September 25, 2025 • 42 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Wednesday, The Jason Smith Show with
my base friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
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with so much emotion and dread and anxiety as teams
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jockey to win the division in Major League Baseball to
make the playoffs to be one of the final wildcards,
that we get some time to really understand and watch
some little league baseball to understand Hey, this is how
it looked when when we were kids, when everything wasn't perfect,
when you know, mistakes were made, the right plays weren't made,
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and you celebrated after by just you know, talking to
the kids.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
About saying, hey, you know, maybe do this next time.
Let me do this this time.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So it's nice to get to watch little league baseball
tonight as we watch the Mets lose to.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The Cubs right now eight to two, with little league.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Baseball mistakes in the last ending Oh, I'm watching little
league again.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Little League. You know, you could have gone any direction.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
And at the start of that little dietribe, the the
first eight or nine words, I was getting ready to
hit the dump button because I had no idea where
you were.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Going with it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Uh, but I'm glad you stayed with major league baseball
in the final week of the season. Thinking back to
little league baseball and the comedy of errors, things that
they say, no, that's a home run. It's like I
really wasn't even a single, No it's.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
A home run. There were four errors right off the jump.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Here You've got the Mets at every turn, bad positioning, bad.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Throws, not covering home play. I mean, things we've seen.
I mean, we saw it in.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
The World Series with the best of the best, So
I guess our expectations should have already been the bar
should have been lowered. So when Clay Holmes comes in
and you go, oh, that's interesting, and you started doing
the back math on whenny last.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Pitch to pitch on Saturday and the Mets field, the
game is there from six to two. They were down
six to nothing again, but may they think the game
the game is there for them. They were spot in
the Cubs. The best starter who can only go four innings.
We're bringing them in.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It's the state of Major League Baseball. Most most staffs.
At this point you can get four or five innings.
You're feeling pretty good about your third start. This week
is too long, Okay, this week is too long.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You love baseball.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yesterday to go back and check the tape with John
Paul Morosi Baseball romantic, isn't it great?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
But still now.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Today you're based it's still too long. No, the week
is too long. There's too much anxiety every single bleeping day,
like every day is a playoff game, and every day
is full of all kinds of peaks and valleys.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, you've No, it's it's it's too much when you
wake up. I mean, I know there's a bunch of
stuff ahead. Man, it's not just what am I gonna
do with my day?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
No, only you're now give me a.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Good three days. Man, this is this is too much.
You know you could turn it off. It's too stressful.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You got sick days. I claim that they made you ill.
I can't.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh, you know how many sick days I could have
taken the last thirty years. It's all I'm saying is
they're there. I mean, folks have taken them for less.
Jason Smith worked forty three days this year, but he's
got a good excuse for all those times he missed.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So, I mean we are in the state of California.
He got a lot of weewear.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But yeah, a two here and in the sixth inning,
and just some miserable fundamentals the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
The Cubs are celebrating like they're winning a playoff game
because they've lost five in a row.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
But you try to find some juice and look when
you got Pete crow Armstrong, who has had one of
the most miserable second halfs of the season, only to
be outdone by the Tigers. We'll get to them in
short order. But when Holmes throws a wild pitch gets
to the backstop and it's slow motion.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, he doesn't move. The catcher makes a half ass
effort to get back to the ball. Little league play.
What did I say?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Here comes Pete Crow Armstrong rounds third, his eyes get
wide like sauge, like he he's licking his chops and
strolls to home. Play it and the throw is off
tariet like Holmes takes his ball, his eye off the ball.
The ball goes sailing towards first base. And it's just
one of those plays that might be the lead or
the final frame of your season yearbook.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
No, and I'm sitting here, I'm sweating out pirates reds.
I mean, it's the end of September and I'm sweating
out pirates red.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Why because paulsens you wanted him to get over to
for as he are? Why did they take him out
after only eighty five pitches?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Let him in?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's his last start of the year.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, he gets hurt, now, he's got plenty of time
to recover. He could go one hundred and twenty five
pitches it's absolutely fine. I'm sweating out Pirates, Reds, I'm
sweating out Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Diamondbacks, and it's a lot of sweating. Man. Like I
say it, it's it's too much the anxiety. Three in
the eleventh, now the Pirates with the lead.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But hey, hey, I do want to say? I always say,
what do I say? It could always be worse, right,
it goes, you're worse. I could be a Tigers fan.
You could be a Jets fan. Hey, well, I know
that's worse. There's no I have no right now. I
mean that's on Friday. He kind of shifts into Jets form.
I could be it tries to forget them the rest
of the week. I could be a Tigers fan right now,
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because wow, the Mets, you know, losing a five game
lead in the NL East and then losing a five
game wildcard lead. Yeah, that that's not great, not great, Bob.
But you are looking now at the absolute, not possibility,
but probability that the Detroit Tigers will blow the biggest
lead in the history of Major League Baseball. It was
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a fifteen and a half game lead over the Cleveland
Guardians mid July, and now the Guardians are in first
place by a game. With four left, they have beaten
the Tigers again. The Tigers have now lost eight in
a row and now they're sweating out with the Astros.
They may never win again if these teams both stink
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and now one of these teams is gonna wind up
not making the playoffs. But I mean it could be worse,
because this is again, you know, John Paul Morosi joined
us last night, This would be the biggest blown lead
in the history again major League Baseball been around a
long long time, man, long time, going back to when
there were only two teams, and hey, we're playing each other,
everything doesn't matter. We're gonna flip it around at some point.
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Biggest blown lead in the history of baseball. With four left,
the Guardians now have a game lead on the Tigers.
And this was one of those nights where, hey, it
was five to one the Guardians that you know, typical
Guardians night, how they like to manufacture their runs. And
the Tigers never threatened in this game. And it's just
what has happened. What has happened to this team that
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was the best team in Major League Baseball. In the
middle of July.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
We talked about faustian deals.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Sometimes you go down to the crossroads and the collections
agency comes a little sooner than you thought. You thought
you bought a full season, No, you got half. You
got towards the All Star break. The other thing, as
we talked about, yes, Guardians bought the deal the devil
for the second half.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, no, they kicked the guys that were fixing games
out of the locker room and they wanted a tremendous tear.
It's always good when when you get rid of guys
that may or may not be throwing the game, the.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Guys that go to win more games, that are charged
to finish the game. Boy, I didn't know they would
win this many games. What would the record have been?
Would they have like one hundred and twenty wins?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
If they had figured it out with forty six and
seventy two, it'd be like one fifteen and forty Right now,
just an amazing second half of a season. But I mean,
we watch over one hundred and sixty two some really
strange stretches, But what we've seen from the Tigers this
second half of the season has just been nothing short
of remarkable.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Right.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
You've got a couple of also rans and afterthoughts in
the division. And you've got these two battling through and
it's only appropriate that we get a couple of these
big games down the stretch to help decide at all.
You're astros, you mentioned them. They'll be coming up against
the A's here in short order, so you get to
watch that live and in living color.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Exit out by to Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome. Jason Smith
Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Two
run homer by the Cubs. Shaw goes deep. It's ten
to two Cubs with the lead over the Mets. Meanwhile,
two outs in the eleventh, the Pirates up a run
over the Reds. But the Reds have runners at first
and third, sweating out Dodgers Diamondbacks. And let's get to
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a different debate. I mean, we still baseball here, but
there's a different debate here because tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That Reds fan tried to help though, tried to reach
over the railings. Renels says, beat it man.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Mine, uh So, Aaron Judge two home runs for the
Yankees tonight. Right now, he's got fifty one. Right. I
came in tonight and the first time I sat down
you're watching the White Sox and I watched two home
runs in a row, and I'm like, boy, I'm really
cooling you right now.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, no, it was.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I mean they were already down five to one home
runs that deal. But that Grisham sits down and he
hits the home run, two run home. Right here comes Judge.
We'll look at starting to look at the channels. All right,
we're getting this off here. It's like, it's Judge, we
got to watch this at bat. And then he sails
in an opposite field to tell you, man, I'm getting
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up and leaving because I've sat down for two plays,
both home runs.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I gotta get up. I told you to beat it.
But Judge with two.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Home runs tonight, well wait, well maybe he's good win
that No, cal Raley has gone deep for number fifty
nine of the season for the Mariners. They have a
four game lead right now over the Astros. They're gonna win. Look,
they clinched the playoffs last night. It's been it's an
amazing season for Rally. They're beating the Rockies three nothing
already in the second inning. And we've had this MVP
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debate for a long time. And I told you, Hey,
Roley's the guy.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
He's doing something we have never seen from a catcher.
