December 4, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike make sense of the latest College Football Network. The guys debate if Juan Soto is worth $600 million in free agency. And Jason explains why he’s fine with the committee putting Alabama at number 11.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Fox Sports Radio Greenings. Welcome inside the biggest night of
the year in the NBA. It is the final night
of group play for the Emirates Cup Bow and I
am just waiting with baited breath for the Knicks to
close out this one twenty one one oh three win
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over Orlando, hang the banner, get that one seed in
group ay for the Emirates.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
G hey man, you gotta take every little step on
the road to an actual championship.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Find your wins.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
On given Tuesday in early December, just like you did.
Wake it up this morning, he said, damn it, I
made it to another day.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Let's go. It's an e Cup night, Mike Harmon, Come on, man,
it's a different night. It's just a different night. Well,
we got the Cup. Nights are different.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, you got a huge, resounding Nicks win. I mean,
they know what's at stake. I mean nothing to chance.
I mean the cup, the cup, man, is the cup.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's come on, if you gotta be cool, you gotta
say e cup is a big deal, right, Lakers won
the first one. Now you know, Hey, this is a
big deal, man. This is this is kind of a
dress rehearsal for the real thing. Like that's why it's
a big deal. Like if the Knicks win this like, okay,
it's a dress rehearsal for the big NBA playoffs later on. Yeah,
but Lebron told me now it doesn't matter because he
already won one. He doesn't care. Just is he just
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quitting in jail? No, just like when the Lakers won
in twenty twenty, he don't feel a need to win again.
He's fine. I won in twenty twenty. I don't care
that nobody cared if this tournament does it? I won
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Meanwhile, Hey, how quickly can I open a bottle of
champagne after the final buzzer?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Lakers already won one. This is this is the this
is the new look, And I gotta say, let's let's
be honest. Let's let's take We'll take better part of
the next four hours breaking down the E Cup level
of play this year versus the E Cup level of
play a year ago. It's important. We'll go all the
way through. We'll go that granularity is what we do.
The floors, right, the floors have really taken a step
up this year, you know, I mean, the Knicks played
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an entirely orange floor tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm a little surprised they haven't, you know, had the
inlaid led lights really come into effect yet. That's you know,
our in synchronization with the music that they play, you know,
defense and we get like little swells to see what
we can do with it, I mean, and.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Make for a great televised attraction there. So again we
will keep you updated on all the big E Cup
moments of the night time. May have a like a
one shining moment at the end. Get all the great
things to all the great highlights, the one shining moment. Sure,
I think that's where that would give you the E
Cup level of experience that you need to have. We've
done a.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Hell of a job selling the E Cup in these
opening moments of a show. Let me tell you because
I think across the oh this one was an E
Cup game.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I didn't know the New York Knicks, Orlando Magic and
all the other fine teams in the NBA. I'm jim
nantz enjoy one shining moment as we look back at
the E Cup that was bullues toooped Jalen Brunson with
a coast to coast drive. There you are. Look at
Nicola Yo Kitchen running for your life, Big Bodega from Free.
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You're a shooting stuff. I could just do it like that.
There are other players need to do it. Do it.
Nicks highlights. The Knicks couldn't make the Double E Cup.
That's that's not that your b excuse me, Adam Silver
has the Double E Cup for next year. Okay, that's
that's what it is. It's gonna when the Lakers are
already working on the logo for it. It's fine. The
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E Cup that don't don't that's behind the pay We
can't Yo Cup. We can't. We can't pull the top
of us. That's all. That's a whole other thing. It's
NBA only fan, that's it. Can you earn forty three
million dollars? Let's see you see the new Double Cup
on only fans. But what is it? What is it?
Let me look, we have today what we knew what
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was coming, and this is why we have a twelve
team playoffs so we could have the mass anarchy and
arguments that are going on right now about the twelve
team college football bracket projection. The latest college football playoff
poll is out the number one through four seeds right now, Oregon, Texas,
SMU and Boise State. Of course, you know the top
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four conference winners get the top four seeds. Put a
pin in that. But the big controversy here is Alabama
is in at number eleven over Miami, who was number twelve?
No I remember because Q show, Yeah, exactly right. We
killed Miami. Syracuse killed Miami. You planted that flag. We
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derilled Miami to the heart. We did a hurricane. We
just came out with that big machete in the woods
like Jason Modies are gonna kill miam Come on in,
come on in with your imbus, Come on in, go on,
ask got one of our reporters. Come on, We're gonna
kill you. Mario crystal Ball.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You guys put out a thing of roasting him on
a spit yet or what But all of this just
a cord just eating wings and ripping him right off
the mascot and eating. Watched it earlier this year, the
Year of Living Dangerously from Miami.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Did not think that the final.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I don't know blow would come from the Syracuse Orange,
particularly in the game where we saw our friend Pete
Futech immediately going, boy, I really picked this one wrong. Ye,
And then in the end he was right, how about
we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Have him next hour on the show. It'll be fine.
But here's look, here's the thing. Look, here's the thing, jetsure,
it doesn't matter. We're a football school and big bodega.
As if you couldn't tell by that tonight Syracuse when
our football you lost by fifty to Tennessee. We're a
football school. Yeah, Wildcats lost Iowa fo we killed Miami.
We ended Miami. No you did. Then you wrecked it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Not only Dabo Swiney, but you also put Alabama in
the number on evens.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So now because of teams that can win and rise up,
Clemson can win and move up their number seventeen. They're
in the AC Championship game. The way things stand, Miami
is out because the College Football Playoff Committee has already
said Alabama and Miami teams that aren't going to play,
are not going to lose their ranking. There's no way
they can lose their right now. Obviously depending on if
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other teams move ahead of them, that could not, but
they're not going to lose their ranking. To the fact
where next week Miami will leap frog Alabama. So Miami
is out, they'll be out of the playoffs because again,
once everything is set, the teams that the teams that
are outside the top twelve that are going to win
a conference title are going to move ahead and move
ahead of them. So Alabama's ahead of Miami. Now, first thing,
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let's take care of this first. This is this is
the big one because Syracuse ended Miami. We ended Miami.
That's so great. H I'm okay with this. I'm okay
with that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Going to make a shirt and walk around the rest
of the holiday.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Look, my Twitter avatar is the upside down of Miami
Hurricanes logo. Man, we ended Miami, we ended this. See
you're part of the problem between the horns and now
now flipping the logo no no no no no no
no no no a rebellion. That's been a thing for
Syracuse for at the big restaurant on campus, the varsity. Uh,
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we put all little flags of the teams we play
up on up above where we get food from. And
if we beat them, it's a big thing where they
turn it upside down and stays upside down for the season.
If they beat us, their flag stays right side up.
So you know, that's been a whole thing. So you know,
now here, this big win, maybe the biggest win series.
They beat Clemsing, But we were four and eight that year,
so what did what kind of win? Did that turn
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out to be probably the biggest win Syricus had in
twenty years. Yeah, I'm going upside down my head.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But also huge magnified by the fact that McCord had
the game he did while Ohio State loses. So it
makes him look I mean, he's a king. Like there
should be a statue.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Look at me. I'm the king es Central New York.
I'd like that the specificity of Central New York. I'm
okay with Alabama being ahead of Miamiami being out. Why
if you have three losses and Alabama's losses the Oklahoma
loss is really bad. That's the one that sticks out going.
Oh man, yeah, I get that. Maybe you fell asleep
for Vanderbilt, but they was a giant slayer over the
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course of the year, though they were surprised. But it's
still three losses. And now the way it looks like
three losses is where the line of demarcation is going
to be set for the polls. But I'm okay with
it because if you have three losses, you have to
have a really good resume outside of that to get
in the playoffs. And you know what Alabama does. They
have three wins over the teams that were ranked, including Georgia,
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who's number five overall. They have a resume. Miami doesn't
quite have the resume that they have. Now, if they
are a one loss team and they go in and
beat Syracuse, okay, great, but they lost. And so a
two loss Miami team and a three loss Alabama team
that's playing a more difficult schedule, played more teams in
the top twenty five, Alabama deserves to be in there
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ahead of Miami. And I get that that Mario Cristo
Ball is trying an argument because it's a very sophisticated
argument of Hey, in our conference, we won ten games.
How many people can do that? How many teams can
say that? And across the board. Yeah, I understand that,
But you're also at a time where you're letting in
mid major conference champions because I'm sorry, but the Big
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Twelve is a mid major conference. Now mount West is
a mid major conference. It's college basketball playoff, come to uh,
come to the college football. So you're letting in these teams.
