle dance on
the DJ say, uh, do the dance? Figure to do it?

Speaker 3 (22:48):
You can't go half assed go.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
I'd sell it by the gram jealous because I'm out
getting mine. Jay with the gage of Minela with the
nine Uh.

Speaker 10 (22:55):
They said as a kid, Jason, God made dirt and
dirt don't hurt. It's true, it's okay if you get
stuff dirty it.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
I've never heard that phrase. What I've never heard God
made dirt and don't hurt.

Speaker 10 (23:04):
If you drop food or something, pick it up you
all right.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
That's not You could do it like they like.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
You're shooting free throws and you can do the ten
count all right, right, there's the arm, it's up.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Could you ingest three and not die? Yes, But that's
a different thing than eating dirt.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
No, no, no, he wasn't saying you go on all dirt dyeing.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
You just said there's all kinds of there is, but
you can't live on dirt alone. You can't live on
dirt at all. You can't live on dirt at all.

Speaker 10 (23:32):
You can't live off of one singular thing at all.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
And lives the amount of years of college the three
of you have had. This is I know. I'm trying
to damn wizard. We're trying to learn you. No one
eat dirt. Please, don't eat dirt. This is what happens,
by the way, when you eat dirt.

Speaker 5 (23:47):
Ready, go ahead, just chick over here, is there your girlfriend?

Speaker 8 (23:51):
You should.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Welcome back? Justin Yeah, Justin Frostburg is back. There body,
Jay frost is back. Sure, No, Joe Dirte Dirte Dirte
now and the White Socks are losing now. Yes, we
could be on the cusp of baseball history. Isaac Low
and cron will have more with what's trending coming up
in a few minutes. But crazy story out of the NFL,

(24:19):
crazier than eating dirt. Don't eat dirt. Uh, Dan Campbell,
we talked about this last week. Story comes out. Lion's
head coach says, Hey, we had to move because too
many people knew where he lived in Detroit and getting
too much unwanted attention. So we had to move. Very upset.
Every too many people knew where he lived, so we moved.
We talked to Jay Glazer about this last Thursday was oh, dude,

(24:42):
I'm telling you, dude was getting docksed all last year.
After the after the playoff game, there were people showing
up at his house to give estimates for things. People
called and said, yes, I'm Dan Campbell, come to my
house and and I want an estimate on this. And
people kept showing up at his house and he had
to move and it was a crazy story. Well now
Dan Campbell gave us a little bit more details on

(25:02):
it today is that the big thing that pushed them
to move was that he got docksed by one of
his daughter's classmates in school following the NFC Championship game,
after the Lions lost to the forty nine ers. UH,
one of the kids put Dan Campbell's address on social
media with the with the caption you shouldn't have been

(25:22):
going for it like all the fourth down that they're
going for it. So now people knew where he lived
and people were showing up at the house and Dan
Campbell when when this happened the first time, he wasn't
home and his daughter was calling him saying, hey, what's
going on. They had to flick the lights to make
sure people driving by knew that someone was home, so
he had to move. He had to, you know, he
had to move because of this. And you know, look,

(25:43):
but I agree they shouldn't have gone for it on
fourth down as much as they did. We talked about that,
but this is I said, no, you can't go okay,
no matter what you think about them going for it
on fourth down, don't dox anything, don't eat dirt, don't
dos anybody. These are the less as we're teaching tonight
on the show This Is, and we talk about there

(26:05):
are trappings of fame, and the biggest thing that I
don't think people take into account is the fact that
you give up so much privacy when you do something
creative or in the public eye for a living, and
no one understands how tough that is. Because, yeah, is
it a great light to dan Kell, will make a
lot of money, Yeah, Does he live in a big house, Yeah?

