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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Tuesday, the Jason Smith Show with
my bas friend Mike Harmon.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Well.

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are fully taking week one of the NFL and putting

(01:00):
it to bed, put a nice big bow on it,
looking ahead to week two. I love this routine that
we get into. Hey Monday night, finish the week, Finish
it strong. I mean, unless you're Ben Johnson, finish it strong.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Just because he got out coached in the second half
and j j McCarthy looked like a superstar. Bears can't
run the ball. All the high price to acquisitions and
all the awards and extension they gave to Ryan Poles
for signing a bunch of offensive linemen didn't really seem
to do a damn bit of good. But no, hey, great,
But that's twenty four hours later. I'm a little more

(01:33):
salty about it because I went back and watched it again.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh good, I hated it even more good because I
told you were too happy last night. I felt like
you were still in shock after blowing that incredible lead,
that that you were celebrating. I mean you, I mean
the Bears were celebrating after they went up seventeen six,
and I thought you just didn't really understand what happened
in that last quarter and a half. You were just
just got it, just kind of blew past it in
a very a in a very much how do I say,

(01:57):
very surface he way like I'm not going to affect me,
not going to effect me, kind of like in in
Jerry maguire when when Kelly Preston uh and they and
he was gonna break up with her, he was we're
breaking up. She was didn't hear it. No, no, we're
breaking up. Nope, Nope, didn't hear it. No, no I'm
breaking up with you, Nope, didn't hear you were kind
of the Kelly Preston. They are like, Nope, didn't hear it.
But no, Mike, you blew this. This was awful, and

(02:17):
Ben Johnson made a horrible stay. Yeah, no, it's okay,
it's okay.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
No, you were I was really thinking more Jerry Stiller
is how I saw myself during the day. You know
that doesn't work.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
No, it doesn't. And they never said that you had
to scream it. Did he say you had to yell it?
He wasn't clear. So I'm glad that a day after
you you're you're in a more of a normal response
to this.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
No.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
I mean, look, I I pushed it away for the
sake of the nationwide and global audience and and to
spare your feelings, because you would have worn the brunt
of it if I started lashing out. Who's to my right,
It's you. I wasn't gonna yell at Elijah Frostburg wasn't here.
Frostburg was sign sure was too excited about Aaron Roddy.

(02:58):
I just got back from jam.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Sorry, Frostburg just landed from Brazil. Ty shirt is still
He's Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Snaps versus touchdowns. He must have used that line four
or five. Oh yeah, so I who could I lash
out at?

Speaker 5 (03:13):
No?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
I know, I'm just telling you.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Though, for a good start, yeah, but his feelings would
have gotten hurt and it would have been bad.

Speaker 6 (03:20):
No.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
I wanted you to just understand how bad that was
for you today watching Tyson Bagent trend and Caleb Williams
trend and seen the day after all these shadowy reports
that Caleb Williams, Oh, he's gonna be on thin ice,
Tyson Bagen is coming in soon, and I'm like, wow, man,
no matter what kind of week anybody had in the NFL,
I mean, they're not talking about new quarterback yet. In Miami,

(03:43):
they're not talking about new quarterback yet. In Cleveland they're
not even talking about a new quarterback yet with the Giants.
But right away, Hey, Caleb Williams, who threw for two
sixty eight ran for sixty in a touchdown. Oh, he's
gonna lose his job in the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
No, he made a bunch of mistakes. There were issues,
no question, that's the best, but not certainly not as
bad and poorly. He wasn't the only one. There's plenty
of others that deserved their share of the blame pie
starting with the head coach, and to his credit, he
wore it in the postgame press conference talking about his
shortcomings as a coach and the fact that they have

(04:16):
twelve penalties for one hundred and twenty seven yards being
a big problem, no question about it. But you know
all of the I figure all the people that were
part of that report, you know from Tyde Dunn and
all that this weekend, it's like they were assembled like
the Legion of Doom, all those fired coaches that decided
that they needed to air their grievances because it had

(04:37):
to be the quarterback. Was it anything we or the
fact that the roster was flawed?

Speaker 7 (04:44):
Right?

Speaker 5 (04:44):
No?

Speaker 4 (04:44):
No, this is like clearly just the quarterback.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Everybody whoever picked up a football in some sort of
organized manner should door Sanders stakes. I can't believe one
of the Browns are like everybody, listen, you're a non player.
You just need to shut your mouth. Hey, no one
likes working with you. Okay, just so you know, knew
that no one likes working with you. I know a
lot of No one likes you.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Only when I bring and everybody likes you for about
eighty you got cookies. No, no, So do you like
him today?

Speaker 8 (05:11):
No?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
No, say that's where it goes. Man. No, nobody like, Hey,
it's a fun fact.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
I heard you say.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 8 (05:15):
Has it feel to know that in his first game
as a Pittsburgh Steeler his QBR is one forty five,
which is better than any game he had as a Jet?

Speaker 4 (05:21):
How do you feel?

Speaker 5 (05:22):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
All right, Mike, keep going.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
I feel like that's uh, that's that's that's really on
brand for the Jets.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, it's like he lead you right there. He keep
walking up with a legs pipe and just to your knee.
He doesn't even know what a quarterback rating is.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
I do.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's a QBR. Okay, it's one. It's one four eye
out of how many out of how one forty five
out of how many?

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Out of one forty five?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
He max out?

Speaker 1 (05:41):
No, no, no, he doesn't, No, he did. And Frostburg, you
don't say anything. One forty five out of how many
out of one forty five? No, it's literally said he
did the best he could.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
So it's a sliding scale. Yes, quarterback to quarterback. Yes, yes,
was one forty five. What if his rating was one
thirty five, that would be the best.

Speaker 8 (06:00):
It's one fifty eight and he almost maxed out one
fifty eight point five point three point five point three.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Just update, Oh because of Rogers.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yeah, good, because he's that special as a future Hall
of Famer. There we go, he's got a higher rate.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, as we learned last night, AI not always right,
but AI giving ty Shirt the at least most of
the right answer with the one fish almost there. Now,
this story is just so good and I'm so glad
we get to do it tonight because it's just it's
it's everything that people think about, voting processes in for MVP,

(06:35):
for the Heisman Trophy, for rankings, it's everything people think about,
this all rolled up into one. So the new AP
poll came out today for the College Football of Football
rankings and the top three are unchanged. Ohio State number
one with a bullet fifty seven first places votes, Penn
State number two, LSU number three, Oregon moves up to
number four, Miami is fifth, then Georgia, Texas still lurking

(06:57):
in the top seven despite the fact they're one in one. Okay,
so there's your top three.

