March 5, 2025 • 55 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon take you through the Dallas Mavericks last month. Roki Sasaki was as-advertised in his Dodgers Spring Training debut. Maxx Crosby thinks highly of Aaron Rodgers. Jason explains why Tom Brady needs a win after taking L's on Ben Johnson & Matthew Stafford. And MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi drops in for all the BIG Stories out of Spring Training!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
One ball, two stripes. Man, there's the Grundping fastball for
strike three. Yeah, he a little spin on it at
angle hoaxed. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
There's strike three, throws a little cutter up there and
he catches mccrane.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Looking show his first two strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh, welcome into the Rokye Sizaki Show with my best
friend Rochie Sizaki, Fox Sports Radio. Happy Tuesday. It's gonna
be that kind of.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Sho Absolutely if Yamamoto into Sasaki tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
For the Dodgers to be that kind of show.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, buckle up, everybody, and the Knicks lost. Go ahead, Frostburg,
give Rookie Sasaki's line from today, I mean the box
score wouldn't even do it, not justice. It might be
the greatest thing we've ever seen. Good luck hitting that splitter?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Is it anything like the ghost fork or whatever you got?
I will absolutely crack.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I will take my chances with Juan so Toa in
the NLCS against Rokie Sasaki. I will take my chances
with that. Of course you would, but you can't get there.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I will.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Get We should have it right now.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
We should not even need the baseball season Mets and
the Dodgers in the NLCS book it. Let's go, let's go.
It's all we need American League. All those pesky other
teams Junior Circuit can go play whatever they want to.
Let's go right to the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Let's go. Let's do it. You're just trying to kill
the economy.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Don't you know that we sell a lot of tickets
even for bad teams.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Just like right now, I really, especially after the Knicks
looseen Oh no, big Bodega tonight, I really am ready
for cav Celtics and Lakers thunder. Oh yea, I'm kind
of ready for that. We can we could just jump
to that. I'm ready for both.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
We got a long ways to go, though, I mean,
we have to celebrate every moment and really build it up.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Right, it's been a short run up to this point.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
I mean I don't I don't think we've done everything
we can to talk about how three weeks ago everybody
wanted to go pack Rob Polinka's house well and fire
JJ reddick, you know, and just.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Like the molibility of the housing market, you know, or
packed your house. No no, no, now it's worth some money. Okay, great,
but it's just it's just so funny how how fast
things she has, like, just wait for it.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Let me do my job, right, it's it's draft day.
It's constant.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
When he's getting run out, then Dennis Leary's ready to
walk out.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You want to coach this team? You think he could
coach this team? Now?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Jerk.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I I don't know why I made this.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I made this jump in my head was like, hey,
remember the movie ten point five, the made for TV
movie about fifteen years ago. It was about the ten
point five earthquake that hits Okay, and it was ridicuously
over the top.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, what has to be.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Dowlay Hill was in it, I think, and I remember
Deulay Hilling. I remember they they had like the local
news here in La watched it did a whole thing
where hey, here's it was this big made for TV
movie event. So it comes out and they actually watched
it with a bunch of seismologists and watching them laugh
at some of the things that happened.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
They go, a ten point five ago.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
None of us would be here if there was a
ten point five right, So I remember the whole thing
was like, oh, you know, everybody's wearing all the valuable
real estate across the coast, right, But then the ten
point five hits and like of course, everybody is trying
to get inland as far as they can, and then
everything stops, like in the middle of Nevada, and I
forget it was Deulay Hill's character me, Kim Delaney was
that said, well, this is a new beachfront property. This
(03:58):
all of a sudden, this is worth a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Kim de Lady boom Bridges, John Schneider of the Dukes
of haz Did I miss him? He's not listed as
one of the stars. Oh wow, that's a Fred Ward.
Oh Fred Ward was in It's my job to keep
this very very Oh I love Fred Ward.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I dig this. I'm gonna go back and find it
mini series. I remember what they showed it.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
They go a ten point five is gonna hit The
seismologists all go laughing looking at dead point dead.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
And I used to do that in economics class, so like,
assume this, this and this. I'm like, all right, then
I'm finding a brick and I'm chasing you. Sure there
they go, Wait what I'm like with those those series
of assumptions things have gone down there?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
It goes harming with a brick.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Now, speaking of things going to hell, Yeah, boy, I
could just that's that's a good line.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Just start going.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
There's lots of different things I can throw when they're
gonna start trading one.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I look obviously it's because I mean, look, it's a
big night in the NBA. We talked to the Nicks.
Just lost to the Warriors by ten. They didn't you
have no pro They lost to a good team. No
Karl Anthony Towns in the game, didn't play. So okay,
I get it's fun.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And my stepf came back. He was out for a
bit but came back in.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We're clearly the third best team in the East. I'm
okay with it. It's absolutely fine. Uh you know, the
second night of the game of the double headers about
to begin. But uh yeah, once again today a gut
punch for the Mavericks, who just boy. They if you
said all you have to do for success is get
out of bed in the morning, they would find a
way to trip in their sheets, hit their heads on
the ground and get knocked on because.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
This way you're like a running back after a game
where you sleep on the ground floor.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You always had to have a bedroom on the first
It is.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
It is knowing that the morning after you were not
gonna be able to go up or downstairs.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It is awful.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
We got the Lakers coming up. Okay, obviously it's gonna
be another bad night for the for the Mavericks because
here come the Lakers and Luca. They're both everybody's playing.
Lebron is probable, Lucas probable. They're playing one point from fifty.
We find out today that Kyrie Irving, after leaving the
game last night knee injury, shot a couple of free throws,
(06:08):
left the game torn acl he is done for the season.
And now yes, and now you wonder when you're done
for the season. In March when does that mean you're
gonna return like done for the season. You think, oh man,
all right, look at how things are falling for us now.
It's not going great. Obviously, we're still trying to get
off of this right away from the outside front of
(06:30):
the Luca trade and all the fallout from it. All right,
But when you're when you tore your acl in March,
that's like in end of the year, maybe beginning a
next year kind of thing, especially when you're thirty two.
And for the Mavericks, it's just they just can't they
just can't miss anything. They are side show Bob continuing
to step into the rake on the Simpsons, and they
(06:53):
can't avoid no matter where they step, they can't avoid
the rake. Okay, Luca gets traded, We got Ad. Okay,
boy Ad is hurt buying stepping into the ring. Uh
Luca after questions about his stamina and fitness. Boy now
he's terrific buying stepping into the ring. But okay, we're
still winning some games and Kyrie is turning back into
a really good player buying step into the rake again,
(07:14):
like they are continuing to step into and there are
still hundreds of rakes on the ground and the Mavericks
just can't buy a break. And at this point if
the Mavericks said, you know what, and Nico Harrison said, look,
we got we got to stop. We can't play any
more games. We're done. It's just not going out. We'll
seed our spot in the playoffs. We'll slide into the lottery.
Maybe we can get Cooper Flagg. We'll slide in the lottery.
(07:36):
Because it's just this is just not our year. Sometimes
you don't need you need to be you need some
signs now, I don't know if it's our year. I
don't have to No, this is showing you it's not
gonna be your year. It's not gonna be your year.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Today's takes last night as that injury was coming down,
and even if it was a knees brain, you're talking
about a couple of weeks. And we started to see
the internet doctors uh come across and we we posited
that theory, uh, just that that you you would look
at it and say operation shutdown. Begins the old Derek
Bell line from way back in the day with the Pirates.
(08:08):
When you look at Anthony Davis, Whi's always gonna be
already gonna be another couple of weeks. Lively and Gafford
already out indefinitely when they were going to be able
to be cleared, and now you have this devastating injury.
I mean he's coming back what twenty six, twenty seven
at this point, So yeah, you're only a couple of
games from sliding out into the into the abyss. Yeah
(08:30):
for Nico Harrison right now, that's the best scenario.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
And they got that dust storm did hit the sn
was crazy. It looks like Corroissant.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I'm like, wow, that's a good goodness except without the
flying cars.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Oh my good Dallas is just again. But we can say,
g I those in pretty. Did you said Croissant?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I said no, I said Coorissant, cors Croissant. Now if
I said chissant, you know when I say croissant, you'll
know what I say. But coorissant Corouissant. Okay, yeah, it
does sound like Chrossot. But I did say chorissant.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Do you think he was.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Eating breakfast when he came up with the name. What
am I gonna call this planet?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
They go do? Did you say Corusot? Yes? Yes, there
you go there there it's time.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I mean really Dallas, and with everything going on with
the you know, with the Cowboys just still being bad.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Well they cleared up some cap space today though, so
that'll help.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
But the thing that you know, and this is where
I know that the Mavericks, if they just stopped playing
with the season can't come at the end of the
season can come fast enough for them. You have the
story yesterday with the with the we're increasing season tickets,
the price for season tickets, and.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Well be here for the rebuild. Every time I get
to cost you eight percent.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Everybody is mad that, oh, when you play Kyrie all
these minutes, something's gonna happen, playing him too many minutes,
playing him to it. Yes, of course, playing two minutes. Okay,
let's stop. Let's examine this, right. I understand, and I'm
gonna give people a pass on this because I get
that we're still in the I just want to be
upset stage.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I just want to because there's certain things that happened
when when I'm mad about something, and like PAMRIZOI will
try to say, I go, no, you know what, I
just want to be mad for five minutes and then
I'm gonna move on. Right, the Mavericks are still in
their five minute mad mad part of this where they're
just want to be mad. Nko's look at us and
now they're killing us. And look look at Jason Kiddy's
playing him too many minutes? Okay, in the last few days,
(10:11):
is Kyrie Irving playing a few a couple more minutes
than he has been? Yeah, but he had been averaging
about thirty four and a half minutes a game. Now
he's up close to thirty seven. Right, he was at
thirty seven The whole season's been it's.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Not been a build up.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But he started out at like playing thirty three minutes,
now thirty eight minutes, then thirty five minutes. Then he
was at thirty six and a half minutes. Now he's
at thirty eight minutes. And that's okay, I'm sorry. That's
not over usage. If he was playing twenty minutes on
a minute's restriction and you decided, hey, we're gonna roll
you up to forty, all right, that's playing too many minutes.
But Kyrie Irving is thirty two years old. He's not
(10:45):
coming off a big injury. He's fine, he's healthy. But
I get them. They just want something to be mad.
At so no matter what happens, they just want to
be mad. But wow, I can't remember a team that's
had that not bad. But this I can't say bad
because teams have been bad. I mean you look at
teams the Wizards every year when eight nine games like
this unfortunate, a season like lemony, snickets and the weather,
(11:08):
the unfortunate thing, whatever is unfortunate series unfortunate that it's like,
I don't know that the team has had a bigger
series of unfortunate events than the Mavericks this season. First off,
pretty good series, Neil Patrick, Harris does a hell of
a job.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
The kids are fantastic. Or you go back to the
movie with Jim Carrey if you feel like you just
want a two hour experience. First off, you said thirty
seven minutes for Kyrie. I didn't want to interrupt your
chart train of thought.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So in a.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Row wait, they said Jason's Spid and Mike Carbets and
they're playing them all thirty seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
They're out.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
No, listen to the show. It's a bit. They do
it all the time. Okay, great, it's a bit. It's
a bit.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Yeah, look they are are they a harder? Thirty seven
minutes right now or were they up into the injury. Sure,
the last couple of weeks probably a bit more taxing
because he's not working off the ball with Luca, you know,
having a lot of ball dominance. Okay, that's life. You're
trying to win and get into the playoffs. You're trying
(12:02):
to stem the tide, wishing and hoping that those three
guys on the front line come back. Just because you
decided you hated Nico Harrison or you stand for him
and say, well, the there's gotta be this ultimate reason. Look, man,
they've said slings and arrows all over the place, and
lots of ink has been put out there about the
(12:23):
bad things Luca was doing. I'm still waiting for the
other shoe to drop of what was so terrible? I mean,
so all of that to say, you're playing the guy,
what are you gonna do? Hold him back for good?