(26:26):
Does he love his life, love being coach of the lines, Yeah,
there's so many great things. But every second of every
day you have zero privacy. You have zero privacy at
work because even though he's at work coaching the Lions.
When he walks by, does he walk by a sales
office and walk by a couple of interns? You just
want to come up and talk to him and say, hey, hey, coach,

(26:47):
how you doing all this? When maybe you just want
five minutes to yourself, And then you magnify that by
he can't go out to the grocery store and buy food.
He can't do that and people recognize him within two
seconds been walking into a store. He can't go to
the mall and buy any clothes right. He can't go
out to run to the run to the store for
an errand for his wife or or his kids without
having to worry about I'm gonna get here, and someone's

(27:09):
gonna stop me in line and say something. And maybe
it's someone who's upset that we go for it on
fourth down when we really shouldn't have hy He has
absolutely zero privacy going out to dinner. How hard is
it you have to take so many safeguards going out
to dinner because you don't want people coming up to
your table going, hey, hey, coach, how you doing. Boys
shouldn't have gone for it those couple of times on
fourth down. Man, You're throwing the ball to your number

(27:30):
four receiver in the NFC Championship game on the road.
It's different from going forward week ten against the Bears
at home. There's a lot of pressure going on here,
Like he's every single minute of the day. When when
when a star goes out, whether it's a football coach
or an athlete, or an actor or whoever it is,
or a singer, absolutely zero privacy. You can't go brows
in a bookstore. You can't do any of this. And
that's the biggest trapping of fame that I don't think

(27:52):
people understand that this is what you give up. And
that's a lot to give up. Privacy is a lot
to go up, especially when when when most times, as
you get older, you want to have time to yourself.
You want to be able to do things like that.
You want me to go visit a Now he can't
go visit a national park without someone yelling across to
him from a glacier. Hey, why did you go for
it on fourth down?

Speaker 3 (28:11):
Twice?

Speaker 1 (28:12):
I mean twice, coach, I mean there's no privacy.

Speaker 11 (28:15):
You know.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
I once had a listener find me as I went
to a rest stop International park aren't you like my
kids and my then wife were terrified.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Nice just could be yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
But you have no idea that you are like, Yeah,
I was just a guy, you know, facing the crowd, man.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Wearing a shirt with your picture on it said I'm
Mike Harmen. No.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Yeah, but even so it was my car pulled over?
Dude is behind me?

Speaker 1 (28:45):
No idea? Okay, I mean.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
Flattered that somebody knew who the hell? Yeah, so that
it became this was.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
It a purple car? No? Did it say they have
Northwestern bumper stickers? No, it did not.

Speaker 6 (28:57):
They had no identifiers that I is that no Fox
Sports Radio logo?

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Are you playing the Super Bowl Shuffle really loud?

Speaker 4 (29:04):
It might have been on the playlist, but I mean
it wouldn't have been that loud. I mean, I don't
have the external Blues Brothers speakers tonight, only the Blues
Brothers review.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
To cause any trouble. I'm just here to do that.
Oh Hi, how you doing?

Speaker 5 (29:18):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (29:19):
But I mean, how many guys if we talked to
that have worked here at Fox Sports Radio, even our
offensive lineman brethren who said, look, we had parties where
we would get streamers from the movie studios and they
built little movie theaters in their homes and would cater
parties because they couldn't go to the mall. Okay, right,

(29:39):
and that's not a list star, that's one to fifty three. Right,
So all all of that's certainly true, and you have
to decide where that trade off is now. The thing
that I wonder going forward, and this is all terrible, right,
it's absolutely awful for Dan Campbell and his family and
whoever that classmate was just a just a horrible being.

