April 1, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike breakdown LeBron James HUGE BLOCK to seal the Lakers win over the Rockets. Are the Giants sold on Shedeur Sanders at #3? And Jason gives out his first bold prediction of the MLB!
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a big story out of the NFL, because, hey, we
have a lot of poker being played by teams at
the top of the NFL draft. But one team today
kind of told us, yeah, we're not going to take
a quarter back aside I think we are. But before
we get to that, the ending of the Lakers and
the Rockets just a few minutes ago, I mean, I
For all the criticism that Lebron James gets, yet another
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example of how nobody I've ever seen in the history
of sports at the age of forty plays at the
level he does, where he is one of the top
players in the game and not slowing down. We've seen
other great performances by players at forty. Tom Brady wins
a Super Bowl at forty. I got not like we
haven't seen it, but the level of play that Lebron
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is at still is absolutely unmatched. Now here's the play
down the stretch's gaining a lot of attention, and it
really is something to see. The Lakers lead the Rockets
by four with about eleven seconds left to go, and
the Rocket strategy is, let's go inside from easy two
to changon. Look, he's one of our best players, he's
an All Star this year. We'll get an easy two
and then we'll see you make the Lakers shoot a
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free throw and try to come back. So they go
into chenggun for the easy too, except Lebron James says
that's not happening. Brooks to inbound and they get them
space shangun inside mismatch.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
On me what today?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Glo Brada races the shot. C Bron bucks the shot.
Kevin Harlan on the call, he flies out of nowhere.
Cheng Gun doesn't even see him. He swats it into
the crowd. So now there's under eight seconds left. The
Rockets have no choice but to attempt to desperation three.
It doesn't go. The Lakers get the rebound and they
cool off. One of the hottest teams in the NBA. Right,
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Like I told you a week ago, the Lakers, they
just seem bored, right, they just seem bored losing a
couple of games. We even heard from Luca following that saying, yeah,
I don't think we have the intensity that we need
right now. It's what's going on. You watch the Lakers
play tonight in a game that had big effect on
the standings. Right, they want to be able to be
a team. Look, you want to have the most more
home games you can possibly have. They want to get
that two seed. The Rockets were up there, this was
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a big game and Lebron comes up with an incredible
play to help salt the game away. There's nobody, there's
nobody at forty that makes plays like that that puts
up the numbers that he does you rely on as
your co best player, it just doesn't happen. And seeing
him do this, it's like, really, I think he can
do another five years. I know we've talked this before,
but I'm going, when's he gonna slow down? Like, really,
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I mean, it's not gonna happen next year. It's not
gonna suddenly go Okay, I'm falling off the cliff. Now,
we don't see it. All right. Really, you said to
me Lebron could play at this level till he was
forty five, I would say, yeah, okay, yeah, I get
there and then and then he's playing with all his
kids in the NBA. Right then, Bryce's in the NBA.
But I'll play with every we got, Bronny got, Bryce's
got every everybody's in the NBA. It's pretty soon it'll
be young cousins will be in the NBA with him,
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his nephews will be in the NBA with him. All
I mean, really, if you said five more years for Lebron,
I would say, yes, sure, I could signed up for
seeing him play this well, all tti least forty five.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
During this time away when you took a couple of
days off on your sojourn. I mean, was it all
to just try to get in the good grace of
Lebron and get off the grid, get away from JJ
Renick and everything. So now you come back and you're
just gonna wash him up. May we got a short
sample size of forty year old guys that have been
running around on a sporty. There's not many guys. That's
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the first thing. Side of the guys on the black
top that you're watching as you, you know, skate by
or take a walk along the strand here in the
beach cities.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I mean, what forty of your old guys that we
get to compare him to.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But that's the thing, because that's the thing, is that
there's only so many and still he's playing at this
high light, and still he's at this high level. He's
not just getting by, right, I mean, like the close
thing I can think of. Obviously, Brady Winning Rogers is
really good into his late thirties. Julio Franco, Right, wasn't
he playing he was still forty five?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh, we had no idea what his true age.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Wow, that is true, that is true. But like did
he come back and get a hit when he was
fifty like, wasn't that Julio Franco's thing, Like he actually
he got a hit, like I believe, different decades whatever
it was, Like, I mean, White.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Shows used to run Minni Minoso out for years.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Oh yeah, Tren hitting again and he's like in his
seventh decade of baseball.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
But he's eighty seven years old. He actually pitched it
for the outre Yeah, keep going, but really I don't.
I mean, really, it's to see Lebron do this. It's
at some point you got to stop and go Holy crap, man,
I mean, and look, he came into the NBA with
an NBA ready body. There was no Hey, this guy's
gonna come in, gotta put some weight on. He's got
the slim reaper like Kevin Durant was. You had no
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he came in ready to go as a teenager. And
it's been it's been just it's been like a machine.
And now he's picking his spots obviously when I need
time off and what do we say, Oh, Lebron's injury
here coinciding with the Lakers having a run of six
games and eight nights. Yeah, he's gonna miss all those
games and come back when that run is over. When
did Lebron come back the game after that run is over?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And what did Adam Silver say about it? Not a
damn thing, Nope.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Nope, wants the Lakers? Yeah, what are you gonna do?
And look where he's at, right, he needed that time
off And and here we are in the last couple
of weeks in the NBA season and Lebron looks ready
to go. Why the Lakers are an NBA title threat
because it's not to the point where Lebron on his
running out of gas. He's been splitting things with Luca.
The level of responsibility has been phenomenal. He's had that
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break to get ready and going. I mean it, man,
this is everybody wants to count. What of the Lakers
really gonna do with the playoffs? Watch out, man, watch out? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I don't think they've been categorically dismissed.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Just it's a lot of what are we waiting for
in a two and a half month period, right because
there's not been a lot of crowning of the Oklahoma
City Thunder. They've had a great regular season, but what's
everybody saying? Show me, show me in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
What you got?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Denver?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It's been an uneven regular season. You've done it before,
so maybe get the benefit of it out. But still
show me with the Lakers, Like, all right, let's see
who shows up and who's healthy enough to go because
you got you trade it out Anthony Davis, and you
bring in Luca who people have all these questions about
his health and ability to finish so much different story,
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much younger guy, and certainly thus far it's it's been
a hell of a run. I mean, activating a city.
It's the only thing that potentially stealing column inches away
from the Dodgers start.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, the bigger story if the Dodgers start out thirty
five and five like the like the Tigers did in
eighty four. Right, we talked about that earlier today.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Where are you getting five losses?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, they made they Well they're playing maybe late to
a game, they may have to forfeit, you know, they
play themselves. Maybe Sasaki pitches a couple of games.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
They won that game he pitched last time. I said,
both of them.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Actually, all right, But let's say thirty five and five
for the Dodgers or the Lakers make it to the
Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
The Lakers will be in the championship.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Uh not no, not by then. Now they'll still the
playoffs will be going on.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
No, everything, Dodgers still trumped it because uh you think
really yeah, Lebron is still polarizing.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Okay, all right, just draw it, thrown it out there.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
And I have a lot of time off in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, no, that's true. You play well, you play then
you play every other night.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I mean, you wouldn't know, Jason.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Dude, my team is in up.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
We're fine, and they're out every year in the second.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Okay, we do go out in the second round a lot.
But Jalen Brunson will be healthy when he gets back.
Not a lot of minutes. The last few weeks. Everything
is okay, Everything is fine. Everything is fine.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's fun though, when you can pick your spots defensively
and kind of lurk and because there are Look, the
reputation is earned at this point, right in terms of
you know where you're going to get your effort from
both Luca and Lebron defensively, and that's been one of
the big questions. But they've come up big in certain spots.
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Now it doesn't completely erase some of the no show
efforts as a squad I don't subscribe to the boredom thing.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
But now I think every NBA team gets bored. I
think the season is just too long. It's just too long,
and they get bored for every team, not just the Lakers,
but for every team. It is it's the fifteen games
too long.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Well, you know what, they can all give back some money,
so it all has mean Oh wait, they.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Will not gonna do that. So hey, well more NBA
coming up in a bit. But wanted to mention this too,
because you talked with this a few minutes ago with
the with the football situation, with the Browns getting burned
onto Sean Watson, Jimmy Hasselm said today, Hey, swinging a
miss on the quarterback. We're not locked into taking a
quarterback at number two. We want to get a lot
of good football players. Okay, that sounds great, But when
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you're telling me that you're going to dismiss the most
important position on the team, I know you're not gonna win, right,
and that's that's the Browns. Okay, let's go in for
a put. Okay, you have a better chance of winning
with a great quarterback and filling in the team around them,
then you do. Hey, the rest of the team is loaded,
but we don't have a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Any team built that way is just stupid. But this
is not a This is not a thing that is
just unique to the Browns. Right. We talked about it
with the Steelers who are trying to go cheap for
quarterback and try to figure out. I know the Steelers
aren't gonna win because they have no plan either. And
then I saw the Giants today who with the owners
meetings said they're not locked into taking a quarterback at three. Right.
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Why is this a big deal? Because two quarterbacks are
going in the top three, right there two quarterbacks to
go for the top three teams. They all need quarterbacks, right,
Tennessee does, Cleveland does? The Giants do? And cam Ward
and Chador Sanders are gonna go at the top of
the draft. Why would the Giants need to say that.
