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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the best of The Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Monday, The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I'm not mad, uh huh, I'm just disappointed. Okay, Well,
it would be your team screwed me. I didn't tell
you to bet the nex, no love, they screwed me
because to I know you, we should be right. I mean,
we still have Mets Dodgers, but we would have had
a game seven to where all of that. I'm fine,
I'm fine. I would have been tested on a high level. Yeah,

(01:00):
to say, you're laughing, Prosberg poking the bear and Mary
just wondering what the hell she got herself into, and
instead they go down like a bunch of I was
gonna use a word I can't, but the soft, this
oft ending.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
This is why I said everything was great, because all
they had to do was get to Saturday, and if
they win Saturday, great, Monday is going to be incredibly
off the hook.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
And if they lose, it's over.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, I was gonna say it. It's two days ago.
It's like we're moving on. We had other big things happening,
as you said. We got Mets Dodgers.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Yeah, I know it's it's it's.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Edmund Bobblehead Day, and we got don't bring his name up.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
You see what I did there, I just brought you
back to a world of hurt. Yeah, we got all
kinds of great stuff the next day. It was two
days ago.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
I can't believe people still remember it was so long ago.
Hard to take him back to a world of hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh well, I mean, look, it's it's a constant reminder.
We've got it on on four monitors. I might put
it on my iPad just so we have five. Yeah,
you're gonna make him wear an l on all five?

Speaker 4 (02:07):
All five?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Oh yeah, so because there's no game tonight now, we
put Mets Dodgers on every single television.

Speaker 6 (02:12):
In the Studiosome Mets owner Bubblehead night.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
It is, Yeah, Tommy, yeah, you know, I know.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
I'm telling this to Harmon before he goes, and I
walk in Harmon, you know, like like you can't just
come in and say hi, right, Harmon's got to come
in and just be a jerk right away.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
It was a story.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I go, hey, what's up. I don't even get a hello.
I mean, I go, hey, what's up? And he goes,
you know, it's Edmund Bobblehead night tonight, and like I
wanted to slug him, Like I think if I hit you,
nobody would say go Because you know, I didn't go
to the World Series, not because of show Hey o Tani,
not because of Freddie Freeman, not because of Mookie Betts.
I didn't go because Tommy freaking Edmund decides ten hits
and ten runs scored, ten RBIs in the NLCS. He

(02:47):
gets a huge fifty million dollar contract because of one
seven day span where a guy plays out of his shoes,
And you wanted to bring that up when you still
had no idea how I was after the Nicks.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
I should have hit you. I could have hit you. Really,
you could hit you were okay after the Knicks.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, I was because I'm convinced that if you need
it had a videotape. I did say hello, We exchanged
some slight playing.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
The first thing you know Edmond bubblehead. First thing is
that outIo?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Because his kid was warming up to throw out the
first pitch and commemoration of why.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
The first thing you need to tell me? You don't
need to. I know about a kid. You couldn't anything.

Speaker 6 (03:26):
It's kind of important.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
It's not it's not important.

Speaker 6 (03:28):
It's an important detail.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Started Hell, it's Importantllo is so uh so base.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I mean, I was going to an elevated form of conversation.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Hey, you know, and they're.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Going to stick the needling you here with the Edmund
bobble There's also the fact that on your side, if
HR were to find out about you slugging him for that,
I think they would understand.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah, no they would.

Speaker 6 (03:52):
One time you could have knocked his lights out.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh he said that. Yeah, this is open and shut.
I'm sorry, mister Harmon, but we'll still validate your parking.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
But don't you love that they had Edmund Babblehead night
for when the Mets are in down.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
We see what's been going over the last like three minutes,
last three minutes, babble ahead night Yeah, okay, yeah, imagine
I needed that's playing in the finals, so like it's
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Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, the game has.

Speaker 6 (04:33):
Started looking everywhere? Man, Yeah, I need some help.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, what are you looking for? Justin? Can I help
you with something?

Speaker 6 (04:39):
What time does the nickname sir?

Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay, you know, after after the Lakers completely flamed out
and threw up on themselves. Not once did I say
to you what times Laker game tonight? Not once did
I say that to you? No one time? Oh, Winning
championships isn't easy. Not okay, listen, just because you last
won five years ago and we last won fifty two
the little bit earlier.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Just a little bit earlier.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's not like jen Xers are even gonna remember that.
It was on the back of the fish rap.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
What do you want?

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, Phil Jackson won for us. Oh really yeah? As
a player, yeah, it was a long throwing some bony olmos.
Did Phil win when he took over?

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Is it?

Speaker 6 (05:18):
No? No? No?

Speaker 4 (05:19):
Did Phil coaching it? No?

Speaker 7 (05:20):
No, no?

Speaker 4 (05:21):
What he played for that when he took over?

Speaker 3 (05:23):
It was one of the worst time ago, except for
it was one of the worst runs.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
It was a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Uh So that's where we sit right now. Yes, Mets
Dodgers on the way, big Civil War night here. But
let me say, because since you wanted to do the
Knicks and we had the open for the Knicks, and
I'm like, maybe I'm stupid thinking, oh, by the time
we get to Monday night, the game's like two days.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
No, no, no, what else are you gonna talk? I was,
I'll tell you it is a big, big deal.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
I honestly thought they were still playing.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Here's maybe they are somewhere kind of disappointed they're not.
Maybe they're playing a scrimmage somewhere and they're teaching Karl
Anthony Towns how to play defense. Maybe that's what's happen,
and there could be we got a great pickup game
going again. Lakers have been there for months. They got
to be running the court right now. Yeah, that's hard.

