Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
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from the drama of the week that was in the NFL.
We had an incredible, crazy ending last night between the

(01:02):
Cowboys and the Bengals, and more free agents are getting
signed in Major League Baseball. But that all needs to
stop right now because this is the e Cup Quarterfinals.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
There is no more.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
There is no more all I have some time. We
will a couple again. No, no, you cannot mail. It
is win or go back to practice tomorrow for your
next game. It is win, or go back to practicemorrow
for your next game. As we are in the quarter
finals of the E Cup.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
But they invested all the money in these crazy ass courts.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
What do they do with them?

Speaker 5 (01:36):
Did they sell them to the trading card company to
be chopped up as game used?

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Game used court.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, you can have game.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Weathered and stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Or maybe you sell them in the team shop where
you get an eight x eight kind of piece and
then you get one of the guys to sign it.
Maybe it's a grab bag. Maybe you can raise some
money for charity. See I'm full of ideas. Yeah, there
you go. I didn't know what would be.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
It would be a court used card, court used card
with what you would call it right by.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
The man, it's game used because then they sprinted all
over it. I mean yeah, But it's funny is in
an NBA game you're gonna find large persuathes where you
could do all sorts of tests and prove that no
sneaker ever touched it.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
The way the NBA games are played these.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Luca Dotson stepped on this exact square for a three
pointer on January. I know, I gotta have it. I
gotta have it. You're kidding, he stepped on this spot
in a three pointer.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
I gotta have this. Well, it was an all important
game in the E Cup.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah us his cup right, Look thunder beating the Mavericks
right now, go to the second quarter. I mean this
two games tonight, man, you have the E Cup quarterfinals
and Doc Rivers proving he wants to make it to Christmas.
As head coach of the Bucks. They started out awful,
they came back, they lost a couple of games. But
here are the Bucks in the E Cup semi five.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
What time, guys, what time is the Double E Cup?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
What time is the Double Cup? That's after that's after dark.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's ten o'clock.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
That's ten o'clock Pific Eastern.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
The Lakers are not as far as you know, the
Lakers are not in it as far as you know.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
There may be some other things in it, but the
Lakers are not there.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
Well, I mean it is Los Angeles. They there might
be a cameo. I don't know this round.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
You're right, but but we got but Look, but we
got the Bucks in the finals, in the East finals
of the E Cup where they will take on the
winner of the Knicks in the Hawk.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
But here's the thing, is that all those weeks ago,
I mean you inspired the Bucks and Doc Rivers with
the threats of him being fired.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
So you got sixty five points between Giannis and Damian Lillard.
Uh this evening, twenty three of thirty nine from the
field for the two of them. We'll be damned. We'll
be damned if we're going home man. And he got
another twenty two from Portis.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
So I mean you're talking about three guys. I mean,
we go back to the old big Ree really getting
it done and trying to carry their squad through in
the E Cup as did Magic went to Battle No Bank, Carol,
So you know you're still playing shorthanded.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
But that's okay.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Jalen Suggs and company gave them all they can handle
and then some.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
We will keep you updated, of course.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
I look, the the the incredible night that we have
in the ME Cup, I mean, is the E Cup quarterfinals.
Now all that all that preamble stuff and crap is gone.
We are in for the real thing. As after tonight,
boy will be halfway to the semi finals of so exciting.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
Really is a wonderful time of year? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 4 (04:38):
So festive?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Do you think? Do you think Adam Silver is gonna
call and say, hey, you have to say Emirates Cup.
You can't say E Cup? Like, do you think he's
gonna call that? Listen, you guys, they spent a lot
of money. What we gotta you gotta call it the
Emirates Cup. Can't call it the E Cup? Like you
think that's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
If he wants to call in and complain, he opens
himself to being absolutely assaulted with questions about quality of play,
superstar half ass efforts, and everything else that's going on
in the NBA. I don't think he wants that smoke.
I think he's just fine with E Cup. The fact
that we're talking about it at all is a win
for him.

Speaker 6 (05:12):
Well, he's never gonna get through Drew Hold.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh he is.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
That's why Drew Brees is still on hold.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, it's gonna I'm telling you, man, eventually we're gonna
have to pick up that phone for him. I mean,
at some point it's been like seven years Drew Brees
has been on hold.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
That's a long time.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Drew Brees was playing retired, got named an analyst, got
kicked off being an analyst, and now is gonna be
as eligible for the Hall of Fame in the time
he's been on hold with us.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Here on hold. Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Uh but look, well we'll keep you up there. And obviously,
look there is that the world will stop for the
end of this E Cup game between the thunder Oh
and the Dallas Maverick.

Speaker 6 (05:47):
You just wait for the Double E Cup.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
I'm telling you o'clock. Double E Cup is at ten o'clock.
Ten o'clock. Trust me, clear those browser browser histories.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Oh yeah yeah, make sure. Yeah, it is a it
is a cup. Hashtag NSFW that's what they call the Ecup.
So the answer today that you know, today was the
first time, Mike, that I really got somewhat pissed hearing
some of the takes on the Wan Sodo contract right
like like I.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
Got I got today was all the hate. Like again,
I was powered by hate today, man if I had,
I feel like I'm like a modern day inventor like
Eli Whitney or whoever. Like is able to harness like
hate and turn it into energy and stuff, right, like
just like where you go and harness Uh you know,
I don't know, like a tear from snape and then
you can see everybody's hate and really feel it. Oh yeah, no, no, no,

(06:38):
I'm still I'm still in full emperor mode, sitting in
that big chair that with my hands out saying yes good.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Feel the hate over your Wan Sodo contract. But today
was the first time I got upset because I felt like,
now it's gone from okay they hated the yank and
the jealousy to now, oh, look at the Mets. They
overpaid like I gotta watch, like Jeff Passing and Buster
only their way through a segment about boy they paid
so much money for Wan Soto, like Juan Soda wasn't

(07:05):
gonna get seven hundred million dollars like the like the
Mets paid seven hundred and sixty five million and the
next highest bid was three hundred million, Like I mean,
come on, like this is.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
How it was.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
But and if and if Wan Soda went back to
the Yankees, it would be oh they had to do this. Look,
we're pairing Jan Soda with Aaron Judge now, and here's
the video that you're gonna see now of Sodo and
Judge hitting home runs and how important it was for
the Yankees to keep this and how how smart it was.
But the Mets do it, and because oh, we're so
used to the Mets being a punchline, Oh we can
laugh and go, look at this overpay? They paid way

(07:37):
too much, you know what, No, those days are over.
The Mets being an easy target were absolutely over. Because
then today I had to jump and see the next
phrase of the story, which the Yankees, in a knee
jerk reaction to losing Juan Soto, go go and sign
Max Freed for eight years and two hundred and forty
one million dollars. Now you think you think Sodo's a

