April 2, 2025 • 41 mins
Mike Harmon and Aaron Torres are joined by MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi to talk all things Dodgers, Yankees and torpedo bats. And we remember one of the greatest to ever do it, Rest in Peace Val Kilmer!
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to him on a speedy recovery. As we roll through.
Coming to twenty minutes, John Palmerosi stops by for his
weekly visit talking about all things Major League Baseball. Will
celebrate the Torpedo Bats one more time. I know we're
a bit it's gotten a bit old and overplayed. The
last couple of days. We had some fun with it
related back to the little bats that you would buy
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for your kid to give.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Them a big hitting zone.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And you know, Bayer admitted that the one he has
for Brody is orange. It was always red, like now
they make them in different colors.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Has anything gone from something no one has ever heard
of to completely over talked about in an overplayed concept
than the torpedo bats?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
This would probably be right up about there. I'd have
to give it some thought.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Certainly in the pop culture world, things get get to
that point for me where they're overcooked very quickly. But
sports wise, no, this is probably it is this like.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
The ice bucket challenge of sports.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Maybe they're Yeah. The Zion shoe, Oh yeah, that was
in how huge that was?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Like he blew out a shoe I know, and he
was fine.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean like like he didn't get hurt, shoe gave out.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Maybe it's an indictment on the shoe. Yep.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Oh, Nike got a lot of flak for that.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Remember remember the like three week window where it's like, well,
they just cost themselves a shot to sign Zion when
he gets his first shoe deal, then they offered him
ninety million.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
I think they.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I think everybody got over it pretty fanks exactly, That's exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It seemed to me that that was a if nothing else,
it was a really great thing for Zion Williamson, who
it would be nice to have him on the court.
Oh wait, he's not on the court either. He's been
shut down with a back injury. I think it's the
fourth time in six years he finished with thirty or
fewer games played.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Man, And you think about that twenty nineteen draft class.
We were talking about John Morant a little bit earlier
for those that missed it, A big comeback by the Warriors.
Step goes for nearly a triple double, fifty two points
on the night, twelve to twenty from three point range.
As a team, they took fifty six three point shots,
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which is a whole other crazy, crazy thing. But John Morant,
in the loss for Memphis, makes a shooting gesture towards
the Warriors bench that it's just interesting that he's running
into the elder Statesman Curry and Draymond Green on the
court as he does so, and Draymond immediately makes the
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and buddy heal healed? Does it back to him? So
you're getting this back and forth. So Adam Silver, who
normally enjoys the Hey, whatever happens, haha, you know we
are what we are. We signed the seventy six billion
dollars deal going forward. Television ratings don't matter. The international
numbers are great. Here's everything that's going on. Lebron still
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playing at forty. We've got enough positivity as we get
towards the playoff and then this drops in your lap
in the final two weeks of the regular season.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
What do you think Adam Silver's response is when he
first sees this video, if he has not seen it yet,
or when he every season, Oh, there's.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Gonna be a couple of mf this that the others.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
He's gonna curse a bunch even if he's in you know,
a dinner party or something, and John Morant will not
be seen for the rest of this season regular and post.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He thinks with me, my guess because you've.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Already already Yeah, you've already suspended him before, but.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
That was just not carrying a gun though.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well but now, but now you've you've been warned, right,
and your lesson hasn't been learned. So if nothing else
you're not seeing him for the rest of the regular season,
whether he plays in the playoff. I I think Adam
Silver at this point because Jaw's not Jaw anymore. Sure, right, Jaw,
when he was suspended the last time, was still the ascending. Hey,
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he's going to be the next guy. We don't need him.
Oh yeah, we don't need him his next guy. We
got a lot of other guys, Shake Gildess. Alexander has
come onto the scene in a whole other way. Not
that he wasn't good before, but now he's an MVP candidate.
Were still talking Marvel at Jokic, we still look at
We've got Curry, We've got Lebron playing at high levels,
Lucas now a Laker.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I've got all these other guys. I don't need Jaw.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I don't need Job the same way I might have
needed him when he was suspended and given the stern
words before.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So now I can put him on ice. I don't
have to worry about him.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Yeah, No, I think he'll be suspended.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I don't think it'll be for the totality of the season,
including post I will say though, given the Grizzlies just
basically punted on their season for firing their coach with
the fifth seed in the playoffs, maybe they wouldn't even
hate the fact that he ended up getting getting suspended
for the rest of the season, but doesn't change the
fact that that, yeah, I guess I think he'll be suspended.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I don't think it'll be for the totality of the postseason.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, firing Taylor Jenkins got job back on the court
because remember he'd missed a number of games before showing
up for that Lakers game this past weekend one four, one,
twenty seven long.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Clearly, guys, they fired the wrong person.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well, at this point right now, it's the question of,
you know, as the trouble exceeded what you're bringing to
the table. We talked about a little bit last hour.
Scoring twenty two a game. We got a lot of
guys that score twenty points a game. That is not
That is not a threshold that we necessarily worry about anymore.
It's the do you provide enough to put asses in
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seats to sell merch, which certainly still does to a
point in projecting forward, But missing games, missing time, forcing
the hand of the organization to fire your coach, all
things that are huge and for Memphis individual, you know,
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as a team themselves, you know, they're two and eight
in their last ten and sinking now in sixth behind
the Warriors. After tonight and the Warriors win over Memphis,
they're seven and three in their in their last ten,
you've got the Wolves knocking on the door, only a
half game behind Clippers right there as well. So suddenly
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you're finding yourself in the playing and you're pretty comfortably
there a good uh what seven games in the lost
column ahead of the Mavericks. But you're at a point
where for jav Morant, moving the needle as a whole
other thing, I'd seen some thought pieces of whether he
would end up in another uniform. That was before Jenkins
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got fired, which might have changed some of the math
in that. But all of that to say, do.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
You think it would make a difference, because to me,
I think, you know, if you remember last year, and
I know he was hurt, but Grizzlies brought in Derrek Rose,
who were talking about earlier, Remember they brought in a
bunch of vets to kind of be like, dude, we
need you to kind of just figure some out thrown.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Ups in the locker room because it was a very
young locker room.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
And like that's my thing, is that to me, if
you bring in Derek Rose, if you bring in the
vets that they have, I just I don't I don't think, Like,
I don't think there's anything that's going to get through
to johb this point, because I mean, you know, listen,
I don't want to start getting into all the social
not socioeconomic, but the sociological stuff.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
But you know, the father clearly played a role in
his life.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Doesn't listen to the father, cut out the buddy that
was supposedly the problem. He still seems to be a problem.
You bring in veterans into the locker room, he doesn't
listen to him. So it's just, you know, I just
think he is.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Who he is. He doesn't get it.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
And you know, maybe someday he's thirty two and he's
a good dude.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Right now, he does not get it.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
At thirty when he's a role player.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yeah, that's what I'm where. Yeah, it's like, I just
I just I don't think.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
And I know you weren't necessarily talking about the hypothetical
of a scenery change, but I'm saying I don't think
that even that would make a difference for him.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
No, it becomes the if you do have a change
of scenery, is there. They're a tough love coach to
where you've got no choice. Right, It's the last chance
saloon kind of thing. We do it with other players
in terms of their playing ability. We were talking about
justin Fields a little bit earlier of probably his last
chance to start with the Jets and with Glenn and
(09:25):
the new surroundings. Right, the former passing coordinator for the
Lions is oc this is about as good a shot,
pretty good roster because we thought this has been a
pretty good roster going in last year. Now he still
need a tweak or two in your receiving corps, but
you have the draft, you have the rest of the
offseason to figure that out. But that's more that's for
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the player, right, the playing side of things. For John Morant,
it's a maturity side of things. So is there anybody
in the room, because clearly with Rose and the other
veterans there in Memphis that into it because we're back
to the same antics here getting into it with Buddy Heal,
getting into it with the bench that I'm assuming there's
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a multi game suspension and if not, then Adam Silver
is the guy that well we've all thought him to be. Wow,
I just don't want to get involved. But you've got
precedence and sitting job morant down that you're going to
see that. But is this a space where you have
to go to where there's a long established coach who's
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a bit of a hard ass. But who is that anymore?