You know another old show bit of my mom. It's like,
what's that in the cabinet? It's like we bought you
that eight years ago? Why is the tag still lion?
You know it's all those kind of big for Kyrie Irving.
(12:44):
You could say, okay, it was inevitable with these heavy minutes,
get over yourself.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
No right, he went?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
He did he go from thirties five and a half
thirty six to thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, but it's two minutes.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
It's like, yeah, I mean again, a little more stress
on the body, right, because he's got the ball all
the time and he can't take uh, you know, the
the Lebron breaks like uh Rick Buker coined that phrase
all those years ago, the Lebron minute.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
This is what.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
But suddenly just start wagging your finger of Yeah, more
mismanagement and malfeasans by the Mavericks, like, come on.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
The difference is my wife's saying to me, hey, can
you take out the garbage?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Great?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh hey, can you take Benny for a walk around
the block? Okay, Like the difference between the two of them, Yeah, okay,
little bit more walking and taking the taking the walking
the dog and taking the garbage out. Okay, I get that,
but that's a but like the difference people are talking about.
It's like the difference between my wife's saying can you
take the garbage out? And can you walk all the
way to the grocery store buy it, buy five gallons
(13:42):
of milk and carry him back like, that's not what
this is.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Don't run a marathon, now, Smith, that's what she wanted.
Imagine that's what she really meant. Imagine you've just run
ten feet. Yeah uh so again.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Really, if the Mavericks, if they canceled the season, I
would not go again. I would say, okay, yeah, give
wins to everybody else. They just need to go home. Wow,
I just the damn towel and just go home. I mean, really,
it's not packing it up. It's that bad.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, I mean really, we can't even have five dollar
not Cho's Nighter. No, no, not your basketball.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
You know, you could do if you want to have
basketball like they do the soccer ball when you go
to if you will game, if.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You wanted to have a fan event where you gave
food to everybody because you feel bad about canceling and they.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Can sign, then it's okay.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, yeah, I have a big mas fan day and
then hey we'll we'll see in the fall. They just
start boarding up the facilities. Just bang, it's putting ply
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Speaker 3 (16:55):
So we are awaiting the.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Start of the Pelicans and the Lakers. That maybe Lucas
Lebron combined for one hundred tonight, maybe maybe I know.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
They were both twenty.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I think Lebron was twenty six and a half for
his point total and Luca is usually about thirty. Yeah, okay,
that sounds about That's where he's been, like twenty nine
and a half.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That sounds about right. Like does Luke have anything to
prove tonight is what I'm thinking? Like, or tonight gonna
be one of those Hey it's the Pelicans, they sink
we'll be nice easy game today, nice miniature stra nice
easy game tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
This is a good Bronnie kind of situation.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
And oh, bron how well, you know that's the one
thing we haven't seen yet, Bronni play with Luca, Like
we haven't seen that yet, Bronni playing with Lebron and
Luca and then Bronnie can call at the end of
the game and say, hey, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, how.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Long did you wait to play with Luca?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Like seven years? Ha, I waited like seven games.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Actually two more days.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
They played the Knicks on today, Yeah, I played the
next they played. What happened the last time they played?
The next Bronnie dropped? How many they did? I'd like eight?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, okay, they traded Anthony Davis. They were all on
cloud nine, they were all hopped up on has. Of
course they're gonna win that game. He still dropped eight
on you.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Okay, yo, he did? He did? Bronny did? Bronnie drops eight? Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Uh So we'll have more NBA on the way, and look,
just really quick, if there's any doubt, the Cavaliers have
the best offense in the NBA. In a ninety second span,
and I don't mean ninety seconds of game time, I
mean the ninety second real time span, real time span
the Cavaliers with Donovan Mitchell on the bench. Yeah, okay,
(18:29):
sharing just trying to figure out trying to get highlights
from the Mets game earlier today in spring training. Mitchell
on the bench in a ninety second real time span.
The Cavaliers went from being tied at one oh seven
a piece with the Bulls to a one sixteen one
oh seven lead in ninety seconds of real time. They
(18:51):
went up nine to zero, and they went from we're
tied and now you go a little bit later and
they're down fourteen. I mean, like all the stuff we
talk about these teams, that's why the team's like Theeltics
and the Cavaliers and the Thunder at the top. We
talk about their rosters, but the offense of the Cavaliers
is just unmatched. It's the best offense in the NBA.
Maybe people don't know a lot of the names outside
(19:11):
of Donovan Mitchell, but it doesn't matter. I mean, they're
leading the NBA one hundred and twenty three points a
game and they can score points like that in that
amount of time.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It was insane. And again, ninety seconds, ninety seconds of
real life.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
We were literally kind of talking about the next couple
of segments, kind of keeping an eye on the games,
as like why are.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
The Bulls on it?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
And Frostburg was gonna go It's like Dan, I'm like, hey,
it's close, and then he put the graphic comes up
like wait, it's actually tied. It's like I knew they
were within two or four before the commercial time out.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Either way, by the time we walked back, we're having
a quid conversation. It's a nine point deficit and we're
watching it Sideye going rerillly.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Is this happening? Jared Allen losing his mind? You got tied.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Jerome coming off the bench with an e sixteen point
performance from him, was sitting on his ass. He had
twenty eight at that point, like is it time? Yeah,
it's time, let's go.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It's one of those situations where you feel like, oh,
did you go back in the game to win it
was one oh seven, because now it's one sixteen one
oh seven, Like did you go back? And now you
gotta hitta fast forward on the button to go up.
Oh no, no, no, that was real.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Time was real.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
But to hit the rewind with the team of mine
from last night we were watching UCLA Northwestern. What happened
the first half didn't really go inside, settling for outside
jump shots. Cavaliers doing a lot of that, right, and
we're tied, and we're going it's like, all right, now
it's time start working down low and Jared Allen goes
nuts in the fourth quarter, and here we are.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I'm gonna give you something really insane. Right, we talked
about that for a second. Hang on, So this game
was tied one oh seven, one oh seven, all right
with Bulls seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Yeah, right,
was tied one oh seven, one oh seven. So it's
not even five minutes have gone by. So in the
last five of game time span from one o seven
one oh seven, the Cavaliers now lead one thirty two
(20:58):
to one thirteen. Yeah, one thirty two to one thirteen.
It's like the Bulls are playing knicks like defense and
everybody is exhausted.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah, this is this is a run.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
This is an insane run in five minutes to go
on a twenty five to six run. Hey, we're struggling.
We're struggling. It's one oh seven one not that you
don't say, but when you're struggling. Okay, this is gonna
be close down the stretch. Nope, we're gonna turn it
on for five minutes and good luck everybody.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
You want to make Frostburg feel good, though, ex Laker
having himself to night tailor Horton Tucker for the.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Bulls off the bench twenty two.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
How about that Toby White with twenty five nine of
twenty three from the field, Zach Collins as twenty oh
that's academic at this point, because this fourth quarter has
just been a clinic.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I mean it is a twenty five to six run.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
To one two in five minutes, a twenty five points
in five minutes.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
And then Donovan Mitchell just sat back down. He's like
shaking everybody's hand, like good job, good job.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I mean, that is insane. I think about that number
because you extrapolate that over the course of a game, that's.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Fifty do all your efficiency rating.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Over two hundred points, right, I'm just doing really okay, half.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
The court forty hit three home runs in the first
game of a major league baseball season.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, he's a base Yeah yeah, but it's a five
minute span. It's not even half a court. It's over
two hundred points. It's over two hundred points. Crazy, man,
I'll tell you that's good math. I didn't see that's
that's really good man, that's really good. I'm good at math.
I'm like, like very simple math, very very simple game.
Got to keep it going.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
How many strikeouts?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Did a Rokie have Jason five and two innings?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Is that what it was?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Count on your fingers five one two, three four five,
so one hand five, yes and three.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Do the BONDI five count?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You're gonna do this thecount of my fires, account of
my face, like like I'm five years old, five one
two three, Oh, I got h Hey, guess who could
be headed to an NFL team near you? That's coming up,
But first let's find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. My man who's been called the Chicago
Bulls of Fox Sports Radio. So keep things close for
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a while, but then just completely fall down on the job.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It's Steve di Sega. At no point in that paragraph
was that a compliment? You should have said nineties bulls.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
By the way, Roki Sasaki averaged ninety nine on the
fastball tonight, spring training game Dodgers over the Reds four
to two. Sasaki in relief, three scoreless innings, five strikeouts,
Mookie Betts with a solo home run. Earlier today, the
Yankees beat the Phillies twelve to three. The lost to
Zach Wheeler in two plus innings. He allowed five earned
runs and eight hits. The Yankees led ten to one
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in the third inning. The Philadelphia Eagles gave running back
Saquon Barkley a two year extension where thirty six million
dollars guaranteed plus incentives. The Jets cut wide receiver DeVante
Adams they could release wide receiver Allen Lazard in the
next week. Adams cap number would have been thirty eight
million dollars. His base salary was not guaranteed. Green Bay
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reselling kicker Brandon McManus now to the NBA scoreboard. In
New York, Golden State beat the Knicks one fourteen to
one oh two. New York did not have Karl Anthony
Towns out for personal reasons. Steph Curry was a game
time decision with a sore ankle.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
He played.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
He scored twenty eight points in victory. Meanwhile, for the
next og Onanobi with twenty nine points, jagaln Brunson with
twenty five, but Brunson from three point range one of seven,
and starter Josh Hart one of eight overall shooting from
the floor. Lakers starter Austin Reeves out again today with
a calf injury the late game, just a few minutes
away from tip. The Lakers had won six in a
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row or hosting New Orleans. Luka Donsich is available. He
was upgraded to probable earlier today after a Bruce knee
Lebron James is playing. He's player of the Month in
the West for February. Donovan Mitchell player of the Month
in the East, and the Cabs are gonna win their
eleventh straight game. They're leading in the final seconds at
Chicago one thirty nine to one seventeen. Jared Allen twenty
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five points, seventeen rebounds as Evan Mobley was rested. Tonight,
the Spurs lead with eight minutes to go one ten
ninety three over the Nets Clippers at Suns Underway victories
for Milwaukee and Minnesota. Indiana over Houston one fifteen one
oh two Tyrese Haliburton twenty eight points, fifteen assists, and
Toronto on a last second three pointer, got a victory
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at Orlando one fourteen one thirteen. Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving
is out for the year with the torn acl and
the Grizzlies Jared Jackson has a grade to ankle spring.
In men's college basketball, Tonight, twenty seconds left in overtime,
Texas leads at number twenty five, Mississippi State eighty five,
eighty two, Number one, Auburn trails early second half fifty
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four forty eight at number twenty two ranked Texas A
and M, and a top twenty five matchup as BYU
ahead at number ten Iowa State fifty four to thirty
three with about thirteen minutes to go. Already wins for Kentucky, Purdue,
and Memphis. NHL Tampa Bay a six to two winner
against Columbus, The Islanders beat Winnipeg three to two.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I really, I don't know that I've ever seen a
run like this to end a game in a in
a basketball game ever.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
No, every once in a while in a college game
where it gets really out of swords in an overtime
period or something because the team's out of gas, but
not like the one oh seven, one oh seven with
six and a half minutes left to go, one thirty
nine to one seventeen.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Balls like that. I mean, I've never seen a run
like that.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I mean, like, we've talked about how great their offense
is in the cavity, but it was it was all
of a sudden, like okay, we're gonna go play for
five minutes.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
But we always talked about that with with the Warriors
for years, right, the spurt ability first.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Half, kind of meandering around, feeling.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Out come out of the the halftime entertainment, Red Panda
leaves the center court and bam, they start hitting threes
at all of a sudden, you know the at my signal
on leash.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Hell, that's exactly what happened here. I mean, this was
just absurd.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
And Mobbly doesn't even play and he's the last man standing.
Right as Steve gave us in the update, Jackson Junior
is now out indefinitely with with an injury.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
So Mobley's gonna.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Win the Defensive Player of the Year by default as
long as he gets his sixty five.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Threshold best offense in the league.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
And it's not close, crazy wow, crazy efficient high or
low post on it doesn't. And since DeAndre Hunter came
to the to the team and at the trade deadline,
we've talked about the metrics. They're like number one. It's
one of those uh, like you're selling a movie after
a big box office week?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Number one everywhere?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
But are you number one because it's a bad week?
