September 26, 2024 • 40 mins
How in the world can anybody be mad with MLB over the rainouts in Atlanta for the pivotal Braves/Mets series? And quarterback Matt Sluka announces he’s leaving UNLV over “NIL Dispute”
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Speaker 1 (00:58):
A must win regular season game as they have had
in the last ten years, because Wow was tonight and
must win coming off of a walk off triple play,
the Padres clinching a playoff berth, the Padres being as
close to them as they ever have been this year,
just two games out, potentially winning the tie breaker the
Dodgers hold off the Padres that winning four to three.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Gavin Loox remember.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Him when he was had an ops so like eight
to fifty a few months ago.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I remember him.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Uh, he has a big night for the Dodgers. But
this was they absolutely needed this. This was as much
of a must win as you could possibly have. They
get it and now, and now the Padres need a
lot to happen if they're gonna wind up winning this division,
Like they need so much to happen that now it
almost seems like a fade accomplete for the Dodgers. But
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they had to have the win tonight. Still don't make
me feel great about the Dodgers going forward. They got
a lot of problems and I don't know who's gonna
pitch for them playoffs. But at some point, man, I'm
telling what it's going to happen. But you know, they
win tonight and they will stave off the concerns and
and be able to sip champagne a little bit bigger,
a little bit deeper over the course of the next
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couple of nights.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I mean, as we watched this one unfolded, it plays
to script. We get the starter either four or five innings.
Flaherty is a guy tonight, and then we see what
the bullpen's able to cobble together as you go show
how Tani It's interesting if you follow the the Socials
have everybody around this team, they're just wondering, all right,
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this guy's got the fire in the belly everything you know,
every at bat, every base path wandering right and stolen bases,
whatever else you know, he's bringing it at all times.
And it's like, can we can we get others to
pass even channel some bit of his energy? Like seems
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to be where Dodger fans are just a little bit
of handwringing over the rest of the squad compared to Tani,
Mookie Betts and others all getting together. I don't know
that that's necessarily fair. Uh but the level of angst
certainly high. Uh And a huge win here tonight for
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three year final. Kopek comes in and gets to save.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Uh so a lot more baseball throughout the night.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Look, we had the Diamondbacks getting back to their winning ways,
and now suddenly you thought, oh, maybe the Diamondbacks will
lose and we won't have all kinds of headaches because
of weather. Now Diamondbacks win, and now we're gonna have
to play out the rest of the season and probably
have a double header on Monday to determine one or
maybe two wild.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Card spots in the National League. Thanks. This is look,
this is because of the big story today.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And the first thing I want to say is everybody
has the best thoughts and hopes that Hurricane Helene is
something when it hits the East Coast and hits Florida Atlanta,
that it's something that everybody can withstand and there's no
loss of life and and and and property down. Images
can be kept to as minimum as possible, but it
really doesn't look like you see some of the waves.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
A Category four.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Could get to eighteen feet high in the air, and
you see what kind of destruction that can cause. And
it's just it's just fingers are crossed for this over
the course of the next couple of days. And of
course that's where our thoughts really are with everyone. But
we are a sports business and the postponement of the
Mets Braves has big time ramifications on Major League Baseball,
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and it is a big story. Wherever you see what's
going with Hurricane Helen, you see the postponan of the
Mets Brave series is a really big deal.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Now, the first thing.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I wanted, because there's two big takeaways for this, right
and the first one I want to say is everybody's
just got to relax. Man, got to relax. First of all,
this is a This is a force of nature. This
is Mother Nature reminding us that, hey, you want to
make plans to do stuff. When I want to do stuff,
I'm going to do stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Right, So just it relaxed.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We're talking about figuring out when they're going to play
a couple of games.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The Mets and Braves are post to play tonight and tomorrow.
Both of those games got rained out. So right now
Mets and Braves have a double header scheduled for Monday
in Atlanta. Now, potentially, sure, somebody could play eight the
teams could play. Winning team could play eighteen innings on
Sunday on Monday and then fly to the West Coast
to play a game. Whatever it is, it's gonna be fine.
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They'll figure it out. Major League Baseball did the right
thing by postponing the games and kicking the can down
the road.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
We don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
We don't know how the next five days in Major
League or four days and Major League Baseball are going
to play out. Maybe we don't even need the games,
Maybe we only need one game. There's a scenario in
which if the Mets and Braves both clinch, it could
be a coin flip to determine who's the higher seed.
I don't even know if you need to do that,
because right now they've played eleven games. Braves have won
six against the Mets, Mets have won five. So yeah,
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Braves get the higher seed. Like that's how it would go.
I completely get it right. We are talking about something
that you can figure it out.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And for all the hate and all.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The all the attention on this that came up today
was all major League Baseball is terrible. They could have
planned for this, They could have done X, Y and Z,
and they knew a week ago. Yeah, you knew that
this was coming a week ago. But there's lots of
stormfronts that come in that don't make landfall and you
don't have to maneuver your plans. And we find out
the Braves didn't really want to maneuver, according to reports,
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because either they wouldn't want to lose the gate receipts
for the games tonight and tomorrow, or they're pitching rotation
for whatever gamesmanship they wanted because they had their rotation
set upgrade, which we'll get to in a couple of minutes.
You know, the Braves didn't want to move it. So
all of this soff Baseball could have moved it. The
Braves could have, Yes, they could have done that. They
could have played the game. Yet, they could have played
a game on Monday when both teams were off. They
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could have tried to play Tuesday during the day. They
could have tried to play. They could have tried to
do all of these things.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
They didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's a hurricane. It's a hurricane that's coming right. Nobody knows.
Everybody's doing the best they can. So the best decision
was to say, let's not worry about this right now.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Let's cancel both games.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
We're not going to cancel one game and see what
happened to let's out of anybody get to the ballparks
all this stuff. We're gonna cancel these two games. We're
gonna play them on Monday. We'll figure it out. Then
things are going to change over the next few days.
We have no idea what the landscape is going to
look like. Yes, if worse comes to worse, teams are
playing two games on Monday, maybe they play on Tuesday.
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Maybe not, maybe they push that game to Wednesday night. Hudah.
Baseball can do a lot of things, right. It's not
that everything is not written in stone. And if worse
comes to worse and a team is playing a double
header on Monday and they gotta go play a game
Tuesday night, you know what, there's twenty three or twenty
four teams a.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
If you said, hey, you gotta win a double header
on Monday and then you go in the playoffs, they'll
all say, yes, sign me up for that.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Sign me up.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I'll play a double header on Monday, and I will
go play that game on the West Coast on Tuesday.
So let's just realize that things are fine and we'll
take a look back at this when when the weekend
is over and it'll be a lot clearer. There's too
many moving parts right now to say do this this.
We could have done this, we could have done this.
It just it gets to a point when when you
have to make decision on something, if it's too muddled
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and too cloudy. Wait, wait, because you're not in the
right frame of mind. There's too many things that could happen. Wait,
let all the variabilities happen over the next few days
and you'll know what's going on on Sunday night.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I mean you walked right up into it. The old
John line and line from the song life is what
happens to you while you're busy making other plans, whether
it you know, from the baseball side of it, which
we'll get to in a moment, or just planning out
the final week of pageantry, network TV programming and scheduling
and everything else. That things change and you can't control nature.
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We're unfortunately at that point in the season and in
the calendar where you've got these large natural events that happen, right,
I mean, there's there's planned for it as much as
you can that you don't know how it's going to
affect things. Now, you got the schedule that may help
you out at the end here in the final week,
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and maybe it's all a moot point, but the amount
of handwringing was, you know, distasteful. I mean like saying, hey,
you should have done something about it a week ago. Well,
what if nothing happens and now you say, well you
gave them home games or you move this to some
neutral site or whatever.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Like.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
You can't win for trying right one way or another,
like because if it doesn't hit Land hard and it's
it's a non big event and it's just you know, rain,
then everybody complains the other way that you overreacted. That's
the way the poison pen works in this fickle world.
So you know, major League Baseball, we criticize them in
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this case. This is about as forward thinking as they
can be. And if there requires further action, you've got
several days to get it right now.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
The baseball part, because this is part of it, right,
This is part because it affects a lot of teams
because they're gonna play these games and it's going to happen.
This was and I'll tell you this was a much
better decision for the Mets than it was for the Braves. Like,
I'm not that upset that they're not playing these games
right now, right, And the Braves, I'm sure are way
more upset that they got postponed and pushed till Monday. Why, well,
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it's pretty easy for the Mets number one. Who do
you need back more than anybody? Right, Francisco Lindor need
him back? Was he ready to play today and tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
We know he was ready to pinch hit. At least
he was gonna pinch hit last night the ninth inning,
but he just didn't come up because the Mets went out.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Was a nice decoy.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah, I'm just gonna be out here, right, Yeah, just
like open receivers. Yea fear in.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Them open receivers for Deshaun Watson. Their decoys that. So
we know he's going to hit. But is he gonna play?