(07:57):
risk and he was overpaid, here's Max Freed as good
as he is, right, and he's terrific. And look best
pitcher out there. He's had an incredible track record the
last few years. He had one year where he was
injured for a little bit, but by and large, look
the guy, the guy's been good. But you're sitting here
and telling me that, oh, what a pivot for the Yankees,
and now they can and I see all all the

(08:17):
experts of the baseball inside are saying, oh, they're gonna
get three players for the pricers, going again Soto. Yeah, okay,
So it wasn't so much a risk until the Mets
got Soto and then this happens and Max Freed is
a great sign. Max Freed at two hundred and forty
million dollars bigger risk than Juan Soto at seven hundred
and sixty five million dollars to the Mets.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
Bigger risk because you're talking about pitching.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
When's the last time a pitcher has has hit hit
a contract like this and has seen the end of it,
and we say, boy, what a great contract that was.
Doesn't happen. Guys don't see the end of those contracts.
They don't work, that they wind up in some sort
of issue. Because you're talking about a guy you worry
about whatever happens to him injury wise, because he is
a pitcher and they only have so many throws in

(09:02):
each arm, and how is he going to age? He's
thirty years old, Like you gave him a give a
thirty year old picture a contract for the next eight years,
not a twenty five year old picture. Not twenty six.
Like je Sodo is being a twenty. You have a
thirty year old pitcher eight years, two hunred and forty million.
This deal is way more risky than the Sodo deal.
And I'm saying I told you last night there's risk
with the Sodo deal. Obviously you're talking about motivation, injury,

(09:24):
all the things that come along with it, taking up
an incredible portion of your salary.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
All there's risk to.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Come with it.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
This is bigger because this is boy.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
If this guy gets hurt, if something happens, think about
all that money you got to pay out for the
next eight years.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
This is even riskier.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yet in the media, it's all the Yankees are smart
and they're pushing just because it's all we gotta say
glowing things about the Yankees and the Mets. Still, well,
I don't know a one one soda. Let me find
a way to make fun of it. Like I feel
like that's been the push today. Now that we're a
day away from Sodo getting signed.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
All right, so first off, you gave him an extra
fifteen million or twenty three million, it's only to eighteen
I could do math.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
So what did I say? Two forty.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Which is fine, but you know, I just you know,
because folks hear that number and once you can cross another,
you know, a couple tens of million folks lose their
minds uh. And I say that all tongue in cheek
for the again, it's not your money.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
Uh one.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
The Soto thing to cap that is it goes back
to a lot of what we talked about on yesterday's show,
in between the incredulity of watching the Cowboys uh and
the Bengals ending.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Was the fact that this isn't gonna preclude the Mets
from doing a damn thing.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
Right, So when we talk about money, yeah, okay, we
talk about luxury taxes and all that fun stuff.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Does it you think that the owner gives a damn
about any of that.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Do you have any sense that all of a sudden
he's gonna realize, oh wow, that checks do damn it,
we can't make payroll. No, it's not gonna say, or
they're sitting at a meeting with another guy going, you know,
we really did pay you know, you really did sign
off on the Sodo thing. That wasn't a you know,
one of our funny meme filled back and forth. That

(11:13):
was real conversation. Those are real dollars there. No, that's
not changing anything. So whether another team was just beating
them up and there was no binding contract offer out there, Okay,
that would.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Be funny, but it's not reality.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
So moving on with Max Freed eight for two eighteen,
again risk reward.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
You look at the rotation that the Yankees bring to
spring training.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
It's a hell of a rotation all the way through, right,
assuming you get a comparable results from Rodin that you
did this year, he'll was fantastic, right, Rookie of the Year,
all this stuff, and then you look at that one
two punch at the top. But yeah, pictures are always
a risk. You decide when you're making your list of
where you're gonna spend your money how much risk you're

(12:01):
willing to absorb. And the fact that he's not one
hundred and four mile an hour Randy Johnson fireballer, Okay,
maybe that mitigates it a little bit because he can
go quickly into the old term that we've used for
as long as I've been alive, Jason crafty southpaw. He
can henter that phase of his career and still be effective.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
But the reality is, for the Yankees.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
This was their big splash, right, Go fortify that rotation,
have the extra arm, and go forth from there within
the division and put yourself in a position because you
have injury history with Rodin, we know what happens with
starting pitching. They only need to look at the team
that beat them to know how difficult it is to
manage a season and roll through. By the way, the

(12:47):
Dodgers still won ninety eight games, which is not talked
about nearly enough for the way they ran.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
To the World Series.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
But all of that to say, yeah, there's going to
be an inherent amount of risk, and guess what you
get results by going and risk, No risk, no reward. Man,
if you want to just run it out, go watch
what the White Sox have to do again.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
No, no one wants to do that. No one wants.
But that's my point.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Don't tell people to go watch the White Sox.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Man.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
You say that phrase, and it just it's a trigger phrase.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
I don't know why I don't have to watch the
White Sox. Why do I have to do that?

Speaker 5 (13:22):
What movies do the best ROI in theaters? Horror films,
Go watch a super you're.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Gonna say movies about the White Sox they do really wow.

Speaker 4 (13:31):
Man, the man out did great. Field of Dreams did great.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
Just the analogy with horror films and and how how
great an ROI because you know what that the White
Sox don't spend money on those either, just like the
production value of a horror film.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Boom, what did I do there?

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smithson with Mike Carmon Live the TIREC dot Com Studios.
Just be fair, like, be fair, be fair about soda.
Soda was getting that money, and it doesn't make it
any worse of a d just because he went to
the Mets. I kind of feel that a little bit. Oh,
but he went to the Mets, so it doesn't counter
the deal. Stinks rolled it. But look at Max free
to the Yankee. Thats that's all all kinds of risk.

(14:09):
But man, yeah, I just wish sometimes that. I wish
my teams could enjoy it. Just a better optic, man,
just a better optic, because they're terrible. You go win, yeah,
but then you're asking too much. I just want to
change the optic. I don't want to.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
Sometimes you ask for stuff, it's too difficult. And that's
the only way it changed. Thats tough, and it's tough.
I mean I want to I want a better optic,
some l something you got to win.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
No, do something fun at the holidays. Make you know
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(14:56):
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(15:19):
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Speaker 6 (15:23):
I hope it involves Aaron Rodgers and Lasers and Aliens.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
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Speaker 1 (16:01):
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Speaker 4 (16:12):
Dot Com Studios. You knew, did you, sew? I was
going to do that? You knew I was gonna do that.
That's not the worst most is lack I've ever heard.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
No, Hey, hey, you're punk, I'll cut your belly open
and watch you bleed to death from the inside.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
Call back to last night as we watched the NFL game,
which at time you started to break down as if
we were watching, uh, the beginning of that movie where
what was it?

