December 11, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon tell you what Aaron Rodgers, Aliens and green lasers have in common. And MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi drops in for all the latest MLB news from the winter meetings in Dallas.
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You know, you can have the Super Bowl, you can
have one Sodo going to the Mets. Just give me
the E Cup quarterfinals. That's all I need, Mike, I
don't need anything else in sport. It's become the big
moment on the calendar for me. Give me now where accounts,
where it's the knockout round. Give me the E Cup quarterfinals,
like we have tonight and the.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Two coaches that we celebrate more during the E Cup
more than any other, Darvin Ham and Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah yeah, Darvin Ham's undefeated. He's twelve and oh you
know yeah, no, it's Darvin Ham is I mean, it's
a lot different. It's a lot different this.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Year getting after it, no question about it. You know
he got his uh look he got his bonus. I
want to know what he spent his bonus on last year. No, no,
I have questions. Everybody dismisses the money. Look, yeah, we
always laugh about it. And it's the reality check for
folks because I've heard it dismiss.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
After taxes, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Like no, no, no, no, no, someone's still gonna hand you a
giant ass check that you were gonna play the game anyway. Wait,
I get a little bit more, please and thank you.
It's another car, it's another boat, it's another you name it.
More money in five twenty nine accounts, pragmatism and retirement
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accounts and all that stuff. The point is that telling
someone you're gonna get another one hundred grand or five
hundred grand doesn't matter how many millions these guys make
The whole point is you're wanting to earn more, isn't it.
Isn't that what we always complain about? And then when
they do, it's like, ah, that's nothing. That's not gonna
motivate them. My asciday motivating them. Your guys were fighting
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in the locker room of how they were gonna spend it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Darvin ha, he might get it if they win, he
might get a tattoo that because they would be they'd
be fourteen and oh right, it would before him and
tryan prince historian prince is also twelve and oh like
they might get matching fourteen and oh tattoos. You can't
beat us in the E cup. You cannot beat a
fourteen and oh E cup. And then like with a
chance to like, wow, that's permanent. You want to keep it? No, No,
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I would. I screw it. I go fourteen and then
walk away.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Not gonna have a little machine where you can give
yourself a temporary tattoo.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh there you go? Oh god huge, But I mean
you can run a couple of lines text. You have
a machine that does that. Yeah, you have a temporary
tattoo machine. I bought it. We we have a bunch
of kids that have birthday parties and stuff. Man and
like little kids in the in the complex. And they're like, eh,
go on, I'm sure that sounded great. Hey, yeah, go
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to the go to the Harmon's kid party. Yeah. What
they're doing they're giving the given tattoos to people. Wait
what Yeah right, he's got a temporary.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He's got he's got no, he's got a guy in
the in the seat and he's ready to go.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I'm sorry, Geryl, I'm sorry, Jenny. I know you wanted
to go to this party, but I am not allowing
you to go to this party. He put a wolf's
head on her right cheek. We got a tattoo, guy. Hey,
ye look at hey, you don't look at that. Melissa
is getting the clooney from dust till Dawn tattoo. It's
gonna look great, just with the flames licking out from
under her arm where the where the sleeve of the
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t shirt comes to it end. Like you have a
temporary tattoo machine. I just picture you at home, old
they giving yourself temporary tattoos. Like is it like a like?
Is it a roll on? Is it? Is it something
where you're sticky? You have to hold onto it like
it's a color form or something, and then you got
a roll over the top and it's all good. Go
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see go to the Harmon party, you go get everybody's
got tattoos. Coming home a buddy. I learned more about
you every single day, man, I really well, I'm an
open book. What else do you know? I don't know, No,
I'm I'm waiting for the day where police Hey, police
found this inside Mike Harmon's. Wow, here's all them on. Now,
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here's all the things they found when we're going to
look for a wayward youth who thought they were getting
a real oh come on, but it was only that's
a bridge too far right there, pal, Here is an
entire wall covered with Paul Konerko paseball cards. There must
be one hundreds. Did you know there's hundreds of them.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's a personal collection of Paul Canerco cards, a couple
of autographs, a couple of game use cards.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
He's got cards with the Dodgers back in the damn
and there's a lot of stuff. He's got a mosaic
of Greg Lozinski's face made out of Greg Lozinski cards.
This is incredible. That good.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That is a good art art project for one side retire.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh boy? All right, so there's that, and now I
really want now, I really we need to do like
Heraldo Rivera opening your vaults, like going to your Okay, man,
let's see what it's uh Now, if you think that
was weird enough, boy, I'll tell you. I don't know. Man,
Let's say you made it a lot weirder than it
had to be. Oh mention, and you moved on. I'm sorry.
How many how many people do you know have a
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temporary tattoo machine? How mean?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
How many people growing marketplace? There are lots of competitors
in that space right now, okay, including ones where you
can send in your logo and they'll print you one
of what ever size you need that.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Will last up to several weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So if you're going festivals, you're going out in your
your summer adventures that you want to say, hey, I've
got ink, except you really don't because you come back
and you gotta face mom and Grandma again.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Guess what ain't gone? No, let's see I hear that,
and that's fine, But how many of them are promoting
for kids parties like you are? Like that? I think
that's I think that's kind of the bridge too far.
Kids kids, kids come off from all over the place
of Covey, So that could get a temporary tattoo.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You never got one of those out of a cracker
jack box to cracker Jacks, not cracker jacks, cracker Jack.
Leave off the s unless you want to feel my wrath.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That was fine, but hey, go to that go to
that guy's house, get a temporary tat I'm full service,
I am the entertainer. The only the only way to
move on from this story is to get to something
that maybe is even a little bit more bizarre. And
so we get to Aaron Rodgers and UFOs, Yes, the
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jets of it. That part of the season where Aaron
Rodgers is like, Okay, what am I going to say?
I she got left. I'm just going on TV to
have fun now. So he goes on Pat McAfee's show
earlier today and it segues into a conversation about UFOs
and that's not a position. That's unidentified flying objects. If
you remember last year in Hard Knocks, Aaron Rodgers said
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he thought he had a big UFO experience back when
he was a rookie coming out of cow except he
went in further detail today because something happened recently where
he thought maybe there could be aliens in New Jersey.
Here's Aaron Rodgers from earlier today.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Do you know westmand going on in Jersey lately? And
I'm not talking about the football, not just talking about
the football. He's been some crazy things going on.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
The football sucks. Some drone there's some drones in the sky.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, there's some interesting things going on, interesting things with
the drones. I don't know what's going on with them.
Maybe just some kids messing around. Maybe maybe not though, Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's happened in New Jersey. This is a New Jersey, Jersey.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, the New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
There was a senator that just made a comment about
it keeping our citizens safe. They need to tell us
what's going on, if it's military or non military or
UAP or whatever the hell it has. But there's people
in Jersey. It's you know, it's people interested in what
the hell was going on with you. I'm thinking about
having a Friday Night's five E experience where you call
in the you have a big kind of meditation circle,
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and then you call in the aliens and you use
little green lasers to bring them in. So thinking Friday night,
maybe doing if you know, if it's a night night,
nice night and it's clear night, might might try and
have a little five V experience bring them in.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Okay, Hey, now, okay, okay, okay, for first the first things.
First things, for forget about the fact that yells in football.
Secondary man, I'm about to have a five E experience
meditation circle. Okay, I understand that. Everybody around you know,
try I understand that. I've seen that. I've seen many
movies with seances and ouiji boards. Okay. And then you
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call in the aliens? Okay, okay, how do you do that? Like?
Like where where? Where is that? Like you you you
buried the best part of the story. You call in
the aliens? How do you call in the aliens? How
do you do that? I don't understand you call them
the aliens? Does he call it like an audible green
eighteen Green eighteen, which has been audible for the last
like twenty five years. Does he just go green eighteen
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and little green men come in? Every time I say
green eighteen, here come the little green men. Is that
out works? I said, that's how it works. That'd be
pretty awesome. That works out pretty well. Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I mean this is pretty well documented in the last
couple of days, so it's not like he just randomly
made this up. This is something I've read numerous articles about.
