March 5, 2025 • 41 mins
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the NBA before we get to the NFL wide receiver
that's now a free agent that can get you to
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
The Lakers lead the.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Pelicans right now now twenty eight to twenty one, both
Luca and Lebron playing, both upgraded to probable, both playing tonight.
Everything going fine for the Lakers so far, but things
going a little finer than Lebron James because he hit
a huge milestone that no one else in the history
of the game had gotten to And thanks to Luka
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Doncic for getting.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Him the ball to get it there.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Lebron twenty two seasons, forty years of its, James fifty
thousand and two points, Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Billy Mack on Lakers TV. Just a kid from Akron, man,
not just a kid from Akron.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Now to put this game in perspective like this, this
highlight tells you everything you need to know about the
Lakers and where they sit right now, right post Luka
donca trade, where they went from. They're just gonna keep
spinning their wheels with Lebron and Ad It's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And now now their.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
NBA title can trade them all because of Luca. That
is Lebron's only bucket of the game. They are up
by ten. That is Lebron's only bucket of the game.
It is his only field goal attempt of the game. Meanwhile,
with a minute to go in the first quarter, Luka
Doncic has fifteen points, four assists, and three boards. He
has already made three threes, the only part of his
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game that has been struggling since he came back. I mean,
obviously his stamina is getting there. He's playing full minutes now,
but the only part of his game that struggled was
from three and now that he's getting that back, I
mean it thank the rest of the regular season be
boring for the Lakers, like they might just roll their
way to the number two seed. And that's why I
said last hour, I think I'm ready for Oklahoma City
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and the Lakers, for the NBA, for the Western Conference title.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I'm ready for.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Oh, come on, we still got to get through uh
Nikola jokicch in a series.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Nah, we don't need to come out that to that.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Come on, you want to get me something.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I got out to hear Michael Malone complaining about all
kinds of stuff after every game. Yes, he talked, Like
listening to the UCLA and USC coaches complain about travel,
it's inevitable.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Okay, that is part of the what you signed up for.
Michael Malone is going to complain about a million things. Look,
we don't have Pop right now to give you the commentary.
Prayers up for him, hopefully recovery not coming back this year.
We don't have Steve Kerr is talking about other things
that aren't basketball related, as he's wont to do. No, no, no,
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we need someone to just complain about the actual game,
and Michael Malone gives us that.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Now again, yes, those two complaining about travel. Steve Kerr
actually wants more travel, but a different travel.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Way to bring it back.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I mean, really, this might be a really boring rest
of the season for the Lakers because they are just
told you this offense is going to score one hundred
and thirty a game. Defensively, again, they're the best defensive
team in the NBA. Their metrics are phenomenal since the
calendar turn of twenty twenty five. This is all without
ant than he Davis. Again, Lebron's taking one shot so
far tonight. They have a fifteen point lead going to
the end of the first quar We.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Talked about a lot, right, You get that offensive efficiency
up and the pace of play being up, and then
you've got teams that just start taking a lot of
really risky and bad shots. We watched the sequence here
where you had Lucas shoot an airball and the Pelicans
have a break.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
What do they do? Now, let's shoot a three and
what's that guy do? Airball? Luca turns and he looks down.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
He's Lebron's not the guy down court, so he's not
looking yet. So he has to createle it and bring
it back and eventually you get into a set possession.
But you know you're forcing the tempo, you're forcing the
extra pass, you're forcing, right.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I mean, you know this.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
The more you have to run plays we go. We
talk about in football all the time.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
He long protracted drives are great in theory, what's the
reality holding penalty a false start, something's going to run
to hell in the basketball world. As much as we
love Hoosier's the four passes, what normally happens one of
them isn't crisp enough and starts going.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Back the other way.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Here you got guys just trying to get a shot up,
so they have a possession, and we're seeing bad, bad
basketball at times.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And for the Lakers, I think, as long as the
four passes are Luca to Lebron, Lebron to Luca, Luca
to Lebron, Lebron de Luca, and then we're good.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
No, it's we're good.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
No, But like their offense has been humming and you're
seeing connect has gotten over whatever issues he had in
his return to the squad. Austin Reeves gives you big moments, man,
You've got more depth and it's gonna be a fun run.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Now, I ask you this question, Lebron, what was it
about a week ago had posted a screenshot of the
Lakers mid March schedule. Was it a warning or was
he complaining?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Uh No, but I don't think he's complaining because he
doesn't like It's like the dress, is it blue or blue?
If Lebron, if Lebron would just take games off and
not complain like you're not gonna see me for a
few I'm taking games off Like that's what he's doing. Look,
it's a tough schedule, right in theory are tough schedule?
I think he's pointing like that you did air quotes
schedule because I mean the Lake. I think the rest
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of the regular season is going to be really boring
for them and they're just gonna steamroll teams. Are you
going full eighty five hulk Mania on the way to
Wrestle Main running wild and all the Hull Camaniacs like
Dog Connecting, Browny James are drinking their milk like all
the good little Hull Camaniacs do No, He's basically if
he wanted to sit out he was complaining, he would
just say, yeah, I'm not available.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, I think it was more the structure of all.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Right, now he got a game against the Look, the
Pelicans are what they are. Zion's played that. I so
that's great. Maybe we'll get a dunk or two when
it's they're down thirty. But it's the idea of you've
got starting Thursday, right, It really kind of starts with
the Knicks. Uh, whatever folks think of them. I'll let
Frostburg inject his thoughts on that game in his prediction
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for the fight.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Uh, in a second. But you start going down the
roster and in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Theory, as you so eloquently put it, it's all your
top teams, which your Knicks have had trouble with.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Look, my team can't be in anybody, so I have
to just abstain from any commentary. But outside observer looking in,
it's gonna be a fun couple of weeks of tests, sure, right,
to see great to see how many heavy minutes these
guys will be able to log because there are no
days off. Right, there's no Washington Wizards in the middle
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of that.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, Frostberg got a quick quiz for us.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
You said, here, yeah, quick quiz right, yeah, Luka Dantic
there's only one pair, Jay Moore and Genie Buss.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Tough question. Okay, I watched that show.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
By the way, can you name the only father and
son duo in NBA history to score a career fifty
thousand points?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I know the number is and they've actually scored fifty though. Wait,
I knew how many points Brownie scored too. I can't
not how many?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
How many? How many points is it? But I know
who they are are. Oh, that wasn't the question. The
names are and Bronni.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Okay, all right, yeah, he was just he was he
was giving you a gift.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Like one of the guys that played in the game
with Wilt when he scored one hundred, he said, Hey,
that was a night, Wilton I combined for one hundred
and eight points, and like you know, Wilt had one
hundred and.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I had eight.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What's funny is that's still disputed and people keep trying
to find any bit of archives, like, no, this really happened.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
He scored one hundred. So we'll keep you updated on
this game.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Obviously, Lebron now over fifty thousand for his NBA career.
The Jets decided, hey, we're really not gonna be able
to trade Davonta Adams, so we're just gonna let him go.