The guy's gonna likely finish with sixty home runs at least.
We've never seen this kind of season we've seen this
season from Aaron Judge. You've seen better seasons from Aaron Judge.
It's a great season. But you're splitting hairs between cal
Rawley MVP, Aaron Judge MVP. Well, I know that the
Mariners are gonna win that division, and I said that
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to me. It's gonna be that simple. If the Mariners
win the division, cal Rawley's the MVP. Now the Yankees
have tied the Blue Jays now, so they're tied atop
the Al East.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
But this is a.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Season that we've never seen a guy haveing. Roley's got
twenty more RBI than Aaron Judges. Now, Judge is hitting
about sixty points higher, but you're talking about a slugging season.
He's got ten more home runs, He's got twenty more RBI.
You can't just automatically just get a Judge has a
great season. You give it to him. You give it
to him again. This is a season we have never
seen before from a catcher. And what he's able to
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and what he's able to do. Yeah, if the Mariners
didn't win the Al West, I would say, okay, you
could give it to Judge, right, because it's MVP, not
Player of the Year, right, it's MVP who and we
have been waiting for the Mariners to do this for
how many years? Right to be this team final It
shows up in the playoffs and wins their division and
goes deep in the playoffs, waiting for Julio Rodriguez, who
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knew it was cal Rawley. But now you see the
odds come down, and I'll take credit for that saying, hey,
cal Rawley's gonna be the MVP. But now that it's
if it's this close, yeah, gimme Raleigh for the MVP
over Judge. Again, you're splitting hairs. But this season we
have never seen like when Judge had to say, we've
never seen that season before. Okay, I kind of get it.
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And the Mariners are gonna win their division. It's still
up in the air for the Yankees. It's still a
great season for Aaron Judge. But you know, fifty home runs,
one hundred and five rbi. Yeah, I'm okay giving it
to calradds.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
War is about two over Raleigh when you break it down,
But I don't know that that formula includes anything defensively. Right,
you look at what Roley's been able to do, and
while he's not throwing out base runners at the same clip,
about eight percent drop there. You got zero pass balls
on the year, nine to nine to six fielding percentage
and again being able to hit as he does playing
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the majority of his games from the catcher position is
really when we start splitting hairs. Right now, the Maritors
may end up with the number one seed. Right as
the Blue Jays and Yankees cannibalize each other this final
week of the season. That might help bolster things to
the other side. By the way, Rodriguez is back to
you know, another thirty thirty season.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, the last couple of months when no one's looking
because we're all watching calra Hey wait, hey, j Rod
is suddenly good again.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
But he's now done that four straight years. Just just
to put it out there as a guy who's what
I think, twenty five or twenty six years old, remarkable stuff.
He and Bobby Witt junior wat to those two grow
up together is going to be fun as their careers developed.
But for cal Raley it becomes a bit of the narrative.
Now we've been waiting on Seattle.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I don't know that he should get bonus points because
they finally lived up to us trying to carry a
bandwagon forward for eight years, especially our guys Jump Baumrosi.
But okay, they've lived up to the height and they've
taken care of it, and they've got a great roster.
And Raleigh's at the head of the Snake great year
a year ago and now challenging. As of tonight, the
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odds were the same, and he looked Judge leads in
pretty much every category except home runs and RBI. So
if we want to do the deep metrics, you lose.
You want to talk batting average? Yeah, all right, it's done.
But four fifty home run seasons in his career for
cal Raley, he's been one of the big stories of baseball.
Ad what he did at the All Star Game and
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everything else that it helps push it over. It'll be
interesting to see how the odds develop here over these
next five days.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Exit. How about a Fresco exit?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
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with the bases loaded, the Pirates get a ground out
to third to end the game. They beat the Reds
four to three, So the Mets being down ten to
two isn't so bad right now, and all my attention
can turn to the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks one apiece
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Speaker 3 (19:13):
Well.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
When you hit the fifty home run plateau again, you
get to be the play of the day. Trivin d
to right center field, going back, Taylor track wall see.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Yah fight fifty is living fifty home runs are more
for the fourth season of his career, Harry Judge with
a three run home run.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Michael k Yankees TV on the call. Right there, a
three for four night for Aaron Judge. He homers twice.
He's got fifty one RBI. Now he's got one hundred
and nine fifty one home run, one hundred and nine rbi.
He is leading the American League in batting at three
to one eight. He joins a pretty select company of
guys with four straight years of fifty home runs. Right now,
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for something about Aaron Judge. If Rawley's the MVP, Oh Jays,
you hate Aaron Judge just made the Mets trus.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
It's true because you are a Mets fan and you
really just want to yell at your dad.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, no, no, that's that's fine. Uh, that's fair. All
of that is fair. But I mean mean, when when
you look at the plaudits you listen to to Michael Kay,
you see the the career that Aaron Judge is putting together.
I mean it's he's thirty three years old. Now, he
came up a little bit late, you know, he came
up a couple of years late. But you see the
numbers he is putting up. These are Kart two numbers.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Just go just go look at his look at his
stats and see the fifty two one, fourteen, sixty two one,
thirty one, fifty eight one, forty four, fifty one. I mean,
these are numbers that are that are what you would
normally see out of a out out of guy's stats
from the fifties, right, this is what Demaggio and Mantle hit.
When he is done right and he's still clearly at
thirty three, he's not showing any signs of slowing down.
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And when he does, I'm sure the Yankees will say,
guess what, here're gonna be our full time DH. Now
we don't need you dropping fly balls in the World
Series and.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
That means you got to get rid of all the
other guys that are primarily dhs around there.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
He's gonna wind up again. We've talked with this a
few weeks ago. He's gonna wind up with one of
the top five Yankee careers of all time. He's gonna
be a top five all time Yankee.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
That actually became a conversation.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
We were waiting on my daughter's soccer game a couple
of weeks ago, and I go, funny, we did this
on the show.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You can listen to the podcast.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I'm gonna go shags and balls, like there's a whole.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Twenty minute conversation. Gonta do that?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I mean like if you had a if you had
the the five added one face on Mount Rushmore. No,
but really, Judge is gonna finish his career one of
the top five Yankees of all time.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
They're gonna say, Judge, Jeter, Ruth, Mantle, DiMaggio, that's gonna
be your list, right, Not that you didn't have other
great Yankees.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Now you'd have Whitey four. Now you didn't have Glue
Garrett not.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You know, but you're gonna say, Okay, he's gonna be
looked at us having that kind of a top five
career all time, and maybe Judge might even be ahead
of Joe Dad that Joe D's got hitch, He's got
all the extra stuff's got streak.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
He was married to Maryland's got the streak.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You keep trying to win money. I understand, Marilyn Monroe,
he was mister coffee. I mean, maybe you could say,
let me come on. Maybe he's ahead of Joe D.
Maybe he's ahead of Lou Garrett. Maybe it's it, but
he's it's gonna be top five careers of all time. Yeah,
but it's funny and all that. And then over here
you got Mariano Rivera go and I know I didn't hitch,
but what about me? But yeah, I threw one pitch
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for fifteen years. It was a great pitch, but I
threw one pitch. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
It's all that mattered. Three hundred and sixty four now
career home runs. And the amazing thing is, you've got
a two ninety three career batting average now this year,
as he leads the American League, there's only eight guys
with that batting average over three hundred this year. That's
the other thing is just to remember when we've changed
this game immensely. We talked about team batting averages in
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the two fifties, and that's the norm. So when we
get a guy who's not only a top slugger, but
he's also hitting for that kind of average, it's absurd.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
It goes back to what Bonds was doing when he
was walking two hundred times a year, getting one pitch
to hit a game, and was still hitting three thirties. So,
I mean, what Judge has done is absolutely incomparable right
now in this game.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I mean, look, he's again he started off slow, and
he had a he had a three year run where
in you know, in the beginning of his prime that
wasn't great, right, Like he had that that big year
in twenty seventeen when he burst out. Was him and
Bellinger right right away. It's like, boy, who's better look
at these brand new sluggers coming in. It was Bellinger
and Judge the same year, right, he was fifty two
and one fourteen. His next few years not great. Of course,
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he had the COVID year of twenty twenty. But you
know we got hurt both years twenty seven and sixty
seven twenty seven and fifty five in twenty two and
twenty twenty. These are just jag years, right, But he
did get hurt and so he missed a lot of time.