And then earlier today you had a senior FBI official
said they don't know who's operating the drones or whether
they pose a risk. Well, we just don't know, that's
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the concerning part, Hurt. Yeah, you're telling me we don't
know what the hell these drones and new jerseys are.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, that's right, all right, there, we go keep everybody
safe here, everybody safe. So so that's the first thing
I don't understand, Like, if it's the Green aids, that's
the way to call in the aliens. But I need
to know how to call on the aliens. But then
he said alasers. You use little green lasers to bring
them in. So you call the alien and then you
use these lasers to bring him in, kind of like
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a tractor beam, like it's Star Wars. I'm guessing I
think that. But where do you get the lasers from?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Like, I don't nessarily all these differentology exists. Man, you
think it's all just sci fi movies.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
No, Man, come on, you're not gonna believe what I
just did. What I just made ten grand because I
gave Aaron Rodgers some of these toy pistols from from
Toy Story four and I packed them up to make
them look like lazer. I said, hey, use these lasers
and bring in the little green men. Man, they're gonna
come in. We're gonna get aliens. And he paid ten
grand for I paid seven to seventy nine online from
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toys r us dot com. This is fantastic. I can't
wait to get back at this guy.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
And I had the battery powered little green Aliens from
the Claw Machine.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Maybe that would speak every three minutes a time, oh
every time Rogers says something to go, oh, so apparently
you call in the aliens somehow, which he did not
tell us how, No, you gotta keep that secret. You
use lasers to bring him in. But he didn't say
how he got the lasers. Well, he can't disclose everything
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he's about of secrets. He's a man who knows things. Yeah,
but that's still something like I mean, I mean, you
can't just say, oh, yeah, I'm gonna call the aliens in.
He says it, like like I would say, hey, I'm
thinking Friday night of going to go to the movies
and maybe maybe going out for a drink after that,
I'm gonna have a five V experience. I'm gonna call
the aliens in and I'm gonna use lasers to bring
him in. Like what I would say this though, But
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that's a Friday night for him.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Like he's he's he's signed the FBA, FBI guy as well, right,
and these senior executives and scientists of all these things,
maybe they need to call Aaron Rodgers. Maybe he needs
to take a leave of absence for the final four
weeks of this NFL season.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
If he discovers actional secure, that's fine. If he discovers aliens,
that's why it's worth it. I mean the NFL is
I mean, you really discover aliens. No one gives a
crap about what goes on with the Jets, Like I
just I mean, you go on a floor all by
yourself in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
To hell with whatever Dion was trying to suggest, this is,
this is next level stuff. If he's broker and crap
with aliens.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Eighteen, Here comes the Aliens Grede eighteen. No, don't say it.
They're gonna destroy us all red forty seven. It was
too aggressive. That was too aggressive. It will be considered
an act of war. What are you doing, oh man?
And you wonder why I'm so excited about Wan soda.
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speaking to onan sodo. Come up next, We're gonna live
to the Winter Meetings. Get the reaction from Soto becoming
a met for seven hundred and sixty five million dollars.
The Yankees make a big move today. What big moves
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You might get a little bit of our next guest,
MLB Network insider extraordinaire joining us now from the owner's
meetings in Dallas, where he right now has Scott Morris
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tied up in a chair next to him, prodding him
to make him tell him where his next big free
age is gonna sign. It is John Paul Morosi, what's up, buddy?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Metaphorically perhaps, but I am I am. I am joining
you from from a hotel room where I am the
only person sitting in it, and I have taken leave
of the bustling lobby so I can find a quiet
place to speak as my good friends on this evening
where baseball news is overtaking the other American sports here
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for this week. As you may have heard, Jason, there
is a team in New York that signed a certain
outfielder on Sunday, that is captivating a lot of attention
this week.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well, and I was expecting you to say, hey, joining
you here from the meetings. It's my pleasure to bring you.
David Stearns, Hey, Jason here. All the big advice that
I passed on to him all off season one. Soto's yeah,
I thought you get a surprise you with Sternsy Listen,
I will.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Do my best. I think David probably right now, is
trying to work on the next great deal for the Mets,
and at some point, and we don't know yet because
of course they have not officially released and announced the
Sodo signing and a press conference in New York, but
when that happens, maybe maybe he will at the same
time reveal that a big part of the deal was
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that the Sternsey and the Pope show will continue in
that Wanto's going to make a weekly appearance during the
season as part of the show. He is going to
be the Aaron Rodgers of our show, except for performing better.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Is the idea?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Look all right, so let's start here that obviously, look
the one Soto signing, everybody is talking seven hundred and
sixty five million dollars for fifteen years. Give me something
about the Soto signing you think needs more attention to it.
What's something that, hey, we really need to be talking
about this aspect of Juan Soto going to the Mets
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a little bit more than we have the last couple
of days.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You know, it's a great question because obviously it's been
analyzed so much in many, many different ways. What stands
out to me, Jason, is that the Mets are now
representing this group of teams in baseball, and maybe they
are the best example of this, but they don't seem
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to have an upper bound on their payroll number or
what they'll spend on any one individual player. Obviously, they
spent three quarters of a billion dollars on one player,
and it really drives home the point that, yeah, the
Mets got the player, but the Yankees were also in there,
and the Red Sox were involved in the Blue Jays
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were involved, and the Dodgers were involved, and you could
probably to that group of five, add the Phillies, and
add the Astros, but you're not going to see many
players this winter sign nine figure deals with teams that
are not the seven teams that I just mentioned to you,
and those seven of the twenty three teams are just
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playing a different brand of baseball from a standpoint of
their checkbooks than everybody else, and the Mets are the
probably greatest example of this. And I think part of
it too is in the old way of looking at
baseball from covering these a lot of these winter meetings,
when when a team would sign a major player, you
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would then turn around and say, well, if the Yankees
signed Mark Tesera, or if the Cardinals signed Matt Holliday,
or if the Angels sign Albert Pooles, it probably means
that they're not going to sign this other top end player.
But is there any evidence that they're going to stop
now that they would stop and say no thanks bet Alonzo,
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or no thanks Christian Walker, or no thanks Corbyn Burns
or Sean and I No, They're looking add and keep adding.
And I think that's that is what distinguishes the Mets
from literally every other team in the industry right now.
They're able to perform at that level and bring in
elite talent all the way around their roster.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
So Beauty, I have a JP.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We always talk about opportunity costs in these situations. Jason
Smith just sitting there like a kid in a candy
store waiting for a giant pile a Christmas present.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
There's no cap. There is no cap on theb Cohen's enthusiasm,
nor is there a cap on Jason Smith's joy. Right now,
this is this is a happy season of glad tidings
for the New York Meds. And I guess I would
add this the Los Angeles Dodgers. I mean, it's been
at least a couple of days as they signed somebody,
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so they're due as well to make a really big
flat All.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Right, Well, let's go with the other signing. And it
did happen eight years, two hundred and eighteen million dollars
for Max Freed. We talk about risk reward and opportunities
and everything else. When we get into pictures for that
length of time, that kind of money, Uh, you know,
we always start wringing our hands. But Steinbrenner wasn't going
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to be outdone.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I guess, well, I.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Think a big part of this was the heat they
were feeling. And we're about to I think see the
same thing unfolded with Corbyn Burns and potentially the Boston
Red Sox. Where when when they lost out on Juan Soto.
I think the Yankees realized that they had to pivot
and pivot quickly, and and they pivoted to somebody who
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who really does help them?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Now?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Is is it an overpay? Probably, to be honest with you,
because based on uh Freeda's had some some forearm issues,
and in terms of the durability, there's there's been a
little bit of a question there. But but the Yankees
had to make an answer here and and and you
you both know that you understand the market. And and this,
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by the way, this is not the only answer. This
is the start of their This is the preamble of
their answer. You might say it's the main part of
the argument, but their response is still being formulated. Because
they need a third baseman in the first bases, they
need probably another outfield bat, whether it's Cody Bellinger or
someone else. So I believe that the Yankees can can
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I'm not going to say that they will or they
should or whatever other word I'll say, but they can
still bring together a team that on opening Day will
be better and deeper than the one that lost the
Dodgers of the World Series. But they have got a
significant amount of work ahead of them. And they may
have to do something really dramatic like trade for Kyle
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Tucker and overwhelm the Astros, one of their normal rivals
in the American League. If that's going to be the case,
now you know.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's the next part of this. John Paul is obviously, Hey,
the big names that could follow, which we'll get you
coming up in a second. But you just talked about
a couple of trades that could happen. That's something we
never really talk about as much as all about free
agency and who goes where, because obviously the players can
go wherever they want to. But can you see like
some big deals going down in the next few days
while you're in Dallas.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Yes, I can. And now, whether it happens here or
maybe early next week with the foundation being laid here,
I do think a lot of trade conversations are happening
because of exactly the issue that we discussed at the
beginning of this conversation, which is that there are twenty
three teams give or take, that simply cannot play on
the same financial grounds as the Mets and Yankees and
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Red Sox and Blue Jays and others. The Dodgers obviously
being part of that conversation. So there those teams, basically
two thirds of the league are saying, I can't spend
that money to santi Oscar Hernandez, or or to sign
Corbin Burns right now or Anthony Santandre. No, no way
can I go there. So you're gonna have to be
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smart and sign Paul Goldschmidt or or find the right
bounce back believer, like like a Kyle Finnigan, or you're
going to go to the trade market. And there are
some interesting players I just mentioned a moment ago, Kyle
Tucker of the Astros, Cody Bellinger of the Cubs, and
even guys that you would not normally think are available,
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like Dylan Ceese and Luis Castillo. Dylan Seese just got
traded to San Diego a year ago, and yet I'm
hearing his name out here a lot, and you might say, well,
wait a minute, why would the Padres trade somebody who's
got one year left and still try to try to
have the belief that they're going to make the playoffs. Anyway,
they just did that. By the way, they traded Juan
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so To a year ago to the day, almost and
they were the toughest team the Dodgers faced all October.
