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com is the way tire bind should be well. The
final from the South Region the first four both games
now to bed well. The second game was to bed
very very early. North Carolina jumped out to a sixty
three to one lead over San Diego State. It almost
seem like that they cruised ninety five to sixty eight
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to move on. They got Ole Miss coming up in
the six to eleven game, and a big performance by
North Carolina tonight RJ. Davis twenty six points on the night,
was perfect from three point range, six out of six. Hey,
I give North Carolina a lot of credit because whether
you believe they should have been in the tournament or
not they deserve to be in or not, they took
that put that chip on their shoulder, and they clearly
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ran with it. And this was an absolute destruction of
San Diego State tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well you saw just defensively they attacked in San Diego State,
poor shooting early got themselves into a hole. And for
North Carolina, I mean you mentioned Davis's stat line eight
of twelve in the field, but perfect from beyond the arc.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know, they got it.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Rolling shot to fifty three percent for the game and
it was on cruise control halftime, lead to twenty four
points and at no point did San Diego State threaten.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I mean there was no run of all.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
We got to get a time out because while it's
not getting I don't want to say just the hey
from appearance sake, right, it's a twelve point game or
a forty more game.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
They never got closed. No, No, we may get RJ.
Davis popping on with us. It's sounded like it was awful. Now,
let me so that that's happening now. Why So I
wanted to get that before we get to this, so
we could get R. J. Davis coming up soon. Big
night for him, Big night for North Carolina. So in
the last minutes, while Steve Desager is doing his update,
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Alex and Frostburg ordered wings from Buffalo Wild Wings because
you know, sports is just the way that gets people
to eat more food. And ty Shirt says to me, hey,
come on, you want the spiciest wing you'll ever have.
I'm like, of course I do. I want to try that.
He goes, oh, come on in from the top right,
go there, have a little bit. I said, okay, great,
and I take a little bite out of the boneless
wing and it is absolute fire and I go, oh,
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my goodness, this is hot. My mouth is on fire.
Harmon who walked out going I love that. That was great.
You can't even speak right now, man, What do you
mean I can't even talk? You're a fake tough guy.
You can't even bear. That was great.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I could be like the end of the Lord of the Rings. Well,
i'd actually finish it.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Martin still needs to do some work didn't he an
exhale like a dragon.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Oh it was really These things were really but it
creeps on you. But that's the thing. Like the first
bite is like, okay, if and then you give it.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
About thirty seconds, okay, that's a much different mouth experience.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I get and mark tape on that one to play
that back. I will you know, they gave you exactly
what you want. This was more like a like a
more a five or seven second whoa, whoa. This is
really I didn't think bestball will wings would have something
like that. So tysher, what what are the because it
really because you know me wings, I have Central New York,
the birthplace of wings. You know, buffalo wings. I've had
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incredibly hot wings, not the high I still remember the
hottest wings ever had in my life. And it was
a really bad night. And I rely wing without a
shirt on a Lonzo without his shirt. Come on, man,
come on the big home run against the Brewers pen
Alonzo with the story book holed run of his career. Uh, tysher,
what is in these because these were I can't get
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over buffalo wild wings. These are these are wings And
that's the thing. When wings are this hot, I'm like, man,
it's it's hard to even enjoy them. But wow, just
the the shock factor of how hot it was is
really impressive. Yeah, I'm still hurting over here. Okay, okay,
so what's in it?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I had no idea what these were. We just ordered
and this one said, uh, tried if you can, and
I said, okay, I mean why not.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It had a skull and tres bones on it. That's
what I did. So have you heard of s h U?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, they played in orange new heat units like mitigates.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
How hot something is?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
This is over three hundred and fifty thousand. It's supposed
to be like one of the hottest things you can eat. Really,
it has a total of nine of the hottest peppers
in the world. Wow, are you ready for this?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Okay, that's almost as much as unc made tonight.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
This has Devil's Breath, Carolina Reapers, Scorpion, Ghosts, hob and
Narow Pepper, Running Green, Hollopanos, Chile Des Audible, and Kyne Peppers.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
And we did get the scorpion back then. That's what
I just had. Yeah. Wow, And I really I took
their boneless wings and I'm like, okay, I have to
speak in a couple of minutes. No, let me, let
me just let me just have a So I took
of a boneless wing. I got probably a third of
one bowlless wing, and wow was that hot?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Oh level insanity, Saguatemala insanity, poopers come to life, all.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Of those it's all of those peppers are in it.