Why would they need to say, hey, we're not locked
into a quarterback at three. If cam Ward and Sanders
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go one two, no one's gonna be expecting to take
a quarterback at three. You're not gonna expect them to
take Jackson Dart or anybody else at three. There's gonna
be no talk about that. Why are the Giants saying this?
Why did they Why did they go out of their
way to talk about this? And Joe Shane, the GM
talked about this a lot today. They want to grease
the skids, get everybody ready for the fact that they're
going to pass on Shador Sanders if he's there at three.
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And because the Giants like to do this, they like
to justify their picks every time they pick early. They
want to justify why they picked Barkley. They want to
justify why they picked Daniel Jones. They want to justify anybody. Yeah,
we want to justify why we're picking these guys. Here,
justify wy we're picking. This is what we need to do.
And the Giants are saying this now because they don't
want the bad offseason store line they had last year
where they looked like laughing stocks. They let Saquon Barkley go,
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Barkley goes as a two thousand yard season and the
Eagles win the Super Bowl. They don't want that to
happen again. And they don't want there to be the
storyline of boy, the quarterback was there for the Giants
at three and they just didn't take them. They are
greasing the skids, letting us know they're not going to
take a quarterback there. And I get it. I get
the philosophy of ay, a quarterback's got to be a
gut feel, but understand that you need a quarterback if
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you're going to win. Russell Wilson's not the answer. Russell
Wilson's just a guy, right. I can't believe he's actually
in the league, but the Giants signed him. Sometimes a
quarterback's a bit of a leap of faith, and you're
drafting three. That's where you get a quarterback. If he's
there and available, you don't reach for it. But if
he's there and available, you kind of have to take
a chance because maybe he turns out to be great.
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Maybe he doesn't, but you got to take a swing
to get that quarterback because maybe he's good. Maybe he's
bow Knicks. Nobody like the Broncos taking bow Nicks last year.
Look at boon Nicks. Ude may turn out to be
the best quarterback out anybody, right, had a phenomenal year.
Look at what he does on the road and winning games,
Like you have to take that chance a little bit
and get that. Okay, maybe the guy is special. You
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don't know about a quarterback really till you put him
out on the field. And to see the Giants sitting
here say we're not locked into a guy at three.
There's no poker they need to be playing because either
the quarterback is there he's not. And if he's not there,
they'll take Travis Hunter. He'll be a great superstar. They'll
sell a lot of jerseys. He's a great pick if
the quarterbacks are right there. But there's no reason for
them to say that unless they're telling you we're not
gonna take a quarterback, and you need to because the
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flip side is where are you gonna get your quarterback from?
If you're not taking a quarterback here, what are you
gonna do. You're gonna draft a guy really late and
try to bring him along. You're gonna wait another year
to try to get a guy. You're drafting third right
now and a quarterback could be there for you. You have
to take that leap when a quarterback is there, because
that's how you get him. And I see the Giants
again saying that, yeah, we're gonna try to get the
rest of the roster ready and not gonna go for
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a quarterback when that's the backwards way to build a team.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, I would say say this is if you're convinced
that Shudora Sanders isn't that guy, then you say the
choie part out loud like them, come get him, and
then we'll be happy to trade down a slaugh or two. Right,
If you're the Raiders and you want to make sure
that you're gonna get him, that's the guy you want,
Come get that number three pick. If you're the Saints
at number nine and you're through with the Derek Carr experiment,
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come get it. Come get the number three pick. Give
us some more ammunition by which to build with. I
mean you've already spent, however much is guaranteed to Russell
Wilson and Jameis Winston for them to battle it out,
And maybe maybe you've already just done your due diligence
to where Shadoor Sanders is just not an option. Brian Dable,
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Joe Shane may not have the opportunity to pick that
next guy. I the results of twenty twenty five are
bad enough, so it's a damn to do.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Damn you don't.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
As we talked to Jason lock and for earlier in
the show Jason and folks can find the podcast when
it goes up in about an hour's time. That you know,
he said, perhaps it's not just an organizational thing. Maybe
the brashness and and some of the reputational things that
are going out they're real or imagined, do affect the
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thinking of of Mara and the Giants in terms of
selecting Shador Sanders, leaving you to next year and trying
to figure out exactly how poorly you finish. Now they
are projected to be one of the worst teams in
the NFL right now. Uh, And I don't know that
bringing Shadoor is going to help any of that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
They might and but and then you're waiting for a
future that may never get here. Right. But if you're
not you're not there. Right.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
But if you're not convinced that he's the guy to
come in, how soul like? What's that process look like?
All Right, we're trying to teach someone and build when
you already are skeptical. That's not it's not a healthy
environment to bring somebody into.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Shadoor Sanders is a really good quarterback.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I'm not saying he isn't. I'm talking for the sake of.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
The Giants and you're drafted, you're gonna So you're saying,
we're okay, sucking again and maybe getting better net What
if you don't get better next year? What if you
win four games? You're six.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
But if your evaluation is that you don't think should
do or is that guy you draft him just because
he's there.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
He's not terrible, he's not like, oh my goodness, this guy,
we're all going away from him.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
No, but aside that Hunter or Carter would be a
better fit for what you have, and you've already brought
in Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Then I'll watch you continue to stink for the next
few years.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And you got Tommy Cutlets, Dan, I'll.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Watch you continue to stink. Then that's what. That's fine.
Why I'll watch the Jets win games and I'll watch
you continue to stink. So it's okay, It actually is
okay for that, just just that one specific situation. It's okay.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live the Tirack dot Com studios. Not
every baseball story is about the torpedo bats, just most
of them are, and for good reason. Torpedo bats are
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pretty cool. Well, yeah, everybody's gonna start using them and
then people not get mad at the Yankees torpedo bats.
What I really want, honestly, I want there to be
some sort of record being kept every night of home
runs in Major League Baseball and how many of them
hit with a torpedo bat. Right, Let's start with that,
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and then let's get into okay, you know, let's get
into like a little bit more baseball research, maybe some
sort of way to figure out what the aggregate stats
are for players who use the torpedo bats versus the
players who don't like What are the average numbers that
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torpedo bats give you versus what they don't. Like, I
really want to see that because it's an advantage, right,
it's it's it's legal, it's completely legal, and everybody's going
to start doing it. They're all ordering bats now. Baseball
is not going to say no, you can't, because what
they're doing is legal. So everybody's going to start doing it.
And it's it's naive to think there's not. All of
a sudden, the Yankees are hitting eight home runs a
game using these torpedo bats, and you see Ellie de
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la Crusinite have an incredible night torpedo bat. Like, I
really want to see the breakdown of the stats and
the numbers torpedo bats versus regular bats, and just see
exactly what it is, right like the old Hey, we
break down what your home and away stats were at
Coors Field versus away when when the Rockies, and you know,
let me see something.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
White people used to argue against people because of course field.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Is that what you're trying to do. You're trying to
shine and shade it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
No, I'm just among us. No, No, I don't care.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Hey if because I carry my torpedo bat around, don't trying.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
To hey me, No, no, no, I don't care. The
Mets can all use all kinds of torpedo bat. I
don't care what kind of bats they use. They can
use a toothpick if they want to.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I think it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I look fast. I got lightning bolts on the side.
It's like grease lightning. Uh No, I don't care what
he is. You hit the ball, hit the ball. But
I really want to see what the overall impact is
because this will be a big story for a little
for a little while and be a huge story. It'll
be every day you'll see it. You'll see this torpedo
back to back, and then eventually when other players start
using it, it'll become more accepted and it will sort
of give way to other big stories out of baseball.
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Right now, this is where it is, and I really
want to see how big of an impact is it.
Is it something that is mental? You know, because I
saw a couple of players say today, Hey, A lot
of it is the confidence you go up there with.
If you go up there with the bat you think
is really going to help you, your mind is clearer,
and if that gives you just the tiniest bit of
mental advantage, great, Like, is it Is it a mental
advantage or is it something that really is physical where
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I can barrow up the ball a little bit more
now than I could before. You see my batting average
goes from two fifty to two eighty five, or my
home runs go from thirteen to twenty seven, Like I
really want to see if it's that big of a deal.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Well, the kind of curiosity, right going back to nineteen
eighty seven, remember that was.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
The outlier of outliers for.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Singles hitters who suddenly were hitting home run didn't Bogs
have twenty four home runs that year when he was
normally hitting eight?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, And all of a sudden he was like, yeah,
I tried. I tried to hit home runs one year. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
sure remember that, Yeah, yeah sure.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Because there's also a theory that we got some juice
baseballs in the first few days of the year too.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I wouldn't doubt that, you know, I wouldn't doubt that.
Let's get let's get some more runs on the board.
I wouldn't doubt that either.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, right now we're getting there are tinfoil hats on.
I'm wearing a nice tinfoil fedora, maybe a cowboy hat,
and just running with a bunch of the chaos that
may be transpiring in Major League Baseball early with my
two and two White Sox.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But look, not every story is about the torpedo bats.
Because I'll tell you what. If you want an MLB
star you could trade for really soon, I give you
Rafael Devers of of the Red Sox. I mean, this
is his start now after tonight's game, oh for nineteen
with fifteen strikeouts. That's his start. That is that is
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a very That would be the White Sox start last year.