Speaker 4 (16:40):
The Last Boy Scout?

Speaker 5 (16:42):
Oh yeah, waiting for something really bad to happen in
between the White Fox.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
I'll tell you, I don't know what's gonna happen on
this play, but Billy Blanks really wants to score a touchdown.
I mean I really have to get in the end zone.
I had Billy Blank's on my fantasy team right up
until the end. So the biggest soap opera of the
last seventy two hours. And it just defies logic that
this continues to go on, but yet we get it. However,

(17:12):
I'm gonna say something. I'm going to completely zig where
you think I'm.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Gonnazag on this.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
The drama involving the Eagles has hit a fever pitch
earlier today. You add the drama following the game on
Sunday they barely escape over the Carolina Panthers, and players
were criticizing the offense, the passing game needs to be better.
And then you had the story a day ago of
Brandon Graham saying, hey, I don't think that Jalen Hurts

(17:39):
and aj Brown they were friends, but they try to
work through it. It's not the same anymore, that maybe
their relationship is at stake and it hasn't been the same.
And this in the with the Sirianni and Jalen Hurts
stuff and the rear view mirror is just insane. And
now today you had Nick Sirianni going on ninety four
WYP and Philip You're saying, not everything's fine, these guys

(18:02):
not out of Everything is fine, Everything fine.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Graham, What what else is he gonna say?

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Graham walked back his statement about Hertz and aj Brown.
I think they're actually things might be okay. They may
have spoken earlier. Uh you know, video of them actually
you know, slapping five with each other and and and
being being cool on the field with each other has
come out.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
And now he's got them breaking bread just for real,
for real, just.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Yet for Ai'll they'll do that for Ai. We do
that for Ai Brown and Hurts. But then Sirianni has
to go on the radio and say, hey, no, no, guys, guys, guys,
everything's fine. I know what you're talking about. These guys
are fine. Everything is fine, all of this. Look, what
have I told you from the beginning, the No matter
what the Eagles do, they are one step away from disaster.

(18:46):
They play the game of football with one foot on
the banana peel. It is crazy how this is the
level of dysfunction and level of happiness and unhappiness. I mean,
they've won forty five games in a row, yet they
have one game where hey, Jalen Hurts didn't really throw
for a lot of yards and suddenly everything is, everything
is awful, Like how is this even a thing? Like

(19:08):
there was less drama involving the Jets this week, and
the Jets are a dumpster fire. And Aaron Rodgers is
talking about Aliens. But no, no, no, no, no, all
the Eagles. Oh, the Eagles are terrible.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
The Eagles.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
The Eagles. If they don't wind up in the NFC
Championship game right now, that's a big thing, all right.
They're sitting there in first place, they have a three
game lead, they won nine games in a row. Yet
they win a game where hey, they don't win by
quite enough, and suddenly, ah, everything is We're spilling all
the tea right now. Brown and Hurts don't get along.
Oh wait, maybe they do, Sirianni and Hurts are fine.

(19:41):
Hurts and Brown are fine. Maybe they're not. Like it
is insane that this is. But this is the Eagles.
No matter what they do, they got one foot on
the banana peel at all times.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to stir the pot.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
And if you're listening in Philadelphia, guys, here here's how
you get mad at each other again.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Aj Brown only has one touchdown since week seven. Let's go,
let's go.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
He's got two one hundred yard games during that time,
and he's gotten zero double digit target games since week one.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
How about that? Is that enough? Is that enough? Let's go?

Speaker 1 (20:14):
He's actually, he's actually if you tweeted that out right now,
he would be on social media liking that, he'd be
like like like like or dislike or whatever. However, he
can show that I saw what you read, and I
and and and I'm.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Really bad about it.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
So he probably he'll probably get elon must to do
some kind of new button, because there's new buttons all
the time on on Titt's some kind of new button,
and maga, let make it wre How do I make
the fly?

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Eagles fly?

Speaker 1 (20:36):
I make the eagle fly, and then like you know,
like crash land or something, how do I do that
to make that look that way?

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Six games, last six games, four games with sixty six
receiving yards or fewer.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
Season low, our second season low.

Speaker 5 (20:53):
He had a two for four thirty six yard performance
against the Jaguars and a twenty eight twenty three win.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
And there's another one. All right, Jacksonville and Carolina, what
the hell are you doing messing around? Don't play with
your food, don't leave things out there.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
It doesn't matter. They don't have to worry about someone.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
Voting them in.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
They have to worry about saying Alabama's getting it over
the y. Yeah they're fine, man.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
But that's you and me.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
And then when it goes wrong in the playoffs, it
becomes you know, I'll go back to those games against
Carolina and Jacksonville games they were expected to dominate and
things were not firing at all cylinders, thus sowing the
seeds of malcontentedness that now rear their head in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
But you know, here, here's where I'm gonna zig.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
And you think I'm gonna zag on this all right,
because I've told the Eagles that they just are that
team no matter what.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
It's drama, no matter what happens, it's drama. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
But it's good for us, it is. Oh, it's great
for us. It's great for us. But here's here's the
other part of it. It is unbelievably impressive. Yes, I'm
saying good things about the Eagles. It is unbelievably impressive.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
That despite all all of.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
This dysfunction, despite all of this, that not knowing at
any time, who's talking to who, who's friendly with who,
who's not That the Eagles can win like this, That
they can win nine in a row over good teams,
over bad teams. They can win close games, they can
win they can blow teams out, they can win high
scoring games, they can win low scoring games. It's unbelievably

(22:21):
impressive that the Eagles can do this, and it goes
to show you that sometimes we overvalue dysfunction. It's not
like and you know, we talk about a team they're
so dysfunctional they're never win, right, Yeah, certain like the Jets. Yea,
theyre dysfunctional, never win, but not every team it does.
It's not a blanket statement. Certain teams all look how
dysfunctional the Cowboys are. Yeah, wait, they want win, but

(22:42):
it's not a blanket statement. And you can win even
when you have all kinds of dysfunction going on, because
if you can find a way on the field to
push things forward and take care of business, you can
still have that drama going on off. That's not for everybody,
and I'm not recommending it, but when you hear all
there's too much dysfunction, that team can't win, that is
that is an untrue statement, because the Eagles are showing

(23:04):
you here we are with all the all of the
things that's going on with this team, that every week
there's some new kind of story where you go, how
the hell does this even happen? How do you not
call the GM and the and how's Howie Roseman not
call Sirianni and Hurts and Brown saying listen, guys, let's
just stop with all this. Come on, man, we're having
a great season. We should be in the NFC title game.