Why that's like one of those peppers, Like I don't
want to have that.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, but you might have sweatet like you did thirty
minutes on the treadmillon.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You know who tirt is for doing this. He's basically
the Alan from the Hangover. He's Alan. Oh okay us,
it was fun. You're gonna have these wings and you're
not going to be able to speak just the.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
The best part is seeing Justin's stand up. He's crying
and sweating and he looked at me and said, what
did you order? Yeah, he said, I can't get over
how hig is brand new. It feels like it's been
through the rain.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Oh, Jason, I swear to you.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
I panted.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I thought there was milk and something.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
He was sweating.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
You're sweating like C. C. Sabbathi in a mid July game.
Oh man, he said, my lips are swelling. Yeah, it was.
I can't get over like that. This is not what
you expect from from buffalo window something this hot. Yeah,
there are terrible people out there.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I want to know who in constructing their menu, deciding
this was the thing to get after.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh man, how much do they sell? No, I'm investing.
I want to know. See. But here's the thing. Is,
like wings like this, well, you can't really eat them,
but the memory of them will never leave. Yeah, but
there's a challenge, I guess, to see how quickly you
can down a ten or twelve back or something.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
All right, so it's ten of them, you're supposed to
eat ten of them in five minutes with no napkins
or water.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Now that's called death. Yeah that Well, the thing is
you have to do something like that fast. Like if
you do something like that fast and don't breathe out
of your and don't breath out of your nose, but
you know what you have to make at some point, right,
Oh yeah, that's not gonna end. Well yeah, yeah, but
that's the best way to say it.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
I feel like I'm the I'm the human torch flame
on not here I am I'm ready to go. Why
why are you here for an IV?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
This is the when it was, this was okay, so
last night. This is crazy that this is so last
night I told you. Is Pam and I's thirtieth anniversary,
a thirtieth anniversary of our first date yesterday. Our first
date was Saint Patrick's Day in nineteen ninety five. And
our second date, second date. Now, we had known each
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other for a while before we start dating. We started dating.
Our second date, we went back to the same restaurant
and it turns out they had this thing on like Wednesdays.
R Everyone like, we went back like a month later? No, No,
it must have been a couple weeks later. Sorry, not
our second date. Our second time we went to this restaurant.
First time was our first date. Second time we will
we go back? Was I know, a month or two
whatever it was. And we go back and they had
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this They had this wing challenge. It was Loco wings
and what is this is you you get ten Loco
wings if you eat them all, you get them for free.
And I was like, yeah, I've had hot wings before.
I mean you kid like, I said, like I'm doing
now Central New York Rest. Yeah, yeah, bring them out,
Bring them out. And the guy says, you really want
loco wings? We we haven't sold any in a while.
And I said, well, but what do you mean He
goes oh, he goes no, no, no, they're fresh. We
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just you know, we just make it. We put the
sauce on them, we have the songs. We haven't sold it.
You sure you want it? I go, yeah, come on,
you need ten loco wings? Yeah, yeah, something, And this
is gonna be fine. Ten wings, That's fine, that's fine.
They bring out the wings, and this is when I
knew I was in trouble. They bring the wings out
and they put it down, and everybody comes out from
the kitchen to watch, to watch me eat. At this point,
I said, I might have bitten off more than I
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can chew here. Okay, this is wow, this is okay, okay,
all right, let me see what I can do. So
there's like seven or eight people, there's the restaurant's not
very busy. It's like nine o'clock at night on like
a Tuesday. So I'm like, okay, because at ESPN knows
your days off, you are off like Tuesday, and sure, right,
So I'm like all right, and I have one wing
and I don't finish the first wing. Where I go this,
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I'm gonna sue you. And I run to the bathroom
and I and I and I turned the faucet on
and I just stick my tongue under the faucet holding
the water. And that's the only ref I have. That's
the only relief. I didn't care at that point, I die,
didn't you do next? I didn't have any milk. I
didn't care. I sat there. That was the only relief
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I had. I would stop and it would come back
right away, and then I would do it again, and
I come back right away and do it again. It
was awful. It was probably a half hour before my
mouth started feeling back to normal. And I said, I
don't know how people eat even even one of these,
so we don't sell a lot of My friend okay, yeah,
that's you know, twelve fifty. I'm like, okay. Because I
had to pay for the wings, I only eat one.