A couple of days ago they were taking calls and
offers and team said, are you insane thirty.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Eight million dollars next year. No, we're not gonna give
it to him.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So the Jets today way farewell to Davonte Adams as
they are taking a hatchet to everything involved in the
Aaron Rodgers era. I want everybody Rogers ever talked to
Edon Rodgers ever, if he shook someone's hand, I want
him gone. All these guys are gone. They told Alan Lazard, Dude,
you can find to trade. I don't know if he's going,
you can seek a trade if you want to. Everybody
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Rogers had a head on his invited to a party
that he watched UFOs with whoever you're all. We are
getting rid of everything with the Aaron Rodgers era. We
are doing slash and burn agriculture to everything Aaron Rodgers.
In fact, I got an email from Fanatics today and
come check our end of season sale for for Oh cool,
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I go there. Every single thing with and that's Aaron
Rodgers personalized is no more than nineteen bucks.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Real. You can get a game.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You can get a game jersey, not a game warn Yeah,
jersey of Aaron disc one hundred and fifty nine dollars.
Now they're nineteen dollars. Yeah, get me one right. I
could get an Aaron Rodgers hoodie, like a really nice
Nike Rogers eight hoodie for nine dollars. I'm like, oh
my god, what would I really wear that? Though you
wear an Aaron Rodgers Jets hoodie?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
What I do? Maybe?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
All right, you want to spark conversation. I actually I
take the Rogers jersey and eventually get it, get it
signed at an autograph show is what I'd do with it.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
But uh no, that's that's where we're at. Davante's gone,
and look at if.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Aaron Rodgers are smart, all his free agent visits in
the off season are him and Davante. Everywhere we're going, Hey,
Davante's I feel like it's almost like it's a road trip.
Like they get in the car and Rogers is driving,
and Davante's got a blindfold on and they're going, Okay,
where are we going. I'm not gonna tell you where
are we going? Not gonna tell dude. Don't take me
back to Vegas. I'm not going. No, we're not going
to Las Vegas. What are you talking about? Roll the windows,
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roll the windows there. No, no, we're not going back
to that, don't, dug Come on, man, don't. I can't
go back there. I can't go back to Vegas. No, No,
it's all right, it's all right, we're fine. Yeah, but
all those guys left. The only guy left is Mark Davis,
so you can go back. Who says you can't go
home again? Well, Mark, Mark Davis might not even know
that Davante Adams actually left the tent.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Thinking way, we go back to the odds.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
As we talked about last hour, Rogers Giants are the favorites.
Then you've got the Steelers followed by the Raiders. But
I wouldn't rule the Raiders categorically, right Max Crosby saying
you know his stuff about what we're doing next and
getting excitable. You got brock Bauers there, Jacoby Myers played
pretty well, and then you would add DeVante Adams to that.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Not too shabby you look at the Giants.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
If Rogers goes there, pair up DeVante Adams and Melik Neighbors.
Tracy in the backfield was pretty good as a runner
and receiver. Okay, you still need an offensive line, and
you got to hope that Thomas comes back healthy. But
defense was pretty solid and spurts maybe you save Shane
and Dables jobs.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Look, I'll tell you just have to move up the road.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'll tell you DeVante Adams wherever he goes, is a
Super Bowl difference maker. He's thirty two. He was terrific
with the Jets. Right he joins a new team mid
season and he still is over eight hundred yards. The
last eleven games were terrific. He still got it. He
is still terrific. His Jets moment so forever a Jet.
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When he decided against Miami, all he had to do
was catch the ball, stay in bounds. The Jets were
going to kick a field goal to win the game,
but no, no, he allows himself to get tackled out
of bounds, so the Jets kick a field goal to
tie the game.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Miami has enough.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Time to get down the field kick a field goal
to tie the game, and they went in overtime, So
he had his Jets moment, right, he wouldn't take any
responsibility for it, which was really Jets. That's full Jets, right,
he really, Oh he's full Jets right there.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
So, yes, he had his Jets moment.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Hey, forever Jet and he will stand for the Aaron
Rodgers era and how awful it was and how nothing
nothing was able to come to fruition and just it's
just a ruin, right, It's a ruin. But Adams at
thirty two, two years, forty million dollars, that's doable. And
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he is still that level of wide receiver. Like I
know that you devontage, he kind of has the he's
got the stench of the Jets on him, and I
could say this gets my team.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
He's got the stench of the Jets on him. So
I think the.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Overall free agency it's eh, yeah, DeVante, what does he have? No, dude,
was terrific. He usurped Garrett Wilson's the number one receiver
on the team. And Garrett Wilson's really bleeping good. He
still has it, man, He's still thirty two playing at
a high level. You go somewhere two years, forty million, Yeah, Okay,
like that, that's a that's a huge deal that takes
you over the top somewhere. He puts the Chargers over
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the top in the AFC West, right, he puts the
Bills over the top for the Super Bowl, right, he
puts many He puts the Rams over the top for
the Super Bowl in the in the NFC. That's what
he can bring to a team still for the next
couple of years. I don't want to get further that
because once you get to close to thirty five for
wide receivers, that you never know. But he is still
at thirty two, changing teams, going to the Jets, who
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were absolutely terrible, and look at the numbers he put up.
Look how dominant he was in those eleven games when
Rogers all of a sudden caught fire. I don't think
there's any any coincidence that Rogers really started playing better
when Adam showed up. So, yeah, you can get DeVante Adams.
Hey man, that's over the top super Bowl moment for
a Super Bowl get for a few teams that have
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to be fair, Rogers had seven touchdowns in two games
Dolphins and Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Does it mean they didn't happen?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
They have to been talking about the overall you know, performance,
can't get over his performance. It was last performance performance,
it was better and he looked healthy.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Performance. The guy played four snap last year.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
We talk about his performance, performance performance, they got that.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
This year's no better. We had coaches fired his performance.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Oh well, you had lots of kind of guy you
can't question like that gives me a question like that
is performance?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Now right now?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Want did he played four snaps last year? Five? Five,
stab you with my pen?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Plus sort of.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Good old Tommy right army eleven eighty five receptions overall
over one thousand yards, eight touchdowns. Right now, you've got
thirteen receivers set to make twenty million plus for.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
The new year.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
That includes uh wel t Higgins and his twenty six
million and whatever that fight becomes between he and the
Bengals as we go.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
But yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Mentioned the bills, You mentioned some of these squads. With
DeVante Adams, I feared at the end of his raider days.
We were hitting that Randy Moss moment when he was
a raider.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
It was like, all right, yeah, when.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
And then he goes somewhere else, gets reinvigorated, ends up
with Tom Brady in a way it goes here. Davante
gets back with his guy Rodgers. They have a big run.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Now.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
They didn't get everybody involved because clearly Breeze Hall and
Garrett Wilson weren't terribly happy during the renaissance.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
But now you look at an opportunity. There's several teams
if he get them as a package deal, and he's
willing to take a two and the bonus right two years,
here's an option and option you know, third year, here's
a bunch of money up front, twenty twenty two million.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, you're still gonna get your eighty catches plus if
he's catching balls from Aaron Rodgers because Rogers. You know,
as much as I might think there's a bit of
a noise there, there's no arguing he was a much
different player after the midpoint of that season. He can
put those teams over the top and into the super Bowl.