(23:25):
We're gonna win this division by three games. Man, let's
get a home game so the Lions have to come
to us to go to the super Bowl. But now
I only said it's not And now we're just gonna
keep going this week just like this and play the
games and be really dysfunctional and win. You can be
dysfunctional and win. Don't let anybody tell you can't, because
here's the proof. This is the living proof you can
be dysfunctional and win. Here are the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
Yeah, and if they're end up spiking things at the
end of the Super Bowl in New Orleans, then they
become the poster children for a different way of doing business.
Look it happens, and you can have success in all
of this. Right, it's the old you know, show business,
show friends, work friends, and you know the rest of
the people, you know kind of thing, and all those

(24:08):
separations some of the greatest collaborations in media history. The
people did not talk to each other as soon as
the red lights went out, ce in Hell or four
o'clock tomorrow, which everyone comes first, Right, I mean those
kind of things, It happens, It happens.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
And in business, I worked in Silicon Valley. I can
tell you.

Speaker 5 (24:27):
How many knockdown, drag out meetings where stuff's getting thrown
across rooms and every possible convergence of words and expletives
were thrown at each other. And then at the end
it's like, oh, that's what we were missing there, it is,
that's the thing that connects that to that. All right,
go build that and now we're good, and then everybody

(24:50):
would get along until the next build, when the same
cycle would happen until the next build, when things were
behind deadlines and people were getting anxious up top and
the season whichever it was. And I'm talking about our
sports department. We put out a great product all the time.
Doesn't mean we didn't fight and scream and have to

(25:12):
you know, play nice at times to get things done.
That's the way the Eagles seem to be functioning at
this point. It also helps that you can just turn
and give old Saquon Barkley the ball behind that offensive
line and things are gonna hum along. Now if it
does go sideways and they lose a game or two, and.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
It'd be the end of the world. We lost the game,
but they don't have a three game lead in the NFC.
Easty boy.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
But you got Pittsburgh, Washington, Dallas and the Johants. So
you have three more division games here after the week
fifteen home game against Pittsburgh. That, yes, the division's all
but wrapped up, but you still got to run through
a playoff gauntlet and as we know, one slip in Philadelphia.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
You know, it's like everybody coming after your Mets.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Now, listen, I'm glad, first of all, come out. I'm
ready for Come at me, man, I'm ready, come at me, bro,
I'm come at me. No, I'm gonna well, I just
want to play fair. But you know, whatever the thing is,
and you mentioned the guy, and if this doesn't continue
to illustrate that Saquon Barkley is the MVP of the NFL.

(26:22):
I don't know what else does because with all of
this drama going on, why are they winning. Jalen Hurt's
not throwing the ball, guys are not getting the ball.
Because Saquon Barkley every week is one hundred and fifty
yards and two hundred yards total offense. And why he
potentially could break the all time rushing record in Week
sixteen in the NFL because he's gonna keep playing because

(26:42):
the Eagles are fighting for that home field advantage all
the way through, because there's a big difference between having
that game in Philadelphia and going to play in Detroit
for both teams. So he's gonna play all the way through.
But all think about all the other stuff that could
just come up and overwhelm if not for Saquon Barkley
every singles, stinking weak, running the ball and having a

(27:03):
great week right like he is. He has taken all
of this drama and at least made it somewhat of
a of a of a of a one a story
to what's going on with the Eagles right now.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Because we say, hey, sum up the Eagle season for me.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
I would say, Okay, it's Saquon Barkley and it's this
drama and everybody hates each other, right, that's r But
Barkley not only is he doing it on the field,
but because he's that, he's kind of that glue element
that as much as people want to get mad, like
AJ Brown could be mad about not getting the ball,
and Jalen Hurts can be mad about what if his
if his numbers aren't up, you can got just look
and go, hey, we all love Saquon.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Man, what a great dude.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
And look at he comes in every week and he
has one hundred and seventy five yards of total offense.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
We win every single week.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Man, Okay, he's the guy that takes the temperature down
on the team and down everything. Just when you think
that temperature is getting to a big boil and it's
gonna he's a guy that because it is okay, let's
turn it down to a simmer. Just give me the
football and everything's gonna be fine. And here he is.
I mean, there's other guys having incredible years and Josh
Allen's having an unbelievable year. You know, look at what
fifty five fantasy points he had on Sunday an incredible game.

(28:07):
But you see what Barkley is. Barkley's not just having
a great year. Barkley, Barkley is helping to hold things
together in Philadelphia. Like he's like, he's like Loki in
the in the last season when he's got both arms
trying to hold the TVA together and he's he's got
all the tendrils that are all he's like trying to
hold onto him so they so they don't break apart
and destroy the universe. Like that's what Saquon Barkley is

(28:28):
doing right now.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
See.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
I was gonna say, go go to the Wolverine and
Deadpool movie where they're holding things together because people actually
watch that.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
But the wow, dude, wow, man can't always go hanging fruit.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Can't for that. Loki hater, Loki hater, I enjoyed Loki immensely.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
No, no, no, no, you can't say that No Season America,
No season Oh season two is terrible.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
But don't sit here and say like you're a fan
of it's suddening. Oh no, no, I like the no
no no, no, no no no no no no, I'm
ranking them.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
Why not list something everybody saw to the tune of
a billion dollars. No, No, the other one was very
lowly rated by the way, J Brown and listen, AJ Brown,
you feel what you fit.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Don't all of a sudden say you love Jalen Hurts.
You say, oh no, no, I didn't mean to say it. No, No,
you own it. You don't like it, Just own it.
That's all that matters.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
Just own it. You don't like it, don't watch a J.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
Brownshaw has another couple of years before there's any kind
of actionable items with this contract, so they're tethered together
for a while here.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Don't let anybody tell you dysfunction is a one way
ticket into the grave for that season in football, because
clearly the Eagles are showing we can have all kinds
of it head still win. Right now, let's find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. From a
guy who got left on the cutting room floor as
one of the six Lokies from season one, it's special
delivery steam.

Speaker 7 (29:53):
To say, see they actually have no power.

Speaker 8 (29:55):
Stealing Tide receiver Church Pickens with his bad mstring is
dalfol For Sunday at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh can.

Speaker 7 (30:03):
Clinch a playoff Berth with a win.

Speaker 8 (30:05):
Cowboys linebacker de Marvin overshow and we'll have surgery this
week for torn knee ligaments.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
He could miss next season.

