Hour 2 - John Paul Morosi

Dan Beyer filling in for Jason joins Mike reacting to Baker Mayfield says its time to part ways with the Browns, and John Paul Morosi - FOX Sports Radio & MLB Network Baseball Insider joins the guys!

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But I find it funny how training camp can, like

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so change your mind on certain things, like the top
of the draft. Probably not so much, but it would
be interesting to see what early July draft would have
as opposed to one that is mid to late August,
just after hearing all of the preseason hype or maybe
lack thereof of some of the players that could be
I don't know, third, fourth, or fifth rounders. Well, later

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The start of drafts right now just has me scratching
my head when I see some of the names atop
the leader leader more in terms of consensus rankings. So
we'll have some fun with that coming up next hour
and coming up in about fifteen minutes from now, John

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And one thing to mention again, Jason Off maybe celebrating
with an extra cheeseburger. Reports are that after making a
deal earlier today New Orleans Noel some other particulars uh
to clear some cap space. Looks like Jalen Bronson, who
we referenced in our one will become a member of
the New York Knicks four years and estimated million dollars

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sixteen point five a game, some playoff heroics dad working
for the organization and boom they got their man. Man?
What what what a difference a few years makes, because
there was a time when we were wondering what Kevin
Durant was going to do, what Kawhi Leonard was going
to do. And I know this is the second time

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I've already said this tonight. No disrespect to Jalen Bronson,
but it is a different sort of feel when we're
talking about NBA free agency when you have Durant and
and uh and uh kai lettered out there those sort
of decisions a little different than having the big fish
be Jalen Bronson. No, that's just it, And obviously we

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had the opt ins. Yesterday was the Kyrie. Irving will
get into him a little bit because you know, still
some speculative things if he could still be dealt again
when you bring up the Lakers, I don't see how
that makes any sense or is even possible in any
realm of realit. But you also have Russell Westbrook, who
celebrated his opt in by singing some Beyonce in his car.

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We'll hear a little of that later on in the program.
Well I mean it, guy said melodic. Look, he's another
guy that wants to do let's let's fight with guys
in media who you know, the Skip Bayliss west Brick thing.
All of a sudden, I'm mad about it, Like really
you don't care? I mean it's Skip and Skip as

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a lot of followers and a lot of clout. So
it Skip has been doing this since I was a kid. Okay,
to pull back the curtain. Long before he was a
talking head on Fox or ESPN, he was a newspaper columnist.
And you know what he did. He picked fights with
everybody in those local markets, be at Dallas most famously,
notoriously and problematically with Troy Aikman, and then certainly in

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Chicago time and time again with whomever the pincushion of
the moment happened to be. That's been the act forever.
So anybody that like this is a bride. No. Now,
the the players are just saying, you know what, I'm
gonna fight back, and now we'll have these slap fights
on social media and it'll be great. And occasionally I'll
do an Instagram video and that'll be cool too. And

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maybe I'll do a podcast and that'll be even better.
Maybe I'll have my own podcast, and maybe guys that
used to yell at me and mocks things I do,
maybe they'll stand for me now that well, we're all
in the same business. It's uh laughable at times. But
one guy who has been a pincushion at times, Dan Is,
was out doing a camp and trying to do some

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good and trying to find some peace in a well
turmoil filled off season in Cleveland, where well Baker Mayfield
is still a member of the Browns. Eighteen point four
thereabouts is what he's gonna get paid just a matter
of whom, how and and and how it comes to fruition.
But as it stands, he's just playing the waiting game

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and was asked to assess the current level of his
status at the Browns. I think it's been pretty obvious.
The mutual decision on both sides is to move on.
You know, I'm I'm thankful for my four years in Cleveland.
There's a lot of ups and downs and a ton
of learning experiences that you know all forever keep with me,
teammates and friends and relationships that will have for a lifetime.

