April 1, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason gives out his first bold prediction of the MLB season. Jimmy Haslam says to blame the DeShaun Watson signing on him. And the Giants seem to be letting us know they're *not* going to take Shedeur Sanders at number 3!
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Looks like Yukon is set to punch their ticket to
the Final four. USC had cut the score to fifty
four forty eight and looked like the Trojans a little
bit of momentum here.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Things are getting a little dicey and.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Page Beckers hits two knee knocking and I mean for
Yukon fans, knee knocking mid range jumpers. Very Kevin Durant
like to push the lead back out to eight, and now.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It's at twelve after a three.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So just when they needed something because it looked like
Yukon was slowly giving this lead away to a non
Juju Watkins USC team. Page Beckers hits two mid range
jump shots that pushes that lead back out and now
the Yukon lead is back safely into double digits.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
And then she had a nice little handoff and had
three that gets knocked down, but usus continuing to bring
the fight at the free throw line with the clock stop,
greatest momentum swing right there. Smith had a couple of
points on the board and try to get back in
and claw into this game. But it's been a fun
battle watching Yukon struggle and watching Geno Oriamas you know,
(01:55):
we need that picture and picture of the coach, so
we'll keep.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You updated on this again.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And it's a sixty four to fifty one lead for
Yukon about six minutes to go in the fourth quarter,
the final of the final four teams women's tournament.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
About to be named in Jason minutes. Yeah, what do
you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Make sure every time you talk about that, you make
sure in every sentence, Juju Watkins is out.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I pick people know that. I think Watkins is out.
Juju Watkins is that not playing? Not playing tonight? Juju Watkins.
Cheryl Miller also not playing tonight. None of them are playing,
none of the former great USC greats. They're not playing tonight,
not playing. Juju Watkins out without Juju Watkins.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I don't think you'd play like golf where you get
extra points or anything with it.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
But I think you, like, maybe that's how they call it.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yukon leads USC without Juju Watkins, Like it's not the
USC Trojans. There, USC without Juju Watkins.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Is the name. That's exactly how it goes for the
rest of the tournament.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, there you go USC without Juju Watkins. Uh So, Again,
this could be Paige Page Becker's moment, could be her tournament.
She has another jumper again, a thirteen point lead for
Yukon with about five and a.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Half left to go without Jaffrew Watkins.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Without you, Yes, without ju Ju Watkins, and and you
can not but not like Juju Watkins got traded.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Uh Yukon is not playing with Juji Watkins. Uh So. Look,
we talked about the torpedo bats. Uh. You know, we
got a couple of.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Big h takes on this because it's taken baseball by store,
it's become the biggest story in the sport. But before
you get to that, I gotta say this. I can
already tell you the next star that's going to be traded.
We have played not even a full week of Major
League Baseball, and I can already tell you the next
star player who will be dealt sooner rather than later.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
You ready hit me.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
It won't be Garrett Croshe. It's good to got traded
from the White Sox and got a contract extension worth
about double the highest the White Sox have ever paid out.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oh yeah, he got a he got a lot of.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Money, six years, won seventy baby.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Come on now, he got a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
So it's not him.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Uh No, it's not him. It is not him.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And uh and and the Mets won tonight. Peede Alnzo
hit a Grand Slam. It's not pin Alonzo. Right, you
know it's not pin Alonzo. But I guarantee you if
you need a third basement, if you need a hitter,
you can call the Red Sox and get Rafael Divers
some point, very very soon. This is not just an
historically awful start for Divers because of all the drama
(04:15):
that's gone along with it. Right, Divers now is OH
for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts so far this season for
the Red Sox. Now you can talk about he's at
a slow start. He didn't have a lot of at
bats in spring training, and I saw a lot of
talk today well as bats, beet is behind it. Of
course it's behind. He's OH for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts.
What do you You're telling me something I already know.
(04:36):
But this is not just here's a star who has
started slow. If you remember when the Red Sox went
out and got Alex Bregman, this guy's a goal glove
third baseman, and Rafael Divers is not right. He's a
below average third baseman. And when this trade was made,
Divers said, I told them I am a third baseman.
I'm a third basement. I'm not playing anywhere else. I'm
a third baseman. And the Red Sox tried to figure
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it out early in spring training by saying, hey, let's
try Bregman at second base. It's like, what, come on,
don't be stupid. But the guy's at third basement. You
figure things out now, and Divers was absolutely absolutely his
situation was in flux, and then they decided near the
end of spring training, Divers you're the DH and Bregman's
at third base, which is probably the right move, except
(05:19):
now you look at Divers again.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Oh for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
All right, now, I'm not gonna sit here and say
he's tanking, you know, although the timing is really weird that, hey,
after he's so upset at the team that he doesn't
want to do anything but play third base, this is
how he starts out, Oh for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Timing is a little curious.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
However, is how much is Devers still mentally locked in?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
There's talk about him being overweight. Jonathan Papplebond, former Red
Sox clothes went off on mat on social media earlier today.
It just doesn't seem like this is a situation that
with time can get solved. If you start out slow,
certain things happen. Yes, first week Major League Baseball, Well,
it's not a lot to get into. There has been
a lot of drama, and you can see how bad
of a start this is. That this is off. This
(06:07):
is off to and again I don't know how how
divers is how much he has committed mentally, because it really,
again all of the stuff happening, and here he is
zero for nineteen and fifteen strikers. Like that doesn't happen,
Like that's not a run that And I think Pat
Burle had a run like that in the World Series
like fifteen years ago. But that kind of run doesn't
happen if you are locked in, if you're missing him.
(06:28):
Maybe he needs torpedo bats, maybe he needs a thousand
torpedo bats. But this has not been a situation that
has gone on then that has started out well, and
it just seems to be deteriorating on the field. And
at some point there's going to be pushed to a trade.
And I guarantee you you can. You can call and
get Rafael Devers and the Red Sox will listen at
some point, very very soon. If he makes it out
of April as a Red Sox player, I would be
(06:50):
surprised at this point.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I mean, it's not a month.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
But if he takes a little bit time to make
a trade to realize this isn't working out, we can't
get him back. We're not going to get him back mentally,
We're not going to get him back to be in
the player he was. He's twenty eight years old. We
paid him a lot of money, but still teams will
go out and get him. But by the end of April,
you can go out and get Rafael Dever.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah, I mean this becomes a huge issue.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I mean we talked about it in spring training and
wondering how long it would take to come to a head.
More so just a clubhouse kind of dissent and having
an issue. The fact that Devers's game is just tanked altogether, yeah,
is just amazing, right because it's it's one of those
we see guys going the phones. I mean, hell, I
(07:32):
watched the first game right in the Yankees Brewers game,
you know, that was the first thing on Friday, and
you watch Churio couldn't hit the broadside of a barn.
It's one game, Okay, a couple doubles since, not that
he's off to a hot start, but clearly he's at
least got some semblance and consistency in his approach. Falling
(07:56):
pitches off, extending at bats, whatever before going down is
just lost right now, his his head is somewhere else,
whether it's a battle with the front office.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
I like the idea, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
This makes for good uh good hot takery of hey,
oh yeah, tak him.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
To get out of there. He's trying to force an issue.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's Look, look, if Devers is doing that, like, that's
that's something you can't like, you can't get it. Dude,
are you tanking or you just I don't care, Like
there's a difference between tank tank. You go up there,
I'm I'm I'm on purpose striking out and I'm you know,
I could hit this pitch, but I'm not going to
right like that.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I don't know that that.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Is the case as much as he doesn't care because
you throw it all in there. Mentally, how how in
was he with these moves? Not very much physically? Where
is he? And and it's not I mean, how are
you going to solve this? The guy wants to play
third base. He wants to play He says, this is
my position, even though it's like, hey, dude, understand you're
not quite the player. This makes us better. We have
(08:56):
a World Series caliber team. My when I told h
when they saw Alex Bregman, I said, listen, Red Sox.
This is a team that can go to the World Series.
They can out hit everybody, like this is gonna be
a fun playoff team, Like you'll figure out the pitching.
But man, this lineup is immensely talented and Devers has
been really good. Like the guy's been solid as as
I mean, he's a he's a twenty five hundred guy
basically every year, right, and he still hits two seventy.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
He doesn't hit two twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Like, this is a guy who is gonna give you
a war of three and a half to four, and
all of a sudden, look where he is. Man, look
at everything that's going into I don't think there's any
there's any lack of any coincidence that this is how
bad the exhibition season went and this is where we're
starting out, like like like a James Harden or somebody
else that I'm just done here and I'm gonna keep
(09:40):
just you know, kind of going out there and going
through the motions until I get a trade and I
get to someplace I want to be that I'm gonna
get to play third base and I'll be happier because
it's not like the guy suddenly has lost it. I mean,
like he's twenty eight, he still is terrific.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well he's not.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, So there are being teams going, no, we can
go get him and we know the money that's in Yeah, okay,
and they can't keep him around forever?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Right, how long do you keep him around?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I mean we're still you know, we're still We're one
day away from being in April. I was by the
end of April, Boston's gonna have a big decision to
make because either they can play him or they can't,
or they sit him. You want to trade hm while
he's still got really high value, as high value as
you're gonna get. I don't know that this is solvable.