(10:08):
It was awful. It was absolutely awful.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You're licking like like you're a dog trying to get
into the water.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
It was I got I can still remember me just
sticking my tongue under the faucet in the men's room,
laughed at me, and Pam came in after a couple miutes,
going to y Okay, I'm like, I can't. She just
she just put her tongue on it and said, oh,
I can't, I can't. I can't, I can't, I can't.
So what we did was we box him up. They go,
you so no, No, I want to take them home.
I go, I want to take them home. I want
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to bring to my friends. And every friend I had
trying same thing. They couldn't get past one bite, couldn't
get past one bite without having to eat them, and
it was so bad. And this is this is this
is the best part of the story. So so body.
I actually saved a couple in my in my refrigerator,
and like a month later, month or two later, my
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dad nor the three. I put him in the freezer
because I wanted to say him like, oh my god,
I gotta say gift for my dad comes to visit
and I said, you want to try the hottest wings ever?
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Whatever? Yeah, sure, whatever, Yeah, I'll try him. I'll try
my dad. No, you want you gotta try hottest wings ever? Yeah? Yeah, fine?
Mane Okay, so I make the wing for him. I said, okay, Now,
I don't know. It's been in the it's been in
here for a month. He said, just give me. I've
had go on, I've had stuff like this for breakfast.
Give it to me, give it to me. Okay. So
I give him the wing and my dad eats it,
and I give him the credit. He goes, oh, well
you're right, that's got a kick to it.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Oh okay, yeah, all right, yeah, I was okay, okay.
So everything I was like, wow, Dad, I can't believe
you wait that I give you. I couldn't get one, Dad,
I had my tongue stuck under the foss. He goes, well,
you're an amateur. I'm a professional. That's why I'm like, okay, okay, okay,
this is about I don't know, ten o'clock at night
for my dad. Midnight, midnight. My dad gets up, goes
(11:50):
into the bathroom, loses it, absolutely loses it. And I go, okay,
So if my dad comes out and go, oh, I
didn't get sick when I.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Had that wing, you got sick, He goes, no, No,
it wasn't the wing. I had a clam chowder earlier
and it just sat there all night. It just go Dad,
come on, just stop. Just admit the wing made you sick.
The wing made you sick. No, I would No, I
had clam chowder before I came. Just just sat there
in my stomach all night and hadn't been feeling well.
I'm like, okay, bad, Okay, that's fine, that's fine, that's great.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
I just did more research.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
I think we could be up to actually two millions,
go Vilda.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Really it feels like it.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
How about that this could be the hottest wing that's
on the market.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Really, Yeah, Now I want to go have some more.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
Dude, this is crazy and more saying it's not street legal. Fantastic.
I'm so deep in this reddit post. I'm scared.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I'm gonna have another bite. We're gonna go back more.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Jasn't eat the whole wing this time.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Oh I don't know about that. And then polk Harmon
in the eye. No, what I want to do is
I want to grab it and then just smear my
hand in Harmon's eye. My eyes. The goggles do nothing, you.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Know, I'm for sure doing tonight.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
I'm leaving a mix of them with a two of
those left there for coop tonight.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
It's telling it's leftover wings.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, no, you do. Well, here's what you
guys need to do in your room and the sager
needs to do this in the updates studio put wait,
put wings sauce on the microphone stand so when people
touch the microphone to move it, and then they'll touch
their eyes their face and then suddenly their eyeballs will fall.
I think you're going to jail.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Yeah, hey, Steve, I don't think anyone's in there untill Dan.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Right, all right, all right, I guess we're definitely doing it,
all right, Exit out out of Fresco, exit swollen Dome,
you know, because look, hey, March, the madness of March
is about wings as as hot as they are. Uh.