(30:01):
But they're gonna figure out where he lives next. Right,
That's not gonna stop, is the thing.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Right.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
I can't imagine that there's not any town US, a
college pro whatever where people in that neighborhood don't know, Hey,
that's coach's house.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, but this is all if you're living in a
gated community getting in his harder, why that's no pretty
good ads though, Applebee's him and hel Cogan hanging out
doing commercially.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Saying that, right, they put up the you can never
see it coming.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Maybe he's got to walk out like that and people
wouldn't know it was him, although you would know it
was in because he's got the thing over his face,
so you'd think it was a disguise because he's covering
his face with the play sheet. But instead people would
then say, oh, I know those eyes in the place.
You have two options from the stands, though. You can
go classic Lions fan with the.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Bag, or you can go looch you door a mask,
which you see now and again all right, all right,
because he's also got the body to be a Loocha door.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
Very now to a man who wears a luchador mask
to work at least three days a week, there's no
question about it. It's Isaac Lohenkron with what's trending?

Speaker 7 (31:10):
Yeah, a little makeshift tonight, don't you think I see.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
He actually has his hands over his eyes like he's
wearing a Lucidor mask. Hey, he's committing to the bit.

Speaker 7 (31:21):
Sure, probably should have wondered how I'm going to run
down the important major league scoreboard wearing this arm luchador mask.
Let me just peel it off and cut my losses
here there.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Was no baseball tonight. It's fine. Just go right to
the w NBA playoffs.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
Right to the.

Speaker 7 (31:35):
Playoffs, spoken like a true met fan on the night
of a loss. Sorry, right right to the w NBA Playoffs,
indeed right to the playoffs. Yes, how about how about
that New York Liberty advancing to the next round. Well,
we do start with ongoing Major League Baseball activity. We
start at Dodgers Stadium with the Padres and Dodgers battling.

(31:58):
The Dodgers lead them by just three games for first
placed in the National League West, and right now San Diego,
on a two run home run by Jake Croninworth, has
a two to one lead over the Dodgers as they
go to the bottom half of the second inning. The
Los Angeles Angels holding a two to one lead over
the White Sox in Chicago. Bottom of the eighth Inrey,

(32:18):
with one out, the White Sox have the tying run
at second, potential go ahead run at first. Of course,
the stakes for this game the White Sox for the
record of thirty six and one hundred and twenty. If
they lose, they will surpass the nineteen sixty two New
York Mets, who were forty and one twenty when they
called the Polo Grounds home. The Baltimore Orioles deviata the

(32:39):
Yankees five to three despite Aaron Judges fifty six home
run Yankees missed a chance to clinch the American League East. However,
the Twins four to one loss to the Marlins has
clinched a postseason berth Incinnatalie for Baltimore, the Cleveland Guardians
over the Cincinnati Reds six to one, clenching a first
round by and home field advantage in the American League

(33:01):
Division Series. In the NBA, The Athletic reporting this evening,
Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard underwent a procedure on
his knee during the off season, and at the outset
of training camp he will be limited to strengthening his knee. Finally,
Jason to Mike, the NFL just announcing that Los Angeles
Chargers safety Derwin James's one game suspension has been upheld

(33:25):
upon appeal, so he will indeed, as expected, miss Sunday's
game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
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(33:51):
after wee get off the air. Coming up next. You
always say this to me, Mike Carmon, all the great
advice I have had against the number this year now
ten and two on my.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Upset Steah, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
I really may take my own advice for a game
tomorrow night, and I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
Coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
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 (34:20):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
And you always say, oh yo, Jason, all your advice,
Oh where are you? Do you go to Vegas? Did
you bet it?

Speaker 11 (34:35):
Did you get it?

Speaker 8 (34:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (34:36):
I'm like, okay, look if I you know, I can't
get caught up in my own product here. I mean,
I don't know if I'd wind up getting too close.
But there is some action that I'm thinking about for
tomorrow night, for tomorrow night. Yes, I'm thinking about individual
individual overs for one very specific player after today, and

(34:59):
it's Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 6 (35:00):
All right, Oh okay, I thought you were already looking
ahead to Thursday night.

Speaker 11 (35:03):
Thought.