So I'm gonna try to find an argument that works
for me. Oh, ten wins in my conference? Well, all right,
Obviously people are going to argue about the other teams
getting in the seeds they're getting in the Mountain West
and the Big Twelve. But to take care of the
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Miami Alabama thing is you know, yeah, I mean everybody
looks at their resume now and and and when you're
when you're going to be going back and forth now
because the because the resume is so important, it's less
important if you're in the top because if you're in
the top four, Hey, as long as you win all
your games, you're getting in, right, Power five or now
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Power three conference, you're getting in. But once you get
it out to twelve, you're gonna be battling with teams
and say, hey, yeah, you lost a couple of games,
how's the rest of your schedule. You can't say, well,
we're playing three teams that we're just gonna warm up
with and not play anybody who is good, because if
you're gonna get in, you need to have that resume
that says, hey, we beat some other teams that are
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really good. It's just like you know, like I mean,
it's more and more like college basketball. Hey what's the resume? Say, boy,
this team has ten losses? Can we let them in? Yeah?
But look they beat Duke on the road, they beat
North Carolina at home, they beat Michiet whatever you want
to say. So you need the resume to get in.
And Alabama has the resume over Miami, who escaped for
a long time. They lost two of their last three games.
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I get it, yet as it sucked to the ten
and two team in the ACC isn't making it. Yeah,
but you know you gotta make your conference championship game.
They didn't do that, and you let the door open
for there to be an argument. And that's where I
come down. The second part of why I'm okay with
Alabama is because it's an argument you would beat Syracuse.
You're fine, don't worry about it. But all, hey, we
lost a couple of games. Look at what we did,
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we won ten games. Yeah, but you didn't play the
teams Alabama did. I'm fine with Alabama being.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
A Florida A and M ball state. Yeah, in in
conference and then beating up on Florida State. Clearly that
didn't matter this year. And you lose two of three
down the stretch. Oh, by the way, we didn't even
mention the whole brand thing.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Okay, this isn't the you right, this isn't this isn't
that just because Deliver was on the sideline last weekend
and everybody else could come back as well.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You could have a damn class reunion and bring back
every legend that ever wore the uniform. It doesn't matter, right,
Alabama still rates. Obama still has a number of players
at the collegiate level. We know their names, right, we
know and anticipate what they're gonna do on the next level.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So yeah. The other is, if we're gonna be arguing,
I mean, you got three losses or two losses down
the stretch, like we're not at the point. Once we
get to we're arguing about the number twelve team, I
don't really feel bad for you if you get left
out of the game. It's really hard to get too
fired up about that that last slot, because that's what
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we do, no matter what we do.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Expand the playoff brackets too, soas well, that was someone's
gonna get left out right somewhere, someone's gonna say it's unfair,
and yeah, they they'll make their argument, right. They'll get
your coaches, you'll get your sid you'll get everybody in
a room and you'll go up on a whiteboard and
you'll make your argument. We got ten wins, we did this,
We did this, and you'll go through everything. This is
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like Scott Boris going around Ajor League Baseball. We were
talking about the.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
First one of these and that's why people, how is
this going to It's the first one. So I'm gonna
act just like the last ones have been, and how
are we not getting in? I'm gonna politic my way in.
But yeah, when when you're talking about the top twelve,
it's gonna be oh yeah, so Miami should have beat Syracuse.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Okay, good, that's just it, right, It's all data points
that lead to the next iteration and the next decision process.
Here it is they're they're drawing from scratch and to
James Franklin's point and from others. You know, when you
do have the opportunity to go and throttle what is
a highly heralded opponent, you need to go do it
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right where there's some expectations and you have to live
up to them. So when we see a big crushing
loss or a narrow escape, you know you're going to
get a shrug of the shoulders and it's not going
to have the same weight. Yeah, you won, succeed and
proceed only really matters in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, but even if it was the U and they
were on top and they were undefeated, you lose the cues.
You're automatically discuss dude, we're a football school. Now we're
going to the nation. You lose the cues.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
To your point, it's the first year of this playoff.
It's the first year of the Fran Brown world. Yeah,
and so we don't know yet. And let me tell
you one thing.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I'll tell you. I'll tell you this. He showered yet,
and this is this is a better point dude. He
was just roasting Ryan Day on the radio today. He
was roasting because here's what I think is I look
and I go had seriocus? Have we just beaten either
Stanford or Boston College. We're on the cusp of the playoff.
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Like that's how great this playoff is? Right, just to
take it from you and I perspective and blow it
out there is that would you ever have thought in
a million years a year ago, is sitting right here
that I could sit here a year from now and say,
and here if I'd be saying, boy, if we had
just won one more game, we could be in the playoff.
But that's what's the best part about this is that
so many teams can say that, look, you play in
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the other division, in the Big Ten, you could have
a big run and win some sort of crazy ass
tigh breaker and get into the Big Ten championship game.
Oh man, if we had just won one of those games,
or now at the imbalance scheduling, hey, this is a
year we don't play in Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin,
we could wind up getting there. Like now, the door
is open for so many teams to dream about the
playoff and that's why this is still such a great thing,
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because yeah, okay, now it's open to everybody. A year
before this time, I would never say that, But now
here I am thinking it's a possibility.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And five more plays Lincoln Riley and the US never Trojans.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Colorado was one game away, right, Illinois Missouri. I mean
all these teams was so so many. I say, hey,
we have that dream now, and that's why it's so
great man. And now we get into the portal and
let's go exit out a out of Fresco exit Swelling Dome.
We have more on the college football playoff because hey,
we already can see the changes that are absolutely going
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to happen to the playoff for next year. We got
that and a big story out of Major League Baseball.
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You can't just do that.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
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you're gonna get a lot people. Okay, cause look Martin,
Martin tells me what song? Well, Chris, you want to
not play and I respect it. You did not tell
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at me. No, they're gonna do the host you should.
I always ask you guys, Hey, what song guys want.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
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Speaker 3 (16:46):
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Speaker 1 (16:49):
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it's the paint and she's big bodega. You don't come
in here. You know, in here you gotta be you
know good bit Now, hey, before we get to all right, look,
the big change will be coming to the college football
playoff for next year, guaranteed. Uh big story out of
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baseball this breaking in the last couple of hours. According
to multiple reports, we will have a one Soto decision soon,
could be as early as the beginning of the Winter meetings,
most likely definitively by the end of the Winter meetings.
Now Sunday is when the Winter Meetings start, so we
could have a one Soto decision at the end of
this week, but latest possibly by next Thursday, which is
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the best news possible. And I guarantee with it again
to go to go, Bill Maher, I don't know this
for a fact. I just know that it's true. I
guarantee you with last year, the message the team sent
to Scott boris We're gonna let your four guys sit
out there in free agency until the season starts. Right.
He had four big players nobody signed, and they sat
there till the end of the spring or the end
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of spring training, and then had to sign Snell Montgomery all.
He had four guys out there that was a message saying,
you do not hold the cards anymore. We are gonna
dictate what happens, and you better get this message. And
so now suddenly here's what could be the beginning of
the Wan Soto sweep steakes. And you know you heard
a lot of big grand standing by Scott Boris a
couple of weeks ago. This is gonna be a really
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long process with multiple rounds of bids and all of this.
And I guarantee you again without knowing, I only know
that it's true. I guarantee you. Team said, hey, we
know sooner we're out, Like we're not coming back, We're
moving on. You are not gonna sit here and hold
us all hostage for the next month and a half.
We're gonna have we love one soda, we love one,
but we have a decision soon or we're out. And
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I guarantee you. All the teams said that, they said,
you're gonna do this soon because I like how he
said today he was at the Blake Snell press conference
signing with the Dodgers and said, oh, no, there's no
time tail or anything. Yeah, you're just trying to say face.
I guarantee you. He was whatever, what intermediary. He was
going through with back channels. This decision happened soon or
we are not going to be involved, that we are
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moving on to something else, just because no team wants
to be held hostage anymore. Look, he had his run,
has the agent, I ran everything? But now even though
you have the best free agent that we're gonna see
maybe out of the last five years and another five
years from now, yeah, teams are gonna say, you know what,
Yeah it's okay, we'll spend our money someplace else. But
a lot of it comes down to you know, what
does it mean for your bottom line? And is it
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pushing you over the edge to win? Right? And when
we're talking about the dollars that this contract for soda
will be, I mean he's only twenty six. I mean
we're talking a decade. Is what the the lengths that
we've been hearing? And then how many opt outs, how
many buy you know options? Do you have no trade
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clauses and everything else that make it more complicated?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And look at those guys from last year. Snell only
made twenty appearances last year. Right, Just like we said,
it would be an odd situation. Obviously, had the opportunity
to go back into the marketplace. Dodgers, I'm giving them
the long term deal. Hey, it's your money. You have
the opportunity to go and do so. And we'll see,
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you know, if he goes against his history of Hey,
it's a contract season I pitched really well versus Ah,
maybe I'm not because even in this case, he knew
he could go back into the marketplace and it's not
a very robust market. And that's the beauty and leverage
you have as a picture. But go back to the
Montgomery thing.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
He fired it. Boris right, and then the ownership in
Arizona called it the worst thing they've ever done. They
apologized to the fans for signing that deal, and Montgomery's
been very vocal about how that all played out.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
So and look each team, and we've been hearing what
the match, The Yankees, the.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Blue Jays are there. There's always the random team that
suddenly is, you know, standing on the corner shaking a
kettle and begging you for money. He wanted to get
into it.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Now the White Sox can't remember Tommy Edmund's contract would
have been the second highest deal ever signed by a
White Sox ployer.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Now there's a rule that Major League Baseball has that
you can't sign a player to a contract where the
contract is worth more than the value of the team,
so that they are already he is eliminating. Oh look
at you, smart guy.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You get a new owner and all look out jest
y I A yeah, yeah, ain't done crap yet. The
last signings you made were terrible. So there they went
and won World Series elsewhere. But to this, yeah, you
can't have it.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Linger.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I'm on the other side though, like I wanted to
linger because the hate watching of the process and Boris
and everything has some value in the winter media.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, but there's certain things, you know, there's just certain
things that I would like to see the chass and
have the stomach for, and certain things I don't. It
just well, it isn't that only because one of your
is your team is in a mix. You'd think I
would be going crazy about this.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Better, but that you want it done because you want
to know, are we in a we out? Am I
buying a Sodo jersey? Am I telling Walt to buy
me a soda jersey for Christmas?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
That's really what you're thrust It's it's honestly, it's more
about This is the process we've seen with Boris for
the last few years, and it's gummed a lot of
things up, and I'm done with it. I'm just done.