Speaker 9 (07:01):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
There's a lot of attention on one specific AP voter
named Haley Sawyer, who covers college football here in southern California,
and she's a voter and she's getting a lot of
attention because on her ballot she had Florida at a
season high fourteenth, despite the fact they lost to South

(07:25):
Florida on Saturday. She moved them up to they lost
to South Florida, moved Florida up to in the pole,
and didn't have South Florida in the poll at all.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Didn't rank them at all despite the fact that they
have two huge wins because they beat Boise State. Yes,
to get the thing. Not only did they beat Boise State,
they throttled Boise State.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Didn't have that in there at all. And also she
had some craziness with Auburn having them low. It's really
it's insane to see this, right, but she was playing
madly what is going on?

Speaker 5 (07:59):
Right?

Speaker 1 (07:59):
You go, Oh my god, So what you're thinking and
what i't Your thing is? Okay? This is somebody. And again,
you think voters take what they do for a living
and they take it so seriously and it's the most
serious thing they do. And some people do and some
people don't.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
But I mean, think of two guys we know very
well here around the Fox Sports Radio studios, Right, Rob Parker,
his Hall of Fame vote for Major League Baseball is
the most important thing in his world. Yeah, right, Steve Hartman,
who votes for the Heisman Trophy, like that's sacred. I
think he would rank it above his kids. Right, all
of those kind of like, yeah, we've got you guys

(08:33):
on that end of the people who do that. There
are people who take that's ad Jason Call obviously ors
on a Pro Football Hall of very Good voter, right,
and we joke with him, but he's been playing very
good players in the Hall of Fame for a long time,
long time. So there are a lot of people who
take it that seriously and that's how you should take it.
Then there's people that just take it like, eh, yeah,

(08:53):
uh no, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
How close I'm gonna pay attention. So it was a
big question today. It was a big like how do
you have Like this is a big deal that. Here's
here's an AP voter that obviously didn't see the outcomes
of games. And how close do you have to watch
things to show that, Oh, hey, maybe you drop Florida
a little bit and and you raise South Florida. I mean,
because you know, they did just lose the game, right,
and again she had some craziness with Auburn. It's gotten

(09:15):
a lot of attention. Okay, so you figure normally when
this happens, polsters just don't say anything, right, right, Like
whoever it was that didn't vote for each Euro Yeah,
Saint Brian, whoever didn't vote for Jeter? Right, I'm not
gonna I'm not gonna vote. We won't vote for Rivera,
but I won't vote for Jeter right, Okay? They usually
stay quiet? No, no, no, no. We actually got the answer

(09:36):
today because she went on social media and put out
a missive which boy, she really should not have done.
But she goes out and puts out her response to
college football fans criticizing a rap about this is Haley
Sawyer putting this out on social media earlier today.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
It is a run pass option.

Speaker 9 (09:55):
As far as what my votes are and what my
process is, you know, I wake up early in the morning.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
After covering a game late in the night before.

Speaker 9 (10:05):
Don't want to go too much into my progress or
process or logic, but I will say I appreciate everybody's
interaction on social media and all of your feedback. You know,
there's tons of people that vote on the ep pole
and like, it's not a perfect system, but at the
end of the day, no matter who you picked, that's
even out because there's so many people who vote, and

(10:28):
like I said, it's really fun for discussion. It doesn't
you know, probably matter in the end, but I'm glad
that people are having a really good time.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
With She's playing.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
That your votes don't matter card, but you can vote.
It doesn't matter. Now. Look, obviously with you, I'm not
going to tell you my process, and clearly your process
was I didn't get it. Look probably out late covering
game the night before. Understandably out covering game the night before,
probably usc they scored like a thousand points. I think
like eleven people I'd touchdown, sure and coming back and

(10:59):
having to get your vot in so they can get
and get out and get counted.

Speaker 6 (11:01):
Right.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Not everybody takes the care they should with their ballot
and I think everybody believes that. I don't think this
is this is a shocking thing that it's really surprising
to see. Hey boy, it's really that bad a deal
where you can't just say, hey, let me look and
see who won who lost. I'll move them up a
couple of space. I'm down a couple of spaces. But
she says the quiet part out loud. She says that
in the end things even out and it really doesn't matter.

(11:24):
So what she has done is take this entire industry
of voting, whether it's for a Heisman Trophy or AP
or and basically say, hey, listen, so many people vote,
it doesn't matter. Like that's the worst thing you can
you know, you want to deed what say yourself and say, hey,
you know what I did that you gotta own that.
But now you have not just embarrassed yourself in the

(11:46):
AP pole. Now you said the AP pole doesn't matter.
I can't believe she'll still have a vote by this
time tomorrow because she has actually said the votes don't matter.
Whatever you vote, it's all gonna even out and in
the end it really doesn't matter. And that doesn't matter.
Part I get because we have the college Football Playoff.
We have a new pole that comes out. The AP
pole is for fun. Everybody understands that. But that quiet,

(12:08):
pot out loud of your vote doesn't matter. I don't
think anyone in the country when it comes to anything,
wants to hear their vote doesn't matter. But now she
just basically said, hey, the AP it doesn't matter. We vote,
but does it really matter? Let's all go have fun today. Everyone.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Well, like, there's thousands and thousands of votes out there, right,
what are we talking sixty some odd people, what is it,
sixty two, sixty five, seventies, something in that number that
actually do this vote, so you we're not talking grandiose.
And look when we heighten matchups, what are we talking
the AP because that's the poll, right coaches pole. We
understand it was a bunch of sids or whatever like

(12:46):
that one. We long just kind of we've noted that
one aside.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, but for this, but no one just says, hey, sorry,
but this isn't really important.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
That doesn't matter. Like it's all about television contracts and
primetime games and putting your team in the best light
and and putting all that promotional wagon getting it rolling
down the highway.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
No, no, no, push that.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Like the more I listened to that clip several times
over the course of the dance, Like the more and more,
I'm like, are you just an influencer that's trying to
that somehow finagled your way into a vote and then
evidently a journalism I got to take the jay and
knock it down to a lower lower case J. Here journalist,

(13:30):
adjunct professor, and a bunch of other stuff. So I
got to imagine those folks are a little salty about this.
You've offended multiple industries, multiple professions in this process.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Now worry about it. You know that, what are you
gonna do? Voted for Florida, but doesn't matter. It's flooded Florida.

