July 15, 2024 • 42 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon fill for Covino & Rich react to the Euro/Copa Finals and tell you if the United States is ready to host a World Cup after last night’s shenanigans in Miami. How much trouble are the Dodgers in? Jason explains why Aaron Judge is going to go off in the second half of the season. Plus, the guys remember a Super Bowl Legend who passed way too soon!
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello, Welcome Inside, Happy Monday. Jason Smith Mike Harmon in
for Coveno and Rich. Kind of weird. We're back, first
time back you and I together, Mike, after both went
on vacation, both of us in the United Kingdom, separate vacations,
and then here we are getting a gion during the
day for a little bit talking about everything happening. This
is kind of fun, a.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Lot of chaos. There are a couple of stories that
were mysteriously absent on the list you sent me that
I thought might have been an invisible ink. So I
was gonna get rope adoped into big discussions, but I
think it might have been even a better story with
you always saying, you know my best friend, Mike Carmon. Sure,
maybe you just seld the idea that we went to
the UK together and had a bunch of sh No.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, you went the week before and then and now
I was gone last week. I'll tell you, I'll be honest.
I get so we came. I went to you know,
you went. You and I both went to the You
went as a swiftye. You went to line. Yes, yeah,
we went as Harry Potter nerds because we went to
do all the Harry Potter stuff who went to UK
and Scotland. Got on the plane from Scotland, Okay, and
flew back Saturday into Sunday. All right, Now, it was
(01:22):
a long flight obviously, was eight and a half hours
from Scotland to New York. And then we had a
thing on our plane. Our plane couldn't take off because
there was some kind of wheel adjustment. So we're on
the plane for an extra hour and a half. A
time we take off, we land back in LA. I
turned my phone on and in that time, okay, in
the time we took off from Scotland, Okay, and then
(01:44):
all the hours late land the United States. Doctor Ruth died,
Richard Simmons died. Yeah, Trump got shot, Shannon Doherty died,
and Jacoby Jones died. I wanted to get back on
the plane to go to Scotland. I'm like, what the
hell is going What the hell has happened? I'm going back,
I'm going back, I'm going back. This is awful. What
a horrible weekend this is?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah it was. It was a pretty miserable run of lines,
you know, all the way through, just one notice after another,
look a couple of really nice long runs. I meant,
Doc Ruth, what was she ninety six?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Ninety six? Yeah, I mean she was.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
She was giving people, you know, advice and teaching people
about sex a lot times. That is right, getting on
for all those years. And then you know, Richard Simmons
had had just started to re engage the public based
on you know, there was a movie going to be
made about his life, and he was mad about it
because he wanted to do his own thing. So he'd
been starting to go through his life and posting a
(02:39):
bunch and then he turned seventy six, Yeah, passes away.
Just crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Really, I'm sitting going, well, how many what what could
possibly happen? This is just a what a horrendous weekend?
This is? This is all look at all these things,
and I'm like, and I got on a plane. I
was like, okay, getting back everything and I get off,
I go, oh my god, all this. I mean, we're
gonna get to Jacoby Jones coming up, because what what
a what a horrible story that is passing of one
of the great legends in Super Bowl history. We'll have
(03:05):
that coming up later on this hour, because honestly, you know,
look that guy, he should have been the MVP at
the Super Bowl. I mean, look, we'll look back at it.
He should not Joe Flacco. He should have been the
MVP of that Super Bowl easily one hundred percent. Uh
but Frostburg, what you said, I'm missing something? What am
I missing? What else am I missing? Here? The Dodgers
back to back epic losses?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, sure, he was trying to be nice g on
the comeback.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I know I was. What would you give up eleven
runs in the ninth to lose to the Dotna Tigers? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
We messed it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, you know, I will say that it was kind
of fun waking up in the morning to do, you know,
being with the time change in the UK, Like waking
up in the morning. Okay, I'm gonna go down to
breakfast at seven point thirty and the Mets game has
just ended, right, like all the game just ended. We're
just over eight eight o'clock in the morning. Game has
just ended. All right, great, I could read about the
(03:54):
recap and everything else. I'd be that was kind of cool,
a little weird, little weird, but it was kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, during my trip was funny.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Is uh you know?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The deal with the girls was, Dad, you're not gonna
be posting a bunch. So there are very few tweets
I think during during my week off, a couple of things,
you know, the concert and some of the other nonsense
that we took in. But anytime I want to react
to a sports thing I read or a clipped by
and it was like they started cursing at me, beat
me up. It was like, all right, go to do this,
(04:23):
Like no, no, no, you're not in front of some
landmark or something. You're not doing those You're trying to
do a sports take from abroad. You're on vacation. I'm like,
all right, fine, and I acquiesced I do have a
few of those saved, so those rants already. As the
week goes.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
On, well, I'll tell you because look, obviously this has
been a huge last couple of days in soccer and
being in the in the in the throes of it
in England for the euro Look, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You think.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Everybody hates Greg Berhalter here in the United States. That
is nothing they do, That is nothing compared to what
English fan felt about Garrett Southgate, the head coach of
the English team. They're in the every every cab driver.
I talked to everybody, Hey, you guys in the you
know it look because obviously the entire city there was
two games while I was there, the city shut down.
(05:14):
It was like the Super Bowl, right, everybody watching in
the pubs.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, just outside right, all the rails and guards, guard
rails and security, triple underscore security outside of those bars. Yeah,
we experienced the same thing.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I'll tell you, man, and and just everybody, Hey, how
do you feel? You got to be excited? And they
would all say the same thing. Have you seen us play?
Have you seen us play? Southgate? I don't know. I
don't know what's going on with him, Like they're in
the Semis in the final and it's I don't know,
I don't look. And I get that England was playing
a strategy that was really hey, you know, how are
they going to score? And Harry Kane is not the
guy wasn't in great shape. But it's like this is
(05:51):
I mean, Burholter, we couldn't we couldn't get out of
the group in the Euros. There in in in the
in the Copa America. They're going to the finals. And
still it's like, I don't like him. I don't like him.
I don't like South. It's like, you got it, you
care unbelievable, you can you gotta understand that you gotta
be okay with some kind of success. No, no, no, no,
I don't like him. Don't like him. I don't like
I can't stand no. Not one person, not one person
(06:12):
liked him. And I'm going, wow, you think we hate Burbhalter?
Here this and he he achieved nothing like you know,
here's South games like, hey, you know his strategy people,
it's a little a little weird, you know, it's a
little bit more defensive and all right, I got it,
but you're in the finals in the euro No, I
can't stand him, can't say we need somebody new he's
doing this. He's doing this, Oh my goodness. And it's
(06:33):
anybody wanted to weigh in on that. It's it's you
think the Yankees are a big deal. No, no, no English,
English soccer. Oh my god. That's why I'm like everybody
I ask, I gotta ask what do you think? What
do you think? Like every single tour guides on, we're going, Hey,
what do you think of anybody? Have any questions? Hey?
You excited to be in the semis Uh? If we
had a better manager, I'd be excited. Okay, great, thanks, and.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
The kids starts yelling at you. We're supposed to be
talking about Dumbledore. Damn it. I want to know how
to cast a spell. And you're asking about our bad
offensive productions. Look at least offensively, they were better than France.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah no, but look, but here's it. Here, here's the thing.
And we obviously with the last couple of days with
the Copa America here in Argentina winning last night and
Spain winning yesterday. Look, I got news for everybody. The
last couple of weeks has been such big stuff. Hey,
who are we gonna get? Are we gonna get Klopp?
That's a bit. You know what's gonna happen all this,
all this, Spain is gonna win the World Cup in
(07:30):
two years. Okay, yes, they're missing a striker, but This
is like next generation Spain. All their great players are young.
They put a lot of pressure on the opposition. They
were the best team in the Euros by far. I mean,
they would have wiped up the floor with Argentina. It
was like the Copa was like a rock fight with
Argentina and Uruguay compared to watching Spain, like they just
(07:52):
put so much pressure on everybody else. Now they're missing
a striker and you need and to win World Cups,
as we've seen, you need the couple of games where hey,
things are not going our way and you have the
one striker that can tip play because he could take
one great shot from outside the box where he can
make one great run and that's the difference in the game.
You need that and they don't have that. But overall
(08:12):
Spain is not only the best, but like I said,
they're young, and in two years, I don't know that
it's not gonna be just an easy march to the
World Cup for Spain. I'm telling you right now because
two years, amou when it happens gonna be oh man, yeah, Jason, yeah,
telling you Spain is gonna win the World Cup in
a couple of years, and it and and it might
be one of those like German runs from like ten
years ago, and we thought they were gonna have this
(08:33):
huge dynasty. But when they steamrolled to the to the
World Cup, I mean, that's how good Spain was. And
all these players, they're all so young, and they're so talented,
and they're so fast, and just you know, in two
years they're gonna be even more in their prime. I mean,
it's it's really going to be something to watch. So
for all of this, Hey, we're gonna see the United
States now here. In two years, Spain's gonna be hoisting
(08:53):
the World Cup trophy.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It's gonna I just look at the gap again, couldn't
get out of you know, the basics in Copa America.
Let alone try to fight through and make him run.
And then you look at the Euro twenty twenty four.