Speaker 7 (06:09):
Great.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
It was the fact that it ends just like that
with you still calm and level headed.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Whatever. We didn't get this game seven. The whole thing is.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I'm watching the game game six, and I'm going, this
is every reason why I wasn't excited, why they had
to just get to get Look, all they did was
buy themselves an extra couple of days and win game three.
They win game five because I'm watching everything come home
to roost. They can't guard the Pacers get open threes.
They're making open threes. They can't keep up with the
pace because they're terrible defensively. The Pacers have what five

(06:39):
fast break layups after Nick made like it was every
it was every reason why, Like all these people on
social media coming at me go, oh, you're not a
real Nick figure.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
No, I'm just realistic, man.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
I know how it's gonna end, and you know what,
You'll be better off if you understand this is how
it's going to end. If they win, great, but understand
they're not gonna get over And still as good as
I am right now, I realize now I'm gtting littleupset.
I'm a little little likes blow Man, I'm a little
messed up, a little messed up here. No, I'm much
more okay than I expected because I thought this is
how it's.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Going to end.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
They clearly weren't the better team in this round. Indiana
was one hundred percent. Was the better team? Clearly they were.
But the one thing that keeps getting every time I
say I'm okay, like I feel like I'm eighty five percent,
but like that fifteen percent from Game one, not like
that's never gonna leave like that loss is and people
understand that loss is going to live for Effett Simmers

(07:30):
under again, no one in the history of the NBA
ever blew a loss like that nine points with fifty
seconds left to go. They only go back to ninety five.
But I guarantee you no one did it before, because
before there was no three. People didn't make threes like
they No, no, no, nobody ever had done that. I mean,
that's never going to go away. Just when I thought, well,
eventually I'll stop show on the Reggie Miller the chokes
saying no, no, we're just gonna show Halliburton making that shot

(07:53):
and the choke sign and that's gonna just absolutely bleep
and live forever. Like that's just like the Reggie Miller
thing is he makes the show the three in a
row in like eight and nine seconds, eight points and
nine seconds and the choke sign. Okay and nope, the
same thing here. He makes the shot then does the
choke sign, and that's what I did. Like that is
never going away. Like that is one of those things
where it tags you as a fan and you're like, boom,

(08:14):
well I got it. Oh no, you mean I can't
remove the stinger. Nope, but stays in you. It's like
when they track you in one of those sci fi
movies and the trackers say, you can't even cut it
out with a knife. I gotta cut this out. They
know where we are. That's how they're following us.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Cut it out. You's a knife.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
No, there's no, you can't cut that out because that
loss never goes away. Now, last year losing when everybody
got hurt and Denmark hits the miracle three, Okay, you
know what, I could let that go. I mean obviously,
it's but this this one that this stays it. This
is like in my bloodstream. Now it's like eventually it's
gonna activate because I I've gotten I gotten to my
blood cells now and I'm gonna It's like I'm a
radioactive spider like that that never leaves. That fifteen percent

(08:50):
is always gonna be there. I just have to manage
it now for the rest of my life.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, depending on which message board thread you read, that
might be real. Anyway, Moving on idea, I can't cut
it out. But it got to the point where the
stat that you cited, the layups and fast breaks off
made baskets overran the what was it, thirty to ten

(09:16):
or thirty to twelve fast break margin overall because the
incredulity of how are you falling asleep that poorly after
a made basket to where you don't have the two
seconds to start retreating?

Speaker 1 (09:29):
You were show he Tani against the Yankees falling asleep
after made baskets like you are you are them and hey,
I'm out man, I'm off.

Speaker 6 (09:35):
To hit two home runs.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
I judge game runs and he gave you what you
came though. Now the mass monthsie and now, so it
helps to not dwell on it. We have anything like
you know, I'm not just gonna sit home and watch
cable television, and you know, just be like Ben Stiller
at the end of Dodgeball, I'm just gonna say eating, Hey, you.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Want something for the ride home? Here you go my
milkshake rings on the bunt yeat was.

Speaker 6 (09:54):
That you Saturday night?

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Be as far as you know, I want a chicken?
But I will because now moving on right, like like
what's next here? And I'm not.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Knee jerk, I'm not prisoner of the moment, but it's
clear and I've never seen a team in the Eastern
Conference finals that has had so many flaws exposed, Like
you get to, okay, we just missed, well, retool for
next year. Like you could see that the Knicks were
not near to what the Pacers were, any team with
any kind of depth, And you get late in the
playoffs and look at what they did. Right, They're rolling
guys off the bench, and Matherin has a couple of

(10:27):
incredible games. Mccoton like everybody's contributing, and the pace was
just killing you. And the bottom line is this, The
Knicks defense was awful, right, it was absolutely awful, And
no matter how you cut it up, you can't have
Brunson and Towns playing at the same time. Right, that's
what's killed the Knicks because Towns is a very bad
defensive player. Brunson's bad too, but Brunson's the franchise, right.
Brunson's offensively is one of the top five players in

(10:49):
all of the NBA, right, so he stays.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Town's the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
The experience with Karl Anthony Towns, it was fine, but
it wasn't quite what was expected.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
And I said this all through.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
This year, is that if they lose this, this is
gonna be Karl Anthony Towns in one year and done
with the Knicks, simply because they're gonna need some sort
of adjustment to get more athletic, to get better defensively,
to take the pressure off of Jalen Brunson, and he's
the guy that's gonna bring the most back in turn,
because Karl Anthony Towns is a really talented player, right,

(11:20):
He's really but that combination of him and Brunson it's
just not gonna work, right, So that's why they had
to put Mitchell Robinson in the starting lineup. So this
offseason he's gonna be dangled out there and if the
fit was great, I would say, well, they'll figure.