Speaker 5 (13:48):
Get up there.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
No they didn't because nobody else voted for him either.
It doesn't matter, It'll all work out. Your vote doesn't matter, right,
That's like what you say, like in states that leans
so heavily Demo crat or so heavily Republican, like the
big line when when someone like if like if you're
in California, you're a Democrat, right, and someone's probably, oh,
I'm going Republican. The big lines, Ah, your vote doesn't matter.

(14:10):
Or if you're in you're in Texas and a Democrat,
I'm going Democrat. Yeah, your vote doesn't matter, right, Like
that's like okay, like that's but people don't want to
hear that. Right, they understand that, but they don't want
to hear that.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
And and I.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Don't think any of the people that make the rules
in college football do the polls want to have a
voter say.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
Yeah, well we do. It doesn't matter to Tim Brando. Really,
I gave up my AP vote when it was actually
being used for the BCS formula. I felt there was
no way I could condemn the process if I was
part of it. The great Beatle Cook and AP had
at the time, Herschel Nissensen went to bat for me
to become a voter. After college game day was born.
It wasn't quite too easy to become a voter in

(14:48):
those days. And then he can he continues.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
On, but it's just like, well, I will be stunned
if she still has a vote tomorrow. I really I'll
be stunned if she's still still a voter. After said yeah,
it's not important.

Speaker 4 (15:00):
Sanctity of the voting process has been cast as under.

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Speaker 1 (16:47):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon as we welcome back justin Frossburg from all
parts of Brazil. Yeah, first day back at work charge
producing the Chargers radio broadcast play by play last Friday night.
And luckily you weren't here when the Dodgers won out

(17:10):
away from a no hitter lost the game, because I
think you all the good vibes you had for the
Chargers winning would have been right out the window.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
I'm glad I wasn't here, but thanks for reminding me.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Oh, I got it, I got it so well.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
Sure, because well, but I mean he got his big win.
Your jets fell to Aaron Rod. What did he have, Alex?
What was that? Qbr total of see there you go?
And then I mean obviously last night I had the Bears. Yeah,
so I mean you got to be dragged out with
the rest of us.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Point, but to welcome Frostburg back here right we missed
in the last few days, and to talk about the
fact that point that Dodgers had two no hitters that
they almost were able to pull off in the last
few days, didn't get either of them. I think bringing
in Blake Trining to preserve a no hitter is not
the same call. I just do you know what I'm thinking.
After Saturday night, it's not the right call. I just

(17:59):
I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
I wish Paz would have at least made an effort
and right there, even if he couldn't have caught the ball,
playing for the krem when you could have been trying
to preserve a no hitter, it's just a terrible look.

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near no hitter on Saturday and near no hitter the
other night. And because of that, let's go back to
this day in nineteen sixty five where one of the Dodgers'
aces did find a way to pitch a no hitter,
and Vin Scully of course was there for.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Its two and two.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
The Harvey Kane one strike away, Sandy into his wind up.
Here's the pitch swum on in this the perfect game.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
On the scoreboard and right field.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
It is nine to forty six pm in the City
of the Angels, Los Angeles, California, and a crowd of
twenty nine thirty nine just sitting in to see the
only pitcher in baseball history to herald four no hit,
no run games. He has done it four straight years

(19:25):
and now he capped it on his fourth no hitter.
He made it up.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Perfect games. Vin Scully of course on the call, and
this is not just hey, Sandy Kofax's pitch a perfect game? Right,
Just to think about this for a second, R because
it's a fun thing to think of the.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Fact that it was over the Cubs.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, well, yeah, it was over the Cubs. Harvey Kean,
Harvey dent with a strikeout here at Chicago, looking a
little two faced on that final pitch is Harvey Keith.
He eventually came back with the Wallbangers. This was the
eighth perfect game in baseball history, right, just the eighth.
We're like twenty some on now, this was the eighth
perfect game. This game was not televised. There was no

(20:03):
television on this game. The only call that exists that
probably still exists is this one, because I don't think
the Cubs kept that one. We just we just got
that perfect game. Tronad Us thrown his broadcast out, we
don't need this anymore.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
I think that became more pronounced through the years. I
don't I don't know that at that point you had
the super we don't need this.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Okay, we're gonna blow the division lead in nineteen sixty
nine to a bleep in Mets. Okay, it's gonna be terrible.
There's gonna be a black can't running across every It's
gonna be awful. Uh So the game wasn't televised, and
Scully instructed the radio team to record the final inning
of this perfect game. Hey, we're going to the ninth inning.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Let's record it.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Like, think about how crazy that is now? Oh oh,
you think we should record the fight. Yes, it's the
final letting of it gonna be a perfect game. Let's
record this. And he got it, and he actually gave
it to Sandy Kofex as a gift later on because
nobody know did it still exist? Just think about a
world back then when you know you missed something on TV.
You missed it. That was it. You couldn't get it right,
you missed it. Hey, if we don't record this, if

(21:00):
no one else is somehow recording this on the radio,
it may not exist. So they recorded. He got the
best version of it, obviously, because it was the play
by play version, not somebody you know on a cassette
deck hitting play and record at the same time. And
there it is, and there's your version of Sandy Cofax
is perfect game.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
It's amazing, right because you think of all the old
TV shows that are gone because of the way they
were recorded, and they weren't able to be preserved properly
right put on film, which is something you know Lucy
and DESI did where it was actually on film reel
to real stock, so that actually survived. But all those

(21:37):
calls that went into the ether, it's kind of sad
part of part of that history. So we can do recreations.
We can get you know, proper representations of all those voices.
You and I could sit in a booth. Oh yeah, yeah,
we can just call all those games.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, no, it's great. And I could like foreshadow stuff too.
It'd be really cool.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Like he's sitting there with an almanac, you know, thirty
five years from now.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
You know.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
The thing is Armando.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Galla Raga has got a really hustle. If there's a
ground ball to cover first base, you really want to
get there ahead of the throw because you never know
what could happen. Here's the two and two. Well, you
have to wonder if Jim Joyce is in the right
spot to find out where this ball's gonna go. He
looks like he could be a little bit to the side.
Did you see the manager trying to shade him over it.