Now it's some of the strategy when you get to
extra time and stuff. You know that I wanted to
throw rocks at my TV at points because of the
(09:15):
we're not playing to win, we're just playing not to lose,
and then we'll take our chances and penalties. But one
of my favorite photos coming out of Euro twenty twenty
four was Lemin Yamal, who turned seventeen the day before
he gets the title, and he was on the field
and he's holding his little brother and he's smiling, he's laughing.
(09:35):
So I mean, that's another twenty years of misery for
international soccer participants going against him, because you know he's
gonna trade his ass up and he's gonna be ready
to run over people too. Some of the moves that
kid was making yesterday. And he plays defense too, right,
we all the one thing that we always talk about
in these competitions is, yeah, I can get a run
(09:57):
from the guys on the wings. Yeah, but are they
going to commit and play back and go and play defense.
This guy was getting after it, and part of it
is the hey, youth, you're getting your shot, but you
gotta get me both ways. Okay, cool, But if he
keeps that up, I mean you're really in trouble because
his footwork and his speed is just gonna be a
(10:18):
problem for years to come. So yeah, Spain was just
so much fun to watch in a tournament that was
great overall, but let's face it, not not classic classically
esthetically pleasing at times.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
No team overall. Both tournaments were not esthetically pleased. Like
most of the teams had trouble scoring. Yeah, the only Spain. Look,
because Spain had what forty five goals in six games? Whatever,
it was. A lot of teams had trouble scoring. It
was very it was very difficult. And and you know
the big thing I take away one of the most
(10:51):
fun things from from the Cope America right because we
we'll get to the fact that hard Rock Stadium was
overrun by Argentina fans last night. You know, my favorite
part of the COPA was is that watching Alexi Lawless
and Clint Dempsey and Carly Lloyd on set. It's such
a marked difference from when the United States is playing
(11:12):
and when anybody else is playing, Like when anybody else
is playing and they go to then Robstone at halftime says, hey,
all right here, hey halftime, a great game. We got
Argentina halftime in you'reguay nothing nothing. What do you think Carly,
who's had the better end of the play, and Carlo
it says, well, it's about fifty to fifty so far.
Both teams are doing good things. Alexi, what do you think? Well, look,
I like what I like what Argentina is doing here.
(11:33):
I got a little bit of question or Columbia rather,
I got a little questions for Columbia here. But Columbia
is doing this. This is okay. This year Clinton, what
do you think? Well, look, I like what I saw
here out of Argentina. All right, what'd you think in
the Euro Well, I like what I saw out of Anglo.
I like here. And then but you put them on
after the United States plays a game and it's like
they're foaming at the mouth to say how bad we suck? Right,
(11:55):
Like that's like like you you watch them and go,
we need to fire Burholter, and the players all stink,
and we all stink, and what are we doing with
us soccer? And you could feel the steam coming out
of the television set. But then you watch them last
night and it's like, oh, yeah, you know, here's just
regular soccer analysis. Yeah. No, I like here in the
first half of the defense needs to be a couple
(12:15):
of times there's missed assignments and they were able to
get back. But that's okay, they're gonna get that for
the second half. Where in the United States it's look
at these misde signments. This is not this is not
something that can happen. Greig Burlter must pay with his
life for this job. I cannot believe this. But every
every other team is oh yeah, hey it's this, Oh no, no,
this is guy. Both teams are playing well, both these
have a chance. That that's such a marked difference because
(12:38):
I'm like, I turn on the television, I'm like, they're
just foaming at them out. They're like racehorses when you
get out. I want to be the first one to
say Greg Burallter's gotta get fired. But then everything else
is just yeah, we're cool, we're here, we're talking about
this is here in euro and Spain and England and
everything else, and Jude Bellingham and all out, George George Row.
It's it's it's such a difference watching that coverage, it
(12:59):
was insane.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Well, but if you go on Twitter or your various
social media platforms and you follow along when they're talking,
they're getting just as much heat back at them. So
it's really a fun back and forth. But whenever they
go in on the US soccer, the organization, the build up,
the you know, and our system in the US as
(13:20):
a whole, you might as well have My most used
meme is that Elmo with the fire behind him? You
might as well get that, you know, with that chorus
from the Duel of the Fates out of Star Wars
working behind it as they start talking, Because that's really
where we head when we get into US soccer with
former legends like Lawless and Dempse.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But I'm sitting in I'm going I'm going, really, we're
this worried about about the United States and too is
when Spain could beat us seven to nothing right now?
I mean seriously, I mean, really, how were this worried
about it? When about I mean, come on, we we
lost the Columbia what five one? And they I don't
think they scored a goal all the way to the
to the finals of Copa. It's like, it's like, really
worried about Spain's gonna Spain's gonna win by one hundred?
(14:02):
What are we worried about here? What are you really
going crazy about? H exit? Out about a Fresca exit,
swollen dome Jason Smith, Mike Harmon in for Cavino and
Rich today I will have more soccer coming up again
because apparently, you know, it's gonna be difficult for us
to hold the World Cup because you know, we're not
ready at hard Rock Stadium, but coming up next we
are here at the break MLB Home run Derby coming
(14:22):
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night show tomorrow night. After big vacations for both of
us United Kingdom. Harmon still making bracelets for Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I'm already working towards two years from now when the
next tour happens.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, because you got to have more bracelets by yet.
The advancements and bracelets in two years, you got to
you gotta start working on it. Well.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I also think I'm gonna start just taking them to
every game and making them for every game and concert.
I go to you and just try to make friends
and have a network because it allows me to talk
about Fox Sports Radio a lot too.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Here. Oh you'll be the bracelet guy. You'll be the
bracelet Oh no, go talk to the bracelet guy. He's
that host on the raid. He's got Taylor Swift bracelets, man,
Go talk to him. He's great. We did a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I did a bunch of evangelizing, both in Ireland and
in uh uh, in Dublin and in London and getting
around and you know, talking to folks like because I
was wearing a Bear's pullover quite often, and you know,
I met an inordinate number of Lions fans.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
While I was playing.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Let me just put it that way. And when you're
on the train at twelve thirty in the morning, I
was going to get eleanor she went and hung out
with a friend that happened to be in London the
same time. Odd fund But I go to get on
a train and there's seven drunk.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You mean you were on the tube. You were on
the tubes. I was on the underground. Mind the gap
moving fast. Mind the Gap, Mind the Gap.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I want to know how many millions of dollars of
merch they sell that say mind the Gap.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Mind the Gap. I was looking for mind the Gap
hoodie and I couldn't find one. I really wanted to
mind the Gap.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I went to like ten stores that yah, that's all
they had T shirts and hoodies.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah. I couldn't find any mine. And I couldn't find
any of the the Mets Phillies games from it early
in June unclear. It's like, where's all that stuff that's
probably like five pounds? Where's that? Like the star. I'm like,
come on, man, I couldn't find any of that stuff,
and I wanted it. I'm like, I want I'll buy that.
I'll buy that Nike Mets Phillies you know, London series
hoodie for four pounds. Yeah, sure, come on give me that. No,
(18:10):
I couldn't find it.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I was really hoping to run into a bunch of
that because we went we went over to Nodding Hill
and they have a giant street market, so you got
all sorts of jewelry, clothes, a bunch of clever things.
But I was figuring I'd run into some of that
gear for you there, and it was none to be found.
But I did have a nice fresh made crape off
a truck, So that was delicious, very nice.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Uh So, while Mike and I are back, we have
the Home Run Derby coming up later on tonight. Uh
Pete Alonzo trying to win again. Look out the bats
are He's.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Like McConaughey and dazed and confused.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You know. The thing is is like, this is the
one day a year that I really miss Chris Berman,
like because you know, of all the things that Berman
did throughout his entire career calling the Home Run Derby,
where he had a call for every single ball that
went out of the stadium right like like like everybody
he would hit like twenty four home runs apiece, and
(19:02):
he would just back back, back, back God. And by
the time he got to like the fourth round of
the derby, he had no voice.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Back back back God, that back, God back God.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Now guys just hit home runs and call ravaged talks
and oh yeah, what a big power display this is
by Julio Rodriguez, And oh boy, Alonzo's now got five
home runs in the row. No, No, Berman would call
every seme brack Brack Brack Praca God and it's packed
packed and it got and I miss that and I'm like,
this is the one because I really like at the
end when he couldn't even speak and he had absolutely
(19:34):
no voice. Now we're getting in the finals and can't
I really I can't.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Find a way back back brack God.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But this is the guy.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
You keep that energy up, you know what I mean.
It's just another home run.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
That was a great pieces of Burmanism. Now you could
just create it like the soundboard like we had for
Doc Emrick. Sure, and he doesn't have to be live.
You're literally just sitting there with a key like you're
a DJ at a club or you just AI him.
Now I got a I Burman. Some of the calls
here are outstanding.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
He's in the game back back back, like hauntibal lector
at the end of silence of the Lamb's gone. You know,
you can just tell anything in there.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You want to. This is the one days comparedlect that's
great and uh fava beans.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Oh and Pete Alonzo eating that ball like fava beans
and a nice kiante gone home run there. But it
does a dimssa like this is he we should be
there to call the home run, not even NFL Draft
all this stuff not, but to hear him call every
time there's like four hundred and seventy three home runs
hit tonight and he calls, would call every single while,
like I missed that, Like Rabbits has been doing it
(20:51):
now for almost a decade. And I'm like, come on, man,
this is when you can allow Berman to do something.