Just like everything else in society and pop culture, when
we're done with something, we're done with something, and I'm
kind of done. I'm done. I'm done with Scott Boris
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and this all, well, you want this guy. Here's what
he means for parking, Here's what he means for concessions.
I'm done with that. I'm done that. That's so two thousand.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I'd like to see each of the line items.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I'm done. Here's what he means. I would walk out.
I just walk out. Here's what you're gonna sell. Okay,
you know what I'm leaving. I'm leaving Bobblehead nights for
the backup middle endfield. Now I would feel I would,
I would look. This is how I feel. And again,
my team is gonna come down to the final two
like that, whether it's that he's gonna go to the
Mets or they're gonna use the metsas leverage to go
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someplace else, I'm fine. I'm also fine, to be quite
honest to tell you to tell you a little bit
different thing here about Sodo is that if you don't
get Sodo, there's no reason to be upset because there's
lots of things that are gonna that are gonna crop
up that you're gonna say, is this worth a six
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hundred million dollar contract? Right? Like is he question? He's
still gonna be the same player. Yeah, And when you
give him six hundred million.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Dollars, just overall, what what's the opportunity cost of that
type of contract? Because if he's not taking a bunch
of deferred money, which we've seen more creativity.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And again go back to Benia, go back to some
of those old the Dodgers, the Dodger and more debt
than that than then the franchise has worked like ten
billion dollars they owe more of that in contracts.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
But go back to the old mockery. Uh, and then
you see the reality. It's like, wait, they're still playing
paying Ken Griffy Jr. They're still paying Bobby Benia Benia
for whatever reason, it gets a laughable thing. He's got
a steady income stream every year, but it's more embarrassing
for the Mets. But he was the first guy.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
No, no, but for the Mets, it allowed them to do
something like that, like David Wright and all that stuff
that folks conveniently forget that part of the narrative. Likewise,
the Dodger's doing this now, it's not new, it's not revolutionary.
But for Wan Soto, if he's not going to do that, well,
now you're thinking about what the rest of your roster
build is. Is he putting you over or would you
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rather go get another arm or two that go along
with an outfielder who's slightly who's a twenty and eighty
five guy. You're gonna be nervous about the contract the
entire time. And it's not like Juan Soto puts up
Miguel Cabrera in his prime numbers. He's not hitting fifty
home runs and knocking one hundred and forty runs. He's
a phenomenal player and probably the most talented guy that's
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going to be a free agent in the ten year period,
go back the last five years and another five years.
So you're always gonna be concerned about what his level
of commitments going to be after he gets paid. But
I'll even go a step further, because we talked about
this a little bit too. If wan Soa is so
sought after, how is he going to be twenty six
years old mone his fourth team? Right? As great as
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he is, and I understand, Oh, I want hit free agency.
This is a This is a seven year long game
that you're running to get to free agency. The Nationals
would have given him a lot of money. Padres would
have given him a lot of money. Yankees would give
him a lot of money. No, we're getting a free
agency for this. It was a long game for this.
Why are the Yankees? Why doesn't it seem like the
Yankees are doing anything and everything possible to land Juan Soto?
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Why has Aaron Jude said, yeah, I really talked to me,
know as I love him and we'd love to have
him here. Why is this not happening right? Why is
suddenly this guy who's so great on his fourth team.
When Bryce Harbor became a free agent, this is my
first team, the Nationals. Okay, now I'm moving on and
now here I am Philadelphia. Two teams for his career. Again,
when you're twenty six, twenty seven and you're on your
fourth team, I got to raise a red flag for
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a second ago. Uh, why is this? Why is nobody
else wanted to Padres They gave away. They were giving
money away to guys crazy when they're twenty one years old.
They gave to Tease three hundred million dollars. They would
have given that to Soto. Yet they chose to trade him, right,
The Yankees could have tried to say, yet they chose
to let him hit free agency after getting him last year.
The Nationals could have kept them, Yet they chose to
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trade him. This is the guy you're gonna build around.
If this is a guy you're gonna build around, why
do teams keep trading him? Right? I mean that's a
that's a whole thing, and that's a that's a big
concern and a red flag. It's it's kind of the
vein of why did nobody go to both Callahan's birthday party?
But it's why is he on his fourth team if
he's twenty to twenty three?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And used to ask you that about your guy Cesspitis
back in the day right where he was bouncing around.
It's like, he's so great, he's a thirty ninety guy,
But why is he going from Oakland and Detroit and
here and there?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
And he's a mat and you know, Red Sox or whatever.
There's a reason for soda, and part of it is
the Scott Boris effact. I have no doubt. Like teams
to a degree, we're just like, you know what, I'm
done with this. We've got other guys we want to
talk to.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah, you're just gonna get opportunity costs of you know,
how much is he really giving us in the win
column when we can go disperse this cash to starters,
shore up our bullpen, add another outfielder, whatever. And it
doesn't take away from his greatness. It's just how you're
building a squad. He's one guy.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, if he has a bad year, he is about okay.
That's a lot of money to bring into to bring
to somebody that says, okay, what are you going to
give us on a yearly basis? And are you going
to be that? So far, it's worked out great for Philadelphia,
right Bryce Harper has had them a year playoff slash
World Series threat. But that's, you know, that's one guy.
Not every guy is like that. You look at the
the annals of all these big long contracts. I mean,
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my god, the Tigers they were awful forever and then
finally they get out from Cabrera's contract, Now they're good, right.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean they drafted well, they hit on a couple
of guys that were a little lower in the night order.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
And couldn't go out and sign free. It was so
hard to do, hard guy. Look, I mean look at
Anaheim and the contracts they signed, where you get three
or four years of quality production, but it still wasn't
getting over because you were missing half a squad, you'd
haven't a pitching staff. So it's great you got Pool,
Hoole said, for a couple of years with Trout, and
then you add Otani all of this, Oh, it's fantastic,
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and then you sign rendon't but that to say, you know,
it's it doesn't guarantee anything, but the trend towards this
deference of salary. I think if you really want to
build a winner and you're selling a long term vision
on these deals, that's the only way it's gonna work,
because otherwise you're gonna be hamstrung in the short short term,
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and if it's not bringing the ancillary money like Otani
would have paid for himself even if you were giving
him full value of the annual of his contract, because
of the sales, the sponsorships, the partnerships and everything that
flowed through. Do you have the same thing with Wan Soto. No, Look,
it's gonna end soon, which is great. Teams can move
on if you get him, great. If not, it's not
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a big deal, right, I mean really that that's kind
of where you're at. You resign that he's gonna be
a Blue Jay. No if he goes, but great, it's fine.
Spend money someplace else, right, Like, it's like that, that's
the way this could be approached in the right way.
So money might spend a little easier in Canada. There's
only one dumb team that's going to give him seven
hundred million. Who's gonna do that? Mets? Hey, well, I
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don't know. We just gave thirty four million dollars to Frankie,
so yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. From a man who designed every NBA
E Cup floor that teams are playing on this season,
it's Steve de Saig twisted mine.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
That explains my eyesight currently, my goodness, as you guys
were talking baseball. By the way, there is a Hall
of Fame Classic Era Committee that meets this Sunday at
the Winter meetings in Dallas. They're considering an eight man
ballot of contributors before nineteen eighty, which means Dave Parker
is up for the Hall of.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Fame this weekend.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
He's one of the eight finalists along with Ken Boyer,
eleven time All Star Dick Allen, Louis ti On, four
time twenty game winner is up for the Hall. Steve
Garvey's on the list, Tommy John and former Negro leaguers
John Donaldson and Vic Harris. Again this Sunday, that committee
will be meeting. Anyone chosen from that committee gets into
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the Hall next July, along with the players voted in
by the writers. The Red Sox are signing reliever Eroaldas Chapman,
who turns thirty seven. In February to the NBA Scoreboard, Grizzlies,
with nine minutes to go, lead at Dallas one oh
three ninety two despite thirty one points from Luka Doncic
Sons at home are ahead sixty seven sixty three over
the Spurs. Oklahoma City sent Utah to a fifth straight loss.