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But I think a lot of people think if they
didn't have a quarterback from the next year, but would
there be any chance of reconciliation there now? I think
for that to happen, they would have to be some
reaching out. But we're ready to move on, I think
on both sides, sooner scoop dot Com with that. But
you know, in between throwing Football's two kids about his
contemplative and calm as Baker Mayfield may have ever been

(07:38):
in front of a microphone, Yeah, I I thought he
handled it in a in a great fashion. Mike and
I I love the question that they're the reporter just
flat out said, like, listen, there's talk that maybe people
think that you may be needed by the Browns, and
I think Baker answered it in the most correct way
that he could. I find it. I I find it

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crazy that people would think Baker Mayfield would still suit
up for the Cleveland Browns. Ino Like, I just I
find it. I don't. I'm in Mike, I don't even
know where you stand on it. So I'm apologized from
calling you crazy or anybody out there every night. I
just I don't see in what reality that could happen.

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And now maybe in early September, if Deshaun Watson suspended
and something happens that becomes reality, I'll be the first
one to admit, but I just don't see any possible
way that Baker Mayfield would want to suit up for
the Cleveland Browns at all in two even if he
even if he doesn't play Mike, if he just sits out,

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loses his entire salary and isn't there for the Cleveland Browns,
he still would be a viable commodity for anybody the
next year, when maybe Deshaun Watson would be available for
the Browns, and then the Browns could move on from him, Like,
there's just no way Baker Mayfield is going to be
in Cleveland in two I I just I don't see
any possible way how that could happen. No, it's it's

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being dragged out and some some have argued and I've
heard it, you know, think a Baker and let him go.
It's like, well, no, you're you're waiting till there's an
active desperation from me another team, and you know, some
got excited today. Dan, we're briefly on the Seahawks pro shop.
That was a fake page that showed up with a
Baker Mayfield Jersey. Uh. Josina Anderson had the report about

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active discussions between Seattle and Cleveland that's been bandied about. Uh,
take from it what you will. You know, the level
of belief, because really we've had the insiders kind of
throwing darts at a lot of things, and this one
just kind of hangs out there because supposedly Carolina wants him,
and then you have other reporters in Carolina is saying
there's no chance in hell Tepper wants any part of

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that when he's already into Sam Donald from the same
shift class for eighteen million. I also think Seattle and
I've I brought up Detroit this possibility. I thought that
that could have been an option for him. Uh, Like
those are the sort of those are two teams that
feel like they have something to prove. You know. Carolina
to me, is a team that is Matt Rule going
to return next season. Like that's like that's like the

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question of you know of what's going to happen and
you throw Baker Mayfield into you know whatever that quarterback
rooms is going to look like with Sam Donald. I mean,
like it just it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Like the minimal upgrade that I think that you would
possibly get just doesn't doesn't make a lot of sense
for Carolina. It just seems like a different situation. Seattle

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is completely different scenario because I think Pete Carroll and
that team really want to prove something without Russell Wilson,
and I think that Baker Mayfield wants to prove something without,
you know, with with no longer being a member of
the Cleveland Browns. And it's just that is a situation
to me that would seem to fit. We've heard it
so much through this offseason of those two teams being

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brought up, but to me, they're apples and oranges for
the type of team that they are. Baker to Seattle
just seems like much more of a fit and an
opportunity to prove himself if he wanted to prove himself, uh,
you know, to to what other other team if it
would be Seattle, would be another team after that, as
he'd be a free agent after next season. I could

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see that match. But I just don't see Baker Mayfield
going to Cleveland and possibly getting injured knowing that a
situation is what it is there and what they did
to him. And honestly, Mike, if it didn't really work
out last year and he got a bad situation, how
much could his stock improve if you were to take
another snap with the Cleveland Browns like his he would

(11:37):
be better off to not play any place in two
than to play for the Browns and make teams think
that they can get that star quarter that you know
quarterback in tree. I think he'd only hurt his case
if he took any snaps in Cleveland next year. Yeah,
I think it's just that I'd love to be fly
on the wall if there was a meeting in a
in a you know, a heart to heart that somehow
resulting and yeah, I'll come back and that would be

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the greatest thing. And obviously we're watching the Deshaun Watson
UH disciplinary hearings and waiting for information out of that.
What's the is it suspension a year plus? Is it indefinite?
You know what? What flows through? Obviously there'll be an
appeal process. One would think that goes pretty fast so
they can minimize any impact on training camp, etcetera. But