So it can be done when it's done well. And
aj brother did a fantastic job a year ago. To me,
the big question now is can he do it again?
Can he find a way to trade Dylan Ceeese and
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still be better at the end of the day by
what the way of reallocating his payroll and his talent base.
The same thing is true of the Houston Astros. How
could you possibly trade someone as talented as Kyle Tucker
who played in the World Baseball Classic it's for Team
USA and is that good of a player and still
find a way to make the playoffs? Well, it depends
on what you get back and then what you do
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with the savings that you have from his payroll spot.
So I think those are all of the other conversations
happening right now around the industry, and I'm really intrigued
to see what will happen next.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
How many players will I recognize on the White Sox
roster that lost one hundred and twenty one games?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Robert, does that include a couple of Major leaguers who
are their GM and their manager and Chris got will Venable.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
No, that's fine, for sure, very long list.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Yeah, probably not a long list. I'll say this, I
do not believe that Garrett Crochet will be there. I
think he'll get traded. The question Luis Robert is interesting.
I don't think there's much of a robust market for
Luis Robert right now. He's been just too erratic to
up and down. But Crochet will get traded, and we
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will probably see one of their relievers get traded as well.
And and hey, it is a it is a new day
for the Chicago White Sox. They they've got hopefully eventually
they'll have a new ballpark. But I did see I'll
say this, the chairman, Jerry Reinsdorp is here. He's doing business.
Tony Lrussa is here doing business. So the the White
(25:30):
Sox are still trying to find some ways to get better.
Even though, yeah, Mike, it's it's probably gonna be a
little while before you can recite the names of the
White Sox greats, like from the five team That was
a that was a little bit ago. My friend, the
last time the White Sox won the World Series.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'm just gonna celebrate Dick Allen going into the Hall.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I guess you should so well, deserved that. I was
thrilled by that news and I cannot wait to celebrate
the great Dick Allen in Cooperstown this summer.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
John Palmer MLB Network Insider with Us The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the TIREC dot Com Studios.
All Right, Jp, with a combination of what you've been
hearing and kind of intuiting. If I said to you, Okay,
we saw Juan Soto, we saw Max Freed, the next
couple of big deals, you would not be surprised to
(26:20):
be signed. Are who and where? What would you give me?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Corbyn Burns Boston Red Sox, Christian Walker New York Yankees? Wow,
Peter first Baseman. Walker is an elite defender. He grew
up in Philly, so he's got some East Coast connections there.
I think he'd handle the pressure of the Bronx really well.
And listen, the Red Sox have to get somebody, Corbyn Burns. Yeah,
(26:44):
there's gonna be some interesting from the San Francisco Giants.
But the Red Sox, I don't know if I would
use the word desperate, but they're probably close to it
right now. They've got to find a way to upgrade
that rotation. They missed on Freed, they missed on Soto.
They have not yet acquired Garrett Crochet. They have got
some serious work to do in the coming days.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Woof John Paul Morosi with some smoke right there, Corbyn
Birds the Red Sox, Christian Walker to the Yankees, unless
Steve Cohen is listening to this interview, in which case
then he will go get both players.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Get in my office right now.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
We've got the business.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
To tend to. By the way, I have not made
predictions that resolutely on this radio program outside of my
Lions predictions, which which by the way, I've only been
wrong once all year. That team is dominant. They have
got a serious squad. I saw the post gambular day.
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Skipper was so excited he's puking in the locker room
after the game. So they got the Lions that are
on their way. I'm not saying I'm gonna I'm not
predicted that I'm gonna be booking a flight for New
Orleans in February. But I'm I'm feeling pretty good about this.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Team right now. So let me get you here. Big
game this weekend. Obviously, they play the Bills, it's a
huge matchup. What do you think? What's your final screer.
You've only missed one game so far this year.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Detroit Lions twenty, Buffalo Bill seventeen.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
A low scoring game, Lord Mooring.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Guy, I think it's gonna be one of those. I
realized it's not an NFC Norris confrontation, as Chris Berman
would say. But I feel like it's a It's two
teams that are that are just that are really strong
defensively right now. I think it's gonna be a twenty.
You know, Josh Allen's great, but I think the Lions
defense is playing really well right now. So I'm going
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twenty seventeen, Detroit Lions get the win.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John
Morosi from the Winter Meetings and Dallas. That is John
Paul Morosi. We will call it, Pope. We'll call you
when when the Mets keep signing guys, We'll keep calling you, Okay,
just so.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
You know, yeah, I mean, I think you call me
when the Mets signed someone or when the Lions win
a game, which is literally every week. You anytime you want, Okay,
see you, buddy, have.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Fun meetings Hey, how about that? I mean that was real.
I mean usually he's resolute about picking the Lions and
picking the Mariners to make the playoffs. But right away
Corbyn burns Red Sox, Christian Walker, Yankees like that was.
That was not even a second before he had both
those names and those destinations out there for.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, just the interesting part talking about the Domino effects.
So not to be out done, not to be left
behind of all of those East Coast squads feeling like
that force. Whether it's the back page, the fish wrap,
the talking heads on radio and television, or or just
starting to get the notes from season ticket holders going
(29:52):
you better do something if you're gonna raise my tickets,
you jerks. So all of them to say, uh, Domino
effects pretty big with some heavy hitters.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
And I'll tell you what, the Walker thing surprises me
a little bit because I thought for sure the Yankees
would go on overpay for Pete Alonzo. I thought, for sure,
you take one of mine, I'm gonna take one of yours.
It'd be like the like like they traded so too
for Pee Alonzo and just paid him a little bit
less money. But I really thought for certain that was
gonna happen. The Yankers are Okay, you take Wansa and
because Brian Cashman, how do I walk around this town?
(30:22):
We just lost our you know, our best player out.
You know he and Aaron Judge, two best players in
the game. We just lost one of them. How do
I do it? You go by taking Pete Alonzo, which
tells me one of two things. Alonzo's gonna go back
to the Mets or boy. Really, the market for Pete
Alonzo is not quite what they think it's gonna be,
being thirty years old, being a guy that's gonna be
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dhing pretty soon. His power numbers were down last year.
He had the big home run that is gonna live
forever off against the Brewers that I'm gonna watch every
single day for the rest of my life. But overall, yeah,
thirty year old first basemen coming out of is looking
for a big seven year deal. It doesn't seem like
that's there for him. One of those two things, he's
going back to the Mets or boy. This is kind
(31:04):
of a depressed market for pet A Lonzo. Does that
make you sad? Uh? No, Because I will have the
home run against the Browers. I'll always have it. And
maybe he comes back. I don't know. Like, look, I
would be okay if for Alonso being thirty, If it
was okay, you know what, he couldn't get a big
long term deal. How about two years and sixty million
to stay with the Mets or something like that. I
was gonna say, option, Okay, yeah, great, dude, we're paying
(31:28):
sixty eighty that's awesome. I would sign up for that.