(22:19):
I don't know what could happen here. Uh, you know,
i'd like to see. I really think that if you're
the if you're the Dodgers, you have to think about
walking Bobby Thompson here and pitching to Willie Mays. You
know you really want to have to do. This is
the Bobby Thompson could wind up doing something damage you
don't want. He could wind up being the Tommy Edmond
of this game.

Speaker 4 (22:38):
Here's the pitch.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
I will tear tart your face like it's Kelsey in
a minute. If you're John Matt to marry, you may
want to go to Dave Stapleton at first base here
of the ninth, but Buckbeer is out there. Oh wait,
people actually did say that, and they said it before
it actually happened. Why isn't Dave Stapleton out there? But
you never know, down the first base line could wind
up going through somebody's legs and really doing damage. Here's

(23:03):
the three and one to Mokie Wilson.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
It's so sad that Bill Buckker was a really good
fielder virtually his entire career, but he'll be known for
a ground ball for her.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Well, you really think the Dodger should leave Yamamoto in here,
even after he's given up a hit at one hundred
and twelve pitches. It's just one more out what could
possibly go? But you're bring in the bullpen?

Speaker 6 (23:23):
What this is?

Speaker 1 (23:24):
What? You have a bullpen for everybody? It'd be fun
to call games like that. Boy, these guys are really smart.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
Man.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
He knew that was gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Guy's a wizard.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
You know why.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
He's like time hopping.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
I bet you, babe, Ruth is gonna come up here
and he's gonna call a home run. We've never seen
it before, but I have a feeling here in the
World Series he's gonna call his home run shot.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
You know, in ninety years we'll have a guy play.
We'll come over from Japan. You really don't want to
walk Mike Davis here with Kurt Gibson coming up. If
you really want to throw, make sure, if you're Eckersley,
you don't get a little case of the yips and
walk Mike Davis.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
All and Ball Florida.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Mike Davis, Are you gonna sit there with the card
on while you do this?

Speaker 1 (24:05):
All these great players in baseball history? I can do
that exit out, bout of Fresca, exit swelling down. The
Jason Smith Show is my best friend Mike Harmon. We
take a big look into week one into Week two
in the NFL. Coming up in ninety seconds. But first,
a man who's been called the Vin Scully of Fox
Sports Radio, don't you dare because he also did commercials

(24:26):
for Farmer John. It is Steve the Sega.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Eastern most in quality, western most in flavor. Sandy Kofax
was the first lefty to throw a perfect game. Also
and this was the fourth straight year he pitched a
no hitter. And amazing about that game. The final was
one nothing. The Dodgers had one hit in this game.
It was a double no hitter going through six.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
That's the only game that's ever had one hit. And
I don't think the hit factor like Luke Johnson had
a double and it didn't even factor into the run.
They were already up one nothing.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
I think it was a walk and you know, a
bunt and a steal and yeah, Sandy Kofak. And by
the way, one nothing the final and as you mentioned,
preserve for posterity, Vince Gully did say, and not just
on this night. They used to ask the people back
at the studio, Can you tape this game just so
we can have it as a gift to whoever's performing

(25:19):
that night. And we all are beneficiaries because when I
was a little kid, the recording that you just played,
actually the full ninth inning, was something that was on
sale at Dodger Stadium along with bumper stickers or pennants
or anything else. I as a kid, had a copy
of this and played it over and over at Vince Gully,

(25:43):
the greatest baseball announcer in history. Great to hear that voice.
The Dodgers are at Dodger Stadium tonight and scoreless against
the Rockies in the bottom of the second. The Rockies
enter with a record of forty and one oh four,
but Dodger catcher Will Smith has return after missing five
games to a Bruce had As I speak, he's just scored.
It's one nothing Dodgers over Colorado in the bottom of

(26:05):
the second. La enters tonight, still one game over the
Padres for first place in the NL West. The Padres
are down two nothing Reds at San Diego in the
bottom of the fourth inning. The Giants lead three to
nothing over Arizona in the bottom of the third Giants
three games out of the last NL wildcard. To start
the night, Arizona outfielder Loridis Guriel we'll have ACL surgery

(26:26):
on Thursday. The Red Sox are out to a five
nothing lead at the A's in the top of the
second X Dodger Dustin May was due to be the
starter for Boston tonight. He's been placed on the injured
list with an ERA near five this year also in progress.
Mariners lead three to two over the Cardinals in the
fourth inning and at Texas Rangers up five to three

(26:47):
on Milwaukee in the top of the eighth. The Texas
Rangers have a shot at the playoffs. They're only a
game and a half behind Seattle for the last AL wildcard.
Cleveland was two and a half behind and then one again.
Five straight wins for the Guardians, say got out Kansas
City to nothing. Detroit beat the Yankees twelve to two
in New York, forty fourth homer for Aaron Judge.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
But the Tigers that game is not over yet. It's
still the top of the seventh inning. Yeah, somebody are
still batting. Get it out of seven, please. You know
the reliever that couldn't get it out. It's actually having
a good year. Those stats a bit skewed after tonight
the Tigers with nine runs in the seventh inning. Cubs
won six to one at Atlanta, another great outing for

(27:26):
Cad Horton ten and four for the Cubs, and yes,
the Phillies beat the Mets nine to three. Kyle Schwarber
with his fiftieth homer of the year. The Mets first
in the NL East, nine games back of the Phillies.
I should say first. And the Phillies pitcher was good
again tonight. Ranger Suarez twelve and six, six scoreless innings,
career high well Righthouse, Yes, career high in strikeout Steve