I don't know that this is fixable. And that does
my first Bowl prediction he gets traded by the end.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I think it just comes back to the psychology of
it all, right, of like are you having a grown
up discussion with him? Like where are you in this process?
Like what do we need to do? Do we need
to send you to the sports psychologists down the street?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Is this just you and Bregman?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
We need to lock you in a room and you
guys fight, and whoever comes out gets to play third base,
owing to the fact that he's been historically terrible as
a third baseman.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Uh huh uh.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Right over the last seven years, has he not led
the major leagues and errors pretty much every year at
the position.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
So, I mean, it's not good.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
And they didn't pay you three thirteen for your fielding acumen. No, man,
I gotta imagine sitting there as he talked with the
agent and any presentations that were done in negotiations, if
he was president of them at all, at no point
did they reference his ability to play third base.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, dude, you're You're not Brooks Robinson. We're not going
back looking at some of the great plays you made
against the Reds and the nineteen seventy World Series, right.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
We're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But it is a thing like I get players are
like that, certain players are This is my position, is
what I've played my whole life, and you're telling me
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And it plays.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Into it and it gets a little bit further away
from the Hey, a player who moves from playing the
field to being a DH he's not as connect doesn't
feel as connected to the game because he's not in
the field anymore. That's different than just I'm upset that
I'm not playing my position and I'm pouting and and
I don't know what kind of effort. You know, the
guy is really giving, you know, going and mentally, whether
it's preparing or how he's going out there every night.
(11:56):
Like that's I mean, that's a that's a big thing, man,
that's a really big thing to say, Hey, Okay, I'm
gonna we're gonna stick with this guy for how long?
Like again, it's it's like a James Harden thing. How
long can you stick with somebody when this is going
on before it's just, hey, we have to move on.
For everybody involved, we just have to move on. We
have enough hitting that we can figure something else out
(12:17):
and it's okay, but we'll get stuff back for him.
A team, you know, Steve Cohen, I'm sure, or somebody
that makes you know, the Yankees or whatever. It won't
be the Yankees, but a team that has a lot
of money to spend. Hey, we're okay, we know this
guy's really good for the next ten years.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
We're okay.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
With three hundred million, that's a that's pretty good for us.
Getting a twenty five one hundred guy with a war
of about four of a year. We're pretty happy with that.
So yeah, he'd eminently be tradable. But you can't just
wait forever on it.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
So what does this mean for Rafael divers?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Rafael? What does it mean for Gail Devers? What does
it mean for trying to Gary Jeevers? Oh, Cherry che
he had the best mask, right when he had the
stitches on the mask.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
You had the stitches on the mask. That was awesome.
There you like that?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
I see what we did there.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Now, maybe he just needs a torpedo bat now, I
mean that that could be it. I don't know. If
he doesn't hurt, well, boy, that would really be something.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
If he was using a torpedo bat and he's still
got fifteen strikeouts.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Well doing that?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Wan Soto's ops is one and a half. He's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's everybody else not hitting. It's it's every single play.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Well in Lonzo the ground.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Everyone's standing there waiting for haters pitch the break. Don't
forget we also had the chiever letters.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Sure, oh, there is very good the chiever letters.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
But I want to say this that, like, like thinking
about this now with the torpedo bats, right, is that
is there a way because I think that I think
we need this now. And I don't know if a
website that will do this, but is there a way
for a website every day to aggregate all the home
runs hitting Major League Baseball that day and the number
that we're hit with a torpedo bat?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yeah, I think we just need to disclose everybody with
a torpedo bat.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You don't have to agree about the Mets game because
they're not hitting any Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I mean, well, I mean, look, Lindor's been using them
all he hasn't gotten a hit, So I mean there's that.
But I mean like, like we could start with that
and say, okay, let's see what the what the real
effect is and then get even more into her. Okay,
let's aggregate the stats of players using torpedo bats and
then see what the average is compared to players who
aren't using torpedo bats. Like that's like an Elias Sports peer.
(14:18):
Maybe maybe Steve Desager can call the great Sarah Langs
and get and get that out kind of that. I
we'll start with the home runs first, and then we'll
go with everything else and see where the where the
hitting numbers are.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Just think about how many home runs. Ron Karkawis would
a hit.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
They we'll just let and then we'll just let steroids
back in the game. Why not if you're doing that
to let steroids back in, just let them back and
why we'll do everything, give the advantage back to the hitters.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Let them do whatever they want.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I got no problem with it. Let's go. It's all
for entertainment purposes.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
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Speaker 4 (15:22):
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I am, of course making the top half of the
bracket possible because I picked Saint Johnson win it all.
I will say, Mike, I'd have been more upset at
Saint John's if I got the rest of my final
four right, because it looked like I was going to him,
Like I say, if Saint john screws me and I
get the rest of the final four right, Duke Michigan
State and Tennessee, I'm gonna be even madder at Rick Patino,
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like I might call him and say, hey, do you
have office hours? We gotta come talk about this, and
you put that white suit on when you talk to me,
to treat me with respect. But I feel a little
bit better at least that I didn't get the final
four right. It's all the number one seeds, so I'm
all right with it now. But I was there was
there's a good twenty four hours this weekend when I
was looking at the elitate going to the final four,
going are you how mad I'm gonna be if I
got the rest at right, But Saint John screwed me,
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so I'm.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Actually feeling okay, right, Yeah, Fortunately it all melting down
for you there. Clearly, you know, Michigan state popular pick
for popular people. Uh, Tennessee didn't bother to answer their
alarm clocks and missed the entire first half.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
We didn't set that. We didn't set the clocks back
this weekend, did we.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That was no, no, okay, I mean it was I
don't think there was anything there, okay.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I mean it wasn't Saint Patrick's day. I mean there
was no excuse for you know, being out partying too much.
I mean, one so strikeouts set the clocks back, dude.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
One Soda has had a great You got to pick
somebody who stinks for the Mets man, you got to
pick somebody who was stunk and mind.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Yeah, but you know what I had.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I had the one of the great sports days of
my life on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Though, Frida.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
I mean, I got a big White Sox win to
get things started. I had the Josh Giddy shot against
the Lakers, and then Wan Soto struck.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Out and had a no hitter. Till your announcers bleeping jinkstick.
Well they'll do that.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Hey, twenty three scoreless innings hurled by White Sox starters
this year.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Did they play the Mats?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And uh?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And hey, just hey, speaking of no hitters, I mean
I shouldn't say. I just want to say, right now,
the Dodgers lead the Braves for nothing. Ye Braves are
batting in the top of the fifth inning. The line
score for the Dodgers for four zero, line score for
the Braves.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Got it, Ago, I got it? Yeah, you're behind.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I am behind that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I am well, I turned I turned my TV off
to go back to the basketball game, and so I
turned my TV onto there.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
So he must have gotten hit in that in the
time that I did that.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Oh, okay, but that's before. But yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Dude, stop you still think one soda was no good?
Just stop, man, just stop, well, just at least in
that one and bad. Worry about Rokie Sasaki? Okay, worry
about hey, hey, worry about him.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
That's a fragile man, right now.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
What are you worry about him?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
What are you about a guy who gave up two runs?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, worry about Sosa. Everybody needs to hug him. It's
like so bad. I feel so bad. I feel so bad.
I feel so bad. It's okay if you did worry
about him.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
No, I do feel bad because I want to play
you in the NLCS again, and this time we have Sodo.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That's what I want. That's what.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I want to I want to see you again in
the NLCS. I'll see you there and then and then
uh and then then into the World Series. You won't
but yeah, today, today, today, the.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
NLCS, tomorrow the World Series. That's how it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
For I want to have more fun with you know,
old rosters like the eighty five Tigers, since we got
the Dodgers doing things that haven't been done since you know,
the defending champion Tigers in nineteen.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
You guys, just wait till they start using torpedo bats.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Dum Man. I'll tell you. I'll tell how Johnny with
a torpedo.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Bat for you far Max months, He's gonna launch a ball.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Wow, that get it.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
That'll be like those guys going on the driving range
or Happy Gilmore getting after it in a long, long
drive contest.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I mean, really, look the way torpedo bats it's gonna
be this is what's gonna happen. Torpedo bats are a
huge story now, right, it's new. It's something that's fun.
It's cool you're seeing the bats. Everybody's gonna use them.
There's been no push for Major League Baseball to say,
nobody use these while we look at them, they're not
gonna weigh them. Remember think that the natural like they
had the big scene where the commissioner weighed the bat,
(20:34):
make sure it was to specifications like, there's been none
of that, which there would have been right away if
there was any sort of illegality about it. And again,
this has been a bat that's been used a little
bit in the past, so it's been used.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Players are gonna use them.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Everybody's gonna try them, some people are gonna stick with them,
and then some people aren't. And that's how it's gonna go.
Is it an advantage for hitters, Yes, it is, because
you talk about being able to make the sweet start
of the sweet part of the bat a little bit better.