In a second, Alonzo for his year thirty one, thirty two, Yes,
that I would sign up for. But that and maybe
that's a possibility. But you know, it's a little bit
more of a possibility. I think it was a couple
of days ago.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Now it's fun, fun, silly season, no doubt. Reading all
the rumor, conjecture, speculation and seeing all the mockups of
would be jerseys for guys, I mean, you're gonna buy
so many free agents this year, you're not gonna be
able to buy one jersey. You're gonna have to buy
one of like fearsome, forsome kind of things that has.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Four numbers the back with a number in the front
and two numbers on the sleeve and the one on
the back. So they do it where they sell it
for memorabilia purposes so it can be framed on the
wall where they shrink the name and the number so
they can fit all four on the back. That's what
they're going to need to do. Let's find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports right now. From
(32:21):
Special Delivery Steve to Sager is.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
The Yankees didn't overpay for Alonso because they're already overpaying
for a power hitter. That bat's two forty. Carlostan the
Yankees in the news today they've agreed to an eight
year deal with lefty pitcher Max Freed from the Braves
worth a reported two one hundred and eighteen million dollars.
The Blue Jays have officially acquired gold Gloves, second Basement
(32:43):
Andres Jimenez from Cleveland. By the way, Cleveland announced tonight
that former Indian slugger Rocky Calvino passed away at the
age of ninety one. Toronto signed reliever Jimmy Garcia, whom
they traded to Seattle last July. Texas tonight re signed
pitcher Nathan Ivaldi for three years. The Washington Nationals one
today's draft lottery. They'll select first next summer. The Angels
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have the number two overall pick in July. The first
round's top six draft choices are now awarded through the lottery.
The White Sox and A's were not eligible for this
year's lottery. The Dodgers, Mets, and Yankees each had their
first round pick moved back ten spots because of how
they exceeded the luxury tax. Cardinals third baseman Nolan Aernato
is willing to play first base to facilitate a trade
(33:26):
out of Saint Louis. He's a ten time goal glove
winner at third base, and twenty three year old pitcher
Roki Sasaki from Japan can now start negotiating with MLB
clubs for the next six weeks. San Diego and the
Mets are expected to be in the mix. If he signs,
it likely won't be until mid January. Steelers wide receiver
George Pickens, with a bad hamstring, is doubtful for Sunday
(33:48):
at Philadelphia. Scottie Scheffler was named PGA Tour Player of
the Year again two quarterfinals in the NBA Cup Tonight
at Milwaukee, the Bucks beat Orlando one fourteen one oh nine.
Janis Anteeda Kumpo with thirty seven points and currently with
a minute left in the game. At Oklahoma City, it's
the Thunder ahead of Dallas one sixteen one oh four
(34:08):
thirty nine points for Shay Gilgis. Alexander Kawhi. Leonard practiced
with the Clippers today for the first time this season
after knee inflammation. College hoops doubleheader at Madison Square Garden.
Number one Tennessee beat Miami seventy five sixty two. Then
Arkansas came back to defeat number fourteen Michigan eighty nine
eighty seven. In the NHL, it's Minnesota tied at Utah
(34:30):
to two early in the third.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Though the Jason Smithchew
with Mike Carmen live from the Tireck dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, Something's gonna happen in the NFL this
week that hasn't happened in over two years. And wait, doll,
we tell you what it is. The Jets win. No, okay,
two years, maybe a year and a half, okay o.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
One that was like.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
That was like we were playing family feud and he
got to the buzzer or Jeopardy.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
He gotta just before I was able to hit Man.
Be'smorking was it? So we'll tell you what that is
coming up next. Oh, that's gonna get interro and it's
Hella at the twenty Fire. He's coming back radio. Before
listen to the Fail Mary for twenty five twenty I'm
all right.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon live Fromthetireck dot Com studios. And with a
huge week fifteen coming in the NFL one game between
two teams one is three and ten, one is five
and eight, all of a sudden has a lot of attention. Wait,
(35:51):
why no, no, No, Jets are nowhere near this. For
the first time since twenty twenty two, alright, it says,
okay two years. Yeah. For the first time since twenty
twenty two, the Carolina Panthers are favored to win a
football game. Who do the Panthers play? I'm glad you asked.
(36:15):
They are two and a half point favorites against the
Dallas Cowboys. First time since twenty twenty two, the Panthers
are favored to win a game. Things just keep getting
better and better for Dallas every day, don't they every
single day? I guess I've actually talked to the NFL,
and the favorite points we actually get them for real.
(36:38):
So if that's Bred gets up to three, we actually
get three points added to our score for real. All right,
now it's two and a half. Obviously you want, you know,
you want to get a three three and a half.
The hook could be great because we may lose by
a field goal, but to get that added that's gonna
happen for us. So I'm excited to make that announcement
and make sure you drink all the pepsi at the stadium.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yeah, that is that is an interesting line, right, considering
what we watched a night ago. You held Joe Burrow
and company to twenty points for the majority of the
game before a late gaff and well then another gaff
to give up the big play for the score, you know,
Lisa spinning the wheels on Homer to run to the
(37:17):
end zone.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
All that to say, you.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Know, Bryce Young and company have played well. They've tested
both the Chiefs and the Eagles the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, I guess I guess.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
I'm not shocked when we're looking at Cooper Rush and company.
Even if you did get another great game out of
Rico Dowdell, you.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Know this is time because you know, we haven't had
one of these in a little bit. But you know,
like we always want to push positivity when we can.
It's really tough. You know, sports is about who stinks
or is this or that. But let's have an appreciation
moment for a minute for Bryce Young, who has not
been great. All right. I'm not saying all of a
sudden he's great and they solve their problems, but he
has been much better since he reassumed the starting job.
(38:01):
When he got benched early on in the season, and
I didn't see it coming. I don't think anybody thought
it was gonna but hey, you know, Dalton gets injured,
what are you gonna do? They go back to Bryce Young,
who is playing better. He has made some big passes.
Doesn't mean suddenly he's a three hundred yard passer throwing
three touchdowns a week. That's not who the guy is.
But he has been good enough to the point where
(38:25):
going into next season, potentially I can see the Panthers
giving him another shot, or if the Panthers get a
high enough draft pick and they go, Okay, come on
to you, Doris Sanders, you're our guy, or come on,
cam Ward, you're our guy, they can move on from
Bryce Young and another team could pick him up in
a justin fields kind of way, where hey, we don't
(38:46):
quite know what we have a quarterback, but we're gonna
let you battle it out with somebody else. You have
a chance to one more chance to be a starting
quarterback in the NFL. Like That's what Bryce Young has
done in the last few weeks. He has shown that
I can run a team. He just looks more comfortable.
And every time I see him make a big throw
MIC And I don't know why the Panthers don't do this.
Every time I see him make a big throw, what
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is he doing? Is he back in the pocket? No,
he is on the run extending plays. He is phenomenal
when he gets to move and extend plays. I don't
know why the Panthers don't call more plays where he
gets outside the pocket, he rolls out and throws. He
is extremely accurate on the run, or at least have
plays where hey, we're moving the pocket this way for
(39:29):
a little bit to give him worth. Look, obviously, you
know you have to do with something because the guy's
not tall. But I don't know why it's not part
of the game plan where everything is we're moving him
out because on the run he is incredibly accurate. That's
what he did Alabama, right, want you go back to
watch his highlights everything he did Alabama's How does he
find this guy a toe tap on the two yard
line when he's running out of bounds at his own
(39:50):
fifty But yet he does that's what he's done so well.
I don't know why that's not something that's been a
part of the offense more up until now. At least
I'm seeing a little bit more of it. He looks
more comfortable or confident throwing the football. So he's either
bought himself another chance to start next year, or maybe
the Panthers bring somebody else and who has to battle
it out with him, or the Panthers move on and
he goes somewhere else, kind of like justin fields.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Yeah, I gotta think you've gotten enough time. I mean,
remember it is year one, you know, really pushing forward
with Dave Canalis here, you did lose Brooks. That was
gonna be one of the built blocks, right because you
re signed Chewba Hubbard. You have Brooks there. You thought
you were gonna get a two headed monster to give
him balance with Lagette in that passing game and whatever's
left of Adam feeling. But you certainly have some building blocks.
(40:37):
I'd like to see him get another shot. Last few weeks.
He's put up some numbers and he's put some stuff
on tape that makes it impressive. That's what I like
the resolve of all these young guys that face some adversity,
given another opportunity, they've excelled. So let's see what he
does for these final four weeks.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Tally Man, keep getting him outside the pocket making plays
and his value will increase. How about a Fresco exit
swollen dome? Coming up next. A big NFL story from
about twenty years ago became front burner news earlier today.