Speaker 6 (35:06):
Under for the Giants under under. No see, I'm gonna
take some of those over. We'll coflick on that tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Today there was a lot of talk about the foul
that gave her a black eye on Sunday, with Dja
Carrington uh hitting her in the eye in the first
game Connecticut beats Indiana. Indiana's got a wind tomorrow night
to keep their season going. And the more you look
at the video, yeah, the play was dirty. Right the
way she moves her hand to hit Caitlyn Clark. No

(35:33):
one tries to block a shot like that, No one.
No one follow and follows through with the hand. Now
what was she doing? Was she trying? Was this somewhere
I hate Caitlyn Clark and I'm gonna do this? Or
was this a kind of hey? Like Bruce Bowen would
put his foot out so when you were taking a
jumper you came down, you would sprain your ankle if
you landed on his foot, right, That's kind of what
I took it as as a hey. Playoff game. Here's

(35:56):
something if I bop you in the face a little bit,
I'll hit you in the in the forehead. Maybe that
sends a little bit of message, gets you off your game.
And I know she she did it on purpose because
you saw a video of her and her teammate celebrating
it later on in the game, so you know she
was trying to do that. Now, her intention of did
she want to injure her? Does she hate Caitlyn Clark?
Is she jealous of her? Like that's that's the that's

(36:16):
the question. But there's no doubt she wanted to try
to send a message there with with with a dirty play,
and so that's what it was. But after seeing how
they have both responded, Okay, Carrington interviewed by Christine Brennan
and she basically seemed disinterested. So now now you know
that that that she's that she was okay with what
she did, because usually if you poke somebody in the eye,

(36:37):
there's a little bit of Hey didn't mean to do that.
We're you know, we're out here competing. But in the end,
I don't want to I don't want anybody to lose
their eye. Hey, it was just unfortunate, but she just
seemed disinterested in any of that line of questionings. So
that tells me in seeing her answer today, Yeah, she
knows what she did and she's okay with however whatever
comes out there.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
I mean, it's also a I mean, no fall was
was registered, no basketball yellow card or warning or anything
of that, and it just kind of got dismissed along
the way, not to mention.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Caitlyn Clark then went on to shoot what two of thirteen, right,
so she has.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
A terrible night shooting whatever. But it just the responses
and for Christine Brennan to ask the questions as pointedly
as she did, Like that's the other thing, Like she
didn't dance around it, she just went straight.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Hey. Then she said it looked like you guys were
celebrating it after.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yeah, no, I don't know, because I would have had
to know about it to have celebrated it.

Speaker 11 (37:28):
Whatever.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
It pretty sure. I saw your teammate do the fingers
into your forehead and you both laughed about it.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
So yeah, I know threes fans, Hey remember that episode?

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Hey, mo quite two quite numb skulls. I'm broadcasting, So
seeing dj A Carrington's response today Okay, I get she
knows what she was doing. She knew what she was doing,
and Caitlyn Clark got off her games. She had a
horrible game. Caitlyn Clark today went out of her way
to say, hey, just basketball. I don't know what you said.
Look at the replay. And Caitlyn Clark smart enough, she's

(37:59):
very elf aware. So when she says look at the replay,
look at the replay. Is she saying look at the
replay to say, hey, nothing wrong, or she's saying, hey,
nothing wrong, look at the replay as if to say,
if you look at it, you'll see that it was
a dirty.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Place, if you wink through my black and blue eye.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah. So she looked better today. Her eye looked a
lot better. She said, listen, everything is fine. I'm good
to go for tomorrow. It was not a dirty play.
Not a dirty play. Both of them know what the
play was. Okay, both of them know what the play was.
And Caitlin Clark is no one. If not okay, you
want to you want to give me a little something,

(38:35):
I got something special for you. I would go over
on every offensive prop for her tomorrow night over for everything, points, assists, rebounds,
She is someone we have seen that in her life
and again for entertainment purposes only. She is someone we
have seen throughout her life, throughout her basketball life. When