Are you going to see a big down tick at
number one.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I don't know number.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
One everywhere except like heat on. Look at USA heat on.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
She might take issue with it. Remember, remember there is
a lesson to be had.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
He would grab the microphone from because, of course, for
some reason, when the iron Cheek used to win, they
would have to announce it. So just to get the
ring work, of course, we could grab the mic and
go get on.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
No, hey man, you gotta get the crowd involved. You
gotta worry do some crowd work like you're a stand
up comedian.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Hey, how you doing the night? You out on a date?
This is great?
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Instead, it's no what you need to be humbled, right,
Sometimes you need to be humbled once again, the bulls
and whoever he beat would still be laying oh yeah
on the canvas.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
This is the best you have. Look at us, and
then you need to go kick him again while holding
the microphone.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Oh all right, so I'm gonna give you a big
bull prediction for the NFL offseason coming off. Okay, what
Max Crosby said today, right, Raiders defensive end said get
me out of here. No, he said, if we got
Aaron Rodgers, it would be legendary, legendary.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I mean Aaron Rodgers is a legend for every other team.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah, no, he's still legendary, would be legendary. Like, wow,
it's legendary. You got him way after he was any good.
But the odds of Rogers. Now the Raiders are the
new favorite to get him.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
About it. Okay, Now, I'm gonna tell you this.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
The Raiders are either going Their starting quarterback next season
is either going to be Sam Darnold or Aaron Rodgers.
That's who they're They will get one of them. Because
we talked about the big three, the two of them
and Justin Fields last night. Look as time goes on
we get closer to free agency, teams are gonna realize, hey,
this crop of quarterbacks, we might not find our next
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quarterback here. Maybe we re examined the guys.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I like Justin Fields a little bit more than I
did a couple months ago. I like Sam Darnald more
than did a couple months ago. I like it, But
the Raiders have to come up with somebody.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
And Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Obviously is a win now mode, and Tom Brady needs
a win. Tom Brady coming in his influence on the team.
He needs a win. He needs to be able to
get the quarterback to come here because part of the
reason why he owns that Okay, now you gotta get
people here didn't work with Matthew Stafford. Right, he needs
a win. He needs a win. Right, he's the last
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two guys that you thought, Hey, this is who Brady's
gonna be. It be the pied piper. He's got big
L's for So he needs a win, and it's either
gonna be Rogers or it will be Sam Darnold. Right,
justin Field doesn't feel like it's gonna work there because
they want someone who's either a veteran to come in,
has done it before. Hey, we're gonna kind of hit
the ground running Fields maybe be a little bit more
of a of a long term Hey, now he's in
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another new offense where we're staying with with Steelers, might
wind up being the right thing for him. But either
him or Donald, who now clearly has hit the market
because he wasn't a franchise tag today, the Raiders will
have one of those two guys in next season. Now
it'll be Rogers if Rogers is smart. Because the Jets
cutting Davonte Adams today, which we'll get to if all
of a sudden, like Rogers is smart and he shows
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up at every team's facilities, him and Devonte Adams.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Hey signed both of us. I could be your quarterback.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
He's like, all right, right, but this and he throws
like a nerf ball that dvante As throws it back to.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Look, hey, but both of us. We just want to
talk to Davante. I'm horse Racers to get both of them.
I get one and one A.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It's like you can box them, you get them both.
But if they're smart, If Ryron Rodgers are smart, that's
what he does. Hey, you can get me, and you
can get Davonte from.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Draft kings earlier today, Aaron Rodgers next team odds, The
Giants are the favorite at minus one fifty, Steelers at
plus two fifty, followed by the Raiders at plus four hundred.
The Adams thing, which is a much bigger conversation, uh
watching a guy who's value and returns, shall we say
(31:41):
uh or are much different and very stark from that
that first exit. But you look at the the Aaron
Rodgers situation, Yeah, it's him and Darnold and then obviously
lurking in the background is still Captain Kirk. I mean,
we we have no matter what they say in front
of a microphone, he's there.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, it's the right.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
But money is just too tough, because does Kirk Cousins
strike you with someone that's gonna take any one dime less? No,
of course not. So he's got to understand that we
need a quarterback here. Maybe one of the guys slips
to us at six, but we still have to sign
and maybe maybe that's the philosophy of boy, you really
think one of those guys is gonna slip, so we
go with Aaron Rodgers or no, Sam's our guy, he's
(32:25):
twenty seven. This is the guy we believe in. But
one of those two will be quarterback of the Raiders
as fall.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
The other piece that came out earlier, including the Giants,
is that they're now co favorites to actually have the
number one pick. So a lot of uh well, lying
that that's we're in lying season now, so trying to
figure out what's real what's imagined in terms of information
and subterfuge, which is great for us.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
So there's this W.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The W will be in the form of Sam Darnold
or Aaron Rodgers. Now there could be a big W
little W like not big, but it's a W because
he needs He's got to get somebody. He needs that
win either way at x jets Now good exit out
about a Fresca exit Swelling Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon,
live from the tirec dot Com Studios. Hey, don't forget
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and somebody got paid today. That's next, right here, Jason
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Speaker 2 (33:45):
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What do I say, Mike Harmon, Lock it in and
rip there we go. Uh, we have a big milestone,
a huge milestone in the NBA to get to coming
up in about ten minutes you will hear it. But yes,
(34:41):
t Bo's playing basketball. Now, that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Well, I mean, you gotta keep reinventing yourself.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
T BO played basketball. I have a feeling he'd be
kind of like, uh, he'd be a point guard obviously,
but kind of like Ben Simmons. I can't really see
him shooting, No, I really can't. I can't see too long,
have a wind up to get that shot, lay.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Up every now and again.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I think otherwise a lot of leadership. Right, A lot
of passes, yeah, a lot, a lot of good passes. Hey,
how many passes? Yeah, four passes before we shoot?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Four?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
And the jump pass. Hell, a jump pass will be awesome,
right and jump instead of shooting.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
He just passes the jump pass.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I don't know he would right to the line of
scrimmage and jump up because McMahon used to do that,
Like there were always these guys that that was just
in the arsenal.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Start to move up. He's like, I forget it.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's such a high risk play. But if you could
pull it off, it's not a risky play.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
Yeah, But the problem is if you're too close to
the line of scrimmage, odds are you're getting a guy
going road warrior animal stuff that is flying through your chest.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yeah, that is true. That is true. So big news today,
and and and and this flies in the face of
anybody anybody who says running backs from the NFL can't
get paid. Yes, you could get paid. If you run
for two thousand yards and nearly break the all time
record and rushing and your team goes and wins the
(35:56):
Super Bowl, you can get paid. Like Sakuon Barkley today,
Eagles giving him two years forty million dollars. So doing
that math, that's how many.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Million a year? My Carmen twenty? Yes, very good.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
See that's all you gotta do. Run for two thousand yards,
win the Super Bowl. You'll get paid his running back.
Don't give you give me all this hardship crap.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I know and paid right.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Had run for two thousand yards, get a good offensive line,
win the Super Bowl? How hard can it be? Saquon
Barkley went from the Giants who were saying.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Oh, we're nazzing ar deeply. Don't know who you can
get rid of. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
I'm showing up about a team that's loaded and I
won the Super Bowl, ran for two k here's the
problem with your saquad, Barkley. Fine dollars and cents. Darius
Slay had to go milaken Ship had to go blank dass.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Uh you know that is? That is a blank this?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
How do you like that? I went full Eagles? You
think that's how they did a blanket ship? Hey, blanket ship?
Blank this?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
You're out? What? Yeah? Sorry, hey Slay? What we we
just laid you? You're out?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Nice to see it, But Howie, I'm sorry this cut
on my forehead has really had a good run. It
was a good thing that your your your family did
by getting people is extra large jerseys.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
When we didn't have him in the team shop. I like,
do you know why we didn't print him? Because you
weren't gonna be I like doing this Blanke and shit,
blank you you're out. I I like it good. Hey Sligh,
I just killed.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
You're out. Hey, someone go find me Jalen Hurts. Who'll
get it.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I'll get rid of really fast bunchmen the leg go
it hurts, don't uh.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
But this serious about this now, is that this is
the best thing for running backs in the NFL because
as you've seen now the last year or so, like
the NFL big copycat league, as you know, the NFL
is starting to come back a little bit too, running
backs a little bit. But you have to be a
running back that can do it all.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
You can't be a guy that just hey, I carry
the ball back. If you are a do it all
running back, if you're a Bijon Robinson, right, if you
run Saquon Barkley, if you're a guy like that, you
will get paid.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Right. If you're someone that can be a big dual threat. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yes, we'll give you money. We'll pay you because you're
that kind of guy. And there's a few running backs
like that in the NFL that as time goes on,
because we went from great quarterback play across the league
to now quarterback play is way down across the league.
So when quarterback play is down in the NFL goes
and cycles now a little bit more reliance on the
running back, especially the guys catch a lot of passes
out of the backfield. So now you're getting back not
(38:16):
not quite the running back renaissance, but it's better news
for running backs and guys like Bijon Robinson. In a
year or two, they're gonna get big hunt. They will
get contracts upwards of hey, here's two or three years
and a lot of money. Right, you're not gonna forget
about that five seven year not happening. But two or
three years for running back and a lot of money.
That's what they should aspire to because that's a deal
(38:36):
that's completely palatable. An NFL team can say, listen, you're
a star, you're a great player.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
We love you.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
We're gonna give you a lot of money. The next
couple of years. Okay, but I want a five year deal. Yeah,
let's come back. Come back to me, come back off
of Mars, come back to reality. Yeah, we're only going
to do it for a couple of years. So you
will see that now, and you will see guys like
Bijon Robinson signing an extension for two years. The extension
for two years and forty million dollars. Wow, look at that. Now,
they got until twenty twenty nine or whatever it's gonna be.
That's what you can expect from the NFL. So that's
(39:02):
good news. It's not the great news. You don't. You
want the lifetime money in three hundred million guaranteed quarterback,
but that's not gonna go that way. But they're starting
to come back now a little bit. And the best
thing for all running backs is Saquon Barkley having that
year they had last year. Hey, a running back can
carry a team to a super Bowl. Okay, I'm backing
on it a little bit. Let's back reinvesting in the
(39:22):
in the position a little bit, and let's go back
to that. So that's a it's a I mean, you
think about it, it's a really really big thing for
the NFL. Yeah, part of me wonders how much of
it is is a bit of an outlier in that
you do have to have everything go right for you,
right in terms of roster construction and flow healthy offensive line.
Look to me, you know a lot of the post
(39:43):
Super Bowl chatter was well and they didn't really even
need Barkley. It's like, no, he had a lot of
tough runs and you know what happens, you run clock,
you beat people up.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
You never got the big hit. But you know what
else he did. He also blocked down field on a
couple of those big Jalen Hurts runs. Don't tell me
that didn't go over with the front office folks in
terms of sacrifice, because that that's not going in the stats, right,
And that's only for nerds like us talking of the
radio to point those things out, but also to the
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and it's a point I've made a bunch is you
know the guys that are leading the renaissance all really
went to good teams. When you look at Josh Jacobs,
Derrick Henry and the aforementioned Barkley, so you know you're
into a good structure, so you're going to achieve. For Barkley,
massive numbers gets rewarded. Here's a little bit of a
spot bonus for what you just did. Let's keep the
(40:36):
train moving. Keep doing good work. B Jon Robinson. He
like hell had forty six total receptions this year, which
is down from once upon a time he was about
double that, right, but util active.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
But in the middle of the season it went from
I'm splitting time with with Algart. Now he's the guy.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
No, that's a middle. Last season he became Okay, our
offense rolls through him.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
And when as Arthur Smith got out the door, Hey
do I get the football now?