Speaker 8 (30:12):
The Saints signed quarterback Ben Denucci to the practice squad.
Forty nine Ers running back Isaac Grindo, with his bad foot,
did not practice today. Thursday, San Francisco hosts the Rams.
The Browns cut return man Cadarius Tony. Raiders running back
some Mere White is out for the year. He was
placed on IR. The Patriots released wide receiver kJ Osborne

(30:32):
and signed kicker John Parker Romo to the practice squad.
Scotti Scheffler was named PGA Tour Player of the Year
for the third straight season. Two quarterfinals in the NBA
Cup tonight at Milwaukee, the Bucks beat Orlando one fourteen,
one oh nine. Janis Antennacumbo with thirty seven points halftime.
At Oklahoma City, Thunder up fifty seven fifty four over

(30:52):
Dallas is Luka Doncic is one of seven shooting from
the floor. MAVs have a seven game win streak on
the line for OKC Shaike Gilles Alexander eighteen.

Speaker 6 (31:02):
Points so far.

Speaker 8 (31:03):
The two other quarterfinals, who are on Wednesday, Atlanta at
New York and then.

Speaker 6 (31:07):
Golden State at Houston.

Speaker 8 (31:08):
Kawhi Leonard practiced with the Clippers today for the first time.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
This. Come on, Steve, don't lie everybody. It actually it.

Speaker 7 (31:15):
Just make that coach talked about it and everything. In fact,
he could play within two weeks.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Now.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
You kind of had Christmas mar exactly.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
Yeah, literally two weeks away from Christmas.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yeah, come on, you have the practice thing. I think
people are like, okay, but maybe even now it's like
two weeks away.

Speaker 7 (31:35):
No, no, no, that is going to be the gift
to you, sir.

Speaker 8 (31:38):
The doubleheader of men's college basketball at Madison Square Garden tonight,
Number one Tennessee State undefeated, beating Miami seventy five sixty
two fourteenth frank Michigan was ahead by fourteen in the
first half against John Calipari's Arkansas Razorbacks. The Hogs lead
seventy three to sixty with eleven minutes to go. Victories
for Duke and Houston. Among the eleven games, Toronto was

(32:02):
an overtime winner and a comeback at New Jersey two
to one, even though the Leafs were outshot thirty eight
to fifteen five minutes to go, at Winnipeg Jets up
six ' one over the Boston Bruins, and the New
York Yankees agreed to an eight year deal with left
handed pitcher Max Freed from the Braves, where they're rewarded
two hundred and eighteen million dollars. Texas re signed pitcher

(32:23):
Nathan Valdi for three years. Toronto signed reliever Jimmy Garcia,
and the Blue Jays are acquiring gold Glove second basement
Andre Simenez from Cleveland. By the way, Cleveland announced that
former Cleveland Indian slugger Rocky Calvino died at the age
of ninety one.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Back to Youth, Oh thank you, Steve though the Jason
Smiths with Mike Carman live for the Tyreck dot Com series.
I'm just picturing Steve as update anchor Loki and they
got him standing next to Alligator Loki and they go,
h yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
We like the alligator.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Alligator lost.

Speaker 8 (32:52):
It wouldn't work because with all those hats, the headphones
would never fit on.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
I don't see it working, Ohna say, and see Alligator's
still wearing a crown. It's Steve headphones instead of the crown.
That would be the golden day now we're talking all right.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Oh, thank you, Steve.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon liveth tirect dot
Com Studios coming up next. Okay, after the last couple
of days, How real is Bill Belichick to North Carolina?
I think the answer might surprise you. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.

Speaker 4 (33:40):
We're live the Tirac dot Com Studios.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Ed.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Look this whole Bill Belichick North Carolina thing of the
last No, you kind of have to be Bill. I mean,
first of all, the last couple of days, it has
been the big dance of is this real?

Speaker 4 (33:58):
Is it not?

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Is he using it for leverage? Is he not?

Speaker 4 (34:02):
But the thing, first of.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
All, the thing I'm most upset about is that all
the great jokes are gone, Like all the all the
all the jokes on are on Twitter about here here's
Bill Belichick, you know, on campus this fall and it's him,
you know, and it's a picture of like, you know,
young people on campus and him because his girlfriend is
twenty two. I'm like, all the best.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Back to school all those means, yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
All the all the best, all the best jokes are
gone already. I'm like, ah, come on, Manby, you gotta
leave something for somebody. No, no, no, all the big
Bill Belichick with a young girlfriend coaching college, all those
jokes are gone all the a. When Uncle Paul calls
and wants more nil money, here's Bill Belichick's reaction. All,
I mean, all the all the jokes are gone. Like

(34:43):
it's so fast, like wow, I gotta get.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
There and do it. Kind of upsets me that the
jokes are all gone that fast.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
Oh, but it means people were really thirsty for a
new story and that Bill Belichick still gets over.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Keep.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Oh and you're rolling, man, keep going, dude, you're rolling, man,
keep going. I know you're doing your little lick my
lips yet Yeah yeah we're still rolling. Yeah, he's rolling,
he's rolling.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
But that's it, right with all of it is.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
We have Lon Soto, we have the Simpsons game on
Monday Night football. A lot of bad football in the
NFL this last weekend. There were a couple of good games,
but most of it was all right, shrug, move on.
Six teams were on by including five in the AFC.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Should I keep going? So?

Speaker 5 (35:33):
Yeah, Bill Belichick, college football, like the College Football Playoff,
didn't get people nearly as mad as you thought it would.
Oh yeah, a little bit of Alabama. Too bad for Alabama?
Blank Alabama? I mean all of that, and then we
moved on. So Bill Belichick and the type of demands
he could make on a college campus, as well as

(35:53):
all those requisite jokes about his girlfriend. Yeah, that's certainly
going to capture the imagination of everybody.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Now the question is how real is this? How real
is this? Is this Bill Belichick using North Carolina to
get back in the NFL to get the clock started?

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Is Bill Belichick potentially gonna co coach North Carolina?

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Yeah? Wait? How is it both? What's going on?

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Is this?

Speaker 4 (36:19):
This is the show? Me time? Now?