I mean, come on, the guy built. ESPN's like, no, no, no,
we're shutting him out. Now, we're shouting.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You can't do any thing for us anymore, just shutting
them out, can't do anything.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But look sitting here at the break of the MLB season,
a couple of big things going forward. Right. Number one,
Look how good the Mets are. I mean, come on, man,
I mean you want to you want to talk about
MVPs and great seasons people are having. There's Aaron Judge
and then there's Grimace. I mean, come on, man, Look wow,
what Grimmas has been able to do the last month
and a half for the Come on, that's unmatched in
(21:25):
all of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, my Grimace slides really went over well. When I
got back and did my one day run to Las Vegas. Oh,
nice to talk about taking over a pool.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, dude, I'll tell you man, you were Grimace slides.
People are gonna either gonna gonna grab you and steal
those from you, or they're gonna be your best friends.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
They did ask me if I was a Mets fan,
where I had to laugh. I go, no, I just
celebrate the fact that this guy was an evil character
when he was brought in. Check the lare, check the lare.
But no, it's so, they said.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
So wait a minute. So so the guy you're best
friends with that you do a radio show with, he's
the Mets fan and he likes Grimace. Yeah, and you
were wearing the Grimace slides. Yeah, okay, that doesn't track well.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I mean, he's it doesn't make any say it does.
And then I get deeper into the purple. I actually
I am wearing purple shorts today in honor of our return.
And you know what, shut up. So yeah, it's uh,
Grimace is one of the phenomenon that I mean, really,
we'll see if it carries over into the second half. Now,
(22:26):
your team's gonna have to pitch a whole lot better,
because what's kind of funny is you look at Team
E R A and Major League Baseball teams, you would
expect there's the Rockies and the Marlins. Oh, the White
Sox are down there, and then over at number twenty
two the Mets, T three, TV, E R Pitch Twitch.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
We have Grimace, that's all. Weedy, we have Grimace, that's all.
But seriously, you know again, the two best players this
year have been Grimace and Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is
gonna end up I'll tell you this. He's gonna end
up twenty twenty four, and we're gonna say this is
the best year we've seen a guy have in fifteen
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years in Major League Baseball. He's already got better stats
than Bryce Harper, who won the MVP two years ago
with like thirty five homers and ninety four RBI. He's
got more than that at the break right, his ops
is like one, it's one point one seven. Like I
know Sodo got all the run early on, but he
is having one of those. He could hit sixty five
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home runs and knock in one hundred and sixty runs right,
Like I think, like Sammy Sosa is the last guy
UH to get to that what we are not going
one hundred and sixty runs like twenty five years ago,
and Judge can make a run on that. He's gonna
wind up with a season of like hitting like three
ten or three fifteen, sixty five homers and one hundred
and sixty RBIs. And again, that's the best season we'll
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have seen in over fifteen years. You got to go
back to like a rd it was two thousand and
six or two thousand and seven when a Rod had
like fifty and knocked in one fifty. But this is this,
this is the kind of year that Judge is having
where he's already better ring other people who have won
m vps in the last few years with what he's
done just in the first ninety five games. Like, what
he's doing is unbelievable. And look, you know, I'm being
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serious about this because you know a Mets fan and
b you know, Gunnar Henderson's my m v P pick
in the American League. That's not happening. But what Aaron
Judge is doing, forget it. I mean, Aaron Judges is
having that guy.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I have a way that that falls apart o man
part and part of it was during the UH the
MLB coverage on Fox a little earlier today, watching the interviews,
watching all the back and forth, it's it's it's a fun,
festive environment with a Rod and Jeter and Ortiz, and
I agree, they just kind of threw up the well.
(24:40):
I don't know that I pitched to him, and I
forget who said it, because you know, wandering around doing it,
you know, working working over to the side, you just
had the sound nun and one of them just said, ah,
they ought to bonds them. I never pitched to him again.
I thought it was the best respond just one word, bonds,
like what they should bonds it, and that's the end
(25:04):
of the home run threat from there. It boy, Aaron
Judge has been walked four times tonight. That is forty
seven walks in his last five games. He has not
had an official act bat in three weeks. This is very,
very difficult.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I mean, you look at that squad, right, you know,
and you go and break down would be contenders and
try to paint in what they need to do right. Obviously,
with the Yankees and with most teams, it's a lot
about rotations and depth and everything on that side. But
for the Yankees, they're having some of the same struggles.
Like say the Dodgers are out here is you got
(25:39):
a couple of guys that are been fantastic at the
plate and a bunch of guys who have it and
historically who played well. So you're looking for turnarounds. But
think outside of Judge and Soto, you you can mess
around a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
And well, that's what that's not. That's how they'll run too,
That's how they'll project to protect that is. They're just
gonna they'll just bat so behind Judge. It's like, okay,
right now they're bat set to in front of Judge. Oh,
they're walking Judge too much. Well, let's flip up.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
These the only two guys that can get on base again.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
With it, Let's walk both of them, all right, But
they're gonna be first and second. Doesn't matter first and
second that we'll we'll work it out. We'll put those
guys on base. Everybody else we can get out, doesn't matter.
It'll work. It'll work.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, I mean, they're still top for all their struggles,
and it's more recent. Man, they're eighteen games above five hundred.
They had that come to Jesus moment where you had
to have Cashman and Steinbunner show up when they were
down in Tampa. Uh, there's still fourth in team ERA
at three five four, even with one guy falling off
(26:38):
after another right Rodin had the run, great run up
top and now he's struggling and just keep going on
down the line. But from the hitting perspective, there's an
opportunity to Uh, they're gonna make some noise, I would
suspect as we get into the into the trade deadline
hitting two forty seven, which sadly enough, in Major League
Baseball today is good enough for eleventh.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Major So there's your first big BULLPITIX for the second
half of Major League Baseball. The second a big time
World Series contender. I am absolutely worried about. But first,
Dan Bayer has what's trending in the wide world of
Sports dB.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
What do you got for US guys?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Interesting day in the world of basketball, Team USA playing
an exhibition against Australia, one that the Americans were victorious
in ninety eight ninety two. Anthony Davis in that ninety
eight ninety two win, had seventeen points in fourteen rebounds
for Team USA. But it's a guy who's not on
Team USA. That could be making some headlines, as Clipper's
president Lawrence Frank says the team was disappointed that Kawhi
(27:37):
Leonard wasn't kept on the US Olympic team, claiming it
was solely the call of USA Basketball. Frank believes that
there was no setback for Leonard as he returns from
a knee injury, adding that Kawhi looked good in practices
and that ultimately, yeah, team USA decided to make a change.
Tonight it's the Home Run Derby, then tomorrow the Midsummer Classic.
You'll see it on Fox as the Al takes on
(27:57):
the NL. We knew that Paul Schmes was going to
start from the National League. Today we found out the
starting lineups and the starting pitcher for the American League
as Orioles Ace Corbyn Burns will be tabbed as the
starter for the American League Tomorrow night in Arlington. Presno
State and football coach Jeff Tedford stepping down because of
medical reasons. It's his second stint at the school, now
stepping down after two seasons where the Bulldogs went to
(28:20):
Bowl games in both of those years. Assistant linebackers coach
Tim Skipper will now serve as the school's interim head coach.
The Lions will be inducting Hall of Fame wide receiver
Calvin Johnson into the Pride of the Lions at halftime
of their Monday night game against the Seahawks on September thirtieth.
Keithon Mitchell of the Ravens going to start the year
on the pup list as he returns from that torn
(28:40):
acl and the winner of this week's Open Championship at
Royal Troon, we'll take home three point one million dollars,
still not as much as Bryson de Shamba won at
the US Open, but still the highest amount that a
winner would take o take home in the Open Championship.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Guys, back to you, Thank you, dB. So just real
quick before you get back. So the Clippers who need
Kawhi Leonard healthy right like this is the whole We
gave him three years, one hundred and fifty minute. He's
not been healthy for five years. They're upset that he's
not gonna have to play more basketball in the summer.
They're upset. Really they want him on Team USA so
we can go through all the wear and the air
(29:17):
and then come back after a short time away to
get ready for the season. They're really upset that he's
not on Team U.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
It's like, come on, man, it is really It is
one of the more curious turns that we have, right
because when Kawhi left Team USA, it wasn't the report
that it was a mutual decision and that the Clippers
actually had a lot of sway and saying this in
terms of wear and tear and where he was not
that he didn't look fantastic. I think that's been put there,
(29:43):
you know, by all camps throughout this process. But Laurenn's
Frank going out of his way to say, hey, that
wasn't us.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Don't blame us.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I mean, is he is he trying to apologize to
you know, for the U the entire Derek White, Jalen
Brown things. Look, if they just kept Kawhi like we
wanted him to, you guys wouldn't have all of this
other content.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I mean, come on, just interesting, like, hey, we really
need him healthy. Oh so he doesn't have to play
all summer. Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh well now we're upset.
What what do you mean you're upset? Just be happy that
he's sitting and not getting more a wear intore. So
here we are at the All Star break and I
am honestly not from making the playoffs. But this is
(30:25):
a World Series or bust year for the Dodgers, who
spent all kinds of money on Otana. Yes it's deferred,
but they win the bidding war for him. They spend
money on Tyler glass Now, they spent three hundred million
dollars on Yamamoto, and they have been a five hundred
team for the last couple of months. And they are
in a big time pickle with starting pitching. And this
(30:47):
is why I'm worried, because normal is that, well the
deadline the Dodgers, they need something they can go get.
There's not any starting pitching that's gonna be really available
to the deadline that you really want to go get.