But now they're too and now the White Sox are
two and two. You guys are too money. So this
is not just here's a star player who was starting
out slow. Okay, this was a drama filled off season
in which I wonder how committed is Devers to still
being great, still being a team player, still wanting to
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go out there and be where he needs to be,
focused and playing for the Red Sox. Because if you
remember when the Red Sox went out and got Alex Pragnant, Look,
Alex Bragman's a gold glove third baseman, right, He's a
guy coming in and Devers as a blow average defender,
so you know, coming in Okay, we're gonna want to
put him at third base. And then the big story
nber Devers said, whoa, whoa, I'm a third baseman. And
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I told the Red Sox this before they traded for Bregman.
I told them I am a third baseman. So little
bit of drama there. It never went away. Remember the
Red Sox tried in the beginning of the season to say, well,
maybe we'll move Bregman to second and that'll help everybody out,
and they realize, what are we doing. Bregman's the third
but why are we doing this? Bregman's our third basement.
En Devers is the DH and look at how he
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has started. And no, he didn't have a lot of
time in the spring. He you know, only had a
handful of vet bats. And I can hear the excuses about, well,
he's still behind the pitches. Yeah, of course he is
behind pitches. Me. He's oh for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts.
Nobody starts out like this, no way, even as bad
a start is as Francisco Lindora is had, He's not
oh for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts. And this is not
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where I think he's tanking, you know, together but this
is not a situation that's gotten better. And here he is,
and he's already been criticized for being overweight, Like Jonathan Papplebond,
former Red Sox closer, talked about it as well, saying, hey,
you got to be in better shape. I wonder how
motivated he is to even keep playing there, because you
don't start out like this unless there's something else going on.
And this is not something that's going to get better,
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because if the whole thing is I'm a third baseman, dude,
you're not going to play third base. So either you
got to suck it up and play someplace else or
we have to move on. And if this is how
he's going to be, how long can you go until
you have to move on from him? Now he gave
him a big contract, he's still a star player, and
someplace else where he goes, they'll say, yeah, you're a
third basement. That's fine. We don't carry below average defensively.
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We want you there for to be your thirty one
hundred and War of three and a half four guy.
We want you to be that guy. So, yeah, is
he making a lot of money? Yeah, but star players
make it. He's twenty eight years old. He will be
eminently tradable and a change of scenery guy. But how
long can you wait? Like, I'll go bold, and I'll say,
if this is still going on at the end of
April and the relationships haven't gotten better and he's still
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doing it, they have to move on from him. They
have too good a team. This lineup is too good.
They can withstand moving devers and figure out something else
getting something else back in return. This is a lineup
that is a World sits caliber threat because of how
well they can hit the baseball right. They can't pitch
quite as well, but that's okay. We've seen teams slug
their way to win World Series before and slug the
way to the playoffs. But this is not gonna be
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something that continues that they're going to carry him forever.
And because it's not just here's a slumping player, this
is there's a slumping player, and there's a lot more
behind the scenes going on. These are players that wind
up getting traded. And again, if this is going on
the end of April, I'll go bold. He's on a
different team by the beginning of by.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, this is done.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Some next level stuff right last year twenty eight eighty three,
two seventy two average, two seventy eight hitter for his
career up to two hundred career home runs. All of
this talking about those singles hitters and professional hitters.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Here's one that is funny.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Nineteen ninety five Tony Gwinn fifteen strikeouts in five hundred
and eighty five at bats, devers nineteen at bats tah
the fifteen year reference. So there you go, put the
ball into play. I think he got too much profess,
shut all pride that eventually you look, you're not gonna
be able to hide from bad headlines at this point.
(24:06):
There's enough with the Yankees and calling them cheaters with
the bats, but that'll dissipate. Uh, there's enough with the
being enamored with what the Dodgers are doing. That'll dissipate.
And that in Boston the sounds and the chorus of
booze and everything will be enough. And this guy's been
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in long enough, he's heard and seen it all. I
gotta think that you snap out of it, whatever the
psychological funk is, and that your bat catches up now
if you're that much out of shape, because if it's
just hurt feelings, then you're professional. Go look at your
paycheck that comes in every two weeks and that should
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allow you to feel better. They're paying me to be
a star, and I don't have to embarrass myself in
the field. Why am I doing it at the plate?
Come on, have your Steward Smally moment.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You've had time to figure this out, You've had time
to get everybody on the same page, and this is
just this is as bad as start as you could
possibly want to have.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
It's well, how about they lock him in a room
with a pool qu we don't have dark knight.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Wow, that's that. Wow, that's you went really dark with
that man. You all of a sudden, what Wow? That went?
That went really dark.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I'm just saying, the guy that walks out with the
pool que gets the job.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
What were you thinking?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well, because then then one guy you're paying a lot
of money too is not playing for you anymore. Why
would you do that?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Well, the other guy's going to be d H o Oh,
so a pool Q.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
He'll still be able to d H after the pool
Q fight.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, they're wrestling for the pool.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
What do you think what happens in the what do
you think happens in these Batman, you think they're just
wrestling for the pool. Qu oh, I want the pool,
que everybody. That's not how Dark Knight went.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
In my world, it's a p family show here. I
watched the Disney version of Dark Knight. They went and
they played a game of pool, and the Joker won.
He had this trick shot exit out by a Fresca
exit swollen dome. Time to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
For the guy who's been called the Rafael Devers a
Fox Sports Radio, he came on to be a producer.
He said, no, no, I'm an update anchor at a host,
and he's an update ancher at a host.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
It's Steve to say, can we just say out loud
we have a designated hitter who can't hit. It's really
just not serving the team in any particular way. You know,
pitching didn't serve the A's very well in Sacramento. This
was the home opener in their new play, sharing a
Triple A ballpark for the next few years until we
assume the move to Los Angeles to be.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Now, you gotta be okay with this. They're sharing a
Triple a park. It doesn't mean games are going on
at the same time.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
That would be cool.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It means that they're sharing a Triple A. It's not
like on one field we have the Triple A game,
in the other game we have the age.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
No, it means by June that field's going to be
beat up. So they had to create a whole new
system under the field to not only you know, drain
water off of it, but actually to feed the roots
under it to sustain two home seasons in the same season.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well, I thought you were gonna say they built they
built a field under under the ground. That's where the
A's are gona life.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Yeah, okay, Theays fans would like to be underground at
this moment. And the field got to work out tonight
from the visitors because the final was Cubs eighteen to three.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yay.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
So those eighteen runs allowed tonight by the Athletics, the
most by any team and a home opener in one
hundred years. Carson Kelly hit for the cycle. He was
four for four five RBIs. Cubs scored four times in
the first inning, including a couple of home runs in
Los Angeles. Dodgers now six and oh beat the Braves
six to one. Braves offense went four for thirty one,
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fourteen strikeouts, Atlanta oho to five, and outfielder jerks And
Profar today was suspended eighty games for Peds. Profar now
ineligible for this year's postseason. This is a guy just
starting a three year deal. This cost him about seven
million dollars. Atlanta did recently sign outfielder Alex Verdugo former
Dodger dowg. Your first baseman, Freddie Freeman had the night off.
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He'd slipped at home reaggravated the ankle injury. He's called
day to day. Key k Hernandez played first base and homered.
These Braves scored no runs in their last twenty two
innings in San Diego and no runs their first seven
innings tonight, and pitcher Ronaldo Lopez goes on the injured
list with shoulder inflammation.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So this hasn't been great.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Yeah, Other than that, how maybe they're taking Maybe they're
tanking for arch manning San Diego Padres five and OHO
for the first time ever after beating Cleveland seven to two,
and the winning pitcher going five innings was Kyle Hard
who pitched in Korea last year. Maybe Cardians third baseman
Jose Ramirez did return from the sprain wrist homeward in
the first had three hits, but Detroit was zero and
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three and got a win with six runs. Top of
the first it was nine to four, and the ninth
they won nine to six.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
It's Seattle.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
San Francisco and Jordan Hicks got a seven to two
win at Houston. Houston offense three for thirty, ten strikeout
Angels won in ten at Saint Louis. Victories for Tampa
Bay and Toronto. Cincinnati fourteen to three over Texas. Elie
de la Cruz had two homers. He went four for
five seven RBIs the loss to Kamar Rocker, who lasted
three innings.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
What bat did he? U? Steve though?
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Yeah, he had the new one, a torpedo bag exactly.
Pete Alonzo a grand slam, don't know about him. Mets
won ten, four hands.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
He actually hit it off his knuckles, and I don't
mean like off the bottom part of the bat, No,
off his actual knuckles and it went for a home
and the Mets.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Hid four home runs as a team. Tonight, Francisco Lindor
was out after his wife gave birth. David Peterson got
the win with nine strikeouts in six innings. Philadelphia today
was down one nothing to Colorado in the seventh, but
then hit three late homers and beat him six to one.
Boston is one and four, not only three more strikeouts
for Rafael Devers. The loss at Baltimore was eight to five,
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and the Red Sox are giving lefty pitcher Garrett Crochet
a six year extension.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
By the way, for the.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Orioles, outfielder Colton Howser out at least six weeks with
a broken thumb. He injured it sliding headfirst into first base.