We don't know, But I feel pretty good that by
next weekend, by Sunday or Monday, Francisco Lindor is going
to be in the lineup.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He needs a few days of being able to do
what he can do to get ready to play. So
you're putting out the most the best chance that he
could actually play because they need him and they would
have him for both of those games. Mentally, the Mets
were already halfway beaten coming into this. They looked awful
last night. And yes, it's one game, and the Mets
are resilient. It's why they've been in it for so
long and why they're in a wildcard position. But you
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were looking at the prospect of facing Chris Sale tonight,
who has been unbeatable for the better part of the
last three months. So now all of a sudden, it's well,
we're gonna lose two games and now it's a must
win on Thursday against another great pitcher in Max Freed,
and if we don't win that one, our season's over.
So I saw how things were just absolutely not falling
the Mets way. So this getting pushed, Hey, this is
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great for them. You see what the Diamondbacks do over
the next few days and what the Braves do of
the course of the rest of their series here, and
they'll be still alive on Monday. Because for the Braves,
this is why it's really bad.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
They did everything they could.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
They they set up their rotation for this series fantastic
with because Sale was supposed to pitch the first game
months on Tuesday, but they decided, let's push Chris Sale
to Wednesday and Freed on Thursday. Right, we win our
first game, we feel pretty good, and now we're going
to go with an unbeatable guy on Wednesday and really
put the pressure on the Mets. What happens now As
a result, Braves are still trailing in a Wildcard, so
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no one knows how this is gonna end. They can't
hold those guys back, right, Sale and Freed have to pitch.
So Sale's gonna probably pitch on Friday and Freed's gonna
pitch on Saturday. What does that mean, who's not pitching
against the Mets on Monday? Because those are the guys
you want to pitch that double header. They're not pitching.
They're not pitching on two and one day rest. So
the Braves need to throw these guys in because they
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need to win these games. So you need to see
these guys pitch on Friday and Saturday. So now they're
suddenly going into that potential double header on Monday with
the last two guys in the rotation they want, and
while the Mets, Mets aren't going to be able to
do that either. It's a bigger drop off for the
Braves from how they wanted to set this up with
their cup, with their top pitchers are really really good.
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That's how they wanted to set this up, and now
they can't set up that way anymore. So when you say, hey,
what what because it benefits one team more than the other. Yes,
this is much better for the Mets than it is
for the For.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
The well, the other thing that that compounds it, Jason,
is that you've got the Braves have to play the Royals,
a team's still battling right now. They're in a wildcard slot,
but it's not clinged. So you still have a team
playing that's playing for something. Whereas Milwaukee they clinched their division,
they're four games back of Philadelphia for the best record
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in the National League and tied with the you know,
the Dodgers as well right there, so you know, they're
not getting a home field advantage or anything. So they
got nothing to play for. No one there too, right,
they're locked one there too. So the Braves have to
go play a team that's still hungry and they're still
battling for their place. And you know, the Mets have
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the burst.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
From a from a baseball stand from a game standpoint,
that's what it worked out better for. So and I
get look, and this is not anybody's fault, just really,
that's why it's nobody's.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Fault why they're not playing.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Look, the Mets had a chance to make this game
up earlier in hear they didn't want to do it.
They had it off day. They said, no, we'll do
it in September. Okay, So I'm not saying it's all
the braves. The braves had a chance. They could have
moved it. They decided not to. That's why it's okay.
It's okay. Now it's not going the way anybody wants
it to. But you know what, life throws curveballs at you.
That's kind of how it goes, right, There's unforeseen stuff
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that happens all the time.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And they'll do the best, and they'll make it up.
And we'll maybe.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Play on Monday, maybe we won't. Maybe we'll play two games,
maybe we won't.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
They can do You can play it at the shell
of the open Ala Media County Coliseum.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
No, dude, the possum's alone.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
That place by Sunday, man possums alone, that place tomorrow
Tomorrow's game.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
What's the gestation period of a possum? How quickly will
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So there you go. There's everything again.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
All our best hopes fingers crossed for everybody on the
East coast in Florida, especially with Hurricane Helen coming up.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tyrak dot com Studios. We got a
big quarterback story coming your way in a few minutes
from the NFL. But yeah, this, this story out of
college is really something you probably saw this today, and
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it's a story that involves now former UNLV quarterback Matt Sluca.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Like Suzanne Vegas said, Sluca lives on the second floor
of stares from you. I think you've seen him before,
maybe in the first three games for the run in rebels.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Sluca has left UNLV put out a statement that he
is taking a red shirt year because he hasn't played
in more than four games and he's going to play
his final years someplace else. There's a transfer from Holy
Cross and he's played really well so far this year.
UNLV is off to their best start ever. They're ranked
for the first time ever. I mean not even when
Kenny Maine and Randall Cunningham we're playing quarterback for UNLV
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where they ranked.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But here they are three and zero.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
They're game against I was reading about the game against
Syracuse coming up is like the most anticipated game of
UNLV memory. It's like we're playing a real team. It's like,
oh my god, we're gonna get killed by UNLV. So
it's a really great time. But the starting quarterback SLUCA
is leaving. And this is a guy who's a really
good duel to a dual threat quarterback. You know, he
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throws for you know, between one hundred and fifty two
hundred twenty five yards a week, runs for one hundred
yards a week. Like, he's been pretty good. And here's
UNLV and now they got to play without him. Why
because he was promised one hundred thousand dollars in nil
money by one of their assistant coaches and he never
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got it. Now, the statements that have come out today
have been by his father and his agent that said, yeah,
we've gotten some money for relocation, but right now, basically
we're paying out a pocket. He was promised one hundred
grand in nil money by an assistant coach, the head
coach that I never made that promise. We don't have it,
and he's really mad, and so he is leaving the
school because he didn't get the one hundred thousand dollars
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in nil money that he was promised. Now, this is
kind of a sticky wicket for college football because NL
money can be promised, it doesn't have to be delivered.
That's why there's all kinds of legislation going on. Right
now that potentially you could see this solved in core
that hey, NIL agreements can be legal and binding, and
we're gonna get this, and you're gonna get this, and
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it's gonna make things a little easier.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
But this is where we sit right now.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Quarterback for UNLV decides yet, no, I'm not playing and
I was promised a hundred thousand dollars. I gave you
guys time, But I gotta make a decision. So now
UNLV's got to go through the season with their backup
quarterback when they've had such a great start and such
a great beginning, and this story just makes you scratch
your head. The first thing I'll tell you is this,
and the first thing I thought about this story. Okay,
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UNLV in Vegas. They don't have one hundred thousand dollars
for their quarterback. Yeah, really for their quarterback, not for
a lineman, not for a lineback or not.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
They don't have.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
One hundred grand for their quarterback.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Jerry Tarkany, you never had to worry about stuff like this.
You don't Las Vegas. You don't have one hundred thousand
dollars for your quarterback. Like really, Like I get that.
It's football. But this is this is the guy you
brought in. You're playing really well. Hey, this kid wants
to try answer, he wants to leave. We're three and no,
we're having a great year.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Couldn't find one hundred grand for him, couldn't find one
hundred grand swear for him. I mean, that's just that
baffles me that they that UNLV in Vegas doesn't have
a hundred grand, not a million, not five million, not
quinn yours kind of money. They don't have one hundred
grand to get to this kid to say, yeah, I'll stay,
I'll play the rest of the season.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I mean there's a lot of stuff going on here.
You got a question of whether his agent is actually
an agent in Nevada. He's with Equity Sports, which actually
includes Patrick Mahomes, so they handle some big boy contracts
along the way. But I think it comes down to
this UNLV. Clearly they have not assembled and gone back
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to the early nineties to recognize how to do things
like something is run amiss here for thirty plus years
because at big time colleges, you ain't fumbling the bag
legitimately right, someone thing with the guy in the place
that money he's getting served and delivered if it was promised.
So that's where we start getting into the shadows of
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this of you know, expectations and handshake agreements and everything else.
You know, we go back to all sorts of other
jokes about what they used to do to guys who
didn't honor agreements in the desert in Las Vegas. But
you know, you've got a guy saying, hey, I was
supposed to get one hundred grand and they give me
a measy three thousand dollars. It's like, goodfellas, I gotta
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turn my back on you my lifetime for three thousand bucks.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I'm out.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Then another guy leave and he made sure to put out.