That's the impact he can have on those teams. Exit
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Boy, the end of that Syracuse SMU
game was entirely predictable. Sorry, buddy, that's all right, psych.
It's like you're a team from Dallas or something. Well, hey,
you know Dall you know what. I'm okay with that
because we're twelve and sixteen. Dallas needs something after the
last They got all the dusts going through the Mavericks
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can't go a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
So SMU gets that that win for the city. There
they are. They're the pillar of the community.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Right Syracuse, winning the from the fifteen minute mark of
the first half all the way to two point nine
seconds left.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Then they lose when that graphic came up. I saw
you die. A little bit. Completely predictable. First lead since
joining us.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
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Speaker 7 (17:45):
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
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same way from a standpoint of gravity and all other
elements on March the fourth as it does on April
the fourth and May of the fourth, and all these
different days going forward. I wish all hitters in the
National League good luck with that splitter this season.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Well, i'll tell you what, John Paul again, five strikeouts today,
and I said, that's great.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
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 7 (18:36):
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,
I mean not dominating release.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, like Kershaw starts and then non A Moto comes in,
and then because I have like eleven starting pitch, it'll
be fine, though they'll have to split games.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Will be like a little league game.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
It is it is the bullpenning, this says bullpenning Cube.
I think it is like the third iteration of what
bullpenning looks like. Uh 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 plus, hey, Ellie the Cruz was in
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there and he did not look deterred either by the
way on the opposite side. But to look at all
that pitching, you see why? And 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.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
As well as go ahead, Jason, No, I was I
was going to say again, so so it's a little early,
but we're not going to do the NLCS preview with
the Dodgers of the mess tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
We're going to save that for other night. Okay, I
just want to write that down.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
I would say at.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Least next week, next week, I talk about.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Right now, maybe next week early April. They pencil that
into the rundown there. Let justin know, we'll allow a
little extra time for that preview, maybe our second Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Of April, but ship it off to Boston. Rafael Devers
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 7 (20:20):
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
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then 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 the equation when he reported
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and basically said, yeah, 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
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different position. So I do wonder if if the motivation
for him to get back on the field and play
is lessen a little bit just because it's not his
preferred position, at least not at the moment.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Well, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Then the Mets will trade for him or the Yankees
will try somebody while he won't train the Yankees and
they should.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Well, I'll 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.
And if it were that alternate universe where ed Williams
and Joe Dimagio were nearly traded for one another at
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one point in time. Perhaps we could see that, but
I would not expect Devas to be a Yankee pit
stripes by opening that.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
No, 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
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Paul is okay, so Gen Carlos Stanton has two bad elbows.
Who knows when he's gonna play? Heel is out for
a while. Rookie of the Year last year, you talked
about the injuries already scale a one to ten. How
concerned are you for the Yankees right now?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I'm at about a six. I'm a 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 Schmidt
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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 off season.
I wonder about the ability of this everyday lineup to
produce enough consistently without the aforementioned players. And people forget
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that 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 had 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 Dimingez is going to play,
and are they comfortable with him defensively yet, just given
his misadventures in leftfield. So I'm I'm worried. And if
the situation with the Red Sox were less complicated and
(24:12):
convoluted with where devers will play, etc. I would be
very prepared right now to pick the Red Sox to
win the American Leaguees.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
There you go a lot of years in the minor
leagues for Domingas to learn how to catch a fly ball.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Still searching for it?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
All right, let's go off the field and into the
legislation of the game. Nineteen eighty nine, Jim Otti bands
Pete 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
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evasion charge back in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But the family bringing data to Rob Manford and supposedly
we're going to get a look.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
See does this go anywhere?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
I 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,
even 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
(25:43):
do with Rose, and because he 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 in from my perspective, in a
baseball in a baseball setting, gambling on baseball is a
(26:06):
much graver transgression than taking Pedes 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 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, will say
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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 that
it's in the best centers of the Hall of Fame
to have them 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 that would
be required for him to be honored in the Hall
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of Fame. Again, I'll be impostumously at this stage of
the conversation.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Now, now, why is this happening now?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Though, John Paul, it's kind of it's kind of weird
that President Trump says he wants to pardon people, whatever
that means. It's not like Rosen was convicted of a cross,
you know, the whole pardon thing.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
So we see that, and.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Then we see Rob Manferin saying Oh yeah, I've been
reviewing his case since December. While this seems really coincidental
that both of these things are happening now in the
wake of Pete 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 it
like like, what, well, why do you think this is
happening now?
Speaker 7 (27:47):
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 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
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the eyes of his family, And that's certainly understandable just
from a standpoint of the family reaction and 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 Effort
(28:31):
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 maffort. 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 that 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 commissioner was
ruling on. The Hall of Fame decision was separate because
it was their decision that said, if you're on the
(29:17):
ineligible list, that we will not vote for you. 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
(29:40):
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 that if he's removed from the permanent and
(30:02):
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 Cooperstown
that would have to give their blessing on this. I
just at this moment, I would describe that as unlikely.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi,
the Pope, John Paul Morosi, MLB Network, Fox Sports Radio Pope.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Is always thanks a bunch of my friend. We'll talk
to you next week as we get rolling.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
We love the conversation. We will preview the NLCS.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
When we need be good.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
JP here you go, see you, buddy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
And the difference between permanent and lifetime, Yeah, lifetime is okay,
Well you're you're not alive anymore, so lifetime is over,
so now you can get back.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
So weird.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Well, the thing that I mean, look, Pete for years
would lament the fact that he couldn't teach a kid how.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
To hit yeah right more than anything else.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Obviously the millions of dollars signing hof to a bunch
of multi side things would have helped too, But you know,
not being able to be a hitting instructor.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Just awful time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. My man has been called
the Rob Manfred of Fox Sports Radio. His greatest goal
in life is to give a big hunk of metal
to somebody who's very deserving that makes a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
It's seger I knew that was gonna involve hunk of
metals somewhere in there. That's the first thing anyone thought of.
By the way, John Paul a huge fan of the
World Baseball Classic. We have an update that in fact,
we have a winner moves on matchup coming up Thursday
in Arizona, Brazil versus Germany. Winner goes to next year's
World Baseball Classic. And we did mention last night night
(31:46):
Edwin Diaz is not planned right. We're gonna have to
make sure, make sure we can only hope next year.
We've still got a year. We did mention USC pitcher
Jaden Agacy pitched for Germany last night, not very well
in relief, and pitch for them again today and not
very well.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Run against him.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
This is the son of Under Agacy and Steffie Groff
and he's playing for his mom's native Germany. The no
he did face Nana ramirez Son yesterday gave it?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Does Michael Chang have a kid? Did he face him too?
I'm trying to think who else was big in that era?