And then he comes back, you know when in his
late twenties, and suddenly everything is it's cartoon. It's Miguel
Cabrera in the in the early to mid teens of
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what we saw from him when he was winning triple
crowns and doing that, like these are the these numbers
are just absolutely ridiculous what he's putting up.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Well, and you look at what happened in twenty twenty three, right,
limited to one hundred and eight games, and then he
comes back. We have no idea between he and Stanton,
So the running joke was how many times are we
going to see him in the lineup together? And then
he has the twenty twenty four campaign of fifty eight
one forty four mard of course by dropping a fly ball. Yeah,
in all way, Oh that was great, that's fantastic stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Bob Still still when you think about still as great
as his career as if I said, hey, what's the
first thing comes your mind when you think Aaron Judge,
It's the drop fly ball.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
No, you watch around on to a couple of watering holes.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Ball, great hitter, one of the most fantastic, great guy,
great New Yorker.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Fly ball.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, gotta catch that. If he catches that fly ball,
we win the World Series. Because we win that game,
we win Game six, we win game seven.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Now I got you. Let me say, let's keep going
with word association. That's how we go. Garrett Cole point.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
When I hear Garrett Cole, what I think of the
verse visual is him pointing to first base of Rizzo.
You gotta get there. You gotta get the first base Rizzo.
You gotta get there. I thought he was gonna walk
off the field. I thought was just gonna leave right
then done with you.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
You gotta get there. You gotta get there.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Hey, you know, hey, so really quick because we brought
this up really so. I told you this past week
and I went to COSM which is in La, which
is this huge great I can't tell you. It's like
watching sports on a big omnimax.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
You've probably seen it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
If you watch Welcome to Wrexham and there's a couple
in the country. Now there's one in Dallas. There's one
coming soon in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
They're gonna expand pretty fast.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And one of the things they did, I can't believe
this is that when they were show and went to
see Michigan Nebraska last weekend, and it's like, yeah, that's
the best thing to tell you. It's like it's watching
a sporting event on an omnimax and you're getting and
feeling like you're in the state. You're not going TV broadcast,
you're getting the in stadium. You feel like you're at
the game while you're watching this. COSM is amazing.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
But I love the video you sent me with the
guy that was two rows in front of as a
play is going down the side, jumps up like he's
sitting in the third row of the actual stadium.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
COSM is an amazing experience. To see the stuff online.
You can follow him on Twitter at COSM. And one
of the things they showed during commercial breaks, it don't
show commercial because you're geting. It's like you're at the game.
You're sitting at the fifty yard line, you're up high,
you're right behind the goalpost.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
They showed, Hey, here's a promo of what the other
sports other events we have looked like at cosm. And
they showed the replay of Freddie Freeman's walk off homer
in Game one against the Yankees. Right, give me me Freddy, Right,
And the angle they showed is that you're sitting behind
home plate and you see that. You see Freddie Freeman's
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walk off home run from behind home plate and I
never caught this before and for the first time, and
I was like, wow, I couldn't believe it. Freeman hits
it and you could just tell that likely it's gone right,
and I'm watching and for some reason, because I can
see him, I can see Anthony Rizzo standing at first base.
Freddie Freeman hits the ball and it's oh, you know
(27:23):
it's it's not even the Yankees going back to the wall.
And Rizzo doesn't even turn around. He just starts walking
off the field like that. I mean, it's a man like.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
There's no walk and I turned it's just my head.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
He hits the Freeman hits the ball, he puts his
glot bad up and he back flips, and Rizzo just
puts his head down and walks off the field like
I didn't know that that was Rizzo's reaction to it,
Like I had not known until now here's Rizzo put
my head just walking right off, like I know, it's gone.
Almost a shame almost like he had a you know,
a hand in that fifth inning when you know they
couldn't make any plays.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Well, kind of kind of bad things come bound themselves.
I just watch, you know, we celebrate tradition, and yeah,
that's a new tradition for you. I know you're gonna
go and visit and watch many more games. We just
watched Juan Soto hit his forty third home run of
the year, and then the dow and the outfield threw
the ball back on the fields.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You catch mets her down by a touchdown, it doesn't matter.
My focus here is on the dope who caught the
home run. And because the chumps around him say go
through the broad back, that's what we do here.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
He throws it back. That's what soto home run ball.
The hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Every home run is a by one. Soto is a
new career high. You never know if that could be
his last one this year. He might want it might
get close to forty. That's terrible exit out about a
Fresco exit swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Carmen. We got more coming up in
ninety seconds. But first, let's find out what's trending from
someone who's been called the Anthony Rizzo of Fox Sports Radio.
(28:53):
If she doesn't like what's going on, she puts her
head down and walks away too. It's that's so rude.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
No I do not, I will, I will stick it out.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Okay, okay, even when I don't want to be here.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Wait started in baseball here where the Cubs are on top.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Of the Mets. What happened? What happened Jarle? What happened
to you? That was the better story?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Wait, wait minute, Now, let's find out what's trending from
someone who's been called the Angel.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Rees the Fox Sports Radio. She don't want to be
here either.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
She didn't want to do the exit interview.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Don't be hating on my me bands. All right, we'll
start in baseball.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Guys, Yeah, it's wild right now.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
The last couple of days of the regular season. What
was it like six weeks ago? They were like, Oh,
it's so boring that there's no race, and here we
are where all of these games matter. The Cubs are
on top of the Mets right now ten three bottom
of the eighth inning, the Rockies on the scoreboard, but
the Mariners are up five to one. Cal Rawley with
home run number fifty nine on this season. It's the
top of the fourth inning and c the Dodgers and
(30:01):
the Diamondbacks are tied out one apiece after three innings.
If you care about the Cardinals and the Giants, theyird
tight to to top of the fourth. And if you
care about the Royals and the Angels, the Angels are
up three zero bottom of the fourth inning.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
What has wrapped up well?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
The Yankees outscored the White Sox eight to one, and
the Red Sox top the Blue Jays seven to one.
New York in Toronto are tied for the division in
the Al East. Right now, Aaron Judge hit two home runs,
bringing his total at fifty one on the season. He
joins Babe Ruth, Mark McGuire, and Sammy Sosa as the
only players to hit fifty home runs in four different seasons.
The Phillies crushed the Marlins eleven to one. Eight home
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runs from the Phillies today, two from Kyle Schwarber, bringing
his total to fifty six on the season, And yeah,
the Pirates took down the Reds. They went into eleven innings,
but the Pirates win it four to three. Brewers over
the Padres three to one. Milwaukee has won ninety six games,
which is tied for the most wins in Franchi's history.
And the Guardians defeated the Tigers five to one. What
(30:54):
a collapse by Detroit that has lost.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Eight in a row.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Cleveland is now in first place in the AL Central.
When it comes to the NFL, the Seahawks are listing
running back Zach Sharbone is questionable for Thursday night against
the Cardinals. Good news for Bucks fans because wide receiver
Chris Godwin was a full participant in practice today, and
good news for Chiefs fans because wide receiver Exavior Worthy
was a full participant, putting him on track to play
Sunday against the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Back to you, guys, thank you very much, mon, says
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
So Jackson Dart was name the starting quarterback for the
rest of the season by head coach Brian Dable today.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Rest of the season, not just we're gonna give him
we're gonna let him go get no no rest of
the season.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Russell Wilson says it very supportive, but I'm not done,
not written the last chapter of my story yet. James
Winston still in the roster, so we get more on
on Wilson going forward. Now you kind of see where
things are going. And look, we told you last night, Hey,
Russell Wilson's gonna end this season on another team, right
He's not gonna be a Giant. They're gonna wait obviously
(31:56):
when the first couple weeks will go. As long as
Jackson Dart is what they think he's going to be.
By the deadline, Russell Wilson will either be traded or
he will ask for and probably get his release so
he can maybe hook on someplace else. If someone wants
to sign me at some point during the season, if
you deal me, trade but he is not finishing the
season on the Giants rosters is not happening. But for
(32:17):
Dart there's the big question. Okay, well, how good is
Jackson Darken to be? I'll tell you this much. He's
gonna be really good, and he's gonna be good right away.
This is a kid that has the accuracy and the
mentality of I can throw the football wherever I want to,
but not so much where I can throw the football
over that mountain right, and not so much the Uncle Rico.
