August 28, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith reveals why Colorado’s Ralphie VI is his BLEEPIN HERO. And MLB Insider extraordinaire Jon Paul Morosi joins the show for all the latest on the playoff races!
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You're pretty? And I do want to say this because
I feel like that, you know, we never want a
lot of people. When I said jets like, that's not
this year. Like I didn't say Jets super Bowl this
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year and every year that's like from two years ago.
And we got Aaron Rodgers man, Like that's like that,
that's not like, Oh I think Justin Field is going
to take us to super Bowl.
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We'll have that Ralphie.
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Speaker 1 (01:49):
Let's go indifference to running. So your hero. Two big stories,
one team quarterback wise from the NFL today shocker, it's
the Brown Xenha Door Sanders. But the first one is
this right, because boy, but I'm really I can't tell
you how upset I was when the Browns let Tyler
Huntley go traded Kenny Pickett and my Big Bowl prediction
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that the Browns are gonna start five quarterbacks this year
in the NFL over the course of the season went
out the window because two of the guys were gone. Yeah,
but we're starting to come back to it now now
we know the the depth chart goes Flaco, Gabriel Sanders, Right,
Tyler Huntley is still hanging around. I'm sure he's still
hanging Yeah, he's in an alternative mental. Okay, I'm all right, Okay,
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we're getting back. But now the new number five who
will wind up being the number four, has come back
because the Cleveland Browns. Who is who is showing up?
TJ who is showing up for the Cleveland Browns? For
Zappi hour is former Patriots quarterback Bailey Zappi. He is back.
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He's on the practice squad, is insurance. So now, hey,
we're still gonna get those five quarterbacks, man, except now
it's gonna go Flacco, Gabriel Sanders, Zappi, and then it'll
be Tyler hunting. Yeah, but you might get a full
six pack.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, you might get a full six pack out of
six because you saw the video.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, DeShawn Watsonshan Watson, there was video of throwing on
the field.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So all of a sudden, what it's like the end
of a Marvel movie. It's that uh is that's the
teaser trailer in the middle of the credits going maybe okay,
all right, maybe not yeah, but I gotta think anybody
wants to see you before.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Even though that Frostburg now, even though like they're gonna
play as many people as they can, like I, still
he's not coming back. Like he's not coming back, Bailey, Zappi,
it's Zappie Hour. Come on, get Zappie is not just
a Partridge Family song, TJ. You get to run all
your lines again. How great is that there are shiny
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zappy people all over the world. We talked about that
one hit wonder from the ninth these the Zappie Mondays
the other day on the show. Now it's Zappi Wednesday.
I will say this, the Shiny Happy People. I hadn't
heard it in a while.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I didn't hate it as much now I think if
I heard it with some regularity again, it'd go back
into the dust bin.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
But at least for that one one little moment. Here's
the thing. I like the Shiny People. Hated the Happy People.
I like when they were hanging out with the muppets
doing the Shiny People Okay, happy act, Sesame Street, but
same thing. They're all muppets. It's a it's all the sad.
They're all muppets.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And then guys, they're in the alternate universe where it's
kind of dark and twisted. I once described it as
the Muppets on Crackuppets, although I will say this pure
a muppet peeling back the curtain.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But am I a man or am I a Muppet?
It's one one time. This is back when I was
an NFL network and we had a we had a
deal for the I forget what it was, but like
the Muppets, The Muppet movie was coming out something and
they sponsored a segment on the Fantasy Show and I
remember we had Muppets come on. I had to like
throw to the Muppets doing something and maybe came back.
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It was kind of fun and we came back and
I did my Elmo impression and I said, Elmo likes
Fantasy Live, mister Jason Elmo thinks, And I did a
whole thing. Right, it was funny. And then I'm in
my my manager's office after the show. Right, well, I
mean my Almo om Prescious Prett, my Elmo and my
Curious George are both really good. And I remember going
to my manager's office after saying, hey, really good stuff
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the ship. But while technically a muppet, Elmo is not
part of the thing, And I go, are you really
sitting here telling me that I did something wrong because
I did a fun Elmo thing?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
No, no, it was really good, but technically Elmo's not
a Muppet. Now I'm like, what the hell kind of
conversation we have in here? Is anybody in troubles?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Anything get?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Is anything wrong? Why had I committed just to tell
me while technically a muppet, Almo's not part of the
movie going on? And okay, but it's not like I
didn't mention the Muppets. I didn't mention the Muppet movie
did a whole big thing, and I just did an
Elmo impression. And I'm like, wow, man, that's one of
those times I walked out going, walked out going? How
much longer do I want to be here?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I thought you were gonna tell me that Kevin Clash
came out from out behind a couch and kicked your ass.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Elmo drafted Aaron Rodgers. Elmo didn't play Aaron Rodgers one time.
Last year until week eleven. I really walked out going
because this is some of the conversations we had that
I had there. Well, I still remember while technically a
muppet like you really started the conversation with that, while
technically disrespect that you had it. That's an amazing I mean,
and you're in, You're shocked that called you in. It
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looked like we had to get Jason to tell him
about doing that to Elmo impression really really, I mean
some of it like that should be that should be
my book after I'm done, is say, these are just
things that managers have said to me, like over the
course of These are just things they have said. And
you want to go, wow, these people are in charge.
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You think some of are actionable. I think they've called
you now the other the other part of this story, right,
if you can get more crazy then while technically a muppet,
almost not part of the Shadore Sanders has been getting
criticism from just about everybody this preseason. But it was
great today to see Shadour Sanders get criticism from wait
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for it, wait for it, wait for it, his dad
for no, come on, that's not the Muppets. For the Muppets.
He has the two judges at the end, they were
he was bringing it back and this is where he started.
Animal came out and started playing the drums. Former NFL quarterback.
And that's the best I could say. Akie Smith criticizing
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Chaudeur Sanders on ESPN's media platform and Escape talking about
how look a look at the cape, look at the tape.
It's it's one of their new media platforms. Escape, Uh
and uh saying that it's clear as day that Dylan
Gabriel is ahead of Shador Sanders on the tape. Not
that not that Schadoor Sanders can't get there, but he's
ahead of him on the tape. Quote Chadour took a
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took a sack in the last preseason game. He was ridiculous.
You had all these people blaming the line. He's dropping
back way too far. He's got to step up in
the pocket, throw the ball away. It's one or the other.
It is open season on Shador Sanders. From anybody, I know,
you're gonna say, wait a bit, Chase, you've never thrown
a football in the NFL. You could barely say that
Achille Smith did either. He was the third overall pick.
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Here is draft though here is Achille yet, which was stunning. Uh,
this is Akille Smith, one of the biggest busts in
NFL history. Wow, who is weighing in saying, yeah, look
at that, look at all this Chador Sanders. Yeah, he's
got a ways to go, Like said, he can't escape
criticism from anyone. Not that Achille Smith hasn't earned the
right to say what he wants to say being a
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college star quarterback and going to the NFL, but wow, man,
this is guy's one of the biggest buzz in NFL history.
Is saying, yeah, this guy's gotta learn. He's not good enough.
Look at what he did in the last game. Like
this is where it's come to for Shador Sanders, that
it doesn't matter what kind of career you had, what
kind of cachet you have in the sport, you could
be one of the biggest busts of all time. And still, yeah,
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I'm unloading non Chador sand is what I think he
is this preseason?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well, I mean, if they're bringing you on, I mean,
you're a former quarterback, you played some in the league,
you were a high draft choice, and obviously where we're
at with Shador not a high draft choice guy trying
to fight his way, and I think if you take
the overall, I would agree with the assessment.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I argue it the other day talking about that sack.
It's the right of passage, seemingly from all quarterbacks who've
been a bit mobile behind suspect offensive lines, that you're
gonna have that escapability.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Those guys did everything.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Legal, and I mean that legally, not just in the
football rule book, legally to keep him up right on
that plane, and it did work, and he held the
ball too long. So Achilles Smith, if they're being brought
in for an audition for Lars your role, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Ah? You know what he's played. Okay, I like the kid.
He's gonna have a chance. No, hell no, you come up.
