August 1, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon react to the MLB Trade Deadline and breakdown some of the wildest trades that happened and what this means going forward.
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show
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Baseball trade deadline tay. Also very big day, Mike Harmon.
For the first time, my daughter rode in away. Moo
oh wow wow.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Now you won't even get into something piloted, no an uber,
a lift or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yet you're letting your daughter be the guinea.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Pigless Yes, whatever you call a WEYMO with the thing swirling.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
This Now, now, here's the thing. Waimo is the driverless
car that is out. It's a new you know, taxi
car service. And they're very popular here in Las Ane.
And I tell my family about them, and there it
must feel like like like they were. They were on
the frontier in the eighteen fifty you're the jetson and
they're talking to the future like, yes, you've got indoor plumbing. Yes,
indoor plumbing. Oh, we got to go all the way out.
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We gotta go past the horses and and outside through
the barn and get out to the see. So the Waimo,
these cars are driverless cars. And these are the ones
that were lit on fire in downtown LA. The people
kept calling the Waymos of downtown LA during the the
protests and riots there from a from a couple of
months ago. And so I see them everywhere right there.
I see them everywhere. And they're all really nice cars,
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are all like Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, they look really good on them.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So and and and Zoe's friends have taken him before,
and her friends have taken before. I'm like, okay, at
some point, uh, you know, she's gonna take them. We're
like okay, but I don't know. I don't know. So
tonight turned out to be the first night two that
she had to take one because we were down a car.
My dad needs a car because my dad's car is
getting looked at. So I'm like, okay, my dad got
back my back. He's all good.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You were afraid that he was just gonna stay there forever.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
No, No, he's fine. He's fine, he's fine, and uh
uh so he need these cars. That were just like, okay,
So I'm taking the car to work tonight, and she
was like, well, I want to I'm going to meet
my friends for a show tonight. And I was like,
I don't know what to do. And we said, okay,
maybe this is a time for a weymo. So she
gets in the way, MO and I see the picture
my wife sent me, and my daughter looks.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Scared out of her.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, but that's the thing you have railed constantly about.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I'm not getting it. She said.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
She was flipped to flipping out the entire time in
the way on the drive, but got there fine. Everything
was great.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
She certainly has the look of vexation, consternation, not being perplexed,
or perhaps a little bit worried about her.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Uh yes, where she was.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
She was very freaked out the whole time. But I'm okay,
look as long as Waymoss, I'm still at hey, weimo
getting on a freeway. Yeah, I don't know. But in
the neighborhood she's going to where high school is. It's
not very it's only a few miles. It's like, okay,
it's one big street of like, all right, that's fine,
she can do it. But you know she did it. Yeah,
it was okay, but flipped out the entire time.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, because I mean, well, look, we've talked about all
the rides, ride share services and such and and and
it's not your thing.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's generally not mine either.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No, like I generally drive to where I just paid
the piper on the the parking side and just recognized
that's part of it, some level of control that I
need to let go us as we we all need to,
I think at times. But the waimo, I would not
have expected that from you.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Good was good. For surprise.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I was like, okay, we'll do it, that's fine. And
I'm like, I don't have to get in. Yeah, that's fine.
So she can get it, that's fine. Yeah, my daughter
can get it. It's all good.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah. No, but we talked about it. That's gonna get
cut and printed somewhere.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It's like sacrificial lands.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
We researched it. We did a lot of looking into it,
understanding what you could sue for it. No, no, we
looked into it. And other of her friends have taken it.
They've shaken them a lot, taking in the school all
the time. And this is it's not rush hour. It's okay,
if we're gonna do it, this is a perfect time.
It's it's seven thirty at night when it's still light
out in La and it's and traffic is light. Okay,
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let's do it and see because she can get a
light home.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And she was like okay, but she was, she said
she was flipped out the entire time.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
They The only thing I've heard from, uh, from friends
who've taken it is where there's a road construction and
kind of a re evaluation of what needs to happen
that sometimes they'll stop in the intersection.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh yeah, yes, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And things of that nature. I mean, as many drivers do.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
But yeah, it would be better if instead of a
driverless car they had like what was a total recalled.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
The Johnny Cat. You're in a Johnny Cats Hello, where
are you going?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And you know or you're Nigel billings Lee from Uh
you're an NPC player from from Jumanji, Nigel billings Lee
Ruby Roundhouse, Killer of Men. Right, if you just had
somebody else, even if it's a fake person or a
mannequin just sitting there, you'd feel better about being.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
In the in the Johnny cab. But did they just
steal from Jim Carrey or was he actually the voice?
You're in that Johnny Cat fire Marshall, Bill, let me
talk you something. Hey, you're just hanging out a Johnny Cat.
I think you would feel better about something being in
that chair.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, yeah, somebody that I could talk to dress like yet, Wow,
now you can dressed like a New York cabby like
you had to dress like with a with a skull
cap and a big winter coat with a with like
a Hulk Hogan mustache and goateee and you gotta say, hey,
where you where you had it? You got the fo
man have a New York acts the way you had
it too.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'm not going that's too far.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's too far, I'm not taking it that way.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We'll go.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We'll go down the street. You'll get out of the cars.
I'll slow it down.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I gotta stop and get some gas. I gotta go
see his in the gas station.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You don't mind, right, I gotta stop it this bodego
over here, and then I gotta get gas.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And then we'll got some business. We'll go.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
We'll get there. I'm saying, it's not gonna be on time,
but we'll get there.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Are we cool? All right? Great, we'll go.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
All right, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Well, that's the beauty of the New York taxi is that,
you know, there's not really an estimated time.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You know, it's more suggestions. It's truly a suggestion.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You're gonna get there eventually, but we might have to
stop and do some things with some things with the
guy in the place.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
So while this is going on, we talked to John
Paul Morosi last hour on the show, and he said
something that cuts through the clutter. Here, Trade deadline day
in Major League Baseball, best trade deadline he has ever covered,
very twenty years. Right, we saw big players get traded,
we saw tons of relievers get traded. We saw closers
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get dealt. We saw a lot of action. We saw
thirty four trades over all, thirty two closers, Suarez and Mullins.
That was it was thirty two closers and Swarres and Mullens.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Look, I'm still obsessed with the fact that Mullets said, yeah,
I'm gonna come, but I've never won anything but thirty one. Yeah,
so that thirty one's got to come back down off
the wall like Piazza obviously in his time with the Mets.
But they brought it down off the wall. We'll see
if he can hit better than his two twenty nine.
The power numbers have been better of late, but yeah,
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it was. It was a curious deadline couple of teams
where the great expectations of all right, they're really going
to push in and then yeah, that's it, that's all
you got. We talk about it, certainly here in Los
Angeles where we do the show. A lot of Dodger
fans walk in the hallway Outman leaves, Dustin May leaves.
But you're looking around going, that's it, So all you got.
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You're really baking on all those guys from the off season,
And that was the point with the Cubs like, well,
they made their bets in the off season that it
would carry them through. They'll get healthy though, get right,
et cetera. So some of the big splashes perhaps that
we were anticipating from squads were never to come. Your
mets did some work, Red Sox pick up a couple
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of arms, as you point out, a lot of relievers.
But I think going down the I five, when we
look at what the padre is expected to be sellers,
that's the one that stands out to me. And all
of this, Jason was you know, as you start getting
reports of no, no, no, no, then not only is Dylan c staying,
he's getting some help.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Look, this is it was great for a lot of teams, right,
everybody got help, Right, the contender's got help. Did you
see a ton of great prospects get done?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
No, but you saw enough.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You saw enough periphery top ten guys. But why was
this deadline the best? Why was it so good? And
it's so good because finally teams have now had enough
time to get used to the new trade deadline of
it's just July thirty first, there's no July three thirty
first deadline. And then the waiver deadline at the end
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of August where you can sneak a guy through or
a veteran who's making a lot of money in a
walk away year that no one's going to pick up
that cash on. It took a couple of years for
teams to figure out how do we act the deadline
because there's too many teams now in baseball because of
the added playoffs. This is the one downside of the
added playoff team. The only downside of more teams in
the playoffs is that when you get to the trade deadline,
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there's a lot of teams that are in neutral. Right
here we are the end of July. We're not in
a playoff position, or we're kind of in a playoff position.