This is not one of those years where, oh, there's
so many guys out there. If we need a starting
pitcher dead, we can get him. They are banking on
the returns of Kershaw, Buehler, Miller and glass Now and Yamamoto,
(31:09):
and that's just too much. Right. Kershaw is thirty six,
coming off an injury that's gonna keep him out till
the middle of the year. How good can he really be? Right, Bueller.
They sent him down to the miners because he's got
pasted when he was up here for his eight starts
trying to come back. Miller goes down to the miners
because he's not good. You have no idea when Yamamoto
is gonna pitch again. You gave him three hundred million dollars. Yeah,
(31:30):
jo Jim is sixty day. I mean yea with this
kind of year from Otani and there's not a lot
of help out there, like this is this is not
suddenly a hey winner take all, Dodgers are gonna roll all.
Like I could see the Dodgers just just getting swept
out of the of the playoffs easily because they don't
have anybody that can throw in the fall, like you,
(31:51):
you need some kind of starting if there's anything we
saw last year, Hey, the Dodgers with Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman,
this lineup can hit. What happened boom Kershaw got rocked
around in the first game against the Padres, and that
they were done right Like I am like if you
said to me, hey, the no, no, no, it's wide
open because the Dodgers have so much starting pitching problems
(32:11):
and you can't just bank that everybody coming back is
gonna be healthy because they're not. Right. You get although, yeah,
you got five guys coming back, but they're all trying
to come back, and you have no pitching now, and
you don't know what they're gonna come back, like a suddenly,
Walker buell A gonna come back and be unbeatable, Like
you're hoping Tyler Glass now is able to come back
soon and likely he will be. So that's gonna be okay. Look,
(32:31):
the guy's an All Star. But everything else you were
counting on. You didn't go that crazy in the offseason
because you knew, well, we got Curse Shaw coming back
and Bueller's gonna be back, and now these are all
huge question marks. Man. The Dodgers have not played well.
They've just kind of been treading water. And this is
a team that gets to the playoffs and all of
a sudden, it's what just happened in that quick series,
you know, they lost, They lost seven to six, eight five,
(32:55):
and ninth and nine to four, like like that's what
I can see for the Dodgers. So there's like worry
and then there's hey, man, I'm not going to be
surprised this is a quick out for the Dodgers in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
It's tough, I mean, because you talk about the starting
pitching woes and then we can immediately turn it right
back over into the starting lineup. And what you've seen
is struggles outside of your all stars. And now you expect
Mookie Bets back, you know, hopefully what early August is
the expected return. But some of the prospects that you
used to complain about that we're all hitting three fifty
(33:27):
when they called up. Guess what, I think they're hitting
a combined three fifty right now. So you've got those
struggles that are going on in terms of that next
level process. But yeah, you go through and look at
what starting pitching may be available. I mean, you got
Crochet of the White Sox that everybody's gonna come after
as one of the targets. But how many innings does
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he have left? Can you use him as a starter?
Does he have to go to the pen and then
maybe re emerge, you know, as you know, a ha,
here's another lefty if his stuff and his arm are
still good. So you got that at a couple of guys,
you know, Evaldi and a couple of guys maybe depending
on what.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Detroit decides to do.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
But there's not a lot. You know, you're talking about
some veteran arms that are on the injured list I
see on some of the reports and rumors. But to
your point, everybody's looking for pitching and they aren't a
lot of it available. So you know you're gonna have
to go and be really aggressive in the marketplace if
you're trying to shore that up. But I'm with you,
it's it's one of those hand ringing kind of seasons
(34:31):
based on everything you did to put this roster together.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, like all of a sudden, if they get knocked
out in the early I'd say, yeah, one hundred percent.
I can see it because they just don't have the
starting pitching. They'll be starting having bullpen I can see
bullpen games in game two, but we have Tyler Glastow
in game one? What about Game two bullpen game? What
about Game three bullpen game? What about Game four? We
have no idea, Like that's what I see for the like, Like,
there's a lot of worry. It's not just good because
(34:57):
it's just been a steady stream of the last decad
and if well, the Dodge will be fine. We get
to the playoffs, Yeah, they'll get there, but all of
a sudden, man, I mean, I don't know how you
solve that problem because everybody's not coming back healthy and
who knows when you're gonna get y'ama motor or anybody.
This is a really big deal, man a Tina. We
had written into the World Series. I can see them.
(35:17):
I can see them lose of the Mets in the
first round.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
If I, oh, how dare you look at that?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Huh? You're really just trying.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
First day, you're picking fights with Frostburg to that level.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Oh no, goodbye, I haven't got got talked about the
Mets for like nine days.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I can't talk.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I can't talk about the Mets in Scotland. Nobody knows
how I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Oh no, that's why. That's why you just stand a
post like so many guys do for religious, political, or
other purposes. You're just stumping for the Mets. What's your grievance, sir, Well,
let me tell you about the Mets. Ever since this
mythical character came down to us, and you're holding up
a pamphlet that has a picture of Grimace on it,
and now you're evangelizing.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, I go stand in front of the University of
Saint Andrews with a sign that says the Mets are
the best. Changed my mind. That's not about way to go.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
How many of those did you see during your European travels?
As sure as ell saw a lot of them, A
lot of bullhorns barking at me at what I should
and shouldn't do.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
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Speaker 3 (38:14):
Did I miss?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
That's what we call it teas in the business, Mike Harmon,
But look to spend a couple of minutes here on
one of the tragic stories of this weekend, the loss
of Jacoby Jones, who passed away on Sunday in his
sleep at his home. It was it was a shock,
It was the it was something that I no, no, no,
(38:38):
not Jacob, Jacoby Jones. This is a guy who was
always so full of fun and and and every every
player who ever played with him said he was one
of the best teammates I've ever had. He was fantastic
and just an unbelievably sad story. And when I when
I thought about this and thinking about Jacoby Jones, I'm
thinking about talking about him today, and I go, you know,
(38:58):
this is a guy that really you know, ten years
have gone by since this, since the Ravens won the
Super Bowl and it still stuns me that he wasn't
the Super Bowl MVP that we're we're not paying homage
to Jacoby Jones Super Bowl forty seven MVP, right, because
the Ravens beat the forty nine Ers in that Super Bowl.
It was the big power outed Super Bowl where the
(39:21):
forty nine Ers came from behind. You had the questionable
fourth down pass and the end zone to Crabtree with
no pass interference being called, and Joe Flacco is the
MVP and looked. Flako had a good game. He threw
for three hundred yards and a couple of touchdowns. But
Jacoby Jones, really it baffles me because this game went
This was a huge lead for the Ravens, right, and
(39:43):
then the lights went out, and when they got the
power back on was when the forty nine Ers came back.
This wasn't Joe Flacco going up and down the field
answering every forty nine Ers score the score of his own.
Jacoby Jones caught a fifty six yard touchdown from Flacco.
That was a play that he Flacco underthrows a ball
that Jones comes back for catches the ten yard line,
(40:05):
goes down, gets up, runs around the defenders and into
the end zone for a score. This is not hey,
Jones had a step on the defender and Flacco puts
in a perfect spot. This is Jacoby Jones makes this
touchdown and yeah, okay, his only catch the game, but
a fifty six yard touchdown to give them a two
score lead. And then he opens up the second half
with the longest scoring play in Super Bowl history, one
(40:27):
hundred and eight yard kickoff return for a touchdown like
this gave them a twenty eight to ten lead. Like
the game was over at that point. Yes, the forty
nine ers did come back and it was a great
comeback by them, and the defense had to hold on.
But you're talking about the guy that made the two
biggest plays in the game to give them an incredible lead.
And yeah, let's default to Flacco because he's the quarterback.
(40:48):
I mean, Jones is the MVP of that game. Again,
the two biggest plays, and I guess, yes, they are
two plays, but you know it's a kickoff return. It's
one hundred and eight yards for a touchdown. What else
do you want from the guy? Right? I mean, it's
fifty six yard touchdown by getting up and getting into
the end zone when it was a play that that
Flacca was running for his life on and just chucked
it up like I really, the more time goes on,
I'm saying, how is he not? How are we not
(41:09):
saying we're paying homatch? Jacoby Jones super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Now, I remember being in a We're at a restaurant.
We'd been doing coverage of that game all week. Only
a couple guys got to actually go. But it was cool,
like we had a giant TV. We're watching this and
that was the first thing we're yelling after. You know,
Flaco gets the award. Now you look at it twenty
two to thirty three to eighty seven and three, But yeah,
(41:34):
normally you want to reserve it to impactful plays and
what are going to be memorable?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
For me, I got a guy that just just getting
his his Hall of Fame jacket, Devin Hester, part of
which was the lore of having a touchdown return in
a Super Bowl, not to mention the one hundred and
fifty eight others that he had through his career. Plight
for Jacoby Jones always just a guy that, you know,
I've got a lot of media friends in Baltimore, said
he was always the first guy to sign up. If
(42:00):
they needed someone to show up to a charity thing
or any kind of event, just call me, and you know,
my timeline just flooded with pictures. Just a tragic, horrible
loss and hopefully a little light shone on the run
he had because I don't think anybody hyped him up
as a would be fantasy star more than me for.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Years, I'll tell you. And he had to call it
the mile High Miracle, which will get to next hour
on the show. I mean he had, he had some
kind of creative should have been Jacoby Jones super Bowl MVP,
which could have set him up for so many other things,
you know, after his playing days were over. Just an
absolute tragedy. Rest in peace, Jacoby Jones, forty years old.