(27:50):
watch the look at us, just fade. We're just fading.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Then Sean and I getting yet another start and boom
down four to nothing in the second inning. He pitched
five innings this one. The forty nine Ers placed tight
end George Kittle on injury reserve with a bad hamstring,
so he'll miss at least four games. San Francisco waived
kicker Jake Moody and sign kicker Eddie Pinero. Moody was
drafted in the third round two years ago. Say gms

(28:15):
don't draft a kicker. There's a thousand of them on
the waiver wire. This guy was eleven of his last
twenty on field goal attempts in.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Real life and fantasy. There's kickers.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Eddie Pinero one of them.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Forty nine ers.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Wide receiver Juwan Jennings is day to day with a
shoulder injury. His scans came back clean. The team did
sign officially wide receiver Kendrick Born San Francisco's at New
Orleans Sunday, WNBA wins for New York and Indiana, and
US men's soccer defeated Japan two nothing tonight in an
exhibition in Columbus, Ohio. That's actually news something good happened
with US men's soccer tonight because there are last exhibition Saturday.

(28:52):
They lost to nothing to South Korea in New Jersey,
which meant that the US men had lost five in
a row against top twenty five teams. Said have been
outscored eleven to one in those games. You may have
heard the US is co hosting the World Cup next summer.
It's not looking good for the home team.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
No, but a'll win to but they one takes. What
have you done for me lately? Steve you may lost ten,
twelve to fifteen in a row, but when not one game,
we'll build on.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
It's a good thing. You got to win after like
berating reporters and journalists. They're the fans over the last
couple of days.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Might a go punt? Thank you, Stevo. So as Steve mentioned, there, look,
the the San Francisco forty nine ers had a plethora
of things happened to them too. Patha George Kittle is
on IR. They may be without Brock Purty in week two.
They cut Jake Moody, kicker who didn't really have a future.

(29:44):
After Sunday when you miss a chip shot and the
Niners players on the sideline, we're all hopping mad after
Pam Oliver's sideline reporters said, there's a lot of there's
a lot of ticked off people here after he missed
that field goal. It hadn't worked out, he hadn't been accurate.
Now you have to sign a new wide receiver, right,
Kendrick Bourne with Jawan Jennings. The Niners are going through
a lot of stuff, but but they win week one. Hey, okay, yeah,

(30:08):
here's the thing the Niners. It's like a lot of
sound in it's like it's like mcbell I shouldn't say
it's it's like Scottish play. It's a lot of sound
and fury and it's not really signifying anything. The nine.
The Niners are mid, right. The Niners are mid right.
They they they barely hold off another mid team because
the Seahawks are the definition of mid and they hold

(30:29):
them off because Sam Darnold can't hold on to the
football and get sacked on the final driver. Looks like
they're gonna get in the end zone to win the
game because you just kept throwing to Jackson Smith and
Chigba who was open every single single it was plain catch.
But the nine, the Niners are mid. This is not
just a week oh hey, they one week one. But
these injuries are killers. This is not the same team.

(30:50):
They're good. There's gonna be a bit of a reorg
with them now that you paid brock Purty obviously, and
you have to figure out what's your next uh level
of investing into this team. But you just had a
lot of high paying guys you had to let go
after last year, and that the Niners, this team is
just kind of mid, right. They should be around five
hundred ish, But but I think a lot of people
are gonna spend all year waiting for them all they're

(31:12):
gonna catch fire there to catch fire. Now they're not
quite what they were, and again we both those teams
are mid, but the Niners being more high profile than
Niners are mid.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Yeah, I think they're just a great example of wishing,
wanting and hoping that things go right because a year
ago it was all about injuries one after another, and
you come into this season and it becomes the same
tail of the tape even before the first snap of
all right, can I get one more year out of
insert player x well? One of the first guys on

(31:41):
that list was Christian McCaffrey. Well, he touched the ball
thirty one times. Thirty one. Now, the nine catches made sense.
I thought that would be the way it would go.
Once you bring in Brian Robinson because you didn't like
the other running backs and they were all hurt. But
you haven't gotten the injury bug out. You're going into
we two MATC. Jones is probably your starter against New Orleans. Okay,

(32:03):
fortuitous spot on the schedule there, But you talk about
Juwan Jennings, a guy that you know, you had had
a good year and then there was fight, a fight
over his contract. He gets a bunch of incentives. Well
he's banged up, George Kittle aging, but he's as important
to the run game as he is in the passing game.
So all of a sudden, that's a huge step back,

(32:24):
and we're already questioning him because well, one is he
going to go to the WWE, but also just the
fact that he's an older player of you know what's
his over under of games played. So now you're missing
so many key components of your offense and you're already
trying to use the duct tape to keep it together.
He's going to be a long week to week production

(32:45):
to kind of watch this, And Christian McCaffrey comes in
with the calf strain that you're wondering if that doesn't
beget something bigger like it did a year ago.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, look, i'd like to think that day the niner day.
They've been royalty for the past year's a big royalty
for the past forty years basically, but not every year
is going to be great. And you knew when they
went for it last year that what they had nine
guys making fifteen million dollars last year. Okay, you know
they're going to come back to the pack a little
bit here and that's kind of where they are. Yes,
it was exciting. Game was fun close down the stretch.

(33:15):
Seahawks had a chance to win final game going on
on Sunday. It was great. What but then nine just
said they're kind of mid.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
The division's going to be interesting, right, It's a battle
of attrition because you got the backy out of me
waiting to happen for you got Arizona that nobody trusts
that obviously, your guys say them up there in Seattle.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome coming up next. Yeah,
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Well taking a look now big quarterback stuff for the
last couple of days has got into the forty nine
minutes ago. A couple of big performances that were putting
week one to bed. Looking ahead to week two is
what we saw for real from the following quarterbacks. Okay,

(35:09):
first one, Daniel Jones. Now, I hate to say I
told you so, but there's a reason why, isai. Hey,
if you're looking for a big, long shot super Bowl
team in the AFC, and I mean long shot somebody
you know, six thousand eight, ten thousand and one, you're
looking for that, you could do worse than the Colts
because the Colts have tons of offensive weapons and all

(35:30):
Daniel Jones has to do is execute the offense and
get the ball to the playmakers.