We could get hot, right.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What's our schedule the next two weeks? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Right, we could add, we could deal, we could stand
pat How do we go through this?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What's our medical evaluation on the starters or middle infielders
that are on the il.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, all of those things.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And it took a couple of years for teams to understand, Okay,
is it worth it for us to go in where
we could wind up being knocked out after two games? Right,
we could be knocked out after one game, right, how
do we deal with this?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And after a.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Couple of years, teams realize, Okay, we don't need to
always make the big trade, but if we're, if we're
in a good position, let's go for it. Because because
the thing is is that what teams have realized that, Okay,
with this one trade deadline, it's not about adding stars, right,
It's not about the like we get caught up in
that and adding stars. And look the Mariners adding Gino
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Suarez was a great trade, right, And not often a
guy with thirty five homers is getting dealt the deadline,
but it's there. But from the most part, team strategy is, Okay,
what's our biggest weakness. We have a center fielder And
I'll just use the Mets for an example, right, because
they had Tyrone Taylor playing centerfield to trying to get
Jeff mcgeel play center field. And Tyrone Taylor is somewhat
of a plus defender, but he can't hit it all.
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I think his ops is like one fifty. Right, So
to one of the Mets, do they go out and
get Cedric Mullins? Now is Cedric Mullins a five time
All Star and a superstar that costs a ton of
prospect wise, No, as he's someone who is league average
a little bit better. Yeah, he's a plus defender. I
mean he's thirty thirty one years old, but still a
plus defender, gonna hit enough, steals enough bases where it's
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a huge upgrade because you've taken what has been the
achilles heel of your team, which is the center field position,
and suddenly you've went from a guy that's not giving
you anything into a guy that's giving you at least
league average maybe a little bit more production. That's a
huge upgrade. That's what teams have decided, this is what
we're going to do. So this is why U see
teams making moves like this. Right, look at the Padres. Right,
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did they go out and get incredible players to fill
out the bottom half of that lineup? Because their line
has been really top heavy, right most of the season.
They needed, you know, they needed to make moves at
the bottom and they did. Right, They went out and
got league average maybe a little bit better at those positions,
and suddenly that's a huge upgrade.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
The Braves won the World Series three years ago because
of the deadline. They went out and got four new
starting players who are all better or league average players
like Jock Peterson. Was a huge addition for the Brave.
Three years ago. They went out and got four guys
of the deadlines. There were a five hundred team, but
because there was so much of an improvement over what
they had, it's almost like adding a star when you
go from a from a center fielder that that's you know,
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with an ops of five point fifty, and suddenly you
bring in a guy with an ops of eight hundred
or seven seventy seven to eighty who's gonna hit twenty
five home runs and steal twenty five bases and play
really good defensive center field. Like that's a huge upgrade. Man,
that's why they're giving thirty one out of retirement. Beyonday
Centric Mullins, we love you, man, we'll bring you in.
But so many teams did at and that's what made
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them better. They went out at their bullpens. Our bullpens
are terrible. So guess what, we're gonna go improve out
of the deadline because it's okay to do it, because
it's cheaper, because we can go that's the cheapest position
to be able to improve on it's bullpen. Pitchers is
pitches out of the bullpen, so we can go get them.
It's not gonna cost big, big prospects, so we can
still kind of go for it, not mortgaging our farm
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system and not worried about getting superstar players. So it
just took a couple of years, but now the teams
have figured it out. These are the trade deadlines you're
gonna get every year. Tons of players are gonna move,
tons of relievers are gonna move. Position players are gonna
move who are league average a little bit better. That's
how it's gonna go. We're still gonna get the odd
odd and end star that's gonna go because a team's
gonna be in trouble money wise, or really know that
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we're not gonna re sign this guy in the offseason,
so we're gonna trade him at the deadline. But Jenny,
we'll get a couple of those guys. We'll get a
lot of We'll get a lot of league average to
a little bit above league average players and tons of relievers.
And that's a great trade deadline.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, I mean, we looked at Suarez.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Right, We're watching the Mariners and Rangers as we're watched
watching the here in Studio six six nothing into the
ninth uh and Suarez with the double and Rally with
the home runs, so you have the bashers. But he
was in the final year of the deal, so it
became a all right, peaks your interest of who really
wants to push in for a guy on an expiring deal,
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who's gonna be in his mid thirties, all of those things,
and in the end, the Mariners bring him back. He's happy,
he says, his wife's thrilled. Obviously, teammates were excited to
have him back, and you move on Korea Reunited in Houston.
If nothing else, we get some great headlines and a
lot of anger and vitriol here in Los Angeles once
again remember that guy that jerk no like all of
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those things. And then we go through and your point
on the bullpen is absolutely right. The changing of the
game right outside of the closers like the truly established
elite guys where maybe you've got to give up a
little bit more or they get the big contract in
the offing, like you saw with the Dodgers and the
guys they had brought in in the off season. Is
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that you know you're gonna need countless arms if you're
really gonna play meaningful baseball in September and October. We've
seen that the last couple of years, and more and
more the data and the science and what the how
they're applying things to young pitchers. We're not getting guys
pitching past the fifth or sixth inning. So guess what
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four times a game one hundred and sixty two plus
you're going to the well, which means you need a
lot of arms at your disposal, right, particularly as you
get into series and you don't want to show the
same looks, same sequence of guys back to back nights,
et cetera. So yeah, those guys become expendable. I do
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dig the extra wildcard that you do have some of
the all right, how deep do we want to go in?
Pushing in and gms kind of also looking at their
baseball mortality. It's an interesting you know, macro micro approach. Right,
if you're in the city, it's like, we have to
go for it. McCrae, like, now I get it. Guys
trying to preserve his job doesn't want to give up
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because if you give up the farm and that guy
goes becomes a start. It's like in your fantasy league.
Why why do so many guys not want to and
women that are playing not want to make a trade
because they don't want to watch the other guy have
great success and bankersh you go to the playoffs. The
same thing works in the psychology of a guy in
an actual major leagues experience. But you know, we got
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a lot of activity. How much were massive difference makers?
Only time will tell in terms of those relief staffs
and how they've been fortified for your mets. You obviously
got a face in Mullins. For the Padres, they picked
up two guys for the back of their lineup that
totaled two eighty three two ninety total of twenty eight
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homers and ninety RBIs between them. All Right, that's a
pretty good haul for O'Hearn uh and Loreano. Now you
have to convince Padre fans that Devrees is not going
to become the next great thing. Oh wait, he's playing
in Oakland, Sacramento, Las Vegas, uh, Anytown, USA, so the
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likelihood probably not so much. But he can go hang
out with Nick Kirtch for a while.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Oh that's nice. Yeah, because he'll hit five home runs
in the game. Eventually he'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Maybe almost did almost hit that fifth to one man
off the.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
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trade deadline day in Major League Baseball. Yes, the Mets
did outstanding. Uh we'll get to the two big winners.
There were two really big winners. Again, not the Mets
showing you that look when it comes to baseball. You
know the fan I am, you know the kind of
knowledgeable fan I am. The two big winners the Mets.
Why I would say it would be the third big
winners because they took they took the biggest weaknesses that
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they had and they enhanced them, which is the bullpen
and center field and boom, we get two great relievers,
we got a really good center fielder.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
It's what you do, right.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Would you say correct it or enhanced because if you're enhanced,
that made them a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Uh no, Okay, Okay, they enhanced the position, they corrected
the problem.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Okay, I just want to make sure we it's like
they found a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
We've found a bigger problem to get into that other problem.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's nothing. This is the bigger problem. It's like the sequel.
We need a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
This is the one we have a problem with. Yeah,
so the biggest trade of the day, and it was
kind of a shocker, but I guess it's now a
thing like this is. It's the year of the reliever
being trained. It's also the year of, hey, let's get
the band back together. The Astros reacquire Carlos Carrea from
the Twins right now, this you you would get on
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social media and again Astros fans are falling into the
trap of just remembering the nostalgia of Carlos Korea and
how great he was at one point and getting him back.
Yet no, again, what do I say? You can't look
at the back of a guy's baseball card and think
you're always getting a star.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, you dated, you broke up, and now they've changed.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, I've changed up back now changed. I've stopped drinking.
I don't gamble anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
The guy you remember when I was lean and mean
and getting after it.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
It's like like the end of the breakup with Vince
Vaughan and Jennifer Andison, where they hey, they're but their
lives are both gotten better without each other. Okay, there
should have been the sequel where they try it again
and then we go through it.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
No, I gotta say, dude, I love the ending of
The Breakup where it was because the movie is called
The Breakup, where it wasn't the Hey, everybody want a
happy end? Sorry spoiler for this movie, but like we
want a happy ending, they should get back to they
should break up and get back together. No, it was basically,
we dated and we were together for as long as
we should be together, and we realized that our lives
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are taking different paths. When they run into each other
on the street at the end, they say, hey, how
you do. There's no hey, let's get together. Great to
see you, Awesome to see you. Yes, oh no, I'm
not saying that.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But it did well commercially and philosophically that in today's
day and age you would have greenlit a sequel immediately.