(38:55):
there's a big challenge in front of something happens, she
rises to that occasion. This is the big challenge for
her professional life so far with the Fever. It's one
game or go home. You think she gonna have another
game where she doesn't score in the first half, or
is she gonna have a sixteen point first half? And
is she gonna have five threes in the first half.
I would go every single Caitlyn Clark prop Tomorrow. Yeah,

(39:16):
I see her tomorrow having one of those incredible games. Now,
does it result in a win? Probably? They probably. You know,
Connecticut is good, but they're not great. They're not overwhelmingly big.
They knew what to do in Game one. Now the
Fever learned a lot. Fever have some really good players
too that have really come on over the course of
the past month or so. But yeah, give me Caitlyn
Clark to have a huge game across the board tomorrow night. Okay,

(39:39):
you wanna throw that first punch at me metaphorically, I'm
gonna throw the last punch and now you see what
this is like tomorrow and then we're gonna go back
to Indiana on Friday and then see if you can
win the series or if we have insane fans that
are spending thousands of dollars tickets to come in to
see me and us play, let's see if you can
close us out on Friday night. I would take every
over proper for Katelinky.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Yeah, I'm trying to find tomorrow's I can only find
listings for games that you could.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
Put the over prop at forty and I would take
I take over for her. She's gonna have that kind
of night to.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
Come out and with the explosiveness and clearly the I
being healed, maybe a little you know, don't just pick
the one in the middle kind of philosophy that sometimes
you get to when you've got an injury of that ILK.
But yeah, it was a game clearly after that because
that was early. I mean that's five minutes into the
game that that injury occurs, and then her shooting is

(40:29):
just off for the rest of the night. So yeah,
aggressiveness out the jump, she'll live at the free throw line,
can bank on that might get called for a technical
along the way, but it's a playoffs, it's reset. Teammates
can only hold her back so much if there's another
similar play Yeah, because remember, you know, the perpetrator of
the act had also been doing a little chirp and
during the regular season. So it's not an isolated incident, right,

(40:52):
It's like a physical from the physical side, it was,
but there's already been some precipitated.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Banter. Yeah, uh yeah, Carrington disagree with a couple of
things around Caitlyn Clark. So there's you know, let's see
tomorrow night. Let's let's see how things go tomorrow night.
I'm telling you we'll find some actual numbers. I feel
better about Kaitlyn Clark than the Mets tomorrow night against
Chris Coming up next, another great day and quarterback non

(41:19):
decisions in the NFL. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. This is My
Nightmare Live from the Tirerack dot Com Studios. Now, that
was excessive big night. Major League Baseball, the race for
the wild cards in the National League American League may

(41:40):
just be a battle of who loses the least. With
all the teams losing to get closer and closer to
the end of the season. More of attrition. Man, let's go, man,
just training about winnings. We lost less games. Joining us
now in the hotline, nobody better to break down what
we're going to see the next few days. MLB Network Insider,

(42:02):
Fox Sports Radio insider and Guess Detroit Lions football picker. Yeah,
John Paul Morosi, what's happening, Pump?

Speaker 5 (42:09):
I believe I like the Lions.

Speaker 11 (42:12):
Am two and one on the season.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Well, what, whatever the Lions do, that's pretty much your
record because you picked the Lions every week. That's true.
Whatever the Lions do, you do. But we haven't played ats.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
But yeah, it works.

Speaker 5 (42:26):
Maybe let's let's see how I feel by the end
of this conversation. I have not yet waited on the
Seahawks and Lions on Monday Nights football in a week,
which is gonna be an excellent game.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
But they're wearing those cool new uniforms, so I mean,
maybe that pushes you over the edge.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
M That is true. I do think though, so Seahawks undefeated.
Lions got a nice, nice win on the road there
against the Cardinals. But I do think it's gonna be
a tough match. This is gonna be a prime time
game coming up. Love it, and it's gonna begin the
week of the MLB season. So a lot of good

(43:01):
things happening right now.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
And now Dan Campbell just moved to live next to
John Palmer Rosa by the our neighbors.