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Things out and go.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
But you already have anunobian Bridges who are really good
perimeter defenders, and still the Knicks looked like they were
running in mud the entire time because you need that
big guy. You need that big download that can be athletic,
that can help take the pressure off, and you just can't.
You simply just can't have both of them in the
lineup at the same time. Brunch is not going anywhere.
So it's gonna be Towns, whether it is Yannis, whether

(11:54):
it's somebody else, whether it's a trade for a more
athletic big or or a playmaking forward and a and
a and a lesser role player, because you need other
guys off the bench. But I'll tell you what if
I go to Vegas right now but all my chips
middle and say this is how the Knicks fix it.
Tim stays here. They are, they weren't the best team.
They gotta get better. They gotta break up the big
five that they have. And Town's is gonna bring the

(12:16):
most in return. He's gonna get dealt in the offseason.
The that's what the Knicks are gonna bring in, a
playmaking forward. Someone's gonna be able to be better down low,
potentially somebody off the bench, which is you know, that's
something you could do in free agency, but Karl Anthony
Towns is going to be the big ticket moved to
bring mostly what they need.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
He's gonna be a really good franchise player for a
bottom rolling squad because you're gonna get a bunch of
parts and a would be superstar in return, because all
of the hey, he's gonna go to Milwaukee.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
If I'm Milwaukee, I'm gonna reset with that.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Let me give me, give me a guy that's a
two way threat in every way shape and for him
and Giannis and yeah, let's bring back a guy that
is a defensive liability to know and we're old and
we're gonna bring in a guy.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
No, oh, this does not work.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
So he's gonna end up in the nether regions for
one of these top up and coming guys that hasn't
gotten his second deal yet, plus a couple other parts.
Because depth is the name of the game here. And
as much as you may like the offensive game and
his ability at times like that twenty point fourth quarter
is as good as it gets, that's too sporadic, and

(13:22):
the inability to close out on the perimeter. Absolutely got
exposed time and time and time again.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
I'm telling you that's Karl. Anthony Towns is the guy
that's gonna go and it will happen.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
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do when he came up? I looked, there's an actual
MLB he hit a home run? Nothing, Oh, Lindor hit

(13:53):
a home run to start the game. Oh, he's to
get lucky. But there's a rule in MLB. I don't
know if you heard this. Oh yeah, okay, you have
to Mets four runs when they come to your family. Okay, Well,
with nobody there already winning one nothing in a runner
on first, nobody out, maybe we get to four in
this inning.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
That could happen. On it could happen this guy.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
I mean, if he wasn't a Met, he would in
the ground that didn't do a double play.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
But well, I mean look, I mean, obviously, you know
one Soto's gonna do one Soto things.

Speaker 6 (14:19):
I mean, may put it there for him and hit
it over, so it would been three nothing.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
Okay, not my false set of a home run. It
was a double play.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
But yes, Metsley, the Dodgers won nothing as they continue
to bat in the.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Top of the first inning.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
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We got the dailies defon Diggs drama. Saquon Barkley's on
the cover of the New Madden and Dion Sanders decided, well, well,
you know what, things aren't going well enough for my son,
you know, trying to win a quarterback job. I'm going
to say how ridiculous it was that all the stories
that came out about how he was unprepared for interviews
during the draft process, wearing headphones into interview with other teams.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
That's ridiculous and that didn't happen.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Okay, Well, just when you just when you think everything
is put to bed, we're talking about football, Nope, we
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Speaker 4 (18:02):
Okay, let's go with that now.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
And you you started by saying, hey, bet everything you
can on a Francisco Lindor lead off Homer tonight.

Speaker 9 (18:09):
Didn't you said, I'm actually on the I'm a little
Dodger's money line there, and I think that the Mets
have won like twenty five straight games that Mondora's homewerd
in or something like that twice.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Almost.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
Yeah, you could look at that, you know, obviously two
different ways. One he's way way way, way way overdue
for that Streek day and or that streak might never end.
So we'll find out in about three hours, maybe a
little less.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah, here's the thing, Like he's hit the home like
only I think Carl Ferrillo for the Dodgers, like in
the fifties had a longer streak than this. Twenty six
games the Mets have won. And now I'm like, oh,
he's got to hit the leadoff home in the first
where the Dodgers have nine and innings to get this
back and win this game. Like why couldn't it be
like in the eighth inning, you know, to give the
Mets like a five to three lead or something like that,
top of the first inning.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
So, okay, we'll see right young, all right, so let's start.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
You know, what what did you make of Deon Sanders
waiting on your door and bringing up the whole draft
process again?

Speaker 5 (19:01):
I mean, it's his son, you know, like I, And
he's a very public figure, and he has his own
media platforms. He's a major college head coach, and we're getting,
you know, creeping a little closer into that season, and
so there's going to be appearances he makes and he's

(19:23):
going to be asked about it, and I think there's
a certain part of him that wants to be asked
about him because he wants to lead to the defense
of his son. Difficult thing to litigate in the media now,
because like he is a Cleveland Brown and he's one
of five quarterbacks on that roster, and this thing's going

(19:43):
to have to sort of play its way out and
we'll see, you know, if he's still there week one
and if he plays there, or where this saga goes.
If you're of the mindset that this stuff matters or
is a whatever distraction or whatever you want to call it,

(20:04):
which I find that to be kind of ridiculous that
like the other eighty nine guys on that roster in
the offseason really give a damn what Beyon Sanders says
about his son, who's the third, fourth, or fifth quarterback
on that roster, depending on how you sort it out.
But if you're inclined to believe that stuff matters, then
you know, maybe it will. It will hasten his devisor

(20:26):
or give Shador a little less of a ramp, of
a leeway, of of a you know, ramp than he
should get. I think it's going to be a football decision.
And I'm not discounting that kid's ability to make that
football team and play turoner rather than later, because if

(20:48):
you look at their schedule, I think Jill Flacco's got
a world of pain in front of him.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Jason, what are the lines from Mike Gravel? We want
guys to make great decisions. Will the return of Stefan
Diggs proved to be one for the Patriot?