(32:38):
I'm gonna be really careless with the football. Dart is fearless.
He is smart. He can put the football in tight windows.
I watched all the throws he made during this summer.
No moment was too big for him. Whether it was
his first taste of NFL action, it was the game
against the Jets that really everybody saw. Okay, he really
(32:58):
can get it done. And the clock is ticking on
Russell Wilson. There's a reason he was a first round pick.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
There's there's a.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Reason why he's starting. Yes, the desperation of the Giants
and Brian Dable and Joe Shane want to save their jobs,
but there's a reason why he's starting right now. He's
gonna look like Joe Burrow light for the rest of
this season. He'll have some games where wow, two three
touchdowns not gonna result in els, not result not gonna happen.
It's gonna be an exciting oh with a lot of
(33:28):
l's for the Giants. But he's gonna have some weeks
will look like a rookie quarterback, but some weeks he's
gonna flash and you're gonna say, wow, man, this kid
can really sling it all. Part of his is education
as NFL quarterback. But he's gonna come in. He's gonna
remind people he's gonna be like a Joe Burrow light
when he comes in this season. That's the type of
excitement and production he's gonna bring to the Giant.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Yeah. One of the big parts to it is you
mentioned oh and l Andrew Thomas returned to action last
week against the Chiefs. Proof of concept. He's healthy and
ready to go, So you probably feel a little more
confident putting Jackson dark back there with a bolster to
offensive line. Three touchdowns per interception as a collegiate as
an amateur athlete, now we don't say that anymore. As
(34:10):
a college quarterback. A guy who can make plays with
his legs. Look, you got Wandell Robinson, Malik Neighbors won't
have to run twenty yards down field for every would
be pass attempt like you saw with Russell Wilson, So
they can get him involved in a higher percentage and
he won't pout as much on the sideline, so perhaps
better days there.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Yeah, they're gonna lose a lot of games.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
They're not very good defense will keep them in some
of these middling games. Maybe they'll win a couple, maybe
next week. But will it be too much for him?
Speaker 7 (34:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
And for Brian Dable.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
He still got his guy Russell Wilson to walk out
to practices with him for at least a little while longer.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Exit.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
How about a Fresca exit Swellen Dome. Yeah, be something
with the Chargers. Dup oh no, I'm afraid of that.
I mean Dermot James is a terror terror for him,
but you know, hey, by the ex second option, Joe
Burrow Light. That's him this season, Joe Burrow Light. If
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Again.
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Well coming up next an appreciation moment for someone that
we don't talk about enough that after big news today
we have to have Is it Andy Pas?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It is not Andy Pops.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
We have that coming up next right here, although I
really appreciate Pahz going big fly here for the Dodgers
against the Diamondbacks. Any pitch that's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
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So an appreciation moment here today for someone who will
clearly it needs an appreciation moment that we should be
appreciating body.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
I appreciate that what do I always appreciate you? Ok Uh.
Sister Jean.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Chicago announced her retirement from the school due to health concerns.
She will no longer go to games, no longer working
out the consumer. She's been a chaplain and a and
a basketball insider and scout, been doing stuff with the
team for a long time. She has decided that with
with some health concerns and going to campus back and
(37:01):
forth every day, she is retiring at the age of
one hundred and six, one oh six.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
That's the last times it is.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah, in two, Yeah, in O six, Yeah, I think
I'll go back to six. Yeah, go back to O six.
Oh oh, one hundred and six. I mean, Sister Jean
has become this huge cottage industry of herself. When she
first showed up Loyola Chicago and they're big running the
tournament in twenty eighteen, when she was ninety eight, right
ninety eight, ninety nine, her Jalen Rose's grandmother had a
(37:33):
big back and forth when they were gonna play Michigan
in the in the in the NCAA tournament. And here's
sister Jean ninety eight, and it's it's seven eight years later. Yeah,
and here'sh Yeah, I'm retiring now, like I'm retiring. Yeah,
getting back and forth to like this is I just
can't get over this one hundred and six and it's
announced that, Yeah, it's too tough to and I get it,
(37:54):
not be able to get to campus every day. But
I mean, this is someone who worked, worked for the
first hundred years of her life. Hundred plus years of
her life. Like everybody got another fifty four in me,
let's go, how many more do I want to work?
I mean, I want to you want to live, you know,
but how many more do I want to work? She's
she's one hundred years old and working and just working
(38:15):
and still doing so.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I mean, if I don't have to go to the
you know, drive on the freeway here on the four
or five every day for the next fifty four years,
I mean, can do this for a while, right, How good.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Kid of the kid?
Speaker 4 (38:25):
This guy the fifth, I mean, how many generations of guys.
I remember when his great granddad was running alone. I
mean that's what we're talking about. She's been at Loyola
since ninety one. Uh So you look at just that stretch.
I mean that that is that is a life in
and of itself.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Wait wait, wait, wait, and I hang on, hang on, Hey,
twenty nine, thirty four, when she she got to Loyola.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
She got to Loyola, she was seventy two. Yeah, ninety one.
In nineteen ninety she got to Loyola, she was seventy two.
I mean the next chapter, I remember to be.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
A senior in college. She got there, and I'm fifty four.
She got there in ninety one and she was seventy
and I was showing up just up the road in
Evanston to go to Northwest.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
I'm a new job.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Now I'm seventy two. You're not retiring, No, starting a
new job. Let's get I'm there for thirty four years.
It's an amazing run. A man a longevity. I mean,
like you said, it became a cottage industry. Talking about
super fandom and just that always having that figure with you.
You talk about the spiritual side of it certainly is
(39:31):
not lost in the city.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
A highly revered person. And every year towards the tournament.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
If Loyola was even in the mix at all, you know,
it became the Sister Gene Watch for sure, bobbleheads, T shirts,
you name it, all around the city of Chicago became
this larger, larger than life figure. I mean, and there
was first reports that maybe she'd retiring when she didn't
go to the NIT Games earlier in March, and I
(39:59):
just thought it was she's saying, n T, I don't
get out of bed to go to the n IM
one hundred and five years old. Yeah, call me when
you get back to the tournament, you underachievers. Then I'll
come to a game again and I'll get out there
an unbelievable run though one hundred and six. Dude, she
was She's like.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
What does she She's like, what is she like? What's
what are her habits for that long?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Tell it's Chicago. It's gotta be Brots. It's gotta be
in line for the freaking Glizzy that they gave out
at the Wieners Circle. She's the first one that goes
after geting to get the sausage in pepper sandwich people
make outside. Yeah, no, that would be interesting. Hey, sister
Jean's got the first sausage of pepper sandwich.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Just so you know, this is how we uh we
christened this this latest enterprise.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I mean, she was seventy two when she got there
in ninety when I'm like, okay, I want to be
retired by that. I want to be I mean, I
think everybody's a seventy two out of work. Seventy two
it's again, new job, first day. Hey, I'm sister Jean.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
How you doing. Nice to meet you. I just started today.
Oh you just started? You just start? Okay?
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Think about what we're talking about, the potential age age
limits and retirement ages rising. It's like seventy two is
a number that's been floated about. She was just starting
another career. Yeah, just the extension, don what I want?
Only she's been the chaplain and she's been campus minister.
She's done a lot of scouting for the basketball program.
(41:21):
I just this is we We don't.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Talk about her enough, right, she she she gets her
moment during the during the NCAA term obviously, But I mean,
someone this active and this involved in sports at one hundred,
because really, what's the big?
Speaker 7 (41:34):
You know?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
I go back to the Justin Timberlake movie, what's the big?
What's the big thing? We all want to own more
than anything else. Want to own time. Right, money is great,
and and and and and jobs. We all want to
own time. She's found a way to own time. One
hundred and six. I'm retiring, just retired. Not even team's
no good anymore, I have to say. I mean retiring
at one hundred and six. Time is the one asset
that we all have, the biggest one, and here she
(41:56):
is at just winning with that. Do you ever really
retire though, just because you're not going to campus, They're
still gonna call. Oh, she may go to games and stuff,
you never know, but I mean retiring from campus. Impressive,
Sister Jean, What a careers it? When am I signed
of my fifty four year contract? Coming up next NFL
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with so much emotion and dread and anxiety as teams
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jockey to win the division in Major League Baseball to
make the playoffs to be one of the final wildcards,
that we get some time to really understand and watch
some little league baseball to understand Hey, this is how
it looked when when we were kids, when everything wasn't perfect,
when you know, mistakes were made, the right plays weren't made,
(01:23):
and you celebrated after by just you know, talking to
the kids.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
About saying, hey, you know, maybe do this next time.