Oh yeah, although Favreau was you know, not gonna be
available because he was too busy creating you know, the Mandalorian,
fixing the Star Wars universe and getting Robert Downey Junior
going in Iron Man.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That was such an underrated movie because he's got so
many stories. Jason Bateman was great in it. When they're
selling the apartment and he says, I'd like to not
take any commission on this.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Oh that's really nice. You know.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I said I'd like to not take any but my
boss is not gonna allow that. So yeah, I'm gonna
take comission on selling this apartment.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But Dinofriel Colehauser just go on down the line.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
That might have be might be hot take that might
be Vince Vaughan's best movie.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Man, we oh Swingers, No Swingers. You wanted to kill
him in the entire movie. But that's how good he was.
You wanted to kill him in Swingers. I mean there's
a few that I like, Guilty, but my daughters hate.
They will not watch a movie that includes Vince Vaughn
really at all. Wow, I won't watch Lost World, not
gonna watch that.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Well, that one, unfortunately for you know in syndication, that
one doesn't get shown.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Monkey Bed Monkey was really fun.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I keep trying to explain to them how good they're like, No,
I'm not thinking they will not go down that road.
Monkey is fantastic I can't wait for season two.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
That's too bad. I mean, and Margaret was in the
breakup for crying out.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah that's true. Yeah, I mean, look, that's a very
underrated movie. But Korea gets traded back to the Astros.
Look at this, Look at this.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, I will say this.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
This is as far as I'm gonna go, because I'll
tell you if I'm not a big fan of this.
Houston is the best place for him to go to. Okay,
it is the best place for him to go back to.
They figured out the money a little bit. Yes, there's
a lot of money that he is doing the next
few years, but it's not unbelievable money. It's not forty
five million dollars a year for the next five years. Right,
there's vesting money. There's twenty million a year. So Houston
(23:18):
figuring this out. Hey, bringing him back home where maybe
he gets a little bit more juice. That's the one
place where Korea to go. I'd say, okay, that's the
best place for him. But that's as far as I
will go, because this deal is just a med deal.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Did you want you really wanted the juice off of
the juice box? Correa, juice too I'm in the Houston.
You have Rocky part, you have Rocky and juice boxes.
Is that Korea hasn't been a star player in four years?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Right? Like?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
How many teams, including the Mets, are saying, who glad
we didn't give him three hundred million dollars four years ago?
Can you imagine that contract?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
What an albatross that is to try to get out
from under that because all all of the worry about
his foot, that he's not gonna age well and his
his his production's gonna go way down. The Mets, the
Giants all wait, wait, wait, can't have Carlos Krea, can't
get Carlos Korea. How many teams are now patting themselves
on the back, going, yeah, lucky we didn't go down
that road because he's not been great.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
He's had some individual bright spots. His batting average is
pretty good last year as RBI's you're three years ago,
But overall he's not the same guy. He was never
a super duper star. He was just a really good
player when the Astros came of age, Right when all
the early round draft picks of the Astros came together
and all the sports illustrated predictions of them winning the
World Series in twenty sixteen, like he was part of that.
(24:38):
It was a special time that we found out they
were cheating and getting the signs ahead of time. But
back to the thing with Carlos cre he's not been great,
and now you're gonna ask him to go play third
base because you have a pretty good shots up already
that's in three twenty five, So he's gonna go play
third base where his offensive numbers are not gonna be
in line with what you need out of your third
(24:58):
base position. So so this move, like it sounds great,
but in the end, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
You trade.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You got a guy that you traded because you had
great times together. You got back with your ex because
you remember the great times, and you're not with it now.
As far as what it means for the president future, right,
you're into it for a guy that, hey, it was
great a few years ago, but now it's been a
long time since he was good. But you're getting him back,
and magically it's gonna get better agein No, that's as
(25:26):
far as I can go. Yeah, it's probably the best
destination form. But now I'm gonna expect him to be
a star. I'm expect him to hit like he hit.
He's gonna be a guy that's fifteen home runs and
knocks in sixty runs and it's two and it's two
sixty as a third basement like that gets you cut,
That gets you an upgrade. We need an upgrade at
third base. We're not getting anything from the Mets. Are
getting more at third base from Batia, Maurisio and Viento's
(25:47):
and they've all stunk at times this year. So this
Carlinos Karaia thing, yeah, I get, I get. It was
a great, big headline, but overall the impact on the field,
this is not that great a trade.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
This is not.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Suddenly all here here comes the al Wes coming to
us because of Carlos Korea again five years ago, maybe six,
seven years ago. Yeah, sure, but now it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Current lead is four and a half going into tonight's game,
Tonight's action short slate a Major League Baseball ahead of
the weekend series, ahead of Seattle, and then you've got
Texas at five and a half. I think they're banking,
you know, in terms of not making the massive splash
that Jordan Alvarez is gonna come back and be able
(26:30):
to mash right away. Be curious to see how that plays.
So he's slated perhaps for a mid August return. But
to your point about Korea, he had a point one
war this year. Yeah, nine one point one point one.
Last year was three point seven. On the strength of
that three to ten batting average, had thirty six extra
(26:51):
base hits and fifty four RBI only played eighty six games.
Go back the year before that, his second year in
Minnesota of one point three eighteen and sixty four, played
one hundred and thirty five games. First year in Minnesota
twenty two and sixty four with the two ninety one,
So you got the batting average. He's kind of gut
(27:11):
done an alternating with the batting average. So this year
hitting a robust to sixty seven, He's.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Been a solid shortstop. He's not been a superstar. He's
been overvalued, and now it's gonna be a third baseman
that's four years removed the last time he was a star.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Right, Like I do something, even if it's a fact
that the Twins pick up a bunch of the money
makes them feel better. Twins actually sent out a giant
letter of basically apology.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Dude, I mean, what do you do? What do you do?
That was amazing?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Traded nine players off your major league roster in the
last week.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Nine.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I mean you've traded almost half. Literally, I said they've
traded half their roster. Oh that's a uphim it. No, no,
that's exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
What they did.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Let me read this right, Al Central Champions twenty twenty three.
That's the bottom of the bottom of the page. Wait, wait,
wait on the page they set on. Yes, it's got
the Major League Baseball logo and it says AL Central
Division Champions with the TC logo twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
It's like the Jets sending out an update. Justin Fields
was four for seven to day and seven on sevens
and at the bottom nineteen sixty nine Super Bowl champion.
Thank you for believing. That's the headline in the top
of this, dear fans. This season was different. It started
with the promise, a lot of chatter, Trades are made, trades,
question stars emerged. Vet Ve's you know what, I've clinsed
(28:32):
all this stuff, the drought, and it goes through ups
and downs and everything else.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Don't imagine believe is the final line to it. But yeah,
a lot of change. Roster is totally shuffled. They don't
have the guys under contract for very long there in Minnesota.
But for Houston, Carlos Correa fits a knee right, makes
it feel warm and fuzzy for the moment. I don't
(28:58):
know if they look Rob Bamp it's too busy Beefan
with Bryce Harper, and he looked the other way the
last time the Astros made a run, So perhaps they're banking.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You know what he is, he's comfort food, right, Yeah,
you know what I want?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Mac and cheese.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yes, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Mean it's gonna sit in my stomach for the rest
of the night. My boy, it's gonna feel good. Go
I'm gonna feel good having it. I'm gonna think about
all my times growing up and having the craft macaroni
and cheese, and I love so much of the elbow
macaroni and watching my grandmother stir with a big heavy
wooden spoon and all that cheese in there.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Now is a great for you, suld You have had it,
you have had that much. No, but at the time
it's great. That's kind of what this is. That's where hey,
let's get the band back together. And so many teams
fall into that trap of looking at the back of
a guy's baseball card and thinking, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
This was the guy, this is what he was all
these years ago.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It's why people go to their high school reunions to go, oh, man,
this person didn't age.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Well at all. Blake that guy.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Ah, he cheated on me here or this girl cheated
on me.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Uh well, look it up.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
He got he looks like he's seventy five years old.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That's so great.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
That's why people go, man, and they don't go. They
don't go to high school. Hear was going, oh, man,
I really hope that this guy is there, this woman
is there, this gird Oh they go. They want to
see they want to see the day I turned out
better than you.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Okay, great.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
They'll fall into the trap of saying, hey, I went
to my high school re union. I'm marrying the person
that I did in high school. Now people don't do that,
but that's what people do in sports fans, and they
look back and say, oh, we're bringing our guy back. Yeah, okay,
that's great, bring your guy back.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Well, I mean you look, you can if you'd kept
the jersey and didn't send it to good will. You
can dust it off and use it again.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
No, no, no, he won the suit. He won the
World Series there, so you get to keep it. If
you win a World Series, the jersey lives forever. I'm
a firm believer that if you don't win a World Series,
you got to be a Hall of Famer to be
so I can rock that jersey, right, Rul And these
are pretty good rules. Uh, hall of Famer, you can
wear the jersey. Anytime they win a World Series, you
(30:59):
can wear the If they're not a Hall of Famer,
didn't win a World Series, get rid of the jersey.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
No, it's good, Yeah, you do get Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
So the letter that was circulating was again you know
it's old get but got recycled because of excuse making
before from twenty three. So yeah, they fans just decided
it's like we've seen this before, we know this change,
So here we have it. But yeah, a lot of change,
a lot of trades, nice fun, active day. I'd like
(31:28):
for my team to actually have some some juice at
at some point, man, I'm still living on twenty years man.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, I know you are.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I forgot about twenty twenty three at early Statu's pretty sweet, though, buddy.