I don't know why it took this long for someone
to come up with, Hey, no one really hits the
ball at the very very top of the bat. Why
don't we add some of that mass to the middle
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of the bat and then you know, hey, the the
the flares turned into barrels, and the barrels turn into
home runs. Like, I can't believe no one's come up
with that. So it'll be a thing for a while
and then it'll be an accepted part. It's kind of
like that, you know. It's like it's like the spider
tack where it became this whole thing where pictures using
spider tack and it's illegal, and they load up the
ball and what happened.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It was met with less of a less of a firestorm.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And he thought it was going to be because the
batter said, hey, we actually don't mind it so much
because it allows the pictures to have better control over
the over the baseball. So once the hitter said, yeah,
you don't mind so much, it's oh, so is it
really that big a deal. We don't talk about Garrett
Cole and spider tack anymore. We don't talk about any
of the pictures.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
What I'm saying is like that that's because he was
one of the big spider shirt guy. He wan he
went on the record about it. Okay, so spider tacks
kind of went. That's kind of where this is gonna
be again. It'll be a big story, and it's a
fun story for a while. And yes, still say cheating
Yankees because it's just fun to do. But overall, this
is not that big a thing. Is that it'll be
fun for a while. Players will use it. You'll love
(22:13):
to see players on your team using the torpedo bats,
and then and then it will kind of get back
to normal and everything will be fine.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
This is not that, Sae.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I'm hoping we just have this explosion of offense just
all across Major League Baseball and then I can start
my letter writing campaign to bring back the shift.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh, I don't know. I gotta wait on that. I
think you gotta put that away for a while.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
No, oh I'm bringing it back.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I think you might be able to, but not right away.
You gotta let that sit for a while. You gotta
bring something else back first. You got you got something
else that's been away for a while that people miss
that they may want to vote to bring back, like
the shift has been. Hey, it's too new in everybody's mind.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
It's too soon. You gotta gotta wait on that a little.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
How about giving them mets a tee to hit off.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Dude, dude, we started out zero to five. Last year
we made the NLCS. We're two and two. Everything is fine,
Everything is fine.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
You're tied with the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Worry about Sasaki, worry about yeah, and and we fought,
and clearly we found out. Speaking of peed A, Lonzo's
grand slant today, big Meat Pete, I think Alonzo killed
the Brewers.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I mean really, I think that. I think that's what
I think. I think he killed the Brewers franchise.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Man.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Well, I think it's the other way around. He killed
a Brewer legend.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I think, oh stop with that, stop, oh stop, forget
about my crass joke. The video of that guy that
was going around saying what he thought about the Brewers
today over the line.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Over the lot over. Yeah, I think it a little
bit over the line.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I think it's a little over the line, a little bit,
tiny bit, tiny bit, tiny bit too soon.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Tiny bit over the.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Okay, yeah, and ask Gale Divers to uh So, we
have a lot of poker being played by the top
teams in the NFL draft.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
We talked about this with Jason lock and for a
last hour right the Titans came out and said, hey,
getting a franchise quarterback is incredibly important. You got you
gotta have it. That being said, we're listening to offers
for the number one overall pick. Okay, all right, fine,
the Browns today you got Jimmy Haslam owner saying, hey,
swinging a miss on de Sean Watson, blame us, but
(24:14):
we're not gonna get locked into taking a quarterback at two.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Okay, poker, I signed Miles Garrett. That's enough.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And then and then you had the Giants going to
the wall talking about how we're not locked in to
taking a quarterback at three. Joe Shane talked a lot
about this today. Right, So of these three teams, right,
and there's two quarterbacks for three teams, basically it's cam Ward,
it's Shador Sanders. And then you're talking about Jackson Dart
(24:41):
a little bit later in the first round. Poker by
the Titans, Absolutely poker by the Browns, Absolutely poker.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
By the Giants.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I think the Giants are trying to tell us and
they're trying to grease the skids. We're not gonna take
Shoudu Sanders if he's there at number three, right, because
the Giants. They like to justify their picks when they're
picking high. Right, every time the Giants have picked high recently,
it's been we're gonna tell you why, we had no choice.
We had no choice to take sa Quad Barkley number
(25:15):
two overall. Okay, we had no choice but to take
Daniel Jones where we did no okay, when they picked
that high, they really want to.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Justify their pick.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
And I think the world knows if the quarterbacks go
one two, right, if cam Ward goes one and shoudor
Sanders goes too, everybody knows the Giants aren't taking a quarterback.
You're not reaching for Jackson Dart there. You're gonna get
Travis Hunter, which will be a great consolation prize.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
The world knows the Giants aren't taking a quarterback there.
So why would the Giants feel the need to say
this Because they know the possibility exists that one of
those teams is gonna pass on a quarterback. And if
Shador Sanders is there at three, they want us to
know we're gonna grease the skids, so it doesn't take
you by surprise. We get a lot of bad pr
because the one team that can't have bad off season
(26:00):
optics like they did last year the Giants, they went
through an entire offseason of hard knocks, where it was
do we know what we're doing? I don't want to
see Saquon Barkley is an Eagle and they watch Barkley
go and and have a season unlike any running back
since Eric Dickerson and the Eagles won the Super Bowl.
So they are not gonna have an off season of
bad optics again, and not taking Shador Sanders at three
(26:21):
certainly would open it up to that. So why are
they talking about it now when there's no need to.
Because if the quarterbacks go one, two, okay, yeah, you're
taking Travis Hunter, maybe it's Abdual Carter, whatever you're doing
at number three, you're trading down out of the pick
whatever it's gonna be, but the quarter But if a
quarterback is there, we want people to know that, hey,
we're not locked into taking a guy at number three.
(26:41):
The Giants are doing this for a reason. That is
the biggest news today poker from the other two teams.
But this is the Giants telling us, if Sanders is there,
we're gonna go someplace out So get ready for it.
Because we want you we don't want to get criticized
for we don't have bad optics going on. We want
you to know we are not going to take Shador Sanders.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
At number three.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Well, so the opportunity to really pump up Travis Hunter
and Abdul Carter as much as you can. Right, these
guys are difference makers, far and away the best players available.
Blah blah blah blah blah, non quarterbacks. And look, we've
already spent over here at the quarterback position. We've already
fortified this position and taken a strong stance with a
(27:23):
couple of veterans who have achieved at high levels and
like selling all you want, right, I mean, you can
be a politician in this case going up and here's
everything I'm doing in my next term, because that's really
where Shane is and Dable is creating some sort of
level and structure that you get back to at least
(27:44):
mediocrity now right now, with Russell Wilson and Jamis Winston
on board, you know what they're over under for wins
is three.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And a half. It's not a lot of wins.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
No, no, no, So the expectation is you will oh no,
we suck again for twenty twenty six and an opportunity
to go into a more robust draft class and you're
not beholden to either Russell Wilson or Jamis Winston and
you can flush it and start over. Now, if you
do perform at that three and a half level, odds
(28:17):
are you doing it with a new GM and coach.
So it fits every bit of what you'd want to
do as an organization.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I I understand the Giant's philosophy. A quarterback needs to
be a gut feel, right, needs to be a gut
feel and you need to be able to go do
that right, I understand, and I understand that. Hey, in
the end, the quarterbacks are you know, falling through the
draft a little bit and be Macy Schador Sanders fall
didn't have the best optic from the combine, and I
(28:47):
know you're dealing with fallout of that. But when you
pick third and the one biggest thing you need you
don't have, I mean, you have Russell Wilson right rust
with So you don't have a quarterback. You don't have
a quarterback? Right, this is where you get one, because
what my thing is where else are you going to
get it?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
That's my thing with the Giants is that, Okay, I
understand that maybe you're not sold on Shador Sanders, but
just think about all the quarterbacks in the last few
year's gone in the first round. How unsold were some
teams on guys? And maybe they work out? Right, Josh
Allen was the guy far and away behind the top
three superstar quarterbacks. Right, Who's been the best quarterback in
(29:26):
the game, Josh Allen? Right, So sometimes it just works out.
Sometimes with a quarterback you have to take a chance.
And Shador Sanders may be that special, maybe he's not.
But when you need a quarterback, that's the number one
thing your team needs, and you can potentially get one
at three, you kind of have to do it. Just
because I want to say again, where you're gonna get
(29:46):
your next quarterback from? Where's the next free agent quarterback
you're gonna get? Are you gonna lose enough games this
year where you're picking number one overall and you're sure
that Arch Manning wants to come out and play in
the same city his uncle did that he's going to
come out and do this, Like, where are you gonna
get your guy from? And that's what I want to
know from the Giants if you're gonna pass on your
door Sanders, Like, I get you're not so thrilled with him,
(30:07):
and maybe you like Travis Hurt a little bit more.
I understand that. But it's the most important position. And
while it's a gut feel, sometimes it's a little bit
of a leap of faith.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The Broncos took the leap of faith with bo Nicks
last year. Right, what was the storyline after Bonis got traded. Ah,
he'll be the quarterback for a year and then they're
gonna get somebody else and they'll wind up training him away,
and who knows how good he's gonna be. He's a
developmental guy. And now bo Nicks is locked in. He's
gonna start her there for a decade. Right, Like I
get the Giants philosophy of yeah, we're not sold, but
when you when you look at you have to get
(30:36):
it somewhere, and you have to get get him soon.