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
You get it early and off in bejone. You know
I forgot about you. Don't sit in the back, come
and sit up in.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
The freget a hole. Pittsburgh back again this year.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
So there coming up next and absolute superstar is on
the market. Could be the difference in a Super Bowl
or bust?
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Who is it? We'll tell you next who fuck?
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Boy The end of that Syracuse SMU game was entirely predictable. Sorry, buddy,
that's all right. It'sch It's like you were a team
from Dallas or something. Well, hey, you know Dallas. You
know what, I'm okay with that because we're twelve and sixteen.
Dallas needs something after the last they got all the
with the dust going through the Mavericks, KNT got a
(41:55):
lot of stuff.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
So SMU gets that win for the city. There they are,
They're the pillar of the community right now.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Yurkey's winning from the fifteen minute mark of the first
half all the way to two point nine seconds left.
Then they lose when that graphic came up. I saw
you die a little bit, completely predictable.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
First lead since joining us.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Now the hotline for all the big news, a Major
League Baseball Fox Sports Radio, MLB Network insider extraordinaire. You
can fall him on Twitter at John Morosi. It is
the Pope, John PALMROSI. What's happening, buddy?
Speaker 6 (42:32):
How are you good? Evening? My friends? I am doing well,
but probably not quite as well as rookie Sasaki. My goodness,
my friends. That is a spring debut, and I know
it's spring training. I know we shouldn't get two worked up,
but last I checked, my friends, the splitter behaves the
(42:54):
same way from a standpoint of gravity and all other
elements on March the fourth as it does on April
the fourth and May the fourth, and all these different
days going forward. I wish all hitters in the National
League good luck with that split of this season.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Well, i'll tell you what, John Paul again, five strikeouts today,
and I said, that's great. I will take my chances
in the NLCS with Sasaki versus Juan Soto in the
ninth inning with two on and two out, and I'll
take my chances with that situation.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
Well, this is where and while I respect the confidence
you are showing in your new slugger, let's not forget
that the odds of any Dodger starting pitcher pitching in
the ninth inning of a playoff game are extremely remote.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
I mean dominating release.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, like Kershaw starts and then non A Moto comes in,
and then because they have like eleven starting pitchers, it'll
be fine, though they'll have to split games.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Will be like a little league game.
Speaker 6 (43:50):
It is. It is the bullpenning. This is bullpenning cube.
I think It is like the third iteration of what
bullpenning looks like, and certainly today it was. I'll say this,
it was the the the game this spring that I
was most excited about, just because of the pitching matchup
and it plus, hey, Ellie the Cruz was in there,
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and he did not look deterred either by the way
on the opposite side. But to look at all that pitching,
you see why I was there in November in Tokyo.
Why so many teams send a lot of scouts to
look at the best pitching that Japan has to offer,
because they are the elite of the elite once they
gets to Major League Baseball as well.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Go ahead, Jason, No, I was I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Again, So so it's a little early, but we're not
going to do the NLCS preview with the Dodger of
the mess to night. We're going to save that for
other night. Okay, I just want to write that down.
Speaker 6 (44:43):
I would say at least next week talking about right now,
maybe next week early April. May pencil that into the
rundown there. Let justin know, we'll allow a little extra
time for that preview, maybe our second Tuesday of April.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
But ship it off to Boston. Rafaeld Da is not
yet ready to play. How much of that is physical,
how much of that is psychological? And playing games with
the Red Sox, you know, Mike, I.
Speaker 6 (45:07):
Was having that thought tonight that and it's difficult to
get in there and just see what that shoulders looking like,
necessarily to know it does. There is a little bit
of recalling how things used to go with Manny Ramirez
in the Red Sox, where I remember the one time
that he had an issue with one knee and then
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the Red Sox sent him out to get an MRI
on both knees just to be sure both game back clean.
You should be playing now, Manny. I don't think we've
reached that stage yet with Devers, but there seemed to
be a lot of shall we say, stubborn pride on
all sides of this equation when he reported and basically said, yeah,
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the third basement, not right now, though not right now
because Alex Bregman is there playing very well. They've got
this other group of young players coming in, so we
will see. It's a lot of money left on his deal.
He's the longest tenured member of the team and certainly
did not appear to be fully on board with the
notion of moving to a different position. So I do
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wonder if if the motivation for him to get back
on the field and play is less than a little
bit just because it's not his preferred position, at least
not the moment.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Well, that's okay, Then the Mets will trade for him,
or the Yankees will try somebody will.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
He won't train the Yankees, and they should.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
Well, I was gonna say that because to those who
are watching closely the injury reports from spring training, DJ
Lemayhew has been injured again. There for the Yankees, they
don't know who their every day third basement is going
to be.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
And if it.
Speaker 6 (46:44):
Were that alternate universe where Ed Williams and Joe Dimagio
were nearly traded for one another at one point in time,
perhaps we could see that. But I would not expect
Devas to be a Yankee pin stripes by opening that. No.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Look, I can see Devs someplace else, because this has
been really awkward since the beginning. I can see I
can see him getting moved at some point, because this
should be something that should have been solved easier. But
he seems to be at odds of the Red Sox
and stuff like that doesn't usually end well. But it's
obviously knocking out with the Yankees. But I could see
him someplace else for the Yankees. My concern, John Paul
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is okay, so Gen Carlos Stanton has two bad elbows.
Who knows when he's gonna play?
Speaker 3 (47:22):
Heel is out for a while.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Rookie of the Year last year, you talked about the
injuries already scaler one to ten. How concerned are you
for the Yankees right now?
Speaker 6 (47:31):
I'm at about a six. I'm at about a six
because it's not of course, as you mentioned, it's not
just Stanton. It's also to make you Luis Heel in
the rotation, although they do have Strowman as a backup
plan there. I'm worried. I'm worried because they were not
good enough to beat the Dodgers last year when they
had Soto. Now, in fairness, they've also added gold Schmid
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and Bellinger, Devin Williams with the bullpen freed for the rotation.
I think they had a fine off season. Obviously that
they didn't get the a number one guy they were pursuing,
but they had I think still a solid offseason. I
wonder about the ability of this everyday lineup to produce
enough consistently without the aforementioned players, And people forget that
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if Soto was the most important player on that Yankee
team in the playoffs offensively, Stan was a close second,
and you might have actually argued at times the stand
was more important than Soto. So they are both really important,
and as the stands right now, neither one of them
are going to be in that lineup on opening day.
So Goldschmid, who's at it certainly a good spring. I
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think he's going to really need to be productive right away.
Same with Bellinger. And let's not forget there's also the
drama surrounding where exactly Jason Domingez is going to play
and are they comfortable with him defensively yet just given
his misadventures in left field. So I'm I'm worried. And
if the situation with the Red Sox were less complicated
and balloted with where Devers will play, etc. I would
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be very prepared right now to pick the Red Sox
to win the American Leaguees there you go a lot.
Speaker 5 (49:08):
Of years in the minor leagues for Domingus to learn
how to catch a fly ball.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
Still searching for it?
Speaker 5 (49:13):
All right, let's go off the field and into the
legislation of the game.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Nineteen eighty nine, Jim Otti bands Pete.
Speaker 5 (49:21):
Rose in the indefinite banishment ninety one, the Hall creates
the rules saying that nobody can get in that's on
the ineligible list JP. Now we have President Trump saying
there's a pardon. I guess there was a tax evasion
charge back in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
But the family.
Speaker 5 (49:39):
Bringing data to Rob Manford and supposedly we're going to
get a look.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
See does this go anywhere?
Speaker 6 (49:46):
I don't believe so. And here's here's the reasoning. From
a standpoint of the practicality of all this. The question comes,
is he going to be elected to the Hall of
Fame an if in the in the event that he
is reinstated posthumously, which which again is the conversation right now,
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what does it mean for his Hall of Fame credentials?
The rule about no one who is on the ineligible
list being able to stand for election to the Hall
of Fame. That actually happened after Rose, after the doubt report,
after the suspension was announced, and there was actually a
period of time where the writers were discussing what to
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do with Rose, and and because it wasn't entirely clear
at that time, and there was not a lot of
support from the writers to vote a man at that
point in time, given the way things have gone with
with the pd situation, which which in from my perspective,
in a baseball in a baseball setting, gambling on baseball
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is a much graver transgression than taking peds in my opinion,
also according to the laws of the game, it is
as well. So in light of that I and in
light of the fact that the Bonds and Clemens did
not make it in I just see no way that
that a veterans committee at this stage, after all that's happened,
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will say we're going to look past what the ruling
was at the time, more than thirty years of the
way the game is treated Rose. And then after his passing,
if hypothetically he's reinstated, that that a electoral board of
the Hall of Fame will by seventy five percent plus
the screening committee that have to get him on that ballot.
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But then all of a sudden decide that it's in
the best centers of the Hall of Fame to have
him there in Cooperstown. I just don't see all of
those things happening. Could I be surprised, Sure, I've been
surprised before, But I just do not see him passing
all of the checkpoints that would be required for him
to be honored in the Hall of Fame Again, I'll
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be it positumously at this stage of the conversation.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Now, now, why is this happening now? Though?
Speaker 1 (52:05):
John Paul It it's kind of it's kind of weird
that President Trump says he wants to pardon people, whatever
that means, because's not like Rosen was convicted of a cross,
you know, the whole pardon thing. So we see that,
and then we see Rob Manfern saying, oh yeah, I've
been reviewing his case since December. This seems really coincidental
that both of these things are happening now in the
(52:25):
wake of Pee passing, you know, a few months ago,
all of a sudden was I don't know, why did
that to wait until he died to look at.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
It, like, like, what, why do you think this is
happening now?
Speaker 6 (52:34):
Yeah, No, it's a very fair question. And I think
that there these two issues are are separate. But related
that they had to do with his legacy, and perhaps
after he passed the legacy, the way in which he's
viewed in the history of the game becomes all the
more important after he passed away, at least in the
(52:54):
eyes of his family. And and that's certainly understandable just
from a standpoint of the family reaction and in how
you would feel about a loved one who had passed away.
That appears to be what had started the appeal process,
the request that was put before Commissioner Manford, which, by
the way, this is not the first time that he
has had a request of this type that Rob Efford
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has had to review. The way in which it is
different now, I suppose, as I'm sort of reasoning my
way through this is Rob Manffort. If you go back
and look at quotes that he gave during different times
when Rose's situation has been put before him, he has
always said the eligibility cause, the permanent and eligible list,
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the ban from Baseball for life. To use the more
colloquial term, has that that is not about the Hall
of Fame. It is about his ability to work and
be employed by an MLB team and impact games as
a uniformed employee. That was what the commission was ruling
on the Hall of Fame decision was separate because it
was their decision that said, if you're on the ineligible
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list that we will not vote for you that but
that is a Hall of Fame choice. I do believe
that this was put in front of Rob Manford in
a different context given the facts as they are related
right now, how would you regard his place in the
game now that obviously, definitionally he no longer has the
ability to work for an MLB team. That is the
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that is the case before Rob Manford, and that is
why I suppose it could lead to a different conclusion.
But the Hall of Fame will make would have to
make a decision very separate from what Rob Manford does.
And I would caution any of any of Roses fans
or backers here to say that if he is in
some way cleared, that if he's removed from the permanent
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and eligible list by the Commissioner, that it in any
way puts them on a glide path to Cooperstown. Because
there's just there's a lot of people with a tremendous
amount of historical founding and background that are connected to
Coopers down that would have to give their blessing on this.
I just at this moment I would describe that as unlikely.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi,
the Pope, John Paul Moros, the MLB Network, Fox Sports
Radio Pope is always thanks a bunch of my friend.
We'll talk to you next week as we get rolling.
Speaker 6 (55:19):
I love the conversation. We will preview the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
When we need be good. JP. There you go, see
you buddy. Yeah. The difference between permanent and lifetime.
Speaker 1 (55:31):
Yeah, lifetime is okay, well you're you're not alive anymore,
so lifetime is over so now you can get back.
Speaker 3 (55:37):
So weird.
