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Always great to watch a Mets walk off and then start the show. Is it really though, Yes it is, yes, it is, yes, Yes, the great. That's the great. That's the greatest way I could ever start a show. Mets walk off we come on the air.
I mean, it does get you excitable because in the pre show environment we were cursing about the US men's national team.
We'll we'll get to them in a second.
We'll get okay, just get we have negativity, and now we get the wave of positivity. We've got the angst and the anger going on between the Dodgers.
And the Padres. I mean, there's just lots going on the way the wave of the wave of happy right now, and then we get to then we get to you, and you.
Were dance and that might have been more air than you've ever gotten out. Hey, hey, the way you jumped, just so you know you leapt.
I've got Louis Ange Lacuna to home plate without a throw. Go go, go go. I'm screaming. Goes ran me over trying to get to the TV.
Because what you were really sizing up was as soon as he crossed the plate, how quickly you can get in front of the window and taunt or celebrate with Steve Disager.
I'm not quite sure what that was. That was a That was a Mets walk off. And now we get the best ribvaly in baseball. Second night night we got the Dodgors and the Padres. Last night was everything you could have hoped for with the resumption of the best rivalry in baseball and the top five rivalry overall in sports. I mean, it's the top of the second It's nothing nothing. I'm feeling I'm let down a little bit. Last night by this point, what was it was four four by this time last night.
Now, maybe they punched themselves out like a boxing match.
And I think my favorite part of the day, uh, because we talked about this last night, when had happened that the umpire, the home plate umpire video of Manny Machado after he gets called out on strikes in the tenth inning and just getting right up front to the the umpire and right in his face and yelling at him and disagreeing with the call. I mean, phenomenon like this is now I'm all in on the umpire cam right when you see stuff like that was right in front. But I love how and Frost prog sent to me earlier today someone superimposed it like it was a ring doorbell and like Manny Machado was going up to your door, and that was the video you had that or the hey, we have the full audio.
Because they remember they clipped it, started cursing, yeah, yeah, you know.
You've got to cut it. Uh, and then it was just a crying baby. Yeah yeah. So you got those running in parallel, ring doorbell, ring doorbell, Like he's going right up to the door, yelling at you. You didn't chip me, you didn't me.
I mean it's reminiscent of so many door dash huber eats. And I was like, I'm taking your food back usually like no, no, you gotta you gotta delivery fee.
I'm a thing that when I see a ring doorbell video, I know one of two things is happening. Okay, there's either some kind of crazy uh thing happening with food delivery, or there's gonna be an animal I'm not used to seeing. That's gonna be on the front por Part three. It's a full work just for engagement. Oh look at this black bear eating this deer on these people's ports. Wow, look at that. That's you. You don't normal read that in a while. Oh, here comes some other bears. Oh, it's gonna be a big boy. I hope you weren't going out anytime soon. You guys, stay in your house. It really one of those two things. No, it's good that that is. That sums it up. N uh so, yes, yes, So we start with the Mets walk off and now okay, now, now, okay, okay, okay. Now now we get to something we touched on briefly. Uh, Monday night on the show Monday, what's today? Tuesday? Yea last night. It seems later in the week immediately, does I mean we just watched Switzerland be the United States in a friendly as the United States?
Right?
Was it really that friendly?
No?
Not?
Well, you know it's friendly. It was friendly for Greg Burhalter, it was not friendly for poaching. Do you think it was after Do you think he and he and Klinsman hang out and watch games together? The zoom call?
Yeah yeah, absolutely, Hey yeah, And then it's going back and forth by who's laughing louder as opposed to who's speaking?
Hey, you're good a gb Hey, what's happening?
Man?
You're ready?
Yeah?
Ready?