Speaker 7 (35:34):
Right.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
And it helps when you play a team that has
already quit on the twenty twenty five season before Week
one in the Miami Dolphins.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Helps.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Oh, but it's not like Daniel Jones had to do
something incredible. It's not like Daniel. They're asking to do
something that is so so far removed from what he
can do. They're saying, run the offense, get the ball
to our guys, just like the Vikings last night. JJ McCarthy,
run the offense, make a play once in a while.
We're not say come in here and be the team
like the Commanders were. Jayden Daniels, do everything, man, because

(36:04):
we need to Daniel Jones can continue to play at
a high level because again, you have some pretty big
dudes on this team. Tyler Warren steps in right away. Hey,
he's a big weapon, right, second guy, they're getting targets
right Pittman and Alec Pierce and he was a bad
day for Josh downs. But how many people can get
the football? You got a cup. It's not just you know,

(36:24):
it's not just these guys running catching passes, but running
the football. You have Jonathan Taylor and you have a
couple of guys behind him that you like too, Like
this is a deep offense and it's a tough and
it's an easy ish division. This is a team that
I can see Daniel Jones continue to have this kind
of level of success and be and also being a
weekly potential fantasy starter.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Fill he's gonna be in the fantasy route because of
the rushing yards twenty six yards. He did not hit
the over under number that was twenty nine, but two
rushing touchdowns himself. So if you're a Jonathan Taylor owner
or you handcuffed Giddons, who you'll see some more of,
especially in situations like this. You know, when a team
quits as the Dolphins had that. You're worried about the

(37:10):
vulture effect there, but as you laid it out, so
many of the different pass passing weapons Pittman and Warren
at the top of the list. The division is there.
I mean, we'll see what Jacksonville becomes, but I think
Houston falls back. They're gonna be a fairly mid team now.
They've played one of the best defenses in the game
in the Rams to to get things started. But I'm

(37:33):
concerned that that offense may not necessarily have the same
juice that it had in years past. But all that
to say, at seventy five to one, there's worse ways
to spend your dollar. Yeah, Look, at best, he is
a machine like Daniel Jones. Just he's not flashy, but
he makes it. He's at his best, he is kind of.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Josh Allen light, and I mean really light, like not
like just a light like really really like Josh out
way light Josh.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
That's kind of what the big thing is, right, is
that he's efficient with the football, and he was as
a giant, couldn't stay healthy. Right, you go back his
touchdown interception ratio that everybody wants to preach, Well, that
was fine. Problem is he didn't take a lot of
chances down the field to where you made big plays,
and several times got himself and we'll always remember him
tripping over his own feet sprinting to daylight. But he

(38:25):
also had a neck injury and some other things that
took it away from the field. So now you go
into what looks to be a better situation. Who knows
before long, you know carly Ers is going to be
call in plays.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
So Daniel Jones, we told you, hey, it was going
to be fine, and it is fine. Jackson Dart no
matter what people say, No, you can't go to Jackson Dart.
No Russian Jackson Dart's time is coming. We told you
it was going to be by October first. It's not
just a week one thing for Russell Wilson, I thought,
and we broke it down. Hey, perfect time for Jackson

(39:03):
Dart after week four. This is where he would step
in to start. But it's gonna be sooner than that.
Right when when you get a non committal stance from
Brian Dable right after the game, only the next day,
say no, no, russ is starting for us. You know that
his time is short and it's not suddenly that he's
gonna suddenly start lighting it up and look how great.
Look the offense was terrible at Russell Wilson wasn't very good.

(39:25):
And once they drafted Jackson Dart, the importance level of
Wilson just completely started to decrease.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
Right.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
It was, Oh we signed him in the offseason. Good,
we have a hold the Ford guy to get our
quarterback next year. Oh, we're able to get Jackson Dart
this year. Yeah, I guess what, Russ, you're finishing the
season on the bench. I thought week four and now
clearly gonna win that one because it could happen after
week two. The desire to see Jackson Dart play is
so incredibly immense. Giants fans would revolt if they said, yeah, yeah,

(39:54):
we're getting rid of Russ is out, but James Winston's
gonna start. Yeah. I know it sounds great. Let's wait
and give Jackson Darts more time. But these guys want
to save their jobs. You want to make sure you
give Jackson Dart a chance to succeed. And Dable can say,
and Shane can say, we're the guys to this organization.
It's Jackson Dart, It's Jackson dart by October first, probably sooner.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
But are you saved by the fact that if you
put him in mothballs and he never sees the field,
that is like we need we need to, you know,
really bring him along, so we need to stick around.
Or if you put him in and he's no good
or gets wrecked, like say, oh, I don't know after
the Saints game, You've got the Eagles followed by the Broncos.
But that that that that could get ugly really fast.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
But you got to play at some point though you
can'ts well, we're gonna pick the pick and choose these games. Hey,
the really tough teams. We're gonna let rus start the Eavens.

Speaker 4 (40:43):
You get to know. But my larger point is that
you could really torpedo development and put him in harm's
way if he really isn't ready in weeks five, six seven,
because you you have a juggernaut run coming off of
I mean, because look, Jalen Carter, he's gonna be mad,
gonna spit at him.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Sure that's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Wow too soon? Something tell you the fifteen grand he
lost means he ain't gonna do that.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
He looked good enough in the summer. He's ready. He
wants it to desire. I have no doubt in my
mind he's gonna step in. He's gonna sling it around,
he's gonna bring excitement to the franchise. It's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
They also need to make sure that Malik Neighbors doesn't
quit on them because he was kind of white.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Then he gets to a new quarterback. It's gonna throw
them the football moon balls weren't there for us? Coming
up next, we go in search of someone I can't believe.