Speaker 5 (55:38):
Well the thing that I mean, look, Pete for years
would lament the fact that he couldn't teach a kid
how to hit yeah right, more than anything else. And
obviously the millions of dollars signing hof to a bunch
of multi sign things would have helped too. But you know,
not being able to be a hitting instructor just off
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
One ball, two stripes. Man, there's the Grundping fastball for
strike three. Yeah, he a little spin on it at
angle hoaxed. Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
There's strike three, throws a little cutter up there and
he catches mccrane.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Looking show his first two strikeouts.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Oh, welcome into the Rokye Sizaki Show with my best
friend Rochie Sizaki, Fox Sports Radio. Happy Tuesday. It's gonna
be that kind of.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Sho Absolutely if Yamamoto into Sasaki tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
For the Dodgers to be that kind of show.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, buckle up, everybody, and the Knicks lost. Go ahead, Frostburg,
give Rookie Sasaki's line from today, I mean the box
score wouldn't even do it, not justice. It might be
the greatest thing we've ever seen. Good luck hitting that splitter?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Is it anything like the ghost fork or whatever you got?
I will absolutely crack.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I will take my chances with Juan so Toa in
the NLCS against Rokie Sasaki. I will take my chances
with that. Of course you would, but you can't get there.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I will.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Get We should have it right now.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
We should not even need the baseball season Mets and
the Dodgers in the NLCS book it. Let's go, let's go.
It's all we need American League. All those pesky other
teams Junior Circuit can go play whatever they want to.
Let's go right to the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Let's go. Let's do it. You're just trying to kill
the economy.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Don't you know that we sell a lot of tickets
even for bad teams.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Just like right now, I really, especially after the Knicks
looseen Oh no, big Bodega tonight, I really am ready
for cav Celtics and Lakers thunder. Oh yea, I'm kind
of ready for that. We can we could just jump
to that. I'm ready for both.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
We got a long ways to go, though, I mean,
we have to celebrate every moment and really build it up.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Right, it's been a short run up to this point.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
I mean I don't I don't think we've done everything
we can to talk about how three weeks ago everybody
wanted to go pack Rob Polinka's house well and fire
JJ reddick, you know, and just.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Like the molibility of the housing market, you know, or
packed your house. No no, no, now it's worth some money. Okay, great,
but it's just it's just so funny how how fast
things she has, like, just wait for it.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Let me do my job, right, it's it's draft day.
It's constant.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
When he's getting run out, then Dennis Leary's ready to
walk out.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You want to coach this team? You think he could
coach this team? Now?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Jerk.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I I don't know why I made this.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I made this jump in my head was like, hey,
remember the movie ten point five, the made for TV
movie about fifteen years ago. It was about the ten
point five earthquake that hits Okay, and it was ridicuously
over the top.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, what has to be.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Dowlay Hill was in it, I think, and I remember
Deulay Hilling. I remember they they had like the local
news here in La watched it did a whole thing
where hey, here's it was this big made for TV
movie event. So it comes out and they actually watched
it with a bunch of seismologists and watching them laugh
at some of the things that happened.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
They go, a ten point five ago.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
None of us would be here if there was a
ten point five right, So I remember the whole thing
was like, oh, you know, everybody's wearing all the valuable
real estate across the coast, right, But then the ten
point five hits and like of course, everybody is trying
to get inland as far as they can, and then
everything stops, like in the middle of Nevada, and I
forget it was Deulay Hill's character me, Kim Delaney was
that said, well, this is a new beachfront property. This
(03:58):
all of a sudden, this is worth a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Kim de Lady boom Bridges, John Schneider of the Dukes
of haz Did I miss him? He's not listed as
one of the stars. Oh wow, that's a Fred Ward.
Oh Fred Ward was in It's my job to keep
this very very Oh I love Fred Ward.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I dig this. I'm gonna go back and find it
mini series. I remember what they showed it.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
They go a ten point five is gonna hit The
seismologists all go laughing looking at dead point dead.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
And I used to do that in economics class, so like,
assume this, this and this. I'm like, all right, then
I'm finding a brick and I'm chasing you. Sure there
they go, Wait what I'm like with those those series
of assumptions things have gone down there?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
It goes harming with a brick.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Now, speaking of things going to hell, Yeah, boy, I
could just that's that's a good line.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Just start going.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
There's lots of different things I can throw when they're
gonna start trading one.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I look obviously it's because I mean, look, it's a
big night in the NBA. We talked to the Nicks.
Just lost to the Warriors by ten. They didn't you
have no pro They lost to a good team. No
Karl Anthony Towns in the game, didn't play. So okay,
I get it's fun.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
And my stepf came back. He was out for a
bit but came back in.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We're clearly the third best team in the East. I'm
okay with it. It's absolutely fine. Uh you know, the
second night of the game of the double headers about
to begin. But uh yeah, once again today a gut
punch for the Mavericks, who just boy. They if you
said all you have to do for success is get
out of bed in the morning, they would find a
way to trip in their sheets, hit their heads on
the ground and get knocked on because.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
This way you're like a running back after a game
where you sleep on the ground floor.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
You always had to have a bedroom on the first
It is.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
It is knowing that the morning after you were not
gonna be able to go up or downstairs.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
It is awful.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
We got the Lakers coming up. Okay, obviously it's gonna
be another bad night for the for the Mavericks because
here come the Lakers and Luca. They're both everybody's playing.
Lebron is probable, Lucas probable. They're playing one point from fifty.
We find out today that Kyrie Irving, after leaving the
game last night knee injury, shot a couple of free throws,
(06:08):
left the game torn acl he is done for the season.
And now yes, and now you wonder when you're done
for the season. In March when does that mean you're
gonna return like done for the season. You think, oh man,
all right, look at how things are falling for us now.
It's not going great. Obviously, we're still trying to get
off of this right away from the outside front of
(06:30):
the Luca trade and all the fallout from it. All right,
But when you're when you tore your acl in March,
that's like in end of the year, maybe beginning a
next year kind of thing, especially when you're thirty two.
And for the Mavericks, it's just they just can't they
just can't miss anything. They are side show Bob continuing
to step into the rake on the Simpsons, and they
(06:53):
can't avoid no matter where they step, they can't avoid
the rake. Okay, Luca gets traded, We got Ad. Okay,
boy Ad is hurt buying stepping into the ring. Uh
Luca after questions about his stamina and fitness. Boy now
he's terrific buying stepping into the ring. But okay, we're
still winning some games and Kyrie is turning back into
a really good player buying step into the rake again,
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like they are continuing to step into and there are
still hundreds of rakes on the ground and the Mavericks
just can't buy a break. And at this point if
the Mavericks said, you know what, and Nico Harrison said, look,
we got we got to stop. We can't play any
more games. We're done. It's just not going out. We'll
seed our spot in the playoffs. We'll slide into the lottery.
Maybe we can get Cooper Flagg. We'll slide in the lottery.
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Because it's just this is just not our year. Sometimes
you don't need you need to be you need some
signs now, I don't know if it's our year. I
don't have to No, this is showing you it's not
gonna be your year. It's not gonna be your year.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Today's takes last night as that injury was coming down,
and even if it was a knees brain, you're talking
about a couple of weeks. And we started to see
the internet doctors uh come across and we we posited
that theory, uh, just that that you you would look
at it and say operation shutdown. Begins the old Derek
Bell line from way back in the day with the Pirates.
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When you look at Anthony Davis, Whi's always gonna be
already gonna be another couple of weeks. Lively and Gafford
already out indefinitely when they were going to be able
to be cleared, and now you have this devastating injury.
I mean he's coming back what twenty six, twenty seven
at this point, So yeah, you're only a couple of
games from sliding out into the into the abyss. Yeah
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for Nico Harrison right now, that's the best scenario.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
And they got that dust storm did hit the sn
was crazy. It looks like Corroissant.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I'm like, wow, that's a good goodness except without the
flying cars.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Oh my good Dallas is just again. But we can say,
g I those in pretty. Did you said Croissant?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I said no, I said Coorissant, cors Croissant. Now if
I said chissant, you know when I say croissant, you'll
know what I say. But coorissant Corouissant. Okay, yeah, it
does sound like Chrossot. But I did say chorissant.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Do you think he was.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Eating breakfast when he came up with the name. What
am I gonna call this planet?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
They go do? Did you say Corusot? Yes? Yes, there
you go there there it's time.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I mean really Dallas, and with everything going on with
the you know, with the Cowboys just still being bad.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Well they cleared up some cap space today though, so
that'll help.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
But the thing that you know, and this is where
I know that the Mavericks, if they just stopped playing
with the season can't come at the end of the
season can come fast enough for them. You have the
story yesterday with the with the we're increasing season tickets,
the price for season tickets, and.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Well be here for the rebuild. Every time I get
to cost you eight percent.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Everybody is mad that, oh, when you play Kyrie all
these minutes, something's gonna happen, playing him too many minutes,
playing him to it. Yes, of course, playing two minutes. Okay,
let's stop. Let's examine this, right. I understand, and I'm
gonna give people a pass on this because I get
that we're still in the I just want to be
upset stage.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I just want to because there's certain things that happened
when when I'm mad about something, and like PAMRIZOI will
try to say, I go, no, you know what, I
just want to be mad for five minutes and then
I'm gonna move on. Right, the Mavericks are still in
their five minute mad mad part of this where they're
just want to be mad. Nko's look at us and
now they're killing us. And look look at Jason Kiddy's
playing him too many minutes? Okay, in the last few days,
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is Kyrie Irving playing a few a couple more minutes
than he has been? Yeah, but he had been averaging
about thirty four and a half minutes a game. Now
he's up close to thirty seven. Right, he was at
thirty seven The whole season's been it's.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Not been a build up.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
But he started out at like playing thirty three minutes,
now thirty eight minutes, then thirty five minutes. Then he
was at thirty six and a half minutes. Now he's
at thirty eight minutes. And that's okay, I'm sorry. That's
not over usage. If he was playing twenty minutes on
a minute's restriction and you decided, hey, we're gonna roll
you up to forty, all right, that's playing too many minutes.
But Kyrie Irving is thirty two years old. He's not
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coming off a big injury. He's fine, he's healthy. But
I get them. They just want something to be mad.
At so no matter what happens, they just want to
be mad. But wow, I can't remember a team that's
had that not bad. But this I can't say bad
because teams have been bad. I mean you look at
teams the Wizards every year when eight nine games like
this unfortunate, a season like lemony, snickets and the weather,
(11:08):
the unfortunate thing, whatever is unfortunate series unfortunate that it's like,
I don't know that the team has had a bigger
series of unfortunate events than the Mavericks this season. First off,
pretty good series, Neil Patrick, Harris does a hell of
a job.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
The kids are fantastic. Or you go back to the
movie with Jim Carrey if you feel like you just
want a two hour experience. First off, you said thirty
seven minutes for Kyrie. I didn't want to interrupt your
chart train of thought.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So in a.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Row wait, they said Jason's Spid and Mike Carbets and
they're playing them all thirty seven minutes.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
They're out.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
No, listen to the show. It's a bit. They do
it all the time. Okay, great, it's a bit. It's
a bit.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Yeah, look they are are they a harder? Thirty seven
minutes right now or were they up into the injury. Sure,
the last couple of weeks probably a bit more taxing
because he's not working off the ball with Luca, you know,
having a lot of ball dominance. Okay, that's life. You're
trying to win and get into the playoffs. You're trying
(12:02):
to stem the tide, wishing and hoping that those three
guys on the front line come back. Just because you
decided you hated Nico Harrison or you stand for him
and say, well, the there's gotta be this ultimate reason. Look, man,
they've said slings and arrows all over the place, and
lots of ink has been put out there about the
(12:23):
bad things Luca was doing. I'm still waiting for the
other shoe to drop of what was so terrible? I mean,
so all of that to say, you're playing the guy,
what are you gonna do? Hold him back for good?
You know another old show bit of my mom. It's like,
what's that in the cabinet? It's like we bought you
that eight years ago? Why is the tag still lion?
You know it's all those kind of big for Kyrie Irving.