The White Sox shutout Minnesota nine to nothing. Kansas City
an eleven to one winner at Minnesota the late NBA
game to the Lakers, who beat Houston one oh four
to ninety eight victories for Indiana and Brooklyn, Oklahoma City
when its tenth game in a row, Boston when it's
(30:19):
ninth straight, Miami when its fifth in a row. Wins
for Charlotte and the Clippers. The Sons Kevin Durant could
miss at least a week with a sprained ankle. The
Knicks reportedly will re sign PJ. Tucker, including a team
option for next season. New Orleans says Zion Williamson and CJ.
McCollum or reach out for the season due to a
bruise back and bruce foot, respectively. Rutgers freshman Dylan Harper
(30:41):
will declare for the draft. He just averaged nineteen points
a game in women's hoops onto the final four for
Texas and Yukon. Connecticut eliminated usc Tonight's seventy eight sixty
four to thirty one points for Page Beckers Connecticut against
UCLA and the late game Friday before that, it will
be Texas against South Carolina. Texas is eliminated TCU in
a regional final tonight fifty eight forty seven as TCU
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shot twenty seven percent from the floor. Notre Dames Olivia
Miles will reportedly transfer.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
By the way.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Four games on FS one with the College Basketball Crown
Men's Tournament It's New It started today wins for Butler
and Boise State, Nebraska and Georgetown, which won the late
game eighty five eighty two over Washington State. Four more
games tomorrow. NIT has its SEMIS in Indianapolis tomorrow and
HL shootout wins for New Jersey and Calgary Stanford as
an interim football coach, and it's Frank Reich back to you.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
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live from the Tirak dot com studios. So coming up next, Yes,
we have we have a big story out of the
NFL and we got a great, big hot take for
the NCAA tournament both men and women. That's coming up
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Speaker 1 (33:32):
I'm just gonna say it, Mike Harmon. I'm just gonna
say it, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon love from the Tireck
dot Com. Yeah, I am so buying the Jets as
a bounce back team this year, dark Horse wild Card.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
You are so excited, so you're minor man pressing hard
over the five and a half projecting win.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, and this is not because
you know, Woody Johnson's a terrible owner who is upset
today that he got an F in the player report cards.
Always says, oh, I don't know, there's something done wrong.
I shouldn't have gotten en F. Dude, come on, man,
this is you know. I mean, you can't just steal
a page from every political story things out that says
that's not what happened. No, dude, you got an F.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Meanwhile, he's sending sixty eight percent of people, are offering
sixty eight percent of people.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
The ability to go off into the good night with
the giant payoff.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yeah, he says, I'm not I'm not the worst owner
of the league. I don't think the survey was done correctly,
but I'm going to offer a large part of my
staff a chance for a buyout. Right, you're gonna get
rid of I would get rid of all your fem Well,
but that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
It's not me, it's those one hundred and seventy of
the two hundred and fifty employees that really that's your thing,
from the base, from the entry level all the way
through vice presidents. We've got problems.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
But it's not me.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
It's not you listening to your kid about Madden ratings
when it comes to getting it's the other one hundred
and seventy people are offering biots. For the reason I'm
up on is because today the Jets said, look the
owner's meetings today, Aaron Glenn very vocal. Justin Fields is
the jets number one quarterback this year. He's not gonna
be challenged out. Well, they draft a quarterback, sure, but
they're not gonna draft one at number seven. They will
(35:04):
take one later on in the draft somewhere, because you know,
you kind of have to. But Justin Fields is the guy.
And here's why I'm a big believer, because finally they
are putting a team, is putting Justin Fields in a
position to succeed, which hasn't happened that way since very
early on in his career with the Chicago Bears, when
it looked like he was gonna be a breakout quarterback
(35:26):
running for one thousand yards. The last little bit in
in Chicago, it was, well, we're just gonna put you
out there. We're gonna get another guy after this year
in Pittsburgh. We're just putting you out there until I
could put Russell Wilson even though ten touchdowns, one turnover
and the Steelers were five and two. Nope, make it
a quarterback move. The Jets went after him and they
have said this is our guy. They're gonna build the
(35:47):
offense around what he does well. And this has been
something that no team has done with Justin Fields, who
clearly has t Hello. We've seen him flash many times before.
Now do I think he's gonna be great and suddenly
he's gonna be a top level Pro Bowl and have
a Sam Darnell break? You No, Will he be good enough?
Will he run for a thousand yards? Will he win
games and be clutch? Yeah? I'm believing in that because
Aaron Glenn is building a culture. And sometimes the best
(36:10):
thing you can do in the offseason. Sometimes teams need
a bunch of players and you gotta go out and
bring talent in because there's no talent in the organization.
Sometimes you gotta do what the Patriots did and just
go out and get a bunch of guys on defense
and hope it works out. Because you don't have a
lot of talent, teams like the Jets, which have a
lot of talent, they'll and all the older talent leave
and go sign contracts elsewhere. Guys have trouble staying healthy. Hey,
(36:30):
Jets have a lot of good young talent on this team.
But when you build a culture, sometimes that's more important
than going out and signing a whole bunch of guys
in free agency. Right, the Jets have a quiet free agency.
Other teams have quiet free agencies because they're trying to
build culture, and that sometimes can be just as valuable
of saying, hey, here's a big splash we made to
win the off season by signing all of these guys.
(36:51):
If you can build a great culture and get people
to buy in, you're gonna sneak up on teams. You're
gonna win games, You're gonna win games in the clutch,
and you're gonna be that team where people scratch ahead
and go the hell are the Jets seven at four?
I don't understand how the Jets are seven and four,
How they're better this year without Aaron Roder. That's how
you do it and this is what the Jets need
as a culture. Eric LED's given us that, and what's
doing with Justin Fields is that it's gonna work. It's
(37:15):
gonna work fun well.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
You had a vote of no confidence for the last
head coach and then your defense tanked thereafter. They believed
in him, but not as a whold so that disconnect.
But you get the energy with the sage brush of
Aaron Rodgers out of the building and you push forward.
Tanner Engstrand comes in as you're passing as your new
(37:37):
offensive coordinator. He was the passing coordinator for the Detroit Lions.
That seemed to work out pretty well. And you've got
a coach who is saying all the right things. We've
been talking a lot about coaches and owners and innocuous
comments and sometimes seemingly disingenuous or flat out seiy comments
along the way. At least you're looking at it for
(37:59):
your new head coach. There seems to be a guy
operating with direction in purpose, even if his owner is
not so. To that end, Justin Fields gets the benefit
of it. Doubt there I was thought, you know, in
the end of his Bears run, he certainly had the
crowd on his side, maybe because they sensed it was
going to be over so they sent him out with
good vibes. But he played some pretty good football his
(38:20):
final run in Chicago. We watched in Pittsburgh uneven, but
they were still winning before the Russell Wilson experiment of
twenty four.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. So there's
our big I'm telling you, I'm crazy, I'm insane, but
I'm buying the Jets. Now, how about this hot take
about the NCAA tournament We watched tonight the final two
spots and the women's final four get awarded. Yukon beats
USC in the game of the night. USC fought as
well as they could without Juji Watkins, but Paige Becker's
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and Yukon takes over shits a couple of big mid
range jumpers when USC cut the lead to six late
in the second half, and here goes Ucon one window
from playing for the national championship. Now I'm gonna say this,
if you told me I could only watch one final four,
the men's or the women's, I'm picking the women's. I'm
(39:12):
picking the women's because for the second year in a row.
It's more interesting, the storylines are more interesting. We're gonna
it's a great final four for the men. But outside
of Cooper Flag, you got a bunch of players at
the average basketball fan has no idea who they are, right,
has no idea. This is a men's final four for
the top level of college basketball fans, for the top Hey,
(39:33):
I watch college basketball all year long. I want to
see exactly how things are gonna go here. I knew
you know, all the way through. I could tell you
exactly how good Clayton was, how good Broom was. This
is that kind of final four. But the women's final
four has more star power, has more rock and roll
head coaches, And part of it is the players stay longer.
(39:54):
And where now we embrace the stars in women's college
basketball because Caitlyn Clark put it on the map unlike
anybody has in the history of women's college basketball. Right
it's big sports. Most popular women's sport was women's college basketball.
Kaitlyn Clark amped it up. And you have Page Beckers,
and you have gino oriem and you have Don Staley,
and you have UCLA, who's number one team overall. You
have high profile teams and here's Gino and Page try
(40:17):
to win a championship. And I mean really it's it's
that kind of storylines that's more for the average basketball
fan because we're much more star oriented in this society
and there's more of that star rock star storyline than
there is in the mens GI.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Yeah, I mean you've got the build up, I mean,
both Pearl and Samson to long standing names and trying
to cement, you know, that next piece of their history,
the women's side.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
And to me it's the coaches.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
I mean, Page Beckers is a fun story, obviously highly decorated,
lot of ads and interest in whatever else, But Gino,
Oriema or Don Staley as your potential champion or facing
off against.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Each other for a title?