Anyone pipes up with content now, because of anybody, I
can just pipe. I'm sure Kate mcnohon is coming up next.
I'm sure I'll be there too. I can't believe we
haven't had more from Ryan Leaf on Shador Sanders. Where
where has that been?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And this is what makes me sometimes sometimes feel bad
for Shador Sanders. And I understand the chip on his
shoulder because whatever he has done. Criticism from him of
him goes over the top and completely passed where it
would be from any other quarterback that is fighting for
a job. Does he bring some of it on himself? Absolutely,
hundred percent right. He's polarizing with how he carries himself
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sometimes and and and and what he says, and you know,
taking on reporters after games, teammates under the bus at Colorado, Like,
I get it. But this is where, honestly where part
of me I feel bad for him. And I think
that the first person to ever say that, And I
understand the chip on his shoulder because just sometimes there's
a disdain that media people have for certain athletes that
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just doesn't make sense. Right, Caitlyn Clark is someone else
who gets treated with disdain that she should right, who
was the analyst the other day that said, oh, if
Caitlyn Clark comes back, it's too late in the year,
or to have her back on the team, it's too
too hard to get her assimilated back into the the
fever rotation. Really one of the top five players in
the game, No, no, don't come back this year? Really,
and you really one of the top one of the
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top five players no, it's too late, too late for
her to come back. He has only five six How
are you gonna come back? Really? So if Asia Wilson
was hurt for the for the Aces and but she
could come back with five no, no, no, Asia, can
not have you back. Sorry, no, I can't have your back. Hey, sorry,
Luca know you're coming back with five or six games
left in the regular season, but yeah, the Lakers have
been winning, Okay, they can't really have you back, man.
I mean that's the disdain gonna disrupt chemistry that I
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mean that, And that's just stupid. This is not, this
is not She's not a role player that is coming
back hoping to carve her way back in. But they
found a way around it. You're talking about a top
five player in the game. You're talking about your door Sanders,
who potentially could have run a path to a starting
quarter that was a star in college, and yet he
gets hit from all sides. Doesn't matter what kind of
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person it is, what kind of again, what kind of
career they have, what kind of believability, level of respect,
It's open season on him just because I don't like him,
and and that's how I feel about him, and again,
that's how I that's part of why I feel for him,
and I can understand the chip on his shoulder a
little bit. When I see Achille Smith saying, yeah, look this,
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this is the deal with your door Sanders, I'm like, wow, man, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Unfortunately, heavy is the head of he who wears the
crown or she who wears the crown. Right, you're gonna
take it from from all sides when it comes to
media attention, for better or for worse. Because for as
much as they they take the incoming Lebron Luca keep
going down the line, there's very few guys that get
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the hall pass right. We've talked about at Steph Curry.
He doesn't get it here, but for the most part
he's been left alone until he wasn't you look at
where Shador Sanders is now. I mean you got a
very large, willing army to tell you that he should
should have been the start from day one, no questions asked,
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that he still should have been the second pick overall,
even if thirty two teams, including the team that eventually
drafted him in the fifth town said beat it for
four rounds. So you know, there's there's no rationality, cause
you know what, click click click click, I take not
I can't believe again. It makes me feel bad for
him to an extent. I don't know everybody's ever said that,
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everybody's ever said that on radio. To take that back,
it makes me almost feel bad because that's how that's
how he's treated sometimes. Exit out bout a fresca, Exit
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I posed to him in our DMS earlier today on Twitter.
It is blocking John pal Morosi, Noan McLain, front runner
for Cy Young and MVP in the National League.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Your thoughts well, good evening, anybody, Well, I would say
the sample size is a little small, but it is.
It is mighty, it is.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
It is good.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I think that we're seeing a lot from young Nola McLean.
I'm I'm pretty optimistic about about where the Mets are
right now. I was actually saying about a week ago that, hey,
see the Reds, they're playing a little better, the Mets
are listing a little bit, and we might have a
robust battle for that for that final NL wildcard spot.
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And now, thanks to the the momentum of the McLean
all of a sudden, as I land here in Philadelphia,
we've got the game here tomorrow Phillies Braves. I'd be
a little bit of a nervous feeling here on the
ballpark tomorrow for the Phillies after that's very emphatic sweep
by the New York Mets.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, here's the thing, John Paul, and I will tell
you this is that, and this is this is every
Philadelphia sports team, but specifically the Phillies and the Eagles.
As good as things are for them at any moment
in time, they always have one foot on the banana peel.
Disaster is right around the corner. You know, the Phillies
coming with a seven game lead, they could have ended it.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
But what do they do?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
They're worried about a microphone and center field that all
the Mets batters are too far out of the the
on deck circle. When when when they when they're when
they're batting, and and they wind up getting swept by
the Mets when should have been a hey, we're coming
in here. We're the better team, and now the NLS
is up for grabs, It really is.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
And and listen, four games is certainly a close enough
margin I think for the Mets to make a serious run,
especially they've gotten their pitching staff a little younger Jonah
Thong is coming up. McLean's pushed really well. Here's what
I'll say there, there's a lot of players on this
Phillies team who have been through it before, who have
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a lot of big game experience. They still have Schwarber
having an MVP caliber season, although the bat have gone
a little quiet for thin in the last three days.
And here though, is probably the greater concern for the Phillies.
And this is where I think tomorrow gets really interesting.
Tomorrow should be a game the Phillies win. They've got
Aaron Nola on the mound. He's getting closer to regaining
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his form. He is the guy that must now step
into the boy that's left by Zach Wheeler. They're facing
a Braves team that's been out of it for about
two months now against Cal Quantrill, someone that their lefty
dominant lineup should have a good time with. But if
all of a sudden that game does not go your way,
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You've got Chris Sale pitching over the weekend, and really
then it gets a little more nervy, I think for
the Phillies. So you're right on. This is a city that, certainly,
as you may have heard before, can get occasionally a
little negative about their own teams, and the Phillies are
giving them ample reason to do it right now and
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we'll see, though I want to wait to see other
the next couple of days unfold before I fully sound
the panic alarm for the Phillies. But we are arriving
at that time because the one thing that could not
happen this week if you're a Phillies person, was to
get swept by the Mets. That's precisely what has happened.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Now we look at the Mats moving forward, you got
a bunch of playoff worthy teams, including another date with
these Pills in a couple of weeks. But let's stay
with the Phillies for one more second here, Jp, Outside
of parabolic microphones and whatever else is going on in chicanery,
why can they not win at City Field.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
That's a great question, and you're right. The parabolic microphones
are not the reason here, No, they're not. And honestly,
I think one of the reasons why all of a
sudden Phillies fans might be especially concerned is is they
were supposed to have the antidote to moments like this
when they acquired Johan Duran and even he could not
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find a way to solve the of City field. So
I don't think it's necessarily anything schematically about the ballpark.
But the Mets are a better team at home. And
and listen, and Jason knows this, it's not exactly breaking
news here that the Mets have have underperformed their level
a little bit this season.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
They've they've been his eyes just glazed over, JP as
you said that, like you wounded him.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Can we enter Can we enter this into the understatement
Hall of Fame for the Jason Smithchell Sure? The point,
the point being in, Jason, I'm about to give you
some really robust Mets positivity here, which is this that, guys,
the Mets, the Mets are due to play better, and
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it might finally be happening at the right time of year.
At the very least, they have alleviated any any feelings
of panic that Jason had about the Mets missing the
playoffs entirely because now you've got a much more robust
cush The Reds have not exactly shown themselves to be
ready for prime time against the Dodgers this week, and
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so I think for a lot of reasons, the Mets
feeling ever more secure than they are and will be
a playoff team here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
The greatest baseball insider whoever lived. It's John Paul Morosi,
our guest right now on Fox Sports Radio, Jason.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
And there are many, there are many who are better.