(12:44):
You could say, okay, it was inevitable with these heavy minutes,
get over yourself.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
No right, he went?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
He did he go from thirties five and a half
thirty six to thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, but it's two minutes.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
It's like, yeah, I mean again, a little more stress
on the body, right, because he's got the ball all
the time and he can't take uh, you know, the
the Lebron breaks like uh Rick Buker coined that phrase
all those years ago, the Lebron minute.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
This is what.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
But suddenly just start wagging your finger of Yeah, more
mismanagement and malfeasans by the Mavericks, like, come on.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
The difference is my wife's saying to me, hey, can
you take out the garbage?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Great?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Oh hey, can you take Benny for a walk around
the block? Okay, Like the difference between the two of them, Yeah, okay,
little bit more walking and taking the taking the walking
the dog and taking the garbage out. Okay, I get that,
but that's a but like the difference people are talking about.
It's like the difference between my wife's saying can you
take the garbage out? And can you walk all the
way to the grocery store buy it, buy five gallons
(13:42):
of milk and carry him back like, that's not what
this is.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
Don't run a marathon, now, Smith, that's what she wanted.
Imagine that's what she really meant. Imagine you've just run
ten feet. Yeah uh so again.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Really, if the Mavericks, if they canceled the season, I
would not go again. I would say, okay, yeah, give
wins to everybody else. They just need to go home. Wow,
I just the damn towel and just go home. I mean, really,
it's not packing it up. It's that bad.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yeah, I mean really, we can't even have five dollar
not Cho's Nighter. No, no, not your basketball.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
You know, you could do if you want to have
basketball like they do the soccer ball when you go
to if you will game, if.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
You wanted to have a fan event where you gave
food to everybody because you feel bad about canceling and they.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Can sign, then it's okay.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, yeah, I have a big mas fan day and
then hey we'll we'll see in the fall. They just
start boarding up the facilities. Just bang, it's putting ply
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Speaker 3 (16:55):
So we are awaiting the.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Start of the Pelicans and the Lakers. That maybe Lucas
Lebron combined for one hundred tonight, maybe maybe I know.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
They were both twenty.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I think Lebron was twenty six and a half for
his point total and Luca is usually about thirty. Yeah, okay,
that sounds about That's where he's been, like twenty nine
and a half.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
That sounds about right. Like does Luke have anything to
prove tonight is what I'm thinking? Like, or tonight gonna
be one of those Hey it's the Pelicans, they sink
we'll be nice easy game today, nice miniature stra nice
easy game tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
This is a good Bronnie kind of situation.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
And oh, bron how well, you know that's the one
thing we haven't seen yet, Bronni play with Luca, Like
we haven't seen that yet, Bronni playing with Lebron and
Luca and then Bronnie can call at the end of
the game and say, hey, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, how.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Long did you wait to play with Luca?
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Like seven years? Ha, I waited like seven games.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Actually two more days.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
They played the Knicks on today, Yeah, I played the
next they played. What happened the last time they played?
The next Bronnie dropped? How many they did? I'd like eight?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, okay, they traded Anthony Davis. They were all on
cloud nine, they were all hopped up on has. Of
course they're gonna win that game. He still dropped eight
on you.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Okay, yo, he did? He did? Bronny did? Bronnie drops eight? Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Uh So we'll have more NBA on the way, and look,
just really quick, if there's any doubt, the Cavaliers have
the best offense in the NBA. In a ninety second span,
and I don't mean ninety seconds of game time, I
mean the ninety second real time span, real time span
the Cavaliers with Donovan Mitchell on the bench. Yeah, okay,
(18:29):
sharing just trying to figure out trying to get highlights
from the Mets game earlier today in spring training. Mitchell
on the bench in a ninety second real time span.
The Cavaliers went from being tied at one oh seven
a piece with the Bulls to a one sixteen one
oh seven lead in ninety seconds of real time. They
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went up nine to zero, and they went from we're
tied and now you go a little bit later and
they're down fourteen. I mean, like all the stuff we
talk about these teams, that's why the team's like Theeltics
and the Cavaliers and the Thunder at the top. We
talk about their rosters, but the offense of the Cavaliers
is just unmatched. It's the best offense in the NBA.
Maybe people don't know a lot of the names outside
(19:11):
of Donovan Mitchell, but it doesn't matter. I mean, they're
leading the NBA one hundred and twenty three points a
game and they can score points like that in that
amount of time.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
It was insane. And again, ninety seconds, ninety seconds of
real life.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
We were literally kind of talking about the next couple
of segments, kind of keeping an eye on the games,
as like why are.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
The Bulls on it?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
And Frostburg was gonna go It's like Dan, I'm like, hey,
it's close, and then he put the graphic comes up
like wait, it's actually tied. It's like I knew they
were within two or four before the commercial time out.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Whatever.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Either way, by the time we walked back, we're having
a quid conversation. It's a nine point deficit and we're
watching it Sideye going rerillly.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Is this happening? Jared Allen losing his mind? You got tied.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Jerome coming off the bench with an e sixteen point
performance from him, was sitting on his ass. He had
twenty eight at that point, like is it time? Yeah,
it's time, let's go.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It's one of those situations where you feel like, oh,
did you go back in the game to win it
was one oh seven, because now it's one sixteen one
oh seven, Like did you go back? And now you
gotta hitta fast forward on the button to go up.
Oh no, no, no, that was real.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Time was real.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
But to hit the rewind with the team of mine
from last night we were watching UCLA Northwestern. What happened
the first half didn't really go inside, settling for outside
jump shots. Cavaliers doing a lot of that, right, and
we're tied, and we're going it's like, all right, now
it's time start working down low and Jared Allen goes
nuts in the fourth quarter, and here we are.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I'm gonna give you something really insane. Right, we talked
about that for a second. Hang on, So this game
was tied one oh seven, one oh seven, all right
with Bulls seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Yeah, right,
was tied one oh seven, one oh seven. So it's
not even five minutes have gone by. So in the
last five of game time span from one o seven
one oh seven, the Cavaliers now lead one thirty two
(20:58):
to one thirteen. Yeah, one thirty two to one thirteen.
It's like the Bulls are playing knicks like defense and
everybody is exhausted.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Yeah, this is this is a run.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
This is an insane run in five minutes to go
on a twenty five to six run. Hey, we're struggling.
We're struggling. It's one oh seven one not that you
don't say, but when you're struggling. Okay, this is gonna
be close down the stretch. Nope, we're gonna turn it
on for five minutes and good luck everybody.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
You want to make Frostburg feel good, though, ex Laker
having himself to night tailor Horton Tucker for the.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Bulls off the bench twenty two.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
How about that Toby White with twenty five nine of
twenty three from the field, Zach Collins as twenty oh
that's academic at this point, because this fourth quarter has
just been a clinic.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I mean it is a twenty five to six run.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
To one two in five minutes, a twenty five points
in five minutes.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
And then Donovan Mitchell just sat back down. He's like
shaking everybody's hand, like good job, good job.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I mean, that is insane. I think about that number
because you extrapolate that over the course of a game, that's.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Fifty do all your efficiency rating.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Over two hundred points, right, I'm just doing really okay, half.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
The court forty hit three home runs in the first
game of a major league baseball season.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah, he's a base Yeah yeah, but it's a five
minute span. It's not even half a court. It's over
two hundred points. It's over two hundred points. Crazy, man,
I'll tell you that's good math. I didn't see that's
that's really good man, that's really good. I'm good at math.
I'm like, like very simple math, very very simple game.
Got to keep it going.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
How many strikeouts?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Did a Rokie have Jason five and two innings?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Is that what it was?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Count on your fingers five one two, three four five,
so one hand five, yes and three.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Do the BONDI five count?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
You're gonna do this thecount of my fires, account of
my face, like like I'm five years old, five one
two three, Oh, I got h Hey, guess who could
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But first let's find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. My man who's been called the Chicago
Bulls of Fox Sports Radio. So keep things close for
(23:11):
a while, but then just completely fall down on the job.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It's Steve di Sega. At no point in that paragraph
was that a compliment? You should have said nineties bulls.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
By the way, Roki Sasaki averaged ninety nine on the
fastball tonight, spring training game Dodgers over the Reds four
to two. Sasaki in relief, three scoreless innings, five strikeouts,
Mookie Betts with a solo home run. Earlier today, the
Yankees beat the Phillies twelve to three. The lost to
Zach Wheeler in two plus innings. He allowed five earned
runs and eight hits. The Yankees led ten to one
(23:43):
in the third inning. The Philadelphia Eagles gave running back
Saquon Barkley a two year extension where thirty six million
dollars guaranteed plus incentives. The Jets cut wide receiver DeVante
Adams they could release wide receiver Allen Lazard in the
next week. Adams cap number would have been thirty eight
million dollars. His base salary was not guaranteed. Green Bay
(24:03):
reselling kicker Brandon McManus now to the NBA scoreboard. In
New York, Golden State beat the Knicks one fourteen to
one oh two. New York did not have Karl Anthony
Towns out for personal reasons. Steph Curry was a game
time decision with a sore ankle.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
He played.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
He scored twenty eight points in victory. Meanwhile, for the
next og Onanobi with twenty nine points, jagaln Brunson with
twenty five, but Brunson from three point range one of seven,
and starter Josh Hart one of eight overall shooting from
the floor. Lakers starter Austin Reeves out again today with
a calf injury the late game, just a few minutes
away from tip. The Lakers had won six in a
(24:40):
row or hosting New Orleans. Luka Donsich is available. He
was upgraded to probable earlier today after a Bruce knee
Lebron James is playing. He's player of the Month in
the West for February. Donovan Mitchell player of the Month
in the East, and the Cabs are gonna win their
eleventh straight game. They're leading in the final seconds at
Chicago one thirty nine to one seventeen. Jared Allen twenty
(25:01):
five points, seventeen rebounds as Evan Mobley was rested. Tonight,
the Spurs lead with eight minutes to go one ten
ninety three over the Nets Clippers at Suns Underway victories
for Milwaukee and Minnesota. Indiana over Houston one fifteen one
oh two Tyrese Haliburton twenty eight points, fifteen assists, and
Toronto on a last second three pointer, got a victory
(25:24):
at Orlando one fourteen one thirteen. Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving
is out for the year with the torn acl and
the Grizzlies Jared Jackson has a grade to ankle spring.
In men's college basketball, Tonight, twenty seconds left in overtime,
Texas leads at number twenty five, Mississippi State eighty five,
eighty two, Number one, Auburn trails early second half fifty
(25:45):
four forty eight at number twenty two ranked Texas A
and M, and a top twenty five matchup as BYU
ahead at number ten Iowa State fifty four to thirty
three with about thirteen minutes to go. Already wins for Kentucky, Purdue,
and Memphis. NHL Tampa Bay a six to two winner
against Columbus, The Islanders beat Winnipeg three to two.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I really, I don't know that I've ever seen a
run like this to end a game in a in
a basketball game ever.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
No, every once in a while in a college game
where it gets really out of swords in an overtime
period or something because the team's out of gas, but
not like the one oh seven, one oh seven with
six and a half minutes left to go, one thirty
nine to one seventeen.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Balls like that. I mean, I've never seen a run
like that.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I mean, like, we've talked about how great their offense
is in the cavity, but it was it was all
of a sudden, like okay, we're gonna go play for
five minutes.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
But we always talked about that with with the Warriors
for years, right, the spurt ability first.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Half, kind of meandering around, feeling.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Out come out of the the halftime entertainment, Red Panda
leaves the center court and bam, they start hitting threes
at all of a sudden, you know the at my signal
on leash.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Hell, that's exactly what happened here. I mean, this was
just absurd.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
And Mobbly doesn't even play and he's the last man standing.
Right as Steve gave us in the update, Jackson Junior
is now out indefinitely with with an injury.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
So Mobley's gonna.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Win the Defensive Player of the Year by default as
long as he gets his sixty five.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Threshold best offense in the league.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
And it's not close, crazy wow, crazy efficient high or
low post on it doesn't. And since DeAndre Hunter came
to the to the team and at the trade deadline,
we've talked about the metrics. They're like number one. It's
one of those uh, like you're selling a movie after
a big box office week?