Speaker 1 (36:21):
This is the Okay. I've had a fun time this
season on Pat McAfee show and hanging out with these
guys I never thought i'd have to talk to and
I gotta laugh, and I had to go on the
Brady road, so I gotta do all these things I
never wanted to do. I just wanted to sit in
my kitchen and go over punt formations. But no, no,
I gotta do this. So he's not this is not
the next phase of his career. He's not gonna stay

(36:42):
on television till he retires. He wants to get back
in the NFL. But as we talked to Jason lock
and Forth last night, Bill said, he said, look, I
talking to people. I think Bill Belichick is a little
stunned that he hasn't had the overwhelming interest that he
thought he was gonna have. He went through last year
and nobody wanted him, right, he had too. He had
two interview lead on on Raheem Morris in Atlanta, and

(37:04):
he still didn't get the job. And now this year
is coming is coming up, and it's okay. If I
don't get back in now, I'm not getting back in.
So what am I gonna do? I want to go
back and coach again. The North Carolina thing is real
and at this moment in time, we're gonna know really
soon because Bill Belichick can't keep North Carolina on the
line forever. This is something that's gonna play out now

(37:25):
over the next few weeks. Right, this is a perfect time.
Suddenly hit hey, here's North Carolina. They have the big opening.
I'm gonna do all of these things. He's meeting with
North Carolina talk about everything he wants to do. Now
it's a different conversation about how successful will be. But
just will he take the job if he does not
get any overtures from NFL teams at least saying hey, wait, hey, Bill,

(37:45):
you know, just Bill, just want to let you know.
We got three weeks left in the season. Wait, wait,
wait for us. We're not gonna fire our guy right now,
but just wait. He has pushed the NFL to make
a decision, and if he backs out of North Carolin
and says, okay, it didn't work out, you know that
teams have contacted him and said, hey, we want to

(38:06):
hire you at the end of this year. And Belichick
feels really good about getting back in the NFL because
he wants to break Don Shulas regulars want to go
win and try to beat Duke and Syracuse and all
these teams. Caub I doesn't want to do that. He
wants to get back in the NFL. But if the
NFL doesn't let him back in, in the end, he's
a coach and maybe I have to go to North
Carolina and prove my way back in to prove the

(38:26):
way back hasn't passed me by, the game hasn't passed
me by.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
I'm still a coach. I still feel great at seventy two.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
So yes, he will take the North Carolina job if
the NFL does not come to him sometime in the
next couple of weeks. And by that I mean between
now and just after Christmas. When the season gets ready
to end and suddenly teams are looking for who their
next head coach is. They'll let a head coach go
with the last week in the regular season. So that's
how it's gonna go. Bill Belichick is Hill in the NFL.
You call me now and I'll come back, But if not,

(38:55):
I'll go to North Carolina. That's what's happening right now.
The North Carolina thing is real.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:01):
One of the curiosities I have with it is this
alleged four hundred page manifesto of how we would go
and do things. One of the memes that came out
of it, and one of the great jokes was, hey,
there's at least one hundred pages in there of how
to really thwart dabos Sweeney's punt coverage, so you know
you've got things of that nature. I'm like, I want

(39:21):
to see this, Like what's he drawn up? And you
know what kind of hierarchy is he establishing? Obviously, you
know we're less than two weeks removed from the reemergence
of Captain Andrew Luck as the GM of Stanford and
what that may mean as we watch teams navigate things
going forward. But yeah, certainly you're holding you know, the

(39:43):
old lick your finger and hold it up to see
which way the wind's blowing kind of thing. It's gonna
be seven to ten jobs. There's always a surprise or
to a couple that we already know and a couple
that we're making assumptions on that we'll wait to see,
you know, because that Fateful Monday is approaching and less
than a month. But in the interim, Yeah, if you're

(40:03):
in North Carolina, why would you Why would you not
want him to come in? You want structure, you want
an organization, and you want a guy who's already shown
he can be the CEO.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
Why would you not do that?

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's it's it's a case of
you think it sounds weird, but look at look at
the landscape. I mean, Bill Belichick is waiting for phone calls,
and if you're North Carolina, you're gonna go get somebody else,
some other rechread. Yeah, no, it sounds great to scratch
that itch with Bill Belichick. And it wouldn't be this
far if it was real, if it wasn't real, if
it wasn't where I will go here. But it's gonna

(40:36):
be the next couple of weeks. He's going to give
NFL team the chance to see what they have, to
see what shakes out, and then we'll know. If he
says I'm backing out of North Carolina, it's gonna have
an NFL job. If not, he'll be Au tar Heel.
How about that coming up next? Oh boy, NFL quarterbacks
and UFOs Fox.

Speaker 4 (40:53):
You know he got his uh, look, he got his bonus.
I want to know what he spent his bonus on
last year or not.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
I have questions.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
Everybody dismisses the money. Look, yeah, we always laugh about it.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
And it's the reality check for folks because I've heard
it dismiss all after taxes, blah blah blah, 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

(41:31):
in five twenty nine accounts pragmatism and retirement accounts and
all that stuff. The point is that telling someone you're
gonna get another 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,

(41:52):
it's like, ah, that's nothing, that's not gonna motivate them,
my assiday motivating them. Your guys were fighting in the
locker room of how they were gonna spend.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Darvin Ham he might get it if they win, he
might get a tattoo that because they would be they'd
be fourteen and oh right would before him and Torrian
Prince historian prince is also twelve and oh like they
might get matching fourteen and O tattoos. You can't beat
us in the E Cup. You cannot beat us fourteen
and oh E Cup. And then like with a chance
to like, wow, but that's permanent. You want to keep it? No, No,

(42:23):
I would actually screw it. I go fourteen oh and
then walk away.

Speaker 5 (42:26):
Not gonna have a little machine where you can give
yourself a temporary tattoo.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Oh there you go, O god huge.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
But I mean you can run a couple of lines
text or.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
You have a machine that does that. Yeah, you have
a temporary tattoo machine.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
I bought it.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
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.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Hey, yeah, go 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 strata.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
Got No, he's got a guy in the in the
seat and he's ready to go.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
I'm sorry, Eryl, I'm sorry, Jenny.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
I know you wanted to go to this party, but
I am not allowing you to go to this party.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
He put a wolf's head on her right cheek.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
We got a tattoo guy. Hey look at hey, you
don't look at that.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
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.

Speaker 4 (43:23):
The sleeve of the t shirt comes to it end.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Like to have a temporary tattoo machine. Yeah, look, I
just picture you at home, old they giving yourself temporary tattoos.
Like is it like a like?

Speaker 4 (43:34):
Is it a roll on? Is it? Is it something
where you're sticky.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
You have to hold onto it like it's a color
form or something, and.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
Then you gotta roll over the top and it's all good.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Go see go to the Harmon party, you go get
everybody's got tattoos.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Coming home a buddy.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
I learned more about you every single day, man, I
really well, I'm an open book.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
What else do you know?

Speaker 1 (43:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
No, I'm waiting.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
I'm waiting of the day where police, Hey, police found
this inside Mike Harmon's.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Wow, here's all the fun.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Now, 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 who come on?

Speaker 4 (44:13):
But it was only that's a bridge too far right there, pal.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Here is an entire wall covered with Paul Konerko baseball cards.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
There must be one hundreds. Did you know there's hundreds
of them.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
It's a personal collection of Paul Canerco cards, a couple
of autographs, a couple of game use cards.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
He's got a cards with the Dodgers back in the
damn and there's a lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
He's got a mosaic of Greg Lozinski's face made out
of Greg Lozinski cards. This is incredible that.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
That is a good art art project for one side retire.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
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 now.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
If you think that was weird enough, boy, I'll tell you.
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
Man, Let's say you made it a lot weirder than
it had to be. Oh, go to mention and you
moved on. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
How many how many people do you know have a
temporary tattoo machine?