Coming up next, the Unmasked Story. I promised this is
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hello, Welcome Inside, Happy Monday. Jason Smith Mike Harmon in
for Coveno and Rich. Kind of weird. We're back, first
time back you and I together, Mike, after both went
on vacation, both of us in the United Kingdom, separate vacations,
and then here we are getting a gion during the
day for a little bit talking about everything happening. This
is kind of fun, a.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Lot of chaos. There are a couple of stories that
were mysteriously absent on the list you sent me that
I thought might have been an invisible ink. So I
was gonna get rope adoped into big discussions, but I
think it might have been even a better story with
you always saying, you know my best friend, Mike Carmon. Sure,
maybe you just seld the idea that we went to
the UK together and had a bunch of sh No.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, you went the week before and then and now
I was gone last week. I'll tell you, I'll be honest.
I get so we came. I went to you know,
you went. You and I both went to the You
went as a swiftye. You went to line. Yes, yeah,
we went as Harry Potter nerds because we went to
do all the Harry Potter stuff who went to UK
and Scotland. Got on the plane from Scotland, Okay, and
flew back Saturday into Sunday. All right, Now, it was
(01:22):
a long flight obviously, was eight and a half hours
from Scotland to New York. And then we had a
thing on our plane. Our plane couldn't take off because
there was some kind of wheel adjustment. So we're on
the plane for an extra hour and a half. A
time we take off, we land back in LA. I
turned my phone on and in that time, okay, in
the time we took off from Scotland, Okay, and then
(01:44):
all the hours late land the United States. Doctor Ruth died,
Richard Simmons died. Yeah, Trump got shot, Shannon Doherty died,
and Jacoby Jones died. I wanted to get back on
the plane to go to Scotland. I'm like, what the
hell is going What the hell has happened? I'm going back,
I'm going back, I'm going back. This is awful. What
a horrible weekend this is?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah it was. It was a pretty miserable run of lines,
you know, all the way through, just one notice after another,
look a couple of really nice long runs. I meant,
Doc Ruth, what was she ninety six?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Ninety six? Yeah, I mean she was.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
She was giving people, you know, advice and teaching people
about sex a lot times. That is right, getting on
for all those years. And then you know, Richard Simmons
had had just started to re engage the public based
on you know, there was a movie going to be
made about his life, and he was mad about it
because he wanted to do his own thing. So he'd
been starting to go through his life and posting a
(02:39):
bunch and then he turned seventy six, Yeah, passes away.
Just crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Really, I'm sitting going, well, how many what what could
possibly happen? This is just a what a horrendous weekend?
This is? This is all look at all these things,
and I'm like, and I got on a plane. I
was like, okay, getting back everything and I get off,
I go, oh my god, all this. I mean, we're
gonna get to Jacoby Jones coming up, because what what
a what a horrible story that is passing of one
of the great legends in Super Bowl history. We'll have
(03:05):
that coming up later on this hour, because honestly, you know,
look that guy, he should have been the MVP at
the Super Bowl. I mean, look, we'll look back at it.
He should not Joe Flacco. He should have been the
MVP of that Super Bowl easily one hundred percent. Uh
but Frostburg, what you said, I'm missing something? What am
I missing? What else am I missing? Here? The Dodgers
back to back epic losses?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, sure, he was trying to be nice g on
the comeback.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I know I was. What would you give up eleven
runs in the ninth to lose to the Dotna Tigers? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
We messed it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, you know, I will say that it was kind
of fun waking up in the morning to do, you know,
being with the time change in the UK, Like waking
up in the morning. Okay, I'm gonna go down to
breakfast at seven point thirty and the Mets game has
just ended, right, like all the game just ended. We're
just over eight eight o'clock in the morning. Game has
just ended. All right, great, I could read about the
(03:54):
recap and everything else. I'd be that was kind of cool,
a little weird, little weird, but it was kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yeah, during my trip was funny.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Is uh you know?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The deal with the girls was, Dad, you're not gonna
be posting a bunch. So there are very few tweets
I think during during my week off, a couple of things,
you know, the concert and some of the other nonsense
that we took in. But anytime I want to react
to a sports thing I read or a clipped by
and it was like they started cursing at me, beat
me up. It was like, all right, go to do this,
(04:23):
Like no, no, no, you're not in front of some
landmark or something. You're not doing those You're trying to
do a sports take from abroad. You're on vacation. I'm like,
all right, fine, and I acquiesced I do have a
few of those saved, so those rants already. As the
week goes.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
On, well, I'll tell you because look, obviously this has
been a huge last couple of days in soccer and
being in the in the in the throes of it
in England for the euro Look, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
You think.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Everybody hates Greg Berhalter here in the United States. That
is nothing they do, That is nothing compared to what
English fan felt about Garrett Southgate, the head coach of
the English team. They're in the every every cab driver.
I talked to everybody, Hey, you guys in the you
know it look because obviously the entire city there was
two games while I was there, the city shut down.
(05:14):
It was like the Super Bowl, right, everybody watching in
the pubs.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, just outside right, all the rails and guards, guard
rails and security, triple underscore security outside of those bars. Yeah,
we experienced the same thing.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I'll tell you, man, and and just everybody, Hey, how
do you feel? You got to be excited? And they
would all say the same thing. Have you seen us play?
Have you seen us play? Southgate? I don't know. I
don't know what's going on with him, Like they're in
the Semis in the final and it's I don't know,
I don't look. And I get that England was playing
a strategy that was really hey, you know, how are
they going to score? And Harry Kane is not the
guy wasn't in great shape. But it's like this is
(05:51):
I mean, Burholter, we couldn't we couldn't get out of
the group in the Euros. There in in in the
in the Copa America. They're going to the finals. And
still it's like, I don't like him. I don't like him.
I don't like South. It's like, you got it, you
care unbelievable, you can you gotta understand that you gotta
be okay with some kind of success. No, no, no, no,
I don't like him. Don't like him. I don't like
I can't stand no. Not one person, not one person
(06:12):
liked him. And I'm going, wow, you think we hate Burbhalter?
Here this and he he achieved nothing like you know,
here's South games like, hey, you know his strategy people,
it's a little a little weird, you know, it's a
little bit more defensive and all right, I got it,
but you're in the finals in the euro No, I
can't stand him, can't say we need somebody new he's
doing this. He's doing this, Oh my goodness. And it's
(06:33):
anybody wanted to weigh in on that. It's it's you
think the Yankees are a big deal. No, no, no English,
English soccer. Oh my god. That's why I'm like everybody
I ask, I gotta ask what do you think? What
do you think? Like every single tour guides on, we're going, Hey,
what do you think of anybody? Have any questions? Hey?
You excited to be in the semis Uh? If we
had a better manager, I'd be excited. Okay, great, thanks, and.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
The kids starts yelling at you. We're supposed to be
talking about Dumbledore. Damn it. I want to know how
to cast a spell. And you're asking about our bad
offensive productions. Look at least offensively, they were better than France.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah no, but look, but here's it. Here, here's the thing.
And we obviously with the last couple of days with
the Copa America here in Argentina winning last night and
Spain winning yesterday. Look, I got news for everybody. The
last couple of weeks has been such big stuff. Hey,
who are we gonna get? Are we gonna get Klopp?
That's a bit. You know what's gonna happen all this,
all this, Spain is gonna win the World Cup in
(07:30):
two years. Okay, yes, they're missing a striker, but This
is like next generation Spain. All their great players are young.
They put a lot of pressure on the opposition. They
were the best team in the Euros by far. I mean,
they would have wiped up the floor with Argentina. It
was like the Copa was like a rock fight with
Argentina and Uruguay compared to watching Spain, like they just
(07:52):
put so much pressure on everybody else. Now they're missing
a striker and you need and to win World Cups,
as we've seen, you need the couple of games where hey,
things are not going our way and you have the
one striker that can tip play because he could take
one great shot from outside the box where he can
make one great run and that's the difference in the game.
You need that and they don't have that. But overall
(08:12):
Spain is not only the best, but like I said,
they're young, and in two years, I don't know that
it's not gonna be just an easy march to the
World Cup for Spain. I'm telling you right now because
two years, amou when it happens gonna be oh man, yeah, Jason, yeah,
telling you Spain is gonna win the World Cup in
a couple of years, and it and and it might
be one of those like German runs from like ten
years ago, and we thought they were gonna have this
(08:33):
huge dynasty. But when they steamrolled to the to the
World Cup, I mean, that's how good Spain was. And
all these players, they're all so young, and they're so talented,
and they're so fast, and just you know, in two
years they're gonna be even more in their prime. I mean,
it's it's really going to be something to watch. So
for all of this, Hey, we're gonna see the United
States now here. In two years, Spain's gonna be hoisting
(08:53):
the World Cup trophy.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It's gonna I just look at the gap again, couldn't
get out of you know, the basics in Copa America.
Let alone try to fight through and make him run.
And then you look at the Euro twenty twenty four.
Now it's some of the strategy when you get to
extra time and stuff. You know that I wanted to
throw rocks at my TV at points because of the
(09:15):
we're not playing to win, we're just playing not to lose,
and then we'll take our chances and penalties. But one
of my favorite photos coming out of Euro twenty twenty
four was Lemin Yamal, who turned seventeen the day before
he gets the title, and he was on the field
and he's holding his little brother and he's smiling, he's laughing.