How say this, I am. I am the greatest baseball
insiders scheduled to join the show at this hour.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Okay, sure, very very good.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Now. Probably I'm probably the greatest one to live in
my own house. But I but again, my kids might
have a greater insight than me on a great many issues. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, you're the best baer and the second best.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Doctor, second best doctor, my daughter, my thirdness, this will
surprise you. My thirteen year old let me know about
the scoop about Travis and Taylor getting engaged. So that
was that was a big one yesterday. I got that
text from her. Oh dude, to break that story.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Okay, all right, very I know I'm gonna ask you
something much more difficult now, because this is this is
a team where I feel like they just try to
get through every day and some days are great and
some days are terrible, and some days a great day
is followed by a terrible day. But John Paul makes
sense of what the next five to six weeks hold
for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Wow boom, because because you're right, if you watch them
on the right day, which today was, for example, at
eleven two went over the Nationals, you say to yourself,
why exactly do they sometimes struggle? It's it's almost difficult
to figure it out, and yet they do. And yet
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they're not the first place team in the American Leaguees.
That distinction belongs to the Toronto Blue Jays. The Yankees
were also pretty good. They scored ten runs on Monday
against the Nationals, so they have shown even with Aaron
Judge in a compromise physical state, with the inability to
throw the baseball, he can still hit and he is
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still a threat in the middle of that lineup. I
think one of the other key things that's happened out
for the Yankees is Cody Bellinger's bad as picked up.
He had a big game earlier in the week as well.
So I think they will find a way, certainly to
get to the playoffs. Not I'm not sure if they'll
catch the Blue Jays, but they are still and they've
shown it this week to be a dangerous team even
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without Soto, they have to hope and it's going to
be a tall order for Bellinger to hit the way
that Sodo did last year in October. I'm not sure
that anybody really can. But but they need a little
bit more consistency from the rotation. Freed hath to find
a way to have a stronger finishing kick. But you're right.
You watch them this week and you say to yourself,
how do they ever struggle? And there's a bit of
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a microscope, a significant one on Anthony Volpi. You could
say that. But I think actually the way that Aaron
bon has managed this team guys, has been really good.
I know that he gets a lot of criticism.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What else is he going to do?
Speaker 7 (25:02):
Who else is he going to play at certain positions?
He's got the roster he has, and I think he
has done a much better job than a great many
Yankee fans want to give him credit for.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I love your visceral reaction to Jason's question, JP, because
it sounded like you were going to do the virtual
equivalent of what FM DJs would do when they wanted
to go have a cigarette, go to the bathroom, or
go get a slice of pizza heated up, because wow,
how long do you have for this answer kind of thing? Right,
(25:33):
here's an eight minutes to go through, all right, So
let me let me go to brass tacks home run
today for Aaron Judge, has cal Rawley caught eclipsed him?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I know we're a Homer and RBI.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Are the only two categories where they're really on par
But has he caught him? Is their momentum towards a
big dumper MVP.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
I think we are in an absolute dead heat right
now between Judge and Raleigh, and now the Mariners picked
up a big win today too. They are a game
and a half back of Houston and certainly on a
pretty comfortable pass to the playoffs, not entirely tour, but
they're in a good position. What I'll say is this,
They're at a dead heat now, and the numbers, the
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metrics in a lot of these voters' minds, I think
will begin to favor Raleigh more because with Judge not
playing defense, Raleigh is able to continue to accrue defensive
value points if you will, at the most important defensive
position on the field. And with one more months, if
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Raleigh keeps again maintaining his offensive production and is behind
the plate almost every day for a team that's going
to the playoffs. It's I think it's hard. It really
is hard. I think from a numerical standpoint to argue
that with the two of them them almost equivalent right now,
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that that Judge as a d H is substantially more
valuable than than Raleigh as a catcher. It's it's so close.
There's no question Judge has them in the average category. Uh,
it's they're obviously very close in terms of home runs
in RBI. It's just the defensive component for a team
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that leans heavily on him. This is a team that
without Cal Raleigh would not be, would not be where
they're at. And it's also true that, by the way,
the Yankees would not be where they're at without Aaron Judge.
Let's be fair about that. They would They would probably
be behind the Royals and the al wild card standings
if it weren't for Aaron Judge. So there are no
wrong answers. I want to make that clear that if
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that if you are voting for Judge, that it's not
like you're voting against Raleigh. If if Raleigh is your
second choice. I do think it's it's clear to my
colleagues who are voting on the Zemp Award, I think
we know who number one or number two are in
some order. If you're voting Judge one, Raleigh eight, we
got to have a conversation because maybe you know, like
his batting average, whatever it is, we got to have
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a talk. It is obvious that this is a two
person race. Every American ly giving ballot had better have
the two of them one to two in some order.
And all those are acceptable choices one and two. And
I think it's a dead heat. But again, the ability
for Raleigh to accrue defensive value over the final month
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could be the deciding factor.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
All right, So let me jump leagues now. Is something
we talked about earlier in the week. Would you say
the exact same thing you just said for Judge and
Raleigh for Otani and Schwarber.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
So here we go. Obviously, DH Schorber has this amazing
home run season. But Otani does the thing that he
did tonight, which is he still pitches. And I know
that it's not a statistically significant number of innings. It's
not like he's throwing one hundred and fifty this year.
But it's something and and the Dodgers are in this
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very close race with the Padres to where a start
like tonight is incredibly meaningful and indeed, to use the
word valuable to his team. So I think that with
where the Dodgers are now, with how important Otani has
become to their rotation, I lean Otani. It's close again,
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there's not There's no wrong answer either way. And and
let's see, this is one of those one of those
discussions where the standings, I think on some level will
tell us the tale a little bit too. If the
Padres all of a sudden surge in September and win
the division by three games, and meanwhile the Phillies when
the when the NL is going away and Schwarberg hit
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some club record home run total up there with what
Ryan Howard's done in the past, maybe I have a
different answer, But for now I see Otani being slightly
ahead of Shorber, whereas I see Judge and Raleig neck
and neck, with Raleigh gaining some momentum.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
All right, last one for you real quick here at JP.
Next week we'll start diving into predictions for the Detroit Lions.
But thirty four and a half point favorites this week
the University of Michigan against New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Forty nine and a half is the total.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
What say you, I say New Mexico is able to
get within that number. So I would take New Mexico
and the points. And here's part of the reason why
you got a young man. And Bryce Underwood is very
very first collegian start. I know he's going to be
a star, I know all those things, but that's a
lot of pressure on him right right off the bat,
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primetime game, a lot of attention. I think that Michigan's
gonna win, but it's going to be closer than what
those numbers suggest. So that's what I've got. I've got,
let's say thirty five to fourteen. I'm going thirty five
to fourteen Michigan.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Oh, there we go. The first there we go Football
pick of the year for John Paul Morosi, high school quarterback. Undefeated,
right is high school quarterback? Your senior?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Ya? Is that?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
What?
Speaker 7 (31:10):
It was? Actually quite the opposite I was. I was
How do I say this correctly? I was undefeated at losing,
very lost. My record of losing was perfect, the perfect
oh to nine That's what I was.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well, you are undefeated with us. John Paul Morosi on
Twitter at John Morosi. Check him out on MLB Network.
John Paul is always buddy, appreciated, man fun. We'll talk
to you next week.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
You guys are the greatest. I love this every week.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Be good brother. Talk to you soon. Here goes John
Paul Morosi, Big stuff on show. Heyo Twani. Now we
find out what's trending from someone who was doing updates
in the shadow of a show. Heyo Tawny bobblehead from
tonight's game, Hunter Bucks. It's Monty Belanas.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
We're almost live size, We're almost the same, oh Tani and.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I uh yeah. One of those forced perspectives was like, no,
it's okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
The Dodgers have wrapped up their game against the Reds,
coming out on top five to one. Show Heytani pitched
five innings, gave up two hits, one earned run, and
had nine strikeouts. This is also the first time this
season that the Reds have been swept. It was the
last team in baseball to not be swept that ended
today with the Dodgers. The Rangers crushed the Angels twenty.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Toway, you're not gonna give me a You're not gonna
give me a wild card update. How many games are
the Mets are ahead of the Reds for the final wildcards? Yeah? No,
but I will by the end of it to do that,
so you're right.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
The Rangers crushed the Angels twenty to three. It's the
most run score by Texans by Texas since twenty eleven.