He goes, I'm just not getting playing time. It's got
nothing to do with that. IL leave me out of this,
which is kind of interesting. He's like, I want to
distancing myself from the rest of what's going on. But
you got a team that's finally on the map. People
are paying attention, and he claps his hands full blackjack
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dealer style and walks away. So many questions, but just
it cycles back to the entire thing of the nil
and payment system and rules that aren't there. The quote
unquote guardrails which are invisible and nonsensical and there's no
teeth to any of it, flying by the seat.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Of their pants.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
And here's a great example of how this can go
wrong in a hurry.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You know. And that's the bigger point of this is
that this is a.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Story about a UNLV quarterback, right, and it's gained a
lot of attention because it's unique. It's wait a minute,
the kids decided to leave. These decided to leave his teammates.
And you know, what's a tough decision. You know, you bleed,
you sweat with these guys, and I understand that, you know,
football is different than a lot of other sports. Man,
you come and do this and put your body on
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the line. It's a tough decision. But in the end, look,
the kids got to look out for himself because college
football has become such a business. Right, Like we always
tell college football's a been, it's a business. But in
the last five years, in the NIL era, it has
become such a business that you don't even know where
the line is anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
And that's the thing about college football.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Is that I don't understand how it's so successful because
there is no big business run worse than college football,
and still here they are. Everybody's making money or they're
moving money around, or we're changing conferences. I don't get it.
I don't get it. They don't have a plan. There's
no one running college football. There's no plan. They just
react to stuff. Oh we gotta pay the players, Well
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here's how we'll do it. Oh well teams are leaving conferences.
Oh well we'll leave here and we'll go here. But
there's no plan. It's and there's a big change every
three months, right, it's like a it's a It's like.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
When you when you used to watch a drama.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
On TV that was twenty two episodes, right, like every
two or three months, there was a big plot twist. Oh,
the big plot change because you got to keep people
watching all the way through the year, from September all
the way through May. Sweet Right, every three months, it's
gonna be a big fear. And that's what it's like
college football. Every three months, there's something so new and
so shocking that you have to change everything you do.
This is why college football coaches are done. Why the
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older under saying we're finished, Why it's all about the
younger ones that are okay, that are able to navigate
the nil era and have the energy for a game
that changes every five minutes. There's no such thing as
just coaching anymore. For all the complaints you hear from
Dabosweeney and other some of the old guard, a lot
of it's legit right.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
A lot of it's.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Legit that that this this has become an age where
nobody knows what's happening from one moment to the next.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
How college football is this successful with all of this
chaos happening continuously.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Now, I want to think that sid's going to continue.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And as long as we're putting the games on television
and people and schools and confidences are making money and
making big TV money, things are going to be fine.
But eventually you're going to run into something. Right, Eventually,
when you when you run a muck like this, you
run into something at Oh, that's a brick wall. We're
not getting passed. I'm just hoping we don't get there
anytime soon. But I gotta you know, because there's no
one to throw the emergency brake, there's no one to
(23:52):
stop any this is no one to say, hey, I'm
in charge. Now, the money that schools are making by
leaving is too big for anybody to come in, any
commissioner to come in. Okay, we're gonna stop this movement.
Blank you you're stopping movement. I just got five hundred
million dollars for changing conferences.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
You're not gonna stop me from doing that? Are you kidding? Out?
A big piece of the TV pie money?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Like college football is just there's absolutely no plan. It's
a rudderless ship that is just going. And how it's
not crashed into anything, I have no idea. But eventually
that day is gonna come. I just don't know where.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I think the best example I could give would be
to call it, well, a Ponzi scheme is that you
build and build and then hope that you don't hit
the end game before you are able to cash out.
And I think for a lot of administrators and others
that's the way it is, Like, all right, this is
really unwinding. Wait, those four schools are going. Where can
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we do anything about it? Nope? And the thing with
the nil and all of these these new permutations to
things is that it's all state to state too right
as to how it's adjudicated for Dabosweeney and the old
you know coaches that are longer ten. I don't want
to call him old.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
He's not an old guy.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
But been around a minute and he famously said, hey,
once they start doing that, I'm done well. He had
some coaching, we had some questions, but all of a
sudden they're on the rise again. So suddenly Clese it's
back bending. But it's just you've got to have such
buy in from your university to put in the infrastructure, to.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Put in your.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Own institutional rails when it comes to legal and administrative
and being up to date with every change that goes through,
trying to make sure you know where you're at dollars
and cents and where the rules are when anything is
spoken of right by by a collective, by the schools themselves,
whatever else, because the rules are changed. Look at the
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Reggie Bush file in a lawsuit. Sorry, Reggie, what you
did at the time was illegal, and those were the
rules of engagement to use likenesses for promotion of the
game thereafter. Sorry, here's a pat on the back, congratulations
on a job done. But when we look at it now,
it's like everybody scared of where and where these rules
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are at UNLV quite clearly. Nobody handled any of the communication,
Like I'd love to know the chain of events of
who he's saying he talked to and he and his
family in terms of the promises that were made, right,
because you got everybody who raising their hand on what me,
we don't do that, and here's why, and here's what
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the state does, and then here's the agent that's not
licensed within the states. It's like it just keeps out
so much, like that's the bar that just baffles me
to know it, Like you thought all day, it's like,
all right, this is a curious thing. Guys winning, playing
good football, they're relevant. And he taps out and and
all of you, for a nickel on the dollar, would
(26:50):
do the same thing right with your jobs. You'd walk
across the street if it's the same kind of circumstance
for a few dollars more. And don't kid yourself, you
do it for him. He's trying to look out for
his because he even know if there's a career in
the NFL. He's trying to make sure he gets taken
care of now while the getting's good in college football.
(27:11):
And I can't blame him but as soon as the
thing about his agent comes out and the legitimacy or
non legitimacy of his credentials as related to doing anything
in Nevada, that's just amateurish. On a whole other level.
We get to bring that word back in, if only
(27:31):
for a.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Moment, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen do in
the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live and the
Tirec dot Com Studios. We got more coming up in
ninety seconds. But first, Brian Finley has what's trending in
the wide world of sports. Of course, no story bigger
than his Padres coming up or run short against the
LA Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Well, I wonder, but I will say that they in
the Padres are already in the postseason. Yes, that they
didn't help their cause in the NL West as far
as trying to win that and as you wereing to Jason,
it was a Dodger win four to three. They scrape
on by a Dodger stadium. They have now made their
first place lead in the NL West up to three.
(28:11):
Three games in front are the Dodgers over the San
Diego Padres. Meanwhile, in regards to other meaningful games around
Major League Baseball. We did witness what we were hoping
to witness, something in the form of a Mets Brave
series that actually got moved to Monday the final.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Two games due to the.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Incoming hurricane and rain that is scheduled to take place
in the Atlanta region, so that will be a.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Doubleheader on Monday.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Both of those teams are in the thickest things in
regards to the NL Wildcard picture, sam could be said
as we look at other matchups here the Tigers with
a seven to one win over the Rays, the Royals
of three to nothing victory against the Nationals. The Royals
and the Tigers tied for second in the AL wildcard standings. Brewers,
they already took the NL Central. They fell on the
(29:02):
road against the Pittsburgh Pirates two to one. Guardians victorious
five to two over the Reds. The AL Central winning
Guardians Phillies victorious nine to six against the Cubs. Mariners
keep themselves in the postseason hunt with their eight to
one win on the road against the Astros, who yesterday
claimed the AL West. The Dodgers had a chance to
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claim the AL East, but they couldn't get it done.
Aaron Judge did come up with some nice individual numbers
in the form of a Major League Baseball or Yeah,
an MLB leading fifty seventh home run, but it was
all for not in the form of a Yankee lost
nine to seven against the Orioles. Orioles are first in
the AL Wild Card picture. Wins for the White Sox
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over the Angels, who saw that coming four to three
in ten inning's twins win. And also something to mention here,
the Athletics lost five to one against the Rangers. In
there the athletics second to last home game ever at
Oakland's Coliseum, and fans were not only as Jason and
Mike were talking about taking some of the seats as
(30:04):
if they were souvenirs, but they were also taking some
of the dirt from the field and putting it in
video showing putting them in empty water bottles as if
to keep that as a memento, the dirt on the
field as a sign of what's to come in the
a's moving on. And then, lastly, guys, one team that
is not moving on in the form of the WNBA.