Speaker 5 (41:00):
Come on? They yeah, give us.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Quotes for days.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Let's get going, man, we're finally talking about Geno for
coaching again.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Instead of quotes, exit, how about a Fresca exit Swallen
Dome by Buddy Ben Mallars. Next, this is Fox Matt's
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a big story out of the NFL, because, hey, we
have a lot of poker being played by teams at
the top of the NFL draft. But one team today
kind of told us, yeah, we're not going to take
a quarter back aside I think we are. But before
we get to that, the ending of the Lakers and
the Rockets just a few minutes ago, I mean, I
For all the criticism that Lebron James gets, yet another
(01:15):
example of how nobody I've ever seen in the history
of sports at the age of forty plays at the
level he does, where he is one of the top
players in the game and not slowing down. We've seen
other great performances by players at forty. Tom Brady wins
a Super Bowl at forty. I got not like we
haven't seen it, but the level of play that Lebron
(01:39):
is at still is absolutely unmatched. Now here's the play
down the stretch's gaining a lot of attention, and it
really is something to see. The Lakers lead the Rockets
by four with about eleven seconds left to go, and
the Rocket strategy is, let's go inside from easy two
to changon. Look, he's one of our best players, he's
an All Star this year. We'll get an easy two
and then we'll see you make the Lakers shoot a
(02:00):
free throw and try to come back. So they go
into chenggun for the easy too, except Lebron James says
that's not happening. Brooks to inbound and they get them
space shangun inside mismatch.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
On me what today?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Glo Brada races the shot. C Bron bucks the shot.
Kevin Harlan on the call, he flies out of nowhere.
Cheng Gun doesn't even see him. He swats it into
the crowd. So now there's under eight seconds left. The
Rockets have no choice but to attempt to desperation three.
It doesn't go. The Lakers get the rebound and they
cool off. One of the hottest teams in the NBA. Right,
(02:36):
Like I told you a week ago, the Lakers, they
just seem bored, right, they just seem bored losing a
couple of games. We even heard from Luca following that saying, yeah,
I don't think we have the intensity that we need
right now. It's what's going on. You watch the Lakers
play tonight in a game that had big effect on
the standings. Right, they want to be able to be
a team. Look, you want to have the most more
home games you can possibly have. They want to get
that two seed. The Rockets were up there, this was
(02:59):
a big game and Lebron comes up with an incredible
play to help salt the game away. There's nobody, there's
nobody at forty that makes plays like that that puts
up the numbers that he does you rely on as
your co best player, it just doesn't happen. And seeing
him do this, it's like, really, I think he can
do another five years. I know we've talked this before,
but I'm going, when's he gonna slow down? Like, really,
(03:20):
I mean, it's not gonna happen next year. It's not
gonna suddenly go Okay, I'm falling off the cliff. Now,
we don't see it. All right. Really, you said to
me Lebron could play at this level till he was
forty five, I would say, yeah, okay, yeah, I get
there and then and then he's playing with all his
kids in the NBA. Right then, Bryce's in the NBA.
But I'll play with every we got, Bronny got, Bryce's
got every everybody's in the NBA. It's pretty soon it'll
be young cousins will be in the NBA with him,
(03:40):
his nephews will be in the NBA with him. All
I mean, really, if you said five more years for Lebron,
I would say, yes, sure, I could signed up for
seeing him play this well, all tti least forty five.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
During this time away when you took a couple of
days off on your sojourn. I mean, was it all
to just try to get in the good grace of
Lebron and get off the grid, get away from JJ
Renick and everything. So now you come back and you're
just gonna wash him up. May we got a short
sample size of forty year old guys that have been
running around on a sporty. There's not many guys. That's
(04:10):
the first thing. Side of the guys on the black
top that you're watching as you, you know, skate by
or take a walk along the strand here in the
beach cities.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I mean, what forty of your old guys that we
get to compare him to.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
But that's the thing, because that's the thing, is that
there's only so many and still he's playing at this
high light, and still he's at this high level. He's
not just getting by, right, I mean, like the close
thing I can think of. Obviously, Brady Winning Rogers is
really good into his late thirties. Julio Franco, Right, wasn't
he playing he was still forty five?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh, we had no idea what his true age.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Wow, that is true, that is true. But like did
he come back and get a hit when he was
fifty like, wasn't that Julio Franco's thing, Like he actually
he got a hit, like I believe, different decades whatever
it was, Like, I mean, White.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Shows used to run Minni Minoso out for years.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Oh yeah, Tren hitting again and he's like in his
seventh decade of baseball.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
But he's eighty seven years old. He actually pitched it
for the outre Yeah, keep going, but really I don't.
I mean, really, it's to see Lebron do this. It's
at some point you got to stop and go Holy crap, man,
I mean, and look, he came into the NBA with
an NBA ready body. There was no Hey, this guy's
gonna come in, gotta put some weight on. He's got
the slim reaper like Kevin Durant was. You had no
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he came in ready to go as a teenager. And
it's been it's been just it's been like a machine.
And now he's picking his spots obviously when I need
time off and what do we say, Oh, Lebron's injury
here coinciding with the Lakers having a run of six
games and eight nights. Yeah, he's gonna miss all those
games and come back when that run is over. When
did Lebron come back the game after that run is over?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
And what did Adam Silver say about it? Not a
damn thing, Nope.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Nope, wants the Lakers? Yeah, what are you gonna do?
And look where he's at, right, he needed that time
off And and here we are in the last couple
of weeks in the NBA season and Lebron looks ready
to go. Why the Lakers are an NBA title threat
because it's not to the point where Lebron on his
running out of gas. He's been splitting things with Luca.
The level of responsibility has been phenomenal. He's had that
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break to get ready and going. I mean it, man,
this is everybody wants to count. What of the Lakers
really gonna do with the playoffs? Watch out, man, watch out? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I don't think they've been categorically dismissed.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Just it's a lot of what are we waiting for
in a two and a half month period, right because
there's not been a lot of crowning of the Oklahoma
City Thunder. They've had a great regular season, but what's
everybody saying? Show me, show me in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
What you got?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Denver?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
It's been an uneven regular season. You've done it before,
so maybe get the benefit of it out. But still
show me with the Lakers, Like, all right, let's see
who shows up and who's healthy enough to go because
you got you trade it out Anthony Davis, and you
bring in Luca who people have all these questions about
his health and ability to finish so much different story,
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much younger guy, and certainly thus far it's it's been
a hell of a run. I mean, activating a city.
It's the only thing that potentially stealing column inches away
from the Dodgers start.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, the bigger story if the Dodgers start out thirty
five and five like the like the Tigers did in
eighty four. Right, we talked about that earlier today.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Where are you getting five losses?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, they made they Well they're playing maybe late to
a game, they may have to forfeit, you know, they
play themselves. Maybe Sasaki pitches a couple of games.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
They won that game he pitched last time. I said,
both of them.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Actually, all right, But let's say thirty five and five
for the Dodgers or the Lakers make it to the
Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
The Lakers will be in the championship.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Uh not no, not by then. Now they'll still the
playoffs will be going on.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
No, everything, Dodgers still trumped it because uh you think
really yeah, Lebron is still polarizing.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Okay, all right, just draw it, thrown it out there.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
And I have a lot of time off in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, no, that's true. You play well, you play then
you play every other night.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I mean, you wouldn't know, Jason.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Dude, my team is in up.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
We're fine, and they're out every year in the second.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Okay, we do go out in the second round a lot.
But Jalen Brunson will be healthy when he gets back.
Not a lot of minutes. The last few weeks. Everything
is okay, Everything is fine. Everything is fine.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
It's fun though, when you can pick your spots defensively
and kind of lurk and because there are Look, the
reputation is earned at this point, right in terms of
you know where you're going to get your effort from
both Luca and Lebron defensively, and that's been one of
the big questions. But they've come up big in certain spots.
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Now it doesn't completely erase some of the no show
efforts as a squad I don't subscribe to the boredom thing.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
But now I think every NBA team gets bored. I
think the season is just too long. It's just too long,
and they get bored for every team, not just the Lakers,
but for every team. It is it's the fifteen games
too long.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Well, you know what, they can all give back some money,
so it all has mean Oh wait, they.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Will not gonna do that. So hey, well more NBA
coming up in a bit. But wanted to mention this too,
because you talked with this a few minutes ago with
the with the football situation, with the Browns getting burned
onto Sean Watson, Jimmy Hasselm said today, Hey, swinging a
miss on the quarterback. We're not locked into taking a
quarterback at number two. We want to get a lot
of good football players. Okay, that sounds great, But when
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you're telling me that you're going to dismiss the most
important position on the team, I know you're not gonna win, right,
and that's that's the Browns. Okay, let's go in for
a put. Okay, you have a better chance of winning
with a great quarterback and filling in the team around them,
then you do. Hey, the rest of the team is loaded,
but we don't have a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Any team built that way is just stupid. But this
is not a This is not a thing that is
just unique to the Browns. Right. We talked about it
with the Steelers who are trying to go cheap for
quarterback and try to figure out. I know the Steelers
aren't gonna win because they have no plan either. And
then I saw the Giants today who with the owners
meetings said they're not locked into taking a quarterback at three. Right.
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Why is this a big deal? Because two quarterbacks are
going in the top three, right there two quarterbacks to
go for the top three teams. They all need quarterbacks, right,
Tennessee does, Cleveland does? The Giants do? And cam Ward
and Chador Sanders are gonna go at the top of
the draft. Why would the Giants need to say that.
Why would they need to say, hey, we're not locked
into a quarterback at three. If cam Ward and Sanders
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go one two, no one's gonna be expecting to take
a quarterback at three. You're not gonna expect them to
take Jackson Dart or anybody else at three. There's gonna
be no talk about that. Why are the Giants saying this?