Like where else you gonna do this? Where else you're
gonna get a guy? So I think if he's there
at three.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
You kind of have to take him.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
You say, go fish and you come back.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
In the twenty twenty six draft, wishing hoping one of
those guys is ready for prime time.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Man, I'll tell you I good good luck Giants, good
luck again. It's nice to see that at least the
Jets have a little bit more of their act together.
And this is coming off and getting rid of Aaron Rodgers,
and they get their act together more than Giants do.
Exit out bout of Fresca, Exit swollen down the Jason
Smiths with Mike Carbon live from the Tirac dot Com studios.
Now to someone who's been called the shador Sanders of
Fox Sports Radio. Yes, dad is really really fair. I
(31:17):
was gonna give you, give you the big pregnant pause.
His dad is really really famous and they have a
great relationship. It's Steve Disager.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
I I was just assuming because I have no offensive line.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Oh and you threw him under the bus. That was
my next choice.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
By the way, do we.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Remember just one short week ago in women's college tubes
when USC superstar Juji Watkins was injured and out for
the year. Her teammates senior Kiki Yiriafin had a superb
game thirty six points.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
We're fine, will be good.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Eria fan can lead us.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Next game three of thirteen shooting. Tonight, she was three
of fifteen shooting. The USC season is over and Yukon
is going to the Final four again. Seventy eight sixty four,
page Beckers thirty one points. Texas advanced over TCU fifty
eight to forty seven. By the way, in the late
NBA game, it's the Lakers with a slight lead late
(32:06):
third quarter against Houston seventy five sixty nine. Now to
the MLB scoreboard, the Dodgers are now up five nothing
over the winless Braves in the bottom of the fifth.
The Braves went oh to four in San Diego to
start the season, and they were scoreless in their last
twenty two innings at San Diego scoreless so far. Tonight,
(32:26):
Tyler Glass now with eight strikeouts and three walks pitching
for LA and five scoreless innings so far. The Cubs
got four runs in the top of the first, including
two homers. In Sacramento now lead the A's eight three
in the top of the fifth inning. The Cleveland Guardians
are at undefeated San Diego and it's Padres seven to
two in the seventh, and for the Detroit Tigers and
(32:49):
Owen three team six runs in the top of the
first at Seattle, Tigers lead in the sixth inning eight
to four. The Angels won in ten at Saint Louis
victories for San Francisco and Toro Roano. Cincinnati's Elie de
la Cruz four for five, seven RBIs against Texas two homers.
Cincinnati beat the Rangers fourteen to three. The Mets got
(33:09):
a grand slam from Pete Alonzo included in the four
homers at Miami ten to four Mets the final. Philadelphia
beat Colorado today six to one, despite trailing one nothing
in the seventh. Phillies are three and one. Boston's one
and four after losing at Baltimore today eight to five.
Rafael Devers the dh emphasis on the h oh for
(33:29):
nineteen with fifteen strikeouts. The Red Sox are giving lefty
pitcher Garrett Crochet a six year extension. Wins for the
White Sox and Royals today. By the way, in the NBA,
Oklahoma City won its tenth straight game, Boston won its
ninth straight game, Miami won its fifth in a row,
and Stanford's interim football coach is Frank Reich.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
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Speaker 1 (33:52):
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(34:13):
So coming up next, I'm gonna tell you this. Wait
till I tell you who the big bounce back team
of twenty twenty five is gonna.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Be in the NFL. Wait till I tell you.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
It's not gonna be Cleveland. Not Cleveland, because that's not
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Speaker 5 (34:32):
Well, it still could be.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
It could be, but it's not Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Definitely not the Jets.
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It could be the Jets, no chan, but it's not Cleveland.
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Tractor Supply. So we'll have more on the NCAA tournament
coming up in a few minutes. But today owners meetings
happening in the NFL, we saw a lot of great
(35:35):
things being said. Jets owner Woody Johnson doesn't believe in
the survey that gave him an F as an owner.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I don't think it was it was done the right
way and he's the only owner to get an F. Yeah, no,
I know, I gotta work. I don't believe it. No, dude,
come on, you're that bad.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
But then he offers buyouts to what like seventy percent
of the staff or I know, want to fifty Yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Want to change the uh change the energy with at
at one jets.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
So I'm offering buyouts and telling you that the the
the pull one out there is absolutely erroneous. Now I'm
not that bad an owner, Like, okay, great. I think
just by saying that, it shows how bad an owner
you are. I would just say, hey, I gotta do
stuck better, gotta work on it. Okay, that's all right. No, no, no, no,
I'm not that bad. I'm not that bad. Not my fault.
Don't blame me with that. Don't blame me, don't blame
you can't play. I'm not an F. I'm not an F.
(36:21):
Maybe I'm a D M, a D plus, but I'm
not an F. You can't give me an F. Now
you got an F, Dude, you got an F. Everybodynew
what they were doing when they were voting.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
You got an F. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I know.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
There's a lot of details that came out in terms
of how big the packages are to walk away.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's weird.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
It's it's almost like it's uh, it's almost like it's
like what's going on with the government now where people
are getting offered buyouts and getting fired, and hey, the
Jets are gonna they're cleaning house right now, and Woody
Johnson's cleaning house.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
We're getting rid of all the bad energy. But that
being said, uh, the last couple of days, and I know.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
You're gonna say I'm insane. You're gonna say I'm really insane,
And it's okay. I am so buying the Jets as
a bounce back, dark horse wildcard team.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
All right. The reason is what we said in the
last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
The big news yesterday the Jets officially anointed Justin Fields
as QB one. He's going to start this year. He's
going to be the quarterback. Right, Jets aren't going to
get a quarterback at seven. Will they take one later
on in the draft. I'm sure they will, right, I'm
sure they'll come back in the second, third round and
take a quarterback absoute undred percent. But this is why
I like the Jets to bounce back, because people forget
(37:29):
how talented the roster is. Right, They forget the roster
is pretty talented. A lot of guys are left, are
all older guys over thirty, injured guys, Hey, let somebody
else go. Give them all kinds of money. But Justin Fields,
who is going to have this year what he hasn't
had in the last three years, and that is a
coach and a coaching staff that believes in him and
(37:52):
is going to design the offense around him. Didn't have
that at the end in Chicago, didn't have it in Pittsburgh,
and Mike Tomlin clearly said, hey, preferred guy as Russell Wilson.
When hey, you're five and two, you're ten touchdowns in
one pick and you lose your job.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
What the hell's going on?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
But Aaron Glenn is building culture and that's the biggest thing, right,
He's building culture with the Jets. And when you have
a quarterback that has flashed in Justin Fields and again,
I may be insane, and you can say I'm insane,
but they're building and putting him in a position to succeed,
whereas teams like the Steelers they put him in a
position to fail. You're only here until you can lose
(38:27):
the job. The Bears, you're only here until we can
get somebody else because we stink this year. Right, This
is what's going on. You're not in a position to win.
The Jets are saying, you're our guy. We're putting you
in a position to succeed if you play well the
next year or two. Guess what long term contract you stay.
You're our guy. You do things athletically, you're the best
quarterback running the football that we've seen. We just have
to make sure you throw the ball a little bit better.
(38:48):
But when you have the positivity of believing in the guy,
especially in a quarterback, that changes everything. It changes, It
changes your outlook on everything. We talked about Raphael Devers
earlier in the show that have oh for nineteen with
fifty teen strikeouts?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Where is he mentally right?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Doesn't want to be there playing designated hit her every night,
wants play third base? Red socks aren't doing it. How
much is he all in on what's going on with Boston?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
But justin field to the Jets, hey, we're all in
on you. You're gonna be in a position to succeed.
I'm telling you, I'm crazy, but I'm by the Jets
bounce back. I'm thinking dark horse wildcard, dark horse wildcard.
That's my mantra the next few months.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Last year, they were projected to win nine and a
half games. Clearly that it did not work. This year
projected to win five and a half. I'm most intrigued
what is Tanner Engstrand and how does he develop a
passing game? He worked for the Detroit Lions and everything
Ben Johnson was doing, which means there'll be a couple
of tackle eligibles mixed there and it'll be great for
(39:44):
the Jets. You're helped by well hindered I think by
the fact that we're also expecting great improvement from the Patriots.