Let me do this this time.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So it's nice to get to watch little league baseball
tonight as we watch the Mets lose to.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
The Cubs right now eight to two, with little league.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Baseball mistakes in the last ending Oh, I'm watching little
league again.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Little League. You know, you could have gone any direction.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
And at the start of that little dietribe, the the
first eight or nine words, I was getting ready to
hit the dump button because I had no idea where
you were.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Going with it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Uh, but I'm glad you stayed with major league baseball
in the final week of the season. Thinking back to
little league baseball and the comedy of errors, things that
they say, no, that's a home run. It's like I
really wasn't even a single, No it's.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
A home run. There were four errors right off the jump.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Here You've got the Mets at every turn, bad positioning, bad.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Throws, not covering home play. I mean, things we've seen.
I mean, we saw it in.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
The World Series with the best of the best, So
I guess our expectations should have already been the bar
should have been lowered. So when Clay Holmes comes in
and you go, oh, that's interesting, and you started doing
the back math on whenny last.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Pitch to pitch on Saturday and the Mets field, the
game is there from six to two. They were down
six to nothing again, but may they think the game
the game is there for them. They were spot in
the Cubs. The best starter who can only go four innings.
We're bringing them in.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It's the state of Major League Baseball. Most most staffs.
At this point you can get four or five innings.
You're feeling pretty good about your third start. This week
is too long, Okay, this week is too long.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
You love baseball.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yesterday to go back and check the tape with John
Paul Morosi Baseball romantic, isn't it great?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
But still now.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Today you're based it's still too long. No, the week
is too long. There's too much anxiety every single bleeping day,
like every day is a playoff game, and every day
is full of all kinds of peaks and valleys.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, you've No, it's it's it's too much when you
wake up. I mean, I know there's a bunch of
stuff ahead. Man, it's not just what am I gonna
do with my day?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
No, only you're now give me a.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Good three days. Man, this is this is too much.
You know you could turn it off. It's too stressful.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You got sick days. I claim that they made you ill.
I can't.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Oh, you know how many sick days I could have
taken the last thirty years. It's all I'm saying is
they're there. I mean, folks have taken them for less.
Jason Smith worked forty three days this year, but he's
got a good excuse for all those times he missed.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
So, I mean we are in the state of California.
He got a lot of weewear.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
But yeah, a two here and in the sixth inning,
and just some miserable fundamentals the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
The Cubs are celebrating like they're winning a playoff game
because they've lost five in a row.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
But you try to find some juice and look when
you got Pete crow Armstrong, who has had one of
the most miserable second halfs of the season, only to
be outdone by the Tigers. We'll get to them in
short order. But when Holmes throws a wild pitch gets
to the backstop and it's slow motion.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, he doesn't move. The catcher makes a half ass
effort to get back to the ball. Little league play.
What did I say?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Here comes Pete Crow Armstrong rounds third, his eyes get
wide like sauge, like he he's licking his chops and
strolls to home. Play it and the throw is off
tariet like Holmes takes his ball, his eye off the ball.
The ball goes sailing towards first base. And it's just
one of those plays that might be the lead or
the final frame of your season yearbook.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
No, and I'm sitting here, I'm sweating out pirates reds.
I mean, it's the end of September and I'm sweating
out pirates red.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Why because paulsens you wanted him to get over to
for as he are? Why did they take him out
after only eighty five pitches?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Let him in?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's his last start of the year.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Okay, he gets hurt, now, he's got plenty of time
to recover. He could go one hundred and twenty five
pitches it's absolutely fine. I'm sweating out Pirates, Reds, I'm
sweating out Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Diamondbacks, and it's a lot of sweating. Man. Like I
say it, it's it's too much the anxiety. Three in
the eleventh, now the Pirates with the lead.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
But hey, hey, I do want to say? I always say,
what do I say? It could always be worse, right,
it goes, you're worse. I could be a Tigers fan.
You could be a Jets fan. Hey, well, I know
that's worse. There's no I have no right now. I
mean that's on Friday. He kind of shifts into Jets form.
I could be it tries to forget them the rest
of the week. I could be a Tigers fan right now,
(05:44):
because wow, the Mets, you know, losing a five game
lead in the NL East and then losing a five
game wildcard lead. Yeah, that that's not great, not great, Bob.
But you are looking now at the absolute, not possibility,
but probability that the Detroit Tigers will blow the biggest
lead in the history of Major League Baseball. It was
(06:07):
a fifteen and a half game lead over the Cleveland
Guardians mid July, and now the Guardians are in first
place by a game. With four left, they have beaten
the Tigers again. The Tigers have now lost eight in
a row and now they're sweating out with the Astros.
They may never win again if these teams both stink
(06:28):
and now one of these teams is gonna wind up
not making the playoffs. But I mean it could be worse,
because this is again, you know, John Paul Morosi joined
us last night, This would be the biggest blown lead
in the history again major League Baseball been around a
long long time, man, long time, going back to when
there were only two teams, and hey, we're playing each other,
everything doesn't matter. We're gonna flip it around at some point.
(06:50):
Biggest blown lead in the history of baseball. With four left,
the Guardians now have a game lead on the Tigers.
And this was one of those nights where, hey, it
was five to one the Guardians that you know, typical
Guardians night, how they like to manufacture their runs. And
the Tigers never threatened in this game. And it's just
what has happened. What has happened to this team that
(07:14):
was the best team in Major League Baseball. In the
middle of July.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
We talked about faustian deals.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Sometimes you go down to the crossroads and the collections
agency comes a little sooner than you thought. You thought
you bought a full season, No, you got half. You
got towards the All Star break. The other thing, as
we talked about, yes, Guardians bought the deal the devil
for the second half.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, no, they kicked the guys that were fixing games
out of the locker room and they wanted a tremendous tear.
It's always good when when you get rid of guys
that may or may not be throwing the game, the.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Guys that go to win more games, that are charged
to finish the game. Boy, I didn't know they would
win this many games. What would the record have been?
Would they have like one hundred and twenty wins?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
If they had figured it out with forty six and
seventy two, it'd be like one fifteen and forty Right now,
just an amazing second half of a season. But I mean,
we watch over one hundred and sixty two some really
strange stretches, But what we've seen from the Tigers this
second half of the season has just been nothing short
of remarkable.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Right.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
You've got a couple of also rans and afterthoughts in
the division. And you've got these two battling through and
it's only appropriate that we get a couple of these
big games down the stretch to help decide at all.
You're astros, you mentioned them. They'll be coming up against
the A's here in short order, so you get to
watch that live and in living color.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Exit out by to Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome. Jason Smith
Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Two
run homer by the Cubs. Shaw goes deep. It's ten
to two Cubs with the lead over the Mets. Meanwhile,
two outs in the eleventh, the Pirates up a run
over the Reds. But the Reds have runners at first
and third, sweating out Dodgers Diamondbacks. And let's get to
(08:54):
a different debate. I mean, we still baseball here, but
there's a different debate here because tonight.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
That Reds fan tried to help though, tried to reach
over the railings. Renels says, beat it man.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Mine, uh So, Aaron Judge two home runs for the
Yankees tonight. Right now, he's got fifty one. Right. I
came in tonight and the first time I sat down
you're watching the White Sox and I watched two home
runs in a row, and I'm like, boy, I'm really
cooling you right now.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, no, it was.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I mean they were already down five to one home
runs that deal. But that Grisham sits down and he
hits the home run, two run home. Right here comes Judge.
We'll look at starting to look at the channels. All right,
we're getting this off here. It's like, it's Judge, we
got to watch this at bat. And then he sails
in an opposite field to tell you, man, I'm getting
(09:40):
up and leaving because I've sat down for two plays,
both home runs.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
I gotta get up. I told you to beat it.
But Judge with two.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Home runs tonight, well wait, well maybe he's good win
that No, cal Raley has gone deep for number fifty
nine of the season for the Mariners. They have a
four game lead right now over the Astros. They're gonna win. Look,
they clinched the playoffs last night. It's been it's an
amazing season for Rally. They're beating the Rockies three nothing
already in the second inning. And we've had this MVP
(10:09):
debate for a long time. And I told you, Hey,
Roley's the guy.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
He's doing something we have never seen from a catcher.
The guy's gonna likely finish with sixty home runs at least.