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In fact, the Utah Jazz had twenty nine turnovers. Okse
won the game one thirty three to one oh six.
NBA players of the Month include Oklahoma City Shay Gilgis
Alexander in the West and Boston's Jason Tatum in the East.
New York ended Orlando's six game winning streak one twenty
one to one oh six. Toronto and Milwaukee with wins.
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Milwaukee Bucks have won seven straight. Philadelphia won at Charlotte
one ten one oh four Paul George twenty nine points,
eight assists. Charlotte has lost six straight, and Cleveland sent
washing Rington to a fifteenth consecutive loss, one eighteen to
eighty seven. In men's college basketball, at number three Tennessee,
the undefeated Balls wiped the floor with Syracuse ninety six
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to seventy was the final on FS one Villanova over
fourteenth ranked Cincinnati sixty eight to sixty and among the
games going right now, Michigan leads at number eleven Wisconsin
fifty four to fifty two.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
With under eight.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Minutes left to college football, Oregon is still number one
in the new playoff rankings, Texas is now number two,
Penn State is number three, Notre Dame is number four,
but it cannot get a first round by because as
an independent it cannot be a conference champion, so the
Irish would be hosting a first round game this month.
SMU is number eight in the country number ten ranked.
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Boise State could get a first round by because currently
it is ranked higher than any Big twelve Conference team,
Arizona State's number fifteen, by the way. On Fox TV
This Friday night, Boise State hosts number twenty UNLV in
the Mountain West Championship game. Houston Texans linebacker as He's
Al Shire was suspended three games for the illegal hit
on Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence and the fights afterward. Eagles
(32:10):
Tita in Dallas. Goddard is week to week with a
knee injury. He's not expected to play this weekend, according
to NFL Network.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Back to You, Thank You, Steve, The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
We got more baseball coming up next hour because we
have to get to the Golden at Bat story. But
coming up next already, we're getting set for what is
going to be the first twelve team college football playoff.
And because college football changes every five minutes, we'll tell
you the two changes that will absolutely come to the
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playoff for next year. That's next right here, Jason and
Mike Fox. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
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Speaker 3 (33:02):
I thought you would stop doing that just this it's Christmas, Like,
come on now.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Oh way do we get more Andy Williams next hour?
When you play happy Holiday? Not doing that happy Holiday,
Happy Holiday around Christmas?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
It's the season. It started right after Halloween. Evis once saying,
why can't every day be like Christmas? What a wonderful
world this would be? And it's true.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
So the first cover you grinch. The first college football
playoff poll came out tonight, Baxter, you just bark twice.
If you're in Milwaukee. First college football playoff poll came
out tonight. The fourth sorry not the Lake, but the latest,
which is the penultimate one, which tells you that right
now Alabama is in at number eleven. Miami is not
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going to be in no matter what, Miami has been
left out because of the way teams are going to
win when their titles move up, and Alabama will be
in Miami even though they're twelve right now, they'll wind
up being They'll wind up getting left out. Now, there's
a lot of controversy already around this, should Miami be in?
Should Alabama be in? Alabama's got three losses? What about
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all these teams that are winning their way in, teams
like SMU or Arizona State, They're going to win their
way in from the Mountain West and win their way
in from the big twelve. But I can already tell you,
with this controversy going on and how the playoff, the
new playoff has been received in the last month, the
two big changes that are going to come to the
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playoff for next year. Number one, the top four seeds
are going to be the top four rated teams. We're
not going to have this if you win a conference,
you're guaranteed to get one of the top four seeds.
That's not going to fly anymore. They're not going to
put a team in the top four seed. That well,
we have to because that was the rule. When there
may be the tenth best team in the playoff. That's
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going to be one change you'll get in the playoff. Hey,
if you win your conference, you're guaranteed to get in,
but you're not going to guarantee to be one of
the top four seeds. That Unfortunately, this is a a
ten year deal like a CBA that you have to
decide whether you want to strike. Here. They seem to
make it up, as with every other rule, as they
go along. We're gonna try this and then let's see
(35:12):
how it's received, how it plays out. Do we get
any level of satisfaction with how the field plays out?
What's the social media response? What are our television ratings?
All those important metrics by which they decide when they
go back to the table, all right, what needs to change? Yeah,
I mean, look, and that's what it is. And it's
only it's only natural to say, Okay, we're doing this
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for the first time. Granted you have all kinds of
time to think through it and think through all different
peopleations of stuff considered. We don't do any of that.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I mean, look acc saying hey, can you can you
reconsider our ranking? We're filing it a pile. It's like, hey,
you know you only gave me partial credit on this
essay question. I really think I hit the crux of
the argument right here in paragraph three. I'd like the
extra two points because my my grade point average is
so for a year, that's what we're happening.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
There is no sport that is more let's throw it
up against the wall and see what sticks more than college. Right,
So it's built for change. So the first thing that's
gonna be the first when you see a team that
is up there at the top, because you know SMU
wins the ACC whatever it is that's going to go away. Right,
we have the top four teams as they're ranked, will
be in the playoff and they'll be hosting games. Now,
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the other change is this, and this is legit, and
this is Wayne Kiffin brought this up three weeks too
early because not now he brought bad karma on himself.
But the next change is going to be if you
make your conference championship game, you automatically qualify for the
playoff as well. Because look at the most unfair thing
that could happen right now, the AC title game is
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SMU and Clemson, right, so in SMU wins, that's look
SMS the better team, they should win. But this is
not out out, it's not outlands. I think Clemson can
win the upset. So Clemson wins, they get into the playoff.
Now then it's going to be a choice of hey,
who does that final playoff spot go to SMU at
eleven and two or Alabama at nine and three. And
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SMU is getting penalized because they made the conference championship game.
Alabama is not playing and they're sitting at number eleven
wherever they are. But SMU, by virtue of achieving more
than Alabama, is potentially going to be penalized because they
played another game and they happen to lose, and that's
not fair. So what you're gonna wind up seeing, I think,
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is that twelve team playoff for the Power three conferences,
for the Big Ten, the ACC, the SEC, the top
two teams. You make it to the conference championship, you're
guaranteed to get into the playoff, just to make it
fair so you can't lose and get left out because
it really isn't fair. And then you're talking about four
at large seeds that come from outside of that or
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the rest of the seeds are the at largs coming
from outside of that, and you're on your other conference
champion that's going to get in there at number four.
It's just still going to see a lot of what
it looked like this year. You'll see the top four
seeds change and that if you make the conference title game,
you're gonna wind up automatically qualifying for the playoff as well.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
SMU a two and a half point favorite over Clemson.
Fifty six and a half is your total. I was
waiting for you to add an extra caveat for anything
Notre Dame does that they now get back into the
full consideration as opposed to you know, we're.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Here, we're on the outlier. We don't we're not a
conference champion. We refuse to join a conference, but damn it,
we're Notre Dame. And hey, when you have the and
they have the cachet this year they're the number four two,
they're not gonna lose their ranking, right we saw the
playoff committee said no one loses their ranking if they
don't play the next week, nor that they could be passed.
Other teams can pass, but other teams have to move down.
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Notre Dame's in the top four, like Notre Dame is
in the top four. They're gonna sit there. They're gonna
host a playoff game. You know they're or sorry, they'll
be right outside. No, but that top point is that
you're right outside the top four. So they will host
a home playoff game in the first round. They will
get to do that. No one's gonna be able to
win and knock them out of that. That's the thing
that now it gets to expanded. If we're back on top.
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Now we'd like consideration that we can be a top
four seed and not be left out of the and
holding the bag. They'll say, join a conference. Pick big
a conference and join pick go ahead, big a conference, anyone,
we don't care. Just pick a conference and join it.
We don't care. Start your own conference.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Is there's been letter writing campaigns like their Andy Dufrain
for as long as I've been alive. Can you just
join the conference?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Already?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
You play three of us, Yeah, and you play all
the service schools. I get it, and then you've got
your game against USC But.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Come on, come on, let's go now. But you could
already see those two changes coming next year. Eventually they'll
get to sixteen teams, not too long from that. But
those that you make the conference title game to be fair,
you get in and they'll make sure the top four
seeds are not some you know, mid major getting a host,
getting a buy and hosting playoff games not gonna happen.
Reconsideration appeals process. We got more football on the way.