Jock Peterson al Kyle he got shioga each homeward and
ended with five RBI in that one. The Mets completed
a three game sweep of the Phillies, shutting them out.
Today six zero, Diamondbacks edged the Brewers three to two, two.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Games going on.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Still in baseball, Raphael Devers is homeward again for the Giants,
so twice in the game so far. They're on top
of the Cubs now ten to three, top of the
seventh inning, and the A's are shutting out the Tigers
five zero, bottom of the sixth inning. In NFL news, well,
earlier today, the league announced that they are suspending wide
receiver Rashid Rice of the Chiefs for the first six
games of the regular season because of he violated the
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league's personal conduct policy. The Ravens signed safety Kyle Hamilton
to a four year, one hundred million dollar extension. Titans
announced that their rookie number one pick cam Ward is
one of their seventeen captains this season.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Seven team captains, because if they had seventeen, I would
say they probably, Okay.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Probably, then he should be right now, one of seven
team captains this season.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Sorry, sometimes I talk fast on I at the US Open.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
On the men's side, it would be.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
A better story. Though it would be a better story.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
It would be question.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Seventeen captains on that team? Really?
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Two saved Carlos Alcoraz and right now is Ben Shelton sixty.
Those are the last two dames that you know, I'm
gonna mention their advancing to the third round. On the
women's side, American Taylor Townsend and Jelenna Oh Stop Pencot
kind of got in an argument at the end of
their match. Taylor Townsend apparently like one of her last
(34:11):
points she skinned the net like a netball, right and
so oh stop penco Is Matt She even put on
her Instagram. They had some words after the match.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
She says she was disrespectful that she didn't have class
to Taylor Townsend and at the end she like put
a thing out on Instagram saying she had a netball
and she didn't even apologize for it. And it's just
like the rules of the game that you're supposed to.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Was there a photographer that ran on the court and
everybody got upset and Medvedev went nuts to So I'm
trying to look for.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
That play because I mean, Taylor Townsend won and straight sets.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
It wasn't even you know, it's been a hot week,
you know, and I think it's getting to a lot
of the time at the US Open, it really is.
It's hot, and.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
They're there there, you know, ultra at the end there
exchange you can catch on all social media.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Has it right now?
Speaker 6 (35:04):
They're back and forth, back and forth because Taylor Townsend
at the end just says something to turn and walks
away and gets the crowd to cheer for her, and
everyone cheers for her. Yeah that choice, yes, So yeah,
she got mad that she'd apologized for that netball unwritten rules.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I'd send her a piece of a net And you're right,
thank you, mon ate it exactly. Thanks coming out text listen,
I've never been jealous of college athletes because they work hard,
they owe, they put their bodies on the line. But
after this nil story of what athletes ad some big
colleges like Ohio State and Florida and Georgia are gonna
(35:39):
get yet. Now I'm officially jealous. That's next, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Wait for it, Wait for it, wait for it.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
What are you listening to? Norwegian death metal? Fox Sports Radio.
The Jason Smith Show is my best friend. Mike Harmon.
H Look, I'm not one of those people that aren
sit here and say, oh, college athletes, they're spoiled. They
get more than anybody ever has. No You put your
body on the line, you dedicate yourself to a sport,
you can make money off it. That's awesome, right, Yeah.
(36:24):
I get the guys like Arch Manning gonna make more
money already, have made more money than I'm probably making
my life is probably pocketing twenty five million dollars already
the last year or so. So I'm okay with that.
I understand that, and I've never been jealous until now
because now I'm like, okay, now this is like get out.
We've crossed that break. There's like the million die Like
(36:45):
there's superheroes that are you know, the gods and that
that fight in the stars, like Captain Marvel and four.
And then there's the street level superheroes like the Spider
Man's and the Daredevils.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Right Like I always like that, like the friendly neighborhood
kind of guy. Yes, I'm a street I'm a street
kind of NIL guy.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
And today, a program that began last year with Ohio
State is now going to include Florida and Georgia for
this season, and other schools as well. The NIL program,
brought to you by Chipotele, will expand student athletes at
all of these schools. Scholarship recipients walk ons, doesn't matter,
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will each get a customized Chipotle card, granting them free
meals for the duration of their respective seasons. Debuted last
year exclusively with the Buckeyes, and now they're adding on
at least these two new teams now in Florida and Georgia.
That's pretty good. You'll get one free entree per week
(37:49):
for fifteen weeks. The company says it picket Ohio State, Florida,
and Georgia because of the school status as three of
the top thirty universities that eat the most Chipotle. Now,
if that's your thing, I eat at Chipotle once a week, man,
I go once a week. The carnitas and the on
the lettuce with the shredded shredded cheese, the guacamo, the
Guacamolean chips. I mean, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not,
(38:11):
you know, I know, I feel like I'm over selling this.
But the Guacamolean chips are the best guacamolean chips I've
ever had at any restaurant which Chipotle has, Like they
have people who wear the T shirts and say, I
made the guacamole today, I made the chips today. I
always thank them. I go, thank you because this guacamole
is the best I've ever had. And I say this,
my wife makes amazing guacamole. But the but the guacamole
(38:31):
and the chips are absolutely out of this world. I
can't get out. Well, go yes, we're gonna have guacamole.
We're gonna have guacamole. I could just sit there and
walk in and say I just like the side of guacamole.
What else? I just you know what, I give me
another side of guacamole and a diet coke, okay, sir,
and a spoon and a napkin. Great, thank you, that's all.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Take.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
You're like Joey Tribbiani sitting on the side of the
road eating a little jar jam like part of it.
Ohio State, you've got a huge student population and that
percentage of athletes as you roll through. They've got some
great college programs as well. So if you are enrolled
in college, should look into it, get your ID verified
when you go. There's a bunch of discounts and free
stuff at points to find out where there's a whole
(39:10):
other thing. But but yeah, I mean Chipotle, I mean jubiquitous, right,
I mean, they're they're everywhere, and it's always good, always
loaded up, Get them on, get them over, get them in.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
And for student athletes, another another win. Man.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
You already have the ability to transfer pretty freely. You
already have the ability to go make some money. And
now you're gonna get a card that it gives you
a meal a week.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean at first I'm like, oh,
not two meals a week not. But I'm like, okay, no,
I understand.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Because you got to figure there's also a subreddit, you know,
for each of these schools where you find out where
the most generous employee is. Well, and there's also sure,
so you start figuring it out. Hey, Johnny's Johnny's on
the beans and uh and the meat station today he's
the guy filling.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Let's go on the meat. But I'm sure there's also Hey, dude,
you didn't are you using your Chipotle card this weekend?
I'm going again coming. Yeah, sure, here, I'll give you
five dollars for your Chipotle card because a meal of
Chipotle is probably mean Chipotle is fifty point Yeah, I mean,
you know you're getting a bowl or you're getting you're
getting something that's you know, you throwing the meat. It's
always it's always crazy one of those plays to say,
(40:20):
you know, you just get here, just start with a bowl,
whatever you want, and by the time you're done, it's like, oh,
that's like, that's like eighteen dollars. Well, I put eighteen
dollars worth of food on that. It was nothing in
the beginning. It's like cotton candy. I just waved it
around and suddenly, look at all this it is, but chappoll,
do you ever.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Talk about buying one of those machines though, just so
you can wave your arm in it and suddenly you're
cotton candy man running around with two cotton candy arms.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I'd rather I'd rather eat your way out of it.