Coming up next, Yes, now we look back at day
one of the Major League Baseball season. Look ahead of
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Speaker 6 (15:58):
Your lame.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I want to see you do this interview with one
of those hot wings. No, I had the wing, I
learned my lesson. We had a fun few minutes talking
about it, and maybe the next hour, maybe next hour,
Harmon bit haf in. So that's bomb. I can't believe
I ate the whole thing. We'll see what happens to
Harmon the next couple of minutes. So we are now,
we are less than six hours away from Day two
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of the Major League Baseball season, the Dodgers take Game
one in Japan over the Cubs, joining us now in
the hot line. Nobody better, so good. He gets his
music twice yep MLB Network, Fox Sports Radio insider extraordinary
g sounds to ROSSI he is on Twitter at John Morosi.
What's happened to Pope? How are you man? Happy Opening
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day or between Opening day days?
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Oh, yes we are. Let's see. I'm doing the math now,
which is always dangerous on the air. We are five
and a half hours away from first pitch in Tokyo.
So my advice to all who are listening to us
on the East coast, get a little nap in and
then get up early, and then, of course for all
of you, stay up late. They're in the Pacific time zone.
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There's there's no such thing as as the wrong decision
when it involves watching the debut of a very heralded
young prospect by the name of Roki Sasaki, who I
believe it's it's I'm glad that Sonya Chen wrote about
this story at MLB dot Com. It's it's such a
profound story. And he, of course lost relatives in the
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in the tsunami that happened back in twenty eleven, including
his father and he is. He has talked and Sonya
wrote about this about how the tragedy has shaped his
life and and just in some ways just allowed him
to reach this extra level of performance and belief to
then strive and come to pitch for the Dodgers in
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these circumstances, and now he gets to make his debut
back at home.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
It's his.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It's an extraordinary story that I think is important for
us to keep in context about why we are seeing
these amazing crowds and the passion that you just see
just pours onto the field when you watch a game
in Tokyo. It's just it's a It's a beautiful thing
to watch and I'm just thrilled at MLB is doing
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it again here this year.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Weird thing like a lot of weird emotions, like otanis
saying he's never been more nervous before a game, and
I'm watching the crowd going who are they cheering for?
Like it's sometimes I felt like we don't know if
if we're cheering four Otani, we're cheering against Demnaga, if
we're cheering for Yamamota, We're like, I said, what do
we do?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Like?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
It was a really just a really weird thing to
see right now.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
And I think that what you're describing there is the
custom of cheering in Japan, which is just for a
little background, I've been there twice before and it's been
in the context of international plays. So I've been covering
Team Japan in the international competition, the Premiere twelve, which
is sort of like the WBC in a lot of ways.
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And the custom is, so if Team Japan is playing
Team Korea, let's say, then when Japan is batting, they
would be having the particular song for every player, which
the cheering section would sing in the entire stadium would follow.
And then when the Japanese pitchers are on the mound,
it's silent, silent until if there's a strike recorded, there'll
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be applause, and then you know, the inning ends or
there's a strike out, there'll be applause. But it goes
from absolute silence to then max volume and then right
back down the silence. And I think in this case
they wanted to perhaps and my friend Taylor McGregor, who
does such a great job covering the Cubs. She had
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made this point recently that they wanted to the Japanese
fans wanted to respect the way that the American game
is followed, which to a large extent, we don't make
noise in anticipation a lot at baseball games in the US.