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We have a big story already out of the NFL
that has to do with Batman f
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Fox Sports Radio Greenings. Welcome inside the biggest night of
the year in the NBA. It is the final night
of group play for the Emirates Cup Bow and I
am just waiting with baited breath for the Knicks to
close out this one twenty one one oh three win
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over Orlando, hang the banner, get that one seed in
group ay for the Emirates.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
G hey man, you gotta take every little step on
the road to an actual championship.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Find your wins.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
On given Tuesday in early December, just like you did.
Wake it up this morning, he said, damn it, I
made it to another day.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Let's go. It's an e Cup night, Mike Harmon, Come on, man,
it's a different night. It's just a different night. Well,
we got the Cup. Nights are different.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Well, you got a huge, resounding Nicks win. I mean,
they know what's at stake. I mean nothing to chance.
I mean the cup, the cup, man, is the cup.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's come on, if you gotta be cool, you gotta
say e cup is a big deal, right, Lakers won
the first one. Now you know, Hey, this is a
big deal, man. This is this is kind of a
dress rehearsal for the real thing. Like that's why it's
a big deal. Like if the Knicks win this like, okay,
it's a dress rehearsal for the big NBA playoffs later on. Yeah,
but Lebron told me now it doesn't matter because he
already won one. He doesn't care. Just is he just
(01:44):
quitting in jail? No, just like when the Lakers won
in twenty twenty, he don't feel a need to win again.
He's fine. I won in twenty twenty. I don't care
that nobody cared if this tournament does it? I won
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Meanwhile, Hey, how quickly can I open a bottle of
champagne after the final buzzer?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Lakers already won one. This is this is the this
is the new look, And I gotta say, let's let's
be honest. Let's let's take We'll take better part of
the next four hours breaking down the E Cup level
of play this year versus the E Cup level of
play a year ago. It's important. We'll go all the
way through. We'll go that granularity is what we do.
The floors, right, the floors have really taken a step
up this year, you know, I mean, the Knicks played
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an entirely orange floor tonight.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm a little surprised they haven't, you know, had the
inlaid led lights really come into effect yet. That's you know,
our in synchronization with the music that they play, you know,
defense and we get like little swells to see what
we can do with it, I mean, and.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Make for a great televised attraction there. So again we
will keep you updated on all the big E Cup
moments of the night time. May have a like a
one shining moment at the end. Get all the great
things to all the great highlights, the one shining moment. Sure,
I think that's where that would give you the E
Cup level of experience that you need to have. We've
done a.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Hell of a job selling the E Cup in these
opening moments of a show. Let me tell you because
I think across the oh this one was an E
Cup game.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I didn't know the New York Knicks, Orlando Magic and
all the other fine teams in the NBA. I'm jim
nantz enjoy one shining moment as we look back at
the E Cup that was bullues toooped Jalen Brunson with
a coast to coast drive. There you are. Look at
Nicola Yo Kitchen running for your life, Big Bodega from Free.
(03:28):
You're a shooting stuff. I could just do it like that.
There are other players need to do it. Do it.
Nicks highlights. The Knicks couldn't make the Double E Cup.
That's that's not that your b excuse me, Adam Silver
has the Double E Cup for next year. Okay, that's
that's what it is. It's gonna when the Lakers are
already working on the logo for it. It's fine. The
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E Cup that don't don't that's behind the pay We
can't Yo Cup. We can't. We can't pull the top
of us. That's all. That's a whole other thing. It's
NBA only fan, that's it. Can you earn forty three
million dollars? Let's see you see the new Double Cup
on only fans. But what is it? What is it?
Let me look, we have today what we knew what
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was coming, and this is why we have a twelve
team playoffs so we could have the mass anarchy and
arguments that are going on right now about the twelve
team college football bracket projection. The latest college football playoff
poll is out the number one through four seeds right now, Oregon, Texas,
SMU and Boise State. Of course, you know the top
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four conference winners get the top four seeds. Put a
pin in that. But the big controversy here is Alabama
is in at number eleven over Miami, who was number twelve?
No I remember because Q show, Yeah, exactly right. We
killed Miami. Syracuse killed Miami. You planted that flag. We
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derilled Miami to the heart. We did a hurricane. We
just came out with that big machete in the woods
like Jason Modies are gonna kill miam Come on in,
come on in with your imbus, Come on in, go on,
ask got one of our reporters. Come on, We're gonna
kill you. Mario crystal Ball.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
You guys put out a thing of roasting him on
a spit yet or what But all of this just
a cord just eating wings and ripping him right off
the mascot and eating. Watched it earlier this year, the
Year of Living Dangerously from Miami.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Did not think that the final.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I don't know blow would come from the Syracuse Orange,
particularly in the game where we saw our friend Pete
Futech immediately going, boy, I really picked this one wrong. Ye,
And then in the end he was right, how about
we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Have him next hour on the show. It'll be fine.
But here's look, here's the thing. Look, here's the thing, jetsure,
it doesn't matter. We're a football school and big bodega.
As if you couldn't tell by that tonight Syracuse when
our football you lost by fifty to Tennessee. We're a
football school. Yeah, Wildcats lost Iowa fo we killed Miami.
We ended Miami. No you did. Then you wrecked it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Not only Dabo Swiney, but you also put Alabama in
the number on evens.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So now because of teams that can win and rise up,
Clemson can win and move up their number seventeen. They're
in the AC Championship game. The way things stand, Miami
is out because the College Football Playoff Committee has already
said Alabama and Miami teams that aren't going to play,
are not going to lose their ranking. There's no way
they can lose their right now. Obviously depending on if
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other teams move ahead of them, that could not, but
they're not going to lose their ranking. To the fact
where next week Miami will leap frog Alabama. So Miami
is out, they'll be out of the playoffs because again,
once everything is set, the teams that the teams that
are outside the top twelve that are going to win
a conference title are going to move ahead and move
ahead of them. So Alabama's ahead of Miami. Now, first thing,
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let's take care of this first. This is this is
the big one because Syracuse ended Miami. We ended Miami.
That's so great. H I'm okay with this. I'm okay
with that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Going to make a shirt and walk around the rest
of the holiday.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Look, my Twitter avatar is the upside down of Miami
Hurricanes logo. Man, we ended Miami, we ended this. See
you're part of the problem between the horns and now
now flipping the logo no no no no no no
no no no a rebellion. That's been a thing for
Syracuse for at the big restaurant on campus, the varsity. Uh,
(07:20):
we put all little flags of the teams we play
up on up above where we get food from. And
if we beat them, it's a big thing where they
turn it upside down and stays upside down for the season.
If they beat us, their flag stays right side up.
So you know, that's been a whole thing. So you know,
now here, this big win, maybe the biggest win series.
They beat Clemsing, But we were four and eight that year,
so what did what kind of win? Did that turn
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out to be probably the biggest win Syricus had in
twenty years. Yeah, I'm going upside down my head.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
But also huge magnified by the fact that McCord had
the game he did while Ohio State loses. So it
makes him look I mean, he's a king. Like there
should be a statue.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Look at me. I'm the king es Central New York.
I'd like that the specificity of Central New York. I'm
okay with Alabama being ahead of Miamiami being out. Why
if you have three losses and Alabama's losses the Oklahoma
loss is really bad. That's the one that sticks out going.
Oh man, yeah, I get that. Maybe you fell asleep
for Vanderbilt, but they was a giant slayer over the
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course of the year, though they were surprised. But it's
still three losses. And now the way it looks like
three losses is where the line of demarcation is going
to be set for the polls. But I'm okay with
it because if you have three losses, you have to
have a really good resume outside of that to get
in the playoffs. And you know what Alabama does. They
have three wins over the teams that were ranked, including Georgia,
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who's number five overall. They have a resume. Miami doesn't
quite have the resume that they have. Now, if they
are a one loss team and they go in and
beat Syracuse, okay, great, but they lost. And so a
two loss Miami team and a three loss Alabama team
that's playing a more difficult schedule, played more teams in
the top twenty five, Alabama deserves to be in there
(09:02):
ahead of Miami. And I get that that Mario Cristo
Ball is trying an argument because it's a very sophisticated
argument of Hey, in our conference, we won ten games.
How many people can do that? How many teams can
say that? And across the board. Yeah, I understand that,
But you're also at a time where you're letting in
mid major conference champions because I'm sorry, but the Big
(09:23):
Twelve is a mid major conference. Now mount West is
a mid major conference. It's college basketball playoff, come to uh,
come to the college football. So you're letting in these teams.
So I'm gonna try to find an argument that works
for me. Oh, ten wins in my conference? Well, all right,
Obviously people are going to argue about the other teams
getting in the seeds they're getting in the Mountain West
and the Big Twelve. But to take care of the
(09:43):
Miami Alabama thing is you know, yeah, I mean everybody
looks at their resume now and and and when you're
when you're going to be going back and forth now
because the because the resume is so important, it's less
important if you're in the top because if you're in
the top four, Hey, as long as you win all
your games, you're getting in, right, Power five or now
(10:06):
Power three conference, you're getting in. But once you get
it out to twelve, you're gonna be battling with teams
and say, hey, yeah, you lost a couple of games,
how's the rest of your schedule. You can't say, well,
we're playing three teams that we're just gonna warm up
with and not play anybody who is good, because if
you're gonna get in, you need to have that resume
that says, hey, we beat some other teams that are
(10:26):
really good. It's just like you know, like I mean,
it's more and more like college basketball. Hey what's the resume? Say, boy,
this team has ten losses? Can we let them in? Yeah?