That sounds great, and and having a taco bell in
your house sounds great. But I'd rather have people in
my house making the the guacamole every day. I'd rather
have the Chipotle people making guaka chips every day. Think
you could pull that off. I mean that's something. Just
have people tipped. That's all I want to make. Their
food is great. Look I like I said, you can
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do that for an hour. If you just want guawk like,
you're gonna come in from four to five. I'll have
all the ingredients delivered. They'll be on the counter. You
just come in make the GUACQUI go. I mean that
commercially have that. That ran all last year. That the
one woman who was just stirring the guacama. Yeah, I
made the guacama. She's a stir I'm going, oh my god,
I just want to take a whole big ladle and
(41:23):
just put it in my mouth. That's how good the quirt.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
That's a whole other podcast for another time. Some of
these programs that that these have for college kids.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
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Let's go indifference to running. So your hero. Two big stories,
one team quarterback wise from the NFL today shocker, it's
the Brown Xenha Door Sanders. But the first one is
this right, because boy, but I'm really I can't tell
you how upset I was when the Browns let Tyler
Huntley go traded Kenny Pickett and my Big Bowl prediction
(02:13):
that the Browns are gonna start five quarterbacks this year
in the NFL over the course of the season went
out the window because two of the guys were gone. Yeah,
but we're starting to come back to it now now
we know the the depth chart goes Flaco, Gabriel Sanders, Right,
Tyler Huntley is still hanging around. I'm sure he's still
hanging Yeah, he's in an alternative mental. Okay, I'm all right, Okay,
(02:34):
we're getting back. But now the new number five who
will wind up being the number four, has come back
because the Cleveland Browns. Who is who is showing up?
TJ who is showing up for the Cleveland Browns? For
Zappi hour is former Patriots quarterback Bailey Zappi. He is back.
(02:57):
He's on the practice squad, is insurance. So now, hey,
we're still gonna get those five quarterbacks, man, except now
it's gonna go Flacco, Gabriel Sanders, Zappi, and then it'll
be Tyler hunting. Yeah, but you might get a full
six pack.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, you might get a full six pack out of
six because you saw the video.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, DeShawn Watsonshan Watson, there was video of throwing on
the field.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
So all of a sudden, what it's like the end
of a Marvel movie. It's that uh is that's the
teaser trailer in the middle of the credits going maybe okay,
all right, maybe not yeah, but I gotta think anybody
wants to see you before.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Even though that Frostburg now, even though like they're gonna
play as many people as they can, like I, still
he's not coming back. Like he's not coming back, Bailey, Zappi,
it's Zappie Hour. Come on, get Zappie is not just
a Partridge Family song, TJ. You get to run all
your lines again. How great is that there are shiny
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zappy people all over the world. We talked about that
one hit wonder from the ninth these the Zappie Mondays
the other day on the show. Now it's Zappi Wednesday.
I will say this, the Shiny Happy People. I hadn't
heard it in a while.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I didn't hate it as much now I think if
I heard it with some regularity again, it'd go back
into the dust bin.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
But at least for that one one little moment. Here's
the thing. I like the Shiny People. Hated the Happy People.
I like when they were hanging out with the muppets
doing the Shiny People Okay, happy act, Sesame Street, but
same thing. They're all muppets. It's a it's all the sad.
They're all muppets.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And then guys, they're in the alternate universe where it's
kind of dark and twisted. I once described it as
the Muppets on Crackuppets, although I will say this pure
a muppet peeling back the curtain.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
But am I a man or am I a Muppet?
It's one one time. This is back when I was
an NFL network and we had a we had a
deal for the I forget what it was, but like
the Muppets, The Muppet movie was coming out something and
they sponsored a segment on the Fantasy Show and I
remember we had Muppets come on. I had to like
throw to the Muppets doing something and maybe came back.
(05:10):
It was kind of fun and we came back and
I did my Elmo impression and I said, Elmo likes
Fantasy Live, mister Jason Elmo thinks, And I did a
whole thing. Right, it was funny. And then I'm in
my my manager's office after the show. Right, well, I
mean my Almo om Prescious Prett, my Elmo and my
Curious George are both really good. And I remember going
to my manager's office after saying, hey, really good stuff
(05:33):
the ship. But while technically a muppet, Elmo is not
part of the thing, And I go, are you really
sitting here telling me that I did something wrong because
I did a fun Elmo thing?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
No, no, it was really good, but technically Elmo's not
a Muppet. Now I'm like, what the hell kind of
conversation we have in here? Is anybody in troubles?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Anything get?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Is anything wrong? Why had I committed just to tell
me while technically a muppet, Almo's not part of the
movie going on? And okay, but it's not like I
didn't mention the Muppets. I didn't mention the Muppet movie
did a whole big thing, and I just did an
Elmo impression. And I'm like, wow, man, that's one of
those times I walked out going, walked out going? How
much longer do I want to be here?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I thought you were gonna tell me that Kevin Clash
came out from out behind a couch and kicked your ass.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Elmo drafted Aaron Rodgers. Elmo didn't play Aaron Rodgers one time.
Last year until week eleven. I really walked out going
because this is some of the conversations we had that
I had there. Well, I still remember while technically a
muppet like you really started the conversation with that, while
technically disrespect that you had it. That's an amazing I mean,
and you're in, You're shocked that called you in. It
(06:39):
looked like we had to get Jason to tell him
about doing that to Elmo impression really really, I mean
some of it like that should be that should be
my book after I'm done, is say, these are just
things that managers have said to me, like over the
course of These are just things they have said. And
you want to go, wow, these people are in charge.
(07:00):
You think some of are actionable. I think they've called
you now the other the other part of this story, right,
if you can get more crazy then while technically a muppet,
almost not part of the Shadore Sanders has been getting
criticism from just about everybody this preseason. But it was
great today to see Shadour Sanders get criticism from wait
(07:24):
for it, wait for it, wait for it, his dad
for no, come on, that's not the Muppets. For the Muppets.
He has the two judges at the end, they were
he was bringing it back and this is where he started.
Animal came out and started playing the drums. Former NFL quarterback.
And that's the best I could say. Akie Smith criticizing
(07:46):
Chaudeur Sanders on ESPN's media platform and Escape talking about
how look a look at the cape, look at the tape.
It's it's one of their new media platforms. Escape, Uh
and uh saying that it's clear as day that Dylan
Gabriel is ahead of Shador Sanders on the tape. Not
that not that Schadoor Sanders can't get there, but he's
ahead of him on the tape. Quote Chadour took a
(08:09):
took a sack in the last preseason game. He was ridiculous.
You had all these people blaming the line. He's dropping
back way too far. He's got to step up in
the pocket, throw the ball away. It's one or the other.
It is open season on Shador Sanders. From anybody, I know,
you're gonna say, wait a bit, Chase, you've never thrown
a football in the NFL. You could barely say that
Achille Smith did either. He was the third overall pick.
(08:30):
Here is draft though here is Achille yet, which was stunning. Uh,
this is Akille Smith, one of the biggest busts in
NFL history. Wow, who is weighing in saying, yeah, look
at that, look at all this Chador Sanders. Yeah, he's
got a ways to go, Like said, he can't escape
criticism from anyone. Not that Achille Smith hasn't earned the
right to say what he wants to say being a
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college star quarterback and going to the NFL, but wow, man,
this is guy's one of the biggest buzz in NFL history.
Is saying, yeah, this guy's gotta learn. He's not good enough.
Look at what he did in the last game. Like
this is where it's come to for Shador Sanders, that
it doesn't matter what kind of career you had, what
kind of cachet you have in the sport, you could
be one of the biggest busts of all time. And still, yeah,
(09:12):
I'm unloading non Chador sand is what I think he
is this preseason?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Well, I mean, if they're bringing you on, I mean,
you're a former quarterback, you played some in the league,
you were a high draft choice, and obviously where we're
at with Shador not a high draft choice guy trying
to fight his way, and I think if you take
the overall, I would agree with the assessment.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I argue it the other day talking about that sack.
It's the right of passage, seemingly from all quarterbacks who've
been a bit mobile behind suspect offensive lines, that you're
gonna have that escapability.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Those guys did everything.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Legal, and I mean that legally, not just in the
football rule book, legally to keep him up right on
that plane, and it did work, and he held the
ball too long. So Achilles Smith, if they're being brought
in for an audition for Lars your role, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Ah? You know what he's played. Okay, I like the kid.
He's gonna have a chance. No, hell no, you come up.
Anyone pipes up with content now, because of anybody, I
can just pipe. I'm sure Kate mcnohon is coming up next.
I'm sure I'll be there too. I can't believe we
haven't had more from Ryan Leaf on Shador Sanders. Where
where has that been?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You know?