Speaker 5 (21:06):
Yeah? I mean it's kind of an interesting signing. It's
not like he hasn't been bouncing around, right. He's reached
that mercenary stage in his career and he's worn out
as welcome in a couple of places, and it's clearly
not an ascended player anymore. And I'm assuming they did

(21:29):
some homework on him before they brought him in, and
I suspect he'll be given a chance to let this
play out on a football field through the course of
the season. I don't know what the heck he was,
you know, what was going on on that boat. I
don't know that the Patriots really really want to find out,

(21:52):
or that the league does either. I just I don't
know that we're going to ever necessarily find out what
happened there. Uh, Rable's an established coach and he's got
a lot of jam there, and frankly, he didn't have
the jam in Tennessee despite what I thought was some

(22:12):
pretty special coaching jobs where he had the less talent
a lot of weeks, but one anyway. But regardless, you know,
they were shifting around GMS, and this is his call.
And he does have a bit of a bully pulpit
from what he did in Tennessee. So if thefon Diggs
is someone who runs a foul of him with any regularity,
then I don't think he's going to have to fight

(22:35):
to get him out of there, even you know, given
that he hadn't been there that well.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
It's just so odd that, like I know, it's not
it's been a couple of years now with no Belichick,
but like you think about where the Patriots are right
now to where to where they were for most of
the aughts and the teens, you're like, the stuff that's
happening with Newela would never have happened. And yet like
like they're making up for lost time, Like here's all
these crazy stories and bad drafts and and and and

(23:00):
drama with the players and the coaches it's like, I
don't recognize this team just a few years ago they
were the model franchise.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
Well, it's interesting because yes, that they clearly are trying
to climb back from the abyss and Bill Belichick, the
Lord knows, we've talked about that, Like it's hard to
look at him through the prism of you know, the
same way we would have a couple of years ago,
three you know, three or four years ago, and then

(23:31):
even Tom Brady, like there's betting a fair amount of
missteps for him just the playing career ended, whether it's
the crypto stuff or we can go through everything going
on in the broadcasting we're on and whether he should
be the number one book yaha, YadA, YadA. Even the
roast was somewhat controversial, and he was a guy who
you know, went out of his way to sort of

(23:53):
court none of that through a long and unprecedented playing career.
So it's been somewhat inglorious for the to be the
coach and the franchise since they all departed.

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(24:26):
where I pay a visit every week to Bob Hainey
and company. So try to create some chaos there each
and every week. But as we look ahead, you know
all these different stories circulating. Jason, do you believe in curses?
And will Saquon bark Are you fading Saquon Barkley this year?

Speaker 5 (24:47):
I do kind of believe in I'm kind of I'm
pretty superstitious, and so when something keeps happening, you know
in a certain way, I kind of tend to notice,
that's a pretty good football team. It's just hard to
repeat in general. I mean, let's be clear about that.

(25:09):
Like that, that's I know that we've gotten a little
bit spoiled their sort of we've had our vision skewed
by what the Patriots did and then what the Chiefs
did in rapid succession. But that is so far from
the norm. And usually weird things happen the second year,
and you know, you lose a few guys and everybody

(25:30):
gets a little bit over inflated sense of worth and
it's just a difficult thing to keep together and do
two years in a row. So if they fall short,
I think it'll probably have a lot more to do
with just some of the inherent pitfalls that come with
that level of winning and not him being on the
cover of a video game. But like, uh, you know,

(25:55):
I don't think it's going to be like Taton Hill's bet,
you know, literally ended his career. What. I'm sure there's
some superstitious people on that Eagles front office who you know,
probably could have done without this.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Well, I look at it like this, Jay is like, Okay,
the Madden curse really, what it's become in the last
years has been kind of an every other year curse.
Barkley's been really good basically every other year in.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
His NFL career.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
I mean every other year.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
That's all I need. That's all I need. Okay, I'm
back away, I'm done. I'm backing away.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
I have some quad backing away.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Look, what I can see is this with with with
Saquon Barkley. Obviously, you don't know what the injury situation
is gonna be. Look, offensive line is massive, They get
to do the touch push still, but you know teams
are now gonna spend Okay, we are now loading up
and and we're gonna load up and we're gonna make
Jalen hurts, but we're gonna make that passing game beat us.
So I can see from the perspective of yeah, we're

(26:56):
loading up for you way more than we did, even
though as things went on last year.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
Okay it was new.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Now you've got an entire season off season of tape
to look at. This is what the Eagles like to do.
This is how we're going to do it. So I
can see them slowing him down enough and saying we're
just gonna make Jalen Hurts beat us. And I can
see his numbers coming down strictly because of that.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
Well, look, I think some regress in there, Like he
can have an amazing season and regress from last year.
You know, there's a lot like Lamar Jackson could do
the same thing. You could look at certain numbers and
say they went down, but then other things went up.
Like to your point about loading the box whatever, could
you know early down receiving yards for him? Could could

(27:38):
that be way up? You know, could receiving touchdowns tick
up a little bit. I think that passing game can
continue to evolve, There's no doubt about that. And I mean,
are they going to be able to win as many
games with Jalen Hurts attempting sixteen to nineteen passes? I
mean probably not. But to your point about the offensive line,

(28:02):
I mean that that's very true, and that's a great
starting point. And they do have you know, legit blide
receivers and they do get a lot you know, out
of the tight end position as well, so they might
have to do it a little bit differently. I also
think that defense, though, is still really a sender. And

(28:23):
if they can help turn people over early in games
and put you to help, you know, help you get
in positions to play with the lead, then guess what,
your your your volume in the run game is still
going to be pretty stout.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
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Speaker 5 (28:54):
That was his call to the great dogs, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Do Let's go take it easy, honey. We'll talk to
you next week.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Have a great one here, Jason. I mean this week
it was all about just taking me over. And all
those games between the Yankees and the.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Yeah, yeah, it was all the runs. Although how many
runs I want? All the runs? The over under is
twenty one, give me over. I'll take the open.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
I mean, it was to the point where they were
getting cashing your tickets in the middle of the game,
trying to get you to pony.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
It back up for here. It's already cashed. Here, take
your money.

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(29:43):
games too.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
It's Steve to say, I took I let off the hour.

Speaker 10 (29:47):
That's how things went, and I'm you're correct about the
lindorstat which we have brought up before on this show
from the great Sarah Langs that when Francisco Lindor Homers,
the Mets have won twenty six can executive games in
the regular season. The record is twenty nine straight wins
by Brooklyn in the early fifties when Carl Ferrillo homeward

(30:07):
and a serious note, happy to mention Sarah Langs tonight
of all nights because it's lou Garrig Knight across Major
League Baseball and she is going through her own.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
West battle well. And they have a big deal they
did with top trading cards.