He're sending out stuff with two thousand and five station
every crazy time, know, to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. But guy who had a
great two thousand and five, it's Martin Weiss.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Two thousand and five was a year, that's for sure. Joey,
Where were you in two thousand and five?
Speaker 6 (31:53):
I was in the midst of moving from Louisiana to Michigan.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Wow. Depending on what time of the year, it.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Was okay, And you loved your time in Michigan?
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Oh I I normally I tell people I did my
bid to describe it.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Wow, what about that?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I mean vacations in Detroit there, I like.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
A frozen custard muskrat meals. Did you have muskrat? No, muskratch?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I just got frozen when I was there, frozen custard
and white castle.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Look, you know I was your kid.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I'd never heard a car heart before I moved to
Michigan and then promptly got a car heart and was
wearing it before homecoming.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Oh yeah, because it was so cold outside. Car Like
Starbucks everywhere else, it's a car heart store in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Great, it's funny now to see I don't know if
you've got if you've noticed, but like the proliferation now
of car heart around people who are wearing it just
to wear it, as opposed to wearing it because you
know your need to be outside and clothes that last. No,
they're just wearing it to wear it. Yeah, it's interesting.
(32:59):
You know, people going to work. I guess you got
the worst check, right hat?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Sure? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Kind like kind of like tonight the Hall of Fame game,
those guys were all dressed up like football play right, Yeah,
they're all dressed up like football players.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
As a couple guys you'll see on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Uh, yet to be known if we'll see third overall
pick Trey Lance on Sunday again. But he started for
the Chargers tonight all right, yesterday threw two touchdowns. The
Chargers won the Hall of Fame Game thirty four to
seven over the Lions. Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin
has asked for the Commanders to trade him. They cannot
come to agreement on the deal. The Mariners beat the
(33:41):
Rangers to night. Cal Rowley hit his forty second home
run of the years, the most in a single season
by a switch hitting catcher. Also saw Ao Suarez make
his Mariners second time debut. I suppose as he's back,
he was in the lineup today. Six to nothing the
score there and ten innings. The Braves beat the Reds
twelve to eleven in a game that had eight runs
(34:02):
in the eighth inning by both teams, and the Yankees
beat the Rays seven to four.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
The trades were flying.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
The Blue Jays traded for Shane Bieber. The Yankees added
three arms to their bullpen, Dove all Bednar and Bird.
Red Sox acquired Dufton May from the Dodgers. The Padres
got first baseman Ryan O'Hearn outfielder with Ronan Loreano, Mason
Miller JP Series, and Freddy for Mean. The Dodgers got
Alex call from the Nationals and Brock Stewart from the Twins.
Those same Twins traded Carlos Correa back to the Houston Astros.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Comfort food says Jason Smith and.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
Mike Harmon in Minnesota, also throwing three thirty three million
dollars in the deal, So that's very very comfortable food.
The Tigers traded for Kyle Finnegan and Harley Morton. The
Rangers got Merrill Kelly from the Diamondbacks, and the Mets
got Cedric Mullins from the Orioles. The Knicks and Michel
Bridges have agreed on a four year, one hundred and
(34:54):
fifty million dollar contract extension.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Back to you guys, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
A bunch, Martin, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
There were two big winners at the MLB trade deadline,
and I'm telling you right now, I'm not gonna say
the Mets. They were like the third big You're just
putting them on the metal stands, on the metal stands.
Third big winner? What two teams one? We'll tell you next, right,
it's not sleveland Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
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Speaker 1 (35:36):
It is the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Happy Trade deadline Day, Yay. I am enjoying
my ten to ten diet. Coming to celebrate the Mets
big trade deadline day.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Matt Show may other than a quick update from mart Weiss,
we we haven't even talked Nick.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
No, no, we'll get you. Been back.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
I mean you came back yesterday and it's really and
I said this to my daughters early. I was like,
we really didn't do a whole lot of Mets talk,
which really shocked me because you had a huge winning
streak for a good chunk of your vacation and I
really thought if they were still on that streak, we
would have never seen you until.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
No, no, no, I would have not come in.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Superstitious guys, maybe you know, maybe not fully superstitious, but
a little stitious that you might have stayed home.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I can't come back, So you're gonna take a vacation date? No,
you know I can't come back. Just you know someone
else is gonna work for me, but you have to
take a vacation date.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
No, I'm not. I'm not. I'll come in when the
Mets lose. Well, I mean that's where suddenly you're.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I'll come in when they lose. I had a bit
of an upstat stomach. I couldn't make it like Tim Robbinson,
Bull Durham. I'll be back when we lose. Okay, I'll
be back to have sex with Susan Sarandon when we lose.
I'll be back and we lose. Maddy hated that, by
the way, to update the movie or that scene, well,
just the movie as a whole. Right, she was in
the middle of it when we were on Area Street
(37:00):
doctor this morning, because now that was terrible.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Wow, really bad.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Wow that was I know how bad?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
How badly did you skewer it on a letterbox?
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Not good?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Not good?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Well, I think the movie came out in nineteen eighty seven.
I think they're okay with a bad review, and.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Let's just say it. She decided she needed to go
and and call it to task. So tonight she's celebrating
the tenth anniversary of descendants.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Like me.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, kings and queens, it's our time to rise, write
the book story. Oh, remonds, this is us taken back
the night away way. Make sure you tell Maddie that
she'll like this. Remember Kevin cost did a movie where
he tried to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald did not
act alone. But then in Bull Durham, what does he
(37:44):
tell Susan Sarandon, I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
He did remember that that's the movie's too different.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Okay, he also was in the Big Chill. He was.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Two big winners trade deadline today, two big winners, and
that's the on the metal stand. You currently two good relievers, yes, gradual, Yeah,
two biggest winners the Mariners because they gave up basically nothing,
and they got a couple of thumpers. Remember they got
Nailer the other day. They bring in Gino Suarez back
to the team and they win big tonight, right They
(38:17):
they kept the team playing behind for him so we
could make it to get to the game tonight. Like
that's that's a team that's got something going on right now.
The Mariners got two more thumpers for that lineup, and absolutely,
when you get the best player at the deadline, chances
are you're gonna win. Mariners are big winners and the
Padres are big winners. I wasn't the biggest fan of
(38:37):
the Mason Miller trade simply because they already have a
great bullpen. So, okay, you made a strength better, but
you gave up a lot to get them. Yes you
have me, he's under team control, but you gave up
a lot to get them so okay, but they didn't
trade Dylan Ceese. I love that they kept their starting
pitchers and with a top heavy lineup, they knew, all right,
(38:57):
we got to improve the bond of line right. What
did I say earlier this out? When you have players
below average out of position, if you simply upgrade to
a league average guy, that's a great deadline move. And
that's they did. They brought in all kinds of help
for the bottom of the lineup, one former All Star
for this year. They did great things. It's almost like
the Padres are foolproof now and they are bulletproof and
(39:19):
matchup proof. They have a great bullpen, they have enough
starting pitching. The lineup is gonna be good enough. Like
watch out for the Padres man. Even though I wasn't
a big fan of Mason Miller, I love what they
did the deadline Mariners and Padres.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I mean, you bring in a big strikeout guy and
Miller and you know it's the Ocean's eleven.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
You think we need one more? Yeah, let's get one more.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
He couldn't stop, a j Peller couldn't stop.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Let's get another trade. Why not? Haven't done a trade
in four minutes, let's go, are we in or we out?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
And as soon as they got the nod, you know,
and here here's your thumbs up to go after it
and keep fighting it. And I think that's the best
part for the trade deadline as a whole. And the
number of teams just said, Okay, this is wide open.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Open season on the Dodgers for those that you know
want to go and beam count uh spending, et cetera.
But for the Padres to stay in it, I think
pretty impressive in that regard. Uh, you know, the the
other winners. You look at your mets, I have to
put them up there. I don't want to. But but
(40:19):
the fact that you get a big closer right you
want of many, but.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Maybe the best of them.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, tell you man, maybe watch out you're coming.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Mate, you're coming.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
MAT's terrible exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome.