I mean in the NBA do we even have that?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Organizationally in theory you add that in Miami, Well, that's
where eventually got tired of the Jimmy Butler well side
of things and sentiment is it Steve Kerr Well?
Speaker 6 (10:48):
And think about this Dan Hurley interviews for the Laker job.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Now, I've said on these airwaves a million times I
never thought that he was ever a candidate there. But
what is the talk Ben all year? Oh, Dan Hurley's
too rough around the edges to be an NBA head coach.
So it's like, yeah, that that guy does not exist,
is the And I think it's a fair right.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I guess the only guy would be Steve Kerr up
in the Bay Area. At this point, you think he's
a just just from the idea of whatever that relationship
is with Drayma.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
But that's built over a day. That's what I was
gonna say.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, I think that's not a short lived You come in,
come in, and you stay in aadoka.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
That's probably the only answer in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Maybe that would be it.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
He's a hard you know what, hard booty. You know,
he's not gonna put up with no nonsense, which is.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
As it's okay, okay, hard ass works.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I did say ass on the odd couple yesterday because
Pat Murphy, the Brewers coach, Brewer's manager, excuse me, he said,
my old ass has seen enough.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
To da da da da dah.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Yeah, so I said, as Pat Murphy, of course you
know what he was talking about, torpedo bats.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yeah he did.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
So we'll talk.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We'll talk about torpedo bats in a minute. And maybe
hard asses Aaron maybe talking about how you didn't.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
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we'll remember a legend word coming down of a passing
of one of our favorites, a guy referenced on the
show quite a bit. But now we turn our attention
Major League Baseball, a.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Long time friend of the show.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
As we get ready for another week of MLB greatness
and no doubt, a discussion about the composition of baseball
Batstar Buddy for the MLB Network, longtime baseball scribe. It's
John Paul Morosi at John Morosi on Twitter. Leave out
the age because mom said, so, JP, how we doing, Mandy.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
H I am outstanding, my friends. Greetings from elsewhere in
Los Angeles. Just arrived. We've got the Braves and Dodgers
tomorrow on MLB Network. And yes, I did coordinate this conversation.
So maybe later on Aaron can explain to me how
the entire state of Michigan was no match for Auburn
last week. I'm sure Aaron is waiting with that explanation
(16:12):
for me. Here a little bit from that.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I was thinking about how they basically took down the
entire Big Ten this weekend. So sorry, Sorry about the Wolverine,
Sorry about the Spartans.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
JP feel terrible. Even though I'm not an Auburn fan
in any way.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Shape that was going to say, I have no connection
to it.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
So you know.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
This stuff, No, I very much enjoy.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
It, and certainly I really was captivated this year. And
we'll get to baseball in a second. But the way
that Izzo coached the Spartans, I think it was really
unique that he had Jase Richardson on the team. Of course,
none of one of his other great players from a
generation to go. Just tells you how long Izzo's been
doing this, how great he is Dusty May. Great job
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at Michigan this year with Dustin May doing a brilliant
job for the Dodger.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Just said that in an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Great.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
How about that transition there with Dustin May on the
mound and then his first starts is twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Well, I'm gonna get let Harmon do the first baseball question.
But JP is such a Michigan man. You're actually a
candidate for the Michigan job the next time it opens.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
That's how much of a Michigan man you are.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
So I'm sorry to the Spartans, I'm sorry to the Wolverines,
and now I will let Harmon switch gears over to baseball.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So much going on, JP, and certainly the torpedo bat
captivating the universe. First off, welcome back to Los Angeles.
Will make sure that your breakfast is beautiful for you
as you get the day started. But the torpedo bat
first mover or advantage for the Yankees, I mean, how
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soon is half the league using this thing?
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Pull us attention to the scores of these games day
by day. It did seem as though we've had some
an inordinate number of high scoring games early on. Now,
some of that might be influenced by the Sacramento Ballpark,
which is seeing its second straight high scoring game tonight
as we speak, crazy. Some of that was presided over
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by I would describe as so little bit of an
underwhelming Milwaukee pitching staff against the Yankees over the weekend.
In the Bronx. Certainly we are hearing more and more
players getting on board with this. The one thing I
would point out is that the mastermind, the purveyor of
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the Torpedo bat, who now of course works for the
Marlins in their field as a good coordinator there. He
said that basically some select groups of players have been
using this at the major league level since twenty twenty three,
so this is not really new. It's new to the
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broad audience, sure and certainly and certain I wasn't fully
aware of it until the last several days. But the
hitters themselves, they've been in on this, at least in
small groups. I think the Yankees were the first group
to do because that's where Lennard was working before. Before
he went on to work with the Marlins. So the
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Yankees are the first group that's adopted it broadly. They're
playing pretty well. The Dodgers anecdotally are not a fully
torpedo bat outfitted group, and they seem to be doing
just fine right now. So I do think, as has
been said about La de la Cruz's, it's more of
the hitter than the bat he's swinging. I do think, however,
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whether it's psychologically physiologically, it does seem to me that
the physics support this. You put more of the mass
of the bat in the area of the bat that's
contacting the ball, the ball is going to travel further
that that is I guess I should say. It might
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might be a little bit of rocket physics. Maybe it's
not quite rocket physics, but it actually makes intuitive sense
to the lay baseball person like me who says, yeah,
that's that's logical, and to a great many baseball players
it's logical too. But the other thing I'll point out
on this, this is at its core a game of adjustment.
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And so now let's see if the pitchers themselves adjust
to avoid the barrel as much as they can with
the movement and or location of their pitches. Next move
belongs to you, pitchers of the Baseball World.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
JP.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
You mentioned the setup in Sacramento, so being in tonight
filling in for Jason, it was kind of the first
time that I got a chance to really see, you know,
I'd heard stories about the crowds that they're drawing in
the way that the city is embracing the city Sacramento
is embracing the A's, it seems from a thirty thousand
foot view, I don't on a day to day basis
like you do, but it seems like it's been a hit.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
I know it's a short term thing.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I know they're going to eventually end up in Vegas,
but what does it say about the community in Sacramento.
I mean, do they somehow become a candidate if expansion happens,
or is this just a cool, kind of one off story,
Because as I said, it feels like Sacramento's really embraced
the a'sse.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Aaron, there is a precedent for this, similar to what
Buffalo did with the Blue Jays, where because of the pandemic,
the James played a lot of games there for basically
a calendar year and did and Buffalo did an exemplary
job of hosting the team during that time. It did
not really put Buffalo on the map to have a
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full time major League team, but I think it did
strengthen the connection that they had with the franchise, and
it just reflected well on the community there, the corporate base, etc.
I think it's probably the similar situation in Sacramento. It's
a really strong triple a mar. I do think whether
it's the ballpark dimensions, the way the ball travels, the temperature,
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there might be some elements that would run counter to
it being a really strong expansion candidate. That being said, Aaron,
it's somewhat a long term, short term solution, if that
makes sense, where that they're not going to play in
Vegas next year. This is a multi year residency for
the A's in Sacramento, and there will be plenty of
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players who joined the team this year, and just based
on the normal attrition of a baseball player, whether your
career in a particular place is two years and three years,
the entire time they're in AA will be in Sacramento.