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Number one everywhere?
Speaker 1 (27:38):
But are you number one because it's a bad week?
Are you going to see a big down tick at
number one.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
I don't know number.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
One everywhere except like heat on. Look at USA heat on.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
She might take issue with it. Remember, remember there is
a lesson to be had.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
He would grab the microphone from because, of course, for
some reason, when the iron Cheek used to win, they
would have to announce it. So just to get the
ring work, of course, we could grab the mic and
go get on.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
No, hey man, you gotta get the crowd involved. You
gotta worry do some crowd work like you're a stand
up comedian.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Hey, how you doing the night? You out on a date?
This is great?
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Instead, it's no what you need to be humbled, right,
Sometimes you need to be humbled once again, the bulls
and whoever he beat would still be laying oh yeah
on the canvas.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
This is the best you have. Look at us, and
then you need to go kick him again while holding
the microphone.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Oh all right, so I'm gonna give you a big
bull prediction for the NFL offseason coming off. Okay, what
Max Crosby said today, right, Raiders defensive end said get
me out of here. No, he said, if we got
Aaron Rodgers, it would be legendary, legendary.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
I mean Aaron Rodgers is a legend for every other team.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah, no, he's still legendary, would be legendary. Like, wow,
it's legendary. You got him way after he was any good.
But the odds of Rogers. Now the Raiders are the
new favorite to get him.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
About it. Okay, Now, I'm gonna tell you this.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
The Raiders are either going Their starting quarterback next season
is either going to be Sam Darnold or Aaron Rodgers.
That's who they're They will get one of them. Because
we talked about the big three, the two of them
and Justin Fields last night. Look as time goes on
we get closer to free agency, teams are gonna realize, hey,
this crop of quarterbacks, we might not find our next
(29:35):
quarterback here. Maybe we re examined the guys.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I like Justin Fields a little bit more than I
did a couple months ago. I like Sam Darnald more
than did a couple months ago. I like it, But
the Raiders have to come up with somebody.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
And Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Obviously is a win now mode, and Tom Brady needs
a win. Tom Brady coming in his influence on the team.
He needs a win. He needs to be able to
get the quarterback to come here because part of the
reason why he owns that Okay, now you gotta get
people here didn't work with Matthew Stafford. Right, he needs
a win. He needs a win. Right, he's the last
(30:09):
two guys that you thought, Hey, this is who Brady's
gonna be. It be the pied piper. He's got big
L's for So he needs a win, and it's either
gonna be Rogers or it will be Sam Darnold. Right,
justin Field doesn't feel like it's gonna work there because
they want someone who's either a veteran to come in,
has done it before. Hey, we're gonna kind of hit
the ground running Fields maybe be a little bit more
of a of a long term Hey, now he's in
(30:31):
another new offense where we're staying with with Steelers, might
wind up being the right thing for him. But either
him or Donald, who now clearly has hit the market
because he wasn't a franchise tag today, the Raiders will
have one of those two guys in next season. Now
it'll be Rogers if Rogers is smart. Because the Jets
cutting Davonte Adams today, which we'll get to if all
of a sudden, like Rogers is smart and he shows
(30:52):
up at every team's facilities, him and Devonte Adams.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Hey signed both of us. I could be your quarterback.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
He's like, all right, right, but this and he throws
like a nerf ball that dvante As throws it back to.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Look, hey, but both of us. We just want to
talk to Davante. I'm horse Racers to get both of them.
I get one and one A.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It's like you can box them, you get them both.
But if they're smart, If Ryron Rodgers are smart, that's
what he does. Hey, you can get me, and you
can get Davonte from.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Draft kings earlier today, Aaron Rodgers next team odds, The
Giants are the favorite at minus one fifty, Steelers at
plus two fifty, followed by the Raiders at plus four hundred.
The Adams thing, which is a much bigger conversation, uh
watching a guy who's value and returns, shall we say
(31:41):
uh or are much different and very stark from that
that first exit. But you look at the the Aaron
Rodgers situation, Yeah, it's him and Darnold and then obviously
lurking in the background is still Captain Kirk. I mean,
we we have no matter what they say in front
of a microphone, he's there.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Yeah, it's the right.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
But money is just too tough, because does Kirk Cousins
strike you with someone that's gonna take any one dime less? No,
of course not. So he's got to understand that we
need a quarterback here. Maybe one of the guys slips
to us at six, but we still have to sign
and maybe maybe that's the philosophy of boy, you really
think one of those guys is gonna slip, so we
go with Aaron Rodgers or no, Sam's our guy, he's
(32:25):
twenty seven. This is the guy we believe in. But
one of those two will be quarterback of the Raiders
as fall.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
The other piece that came out earlier, including the Giants,
is that they're now co favorites to actually have the
number one pick. So a lot of uh well, lying
that that's we're in lying season now, so trying to
figure out what's real what's imagined in terms of information
and subterfuge, which is great for us.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
So there's this W.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
The W will be in the form of Sam Darnold
or Aaron Rodgers. Now there could be a big W
little W like not big, but it's a W because
he needs He's got to get somebody. He needs that
win either way at x jets Now good exit out
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rip there we go. Uh, we have a big milestone,
a huge milestone in the NBA to get to coming
up in about ten minutes you will hear it. But yes,
(34:41):
t Bo's playing basketball. Now, that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Well, I mean, you gotta keep reinventing yourself.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
T BO played basketball. I have a feeling he'd be
kind of like, uh, he'd be a point guard obviously,
but kind of like Ben Simmons. I can't really see
him shooting, No, I really can't. I can't see too long,
have a wind up to get that shot, lay.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Up every now and again.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I think otherwise a lot of leadership. Right, A lot
of passes, yeah, a lot, a lot of good passes. Hey,
how many passes? Yeah, four passes before we shoot?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Four?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
And the jump pass. Hell, a jump pass will be awesome,
right and jump instead of shooting.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
He just passes the jump pass.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I don't know he would right to the line of
scrimmage and jump up because McMahon used to do that,
Like there were always these guys that that was just
in the arsenal.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Start to move up. He's like, I forget it.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's such a high risk play. But if you could
pull it off, it's not a risky play.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
Yeah, But the problem is if you're too close to
the line of scrimmage, odds are you're getting a guy
going road warrior animal stuff that is flying through your chest.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yeah, that is true. That is true. So big news today,
and and and and this flies in the face of
anybody anybody who says running backs from the NFL can't
get paid. Yes, you could get paid. If you run
for two thousand yards and nearly break the all time
record and rushing and your team goes and wins the
(35:56):
Super Bowl, you can get paid. Like Sakuon Barkley today,
Eagles giving him two years forty million dollars. So doing
that math, that's how many.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Million a year? My Carmen twenty? Yes, very good.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
See that's all you gotta do. Run for two thousand yards,
win the Super Bowl. You'll get paid his running back.
Don't give you give me all this hardship crap.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
I know and paid right.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Had run for two thousand yards, get a good offensive line,
win the Super Bowl? How hard can it be? Saquon
Barkley went from the Giants who were saying.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Oh, we're nazzing ar deeply. Don't know who you can
get rid of. I'm not.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
I'm showing up about a team that's loaded and I
won the Super Bowl, ran for two k here's the
problem with your saquad, Barkley. Fine dollars and cents. Darius
Slay had to go milaken Ship had to go blank dass.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Uh you know that is? That is a blank this?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
How do you like that? I went full Eagles? You
think that's how they did a blanket ship? Hey, blanket ship?
Blank this?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
You're out? What? Yeah? Sorry, hey Slay? What we we
just laid you? You're out?
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Nice to see it, But Howie, I'm sorry this cut
on my forehead has really had a good run. It
was a good thing that your your your family did
by getting people is extra large jerseys.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
When we didn't have him in the team shop. I like,
do you know why we didn't print him? Because you
weren't gonna be I like doing this Blanke and shit,
blank you you're out. I I like it good. Hey Sligh,
I just killed.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
You're out. Hey, someone go find me Jalen Hurts. Who'll
get it.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I'll get rid of really fast bunchmen the leg go
it hurts, don't uh.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
But this serious about this now, is that this is
the best thing for running backs in the NFL because
as you've seen now the last year or so, like
the NFL big copycat league, as you know, the NFL
is starting to come back a little bit too, running
backs a little bit. But you have to be a
running back that can do it all.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
You can't be a guy that just hey, I carry
the ball back. If you are a do it all
running back, if you're a Bijon Robinson, right, if you
run Saquon Barkley, if you're a guy like that, you
will get paid.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Right. If you're someone that can be a big dual threat. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yes, we'll give you money. We'll pay you because you're
that kind of guy. And there's a few running backs
like that in the NFL that as time goes on,
because we went from great quarterback play across the league
to now quarterback play is way down across the league.
So when quarterback play is down in the NFL goes
and cycles now a little bit more reliance on the
running back, especially the guys catch a lot of passes
out of the backfield. So now you're getting back not
(38:16):
not quite the running back renaissance, but it's better news
for running backs and guys like Bijon Robinson. In a
year or two, they're gonna get big hunt. They will
get contracts upwards of hey, here's two or three years
and a lot of money. Right, you're not gonna forget
about that five seven year not happening. But two or
three years for running back and a lot of money.
That's what they should aspire to because that's a deal
(38:36):
that's completely palatable. An NFL team can say, listen, you're
a star, you're a great player.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
We love you.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
We're gonna give you a lot of money. The next
couple of years. Okay, but I want a five year deal. Yeah,
let's come back. Come back to me, come back off
of Mars, come back to reality. Yeah, we're only going
to do it for a couple of years. So you
will see that now, and you will see guys like
Bijon Robinson signing an extension for two years. The extension
for two years and forty million dollars. Wow, look at that. Now,
they got until twenty twenty nine or whatever it's gonna be.
That's what you can expect from the NFL. So that's
(39:02):
good news. It's not the great news. You don't. You
want the lifetime money in three hundred million guaranteed quarterback,
but that's not gonna go that way. But they're starting
to come back now a little bit. And the best
thing for all running backs is Saquon Barkley having that
year they had last year. Hey, a running back can
carry a team to a super Bowl. Okay, I'm backing
on it a little bit. Let's back reinvesting in the
(39:22):
in the position a little bit, and let's go back
to that. So that's a it's a I mean, you
think about it, it's a really really big thing for
the NFL. Yeah, part of me wonders how much of
it is is a bit of an outlier in that
you do have to have everything go right for you,
right in terms of roster construction and flow healthy offensive line.
Look to me, you know a lot of the post
(39:43):
Super Bowl chatter was well and they didn't really even
need Barkley. It's like, no, he had a lot of
tough runs and you know what happens, you run clock,
you beat people up.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
You never got the big hit. But you know what
else he did. He also blocked down field on a
couple of those big Jalen Hurts runs. Don't tell me
that didn't go over with the front office folks in
terms of sacrifice, because that that's not going in the stats, right,
And that's only for nerds like us talking of the
radio to point those things out, but also to the
(40:13):
and it's a point I've made a bunch is you
know the guys that are leading the renaissance all really
went to good teams. When you look at Josh Jacobs,
Derrick Henry and the aforementioned Barkley, so you know you're
into a good structure, so you're going to achieve. For Barkley,
massive numbers gets rewarded. Here's a little bit of a
spot bonus for what you just did. Let's keep the
(40:36):
train moving. Keep doing good work. B Jon Robinson. He
like hell had forty six total receptions this year, which
is down from once upon a time he was about
double that, right, but util active.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
But in the middle of the season it went from
I'm splitting time with with Algart. Now he's the guy.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
No, that's a middle. Last season he became Okay, our
offense rolls through him.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
And when as Arthur Smith got out the door, Hey
do I get the football now?
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
You get it early and off in bejone. You know
I forgot about you. Don't sit in the back, come
and sit up in.
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Boy The end of that Syracuse SMU game was entirely predictable. Sorry, buddy,
that's all right. It'sch It's like you were a team
from Dallas or something. Well, hey, you know Dallas. You
know what, I'm okay with that because we're twelve and sixteen.