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you know, maybe you have that discussion there. Obviously Jacoby
per said is there and we've heard his name a
bunch brought up by former Patriots Martelis Bennett and Julian
Edelman related to the toughness or lack thereof of one
Jimmy Garoppolo from years ago. That was some interesting sound.
Maybe we'll bring that back a little bit later. But
as it stands, yeah, going to Carolina. What's he gonna

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do for you? If you're Matt Rule, right, what are
you winning? Another game? Maybe a game? And I don't know,
I'll have to go out to Vegas and figure out
what the over undrawn winds might mean. Changing him out
for or you know, changing putting him in and replacing
Sam Donald, And I don't think the effect on anybody's

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expectations really changes there. Seattle even at least got some
playmakers trying to shake it up in a tough division.
So especially if for Sean Penny can stay healthy for
a full season. See what I did, I tease fantasy
talk right there, Dan Buyer, Uh, well there, you're right.
They do have weapons. They've got guys, They've gotten Metcalf,
they've got Lockett, they now have Noah fans. You know,

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Doug Ferrard did a piece on the strengths recently of
Baker Mayfield when he's not just you know, throwing the
ball to David and Joku are Austin Hooper throughout a
season like there was there was something to that. I
know the O B J lovers will point to the
passes and what has happened, But I I just I don't.
I don't see any any benefit whatsoever um for Baker

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Mayfield taking a snap Like de Shawn Watson sat out
a whole year for the Texans. Okay, that tells me
that Baker Mayfield could sit on a whole year for
the Cleveland Browns and look at the market that eloped
with Deshaun Watson. With everything that's going on from him,
you have Baker Mayfield sit out a year, that Rose
is gonna bloom a little bit more and they're gonna
be They're gonna be people and teams thinking like, Okay,

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well we could bring in Baker Mayfield. He could be
our guy. It's also coming off shoulder surgery, which nobody's
talking about. I know it's his non throwing shoulder, but
maybe it wouldn't even help that, Like if that was
the worst case scenario. Worst case scenario is him taking
a snap with the Browns. So this is everything he
said today is spot on both teams moving. He was
very judicial, very uh, very kind in what he said.

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But yeah, I just see absolutely no way that there
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we're watching a bunch of baseball games Colorado working over
the Dodgers again. I think there's something hanging over in

(15:14):
the clubhouse since that deal with the Atlanta over the weekend.
Maybe they should start crying instead of Freddie Freeman in Atlanta.
Tough times with the Dodgers. It's it's rough. I mean,
Dave Roberts went and he was like, hey, it's tough
playing in this division. After they were shut out yesterday.
It's like you're playing a hundred sixty two games. You're
still like fifteen games above. They're gonna be hard times.

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Get over it. What division would you rather play in
at Easter n L West? Probably well, now that Baltimore
is playing pretty well, all the other teams are wild card. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely,
except that when you're buying stuff, I mean, the taxes
potentially are higher than some of the markets. But you know,

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because we're having some economic discussions here behind the scenes,
so I thought i'd throw that in while I was
at it all right, a man who is he wears
his emotions honestly when he joins us here each and
every week. Our buddy MLB Network NHL Network as he
commemorates the finale of this NHL season. It's our buddy,

(16:21):
John Paul Rossi at John Rossi on Twitter, j O
n M R oh as, Hi, buddy, how are you
good evening? My friends always look forward to our conversations
every week. And yes, as you point out, the NHL
season is over, the Avalanche deserving champions for the first
time in a couple of decades, and we do have

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some good trade deadline conversations coming up. About a month
or so away. All Star Game is coming up. Love
this time of year. Well, you'll be out here in
a couple of weeks. We can actually go to O
Groats and have a nice breakfast. How is everybody doing
it O Groats these days? Probably I haven't been in
a bit. I gotta be tell him all that my regards. Well,
you know what, I'll make it part of our our travels.