That will happen for a great many players, and so
it's important that the city show well, we know of course,
it's a great NBA market, it's a great area for
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sports in general. But I tend to think that if
and when baseball expands, you're probably going to hear a
bit more about places like Nashville, maybe Charlotte, or Rally
in the Carolinas, perhaps Utah, perhaps Portland, Oregon. That seems
to be the quickest names that roll off the tongue,
but what never knows. We've had some surprising teams playing
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in surprising places over the last five years for various reasons,
and certainly Sacramento is now stepping to the forefront and
doing quite well with it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Job Balmerosi our guest, as he is each and every
week here the Jason Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon,
live fromthetiraq dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. Aaron Torres
in for Jason Smith tonight. Staying on the subject of ballparks,
I was having a conversation with my dad. They're down
in the Greater Tampa area, they're JP and certainly the
Rays off to a nice little start here. What the
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hell happens in the summer when it's one hundred and
twenty degrees like that was my dad's question to me, goes,
this looks great, and we've certainly done that for spring
training and such, he goes, But when we hit the
rainy season and then for the summer when it gets
be hot like that'll be interesting to watch, first of.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
All, is what I would say on that one. He's
a it's a very very brilliant question. It by your dad.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
I think that Elis is ahead. It's gonna be similar
to what we saw in Miami all those years ago.
It's probably and and again, there are those who are
certainly much greater experts in the realm of meteorology in
Florida than I am. But I've watched plenty of Bay
News nine and then different.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
When I've when.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
I've covered spring training, and and I've been in the
area a lot over the years. I do believe that
much like Miami, you will be able to get games
in because it rarely rarely, it certainly happens, but it
rarely will rain from noon all the ways to midnight.
You're gonna usually have a spot at some point to
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be able to get a game in. But are you
gonna have all your comforts of a normal VP and
and interrupted game? And will you will your bullpen be
in a bit of a tough spot because you had
to burn a reliever and then there's a rain to lay. Yeah,
that's that's part of it. Now, I think it's going
to be up to the Rays and Kevin Cash is
one of the best managers in the game to understand
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how to use the home ballpark to their advantage, and
and they may be able to with the benefit of
some research, and again they're one of the smartest offices
in the sport. They'll figure it out in the in
the next couple of months, and then of course the
circumstances will change a bit when you talk about the
weather of the of the Midsummer. But I like the
Rays right now. I think they've got a good young
ball club. They're pitching and gotten healthy again. Shane Boz
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came back tonight. So I think that in a lot
of ways, the Rays are well situated to take advantage
of a of a unique circumstance. And obviously we don't
wish them to be playing there because it's it's because
the hurricane. That's the reason why. So that's that's the
sad part of the story. But the Rays are a
very adaptable group they've they've found a way to represent
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that that base really well despite a lot of adversity
for a long time, and so I expect them to
do a lot of the same year this year with
a pretty talented team in a very tough division that
has now the Torpedo Bats swinging Yankees, the Red Sox
that they sorted through the Dever situation, and the Jays
who have suddenly won three in a row. So that
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division in Baltimore obviously can swing it with anybody. So
it's gonna be a fun division to watch unfold this summer.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, just like the NL West, will teams ever lose
the Dodgers in the eighth. Now with the Braves game,
you've got for MLB Network tomorrow, Padres undefeated the Giants
at four and one. So that's all fun and choose
your own adventure there. But you mentioned the Devers situation.
Aaron with his East Coast roots as well, we'll grab
(26:47):
this into one big umbrella. Well, how does that swort
out the Devers Bregman. We talked about it a couple
of weeks ago, JP, and now you've got a guy
that can't even put wood on the ball.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Circumstances. What you have with Devers is a player who
did not have a good base of at bats in
the spring training, is out of sync, probably pressing and
adjusting to a new role. That's a lot. That's a
lot on one player at one time. And it's Boston,
like we talked about before, it's a small clubhouse with
a lot of reporters and a lot of newspapers and
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a lot of talk radio. This is candidly the I
will say this, This is probably if I'm rop Field Devers,
if I'm the Red Sox trying to navigate this situation,
this is this is the toughest market to do it.
It really is. Sure. I will say that when when
a controversy catches fire like this does, there's no place
(27:45):
quite like Boston. And Sam Kennedy himself was the president
of the team that I'll be never radio. I think
it was last year the year before. Boston is the
best place to win and the worst place to lose.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
That about right, and.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Right now they're experiencing the latter part of that sentence,
and there's really nowhere to go with this. You can't
trade a guy who's got a massive contract and can't
hit at the moment. I mean, he'll hit eventually, I believe,
but he's not hitting right now. And defensive play was
always questioned a little bit much. The easier solution to
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all of this is that Devers starts hitting again and
eventually they trade constans for pitching. That's the easiest way
to do this. But it's hard to do that, and
it's April first. It's like, this is not a time
of the year when you typically make trade. Devers has
to figure it out, and whether it's physically the routine
(28:45):
has to change. Mentally, the routine has to change. I
don't know, but the results are not looking good right now.
And it's not as though the media is just going
to let the Red Sox figure this out for the
next few weeks and we'll check back on the first
of May. Gonna be on this every day. And Alex Cora,
there's a brilliant job managing the team. He's great at communicating.
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This is one of the toughest things he's ever had
to manage in his career.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
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coverage tomorrow and Braves Dodgers from an MLB network at
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Speaker 8 (29:22):
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R Osi joins us each and every week. JP enjoyed
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Speaker 7 (29:33):
Right and early on MLB Network at seven thirty am
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on the show quite often. But first we got Steve
de Seger with an update on everything trending in our
sporting universe, including an NBA game coming down to the
wire or Steve and.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
That final ballgame is going to the ninth inning. They're
gonna ask Tanner Scott to get the save. At Dodger Stadium,
LA up three to one going to the ninth against
the Braves, Mookie Betts with a two run homer for
the lead in the sixth the Brave starter Chris Slee
Atlanta in danger of going to OH and six on
the season, Dodgers currently six and OH. Dodger first baseman
Freddie Freeman out again with a bad ankle. The Cubs
(31:04):
won seven to four at the A's. The lost to
Luis Severino attendance ten thousand in Sacramento. Kyle Tucker of
the Cubs homered for a fourth straight game Detroit, a
four to one winner at Seattle, holding the Mariners to
just one hit. The lost to Logan Gilbert despite ten
strikeouts in five innings San Diego six and oh after
shutting out Cleveland's seven nothing Michael King the win five
(31:26):
scoreless innings eleven k's. Cleveland's offense went two for twenty
nine was sixteen strikeouts. The Angels won in eleven innings
at Saint Louis nine to seven. Former Cardinals pitcher Lance
Lynn retired. He turns thirty eight next month. Arizona a
seven to five winner in New York against the Yankees.
A uhenne O Suarez a grand slam top of the eighth,
(31:46):
his fifth home run his only five hits so far.