Caitlin Clark in that rookie tour makes a sudden abrupt stop,
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and it ends the tour in the form of a
sweep in the first round against the Connecticut Sun Game
two tonight, eighty seven to eighty one in the Sun's favor.
And even though Kaitlyn Clark's Fever are bounced from the
postseason and the best of three first round matchup, she
did have twenty five points ten of twenty three from
the floor, thrilled in the form of almost manufacturing by herself,
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Jason and Mike a comeback in the second half. You
saw the Fever even take a lead in the fourth quarter,
but they could not withstand it or whatever was coming
their way from the Sun. Who you know, Jason, Mike
has aid working back to you, you need more than
just Caitlin Clark to carry the load.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
And she did what she could. But we'll have to
wait till next year in April to watch her for
year number two.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
You sound like you bet on the feet to win.
You're very upset that they got swept.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I would have to say most people are.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Although she has for some reason become, as you guys
have talked about a lot in length, such a polarizing figure.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I think people are just jealous of her.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Thank you very much, Brian finily appreciate it, buddy, just
really quick. You know, we talked about the trappings of
fame a day ago, right when we had the Dan
Campbell story about how he had to move in Detroit
because one of his daughter's classmates doxed him and put
his address online for people after they were upset that
(31:49):
he went for it on fourth down in the NFC
Championship game.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
And you know, we heard this story and that's why
they moved.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And this is something that came out in the last
couple of days, and I said, listen, the giving up
of popularity, of your privacy is the biggest trade off
for fame, and a lot of times it's not worth it,
you know, it's really really you say, oh, yeah, you
have a great life, though, yeah you do, but you
can't go to the movies, you can't go to dinner,
you can't go do any of these things. And I
thought about that tonight because watching Caitlin Clark talk about
(32:18):
the playoffs and pregame tonight, she talked about how yesterday,
when you know, day off in between games in Connecticut,
she talked about going into the game tonight, this before
they were eliminated. She said, I went outside for the
first time in five days. I realized, I know that's
not healthy, but whatever. I went to a little Italian
place with my parents for dinner. Like this is Caitlin Clark,
(32:39):
Like I like, as great a life as she has,
Look what she's done, and it's unbelievable. She has absolutely
zero privacy. I didn't go out and for five days,
Like just think about that for someone who has always
been able to go out and do whatever, even when
she's a big star in college.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Everything Now, Yeah, if I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Go out five days like like that, that's the trappings
of fame right there.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
It all changes on a dime. Best best the luck
dealing with it and trying to figure out what a
new normal becomes.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
coming up next. There's going to be a big quarterback
change in the NFL coming sometime the next couple of weeks.
I'm telling you it's gonna happen. Jordan Travis. Yeah, dude,
if that happens, the Jets.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Are in way more trouble than that. It is not
the Jets, but who is it?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We'll tell you what's coming up next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
It's the Jets. Jordan Travis.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Stop, let me see if Jordan Travis is healthy. Let
me check on Jordan Travis.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
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Speaker 1 (33:49):
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Speaker 5 (33:56):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
After today, I am positive we are going to see
a quarterback change in the NFL, even.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Faster than we told you was gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Are you getting rid of Will Levis?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Now?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Will Levis is fine.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
He's gonna eat mayonnaise and throw picks and turn the
ball over.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Everything is fine.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
If you take out those three egregious plays, he's been fantastic.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
If we take out all his bad plays, he's been
really he's been awesome. If we take out all the
White Sox wins and losses, they've.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Had a great so I hate you. We told you
when the Browns got Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
All right, we've been telling you all off season, Deshaun
Watson's days as a starting quarterback are numbered.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
He's not any good. He's not into it. In Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
He seems to be playing football, keeping his teammates at
arms distance and keeping the media at arm's length. When
he talks, he just I'm collecting my money and that's it.
And Cleveland wasn't gonna stand for this again for very long.
They'll go in. They're paying Watson in a lot of money,
but this will be the season where they understand either
(35:03):
he steps it up or they move on. And I
told you by the middle of the season it was
gonna be Jameis Winston, and then I was like.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Maybe by week six, week seven.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Now after today, it's gonna be in the next couple
of weeks because the Browns can't let go on what
continues to go on, and that is bad play on
the field and a lack of accountability off it. Because
what the Browns are gonna have to understand is that
if they keep putting Deshaun Watson out there, they're going
to lose the team. The team is gonna quit on them.
He was asked today about potentially having more running plays
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put in for him at quarterback, and Deshaun Watson answered
by saying, I'm not going in there to ask them
for more design runs. If I don't have to run,
I'm not gonna run. I'm not trying to take any hits.
I'm not a running quarterback. I can make things happen,
but I'm not trying to run. They sign me to
throw the ball, make decisions, be a quarterback, not a runner.
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So while in theory you get okay, well yeah, you
sign them for that, this is him saying if they
want me to do this, I'm not doing it. It
may help the team. Not doing it not gonna win.
For design runs, not gonna help. I'm not gonna do
anything to help make this team better. And when you
don't play well, when you're basically given after week one, hey,
this is it. This is that you pick it up
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or that's it. This is the final wake up call
you're gonna get. And the play we've got from Deshaun
Watson has been the last couple of weeks like you
would expect. Hey, when you know that your time is limited,
your time is running out, you would expect a much
better last couple of weeks. But instead it's not even
been okay, So how much longer are you gonna go
with this? How much longer can you go until you
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realize we just have to make a move. It's not
getting better. We're not going to suddenly take a big jump.
He's not going to be a quarterback that all of
a sudden reverses trends and gets back to being the
guy he was.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
You've seen it.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
It's been a long time now, it's not happened. It's
not going to continue to happen. He doesn't seem interested.
He just doesn't in anything that goes in with playing quarterback.
And the teammates see this. So if you keep going
with him, they're gonna quit. Can't have that happen. And
here comes Jameis Winston who's ready wants to eat W's
again and all kinds of stuff. Yeah, this change is
gonna happen sometime in the next couple of weeks. Because
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the Browns are one and two, the Steelers are sitting
at three and zero, the Ravens are the Ravens won there.
We know the Ravens are really good. They can't afford
to fall too far behind. They have a talented roster.
This is gonna go a week, maybe another, and then
Deshaun Watson will be deposed, Jameis Winston will start. And
I'll even go one step further. When Deshaun Watson does
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get benched, he will be made inactive and he won't
be around the team, and they'll figure out the money
in the offseason, because that was all all the money
he's due the dead cap. Yeah, you know what, as
we've seen everywhere else in the NFL, they figure out.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Money with dead cap. Aaron Rodgers is untradable.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Pretty sure, he got traded very easy to the Jets
when they were the only suitor. So you can figure
out the money. They'll figure out the money in the
off season. What is due to him. Who knows with
this new case that that that's hanging over him. They'll
figure that stuff out in February. But they got to
try to win. They got to do the best thing
they can for the team this year, and that's been
making a change.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
It will happen the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Well, I mean, look what the Broncos did to get
rid of Russell Wilson. Mean, look at all the money
that they had to eat. And we know you can
spread money out rework contracts. There's a million ways to
make this a more amenable situation and to digest it.
If you're the Browns, you've got a game against the
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Raiders this week. They're making business decisions, and then you're
on the road at the upstart Commanders. Then you got
the Eagles on the road before you get into a
little bit of divisional work with the Bengals and Ravens
before an early November date with the Chargers. Sorry Frostburg,
whatever's left of the Chargers at that point, but shut
your mouth. I just got to call it what it is, man.
(38:54):
But the reality is you've got a roster that we
would have ranked as a top five I have except
for the glaring issue at quarterback. And for those that
want to say, well it's you know, sample size and
whatever else, it's like, this is over several years. He's
had plenty of time to be the quarterback for this
squad and has been unavailable and some injuries, plus the
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other issues, the suspension and all else that comes with it,
it's a mess. And he's averaging fewer than two hundred
yards per game. You're looking at the like the best
thing he does is rush the football. He's had six
yards of carry, sure, and they're running the ball fairly
well with Jerome Ford. Eventually you get Nick Chubb. Look,
(39:38):
a bunch of these guys are gonna need contracts soon enough.
You can't afford to give a season away, especially with
the Bengals starting out at A and three. The opportunity
is there.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
It guys. The more massages he gets.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
That that you know, Wow, he's not wrong.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Wow, what do you mean wow?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
You know.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Even the thing is, we don't even need that at
this point.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
We have like there's all that that one hundred percent yes,
because I still can't believe he got let back in
the league like that. I can't believe he got that money.
