Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason and Mike talk Cowboys/Bengals. Jason explains how the level of play by the Cowboys doesn't drop as much as you think it would when Dak Prescott doesn't play. And everything Week 14 with NFL Insider Jason La Canfora! Plus, why it’s ok if your MLB team didn’t get Juan Soto.  

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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, Welcome inside. Maybe the most glorious Monday in the
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friend Mike Harmon. We've been on air for titles yeah
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Only one NBA game tonight, the only one you need.
The Knicks beat the Raptors one thirteen, one oh eight.
Knicks had a two point lead and the ball with
about send ten seconds left looked like a potential turnover.

(01:29):
Maybe the Raptors will get one more chance and RJ.
Barrett could be the hero against his former team. But
no Oganonobi with a great pass to Big Bodega and
Karl Anthony Towns with the dagger of a three to
one thirteen one o eight is your final score.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Twenty four, fifteen and six On the night for cat
P you had a scare as you were running around
trying to figure out because you had a moment where
your guy Brunson. Yeah, suddenly you gotta build a fence, Yeah,
fence and.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
A barrier between the players and the fans. The highlight
that's going viral right now.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Jalen Brunston had to leave the next game tonight for
a few minutes because he stepped on a fan shoe
after shooting a three. Trying to go back down court.
He stepped on a fan shoe. He walked right off.
Larry David, No, it's good for the Krusty of the
clown game. He stuck his big big shoe out out
after kicking a field goal. He went to courtside.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
He gets hurt and he has to leave right away.
They take him right into the locker room. But he
comes back out. He plays a bit. He's okay. He
was out there at the end congratulating Karl Anthony Towns
after a big bow Day.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
The MVP.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Dude, he lost his mind as he that shot went up.
You do the ISO on Brunson. He's jumping up and
down like they just want a title before that ball
even went through the net.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Big Bodega Man, Big day, Big day, Big.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Big day, because they were all jacked up when it
all started. You know, with that other team of years.
Everything's coming up Smith, It is.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Coming roll Man.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
And we'll get to Juan Soto in a couple of minutes.
But obviously look quick update Monday Night Football. A game
that looked great when the schedule came out in late August.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Not so much now.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Cowboys and the Bengals seventeen seventeen, nine and a half.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
To go in the third quarter.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
There's been a really entertaining game for you know, two
teams that are five and seven point. Absolutely, Cooper Rushes
are own a couple of touchdowns for the for the
Cowboys to get them back in this you have a
great Chase Brown touchdown catch tight rope down the sideline.
It has been an entertaining game and I just want
to throw this out there because this is the real
takeaway from this game tonight. And I always go back

(03:39):
to when we had Jay Glazer. We only have Jay
Glazer on every week, and we talked about this is
back in the the Nick Foles Carson Wentz quarterback quandary,
where boy Carson Wentz is an MVP caliber player, but
boy Nick folesos for four hundred yards and they win
with him. And Jay Glazer would always say, for whatever reason,
we know how talented Carson went and says Nick Foles

(04:00):
has been a backup for whatever reason, the Eagles play
better with Nick Foles as the quarterback than they do
with Carson Wentz for whatever reason, right, And that was
just me. I mean he said that a bunch of times.
For whatever reason, Nick Foles when he's the quarterback, the
Eagles play better. And I watched the Dallas Cowboys and

(04:22):
I can't say they play better, but I could say,
for whatever reason, the Cowboys remain competitive when Cooper Rush
is playing quarterback. For whatever reason, and yes this is
this is a sub tweet about about Dak Prescott. For
whatever reason, the Cowboys are really competitive when Cooper Rush

(04:43):
is the quarterback, because that's been the case when he
had to come in when he got hurt a year ago.
Since he's coming now, give the Cowboys a week or
two to get used to losing Dak Prescott, and suddenly
here are the Cowboys at five and seven. They can
stay on the edge of the periphery of the of
the very the very are outside of the playoff chase

(05:03):
in the NFC. With a win tonight to get to
six and seven. For whatever reason, the Cowboys continue. They
play hard, and they're competitive under Cooper Rush. As I
watched Dak Prescott sitting in the in the in the
booth clapping with every big play coming to Dallas.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Cowboys. Wait.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
For whatever reason, the Cowboys play really competitive when Cooper
Rush is in there.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Thanks, Ralph always likes to get Ralph Wigham thrown.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
And you should have a little Ralph Wickham mixed there in.
It's a beautiful night. The Hoolet Simpson's secondary broadcast thing
going on.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
We'll get into that as the night goes on.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
But to your point about Cooper Rush versus Dak, Yeah,
there's something to it of a little extra energy. Also,
the schedule has been pretty nice to you. Last week
the Joys, this week the Bengals. Who I think if
you took me you Frostburg, De Sager, and Mary and
then added another six people, we might be able to
move the ball on this defense. Lou Ana Arumo's squad

(06:11):
has been awful. Obviously, Wilson's hurt and done for the year,
and some of the other injuries they've had, but they
were awful from the jump, showing no life, which means
Joe Burrow has had to try to be Superman, Batman,
whatever greatest superhero is in your mind, and he's put
up ridiculous numbers coming into this game, thirty touchdowns against
five picks. But to the Cowboys point, yeah, playing a

(06:32):
little free and loose, right, the expectations on Cooper Rush,
I mean, everybody wanted to see Trey Lance. There's a
little motivation there. Maybe it's also the kind of nod
and wink of Hey, this guy can play and we
get after it him. In when Ceedee Lamb had one
of his first catches to the night, it's like, yeah,
that's his eightieth of the year. Like that's not bad
considering how miserable you know, everything is looked and now

(06:56):
you're on the periphery. I mean, the NFC is a mess. Yeah,
so why not that you look at their schedule down
the stretch at Carolina, Tampa Bay at Philly, and then
Washington at home. Three of those games you can go
and win if things break right. It's it's really insane
how that works out. But but yeah, there is that

(07:16):
effort thing. And you always wonder what's going on in
a locker room. You always wonder about pecking order. It's
a question being asked today related back to your SODO
signing as to what that means in a locker room.
When a guy makes that much money and whatever. You'd
like to think, Hey, I'm making a pretty good check too,
so I'm not gonna be wallet watching. But maybe there

(07:39):
is something to the fact that, hey, this kid can
wing it around to ask for reason.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
We talk about football being the ultimate team sport, and
quarterbacks when they have big games and what their records
are and all kinds of crazy stuff. When when Mahomes
came back to win that game yesterday, you saw the
stat that I think puzzled a lot of people. Wait,
when Mahomes is trailing the fourth quarter as records five hundred.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh, by the way, that's.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
The best record in the history of the NFL for
a quarterback who is trailing the fourth one. Right, that
shows you just how much you can't just have a
guy all right, we're gonna give him the football that
I'm going up and down the field. But the Cowboy
it's not that Dak Prescott's a bad quarterback. This is
not that he's been bad. Dak Prescott has had some
big seasons, right, and the Cowboys still win. They still
you know, they've been twelve and twelve last couple of years.