We'll get into that coming up next. Jason and Mike,
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You know, you can have the Super Bowl, you can
have one Sodo going to the Mets. Just give me
the E Cup quarterfinals. That's all I need, Mike, I
don't need anything else in sport. It's become the big
moment on the calendar for me. Give me now where accounts,
where it's the knockout round. Give me the E Cup quarterfinals,
like we have tonight and the.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Two coaches that we celebrate more during the E Cup
more than any other, Darvin Ham and Doc Rivers.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah yeah, Darvin Ham's undefeated. He's twelve and oh you
know yeah, no, it's Darvin Ham is I mean, it's
a lot different. It's a lot different this.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Year getting after it, no question about it. You know
he got his uh look he got his bonus. I
want to know what he spent his bonus on last year. No, no,
I have questions. Everybody dismisses the money. Look, yeah, we
always laugh about it. And it's the reality check for
folks because I've heard it dismiss.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
After taxes, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Like no, no, no, no, no, someone's still gonna hand you a
giant ass check that you were gonna play the game anyway. Wait,
I get a little bit more, please and thank you.
It's another car, it's another boat, it's another you name it.
More money in five twenty nine accounts, pragmatism and retirement
(02:14):
accounts and all that stuff. The point is that telling
someone you're gonna get another one hundred grand or five
hundred grand doesn't matter how many millions these guys make
The whole point is you're wanting to earn more, isn't it.
Isn't that what we always complain about? And then when
they do, it's like, ah, that's nothing. That's not gonna
motivate them. My asciday motivating them. Your guys were fighting
(02:37):
in the locker room of how they were gonna spend it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Darvin ha, he might get it if they win, he
might get a tattoo that because they would be they'd
be fourteen and oh right, it would before him and
tryan prince historian prince is also twelve and oh like
they might get matching fourteen and oh tattoos. You can't
beat us in the E cup. You cannot beat a
fourteen and oh E cup. And then like with a
chance to like, wow, that's permanent. You want to keep it? No, No,
(03:02):
I would. I screw it. I go fourteen and then
walk away.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Not gonna have a little machine where you can give
yourself a temporary tattoo.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh there you go? Oh god huge, But I mean
you can run a couple of lines text. You have
a machine that does that. Yeah, you have a temporary
tattoo machine. I bought it. We we have a bunch
of kids that have birthday parties and stuff. Man and
like little kids in the in the complex. And they're like, eh,
go on, I'm sure that sounded great. Hey, yeah, go
(03:31):
to the go to the Harmon's kid party. Yeah. What
they're doing they're giving the given tattoos to people. Wait
what Yeah right, he's got a temporary.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
He's got he's got no, he's got a guy in
the in the seat and he's ready to go.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I'm sorry, Geryl, I'm sorry, Jenny. I know you wanted
to go to this party, but I am not allowing
you to go to this party. He put a wolf's
head on her right cheek. We got a tattoo, guy. Hey,
ye look at hey, you don't look at that. Melissa
is getting the clooney from dust till Dawn tattoo. It's
gonna look great, just with the flames licking out from
under her arm where the where the sleeve of the
(04:03):
t shirt comes to it end. Like you have a
temporary tattoo machine. I just picture you at home, old
they giving yourself temporary tattoos. Like is it like a like?
Is it a roll on? Is it? Is it something
where you're sticky? You have to hold onto it like
it's a color form or something, and then you got
a roll over the top and it's all good. Go
(04:24):
see go to the Harmon party, you go get everybody's
got tattoos. Coming home a buddy. I learned more about
you every single day, man, I really well, I'm an
open book. What else do you know? I don't know, No,
I'm I'm waiting for the day where police Hey, police
found this inside Mike Harmon's. Wow, here's all them on. Now,
(04:45):
here's all the things they found when we're going to
look for a wayward youth who thought they were getting
a real oh come on, but it was only that's
a bridge too far right there, pal, Here is an
entire wall covered with Paul Konerko paseball cards. There must
be one hundreds. Did you know there's hundreds of them.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's a personal collection of Paul Canerco cards, a couple
of autographs, a couple of game use cards.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
He's got cards with the Dodgers back in the damn
and there's a lot of stuff. He's got a mosaic
of Greg Lozinski's face made out of Greg Lozinski cards.
This is incredible. That good.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That is a good art art project for one side retire.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh boy? All right, so there's that, and now I
really want now, I really we need to do like
Heraldo Rivera opening your vaults, like going to your Okay, man,
let's see what it's uh Now, if you think that
was weird enough, boy, I'll tell you. I don't know. Man,
Let's say you made it a lot weirder than it
had to be. Oh mention, and you moved on. I'm sorry.
How many how many people do you know have a
(05:48):
temporary tattoo machine? How mean?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
How many people growing marketplace? There are lots of competitors
in that space right now, okay, including ones where you
can send in your logo and they'll print you one
of what ever size you need that.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Will last up to several weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
So if you're going festivals, you're going out in your
your summer adventures that you want to say, hey, I've
got ink, except you really don't because you come back
and you gotta face mom and Grandma again.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Guess what ain't gone? No, let's see I hear that,
and that's fine, But how many of them are promoting
for kids parties like you are? Like that? I think
that's I think that's kind of the bridge too far.
Kids kids, kids come off from all over the place
of Covey, So that could get a temporary tattoo.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You never got one of those out of a cracker
jack box to cracker Jacks, not cracker jacks, cracker Jack.
Leave off the s unless you want to feel my wrath.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
That was fine, but hey, go to that go to
that guy's house, get a temporary tat I'm full service,
I am the entertainer. The only the only way to
move on from this story is to get to something
that maybe is even a little bit more bizarre. And
so we get to Aaron Rodgers and UFOs, Yes, the
(07:04):
jets of it. That part of the season where Aaron
Rodgers is like, Okay, what am I going to say?
I she got left. I'm just going on TV to
have fun now. So he goes on Pat McAfee's show
earlier today and it segues into a conversation about UFOs
and that's not a position. That's unidentified flying objects. If
you remember last year in Hard Knocks, Aaron Rodgers said
(07:25):
he thought he had a big UFO experience back when
he was a rookie coming out of cow except he
went in further detail today because something happened recently where
he thought maybe there could be aliens in New Jersey.
Here's Aaron Rodgers from earlier today.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Do you know westmand going on in Jersey lately? And
I'm not talking about the football, not just talking about
the football. He's been some crazy things going on.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
The football sucks. Some drone there's some drones in the sky.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, there's some interesting things going on, interesting things with
the drones. I don't know what's going on with them.
Maybe just some kids messing around. Maybe maybe not though, Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's happened in New Jersey. This is a New Jersey, Jersey.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, the New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
There was a senator that just made a comment about
it keeping our citizens safe. They need to tell us
what's going on, if it's military or non military or
UAP or whatever the hell it has. But there's people
in Jersey. It's you know, it's people interested in what
the hell was going on with you. I'm thinking about
having a Friday Night's five E experience where you call
in the you have a big kind of meditation circle,
(08:32):
and then you call in the aliens and you use
little green lasers to bring them in. So thinking Friday night,
maybe doing if you know, if it's a night night,
nice night and it's clear night, might might try and
have a little five V experience bring them in.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Okay, Hey, now, okay, okay, okay, for first the first things.
First things, for forget about the fact that yells in football.
Secondary man, I'm about to have a five E experience
meditation circle. Okay, I understand that. Everybody around you know,
try I understand that. I've seen that. I've seen many
movies with seances and ouiji boards. Okay. And then you
(09:06):
call in the aliens? Okay, okay, how do you do that? Like?
Like where where? Where is that? Like you you you
buried the best part of the story. You call in
the aliens? How do you call in the aliens? How
do you do that? I don't understand you call them
the aliens? Does he call it like an audible green
eighteen Green eighteen, which has been audible for the last
like twenty five years. Does he just go green eighteen
(09:28):
and little green men come in? Every time I say
green eighteen, here come the little green men. Is that
out works? I said, that's how it works. That'd be
pretty awesome. That works out pretty well. Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I mean this is pretty well documented in the last
couple of days, so it's not like he just randomly
made this up. This is something I've read numerous articles about.