The Yankees hit three solo homers, so they're up to
eighteen long balls already this year, most by any team
in their first four games. Yankee closer Devin Williams is
on paternity leave. The Yankee signed reliever Adam Ottovino, who
got into this game. Corbyn Burns was the Arizona starter
four to third innings, eight strikeouts, no decision. As for
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that late NBA contest, they're going to overtime. At Denver,
Nuggets tied one twelve, one twelve with Minnesota. Nikola Jokic
tied it late at the foul line. He has forty
nine points for Denver Golden State. Steph Curry had fifty
two in a win at Memphis one thirty four to
one twenty five, and Curry from three point range was
(32:29):
twelve for twenty Kate Cunningham of the Pistons is doubtful
for Wednesday with a Bruce calf Who've got college basketball
Crown action. That's the new tournament in Las Vegas that
started yesterday on FS one. USC leads the late game tonight,
sixty three forty nine over to lane with about seven
and a half minutes to go. Already wins for Cincinnati, Villanova,
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and ucf the men's nit semifinal winners where UC Irvine
and Chattanooga. Maryland's new head coach is Buzz Williams from
Texas A and M. Among the NHL games, we've got
a couple of note late. The Winnipeg Jets are still
losing in LA. It's the Kings three to one in
the lead early in the third period, and Edmonton has
(33:11):
just won at Vegas three to two. Saint Louis won
its tenth straight game at overtime win against Detroit two
to one. And speaking of overtime, as the NFL meetings
are going on in Florida, NFL overtimes now both teams
will have a chance at possession like the playoffs have.
It'll still be a ten minute overtime period and the
regular season and the NFL will use Hawkeye technology as
(33:34):
the primary first down measurement. The on field chain crew
will now be secondary. And no, they did not vote
on whether the band the Tush Bush played. It'll come
up again in May at the next league meeting.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Back to you.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
There you go, We'll get into Hawkeye and the MCU.
See what I'm doing to you there, I'm taking it
out a deep dark path. Coming up next, Thanks Steve.
More on the NFL rules discussions next hour, as well
as some more of the nc double coaches in the
handwringing that they all want to do. But coming up next,
we remember an absolute legend here on Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show
with Me Mike Harmon, Coming here from the Tire Act
dot Com. Fox Sports Radio Studios. Aaron Torres in for
Jason Smith tonight, Jason feeling a little under the weather,
so sitting and enjoying a Mets loss. Hi, Jason, as
we're yeah, I know that that's exactly what he sounded like.
(34:37):
Towards the end of last night, we're watching the ends
of a couple of games. As we've had a busy night.
You had the McDonald's All American Games, we had some
of the nit still going usc with a absolutely bludgeoning
to lane at this point seventy five to fifty two,
(34:59):
four to twenty seven, and remaining in this one NBA
game in overtime under two minutes, Minnesota with a six
point lead at Denver, and then those Dodgers three to
one the final. Dustin Maygo's five innings, no runs allowed,
three walks, six strikeouts in his return to the mound,
(35:20):
resplendent strikes out the side to get things started, so
the Dodgers remain undefeated.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
The Braves remain winless on this early season.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Here, Aaron tours a couple of stories, the Braves the
second most bet to perhaps dethrone the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
This year. No crazy.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
I know it's early, you don't want to overreact, but
zero and six start for the Braves.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Don't think anybody saw that coming.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
No, I do think people probably saw a pretty hot
start for the Dogs coming.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah. The Dodgers people now getting into the pick the loss. Yeah,
when the Warriors won their seventy three games or the
Bulls back on the seventy two and ten and to
where it's like, all right, find the losses on that schedule.
Starting to do that with the Dodgers a little bit
as we get things going tonight, being one of those
that was kind of circled with May making his return,
you're not sure what you're gonna get and Chris Sale
(36:12):
on the other side.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Of course, Sale makes the mistake to Mookie Betts.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
And here we are Mooki himself coming off of that
illness that sent him home and kept him out of
the season opening Japan Series, and even though he's down weight,
has certainly put a charge into a couple of the
game winning walk off a couple of nights ago, and
now another big home run tonight in a.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Three to one win over the Braze Dodgers. Yeah, yeah,
just craziness that over under continues to rise. Hey, right
after the show. Yes, sir, you just wait till they
start using those torpedo bats.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Well, I mean months, he's gonna have but first of them,
and then I think everybody's gonna get a look see
and maybe maybe decide that they want to go down
that road. Who knows him on Major League Baseball for
not scheduling Dodgers padres earlier with these two records right now,
that would have been undefeated squads right now, certainly getting
(37:10):
excited down there in San Diego. But we have plenty
of time as the summer comes to heat that up. Oh,
they'll be under five hundred a matter of time. Look
at you and the Braves, it'll even ou if they
play the Mets, what sixteen times?
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Well, that is true, plenty of time to get after.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
You're gonna have to overanalyze every single one of them
here on the Jason Well, and that's what we'll do.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
And fortunately, you know that loss to the Marlins only
gets mentioned three or four times tonight. Hey, right after
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a best version posted. Right after we get off the air,
we'll get back into the NFL rule votes and the
Hawkeye technology coming in. But a couple of minutes to
remember a legend, part of the show, part of the
lexicon of the show and the history of it. Here
(38:16):
one of the few times it's awful hard with our
schedules to get out and about and get everybody together,
but we did when Maverick premiered in theaters, and today
this evening, we mourn the loss of Val Kilmer, a
legendary Hollywood actor, part of the Batman lore. Batman Forever,
one of the classics, top Gun of course, and top
(38:38):
Gun Maverick to standouts, the movie Heat, the movie Tombstone,
another classic ghost in the darkness, Keep on going on
down the line, true romance. Val Kilmer, part of it succumbs,
has been struggling for years with throat cancer, something I
know well in my family, my dad having gone through
(39:00):
a couple of bouts with it. There was a kinship
and he kept apprized of his fight something that my
dad had years ago long the tracheotomy. So Kilmer's appearance
at Tom Cruise insistence to be part of the Maverick
reboot all these years later, something that you know, a
(39:21):
movie that is described as having saved cinema when it
came out, you know, Val Kilmer being part of that,
and you know the emotional resonance his appearance and his
character had certainly something big. But it was something we
did as a show, and ultimately I saw it multiple
times in theater, as I know Smith did as well.
(39:43):
So he passes away at the age of sixty five tonight,
and I started thinking of going all the way back
to Top Secret, which was a spoof of Top Gun
that he did one of his early credits, you know,
all those years ago that you know, starting as a comedy,
you have hop Gun and all of the roles therein
(40:03):
Val Kilmer one of those Hollywood stars from that era
with Tom Cruise and long chronicled you know, his illness,
but you know, certainly Top Gun something over a forty
year period that has that resonance.
Speaker 8 (40:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
I think that's the last part that stands out to
me is how long his career resonated for, like you said,
starring in movies in the eighties and the nineties and
and you know.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Different roles, different characters.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
You talked about the impact that Maverick had on the
entire industry about you know, two three summers ago whatever,
it was awful news, sad news. Sixty five isn't young,
but it still feels young.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Rest in peace to Valkilmer.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Yeah, I'll be your Huckleberry Doc Tombstone. We can run
one liners, but you know, one of the the Batman's
and certainly for me, you have your Michael Keaton stands
out atop the list, but Val kilm Or made that
character his own. So certainly hitting the filmography this evening
(41:05):
and rolling up the playbacks as we go through, he's
Aaron Torres and for Jason Smith al Mike Carmen. As
we continue, we'll talk about the NFL, the owners meetings. Yeah,
there's some Aaron Rodgers scuttle butt and all that fun stuff.
But the Hawkeye technology used in tennis coming to the NFL,
as anticipated, but does it really solve anything.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
We'll debate it next here on Fox Sports Radio.
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to him on a speedy recovery. As we roll through.
Coming to twenty minutes, John Palmerosi stops by for his
weekly visit talking about all things Major League Baseball. Will
celebrate the Torpedo Bats one more time. I know we're
a bit it's gotten a bit old and overplayed. The
last couple of days. We had some fun with it
related back to the little bats that you would buy
(01:19):
for your kid to give.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Them a big hitting zone.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
And you know, Bayer admitted that the one he has
for Brody is orange. It was always red, like now
they make them in different colors.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Has anything gone from something no one has ever heard
of to completely over talked about in an overplayed concept
than the torpedo bats?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
This would probably be right up about there. I'd have
to give it some thought.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Certainly in the pop culture world, things get get to
that point for me where they're overcooked very quickly. But
sports wise, no, this is probably it is this like.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
The ice bucket challenge of sports.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Maybe they're Yeah. The Zion shoe, Oh yeah, that was
in how huge that was?