Speaker 5 (30:21):
They did and.

Speaker 10 (30:22):
You can see Luke Garreg on the cards along with
current stars.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
And they're going to have a player from each team
autograph and go up for auction on the MLB site
to raise raising money.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Fantastic, Absolutely So.

Speaker 10 (30:34):
The Mets have the one nothing lead at Dodger Stadium
against starting pitcher Dustin May.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
Game is in the bottom of the second.

Speaker 10 (30:40):
LA shortstop Mookie Betts did not start again due to
his broken toe. He missed all the weekend games against
the Yankees, but he does expect to return soon maybe
tomorrow against the Mets, who have currently won seven of eight.
The Twins are out to a six to nothing lead
over the a's bottom of the second inning in Sacramento.
Luis Severino has given up the six as the as starter,

(31:02):
and it's Padres at Giants scoreless in the bottom of
the third. The Giants with a good home record of
seventeen and nine. Detroit just a good record period thirteen
to one. The final at the White Sox tonight, Kerry
Carpenter hit three homers. The Tigers record is forty and
twenty one. The angel scored six runs in the top
of the first and held on for a victory at
Boston seven to six, the save to Kenley Jansen. Mike

(31:24):
Trout with a long home run early in fact, three
long balls in the first inning for the Halos. Milwaukee
won its eighth straight game, three to two at Cincinnati,
and the NL player of the Week, Christian Yelich, did
start for the Brewers at dh even though he was
hit by a pitch yesterday suffered a bruised hand not broken.
He hit a solo homer in the win tonight and
Colorado at Miami. Get your tickets now that was the

(31:46):
game with the Rockies trailing four to one in the second,
with Colorado one six to four to end an eight
game losing streak. Attendance listed at five thousand and eight.
Ninety four winning pitcher Herman Marquez had been one in
seven this season with an ERA over seven.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Can they win the series tomorrow? Can they win their
first series tom three game series?

Speaker 4 (32:05):
Yeah, this is a possible thing.

Speaker 10 (32:07):
They have lost in fact, twenty two straight series dating
back to last year.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
The good stat from yesterday once they went to nine.

Speaker 10 (32:14):
And fifty with yesterday's loss, Colorado the fastest to fifty
losses since eighteen eighty four.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
Ladies and Gentlemen.

Speaker 10 (32:23):
Yankees closer Luke Weaver will go on these that.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
There wasn't the Mets. I know it wasn't the Mets.
You also there's not the Mets in eighteen eighty four.

Speaker 10 (32:29):
Team that does not exist, although you know the parallels
with the sixty two Mets are going to be happening.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
Well, no, last summer.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Long parallel with the with the Cleveland Spiders that disbanded
with a week left in the seasons, Like we've lost
too much, we're done, Like.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
They could break the Spiders record.

Speaker 10 (32:42):
Yeah, yeah, we have to go back to the eighteen
hundreds for a lot of this infamy, shall we say?
Yankees closer Luke Weaver did not pitch last night at
Dodger Stadium, reportedly going to go on the injured list
with a bad hamstring. The Mariners will retire the number
fifty one for both Randy Johnson next year and each
row Suzuki this year. And what a game At the

(33:03):
Women's College World Series semifinals tonight, Texas Tech has eliminated
Oklahoma three to two on a walk off sacrifice fly.
This is the Sooners team that won the last four
national titles. Earlier, Texas won it's semi two nothing over Tennessee.
So the Championship series starts Wednesday and it's Texas Tech
with their nil pitcher against the Texas firs.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
First million dollar softball player.

Speaker 10 (33:27):
Right, former Stanford pitcher got a million bucks to go
to Texas Tech. I think it worked out from a collective,
that's how things work. Seems like it paid off, no
kind of literally.

Speaker 6 (33:37):
Do you know what time the Knicks play?

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Yeah, same time as the Lakers. At the end we played.
I watched that game.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Put it on the Knicks half Giannis though in that game, well,
we'll give you honest. I'll tell you that the end
of that game, Oklahoma, four time defending champ is down
to their final strike, the number nine hitter is up
and a two run homer to tie the game. Oh
and how it sounded too? Yeah it was. It was

(34:08):
insane that moment. I said, Okay, well, now Oklahan was
gonna win it. Nope, Texas Tech walks it off. How
can you not be romantic about softball?

Speaker 2 (34:14):
I screen?

Speaker 1 (34:15):
How do you throw a strike? Unbelievable tournament? So far,
this has been an unreal tournament.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
Uh, we got more.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
We'll keep track, We'll keep telling what's going on with
the Mets and the Dodgers, because Mets owner Tommy had
been just grounded out to end the inning.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
But coming up.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Next, there's one NBA star that seemingly everybody thinks can
solve every issue on every team next season. And I'm
here to tell you have you not been paying attention
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Speaker 3 (35:30):
DA non soft in the second bat but one home
run tonight, Mets lead, the Dodgers won nothing.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
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Speaker 8 (36:12):
One to zero is grounded out to second, they get one,
they get two. The Rockies have their tenth win of
the season, and they take game one of this three
game series from the Marlins by a final score of
six to four.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
There it is that even so excited the run picked
up about it Rockies Radio Network. Yeah, we wonder we're
still ten and fifty. What do you want from me?

Speaker 4 (36:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Now, they had a legitimate chance to win a series.
This saw it in front of fifty eight hundred people.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
This translates to a record of twenty and one hundred.
I mean, just so we know that's where you know,
just I can hear the math.

Speaker 6 (36:44):
You, Jason and Mike, there are more people sitting in
this studio if they attended that game.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
I tell you, I saw a photo at first pitch
that hundred people you just had to shake your head.
Wins now they announced nearly fifty nine hundred. Well that's
nobody's buying that. That's how losses that the Rockies have
this year feels it?