And then earlier today you had a senior FBI official
said they don't know who's operating the drones or whether
they pose a risk. Well, we just don't know, that's
(09:59):
the concerning part, Hurt. Yeah, you're telling me we don't
know what the hell these drones and new jerseys are.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, that's right, all right, there, we go keep everybody
safe here, everybody safe. So so that's the first thing
I don't understand, Like, if it's the Green aids, that's
the way to call in the aliens. But I need
to know how to call on the aliens. But then
he said alasers. You use little green lasers to bring
them in. So you call the alien and then you
use these lasers to bring him in, kind of like
(10:28):
a tractor beam, like it's Star Wars. I'm guessing I
think that. But where do you get the lasers from?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Like, I don't nessarily all these differentology exists. Man, you
think it's all just sci fi movies.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
No, Man, come on, you're not gonna believe what I
just did. What I just made ten grand because I
gave Aaron Rodgers some of these toy pistols from from
Toy Story four and I packed them up to make
them look like lazer. I said, hey, use these lasers
and bring in the little green men. Man, they're gonna
come in. We're gonna get aliens. And he paid ten
grand for I paid seven to seventy nine online from
(11:02):
toys r us dot com. This is fantastic. I can't
wait to get back at this guy.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
And I had the battery powered little green Aliens from
the Claw Machine.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Maybe that would speak every three minutes a time, oh
every time Rogers says something to go, oh, so apparently
you call in the aliens somehow, which he did not
tell us how, No, you gotta keep that secret. You
use lasers to bring him in. But he didn't say
how he got the lasers. Well, he can't disclose everything
(11:34):
he's about of secrets. He's a man who knows things. Yeah,
but that's still something like I mean, I mean, you
can't just say, oh, yeah, I'm gonna call the aliens in.
He says it, like like I would say, hey, I'm
thinking Friday night of going to go to the movies
and maybe maybe going out for a drink after that,
I'm gonna have a five V experience. I'm gonna call
the aliens in and I'm gonna use lasers to bring
him in. Like what I would say this though, But
(11:56):
that's a Friday night for him.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Like he's he's he's signed the FBA, FBI guy as well, right,
and these senior executives and scientists of all these things,
maybe they need to call Aaron Rodgers. Maybe he needs
to take a leave of absence for the final four
weeks of this NFL season.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
If he discovers actional secure, that's fine. If he discovers aliens,
that's why it's worth it. I mean the NFL is
I mean, you really discover aliens. No one gives a
crap about what goes on with the Jets, Like I
just I mean, you go on a floor all by
yourself in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
To hell with whatever Dion was trying to suggest, this is,
this is next level stuff. If he's broker and crap
with aliens.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Eighteen, Here comes the Aliens Grede eighteen. No, don't say it.
They're gonna destroy us all red forty seven. It was
too aggressive. That was too aggressive. It will be considered
an act of war. What are you doing, oh man?
And you wonder why I'm so excited about Wan soda.
This depression will not just stand man. Jason Smith Show
(12:58):
with Mike Garvin Live the direg dot Com Studios. Hey
speaking to onan sodo. Come up next, We're gonna live
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a met for seven hundred and sixty five million dollars.
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on one Sodo, maybe get a little bit on Max Freed.
You might get a little bit of our next guest,
MLB Network insider extraordinaire joining us now from the owner's
meetings in Dallas, where he right now has Scott Morris
(15:10):
tied up in a chair next to him, prodding him
to make him tell him where his next big free
age is gonna sign. It is John Paul Morosi, what's up, buddy?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Metaphorically perhaps, but I am I am. I am joining
you from from a hotel room where I am the
only person sitting in it, and I have taken leave
of the bustling lobby so I can find a quiet
place to speak as my good friends on this evening
where baseball news is overtaking the other American sports here
(15:42):
for this week. As you may have heard, Jason, there
is a team in New York that signed a certain
outfielder on Sunday, that is captivating a lot of attention
this week.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Well, and I was expecting you to say, hey, joining
you here from the meetings. It's my pleasure to bring you.
David Stearns, Hey, Jason here. All the big advice that
I passed on to him all off season one. Soto's yeah,
I thought you get a surprise you with Sternsy Listen,
I will.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Do my best. I think David probably right now, is
trying to work on the next great deal for the Mets,
and at some point, and we don't know yet because
of course they have not officially released and announced the
Sodo signing and a press conference in New York, but
when that happens, maybe maybe he will at the same
time reveal that a big part of the deal was
(16:30):
that the Sternsey and the Pope show will continue in
that Wanto's going to make a weekly appearance during the
season as part of the show. He is going to
be the Aaron Rodgers of our show, except for performing better.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Is the idea?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Look all right, so let's start here that obviously, look
the one Soto signing, everybody is talking seven hundred and
sixty five million dollars for fifteen years. Give me something
about the Soto signing you think needs more attention to it.
What's something that, hey, we really need to be talking
about this aspect of Juan Soto going to the Mets
(17:05):
a little bit more than we have the last couple
of days.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You know, it's a great question because obviously it's been
analyzed so much in many, many different ways. What stands
out to me, Jason, is that the Mets are now
representing this group of teams in baseball, and maybe they
are the best example of this, but they don't seem
(17:29):
to have an upper bound on their payroll number or
what they'll spend on any one individual player. Obviously, they
spent three quarters of a billion dollars on one player,
and it really drives home the point that, yeah, the
Mets got the player, but the Yankees were also in there,
and the Red Sox were involved in the Blue Jays
(17:50):
were involved, and the Dodgers were involved, and you could
probably to that group of five, add the Phillies, and
add the Astros, but you're not going to see many
players this winter sign nine figure deals with teams that
are not the seven teams that I just mentioned to you,
and those seven of the twenty three teams are just
(18:12):
playing a different brand of baseball from a standpoint of
their checkbooks than everybody else, and the Mets are the
probably greatest example of this. And I think part of
it too is in the old way of looking at
baseball from covering these a lot of these winter meetings,
when when a team would sign a major player, you
(18:32):
would then turn around and say, well, if the Yankees
signed Mark Tesera, or if the Cardinals signed Matt Holliday,
or if the Angels sign Albert Pooles, it probably means
that they're not going to sign this other top end player.
But is there any evidence that they're going to stop
now that they would stop and say no thanks bet Alonzo,
(18:53):
or no thanks Christian Walker, or no thanks Corbyn Burns
or Sean and I No, They're looking add and keep adding.
And I think that's that is what distinguishes the Mets
from literally every other team in the industry right now.
They're able to perform at that level and bring in
elite talent all the way around their roster.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
So Beauty, I have a JP.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
We always talk about opportunity costs in these situations. Jason
Smith just sitting there like a kid in a candy
store waiting for a giant pile a Christmas present.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
There's no cap. There is no cap on theb Cohen's enthusiasm,
nor is there a cap on Jason Smith's joy. Right now,
this is this is a happy season of glad tidings
for the New York Meds. And I guess I would
add this the Los Angeles Dodgers. I mean, it's been
at least a couple of days as they signed somebody,
(19:46):
so they're due as well to make a really big
flat All.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Right, Well, let's go with the other signing. And it
did happen eight years, two hundred and eighteen million dollars
for Max Freed. We talk about risk reward and opportunities
and everything else. When we get into pictures for that
length of time, that kind of money, Uh, you know,
we always start wringing our hands. But Steinbrenner wasn't going
(20:10):
to be outdone.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I guess, well, I.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Think a big part of this was the heat they
were feeling. And we're about to I think see the
same thing unfolded with Corbyn Burns and potentially the Boston
Red Sox. Where when when they lost out on Juan Soto.
I think the Yankees realized that they had to pivot
and pivot quickly, and and they pivoted to somebody who
(20:32):
who really does help them?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Now?
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Is is it an overpay? Probably, to be honest with you,
because based on uh Freeda's had some some forearm issues,
and in terms of the durability, there's there's been a
little bit of a question there. But but the Yankees
had to make an answer here and and and you
you both know that you understand the market. And and this,
(20:57):
by the way, this is not the only answer. This
is the start of their This is the preamble of
their answer. You might say it's the main part of
the argument, but their response is still being formulated. Because
they need a third baseman in the first bases, they
need probably another outfield bat, whether it's Cody Bellinger or
someone else. So I believe that the Yankees can can
(21:21):
I'm not going to say that they will or they
should or whatever other word I'll say, but they can
still bring together a team that on opening Day will
be better and deeper than the one that lost the
Dodgers of the World Series. But they have got a
significant amount of work ahead of them. And they may
have to do something really dramatic like trade for Kyle
(21:42):
Tucker and overwhelm the Astros, one of their normal rivals
in the American League. If that's going to be the case,
now you know.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
That's the next part of this. John Paul is obviously, Hey,
the big names that could follow, which we'll get you
coming up in a second. But you just talked about
a couple of trades that could happen. That's something we
never really talk about as much as all about free
agency and who goes where, because obviously the players can
go wherever they want to. But can you see like
some big deals going down in the next few days
while you're in Dallas.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Yes, I can. And now, whether it happens here or
maybe early next week with the foundation being laid here,
I do think a lot of trade conversations are happening
because of exactly the issue that we discussed at the
beginning of this conversation, which is that there are twenty
three teams give or take, that simply cannot play on
the same financial grounds as the Mets and Yankees and
(22:32):
Red Sox and Blue Jays and others. The Dodgers obviously
being part of that conversation. So there those teams, basically
two thirds of the league are saying, I can't spend
that money to santi Oscar Hernandez, or or to sign
Corbin Burns right now or Anthony Santandre. No, no way
can I go there. So you're gonna have to be
(22:54):
smart and sign Paul Goldschmidt or or find the right
bounce back believer, like like a Kyle Finnigan, or you're
going to go to the trade market. And there are
some interesting players I just mentioned a moment ago, Kyle
Tucker of the Astros, Cody Bellinger of the Cubs, and
even guys that you would not normally think are available,
(23:15):
like Dylan Ceese and Luis Castillo. Dylan Seese just got
traded to San Diego a year ago, and yet I'm
hearing his name out here a lot, and you might say, well,
wait a minute, why would the Padres trade somebody who's
got one year left and still try to try to
have the belief that they're going to make the playoffs. Anyway,
they just did that. By the way, they traded Juan
(23:37):
so To a year ago to the day, almost and
they were the toughest team the Dodgers faced all October.