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Like he blew out a shoe I know, and he
was fine.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I mean like like he didn't get hurt, shoe gave out.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Maybe it's an indictment on the shoe. Yep.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Oh, Nike got a lot of flak for that.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Remember remember the like three week window where it's like, well,
they just cost themselves a shot to sign Zion when
he gets his first shoe deal, then they offered him
ninety million.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
I think they.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I think everybody got over it pretty fanks exactly, That's exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It seemed to me that that was a if nothing else,
it was a really great thing for Zion Williamson, who
it would be nice to have him on the court.
Oh wait, he's not on the court either. He's been
shut down with a back injury. I think it's the
fourth time in six years he finished with thirty or
fewer games played.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Man, And you think about that twenty nineteen draft class.
We were talking about John Morant a little bit earlier
for those that missed it, A big comeback by the Warriors.
Step goes for nearly a triple double, fifty two points
on the night, twelve to twenty from three point range.
As a team, they took fifty six three point shots,
(03:08):
which is a whole other crazy, crazy thing. But John Morant,
in the loss for Memphis, makes a shooting gesture towards
the Warriors bench that it's just interesting that he's running
into the elder Statesman Curry and Draymond Green on the
court as he does so, and Draymond immediately makes the
(03:30):
and buddy heal healed? Does it back to him? So
you're getting this back and forth. So Adam Silver, who
normally enjoys the Hey, whatever happens, haha, you know we
are what we are. We signed the seventy six billion
dollars deal going forward. Television ratings don't matter. The international
numbers are great. Here's everything that's going on. Lebron still
(03:52):
playing at forty. We've got enough positivity as we get
towards the playoff and then this drops in your lap
in the final two weeks of the regular season.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
What do you think Adam Silver's response is when he
first sees this video, if he has not seen it yet,
or when he every season, Oh, there's.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Gonna be a couple of mf this that the others.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
He's gonna curse a bunch even if he's in you know,
a dinner party or something, and John Morant will not
be seen for the rest of this season regular and post.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He thinks with me, my guess because you've.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Already already Yeah, you've already suspended him before, but.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
That was just not carrying a gun though.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well but now, but now you've you've been warned, right,
and your lesson hasn't been learned. So if nothing else
you're not seeing him for the rest of the regular season,
whether he plays in the playoff. I I think Adam
Silver at this point because Jaw's not Jaw anymore. Sure, right, Jaw,
when he was suspended the last time, was still the ascending. Hey,
(04:48):
he's going to be the next guy. We don't need him.
Oh yeah, we don't need him his next guy. We
got a lot of other guys, Shake Gildess. Alexander has
come onto the scene in a whole other way. Not
that he wasn't good before, but now he's an MVP candidate.
Were still talking Marvel at Jokic, we still look at
We've got Curry, We've got Lebron playing at high levels,
Lucas now a Laker.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I've got all these other guys. I don't need Jaw.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I don't need Job the same way I might have
needed him when he was suspended and given the stern
words before.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
So now I can put him on ice. I don't
have to worry about him.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Yeah, No, I think he'll be suspended.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
I don't think it'll be for the totality of the season,
including post I will say though, given the Grizzlies just
basically punted on their season for firing their coach with
the fifth seed in the playoffs, maybe they wouldn't even
hate the fact that he ended up getting getting suspended
for the rest of the season, but doesn't change the
fact that that, yeah, I guess I think he'll be suspended.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
I don't think it'll be for the totality of the postseason.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, firing Taylor Jenkins got job back on the court
because remember he'd missed a number of games before showing
up for that Lakers game this past weekend one four, one,
twenty seven long.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Clearly, guys, they fired the wrong person.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Well, at this point right now, it's the question of,
you know, as the trouble exceeded what you're bringing to
the table. We talked about a little bit last hour.
Scoring twenty two a game. We got a lot of
guys that score twenty points a game. That is not
That is not a threshold that we necessarily worry about anymore.
It's the do you provide enough to put asses in
(06:28):
seats to sell merch, which certainly still does to a
point in projecting forward, But missing games, missing time, forcing
the hand of the organization to fire your coach, all
things that are huge and for Memphis individual, you know,
(06:51):
as a team themselves, you know, they're two and eight
in their last ten and sinking now in sixth behind
the Warriors. After tonight and the Warriors win over Memphis,
they're seven and three in their in their last ten,
you've got the Wolves knocking on the door, only a
half game behind Clippers right there as well. So suddenly
(07:14):
you're finding yourself in the playing and you're pretty comfortably
there a good uh what seven games in the lost
column ahead of the Mavericks. But you're at a point
where for jav Morant, moving the needle as a whole
other thing, I'd seen some thought pieces of whether he
would end up in another uniform. That was before Jenkins
(07:36):
got fired, which might have changed some of the math
in that. But all of that to say, do.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
You think it would make a difference, because to me,
I think, you know, if you remember last year, and
I know he was hurt, but Grizzlies brought in Derrek Rose,
who were talking about earlier, Remember they brought in a
bunch of vets to kind of be like, dude, we
need you to kind of just figure some out thrown.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Ups in the locker room because it was a very
young locker room.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
And like that's my thing, is that to me, if
you bring in Derek Rose, if you bring in the
vets that they have, I just I don't I don't think, Like,
I don't think there's anything that's going to get through
to johb this point, because I mean, you know, listen,
I don't want to start getting into all the social
not socioeconomic, but the sociological stuff.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
But you know, the father clearly played a role in
his life.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Doesn't listen to the father, cut out the buddy that
was supposedly the problem. He still seems to be a problem.
You bring in veterans into the locker room, he doesn't
listen to him. So it's just, you know, I just
think he is.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
Who he is. He doesn't get it.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
And you know, maybe someday he's thirty two and he's
a good dude.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
Right now, he does not get it.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
At thirty when he's a role player.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yeah, that's what I'm where. Yeah, it's like, I just
I just I don't think.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
And I know you weren't necessarily talking about the hypothetical
of a scenery change, but I'm saying I don't think
that even that would make a difference for him.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
No, it becomes the if you do have a change
of scenery, is there. They're a tough love coach to
where you've got no choice. Right, It's the last chance
saloon kind of thing. We do it with other players
in terms of their playing ability. We were talking about
justin Fields a little bit earlier of probably his last
chance to start with the Jets and with Glenn and
(09:25):
the new surroundings. Right, the former passing coordinator for the
Lions is oc this is about as good a shot,
pretty good roster because we thought this has been a
pretty good roster going in last year. Now he still
need a tweak or two in your receiving corps, but
you have the draft, you have the rest of the
offseason to figure that out. But that's more that's for
(09:47):
the player, right, the playing side of things. For John Morant,
it's a maturity side of things. So is there anybody
in the room, because clearly with Rose and the other
veterans there in Memphis that into it because we're back
to the same antics here getting into it with Buddy Heal,
getting into it with the bench that I'm assuming there's
(10:09):
a multi game suspension and if not, then Adam Silver
is the guy that well we've all thought him to be. Wow,
I just don't want to get involved. But you've got
precedence and sitting job morant down that you're going to
see that. But is this a space where you have
to go to where there's a long established coach who's
(10:31):
a bit of a hard ass. But who is that anymore?