(09:35):
So I mean, that's another twenty years of misery for
international soccer participants going against him, because you know he's
gonna trade his ass up and he's gonna be ready
to run over people too. Some of the moves that
kid was making yesterday. And he plays defense too, right,
we all the one thing that we always talk about
in these competitions is, yeah, I can get a run
(09:57):
from the guys on the wings. Yeah, but are they
going to commit and play back and go and play defense.
This guy was getting after it, and part of it
is the hey, youth, you're getting your shot, but you
gotta get me both ways. Okay, cool, But if he
keeps that up, I mean you're really in trouble because
his footwork and his speed is just gonna be a
(10:18):
problem for years to come. So yeah, Spain was just
so much fun to watch in a tournament that was
great overall, but let's face it, not not classic classically
esthetically pleasing at times.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
No team overall. Both tournaments were not esthetically pleased. Like
most of the teams had trouble scoring. Yeah, the only Spain. Look,
because Spain had what forty five goals in six games? Whatever,
it was. A lot of teams had trouble scoring. It
was very it was very difficult. And and you know
the big thing I take away one of the most
(10:51):
fun things from from the Cope America right because we
we'll get to the fact that hard Rock Stadium was
overrun by Argentina fans last night. You know, my favorite
part of the COPA was is that watching Alexi Lawless
and Clint Dempsey and Carly Lloyd on set. It's such
a marked difference from when the United States is playing
(11:12):
and when anybody else is playing, Like when anybody else
is playing and they go to then Robstone at halftime says, hey,
all right here, hey halftime, a great game. We got
Argentina halftime in you'reguay nothing nothing. What do you think Carly,
who's had the better end of the play, and Carlo
it says, well, it's about fifty to fifty so far.
Both teams are doing good things. Alexi, what do you think? Well, look,
I like what I like what Argentina is doing here.
(11:33):
I got a little bit of question or Columbia rather,
I got a little questions for Columbia here. But Columbia
is doing this. This is okay. This year Clinton, what
do you think? Well, look, I like what I saw
here out of Argentina. All right, what'd you think in
the Euro Well, I like what I saw out of Anglo.
I like here. And then but you put them on
after the United States plays a game and it's like
they're foaming at the mouth to say how bad we suck? Right,
(11:55):
Like that's like like you you watch them and go,
we need to fire Burholter, and the players all stink,
and we all stink, and what are we doing with
us soccer? And you could feel the steam coming out
of the television set. But then you watch them last
night and it's like, oh, yeah, you know, here's just
regular soccer analysis. Yeah. No, I like here in the
first half of the defense needs to be a couple
(12:15):
of times there's missed assignments and they were able to
get back. But that's okay, they're gonna get that for
the second half. Where in the United States it's look
at these misde signments. This is not this is not
something that can happen. Greig Burlter must pay with his
life for this job. I cannot believe this. But every
every other team is oh yeah, hey it's this, Oh no, no,
this is guy. Both teams are playing well, both these
have a chance. That that's such a marked difference because
(12:38):
I'm like, I turn on the television, I'm like, they're
just foaming at them out. They're like racehorses when you
get out. I want to be the first one to
say Greg Burallter's gotta get fired. But then everything else
is just yeah, we're cool, we're here, we're talking about
this is here in euro and Spain and England and
everything else, and Jude Bellingham and all out, George George Row.
It's it's it's such a difference watching that coverage, it
(12:59):
was insane.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Well, but if you go on Twitter or your various
social media platforms and you follow along when they're talking,
they're getting just as much heat back at them. So
it's really a fun back and forth. But whenever they
go in on the US soccer, the organization, the build up,
the you know, and our system in the US as
(13:20):
a whole, you might as well have My most used
meme is that Elmo with the fire behind him? You
might as well get that, you know, with that chorus
from the Duel of the Fates out of Star Wars
working behind it as they start talking, Because that's really
where we head when we get into US soccer with
former legends like Lawless and Dempse.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But I'm sitting in I'm going I'm going, really, we're
this worried about about the United States and too is
when Spain could beat us seven to nothing right now?
I mean seriously, I mean, really, how were this worried
about it? When about I mean, come on, we we
lost the Columbia what five one? And they I don't
think they scored a goal all the way to the
to the finals of Copa. It's like, it's like, really
worried about Spain's gonna Spain's gonna win by one hundred?
(14:02):
What are we worried about here? What are you really
going crazy about? H exit? Out about a Fresca exit,
swollen dome Jason Smith, Mike Harmon in for Cavino and
Rich today I will have more soccer coming up again
because apparently, you know, it's gonna be difficult for us
to hold the World Cup because you know, we're not
ready at hard Rock Stadium, but coming up next we
are here at the break MLB Home run Derby coming
(14:22):
up later on tonight and two Big bowld predictions for
the second half Major League Baseball coming up next right
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Speaker 1 (16:05):
Fox Sports Radio Cavino and Rich Jason Smith, Mike Harmon
in for the guys. Today we make our return to
the airwaves and advance of our turn to our our
night show tomorrow night. After big vacations for both of
us United Kingdom. Harmon still making bracelets for Taylor Swift.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I'm already working towards two years from now when the
next tour happens.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, because you got to have more bracelets by yet.
The advancements and bracelets in two years, you got to
you gotta start working on it. Well.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I also think I'm gonna start just taking them to
every game and making them for every game and concert.
I go to you and just try to make friends
and have a network because it allows me to talk
about Fox Sports Radio a lot too.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Here. Oh you'll be the bracelet guy. You'll be the
bracelet Oh no, go talk to the bracelet guy. He's
that host on the raid. He's got Taylor Swift bracelets, man,
Go talk to him. He's great. We did a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I did a bunch of evangelizing, both in Ireland and
in uh uh, in Dublin and in London and getting
around and you know, talking to folks like because I
was wearing a Bear's pullover quite often, and you know,
I met an inordinate number of Lions fans.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
While I was playing.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Let me just put it that way. And when you're
on the train at twelve thirty in the morning, I
was going to get eleanor she went and hung out
with a friend that happened to be in London the
same time. Odd fund But I go to get on
a train and there's seven drunk.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
You mean you were on the tube. You were on
the tubes. I was on the underground. Mind the gap
moving fast. Mind the Gap, Mind the Gap.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I want to know how many millions of dollars of
merch they sell that say mind the Gap.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Mind the Gap. I was looking for mind the Gap
hoodie and I couldn't find one. I really wanted to
mind the Gap.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I went to like ten stores that yah, that's all
they had T shirts and hoodies.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah. I couldn't find any mine. And I couldn't find
any of the the Mets Phillies games from it early
in June unclear. It's like, where's all that stuff that's
probably like five pounds? Where's that? Like the star. I'm like,
come on, man, I couldn't find any of that stuff,
and I wanted it. I'm like, I want I'll buy that.
I'll buy that Nike Mets Phillies you know, London series
hoodie for four pounds. Yeah, sure, come on give me that. No,
(18:10):
I couldn't find it.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I was really hoping to run into a bunch of
that because we went we went over to Nodding Hill
and they have a giant street market, so you got
all sorts of jewelry, clothes, a bunch of clever things.
But I was figuring I'd run into some of that
gear for you there, and it was none to be found.
But I did have a nice fresh made crape off
a truck, So that was delicious, very nice.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Uh So, while Mike and I are back, we have
the Home Run Derby coming up later on tonight. Uh
Pete Alonzo trying to win again. Look out the bats
are He's.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Like McConaughey and dazed and confused.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You know. The thing is is like, this is the
one day a year that I really miss Chris Berman,
like because you know, of all the things that Berman
did throughout his entire career calling the Home Run Derby,
where he had a call for every single ball that
went out of the stadium right like like like everybody
he would hit like twenty four home runs apiece, and
(19:02):
he would just back back, back, back God. And by
the time he got to like the fourth round of
the derby, he had no voice.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Back back back God, that back, God back God.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Now guys just hit home runs and call ravaged talks
and oh yeah, what a big power display this is
by Julio Rodriguez, And oh boy, Alonzo's now got five
home runs in the row. No, No, Berman would call
every seme brack Brack Brack Praca God and it's packed
packed and it got and I miss that and I'm like,
this is the one because I really like at the
end when he couldn't even speak and he had absolutely
(19:34):
no voice. Now we're getting in the finals and can't
I really I can't.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Find a way back back brack God.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
But this is the guy.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
You keep that energy up, you know what I mean.
It's just another home run.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
That was a great pieces of Burmanism. Now you could
just create it like the soundboard like we had for
Doc Emrick. Sure, and he doesn't have to be live.
You're literally just sitting there with a key like you're
a DJ at a club or you just AI him.
Now I got a I Burman. Some of the calls
here are outstanding.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
He's in the game back back back, like hauntibal lector
at the end of silence of the Lamb's gone. You know,
you can just tell anything in there.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
You want to. This is the one days comparedlect that's
great and uh fava beans.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Oh and Pete Alonzo eating that ball like fava beans
and a nice kiante gone home run there. But it
does a dimssa like this is he we should be
there to call the home run, not even NFL Draft
all this stuff not, but to hear him call every
time there's like four hundred and seventy three home runs
hit tonight and he calls, would call every single while,
like I missed that, Like Rabbits has been doing it
(20:51):
now for almost a decade. And I'm like, come on, man,
this is when you can allow Berman to do something.