Let's watch ire Hey, way, let me go. I got I got a I got a sandwich coming out of the microwaveng let me go grab it. Let me come back. Wait, who's call? Who's that calling? Oh, it's Polistic's dad. It's like it's like their own personal manning cast that they have when I watched a US men's team play, No, that sounds about right. Look, this has been an absolute disaster. This is probably Boy twenty eighteen not qualifying for the World Cup, but also not qualifying because of some questionable officiating and other game that contributed to US not qualifying. But this, this is right now. I'd say it's the low point of men's soccer in the United States in the past six seven years, because here they are now, you know, getting ready for the Gold Cup and it's the B team, right, it's definitely a B team coming and in a Polistic and other players. Robinson's not playing, so it is a B team. But still they get absolutely drugged by Switzerland after a loss over the weekend and it's for nothing after the first forty minutes of this game. And the big thing, right, well, you can sit here and say, well, Poachtino is building. It's all of these things happening. But you know, we mentioned this very briefly last night. You know you can take this any way you want to and say, yeah, yeah, let's make excuses. But the bottom line is when was the last good story coming off of the men's national team, either on the field or off the field. I can't even tell you because you can't count Poctino being hired because so far it's been a disaster.
Right.
I don't know if it's the players don't respond to him, they don't want to play for him, but clearly, you know, guys like Polistic and Robinson you want to play here because the oh, by the way, the World Cup is next year. Don't you want more as much time with your teammates as possible? I you know, I hear you can say, hey, we're gonna play a pre tournament. Say, okay, I understand, but I mean they automatically qualify, But don't you want to have as much time with your teammates as possible. Like I get that people are upset at Landon Donovan because he's a guy that actually skipped took time off earlier in his career. So when you sit here and say, oh, you know, these guys should be playing, politic should be playing, I get where that's met with with a bit of a side eye by politic and politics dad. But I look at what's going and I don't even know what they're about. I don't know what their identity is. I don't know how well how much the players are are excited about playing. I don't know how motivated they are. You know, I watched them, and I'm watching the first half. I'm going they just look like they're they're playing. They don't look like they're motivated, they don't look like they are they have any kind of edge to them. And again it's still this is now how many years, this is like the fifth year in a row. Oh, I could say with the third head coach, I could say, I don't know who we are. I don't know, I don't know what we want to be. I just don't get a feel that everybody is all on board with US soccer going forward when this is the pride of all other nations, right and certainly it's the prime. You look at the women's side, and they figured it all out, They hire the right coaches, they have the right players, and look, obviously they have a big head start because they were the biggest We're the biggest country in the world in women's soccer for a long time. But at this point you United said the men's thing needs to catch up. Oh, we have all these great young players. Well it's been seven years we've been we've been hearing about these young players and I don't even know if can you even win a game in the World Cup, Like, I don't even know they're gonna have enough time to get together. I don't even know if there's any togetherness about this team.
Well, I think that's the biggest point coming out of this land. And Donovan flap is that normally you see some inspired soccer, football, basketball, whatever, and take take it what you will. We've joked about it and we'll get into the NBA Finals in a little bit, but of the you know, whether you've got to take it person and have the chip on your shoulder as an individual or as a squad. Right when Landon Donovan's making comments, yeah, he's calling out the guys that are there, but he's saying the secondary guys aren't good enough. Right, he's saying that without saying it. And when you put up a listless effort like this, you're only reinforcing it. And we've been talking for as long as we've been doing the show, right, we've been doing it in eleven years. We touch on anything that's big and moving, and we incorporate, and we always have women's sports, women's.
College basketball and soccer, the men's national team as there's big headlines. And we've had the selling of hope time and again. All right, here's the new striker. Meet the new striker, same as the old striker, hurt, ineffective and no build, time and time again.
All right, here's the coaching problems. Well, here's the next guy coming in. He's going to fix it all. And it takes time, obviously, rebuilds and trying to put yourself on par with some of these other nations.
Yeah, you're not expecting to be top tier, you're expecting to be competitive. Right, There's been a couple of generations at this point. Right, this is not a new invention.