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Or Stan Smith? Just keep going back.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
Agacy on the mound today, two runs allowed in under
two innings and Germany got shut out ten to nothing
by Columbia, which at three and zero is advancing to
next year's tournament. China's out h to three lost twelve
to two to Brazil. And you know, as you mentioned,
Lebron James is the first player in NBA history to
score fifty thousand points. This is combined regular season and postseason.
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AP points out that that doesn't include any playing games
or that tournament final in season last year. The NBA
doesn't consider those actual stat worthy game, so it's actually
fifty thousand and about one hundred points. He actually passed
the fifty thousand total. Even before tonight, the Lakers do
have a halftime lead of sixty nine to fifty nine
(33:12):
over the Pelicans. LUKA donsage twenty points, most of that
in the first quarter. Jackson Hayes for the Lakers nineteen
points eight rebounds in the first half, and the Clippers
lead now in the third quarter at Phoenix is eighty
nine sixty nine. He eats the zubats ex Laker with
twenty five points. Cleveland won it's eleventh straight game, tied
(33:32):
at Chicago in the fourth beat the Bulls one thirty
nine to one seventeen, Golden State a winner at New
York one fourteen to one oh two, and Toronto on
a last second three pointer one at Orlando one fourteen,
one thirteen. We're in the final week of college basketball's
men's regular season and number one Auburn has been beaten
tonight at number twenty two Texas A and M eighty
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three seventy two the final and in a top twenty
five matchup couple minutes left in double overtime BYU leads
at number ten Iowa State eighty seven to eighty three
NHL Tampa Bay sixty two winners against Columbus. The Philadelphia
Eagles gave Saquon Barkley a two year extension. The Jets
cut Devonte adamspeck to you.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
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Speaker 3 (36:18):
Lakers lead the.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Pelicans by nine. We are starting the third quarter. The
star of the game has been Jackson Hayes. Hayes nice catchays,
don't ever do that again. Nineteen points and eight boards.
He is perfect eight out of eight from the floor
for the Lakers as I started the second half. Look
at his shot chart. If you can pull that up
(36:40):
real fast, it's two feeting in.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
That's it. Everything is. Anthony Davis was right. We needed
a center, a.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Guy that actually wants to play center and looks around
and he's smiling like the cheshire cat. Hay every time
he looks up and sees the ball in Lebron or Lucas.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Hanes, he's gonna do like the fan. Where Like when
de Niro rips off his he's wearing the Wesley Snipes jersey,
He's gonna rip off his eleven wearing Anthony Davis's jersey.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah, I'm j.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I'm jh Yeah. Luca with twenty and Lebron with fourteen,
including point number fifty thousand for his NBA career. They
all have more NBA coming up in a bit, But
bad news today because we told you last week it
was a great story. It was all positivity though it's
positivity Tuesday. North Carolina was gonna do Hard Knocks this year,
the offseason hard Knocks the Giants made famous a year ago,
(37:32):
seeing Bill Belichick and seeing what it's like running a
big time D one college football program. That is exactly
the reboot that.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Hard Knocks needs.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
No team is gonna want to do it coming off
of the Giants disaster last year because it's nuclear.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
The job.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
All they did was wine and cried. They were gonna
lose Saquon Barkley and Daniel Jones stink, So what happens?
They lost Saquon Barkley. He won the Super Bowl when
Daniel Jones stunk and they waved him. So yeah, the
NFL is gonna be nuclear. But the desire to see
what a big time D one program looks like, we
haven't gotten access to that, what it's like in the
nil and transfer era. It was going to be incredibly interesting.
(38:06):
But North Carolina and Belichick had an issue over control
over content, which, okay, that's kind of how it goes
with this show, and it is an NFL Films production,
which swirls in the background. There now here's where you
turn a negative into a positive. This would be a
great show. If I'm HBO. There are now three schools
that I contact and say, we want you to be
(38:29):
out of season hard knocks with us. The first team
I call is Colorado. Obviously I call Colorado and let
let's see what it's like. Let's let's let coach prime
let us in, Let's see what it's.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Like for you.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Because for most schools it's a recruiting tool, right, this
is why we do things here. So great, let's see it,
Dion let us in. Everybody would watch. It would be
an insane They would do insane numbers every single week.
If Dion says no, I don't trust the media, then
I call Texas and say, okay, let's put arch manning
front and set. Everybody wants to see this guy, or
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what's he like? What's it like with him? What's a
big D one program look like? Okay? And if Texas
says no, I call USC because you know the Sharks
are circling Lincoln Riley. What it's like there? How are
they gonna go through this season? What's USC gonna be?
They paid all kinds of money for Riley He's been
a huge failure so far. There's all kinds of built
in drama. You know, guys like Will Ferrell would show
(39:23):
up at some point doing some sort of speech.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Those are the three schools I call in order. I
call Colorado first.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
If they say no, which they should say yes, Then
I go to Texas, Then I go to USC. I
make this happen because it would be great television. No, no, no,
I'm staying in North Carolina. And here's how I'm making
this happen. Okay, Ready, I'm pivoting, and I'm calling Jason Kallar,
founder of Hulu, former CEO of WarnerMedia, Graduate North Carolina
(39:50):
at Chapel Hills Hussman School of Journalism.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Okay, and I say, we're.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Gonna come and bring it to ABC, Disney Slash, Hulu. Okay,
and you're gonna, okay, no more NFL films. We'll find
kids in.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
The program that have graduated from the program, and we're
gonna do this ourselves, and we're gonna call it the NFL.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
We're gonna call it hard Blocks, all right blocks.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Hey, Dusty Rhodes travel those North Carolina backroads hard times
with Bill Belijack, Like when George Michael did fake block
in rest of development.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
That's right, we're gonna call it.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
We're gonna not pay anybody money. Call it hard blocks,
and we're gonna do it. There we go, All right, Bill,
whatever you want, we'll.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Put it on television, funded ourselves. There we go.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
How much do you want Jordan to be on television?
Just let let us know it'll be on right after Daredev.
Michael Jordan can be on whatever. No no, no, no,
you're Jordan. Oh oh no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no non star,
non star, non star, no no, Bill, it's it's non negotiable. Hey,
let's let's get Bill a signed that we can show
up run any Jordan we want to. Let's put his
(40:57):
girlfriend's name, but a picture of Michael Jordan where he
thinks I'm signing for Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
That'll work, or Jordan Love.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Sure, all sorts of people named Jordan Jordan Love on
Jordan Night from New Kids on the nic Hey, they've
got a residency. They could use the BUSDJ That would
definitely be hanging tough cowboy to get that going.
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Uh.
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Something a little bit different about the NFL and the oscars.
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that's now a free agent that can get you to
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
The Lakers lead the.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Pelicans right now now twenty eight to twenty one, both
Luca and Lebron playing, both upgraded to probable, both playing tonight.