(08:22):
But the whole point about Dak Prescott is that he's
way more valuable to the Dallas Cowboys than he is
outside the rest of the league. And and Jerry Jones
inflated his value, paid him more money than he should
when not saying okay, we can start over with Cooper Rush.
But understand that when you give Dak Prescott all that money, right,

(08:43):
and he's your guy, You're locked in with him. You
had the best of Dak Prescott so far, and what
do you have? You have really bad playoff efforts to
show for it. Because that's the that's the biggest criticism
of Dak Prescott is that.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Okay, you have this level you have.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
What you're geting from Dak Prescott is what you get
when he's not in the game.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's not so far away.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's not like, hey, when two is in the game
compared to when someone else is in against It's not
that case. It's not where, Hey, the Cowboys performance is
so far below where it's. Boy, you can tell how
they miss their quarterback. You can tell, and they miss him. Boy,
there's no offense. They can't do anything. The difference is
not great, which should tell you about the real value

(09:21):
of Dak Prescott. It's not that he's Daddy's awful. It's
not that he stinks. Dak Prescott is good. But is
he fifty five million dollars a year good where we're
gonna continue to turn the team over to him for
the next few years after we just had the best
of Dak Prescott, and every time the playoffs come, I
want to cut the guy because he stinks and he's
cost us three games in the playoffs the last couple

(09:42):
of years.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Just under that.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
That's the real thing about Prescott is that look at
the Cowboys and you see how they play with Cooper Russian. No,
they're not as dynamic, but they still they find a
way to win a little bit and they're competitive all
the way through. That's the big thing to know. The
big takeaway from Hey, the Cowboys without Dak Prescott, that
different diference from where they are with Dak?

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Where are they're all without him? Ain't as big as
you think.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
And that's where you go back into the on field
versus off field branding, sales, et cetera. This is where
I'd love a Scott Borris breakdown as to what Dak
Prescott's value is.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
More people come to the games, here's where parking is going.
You're gonna get all this money here.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Sure, the you know, chemicals in Jerry Jones' brain are
better because that was the guy he found in the draft.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
I mean, Cooper Rush is fine. I mean it's a
nice find, and you.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Think he'd be latching onto that and selling the hell
out of that as he can. But the reality is,
you know there is something to be said with Jerry
and we know his affinity for those guys that he
feels like he's stolen in the draft. And then you
get into well what the market will bear? And with
Dak Prescott, I think we all agreed at least on

(10:55):
this show of I don't know, I just pay him
the franchise he done right or walk away? But because
like you, you watched it year after year of the
the playoff fails and it's like you're not getting over,
Like at one point do you decide, all right, this
is where we are And that's that's the McCarthy question
going forward and all of those things. But for Cooper Rush, Yeah,

(11:17):
these guys ball out and you've seen the effort and
you've seen the offensive line firing off again. Giants and
Bangles hang a star on it because they both what's
that word do you like to use?

Speaker 3 (11:28):
What word about? Wait?

Speaker 1 (11:29):
I'm trying to describe one word? Yeah, no word, one word,
one one word? Really do that with one word, one word,
one word?

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Very powerful?

Speaker 1 (11:37):
I do with one word, one word, with one word,
Uh wonderful.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Now they stay all right, Yes, that's what I do.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes, they yeah, you know, it's one wonderful everything. And oh,
by the way, my dad ditched all of my phone
calls today, every single one. I could have called him
and said, Dad, I will die if you don't answer
the phone. Please add He wouldn't answer the phone because

(12:05):
you know, it's all gonna be about the Mets getting
Soto and I'm just I'm so the way the Yankee
fans are just melting down. I feel like the Emperor
from Return the Jedi. I'm just putting out my hands, going.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yes, let me feel your hatred. Let me feel your hate.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
It consumes you.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yes, yes, the hate that comes over the internet and
on television.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Oh yes, leave take your hate.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
And strike me down, mixing our Disney Disney plus movies.
Does he come with that flower like mother Goffle has
entangled that keeps her young?

Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yes, yes, yeah, that'd aid your hate. I can tell
it courses through you. I'll upset you off losing Jan
Soto across town.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yes, how many more of your friends came out of
the woodworks and started hammering you.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Oh it was the text last night. It was it
was like my birth day and Bobby Benia Day. The
days I get the most texts in the world, Well,
Father's Day, my birthday, Bobby Benia Day.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
And then last night when the when the Mets got set,
that is incorrect day? Why is it? What do you
mean it's incorrect? That's not the answer Mike was looking for.
What answer are you looking for? Nobody cares what to
his question, that was the answer, what what are you
talking about?

Speaker 6 (13:27):
Hell?

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Are you talking of? Monday?

Speaker 6 (13:29):
Baby?

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Every bird let's go, except you got it? And they're
laughing their butts off. I don't know about that. I
don't know about that. Indeed, I don't think so. I
don't think so.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Exit up about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Rman Live from the tireg dot
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to the Mets coming up in a little bit. And oh,
by the way, now the Mets want to go after
petere Lonzo and bring him back. But coming up next
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(13:59):
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Speaker 2 (15:00):
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Speaker 1 (15:11):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, Live from the tirag dot com studios.
Going to the fourth quarter right now in Dallas. Feel
like this game is moving seventeen seventeen Bengals and the Cowboys.
Look at the Cowboys hanging tough without Dak Prescott. That's
five and a half. You know what, it's a good

(15:32):
person to talk to you about. That is Jason locking Forth.
Oh yeah, longtime NFL inside of Front of the Show.
Joins us now on the hotline. Check them out on
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Speaker 3 (15:47):
How are you?