Speaker 5 (43:06):
Now I understand something, yeah hurt, something like that wasn't
wasn't very good. Somebody, somebody was not being respectful to
the coach.

Speaker 11 (43:17):
I don't like that.

Speaker 5 (43:18):
That's not that's not okay. That isn't that is not okay,
not okay to disrespect someone. I don't. I didn't like
that at all. And I I of course, as you know,
Dan Campbell's got my full support and he and his
family should not have to go through that all right.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Now before we get to your pick, and I'm thinking
the lines, maybe twenty seven points before you get your pick, obviously,
we look, we're all in on the wild card race
the next few days here, and you know we'll start
in the National League. The Braves beat the Mets tonight.
The Diamondbacks are getting thumped by the Giants. But you
think it's the Dodgers that are in the most trouble
right now. The next few days.

Speaker 5 (43:53):
Well, here's my thought on the Dodgers. It's not so
much that they're in jeopardy of losing the Vision now.
They are losing to the Padres.

Speaker 11 (44:01):
Right now.

Speaker 5 (44:02):
The Padres are, as we speak, three games back. The
Padres have the tiebreaker, so if they're able to pull
even by the end of the season, then the Podreys
would win the division based on the tiebreaker had to head.
So that's that's real, and that's something to think about.
The point I'm thinking about with the Dodgers in general, though,

(44:23):
is who is going to start all of these games
in the postseason and who do you trust to get
you into the fifth or sixth inning of postseason games
on a consistent basis. It's not just about winning one
or two games here and there. You're gonna have to
go back to the same starting pitchers on regular rest

(44:44):
more often than not. And I just don't see it.
Yawamoto has struggled, He wasn't able to stay healthy, and
even when he came back, it hasn't been sharp. Kershaw's
been out, Glass Nile's not coming back, Miller keeps struggling.
Nac was on the mountain the night didn't really pitch
grade either. So I'm I'm at a loss here about

(45:07):
where this team is going to go for their starting pitching.
And it's I'm sure someone's out there listening saying, yeah,
but it's a bullpend game in the postseason. It is,
and it can be. But the reason why, the why
the Giants won the twenty fourteen World Series while utilizing
openers a lot of the time is because they had

(45:28):
Bumgarners soaking up innings in the other games. Who was
going to be there?

Speaker 11 (45:33):
Bumgarner?

Speaker 5 (45:33):
Who is going to be there? Cole Hamilton two thousand
and eight. The opener strategy works when you got a
horse to take care of one game almost by himself.
And I do not see any pitchers like that on
the Dodgers' roster right now.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
I heard the stat thrown out our guys, Patrick some
money talking about the fact that Paxton still has more
starts than any pitcher that's going to be available for
the Dodgers's.

Speaker 5 (45:59):
Correct, that's correct, and he's And for those of you
who are just joining us, James Paxson is no longer
remember the Los Angeles So we'll bring you up to
speed on that one. If you if you're just joining
the radio program right now.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
There you go, all right, So Jason gripping after a
Mets loss earlier, who's actually showing up out of the
wildcard in the National League because he's fairly nervous about
Chris Sale tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
Jason, Buddy, I think the Mets had their window. Now listen,
I in fairnest to them that they played great in
the immediate aftermath of Lindor's injury. Now we're seeing the
full scope of what it means to not have him available.
I think Luisan Helakun has done an admirable job, but
this is not the same team without him, and especially

(46:44):
not when you run up against one of the best
young pitchers in the game tonight in Spencer Schwellenbach, by
the way from Saginaw, Michigan, home of the Memorial Cup
champion Saganaw Spirit. I mean, when you're dealing with somebody,
you're dealing with somebody from Saginaw, and he's a tough kid,
really good competitor of great stuff. So that was a