I remember in the mid nineties that that all right, soccer's on the comp Right, I'm finishing high school, I'm into college. And I got a lot of friends that started playing in high school and went on and played some college soccer, and like, no, no, no, it's starting to build. And you saw it in the city of Chicago where I grew up, and nationwide leagues popping up, and certainly my daughter being involved, your daughter being involved. You watch the proliferation of all these club sports and the build nationwide. It's not translated into anything for the national team to this point.
No, Andre's and here's the thing, here's the bet. Like we talked about this, they're an absolute dumpster fire right now. They hire Pochatino to come in, and the biggest hallmarks for him are his culture, physical play. Hey, you're going to get the best effort out and the United States team has always been a team that. Boy, at times, they look like they're going to run people off the pitch and then after fifteen minutes of that, they kind of sit back and just meander through the course of the game. Right, they get a goal early and they try to just play on the war. There's no killer instinct. They do it very for very brief periods of time. But this is where, okay, this is where I get that kind of effort because you see that, you know the talent potentially is there. But I go back to this and I'll give you a hot take on the US men's I oh, you a great hot take. Right before they got ready for the Gold Cup. For this prep for the Gold Cup, poach Tino said, what did he say, Hey, if you're coming to play, leave your golf clubs at home, right, this is not going to be something where we go out like everybody's gonna come and work hard. And what happened. Three of the best players, including your captain, said yeah, no, I'm not there. So if you know how important it is to get ready and get on the same page with everybody else for the World Cup, you know how important these games are because you're not playing together. The fact that they still stayed home and things are going this bad, Honestly, I wonder if he even makes it to the World Cup. If Bochattino still is a guy that makes it to the World Cup makes But if they if they have an awful flame out here, if they keep playing poor, can you really stick with them or is it?
Hey?
You know what, Yeah, we're gonna give them time because clearly maybe maybe nobody wants to play for me.
How about that?
I take Tom Timbada's got time on his hand. Oh, Tim would show up and he would just standing.
With his arms.
He'd get him to work hard. Well, well, he would come. He would grind him too much.
Some like more guys know there, there would be no substitution, so his starting eleven would be his starting but everybody would leave.
Yeah, you're the start. You're working me too hard. No, it's it's a very good point, very good question going forward because look after each loss, it's the cell of what's going well. You can't you can't try to sell this effort today.
No, you can't. And and it's all about culture and going forward and how we're going to play and how they're going to win. I really, I I can't. I can't even say that. I really I can't even say that what we're going to what he's trying to build. Right if this Gold Cup goes badly, I I really wonder if he makes to the World Corps, it's gonna be we maybe to bring burr Halter back, but maybe it's it's somebody else that comes in, because I don't know how much the team wants to play for any of the coaches they had, from Kleinsman to you know, to burr Halter. Here's it's the same kind of lack of effort, lack of cohesion, lack of desire. There's nothing that could I don't know what fixes it, but but I know this right now. If it continues like this, I really wonder if he makes to the World Cup next year, bring back Cleansman. That would be something. Laala's out of the booth, Ted Laso, well, I would go if Ted well, listen, If Ted Lasso, Oh boy, let me see if we had if you had everybody, if you had Ted and Beard and Roy Kent and Nate the Great, then I'd be Okay, we got I have all of them, though, gotta have all listen to me. Wow, come on, he's a wonder kid. But what's the end for then it's wonder kinnut kid. It's kind it's wonder kid. What does that mean? It's just it's really the that really is problematic. All right, You're okay, that whole thing never really happened. I really if it continues like this, I really want if they're gonna have a new head coach for the World Cup. Yeah, they cleaned that up a lot easier than they will for the men's national team. That's for damn sure exit. How about a Fresco exit swollen dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. So we'll continue to examine the tire fire that that that is the United States men's soccer team coming up throughout the show. For over forty years, tire Rack's been oping customers find the right tires for how, what and where they drive. Shipped fast and free backed by free Road, has protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tire rack dot Com is the way tire buying should be. But coming up next, all right, I mean get ready, Hey, if you want to coach the men's national team, I'll write a letter for you.