(17:03):
My my daughters and I. Uh this coming week. We're
always looking for a new breakfast joint. It's a bit
of a drive from where we are, but we can
make that happen, you know what, because it's all about emotion,
all about emotion, all about family, all about trying to
reconnect kind of like Freddie Freeman all weekend with the
Atlanta Braves. How's that for a segment that was professional segne? Yeah?

(17:26):
So what you what do you make of all the
history onics and now the well potential, uh, the blow
up with his agents, the fluidity of their situation. Right,
It's it is all very complicated and a couple of things.
Number one, Clearly, Freddie is is someone who wears his

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emotions on a sleeve, which I appreciate about him. He's
a very sensitive, sincere person. Again, I appreciate that about him.
It's we've loved that about him on the field for
his entire career, and so I am always very reticent
to ever criticize a player for showing emotion and being
himself when I'm sure many players over the years in

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many sports have felt similarly conflicted when it came to
move to a different organization, uh, feelings about coming back home.
I just think Freddie has decided that he's going to
be as authentic about it as he has been, and
so I think that's refreshing. He's certainly this is a
non story in a lot of ways. If if he

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just shows up at the press conference and says it
was special here we won a championship, but I'm excited
about my new beginning, and just kept repeating that. But
he clearly didn't do that. And and the agent piece
of it, I think that it's it seems quite apparent
at this juncture that he wishes things had unfolded differently,

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if not necessarily the the end destination, just aspects of
the way things unfolded. And I think it's important point
out that that obviously there's if in fact he moves
on from from his agency, you know, there's it's not
as though that there's a commission that would be lost

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from from the agency from this agreement that they negotiated
that and that's that's part of what they've already done.
So I think we have to be careful about what
this means and what it doesn't. It just does, though
to me speak to someone who's very much still walking
through that transition of of moving to a new organization,

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and it seems like again we we just rarely get
this level of candor from athletes. It just seems like
he still hasn't made that full transition over the words
of Clayton Kershaw spoke to that. Uh. Kershaw, by the way,
represented by the same agency that has represented Freddie. Now
we'll see where this all goes. But it's a very

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complicated issue, and I think at the end of the day,
what it says to everybody very clearly is that he
would have liked for some aspects of this to play
out differently than they actually did. If Freddie Freeman just
said I wanted to be a brave, I wanted to
stay a brave and it didn't happen, and now I'm
a Dodger, would that change anything? You know, it's a

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great question. I I don't know that he I guess
I'll say this again. I think that he, in as
many words, has almost already acknowledged that. I just think
that it's it's the clear emotion when and how he's
conveying it. I think a lot of athletes are very

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good at compartmentalizing and are very good at saying what
they have to say in front of the cameras and
maybe feeling something very different, and again maybe that's just
our own responsibility as as the media world that uh,
the consequences of being authentic and or saying what's truly
on your mind are often because you have to have

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your your words passed by all of us and people
all around the country. But I think he's I go
back to last year, he said that he never wanted
to leave, and I believe that's true. And I believe
that if you really asked him that on this day,
he might maybe not exactly said explicitly, but his emotions

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have said that for us. I don't think he has
to say it. I think we all read that because
because that's that's my and Mike and I were talking
about this or not to cut you off, John, but
that's my My whole point about this is talking about
the great times that he's saying this and that, and
we all know that. But it's almost like the coming
two grips of it, like of just maybe like accepting

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it and moving on. And that's what I don't think
it's happened by and and I think that if you
just verbalized it and said that that that would do
actually a lot more good than it would be to
sit here and not play a guessing game, but just
of trying to not hurt anyone's feeling. Is if he
was just to be real with it and say it, Hey,
my agent screwed up. I wanted to be in Atlanta.