(47:06):
tough assignment. Tonight Tomorrow is a tough assignment. You got
potential adverse weather coming up through the goals. There's been
some thoughts about you have to get creative with rescheduling games.
I don't know that's the way about my pay grade.
All I know is the Mets are not in a
good spot right now, and if Lindor was able to
play at any level of comfort and effectiveness, he'd be

(47:29):
doing it by now. And the fact that he's not
tells you a lot about how much pain he's in.
And I'm a little bit worried. I think Viento's had
a good game tonight, but not a lot of other
guys did. And I'm a little worried. Jason, it's been
I guess what I'll say is this, as much as
you're concerned right now. If I had told you in
February that you'd be in the last week of the

(47:51):
season playing for something, you would have said, I'll take
that every day of the week, and that my friend
is still where the Mets are, even though I do
believe the Braves will probably find to wait to pass
in the next five days.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Well, you picked me right up there, Joe. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:05):
Hey, friends are honest with each other. Remember that.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Okay, all right, now, let's go to the American League,
where it seems like nobody wants to be a wildcard.
Kansas City can't win. Uh, Minnesota can't win, although the
Royals did win the game tonight, But you have the
Tigers are coming. The Seattle Mariners are still just on
the outside. Baltimore's got the first wildcard locked up, but
the other two wildcards, John Paul, are going to be.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
Who Tigers and the Royals. I don't think that the
Mariners have enough left. I don't think the Red Sox
do either. And the Twins just keep losing. They lost
to night to the Marlins, who are on the verge
of moving on from their manager, it appears, and the
skips Chumacher. The Twins, I just think they are a

(48:52):
good team that it's almost finally catching up with him.
They've had a lot of injuries this season, Joe Ryan
of course, most notably in their rotation and then their lineup.
They don't have enough and have not had enough of
the full season of Buxton and Lewis all in Korea,

(49:12):
all healthy and going at the same time. The number
of times that that team has played a game with
all three of those guys healthy, effective productive, it's it's
probably in the single digits, to be honest. With you,
and you just can't win that way, especially when you're
a middle market team or a smaller market team. So
that to me is where they're at. It's a difficult

(49:32):
position for them to be in. But the Tigers they
won today. Trek Scobel continues to deal he'll be the
Signing Award winner. I believe in the American League and
the Tigers somehow, somehow are on their way potentially to
a playoff birth for the first time in a decade.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
How about that staying in the division. They stave off
record setting fashion tonight amongst chants of selling the team.
White Sox beat the Angels but now tied with the
sixty two Mets. How do we really put this in
context in today's Major League Baseball and what it means JP?

Speaker 5 (50:07):
Well, well, Mike, we'll see, first of all, baseball being baseball.
I mean, would have really surprised anybody if they if
they show up in Detroit this weekend and win a series?

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Yes, like I mean, it would shock me.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
It probably would. But but how many times have we
seen teams.

Speaker 11 (50:24):
That are way out of it? Now that the White
Sox are in.

Speaker 5 (50:27):
Truly a category under themselves, And I think that the
people that follow the team carefully. And I heard one
person actually make this comment to me today basically saying, John, like,
I don't know how much better they're going to be
next year. What's the sign is? Where is the hope
that they're a better team. If they didn't even really

(50:48):
do a great job of the deadline, the Kopek and
Fetti trade was minimum in terms of what they got back,
I don't know. It is a It is a very
very very difficult situation right now on the South Side,
and I think not only is the current situation a problem,
but their way to find themselves out of it is
a real issue.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
He is the red hot John Paul Morosi, MLB Network,
Fox Sports Radio. He tells you what's going to happen
in baseball, and now he's gonna tell us what's gonna
happen with the Lions and the Seahawks. Despite the fact
he knows about three players that have played for the
Lions the last twenty five years and all of them
are Eric Hippel, he will give you his pick right

(51:33):
now for the Lions this week.

Speaker 5 (51:35):
So I've actually seen Jamiir Gibbs is a good player.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Yeah, he is very good.