But you don't even need to point that. You can
just look at what he's doing on the field. But
that's what you playing anymore.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
But that's a direct response to that he doesn't want
a run thing. Someone could make that argument for him.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
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Speaker 1 (00:58):
A must win regular season game as they have had
in the last ten years, because Wow was tonight and
must win coming off of a walk off triple play,
the Padres clinching a playoff berth, the Padres being as
close to them as they ever have been this year,
just two games out, potentially winning the tie breaker the
Dodgers hold off the Padres that winning four to three.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Gavin Loox remember.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Him when he was had an ops so like eight
to fifty a few months ago.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
I remember him.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Uh, he has a big night for the Dodgers. But
this was they absolutely needed this. This was as much
of a must win as you could possibly have. They
get it and now, and now the Padres need a
lot to happen if they're gonna wind up winning this division,
Like they need so much to happen that now it
almost seems like a fade accomplete for the Dodgers. But
(01:45):
they had to have the win tonight. Still don't make
me feel great about the Dodgers going forward. They got
a lot of problems and I don't know who's gonna
pitch for them playoffs. But at some point, man, I'm
telling what it's going to happen. But you know, they
win tonight and they will stave off the concerns and
and be able to sip champagne a little bit bigger,
a little bit deeper over the course of the next
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couple of nights.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
I mean, as we watched this one unfolded, it plays
to script. We get the starter either four or five innings.
Flaherty is a guy tonight, and then we see what
the bullpen's able to cobble together as you go show
how Tani It's interesting if you follow the the Socials
have everybody around this team, they're just wondering, all right,
(02:29):
this guy's got the fire in the belly everything you know,
every at bat, every base path wandering right and stolen bases,
whatever else you know, he's bringing it at all times.
And it's like, can we can we get others to
pass even channel some bit of his energy? Like seems
(02:51):
to be where Dodger fans are just a little bit
of handwringing over the rest of the squad compared to Tani,
Mookie Betts and others all getting together. I don't know
that that's necessarily fair. Uh but the level of angst
certainly high. Uh And a huge win here tonight for
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three year final. Kopek comes in and gets to save.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Uh so a lot more baseball throughout the night.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Look, we had the Diamondbacks getting back to their winning ways,
and now suddenly you thought, oh, maybe the Diamondbacks will
lose and we won't have all kinds of headaches because
of weather. Now Diamondbacks win, and now we're gonna have
to play out the rest of the season and probably
have a double header on Monday to determine one or
maybe two wild.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Card spots in the National League. Thanks. This is look,
this is because of the big story today.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And the first thing I want to say is everybody
has the best thoughts and hopes that Hurricane Helene is
something when it hits the East Coast and hits Florida Atlanta,
that it's something that everybody can withstand and there's no
loss of life and and and and property down. Images
can be kept to as minimum as possible, but it
really doesn't look like you see some of the waves.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
A Category four.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Could get to eighteen feet high in the air, and
you see what kind of destruction that can cause. And
it's just it's just fingers are crossed for this over
the course of the next couple of days. And of
course that's where our thoughts really are with everyone. But
we are a sports business and the postponement of the
Mets Braves has big time ramifications on Major League Baseball,
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and it is a big story. Wherever you see what's
going with Hurricane Helen, you see the postponan of the
Mets Brave series is a really big deal.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Now, the first thing.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I wanted, because there's two big takeaways for this, right
and the first one I want to say is everybody's
just got to relax. Man, got to relax. First of all,
this is a This is a force of nature. This
is Mother Nature reminding us that, hey, you want to
make plans to do stuff. When I want to do stuff,
I'm going to do stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Right, So just it relaxed.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We're talking about figuring out when they're going to play
a couple of games.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
The Mets and Braves are post to play tonight and tomorrow.
Both of those games got rained out. So right now
Mets and Braves have a double header scheduled for Monday
in Atlanta. Now, potentially, sure, somebody could play eight the
teams could play. Winning team could play eighteen innings on
Sunday on Monday and then fly to the West Coast
to play a game. Whatever it is, it's gonna be fine.
(05:20):
They'll figure it out. Major League Baseball did the right
thing by postponing the games and kicking the can down
the road.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
We don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
We don't know how the next five days in Major
League or four days and Major League Baseball are going
to play out. Maybe we don't even need the games,
Maybe we only need one game. There's a scenario in
which if the Mets and Braves both clinch, it could
be a coin flip to determine who's the higher seed.
I don't even know if you need to do that,
because right now they've played eleven games. Braves have won
six against the Mets, Mets have won five. So yeah,
(05:49):
Braves get the higher seed. Like that's how it would go.
I completely get it right. We are talking about something
that you can figure it out.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And for all the hate and all.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
The all the attention on this that came up today
was all major League Baseball is terrible. They could have
planned for this, They could have done X, Y and Z,
and they knew a week ago. Yeah, you knew that
this was coming a week ago. But there's lots of
stormfronts that come in that don't make landfall and you
don't have to maneuver your plans. And we find out
the Braves didn't really want to maneuver, according to reports,
(06:21):
because either they wouldn't want to lose the gate receipts
for the games tonight and tomorrow, or they're pitching rotation
for whatever gamesmanship they wanted because they had their rotation
set upgrade, which we'll get to in a couple of minutes.
You know, the Braves didn't want to move it. So
all of this soff Baseball could have moved it. The
Braves could have, Yes, they could have done that. They
could have played the game. Yet, they could have played
a game on Monday when both teams were off. They
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could have tried to play Tuesday during the day. They
could have tried to play. They could have tried to
do all of these things.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
They didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's a hurricane. It's a hurricane that's coming right. Nobody knows.
Everybody's doing the best they can. So the best decision
was to say, let's not worry about this right now.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Let's cancel both games.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
We're not going to cancel one game and see what
happened to let's out of anybody get to the ballparks
all this stuff. We're gonna cancel these two games. We're
gonna play them on Monday. We'll figure it out. Then
things are going to change over the next few days.
We have no idea what the landscape is going to
look like. Yes, if worse comes to worse, teams are
playing two games on Monday, maybe they play on Tuesday.
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Maybe not, maybe they push that game to Wednesday night. Hudah.
Baseball can do a lot of things, right. It's not
that everything is not written in stone. And if worse
comes to worse and a team is playing a double
header on Monday and they gotta go play a game
Tuesday night, you know what, there's twenty three or twenty
four teams a.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
If you said, hey, you gotta win a double header
on Monday and then you go in the playoffs, they'll
all say, yes, sign me up for that.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Sign me up.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I'll play a double header on Monday, and I will
go play that game on the West Coast on Tuesday.
So let's just realize that things are fine and we'll
take a look back at this when when the weekend
is over and it'll be a lot clearer. There's too
many moving parts right now to say do this this.
We could have done this, we could have done this.
It just it gets to a point when when you
have to make decision on something, if it's too muddled
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and too cloudy. Wait, wait, because you're not in the
right frame of mind. There's too many things that could happen. Wait,
let all the variabilities happen over the next few days
and you'll know what's going on on Sunday night.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I mean you walked right up into it. The old
John line and line from the song life is what
happens to you while you're busy making other plans, whether
it you know, from the baseball side of it, which
we'll get to in a moment, or just planning out
the final week of pageantry, network TV programming and scheduling
and everything else. That things change and you can't control nature.
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We're unfortunately at that point in the season and in
the calendar where you've got these large natural events that happen, right,
I mean, there's there's planned for it as much as
you can that you don't know how it's going to
affect things. Now, you got the schedule that may help
you out at the end here in the final week,
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and maybe it's all a moot point, but the amount
of handwringing was, you know, distasteful. I mean like saying, hey,
you should have done something about it a week ago. Well,
what if nothing happens and now you say, well you
gave them home games or you move this to some
neutral site or whatever.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Like.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
You can't win for trying right one way or another,
like because if it doesn't hit Land hard and it's
it's a non big event and it's just you know, rain,
then everybody complains the other way that you overreacted. That's
the way the poison pen works in this fickle world.
So you know, major League Baseball, we criticize them in
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this case. This is about as forward thinking as they
can be. And if there requires further action, you've got
several days to get it right now.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
The baseball part, because this is part of it, right,
This is part because it affects a lot of teams
because they're gonna play these games and it's going to happen.
This was and I'll tell you this was a much
better decision for the Mets than it was for the Braves. Like,
I'm not that upset that they're not playing these games
right now, right, And the Braves, I'm sure are way
more upset that they got postponed and pushed till Monday. Why, well,
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it's pretty easy for the Mets number one. Who do
you need back more than anybody? Right, Francisco Lindor need
him back? Was he ready to play today and tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
We know he was ready to pinch hit. At least
he was gonna pinch hit last night the ninth inning,
but he just didn't come up because the Mets went out.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Was a nice decoy.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah, I'm just gonna be out here, right, Yeah, just
like open receivers. Yea fear in.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Them open receivers for Deshaun Watson. Their decoys that. So
we know he's going to hit. But is he gonna play?