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Are you really? You couldn't be so unexcited if you try.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Hey, yeah, we want like Harry Doyle and major League
who cares? Nobody's listening, Air's double play and Rockies winning, okay.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
And'd be celebrating the hell kind of that.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
I'm whooping it up like you not have airhorns. We
got tame it ten double, Yes, there we go. We're
not going to break the seventy six.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
We're not gonna go nine and seventy two and the
signing seventy three, the sixers mark from the mid seventies.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
They've won consecutive games once this year, and it was
the end of one series the start of another, so
they've gone without a series win just yet. You're starting
to look for all the prospects a big week, major
League baseball prospects starting to get called up, some great
videos of different guys. That's all you gotta have in
Rocky them And trust me, I'm a White Sox fan.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
I recognize that very well, Mike.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
You're a black belt in the arts of this, no,
no question about it, fifth degree.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
So we talked about the NBA, and it seems like,
you know, after the Knicks are eliminated, everybody seems to
be on the wavelength that Kevin Durant is going to
solve everybody's issues.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
We'll solve the Knicks issues, We'll solve the Rockets issues.
And to trade for KD. It's not gonna be that expensive.
You can bring him in. He's still an elite scorer.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, let me just let me
just say this. Yes, KD is still a really good,
really perfect player.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
I love KD.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Right, I love him. But you are on Mars if
you think KD is coming in and he's gonna take
you over the top, right, roll call the Knicks get
kat yehs KD an Okay, enough defender. Yeah, but the
guy's thirty six, man, he hasn't led anybody anywhere in
six years. Okay. His legs are like linguine, they always
have been. But yeah, but when you're thirty six into linguine,

(38:45):
he gets.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
A little bit more waity. I mean, it's not as
aldente as you want.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
It to be just saying he was never That was
the criticism of him, going all the way back to
when he got drafted.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
I've got Pooky cards, right, look at him and go
how he put up numbers? Right, he put up numbers.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
But you know, you know what, Karl Anthony Town's put
up numbers with the Knicks, right guy, And look, they
have to move on from him.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
He did. Brooklyn was a disaster.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
N He'll make an effort defensively that Carolyn Brooklyn was
a disaster and he had to move on, and then
Phoenix was a disaster.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
He's not done anything. He has put up numbers. Okay,
Like I said, I like KD. But you think he's
gonna come in and solve your problems, you're crazy because
he's been He's had different kinds of roles on these teams.
He's had roles with other super all stars with the
Brooklyn nets that could never work. He's got a superstar
alongside him in Phoenix and Devin Booker.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
Guess what that didn't work?

Speaker 7 (39:34):
Right?

Speaker 4 (39:34):
What much thing you think suddenly? Oh, go get KD.
It's happening. It's not twenty nineteen. I wish he was
twenty nineteen.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
I could say, hey, everybody, there's a lot of crazy
stuff coming. But what I would say is this, it's
been six years. It's been six bleep in years. Man,
do you really all of a sudden yes, go get
KD and suddenly, six years removed from being impacting the
game and impacting teams like he was, it's gonna.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
Suddenly get better.

Speaker 6 (39:56):
No.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
I was born at night, but not last night.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
Man.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
I like KD. But to go I think he's gonna
solve your problems.

Speaker 6 (40:01):
You're crazy.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
It's not happening.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
If I can go back to twenty nineteen, I'd love
to hear some of your rants now. Knowing what you
know now, it could be a little different.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
Just why we get this Jalen Brunson kid out of Villanova.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
But all of that to say with Durant, Yeah, he's
gonna score, he's gonna play slightly better defense, and depending
on which height that you see listed for him, maybe
he doesn't give up a whole lot. Then get to
cat in that regard, but when you get down to it,
it's not a one for one switch out. Like what
else is coming along? What else has to be relinquished

(40:35):
to make it happen. I've seen myriad three team four
team deals like this is the only way this is
gonna work, Like yes, because they're all going to acquiesce
and give up. And Karl Anthony Towns did not put
a lot of great stuff on tape to say, Yeah,
that's our building block and it's not helping things.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Salny Man kd is it's still an elite score. He
hasn't let anybody He's not the missing piece. He's not
the missing.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Yeah, but he gave us the greatest sound bite.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Coming up next, Dion Sanders spoke today cast some headlines
that he probably shouldn't have spoken.

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I mean.

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Rip the knob off, guy, ripping the knob off right
now with travel because he is on his way here
to Los Angeles for the MLB Network Showcase Game of
the Week, which is Wednesday night Mets and the Dodgers.
It is MLB Network Insider extra Ordinary, John Palmrosi, John Paul,
what's happening man?

Speaker 4 (42:02):
How are you?

Speaker 7 (42:04):
I am outstanding, my friends. What a great time of
year for sports. NBA Finals coming up, Stanley Cup Final
coming up, and as you mentioned, I am headed out
to LA. We've got the MLB Network Showcase Wednesday evening
at Dodger Stadium, Mets and Dodgers. It could be could
be an NLCS previous for the second straight year. But

(42:24):
I'm still waiting to see. As we talked about the
potential storylines today, still waiting to see Juan Soto get
really going for the Mets. That's I know they're leading tonight,
but still waiting to see Soto lock in here during
his debut season in Flushing queen, it's.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Gonna be November, and I'm gonna be saying, just wait
any day now, any.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Any day, look for soda.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Look, I honestly think this is what it is, John
Paul is that clearly, he cares. Clearly, he's having fun.
He likes being there. You know, you can't fake that.
Those those reports that came out a month ago. Look,
it's weird, the Yankees obsession with the Mets and Won Soto,
but hey, it's like be obsessed with your ex. But
I think he just has to. He's such a he's
such a player. He hears everything that's said around him.