Speaker 9 (45:11):
How many?

Speaker 4 (45:11):
How many people?

Speaker 5 (45:12):
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 whatever. Size
you need that will last up to several weeks. 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

(45:33):
got to face mom and grandma again.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
Guess what ain't gone?

Speaker 1 (45:37):
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.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
Kids.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Kids, kids come off from all over the place of comment.
So that could get a temporary tattoo.

Speaker 5 (45:53):
You never got one of those out of a cracker
jack box, not crack for jacks.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Yeah, unless you want to feel my wrath, that was.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Fine, but no, hey go to that go to that
guy's house, gonna temporary.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
I'm full service. I am the entertainer.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
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 Jets of it. That
part of the season where Aaron Rodgers is like, Okay,
what am I gonna say? I know you got left.
I'm just going on TV to have fun now. So
he goes on Pat McAfee show earlier today and and

(46:36):
it segues into a conversation about UFOs and that's not
a position that to unidentified flying objects.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
If you remember last year in Hard Knocks, Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
Said he he thought he had a big UFO experience
back when he was a rookie coming out of cow Uh.
Except he went in further detail today because something happened
recently where he thought maybe there could be aliens in
New Jersey.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
Here's Aaron Rodgers from earlier today.

Speaker 10 (47:03):
Do you know what's been going on in Jersey lately?
And I'm not talking about the football, not to talk
about the football. There's some crazy things going on.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
The football sucks.

Speaker 10 (47:11):
There's some drone there's some drones in the sky. Yeah,
there's some interesting things going on. Interesting things with the drones.
I don't know what's going on with them. Maybe it's
just some kids messing around. Maybe maybe not though, Oh.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
It's happening in New Jersey. This is a New Jersey, Jersey.

Speaker 4 (47:27):
Yeah, the New Jersey.

Speaker 10 (47:29):
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 hasks. But there's people
in Jersey. It's you know, it's people interested in what
the hell is going on with you. I'm thinking about
having a Friday night five E experience where you call
in the you have a big kind of meditation circle,

(47:53):
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 nice night
and it's clear night, might try and have a little
five V experience bring him in.

Speaker 11 (48:05):
Okay, Hey, now, okay, okay, okay for first or first
things first thing, so for forget about the fact that
yells and football secondary man, I'm about to have a
five E experience meditation circle.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
I understand that you know everybody around you know, trying
to I understand that I've seen that. I've seen many.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
Movies with seances and ouiji boards.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Okay. And then you 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 them 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.

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Does he just go green eighteen and little green men
come in every time I say green eighteen, here come
the little green men.

Speaker 4 (48:53):
Is that how it works? That's how it works. That'd
be pretty awesome. That works out pretty well.

Speaker 8 (48:58):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
I mean this is pretty well documented into 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.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
Well, we just don't know, that's the concerning part.

Speaker 5 (49:22):
Yeah, you're telling me we don't know what the hell
these drones and new jerseys are.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
Yeah, that's right, all right, there, we go keep everybody safe.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Here, everybody's safe. So that's the first thing I don't understand, Like,
if it's the green eight DIDs, that's the way to
call on the aliens. But I need to know how
to call on the aliens.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
But then he said, lasers.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
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 a tractor beam,
like it's Star Wars. I'm guessing I think that. But
where do you get the lasers from?

Speaker 5 (49:54):
Like, I don't nessarily all these technology exists.

Speaker 4 (49:57):
Man, you think it's all just sci fi movies.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
No, man, heme 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 pack them up to make
him look like Lathes. 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 him. I paid seven to seventy nine online

(50:23):
from toys r us dot com.

Speaker 4 (50:24):
This is fantastic. I can't wait to get back at
this guy.

Speaker 5 (50:27):
And I had the battery powered little green aliens from
the Claw Machine that would speak every three minutes a time.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Oh, every time Rogers said something, they go, oh, so,
apparently you call in the aliens somehow, which he did
not tell us how.

Speaker 4 (50:45):
No, you gotta keep that secret.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
You use lasers to bring him in, But he didn't
say how he got the lasers.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
Well, you can't disclose everything about of secrets. He's a
man who knows things.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
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, going to go to the movies
and maybe maybe going out for a drink after, 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 that's a
Friday night for.

Speaker 5 (51:18):
Him, Like he's he's he cited 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 (51:36):
If he discovers security, 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.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
Mean, you go on a floor all by yourself in
the Hall of Fame. To hell with whatever Dion was
trying to suggest, this is, this is next level stuff.
He's broker and crap with aliens.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Here comes the Aliens eighteen. No, don't say it. They're
gonna destroy us all red forty seven. It was aggressive.
That was too aggressive. It will be considered an active war.
What are you doing? Oh man?

Speaker 4 (52:12):
And you wonder why I'm so excited about Wan Soda.
This depression will not stand man.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
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Speaker 4 (52:22):
Hey speaking to Wan Sodo. Come up next.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
We're gonna live to the Winter Meetings. Get the reaction
from Sodo becoming a met for seven hundred and sixty
five million dollars. The Yankees make a big move today.
What big moves are next? Keep it right here, Jason
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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

(54:13):
meetings in Dallas, where he right now has Scott Morris
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 9 (54:29):
Metaphorically perhaps, but I am, I am. I am joining
you 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 done this evening where
baseball news is overtaking the other American sports here for

(54:50):
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 (55:00):
Well, and I was expecting you to say, hey, joining
you here from the meetings. It's my pleasure to bring you.
David sterns hey, Jason here. He is all the big
advice that I passed on to him all off season one.
Soto's yeah, I thought you get a surprised you with Sternsy.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
I listen, I will do my best.

Speaker 9 (55:16):
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

(55:36):
a big part of the deal was that the Sternsey.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
And the Pope show will continue. In that one.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Soto's going to make a.

Speaker 9 (55:43):
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 (55:50):
Is the idea?

Speaker 1 (55:51):
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 Sodo signing you think needs more attention to it, Like,
what's something that, hey, we really need to be talking
about this aspect of Juan Soto going to the Mets

(56:12):
a little bit more than we had the last couple
of days.

Speaker 9 (56:15):
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

(56:36):
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

(56:57):
were involved, and the Dodgers were involved. 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

(57:19):
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
a team would sign a major player, you would then

(57:40):
turn around and say, well, if the Yankees signed Mark
to Sera, 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,
or no thanks Christian Walker, or no thanks Corbyn Burns

(58:04):
or Sean and I No, They're They're looking to 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. And they're able to perform at that
level and bring in elite talent all the way around
their roster.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
So beauty, I have a JP.