But look they beat Duke on the road, they beat
North Carolina at home, they beat Michiet whatever you want
to say. So you need the resume to get in.
And Alabama has the resume over Miami, who escaped for
a long time. They lost two of their last three games.
(10:46):
I get it, yet as it sucked to the ten
and two team in the ACC isn't making it. Yeah,
but you know you gotta make your conference championship game.
They didn't do that, and you let the door open
for there to be an argument. And that's where I
come down. The second part of why I'm okay with
Alabama is because it's an argument you would beat Syracuse.
You're fine, don't worry about it. But all, hey, we
lost a couple of games. Look at what we did,
(11:07):
we won ten games. Yeah, but you didn't play the
teams Alabama did. I'm fine with Alabama being.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
A Florida A and M ball state. Yeah, in in
conference and then beating up on Florida State. Clearly that
didn't matter this year. And you lose two of three
down the stretch. Oh, by the way, we didn't even
mention the whole brand thing.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Okay, this isn't the you right, this isn't this isn't
that just because Deliver was on the sideline last weekend
and everybody else could come back as well.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You could have a damn class reunion and bring back
every legend that ever wore the uniform. It doesn't matter, right,
Alabama still rates. Obama still has a number of players
at the collegiate level. We know their names, right, we
know and anticipate what they're gonna do on the next level.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So yeah. The other is, if we're gonna be arguing,
I mean, you got three losses or two losses down
the stretch, like we're not at the point. Once we
get to we're arguing about the number twelve team, I
don't really feel bad for you if you get left
out of the game. It's really hard to get too
fired up about that that last slot, because that's what
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we do, no matter what we do.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Expand the playoff brackets too, soas well, that was someone's
gonna get left out right somewhere, someone's gonna say it's unfair,
and yeah, they they'll make their argument, right. They'll get
your coaches, you'll get your sid you'll get everybody in
a room and you'll go up on a whiteboard and
you'll make your argument. We got ten wins, we did this,
We did this, and you'll go through everything. This is
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like Scott Boris going around Ajor League Baseball. We were
talking about the.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
First one of these and that's why people, how is
this going to It's the first one. So I'm gonna
act just like the last ones have been, and how
are we not getting in? I'm gonna politic my way in.
But yeah, when when you're talking about the top twelve,
it's gonna be oh yeah, so Miami should have beat Syracuse.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Okay, good, that's just it, right, It's all data points
that lead to the next iteration and the next decision process.
Here it is they're they're drawing from scratch and to
James Franklin's point and from others. You know, when you
do have the opportunity to go and throttle what is
a highly heralded opponent, you need to go do it
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right where there's some expectations and you have to live
up to them. So when we see a big crushing
loss or a narrow escape, you know you're going to
get a shrug of the shoulders and it's not going
to have the same weight. Yeah, you won, succeed and
proceed only really matters in the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, but even if it was the U and they
were on top and they were undefeated, you lose the cues.
You're automatically discuss dude, we're a football school. Now we're
going to the nation. You lose the cues.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
To your point, it's the first year of this playoff.
It's the first year of the Fran Brown world. Yeah,
and so we don't know yet. And let me tell
you one thing.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I'll tell you. I'll tell you this. He showered yet,
and this is this is a better point dude. He
was just roasting Ryan Day on the radio today. He
was roasting because here's what I think is I look
and I go had seriocus? Have we just beaten either
Stanford or Boston College. We're on the cusp of the playoff.
(14:11):
Like that's how great this playoff is? Right, just to
take it from you and I perspective and blow it
out there is that would you ever have thought in
a million years a year ago, is sitting right here
that I could sit here a year from now and say,
and here if I'd be saying, boy, if we had
just won one more game, we could be in the playoff.
But that's what's the best part about this is that
so many teams can say that, look, you play in
(14:33):
the other division, in the Big Ten, you could have
a big run and win some sort of crazy ass
tigh breaker and get into the Big Ten championship game.
Oh man, if we had just won one of those games,
or now at the imbalance scheduling, hey, this is a
year we don't play in Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin,
we could wind up getting there. Like now, the door
is open for so many teams to dream about the
playoff and that's why this is still such a great thing,
(14:56):
because yeah, okay, now it's open to everybody. A year
before this time, I would never say that, But now
here I am thinking it's a possibility.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And five more plays Lincoln Riley and the US never Trojans.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Colorado was one game away, right, Illinois Missouri. I mean
all these teams was so so many. I say, hey,
we have that dream now, and that's why it's so
great man. And now we get into the portal and
let's go exit out a out of Fresco exit Swelling Dome.
We have more on the college football playoff because hey,
we already can see the changes that are absolutely going
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to happen to the playoff for next year. We got
that and a big story out of Major League Baseball.
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You can't just do that.
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I always ask you guys, Hey, what song guys want.
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it's the paint and she's big bodega. You don't come
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know good bit Now, hey, before we get to all right, look,
the big change will be coming to the college football
playoff for next year, guaranteed. Uh big story out of
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baseball this breaking in the last couple of hours. According
to multiple reports, we will have a one Soto decision soon,
could be as early as the beginning of the Winter meetings,
most likely definitively by the end of the Winter meetings.
Now Sunday is when the Winter Meetings start, so we
could have a one Soto decision at the end of
this week, but latest possibly by next Thursday, which is
(17:36):
the best news possible. And I guarantee with it again
to go to go, Bill Maher, I don't know this
for a fact. I just know that it's true. I
guarantee you with last year, the message the team sent
to Scott boris We're gonna let your four guys sit
out there in free agency until the season starts. Right.
He had four big players nobody signed, and they sat
there till the end of the spring or the end
(17:58):
of spring training, and then had to sign Snell Montgomery all.
He had four guys out there that was a message saying,
you do not hold the cards anymore. We are gonna
dictate what happens, and you better get this message. And
so now suddenly here's what could be the beginning of
the Wan Soto sweep steakes. And you know you heard
a lot of big grand standing by Scott Boris a
couple of weeks ago. This is gonna be a really
(18:18):
long process with multiple rounds of bids and all of this.
And I guarantee you again without knowing, I only know
that it's true. I guarantee you. Team said, hey, we
know sooner we're out, Like we're not coming back, We're
moving on. You are not gonna sit here and hold
us all hostage for the next month and a half.
We're gonna have we love one soda, we love one,
but we have a decision soon or we're out. And
(18:39):
I guarantee you. All the teams said that, they said,
you're gonna do this soon because I like how he
said today he was at the Blake Snell press conference
signing with the Dodgers and said, oh, no, there's no
time tail or anything. Yeah, you're just trying to say face.
I guarantee you. He was whatever, what intermediary. He was
going through with back channels. This decision happened soon or
we are not going to be involved, that we are
(19:00):
moving on to something else, just because no team wants
to be held hostage anymore. Look, he had his run,
has the agent, I ran everything? But now even though
you have the best free agent that we're gonna see
maybe out of the last five years and another five
years from now, yeah, teams are gonna say, you know what,
Yeah it's okay, we'll spend our money someplace else. But
a lot of it comes down to you know, what
does it mean for your bottom line? And is it
(19:21):
pushing you over the edge to win? Right? And when
we're talking about the dollars that this contract for soda
will be, I mean he's only twenty six. I mean
we're talking a decade. Is what the the lengths that
we've been hearing? And then how many opt outs, how
many buy you know options? Do you have no trade
(19:44):
clauses and everything else that make it more complicated?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
And look at those guys from last year. Snell only
made twenty appearances last year. Right, Just like we said,
it would be an odd situation. Obviously, had the opportunity
to go back into the marketplace. Dodgers, I'm giving them
the long term deal. Hey, it's your money. You have
the opportunity to go and do so. And we'll see,
(20:07):
you know, if he goes against his history of Hey,
it's a contract season I pitched really well versus Ah,
maybe I'm not because even in this case, he knew
he could go back into the marketplace and it's not
a very robust market. And that's the beauty and leverage
you have as a picture. But go back to the
Montgomery thing.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
He fired it. Boris right, and then the ownership in
Arizona called it the worst thing they've ever done. They
apologized to the fans for signing that deal, and Montgomery's
been very vocal about how that all played out.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
So and look each team, and we've been hearing what
the match, The Yankees, the.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Blue Jays are there. There's always the random team that
suddenly is, you know, standing on the corner shaking a
kettle and begging you for money. He wanted to get
into it.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Now the White Sox can't remember Tommy Edmund's contract would
have been the second highest deal ever signed by a
White Sox ployer.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Now there's a rule that Major League Baseball has that
you can't sign a player to a contract where the
contract is worth more than the value of the team,
so that they are already he is eliminating. Oh look
at you, smart guy.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
You get a new owner and all look out jest
y I A yeah, yeah, ain't done crap yet. The
last signings you made were terrible. So there they went
and won World Series elsewhere. But to this, yeah, you
can't have it.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Linger.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I'm on the other side though, like I wanted to
linger because the hate watching of the process and Boris
and everything has some value in the winter media.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, but there's certain things, you know, there's just certain
things that I would like to see the chass and
have the stomach for, and certain things I don't. It
just well, it isn't that only because one of your
is your team is in a mix. You'd think I
would be going crazy about this.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Better, but that you want it done because you want
to know, are we in a we out? Am I
buying a Sodo jersey? Am I telling Walt to buy
me a soda jersey for Christmas?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
That's really what you're thrust It's it's honestly, it's more
about This is the process we've seen with Boris for
the last few years, and it's gummed a lot of
things up, and I'm done with it. I'm just done.