Everything going fine for the Lakers so far, but things
going a little finer than Lebron James because he hit
a huge milestone that no one else in the history
of the game had gotten to And thanks to Luka
(01:22):
Doncic for getting.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Him the ball to get it there.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Lebron twenty two seasons, forty years of its, James fifty
thousand and two points, Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Billy Mack on Lakers TV. Just a kid from Akron, man,
not just a kid from Akron.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Now to put this game in perspective like this, this
highlight tells you everything you need to know about the
Lakers and where they sit right now, right post Luka
donca trade, where they went from. They're just gonna keep
spinning their wheels with Lebron and Ad It's not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And now now their.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
NBA title can trade them all because of Luca. That
is Lebron's only bucket of the game. They are up
by ten. That is Lebron's only bucket of the game.
It is his only field goal attempt of the game. Meanwhile,
with a minute to go in the first quarter, Luka
Doncic has fifteen points, four assists, and three boards. He
has already made three threes, the only part of his
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game that has been struggling since he came back. I mean,
obviously his stamina is getting there. He's playing full minutes now,
but the only part of his game that struggled was
from three and now that he's getting that back, I
mean it thank the rest of the regular season be
boring for the Lakers, like they might just roll their
way to the number two seed. And that's why I
said last hour, I think I'm ready for Oklahoma City
(02:41):
and the Lakers, for the NBA, for the Western Conference title.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I'm ready for.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Oh, come on, we still got to get through uh
Nikola jokicch in a series.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Nah, we don't need to come out that to that.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Come on, you want to get me something.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I got out to hear Michael Malone complaining about all
kinds of stuff after every game. Yes, he talked, Like
listening to the UCLA and USC coaches complain about travel,
it's inevitable.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Okay, that is part of the what you signed up for.
Michael Malone is going to complain about a million things. Look,
we don't have Pop right now to give you the commentary.
Prayers up for him, hopefully recovery not coming back this year.
We don't have Steve Kerr is talking about other things
that aren't basketball related, as he's wont to do. No, no, no,
(03:28):
we need someone to just complain about the actual game,
and Michael Malone gives us that.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Now again, yes, those two complaining about travel. Steve Kerr
actually wants more travel, but a different travel.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Way to bring it back.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I mean, really, this might be a really boring rest
of the season for the Lakers because they are just
told you this offense is going to score one hundred
and thirty a game. Defensively, again, they're the best defensive
team in the NBA. Their metrics are phenomenal since the
calendar turn of twenty twenty five. This is all without
ant than he Davis. Again, Lebron's taking one shot so
far tonight. They have a fifteen point lead going to
the end of the first quar We.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Talked about a lot, right, You get that offensive efficiency
up and the pace of play being up, and then
you've got teams that just start taking a lot of
really risky and bad shots. We watched the sequence here
where you had Lucas shoot an airball and the Pelicans
have a break.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
What do they do? Now, let's shoot a three and
what's that guy do? Airball? Luca turns and he looks down.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
He's Lebron's not the guy down court, so he's not
looking yet. So he has to createle it and bring
it back and eventually you get into a set possession.
But you know you're forcing the tempo, you're forcing the
extra pass, you're forcing, right.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I mean, you know this.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
The more you have to run plays we go. We
talk about in football all the time.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
He long protracted drives are great in theory, what's the
reality holding penalty a false start, something's going to run
to hell in the basketball world. As much as we
love Hoosier's the four passes, what normally happens one of
them isn't crisp enough and starts going.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Back the other way.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Here you got guys just trying to get a shot up,
so they have a possession, and we're seeing bad, bad
basketball at times.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And for the Lakers, I think, as long as the
four passes are Luca to Lebron, Lebron to Luca, Luca
to Lebron, Lebron de Luca, and then we're good.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
No, it's we're good.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
No, But like their offense has been humming and you're
seeing connect has gotten over whatever issues he had in
his return to the squad. Austin Reeves gives you big moments, man,
You've got more depth and it's gonna be a fun run.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Now, I ask you this question, Lebron, what was it
about a week ago had posted a screenshot of the
Lakers mid March schedule. Was it a warning or was
he complaining?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Uh No, but I don't think he's complaining because he
doesn't like It's like the dress, is it blue or blue?
If Lebron, if Lebron would just take games off and
not complain like you're not gonna see me for a
few I'm taking games off Like that's what he's doing. Look,
it's a tough schedule, right in theory are tough schedule?
I think he's pointing like that you did air quotes
schedule because I mean the Lake. I think the rest
(06:07):
of the regular season is going to be really boring
for them and they're just gonna steamroll teams. Are you
going full eighty five hulk Mania on the way to
Wrestle Main running wild and all the Hull Camaniacs like
Dog Connecting, Browny James are drinking their milk like all
the good little Hull Camaniacs do No, He's basically if
he wanted to sit out he was complaining, he would
just say, yeah, I'm not available.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Well, I think it was more the structure of all.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Right, now he got a game against the Look, the
Pelicans are what they are. Zion's played that. I so
that's great. Maybe we'll get a dunk or two when
it's they're down thirty. But it's the idea of you've
got starting Thursday, right, It really kind of starts with
the Knicks. Uh, whatever folks think of them. I'll let
Frostburg inject his thoughts on that game in his prediction
(06:51):
for the fight.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Uh, in a second. But you start going down the
roster and in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Theory, as you so eloquently put it, it's all your
top teams, which your Knicks have had trouble with.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Look, my team can't be in anybody, so I have
to just abstain from any commentary. But outside observer looking in,
it's gonna be a fun couple of weeks of tests, sure, right,
to see great to see how many heavy minutes these
guys will be able to log because there are no
days off. Right, there's no Washington Wizards in the middle
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of that.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, Frostberg got a quick quiz for us.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
You said, here, yeah, quick quiz right, yeah, Luka Dantic
there's only one pair, Jay Moore and Genie Buss.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Tough question. Okay, I watched that show.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
By the way, can you name the only father and
son duo in NBA history to score a career fifty
thousand points?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I know the number is and they've actually scored fifty though. Wait,
I knew how many points Brownie scored too. I can't
not how many?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
How many? How many points is it? But I know
who they are are. Oh, that wasn't the question. The
names are and Bronni.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Okay, all right, yeah, he was just he was he
was giving you a gift.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Like one of the guys that played in the game
with Wilt when he scored one hundred, he said, Hey,
that was a night, Wilton I combined for one hundred
and eight points, and like you know, Wilt had one
hundred and.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I had eight.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
What's funny is that's still disputed and people keep trying
to find any bit of archives, like, no, this really happened.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
He scored one hundred. So we'll keep you updated on
this game.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Obviously, Lebron now over fifty thousand for his NBA career.
The Jets decided, hey, we're really not gonna be able
to trade Davonta Adams, so we're just gonna let him go.