So last year those were should.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Have been gimmes. You don't have any of those in
division anymore.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's it's a tougher division, sure,
but okay, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
But sometimes.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Sometimes we're gonna make every game is against the AFC South,
every game.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
We're playing the Jaguars every week.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
But sometimes a mental reset is just as big as
anything you do on the field. Right, The Jets needed
a mental Certain teams need mental resets coming off of
the year, saying okay, we have to have a different
sort of mentality.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Things got out of control.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
That that that's just as good for us as going
out and signing a lot of players, right, So the
mental reset with Aaron. Look, the didn't even have an
introductory news conference for Justin Field's like, hey, we're about
the team. We're being quiet, We're going forward. That's what
Aaron Glenn said the last couple of days. I mean,
sometimes the mental reset is just as good as anything
you do on the field.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
Now you do at the NFC South that helps.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll get to watch Baker
Mayfield coming to throw for a few touchdowns. It'll be
fun have there.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Well, at least he was never an ex jet now good.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
He could have been a jet, could have been coming
up next the final four set in both the men's
and women's tournament, and boy do we have a great
NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Looks like Yukon is set to punch their ticket to
the Final four. USC had cut the score to fifty
four forty eight and looked like the Trojans a little
bit of momentum here.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Things are getting a little dicey and.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Page Beckers hits two knee knocking and I mean for
Yukon fans, knee knocking mid range jumpers. Very Kevin Durant
like to push the lead back out to eight, and now.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
It's at twelve after a three.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
So just when they needed something because it looked like
Yukon was slowly giving this lead away to a non
Juju Watkins USC team. Page Beckers hits two mid range
jump shots that pushes that lead back out and now
the Yukon lead is back safely into double digits.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
And then she had a nice little handoff and had
three that gets knocked down, but usus continuing to bring
the fight at the free throw line with the clock stop,
greatest momentum swing right there. Smith had a couple of
points on the board and try to get back in
and claw into this game. But it's been a fun
battle watching Yukon struggle and watching Geno Oriamas you know,
(01:55):
we need that picture and picture of the coach, so
we'll keep.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You updated on this again.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And it's a sixty four to fifty one lead for
Yukon about six minutes to go in the fourth quarter,
the final of the final four teams women's tournament.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
About to be named in Jason minutes. Yeah, what do
you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Make sure every time you talk about that, you make
sure in every sentence, Juju Watkins is out.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I pick people know that. I think Watkins is out.
Juju Watkins is that not playing? Not playing tonight? Juju Watkins.
Cheryl Miller also not playing tonight. None of them are playing,
none of the former great USC greats. They're not playing tonight,
not playing. Juju Watkins out without Juju Watkins.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I don't think you'd play like golf where you get
extra points or anything with it.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
But I think you, like, maybe that's how they call it.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yukon leads USC without Juju Watkins, Like it's not the
USC Trojans. There, USC without Juju Watkins.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Is the name. That's exactly how it goes for the
rest of the tournament.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, there you go USC without Juju Watkins. Uh So, Again,
this could be Paige Page Becker's moment, could be her tournament.
She has another jumper again, a thirteen point lead for
Yukon with about five and a.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Half left to go without Jaffrew Watkins.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Without you, Yes, without ju Ju Watkins, and and you
can not but not like Juju Watkins got traded.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Uh Yukon is not playing with Juji Watkins. Uh So. Look,
we talked about the torpedo bats. Uh. You know, we
got a couple of.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Big h takes on this because it's taken baseball by store,
it's become the biggest story in the sport. But before
you get to that, I gotta say this. I can
already tell you the next star that's going to be traded.
We have played not even a full week of Major
League Baseball, and I can already tell you the next
star player who will be dealt sooner rather than later.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
You ready hit me.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
It won't be Garrett Croshe. It's good to got traded
from the White Sox and got a contract extension worth
about double the highest the White Sox have ever paid out.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oh yeah, he got a he got a lot of.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Money, six years, won seventy baby.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Come on now, he got a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
So it's not him.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Uh No, it's not him. It is not him.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
And uh and and the Mets won tonight. Peede Alnzo
hit a Grand Slam. It's not pin Alonzo. Right, you
know it's not pin Alonzo. But I guarantee you if
you need a third basement, if you need a hitter,
you can call the Red Sox and get Rafael Divers
some point, very very soon. This is not just an
historically awful start for Divers because of all the drama
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that's gone along with it. Right, Divers now is OH
for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts so far this season for
the Red Sox. Now you can talk about he's at
a slow start. He didn't have a lot of at
bats in spring training, and I saw a lot of
talk today well as bats, beet is behind it. Of
course it's behind. He's OH for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts.
What do you You're telling me something I already know.
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But this is not just here's a star who has
started slow. If you remember when the Red Sox went
out and got Alex Bregman, this guy's a goal glove
third baseman, and Rafael Divers is not right. He's a
below average third baseman. And when this trade was made,
Divers said, I told them I am a third baseman.
I'm a third basement. I'm not playing anywhere else. I'm
a third baseman. And the Red Sox tried to figure
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it out early in spring training by saying, hey, let's
try Bregman at second base. It's like, what, come on,
don't be stupid. But the guy's at third basement. You
figure things out now, and Divers was absolutely absolutely his
situation was in flux, and then they decided near the
end of spring training, Divers you're the DH and Bregman's
at third base, which is probably the right move, except
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now you look at Divers again.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Oh for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
All right, now, I'm not gonna sit here and say
he's tanking, you know, although the timing is really weird that, hey,
after he's so upset at the team that he doesn't
want to do anything but play third base, this is
how he starts out, Oh for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Timing is a little curious.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
However, is how much is Devers still mentally locked in?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
There's talk about him being overweight. Jonathan Papplebond, former Red
Sox clothes went off on mat on social media earlier today.
It just doesn't seem like this is a situation that
with time can get solved. If you start out slow,
certain things happen. Yes, first week Major League Baseball, Well,
it's not a lot to get into. There has been
a lot of drama, and you can see how bad
of a start this is. That this is off. This
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is off to and again I don't know how how
divers is how much he has committed mentally, because it really,
again all of the stuff happening, and here he is
zero for nineteen and fifteen strikers. Like that doesn't happen,
Like that's not a run that And I think Pat
Burle had a run like that in the World Series
like fifteen years ago. But that kind of run doesn't
happen if you are locked in, if you're missing him.
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Maybe he needs torpedo bats, maybe he needs a thousand
torpedo bats. But this has not been a situation that
has gone on then that has started out well, and
it just seems to be deteriorating on the field. And
at some point there's going to be pushed to a trade.
And I guarantee you you can. You can call and
get Rafael Devers and the Red Sox will listen at
some point, very very soon. If he makes it out
of April as a Red Sox player, I would be
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surprised at this point.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I mean, it's not a month.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
But if he takes a little bit time to make
a trade to realize this isn't working out, we can't
get him back. We're not going to get him back mentally,
We're not going to get him back to be in
the player he was. He's twenty eight years old. We
paid him a lot of money, but still teams will
go out and get him. But by the end of April,
you can go out and get Rafael Dever.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Yeah, I mean this becomes a huge issue.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I mean we talked about it in spring training and
wondering how long it would take to come to a head.
More so just a clubhouse kind of dissent and having
an issue. The fact that Devers's game is just tanked altogether, yeah,
is just amazing, right because it's it's one of those
we see guys going the phones. I mean, hell, I
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watched the first game right in the Yankees Brewers game,
you know, that was the first thing on Friday, and
you watch Churio couldn't hit the broadside of a barn.
It's one game, Okay, a couple doubles since, not that
he's off to a hot start, but clearly he's at
least got some semblance and consistency in his approach. Falling
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pitches off, extending at bats, whatever before going down is
just lost right now, his his head is somewhere else,
whether it's a battle with the front office.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
I like the idea, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
This makes for good uh good hot takery of hey,
oh yeah, tak him.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
To get out of there. He's trying to force an issue.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's Look, look, if Devers is doing that, like, that's
that's something you can't like, you can't get it. Dude,
are you tanking or you just I don't care, Like
there's a difference between tank tank. You go up there,
I'm I'm I'm on purpose striking out and I'm you know,
I could hit this pitch, but I'm not going to
right like that.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I don't know that that.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Is the case as much as he doesn't care because
you throw it all in there. Mentally, how how in
was he with these moves? Not very much physically? Where
is he? And and it's not I mean, how are
you going to solve this? The guy wants to play
third base. He wants to play He says, this is
my position, even though it's like, hey, dude, understand you're
not quite the player. This makes us better. We have
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a World Series caliber team. My when I told h
when they saw Alex Bregman, I said, listen, Red Sox.
This is a team that can go to the World Series.
They can out hit everybody, like this is gonna be
a fun playoff team, Like you'll figure out the pitching.
But man, this lineup is immensely talented and Devers has
been really good. Like the guy's been solid as as
I mean, he's a he's a twenty five hundred guy
basically every year, right, and he still hits two seventy.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
He doesn't hit two twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Like, this is a guy who is gonna give you
a war of three and a half to four, and
all of a sudden, look where he is. Man, look
at everything that's going into I don't think there's any
there's any lack of any coincidence that this is how
bad the exhibition season went and this is where we're
starting out, like like like a James Harden or somebody
else that I'm just done here and I'm gonna keep
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just you know, kind of going out there and going
through the motions until I get a trade and I
get to someplace I want to be that I'm gonna
get to play third base and I'll be happier because
it's not like the guy suddenly has lost it. I mean,
like he's twenty eight, he still is terrific.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Well he's not.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, So there are being teams going, no, we can
go get him and we know the money that's in Yeah, okay,
and they can't keep him around forever?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Right, how long do you keep him around?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
I mean we're still you know, we're still We're one
day away from being in April. I was by the
end of April, Boston's gonna have a big decision to
make because either they can play him or they can't,
or they sit him. You want to trade hm while
he's still got really high value, as high value as
you're gonna get. I don't know that this is solvable.
I don't know that this is fixable. And that does
my first Bowl prediction he gets traded by the end.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I think it just comes back to the psychology of
it all, right, of like are you having a grown
up discussion with him? Like where are you in this process?