Dallas needs something after the last they got all the
with the dust going through the Mavericks, KNT got a
(41:55):
lot of stuff.
Speaker 5 (41:57):
So SMU gets that win for the city. There they are,
They're the pillar of the community right now.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Yurkey's winning from the fifteen minute mark of the first
half all the way to two point nine seconds left.
Then they lose when that graphic came up. I saw
you die a little bit, completely predictable.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
First lead since joining us.
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Now the hotline for all the big news, a Major
League Baseball Fox Sports Radio, MLB Network insider extraordinaire. You
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Speaker 6 (42:32):
How are you good? Evening? My friends? I am doing well,
but probably not quite as well as rookie Sasaki. My goodness,
my friends. That is a spring debut, and I know
it's spring training. I know we shouldn't get two worked up,
but last I checked, my friends, the splitter behaves the
(42:54):
same way from a standpoint of gravity and all other
elements on March the fourth as it does on April
the fourth and May the fourth, and all these different
days going forward. I wish all hitters in the National
League good luck with that split of this season.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Well, i'll tell you what, John Paul again, five strikeouts today,
and I said, that's great. I will take my chances
in the NLCS with Sasaki versus Juan Soto in the
ninth inning with two on and two out, and I'll
take my chances with that situation.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
Well, this is where and while I respect the confidence
you are showing in your new slugger, let's not forget
that the odds of any Dodger starting pitcher pitching in
the ninth inning of a playoff game are extremely remote.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
I mean dominating release.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah, like Kershaw starts and then non A Moto comes in,
and then because they have like eleven starting pitchers, it'll
be fine, though they'll have to split games.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Will be like a little league game.
Speaker 6 (43:50):
It is. It is the bullpenning. This is bullpenning cube.
I think It is like the third iteration of what
bullpenning looks like, and certainly today it was. I'll say this,
it was the the the game this spring that I
was most excited about, just because of the pitching matchup
and it plus, hey, Ellie the Cruz was in there,
(44:12):
and he did not look deterred either by the way
on the opposite side. But to look at all that pitching,
you see why I was there in November in Tokyo.
Why so many teams send a lot of scouts to
look at the best pitching that Japan has to offer,
because they are the elite of the elite once they
gets to Major League Baseball as well.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Go ahead, Jason, No, I was I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Again, So so it's a little early, but we're not
going to do the NLCS preview with the Dodger of
the mess to night. We're going to save that for
other night. Okay, I just want to write that down.
Speaker 6 (44:43):
I would say at least next week talking about right now,
maybe next week early April. May pencil that into the
rundown there. Let justin know, we'll allow a little extra
time for that preview, maybe our second Tuesday of April.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
But ship it off to Boston. Rafaeld Da is not
yet ready to play. How much of that is physical,
how much of that is psychological? And playing games with
the Red Sox, you know, Mike, I.
Speaker 6 (45:07):
Was having that thought tonight that and it's difficult to
get in there and just see what that shoulders looking like,
necessarily to know it does. There is a little bit
of recalling how things used to go with Manny Ramirez
in the Red Sox, where I remember the one time
that he had an issue with one knee and then
(45:28):
the Red Sox sent him out to get an MRI
on both knees just to be sure both game back clean.
You should be playing now, Manny. I don't think we've
reached that stage yet with Devers, but there seemed to
be a lot of shall we say, stubborn pride on
all sides of this equation when he reported and basically said, yeah,
(45:50):
the third basement, not right now, though not right now
because Alex Bregman is there playing very well. They've got
this other group of young players coming in, so we
will see. It's a lot of money left on his deal.
He's the longest tenured member of the team and certainly
did not appear to be fully on board with the
notion of moving to a different position. So I do
(46:12):
wonder if if the motivation for him to get back
on the field and play is less than a little
bit just because it's not his preferred position, at least
not the moment.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Well, that's okay, Then the Mets will trade for him,
or the Yankees will try somebody will.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
He won't train the Yankees, and they should.
Speaker 6 (46:28):
Well, I was gonna say that because to those who
are watching closely the injury reports from spring training, DJ
Lemayhew has been injured again. There for the Yankees, they
don't know who their every day third basement is going
to be.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
And if it.
Speaker 6 (46:44):
Were that alternate universe where Ed Williams and Joe Dimagio
were nearly traded for one another at one point in time,
perhaps we could see that. But I would not expect
Devas to be a Yankee pin stripes by opening that. No.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Look, I can see Devs someplace else, because this has
been really awkward since the beginning. I can see I
can see him getting moved at some point, because this
should be something that should have been solved easier. But
he seems to be at odds of the Red Sox
and stuff like that doesn't usually end well. But it's
obviously knocking out with the Yankees. But I could see
him someplace else for the Yankees. My concern, John Paul
(47:18):
is okay, so Gen Carlos Stanton has two bad elbows.
Who knows when he's gonna play?
Speaker 3 (47:22):
Heel is out for a while.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
Rookie of the Year last year, you talked about the
injuries already scaler one to ten. How concerned are you
for the Yankees right now?
Speaker 6 (47:31):
I'm at about a six. I'm at about a six
because it's not of course, as you mentioned, it's not
just Stanton. It's also to make you Luis Heel in
the rotation, although they do have Strowman as a backup
plan there. I'm worried. I'm worried because they were not
good enough to beat the Dodgers last year when they
had Soto. Now, in fairness, they've also added gold Schmid
(47:54):
and Bellinger, Devin Williams with the bullpen freed for the rotation.
I think they had a fine off season. Obviously that
they didn't get the a number one guy they were pursuing,
but they had I think still a solid offseason. I
wonder about the ability of this everyday lineup to produce
enough consistently without the aforementioned players, And people forget that
(48:18):
if Soto was the most important player on that Yankee
team in the playoffs offensively, Stan was a close second,
and you might have actually argued at times the stand
was more important than Soto. So they are both really important,
and as the stands right now, neither one of them
are going to be in that lineup on opening day.
So Goldschmid, who's at it certainly a good spring. I
(48:39):
think he's going to really need to be productive right away.
Same with Bellinger. And let's not forget there's also the
drama surrounding where exactly Jason Domingez is going to play
and are they comfortable with him defensively yet just given
his misadventures in left field. So I'm I'm worried. And
if the situation with the Red Sox were less complicated
and balloted with where Devers will play, etc. I would
(49:03):
be very prepared right now to pick the Red Sox
to win the American Leaguees there you go a lot.
Speaker 5 (49:08):
Of years in the minor leagues for Domingus to learn
how to catch a fly ball.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
Still searching for it?
Speaker 5 (49:13):
All right, let's go off the field and into the
legislation of the game.
Speaker 3 (49:18):
Nineteen eighty nine, Jim Otti bands Pete.
Speaker 5 (49:21):
Rose in the indefinite banishment ninety one, the Hall creates
the rules saying that nobody can get in that's on
the ineligible list JP. Now we have President Trump saying
there's a pardon. I guess there was a tax evasion
charge back in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
But the family.
Speaker 5 (49:39):
Bringing data to Rob Manford and supposedly we're going to
get a look.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
See does this go anywhere?
Speaker 6 (49:46):
I don't believe so. And here's here's the reasoning. From
a standpoint of the practicality of all this. The question comes,
is he going to be elected to the Hall of
Fame an if in the in the event that he
is reinstated posthumously, which which again is the conversation right now,
(50:08):
what does it mean for his Hall of Fame credentials?
The rule about no one who is on the ineligible
list being able to stand for election to the Hall
of Fame. That actually happened after Rose, after the doubt report,
after the suspension was announced, and there was actually a
period of time where the writers were discussing what to
(50:30):
do with Rose, and and because it wasn't entirely clear
at that time, and there was not a lot of
support from the writers to vote a man at that
point in time, given the way things have gone with
with the pd situation, which which in from my perspective,
in a baseball in a baseball setting, gambling on baseball
(50:53):
is a much graver transgression than taking peds in my opinion,
also according to the laws of the game, it is
as well. So in light of that I and in
light of the fact that the Bonds and Clemens did
not make it in I just see no way that
that a veterans committee at this stage, after all that's happened,
(51:16):
will say we're going to look past what the ruling
was at the time, more than thirty years of the
way the game is treated Rose. And then after his passing,
if hypothetically he's reinstated, that that a electoral board of
the Hall of Fame will by seventy five percent plus
the screening committee that have to get him on that ballot.
(51:37):
But then all of a sudden decide that it's in
the best centers of the Hall of Fame to have
him there in Cooperstown. I just don't see all of
those things happening. Could I be surprised, Sure, I've been
surprised before, But I just do not see him passing
all of the checkpoints that would be required for him
to be honored in the Hall of Fame Again, I'll
(52:00):
be it positumously at this stage of the conversation.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
Now, now, why is this happening now? Though?
Speaker 1 (52:05):
John Paul It it's kind of it's kind of weird
that President Trump says he wants to pardon people, whatever
that means, because's not like Rosen was convicted of a cross,
you know, the whole pardon thing. So we see that,
and then we see Rob Manfern saying, oh yeah, I've
been reviewing his case since December. This seems really coincidental
that both of these things are happening now in the
(52:25):
wake of Pee passing, you know, a few months ago,
all of a sudden was I don't know, why did
that to wait until he died to look at.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
It, like, like, what, why do you think this is
happening now?
Speaker 6 (52:34):
Yeah, No, it's a very fair question. And I think
that there these two issues are are separate. But related
that they had to do with his legacy, and perhaps
after he passed the legacy, the way in which he's
viewed in the history of the game becomes all the
more important after he passed away, at least in the
(52:54):
eyes of his family. And and that's certainly understandable just
from a standpoint of the family reaction and in how
you would feel about a loved one who had passed away.
That appears to be what had started the appeal process,
the request that was put before Commissioner Manford, which, by
the way, this is not the first time that he
has had a request of this type that Rob Efford
(53:18):
has had to review. The way in which it is
different now, I suppose, as I'm sort of reasoning my
way through this is Rob Manffort. If you go back
and look at quotes that he gave during different times
when Rose's situation has been put before him, he has
always said the eligibility cause, the permanent and eligible list,
(53:43):
the ban from Baseball for life. To use the more
colloquial term, has that that is not about the Hall
of Fame. It is about his ability to work and
be employed by an MLB team and impact games as
a uniformed employee. That was what the commission was ruling
on the Hall of Fame decision was separate because it
was their decision that said, if you're on the ineligible
(54:05):
list that we will not vote for you that but
that is a Hall of Fame choice. I do believe
that this was put in front of Rob Manford in
a different context given the facts as they are related
right now, how would you regard his place in the
game now that obviously, definitionally he no longer has the
ability to work for an MLB team. That is the
(54:27):
that is the case before Rob Manford, and that is
why I suppose it could lead to a different conclusion.
But the Hall of Fame will make would have to
make a decision very separate from what Rob Manford does.
And I would caution any of any of Roses fans
or backers here to say that if he is in
some way cleared, that if he's removed from the permanent
(54:49):
and eligible list by the Commissioner, that it in any
way puts them on a glide path to Cooperstown. Because
there's just there's a lot of people with a tremendous
amount of historical founding and background that are connected to
Coopers down that would have to give their blessing on this.
I just at this moment I would describe that as unlikely.
Speaker 1 (55:09):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi,
the Pope, John Paul Moros, the MLB Network, Fox Sports
Radio Pope is always thanks a bunch of my friend.
We'll talk to you next week as we get rolling.
Speaker 6 (55:19):
I love the conversation. We will preview the NLCS.
Speaker 3 (55:22):
When we need be good. JP. There you go, see
you buddy. Yeah. The difference between permanent and lifetime.
Speaker 1 (55:31):
Yeah, lifetime is okay, well you're you're not alive anymore,
so lifetime is over so now you can get back.
Speaker 3 (55:37):
So weird.
Speaker 5 (55:38):
Well the thing that I mean, look, Pete for years
would lament the fact that he couldn't teach a kid
how to hit yeah right, more than anything else. And
obviously the millions of dollars signing hof to a bunch
of multi sign things would have helped too. But you know,
not being able to be a hitting instructor just off
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