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For the first time, my daughter rode in away. Moo
oh wow wow.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Now you won't even get into something piloted, no an uber,
a lift or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yet you're letting your daughter be the guinea.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Pigless Yes, whatever you call a WEYMO with the thing swirling.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
This Now, now, here's the thing. Waimo is the driverless
car that is out. It's a new you know, taxi
car service. And they're very popular here in Las Ane.
And I tell my family about them, and there it
must feel like like like they were. They were on
the frontier in the eighteen fifty you're the jetson and
they're talking to the future like, yes, you've got indoor plumbing. Yes,
indoor plumbing. Oh, we got to go all the way out.
(01:36):
We gotta go past the horses and and outside through
the barn and get out to the see. So the Waimo,
these cars are driverless cars. And these are the ones
that were lit on fire in downtown LA. The people
kept calling the Waymos of downtown LA during the the
protests and riots there from a from a couple of
months ago. And so I see them everywhere right there.
I see them everywhere. And they're all really nice cars,
(01:58):
are all like Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, they look really good on them.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So and and and Zoe's friends have taken him before,
and her friends have taken before. I'm like, okay, at
some point, uh, you know, she's gonna take them. We're
like okay, but I don't know. I don't know. So
tonight turned out to be the first night two that
she had to take one because we were down a car.
My dad needs a car because my dad's car is
getting looked at. So I'm like, okay, my dad got
back my back. He's all good.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You were afraid that he was just gonna stay there forever.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
No, No, he's fine. He's fine, he's fine, and uh
uh so he need these cars. That were just like, okay,
So I'm taking the car to work tonight, and she
was like, well, I want to I'm going to meet
my friends for a show tonight. And I was like,
I don't know what to do. And we said, okay,
maybe this is a time for a weymo. So she
gets in the way, MO and I see the picture
my wife sent me, and my daughter looks.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Scared out of her.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, but that's the thing you have railed constantly about.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
I'm not getting it. She said.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
She was flipped to flipping out the entire time in
the way on the drive, but got there fine. Everything
was great.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
She certainly has the look of vexation, consternation, not being perplexed,
or perhaps a little bit worried about her.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Uh yes, where she was.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
She was very freaked out the whole time. But I'm okay,
look as long as Waymoss, I'm still at hey, weimo
getting on a freeway. Yeah, I don't know. But in
the neighborhood she's going to where high school is. It's
not very it's only a few miles. It's like, okay,
it's one big street of like, all right, that's fine,
she can do it. But you know she did it. Yeah,
it was okay, but flipped out the entire time.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, because I mean, well, look, we've talked about all
the rides, ride share services and such and and and
it's not your thing.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's generally not mine either.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
No, like I generally drive to where I just paid
the piper on the the parking side and just recognized
that's part of it, some level of control that I
need to let go us as we we all need to,
I think at times. But the waimo, I would not
have expected that from you.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Good was good. For surprise.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I was like, okay, we'll do it, that's fine. And
I'm like, I don't have to get in. Yeah, that's fine.
So she can get it, that's fine. Yeah, my daughter
can get it. It's all good.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah. No, but we talked about it. That's gonna get
cut and printed somewhere.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It's like sacrificial lands.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
We researched it. We did a lot of looking into it,
understanding what you could sue for it. No, no, we
looked into it. And other of her friends have taken it.
They've shaken them a lot, taking in the school all
the time. And this is it's not rush hour. It's okay,
if we're gonna do it, this is a perfect time.
It's it's seven thirty at night when it's still light
out in La and it's and traffic is light. Okay,
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let's do it and see because she can get a
light home.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
And she was like okay, but she was, she said
she was flipped out the entire time.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
They The only thing I've heard from, uh, from friends
who've taken it is where there's a road construction and
kind of a re evaluation of what needs to happen
that sometimes they'll stop in the intersection.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh yeah, yes, yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And things of that nature. I mean, as many drivers do.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
But yeah, it would be better if instead of a
driverless car they had like what was a total recalled.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
The Johnny Cat. You're in a Johnny Cats Hello, where
are you going?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And you know or you're Nigel billings Lee from Uh
you're an NPC player from from Jumanji, Nigel billings Lee
Ruby Roundhouse, Killer of Men. Right, if you just had
somebody else, even if it's a fake person or a
mannequin just sitting there, you'd feel better about being.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
In the in the Johnny cab. But did they just
steal from Jim Carrey or was he actually the voice?
You're in that Johnny Cat fire Marshall, Bill, let me
talk you something. Hey, you're just hanging out a Johnny Cat.
I think you would feel better about something being in
that chair.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, yeah, somebody that I could talk to dress like yet, Wow,
now you can dressed like a New York cabby like
you had to dress like with a with a skull
cap and a big winter coat with a with like
a Hulk Hogan mustache and goateee and you gotta say, hey,
where you where you had it? You got the fo
man have a New York acts the way you had
it too.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I'm not going that's too far.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's too far, I'm not taking it that way.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We'll go.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We'll go down the street. You'll get out of the cars.
I'll slow it down.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I gotta stop and get some gas. I gotta go
see his in the gas station.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You don't mind, right, I gotta stop it this bodego
over here, and then I gotta get gas.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And then we'll got some business. We'll go.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
We'll get there. I'm saying, it's not gonna be on time,
but we'll get there.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Are we cool? All right? Great, we'll go.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
All right, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Well, that's the beauty of the New York taxi is that,
you know, there's not really an estimated time.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
You know, it's more suggestions. It's truly a suggestion.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You're gonna get there eventually, but we might have to
stop and do some things with some things with the
guy in the place.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
So while this is going on, we talked to John
Paul Morosi last hour on the show, and he said
something that cuts through the clutter. Here, Trade deadline day
in Major League Baseball, best trade deadline he has ever covered,
very twenty years. Right, we saw big players get traded,
we saw tons of relievers get traded. We saw closers
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get dealt. We saw a lot of action. We saw
thirty four trades over all, thirty two closers, Suarez and Mullins.
That was it was thirty two closers and Swarres and Mullens.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Look, I'm still obsessed with the fact that Mullets said, yeah,
I'm gonna come, but I've never won anything but thirty one. Yeah,
so that thirty one's got to come back down off
the wall like Piazza obviously in his time with the Mets.
But they brought it down off the wall. We'll see
if he can hit better than his two twenty nine.
The power numbers have been better of late, but yeah,
(07:28):
it was. It was a curious deadline couple of teams
where the great expectations of all right, they're really going
to push in and then yeah, that's it, that's all
you got. We talk about it, certainly here in Los
Angeles where we do the show. A lot of Dodger
fans walk in the hallway Outman leaves, Dustin May leaves.
But you're looking around going, that's it, So all you got.
(07:50):
You're really baking on all those guys from the off season,
And that was the point with the Cubs like, well,
they made their bets in the off season that it
would carry them through. They'll get healthy though, get right,
et cetera. So some of the big splashes perhaps that
we were anticipating from squads were never to come. Your
mets did some work, Red Sox pick up a couple
(08:11):
of arms, as you point out, a lot of relievers.
But I think going down the I five, when we
look at what the padre is expected to be sellers,
that's the one that stands out to me. And all
of this, Jason was you know, as you start getting
reports of no, no, no, no, then not only is Dylan c staying,
he's getting some help.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Look, this is it was great for a lot of teams, right,
everybody got help, Right, the contender's got help. Did you
see a ton of great prospects get done?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
No, but you saw enough.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
You saw enough periphery top ten guys. But why was
this deadline the best? Why was it so good? And
it's so good because finally teams have now had enough
time to get used to the new trade deadline of
it's just July thirty first, there's no July three thirty
first deadline. And then the waiver deadline at the end
(09:02):
of August where you can sneak a guy through or
a veteran who's making a lot of money in a
walk away year that no one's going to pick up
that cash on. It took a couple of years for
teams to figure out how do we act the deadline
because there's too many teams now in baseball because of
the added playoffs. This is the one downside of the
added playoff team. The only downside of more teams in
the playoffs is that when you get to the trade deadline,
(09:24):
there's a lot of teams that are in neutral. Right
here we are the end of July. We're not in
a playoff position, or we're kind of in a playoff position.
We could get hot, right.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
What's our schedule the next two weeks? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Right, we could add, we could deal, we could stand
pat How do we go through this?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Right?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What's our medical evaluation on the starters or middle infielders
that are on the il.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, all of those things.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
And it took a couple of years for teams to understand, Okay,
is it worth it for us to go in where
we could wind up being knocked out after two games? Right,
we could be knocked out after one game, right, how
do we deal with this?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And after a.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Couple of years, teams realize, Okay, we don't need to
always make the big trade, but if we're, if we're
in a good position, let's go for it. Because because
the thing is is that what teams have realized that, Okay,
with this one trade deadline, it's not about adding stars, right,
It's not about the like we get caught up in
that and adding stars. And look the Mariners adding Gino
(10:27):
Suarez was a great trade, right, And not often a
guy with thirty five homers is getting dealt the deadline,
but it's there. But from the most part, team strategy is, Okay,
what's our biggest weakness. We have a center fielder And
I'll just use the Mets for an example, right, because
they had Tyrone Taylor playing centerfield to trying to get
Jeff mcgeel play center field. And Tyrone Taylor is somewhat
of a plus defender, but he can't hit it all.