Like what do we need to do? Do we need
to send you to the sports psychologists down the street?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Is this just you and Bregman?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
We need to lock you in a room and you
guys fight, and whoever comes out gets to play third base,
owing to the fact that he's been historically terrible as
a third baseman.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Uh huh uh.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Right over the last seven years, has he not led
the major leagues and errors pretty much every year at
the position.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
So, I mean, it's not good.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
And they didn't pay you three thirteen for your fielding acumen. No, man,
I gotta imagine sitting there as he talked with the
agent and any presentations that were done in negotiations, if
he was president of them at all, at no point
did they reference his ability to play third base.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, dude, you're You're not Brooks Robinson. We're not going
back looking at some of the great plays you made
against the Reds and the nineteen seventy World Series, right.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
We're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
But it is a thing like I get players are
like that, certain players are This is my position, is
what I've played my whole life, and you're telling me
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
And it plays.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Into it and it gets a little bit further away
from the Hey, a player who moves from playing the
field to being a DH he's not as connect doesn't
feel as connected to the game because he's not in
the field anymore. That's different than just I'm upset that
I'm not playing my position and I'm pouting and and
I don't know what kind of effort. You know, the
guy is really giving, you know, going and mentally, whether
it's preparing or how he's going out there every night.
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Like that's I mean, that's a that's a big thing, man,
that's a really big thing to say, Hey, Okay, I'm
gonna we're gonna stick with this guy for how long?
Like again, it's it's like a James Harden thing. How
long can you stick with somebody when this is going
on before it's just, hey, we have to move on.
For everybody involved, we just have to move on. We
have enough hitting that we can figure something else out
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and it's okay, but we'll get stuff back for him.
A team, you know, Steve Cohen, I'm sure, or somebody
that makes you know, the Yankees or whatever. It won't
be the Yankees, but a team that has a lot
of money to spend. Hey, we're okay, we know this
guy's really good for the next ten years.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
We're okay.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
With three hundred million, that's a that's pretty good for us.
Getting a twenty five one hundred guy with a war
of about four of a year. We're pretty happy with that.
So yeah, he'd eminently be tradable. But you can't just
wait forever on it.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
So what does this mean for Rafael divers?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Rafael? What does it mean for Gail Devers? What does
it mean for trying to Gary Jeevers? Oh, Cherry che
he had the best mask, right when he had the
stitches on the mask.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
You had the stitches on the mask. That was awesome.
There you like that?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
I see what we did there.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Now, maybe he just needs a torpedo bat now, I
mean that that could be it. I don't know. If
he doesn't hurt, well, boy, that would really be something.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
If he was using a torpedo bat and he's still
got fifteen strikeouts.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Well doing that?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Wan Soto's ops is one and a half. He's fine.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
It's everybody else not hitting. It's it's every single play.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Well in Lonzo the ground.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Everyone's standing there waiting for haters pitch the break. Don't
forget we also had the chiever letters.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Sure, oh, there is very good the chiever letters.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
But I want to say this that, like, like thinking
about this now with the torpedo bats, right, is that
is there a way because I think that I think
we need this now. And I don't know if a
website that will do this, but is there a way
for a website every day to aggregate all the home
runs hitting Major League Baseball that day and the number
that we're hit with a torpedo bat?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Yeah, I think we just need to disclose everybody with
a torpedo bat.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
You don't have to agree about the Mets game because
they're not hitting any Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I mean, well, I mean, look, Lindor's been using them
all he hasn't gotten a hit, So I mean there's that.
But I mean like, like we could start with that
and say, okay, let's see what the what the real
effect is and then get even more into her. Okay,
let's aggregate the stats of players using torpedo bats and
then see what the average is compared to players who
aren't using torpedo bats. Like that's like an Elias Sports peer.
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Maybe maybe Steve Desager can call the great Sarah Langs
and get and get that out kind of that. I
we'll start with the home runs first, and then we'll
go with everything else and see where the where the
hitting numbers are.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Just think about how many home runs. Ron Karkawis would
a hit.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
They we'll just let and then we'll just let steroids
back in the game. Why not if you're doing that
to let steroids back in, just let them back and
why we'll do everything, give the advantage back to the hitters.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Let them do whatever they want.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
I got no problem with it. Let's go. It's all
for entertainment purposes.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
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I am, of course making the top half of the
bracket possible because I picked Saint Johnson win it all.
I will say, Mike, I'd have been more upset at
Saint John's if I got the rest of my final
four right, because it looked like I was going to him,
Like I say, if Saint john screws me and I
get the rest of the final four right, Duke Michigan
State and Tennessee, I'm gonna be even madder at Rick Patino,
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like I might call him and say, hey, do you
have office hours? We gotta come talk about this, and
you put that white suit on when you talk to me,
to treat me with respect. But I feel a little
bit better at least that I didn't get the final
four right. It's all the number one seeds, so I'm
all right with it now. But I was there was
there's a good twenty four hours this weekend when I
was looking at the elitate going to the final four,
going are you how mad I'm gonna be if I
got the rest at right, But Saint John screwed me,
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so I'm.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Actually feeling okay, right, Yeah, Fortunately it all melting down
for you there. Clearly, you know, Michigan state popular pick
for popular people. Uh, Tennessee didn't bother to answer their
alarm clocks and missed the entire first half.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
We didn't set that. We didn't set the clocks back
this weekend, did we.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That was no, no, okay, I mean it was I
don't think there was anything there, okay.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I mean it wasn't Saint Patrick's day. I mean there
was no excuse for you know, being out partying too much.
I mean, one so strikeouts set the clocks back, dude.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
One Soda has had a great You got to pick
somebody who stinks for the Mets man, you got to
pick somebody who was stunk and mind.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Yeah, but you know what I had.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
I had the one of the great sports days of
my life on Thursday.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Though, Frida.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
I mean, I got a big White Sox win to
get things started. I had the Josh Giddy shot against
the Lakers, and then Wan Soto struck.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Out and had a no hitter. Till your announcers bleeping jinkstick.
Well they'll do that.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Hey, twenty three scoreless innings hurled by White Sox starters
this year.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Did they play the Mats?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And uh?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And hey, just hey, speaking of no hitters, I mean
I shouldn't say. I just want to say, right now,
the Dodgers lead the Braves for nothing. Ye Braves are
batting in the top of the fifth inning. The line
score for the Dodgers for four zero, line score for
the Braves.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Got it, Ago, I got it? Yeah, you're behind.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
I am behind that.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I am well, I turned I turned my TV off
to go back to the basketball game, and so I
turned my TV onto there.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
So he must have gotten hit in that in the
time that I did that.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Oh, okay, but that's before. But yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Dude, stop you still think one soda was no good?
Just stop, man, just stop, well, just at least in
that one and bad. Worry about Rokie Sasaki? Okay, worry
about hey, hey, worry about him.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
That's a fragile man, right now.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
What are you worry about him?
Speaker 5 (19:11):
What are you about a guy who gave up two runs?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yeah, worry about Sosa. Everybody needs to hug him. It's
like so bad. I feel so bad. I feel so bad.
I feel so bad. It's okay if you did worry
about him.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
No, I do feel bad because I want to play
you in the NLCS again, and this time we have Sodo.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
That's what I want. That's what.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I want to I want to see you again in
the NLCS. I'll see you there and then and then
uh and then then into the World Series. You won't
but yeah, today, today, today, the.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
NLCS, tomorrow the World Series. That's how it's gonna be.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
For I want to have more fun with you know,
old rosters like the eighty five Tigers, since we got
the Dodgers doing things that haven't been done since you know,
the defending champion Tigers in nineteen.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
You guys, just wait till they start using torpedo bats.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Dum Man. I'll tell you. I'll tell how Johnny with
a torpedo.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Bat for you far Max months, He's gonna launch a ball.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Wow, that get it.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
That'll be like those guys going on the driving range
or Happy Gilmore getting after it in a long, long
drive contest.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I mean, really, look the way torpedo bats it's gonna
be this is what's gonna happen. Torpedo bats are a
huge story now, right, it's new. It's something that's fun.
It's cool you're seeing the bats. Everybody's gonna use them.
There's been no push for Major League Baseball to say,
nobody use these while we look at them, they're not
gonna weigh them. Remember think that the natural like they
had the big scene where the commissioner weighed the bat,
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make sure it was to specifications like, there's been none
of that, which there would have been right away if
there was any sort of illegality about it. And again,
this has been a bat that's been used a little
bit in the past, so it's been used.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Players are gonna use them.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Everybody's gonna try them, some people are gonna stick with them,
and then some people aren't. And that's how it's gonna go.
Is it an advantage for hitters, Yes, it is, because
you talk about being able to make the sweet start
of the sweet part of the bat a little bit better.