We've never seen this kind of season we've seen this
season from Aaron Judge. You've seen better seasons from Aaron Judge.
It's a great season. But you're splitting hairs between cal
Rawley MVP, Aaron Judge MVP. Well, I know that the
Mariners are gonna win that division, and I said that
(10:36):
to me. It's gonna be that simple. If the Mariners
win the division, cal Rawley's the MVP. Now the Yankees
have tied the Blue Jays now, so they're tied atop
the Al East.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
But this is a.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Season that we've never seen a guy haveing. Roley's got
twenty more RBI than Aaron Judges. Now, Judge is hitting
about sixty points higher, but you're talking about a slugging season.
He's got ten more home runs, He's got twenty more RBI.
You can't just automatically just get a Judge has a
great season. You give it to him. You give it
to him again. This is a season we have never
seen before from a catcher. And what he's able to
(11:09):
and what he's able to do. Yeah, if the Mariners
didn't win the Al West, I would say, okay, you
could give it to Judge, right, because it's MVP, not
Player of the Year, right, it's MVP who and we
have been waiting for the Mariners to do this for
how many years? Right to be this team final It
shows up in the playoffs and wins their division and
goes deep in the playoffs, waiting for Julio Rodriguez, who
(11:30):
knew it was cal Rawley. But now you see the
odds come down, and I'll take credit for that saying, hey,
cal Rawley's gonna be the MVP. But now that it's
if it's this close, yeah, gimme Raleigh for the MVP
over Judge. Again, you're splitting hairs. But this season we
have never seen like when Judge had to say, we've
never seen that season before. Okay, I kind of get it.
(11:51):
And the Mariners are gonna win their division. It's still
up in the air for the Yankees. It's still a
great season for Aaron Judge. But you know, fifty home runs,
one hundred and five rbi. Yeah, I'm okay giving it
to calradds.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
War is about two over Raleigh when you break it down,
But I don't know that that formula includes anything defensively. Right,
you look at what Roley's been able to do, and
while he's not throwing out base runners at the same clip,
about eight percent drop there. You got zero pass balls
on the year, nine to nine to six fielding percentage
and again being able to hit as he does playing
(12:23):
the majority of his games from the catcher position is
really when we start splitting hairs. Right now, the Maritors
may end up with the number one seed. Right as
the Blue Jays and Yankees cannibalize each other this final
week of the season. That might help bolster things to
the other side. By the way, Rodriguez is back to
you know, another thirty thirty season.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Yeah, the last couple of months when no one's looking
because we're all watching calra Hey wait, hey, j Rod
is suddenly good again.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
But he's now done that four straight years. Just just
to put it out there as a guy who's what
I think, twenty five or twenty six years old, remarkable stuff.
He and Bobby Witt junior wat to those two grow
up together is going to be fun as their careers developed.
But for cal Raley it becomes a bit of the narrative.
Now we've been waiting on Seattle.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I don't know that he should get bonus points because
they finally lived up to us trying to carry a
bandwagon forward for eight years, especially our guys Jump Baumrosi.
But okay, they've lived up to the height and they've
taken care of it, and they've got a great roster.
And Raleigh's at the head of the Snake great year
a year ago and now challenging. As of tonight, the
(13:28):
odds were the same, and he looked Judge leads in
pretty much every category except home runs and RBI. So
if we want to do the deep metrics, you lose.
You want to talk batting average? Yeah, all right, it's done.
But four fifty home run seasons in his career for
cal Raley, he's been one of the big stories of baseball.
Ad what he did at the All Star Game and
(13:48):
everything else that it helps push it over. It'll be
interesting to see how the odds develop here over these
next five days.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Exit. How about a Fresco exit?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
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to third to end the game. They beat the Reds
four to three, So the Mets being down ten to
two isn't so bad right now, and all my attention
can turn to the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks one apiece
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Speaker 3 (19:13):
Well.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
When you hit the fifty home run plateau again, you
get to be the play of the day. Trivin d
to right center field, going back, Taylor track wall see.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Yah fight fifty is living fifty home runs are more
for the fourth season of his career, Harry Judge with
a three run home run.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Michael k Yankees TV on the call. Right there, a
three for four night for Aaron Judge. He homers twice.
He's got fifty one RBI. Now he's got one hundred
and nine fifty one home run, one hundred and nine rbi.
He is leading the American League in batting at three
to one eight. He joins a pretty select company of
guys with four straight years of fifty home runs. Right now,
(20:05):
for something about Aaron Judge. If Rawley's the MVP, Oh Jays,
you hate Aaron Judge just made the Mets trus.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
It's true because you are a Mets fan and you
really just want to yell at your dad.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, no, no, that's that's fine. Uh, that's fair. All
of that is fair. But I mean mean, when when
you look at the plaudits you listen to to Michael Kay,
you see the the career that Aaron Judge is putting together.
I mean it's he's thirty three years old. Now, he
came up a little bit late, you know, he came
up a couple of years late. But you see the
numbers he is putting up. These are Kart two numbers.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Just go just go look at his look at his
stats and see the fifty two one, fourteen, sixty two one,
thirty one, fifty eight one, forty four, fifty one. I mean,
these are numbers that are that are what you would
normally see out of a out out of guy's stats
from the fifties, right, this is what Demaggio and Mantle hit.
When he is done right and he's still clearly at
thirty three, he's not showing any signs of slowing down.
(21:01):
And when he does, I'm sure the Yankees will say,
guess what, here're gonna be our full time DH. Now
we don't need you dropping fly balls in the World
Series and.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
That means you got to get rid of all the
other guys that are primarily dhs around there.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
He's gonna wind up again. We've talked with this a
few weeks ago. He's gonna wind up with one of
the top five Yankee careers of all time. He's gonna
be a top five all time Yankee.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
That actually became a conversation.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
We were waiting on my daughter's soccer game a couple
of weeks ago, and I go, funny, we did this
on the show.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You can listen to the podcast.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
I'm gonna go shags and balls, like there's a whole.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Twenty minute conversation. Gonta do that?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
I mean like if you had a if you had
the the five added one face on Mount Rushmore. No,
but really, Judge is gonna finish his career one of
the top five Yankees of all time.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
It's good.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
They're gonna say, Judge, Jeter, Ruth, Mantle, DiMaggio, that's gonna
be your list, right, Not that you didn't have other
great Yankees.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Now you'd have Whitey four. Now you didn't have Glue
Garrett not.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You know, but you're gonna say, Okay, he's gonna be
looked at us having that kind of a top five
career all time, and maybe Judge might even be ahead
of Joe Dad that Joe D's got hitch, He's got
all the extra stuff's got streak.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
He was married to Maryland's got the streak.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
You keep trying to win money. I understand, Marilyn Monroe,
he was mister coffee. I mean, maybe you could say,
let me come on. Maybe he's ahead of Joe D.
Maybe he's ahead of Lou Garrett. Maybe it's it, but
he's it's gonna be top five careers of all time. Yeah,
but it's funny and all that. And then over here
you got Mariano Rivera go and I know I didn't hitch,
but what about me? But yeah, I threw one pitch
(22:43):
for fifteen years. It was a great pitch, but I
threw one pitch. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
It's all that mattered. Three hundred and sixty four now
career home runs. And the amazing thing is, you've got
a two ninety three career batting average now this year,
as he leads the American League, there's only eight guys
with that batting average over three hundred this year. That's
the other thing is just to remember when we've changed
this game immensely. We talked about team batting averages in
(23:07):
the two fifties, and that's the norm. So when we
get a guy who's not only a top slugger, but
he's also hitting for that kind of average, it's absurd.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
It goes back to what Bonds was doing when he
was walking two hundred times a year, getting one pitch
to hit a game, and was still hitting three thirties. So,
I mean, what Judge has done is absolutely incomparable right
now in this game.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I mean, look, he's again he started off slow, and
he had a he had a three year run where
in you know, in the beginning of his prime that
wasn't great, right, Like he had that that big year
in twenty seventeen when he burst out. Was him and
Bellinger right right away. It's like, boy, who's better look
at these brand new sluggers coming in. It was Bellinger
and Judge the same year, right, he was fifty two
and one fourteen. His next few years not great. Of course,
(23:53):
he had the COVID year of twenty twenty. But you
know we got hurt both years twenty seven and sixty
seven twenty seven and fifty five in twenty two and
twenty twenty. These are just jag years, right, But he
did get hurt and so he missed a lot of time.