A couple of days ago they were taking calls and
offers and team said, are you insane thirty.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Eight million dollars next year. No, we're not gonna give
it to him.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So the Jets today way farewell to Davonte Adams as
they are taking a hatchet to everything involved in the
Aaron Rodgers era. I want everybody Rogers ever talked to
Edon Rodgers ever, if he shook someone's hand, I want
him gone. All these guys are gone. They told Alan Lazard, Dude,
you can find to trade. I don't know if he's going,
you can seek a trade if you want to. Everybody
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Rogers had a head on his invited to a party
that he watched UFOs with whoever you're all. We are
getting rid of everything with the Aaron Rodgers era. We
are doing slash and burn agriculture to everything Aaron Rodgers.
In fact, I got an email from Fanatics today and
come check our end of season sale for for Oh cool,
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I go there. Every single thing with and that's Aaron
Rodgers personalized is no more than nineteen bucks.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Real. You can get a game.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You can get a game jersey, not a game warn Yeah,
jersey of Aaron disc one hundred and fifty nine dollars.
Now they're nineteen dollars. Yeah, get me one right. I
could get an Aaron Rodgers hoodie, like a really nice
Nike Rogers eight hoodie for nine dollars. I'm like, oh
my god, what would I really wear that? Though you
wear an Aaron Rodgers Jets hoodie?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
What I do? Maybe?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
All right, you want to spark conversation. I actually I
take the Rogers jersey and eventually get it, get it
signed at an autograph show is what I'd do with it.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
But uh no, that's that's where we're at. Davante's gone,
and look at if.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Aaron Rodgers are smart, all his free agent visits in
the off season are him and Davante. Everywhere we're going, Hey,
Davante's I feel like it's almost like it's a road trip.
Like they get in the car and Rogers is driving,
and Davante's got a blindfold on and they're going, Okay,
where are we going. I'm not gonna tell you where
are we going? Not gonna tell dude. Don't take me
back to Vegas. I'm not going. No, we're not going
to Las Vegas. What are you talking about? Roll the windows,
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roll the windows there. No, no, we're not going back
to that, don't, dug Come on, man, don't. I can't
go back there. I can't go back to Vegas. No, No,
it's all right, it's all right, we're fine. Yeah, but
all those guys left. The only guy left is Mark Davis,
so you can go back. Who says you can't go
home again? Well, Mark, Mark Davis might not even know
that Davante Adams actually left the tent.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Thinking way, we go back to the odds.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
As we talked about last hour, Rogers Giants are the favorites.
Then you've got the Steelers followed by the Raiders. But
I wouldn't rule the Raiders categorically, right Max Crosby saying
you know his stuff about what we're doing next and
getting excitable. You got brock Bauers there, Jacoby Myers played
pretty well, and then you would add DeVante Adams to that.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Not too shabby you look at the Giants.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
If Rogers goes there, pair up DeVante Adams and Melik Neighbors.
Tracy in the backfield was pretty good as a runner
and receiver. Okay, you still need an offensive line, and
you got to hope that Thomas comes back healthy. But
defense was pretty solid and spurts maybe you save Shane
and Dables jobs.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Look, I'll tell you just have to move up the road.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I'll tell you DeVante Adams wherever he goes, is a
Super Bowl difference maker. He's thirty two. He was terrific
with the Jets. Right he joins a new team mid
season and he still is over eight hundred yards. The
last eleven games were terrific. He still got it. He
is still terrific. His Jets moment so forever a Jet.
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When he decided against Miami, all he had to do
was catch the ball, stay in bounds. The Jets were
going to kick a field goal to win the game,
but no, no, he allows himself to get tackled out
of bounds, so the Jets kick a field goal to
tie the game.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Miami has enough.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Time to get down the field kick a field goal
to tie the game, and they went in overtime, So
he had his Jets moment, right, he wouldn't take any
responsibility for it, which was really Jets. That's full Jets, right,
he really, Oh he's full Jets right there.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
So, yes, he had his Jets moment.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Hey, forever Jet and he will stand for the Aaron
Rodgers era and how awful it was and how nothing
nothing was able to come to fruition and just it's
just a ruin, right, It's a ruin. But Adams at
thirty two, two years, forty million dollars, that's doable. And
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he is still that level of wide receiver. Like I
know that you devontage, he kind of has the he's
got the stench of the Jets on him, and I
could say this gets my team.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
He's got the stench of the Jets on him. So
I think the.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Overall free agency it's eh, yeah, DeVante, what does he have? No, dude,
was terrific. He usurped Garrett Wilson's the number one receiver
on the team. And Garrett Wilson's really bleeping good. He
still has it, man, He's still thirty two playing at
a high level. You go somewhere two years, forty million, Yeah, Okay,
like that, that's a that's a huge deal that takes
you over the top somewhere. He puts the Chargers over
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the top in the AFC West, right, he puts the
Bills over the top for the Super Bowl, right, he
puts many He puts the Rams over the top for
the Super Bowl in the in the NFC. That's what
he can bring to a team still for the next
couple of years. I don't want to get further that
because once you get to close to thirty five for
wide receivers, that you never know. But he is still
at thirty two, changing teams, going to the Jets, who
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were absolutely terrible, and look at the numbers he put up.
Look how dominant he was in those eleven games when
Rogers all of a sudden caught fire. I don't think
there's any any coincidence that Rogers really started playing better
when Adam showed up. So, yeah, you can get DeVante Adams.
Hey man, that's over the top super Bowl moment for
a Super Bowl get for a few teams that have
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to be fair, Rogers had seven touchdowns in two games
Dolphins and Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Does it mean they didn't happen?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
They have to been talking about the overall you know, performance,
can't get over his performance. It was last performance performance,
it was better and he looked healthy.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Performance. The guy played four snap last year.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
We talk about his performance, performance performance, they got that.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
This year's no better. We had coaches fired his performance.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Oh well, you had lots of kind of guy you
can't question like that gives me a question like that
is performance?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Now right now?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Want did he played four snaps last year? Five? Five,
stab you with my pen?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Plus sort of.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Good old Tommy right army eleven eighty five receptions overall
over one thousand yards, eight touchdowns. Right now, you've got
thirteen receivers set to make twenty million plus for.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
The new year.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
That includes uh wel t Higgins and his twenty six
million and whatever that fight becomes between he and the
Bengals as we go.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
But yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Mentioned the bills, You mentioned some of these squads. With
DeVante Adams, I feared at the end of his raider days.
We were hitting that Randy Moss moment when he was
a raider.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
It was like, all right, yeah, when.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
And then he goes somewhere else, gets reinvigorated, ends up
with Tom Brady in a way it goes here. Davante
gets back with his guy Rodgers. They have a big run.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Now.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
They didn't get everybody involved because clearly Breeze Hall and
Garrett Wilson weren't terribly happy during the renaissance.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
But now you look at an opportunity. There's several teams
if he get them as a package deal, and he's
willing to take a two and the bonus right two years,
here's an option and option you know, third year, here's
a bunch of money up front, twenty twenty two million.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, you're still gonna get your eighty catches plus if
he's catching balls from Aaron Rodgers because Rogers. You know,
as much as I might think there's a bit of
a noise there, there's no arguing he was a much
different player after the midpoint of that season. He can
put those teams over the top and into the super Bowl.