Speaker 6 (15:48):
What's going on? Gentlemen?

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Greetings?

Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know we talked about this a few minutes ago.
Cowboys kick a field goal. They now lead the Bengals
twenty to seventeen, and it's weird that here the Cowboys
remaining oddly competitive in the wake of when their season
should be over. They win tonight, they get to one
game under five hundred, and it's weird because you know,
as good as Dak Preskt is, Dak Prescott's a good
quarterback for whatever reason, the drop off when he doesn't

(16:15):
play to the Cowboys level of play ain't as great
as you think it's going to be when all you're
losing your startup. The Cowboys still find ways to stay
competitive and win games when Cooper Rush is playing quarterback,
Like you would think that drop off would be really
big as far as what happens to the Cowboys, and
it really isn't.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
Well, they were blown out a few times early on
after he left, but they were also blown out a
few times at home with him. They're running the ball
better than they have all year. So I think that's
up about it, and I think we also need to
keep track up. Just because they're playing in primetime doesn't
mean they're playing difficult teams. You know, their division is
largely you know, I mean, look, I'm starting to you know,

(16:55):
I have a belief in Washington to a certain degree,
but like you know, they look at who they've played.
It hasn't exactly been murderers row. You know, their their
best win was what they'd beat Pittsburgh, right, I mean,
I'm guessing that's their best win on I don't know,

(17:17):
Like yeah, I mean, look, they're paying Dak Prescott a
ton of money. They butchered that negotiation. We talked about
it all off season long and through the summer, as
Jerry calls himself, millions and millions of dollars. Cooper Rush
is a useful quarterback. He's one of these guys who
the longer he plays, the more settled and he gets,
and I think the more things do stabilize. He doesn't

(17:41):
usually make back breaking mistakes. He understands how to manage
a game. He's athletic enough. Yeah, it's it's It's not
a cataclysmic drop off. I mean, but the reality is
their season has been over for quite some time for
the most part, and I think they're going to run

(18:01):
it back. Like, I don't think there's going to be
massive changes there. So this is what you get. I mean,
they'll be the same kind of team again next year.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
On the other side, does Zach Taylor keep his gig
in Cincinnati?

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Or does he get blown out.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
I don't.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
They don't pay people to go away. You know, they
extended not that long ago. That's not what Mike Brown does,
Like it would be really out of character. This guy,
you know, has taken them to a super Bowl, which
obviously hasn't happened there for a long time. The quarterback
seems to like him. Maybe they adjust their offensive staff.

(18:38):
They need players on defense. I mean, look, Zach Kerr
was an offensive minded coach. They've lost what five times
this year when they scored over thirty points? Like, and
I don't think lou Anarumo got stupid all of a
sudden over the offseason. Like. They haven't spent a lot
of money on defense since they kind of did the
the Hendrickson and Hubbard thing a few years ago. Their

(18:59):
draft picks on d have not panned out. Duke Tobin
and their personnel department have kind of done a note
tied the last two or three years. And that's where
I think the problems are. Und They've got problems at
all three levels of their defense. You know, could you
make Zach Taylor walk the playing for it? I guess
you could. I don't think that's what Mike Brown will do.

(19:21):
You're gonna have to keep Chase and then they're going
to have to figure a lot of things out defensively.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
All right, Jay, Now, before we get to the big
weekend that was, this Bill Belichick North Carolina thing just
continues to gather steam. He does an interview on ESPN
today on Pat McAfee show, saying, we'll see if I
take over, I want to run the program this way.
How real is this Belichick North Carolina thing?

Speaker 6 (19:47):
I think Bill Belichick is an expert at playing the media,
and Bill Belichick knows exactly what he's doing. And Bill
Belichick is trying to go down as the greatest NFL
coach ever, and he's trying to do it in fat
by you know, basically having every single record, and you
can't do that at Chapel Hill. I look, he's looking

(20:07):
for leverage. He's looking for these owners to get a
little bit more motivated. I think he's looking. I think
he's probably frankly kind of stunned that he hasn't had
the same kind of action from the NFL teams. Because again,
if you've got an interim coach or whatever, you could
start interviewing people like the guy doesn't have any current
obligations to an NFL team you could have. You could
start spending time with him, so you know, here he is.

(20:29):
He's got the board of trustees and everybody at UNC
and he's alumni all whips up in a fervor every
time he talks to him. But that hasn't been the
case in the NFL. And yes, you would still have
to comply with the running role, and there's lots of
things you have to be before you hire him, but
there's also ways to enter into wink wink agreements with people,

(20:49):
and that you know, can start happening in the next
few weeks. So I'd be really surprised if he went
to college route, Like, I don't think the idea of
having to constantly with and re recruit these kids, you know,
it's a never ending it's like a never ending process. Now,
I just don't know that that's for him. And the
whole thing about setting up Steve Belichick, like you can

(21:11):
try to do that wherever he goes. I mean, he
saw Parcells move upstairs and become a football zar and
a point you know, basically the next head coach. Like,
I don't think that's something that has to be endemic
to a college situation whatsoever. I think he's coaching in the.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Pros Sunday game perhaps the craziest we've seen in recent memory,
the mind boggling stats of Josh Allen. But they take
the l against the Rams. How seriously?

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Should we take the Rams here and down the stretch?