I don't know why it took this long for someone
to come up with, Hey, no one really hits the
ball at the very very top of the bat. Why
don't we add some of that mass to the middle
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of the bat and then you know, hey, the the
the flares turned into barrels, and the barrels turn into
home runs. Like, I can't believe no one's come up
with that. So it'll be a thing for a while
and then it'll be an accepted part. It's kind of
like that, you know. It's like it's like the spider
tack where it became this whole thing where pictures using
spider tack and it's illegal, and they load up the
ball and what happened.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It was met with less of a less of a firestorm.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
And he thought it was going to be because the
batter said, hey, we actually don't mind it so much
because it allows the pictures to have better control over
the over the baseball. So once the hitter said, yeah,
you don't mind so much, it's oh, so is it
really that big a deal. We don't talk about Garrett
Cole and spider tack anymore. We don't talk about any
of the pictures.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
What I'm saying is like that that's because he was
one of the big spider shirt guy. He wan he
went on the record about it. Okay, so spider tacks
kind of went. That's kind of where this is gonna
be again. It'll be a big story, and it's a
fun story for a while. And yes, still say cheating
Yankees because it's just fun to do. But overall, this
is not that big a thing. Is that it'll be
fun for a while. Players will use it. You'll love
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to see players on your team using the torpedo bats,
and then and then it will kind of get back
to normal and everything will be fine.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
This is not that, Sae.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
I'm hoping we just have this explosion of offense just
all across Major League Baseball and then I can start
my letter writing campaign to bring back the shift.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh, I don't know. I gotta wait on that. I
think you gotta put that away for a while.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
No, oh I'm bringing it back.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I think you might be able to, but not right away.
You gotta let that sit for a while. You gotta
bring something else back first. You got you got something
else that's been away for a while that people miss
that they may want to vote to bring back, like
the shift has been. Hey, it's too new in everybody's mind.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
It's too soon. You gotta gotta wait on that a little.
Speaker 5 (22:51):
How about giving them mets a tee to hit off.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Dude, dude, we started out zero to five. Last year
we made the NLCS. We're two and two. Everything is fine,
Everything is fine.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
You're tied with the White Sox.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Worry about Sasaki, worry about yeah, and and we fought,
and clearly we found out. Speaking of peed A, Lonzo's
grand slant today, big Meat Pete, I think Alonzo killed
the Brewers.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
I mean really, I think that. I think that's what
I think. I think he killed the Brewers franchise.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Man.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Well, I think it's the other way around. He killed
a Brewer legend.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I think, oh stop with that, stop, oh stop, forget
about my crass joke. The video of that guy that
was going around saying what he thought about the Brewers
today over the line.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Over the lot over. Yeah, I think it a little
bit over the line.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I think it's a little over the line, a little bit,
tiny bit, tiny bit, tiny bit too soon.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Tiny bit over the.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Okay, yeah, and ask Gale Divers to uh So, we
have a lot of poker being played by the top
teams in the NFL draft.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
We talked about this with Jason lock and for a
last hour right the Titans came out and said, hey,
getting a franchise quarterback is incredibly important. You got you
gotta have it. That being said, we're listening to offers
for the number one overall pick. Okay, all right, fine,
the Browns today you got Jimmy Haslam owner saying, hey,
swinging a miss on de Sean Watson, blame us, but
(24:14):
we're not gonna get locked into taking a quarterback at two.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Okay, poker, I signed Miles Garrett. That's enough.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
And then and then you had the Giants going to
the wall talking about how we're not locked in to
taking a quarterback at three. Joe Shane talked a lot
about this today. Right, So of these three teams, right,
and there's two quarterbacks for three teams, basically it's cam Ward,
it's Shador Sanders. And then you're talking about Jackson Dart
(24:41):
a little bit later in the first round. Poker by
the Titans, Absolutely poker by the Browns, Absolutely poker.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
By the Giants.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Ah.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I think the Giants are trying to tell us and
they're trying to grease the skids. We're not gonna take
Shoudu Sanders if he's there at number three, right, because
the Giants. They like to justify their picks when they're
picking high. Right, every time the Giants have picked high recently,
it's been we're gonna tell you why, we had no choice.
We had no choice to take sa Quad Barkley number
(25:15):
two overall. Okay, we had no choice but to take
Daniel Jones where we did no okay, when they picked
that high, they really want to.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Justify their pick.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
And I think the world knows if the quarterbacks go
one two, right, if cam Ward goes one and shoudor
Sanders goes too, everybody knows the Giants aren't taking a quarterback.
You're not reaching for Jackson Dart there. You're gonna get
Travis Hunter, which will be a great consolation prize.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
The world knows the Giants aren't taking a quarterback there.
So why would the Giants feel the need to say
this Because they know the possibility exists that one of
those teams is gonna pass on a quarterback. And if
Shador Sanders is there at three, they want us to
know we're gonna grease the skids, so it doesn't take
you by surprise. We get a lot of bad pr
because the one team that can't have bad off season
(26:00):
optics like they did last year the Giants, they went
through an entire offseason of hard knocks, where it was
do we know what we're doing? I don't want to
see Saquon Barkley is an Eagle and they watch Barkley
go and and have a season unlike any running back
since Eric Dickerson and the Eagles won the Super Bowl.
So they are not gonna have an off season of
bad optics again, and not taking Shador Sanders at three
(26:21):
certainly would open it up to that. So why are
they talking about it now when there's no need to.
Because if the quarterbacks go one, two, okay, yeah, you're
taking Travis Hunter, maybe it's Abdual Carter, whatever you're doing
at number three, you're trading down out of the pick
whatever it's gonna be, but the quarter But if a
quarterback is there, we want people to know that, hey,
we're not locked into taking a guy at number three.
(26:41):
The Giants are doing this for a reason. That is
the biggest news today poker from the other two teams.
But this is the Giants telling us, if Sanders is there,
we're gonna go someplace out So get ready for it.
Because we want you we don't want to get criticized
for we don't have bad optics going on. We want
you to know we are not going to take Shador Sanders.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
At number three.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Well, so the opportunity to really pump up Travis Hunter
and Abdul Carter as much as you can. Right, these
guys are difference makers, far and away the best players available.
Blah blah blah blah blah, non quarterbacks. And look, we've
already spent over here at the quarterback position. We've already
fortified this position and taken a strong stance with a
(27:23):
couple of veterans who have achieved at high levels and
like selling all you want, right, I mean, you can
be a politician in this case going up and here's
everything I'm doing in my next term, because that's really
where Shane is and Dable is creating some sort of
level and structure that you get back to at least
(27:44):
mediocrity now right now, with Russell Wilson and Jamis Winston
on board, you know what they're over under for wins
is three.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And a half. It's not a lot of wins.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
No, no, no, So the expectation is you will oh no,
we suck again for twenty twenty six and an opportunity
to go into a more robust draft class and you're
not beholden to either Russell Wilson or Jamis Winston and
you can flush it and start over. Now, if you
do perform at that three and a half level, odds
(28:17):
are you doing it with a new GM and coach.
So it fits every bit of what you'd want to
do as an organization.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I I understand the Giant's philosophy. A quarterback needs to
be a gut feel, right, needs to be a gut
feel and you need to be able to go do
that right, I understand, and I understand that. Hey, in
the end, the quarterbacks are you know, falling through the
draft a little bit and be Macy Schador Sanders fall
didn't have the best optic from the combine, and I
(28:47):
know you're dealing with fallout of that. But when you
pick third and the one biggest thing you need you
don't have, I mean, you have Russell Wilson right rust
with So you don't have a quarterback. You don't have
a quarterback? Right, this is where you get one, because
what my thing is where else are you going to
get it?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
That's my thing with the Giants is that, Okay, I
understand that maybe you're not sold on Shador Sanders, but
just think about all the quarterbacks in the last few
year's gone in the first round. How unsold were some
teams on guys? And maybe they work out? Right, Josh
Allen was the guy far and away behind the top
three superstar quarterbacks. Right, Who's been the best quarterback in
(29:26):
the game, Josh Allen? Right, So sometimes it just works out.
Sometimes with a quarterback you have to take a chance.
And Shador Sanders may be that special, maybe he's not.
But when you need a quarterback, that's the number one
thing your team needs, and you can potentially get one
at three, you kind of have to do it. Just
because I want to say again, where you're gonna get
(29:46):
your next quarterback from? Where's the next free agent quarterback
you're gonna get? Are you gonna lose enough games this
year where you're picking number one overall and you're sure
that Arch Manning wants to come out and play in
the same city his uncle did that he's going to
come out and do this, Like, where are you gonna
get your guy from? And that's what I want to
know from the Giants if you're gonna pass on your
door Sanders, Like, I get you're not so thrilled with him,
(30:07):
and maybe you like Travis Hurt a little bit more.
I understand that. But it's the most important position. And
while it's a gut feel, sometimes it's a little bit
of a leap of faith.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The Broncos took the leap of faith with bo Nicks
last year. Right, what was the storyline after Bonis got traded. Ah,
he'll be the quarterback for a year and then they're
gonna get somebody else and they'll wind up training him away,
and who knows how good he's gonna be. He's a
developmental guy. And now bo Nicks is locked in. He's
gonna start her there for a decade. Right, Like I
get the Giants philosophy of yeah, we're not sold, but
when you when you look at you have to get
(30:36):
it somewhere, and you have to get get him soon.
Like where else you gonna do this? Where else you're
gonna get a guy? So I think if he's there
at three.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
You kind of have to take him.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
You say, go fish and you come back.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
In the twenty twenty six draft, wishing hoping one of
those guys is ready for prime time.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Man, I'll tell you I good good luck Giants, good
luck again. It's nice to see that at least the
Jets have a little bit more of their act together.