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I'm not it hurt, you know, I'm moving on. I
think that would go a long way. Yeah. And and
I think you're right, Dan, And that's that's a very
good insight. I think that Freddie to back up, I mean,
I think he's he is so genuine and he is,
first of all, such a great guy to begin with.
He really is. He is, He is as classy as

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they come, represents the game so well. And I think
that over his career he's always been a good player.
He's always been a very classy player. He's always been
so broadly respected by everybody in the game, opponents, teammates alike,
that that he certainly from a baseball standpoint, he has

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almost he has not often made controversial decisions that had
dramatic ramifications and downstream effects that that were impacting families
in a player and and and the emotions of everybody
in Atlanta in l A. I think he didn't really
have to to worry about sort of these these secondary

(23:09):
and tertiary consequences of a baseball decision, because he had
he had almost done no wrong. And this, by the way,
this decision wasn't wrong. It was just different, and it
just it was just a major decision. And I think
that he's still kind of going through the process, whether
we want to call it grieving what he had in
Atlanta or just sort of reckoning with it emotionally. This

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is just how he's processing it. And I guess what
I'm saying is we rarely get this from athletes. We
almost never get this from athletes. We just don't. And
I think this this speaks to if you, if you
remove the circumstances for for the vast majority of people
that walk the earth, the notion of signing for as
much money as Freddy has signed to play baseball, like

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all of us to say, oh my gosh, like that's
just a dream. Every day it's a dream. But for
him it's complicated because he left the place that probably
you shouldn't have left, and and so you cannot put
a price tag on that happiness and contentment and everything
that he did in Atlanta. It's just life has all
of a sudden become rather complicated in a very short

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amount of time with respect to baseball. And I think
that that's he's still kind of going through it. And
I really think a lot of players just put up
that wall and we never see this. I think players
go through this, but we never see it. And I
think that he's, uh, he's kind of living in it
right now and we're all getting to see it, for

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better or worse, the full three sixty of it. Listen,
if you win the World Series with the Dodgers in October,
I think a lot of this will be forgotten. But
I think we're just seeing that. Yeah, he probably wishes
he was still in Atlanta, but there's no going back.
I mean, he's on a long term deal. Matt Olson,
the guy who replaced him, is not a long term deal, Like,

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you can't go back now. So I think that it's
it's now a matter of making the best of the situation.
And I think in times he will. Listen, nobody's gonna
feel sorry for him. He signed a nine figure deal
to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers. I mean, nobody's
gonna nobody's gonna feel feel sorry for him in this context.
But I think it's a good lesson to us that
whether you're making a hundred grand a year, a million

(25:23):
a year, ten million a year, whatever, it is less
than that. More than that, your happiness and content with
the people that you're working with is paramount. And I
think he's still hasn't gotten there yet relative to where
he was when he walked off the field of Houston
as a World Series champion last season. John Rossie with
us here are Baseball Inside of the Jason Smith Show

(25:44):
with Mike arm and here in Fox Sports Radio. Dam
buyer in for Jason Smith tonight. Yeah, the emotion, I
understand JP. I'm more interested in what the agent did
or didn't do or what he omitted in any conversations
with Freddie. But we'll wait and see how that follows through.
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a big injury. Bryce Harper going under well, I'm gonna
have his broken left thumb stabilized on Wednesday, and Rob
Thompson says, I hope he's back this season. That's a

(26:29):
pretty damning thing versus the initial Hey, maybe six weeks, right,
I think that we're talking about probably a late late
August at the best, and and maybe if not, then
sometime in September. And let's think about what September means.
September means that that he's gonna have to get through
the Phillies, have to get through all of July, all

(26:50):
of August, and still be close enough that they decide
that it's worth somebody that you've got under contract for
like ten more years ars uh to get ramped all
the way back up to try to get that thumb
right and rehabbed to make a push in September. So
you've got to be playing pretty good baseball between now

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and then for it to even make sense for Bryce
to try to come back for two weeks now. Granted,
he's gonna want to come back, because that's just kind
of the the kind of player he is, but you
have to really think about what the mathematics looks like
at a time when they're their lineup. Guys, just is
not it's just not clicking the way it should and
the irony is here. The Phillies, they actually should have

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enough offense, not to replace him, but to not collapse.
But Castiano's is having a down year by his standards.
Rial Muto has just been okay. Shoreber has been great.
But really I was just looking at their box score
tonight against the Braves. The Braves have five players whose
ops is above eight hundred this year who were in