And then he comes back, you know when in his
late twenties, and suddenly everything is it's cartoon. It's Miguel
Cabrera in the in the early to mid teens of
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what we saw from him when he was winning triple
crowns and doing that, like these are the these numbers
are just absolutely ridiculous what he's putting up.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Well, and you look at what happened in twenty twenty three, right,
limited to one hundred and eight games, and then he
comes back. We have no idea between he and Stanton,
So the running joke was how many times are we
going to see him in the lineup together? And then
he has the twenty twenty four campaign of fifty eight
one forty four mard of course by dropping a fly ball. Yeah,
in all way, Oh that was great, that's fantastic stuff.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Bob Still still when you think about still as great
as his career as if I said, hey, what's the
first thing comes your mind when you think Aaron Judge,
It's the drop fly ball.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
No, you watch around on to a couple of watering holes.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Ball, great hitter, one of the most fantastic, great guy,
great New Yorker.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Fly ball.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah, gotta catch that. If he catches that fly ball,
we win the World Series. Because we win that game,
we win Game six, we win game seven.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Now I got you. Let me say, let's keep going
with word association. That's how we go. Garrett Cole point.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
When I hear Garrett Cole, what I think of the
verse visual is him pointing to first base of Rizzo.
You gotta get there. You gotta get the first base Rizzo.
You gotta get there. I thought he was gonna walk
off the field. I thought was just gonna leave right
then done with you.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
You gotta get there. You gotta get there.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Hey, you know, hey, so really quick because we brought
this up really so. I told you this past week
and I went to COSM which is in La, which
is this huge great I can't tell you. It's like
watching sports on a big omnimax.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
You've probably seen it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
If you watch Welcome to Wrexham and there's a couple
in the country. Now there's one in Dallas. There's one
coming soon in Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
They're gonna expand pretty fast.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And one of the things they did, I can't believe
this is that when they were show and went to
see Michigan Nebraska last weekend, and it's like, yeah, that's
the best thing to tell you. It's like it's watching
a sporting event on an omnimax and you're getting and
feeling like you're in the state. You're not going TV broadcast,
you're getting the in stadium. You feel like you're at
the game while you're watching this. COSM is amazing.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
But I love the video you sent me with the
guy that was two rows in front of as a
play is going down the side, jumps up like he's
sitting in the third row of the actual stadium.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
COSM is an amazing experience. To see the stuff online.
You can follow him on Twitter at COSM. And one
of the things they showed during commercial breaks, it don't
show commercial because you're geting. It's like you're at the game.
You're sitting at the fifty yard line, you're up high,
you're right behind the goalpost.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
They showed, Hey, here's a promo of what the other
sports other events we have looked like at cosm. And
they showed the replay of Freddie Freeman's walk off homer
in Game one against the Yankees. Right, give me me Freddy, Right,
And the angle they showed is that you're sitting behind
home plate and you see that. You see Freddie Freeman's
(27:02):
walk off home run from behind home plate and I
never caught this before and for the first time, and
I was like, wow, I couldn't believe it. Freeman hits
it and you could just tell that likely it's gone right,
and I'm watching and for some reason, because I can
see him, I can see Anthony Rizzo standing at first base.
Freddie Freeman hits the ball and it's oh, you know
(27:23):
it's it's not even the Yankees going back to the wall.
And Rizzo doesn't even turn around. He just starts walking
off the field like that. I mean, it's a man like.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
There's no walk and I turned it's just my head.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
He hits the Freeman hits the ball, he puts his
glot bad up and he back flips, and Rizzo just
puts his head down and walks off the field like
I didn't know that that was Rizzo's reaction to it,
Like I had not known until now here's Rizzo put
my head just walking right off, like I know, it's gone.
Almost a shame almost like he had a you know,
a hand in that fifth inning when you know they
couldn't make any plays.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Well, kind of kind of bad things come bound themselves.
I just watch, you know, we celebrate tradition, and yeah,
that's a new tradition for you. I know you're gonna
go and visit and watch many more games. We just
watched Juan Soto hit his forty third home run of
the year, and then the dow and the outfield threw
the ball back on the fields.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You catch mets her down by a touchdown, it doesn't matter.
My focus here is on the dope who caught the
home run. And because the chumps around him say go
through the broad back, that's what we do here.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
He throws it back. That's what soto home run ball.
The hell's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Every home run is a by one. Soto is a
new career high. You never know if that could be
his last one this year. He might want it might
get close to forty. That's terrible exit out about a
Fresco exit swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Carmen. We got more coming up in
ninety seconds. But first, let's find out what's trending from
someone who's been called the Anthony Rizzo of Fox Sports Radio.
(28:53):
If she doesn't like what's going on, she puts her
head down and walks away too. It's that's so rude.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
No I do not, I will, I will stick it out.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Okay, okay, even when I don't want to be here.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Wait started in baseball here where the Cubs are on top.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Of the Mets. What happened? What happened Jarle? What happened
to you? That was the better story?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Wait, wait minute, Now, let's find out what's trending from
someone who's been called the Angel.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Rees the Fox Sports Radio. She don't want to be
here either.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
She didn't want to do the exit interview.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Let's go.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
Don't be hating on my me bands. All right, we'll
start in baseball.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Guys, Yeah, it's wild right now.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
The last couple of days of the regular season. What
was it like six weeks ago? They were like, Oh,
it's so boring that there's no race, and here we
are where all of these games matter. The Cubs are
on top of the Mets right now ten three bottom
of the eighth inning, the Rockies on the scoreboard, but
the Mariners are up five to one. Cal Rawley with
home run number fifty nine on this season. It's the
top of the fourth inning and c the Dodgers and
(30:01):
the Diamondbacks are tied out one apiece after three innings.
If you care about the Cardinals and the Giants, theyird
tight to to top of the fourth. And if you
care about the Royals and the Angels, the Angels are
up three zero bottom of the fourth inning.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
What has wrapped up well?
Speaker 5 (30:12):
The Yankees outscored the White Sox eight to one, and
the Red Sox top the Blue Jays seven to one.
New York in Toronto are tied for the division in
the Al East. Right now, Aaron Judge hit two home runs,
bringing his total at fifty one on the season. He
joins Babe Ruth, Mark McGuire, and Sammy Sosa as the
only players to hit fifty home runs in four different seasons.
The Phillies crushed the Marlins eleven to one. Eight home
(30:32):
runs from the Phillies today, two from Kyle Schwarber, bringing
his total to fifty six on the season, And yeah,
the Pirates took down the Reds. They went into eleven innings,
but the Pirates win it four to three. Brewers over
the Padres three to one. Milwaukee has won ninety six games,
which is tied for the most wins in Franchi's history.
And the Guardians defeated the Tigers five to one. What
(30:54):
a collapse by Detroit that has lost.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Eight in a row.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Cleveland is now in first place in the AL Central.
When it comes to the NFL, the Seahawks are listing
running back Zach Sharbone is questionable for Thursday night against
the Cardinals. Good news for Bucks fans because wide receiver
Chris Godwin was a full participant in practice today, and
good news for Chiefs fans because wide receiver Exavior Worthy
was a full participant, putting him on track to play
Sunday against the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Back to you, guys, thank you very much, mon, says
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
So Jackson Dart was name the starting quarterback for the
rest of the season by head coach Brian Dable today.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Rest of the season, not just we're gonna give him
we're gonna let him go get no no rest of
the season.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Russell Wilson says it very supportive, but I'm not done,
not written the last chapter of my story yet. James
Winston still in the roster, so we get more on
on Wilson going forward. Now you kind of see where
things are going. And look, we told you last night, Hey,
Russell Wilson's gonna end this season on another team, right
He's not gonna be a Giant. They're gonna wait obviously
(31:56):
when the first couple weeks will go. As long as
Jackson Dart is what they think he's going to be.
By the deadline, Russell Wilson will either be traded or
he will ask for and probably get his release so
he can maybe hook on someplace else. If someone wants
to sign me at some point during the season, if
you deal me, trade but he is not finishing the
season on the Giants rosters is not happening. But for
(32:17):
Dart there's the big question. Okay, well, how good is
Jackson Darken to be? I'll tell you this much. He's
gonna be really good, and he's gonna be good right away.
This is a kid that has the accuracy and the
mentality of I can throw the football wherever I want to,
but not so much where I can throw the football
over that mountain right, and not so much the Uncle Rico.