So it can be done when it's done well. And
aj brother did a fantastic job a year ago. To me,
the big question now is can he do it again?
Can he find a way to trade Dylan Ceeese and
(24:00):
still be better at the end of the day by
what the way of reallocating his payroll and his talent base.
The same thing is true of the Houston Astros. How
could you possibly trade someone as talented as Kyle Tucker
who played in the World Baseball Classic it's for Team
USA and is that good of a player and still
find a way to make the playoffs? Well, it depends
on what you get back and then what you do
(24:21):
with the savings that you have from his payroll spot.
So I think those are all of the other conversations
happening right now around the industry, and I'm really intrigued
to see what will happen next.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
How many players will I recognize on the White Sox
roster that lost one hundred and twenty one games?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Robert, does that include a couple of Major leaguers who
are their GM and their manager and Chris got will Venable.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
No, that's fine, for sure, very long list.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Yeah, probably not a long list. I'll say this, I
do not believe that Garrett Crochet will be there. I
think he'll get traded. The question Luis Robert is interesting.
I don't think there's much of a robust market for
Luis Robert right now. He's been just too erratic to
up and down. But Crochet will get traded, and we
(25:10):
will probably see one of their relievers get traded as well.
And and hey, it is a it is a new day
for the Chicago White Sox. They they've got hopefully eventually
they'll have a new ballpark. But I did see I'll
say this, the chairman, Jerry Reinsdorp is here. He's doing business.
Tony Lrussa is here doing business. So the the White
(25:30):
Sox are still trying to find some ways to get better.
Even though, yeah, Mike, it's it's probably gonna be a
little while before you can recite the names of the
White Sox greats, like from the five team That was
a that was a little bit ago. My friend, the
last time the White Sox won the World Series.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I'm just gonna celebrate Dick Allen going into the Hall.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I guess you should so well, deserved that. I was
thrilled by that news and I cannot wait to celebrate
the great Dick Allen in Cooperstown this summer.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
John Palmer MLB Network Insider with Us The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the TIREC dot Com Studios.
All Right, Jp, with a combination of what you've been
hearing and kind of intuiting. If I said to you, Okay,
we saw Juan Soto, we saw Max Freed, the next
couple of big deals, you would not be surprised to
(26:20):
be signed. Are who and where? What would you give me?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Corbyn Burns Boston Red Sox, Christian Walker New York Yankees? Wow,
Peter first Baseman. Walker is an elite defender. He grew
up in Philly, so he's got some East Coast connections there.
I think he'd handle the pressure of the Bronx really well.
And listen, the Red Sox have to get somebody, Corbyn Burns. Yeah,
(26:44):
there's gonna be some interesting from the San Francisco Giants.
But the Red Sox, I don't know if I would
use the word desperate, but they're probably close to it
right now. They've got to find a way to upgrade
that rotation. They missed on Freed, they missed on Soto.
They have not yet acquired Garrett Crochet. They have got
some serious work to do in the coming days.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Woof John Paul Morosi with some smoke right there, Corbyn
Birds the Red Sox, Christian Walker to the Yankees, unless
Steve Cohen is listening to this interview, in which case
then he will go get both players.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Get in my office right now.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
We've got the business.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
To tend to. By the way, I have not made
predictions that resolutely on this radio program outside of my
Lions predictions, which which by the way, I've only been
wrong once all year. That team is dominant. They have
got a serious squad. I saw the post gambular day.
(27:45):
Skipper was so excited he's puking in the locker room
after the game. So they got the Lions that are
on their way. I'm not saying I'm gonna I'm not
predicted that I'm gonna be booking a flight for New
Orleans in February. But I'm I'm feeling pretty good about this.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Team right now. So let me get you here. Big
game this weekend. Obviously, they play the Bills, it's a
huge matchup. What do you think? What's your final screer.
You've only missed one game so far this year.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Detroit Lions twenty, Buffalo Bill seventeen.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
A low scoring game, Lord Mooring.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Guy, I think it's gonna be one of those. I
realized it's not an NFC Norris confrontation, as Chris Berman
would say. But I feel like it's a It's two
teams that are that are just that are really strong
defensively right now. I think it's gonna be a twenty.
You know, Josh Allen's great, but I think the Lions
defense is playing really well right now. So I'm going
(28:40):
twenty seventeen, Detroit Lions get the win.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John
Morosi from the Winter Meetings and Dallas. That is John
Paul Morosi. We will call it, Pope. We'll call you
when when the Mets keep signing guys, We'll keep calling you, Okay,
just so.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
You know, yeah, I mean, I think you call me
when the Mets signed someone or when the Lions win
a game, which is literally every week. You anytime you want, Okay,
see you, buddy, have.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Fun meetings Hey, how about that? I mean that was real.
I mean usually he's resolute about picking the Lions and
picking the Mariners to make the playoffs. But right away
Corbyn burns Red Sox, Christian Walker, Yankees like that was.
That was not even a second before he had both
those names and those destinations out there for.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Yeah, just the interesting part talking about the Domino effects.
So not to be out done, not to be left
behind of all of those East Coast squads feeling like
that force. Whether it's the back page, the fish wrap,
the talking heads on radio and television, or or just
starting to get the notes from season ticket holders going
(29:52):
you better do something if you're gonna raise my tickets,
you jerks. So all of them to say, uh, Domino
effects pretty big with some heavy hitters.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
And I'll tell you what, the Walker thing surprises me
a little bit because I thought for sure the Yankees
would go on overpay for Pete Alonzo. I thought, for sure,
you take one of mine, I'm gonna take one of yours.
It'd be like the like like they traded so too
for Pee Alonzo and just paid him a little bit
less money. But I really thought for certain that was
gonna happen. The Yankers are Okay, you take Wansa and
because Brian Cashman, how do I walk around this town?
(30:22):
We just lost our you know, our best player out.
You know he and Aaron Judge, two best players in
the game. We just lost one of them. How do
I do it? You go by taking Pete Alonzo, which
tells me one of two things. Alonzo's gonna go back
to the Mets or boy. Really, the market for Pete
Alonzo is not quite what they think it's gonna be,
being thirty years old, being a guy that's gonna be
(30:43):
dhing pretty soon. His power numbers were down last year.
He had the big home run that is gonna live
forever off against the Brewers that I'm gonna watch every
single day for the rest of my life. But overall, yeah,
thirty year old first basemen coming out of is looking
for a big seven year deal. It doesn't seem like
that's there for him. One of those two things, he's
going back to the Mets or boy. This is kind
(31:04):
of a depressed market for pet A Lonzo. Does that
make you sad? Uh? No, Because I will have the
home run against the Browers. I'll always have it. And
maybe he comes back. I don't know. Like, look, I
would be okay if for Alonso being thirty, If it
was okay, you know what, he couldn't get a big
long term deal. How about two years and sixty million
to stay with the Mets or something like that. I
was gonna say, option, Okay, yeah, great, dude, we're paying
(31:28):
sixty eighty that's awesome. I would sign up for that.