I mean, come on, the guy built. ESPN's like, no, no, no,
we're shutting him out. Now, we're shouting.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
You can't do any thing for us anymore, just shutting
them out, can't do anything.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But look sitting here at the break of the MLB season,
a couple of big things going forward. Right. Number one,
Look how good the Mets are. I mean, come on, man,
I mean you want to you want to talk about
MVPs and great seasons people are having. There's Aaron Judge
and then there's Grimace. I mean, come on, man, Look wow,
what Grimmas has been able to do the last month
and a half for the Come on, that's unmatched in
(21:25):
all of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yeah, my Grimace slides really went over well. When I
got back and did my one day run to Las Vegas. Oh,
nice to talk about taking over a pool.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, dude, I'll tell you man, you were Grimace slides.
People are gonna either gonna gonna grab you and steal
those from you, or they're gonna be your best friends.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
They did ask me if I was a Mets fan,
where I had to laugh. I go, no, I just
celebrate the fact that this guy was an evil character
when he was brought in. Check the lare, check the lare.
But no, it's so, they said.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
So wait a minute. So so the guy you're best
friends with that you do a radio show with, he's
the Mets fan and he likes Grimace. Yeah, and you
were wearing the Grimace slides. Yeah, okay, that doesn't track well.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I mean, he's it doesn't make any say it does.
And then I get deeper into the purple. I actually
I am wearing purple shorts today in honor of our return.
And you know what, shut up. So yeah, it's uh,
Grimace is one of the phenomenon that I mean, really,
we'll see if it carries over into the second half. Now,
(22:26):
your team's gonna have to pitch a whole lot better,
because what's kind of funny is you look at Team
E R A and Major League Baseball teams, you would
expect there's the Rockies and the Marlins. Oh, the White
Sox are down there, and then over at number twenty
two the Mets, T three, TV, E R Pitch Twitch.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
We have Grimace, that's all. Weedy, we have Grimace, that's all.
But seriously, you know again, the two best players this
year have been Grimace and Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge is
gonna end up I'll tell you this. He's gonna end
up twenty twenty four, and we're gonna say this is
the best year we've seen a guy have in fifteen
(23:04):
years in Major League Baseball. He's already got better stats
than Bryce Harper, who won the MVP two years ago
with like thirty five homers and ninety four RBI. He's
got more than that at the break right, his ops
is like one, it's one point one seven. Like I
know Sodo got all the run early on, but he
is having one of those. He could hit sixty five
(23:26):
home runs and knock in one hundred and sixty runs right,
Like I think, like Sammy Sosa is the last guy
UH to get to that what we are not going
one hundred and sixty runs like twenty five years ago,
and Judge can make a run on that. He's gonna
wind up with a season of like hitting like three
ten or three fifteen, sixty five homers and one hundred
and sixty RBIs. And again, that's the best season we'll
(23:46):
have seen in over fifteen years. You got to go
back to like a rd it was two thousand and
six or two thousand and seven when a Rod had
like fifty and knocked in one fifty. But this is this,
this is the kind of year that Judge is having
where he's already better ring other people who have won
m vps in the last few years with what he's
done just in the first ninety five games. Like, what
he's doing is unbelievable. And look, you know, I'm being
(24:09):
serious about this because you know a Mets fan and
b you know, Gunnar Henderson's my m v P pick
in the American League. That's not happening. But what Aaron
Judge is doing, forget it. I mean, Aaron Judges is
having that guy.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
I have a way that that falls apart o man
part and part of it was during the UH the
MLB coverage on Fox a little earlier today, watching the interviews,
watching all the back and forth, it's it's it's a fun,
festive environment with a Rod and Jeter and Ortiz, and
I agree, they just kind of threw up the well.
(24:40):
I don't know that I pitched to him, and I
forget who said it, because you know, wandering around doing it,
you know, working working over to the side, you just
had the sound nun and one of them just said, ah,
they ought to bonds them. I never pitched to him again.
I thought it was the best respond just one word, bonds,
like what they should bonds it, and that's the end
(25:04):
of the home run threat from there. It boy, Aaron
Judge has been walked four times tonight. That is forty
seven walks in his last five games. He has not
had an official act bat in three weeks. This is very,
very difficult.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I mean, you look at that squad, right, you know,
and you go and break down would be contenders and
try to paint in what they need to do right. Obviously,
with the Yankees and with most teams, it's a lot
about rotations and depth and everything on that side. But
for the Yankees, they're having some of the same struggles.
Like say the Dodgers are out here is you got
(25:39):
a couple of guys that are been fantastic at the
plate and a bunch of guys who have it and
historically who played well. So you're looking for turnarounds. But
think outside of Judge and Soto, you you can mess
around a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
And well, that's what that's not. That's how they'll run too,
That's how they'll project to protect that is. They're just
gonna they'll just bat so behind Judge. It's like, okay,
right now they're bat set to in front of Judge. Oh,
they're walking Judge too much. Well, let's flip up.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
These the only two guys that can get on base again.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
With it, Let's walk both of them, all right, But
they're gonna be first and second. Doesn't matter first and
second that we'll we'll work it out. We'll put those
guys on base. Everybody else we can get out, doesn't matter.
It'll work. It'll work.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Yeah, I mean, they're still top for all their struggles,
and it's more recent. Man, they're eighteen games above five hundred.
They had that come to Jesus moment where you had
to have Cashman and Steinbunner show up when they were
down in Tampa. Uh, there's still fourth in team ERA
at three five four, even with one guy falling off
(26:38):
after another right Rodin had the run, great run up
top and now he's struggling and just keep going on
down the line. But from the hitting perspective, there's an
opportunity to Uh, they're gonna make some noise, I would
suspect as we get into the into the trade deadline
hitting two forty seven, which sadly enough, in Major League
Baseball today is good enough for eleventh.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Major So there's your first big BULLPITIX for the second
half of Major League Baseball. The second a big time
World Series contender. I am absolutely worried about. But first,
Dan Bayer has what's trending in the wide world of
Sports dB.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
What do you got for US guys?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Interesting day in the world of basketball, Team USA playing
an exhibition against Australia, one that the Americans were victorious
in ninety eight ninety two. Anthony Davis in that ninety
eight ninety two win, had seventeen points in fourteen rebounds
for Team USA. But it's a guy who's not on
Team USA. That could be making some headlines, as Clipper's
president Lawrence Frank says the team was disappointed that Kawhi
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Leonard wasn't kept on the US Olympic team, claiming it
was solely the call of USA Basketball. Frank believes that
there was no setback for Leonard as he returns from
a knee injury, adding that Kawhi looked good in practices
and that ultimately, yeah, team USA decided to make a change.
Tonight it's the Home Run Derby, then tomorrow the Midsummer Classic.
You'll see it on Fox as the Al takes on
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the NL. We knew that Paul Schmes was going to
start from the National League. Today we found out the
starting lineups and the starting pitcher for the American League
as Orioles Ace Corbyn Burns will be tabbed as the
starter for the American League Tomorrow night in Arlington. Presno
State and football coach Jeff Tedford stepping down because of
medical reasons. It's his second stint at the school, now
stepping down after two seasons where the Bulldogs went to
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Bowl games in both of those years. Assistant linebackers coach
Tim Skipper will now serve as the school's interim head coach.
The Lions will be inducting Hall of Fame wide receiver
Calvin Johnson into the Pride of the Lions at halftime
of their Monday night game against the Seahawks on September thirtieth.
Keithon Mitchell of the Ravens going to start the year
on the pup list as he returns from that torn
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acl and the winner of this week's Open Championship at
Royal Troon, we'll take home three point one million dollars,
still not as much as Bryson de Shamba won at
the US Open, but still the highest amount that a
winner would take o take home in the Open Championship.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Guys, back to you, Thank you, dB. So just real
quick before you get back. So the Clippers who need
Kawhi Leonard healthy right like this is the whole We
gave him three years, one hundred and fifty minute. He's
not been healthy for five years. They're upset that he's
not gonna have to play more basketball in the summer.
They're upset. Really they want him on Team USA so
we can go through all the wear and the air
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and then come back after a short time away to
get ready for the season. They're really upset that he's
not on Team U.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
It's like, come on, man, it is really It is
one of the more curious turns that we have, right
because when Kawhi left Team USA, it wasn't the report
that it was a mutual decision and that the Clippers
actually had a lot of sway and saying this in
terms of wear and tear and where he was not
that he didn't look fantastic. I think that's been put there,
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you know, by all camps throughout this process. But Laurenn's
Frank going out of his way to say, hey, that
wasn't us.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Don't blame us.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
I mean, is he is he trying to apologize to
you know, for the U the entire Derek White, Jalen
Brown things. Look, if they just kept Kawhi like we
wanted him to, you guys wouldn't have all of this
other content.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I mean, come on, just interesting, like, hey, we really
need him healthy. Oh so he doesn't have to play
all summer. Yeah yeah, yeah, Oh well now we're upset.
What what do you mean you're upset? Just be happy that
he's sitting and not getting more a wear intore. So
here we are at the All Star break and I
am honestly not from making the playoffs. But this is
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a World Series or bust year for the Dodgers, who
spent all kinds of money on Otana. Yes it's deferred,
but they win the bidding war for him. They spend
money on Tyler glass Now, they spent three hundred million
dollars on Yamamoto, and they have been a five hundred
team for the last couple of months. And they are
in a big time pickle with starting pitching. And this
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is why I'm worried, because normal is that, well the
deadline the Dodgers, they need something they can go get.