(10:48):
I think his ops is like one fifty. Right, So
to one of the Mets, do they go out and
get Cedric Mullins? Now is Cedric Mullins a five time
All Star and a superstar that costs a ton of
prospect wise, No, as he's someone who is league average
a little bit better. Yeah, he's a plus defender. I
mean he's thirty thirty one years old, but still a
plus defender, gonna hit enough, steals enough bases where it's
(11:11):
a huge upgrade because you've taken what has been the
achilles heel of your team, which is the center field position,
and suddenly you've went from a guy that's not giving
you anything into a guy that's giving you at least
league average maybe a little bit more production. That's a
huge upgrade. That's what teams have decided, this is what
we're going to do. So this is why U see
teams making moves like this. Right, look at the Padres. Right,
(11:33):
did they go out and get incredible players to fill
out the bottom half of that lineup? Because their line
has been really top heavy, right most of the season.
They needed, you know, they needed to make moves at
the bottom and they did. Right, They went out and
got league average maybe a little bit better at those positions,
and suddenly that's a huge upgrade.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
The Braves won the World Series three years ago because
of the deadline. They went out and got four new
starting players who are all better or league average players
like Jock Peterson. Was a huge addition for the Brave.
Three years ago. They went out and got four guys
of the deadlines. There were a five hundred team, but
because there was so much of an improvement over what
they had, it's almost like adding a star when you
go from a from a center fielder that that's you know,
(12:12):
with an ops of five point fifty, and suddenly you
bring in a guy with an ops of eight hundred
or seven seventy seven to eighty who's gonna hit twenty
five home runs and steal twenty five bases and play
really good defensive center field. Like that's a huge upgrade. Man,
that's why they're giving thirty one out of retirement. Beyonday
Centric Mullins, we love you, man, we'll bring you in.
But so many teams did at and that's what made
(12:33):
them better. They went out at their bullpens. Our bullpens
are terrible. So guess what, we're gonna go improve out
of the deadline because it's okay to do it, because
it's cheaper, because we can go that's the cheapest position
to be able to improve on it's bullpen. Pitchers is
pitches out of the bullpen, so we can go get them.
It's not gonna cost big, big prospects, so we can
still kind of go for it, not mortgaging our farm
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system and not worried about getting superstar players. So it
just took a couple of years, but now the teams
have figured it out. These are the trade deadlines you're
gonna get every year. Tons of players are gonna move,
tons of relievers are gonna move. Position players are gonna
move who are league average a little bit better. That's
how it's gonna go. We're still gonna get the odd
odd and end star that's gonna go because a team's
gonna be in trouble money wise, or really know that
(13:15):
we're not gonna re sign this guy in the offseason,
so we're gonna trade him at the deadline. But Jenny,
we'll get a couple of those guys. We'll get a
lot of We'll get a lot of league average to
a little bit above league average players and tons of relievers.
And that's a great trade deadline.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah, I mean, we looked at Suarez.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Right, We're watching the Mariners and Rangers as we're watched
watching the here in Studio six six nothing into the
ninth uh and Suarez with the double and Rally with
the home runs, so you have the bashers. But he
was in the final year of the deal, so it
became a all right, peaks your interest of who really
wants to push in for a guy on an expiring deal,
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who's gonna be in his mid thirties, all of those things,
and in the end, the Mariners bring him back. He's happy,
he says, his wife's thrilled. Obviously, teammates were excited to
have him back, and you move on Korea Reunited in Houston.
If nothing else, we get some great headlines and a
lot of anger and vitriol here in Los Angeles once
again remember that guy that jerk no like all of
(14:15):
those things. And then we go through and your point
on the bullpen is absolutely right. The changing of the
game right outside of the closers like the truly established
elite guys where maybe you've got to give up a
little bit more or they get the big contract in
the offing, like you saw with the Dodgers and the
guys they had brought in in the off season. Is
(14:37):
that you know you're gonna need countless arms if you're
really gonna play meaningful baseball in September and October. We've
seen that the last couple of years, and more and
more the data and the science and what the how
they're applying things to young pitchers. We're not getting guys
pitching past the fifth or sixth inning. So guess what
(14:57):
four times a game one hundred and sixty two plus
you're going to the well, which means you need a
lot of arms at your disposal, right, particularly as you
get into series and you don't want to show the
same looks, same sequence of guys back to back nights,
et cetera. So yeah, those guys become expendable. I do
(15:18):
dig the extra wildcard that you do have some of
the all right, how deep do we want to go in?
Pushing in and gms kind of also looking at their
baseball mortality. It's an interesting you know, macro micro approach. Right,
if you're in the city, it's like, we have to
go for it. McCrae, like, now I get it. Guys
trying to preserve his job doesn't want to give up
(15:40):
because if you give up the farm and that guy
goes becomes a start. It's like in your fantasy league.
Why why do so many guys not want to and
women that are playing not want to make a trade
because they don't want to watch the other guy have
great success and bankersh you go to the playoffs. The
same thing works in the psychology of a guy in
an actual major leagues experience. But you know, we got
(16:02):
a lot of activity. How much were massive difference makers?
Only time will tell in terms of those relief staffs
and how they've been fortified for your mets. You obviously
got a face in Mullins. For the Padres, they picked
up two guys for the back of their lineup that
totaled two eighty three two ninety total of twenty eight
(16:23):
homers and ninety RBIs between them. All Right, that's a
pretty good haul for O'Hearn uh and Loreano. Now you
have to convince Padre fans that Devrees is not going
to become the next great thing. Oh wait, he's playing
in Oakland, Sacramento, Las Vegas, uh, Anytown, USA, so the
(16:43):
likelihood probably not so much. But he can go hang
out with Nick Kirtch for a while.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Oh that's nice. Yeah, because he'll hit five home runs
in the game. Eventually he'll be fine.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Maybe almost did almost hit that fifth to one man
off the.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
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trade deadline day in Major League Baseball. Yes, the Mets
did outstanding. Uh we'll get to the two big winners.
There were two really big winners. Again, not the Mets
showing you that look when it comes to baseball. You
know the fan I am, you know the kind of
knowledgeable fan I am. The two big winners the Mets.
Why I would say it would be the third big
winners because they took they took the biggest weaknesses that
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they had and they enhanced them, which is the bullpen
and center field and boom, we get two great relievers,
we got a really good center fielder.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
It's what you do, right.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Would you say correct it or enhanced because if you're enhanced,
that made them a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Uh no, Okay, Okay, they enhanced the position, they corrected
the problem.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Okay, I just want to make sure we it's like
they found a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
We've found a bigger problem to get into that other problem.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's nothing. This is the bigger problem. It's like the sequel.
We need a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
This is the one we have a problem with. Yeah,
so the biggest trade of the day, and it was
kind of a shocker, but I guess it's now a
thing like this is. It's the year of the reliever
being trained. It's also the year of, hey, let's get
the band back together. The Astros reacquire Carlos Carrea from
the Twins right now, this you you would get on
(20:13):
social media and again Astros fans are falling into the
trap of just remembering the nostalgia of Carlos Korea and
how great he was at one point and getting him back.
Yet no, again, what do I say? You can't look
at the back of a guy's baseball card and think
you're always getting a star.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, you dated, you broke up, and now they've changed.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, I've changed up back now changed. I've stopped drinking.
I don't gamble anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
The guy you remember when I was lean and mean
and getting after it.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
It's like like the end of the breakup with Vince
Vaughan and Jennifer Andison, where they hey, they're but their
lives are both gotten better without each other. Okay, there
should have been the sequel where they try it again
and then we go through it.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
No, I gotta say, dude, I love the ending of
The Breakup where it was because the movie is called
The Breakup, where it wasn't the Hey, everybody want a
happy end? Sorry spoiler for this movie, but like we
want a happy ending, they should get back to they
should break up and get back together. No, it was basically,
we dated and we were together for as long as
we should be together, and we realized that our lives
(21:13):
are taking different paths. When they run into each other
on the street at the end, they say, hey, how
you do. There's no hey, let's get together. Great to
see you, Awesome to see you. Yes, oh no, I'm
not saying that.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
But it did well commercially and philosophically that in today's
day and age you would have greenlit a sequel immediately.