We're more of a reactive crowd. It's not quite like
the Cameron crazies. In fact, it's not at all like
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the Cameron Crazies, where you see them out on the
court and then making noise and it's the perpetual din
of the noise all game long. We don't do that
in majorly baseball. So I think what you're what you're
describing there, Jason, is I think the Japanese fans, for
all the right reasons, were wanting to be respectful to
the American teams, even though they had Japanese superstars, and
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also to your point, they wanted to not disrespect one
player at the benefit of the other. So I think
that the end result was this really nervous anticipation. But
certainly when Otani got his hits, there was a lot
of a lot of cheers and applause. But I think
that was a really beautiful and thoughtful collision of cultures
and how we each watch the game.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Speaking of collisions of culture, we also talk about, you
know that respect and tradition and history. And you got
your piece that you narrated from BE Network talking about
baseball in Japan and the long history. And yet we're
sitting here a couple of weeks before opening day for
everybody else, and we've sent it overseas back to back years,
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trying to reconcile that I think for the average baseball
fan is a little difficult JP and.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I certain understand that, Mike. I think that a couple
of things. Number One, it is it is different, and
baseball is one of the more tradition bound sports that
we have in North America. So I understand that it
doesn't feel normal to fans in North America. But I
also think that we have to acknowledge where the game
(21:43):
is going. And I think it is both the proper
and respectful thing to do in honor of the amazing
contributions that Otani and Imanaga and Yammoto and Suzuki have
already made and that we expect Roki is going to
make two. It's it's a it's a it's a sign
of respect to them, it's also a really important business
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opportunity for the sport. Let's let's be honest. They're they're
there because you know, next time you see Otani hit
a ball into the gap, just check the check the boards,
check the advertisements in the outfield, and and count up
all the international companies that are sponsoring this event. And
and next time you see a game at Dodger Stadium,
check out all the sponsorships that there are from largely
(22:27):
Japanese companies all around Dodger Stadium. It is a massive
way of earning money. And and to be fair, and again,
this is one team we're talking about, but it's an
expensive roster. It's these are expensive players the Dodgers have signed.
And if you want to call it the really expensive
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actors hired for the show, if you want to call
it that way, and you got to you gotta find
some way to pay for this amazing tour, and you
do that by taking the show on the road to where,
uh where where? Where the band's going to play for
very long arg and adoring crowds. That's exactly what they're doing.
And no one, there are plenty of people that can
critique the current economics circumstances of baseball. No one can say.
(23:10):
Nobody can say the Dodgers have failed to invest the
money they're making back in the roster. They're putting on
a show for the ages right now with this team,
and this is part of it. And so next year
we're going to have the World Baseball Class again. Of course,
Team Japan will be playing in Tokyo and the US
team will be based in North America, so we won't
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quite see the same exact thing, but there will be
baseball around the clock at this time of year in Japan.
Again that involves major league players because half of Team
Japan are now major league players. It's just an extraordinary
tribute to the success they've had there. And a final
point of this one is Japan clearly has developed pitching
really well, in a way that's better and healthier than
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the average pitcher it seems in Major League Baseball, which
is why the Alpamoto is making what he's making, and
why town he's making what he's making, and why every
August after the trade deadline, gms of major league teams
are flying across the ocean to go watch all these
amazing young pitchers like Dakahashi and Hotel and a lot
of these great guys with names you'll be learning here
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in the years ahead.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Now you mentioned pitching John Paul Morosi, M'LB network insider
with us here, and you know, I'll tell you what
my takeaway from the game yesterday was when we got
down to playing the game, and I just watched how
it was a very workmanlike victory for the Dodgers as
Dave Roberts goes to the bullpen and and here comes
Trying in the eighth and Tanner Scott in the ninth,
And I just sat back and I thought, you know,
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of all the things that teams have to cling to about, hey,
how do you get to the Dodgers right? This is
the best team, the best on paper that I've seen
built in probably forty years. And you think about how
the one Achilles heel for most teams is the bullpen.
And I think about how they have three guys that
can close, can come in and close. Trianons close games,
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and obviously Tanner Scott came in to close. You have
guys that you can just whip out there and roll
from one to the other, whether it's Land and Knack
or Alex Vesia or Anthony Banda, guys that were big
in the playoffs last year, that won a World Series.
And I just say to myself the one Achilles heel.
Most teams have the bullpen. The Dodgers clear the bullpen
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was a thing. And now I sit here and say,
I don't know how they're gonna lose. I mean, again,
I know it's one game, but I just think about
what the Dodgers and what Dave Roberts has at his disposal,
and how and how stretched the bullpen was last year.
And now it's yeah, any night, hey, if Tanner Scott
pitches two nights the road trying and can close the
next night, we have seven, eight to nine all set.
We have other relievers that can do multiple innings that
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can come in and they're gonna pitch less this year
because we have better starting pitchers that can go deeper
into games. I saw this first game and I said,
oh man, I'm thinking one hundred and ten wins, one
hundred and fifteen wins, Like I mean, I don't see
how the Dodgers can get beat all that off. And
when at least you want to say, John, well, the bullpen, hey,
you get to a bullpen, you can kind of win games.