But coming up next, maybe of the women's jing staff can take over. Hayes coach both, let Jay's coach both coach both go ahead, go ahead, bring the trident over, let them, let them play, Let them play there too, bring it back, whatever you need to do, Let's make it happen. But coming up next, the big NFL bombshell that was dropped earlier today is next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Creator Nickelback Jason Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We get into the big reveal from the NFL earlier today, coming up in a minute, the big reveal. WHOA we found out something? WHOA I didn't know this?
Did you really have that reaction? A kind of sort of sort of kind of so I had assumed.
It would have been reality. And in the end, it's good for him, but you throw the ball. But first it's time for the Play of the Day, brought to you by tire Rack. For over forty years, tire Rack's been helping customers find the right tires for how what and where they drive. Shipped fast and free backed by free Road, has protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire installation. Tire rack dot com is the way tire buying should be. Well, when you turn a four to two deficit into a four to four tie and you walk off giving yourself a five count five game lead, you get to be the play of the day. Aaron Tyser just pulling out. I'm done hearing of the Mets, the Mets one. I'm just gonna take it out.
Well, I mean it was the play, right, he didn't need the aftermath, the aftermath of the play of the day. Yeah, okay, okay, and you had already talked about your excitement and jumping up and down and all of the festivities that went through there. Yeah, I'm, you know, to some degree salty that you you know, ham handed, you know, and and force the the Mets into the play.
Wait wait, wait, wait wait, ham handed. I just want to say, but that you made it, you know all about the Mets. Well, no, it's a walkoff to walk off. We can't use anything from the Dodger and the Padres actually in the third inning.
Yeah, but didn't we have a complete game thrown somewhere in Major League Baseball? Doesn't that doesn't that win just by default because we get so few of them.
And I know, by the way, let me just say this before we get to Aaron Rodgers. Let let's let me just say this. Okay, you want to take a look at the last four games for Juan Soto. Don't look now, but guess who's heating up? Did he take it personally? Guess who's heating up? Juan Soto? All right? Really reach base six times on Sunday, He had three hits on Friday against Colorado. Another big night tonight, all of a sudden, Oh so miserable. He wished he was a Yankee. Yeah, remember remember those are the days three weeks ago.
Well but I mean he still may be miserable. He still may wish he's a Yankee, but he's hitting.
Nah. Well yeah, well okay, yeah, if that's the thing.
No, but legitimate, right, like he could be salty like we can some of us. You know, in your individual lives, whatever you do for work, however you deal with your family, I mean, you know one or the other may not be going great. Yeah, but you then put all your energy in somewhere else. So he may not like the guys in the clubhouse. They've been razzing him about something, maybe the way you know he styled his hair or something.
I don't know.
Uh, And they gets notes from Aaron Judson, miss you, Andy's salty that he's not there. But then he says, you know what, I'm gonna take that aggression out in between the white lines. I've got to refocus and channel that energy into greatness.
And guys, don't forget to vote for him. Oh yeah, you get them both of the All Star Game, Mavericks. Those kids need your help. You might not like the guys you're flying with, they may not like you, but who sorry do you want? Anyway you think? Maybe they get him the top guns as hey one, you might not like the guys you're playing with. They might not like you, but who's sorry do you want? All right? I better start hitting. Then that's it. You recognized what you need to do. Hay hits in his last four games, all of a sudden, All of a sudden, all my text from Fabiano where he's send to me, oh we got ben Rice is playing just as good for so less money. Yeah, it's been a ghost Town for the last few days. Ghost Town for the last few days. Remember New York, I like Ben Rice though, home of the best team in baseball and the New York So the show is to know. The show is tonight, Frostburg. Hey, this is a big Listen Dodger Dodgers Potters in October. Dodgers Potter is a big deal for the battle to be the second best team in the National League. It's really being fought hardly between these two teams. Man, this is a big deal for you. I get it. I guess I get it.
Uh speaking, he thinks he does protest too much, speaking of saying things to everybody's face.