There's not any starting pitching that's gonna be really available
to the deadline that you really want to go get.
This is not one of those years where, oh, there's
so many guys out there. If we need a starting
pitcher dead, we can get him. They are banking on
the returns of Kershaw, Buehler, Miller and glass Now and Yamamoto,
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and that's just too much. Right. Kershaw is thirty six,
coming off an injury that's gonna keep him out till
the middle of the year. How good can he really be? Right, Bueller.
They sent him down to the miners because he's got
pasted when he was up here for his eight starts
trying to come back. Miller goes down to the miners
because he's not good. You have no idea when Yamamoto
is gonna pitch again. You gave him three hundred million dollars. Yeah,
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jo Jim is sixty day. I mean yea with this
kind of year from Otani and there's not a lot
of help out there, like this is this is not
suddenly a hey winner take all, Dodgers are gonna roll all.
Like I could see the Dodgers just just getting swept
out of the of the playoffs easily because they don't
have anybody that can throw in the fall, like you,
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you need some kind of starting if there's anything we
saw last year, Hey, the Dodgers with Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman,
this lineup can hit. What happened boom Kershaw got rocked
around in the first game against the Padres, and that
they were done right Like I am like if you
said to me, hey, the no, no, no, it's wide
open because the Dodgers have so much starting pitching problems
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and you can't just bank that everybody coming back is
gonna be healthy because they're not. Right. You get although, yeah,
you got five guys coming back, but they're all trying
to come back, and you have no pitching now, and
you don't know what they're gonna come back, like a suddenly,
Walker buell A gonna come back and be unbeatable, Like
you're hoping Tyler Glass now is able to come back
soon and likely he will be. So that's gonna be okay. Look,
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the guy's an All Star. But everything else you were
counting on. You didn't go that crazy in the offseason
because you knew, well, we got Curse Shaw coming back
and Bueller's gonna be back, and now these are all
huge question marks. Man. The Dodgers have not played well.
They've just kind of been treading water. And this is
a team that gets to the playoffs and all of
a sudden, it's what just happened in that quick series,
you know, they lost, They lost seven to six, eight five,
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and ninth and nine to four, like like that's what
I can see for the Dodgers. So there's like worry
and then there's hey, man, I'm not going to be
surprised this is a quick out for the Dodgers in
the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
It's tough, I mean, because you talk about the starting
pitching woes and then we can immediately turn it right
back over into the starting lineup. And what you've seen
is struggles outside of your all stars. And now you expect
Mookie Bets back, you know, hopefully what early August is
the expected return. But some of the prospects that you
used to complain about that we're all hitting three fifty
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when they called up. Guess what, I think they're hitting
a combined three fifty right now. So you've got those
struggles that are going on in terms of that next
level process. But yeah, you go through and look at
what starting pitching may be available. I mean, you got
Crochet of the White Sox that everybody's gonna come after
as one of the targets. But how many innings does
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he have left? Can you use him as a starter?
Does he have to go to the pen and then
maybe re emerge, you know, as you know, a ha,
here's another lefty if his stuff and his arm are
still good. So you got that at a couple of guys,
you know, Evaldi and a couple of guys maybe depending
on what.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Detroit decides to do.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
But there's not a lot. You know, you're talking about
some veteran arms that are on the injured list I
see on some of the reports and rumors. But to
your point, everybody's looking for pitching and they aren't a
lot of it available. So you know you're gonna have
to go and be really aggressive in the marketplace if
you're trying to shore that up. But I'm with you,
it's it's one of those hand ringing kind of seasons
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based on everything you did to put this roster together.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, like all of a sudden, if they get knocked
out in the early I'd say, yeah, one hundred percent.
I can see it because they just don't have the
starting pitching. They'll be starting having bullpen I can see
bullpen games in game two, but we have Tyler Glastow
in game one? What about Game two bullpen game? What
about Game three bullpen game? What about Game four? We
have no idea, Like that's what I see for the like, Like,
there's a lot of worry. It's not just good because
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it's just been a steady stream of the last decad
and if well, the Dodge will be fine. We get
to the playoffs, Yeah, they'll get there, but all of
a sudden, man, I mean, I don't know how you
solve that problem because everybody's not coming back healthy and
who knows when you're gonna get y'ama motor or anybody.
This is a really big deal, man a Tina. We
had written into the World Series. I can see them.
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I can see them lose of the Mets in the
first round.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
If I, oh, how dare you look at that?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Huh? You're really just trying.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
First day, you're picking fights with Frostburg to that level.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Oh no, goodbye, I haven't got got talked about the
Mets for like nine days.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
I can't talk.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
I can't talk about the Mets in Scotland. Nobody knows
how I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Oh no, that's why. That's why you just stand a
post like so many guys do for religious, political, or
other purposes. You're just stumping for the Mets. What's your grievance, sir, Well,
let me tell you about the Mets. Ever since this
mythical character came down to us, and you're holding up
a pamphlet that has a picture of Grimace on it,
and now you're evangelizing.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, I go stand in front of the University of
Saint Andrews with a sign that says the Mets are
the best. Changed my mind. That's not about way to go.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
How many of those did you see during your European travels?
As sure as ell saw a lot of them, A
lot of bullhorns barking at me at what I should
and shouldn't do.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
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But look to spend a couple of minutes here on
one of the tragic stories of this weekend, the loss
of Jacoby Jones, who passed away on Sunday in his
sleep at his home. It was it was a shock,
It was the it was something that I no, no, no,
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not Jacob, Jacoby Jones. This is a guy who was
always so full of fun and and and every every
player who ever played with him said he was one
of the best teammates I've ever had. He was fantastic
and just an unbelievably sad story. And when I when
I thought about this and thinking about Jacoby Jones, I'm
thinking about talking about him today, and I go, you know,
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this is a guy that really you know, ten years
have gone by since this, since the Ravens won the
Super Bowl and it still stuns me that he wasn't
the Super Bowl MVP that we're we're not paying homage
to Jacoby Jones Super Bowl forty seven MVP, right, because
the Ravens beat the forty nine Ers in that Super Bowl.
It was the big power outed Super Bowl where the
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forty nine Ers came from behind. You had the questionable
fourth down pass and the end zone to Crabtree with
no pass interference being called, and Joe Flacco is the
MVP and looked. Flako had a good game. He threw
for three hundred yards and a couple of touchdowns. But
Jacoby Jones, really it baffles me because this game went
This was a huge lead for the Ravens, right, and
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then the lights went out, and when they got the
power back on was when the forty nine Ers came back.
This wasn't Joe Flacco going up and down the field
answering every forty nine Ers score the score of his own.
Jacoby Jones caught a fifty six yard touchdown from Flacco.
That was a play that he Flacco underthrows a ball
that Jones comes back for catches the ten yard line,
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goes down, gets up, runs around the defenders and into
the end zone for a score. This is not hey,
Jones had a step on the defender and Flacco puts
in a perfect spot. This is Jacoby Jones makes this
touchdown and yeah, okay, his only catch the game, but
a fifty six yard touchdown to give them a two
score lead. And then he opens up the second half
with the longest scoring play in Super Bowl history, one
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hundred and eight yard kickoff return for a touchdown like
this gave them a twenty eight to ten lead. Like
the game was over at that point. Yes, the forty
nine ers did come back and it was a great
comeback by them, and the defense had to hold on.
But you're talking about the guy that made the two
biggest plays in the game to give them an incredible lead.
And yeah, let's default to Flacco because he's the quarterback.
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I mean, Jones is the MVP of that game. Again,
the two biggest plays, and I guess, yes, they are
two plays, but you know it's a kickoff return. It's
one hundred and eight yards for a touchdown. What else
do you want from the guy? Right? I mean, it's
fifty six yard touchdown by getting up and getting into
the end zone when it was a play that that
Flacca was running for his life on and just chucked
it up like I really, the more time goes on,
I'm saying, how is he not? How are we not
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saying we're paying homatch? Jacoby Jones super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Now, I remember being in a We're at a restaurant.
We'd been doing coverage of that game all week. Only
a couple guys got to actually go. But it was cool,
like we had a giant TV. We're watching this and
that was the first thing we're yelling after. You know,
Flaco gets the award. Now you look at it twenty
two to thirty three to eighty seven and three, But yeah,
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normally you want to reserve it to impactful plays and
what are going to be memorable?
Speaker 1 (41:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
For me, I got a guy that just just getting
his his Hall of Fame jacket, Devin Hester, part of
which was the lore of having a touchdown return in
a Super Bowl, not to mention the one hundred and
fifty eight others that he had through his career. Plight
for Jacoby Jones always just a guy that, you know,
I've got a lot of media friends in Baltimore, said
he was always the first guy to sign up. If
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they needed someone to show up to a charity thing
or any kind of event, just call me, and you know,
my timeline just flooded with pictures. Just a tragic, horrible
loss and hopefully a little light shone on the run
he had because I don't think anybody hyped him up
as a would be fantasy star more than me for.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Years, I'll tell you. And he had to call it
the mile High Miracle, which will get to next hour
on the show. I mean he had, he had some
kind of creative should have been Jacoby Jones super Bowl MVP,
which could have set him up for so many other things,
you know, after his playing days were over. Just an
absolute tragedy. Rest in peace, Jacoby Jones, forty years old.
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