Speaker 5 (51:40):
That's a good player. Yeah, Montgomery's a good player. Look
at you, good player.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (51:44):
Like, I'm actually watching a little bit of football, though
it is surprising to you.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
I know, kids are getting a little bit older.

Speaker 4 (51:51):
They've got their own devices, so yeah, he gets to
watch football.

Speaker 5 (51:54):
What I also know is that is that scoring defense
rankings are thing, and the Seahawks rank at are near
the top of those numbers. I think I've got to
pick the Seahawks this week. I've got the Seattle Seahawks
twenty and the Lions fourteen.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
I'm gonna surprise you're covering the number two.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
It's a four point spread, forty six and a half
to do.

Speaker 5 (52:18):
Wow, I'm saying. I'm saying Seahawks win, and and it's
the under Wow.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
Wow, John Paul, Just when we start changing the answers,
he starts changing the question.

Speaker 5 (52:31):
That's right.

Speaker 11 (52:31):
You know, I try. I am a a rather by in.

Speaker 5 (52:37):
My normal life, but every now and then people, and
then I gave you a surprise tonight.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
Wow. Well, listening, he's not going to do an interview
with you. Just let you know it's not gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (52:45):
The bottom line is this, I think now I've never
met Dan Campbell. I think he values people with it
when they're being honest, professionalism, And I'm just telling you
my professional opinion is he had a fall game, but
he and every single time. But I've got the Seahawks.
I just think they're they got a good defense, They
got a good defense. And the one, the one, the

(53:05):
one super Bowl that I covered, the one super Bowl
that I covered was was in Detroit. The Seahawks lost.
That was the that was the Randall l one right
the season. Yeah, yeah, Bettis, did you know? And I
mean I'm sure you've probably heard a couple of times
due that night. You know he's actually from Detroit, how
about that?

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (53:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey you know Kershaw and Matthew Stafford
know each other too.

Speaker 11 (53:28):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 5 (53:30):
So I've kind of got this like soft spot my
heart because I feel like they were they were wrong
to be. There were a couple of calls that went
against them. So I'm gonna say that Seahawks make amends
for that. I know it's not their first game there
since the two thousand and six Super Bowl, but I
think they will. They will find a way to win
the re bulgame.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
Not many people look back at Super Bowl for his
super Bowl Excel and say, yes, the Antoine Randall l
Super Bowl.

Speaker 9 (53:54):
That was good. I like that.

Speaker 11 (53:56):
That was that was the catching pass. There was a
trick there's a trick play. Yeah, how do you remember
that one? The bettest one?

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Yeah? No, because it was all about Bettes. Yeah, it
was really it was all about Bettess.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
It was. It was.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
It was a questionable call on fourth down, the Roethlisberger touchdown.
The Seahawks really upset about all the calls they didn't
get following the games.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
There was a bad holding that Sean Lockley still has
not held that guy.

Speaker 8 (54:21):
That was.

Speaker 5 (54:23):
I remember I watched the game.

Speaker 11 (54:24):
I was. I covered it so that that I will
tell you that. And and the Rolling Stones at halftime show.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
There he's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is John Morossi,
the poope, John Paul Morossi MLB Network. Hey, congrats on
the Michigan win last week. And buddy, we'll talk to you.

Speaker 11 (54:41):
I got I gotta talk to Petros yet, I haven't
talked to me, and I gotta.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
He's gonna he's gonna dodge your phone calls. I guarantee it.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
Guarantee not the way not the way Michigan played football.
Petros will be all for a team that runs you.

Speaker 11 (54:52):
Over like that, It passes, passes for like eight yards.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
And yeah, I was saying I thought you're gonna say,
John Paul, Well, that was me in high school. I
passed for thirty forty yards a game we won, and
that worked.

Speaker 11 (55:05):
We always lost.

Speaker 5 (55:07):
We always lost.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
You're the best.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
I'll be good.