Aaron Rodgers met the media today for the first time as the new starting quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He talked about how joining the team is best for his soul and a lot of things Rogers, good night. But he also addressed the elephant in the room because of the very carefully posed picture of him signing his Steelers contract with oh, his left ring finger has a ring on it. Oh, is Aaron Rodgers married? Well? Aaron Rodgers confirmed that today during his press conference. Is that a ring or anything else? It's a wedding ring, congratulation, thank you, how long it's been a couple of months. No, it's about Mary.
Now.
I'm married. Now, I'm married now now. The first thing I thought of is, Okay, who could he be married to, you know, And I'm trying to think it was famous actresses under forty he could be dating or around forty. And I'm thinking, okay, no, it's no Hailey Steinfeld. No, it's not her. No, it's not she. She married Josh Allen.
Let's get to say she she got married. It's not publicly, Shanlee Woodley.
It's not because I think Hailey Steinfeld Shanley Woodley people kind of confuse them a little bit. Sometimes. Oh okay, they think they were both in Pitch Perfect. They were, but were they not? I don't know. So it's it's not her because not Olivia Munt. They're broken up, not Olivia Mutton.
No, No, that's a whole other story.
Yeah, there's a lot. I was just saying, it wasn't her. No, it's not. No, And I'm trying to like, who could it possibly be, And I'm trying to think of it's not Scarlet Johansson, still with Colin Jost no matter what Michael she says on on SNL and the jokes and whether she's at I've had it, okay, Colin, I've had it with Shay when you write each other's jokes and I'm in everyone now people know we're married, all right? Can you just get him to stop it? Hey, hey, take it easy, take it ease.
That's the best bit they've got going. Actually, it is the jokes for each other because they haven't seen it, and all of a sudden it's in the prompt.
Oh no, yeah, oh I have to read this. Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm trying to think, like, like, who could it?
You?
Like, who could it possibly be? You know, I'm trying to think, can it could be? Is it Zendeia? Maybe? I don't know.
Sang it out with Spider Man, Yeah, Spider Mad Spider Man. And there there's rumors they may be secretly married Spider Man. She's married to Spider Man.
She may be married to Spider Man.
Man.
If there's video of their wedding and Tom Holland is dressed in the Spider Man suit, that would be the best. And he just instead of he just web slings down the aisle of he lamb. I'm swinging in have you the ring? Oh yeah, and just brings it down from like up top of the get. That'd be pretty good. That's pretty cool. But you know that happened right before they would say I do. The Green Goblin would come in and break up the wedding and wow. I mean like if it gets an appearance by Willem Dafoe, we all won well, or it could be a new green Goblin. Yeah, really, William Dafoe is like seventy man, I mean you know, yeah, okay, yeah, but you just got to ride on that thing across the city that looks like see the Green Goblin that whatever that is he rides on. That looks like something that in real life we could have at some point. I think we could really have that at some point, Like I believe that you could probably find some similar test rug. It's someone who's like one hundred and seventy five pounds on top of that to stay up like that's a that's a town. Then, Like we're just the point now where the Iron Man things are working out. Okay, and that's still stilted, but that's something I can see. I can see that green Goblin thing. You know, that's a lot easier. I mean I would spend a lot of money on that and ride around the desert and throw those green Goblin bombs at things like you know, with all bulls eyes and stuff and like scarecrows of Peter Parker.
Might might be the greatest stuff invention that we've come up with.
Yet, what are you? What's your experience in the desert.
You're gonna build a race track so they can simulate right now that Richard Pett Now Goblin experience mean gobblin experience like a haunted house. Now now completely you are the green Gouys fly on his thing, and you have to have the exoskeleton and little you know, the little pumpkin bombs and you're able to say and there's big microphones and then blast out speakers.
We could just say hello Peter. You get that laugh going on? Oh that's a great experience. I gotta write that down, Green Goblin. Let's figure out.