(32:38):
I'm gonna be really careless with the football. Dart is fearless.
He is smart. He can put the football in tight windows.
I watched all the throws he made during this summer.
No moment was too big for him. Whether it was
his first taste of NFL action, it was the game
against the Jets that really everybody saw. Okay, he really
(32:58):
can get it done. And the clock is ticking on
Russell Wilson. There's a reason he was a first round pick.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
There's there's a.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Reason why he's starting. Yes, the desperation of the Giants
and Brian Dable and Joe Shane want to save their jobs,
but there's a reason why he's starting right now. He's
gonna look like Joe Burrow light for the rest of
this season. He'll have some games where wow, two three
touchdowns not gonna result in els, not result not gonna happen.
It's gonna be an exciting oh with a lot of
(33:28):
l's for the Giants. But he's gonna have some weeks
will look like a rookie quarterback, but some weeks he's
gonna flash and you're gonna say, wow, man, this kid
can really sling it all. Part of his is education
as NFL quarterback. But he's gonna come in. He's gonna
remind people he's gonna be like a Joe Burrow light
when he comes in this season. That's the type of
excitement and production he's gonna bring to the Giant.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Yeah. One of the big parts to it is you
mentioned oh and l Andrew Thomas returned to action last
week against the Chiefs. Proof of concept. He's healthy and
ready to go, So you probably feel a little more
confident putting Jackson dark back there with a bolster to
offensive line. Three touchdowns per interception as a collegiate as
an amateur athlete, now we don't say that anymore. As
(34:10):
a college quarterback. A guy who can make plays with
his legs. Look, you got Wandell Robinson, Malik Neighbors won't
have to run twenty yards down field for every would
be pass attempt like you saw with Russell Wilson, So
they can get him involved in a higher percentage and
he won't pout as much on the sideline, so perhaps
better days there.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Yeah, they're gonna lose a lot of games.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
They're not very good defense will keep them in some
of these middling games. Maybe they'll win a couple, maybe
next week. But will it be too much for him?
Speaker 7 (34:41):
No?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
And for Brian Dable.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
He still got his guy Russell Wilson to walk out
to practices with him for at least a little while longer.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Exit.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
How about a Fresca exit Swellen Dome. Yeah, be something
with the Chargers. Dup oh no, I'm afraid of that.
I mean Dermot James is a terror terror for him,
but you know, hey, by the ex second option, Joe
Burrow Light. That's him this season, Joe Burrow Light. If
you miss any of today's show, you'll want to catch
the podcast. Just search Jason Smith and Mike Harmon wherever
(35:08):
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Speaker 3 (35:16):
Again.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Just search Jason Smith and Mike Harmon wherever you get
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Well coming up next an appreciation moment for someone that
we don't talk about enough that after big news today
we have to have Is it Andy Pas?
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It is not Andy Pops.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
We have that coming up next right here, although I
really appreciate Pahz going big fly here for the Dodgers
against the Diamondbacks. Any pitch that's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
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So an appreciation moment here today for someone who will
clearly it needs an appreciation moment that we should be
appreciating body.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
I appreciate that what do I always appreciate you? Ok Uh.
Sister Jean.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Chicago announced her retirement from the school due to health concerns.
She will no longer go to games, no longer working
out the consumer. She's been a chaplain and a and
a basketball insider and scout, been doing stuff with the
team for a long time. She has decided that with
with some health concerns and going to campus back and
(37:01):
forth every day, she is retiring at the age of
one hundred and six, one oh six.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
That's the last times it is.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah, in two, Yeah, in O six, Yeah, I think
I'll go back to six. Yeah, go back to O six.
Oh oh, one hundred and six. I mean, Sister Jean
has become this huge cottage industry of herself. When she
first showed up Loyola Chicago and they're big running the
tournament in twenty eighteen, when she was ninety eight, right
ninety eight, ninety nine, her Jalen Rose's grandmother had a
(37:33):
big back and forth when they were gonna play Michigan
in the in the in the NCAA tournament. And here's
sister Jean ninety eight, and it's it's seven eight years later. Yeah,
and here'sh Yeah, I'm retiring now, like I'm retiring. Yeah,
getting back and forth to like this is I just
can't get over this one hundred and six and it's
announced that, Yeah, it's too tough to and I get it,
(37:54):
not be able to get to campus every day. But
I mean, this is someone who worked, worked for the
first hundred years of her life. Hundred plus years of
her life. Like everybody got another fifty four in me,
let's go, how many more do I want to work?
I mean, I want to you want to live, you know,
but how many more do I want to work? She's
she's one hundred years old and working and just working
(38:15):
and still doing so.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
I mean, if I don't have to go to the
you know, drive on the freeway here on the four
or five every day for the next fifty four years,
I mean, can do this for a while, right, How good.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Kid of the kid?
Speaker 4 (38:25):
This guy the fifth, I mean, how many generations of guys.
I remember when his great granddad was running alone. I
mean that's what we're talking about. She's been at Loyola
since ninety one. Uh So you look at just that stretch.
I mean that that is that is a life in
and of itself.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Wait wait, wait, wait, and I hang on, hang on, Hey,
twenty nine, thirty four, when she she got to Loyola.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
She got to Loyola, she was seventy two. Yeah, ninety one.
In nineteen ninety she got to Loyola, she was seventy two.
I mean the next chapter, I remember to be.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
A senior in college. She got there, and I'm fifty four.
She got there in ninety one and she was seventy
and I was showing up just up the road in
Evanston to go to Northwest.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
I'm a new job.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Now I'm seventy two. You're not retiring, No, starting a
new job. Let's get I'm there for thirty four years.
It's an amazing run. A man a longevity. I mean,
like you said, it became a cottage industry. Talking about
super fandom and just that always having that figure with you.
You talk about the spiritual side of it certainly is
(39:31):
not lost in the city.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
A highly revered person. And every year towards the tournament.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
If Loyola was even in the mix at all, you know,
it became the Sister Gene Watch for sure, bobbleheads, T shirts,
you name it, all around the city of Chicago became
this larger, larger than life figure. I mean, and there
was first reports that maybe she'd retiring when she didn't
go to the NIT Games earlier in March, and I
(39:59):
just thought it was she's saying, n T, I don't
get out of bed to go to the n IM
one hundred and five years old. Yeah, call me when
you get back to the tournament, you underachievers. Then I'll
come to a game again and I'll get out there
an unbelievable run though one hundred and six. Dude, she
was She's like.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
What does she She's like, what is she like? What's
what are her habits for that long?
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Tell it's Chicago. It's gotta be Brots. It's gotta be
in line for the freaking Glizzy that they gave out
at the Wieners Circle. She's the first one that goes
after geting to get the sausage in pepper sandwich people
make outside. Yeah, no, that would be interesting. Hey, sister
Jean's got the first sausage of pepper sandwich.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Just so you know, this is how we uh we
christened this this latest enterprise.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I mean, she was seventy two when she got there
in ninety when I'm like, okay, I want to be
retired by that. I want to be I mean, I
think everybody's a seventy two out of work. Seventy two
it's again, new job, first day. Hey, I'm sister Jean.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
How you doing. Nice to meet you. I just started today.
Oh you just started? You just start? Okay?
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Think about what we're talking about, the potential age age
limits and retirement ages rising. It's like seventy two is
a number that's been floated about. She was just starting
another career. Yeah, just the extension, don what I want?
Only she's been the chaplain and she's been campus minister.
She's done a lot of scouting for the basketball program.
(41:21):
I just this is we We don't.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Talk about her enough, right, she she she gets her
moment during the during the NCAA term obviously, But I mean,
someone this active and this involved in sports at one hundred,
because really, what's the big?
Speaker 7 (41:34):
You know?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
I go back to the Justin Timberlake movie, what's the big?
What's the big thing? We all want to own more
than anything else. Want to own time. Right, money is great,
and and and and and jobs. We all want to
own time. She's found a way to own time. One
hundred and six. I'm retiring, just retired. Not even team's
no good anymore, I have to say. I mean retiring
at one hundred and six. Time is the one asset
that we all have, the biggest one, and here she
(41:56):
is at just winning with that. Do you ever really
retire though, just because you're not going to campus, They're
still gonna call. Oh, she may go to games and stuff,
you never know, but I mean retiring from campus. Impressive,
Sister Jean, What a careers it? When am I signed
of my fifty four year contract? Coming up next NFL
insider Jason lock And for all the latest news going
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