I mean in the NBA do we even have that?
Speaker 7 (10:37):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Right?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Organizationally in theory you add that in Miami, Well, that's
where eventually got tired of the Jimmy Butler well side
of things and sentiment is it Steve Kerr Well?
Speaker 6 (10:48):
And think about this Dan Hurley interviews for the Laker job.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Now, I've said on these airwaves a million times I
never thought that he was ever a candidate there. But
what is the talk Ben all year? Oh, Dan Hurley's
too rough around the edges to be an NBA head coach.
So it's like, yeah, that that guy does not exist,
is the And I think it's a fair right.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I guess the only guy would be Steve Kerr up
in the Bay Area. At this point, you think he's
a just just from the idea of whatever that relationship
is with Drayma.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
But that's built over a day. That's what I was
gonna say.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, I think that's not a short lived You come in,
come in, and you stay in aadoka.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
That's probably the only answer in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Maybe that would be it.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
He's a hard you know what, hard booty. You know,
he's not gonna put up with no nonsense, which is.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
As it's okay, okay, hard ass works.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
I did say ass on the odd couple yesterday because
Pat Murphy, the Brewers coach, Brewer's manager, excuse me, he said,
my old ass has seen enough.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
To da da da da dah.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Yeah, so I said, as Pat Murphy, of course you
know what he was talking about, torpedo bats.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yeah he did.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
So we'll talk.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
We'll talk about torpedo bats in a minute. And maybe
hard asses Aaron maybe talking about how you didn't.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Skip the gym.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I don't know what he was doing there, but we
got John bon Barrosi coming up talking all things major
League Baseball here momentarily. But first, hey, you know, every
morning I get to make a choice from a number
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Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (14:52):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with Me Mike Harmon, No Jason Tonight. It instat our
buddy Aaron Torres is in ad Aaron Underscore Tourists. You
see everything he's got going his podcast, video interviews and
clips and everything he's in for Jason. Jason out ill tonight,
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wishing him good health. Coming up at about twenty five minutes,
we'll remember a legend word coming down of a passing
of one of our favorites, a guy referenced on the
show quite a bit. But now we turn our attention
Major League Baseball, a.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Long time friend of the show.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
As we get ready for another week of MLB greatness
and no doubt, a discussion about the composition of baseball
Batstar Buddy for the MLB Network, longtime baseball scribe. It's
John Paul Morosi at John Morosi on Twitter. Leave out
the age because mom said, so, JP, how we doing, Mandy.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
H I am outstanding, my friends. Greetings from elsewhere in
Los Angeles. Just arrived. We've got the Braves and Dodgers
tomorrow on MLB Network. And yes, I did coordinate this conversation.
So maybe later on Aaron can explain to me how
the entire state of Michigan was no match for Auburn
last week. I'm sure Aaron is waiting with that explanation
(16:12):
for me. Here a little bit from that.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I was thinking about how they basically took down the
entire Big Ten this weekend. So sorry, Sorry about the Wolverine,
Sorry about the Spartans.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
JP feel terrible. Even though I'm not an Auburn fan
in any way.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Shape that was going to say, I have no connection
to it.
Speaker 7 (16:28):
So you know.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
This stuff, No, I very much enjoy.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
It, and certainly I really was captivated this year. And
we'll get to baseball in a second. But the way
that Izzo coached the Spartans, I think it was really
unique that he had Jase Richardson on the team. Of course,
none of one of his other great players from a
generation to go. Just tells you how long Izzo's been
doing this, how great he is Dusty May. Great job
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at Michigan this year with Dustin May doing a brilliant
job for the Dodger.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Just said that in an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Great.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
How about that transition there with Dustin May on the
mound and then his first starts is twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Well, I'm gonna get let Harmon do the first baseball question.
But JP is such a Michigan man. You're actually a
candidate for the Michigan job the next time it opens.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
That's how much of a Michigan man you are.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
So I'm sorry to the Spartans, I'm sorry to the Wolverines,
and now I will let Harmon switch gears over to baseball.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So much going on, JP, and certainly the torpedo bat
captivating the universe. First off, welcome back to Los Angeles.
Will make sure that your breakfast is beautiful for you
as you get the day started. But the torpedo bat
first mover or advantage for the Yankees, I mean, how
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soon is half the league using this thing?
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Pull us attention to the scores of these games day
by day. It did seem as though we've had some
an inordinate number of high scoring games early on. Now,
some of that might be influenced by the Sacramento Ballpark,
which is seeing its second straight high scoring game tonight
as we speak, crazy. Some of that was presided over
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by I would describe as so little bit of an
underwhelming Milwaukee pitching staff against the Yankees over the weekend.
In the Bronx. Certainly we are hearing more and more
players getting on board with this. The one thing I
would point out is that the mastermind, the purveyor of
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the Torpedo bat, who now of course works for the
Marlins in their field as a good coordinator there. He
said that basically some select groups of players have been
using this at the major league level since twenty twenty three,
so this is not really new. It's new to the
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broad audience, sure and certainly and certain I wasn't fully
aware of it until the last several days. But the
hitters themselves, they've been in on this, at least in
small groups. I think the Yankees were the first group
to do because that's where Lennard was working before. Before
he went on to work with the Marlins. So the
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Yankees are the first group that's adopted it broadly. They're
playing pretty well. The Dodgers anecdotally are not a fully
torpedo bat outfitted group, and they seem to be doing
just fine right now. So I do think, as has
been said about La de la Cruz's, it's more of
the hitter than the bat he's swinging. I do think, however,
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whether it's psychologically physiologically, it does seem to me that
the physics support this. You put more of the mass
of the bat in the area of the bat that's
contacting the ball, the ball is going to travel further
that that is I guess I should say. It might
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might be a little bit of rocket physics. Maybe it's
not quite rocket physics, but it actually makes intuitive sense
to the lay baseball person like me who says, yeah,
that's that's logical, and to a great many baseball players
it's logical too. But the other thing I'll point out
on this, this is at its core a game of adjustment.
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And so now let's see if the pitchers themselves adjust
to avoid the barrel as much as they can with
the movement and or location of their pitches. Next move
belongs to you, pitchers of the Baseball World.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
JP.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
You mentioned the setup in Sacramento, so being in tonight
filling in for Jason, it was kind of the first
time that I got a chance to really see, you know,
I'd heard stories about the crowds that they're drawing in
the way that the city is embracing the city Sacramento
is embracing the A's, it seems from a thirty thousand
foot view, I don't on a day to day basis
like you do, but it seems like it's been a hit.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
I know it's a short term thing.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I know they're going to eventually end up in Vegas,
but what does it say about the community in Sacramento.
I mean, do they somehow become a candidate if expansion happens,
or is this just a cool, kind of one off story,
Because as I said, it feels like Sacramento's really embraced
the a'sse.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Aaron, there is a precedent for this, similar to what
Buffalo did with the Blue Jays, where because of the pandemic,
the James played a lot of games there for basically
a calendar year and did and Buffalo did an exemplary
job of hosting the team during that time. It did
not really put Buffalo on the map to have a
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full time major League team, but I think it did
strengthen the connection that they had with the franchise, and
it just reflected well on the community there, the corporate base, etc.
I think it's probably the similar situation in Sacramento. It's
a really strong triple a mar. I do think whether
it's the ballpark dimensions, the way the ball travels, the temperature,
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there might be some elements that would run counter to
it being a really strong expansion candidate. That being said, Aaron,
it's somewhat a long term, short term solution, if that
makes sense, where that they're not going to play in
Vegas next year. This is a multi year residency for
the A's in Sacramento, and there will be plenty of
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players who joined the team this year, and just based
on the normal attrition of a baseball player, whether your
career in a particular place is two years and three years,
the entire time they're in AA will be in Sacramento.