Speaker 6 (21:43):
Look, I'm a Rams truther. I wrote about him a
month ago at the Washington Post and thought they could
still you know, could win that division and be a
team that if they got in the playoffs might be
a tough out. And they're definitely erratic. They're the second
youngest team in the league. Body on the defense is
making any money. I mean, their their defense is like

(22:04):
thirty five or forty million dollars less than anybody else.
Like the defense basically combined makes what like Aaron Donald
was making in you know, annual cash the last couple
of years. So I think there's going to be some
ebbs and flows because of that degree of youth. They're
still too vulnerable to the big play. But I dare

(22:24):
say they've sorted the offensive line out. I think this
is the fourth or fifth time I probably would have
said that to somebody in the last thirteen weeks. But
I kind of feel like they're there again, and then
they have a modicum of a five they can trust
up front. We know, you know that the skill players
are there, and when Stafford can have time to operate,
he's tough to beat. So yeah, I thought that was

(22:47):
a really tough spot for the Bills, like with all
the big games they've played, and then you've got to
go out west and play this one where the other
team needs it more than you, knowing you've got this
big game with Detroit after that, I thought that was
a tricky spot for them. Now we'll see what happens
Thursday night. I mean, was that Chicago forty nine ers

(23:07):
thing more about Chicago playing a game without without a
head coach or is this really the forty nine ers
last end and they've turned it back on, Like I
kind of think it says more about Thomas Brown in
Chicago and that hype machine people trying to hand them
the job before heading to coach the game, Like that's
object failure, Like you made what happened to the Jets
defense when they fired Salah, Like you made You're like

(23:29):
hold my beer, hold my keg hold you know, hold
my whole entire winery. Hold you know all the wine
in France we're going to take. We'll show you the
vacle when the defensive mind and head coach leaves the building. Like,
I don't know, man, I think it'll be a fun game.
I think it'll be a high scoring game. And we

(23:52):
know that Shanahan's had mcveigh's number except for a couple
of times in the playoffs, Stafford has kind of struggled
against the forty nine ers. But I don't know, man,
I kind of have a feeling that the Rams are
going to be playing Seattle in week eighteen and that's
going to settle that division.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
NFL insider Jason Lock and for our guest, the Jason
Smithcher with Mike Harman live from the Tirech dot Com studios.
All right, let's head to Philadelphia because the GAT The
best thing to say about the Eagles is, no matter
how good things look, they always have one foot on
the banana. Pel Well boy Brandon Graham with a statement
today that Jalen Hurts and aj Brown used to be
friends and now they're working through it, and I feel

(24:31):
like nobody in Philadelphia likes each other, whether it's Hurts
and Siriani trying to see eye to eye and now
it's Hurts in aj Brown like this function in Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yet they keep winning.

Speaker 6 (24:41):
J Yeah, if one nine in a row. But it
does kind of feel like that the egos and the
personalities are held together by duck tape. Huh. And they
don't have much of a passing game these days and
that has kind of dried up. I think the offensive
line is better. No, it's an elite, obviously run blocking

(25:02):
offensive line, I think past potess, and they occasionally get issues.
Hurtz does he pulled the ball too long? I don't
know how much they all do really believe in Sirianni.
But they keep winning. They've obviously turned some things around defensively. Yeah,
there's definitely something about them that still gives me a
little pause. I do feel like they might run into

(25:24):
a buzz saw with the Pittsburgh Steelers this week, Like
you sedill get that at five and a half. Like
Tomlins won nine in the last eleven straight up where
he's been a road dogs, but he's eleven and five
against the spread his last sixteen as a road dog.
I think five and a half points is too many,
and I do think even without George Pickens, I think
Pittsburgh's got a chance to win that football game. The

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Eagles are just due for a loss. It's hard to
roll off ten eleven, twelve straight wins in this league.
They kind of got away with one last week. And look,
if Justin Tucker is not even worse kicker than their kicker,
they might have lost the week before. Yes, it's a
situation worth monitoring because we saw those personalities completely unravel

(26:08):
a year ago at this time.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
So we got two sides of a coin.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
We could either do the Sam Sam Sam Sam Darnald
Express or the more entertaining which is the losing locker
room Michael Pennix versus Kirk Cousins for the final four weeks.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Let's go.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
They need to give it to Pennis that if they
want to play tystol football, which is what they want
to do, then you might as well do it with
the quarterback who can actually add explosiveness to your run game.
And they finally did run the ball. Okay, but they
started running the ball, and Minnesota was okay with them
running the ball because they had that game in hand.
And I mean her Cousins hasn't thrown a touchdown pass.

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It's like November the third, and I know there's a
buy in there, but still that can't happen. Like he's
one of the worst fourth quarter quarterbacks in the NFL.
The interceptions speak for themselves the time this summer. I
guess heard them, you know, in terms of connecting with
these guys. But I think they absolutely need to make
that change. They have to try a different energy, a

(27:12):
different spark. They got to score some damn points. It's
as simple as that. The sweep of the Bucks is
now out the window. If the Bucks have a better
friggin record. Yeah, I think it'd be pretty chicken bleak
not to be willing to go to that kid, especially
when you look at what's happened to these other teams
who've done it. I mean, this whole this quarterback class,

(27:33):
everybody has risen to the occasion. So yeah, it's time Jay.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Lastly, so coming off the big Sunday night game, the
Chiefs come from behind win over the Chargers. Should we
just assume that every game for the Chiefs is going
to end with the Chiefs behind with about six minutes
to go and they score or go ahead touchdown or
kick a field gun.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
That's just how it's going to go.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
Yes, it doesn't matter who the kicker is. Good, Okay, good,
what's happened in the first you know, seven minutes of
that game doesn't matter. The officiating crew, Like, yeah, I
think that is the reality. They're just an expert operation
at winning football games and winning when it's winning time

(28:17):
and making you know, taking full advantage of that. And
I mean I was looking up today, like Patrick Mahomes
is still the second rated quarterback in the NFL all
third down, Like it's really it's just about keeping games close,
not having backbreaking turnovers. And then their quarterback wins the
fourth quarter on third down and fourth down, right, I

(28:37):
mean that's really what he does. I mean how often
is it like third and twenty two? Right? And they
still just keep the drive going like that's who they
are and what they do. The tackle situation looks really bad.
The sort of evaporation of whatever George Carlofts looked like
through the first four weeks of this season, and what
the edge group we thought might be like that's not

(29:00):
really manifesting itself. It probably won't. They're giving up too
many big plays now on defense, the red zone offense
still looks bad, and they're on their fourth kicker. I
just don't think it's gonna matter a whole although I
do think this could be a tricky little spot in
Cleveland this weekend. But I you know, somebody beating them,
a good team beating them when it's all on the

(29:22):
line in the playoffs. See if to believe it.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and for that is
at Jason lock and fora Jay as always, buddy, appreciate it, man,
enjoy the games.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
You guys do the same. Thank you, Thanks.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Jason, great stuff from Jason, looking for how about that?
Maybe a little bit of problem with Cleveland this week?