We don't know, But I feel pretty good that by
next weekend, by Sunday or Monday, Francisco Lindor is going
to be in the lineup.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
He needs a few days of being able to do
what he can do to get ready to play. So
you're putting out the most the best chance that he
could actually play because they need him and they would
have him for both of those games. Mentally, the Mets
were already halfway beaten coming into this. They looked awful
last night. And yes, it's one game, and the Mets
are resilient. It's why they've been in it for so
long and why they're in a wildcard position. But you
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were looking at the prospect of facing Chris Sale tonight,
who has been unbeatable for the better part of the
last three months. So now all of a sudden, it's well,
we're gonna lose two games and now it's a must
win on Thursday against another great pitcher in Max Freed,
and if we don't win that one, our season's over.
So I saw how things were just absolutely not falling
the Mets way. So this getting pushed, Hey, this is
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great for them. You see what the Diamondbacks do over
the next few days and what the Braves do of
the course of the rest of their series here, and
they'll be still alive on Monday. Because for the Braves,
this is why it's really bad.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
They did everything they could.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
They they set up their rotation for this series fantastic
with because Sale was supposed to pitch the first game
months on Tuesday, but they decided, let's push Chris Sale
to Wednesday and Freed on Thursday. Right, we win our
first game, we feel pretty good, and now we're going
to go with an unbeatable guy on Wednesday and really
put the pressure on the Mets. What happens now As
a result, Braves are still trailing in a Wildcard, so
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no one knows how this is gonna end. They can't
hold those guys back, right, Sale and Freed have to pitch.
So Sale's gonna probably pitch on Friday and Freed's gonna
pitch on Saturday. What does that mean, who's not pitching
against the Mets on Monday? Because those are the guys
you want to pitch that double header. They're not pitching.
They're not pitching on two and one day rest. So
the Braves need to throw these guys in because they
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need to win these games. So you need to see
these guys pitch on Friday and Saturday. So now they're
suddenly going into that potential double header on Monday with
the last two guys in the rotation they want, and
while the Mets, Mets aren't going to be able to
do that either. It's a bigger drop off for the
Braves from how they wanted to set this up with
their cup, with their top pitchers are really really good.
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That's how they wanted to set this up, and now
they can't set up that way anymore. So when you say, hey,
what what because it benefits one team more than the other. Yes,
this is much better for the Mets than it is
for the For.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
The well, the other thing that that compounds it, Jason,
is that you've got the Braves have to play the Royals,
a team's still battling right now. They're in a wildcard slot,
but it's not clinged. So you still have a team
playing that's playing for something. Whereas Milwaukee they clinched their division,
they're four games back of Philadelphia for the best record
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in the National League and tied with the you know,
the Dodgers as well right there, so you know, they're
not getting a home field advantage or anything. So they
got nothing to play for. No one there too, right,
they're locked one there too. So the Braves have to
go play a team that's still hungry and they're still
battling for their place. And you know, the Mets have
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the burst.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
From a from a baseball stand from a game standpoint,
that's what it worked out better for. So and I
get look, and this is not anybody's fault, just really,
that's why it's nobody's.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Fault why they're not playing.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Look, the Mets had a chance to make this game
up earlier in hear they didn't want to do it.
They had it off day. They said, no, we'll do
it in September. Okay, So I'm not saying it's all
the braves. The braves had a chance. They could have
moved it. They decided not to. That's why it's okay.
It's okay. Now it's not going the way anybody wants
it to. But you know what, life throws curveballs at you.
That's kind of how it goes, right, There's unforeseen stuff
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that happens all the time.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
And they'll do the best, and they'll make it up.
And we'll maybe.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Play on Monday, maybe we won't. Maybe we'll play two games,
maybe we won't.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
They can do You can play it at the shell
of the open Ala Media County Coliseum.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
No, dude, the possum's alone.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
That place by Sunday, man possums alone, that place tomorrow
Tomorrow's game.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
What's the gestation period of a possum? How quickly will
they multiply exit out?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
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Speaker 4 (14:44):
So there you go. There's everything again.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
All our best hopes fingers crossed for everybody on the
East coast in Florida, especially with Hurricane Helen coming up.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
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Speaker 1 (14:52):
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Speaker 1 (15:40):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tyrak dot com Studios. We got a
big quarterback story coming your way in a few minutes
from the NFL. But yeah, this, this story out of
college is really something you probably saw this today, and
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it's a story that involves now former UNLV quarterback Matt Sluca.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Like Suzanne Vegas said, Sluca lives on the second floor
of stares from you. I think you've seen him before,
maybe in the first three games for the run in rebels.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Sluca has left UNLV put out a statement that he
is taking a red shirt year because he hasn't played
in more than four games and he's going to play
his final years someplace else. There's a transfer from Holy
Cross and he's played really well so far this year.
UNLV is off to their best start ever. They're ranked
for the first time ever. I mean not even when
Kenny Maine and Randall Cunningham we're playing quarterback for UNLV
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where they ranked.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
But here they are three and zero.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
They're game against I was reading about the game against
Syracuse coming up is like the most anticipated game of
UNLV memory. It's like we're playing a real team. It's like,
oh my god, we're gonna get killed by UNLV. So
it's a really great time. But the starting quarterback SLUCA
is leaving. And this is a guy who's a really
good duel to a dual threat quarterback. You know, he
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throws for you know, between one hundred and fifty two
hundred twenty five yards a week, runs for one hundred
yards a week. Like, he's been pretty good. And here's
UNLV and now they got to play without him. Why
because he was promised one hundred thousand dollars in nil
money by one of their assistant coaches and he never
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got it. Now, the statements that have come out today
have been by his father and his agent that said, yeah,
we've gotten some money for relocation, but right now, basically
we're paying out a pocket. He was promised one hundred
grand in nil money by an assistant coach, the head
coach that I never made that promise. We don't have it,
and he's really mad, and so he is leaving the
school because he didn't get the one hundred thousand dollars
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in nil money that he was promised. Now, this is
kind of a sticky wicket for college football because NL
money can be promised, it doesn't have to be delivered.
That's why there's all kinds of legislation going on. Right
now that potentially you could see this solved in core
that hey, NIL agreements can be legal and binding, and
we're gonna get this, and you're gonna get this, and
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it's gonna make things a little easier.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
But this is where we sit right now.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Quarterback for UNLV decides yet, no, I'm not playing and
I was promised a hundred thousand dollars. I gave you
guys time, But I gotta make a decision. So now
UNLV's got to go through the season with their backup
quarterback when they've had such a great start and such
a great beginning, and this story just makes you scratch
your head. The first thing I'll tell you is this,
and the first thing I thought about this story. Okay,
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UNLV in Vegas. They don't have one hundred thousand dollars
for their quarterback. Yeah, really for their quarterback, not for
a lineman, not for a lineback or not.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
They don't have.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
One hundred grand for their quarterback.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Jerry Tarkany, you never had to worry about stuff like this.
You don't Las Vegas. You don't have one hundred thousand
dollars for your quarterback. Like really, Like I get that.
It's football. But this is this is the guy you
brought in. You're playing really well. Hey, this kid wants
to try answer, he wants to leave. We're three and no,
we're having a great year.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Couldn't find one hundred grand for him, couldn't find one
hundred grand swear for him. I mean, that's just that
baffles me that they that UNLV in Vegas doesn't have
a hundred grand, not a million, not five million, not
quinn yours kind of money. They don't have one hundred
grand to get to this kid to say, yeah, I'll stay,
I'll play the rest of the season.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
I mean there's a lot of stuff going on here.
You got a question of whether his agent is actually
an agent in Nevada. He's with Equity Sports, which actually
includes Patrick Mahomes, so they handle some big boy contracts
along the way. But I think it comes down to
this UNLV. Clearly they have not assembled and gone back
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to the early nineties to recognize how to do things
like something is run amiss here for thirty plus years
because at big time colleges, you ain't fumbling the bag
legitimately right, someone thing with the guy in the place
that money he's getting served and delivered if it was promised.
So that's where we start getting into the shadows of
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this of you know, expectations and handshake agreements and everything else.
You know, we go back to all sorts of other
jokes about what they used to do to guys who
didn't honor agreements in the desert in Las Vegas. But
you know, you've got a guy saying, hey, I was
supposed to get one hundred grand and they give me
a measy three thousand dollars. It's like, goodfellas, I gotta
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turn my back on you my lifetime for three thousand bucks.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I'm out.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Then another guy leave and he made sure to put out.