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(42:07):
right after the end of the show, well joining us.
Now I'm the hotline someone who I'm gonna say this,
And I don't think this person wants everybody to know
that this is what he's been doing. But I feel
like if I have something that's newsworthy, I gotta say it.
He is longtime baseball insider MLB Network John Paul Morosi,
friend of the show on Twitter at John Morosi. He

(42:29):
has been undercover for MLB Network the past four days
trying to find Philly Karen. Now I don't know where
he is. I don't know how long his phone's gonna
be good for, but undercover somewhere, maybe using a fake accent,
maybe wearing a trench coat with with.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
Glasses and a hat low down on his face.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
John Paul, can you tell us where you are in
your pursuit of Philly Karen.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
And Los estadosos. I I am as many different languages
as I can during my travels in search of Philly
Karen as as she is not. My goodness, gracious, that
did capture the imagination of the American sports culture for

(43:19):
a few days. It was a little interrupted by the
first weekend of the NFL, but what I will say
is this. I was very happy that in the days
that followed that we saw many great examples shared on
social media of the normal course of such things, which is,
you get a ball and you share it with your

(43:42):
with the kid that's sitting right in the road behind you.
That is good fan behavior. And I am a firm
believer that most fans are good fans. Not all fans,
as we were reminded last week, but most fans, most
fans are good fans.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
I was going to say, what's the over undrawn when
we get back to normal here, JP, because I think
all of these people are going I don't want to
be that woman.

Speaker 5 (44:05):
Well let's see. I mean, here's the thing. Here's the thing, Mike.
What if and there could actually be a positive outcome here?
What if the way in which this thing has taken
over the conversation in our country. What if basically, and
while this might not be the most altruistic motivation of all,

(44:26):
but what if all fans end of the ballpark and
they say, oh, remember that game in Miami where the
Philly fan was criticized. You know what, if a ball
comes anywhere near me, I'm going to find the kid
with the biggest smile, who's within a twenty foot radius,
And if I get the ball, it's going right to
him or her. And if that just becomes the prevailing

(44:49):
way that our society interacts with each other, wouldn't that
be a beautiful thing? I think that, And they might
sit in the back of my mind. I don't want
to wind up as a meme. Know what, If that's
what it takes to get you to do the right thing,
God bless you, That's what I'm gonna say. Right, that's
if that's what it takes. However, you get there, You

(45:11):
get there, okay, whatever your motivation is, your heart is
winding up in the right place. And I'm thrilled about that.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
It just described the entire legal sees here.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
We know that's what it is.

Speaker 5 (45:21):
Right, We're just we're it's amazing. It's like, by by acclamation,
by and by acclamation, the social media mob has said, hey, hey,
we should orient ourselves around kindness and justice and charity.
If it were only that easy in all areas of life.
But let's start small, guys. Let's start with conduct at

(45:42):
the baseball game and then go on to other matters
of civilization. How about that.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
Okay, let me ask you this now, John Paul, being
being the being the reporter and inside again, I don't
know where you are in covering your story. But if
I could wave a magic wand and I could say,
all right, John Paul, you can get the exclusive interview
with show Heyo Tani who wants to opt out of
his Dodgers contract. Now I'm making it up, obviously, but

(46:08):
let's just say Wan Soto show Heyo Tani want to
opt out of their contracts. You can get that exclusive interview.
Or I could get you the exclusive interview with Philly Karen.
Which one would you pick and which one would do
better for you and vault you into being the new
Barbara Walters of Major League Baseball.

Speaker 5 (46:27):
I would still say, see, I'm still hoping on the
Pope Leo interview. That opportunity never quite materialized, And it
seems to me there's there's a couple siblings who have
a particular football show who have now attempted to try
to interview Pope Leo as well. So I may now

(46:49):
have to get in line behind them. They're a little more,
a little more of a higher notoriety than I am.
But but not I don't believe that there has yet
been a Pope Peyton or a Pope Eli. There has
been a Pope John Paul, actually multiple of them, and
so maybe that puts me ahead of that list just

(47:09):
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
Trying to find the the win as you go, a JP.
We've got a lot of these squads kind of limping
down the stretch. Here we see the Yankees today, the
Dodgers bullpen has given up. Well, some curiosity starters have
been pretty good since August first, but the bullpen struggling.

(47:31):
What your crystal ball look like for some of these front.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
Runners, cloudy, cloudy is how it looks. And here's and
here's why I say this. We've got the Yankees and
Tigers tomorrow in New York. Very excited about that matchup.
The Tigers are a team that certainly I'm close to them.
I live right there in Michigan. They're a good team,

(47:54):
and they have flaws. And if you hear my dad
say it, he's like, son, I'm not sure that they're
gonna be able to get past the first round. I'm
worried about this. And then I look at the Sands
and the Dad, they're five percentage points. They almost are
the best record in the American League, and if you
talk to a Yankee fan, they're convinced that they're barely
hanging on and they've got one of the best run

(48:16):
differentials in all of baseball. And so I think this
is just a function of having a very well balanced
Major League Baseball right now, and you're seeing, i think,
unfortunately for a number of teams, key injuries happening at
the worst possible times. Roman Anthony with the Red Sox,
Trey Turner with the Phillies. We just had the news

(48:38):
today about Boba chev but Toronto, although they were able
to come back and have a walk off win. So
the thing for me is the question, I think, as
you put it, do we see a Yankee Dodger or
is that the likely outcome? I think that the Yankees
have a better chance of getting back the World Series

(49:01):
than the Dodgers do. That might be a very unpopular take,
and maybe I'm feeling really bold, given that the Yankees
lost the night by about nine runs, but I just
think that they have a little more certainty about their
overall club than the Dodgers did right now. So I
think it's certainly a more likely situation. To be honest

(49:22):
with both of you, that neither the Yankees nor the
Dodgers make it back. I think that it's likely that
we're gonna have a new American League champion and a
new National League champion. There's this I take the field
over both of those teams in each league right now.
I just think that's how well balanced the overall MLB
landscape is.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
John Paul Morose, the MLB Network inside of our guest
Jason Smith Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
All right, so last week you joined us after Kyle
Schwarber hit nine home runs and drove in seventeen runs
in that big game, and we talked about the nl
MVP odds and how they were narrowing with him. In
show hal time, Schwarber hits his fiftieth home run. Tonight,

(50:03):
He's got Otanian home runs, got him by almost forty RBI.
It's a really big deal. Otani's got him everywhere else where.
Do you think the voting is right.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
Now, John Paul, That is a great question. I still
think right now it is narrowly and I'm saying narrowly
in favor of Otani, but it's pretty close, and I
think Schwarber right now is very much narrowing what used
to be, to your point, a fairly significant gap. I
just think that what Schwarber does for that ball club

(50:34):
so multifaceted, so important, and you hit fifty home runs
the select company of guys that have ever done it.
Of course, Otani's power is there, and he's contributing in
a meetingful way on the mound, including last week, but
I look at this as being still Otani's award to lose.