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And this is what makes me sometimes sometimes feel bad
for Shador Sanders. And I understand the chip on his
shoulder because whatever he has done. Criticism from him of
him goes over the top and completely passed where it
would be from any other quarterback that is fighting for
a job. Does he bring some of it on himself? Absolutely,
hundred percent right. He's polarizing with how he carries himself
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sometimes and and and and what he says, and you know,
taking on reporters after games, teammates under the bus at Colorado, Like,
I get it. But this is where, honestly where part
of me I feel bad for him. And I think
that the first person to ever say that, And I
understand the chip on his shoulder because just sometimes there's
a disdain that media people have for certain athletes that
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just doesn't make sense. Right, Caitlyn Clark is someone else
who gets treated with disdain that she should right, who
was the analyst the other day that said, oh, if
Caitlyn Clark comes back, it's too late in the year,
or to have her back on the team, it's too
too hard to get her assimilated back into the the
fever rotation. Really one of the top five players in
the game, No, no, don't come back this year? Really,
and you really one of the top one of the
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top five players no, it's too late, too late for
her to come back. He has only five six How
are you gonna come back? Really? So if Asia Wilson
was hurt for the for the Aces and but she
could come back with five no, no, no, Asia, can
not have you back. Sorry, no, I can't have your back. Hey, sorry,
Luca know you're coming back with five or six games
left in the regular season, but yeah, the Lakers have
been winning, Okay, they can't really have you back, man.
I mean that's the disdain gonna disrupt chemistry that I
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mean that, And that's just stupid. This is not, this
is not She's not a role player that is coming
back hoping to carve her way back in. But they
found a way around it. You're talking about a top
five player in the game. You're talking about your door Sanders,
who potentially could have run a path to a starting
quarter that was a star in college, and yet he
gets hit from all sides. Doesn't matter what kind of
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person it is, what kind of again, what kind of
career they have, what kind of believability, level of respect,
It's open season on him just because I don't like him,
and and that's how I feel about him, and again,
that's how I that's part of why I feel for him,
and I can understand the chip on his shoulder a
little bit. When I see Achille Smith saying, yeah, look this,
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this is the deal with your door Sanders, I'm like, wow, man, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Unfortunately, heavy is the head of he who wears the
crown or she who wears the crown. Right, you're gonna
take it from from all sides when it comes to
media attention, for better or for worse. Because for as
much as they they take the incoming Lebron Luca keep
going down the line, there's very few guys that get
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the hall pass right. We've talked about at Steph Curry.
He doesn't get it here, but for the most part
he's been left alone until he wasn't you look at
where Shador Sanders is now. I mean you got a
very large, willing army to tell you that he should
should have been the start from day one, no questions asked,
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that he still should have been the second pick overall,
even if thirty two teams, including the team that eventually
drafted him in the fifth town said beat it for
four rounds. So you know, there's there's no rationality, cause
you know what, click click click click, I take not
I can't believe again. It makes me feel bad for
him to an extent. I don't know everybody's ever said that,
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everybody's ever said that on radio. To take that back,
it makes me almost feel bad because that's how that's
how he's treated sometimes. Exit out bout a fresca, Exit
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at John Morosi, where he will first answer the question
(16:50):
I posed to him in our DMS earlier today on Twitter.
It is blocking John pal Morosi, Noan McLain, front runner
for Cy Young and MVP in the National League.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Your thoughts well, good evening, anybody, Well, I would say
the sample size is a little small, but it is.
It is mighty, it is.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
It is good.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I think that we're seeing a lot from young Nola McLean.
I'm I'm pretty optimistic about about where the Mets are
right now. I was actually saying about a week ago that, hey,
see the Reds, they're playing a little better, the Mets
are listing a little bit, and we might have a
robust battle for that for that final NL wildcard spot.
(17:34):
And now, thanks to the the momentum of the McLean
all of a sudden, as I land here in Philadelphia,
we've got the game here tomorrow Phillies Braves. I'd be
a little bit of a nervous feeling here on the
ballpark tomorrow for the Phillies after that's very emphatic sweep
by the New York Mets.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, here's the thing, John Paul, and I will tell
you this is that, and this is this is every
Philadelphia sports team, but specifically the Phillies and the Eagles.
As good as things are for them at any moment
in time, they always have one foot on the banana peel.
Disaster is right around the corner. You know, the Phillies
coming with a seven game lead, they could have ended it.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
But what do they do?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
They're worried about a microphone and center field that all
the Mets batters are too far out of the the
on deck circle. When when when they when they're when
they're batting, and and they wind up getting swept by
the Mets when should have been a hey, we're coming
in here. We're the better team, and now the NLS
is up for grabs, It really is.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
And and listen, four games is certainly a close enough
margin I think for the Mets to make a serious run,
especially they've gotten their pitching staff a little younger Jonah
Thong is coming up. McLean's pushed really well. Here's what
I'll say there, there's a lot of players on this
Phillies team who have been through it before, who have
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a lot of big game experience. They still have Schwarber
having an MVP caliber season, although the bat have gone
a little quiet for thin in the last three days.
And here though, is probably the greater concern for the Phillies.
And this is where I think tomorrow gets really interesting.
Tomorrow should be a game the Phillies win. They've got
Aaron Nola on the mound. He's getting closer to regaining
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his form. He is the guy that must now step
into the boy that's left by Zach Wheeler. They're facing
a Braves team that's been out of it for about
two months now against Cal Quantrill, someone that their lefty
dominant lineup should have a good time with. But if
all of a sudden that game does not go your way,
(19:37):
You've got Chris Sale pitching over the weekend, and really
then it gets a little more nervy, I think for
the Phillies. So you're right on. This is a city that, certainly,
as you may have heard before, can get occasionally a
little negative about their own teams, and the Phillies are
giving them ample reason to do it right now and
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we'll see, though I want to wait to see other
the next couple of days unfold before I fully sound
the panic alarm for the Phillies. But we are arriving
at that time because the one thing that could not
happen this week if you're a Phillies person, was to
get swept by the Mets. That's precisely what has happened.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Now we look at the Mats moving forward, you got
a bunch of playoff worthy teams, including another date with
these Pills in a couple of weeks. But let's stay
with the Phillies for one more second here, Jp, Outside
of parabolic microphones and whatever else is going on in chicanery,
why can they not win at City Field.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
That's a great question, and you're right. The parabolic microphones
are not the reason here, No, they're not. And honestly,
I think one of the reasons why all of a
sudden Phillies fans might be especially concerned is is they
were supposed to have the antidote to moments like this
when they acquired Johan Duran and even he could not
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find a way to solve the of City field. So
I don't think it's necessarily anything schematically about the ballpark.
But the Mets are a better team at home. And
and listen, and Jason knows this, it's not exactly breaking
news here that the Mets have have underperformed their level
a little bit this season.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
They've they've been his eyes just glazed over, JP as
you said that, like you wounded him.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
Can we enter Can we enter this into the understatement
Hall of Fame for the Jason Smithchell Sure? The point,
the point being in, Jason, I'm about to give you
some really robust Mets positivity here, which is this that, guys,
the Mets, the Mets are due to play better, and
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it might finally be happening at the right time of year.
At the very least, they have alleviated any any feelings
of panic that Jason had about the Mets missing the
playoffs entirely because now you've got a much more robust
cush The Reds have not exactly shown themselves to be
ready for prime time against the Dodgers this week, and
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so I think for a lot of reasons, the Mets
feeling ever more secure than they are and will be
a playoff team here in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
The greatest baseball insider whoever lived. It's John Paul Morosi,
our guest right now on Fox Sports Radio, Jason.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
And there are many, there are many who are better.
How say this, I am. I am the greatest baseball
insiders scheduled to join the show at this hour.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Okay, sure, very very good.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Now. Probably I'm probably the greatest one to live in
my own house. But I but again, my kids might
have a greater insight than me on a great many issues. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah, you're the best baer and the second best.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Doctor, second best doctor, my daughter, my thirdness, this will
surprise you. My thirteen year old let me know about
the scoop about Travis and Taylor getting engaged. So that
was that was a big one yesterday. I got that
text from her. Oh dude, to break that story.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Okay, all right, very I know I'm gonna ask you
something much more difficult now, because this is this is
a team where I feel like they just try to
get through every day and some days are great and
some days are terrible, and some days a great day
is followed by a terrible day. But John Paul makes
sense of what the next five to six weeks hold
for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
Wow boom, because because you're right, if you watch them
on the right day, which today was, for example, at
eleven two went over the Nationals, you say to yourself,
why exactly do they sometimes struggle? It's it's almost difficult
to figure it out, and yet they do. And yet
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they're not the first place team in the American Leaguees.