Speaker 3 (29:41):
I keep winging it. I mean, come on with them.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
They're eliminated, but they're sticking with Jamis, Like you could,
could you not?

Speaker 3 (29:47):
I mean, hell, yeah, no, we're done. We're going to
talk about this.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
They get excited about this guy on the field and
what he's gonna say before, during, and after a game.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Nah, let's bench him.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
And if Bill doesn't become the next head coach in
North Carolina, I know who will, because he's set for
interview tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
It's Steve the Seger. How about that?

Speaker 1 (30:07):
But first he's gonna tell us what's trending in the
wide world of sports.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
I would take one tenth of what Mac Brown has
accumulated for his results. Let's just say they were not
always good.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Okay, no, they were they you know, depended whatever day
you looked at the standings. It depends on how good
it was a bat way.

Speaker 7 (30:24):
I remember a story directly from Mac Brown at a
press conference of as I went to. He had been
on a championship team as an assistant before he first
got the North Carolina job, and he was out just
at a gas station, like waiting by the pump or something,
got chit chatting with a local and he noticed the ring.
The local said, wow, look at that. He said, yeah,
it's college football championship ring. We're looking to get one

(30:47):
of those with the tar heels, and the guy, not
realizing he was talking to Mac Brown's, oh, they're never.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Going to get one with that Mac Brown as coach. Well,
you know that'll be eighteen seventy five. Well, we've got
a Monday night football game going right now. It's Bengals
at Cowboys tied in the fourth.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
By the way, there are two Monday Night football games
next Monday, kicking off a half hour apart. One of
the games has the Bears, losers of seven straight, and
the other game has the Raiders, losers of nine straits.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Set the DVR. Now, people, something's gotta give. I don't
know there can be a tie.

Speaker 7 (31:24):
Donovan Bengals and Cowboys tied at twenty with about ten
minutes left to eat in regulation. Right now, Cooper Rush
two touchdown passes, one interception for Dallas. Rico Daudell seventeen
carries one hundred and seventeen yards rushing. Joe Burrow two
touchdown passes and one interception. He's thrown for two hundred
and seventy four yards. Dallas is five and seven this year,

(31:46):
the Bengals four and eight. The Raiders quarterback Aiden O'Connell's
knee injury is a bone bruise. Saints quarterback Derek Carr
could be out for the season, according to NFL Media,
with a broken left hand. He's also in concussion protocol.
Four finalists for the Heisman Trophy include Boise State running
back Ashton gent and Colorado wide receiver and defensive back
Travis Hunter. The Phillies signed former Toronto All Star closer

(32:10):
Jordan Romano one NBA game tonight. The Knicks won a
close one at Toronto one thirteen, one oh eight. Tennessee
is the new number one in men's college basketball. Auburn
is still number two, and it's three games that's it
for the NHL. Tonight Detroit wanted a shootout at Buffalo.
Montreal in a shootout over Anaheim. Chicago a two to
one winner at the Rangers.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
And did you.

Speaker 7 (32:32):
Note the John Hayman Colum New York post about the
Soto contract. Details include he gets a suite at City
Field in New York for his family estimated value five
hundred thousand plus a year.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
The Yankees would not give him one because they said
Judge and Jeter didn't get one. But they said, oh,
we'll give it to you at a discount. Oh oh,
thanks queens.

Speaker 7 (32:58):
Those players for theirs. The Athletic By the way, as
the Winter Meetings are ongoing this week, the Athletics says,
after the spirited bidding war for Sodo, Mets and Yankees
among the teams vying for the best starting pitcher available
via tray, the White Sox Lefty Garrett Crochet. No deal
considered close, but those two the most aggressive suitors as

(33:22):
of today.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Thank you, Steve. You can imagine that whole thing. Like
they come into Steve Cohen's office. Okay, here's the latest
from Boris. Yeah right, the money is there. He wants
a suite. Wait, Boris does no sodo? Does that's it?

Speaker 5 (33:35):
That?

Speaker 3 (33:37):
What does that cost? About five hundred grand?

Speaker 7 (33:39):
Hey, wait a minute, do we have to stoga with
food or just that's just it?

Speaker 4 (33:44):
Right?

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah? Give it to him? Why not?

Speaker 7 (33:47):
Yes, signing bonus is seventy five million dollars.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
No principle, I'm not giving you an extra five hundred
thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
That's what you want.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Like, It's like if I go on like a shopping
spree for for Christmas and I go, oh, I'm gonna
get a bunch of stuff here. Why because I get
a T They give you a T shirt if you
spend like over one hundred dollars, you're spending a hundred Yeah,
but I get a free T shirt. It's like, yeah,
I want to I want a sweet.

Speaker 7 (34:11):
It's like a guy it orders two quarter pounders with cheese,
but has the diet Coke.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
I mean who knows that? Ye? Because nobody got that. Yeah,
because it's because it's Big Max, not quarter.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
Gonna do it?

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Did get it right? I wantle correct. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
Tirech dot Com Studios. Bengals Cowboys still at twenty apiece.
We'll keep you updated on this. But straight ahead, why
there should be zero complaints about the college football playoff
bracket zero? I'll tell you an x Y Jason and
Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Radio Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
Simply getting Juan Soto on your team, sip.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
We'll have more in the one Soto story coming up
in a few minutes. It's about the holiday holiday holidays,
not about.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
You holiday holiday holiday. A big play just got overturned.
A pass that was ruled of fumble and recovery by
the Cowboys instead was ruled an incomplete pass, so the
Bengals are allowed to keep the football. However, can't get
a first down and despite the fact that Joe Burrow's

(35:34):
helmet on that third down play was just twisted so
the side of his helmet covered the front of his face.
There was no penalty called, and now the Bengals have
punted or are punting to the Cowboys, who will get
the football back with about six and a half left
to go.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Does it just me or does this seem like we
have at least two or three of those with quarterbacks
every week at this point, both at the collegiate and
pro level, where it's like the guy's head's getting twisted
off seemingly in the clear view of everybody watching. Obviously
we have the beautiful television cameras doing it for us.
But it's not like he's in the middle of a scrum, right,

(36:11):
He's getting out and finding space and.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
He has the football Like this is where you're looking
looking at the guy with the ball.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
The ear hole covered his nose. That's how much they
pulled that.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
But no breathe So that's good. Oh yeah, just absurd.
Uh So again, we'll have more on this game than
more than one. Soto coming up in a few minutes,
But of course, other big drama this weekend. We finally
had the end of the college football season while we
still have Army Navy.