Just like everything else in society and pop culture, when
we're done with something, we're done with something, and I'm
kind of done. I'm done. I'm done with Scott Boris
(22:21):
and this all, well, you want this guy. Here's what
he means for parking, Here's what he means for concessions.
I'm done with that. I'm done that. That's so two thousand.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I'd like to see each of the line items.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I'm done. Here's what he means. I would walk out.
I just walk out. Here's what you're gonna sell. Okay,
you know what I'm leaving. I'm leaving Bobblehead nights for
the backup middle endfield. Now I would feel I would,
I would look. This is how I feel. And again,
my team is gonna come down to the final two
like that, whether it's that he's gonna go to the
Mets or they're gonna use the metsas leverage to go
(22:56):
someplace else, I'm fine. I'm also fine, to be quite
honest to tell you to tell you a little bit
different thing here about Sodo is that if you don't
get Sodo, there's no reason to be upset because there's
lots of things that are gonna that are gonna crop
up that you're gonna say, is this worth a six
(23:17):
hundred million dollar contract? Right? Like is he question? He's
still gonna be the same player. Yeah, And when you
give him six hundred million.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Dollars, just overall, what what's the opportunity cost of that
type of contract? Because if he's not taking a bunch
of deferred money, which we've seen more creativity.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And again go back to Benia, go back to some
of those old the Dodgers, the Dodger and more debt
than that than then the franchise has worked like ten
billion dollars they owe more of that in contracts.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
But go back to the old mockery. Uh, and then
you see the reality. It's like, wait, they're still playing
paying Ken Griffy Jr. They're still paying Bobby Benia Benia
for whatever reason, it gets a laughable thing. He's got
a steady income stream every year, but it's more embarrassing
for the Mets. But he was the first guy.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
No, no, but for the Mets, it allowed them to do
something like that, like David Wright and all that stuff
that folks conveniently forget that part of the narrative. Likewise,
the Dodger's doing this now, it's not new, it's not revolutionary.
But for Wan Soto, if he's not going to do that, well,
now you're thinking about what the rest of your roster
build is. Is he putting you over or would you
(24:20):
rather go get another arm or two that go along
with an outfielder who's slightly who's a twenty and eighty
five guy. You're gonna be nervous about the contract the
entire time. And it's not like Juan Soto puts up
Miguel Cabrera in his prime numbers. He's not hitting fifty
home runs and knocking one hundred and forty runs. He's
a phenomenal player and probably the most talented guy that's
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going to be a free agent in the ten year period,
go back the last five years and another five years.
So you're always gonna be concerned about what his level
of commitments going to be after he gets paid. But
I'll even go a step further, because we talked about
this a little bit too. If wan Soa is so
sought after, how is he going to be twenty six
years old mone his fourth team? Right? As great as
(25:05):
he is, and I understand, Oh, I want hit free agency.
This is a This is a seven year long game
that you're running to get to free agency. The Nationals
would have given him a lot of money. Padres would
have given him a lot of money. Yankees would give
him a lot of money. No, we're getting a free
agency for this. It was a long game for this.
Why are the Yankees? Why doesn't it seem like the
Yankees are doing anything and everything possible to land Juan Soto?
(25:27):
Why has Aaron Jude said, yeah, I really talked to me,
know as I love him and we'd love to have
him here. Why is this not happening right? Why is
suddenly this guy who's so great on his fourth team.
When Bryce Harbor became a free agent, this is my
first team, the Nationals. Okay, now I'm moving on and
now here I am Philadelphia. Two teams for his career. Again,
when you're twenty six, twenty seven and you're on your
fourth team, I got to raise a red flag for
(25:49):
a second ago. Uh, why is this? Why is nobody
else wanted to Padres They gave away. They were giving
money away to guys crazy when they're twenty one years old.
They gave to Tease three hundred million dollars. They would
have given that to Soto. Yet they chose to trade him, right,
The Yankees could have tried to say, yet they chose
to let him hit free agency after getting him last year.
The Nationals could have kept them, Yet they chose to
(26:09):
trade him. This is the guy you're gonna build around.
If this is a guy you're gonna build around, why
do teams keep trading him? Right? I mean that's a
that's a whole thing, and that's a that's a big
concern and a red flag. It's it's kind of the
vein of why did nobody go to both Callahan's birthday party?
But it's why is he on his fourth team if
he's twenty to twenty three?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
And used to ask you that about your guy Cesspitis
back in the day right where he was bouncing around.
It's like, he's so great, he's a thirty ninety guy,
But why is he going from Oakland and Detroit and
here and there?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
And he's a mat and you know, Red Sox or whatever.
There's a reason for soda, and part of it is
the Scott Boris effact. I have no doubt. Like teams
to a degree, we're just like, you know what, I'm
done with this. We've got other guys we want to
talk to.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah, you're just gonna get opportunity costs of you know,
how much is he really giving us in the win
column when we can go disperse this cash to starters,
shore up our bullpen, add another outfielder, whatever. And it
doesn't take away from his greatness. It's just how you're
building a squad. He's one guy.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, if he has a bad year, he is about okay.
That's a lot of money to bring into to bring
to somebody that says, okay, what are you going to
give us on a yearly basis? And are you going
to be that? So far, it's worked out great for Philadelphia,
right Bryce Harper has had them a year playoff slash
World Series threat. But that's, you know, that's one guy.
Not every guy is like that. You look at the
the annals of all these big long contracts. I mean,
(27:32):
my god, the Tigers they were awful forever and then
finally they get out from Cabrera's contract, Now they're good, right.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I mean they drafted well, they hit on a couple
of guys that were a little lower in the night order.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
And couldn't go out and sign free. It was so
hard to do, hard guy. Look, I mean look at
Anaheim and the contracts they signed, where you get three
or four years of quality production, but it still wasn't
getting over because you were missing half a squad, you'd
haven't a pitching staff. So it's great you got Pool,
Hoole said, for a couple of years with Trout, and
then you add Otani all of this, Oh, it's fantastic,
(28:06):
and then you sign rendon't but that to say, you know,
it's it doesn't guarantee anything, but the trend towards this
deference of salary. I think if you really want to
build a winner and you're selling a long term vision
on these deals, that's the only way it's gonna work,
because otherwise you're gonna be hamstrung in the short short term,
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and if it's not bringing the ancillary money like Otani
would have paid for himself even if you were giving
him full value of the annual of his contract, because
of the sales, the sponsorships, the partnerships and everything that
flowed through. Do you have the same thing with Wan Soto. No, Look,
it's gonna end soon, which is great. Teams can move
on if you get him, great. If not, it's not
(28:50):
a big deal, right, I mean really that that's kind
of where you're at. You resign that he's gonna be
a Blue Jay. No if he goes, but great, it's fine.
Spend money someplace else, right, Like, it's like that, that's
the way this could be approached in the right way.
So money might spend a little easier in Canada. There's
only one dumb team that's going to give him seven
hundred million. Who's gonna do that? Mets? Hey, well, I
(29:11):
don't know. We just gave thirty four million dollars to Frankie,
so yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. From a man who designed every NBA
E Cup floor that teams are playing on this season,
it's Steve de Saig twisted mine.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
That explains my eyesight currently, my goodness, as you guys
were talking baseball. By the way, there is a Hall
of Fame Classic Era Committee that meets this Sunday at
the Winter meetings in Dallas. They're considering an eight man
ballot of contributors before nineteen eighty, which means Dave Parker
is up for the Hall of.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Fame this weekend.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
He's one of the eight finalists along with Ken Boyer,
eleven time All Star Dick Allen, Louis ti On, four
time twenty game winner is up for the Hall. Steve
Garvey's on the list, Tommy John and former Negro leaguers
John Donaldson and Vic Harris. Again this Sunday, that committee
will be meeting. Anyone chosen from that committee gets into
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the Hall next July, along with the players voted in
by the writers. The Red Sox are signing reliever Eroaldas Chapman,
who turns thirty seven. In February to the NBA Scoreboard, Grizzlies,
with nine minutes to go, lead at Dallas one oh
three ninety two despite thirty one points from Luka Doncic
Sons at home are ahead sixty seven sixty three over
the Spurs. Oklahoma City sent Utah to a fifth straight loss.