That distinction belongs to the Toronto Blue Jays. The Yankees
were also pretty good. They scored ten runs on Monday
against the Nationals, so they have shown even with Aaron
Judge in a compromise physical state, with the inability to
throw the baseball, he can still hit and he is
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still a threat in the middle of that lineup. I
think one of the other key things that's happened out
for the Yankees is Cody Bellinger's bad as picked up.
He had a big game earlier in the week as well.
So I think they will find a way, certainly to
get to the playoffs. Not I'm not sure if they'll
catch the Blue Jays, but they are still and they've
shown it this week to be a dangerous team even
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without Soto, they have to hope and it's going to
be a tall order for Bellinger to hit the way
that Sodo did last year in October. I'm not sure
that anybody really can. But but they need a little
bit more consistency from the rotation. Freed hath to find
a way to have a stronger finishing kick. But you're right.
You watch them this week and you say to yourself,
how do they ever struggle? And there's a bit of
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a microscope, a significant one on Anthony Volpi. You could
say that. But I think actually the way that Aaron
bon has managed this team guys, has been really good.
I know that he gets a lot of criticism.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What else is he going to do?
Speaker 7 (25:02):
Who else is he going to play at certain positions?
He's got the roster he has, and I think he
has done a much better job than a great many
Yankee fans want to give him credit for.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I love your visceral reaction to Jason's question, JP, because
it sounded like you were going to do the virtual
equivalent of what FM DJs would do when they wanted
to go have a cigarette, go to the bathroom, or
go get a slice of pizza heated up, because wow,
how long do you have for this answer kind of thing? Right,
(25:33):
here's an eight minutes to go through, all right, So
let me let me go to brass tacks home run
today for Aaron Judge, has cal Rawley caught eclipsed him?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I know we're a Homer and RBI.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Are the only two categories where they're really on par
But has he caught him? Is their momentum towards a
big dumper MVP.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
I think we are in an absolute dead heat right
now between Judge and Raleigh, and now the Mariners picked
up a big win today too. They are a game
and a half back of Houston and certainly on a
pretty comfortable pass to the playoffs, not entirely tour, but
they're in a good position. What I'll say is this,
They're at a dead heat now, and the numbers, the
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metrics in a lot of these voters' minds, I think
will begin to favor Raleigh more because with Judge not
playing defense, Raleigh is able to continue to accrue defensive
value points if you will, at the most important defensive
position on the field. And with one more months, if
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Raleigh keeps again maintaining his offensive production and is behind
the plate almost every day for a team that's going
to the playoffs. It's I think it's hard. It really
is hard. I think from a numerical standpoint to argue
that with the two of them them almost equivalent right now,
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that that Judge as a d H is substantially more
valuable than than Raleigh as a catcher. It's it's so close.
There's no question Judge has them in the average category. Uh,
it's they're obviously very close in terms of home runs
in RBI. It's just the defensive component for a team
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that leans heavily on him. This is a team that
without Cal Raleigh would not be, would not be where
they're at. And it's also true that, by the way,
the Yankees would not be where they're at without Aaron Judge.
Let's be fair about that. They would They would probably
be behind the Royals and the al wild card standings
if it weren't for Aaron Judge. So there are no
wrong answers. I want to make that clear that if
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that if you are voting for Judge, that it's not
like you're voting against Raleigh. If if Raleigh is your
second choice. I do think it's it's clear to my
colleagues who are voting on the Zemp Award, I think
we know who number one or number two are in
some order. If you're voting Judge one, Raleigh eight, we
got to have a conversation because maybe you know, like
his batting average, whatever it is, we got to have
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a talk. It is obvious that this is a two
person race. Every American ly giving ballot had better have
the two of them one to two in some order.
And all those are acceptable choices one and two. And
I think it's a dead heat. But again, the ability
for Raleigh to accrue defensive value over the final month
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could be the deciding factor.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
All right, So let me jump leagues now. Is something
we talked about earlier in the week. Would you say
the exact same thing you just said for Judge and
Raleigh for Otani and Schwarber.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
So here we go. Obviously, DH Schorber has this amazing
home run season. But Otani does the thing that he
did tonight, which is he still pitches. And I know
that it's not a statistically significant number of innings. It's
not like he's throwing one hundred and fifty this year.
But it's something and and the Dodgers are in this
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very close race with the Padres to where a start
like tonight is incredibly meaningful and indeed, to use the
word valuable to his team. So I think that with
where the Dodgers are now, with how important Otani has
become to their rotation, I lean Otani. It's close again,
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there's not There's no wrong answer either way. And and
let's see, this is one of those one of those
discussions where the standings, I think on some level will
tell us the tale a little bit too. If the
Padres all of a sudden surge in September and win
the division by three games, and meanwhile the Phillies when
the when the NL is going away and Schwarberg hit
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some club record home run total up there with what
Ryan Howard's done in the past, maybe I have a
different answer, But for now I see Otani being slightly
ahead of Shorber, whereas I see Judge and Raleig neck
and neck, with Raleigh gaining some momentum.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
All right, last one for you real quick here at JP.
Next week we'll start diving into predictions for the Detroit Lions.
But thirty four and a half point favorites this week
the University of Michigan against New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Forty nine and a half is the total.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
What say you, I say New Mexico is able to
get within that number. So I would take New Mexico
and the points. And here's part of the reason why
you got a young man. And Bryce Underwood is very
very first collegian start. I know he's going to be
a star, I know all those things, but that's a
lot of pressure on him right right off the bat,
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primetime game, a lot of attention. I think that Michigan's
gonna win, but it's going to be closer than what
those numbers suggest. So that's what I've got. I've got,
let's say thirty five to fourteen. I'm going thirty five
to fourteen Michigan.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Oh, there we go. The first there we go Football
pick of the year for John Paul Morosi, high school quarterback. Undefeated,
right is high school quarterback? Your senior?
Speaker 7 (31:09):
Ya? Is that?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
What?
Speaker 7 (31:10):
It was? Actually quite the opposite I was. I was
How do I say this correctly? I was undefeated at losing,
very lost. My record of losing was perfect, the perfect
oh to nine That's what I was.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well, you are undefeated with us. John Paul Morosi on
Twitter at John Morosi. Check him out on MLB Network.
John Paul is always buddy, appreciated, man fun. We'll talk
to you next week.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
You guys are the greatest. I love this every week.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Be good brother. Talk to you soon. Here goes John
Paul Morosi, Big stuff on show. Heyo Twani. Now we
find out what's trending from someone who was doing updates
in the shadow of a show. Heyo Tawny bobblehead from
tonight's game, Hunter Bucks. It's Monty Belanas.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
We're almost live size, We're almost the same, oh Tani and.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I uh yeah. One of those forced perspectives was like, no,
it's okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
The Dodgers have wrapped up their game against the Reds,
coming out on top five to one. Show Heytani pitched
five innings, gave up two hits, one earned run, and
had nine strikeouts. This is also the first time this
season that the Reds have been swept. It was the
last team in baseball to not be swept that ended
today with the Dodgers. The Rangers crushed the Angels twenty.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Toway, you're not gonna give me a You're not gonna
give me a wild card update. How many games are
the Mets are ahead of the Reds for the final wildcards? Yeah? No,
but I will by the end of it to do that,
so you're right.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
The Rangers crushed the Angels twenty to three. It's the
most run score by Texans by Texas since twenty eleven.
Jock Peterson al Kyle he got shioga each homeward and
ended with five RBI in that one. The Mets completed
a three game sweep of the Phillies, shutting them out.