Why did they Why did they go out of their
way to talk about this? And Joe Shane, the GM
talked about this a lot today. They want to grease
the skids, get everybody ready for the fact that they're
going to pass on Shador Sanders if he's there at three.
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And because the Giants like to do this, they like
to justify their picks every time they pick early. They
want to justify why they picked Barkley. They want to
justify why they picked Daniel Jones. They want to justify anybody. Yeah,
we want to justify why we're picking these guys. Here,
justify wy we're picking. This is what we need to do.
And the Giants are saying this now because they don't
want the bad offseason store line they had last year
where they looked like laughing stocks. They let Saquon Barkley go,
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Barkley goes as a two thousand yard season and the
Eagles win the Super Bowl. They don't want that to
happen again. And they don't want there to be the
storyline of boy, the quarterback was there for the Giants
at three and they just didn't take them. They are
greasing the skids, letting us know they're not going to
take a quarterback there. And I get it. I get
the philosophy of ay, a quarterback's got to be a
gut feel, but understand that you need a quarterback if
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you're going to win. Russell Wilson's not the answer. Russell
Wilson's just a guy, right. I can't believe he's actually
in the league, but the Giants signed him. Sometimes a
quarterback's a bit of a leap of faith, and you're
drafting three. That's where you get a quarterback. If he's
there and available, you don't reach for it. But if
he's there and available, you kind of have to take
a chance because maybe he turns out to be great.
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Maybe he doesn't, but you got to take a swing
to get that quarterback because maybe he's good. Maybe he's
bow Knicks. Nobody like the Broncos taking bow Nicks last year.
Look at boon Nicks. Ude may turn out to be
the best quarterback out anybody, right, had a phenomenal year.
Look at what he does on the road and winning games,
Like you have to take that chance a little bit
and get that. Okay, maybe the guy is special. You
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don't know about a quarterback really till you put him
out on the field. And to see the Giants sitting
here say we're not locked into a guy at three.
There's no poker they need to be playing because either
the quarterback is there he's not. And if he's not there,
they'll take Travis Hunter. He'll be a great superstar. They'll
sell a lot of jerseys. He's a great pick if
the quarterbacks are right there. But there's no reason for
them to say that unless they're telling you we're not
gonna take a quarterback, and you need to because the
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flip side is where are you gonna get your quarterback from?
If you're not taking a quarterback here, what are you
gonna do. You're gonna draft a guy really late and
try to bring him along. You're gonna wait another year
to try to get a guy. You're drafting third right
now and a quarterback could be there for you. You have
to take that leap when a quarterback is there, because
that's how you get him. And I see the Giants
again saying that, yeah, we're gonna try to get the
rest of the roster ready and not gonna go for
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a quarterback when that's the backwards way to build a team.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yeah, I would say say this is if you're convinced
that Shudora Sanders isn't that guy, then you say the
choie part out loud like them, come get him, and
then we'll be happy to trade down a slaugh or two. Right,
If you're the Raiders and you want to make sure
that you're gonna get him, that's the guy you want,
Come get that number three pick. If you're the Saints
at number nine and you're through with the Derek Carr experiment,
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come get it. Come get the number three pick. Give
us some more ammunition by which to build with. I
mean you've already spent, however much is guaranteed to Russell
Wilson and Jameis Winston for them to battle it out,
And maybe maybe you've already just done your due diligence
to where Shadoor Sanders is just not an option. Brian Dable,
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Joe Shane may not have the opportunity to pick that
next guy. I the results of twenty twenty five are
bad enough, so it's a damn to do.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Damn you don't.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
As we talked to Jason lock and for earlier in
the show Jason and folks can find the podcast when
it goes up in about an hour's time. That you know,
he said, perhaps it's not just an organizational thing. Maybe
the brashness and and some of the reputational things that
are going out they're real or imagined, do affect the
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thinking of of Mara and the Giants in terms of
selecting Shador Sanders, leaving you to next year and trying
to figure out exactly how poorly you finish. Now they
are projected to be one of the worst teams in
the NFL right now. Uh, And I don't know that
bringing Shadoor is going to help any of that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
They might and but and then you're waiting for a
future that may never get here. Right. But if you're
not you're not there. Right.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
But if you're not convinced that he's the guy to
come in, how soul like? What's that process look like?
All Right, we're trying to teach someone and build when
you already are skeptical. That's not it's not a healthy
environment to bring somebody into.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Shadoor Sanders is a really good quarterback.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
I'm not saying he isn't. I'm talking for the sake of.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
The Giants and you're drafted, you're gonna So you're saying,
we're okay, sucking again and maybe getting better net What
if you don't get better next year? What if you
win four games? You're six.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
But if your evaluation is that you don't think should
do or is that guy you draft him just because
he's there.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
He's not terrible, he's not like, oh my goodness, this guy,
we're all going away from him.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
No, but aside that Hunter or Carter would be a
better fit for what you have, and you've already brought
in Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Then I'll watch you continue to stink for the next
few years.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And you got Tommy Cutlets, Dan, I'll.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Watch you continue to stink. Then that's what. That's fine.
Why I'll watch the Jets win games and I'll watch
you continue to stink. So it's okay, It actually is
okay for that, just just that one specific situation. It's okay.
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Carmon Live and the Tirack dot Com Studio is
coming up next. We got a baseball hot take for
you and an NCAA tournament hot take coming your way.
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Speaker 1 (16:04):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live the Tirack dot Com studios. Not
every baseball story is about the torpedo bats, just most
of them are, and for good reason. Torpedo bats are
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pretty cool. Well, yeah, everybody's gonna start using them and
then people not get mad at the Yankees torpedo bats.
What I really want, honestly, I want there to be
some sort of record being kept every night of home
runs in Major League Baseball and how many of them
hit with a torpedo bat. Right, Let's start with that,
(16:45):
and then let's get into okay, you know, let's get
into like a little bit more baseball research, maybe some
sort of way to figure out what the aggregate stats
are for players who use the torpedo bats versus the
players who don't like What are the average numbers that
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torpedo bats give you versus what they don't. Like, I
really want to see that because it's an advantage, right,
it's it's it's legal, it's completely legal, and everybody's going
to start doing it. They're all ordering bats now. Baseball
is not going to say no, you can't, because what
they're doing is legal. So everybody's going to start doing it.
And it's it's naive to think there's not. All of
a sudden, the Yankees are hitting eight home runs a
game using these torpedo bats, and you see Ellie de
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la Crusinite have an incredible night torpedo bat. Like, I
really want to see the breakdown of the stats and
the numbers torpedo bats versus regular bats, and just see
exactly what it is, right like the old Hey, we
break down what your home and away stats were at
Coors Field versus away when when the Rockies, and you know,
let me see something.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
White people used to argue against people because of course field.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Is that what you're trying to do. You're trying to
shine and shade it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
No, I'm just among us. No, No, I don't care.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Hey if because I carry my torpedo bat around, don't trying.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
To hey me, No, no, no, I don't care. The
Mets can all use all kinds of torpedo bat. I
don't care what kind of bats they use. They can
use a toothpick if they want to.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I think it looks pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I look fast. I got lightning bolts on the side.
It's like grease lightning. Uh No, I don't care what
he is. You hit the ball, hit the ball. But
I really want to see what the overall impact is
because this will be a big story for a little
for a little while and be a huge story. It'll
be every day you'll see it. You'll see this torpedo
back to back, and then eventually when other players start
using it, it'll become more accepted and it will sort
of give way to other big stories out of baseball.
(18:37):
Right now, this is where it is, and I really
want to see how big of an impact is it.
Is it something that is mental? You know, because I
saw a couple of players say today, Hey, A lot
of it is the confidence you go up there with.
If you go up there with the bat you think
is really going to help you, your mind is clearer,
and if that gives you just the tiniest bit of
mental advantage, great, Like, is it Is it a mental
advantage or is it something that really is physical where
(18:57):
I can barrow up the ball a little bit more
now than I could before. You see my batting average
goes from two fifty to two eighty five, or my
home runs go from thirteen to twenty seven, Like I
really want to see if it's that big of a deal.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Well, the kind of curiosity, right going back to nineteen
eighty seven, remember that was.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
The outlier of outliers for.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Singles hitters who suddenly were hitting home run didn't Bogs
have twenty four home runs that year when he was
normally hitting eight?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, And all of a sudden he was like, yeah,
I tried. I tried to hit home runs one year. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
sure remember that, Yeah, yeah sure.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Because there's also a theory that we got some juice
baseballs in the first few days of the year too.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I wouldn't doubt that, you know, I wouldn't doubt that.
Let's get let's get some more runs on the board.
I wouldn't doubt that either.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, right now we're getting there are tinfoil hats on.
I'm wearing a nice tinfoil fedora, maybe a cowboy hat,
and just running with a bunch of the chaos that
may be transpiring in Major League Baseball early with my
two and two White Sox.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But look, not every story is about the torpedo bats.
Because I'll tell you what. If you want an MLB
star you could trade for really soon, I give you
Rafael Devers of of the Red Sox. I mean, this
is his start now after tonight's game, oh for nineteen
with fifteen strikeouts. That's his start. That is that is
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a very That would be the White Sox start last year.