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the Braves last night. The Braves beat the Phillies tonight
in Philadelphia. The Phillies have one Schwarber. That's it. There's
just any bad leadoff. So so after that bad is done,
you've got eight guys up next, none of whom as
an OPS above eight hundred, and so it's just gonna
be hard for them to win. It's gonna be harder
than to keep pace. The Braves are playing a lot

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better than they did to begin the season. The Mets
still have some issues with their pitching, and that's that's
gonna be interesting to see exactly what they get from
Scherzer to Graham and McGill for the balance of the year.
So the Braves, to me, um I think they have
they have looked a lot better of late than I
expected them to be. And we'll see to do the

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Marlins have enough to make a run. Probably not, but
but you start looking around at the Phillies are gonna
are gonna fall back to the pack. It's gonna be
good news for a team like the Giants who might
be able to make the playoffs as the third best
team in the n L West. All right, quick one
before I let him go. Uh, second best team in
the AL East is blank But Austin, you know obviously

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they lost today. Yeah, they lost today, the tough loss
with them against the Blue Jays. But I think Boston
right now went through six. They just have way more firepower,
I think, than than what Tampa does for sure, and
I think that there are more balanced team than the
Jays are. The Jays are two up and down Boston, Bogards, Devers,
They're just a great team. There. He is John Paul

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Rossi our guy at John Rossy j O N M
O R O S I. Where you find him? MLB Network?
Where are you headed to next? JP? We've got Phillies braves,
very top about question that you have, uh this week
here tomorrow night, MLB Network. Phillies and braves. Can't wait.
There you go, can't wait to watch, have a good
call and travel's buddy, all the best. We'll figure out

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the White Sox problems next week. Okay, that'll be on
our Jennifer next week. Do we have a whole hour? Yeah?
Maybe multiple segments? Do we bring in the other that's
gonna be their name of the show? I love it.
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bit of soccer or trying to UH, and you've got
a giant lightning storm seventy minute with the US with

(31:20):
a one new lead UH in the in that warm
up game, absolute torrential, friendly, friendly as minute, and all
of a sudden it said, all right, let's go enough
of this light miss that you guys are dealing with.
Let's really bring it down. That is no joke. Don't
mess with lightning well, and then you can go back

(31:42):
to Caddy learn your lessons. I was gonna say, there's no, no, no, no,
absolutely no no no no no. I mean that's the
one thing with all the UH soccer and youth sports
that you see around, it's like now, they'll play through
pretty much everything, and parents sometimes will complain about it.
But as soon as there's lightning within like three miles,

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that's it. Like it's really down the coast and that
doesn't matter. Lightning has been spotted somewhere in the remote
area code, so we get after it. Hey, you got
a new helmet today, Like I'm calling it today just
you know, I'm gonna specify because it's new to me.

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It's kind of like the NBC, right if you didn't
watch their fall sitcoms once upon a time when they
did reruns in the spring and summer, they would say, Hey,
it's new to you, so you know the commander's helmet, Uh,
new to me. But Terry McLaren has a nice, new
shiny contract going on worth an estimated seventy one million

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dollars three years, seventy one million dollars, twenty eight million
dollars bonus. As it were, so all of a sudden,
we look at the squad, I mean they had the
QB one thing. I didn't see people get as mad
as that the folks did at the Bears last year
with Andy Dalton. All of a sudden, Carson Wentz is
QB one and trying to look all menacing and opposed

(33:06):
in the uniform all whatever, and nobody cared. H It's hey,
he did not pull off the look very well. It
was because he's wearing the like the long sleeved shirt underneath.
There's it was. It was an odd picture. Uh, for sure,
it just didn't I'm not a huge fan of the jerseys,
the helmets. I'm I'm I'm okay with I'm fine and

(33:29):
probably give it a B minus if I had it,
which is a decent great. Yeah, I'm usually pretty harsh
with helmets, but once just look awkward to the picture. Well,
I mean that's kind of we're at that when you're
you're trying to front him as your the face of
your franchise. There probably should put Terry McLaren out there
at this very Hey, we decided to do a new deal.