In a second, Alonzo for his year thirty one, thirty two, Yes,
that I would sign up for. But that and maybe
that's a possibility. But you know, it's a little bit
more of a possibility. I think it was a couple
of days ago.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Now it's fun, fun, silly season, no doubt. Reading all
the rumor, conjecture, speculation and seeing all the mockups of
would be jerseys for guys, I mean, you're gonna buy
so many free agents this year, you're not gonna be
able to buy one jersey. You're gonna have to buy
one of like fearsome, forsome kind of things that has.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Four numbers the back with a number in the front
and two numbers on the sleeve and the one on
the back. So they do it where they sell it
for memorabilia purposes so it can be framed on the
wall where they shrink the name and the number so
they can fit all four on the back. That's what
they're going to need to do. Let's find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports right now. From
(32:21):
Special Delivery Steve to Sager is.
Speaker 6 (32:22):
The Yankees didn't overpay for Alonso because they're already overpaying
for a power hitter. That bat's two forty. Carlostan the
Yankees in the news today they've agreed to an eight
year deal with lefty pitcher Max Freed from the Braves
worth a reported two one hundred and eighteen million dollars.
The Blue Jays have officially acquired gold Gloves, second Basement
(32:43):
Andres Jimenez from Cleveland. By the way, Cleveland announced tonight
that former Indian slugger Rocky Calvino passed away at the
age of ninety one. Toronto signed reliever Jimmy Garcia, whom
they traded to Seattle last July. Texas tonight re signed
pitcher Nathan Ivaldi for three years. The Washington Nationals one
today's draft lottery. They'll select first next summer. The Angels
(33:04):
have the number two overall pick in July. The first
round's top six draft choices are now awarded through the lottery.
The White Sox and A's were not eligible for this
year's lottery. The Dodgers, Mets, and Yankees each had their
first round pick moved back ten spots because of how
they exceeded the luxury tax. Cardinals third baseman Nolan Aernato
is willing to play first base to facilitate a trade
(33:26):
out of Saint Louis. He's a ten time goal glove
winner at third base, and twenty three year old pitcher
Roki Sasaki from Japan can now start negotiating with MLB
clubs for the next six weeks. San Diego and the
Mets are expected to be in the mix. If he signs,
it likely won't be until mid January. Steelers wide receiver
George Pickens, with a bad hamstring, is doubtful for Sunday
(33:48):
at Philadelphia. Scottie Scheffler was named PGA Tour Player of
the Year again two quarterfinals in the NBA Cup Tonight
at Milwaukee, the Bucks beat Orlando one fourteen one oh nine.
Janis Anteeda Kumpo with thirty seven points and currently with
a minute left in the game. At Oklahoma City, it's
the Thunder ahead of Dallas one sixteen one oh four
(34:08):
thirty nine points for Shay Gilgis. Alexander Kawhi. Leonard practiced
with the Clippers today for the first time this season
after knee inflammation. College hoops doubleheader at Madison Square Garden.
Number one Tennessee beat Miami seventy five sixty two. Then
Arkansas came back to defeat number fourteen Michigan eighty nine
eighty seven. In the NHL, it's Minnesota tied at Utah
(34:30):
to two early in the third.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Though the Jason Smithchew
with Mike Carmen live from the Tireck dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, Something's gonna happen in the NFL this
week that hasn't happened in over two years. And wait, doll,
we tell you what it is. The Jets win. No, okay,
two years, maybe a year and a half, okay o.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
One that was like.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
That was like we were playing family feud and he
got to the buzzer or Jeopardy.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
He gotta just before I was able to hit Man.
Be'smorking was it? So we'll tell you what that is
coming up next. Oh, that's gonna get interro and it's
Hella at the twenty Fire. He's coming back radio. Before
listen to the Fail Mary for twenty five twenty I'm
all right.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon live Fromthetireck dot Com studios. And with a
huge week fifteen coming in the NFL one game between
two teams one is three and ten, one is five
and eight, all of a sudden has a lot of attention. Wait,
(35:51):
why no, no, No, Jets are nowhere near this. For
the first time since twenty twenty two, alright, it says,
okay two years. Yeah. For the first time since twenty
twenty two, the Carolina Panthers are favored to win a
football game. Who do the Panthers play? I'm glad you asked.
(36:15):
They are two and a half point favorites against the
Dallas Cowboys. First time since twenty twenty two, the Panthers
are favored to win a game. Things just keep getting
better and better for Dallas every day, don't they every
single day? I guess I've actually talked to the NFL,
and the favorite points we actually get them for real.
(36:38):
So if that's Bred gets up to three, we actually
get three points added to our score for real. All right,
now it's two and a half. Obviously you want, you know,
you want to get a three three and a half.
The hook could be great because we may lose by
a field goal, but to get that added that's gonna
happen for us. So I'm excited to make that announcement
and make sure you drink all the pepsi at the stadium.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yeah, that is that is an interesting line, right, considering
what we watched a night ago. You held Joe Burrow
and company to twenty points for the majority of the
game before a late gaff and well then another gaff
to give up the big play for the score, you know,
Lisa spinning the wheels on Homer to run to the
(37:17):
end zone.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
All that to say, you.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Know, Bryce Young and company have played well. They've tested
both the Chiefs and the Eagles the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, I guess I guess.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
I'm not shocked when we're looking at Cooper Rush and company.
Even if you did get another great game out of
Rico Dowdell, you.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Know this is time because you know, we haven't had
one of these in a little bit. But you know,
like we always want to push positivity when we can.
It's really tough. You know, sports is about who stinks
or is this or that. But let's have an appreciation
moment for a minute for Bryce Young, who has not
been great. All right. I'm not saying all of a
sudden he's great and they solve their problems, but he
has been much better since he reassumed the starting job.
(38:01):
When he got benched early on in the season, and
I didn't see it coming. I don't think anybody thought
it was gonna but hey, you know, Dalton gets injured,
what are you gonna do? They go back to Bryce Young,
who is playing better. He has made some big passes.
Doesn't mean suddenly he's a three hundred yard passer throwing
three touchdowns a week. That's not who the guy is.
But he has been good enough to the point where
(38:25):
going into next season, potentially I can see the Panthers
giving him another shot, or if the Panthers get a
high enough draft pick and they go, Okay, come on
to you, Doris Sanders, you're our guy, or come on,
cam Ward, you're our guy, they can move on from
Bryce Young and another team could pick him up in
a justin fields kind of way, where hey, we don't
(38:46):
quite know what we have a quarterback, but we're gonna
let you battle it out with somebody else. You have
a chance to one more chance to be a starting
quarterback in the NFL. Like That's what Bryce Young has
done in the last few weeks. He has shown that
I can run a team. He just looks more comfortable.
And every time I see him make a big throw
MIC And I don't know why the Panthers don't do this.
Every time I see him make a big throw, what
(39:08):
is he doing? Is he back in the pocket? No,
he is on the run extending plays. He is phenomenal
when he gets to move and extend plays. I don't
know why the Panthers don't call more plays where he
gets outside the pocket, he rolls out and throws. He
is extremely accurate on the run, or at least have
plays where hey, we're moving the pocket this way for
(39:29):
a little bit to give him worth. Look, obviously, you
know you have to do with something because the guy's
not tall. But I don't know why it's not part
of the game plan where everything is we're moving him
out because on the run he is incredibly accurate. That's
what he did Alabama, right, want you go back to
watch his highlights everything he did Alabama's How does he
find this guy a toe tap on the two yard
line when he's running out of bounds at his own
(39:50):
fifty But yet he does that's what he's done so well.
I don't know why that's not something that's been a
part of the offense more up until now. At least
I'm seeing a little bit more of it. He looks
more comfortable or confident throwing the football. So he's either
bought himself another chance to start next year, or maybe
the Panthers bring somebody else and who has to battle
it out with him, or the Panthers move on and
he goes somewhere else, kind of like justin fields.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Yeah, I gotta think you've gotten enough time. I mean,
remember it is year one, you know, really pushing forward
with Dave Canalis here, you did lose Brooks. That was
gonna be one of the built blocks, right because you
re signed Chewba Hubbard. You have Brooks there. You thought
you were gonna get a two headed monster to give
him balance with Lagette in that passing game and whatever's
left of Adam feeling. But you certainly have some building blocks.
(40:37):
I'd like to see him get another shot. Last few weeks.
He's put up some numbers and he's put some stuff
on tape that makes it impressive. That's what I like
the resolve of all these young guys that face some adversity,
given another opportunity, they've excelled. So let's see what he
does for these final four weeks.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Tally Man, keep getting him outside the pocket making plays
and his value will increase. How about a Fresco exit
swollen dome? Coming up next. A big NFL story from
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We'll get into that coming up next. Jason and Mike,
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