That will happen for a great many players, and so
it's important that the city show well, we know of course,
it's a great NBA market, it's a great area for
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sports in general. But I tend to think that if
and when baseball expands, you're probably going to hear a
bit more about places like Nashville, maybe Charlotte, or Rally
in the Carolinas, perhaps Utah, perhaps Portland, Oregon. That seems
to be the quickest names that roll off the tongue,
but what never knows. We've had some surprising teams playing
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in surprising places over the last five years for various reasons,
and certainly Sacramento is now stepping to the forefront and
doing quite well with it.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Job Balmerosi our guest, as he is each and every
week here the Jason Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon,
live fromthetiraq dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. Aaron Torres
in for Jason Smith tonight. Staying on the subject of ballparks,
I was having a conversation with my dad. They're down
in the Greater Tampa area, they're JP and certainly the
Rays off to a nice little start here. What the
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hell happens in the summer when it's one hundred and
twenty degrees like that was my dad's question to me, goes,
this looks great, and we've certainly done that for spring
training and such, he goes, But when we hit the
rainy season and then for the summer when it gets
be hot like that'll be interesting to watch, first of.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
All, is what I would say on that one. He's
a it's a very very brilliant question. It by your dad.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
I think that Elis is ahead. It's gonna be similar
to what we saw in Miami all those years ago.
It's probably and and again, there are those who are
certainly much greater experts in the realm of meteorology in
Florida than I am. But I've watched plenty of Bay
News nine and then different.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
When I've when.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
I've covered spring training, and and I've been in the
area a lot over the years. I do believe that
much like Miami, you will be able to get games
in because it rarely rarely, it certainly happens, but it
rarely will rain from noon all the ways to midnight.
You're gonna usually have a spot at some point to
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be able to get a game in. But are you
gonna have all your comforts of a normal VP and
and interrupted game? And will you will your bullpen be
in a bit of a tough spot because you had
to burn a reliever and then there's a rain to lay. Yeah,
that's that's part of it. Now, I think it's going
to be up to the Rays and Kevin Cash is
one of the best managers in the game to understand
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how to use the home ballpark to their advantage, and
and they may be able to with the benefit of
some research, and again they're one of the smartest offices
in the sport. They'll figure it out in the in
the next couple of months, and then of course the
circumstances will change a bit when you talk about the
weather of the of the Midsummer. But I like the
Rays right now. I think they've got a good young
ball club. They're pitching and gotten healthy again. Shane Boz
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came back tonight. So I think that in a lot
of ways, the Rays are well situated to take advantage
of a of a unique circumstance. And obviously we don't
wish them to be playing there because it's it's because
the hurricane. That's the reason why. So that's that's the
sad part of the story. But the Rays are a
very adaptable group they've they've found a way to represent
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that that base really well despite a lot of adversity
for a long time, and so I expect them to
do a lot of the same year this year with
a pretty talented team in a very tough division that
has now the Torpedo Bats swinging Yankees, the Red Sox
that they sorted through the Dever situation, and the Jays
who have suddenly won three in a row. So that
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division in Baltimore obviously can swing it with anybody. So
it's gonna be a fun division to watch unfold this summer.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, just like the NL West, will teams ever lose
the Dodgers in the eighth. Now with the Braves game,
you've got for MLB Network tomorrow, Padres undefeated the Giants
at four and one. So that's all fun and choose
your own adventure there. But you mentioned the Devers situation.
Aaron with his East Coast roots as well, we'll grab
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this into one big umbrella. Well, how does that swort
out the Devers Bregman. We talked about it a couple
of weeks ago, JP, and now you've got a guy
that can't even put wood on the ball.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
Circumstances. What you have with Devers is a player who
did not have a good base of at bats in
the spring training, is out of sync, probably pressing and
adjusting to a new role. That's a lot. That's a
lot on one player at one time. And it's Boston,
like we talked about before, it's a small clubhouse with
a lot of reporters and a lot of newspapers and
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a lot of talk radio. This is candidly the I
will say this, This is probably if I'm rop Field Devers,
if I'm the Red Sox trying to navigate this situation,
this is this is the toughest market to do it.
It really is. Sure. I will say that when when
a controversy catches fire like this does, there's no place
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quite like Boston. And Sam Kennedy himself was the president
of the team that I'll be never radio. I think
it was last year the year before. Boston is the
best place to win and the worst place to lose.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
That about right, and.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
Right now they're experiencing the latter part of that sentence,
and there's really nowhere to go with this. You can't
trade a guy who's got a massive contract and can't
hit at the moment. I mean, he'll hit eventually, I believe,
but he's not hitting right now. And defensive play was
always questioned a little bit much. The easier solution to
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all of this is that Devers starts hitting again and
eventually they trade constans for pitching. That's the easiest way
to do this. But it's hard to do that, and
it's April first. It's like, this is not a time
of the year when you typically make trade. Devers has
to figure it out, and whether it's physically the routine
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has to change. Mentally, the routine has to change. I
don't know, but the results are not looking good right now.
And it's not as though the media is just going
to let the Red Sox figure this out for the
next few weeks and we'll check back on the first
of May. Gonna be on this every day. And Alex Cora,
there's a brilliant job managing the team. He's great at communicating.
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This is one of the toughest things he's ever had
to manage in his career.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
He's job Paul Morosi in town here in Los Angeles
coverage tomorrow and Braves Dodgers from an MLB network at
John Morosi where you find him on Twitter.
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J O N. M.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
R Osi joins us each and every week. JP enjoyed
the stay in La. Hopefully the breakfast buffet gets you
off and going to a good game.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Right and early on MLB Network at seven thirty am
Eastern time, my pre game segment. So I'm gonna sleep fast,
I'll be up early and what.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
We'll talk to you then get that coffee for one brother,
Thanks for joining us each and every week.
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He's incredibly knowledgeable, He's just such he you know, he
as somebody who doesn't watch as it doesn't have time
to watch as much baseball. He just brings so much
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on the show quite often. But first we got Steve
de Seger with an update on everything trending in our
sporting universe, including an NBA game coming down to the
wire or Steve and.
Speaker 8 (30:42):
That final ballgame is going to the ninth inning. They're
gonna ask Tanner Scott to get the save. At Dodger Stadium,
LA up three to one going to the ninth against
the Braves, Mookie Betts with a two run homer for
the lead in the sixth the Brave starter Chris Slee
Atlanta in danger of going to OH and six on
the season, Dodgers currently six and OH. Dodger first baseman
Freddie Freeman out again with a bad ankle. The Cubs
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won seven to four at the A's. The lost to
Luis Severino attendance ten thousand in Sacramento. Kyle Tucker of
the Cubs homered for a fourth straight game Detroit, a
four to one winner at Seattle, holding the Mariners to
just one hit. The lost to Logan Gilbert despite ten
strikeouts in five innings San Diego six and oh after
shutting out Cleveland's seven nothing Michael King the win five
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scoreless innings eleven k's. Cleveland's offense went two for twenty
nine was sixteen strikeouts. The Angels won in eleven innings
at Saint Louis nine to seven. Former Cardinals pitcher Lance
Lynn retired. He turns thirty eight next month. Arizona a
seven to five winner in New York against the Yankees.
A uhenne O Suarez a grand slam top of the eighth,
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his fifth home run his only five hits so far.