Speaker 6 (36:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
But with conference championship weekend in the books, the college
football Playoff bracket came out in all kinds of controversy.
Alabama has left out. SMU is in how can you
make a case? Why is so and so seated ahead
of it? You know what, I get it, and it's
and it's fun and it kind of goes back to
the the the worry that everybody had it. Well, you know,

(36:57):
conference championship Saturday is not going to mean anything because
you're like twelve team in the playoff. Now, pretty sure
a conference championship Saturday.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Was a really big deal. It was a really big deal.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
But there should be zero controversy. There should be zero controversy.
Don't complain about who you have to play. Don't complain
about where you are. The big complaints are about who
should be twelfth and eleventh in the college football playoff.
I'm sorry, but if you were a team that got
left out, there was a reason why you got left out.

(37:27):
You lost too many games, lost too many games to
bad teams Alabama, you lost when you couldn't lose, when
you didn't play anybody good in the one team in
the top twenty five you needed to play and beat
you lost to after you had a twenty one zhering
lead Miami.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
This is like.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Arguing insanely over who was snubbed out of the NCAA
Tournament for basketball. Now, yes, this is more high profile
because it is football and there's less teams, but think
about the college basketball No one gets like, yeah you
get left out. Yeah, sorry, you got left out, But
you got left out because you left too much to
chance and you couldn't take care of business. I have

(38:02):
no sympathy for the teams that got left out because
there's all reasons why. There's no team that I can say, Boy,
they got screwed getting left out of the bratt. No
they didn't. Miami didn't get screwed, Alabama didn't get screwed.
Nobody got screwed. Everybody had too many losses, not a
good enough resume. And when you leave it up to
people to vote, which is how they do it in
college football, so we still want to vote for teams. Okay,

(38:24):
this is what's gonna happen. The best teams got in.
The teams that can win the national championship, they all
got in. Are they all happy with their seeds? No,
but go win a game. I don't give a crap.
I don't give a crowd. Oh we should be saying,
no play. These are the best teams that are in.
If you're Ohio State, go play, Penn State, go play.
It doesn't matter all but Poise States. No, you're in.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
You're in.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
No one's sitting here saying, oh, we're looking at us.
They put us in this conference, in the NCAA tournament
where we're number one seed. But look at our eight
and nine game. We gotta play a really good team
in the eight and nine game.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
Out.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
I can't believe they gave us this patna. You're in
the tournament, Go play. There is no I have no
sympathy or desire to sit back and debate why a
certain team got left out that has three losses or
lost to every top twenty five team they played to.
There's no reason you could have won those games and
gotten in, because had you won those games, you're getting

(39:14):
in the tournament.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
But you didn't. So I'm sorry you're left out.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
You left We're talking about the twelfth best team and
eleventh best team in the college.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
No, I'm sorry you got left out. Let's move on.
Never let it go to the judges.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
I think it's interesting tennessee a d Danny White saying, hey,
let's go back to computers.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
You want to buy a computer.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
Let's get back to the computers and create the perfect
algorithm and model. Yeah, because that'll go over really well. Look,
there'll be tweaks to this. You can argue about the
automatic you know buys and Notre Dame is gonna say, well,
we'd like to put our hand up and become one
of those teams considered for a buy. And obviously Oregon

(39:51):
landing was like, you know, just win your games. Well,
now you're gonna have to because you've got a very
difficult road. Yet everybody's complaining about that. We mentioned it,
you and I talking off air a little bit. But
all of that, say Alabama, everybody nobody said, hey, don't
play mercer. In November, it was don't lose to Vanderbilt
and don't get smoked by a crap ass.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Oklahomabama wants to make up like there's a reason why, Like, oh,
because we played two.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Times, you win.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
You could have beat teams that are easily to beat.
You could have beat teams. It's not anybody's fault. It's
not somebody else's fault. It's not your schedule's fault that
you lost. You had get if you had played a
look at these eight top twenty five teams we have
to play.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
All right, that's a difficult schedule.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
But it's like, oh, we had Oklahoma stinks right, I
mean Vanderweens Vanderbilt come on, man.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
Right, Vandy ends up as a as a five hundred team.
They were Giant slayers a couple times. That's all fining good.
You lost to Tennessee and then you lose those two games.
Oh and you played Mercer. Okay, whenever we're doing this,
look at this side of the resume. Don't forget this game,
which is a scrimmage to get guys rested for the big.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Finales should be there.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
You then lost exit out about of Fresco Exit swollen Dome.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the TIREC dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, A hot take on one Sodo. You're
not gonna believe I'm Simpson's kind of fun to watch.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
Yeah, we got to watch that a little bit as
we were getting ready for the show. A Disney plus
go over there. They've had some latency issues.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
We were a.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
Couple of plays behind whatever, I mean, But when Krusty
the Clown comes out for the field goal, we got
to watch the halftime speeches. Yep, you know when giving
one of those talking about Brian, I'll got your belly open,
I'll give it. So, I mean that was fun. It's
a nice little wrinkle to it. And Homer throwing touchdown

(41:41):
passes and such. I mean, you know, it's it's all
you would expect, all the voice actors getting involved. I'll
go back and watch it in earnest later on. But
a nice alternate way for a game that, let's face it,
a lot of folks were arguing should have been flexed out.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
It's the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
They weren't going anywhere, but they were able to tell
you and we had a lot of alliance.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
On Thanksgiving, two teams going nowhere was the most watched
game in the NFL this year.

Speaker 5 (42:06):
It was a.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Million, crazy nuts, crazy ass number. I mean, come on,
the Cowboys even did this tonight.