(43:07):
Fan reaction can get to him at times where he
just has to understand that, Okay, I'm not, Oh my goodness,
everybody loves Wan Soto because we could all get him
when he becomes a free agent. Now it's okay, twenty
nine teams hate him and one team's fan base loves him.
And that's he got to get used to that new
norm that with that money comes all sorts of expectations
and people who want to see you fail. And I

(43:27):
think once he comes around to that, I think then
he's gonna be fine. He's too good a player to
have that not happened. But hey, this is not how
I was treated, This is not how my first six
years major league baseball went. And I got to understand
now that people don't like me, and that's just kind
of how it's going to go.

Speaker 7 (43:41):
It's a shock to the system. And you look over
the course of baseball history, many of the biggest deals
that have been signed, there has been a little bit
of a blip. Now, it doesn't always have to be
a long one, maybe not even as long as what
Soto's going through, but in some case it takes a
long time. I think back to Albert Pooles's first deal

(44:05):
with the Angels, and certainly he was older then than
Soto is now. But there often is some element of
turbulence when you have a large contract, especially one that
is of this magnitude. I still believe, over the fullness
of time, this will end up being the right player
for the right team.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
Now.

Speaker 7 (44:26):
Now, notice I didn't say that the Mets are going
to get every last dollar out of the deal, because
I just don't think it's realistic. He clearly adds to
the team even right now, even when he's not at
his peak, He's still one of the top ten right fielders,
the least in Major League Baseball. You would ideally like
the bart of events higher than that for what you're

(44:46):
paying him. But he's still an above average player. He
is still a productive player because he knows the strike
zone so well. But I do think that you're exactly right.
It is a major shift in how you're perceiving the sport, yourself, fans,
every city you go to that you are on the

(45:07):
road a villain and at home you've got to produce.
There's just not that same level of freedom and flexibility
that he would have found just a year ago with
the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
So as we get June underway, JP coming off a
huge series two out of three for the Dodgers against
the Yankees, what do we make of it other than boy,
I really hope.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
There's some other pictures available come October.

Speaker 7 (45:30):
Well that's it for the Dodgers. And you're exactly right.
I was talking this morning on MLB Network that a
team like the Rangers with Tyler Mallley and Patrick Corbyn
could be a good fit potential trade partner for the Dodgers.
It doesn't sound like things are progressing for Glass now.
Gonsolin's going to be on the mound for our game
on Wednesday, and he's been a little bit up and down.

(45:54):
I just don't know if you were to try to
figure out a first round series for the Dodgers with
only with existing healthy pitchers, and that's really all you
can definitely count on are the guys that are healthy
right now, you probably wouldn't love your chances in a
division series with that particular group of guys just because

(46:16):
there's not enough reliability among that group, and they have
to probably focus on bringing in next year's version or
this year's version of what they had in Jack Flerty
last year, because the existing cast is probably not going
to be good enough, to be honest with you. But
unless they get back some healthy arms, and unless they
bring in somebody from the outside, I'm not seeing enough

(46:39):
rotation depth to carry them through three rounds or potentially
four rounds of the postseason. Good rotation not a great one.
And the National League right now is a very competitive league,
with teams like the Mets, like the Cubs, even like
the Giants of the Podres that might be one or
two players away from being a big time threat. Along

(47:00):
with the Philadelphia a Phillies, who I believe are still
one of the very best teams in all Major League Baseball.

Speaker 6 (47:06):
Now, hang on a.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Second, John Paul Kershaw is back Coofax Drysdale.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
The Dodgers tell it.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
And those guys haven't had a lot of innings, you know,
you know, Kofax looks like he can still sling it
a little bit.

Speaker 7 (47:19):
They're fresh, They're fresh. No, you're right, and listen, I
think Kershaw, there's probably a fascinating question right that you
bring up the name Kershaw. Do the Dodgers feel like
right now that he is going to start a playoff
game for them? Now, there's no way to know that
the answer to that question, there's no way to project

(47:40):
to the head other than to say the way that
they proceeded when the season began certainly suggested that Kershaw
starting a game in the postseason would be more of
a bonus and an expectation. Because they had glassed out,
they had Snell, they had Sasaki, they had Yamamoto, there
were the X and by the way, there's someone by
the name of Otani who they expect, well, at some

(48:02):
point in time be starting games with them in the
second half so they have, in my estimation, planned as
if Kershaw is not going to start games in the postseason.
If he pitches well enough to deserve it, that's fine,
But that does not seem to be what they have
planned on all along the season.

Speaker 4 (48:20):
JP.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
As we enter again, it's only June second, but we're
already having a flurry of call ups across the league.
Cole Young great video of him getting called up by Seattle.
Caglione getting called up by the Royals, mayor already called
up a little bit earlier.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
Than we usually see these hot prospects.

Speaker 7 (48:40):
We are, and I think part of it with the Royals.
Let's take Jack Kaglano And by the way, let's hope
that I have a chance to interview the Pope later
on this month, and if I do, I'm gonna definitely
ask him if we should bring back to the States
the idea that it should be Lean and not Cagliano.
It's a beautiful name, no matter what. A big fan

(49:02):
of Jack and everything he brings to the game. But
doesn't it sound a little better gleanon?

Speaker 4 (49:08):
Yeah, the extra you know, and you have to do
when you say it, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (49:14):
Do you realize, as I was saying the name. I
was actually moving. I was gesturing with my hand. Hey,
do it at home right now, if you're not driving
the car, kleanon Goon. That's that's the man's name. So anyways,
you can.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Make it happen that way. Just start saying it that way.
No matter what, you can make it happen.