I don't even see that now.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Well for scoreless, hitless innings yesterday, that's what it was.
For scoreless and hitless innings. The only baserunner during that time,
I believe was the hit Batsman by Trina. That was it.
They're dominant. They For the Dodgers to not win the
World Series, something at least modestly surprising would have to happen.
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That's where I'm at with it now. It's been a
quarter century since we've last seen a team repeat, and
the task is immense, But at this point, it sure
feels like it's going to be a surprise if they
don't win. And I'm not sure that I've ever said that.
What you're saying, Jason is exactly accurate. And it's my
lifetime covering the game. I don't think I've ever seen
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a team that I felt was this much of a
favorite in spring training. Maybe the Phillies when they have
had the super rotation year with with Halliday and and
Lee and Oswalt and and Hammils. That was an amazing rotation.
Of course, they didn't win, by the way. They did
not They didn't even get out of the first round,
so it's an important thing to have that as as perspective.
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And and the best team in the modern era the
Mariners and all the games they won, and you know
one they did not win the World Series. So it
is it is a sport that has surprises maked into it.
But I agree with your with your point this is
this is as deep with Dodg your team as I've
ever seen. And let's consider that neither Freeman nor Bests
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played in the opener, so they there's a better version
of this team that that is out there that we
didn't even see last night.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Super sleuthing jp U. Is it just a fluid Mookie Betts?
Do we have any idea of what.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
And get home?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Well, we don't know, and that's and uh it Honestly,
I'd just be speculating if I if I were to
guess as to what Mookie's status to be and when
he can come home. But certainly any of us that
have traveled, honestly, the worst thing is when you're sick
and you're not home. And then the thing that sort
of takes that to another level is when you're a
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twelve hour flight from home. So, first of all my
heart goes out to Mookie because he's such a great guy,
and I know the fans as the fan wanted to
see him play. He's just an electrifying talent with just
this amazing smile and way about him that draws people in.
So I'm just heartbroken that he's not able to play,
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and I'm just hoping that he's able to travel back
and be well, because while it seems like there's still
some time to go before the opener, it's next week,
so it's coming up, and it's not that much more
time if he's out or ill, much longer that we'd
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be thinking about what his status is for the domestic
opener here coming up in a week.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
All right, Now, I know all your eyes are on
this game coming up, but I know that your attention
is also split. The proud Michigan man you are, who
goes further in the tournament Michigan or Michigan State.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Well, I think that it's Michigan State. I believe that
the score in a couple of days there was going
to be Michigan State eighty five and the Mighty Bryant
fifteen seeded team sixty three, and then we've got Michigan.
I think Michigan's gonna have a tougher matchup. I think
they're going to find a way to get through. But
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I'm saying seventy one sixty eight against the mighty UC
San Diego squad there in that five to twelve matchup,
I will say this, now, could I pick that Yale's
going to beat A and M to set up the
rematch between Wolf and his former team there at Yale.
That's what I want to say. So I'm going to
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say Michigan State makes it further. Both teams win their
first round games, and Yale upsets A and M to
set up the rematch with Wolf in the second round.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Woof, there he goes John Paul Morosi out on Harvard.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
And Harvard beats Michigan State in the round one of
the women's tournaments. That's gonna happen to Well, you.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Just in the last minute, you just since that you
can't go to ann Arbor or East Lansing ever again.
You picked against Michigan and Michigan State in the two
different tournaments.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
I did. I did.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Let me reflect on that, but I but I did
say Harvard would win, So at least I'm somewhat welcome
on on campus. There.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Wait, lastly, how are you celebrating Roki Sasaki Day?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
I'm gonna I'm gonna set my alarm for six o'clock.
It's funny. My daughter is getting up at six tex.
She's just getting ready for school, and so the plan
is that I'm just gonna get up and she's gonna
get ready for school, and I'm gonna watch Rokie. That's
the plan, all right.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
So Hotter called sake for Sasaki Day? What are you
having at six am? Hot soaked?
Speaker 4 (30:58):
All for lent, buddy, I'm out, unfortunately, but it's a
great idea. But it's like it's like the one thing
I do. So like everybody rolls their eyes of the house.