He goes, I'm just not getting playing time. It's got
nothing to do with that. IL leave me out of this,
which is kind of interesting. He's like, I want to
distancing myself from the rest of what's going on. But
you got a team that's finally on the map. People
are paying attention, and he claps his hands full blackjack
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dealer style and walks away. So many questions, but just
it cycles back to the entire thing of the nil
and payment system and rules that aren't there. The quote
unquote guardrails which are invisible and nonsensical and there's no
teeth to any of it, flying by the seat.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Of their pants.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
And here's a great example of how this can go
wrong in a hurry.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
You know. And that's the bigger point of this is
that this is a.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Story about a UNLV quarterback, right, and it's gained a
lot of attention because it's unique. It's wait a minute,
the kids decided to leave. These decided to leave his teammates.
And you know, what's a tough decision. You know, you bleed,
you sweat with these guys, and I understand that, you know,
football is different than a lot of other sports. Man,
you come and do this and put your body on
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the line. It's a tough decision. But in the end, look,
the kids got to look out for himself because college
football has become such a business. Right, Like we always
tell college football's a been, it's a business. But in
the last five years, in the NIL era, it has
become such a business that you don't even know where
the line is anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
And that's the thing about college football.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Is that I don't understand how it's so successful because
there is no big business run worse than college football,
and still here they are. Everybody's making money or they're
moving money around, or we're changing conferences. I don't get it.
I don't get it. They don't have a plan. There's
no one running college football. There's no plan. They just
react to stuff. Oh we gotta pay the players, Well
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here's how we'll do it. Oh well teams are leaving conferences.
Oh well we'll leave here and we'll go here. But
there's no plan. It's and there's a big change every
three months, right, it's like a it's a It's like.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
When you when you used to watch a drama.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
On TV that was twenty two episodes, right, like every
two or three months, there was a big plot twist. Oh,
the big plot change because you got to keep people
watching all the way through the year, from September all
the way through May. Sweet Right, every three months, it's
gonna be a big fear. And that's what it's like
college football. Every three months, there's something so new and
so shocking that you have to change everything you do.
This is why college football coaches are done. Why the
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older under saying we're finished, Why it's all about the
younger ones that are okay, that are able to navigate
the nil era and have the energy for a game
that changes every five minutes. There's no such thing as
just coaching anymore. For all the complaints you hear from
Dabosweeney and other some of the old guard, a lot
of it's legit right.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
A lot of it's.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Legit that that this this has become an age where
nobody knows what's happening from one moment to the next.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
How college football is this successful with all of this
chaos happening continuously.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Now, I want to think that sid's going to continue.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
And as long as we're putting the games on television
and people and schools and confidences are making money and
making big TV money, things are going to be fine.
But eventually you're going to run into something. Right, Eventually,
when you when you run a muck like this, you
run into something at Oh, that's a brick wall. We're
not getting passed. I'm just hoping we don't get there
anytime soon. But I gotta you know, because there's no
one to throw the emergency brake, there's no one to
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stop any this is no one to say, hey, I'm
in charge. Now, the money that schools are making by
leaving is too big for anybody to come in, any
commissioner to come in. Okay, we're gonna stop this movement.
Blank you you're stopping movement. I just got five hundred
million dollars for changing conferences.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
You're not gonna stop me from doing that? Are you kidding? Out?
A big piece of the TV pie money?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Like college football is just there's absolutely no plan. It's
a rudderless ship that is just going. And how it's
not crashed into anything, I have no idea. But eventually
that day is gonna come. I just don't know where.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I think the best example I could give would be
to call it, well, a Ponzi scheme is that you
build and build and then hope that you don't hit
the end game before you are able to cash out.
And I think for a lot of administrators and others
that's the way it is, Like, all right, this is
really unwinding. Wait, those four schools are going. Where can
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we do anything about it? Nope? And the thing with
the nil and all of these these new permutations to
things is that it's all state to state too right
as to how it's adjudicated for Dabosweeney and the old
you know coaches that are longer ten. I don't want
to call him old.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
He's not an old guy.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
But been around a minute and he famously said, hey,
once they start doing that, I'm done well. He had
some coaching, we had some questions, but all of a
sudden they're on the rise again. So suddenly Clese it's
back bending. But it's just you've got to have such
buy in from your university to put in the infrastructure, to.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Put in your.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Own institutional rails when it comes to legal and administrative
and being up to date with every change that goes through,
trying to make sure you know where you're at dollars
and cents and where the rules are when anything is
spoken of right by by a collective, by the schools themselves,
whatever else, because the rules are changed. Look at the
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Reggie Bush file in a lawsuit. Sorry, Reggie, what you
did at the time was illegal, and those were the
rules of engagement to use likenesses for promotion of the
game thereafter. Sorry, here's a pat on the back, congratulations
on a job done. But when we look at it now,
it's like everybody scared of where and where these rules
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are at UNLV quite clearly. Nobody handled any of the communication,
Like I'd love to know the chain of events of
who he's saying he talked to and he and his
family in terms of the promises that were made, right,
because you got everybody who raising their hand on what me,
we don't do that, and here's why, and here's what
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the state does, and then here's the agent that's not
licensed within the states. It's like it just keeps out
so much, like that's the bar that just baffles me
to know it, Like you thought all day, it's like,
all right, this is a curious thing. Guys winning, playing
good football, they're relevant. And he taps out and and
all of you, for a nickel on the dollar, would
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do the same thing right with your jobs. You'd walk
across the street if it's the same kind of circumstance
for a few dollars more. And don't kid yourself, you
do it for him. He's trying to look out for
his because he even know if there's a career in
the NFL. He's trying to make sure he gets taken
care of now while the getting's good in college football.
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And I can't blame him but as soon as the
thing about his agent comes out and the legitimacy or
non legitimacy of his credentials as related to doing anything
in Nevada, that's just amateurish. On a whole other level.
We get to bring that word back in, if only
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for a.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Moment, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen do in
the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live and the
Tirec dot Com Studios. We got more coming up in
ninety seconds. But first, Brian Finley has what's trending in
the wide world of sports. Of course, no story bigger
than his Padres coming up or run short against the
LA Dodgers.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Well, I wonder, but I will say that they in
the Padres are already in the postseason. Yes, that they
didn't help their cause in the NL West as far
as trying to win that and as you wereing to Jason,
it was a Dodger win four to three. They scrape
on by a Dodger stadium. They have now made their
first place lead in the NL West up to three.
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Three games in front are the Dodgers over the San
Diego Padres. Meanwhile, in regards to other meaningful games around
Major League Baseball. We did witness what we were hoping
to witness, something in the form of a Mets Brave
series that actually got moved to Monday the final.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Two games due to the.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Incoming hurricane and rain that is scheduled to take place
in the Atlanta region, so that will be a.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Doubleheader on Monday.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
Both of those teams are in the thickest things in
regards to the NL Wildcard picture, sam could be said
as we look at other matchups here the Tigers with
a seven to one win over the Rays, the Royals
of three to nothing victory against the Nationals. The Royals
and the Tigers tied for second in the AL wildcard standings. Brewers,
they already took the NL Central. They fell on the
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road against the Pittsburgh Pirates two to one. Guardians victorious
five to two over the Reds. The AL Central winning
Guardians Phillies victorious nine to six against the Cubs. Mariners
keep themselves in the postseason hunt with their eight to
one win on the road against the Astros, who yesterday
claimed the AL West. The Dodgers had a chance to
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claim the AL East, but they couldn't get it done.
Aaron Judge did come up with some nice individual numbers
in the form of a Major League Baseball or Yeah,
an MLB leading fifty seventh home run, but it was
all for not in the form of a Yankee lost
nine to seven against the Orioles. Orioles are first in
the AL Wild Card picture. Wins for the White Sox
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over the Angels, who saw that coming four to three
in ten inning's twins win. And also something to mention here,
the Athletics lost five to one against the Rangers. In
there the athletics second to last home game ever at
Oakland's Coliseum, and fans were not only as Jason and
Mike were talking about taking some of the seats as
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if they were souvenirs, but they were also taking some
of the dirt from the field and putting it in
video showing putting them in empty water bottles as if
to keep that as a memento, the dirt on the
field as a sign of what's to come in the
a's moving on. And then, lastly, guys, one team that
is not moving on in the form of the WNBA.
Caitlin Clark in that rookie tour makes a sudden abrupt stop,
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and it ends the tour in the form of a
sweep in the first round against the Connecticut Sun Game
two tonight, eighty seven to eighty one in the Sun's favor.