Speaker 7 (42:13):
Guess oh, we're backing down in two and Cooper Rush
gives Barney the rock.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
He finds a seam on the right side.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
There goes Barney gumble free tough beer for everyone, a
gain of twenty seven. As Barney sets up first down and.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Goal, Well, I hit the whole really hard. No, Burberdt
the end. No Burberd the end.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
First down like he points the ball and drops it
near the air, Like I kind of like that, putting
the characters in there to run the.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
Ball other than any Breece Hall run all year. I
think it might be Yeah, Breecee Hall's yeah, I think
it might be.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
Right.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Is he gonna play against you? I probably? Yeah, operation
shutdown Raylan Allen for the win. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
I also like I like seeing Krusty kick the field
goal with his big shoes.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Yeah, you know, that was kind of fun.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
Over a tower. I mean the uprights were towers of
Krusty Berger.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Yeah that's good.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
No, I went and you know, went Homer through the
touchdown pass. All of a sudden, there were donuts everywhere. Yeah,
they're all falling down from the sky. Oh it's raining, Jason.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
Where are you at on Krusty Burgers?

Speaker 6 (43:14):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (43:15):
I love Krusty Burgers. Why not cheese? Oh of course cheese?

Speaker 6 (43:18):
Come on?

Speaker 3 (43:18):
Why I forgot have a burger without cheese on it. Come,
I don't think it comes with one? Why would I
do that?

Speaker 1 (43:22):
You could add it though cheeseburger, but you get a
Krusty burger with cheese.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
You get that over and Shelbyville. H maybe North Averbrook?
Is that even an option in Springfield?

Speaker 1 (43:31):
I think it is such a look at Homer he eats,
remember the sixty four slices of American cheese.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Sixty three sixty two, and then he goes to one.
I think I'm blind from cheese. If you could eat
signal blind from cheese, Homer ken, Sure, he almost did.
I mean that is a lot of sodium in.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Sixty four slices of American Like not even Joey Chestnut
does that.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Twenty one pounds of shrimp you see that?

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah, but like that sixty four slices of cheese.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
I think I'm blind.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Such a good, great show, even after all these years,
Oh keeps going, I'm.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
Gonna be in blind. How about the Mets? Oh well,
look look look I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Look, look, look, look, look I'm going Chris Brussard on
you look, I like one soda. So again we'll have
more in Cincinnati and Dallas still twenty to twenty. Bengals
have the ball near midfield two minute warning of the
fourth quarter. So first things first, when when the Mets
Scott Soto last night, you know I told you it was,

(44:32):
it was happening. Steve Cohen wasn't going to be outbidding,
And now we're hearing stories today and seeing stories be
reported just why and how the negotiation went the way
it was.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
The Yankees at the end felt that no matter what.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
They offered, Steve Cohen was going to go higher. So
they said, you know, we're done. We're done. When you
want him for seven hundred and sixty five million dollars,
you got him right. So that's so we're hearing that.
We're hearing the whole thing with the suite was a
big deal that the Yankees wouldn't give one Sodo's family
a suite at games with Steve Cohen said, sure, we'll
just build more sweets.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
I don't care they have a parking spot, but yeah,
sure I got.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
A parking spot, right, got to like George Costanza, gotta
have that parking spot. Uh, this is the weirdest part.
Before I get to a take. You don't think you're
not gonna believe I have on one soda. It's so
weird that you know, I knew this was gonna happen,
this is the way it was going, and all of
a sudden, Bam, Juan Soto is my team's identity for

(45:27):
the next fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
Yeah, like that's it.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Like no, hey, here comes a star, and and he
comes up and like a guy like Pete Alonzo, it's wham,
here's your here's here's your star. He is your team
for the next fifteen years.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
Or as long as his wait for it, twenty six
year old pause, body holds up.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
I mean that that's he is.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
He is the Mets Identit not lind'or after what happened
this past season with the amazing year he had. No,
it's all of a sudden, Juan Soto is your identity.
He's my team's identity now for the next fifteen years.
It still is weird. Stop you just jealous. It still
is weird to process. I'm not quite used to it.
Like I get that, yes, so Doo's a met all

(46:11):
of it, but understand understanding that wherever he goes, it's
it's beyond front page news. Whatever he does is beyond
front page news. No matter what the Mets do the
next fifteen years, he's our identity, like Phillies fans who
are like AGA's dand Bryce Harper. You know, I don't
like Bryce Harper is no good. I never liked him
with what we can get him for three hundred and
thirty million. Oh, I love Bryce Harper and now.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
You hate him.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Sure, but it's so weird that all of a sudden, Bam,
overnight he is your identity. We've heard all the waxing
poetic about the Mets day, which is so near and
dear to my heart that now suddenly, look how much
of a destination the Mets have become. Look at how
they beat the Yankees out all of that. But all
of a sudden, that's the weirdest thing for me is
to go, Bam, He's our identity now, and he's my
team's identity for the next fifteen years.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
Yeah, it's a flip the script right as you go,
because you had really Pete Alonso, homegrown guy, and now
the question of where he ends up. Lindor became that hero,
and certainly we lived it in the studio with you
each and every night and all the back pages of
the fish wraps, celebrating his greatness and everything until that,

(47:17):
well that got snuffed out in the playoffs.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
And now we look at you know, this signing is
just so huge because it was just a couple of
years ago. I mean, what were we talking about twenty
four months ago? He's turning down a four hundred and
forty million dollar deal a week ago? All right, will
the bidding get to six or six fifty? And then
we go so far north of that it's not even funny, right, Like,

(47:43):
it went up another one hundred million dollars.

Speaker 8 (47:45):
It's kind of funny, though, Mike, it is just I mean,
it's play money, doesn't it's kind of funny.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Well, but that's why he can if you got you
just like all Yankee fans. But if he chose the Dodger,
you'll be, oh, looking to choose the Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Look how great it is now? Oh they chose to
look out great.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
But everybody's just jealous and upset because he didn't choose
you guys. I'm sorry, I'm sorry and upset. No, you
still can't be No, but this is.

Speaker 4 (48:10):
The rare occasion where there doesn't appear to be an
opportunity cost. Like for almost any other team, it's the
we pick him, and we can't go there, there, there,
and there with Cohen. It's what else do we want?
Or at least that's my impression of what this guy is.
If he sits down with Soto and Morris like, all right,

(48:30):
you're in, it's like assembling the crew for Ocean's eleven.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
We need one more. All right, we'll go get one more.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
Right, And that's where we're at because this guy will
continue to spend, and that's the greatest position to be in.
But it's not a reality for how many other teams
twenty eight other teams in Major League Baseball?