Dad give about the Hall for land again? So I
just sorry, I wish I could, but there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
All right, Frostburg said he'll drink your share, so it'll
be fun.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Tell them, yes, justin please do that and just be
safe while doing it.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
And nobody networks. John Paul Morosi again on Twitter at
John Morosi. See the link to the essay he voiced
earlier today about the connection between the United States and
Japan and Major League Baseball and awesome, awesome piece. Great job,
John Paul, will talk to you next week. My friend
enjoyed the game, love.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
The conversation, the enjoy opening day and the tournament. My
friend's well done.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Be everybody there, goes John Paul Morosi, uh time out
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
So man who's been called the Sharon More of Fox
Sports Radio, how exactly because there's always the pressure for
you to win, and you forgot to get a quarterback.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Steve de Seger, all of a slightly less paid than
sure On Moore, slightly less Freddie Freeman that you mentioned
was a late scratch this morning with a sore ribs,
same spot as his playoff injury last year, but not
as serious. Dodgers left eleven on base but still beat
the Cubs four to one, and the season opener in Tokyo.
Game two of the two game series will be on
FS one Wednesday morning, also at six a m. Eastern time.
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The win this morning to Yoshinobu Yamamota, who went five innings,
and sho Heyo Tania at the Tokyo Dome singled and
scored in the fifth and he doubled and scored in
the ninth. The Braves gave veteran reliever Craig Kimbrel a
minor league deal. He turns thirty seven in May. Kimberl
was originally drafted by Atlanta. Kimberl has forty hundred and
forty career saves, but last year as era with Baltimore
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was five point three three. The Rangers signed veterans starting
pitcher Patrick Corbin as Texas lost a couple starters to
injury last week. The Green Bay Packers signed wide receiver
Mkole Hardman. Let's update the two late games. In the
NBA minute and a half to go at Golden State,
Warriors still leading Milwaukee one oh one ninety three, even
though Steph Curry is out resting a strained lower back,
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Clippers have taken the lead on Cleveland under nine minutes
to go. It's LA one fifteen to one oh three
Kawhi Leonard twenty eight points. Earlier, Boston did not have
the injured Jason Tatum or Jalen Brown, but still came
back to beat Brooklyn. Easy win for Atlanta at Charlotte
and the NCAA's first four began tonight Alabama State seventy
to sixty eight over Saint Francis on a last second layup.
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North Carolina, the last team into the tournament field, dominated
San Diego State ninety five to sixty eight. The lead
was eighty two to forty two at one point in
the second half, and among the seven NIT.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Did say eighty two to two Filka in the late games.
Speaker 8 (33:46):
In the NIT big wins at home for Santa Clair
and Stanford, apparently as they have second athletes back to you.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Like you say, apparently it's the NIT. There's not getting coverage.
We're not sure how the games are all boring a
twenty five point comeback. I don't want to count the
chickens before you know. Alright, Thank you, Steve. Coming up next,
we continue to celebrate the NCAA Tournament the best way
we can with another edition of True TV or Not TV.
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Speaker 2 (34:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:25):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon live Fromthetirack dot Com studios. As we
continue our tradition that we've had for years and years
and years of playing the best radio game there is
longer than Scott Vanpelch, tru TV or not TV, playing
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as myself, Mike Harmon, Steve de Sager, Rokie Frostburg, Sir.
We talked about this and snell Ty shirt. Yeah, Schnell
the schnell did. It's pretty easy concept. I give you
a title of a show and a description. You tell
me if this is a true TV show or if
it's made up entirely by me. Are you ready? Yeah, yep,
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all right, here we go. Raise My Rat a documentary
slash reality competition where Rodent breeders vie to produce the
heaviest rat in the United States. Raise My Rat talked
about reality competition where rodent breeders vie to produce the
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heaviest rat in the United States. Raise my Rat. Well,
the heaviest rat is the subway rat. Maybe, and maybe
that's what everybody is trying to try to beat that
rat out.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Because we did rat rankings for a lot of fans whatever,
there was a good rat story.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I just feel like definite, no really not even okay,
definite no, all right, all right, I mean you are
yes on bail bare knuckle Crabber's Last Hour. No, no,
I think you are. You are all right, sir Rokie. No,
that's not a show. Not a show. Okay, all right,
what about you smell?