Oh yeah, although Favreau was you know, not gonna be
available because he was too busy creating you know, the Mandalorian,
fixing the Star Wars universe and getting Robert Downey Junior
going in Iron Man.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That was such an underrated movie because he's got so
many stories. Jason Bateman was great in it. When they're
selling the apartment and he says, I'd like to not
take any commission on this.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Oh that's really nice. You know.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I said I'd like to not take any but my
boss is not gonna allow that. So yeah, I'm gonna
take comission on selling this apartment.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
But Dinofriel Colehauser just go on down the line.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
That might have be might be hot take that might
be Vince Vaughan's best movie.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Man, we oh Swingers, No Swingers. You wanted to kill
him in the entire movie. But that's how good he was.
You wanted to kill him in Swingers. I mean there's
a few that I like, Guilty, but my daughters hate.
They will not watch a movie that includes Vince Vaughn
really at all. Wow, I won't watch Lost World, not
gonna watch that.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Well, that one, unfortunately for you know in syndication, that
one doesn't get shown.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Monkey Bed Monkey was really fun.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
I keep trying to explain to them how good they're like, No,
I'm not thinking they will not go down that road.
Monkey is fantastic I can't wait for season two.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
That's too bad. I mean, and Margaret was in the
breakup for crying out.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah that's true. Yeah, I mean, look, that's a very
underrated movie. But Korea gets traded back to the Astros.
Look at this, Look at this.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yeah, I will say this.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
This is as far as I'm gonna go, because I'll
tell you if I'm not a big fan of this.
Houston is the best place for him to go to. Okay,
it is the best place for him to go back to.
They figured out the money a little bit. Yes, there's
a lot of money that he is doing the next
few years, but it's not unbelievable money. It's not forty
five million dollars a year for the next five years. Right,
there's vesting money. There's twenty million a year. So Houston
(23:18):
figuring this out. Hey, bringing him back home where maybe
he gets a little bit more juice. That's the one
place where Korea to go. I'd say, okay, that's the
best place for him. But that's as far as I
will go, because this deal is just a med deal.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Did you want you really wanted the juice off of
the juice box? Correa, juice too I'm in the Houston.
You have Rocky part, you have Rocky and juice boxes.
Is that Korea hasn't been a star player in four years?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Right? Like?
Speaker 1 (23:48):
How many teams, including the Mets, are saying, who glad
we didn't give him three hundred million dollars four years ago?
Can you imagine that contract?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
What an albatross that is to try to get out
from under that because all all of the worry about
his foot, that he's not gonna age well and his
his his production's gonna go way down. The Mets, the
Giants all wait, wait, wait, can't have Carlos Krea, can't
get Carlos Korea. How many teams are now patting themselves
on the back, going, yeah, lucky we didn't go down
that road because he's not been great.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
He's had some individual bright spots. His batting average is
pretty good last year as RBI's you're three years ago,
But overall he's not the same guy. He was never
a super duper star. He was just a really good
player when the Astros came of age, Right when all
the early round draft picks of the Astros came together
and all the sports illustrated predictions of them winning the
World Series in twenty sixteen, like he was part of that.
(24:38):
It was a special time that we found out they
were cheating and getting the signs ahead of time. But
back to the thing with Carlos cre he's not been great,
and now you're gonna ask him to go play third
base because you have a pretty good shots up already
that's in three twenty five, So he's gonna go play
third base where his offensive numbers are not gonna be
in line with what you need out of your third
(24:58):
base position. So so this move, like it sounds great,
but in the end, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
You trade.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
You got a guy that you traded because you had
great times together. You got back with your ex because
you remember the great times, and you're not with it now.
As far as what it means for the president future, right,
you're into it for a guy that, hey, it was
great a few years ago, but now it's been a
long time since he was good. But you're getting him back,
and magically it's gonna get better agein No, that's as
(25:26):
far as I can go. Yeah, it's probably the best
destination form. But now I'm gonna expect him to be
a star. I'm expect him to hit like he hit.
He's gonna be a guy that's fifteen home runs and
knocks in sixty runs and it's two and it's two
sixty as a third basement like that gets you cut,
That gets you an upgrade. We need an upgrade at
third base. We're not getting anything from the Mets. Are
getting more at third base from Batia, Maurisio and Viento's
(25:47):
and they've all stunk at times this year. So this
Carlinos Karaia thing, yeah, I get, I get. It was
a great, big headline, but overall the impact on the field,
this is not that great a trade.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
This is not.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Suddenly all here here comes the al Wes coming to
us because of Carlos Korea again five years ago, maybe six,
seven years ago. Yeah, sure, but now it's not the same.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Current lead is four and a half going into tonight's game,
Tonight's action short slate a Major League Baseball ahead of
the weekend series, ahead of Seattle, and then you've got
Texas at five and a half. I think they're banking,
you know, in terms of not making the massive splash
that Jordan Alvarez is gonna come back and be able
(26:30):
to mash right away. Be curious to see how that plays.
So he's slated perhaps for a mid August return. But
to your point about Korea, he had a point one
war this year. Yeah, nine one point one point one.
Last year was three point seven. On the strength of
that three to ten batting average, had thirty six extra
(26:51):
base hits and fifty four RBI only played eighty six games.
Go back the year before that, his second year in
Minnesota of one point three eighteen and sixty four, played
one hundred and thirty five games. First year in Minnesota
twenty two and sixty four with the two ninety one,
So you got the batting average. He's kind of gut
(27:11):
done an alternating with the batting average. So this year
hitting a robust to sixty seven, He's.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Been a solid shortstop. He's not been a superstar. He's
been overvalued, and now it's gonna be a third baseman
that's four years removed the last time he was a star.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Right, Like I do something, even if it's a fact
that the Twins pick up a bunch of the money
makes them feel better. Twins actually sent out a giant
letter of basically apology.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Dude, I mean, what do you do? What do you do?
That was amazing?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Traded nine players off your major league roster in the
last week.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Nine.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I mean you've traded almost half. Literally, I said they've
traded half their roster. Oh that's a uphim it. No, no,
that's exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
What they did.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Let me read this right, Al Central Champions twenty twenty three.
That's the bottom of the bottom of the page. Wait, wait,
wait on the page they set on. Yes, it's got
the Major League Baseball logo and it says AL Central
Division Champions with the TC logo twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
It's like the Jets sending out an update. Justin Fields
was four for seven to day and seven on sevens
and at the bottom nineteen sixty nine Super Bowl champion.
Thank you for believing. That's the headline in the top
of this, dear fans. This season was different. It started
with the promise, a lot of chatter, Trades are made, trades,
question stars emerged. Vet Ve's you know what, I've clinsed
(28:32):
all this stuff, the drought, and it goes through ups
and downs and everything else.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Don't imagine believe is the final line to it. But yeah,
a lot of change. Roster is totally shuffled. They don't
have the guys under contract for very long there in Minnesota.
But for Houston, Carlos Correa fits a knee right, makes
it feel warm and fuzzy for the moment. I don't
(28:58):
know if they look Rob Bamp it's too busy Beefan
with Bryce Harper, and he looked the other way the
last time the Astros made a run, So perhaps they're banking.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
You know what he is, he's comfort food, right, Yeah,
you know what I want?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Mac and cheese.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yes, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Mean it's gonna sit in my stomach for the rest
of the night. My boy, it's gonna feel good. Go
I'm gonna feel good having it. I'm gonna think about
all my times growing up and having the craft macaroni
and cheese, and I love so much of the elbow
macaroni and watching my grandmother stir with a big heavy
wooden spoon and all that cheese in there.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Now is a great for you, suld You have had it,
you have had that much. No, but at the time
it's great. That's kind of what this is. That's where hey,
let's get the band back together. And so many teams
fall into that trap of looking at the back of
a guy's baseball card and thinking, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
This was the guy, this is what he was all
these years ago.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
It's why people go to their high school reunions to go, oh, man,
this person didn't age.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Well at all. Blake that guy.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Ah, he cheated on me here or this girl cheated
on me.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Uh well, look it up.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
He got he looks like he's seventy five years old.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
That's so great.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
That's why people go, man, and they don't go. They
don't go to high school. Hear was going, oh, man,
I really hope that this guy is there, this woman
is there, this gird Oh they go. They want to
see they want to see the day I turned out
better than you.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Okay, great.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
They'll fall into the trap of saying, hey, I went
to my high school re union. I'm marrying the person
that I did in high school. Now people don't do that,
but that's what people do in sports fans, and they
look back and say, oh, we're bringing our guy back. Yeah, okay,
that's great, bring your guy back.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Well, I mean you look, you can if you'd kept
the jersey and didn't send it to good will. You
can dust it off and use it again.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
No, no, no, he won the suit. He won the
World Series there, so you get to keep it. If
you win a World Series, the jersey lives forever. I'm
a firm believer that if you don't win a World Series,
you got to be a Hall of Famer to be
so I can rock that jersey, right, Rul And these
are pretty good rules. Uh, hall of Famer, you can
wear the jersey. Anytime they win a World Series, you
(30:59):
can wear the If they're not a Hall of Famer,
didn't win a World Series, get rid of the jersey.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
No, it's good, Yeah, you do get Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
So the letter that was circulating was again you know
it's old get but got recycled because of excuse making
before from twenty three. So yeah, they fans just decided
it's like we've seen this before, we know this change,
So here we have it. But yeah, a lot of change,
a lot of trades, nice fun, active day. I'd like
(31:28):
for my team to actually have some some juice at
at some point, man, I'm still living on twenty years man.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, I know you are.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
I forgot about twenty twenty three at early Statu's pretty sweet, though, buddy.