Today six zero, Diamondbacks edged the Brewers three to two, two.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Games going on.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Still in baseball, Raphael Devers is homeward again for the Giants,
so twice in the game so far. They're on top
of the Cubs now ten to three, top of the
seventh inning, and the A's are shutting out the Tigers
five zero, bottom of the sixth inning. In NFL news, well,
earlier today, the league announced that they are suspending wide
receiver Rashid Rice of the Chiefs for the first six
games of the regular season because of he violated the
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league's personal conduct policy. The Ravens signed safety Kyle Hamilton
to a four year, one hundred million dollar extension. Titans
announced that their rookie number one pick cam Ward is
one of their seventeen captains this season.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Seven team captains, because if they had seventeen, I would
say they probably, Okay.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Probably, then he should be right now, one of seven
team captains this season.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Sorry, sometimes I talk fast on I at the US Open.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
On the men's side, it would be.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
A better story. Though it would be a better story.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
It would be question.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Seventeen captains on that team? Really?
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (33:50):
Two saved Carlos Alcoraz and right now is Ben Shelton sixty.
Those are the last two dames that you know, I'm
gonna mention their advancing to the third round. On the
women's side, American Taylor Townsend and Jelenna Oh Stop Pencot
kind of got in an argument at the end of
their match. Taylor Townsend apparently like one of her last
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points she skinned the net like a netball, right and
so oh stop penco Is Matt She even put on
her Instagram. They had some words after the match.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
She says she was disrespectful that she didn't have class
to Taylor Townsend and at the end she like put
a thing out on Instagram saying she had a netball
and she didn't even apologize for it. And it's just
like the rules of the game that you're supposed to.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Was there a photographer that ran on the court and
everybody got upset and Medvedev went nuts to So I'm
trying to look for.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
That play because I mean, Taylor Townsend won and straight sets.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
It wasn't even you know, it's been a hot week,
you know, and I think it's getting to a lot
of the time at the US Open, it really is.
It's hot, and.
Speaker 6 (34:57):
They're there there, you know, ultra at the end there
exchange you can catch on all social media.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Has it right now?
Speaker 6 (35:04):
They're back and forth, back and forth because Taylor Townsend
at the end just says something to turn and walks
away and gets the crowd to cheer for her, and
everyone cheers for her. Yeah that choice, yes, So yeah,
she got mad that she'd apologized for that netball unwritten rules.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
I'd send her a piece of a net And you're right,
thank you, mon ate it exactly. Thanks coming out text listen,
I've never been jealous of college athletes because they work hard,
they owe, they put their bodies on the line. But
after this nil story of what athletes ad some big
colleges like Ohio State and Florida and Georgia are gonna
(35:39):
get yet. Now I'm officially jealous. That's next, Jason and
Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
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Speaker 1 (35:54):
Wait for it, Wait for it, wait for it.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
What are you listening to? Norwegian death metal? Fox Sports Radio.
The Jason Smith Show is my best friend. Mike Harmon.
H Look, I'm not one of those people that aren
sit here and say, oh, college athletes, they're spoiled. They
get more than anybody ever has. No You put your
body on the line, you dedicate yourself to a sport,
you can make money off it. That's awesome, right, Yeah.
(36:24):
I get the guys like Arch Manning gonna make more
money already, have made more money than I'm probably making
my life is probably pocketing twenty five million dollars already
the last year or so. So I'm okay with that.
I understand that, and I've never been jealous until now
because now I'm like, okay, now this is like get out.
We've crossed that break. There's like the million die Like
(36:45):
there's superheroes that are you know, the gods and that
that fight in the stars, like Captain Marvel and four.
And then there's the street level superheroes like the Spider
Man's and the Daredevils.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Right Like I always like that, like the friendly neighborhood
kind of guy. Yes, I'm a street I'm a street
kind of NIL guy.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
And today, a program that began last year with Ohio
State is now going to include Florida and Georgia for
this season, and other schools as well. The NIL program,
brought to you by Chipotele, will expand student athletes at
all of these schools. Scholarship recipients walk ons, doesn't matter,
(37:29):
will each get a customized Chipotle card, granting them free
meals for the duration of their respective seasons. Debuted last
year exclusively with the Buckeyes, and now they're adding on
at least these two new teams now in Florida and Georgia.
That's pretty good. You'll get one free entree per week
(37:49):
for fifteen weeks. The company says it picket Ohio State, Florida,
and Georgia because of the school status as three of
the top thirty universities that eat the most Chipotle. Now,
if that's your thing, I eat at Chipotle once a week, man,
I go once a week. The carnitas and the on
the lettuce with the shredded shredded cheese, the guacamo, the
Guacamolean chips. I mean, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not,
(38:11):
you know, I know, I feel like I'm over selling this.
But the Guacamolean chips are the best guacamolean chips I've
ever had at any restaurant which Chipotle has, Like they
have people who wear the T shirts and say, I
made the guacamole today, I made the chips today. I
always thank them. I go, thank you because this guacamole
is the best I've ever had. And I say this,
my wife makes amazing guacamole. But the but the guacamole
(38:31):
and the chips are absolutely out of this world. I
can't get out. Well, go yes, we're gonna have guacamole.
We're gonna have guacamole. I could just sit there and
walk in and say I just like the side of guacamole.
What else? I just you know what, I give me
another side of guacamole and a diet coke, okay, sir,
and a spoon and a napkin. Great, thank you, that's all.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Take.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
You're like Joey Tribbiani sitting on the side of the
road eating a little jar jam like part of it.
Ohio State, you've got a huge student population and that
percentage of athletes as you roll through. They've got some
great college programs as well. So if you are enrolled
in college, should look into it, get your ID verified
when you go. There's a bunch of discounts and free
stuff at points to find out where there's a whole
(39:10):
other thing. But but yeah, I mean Chipotle, I mean jubiquitous, right,
I mean, they're they're everywhere, and it's always good, always
loaded up, Get them on, get them over, get them in.
Speaker 7 (39:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
And for student athletes, another another win. Man.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
You already have the ability to transfer pretty freely. You
already have the ability to go make some money. And
now you're gonna get a card that it gives you
a meal a week.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean at first I'm like, oh,
not two meals a week not. But I'm like, okay, no,
I understand.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Because you got to figure there's also a subreddit, you know,
for each of these schools where you find out where
the most generous employee is. Well, and there's also sure,
so you start figuring it out. Hey, Johnny's Johnny's on
the beans and uh and the meat station today he's
the guy filling.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Let's go on the meat. But I'm sure there's also Hey, dude,
you didn't are you using your Chipotle card this weekend?
I'm going again coming. Yeah, sure, here, I'll give you
five dollars for your Chipotle card because a meal of
Chipotle is probably mean Chipotle is fifty point Yeah, I mean,
you know you're getting a bowl or you're getting you're
getting something that's you know, you throwing the meat. It's
always it's always crazy one of those plays to say,
(40:20):
you know, you just get here, just start with a bowl,
whatever you want, and by the time you're done, it's like, oh,
that's like, that's like eighteen dollars. Well, I put eighteen
dollars worth of food on that. It was nothing in
the beginning. It's like cotton candy. I just waved it
around and suddenly, look at all this it is, but chappoll,
do you ever.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Talk about buying one of those machines though, just so
you can wave your arm in it and suddenly you're
cotton candy man running around with two cotton candy arms.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
I'd rather I'd rather eat your way out of it.
That sounds great, and and having a taco bell in
your house sounds great. But I'd rather have people in
my house making the the guacamole every day. I'd rather
have the Chipotle people making guaka chips every day. Think
you could pull that off. I mean that's something. Just
have people tipped. That's all I want to make. Their
food is great. Look I like I said, you can
(41:02):
do that for an hour. If you just want guawk like,
you're gonna come in from four to five. I'll have
all the ingredients delivered. They'll be on the counter. You
just come in make the GUACQUI go. I mean that
commercially have that. That ran all last year. That the
one woman who was just stirring the guacama. Yeah, I
made the guacama. She's a stir I'm going, oh my god,
I just want to take a whole big ladle and
(41:23):
just put it in my mouth. That's how good the quirt.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
That's a whole other podcast for another time. Some of
these programs that that these have for college kids.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
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