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I don't care about QB one. Here's the guy that matters. Hey,
the McLaren's deal. McLaren's deal is for when there's a
new quarterback and a new owner. That's when it's really
gonna pay off for Washington. It's it's a it's crazy,
like to think that twenty million dollars for a wide
receiver now is almost it's the norm. Wells a year, yeah,

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I mean you have the Tyreek Hill deal, well north
of that, then you had the Christian Kirk deal. They
got everybody all mad, and it's like, all right, Jacksonville overspent. Right,
I've argued all along day and you can agree, disagree,
Tell me I'm an idiot. Uh. It's it's like when
people tried to point out what Tom Brady did tom
Brady had a wife, that it was worth a half
a billion dollars. He's made like three odd million dollars

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on the field, let alone everything off. So yes, there's
a bit of an ability to kind of move things
along a little differently in terms of your contract structure.
With Christian Kirk, the Jaguars had to say, hey, we're overpaying.
So any wide receiver that came in that wasn't an
over the top player like mclauren's a great player. I
mean we stipulate to that that if it's you're a

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lesser commodity, you're not suddenly saying all that's the new
starting floor because one team overpaid. That's not the way
it works. So for quarterbacks saying hey, will you will
you played for less asked an answer, because they're gonna
laugh at you. And on the other side, hey, Christian
Kirk got this and he hasn't done anything. It doesn't matter.
It's an outlier and it's a team overpaying. Here, you

(35:18):
got what is the new market value to just say,
all right, we're gonna take care of you now. Uh,
And eventually things will get better, So suck it up.
You hope you are in the East, though, so potential
for chaos is certainly there, right, expectations are there for Philly,
all right. Jalen Hurts is a guy that you love
fantasy wise, but certainly some people still have questions even

(35:41):
though they've upgraded their wide receiving courts tremendously. The giants
are the giants. I don't know what they are. Uh
with with McAdoo, Uh, I'm sorry, with dabl uh, I'm sorry.
I was turning out of the clock in my head.
And then obviously, you know, you look at the Cowboys
and every year they're expected to be great, they fail.
So I mean Washington could surprise, I mean, at least

(36:03):
from a football standpoint. I mean, they've written us letters
to tell us how stabilized it's been the last few years.
And I really liked Washington coming out of that playoff
loss to the Buccaneers, and I thought the defensive line
and what they had going, um that just didn't work
out last season, and the Fitzpatrick injury, I know wasn't

(36:23):
uh didn't help them a lot. But I just don't
know how you can have I don't know how you
can have hope if you're a Commander's fan. It's nice
that Terry McLaurin got this deal, but Mike get like.
I like the Davante Adams deal. You know why, because
I know Derek Carr is pretty good. I don't know
if Jalen Hurts is pretty good. I don't know if

(36:44):
Carson Wentz is pretty good. I don't know if to
a tongue of Volo is pretty good. And all these guys.
Those guys got new weapons and it's to help the
quarterback find out. I like it the other way around.
I like it when the quarterback is set and then
you say that quarterback, alright, we're gonna go and get
you a target it. That's what I like. Look, Josh
Allen's a guy, We're gonna go get him Stefon Diggs,
I'm gonna go and bring him into the fold. And

(37:06):
maybe maybe that was still Josh Allen needing something to prove.
But I just and and it's more of the way
of the NFL now of you know, get your receivers
locked up and then fill the quarterback. Like the Seahawks
have a decision with DK Metcalf, you know, and it's
really not a decision because he got to sign up
to a long term deal, but now it's it's gonna
throw to him, you know. And that sort of thinking
is not what I love. You still have to sign

(37:29):
these guys, but I'd rather just have the quarterback in
place and then go and pay a wide receiver, kind
of like the Raiders did. Gino and Drew lock are
ready to go, Pete Carroll says, dready come on, Uh
so we'll see. I fund it to be had, there
no question about it. Not for you as a guy
who likes the Seahawks, but certainly interest for me. Uh Look,

(37:52):
I'm not a Carson Wentz guy, but I look at
the rest of the squad. That defensive line can't nearly
be as bad as it was a year ago. Yeah,
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