And even though Kaitlyn Clark's Fever are bounced from the
postseason and the best of three first round matchup, she
did have twenty five points ten of twenty three from
the floor, thrilled in the form of almost manufacturing by herself,
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Jason and Mike a comeback in the second half. You
saw the Fever even take a lead in the fourth quarter,
but they could not withstand it or whatever was coming
their way from the Sun. Who you know, Jason, Mike
has aid working back to you, you need more than
just Caitlin Clark to carry the load.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
And she did what she could. But we'll have to
wait till next year in April to watch her for
year number two.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
You sound like you bet on the feet to win.
You're very upset that they got swept.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I would have to say most people are.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Although she has for some reason become, as you guys
have talked about a lot in length, such a polarizing figure.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
I think people are just jealous of her.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Thank you very much, Brian finily appreciate it, buddy, just
really quick. You know, we talked about the trappings of
fame a day ago, right when we had the Dan
Campbell story about how he had to move in Detroit
because one of his daughter's classmates doxed him and put
his address online for people after they were upset that
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he went for it on fourth down in the NFC
Championship game.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
And you know, we heard this story and that's why
they moved.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And this is something that came out in the last
couple of days, and I said, listen, the giving up
of popularity, of your privacy is the biggest trade off
for fame, and a lot of times it's not worth it,
you know, it's really really you say, oh, yeah, you
have a great life, though, yeah you do, but you
can't go to the movies, you can't go to dinner,
you can't go do any of these things. And I
thought about that tonight because watching Caitlin Clark talk about
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the playoffs and pregame tonight, she talked about how yesterday,
when you know, day off in between games in Connecticut,
she talked about going into the game tonight, this before
they were eliminated. She said, I went outside for the
first time in five days. I realized, I know that's
not healthy, but whatever. I went to a little Italian
place with my parents for dinner. Like this is Caitlin Clark,
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Like I like, as great a life as she has,
Look what she's done, and it's unbelievable. She has absolutely
zero privacy. I didn't go out and for five days,
Like just think about that for someone who has always
been able to go out and do whatever, even when
she's a big star in college.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Everything Now, Yeah, if I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Go out five days like like that, that's the trappings
of fame right there.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
It all changes on a dime. Best best the luck
dealing with it and trying to figure out what a
new normal becomes.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
coming up next. There's going to be a big quarterback
change in the NFL coming sometime the next couple of weeks.
I'm telling you it's gonna happen. Jordan Travis. Yeah, dude,
if that happens, the Jets.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Are in way more trouble than that. It is not
the Jets, but who is it?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
We'll tell you what's coming up next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
It's the Jets. Jordan Travis.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Stop, let me see if Jordan Travis is healthy. Let
me check on Jordan Travis.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (33:49):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
After today, I am positive we are going to see
a quarterback change in the NFL, even.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Faster than we told you was gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Are you getting rid of Will Levis?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Now?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Will Levis is fine.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
He's gonna eat mayonnaise and throw picks and turn the
ball over.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
Everything is fine.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
If you take out those three egregious plays, he's been fantastic.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
If we take out all his bad plays, he's been
really he's been awesome. If we take out all the
White Sox wins and losses, they've.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Had a great so I hate you. We told you
when the Browns got Jamis Winston.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
All right, we've been telling you all off season, Deshaun
Watson's days as a starting quarterback are numbered.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
He's not any good. He's not into it. In Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
He seems to be playing football, keeping his teammates at
arms distance and keeping the media at arm's length. When
he talks, he just I'm collecting my money and that's it.
And Cleveland wasn't gonna stand for this again for very long.
They'll go in. They're paying Watson in a lot of money,
but this will be the season where they understand either
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he steps it up or they move on. And I
told you by the middle of the season it was
gonna be Jameis Winston, and then I was like.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Maybe by week six, week seven.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Now after today, it's gonna be in the next couple
of weeks because the Browns can't let go on what
continues to go on, and that is bad play on
the field and a lack of accountability off it. Because
what the Browns are gonna have to understand is that
if they keep putting Deshaun Watson out there, they're going
to lose the team. The team is gonna quit on them.
He was asked today about potentially having more running plays
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put in for him at quarterback, and Deshaun Watson answered
by saying, I'm not going in there to ask them
for more design runs. If I don't have to run,
I'm not gonna run. I'm not trying to take any hits.
I'm not a running quarterback. I can make things happen,
but I'm not trying to run. They sign me to
throw the ball, make decisions, be a quarterback, not a runner.
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So while in theory you get okay, well yeah, you
sign them for that, this is him saying if they
want me to do this, I'm not doing it. It
may help the team. Not doing it not gonna win.
For design runs, not gonna help. I'm not gonna do
anything to help make this team better. And when you
don't play well, when you're basically given after week one, hey,
this is it. This is that you pick it up
(36:17):
or that's it. This is the final wake up call
you're gonna get. And the play we've got from Deshaun
Watson has been the last couple of weeks like you
would expect. Hey, when you know that your time is limited,
your time is running out, you would expect a much
better last couple of weeks. But instead it's not even
been okay, So how much longer are you gonna go
with this? How much longer can you go until you
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realize we just have to make a move. It's not
getting better. We're not going to suddenly take a big jump.
He's not going to be a quarterback that all of
a sudden reverses trends and gets back to being the
guy he was.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
You've seen it.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
It's been a long time now, it's not happened. It's
not going to continue to happen. He doesn't seem interested.
He just doesn't in anything that goes in with playing quarterback.
And the teammates see this. So if you keep going
with him, they're gonna quit. Can't have that happen. And
here comes Jameis Winston who's ready wants to eat W's
again and all kinds of stuff. Yeah, this change is
gonna happen sometime in the next couple of weeks. Because
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the Browns are one and two, the Steelers are sitting
at three and zero, the Ravens are the Ravens won there.
We know the Ravens are really good. They can't afford
to fall too far behind. They have a talented roster.
This is gonna go a week, maybe another, and then
Deshaun Watson will be deposed, Jameis Winston will start. And
I'll even go one step further. When Deshaun Watson does
(37:37):
get benched, he will be made inactive and he won't
be around the team, and they'll figure out the money
in the offseason, because that was all all the money
he's due the dead cap. Yeah, you know what, as
we've seen everywhere else in the NFL, they figure out.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Money with dead cap. Aaron Rodgers is untradable.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Pretty sure, he got traded very easy to the Jets
when they were the only suitor. So you can figure
out the money. They'll figure out the money in the
off season. What is due to him. Who knows with
this new case that that that's hanging over him. They'll
figure that stuff out in February. But they got to
try to win. They got to do the best thing
they can for the team this year, and that's been
making a change.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
It will happen the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Well, I mean, look what the Broncos did to get
rid of Russell Wilson. Mean, look at all the money
that they had to eat. And we know you can
spread money out rework contracts. There's a million ways to
make this a more amenable situation and to digest it.
If you're the Browns, you've got a game against the
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Raiders this week. They're making business decisions, and then you're
on the road at the upstart Commanders. Then you got
the Eagles on the road before you get into a
little bit of divisional work with the Bengals and Ravens
before an early November date with the Chargers. Sorry Frostburg,
whatever's left of the Chargers at that point, but shut
your mouth. I just got to call it what it is, man.
(38:54):
But the reality is you've got a roster that we
would have ranked as a top five I have except
for the glaring issue at quarterback. And for those that
want to say, well it's you know, sample size and
whatever else, it's like, this is over several years. He's
had plenty of time to be the quarterback for this
squad and has been unavailable and some injuries, plus the
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other issues, the suspension and all else that comes with it,
it's a mess. And he's averaging fewer than two hundred
yards per game. You're looking at the like the best
thing he does is rush the football. He's had six
yards of carry, sure, and they're running the ball fairly
well with Jerome Ford. Eventually you get Nick Chubb. Look,
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a bunch of these guys are gonna need contracts soon enough.
You can't afford to give a season away, especially with
the Bengals starting out at A and three. The opportunity
is there.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
It guys. The more massages he gets.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
That that you know, Wow, he's not wrong.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Wow, what do you mean wow?
Speaker 1 (39:59):
You know.
Speaker 4 (39:59):
Even the thing is, we don't even need that at
this point.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
We have like there's all that that one hundred percent yes,
because I still can't believe he got let back in
the league like that. I can't believe he got that money.
But you don't even need to point that. You can
just look at what he's doing on the field. But
that's what you playing anymore.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
But that's a direct response to that he doesn't want
a run thing. Someone could make that argument for him.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
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