That's the impact he can have on those teams. Exit
out about a Fresco exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike
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Harmon Live from the tirerack dot Com Studios. Coming up next,
did Pete Rose foreshadow his Hall of fame situation a
few months ago, big stuff out of Major League Baseball today,
and a debut everybody couldn't wait to see.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Keep it here, Jason and Mike Fox.
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Speaker 1 (16:44):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Boy, the end of that Syracuse SMU
game was entirely predictable. Sorry, buddy, that's all right, psych.
It's like you're a team from Dallas or something. Well, hey,
you know Dall you know what. I'm okay with that
because we're twelve and sixteen. Dallas needs something after the
last They got all the dusts going through the Mavericks
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can't go a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
So SMU gets that that win for the city. There
they are. They're the pillar of the community.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Right Syracuse, winning the from the fifteen minute mark of
the first half all the way to two point nine
seconds left.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Then they lose when that graphic came up. I saw
you die. A little bit. Completely predictable. First lead since
joining us.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
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Speaker 7 (17:45):
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
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same way from a standpoint of gravity and all other
elements on March the fourth as it does on April
the fourth and May of the fourth, and all these
different days going forward. I wish all hitters in the
National League good luck with that splitter this season.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Well, i'll tell you what, John Paul again, five strikeouts today,
and I said, that's great.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
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 7 (18:36):
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,
I mean not dominating release.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, like Kershaw starts and then non A Moto comes in,
and then because I have like eleven starting pitch, it'll
be fine, though they'll have to split games.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Will be like a little league game.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
It is it is the bullpenning, this says bullpenning Cube.
I think it is like the third iteration of what
bullpenning looks like. Uh 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 plus, hey, Ellie the Cruz was in
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there and he did not look deterred either by the
way on the opposite side. But to look at all
that pitching, you see why? And 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.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
As well as go ahead, Jason, No, I was I
was going to say again, so so it's a little early,
but we're not going to do the NLCS preview with
the Dodgers of the mess tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
We're going to save that for other night. Okay, I
just want to write that down.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
I would say at.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Least next week, next week, I talk about.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
Right now, maybe next week early April. They pencil that
into the rundown there. Let justin know, we'll allow a
little extra time for that preview, maybe our second Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Of April, but ship it off to Boston. Rafael Devers
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 7 (20:20):
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
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then 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 the equation when he reported
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and basically said, yeah, 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
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different position. So I do wonder if if the motivation
for him to get back on the field and play
is lessen a little bit just because it's not his
preferred position, at least not at the moment.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Well, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Then the Mets will trade for him or the Yankees
will try somebody while he won't train the Yankees and
they should.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
Well, I'll 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.
And if it were that alternate universe where ed Williams
and Joe Dimagio were nearly traded for one another at
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one point in time. Perhaps we could see that, but
I would not expect Devas to be a Yankee pit
stripes by opening that.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
No, 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
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Paul is okay, so Gen Carlos Stanton has two bad elbows.
Who knows when he's gonna play? Heel is out for
a while. Rookie of the Year last year, you talked
about the injuries already scale a one to ten. How
concerned are you for the Yankees right now?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
I'm at about a six. I'm a 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 Schmidt
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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 off season.
I wonder about the ability of this everyday lineup to
produce enough consistently without the aforementioned players. And people forget
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that 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 had 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 Dimingez is going to play,
and are they comfortable with him defensively yet, just given
his misadventures in leftfield. So I'm I'm worried. And if
the situation with the Red Sox were less complicated and
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convoluted with where devers will play, etc. I would be
very prepared right now to pick the Red Sox to
win the American Leaguees.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
There you go a lot of years in the minor
leagues for Domingas to learn how to catch a fly ball.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Still searching for it?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
All right, let's go off the field and into the
legislation of the game. Nineteen eighty nine, Jim Otti bands
Pete 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
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evasion charge back in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
But the family bringing data to Rob Manford and supposedly
we're going to get a look.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
See does this go anywhere?
Speaker 7 (24:59):
I 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,
even 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 because he 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 in from my perspective, in a
baseball in a baseball setting, gambling on baseball is a
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much graver transgression than taking Pedes 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 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, will say
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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 that
it's in the best centers of the Hall of Fame
to have them 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 that would
be required for him to be honored in the Hall
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of Fame. Again, I'll be impostumously at this stage of
the conversation.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Now, now, why is this happening now?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Though, John Paul, it's kind of it's kind of weird
that President Trump says he wants to pardon people, whatever
that means. It's not like Rosen was convicted of a cross,
you know, the whole pardon thing.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
So we see that, and.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Then we see Rob Manferin saying Oh yeah, I've been
reviewing his case since December. While this seems really coincidental
that both of these things are happening now in the
wake of Pete 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 it
like like, what, well, why do you think this is
happening now?
Speaker 7 (27:47):
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 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
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the eyes of his family, And that's certainly understandable just
from a standpoint of the family reaction and 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 Effort
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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 maffort. 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 that 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 commissioner was
ruling on. The Hall of Fame decision was separate because
it was their decision that said, if you're on the
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ineligible list, that we will not vote for you. 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 that if he's removed from the permanent and
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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 Cooperstown
that would have to give their blessing on this. I
just at this moment, I would describe that as unlikely.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi,
the Pope, John Paul Morosi, MLB Network, Fox Sports Radio Pope.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Is always thanks a bunch of my friend. We'll talk
to you next week as we get rolling.
Speaker 7 (30:32):
We love the conversation. We will preview the NLCS.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
When we need be good.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
JP here you go, see you, buddy. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
And the difference between permanent and lifetime, Yeah, lifetime is okay,
Well you're you're not alive anymore, so lifetime is over,
so now you can get back.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
So weird.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Well, the thing that I mean, look, Pete for years
would lament the fact that he couldn't teach a kid how.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
To hit yeah right more than anything else.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Obviously the millions of dollars signing hof to a bunch
of multi side things would have helped too, But you know,
not being able to be a hitting instructor.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Just awful time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. My man has been called
the Rob Manfred of Fox Sports Radio. His greatest goal
in life is to give a big hunk of metal
to somebody who's very deserving that makes a lot of money.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
It's seger I knew that was gonna involve hunk of
metals somewhere in there. That's the first thing anyone thought of.
By the way, John Paul a huge fan of the
World Baseball Classic. We have an update that in fact,
we have a winner moves on matchup coming up Thursday
in Arizona, Brazil versus Germany. Winner goes to next year's
World Baseball Classic. And we did mention last night night
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Edwin Diaz is not planned right. We're gonna have to
make sure, make sure we can only hope next year.
We've still got a year. We did mention USC pitcher
Jaden Agacy pitched for Germany last night, not very well
in relief, and pitch for them again today and not
very well.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Run against him.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
This is the son of Under Agacy and Steffie Groff
and he's playing for his mom's native Germany. The no
he did face Nana ramirez Son yesterday gave it?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Does Michael Chang have a kid? Did he face him too?
I'm trying to think who else was big in that era?