(50:55):
But you look at Schwarber, his team, sorry, Jason is
almost certainly going to win the National League and the
Dodgers are in a real fight to maintain the top
spot in the National League West. If the Dodgers fall
into second place, and if Otani loses any steam in
the next couple of weeks, I really think there's a

(51:17):
path for Schwarber. There is a much better path for
Shoarber than I ever thought there was. And then in
the American League side, I'm fascinated the Mariners. If they
closed out this win tonight, they are only one game
back of the Astros in the West, and Raleigh continues
to mash home runs, I think again, it's still narrowly

(51:39):
in favor of Judge, but Raleigh is closed and fast.
I think we could have a surprise. As much as
Judge and Otani, they're great choices. They were great choices
last year, they'd be great choices this year. But I
think that both Schwarber and Raleigh are making this far
closer than a lot of people.

Speaker 4 (51:59):
Thought they would judge. With the narrow edge, we'd be remiss.
I mean, yeah, last week he gave us some really
great football picks. The Lions play the Bears. Both of
them weren't bad.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Okay. Now, and the thing is, John Paul actually messaged
me and said, hey, I was really close with my
picks last week. Now he's an NFL inside He goes, hey,
do you think you can bring that back so people
would know I'm telling the truth. So here are John
Paul's football picks from last week.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
I've been reflecting on this for a long time, Okay,
and I'm gonna throw you a bit of a curveball.
Well night Week one. The final score will be Green
Bay twenty four, Detroit seventeen. So just make sure that
Dan Byer is aware that I that I've made this
prediction in favor of the Wisconsin ice and then I've
got and I've got Green Bay winning by a final

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score of twenty four to seventeen.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
Wow, a guy taking the under and he has them
losing out.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
Right, John Paul's gonna be like you know, in the
old like in the seventies, when when a college football
coach lost a game and that night, like people would
put for sale signs in his yard, Like like that's
gonna happen now John Paul's house. Oh, you picked against
us the for sale side for least.

Speaker 5 (53:11):
I mean, it makes it a little more authentic. Y
can't always you can't always.

Speaker 7 (53:16):
Just blindly pick the team.

Speaker 5 (53:17):
And I see the Packers is having a little little
better of a little better of a I just think
that they're at home, the whole Lambeau thing, and that
they've had a good training camp, good preseason. I think
the Packers have a little momentum here.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Let's see if he's got the guts to double down.
Michigan getting four and a half against Oklahoma.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Now now again I'm gonna have to go. I hope
they still let me fly back tomorrow, but I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna go Oklahoma. I'm gonna go Oklahoma thirty one,
Michigan twenty one, thirty one twenty one suitors.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
All right, wow, that's a poet.

Speaker 5 (53:53):
I still love my home state. I'm just telling you
what I think the reality is right now.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Proud Michigan, Proud Michigan on PAULM. MOROSSI voting no confidence
in Bryce Underwood. All right, great, the.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
Legend that I'm glad you guys.

Speaker 5 (54:06):
I'm glad you guys didn't ask about what I think
about Michigan State Boston College because I think DC probably
wins that game.

Speaker 4 (54:11):
True, he's got the hat trip.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
He hated the entire state of Michigan last weekend. He
was right nearly right with the scores as well, John Paul,
well done, my friend.

Speaker 5 (54:22):
You well here, I appreciate that in fairness two out
of three because my dad is a proud MSU allowing
the Spartans came back to win that game at overtime.
What a what a dramatic conclusion that was. Now here's
what I've got, Lions Bears. I've noticed that the spread

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on this is Lions minus six, which I think is
right around where I believe this game is going to be.
So I've got I've got Lions twenty one, Bears thirteen
twenty one to thirteen game to the Lions. Uh, they're
gonna be able to win by by more than the spread,
is what I've got.

Speaker 7 (55:04):
And and then Michigan, well they're playing CMU, so it's
an intra Michigan game. I've got Michigan wins that one
Handley I'm saying forty five ten Michigan beats the Chippewas.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
So apparently, John Palmer ROSSI got a lot of hate mail. No,
that's you picked against your home state.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
Well with the MIT now you're right. But but here's
you know, I don't I don't watch a ton of football,
as we've covered on the show quite often, I do
not actually watch that much. But I did hear reports
that the Bears couldn't quite close it out against the Vikings.
I believe that's correct, Okay correct there so in that

(55:48):
in that sense, I just I think that the lines
are going to find a way to win. Good teams
are just they always say. I was always told as
a kid, good teams improved the most in week one
a week two. My team's never did. It was worn
very good, but the Lions are better. So I've got
I've got the Lions improving and the Lions winning by

(56:09):
eight Detroit twenty one, Chicago thirteen.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
The former high school quarterback with a perfect record his
senior year.

Speaker 5 (56:16):
It is baby and nine. So great at losing, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
But it was great.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
You tanked and wind up getting arch Manning. So you
guys were fine.

Speaker 5 (56:27):
That's right, that's right. So yeah, precisely. Oh my goodness. Yeah,
well we'll see as long as as long as I
get the Pope Leo interview before arches uncles, I want
to be totally happy. That's what it's all about.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi. Check him out MLB Network.
John Paul is always buddy. Appreciate it, man, We'll talk
to you next week.

Speaker 5 (56:48):
Love the conversation, guys, thanks for everything. Really appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (56:51):
Say you, buddy, I have a good call, you know,
thank you. It's not that big a deal, he say,
I don't watch a lot of football.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
It's okay. Sometimes you can't do any worse. And people
that watch a lot

Speaker 4 (56:58):
Of football, all right, tools out that way.