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In fact, the Utah Jazz had twenty nine turnovers. Okse
won the game one thirty three to one oh six.
NBA players of the Month include Oklahoma City Shay Gilgis
Alexander in the West and Boston's Jason Tatum in the East.
New York ended Orlando's six game winning streak one twenty
one to one oh six. Toronto and Milwaukee with wins.
(30:50):
Milwaukee Bucks have won seven straight. Philadelphia won at Charlotte
one ten one oh four Paul George twenty nine points,
eight assists. Charlotte has lost six straight, and Cleveland sent
washing Rington to a fifteenth consecutive loss, one eighteen to
eighty seven. In men's college basketball, at number three Tennessee,
the undefeated Balls wiped the floor with Syracuse ninety six
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to seventy was the final on FS one Villanova over
fourteenth ranked Cincinnati sixty eight to sixty and among the
games going right now, Michigan leads at number eleven Wisconsin
fifty four to fifty two.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
With under eight.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Minutes left to college football, Oregon is still number one
in the new playoff rankings, Texas is now number two,
Penn State is number three, Notre Dame is number four,
but it cannot get a first round by because as
an independent it cannot be a conference champion, so the
Irish would be hosting a first round game this month.
SMU is number eight in the country number ten ranked.
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Boise State could get a first round by because currently
it is ranked higher than any Big twelve Conference team,
Arizona State's number fifteen, by the way. On Fox TV
This Friday night, Boise State hosts number twenty UNLV in
the Mountain West Championship game. Houston Texans linebacker as He's
Al Shire was suspended three games for the illegal hit
on Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence and the fights afterward. Eagles
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Tita in Dallas. Goddard is week to week with a
knee injury. He's not expected to play this weekend, according
to NFL Network.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Back to You, Thank You, Steve, The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmon live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
We got more baseball coming up next hour because we
have to get to the Golden at Bat story. But
coming up next already, we're getting set for what is
going to be the first twelve team college football playoff.
And because college football changes every five minutes, we'll tell
you the two changes that will absolutely come to the
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playoff for next year. That's next right here, Jason and
Mike Fox. Be sure to catch live editions of The
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Speaker 3 (33:02):
I thought you would stop doing that just this it's Christmas, Like,
come on now.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Oh way do we get more Andy Williams next hour?
When you play happy Holiday? Not doing that happy Holiday,
Happy Holiday around Christmas?
Speaker 2 (33:14):
It's the season. It started right after Halloween. Evis once saying,
why can't every day be like Christmas? What a wonderful
world this would be? And it's true.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
So the first cover you grinch. The first college football
playoff poll came out tonight, Baxter, you just bark twice.
If you're in Milwaukee. First college football playoff poll came
out tonight. The fourth sorry not the Lake, but the latest,
which is the penultimate one, which tells you that right
now Alabama is in at number eleven. Miami is not
(33:46):
going to be in no matter what, Miami has been
left out because of the way teams are going to
win when their titles move up, and Alabama will be
in Miami even though they're twelve right now, they'll wind
up being They'll wind up getting left out. Now, there's
a lot of controversy already around this, should Miami be in?
Should Alabama be in? Alabama's got three losses? What about
(34:07):
all these teams that are winning their way in, teams
like SMU or Arizona State, They're going to win their
way in from the Mountain West and win their way
in from the big twelve. But I can already tell you,
with this controversy going on and how the playoff, the
new playoff has been received in the last month, the
two big changes that are going to come to the
(34:28):
playoff for next year. Number one, the top four seeds
are going to be the top four rated teams. We're
not going to have this if you win a conference,
you're guaranteed to get one of the top four seeds.
That's not going to fly anymore. They're not going to
put a team in the top four seed. That well,
we have to because that was the rule. When there
may be the tenth best team in the playoff. That's
(34:49):
going to be one change you'll get in the playoff. Hey,
if you win your conference, you're guaranteed to get in,
but you're not going to guarantee to be one of
the top four seeds. That Unfortunately, this is a a
ten year deal like a CBA that you have to
decide whether you want to strike. Here. They seem to
make it up, as with every other rule, as they
go along. We're gonna try this and then let's see
(35:12):
how it's received, how it plays out. Do we get
any level of satisfaction with how the field plays out?
What's the social media response? What are our television ratings?
All those important metrics by which they decide when they
go back to the table, all right, what needs to change? Yeah,
I mean, look, and that's what it is. And it's
only it's only natural to say, Okay, we're doing this
(35:35):
for the first time. Granted you have all kinds of
time to think through it and think through all different
peopleations of stuff considered. We don't do any of that.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I mean, look acc saying hey, can you can you
reconsider our ranking? We're filing it a pile. It's like, hey,
you know you only gave me partial credit on this
essay question. I really think I hit the crux of
the argument right here in paragraph three. I'd like the
extra two points because my my grade point average is
so for a year, that's what we're happening.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
There is no sport that is more let's throw it
up against the wall and see what sticks more than college. Right,
So it's built for change. So the first thing that's
gonna be the first when you see a team that
is up there at the top, because you know SMU
wins the ACC whatever it is that's going to go away. Right,
we have the top four teams as they're ranked, will
be in the playoff and they'll be hosting games. Now,
(36:22):
the other change is this, and this is legit, and
this is Wayne Kiffin brought this up three weeks too
early because not now he brought bad karma on himself.
But the next change is going to be if you
make your conference championship game, you automatically qualify for the
playoff as well. Because look at the most unfair thing
that could happen right now, the AC title game is
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SMU and Clemson, right, so in SMU wins, that's look
SMS the better team, they should win. But this is
not out out, it's not outlands. I think Clemson can
win the upset. So Clemson wins, they get into the playoff.
Now then it's going to be a choice of hey,
who does that final playoff spot go to SMU at
eleven and two or Alabama at nine and three. And
(37:05):
SMU is getting penalized because they made the conference championship game.
Alabama is not playing and they're sitting at number eleven
wherever they are. But SMU, by virtue of achieving more
than Alabama, is potentially going to be penalized because they
played another game and they happen to lose, and that's
not fair. So what you're gonna wind up seeing, I think,
(37:27):
is that twelve team playoff for the Power three conferences,
for the Big Ten, the ACC, the SEC, the top
two teams. You make it to the conference championship, you're
guaranteed to get into the playoff, just to make it
fair so you can't lose and get left out because
it really isn't fair. And then you're talking about four
at large seeds that come from outside of that or
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the rest of the seeds are the at largs coming
from outside of that, and you're on your other conference
champion that's going to get in there at number four.
It's just still going to see a lot of what
it looked like this year. You'll see the top four
seeds change and that if you make the conference title game,
you're gonna wind up automatically qualifying for the playoff as well.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
SMU a two and a half point favorite over Clemson.
Fifty six and a half is your total. I was
waiting for you to add an extra caveat for anything
Notre Dame does that they now get back into the
full consideration as opposed to you know, we're.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Here, we're on the outlier. We don't we're not a
conference champion. We refuse to join a conference, but damn it,
we're Notre Dame. And hey, when you have the and
they have the cachet this year they're the number four two,
they're not gonna lose their ranking, right we saw the
playoff committee said no one loses their ranking if they
don't play the next week, nor that they could be passed.
Other teams can pass, but other teams have to move down.
(38:44):
Notre Dame's in the top four, like Notre Dame is
in the top four. They're gonna sit there. They're gonna
host a playoff game. You know they're or sorry, they'll
be right outside. No, but that top point is that
you're right outside the top four. So they will host
a home playoff game in the first round. They will
get to do that. No one's gonna be able to
win and knock them out of that. That's the thing
that now it gets to expanded. If we're back on top.
(39:04):
Now we'd like consideration that we can be a top
four seed and not be left out of the and
holding the bag. They'll say, join a conference. Pick big
a conference and join pick go ahead, big a conference, anyone,
we don't care. Just pick a conference and join it.
We don't care. Start your own conference.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Is there's been letter writing campaigns like their Andy Dufrain
for as long as I've been alive. Can you just
join the conference?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Already?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
You play three of us, Yeah, and you play all
the service schools. I get it, and then you've got
your game against USC But.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Come on, come on, let's go now. But you could
already see those two changes coming next year. Eventually they'll
get to sixteen teams, not too long from that. But
those that you make the conference title game to be fair,
you get in and they'll make sure the top four
seeds are not some you know, mid major getting a host,
getting a buy and hosting playoff games not gonna happen.
Reconsideration appeals process. We got more football on the way.
(39:59):
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