Speaker 7 (49:32):
Yeah, Jack Glee, I mean it just it just sounds
so good. Anyhow, he has done an admirable job of
learning right field in the minor league to where the Royals,
after scoring one run in their last two games against
the Tigers, realized they had to make a big time
upgrade of their lineup. I think in the case of Galliana,

(49:54):
he will certainly do that. For those who haven't seen him,
big time power he was. He was a two player
at Florida, almost Otani like at the college baseball level,
big time tools, but his calling card is power. The
Royals need it, and do not be surprised if he
ends up leading them to the postseason. And similarly to
your point, Cole Young with Seattle Meyer with the Red Sox,

(50:17):
I think there's a lot of teams that are close
to being, if not World Series contenders at least playoff contenders,
and they realize that rather than spending a prospect to
bring a veteran player, you might as well just use
the prospect, bring the prospect up. And having played for
you the Red Sox in particular, they are just not

(50:37):
playing well right now. And I think of the different
situations where we're referencing the Red Sox, Meyer seem to
be a bit more more dire than the others because
they're just not playing good baseball right now. There's a
lot of pressure on them to call up Roman Anthony
as well. I think in general, the Boston has just
not shown that they're going to be able to compete

(50:58):
at the top of what is even a fairly by
the al E standards mediocre year in this division, and
the Red Sox are falling short of that standard.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Now, I'm glad you brought this up, John Paul Morosi,
where that's your MLB network. You know, last week you
told us you had received correspondence from the Vatican about
getting your interview with Pope Leo, and you said, okay,
So now that they have passed it on to next steps,
and now here's a week has gone by, and now
what are the next steps. Where are you at right now?
Like do you have to pass an interview with the

(51:28):
College of Cardinals? How do you actually get to the
folks of the interview?

Speaker 7 (51:32):
So here's I'm glad you asked. Here's where we stand.
And anybody that has ever entered in to get tickets
to Disney or entered in tickets for a concert or
a lottery for World Cup tickets, what I can say
to you right now is I am in the system.

(51:55):
I am in the and so but here's what I
mean by that. I was I was sent a lovely
email which was largely in English, and then I went
to the website that was linked to it, and that
website was entirely an Italian which was beautiful. And I
was basically invited to apply for credentials, and so I

(52:16):
now have a media credential portal. It was. It was
hilarious because I was looking at the names of the
publications and so, like there was a drop down menu
and I'm scrolling down. It was like, what what paper
do you write for? It was like like La Tribuna

(52:37):
is the Ario, New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal,
like no, no, no, no, no no. So I had
to go all the way to the bottom. And you
know what you know when I checked al three, all
three meaning the others, Because stunningly, MLB Network was not
part of the Vatican's dropdown menu. As your employer is,

(53:00):
I had to apply. I had to type out I
worked for Major League Baseball Network. What I'm what I'm
a I'm a commentator. So this is the coolest part.
If I can pull back the curtain, I now have
to basically look at I've been told this basically, John,
you will be given an advisory of of what the

(53:21):
Pope's schedule is during the the aforementioned applying for and
you will then have the ability to apply for discreet
moments in time where you'd be allowed into the Vatican
to cover the pope. Now, this is a long way away,
long way away from saying Holy Father. I spoke recently
with my friend Mike Harmon and Fox Sports Radio, and
he wants to know what are we going to do

(53:43):
about left field for the White Sox next season. That's
not That's not going to be the first question I ask.
But we'll see. We'll see. If am I just part
of the great mass as if as you're you're watching
the White House Press briefing room. But it's it's the
Holy Father and it's me raising my hand asking a
question about baseball. I guess we're gonna find out, uh,

(54:06):
and I'm just gonna have to keep applying until they
let me in the door. I don't know. It's I'm
studying all of the the Vatican terminology and Italian courtesies
to remind myself what I'm supposed to say. Uh. Just
do my best and if if I get the if
I get the opportunity, I hope to be able to
project my voice.

Speaker 5 (54:26):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (54:26):
And at least you know, we know that we can
speak Midwestern English to each other, which is I suppose
one one uh one blessing on my on my side,
and we'll see how we do.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
See if he goes full south side east.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Yeah, I was one of It seems a little more
straightforward a process though for you JP, I thought it
was going to be like a full trivia contest like
in the movie Diner to see whether.

Speaker 4 (54:47):
You get to the uh get to the next stage.

Speaker 7 (54:50):
Right. There was there was no trivia. I did not
have to basically receive like an embossed letter with the
with the Vatican keys stand I'm on it. Uh as
as in, if it's anybody that watched the movie Vatican,
you see the keys everywhere. Uh. But but I the
email I received had the key endblement. It was actually

(55:10):
pretty cool, actually the uh the you know, I've received
a lot of emails from New York Yankees Media Relations,
Los Angeles Dodge Media Relations. This one, actually, the one
I received today said Talaampa Santa the the media room
of the Holy See. That's exactly what it said to
me with with the keys on it, Gentil, John Paul Morosi,

(55:31):
Lasa Santa s leda il minuto. We have given you
a welcome. That's that's what it says. So I don't know, guys.
I mean, I'm trying not to get my hopes stuf
too much, but as as I would hope the Holy
follow would appreciate staying humble, do my work every day,
trying to put some gratitude and grace out into the
world and hope that it comes back to me.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
And just wait and see Pope Leo walk out on
the balcony and John Paul next in with the MLB
network microphone.

Speaker 4 (55:56):
Thank you, Nahani, I'm here with the ask.

Speaker 7 (56:00):
I'll say, hey, we we actually have a ballpark cam
set up for you. Holy Father, would you please put
on this headset? And uh, and and and and direct
your commentary back to our studios in Secaucus, New Jersey.
How about that.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
You got to make sure the headset fits around the
big pop pat like, it's got to.

Speaker 5 (56:17):
Be a big.

Speaker 7 (56:19):
That's that's that's our next step.

Speaker 6 (56:20):
Just give.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi that has had John
Morosi and check him out. Don't forget the showcase game
of the Week on MLB Network Mets Dodgers. John Paul
will be here for that. Uh, take it easy, enjoy
and have your time, have a good time here as
the Mets sweep the Dodgers.

Speaker 7 (56:43):
Fifth Republica. This is the Italian national Day, so we
send our best wishes to all celebrating on the second
of June.

Speaker 4 (56:50):
My friends, Thank you, John Paul. Hosta luego placido Domingo.
Very nice, Thank you very much, appreciate here go there
you go getting international. That was that was from summer school.
That was Mark.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
That was seven plas ostelwego Plaza do Domingo.