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Yeah, that's a dope show.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Raise my rat rodent breeders vying to produce the heaviest
rat in the United States. That is not I would
love that to be a show. I've kind of digging
it though.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Forget about you know, the gardening and the Hey, I'm
gonna have the largest gorge.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
It's like, now we're raising rattes. Don't need to feed
in pizza. They can carry on our own. As we know.
Hitting the weight room and weight is w a I
t Hitting the weight Room a hidden camera, practical joke
show in which comedians cause chaos in waiting rooms of
various busines. This is that has potential. I'm in Hitting
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the weight Room. That jokers, hidden camera practical joke show
in which comedians cause chaos and waiting rooms of various businesses.
I'm in. Let's go.
Speaker 8 (37:12):
I would like it to be so I'll say yes, okay, sir,
Oh sorry, sir Rokie.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Not a show, not a show. Okay snell ty shirt.
Speaker 6 (37:25):
No, that's not a show.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
What would what's the deep voice?
Speaker 6 (37:28):
What?
Speaker 1 (37:28):
What's the hey? Maybe that's not a show? Why why?
Speaker 6 (37:32):
Why? We sounds like a moon show?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Why are you going real low like? No, it's Blake
Snell doesn't.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
Talk like that.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
You're trying to are you?
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Are you trying to talk like how you think Blake
Nell speaks? Why would that be your what?
Speaker 6 (37:47):
I make a lot of money hitting balls.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
You're like my dad who every time he's got a
winter by the way, every time something and my dad
every story goes into something happens. He's got a story.
Everybody sounds the same, Dad. What happened to pavilions? I
went in and I tried to return to the loaf
of bread, and the guy said, well, I gotta go
get my manager. And I said, oh, get the manager.
Guy said, well, it's gonna take a few minutes. Dad.
What happened when you went to the store for your phone?
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I walked in and I said, I get my phone. Replace
the guy said, well, I gotta go get the manager.
Why is every voice the same, Dad? Every voice is
the same? Well, tell I gotta do it.
Speaker 8 (38:20):
Imagine the voice that the worker used when he was
telling his buddies this story about you.
Speaker 6 (38:27):
Uh hitting, that's not a show.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Hitting the weight room is not. That sounds more like Stallone's.
As for the Record King coming back season three, that
was a show, you know, I said, hey, Paul, you
know we got it.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
Steve can try a wing.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
I think that one raised the voice of doctors. No
can jam, no can jam pearl jam. Drummer Matt Cameron
and his wife a Will produce and sell organic jellies
and jams from their farm in Woodway, Washington. The couple
tries to stay profitable in the face of groupies and
fans who come by, many of whom don't buy any jam.
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No can jam pearl jam. Drummer Matt Cameron and his
wife April produce and sell organic jellies and jams from
their farm and Woodway, Washington. The couple tries to stay
profitable in the face of groupies and fans who come by,
many of whom don't buy any jam. Why didn't White
isn't he just selling pearls? That's got to be the
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other business. I think one of the other guys, maybe Mike,
Mike McCready sells the pearls and Matt Cameron sells the jam.
That's what happens. He Vetter makes all the money. That's
that's pearlshow. We were in tears as if we just
had the wings. No can Jam, that's brilliant. Is that
a show? Wow? Wow? But I want it to be,
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Sir Sasaki, Is that a show? Not a show? Not
a show? All right? What about you smell kind of tired,
kind of tired? Thanks for asking, but no, what do
you think about this? What's the answer? Is that a show?
What is that a show? You see? Now you're doing stallone?
If he's talking like how you you're doing stallone? How
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you think Blake Nell speaks? That's what you're doing right?
Speaker 6 (40:18):
I'm doing snell House stallone? Would do it?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Old Snowhouse Rock is Likeason Snell from Seattle. Pearl Jams
from Seattle. No, that's not a show, not a show.
No Can Jam is even flow not a true TV show.
Unfortunately Eddie Vedder's business show about them not selling jam.
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Coming up next, we got a big story out of
the NBA and a wing update from earlier this hour.
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
I think so