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Right, the Yankees would have been an opportunity cost.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
Right, you take Sodo, you're not going back probably into
the marketplace, even with that franchise is value, even with
their history. It seemed like that was gonna be a
one and done. The Dodgers, certainly, you've seen several contracts
that have been very creatively structured.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Sona' wasn't doing that. It's the ports guy. He's not
doing it.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Look, so you know, you would have to then make
your choice and we'll see what the Dodgers end up
doing the rest of this week, seeing a lot of
rumors about guys showing up. It is Robert and several others.
But for the Mets, you've got an owner and this
is where you're gotta be. You know, a little peacocky.
Have you got a guy that wants in and whether

(49:35):
this works or not, oh, it won't and.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
It might not stop the Mets.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
The Mets have turned the page from we're a laughing stock.
We're a horribly run organization. We don't have anybody that
knows what they're doing. What do I tell you all
the time? If you can can solidify the top three
positions of your team, and that's owner, GM, manager, coach,
you can sustain success for a long time. He's not
going going to the Mets. If it's the will Ponds,

(50:01):
it's going to be guys. Didn't you didn't you get
caught with.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
The going to they give him seven.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Yankees were going to give him never bouts were never
in play now they were never in place.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
He could have.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Gotten money from a lot of other teams. He could
have gone to a lot of them.

Speaker 8 (50:20):
Justify paying him more than Aaron Judge, the captain of
the teams they can't.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
It's a it's a different of course they can what
was okay? So so say Steve Cohen back down. Another
player on the team say Steve coming back down. Judge,
it was never a possibility. I mean, the Yankees were
up to seven hundred something million dollars. You think of
Steve Cohen said no one they went back and were
driving say oh no, no, we're out.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
We don't mean it. We didn't mean it.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
Sorry, you can't, you can't can't take this money. Well
it's not binding, so I mean, I mean, it's not
like to do it. It's not like when he places
a bit on eBay and it's binding.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Auction house. I mean, like it's an offer and well
you didn't take it.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
But here's the but this is this is the part.
This is where I really zag on this story for
a bit. As excited as I am to get one Soto,
I would have been fine if the Mets didn't get him,
because it's not like Sodo doesn't come with risks. And
if you're the Yankees or the Blue Jays or the
Dodgers or the Red Sox, who was in it for

(51:19):
Sodo until the end, if you didn't get them. It's okay.
You still have that money. You can go out and
get a bunch of players and do a lot of
things to make your team better. Yes, did you want
Juan Soto? Yeah, but you didn't get them. But it's
not like this is suddenly a deal that comes for
the Mets without any risks because you have his health situation.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
How motivated is he gonna be? Now?

Speaker 1 (51:40):
You know he wants to win, but are you really
motivated when you're making seventy million dollars a year? How
motivated are you to win? Like these are questions, is
the team gonna be good? Are you gonna be able
to move on and continue to revamp your team and
sign who you need when you got one guy who
has taking up seventy million dollars of your money and
you know, major League Baseball's not gonna say, oh, let's

(52:01):
up the salary cap and the luxury tax norma. They're
not gonna let Steve Cohen get away with that. No,
So it's not like the whole the Sodo deal doesn't
come without risk. I said it before the Mets got him,
and I'm saying it after. It was great they got him.
If they got him I would have been fine. And
for the other teams, it's okay. If the Yankees go
out and get Pete Lowns on Anthony Santander now for

(52:21):
half the money, that's a pretty good that's a pretty
good consolation prize. If the Red Sox do the same thing.
If if you can go out and go get Corbyn
Burns for that money and somebody else, it's okay. You
didn't get him. I mean, I'm not saying, oh, look
we got him and now we're great, and you guys
all fucked. Of course you're not, because he's really if
it stops, stop you wanted them so bad, Frostburg, just stop,
no matter.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
But again it goes back to we've talked about it
from a business side, because I mean, that has to
be considered in this, and you've got the owner where
that money doesn't matter. It's just wait, we're earning what
in our businesses. Yeah, go ahead, pay it off and
be done with it.

Speaker 6 (52:57):
Right.

Speaker 4 (52:57):
There's no opportunity, cauts. That's the whole point of this.
So other teams can go and for seven hundred whatever
million dollars. Think about the the lineup you assemble at
a fraction of that cost on an annual basis, and
so for does this push them over? No, he's an outfielder.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
This is great.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
He's a great player. You know what, ball four outside,
you know, go take first base. You know, it's that
kind of thing. He's a great player, no question about it.
But it is this the thing that says, hey, World
World Series Champion, no part.

Speaker 3 (53:32):
We were in the NLCS last year.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
We got lost, and we got better, and we're still
going to spend more. It's not like, hey, now we're
not spending money. Steve Collen's like, guys, I make like
eighty million dollars a day hedge fund. I'm okay, whatever
you want to spend, we'll do it. We'll spend a
pretty guys, pretty charmed year overall, we'll go get guys.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Well.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
That when you have the right guy making decisions. How
right was David Stearns about all of the decisions he made, guys,
he brought in that's when you have the top of
your organization does things the right way, you can sustain winning.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
You become a destiny.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
But here's the thing, man, the baseball gods will smite you.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Nah, what they've done to the Dodgers almost every.

Speaker 6 (54:10):
Year, No.

Speaker 8 (54:12):
One Soto twenty thirty nine. You know what came up?
What so make sure Bartolo cologne.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
The other thing that comes up is, oh, this is
when Sho Hao Tanis do a lot of money. So
that's also twenty thirty nine. Is that the first thing
you'll sell a painting? Is that the first hey, we
may have. We may have to really one of those
van Goes. We really like, like we we can't just
sell any any uh any any any blankety blank painting.
We gotta we gotta sell a really good one.

Speaker 6 (54:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
They just loaded out for a week at a time
to rich guys that want to show it off at parties.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
We're telling me, man, if you're if you didn't get him,
it's okay, it's okay. You can still do other things.
I'm being honest with you. It's okay.