But now they're too and now the White Sox are
two and two. You guys are too money. So this
is not just here's a star player who was starting
out slow. Okay, this was a drama filled off season
in which I wonder how committed is Devers to still
being great, still being a team player, still wanting to
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go out there and be where he needs to be,
focused and playing for the Red Sox. Because if you
remember when the Red Sox went out and got Alex Pragnant, Look,
Alex Bragman's a gold glove third baseman, right, He's a
guy coming in and Devers as a blow average defender,
so you know, coming in Okay, we're gonna want to
put him at third base. And then the big story
nber Devers said, whoa, whoa, I'm a third baseman. And
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I told the Red Sox this before they traded for Bregman.
I told them I am a third baseman. So little
bit of drama there. It never went away. Remember the
Red Sox tried in the beginning of the season to say, well,
maybe we'll move Bregman to second and that'll help everybody out,
and they realize, what are we doing. Bregman's the third
but why are we doing this? Bregman's our third basement.
En Devers is the DH and look at how he
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has started. And no, he didn't have a lot of
time in the spring. He you know, only had a
handful of vet bats. And I can hear the excuses about, well,
he's still behind the pitches. Yeah, of course he is
behind pitches. Me. He's oh for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts.
Nobody starts out like this, no way, even as bad
a start is as Francisco Lindora is had, He's not
oh for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts. And this is not
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where I think he's tanking, you know, together but this
is not a situation that's gotten better. And here he is,
and he's already been criticized for being overweight, Like Jonathan Papplebond,
former Red Sox closer, talked about it as well, saying, hey,
you got to be in better shape. I wonder how
motivated he is to even keep playing there, because you
don't start out like this unless there's something else going on.
And this is not something that's going to get better,
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because if the whole thing is I'm a third baseman, dude,
you're not going to play third base. So either you
got to suck it up and play someplace else or
we have to move on. And if this is how
he's going to be, how long can you go until
you have to move on from him? Now he gave
him a big contract, he's still a star player, and
someplace else where he goes, they'll say, yeah, you're a
third basement. That's fine. We don't carry below average defensively.
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We want you there for to be your thirty one
hundred and War of three and a half four guy.
We want you to be that guy. So, yeah, is
he making a lot of money? Yeah, but star players
make it. He's twenty eight years old. He will be
eminently tradable and a change of scenery guy. But how
long can you wait? Like, I'll go bold, and I'll say,
if this is still going on at the end of
April and the relationships haven't gotten better and he's still
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doing it, they have to move on from him. They
have too good a team. This lineup is too good.
They can withstand moving devers and figure out something else
getting something else back in return. This is a lineup
that is a World sits caliber threat because of how
well they can hit the baseball right. They can't pitch
quite as well, but that's okay. We've seen teams slug
their way to win World Series before and slug the
way to the playoffs. But this is not gonna be
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something that continues that they're going to carry him forever.
And because it's not just here's a slumping player, this
is there's a slumping player, and there's a lot more
behind the scenes going on. These are players that wind
up getting traded. And again, if this is going on
the end of April, I'll go bold. He's on a
different team by the beginning of by.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, this is done.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Some next level stuff right last year twenty eight eighty three,
two seventy two average, two seventy eight hitter for his
career up to two hundred career home runs. All of
this talking about those singles hitters and professional hitters.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Here's one that is funny.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Nineteen ninety five Tony Gwinn fifteen strikeouts in five hundred
and eighty five at bats, devers nineteen at bats tah
the fifteen year reference. So there you go, put the
ball into play. I think he got too much profess,
shut all pride that eventually you look, you're not gonna
be able to hide from bad headlines at this point.
(24:06):
There's enough with the Yankees and calling them cheaters with
the bats, but that'll dissipate. Uh, there's enough with the
being enamored with what the Dodgers are doing. That'll dissipate.
And that in Boston the sounds and the chorus of
booze and everything will be enough. And this guy's been
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in long enough, he's heard and seen it all. I
gotta think that you snap out of it, whatever the
psychological funk is, and that your bat catches up now
if you're that much out of shape, because if it's
just hurt feelings, then you're professional. Go look at your
paycheck that comes in every two weeks and that should
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allow you to feel better. They're paying me to be
a star, and I don't have to embarrass myself in
the field. Why am I doing it at the plate?
Come on, have your Steward Smally moment.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
You've had time to figure this out, You've had time
to get everybody on the same page, and this is
just this is as bad as start as you could
possibly want to have.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
It's well, how about they lock him in a room
with a pool qu we don't have dark knight.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Wow, that's that. Wow, that's you went really dark with
that man. You all of a sudden, what Wow? That went?
That went really dark.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I'm just saying, the guy that walks out with the
pool que gets the job.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
What were you thinking?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Well, because then then one guy you're paying a lot
of money too is not playing for you anymore. Why
would you do that?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Well, the other guy's going to be d H o Oh,
so a pool Q.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
He'll still be able to d H after the pool
Q fight.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Yeah, they're wrestling for the pool.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
What do you think what happens in the what do
you think happens in these Batman, you think they're just
wrestling for the pool. Qu oh, I want the pool,
que everybody. That's not how Dark Knight went.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
In my world, it's a p family show here. I
watched the Disney version of Dark Knight. They went and
they played a game of pool, and the Joker won.
He had this trick shot exit out by a Fresca
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Speaker 1 (26:06):
For the guy who's been called the Rafael Devers a
Fox Sports Radio, he came on to be a producer.
He said, no, no, I'm an update anchor at a host,
and he's an update ancher at a host.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
It's Steve to say, can we just say out loud
we have a designated hitter who can't hit. It's really
just not serving the team in any particular way. You know,
pitching didn't serve the A's very well in Sacramento. This
was the home opener in their new play, sharing a
Triple A ballpark for the next few years until we
assume the move to Los Angeles to be.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Now, you gotta be okay with this. They're sharing a
Triple a park. It doesn't mean games are going on
at the same time.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
That would be cool.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It means that they're sharing a Triple A. It's not
like on one field we have the Triple A game,
in the other game we have the age.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
No, it means by June that field's going to be
beat up. So they had to create a whole new
system under the field to not only you know, drain
water off of it, but actually to feed the roots
under it to sustain two home seasons in the same season.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Well, I thought you were gonna say they built they
built a field under under the ground. That's where the
A's are gona life.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Yeah, okay, Theays fans would like to be underground at
this moment. And the field got to work out tonight
from the visitors because the final was Cubs eighteen to three.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Yay.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
So those eighteen runs allowed tonight by the Athletics, the
most by any team and a home opener in one
hundred years. Carson Kelly hit for the cycle. He was
four for four five RBIs. Cubs scored four times in
the first inning, including a couple of home runs in
Los Angeles. Dodgers now six and oh beat the Braves
six to one. Braves offense went four for thirty one,
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fourteen strikeouts, Atlanta oho to five, and outfielder jerks And
Profar today was suspended eighty games for Peds. Profar now
ineligible for this year's postseason. This is a guy just
starting a three year deal. This cost him about seven
million dollars. Atlanta did recently sign outfielder Alex Verdugo former
Dodger dowg. Your first baseman, Freddie Freeman had the night off.
(28:02):
He'd slipped at home reaggravated the ankle injury. He's called
day to day. Key k Hernandez played first base and homered.
These Braves scored no runs in their last twenty two
innings in San Diego and no runs their first seven
innings tonight, and pitcher Ronaldo Lopez goes on the injured
list with shoulder inflammation.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So this hasn't been great.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
Yeah, Other than that, how maybe they're taking Maybe they're
tanking for arch manning San Diego Padres five and OHO
for the first time ever after beating Cleveland seven to two,
and the winning pitcher going five innings was Kyle Hard
who pitched in Korea last year. Maybe Cardians third baseman
Jose Ramirez did return from the sprain wrist homeward in
the first had three hits, but Detroit was zero and
(28:48):
three and got a win with six runs. Top of
the first it was nine to four, and the ninth
they won nine to six.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
It's Seattle.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
San Francisco and Jordan Hicks got a seven to two
win at Houston. Houston offense three for thirty, ten strikeout
Angels won in ten at Saint Louis. Victories for Tampa
Bay and Toronto. Cincinnati fourteen to three over Texas. Elie
de la Cruz had two homers. He went four for
five seven RBIs the loss to Kamar Rocker, who lasted
three innings.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
What bat did he? U? Steve though?
Speaker 6 (29:16):
Yeah, he had the new one, a torpedo bag exactly.
Pete Alonzo a grand slam, don't know about him. Mets
won ten, four hands.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
He actually hit it off his knuckles, and I don't
mean like off the bottom part of the bat, No,
off his actual knuckles and it went for a home
and the Mets.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Hid four home runs as a team. Tonight, Francisco Lindor
was out after his wife gave birth. David Peterson got
the win with nine strikeouts in six innings. Philadelphia today
was down one nothing to Colorado in the seventh, but
then hit three late homers and beat him six to one.
Boston is one and four, not only three more strikeouts
for Rafael Devers. The loss at Baltimore was eight to five,
(29:53):
and the Red Sox are giving lefty pitcher Garrett Crochet
a six year extension.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
By the way, for the.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Orioles, outfielder Colton Howser out at least six weeks with
a broken thumb. He injured it sliding headfirst into first base.