The Yankees hit three solo homers, so they're up to
eighteen long balls already this year, most by any team
in their first four games. Yankee closer Devin Williams is
on paternity leave. The Yankee signed reliever Adam Ottovino, who
got into this game. Corbyn Burns was the Arizona starter
four to third innings, eight strikeouts, no decision. As for
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that late NBA contest, they're going to overtime. At Denver,
Nuggets tied one twelve, one twelve with Minnesota. Nikola Jokic
tied it late at the foul line. He has forty
nine points for Denver Golden State. Steph Curry had fifty
two in a win at Memphis one thirty four to
one twenty five, and Curry from three point range was
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twelve for twenty Kate Cunningham of the Pistons is doubtful
for Wednesday with a Bruce calf Who've got college basketball
Crown action. That's the new tournament in Las Vegas that
started yesterday on FS one. USC leads the late game tonight,
sixty three forty nine over to lane with about seven
and a half minutes to go. Already wins for Cincinnati, Villanova,
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and ucf the men's nit semifinal winners where UC Irvine
and Chattanooga. Maryland's new head coach is Buzz Williams from
Texas A and M. Among the NHL games, we've got
a couple of note late. The Winnipeg Jets are still
losing in LA. It's the Kings three to one in
the lead early in the third period, and Edmonton has
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just won at Vegas three to two. Saint Louis won
its tenth straight game at overtime win against Detroit two
to one. And speaking of overtime, as the NFL meetings
are going on in Florida, NFL overtimes now both teams
will have a chance at possession like the playoffs have.
It'll still be a ten minute overtime period and the
regular season and the NFL will use Hawkeye technology as
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the primary first down measurement. The on field chain crew
will now be secondary. And no, they did not vote
on whether the band the Tush Bush played. It'll come
up again in May at the next league meeting.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Back to you.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
There you go, We'll get into Hawkeye and the MCU.
See what I'm doing to you there, I'm taking it
out a deep dark path. Coming up next, Thanks Steve.
More on the NFL rules discussions next hour, as well
as some more of the nc double coaches in the
handwringing that they all want to do. But coming up next,
we remember an absolute legend here on Fox Sports.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show
with Me Mike Harmon, Coming here from the Tire Act
dot Com. Fox Sports Radio Studios. Aaron Torres in for
Jason Smith tonight, Jason feeling a little under the weather,
so sitting and enjoying a Mets loss. Hi, Jason, as
we're yeah, I know that that's exactly what he sounded like.
(34:37):
Towards the end of last night, we're watching the ends
of a couple of games. As we've had a busy night.
You had the McDonald's All American Games, we had some
of the nit still going usc with a absolutely bludgeoning
to lane at this point seventy five to fifty two,
(34:59):
four to twenty seven, and remaining in this one NBA
game in overtime under two minutes, Minnesota with a six
point lead at Denver, and then those Dodgers three to
one the final. Dustin Maygo's five innings, no runs allowed,
three walks, six strikeouts in his return to the mound,
(35:20):
resplendent strikes out the side to get things started, so
the Dodgers remain undefeated.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
The Braves remain winless on this early season.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Here, Aaron tours a couple of stories, the Braves the
second most bet to perhaps dethrone the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
This year. No crazy.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
I know it's early, you don't want to overreact, but
zero and six start for the Braves.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
Don't think anybody saw that coming.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
No, I do think people probably saw a pretty hot
start for the Dogs coming.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Yeah. The Dodgers people now getting into the pick the loss. Yeah,
when the Warriors won their seventy three games or the
Bulls back on the seventy two and ten and to
where it's like, all right, find the losses on that schedule.
Starting to do that with the Dodgers a little bit
as we get things going tonight, being one of those
that was kind of circled with May making his return,
you're not sure what you're gonna get and Chris Sale
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on the other side.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Of course, Sale makes the mistake to Mookie Betts.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
And here we are Mooki himself coming off of that
illness that sent him home and kept him out of
the season opening Japan Series, and even though he's down weight,
has certainly put a charge into a couple of the
game winning walk off a couple of nights ago, and
now another big home run tonight in a.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Three to one win over the Braze Dodgers. Yeah, yeah,
just craziness that over under continues to rise. Hey, right
after the show. Yes, sir, you just wait till they
start using those torpedo bats.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Well, I mean months, he's gonna have but first of them,
and then I think everybody's gonna get a look see
and maybe maybe decide that they want to go down
that road. Who knows him on Major League Baseball for
not scheduling Dodgers padres earlier with these two records right now,
that would have been undefeated squads right now, certainly getting
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excited down there in San Diego. But we have plenty
of time as the summer comes to heat that up. Oh,
they'll be under five hundred a matter of time. Look
at you and the Braves, it'll even ou if they
play the Mets, what sixteen times?
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Well, that is true, plenty of time to get after.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
You're gonna have to overanalyze every single one of them
here on the Jason Well, and that's what we'll do.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
And fortunately, you know that loss to the Marlins only
gets mentioned three or four times tonight. Hey, right after
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Wherever you get your podcasts, you'll find today's show and
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we'll get back into the NFL rule votes and the
Hawkeye technology coming in. But a couple of minutes to
remember a legend, part of the show, part of the
lexicon of the show and the history of it. Here
(38:16):
one of the few times it's awful hard with our
schedules to get out and about and get everybody together,
but we did when Maverick premiered in theaters, and today
this evening, we mourn the loss of Val Kilmer, a
legendary Hollywood actor, part of the Batman lore. Batman Forever,
one of the classics, top Gun of course, and top
(38:38):
Gun Maverick to standouts, the movie Heat, the movie Tombstone,
another classic ghost in the darkness, Keep on going on
down the line, true romance. Val Kilmer, part of it succumbs,
has been struggling for years with throat cancer, something I
know well in my family, my dad having gone through
(39:00):
a couple of bouts with it. There was a kinship
and he kept apprized of his fight something that my
dad had years ago long the tracheotomy. So Kilmer's appearance
at Tom Cruise insistence to be part of the Maverick
reboot all these years later, something that you know, a
(39:21):
movie that is described as having saved cinema when it
came out, you know, Val Kilmer being part of that,
and you know the emotional resonance his appearance and his
character had certainly something big. But it was something we
did as a show, and ultimately I saw it multiple
times in theater, as I know Smith did as well.
(39:43):
So he passes away at the age of sixty five tonight,
and I started thinking of going all the way back
to Top Secret, which was a spoof of Top Gun
that he did one of his early credits, you know,
all those years ago that you know, starting as a comedy,
you have hop Gun and all of the roles therein
(40:03):
Val Kilmer one of those Hollywood stars from that era
with Tom Cruise and long chronicled you know, his illness,
but you know, certainly Top Gun something over a forty
year period that has that resonance.
Speaker 8 (40:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:19):
I think that's the last part that stands out to
me is how long his career resonated for, like you said,
starring in movies in the eighties and the nineties and
and you know.
Speaker 6 (40:29):
Different roles, different characters.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
You talked about the impact that Maverick had on the
entire industry about you know, two three summers ago whatever,
it was awful news, sad news. Sixty five isn't young,
but it still feels young.
Speaker 6 (40:44):
Rest in peace to Valkilmer.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Yeah, I'll be your Huckleberry Doc Tombstone. We can run
one liners, but you know, one of the the Batman's
and certainly for me, you have your Michael Keaton stands
out atop the list, but Val kilm Or made that
character his own. So certainly hitting the filmography this evening
(41:05):
and rolling up the playbacks as we go through, he's
Aaron Torres and for Jason Smith al Mike Carmen. As
we continue, we'll talk about the NFL, the owners meetings. Yeah,
there's some Aaron Rodgers scuttle butt and all that fun stuff.
But the Hawkeye technology used in tennis coming to the NFL,
as anticipated, but does it really solve anything.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
We'll debate it next here on Fox Sports Radio.
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