And this is coming off and getting rid of Aaron Rodgers,
and they get their act together more than Giants do.
Exit out bout of Fresca, Exit swollen down the Jason
Smiths with Mike Carbon live from the Tirac dot Com studios.
Now to someone who's been called the shador Sanders of
Fox Sports Radio. Yes, dad is really really fair. I
(31:17):
was gonna give you, give you the big pregnant pause.
His dad is really really famous and they have a
great relationship. It's Steve Disager.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
I I was just assuming because I have no offensive line.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Oh and you threw him under the bus. That was
my next choice.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
By the way, do we.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
Remember just one short week ago in women's college tubes
when USC superstar Juji Watkins was injured and out for
the year. Her teammates senior Kiki Yiriafin had a superb
game thirty six points.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
We're fine, will be good.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Eria fan can lead us.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
Next game three of thirteen shooting. Tonight, she was three
of fifteen shooting. The USC season is over and Yukon
is going to the Final four again. Seventy eight sixty four,
page Beckers thirty one points. Texas advanced over TCU fifty
eight to forty seven. By the way, in the late
NBA game, it's the Lakers with a slight lead late
(32:06):
third quarter against Houston seventy five sixty nine. Now to
the MLB scoreboard, the Dodgers are now up five nothing
over the winless Braves in the bottom of the fifth.
The Braves went oh to four in San Diego to
start the season, and they were scoreless in their last
twenty two innings at San Diego scoreless so far. Tonight,
(32:26):
Tyler Glass now with eight strikeouts and three walks pitching
for LA and five scoreless innings so far. The Cubs
got four runs in the top of the first, including
two homers. In Sacramento now lead the A's eight three
in the top of the fifth inning. The Cleveland Guardians
are at undefeated San Diego and it's Padres seven to
two in the seventh, and for the Detroit Tigers and
(32:49):
Owen three team six runs in the top of the
first at Seattle, Tigers lead in the sixth inning eight
to four. The Angels won in ten at Saint Louis
victories for San Francisco and Toro Roano. Cincinnati's Elie de
la Cruz four for five, seven RBIs against Texas two homers.
Cincinnati beat the Rangers fourteen to three. The Mets got
(33:09):
a grand slam from Pete Alonzo included in the four
homers at Miami ten to four Mets the final. Philadelphia
beat Colorado today six to one, despite trailing one nothing
in the seventh. Phillies are three and one. Boston's one
and four after losing at Baltimore today eight to five.
Rafael Devers the dh emphasis on the h oh for
(33:29):
nineteen with fifteen strikeouts. The Red Sox are giving lefty
pitcher Garrett Crochet a six year extension. Wins for the
White Sox and Royals today. By the way, in the NBA,
Oklahoma City won its tenth straight game, Boston won its
ninth straight game, Miami won its fifth in a row,
and Stanford's interim football coach is Frank Reich.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
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Speaker 1 (33:52):
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(34:13):
So coming up next, I'm gonna tell you this. Wait
till I tell you who the big bounce back team
of twenty twenty five is gonna.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Be in the NFL. Wait till I tell you.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
It's not gonna be Cleveland. Not Cleveland, because that's not
who I'm saying. That's next right here, Jason and Mike
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Well, it still could be.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
It could be, but it's not Cleveland.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Definitely not the Jets.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
It could be the Jets, no chan, but it's not Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
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Tractor Supply. So we'll have more on the NCAA tournament
coming up in a few minutes. But today owners meetings
happening in the NFL, we saw a lot of great
(35:35):
things being said. Jets owner Woody Johnson doesn't believe in
the survey that gave him an F as an owner.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I don't think it was it was done the right
way and he's the only owner to get an F. Yeah, no,
I know, I gotta work. I don't believe it. No, dude,
come on, you're that bad.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
But then he offers buyouts to what like seventy percent
of the staff or I know, want to fifty Yeah, we.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Want to change the uh change the energy with at
at one jets.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
So I'm offering buyouts and telling you that the the
the pull one out there is absolutely erroneous. Now I'm
not that bad an owner, Like, okay, great. I think
just by saying that, it shows how bad an owner
you are. I would just say, hey, I gotta do
stuck better, gotta work on it. Okay, that's all right. No, no, no, no,
I'm not that bad. I'm not that bad. Not my fault.
Don't blame me with that. Don't blame me, don't blame
you can't play. I'm not an F. I'm not an F.
(36:21):
Maybe I'm a D M, a D plus, but I'm
not an F. You can't give me an F. Now
you got an F, Dude, you got an F. Everybodynew
what they were doing when they were voting.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
You got an F. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I know.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
There's a lot of details that came out in terms
of how big the packages are to walk away.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's weird.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
It's it's almost like it's uh, it's almost like it's
like what's going on with the government now where people
are getting offered buyouts and getting fired, and hey, the
Jets are gonna they're cleaning house right now, and Woody
Johnson's cleaning house.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
We're getting rid of all the bad energy. But that
being said, uh, the last couple of days, and I know.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
You're gonna say I'm insane. You're gonna say I'm really insane,
And it's okay. I am so buying the Jets as
a bounce back, dark horse wildcard team.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
All right. The reason is what we said in the
last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
The big news yesterday the Jets officially anointed Justin Fields
as QB one. He's going to start this year. He's
going to be the quarterback. Right, Jets aren't going to
get a quarterback at seven. Will they take one later
on in the draft. I'm sure they will, right, I'm
sure they'll come back in the second, third round and
take a quarterback absoute undred percent. But this is why
I like the Jets to bounce back, because people forget
(37:29):
how talented the roster is. Right, They forget the roster
is pretty talented. A lot of guys are left, are
all older guys over thirty, injured guys, Hey, let somebody
else go. Give them all kinds of money. But Justin Fields,
who is going to have this year what he hasn't
had in the last three years, and that is a
coach and a coaching staff that believes in him and
(37:52):
is going to design the offense around him. Didn't have
that at the end in Chicago, didn't have it in Pittsburgh,
and Mike Tomlin clearly said, hey, preferred guy as Russell Wilson.
When hey, you're five and two, you're ten touchdowns in
one pick and you lose your job.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
What the hell's going on?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
But Aaron Glenn is building culture and that's the biggest thing, right,
He's building culture with the Jets. And when you have
a quarterback that has flashed in Justin Fields and again,
I may be insane, and you can say I'm insane,
but they're building and putting him in a position to succeed,
whereas teams like the Steelers they put him in a
position to fail. You're only here until you can lose
(38:27):
the job. The Bears, you're only here until we can
get somebody else because we stink this year. Right, This
is what's going on. You're not in a position to win.
The Jets are saying, you're our guy. We're putting you
in a position to succeed if you play well the
next year or two. Guess what long term contract you stay.
You're our guy. You do things athletically, you're the best
quarterback running the football that we've seen. We just have
to make sure you throw the ball a little bit better.
(38:48):
But when you have the positivity of believing in the guy,
especially in a quarterback, that changes everything. It changes, It
changes your outlook on everything. We talked about Raphael Devers
earlier in the show that have oh for nineteen with
fifty teen strikeouts?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Where is he mentally right?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Doesn't want to be there playing designated hit her every night,
wants play third base? Red socks aren't doing it. How
much is he all in on what's going on with Boston?
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (39:09):
But justin field to the Jets, hey, we're all in
on you. You're gonna be in a position to succeed.
I'm telling you, I'm crazy, but I'm by the Jets
bounce back. I'm thinking dark horse wildcard, dark horse wildcard.
That's my mantra the next few months.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
Last year, they were projected to win nine and a
half games. Clearly that it did not work. This year
projected to win five and a half. I'm most intrigued
what is Tanner Engstrand and how does he develop a
passing game? He worked for the Detroit Lions and everything
Ben Johnson was doing, which means there'll be a couple
of tackle eligibles mixed there and it'll be great for
(39:44):
the Jets. You're helped by well hindered I think by
the fact that we're also expecting great improvement from the Patriots.
So last year those were should.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Have been gimmes. You don't have any of those in
division anymore.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's it's a tougher division, sure,
but okay, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
But sometimes.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Sometimes we're gonna make every game is against the AFC South,
every game.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
We're playing the Jaguars every week.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
But sometimes a mental reset is just as big as
anything you do on the field. Right, The Jets needed
a mental Certain teams need mental resets coming off of
the year, saying okay, we have to have a different
sort of mentality.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Things got out of control.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
That that that's just as good for us as going
out and signing a lot of players, right, So the
mental reset with Aaron. Look, the didn't even have an
introductory news conference for Justin Field's like, hey, we're about
the team. We're being quiet, We're going forward. That's what
Aaron Glenn said the last couple of days. I mean,
sometimes the mental reset is just as good as anything
you do on the field.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
Now you do at the NFC South that helps.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll get to watch Baker
Mayfield coming to throw for a few touchdowns. It'll be
fun have there.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Well, at least he was never an ex jet now good.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
He could have been a jet, could have been coming
up next the final four set in both the men's
and women's tournament, and boy do we have a great
NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
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