Speaker 6 (32:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Or Stan Smith? Just keep going back.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
Agacy on the mound today, two runs allowed in under
two innings and Germany got shut out ten to nothing
by Columbia, which at three and zero is advancing to
next year's tournament. China's out h to three lost twelve
to two to Brazil. And you know, as you mentioned,
Lebron James is the first player in NBA history to
score fifty thousand points. This is combined regular season and postseason.
(32:49):
AP points out that that doesn't include any playing games
or that tournament final in season last year. The NBA
doesn't consider those actual stat worthy game, so it's actually
fifty thousand and about one hundred points. He actually passed
the fifty thousand total. Even before tonight, the Lakers do
have a halftime lead of sixty nine to fifty nine
(33:12):
over the Pelicans. LUKA donsage twenty points, most of that
in the first quarter. Jackson Hayes for the Lakers nineteen
points eight rebounds in the first half, and the Clippers
lead now in the third quarter at Phoenix is eighty
nine sixty nine. He eats the zubats ex Laker with
twenty five points. Cleveland won it's eleventh straight game, tied
(33:32):
at Chicago in the fourth beat the Bulls one thirty
nine to one seventeen, Golden State a winner at New
York one fourteen to one oh two, and Toronto on
a last second three pointer one at Orlando one fourteen,
one thirteen. We're in the final week of college basketball's
men's regular season and number one Auburn has been beaten
tonight at number twenty two Texas A and M eighty
(33:54):
three seventy two the final and in a top twenty
five matchup couple minutes left in double overtime BYU leads
at number ten Iowa State eighty seven to eighty three
NHL Tampa Bay sixty two winners against Columbus. The Philadelphia
Eagles gave Saquon Barkley a two year extension. The Jets
cut Devonte adamspeck to you.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
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Speaker 1 (34:14):
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Speaker 3 (34:17):
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Speaker 1 (34:18):
Well, the bad news today We're not gonna get hard
knocks with Bill Belichick in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
No good news is.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Now HBO can ask even bigger and better teams to
do hard knocks.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Who is it? We'll tell you next right here, Jason.
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Speaker 3 (36:18):
Lakers lead the.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Pelicans by nine. We are starting the third quarter. The
star of the game has been Jackson Hayes. Hayes nice catchays,
don't ever do that again. Nineteen points and eight boards.
He is perfect eight out of eight from the floor
for the Lakers as I started the second half. Look
at his shot chart. If you can pull that up
(36:40):
real fast, it's two feeting in.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
That's it. Everything is. Anthony Davis was right. We needed
a center, a.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Guy that actually wants to play center and looks around
and he's smiling like the cheshire cat. Hay every time
he looks up and sees the ball in Lebron or Lucas.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Hanes, he's gonna do like the fan. Where Like when
de Niro rips off his he's wearing the Wesley Snipes jersey,
He's gonna rip off his eleven wearing Anthony Davis's jersey.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Yeah, I'm j.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I'm jh Yeah. Luca with twenty and Lebron with fourteen,
including point number fifty thousand for his NBA career. They
all have more NBA coming up in a bit, But
bad news today because we told you last week it
was a great story. It was all positivity though it's
positivity Tuesday. North Carolina was gonna do Hard Knocks this year,
the offseason hard Knocks the Giants made famous a year ago,
(37:32):
seeing Bill Belichick and seeing what it's like running a
big time D one college football program. That is exactly
the reboot that.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Hard Knocks needs.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
No team is gonna want to do it coming off
of the Giants disaster last year because it's nuclear.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
The job.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
All they did was wine and cried. They were gonna
lose Saquon Barkley and Daniel Jones stink, So what happens?
They lost Saquon Barkley. He won the Super Bowl when
Daniel Jones stunk and they waved him. So yeah, the
NFL is gonna be nuclear. But the desire to see
what a big time D one program looks like, we
haven't gotten access to that, what it's like in the
nil and transfer era. It was going to be incredibly interesting.
(38:06):
But North Carolina and Belichick had an issue over control
over content, which, okay, that's kind of how it goes
with this show, and it is an NFL Films production,
which swirls in the background. There now here's where you
turn a negative into a positive. This would be a
great show. If I'm HBO. There are now three schools
that I contact and say, we want you to be
(38:29):
out of season hard knocks with us. The first team
I call is Colorado. Obviously I call Colorado and let
let's see what it's like. Let's let's let coach prime
let us in, Let's see what it's.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Like for you.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Because for most schools it's a recruiting tool, right, this
is why we do things here. So great, let's see it,
Dion let us in. Everybody would watch. It would be
an insane They would do insane numbers every single week.
If Dion says no, I don't trust the media, then
I call Texas and say, okay, let's put arch manning
front and set. Everybody wants to see this guy, or
(39:01):
what's he like? What's it like with him? What's a
big D one program look like? Okay? And if Texas
says no, I call USC because you know the Sharks
are circling Lincoln Riley. What it's like there? How are
they gonna go through this season? What's USC gonna be?
They paid all kinds of money for Riley He's been
a huge failure so far. There's all kinds of built
in drama. You know, guys like Will Ferrell would show
(39:23):
up at some point doing some sort of speech.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Those are the three schools I call in order. I
call Colorado first.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
If they say no, which they should say yes, Then
I go to Texas, Then I go to USC. I
make this happen because it would be great television. No, no, no,
I'm staying in North Carolina. And here's how I'm making
this happen. Okay, Ready, I'm pivoting, and I'm calling Jason Kallar,
founder of Hulu, former CEO of WarnerMedia, Graduate North Carolina
(39:50):
at Chapel Hills Hussman School of Journalism.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Okay, and I say, we're.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
Gonna come and bring it to ABC, Disney Slash, Hulu. Okay,
and you're gonna, okay, no more NFL films. We'll find
kids in.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
The program that have graduated from the program, and we're
gonna do this ourselves, and we're gonna call it the NFL.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
We're gonna call it hard Blocks, all right blocks.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Hey, Dusty Rhodes travel those North Carolina backroads hard times
with Bill Belijack, Like when George Michael did fake block
in rest of development.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
That's right, we're gonna call it.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
We're gonna not pay anybody money. Call it hard blocks,
and we're gonna do it. There we go, All right, Bill,
whatever you want, we'll.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
Put it on television, funded ourselves. There we go.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
How much do you want Jordan to be on television?
Just let let us know it'll be on right after Daredev.
Michael Jordan can be on whatever. No no, no, no,
you're Jordan. Oh oh no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no non star,
non star, non star, no no, Bill, it's it's non negotiable. Hey,
let's let's get Bill a signed that we can show
up run any Jordan we want to. Let's put his
(40:57):
girlfriend's name, but a picture of Michael Jordan where he
thinks I'm signing for Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
That'll work, or Jordan Love.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
Sure, all sorts of people named Jordan Jordan Love on
Jordan Night from New Kids on the nic Hey, they've
got a residency. They could use the BUSDJ That would
definitely be hanging tough cowboy to get that going.
Speaker 7 (41:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Something a little bit different about the NFL and the oscars.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
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