The White Sox shutout Minnesota nine to nothing. Kansas City
an eleven to one winner at Minnesota the late NBA
game to the Lakers, who beat Houston one oh four
to ninety eight victories for Indiana and Brooklyn, Oklahoma City
when its tenth game in a row, Boston when it's
(30:19):
ninth straight, Miami when its fifth in a row. Wins
for Charlotte and the Clippers. The Sons Kevin Durant could
miss at least a week with a sprained ankle. The
Knicks reportedly will re sign PJ. Tucker, including a team
option for next season. New Orleans says Zion Williamson and CJ.
McCollum or reach out for the season due to a
bruise back and bruce foot, respectively. Rutgers freshman Dylan Harper
(30:41):
will declare for the draft. He just averaged nineteen points
a game in women's hoops onto the final four for
Texas and Yukon. Connecticut eliminated usc Tonight's seventy eight sixty
four to thirty one points for Page Beckers Connecticut against
UCLA and the late game Friday before that, it will
be Texas against South Carolina. Texas is eliminated TCU in
a regional final tonight fifty eight forty seven as TCU
(31:05):
shot twenty seven percent from the floor. Notre Dames Olivia
Miles will reportedly transfer.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
By the way.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Four games on FS one with the College Basketball Crown
Men's Tournament It's New It started today wins for Butler
and Boise State, Nebraska and Georgetown, which won the late
game eighty five eighty two over Washington State. Four more
games tomorrow. NIT has its SEMIS in Indianapolis tomorrow and
HL shootout wins for New Jersey and Calgary Stanford as
an interim football coach, and it's Frank Reich back to you.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
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live from the Tirak dot com studios. So coming up next, Yes,
we have we have a big story out of the
NFL and we got a great, big hot take for
the NCAA tournament both men and women. That's coming up
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Speaker 1 (33:32):
I'm just gonna say it, Mike Harmon. I'm just gonna
say it, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon love from the Tireck
dot Com. Yeah, I am so buying the Jets as
a bounce back team this year, dark Horse wild Card.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
You are so excited, so you're minor man pressing hard
over the five and a half projecting win.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Look, and this is not because
you know, Woody Johnson's a terrible owner who is upset
today that he got an F in the player report cards.
Always says, oh, I don't know, there's something done wrong.
I shouldn't have gotten en F. Dude, come on, man,
this is you know. I mean, you can't just steal
a page from every political story things out that says
that's not what happened. No, dude, you got an F.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Meanwhile, he's sending sixty eight percent of people, are offering
sixty eight percent of people.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
The ability to go off into the good night with
the giant payoff.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Yeah, he says, I'm not I'm not the worst owner
of the league. I don't think the survey was done correctly,
but I'm going to offer a large part of my
staff a chance for a buyout. Right, you're gonna get
rid of I would get rid of all your fem Well,
but that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
It's not me, it's those one hundred and seventy of
the two hundred and fifty employees that really that's your thing,
from the base, from the entry level all the way
through vice presidents. We've got problems.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
But it's not me.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
It's not you listening to your kid about Madden ratings
when it comes to getting it's the other one hundred
and seventy people are offering biots. For the reason I'm
up on is because today the Jets said, look the
owner's meetings today, Aaron Glenn very vocal. Justin Fields is
the jets number one quarterback this year. He's not gonna
be challenged out. Well, they draft a quarterback, sure, but
they're not gonna draft one at number seven. They will
(35:04):
take one later on in the draft somewhere, because you know,
you kind of have to. But Justin Fields is the guy.
And here's why I'm a big believer, because finally they
are putting a team, is putting Justin Fields in a
position to succeed, which hasn't happened that way since very
early on in his career with the Chicago Bears, when
it looked like he was gonna be a breakout quarterback
(35:26):
running for one thousand yards. The last little bit in
in Chicago, it was, well, we're just gonna put you
out there. We're gonna get another guy after this year
in Pittsburgh. We're just putting you out there until I
could put Russell Wilson even though ten touchdowns, one turnover
and the Steelers were five and two. Nope, make it
a quarterback move. The Jets went after him and they
have said this is our guy. They're gonna build the
(35:47):
offense around what he does well. And this has been
something that no team has done with Justin Fields, who
clearly has t Hello. We've seen him flash many times before.
Now do I think he's gonna be great and suddenly
he's gonna be a top level Pro Bowl and have
a Sam Darnell break? You No, Will he be good enough?
Will he run for a thousand yards? Will he win
games and be clutch? Yeah? I'm believing in that because
Aaron Glenn is building a culture. And sometimes the best
(36:10):
thing you can do in the offseason. Sometimes teams need
a bunch of players and you gotta go out and
bring talent in because there's no talent in the organization.
Sometimes you gotta do what the Patriots did and just
go out and get a bunch of guys on defense
and hope it works out. Because you don't have a
lot of talent, teams like the Jets, which have a
lot of talent, they'll and all the older talent leave
and go sign contracts elsewhere. Guys have trouble staying healthy. Hey,
(36:30):
Jets have a lot of good young talent on this team.
But when you build a culture, sometimes that's more important
than going out and signing a whole bunch of guys
in free agency. Right, the Jets have a quiet free agency.
Other teams have quiet free agencies because they're trying to
build culture, and that sometimes can be just as valuable
of saying, hey, here's a big splash we made to
win the off season by signing all of these guys.
(36:51):
If you can build a great culture and get people
to buy in, you're gonna sneak up on teams. You're
gonna win games, You're gonna win games in the clutch,
and you're gonna be that team where people scratch ahead
and go the hell are the Jets seven at four?
I don't understand how the Jets are seven and four,
How they're better this year without Aaron Roder. That's how
you do it and this is what the Jets need
as a culture. Eric LED's given us that, and what's
doing with Justin Fields is that it's gonna work. It's
(37:15):
gonna work fun well.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
You had a vote of no confidence for the last
head coach and then your defense tanked thereafter. They believed
in him, but not as a whold so that disconnect.
But you get the energy with the sage brush of
Aaron Rodgers out of the building and you push forward.
Tanner Engstrand comes in as you're passing as your new
(37:37):
offensive coordinator. He was the passing coordinator for the Detroit Lions.
That seemed to work out pretty well. And you've got
a coach who is saying all the right things. We've
been talking a lot about coaches and owners and innocuous
comments and sometimes seemingly disingenuous or flat out seiy comments
along the way. At least you're looking at it for
(37:59):
your new head coach. There seems to be a guy
operating with direction in purpose, even if his owner is
not so. To that end, Justin Fields gets the benefit
of it. Doubt there I was thought, you know, in
the end of his Bears run, he certainly had the
crowd on his side, maybe because they sensed it was
going to be over so they sent him out with
good vibes. But he played some pretty good football his
(38:20):
final run in Chicago. We watched in Pittsburgh uneven, but
they were still winning before the Russell Wilson experiment of
twenty four.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. So there's
our big I'm telling you, I'm crazy, I'm insane, but
I'm buying the Jets. Now, how about this hot take
about the NCAA tournament We watched tonight the final two
spots and the women's final four get awarded. Yukon beats
USC in the game of the night. USC fought as
well as they could without Juji Watkins, but Paige Becker's
(38:51):
and Yukon takes over shits a couple of big mid
range jumpers when USC cut the lead to six late
in the second half, and here goes Ucon one window
from playing for the national championship. Now I'm gonna say this,
if you told me I could only watch one final four,
the men's or the women's, I'm picking the women's. I'm
(39:12):
picking the women's because for the second year in a row.
It's more interesting, the storylines are more interesting. We're gonna
it's a great final four for the men. But outside
of Cooper Flag, you got a bunch of players at
the average basketball fan has no idea who they are, right,
has no idea. This is a men's final four for
the top level of college basketball fans, for the top Hey,
(39:33):
I watch college basketball all year long. I want to
see exactly how things are gonna go here. I knew
you know, all the way through. I could tell you
exactly how good Clayton was, how good Broom was. This
is that kind of final four. But the women's final
four has more star power, has more rock and roll
head coaches, And part of it is the players stay longer.
(39:54):
And where now we embrace the stars in women's college
basketball because Caitlyn Clark put it on the map unlike
anybody has in the history of women's college basketball. Right
it's big sports. Most popular women's sport was women's college basketball.
Kaitlyn Clark amped it up. And you have Page Beckers,
and you have gino oriem and you have Don Staley,
and you have UCLA, who's number one team overall. You
have high profile teams and here's Gino and Page try
(40:17):
to win a championship. And I mean really it's it's
that kind of storylines that's more for the average basketball
fan because we're much more star oriented in this society
and there's more of that star rock star storyline than
there is in the mens GI.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Yeah, I mean you've got the build up, I mean,
both Pearl and Samson to long standing names and trying
to cement, you know, that next piece of their history,
the women's side.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
And to me it's the coaches.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
I mean, Page Beckers is a fun story, obviously highly decorated,
lot of ads and interest in whatever else, But Gino,
Oriema or Don Staley as your potential champion or facing
off against.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Each other for a title?
Speaker 5 (41:00):
Come on? They yeah, give us.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Quotes for days.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Let's get going, man, we're finally talking about Geno for
coaching again.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Instead of quotes, exit, how about a Fresca exit Swallen
Dome by Buddy Ben Mallars. Next, this is Fox Matt's
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