He're sending out stuff with two thousand and five station
every crazy time, know, to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. But guy who had a
great two thousand and five, it's Martin Weiss.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Two thousand and five was a year, that's for sure. Joey,
Where were you in two thousand and five?
Speaker 6 (31:53):
I was in the midst of moving from Louisiana to Michigan.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Wow. Depending on what time of the year, it.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Was okay, And you loved your time in Michigan?
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Oh I I normally I tell people I did my
bid to describe it.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Wow, what about that?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
I mean vacations in Detroit there, I like.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
A frozen custard muskrat meals. Did you have muskrat? No, muskratch?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
I just got frozen when I was there, frozen custard
and white castle.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Look, you know I was your kid.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I'd never heard a car heart before I moved to
Michigan and then promptly got a car heart and was
wearing it before homecoming.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Oh yeah, because it was so cold outside. Car Like
Starbucks everywhere else, it's a car heart store in Michigan.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Great, it's funny now to see I don't know if
you've got if you've noticed, but like the proliferation now
of car heart around people who are wearing it just
to wear it, as opposed to wearing it because you
know your need to be outside and clothes that last. No,
they're just wearing it to wear it. Yeah, it's interesting.
(32:59):
You know, people going to work. I guess you got
the worst check, right hat?
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Sure? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Kind like kind of like tonight the Hall of Fame game,
those guys were all dressed up like football play right, Yeah,
they're all dressed up like football players.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
As a couple guys you'll see on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (33:20):
Uh, yet to be known if we'll see third overall
pick Trey Lance on Sunday again. But he started for
the Chargers tonight all right, yesterday threw two touchdowns. The
Chargers won the Hall of Fame Game thirty four to
seven over the Lions. Washington Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin
has asked for the Commanders to trade him. They cannot
come to agreement on the deal. The Mariners beat the
(33:41):
Rangers to night. Cal Rowley hit his forty second home
run of the years, the most in a single season
by a switch hitting catcher. Also saw Ao Suarez make
his Mariners second time debut. I suppose as he's back,
he was in the lineup today. Six to nothing the
score there and ten innings. The Braves beat the Reds
twelve to eleven in a game that had eight runs
(34:02):
in the eighth inning by both teams, and the Yankees
beat the Rays seven to four.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
The trades were flying.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
The Blue Jays traded for Shane Bieber. The Yankees added
three arms to their bullpen, Dove all Bednar and Bird.
Red Sox acquired Dufton May from the Dodgers. The Padres
got first baseman Ryan O'Hearn outfielder with Ronan Loreano, Mason
Miller JP Series, and Freddy for Mean. The Dodgers got
Alex call from the Nationals and Brock Stewart from the Twins.
Those same Twins traded Carlos Correa back to the Houston Astros.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Comfort food says Jason Smith and.
Speaker 6 (34:34):
Mike Harmon in Minnesota, also throwing three thirty three million
dollars in the deal, So that's very very comfortable food.
The Tigers traded for Kyle Finnegan and Harley Morton. The
Rangers got Merrill Kelly from the Diamondbacks, and the Mets
got Cedric Mullins from the Orioles. The Knicks and Michel
Bridges have agreed on a four year, one hundred and
(34:54):
fifty million dollar contract extension.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Back to you guys, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
A bunch, Martin, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the
Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
There were two big winners at the MLB trade deadline,
and I'm telling you right now, I'm not gonna say
the Mets. They were like the third big You're just
putting them on the metal stands, on the metal stands.
Third big winner? What two teams one? We'll tell you next, right,
it's not sleveland Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
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Speaker 1 (35:36):
It is the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Happy Trade deadline Day, Yay. I am enjoying
my ten to ten diet. Coming to celebrate the Mets
big trade deadline day.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Matt Show may other than a quick update from mart Weiss,
we we haven't even talked Nick.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
No, no, we'll get you. Been back.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
I mean you came back yesterday and it's really and
I said this to my daughters early. I was like,
we really didn't do a whole lot of Mets talk,
which really shocked me because you had a huge winning
streak for a good chunk of your vacation and I
really thought if they were still on that streak, we
would have never seen you until.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
No, no, no, I would have not come in.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Superstitious guys, maybe you know, maybe not fully superstitious, but
a little stitious that you might have stayed home.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I can't come back, So you're gonna take a vacation date? No,
you know I can't come back. Just you know someone
else is gonna work for me, but you have to
take a vacation date.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
No, I'm not. I'm not. I'll come in when the
Mets lose. Well, I mean that's where suddenly you're.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I'll come in when they lose. I had a bit
of an upstat stomach. I couldn't make it like Tim Robbinson,
Bull Durham. I'll be back when we lose. Okay, I'll
be back to have sex with Susan Sarandon when we lose.
I'll be back and we lose. Maddy hated that, by
the way, to update the movie or that scene, well,
just the movie as a whole. Right, she was in
the middle of it when we were on Area Street
(37:00):
doctor this morning, because now that was terrible.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Wow, really bad.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Wow that was I know how bad?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
How badly did you skewer it on a letterbox?
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Not good?
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Not good?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Well, I think the movie came out in nineteen eighty seven.
I think they're okay with a bad review, and.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Let's just say it. She decided she needed to go
and and call it to task. So tonight she's celebrating
the tenth anniversary of descendants.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Like me.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, kings and queens, it's our time to rise, write
the book story. Oh, remonds, this is us taken back
the night away way. Make sure you tell Maddie that
she'll like this. Remember Kevin cost did a movie where
he tried to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald did not
act alone. But then in Bull Durham, what does he
(37:44):
tell Susan Sarandon, I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
He did remember that that's the movie's too different.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Okay, he also was in the Big Chill. He was.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Two big winners trade deadline today, two big winners, and
that's the on the metal stand. You currently two good relievers, yes, gradual, Yeah,
two biggest winners the Mariners because they gave up basically nothing,
and they got a couple of thumpers. Remember they got
Nailer the other day. They bring in Gino Suarez back
to the team and they win big tonight, right They
(38:17):
they kept the team playing behind for him so we
could make it to get to the game tonight. Like
that's that's a team that's got something going on right now.
The Mariners got two more thumpers for that lineup, and absolutely,
when you get the best player at the deadline, chances
are you're gonna win. Mariners are big winners and the
Padres are big winners. I wasn't the biggest fan of
(38:37):
the Mason Miller trade simply because they already have a
great bullpen. So, okay, you made a strength better, but
you gave up a lot to get them. Yes you
have me, he's under team control, but you gave up
a lot to get them so okay, but they didn't
trade Dylan Ceese. I love that they kept their starting
pitchers and with a top heavy lineup, they knew, all right,
(38:57):
we got to improve the bond of line right. What
did I say earlier this out? When you have players
below average out of position, if you simply upgrade to
a league average guy, that's a great deadline move. And
that's they did. They brought in all kinds of help
for the bottom of the lineup, one former All Star
for this year. They did great things. It's almost like
the Padres are foolproof now and they are bulletproof and
(39:19):
matchup proof. They have a great bullpen, they have enough
starting pitching. The lineup is gonna be good enough. Like
watch out for the Padres man. Even though I wasn't
a big fan of Mason Miller, I love what they
did the deadline Mariners and Padres.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I mean, you bring in a big strikeout guy and
Miller and you know it's the Ocean's eleven.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
You think we need one more? Yeah, let's get one more.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
He couldn't stop, a j Peller couldn't stop.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Let's get another trade. Why not? Haven't done a trade
in four minutes, let's go, are we in or we out?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
And as soon as they got the nod, you know,
and here here's your thumbs up to go after it
and keep fighting it. And I think that's the best
part for the trade deadline as a whole. And the
number of teams just said, Okay, this is wide open.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Open season on the Dodgers for those that you know
want to go and beam count uh spending, et cetera.
But for the Padres to stay in it, I think
pretty impressive in that regard. Uh, you know, the the
other winners. You look at your mets, I have to
put them up there. I don't want to. But but
(40:19):
the fact that you get a big closer right you
want of many, but.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Maybe the best of them.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Yeah, tell you man, maybe watch out you're coming.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Mate, you're coming.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
MAT's terrible exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome.
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