Speaker 5 (58:23):
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 3 (58:32):
There's no cap.

Speaker 9 (58:33):
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.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
For the New York Meds.

Speaker 9 (58:47):
And I guess I would add this the Los Angeles Dodgers.
I mean, it's it's been at least a couple of
days as they signed somebody, so they're they're due as
well to make a really big flat All.

Speaker 5 (58:56):
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 and
opportunities and 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 to be outdone.

Speaker 4 (59:18):
I guess, well, I.

Speaker 9 (59:19):
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 who.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
Really does help them?

Speaker 4 (59:41):
Now?

Speaker 9 (59:42):
Is is it an overpay? Probably to be honest with you,
because based on uh Freed has had some some forearm
issues and and in terms of the durability, there's there's
been a little bit of.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
A question there.

Speaker 9 (59:57):
But but the Yankees had to make an answer here.
And you both know that you understand the market. And this,
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.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Need a third basement. In the first basement, they.

Speaker 9 (01:00:19):
Need probably another outfield bat, whether it's Cody Bellinger or
someone else. So I believe that the Yankees can can
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

(01:00:39):
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
Tucker and overwhelm the Astros, one of their normal rivals
in the American League.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
If that's going to be the case, now, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
That's the next part of this. John Paul is obviously, Hey,
the big names 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. It's all about free agency
and who goes where, because obviously the players can go wherever.

Speaker 4 (01:01:10):
They want to.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
But can you see like some big deals going down
in the next few days while you're in Dallas.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
Yeah, I can.

Speaker 9 (01:01:17):
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 Red Sox and Blue

(01:01:40):
Jays and others, the Dodgers obviously being part of that conversation.
So those teams, basically two thirds of the league are saying,
I can't spend that money to santi Oscar Hernandez, or
to sign Corbin Burns right now or Anthony Santander. No
way can I go there. So you're gonna have to

(01:02:01):
be smart and sign Paul Goldschmidt or or find the
right bounce back reliever like a Kyle Finnigan, or.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
You're gonna go to the trade market.

Speaker 9 (01:02:11):
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, like Dylan Cees and Luis Castillo. Dylan
Sees just got traded to San Diego a year ago,
and yet I'm hearing his name out here a lot,

(01:02:32):
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 so To a year
ago to the day, almost and they were the toughest
team the Dodgers faced all October. So it can be

(01:02:56):
done when it's done well. And aj brother did a
fantastic job year ago. To me, the big question now
is can he do it again? Can he find a
way to trade Dylan Cease and still be better at
the end of the day by what the way of
reallocating his payroll and his talent base Same thing is
true the Houston Astros. How could you possibly trade someone

(01:03:18):
as talented as Kyle Tucker who played in the World
Baseball Classic it's for Team USA.

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
And is that good of a player and still find
a way to make the playoffs.

Speaker 9 (01:03:25):
Well, it depends on what you get back and then
what you do 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 5 (01:03:39):
How many players will I recognize on the White Sox
roster that lost one hundred and twenty one games Robert.

Speaker 9 (01:03:47):
Does that include a couple of major leaguers who are
their GM and their manager and christ Will Vennable.

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
No, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
Long list, Yeah, probably not a long list.

Speaker 9 (01:03:58):
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 Luise Robert right now. He's been
just too erratic to up and down.

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
But Crochet will get traded, and we will.

Speaker 9 (01:04:17):
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 adventure.
They have a new ballpark. But I did see I'll
say this, the chairman, Jerry Reinsdorp is here.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
He's doing business.

Speaker 9 (01:04:34):
Tony LaRussa is here doing business. So the the White
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.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
My friends.

Speaker 9 (01:04:51):
The last time the White Sox won the World Series.

Speaker 4 (01:04:53):
I'm just gonna celebrate Dick Allen going into the hall.

Speaker 9 (01:04:56):
You should so well deserved. I was thrilled by that
news and I cannot wait to celebrate the great Dick
Allen in Cooperstown this summer.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
John Paul Moros, The 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 be signed. Are who and where?

(01:05:29):
What would you give me?

Speaker 9 (01:05:30):
Corbyn Burns, Boston Red Sox, Christian Walker.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
New York Yankees. Wow, Peter first Baseman.

Speaker 9 (01:05:37):
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,
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

(01:06:00):
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 (01:06:15):
Who 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 9 (01:06:27):
They get in my office right now, we've got the business.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
To tend to.

Speaker 9 (01:06:33):
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. Skipper was so excited

(01:06:54):
he's puking in the locker room.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
After the game.

Speaker 9 (01:06:56):
So they got the Lions.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
They're on their way.

Speaker 9 (01:06:58):
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 (01:07:06):
Team all right now, So let me get you here.
Big game this weekend. Obviously, they play the Bills. It's
a huge matchup.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
What's your final scre You've only missed one game so
far this year.

Speaker 9 (01:07:18):
Detroit Lions twenty, Buffalo Bill seventeen.

Speaker 4 (01:07:22):
A low scoring game, Lord Mooring.

Speaker 9 (01:07:26):
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 two teams 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.

(01:07:47):
So I'm going twenty seventeen Detroit Lions get the win.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is at John
Morosi from the Winter meetings in 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 you.

Speaker 9 (01:08:03):
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 just call me anytime
you want.

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
Okay, see you, buddy, have fun to fall the meetings.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Hey, how about that?

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
I mean that was real.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
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 destinations out there for.

Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
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.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
To get the.

Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
Notes from season ticket holders going 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 (01:09:08):
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 Pee 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 Sodo for
Pee Alonzo and just paid him a little bit less money.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
But I really thought for certain that was gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
The Yanks are, okay, you take Wansa and because Brian Cashman,
how do I walk around this town? 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 Pee Alonzo is not

(01:09:45):
quite what they think it's gonna be, being thirty years old,
being a guy that's gonna be dhing pretty soon. His
power numbers were down last year. He had the big
home run that is gonna live forever against the Brewers
that I'm gonna watch every single day for the rest
of my life. But overall, yeah, thirty year old first
baseman coming out of is looking for a big seven
year deal. It doesn't seem like that's there for him.

(01:10:08):
One of those two things, he's going back to the
Mets or boy. This is kind of a depressed market
for pet A Lonzo.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
Does that make you sad.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
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. 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. He was gonna say option, Okay, yeah, great,
we're paying sixty eighty. That's awesome. I would sign up

(01:10:37):
for that. In a second Alonzo for his year thirty one,
thirty two, Yes, that I would sign up for. But
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 5 (01:10:48):
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 fearsome, forceome kind of things that has four
numbers on the back of it, with a number in

(01:11:09):
the front and two numbers on the sleeve and the
one on the back, although 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

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