I mean, look, I can replace paintball really fat taking that now you're you're throwing balls of paint, Yeah, says the green gop.
Yeah, we don't even need the propulsion.
No, we get like like segways, like those little things that don't have the handle.
Yeah you know what I mean. Yeah yeah, like Joe Bluth when he made those popular back Yeah yeah, like we don't need the blurt. We need to now look now this, now, look this thing with Aaron, there's obviously you know, something different here other than you know, wondering who it could be like this is This is why when I say, you know, is Aaron Rodgers as locked in to football as he has been for most of his career because with the Jets and here with the Steelers it's very loose. He's always been very loose with the team. Now he's a good leader. Teammates like him, you know, for all this all Rogers is not this. No teammates like him, you see, even even former members of the Jets. He's not going to say anything about the Jets ever. Like the story today, he and Jermaine Johnson were texting with each other. Jermain Johnson, one of the best young pass rushers in the NFL, got hurt early last year. He said, Aaron Rodgers let him work out with this guy in California, you know, gave him some big props and said listen, you have a ten plus year career. Don't worry, it's a speed bump, like you know, for all this Oh Rogers teammates likes him, they like him, But this whole overall, his overall attitude towards the NFL is like I don't get the sense that the guy is still as all in as he was, and I get the sense that now he's using football to further Aaron Rodgers and the optics. Right like he he comes across as like a Hollywood celebrity that wants to give you that little bit of mystery, that's always worried about their image and their optics, and everything they do is something to make sure that people are talking about them or they're asking questions, right like why wouldn't You's not I've been married for a couple of months. No, but I'm not going to say who I'm married to, Like just say it's private, right if you don't want to, if you don't want to talk, like I get it right, Like when Otani got married, No, no picture me and my wife until we're ready, because there's you know what people wanted to pay for back in Japan for picture of the two of them, Like who is she who is she? Right?
So running parallel in terms of the uh, you know, secrecy, privacy, What the hell is going on?
Let go tonn.
He's got a bunch of those, right, But it's not here's the dog, here's the wife.
Now we're having a baby. I mean who I mean, who doesn't love decoy?
I mean, come on, but I mean, like all of those the game thing that was there and then but he disappeared.
But as far as like for the marriage, it's not like Otani came out and said anything. People found out he was married, keeping a try. Aaron Rodgers clearly wants to flaunt and have people talk about him. So he wore the ring very prominently in that picture that they took for him when he's signing his contract. Right, you're signing a contract with your right hand. Why is your left hand right in front of the picture unless you want people to know? Right, this is what I was trying to get. He's not a copy off your painte. He's almost like this, don't look at my ring. Don't look at the terms of this contract. How much you want to bet the ring is made of hemp? But I think it's a hemp ring. Well, Is it one of those rubber ones? Those have gone in very popular with athletes? Oh okay, are they okay? Instead of your your traditional metal rings because those tear up your fingers. Yeah, like the rings you buy, like I said last night, rings you buy an anthropology. Oh that's a great ring for eleven dollars, I'm gonna get you brought it back. So if it's if it's private and the wedding is private to you then and say, yeah, you know, I really don't want to talk about it. Thank you for asking, but it's a ring. Whatever you want to say. But clearly he wants people to know that he's married. But it's too much to give away I'm married and who I'm married to, because if it really was private, he wouldn't say but oh you haven't married. Oh yeah, married a couple of months. What are you talking about here? Making it seem like, oh, you guys are so late to the party. How do you guys not know I'm married? But I'm not gonna tell you who I'm married to because now I want people to dig into it and people are gonna find out. If Aaron Rodgers didn't want to know people wanted he would have just said, you know, it's sorry. You guys got to do your own stuff. I'm not gonna help you out with anything. Oh but now we know he's married married a couple of months. Who's he married to. We're gonna find out who he's married to. It's gonna become a story. Like I mean, he's he's at the Hollywood star part of his career where I keep having to make sure I keep my name out there and I'm relevant and people are asking about I'm always worried about my image. What can I do today that's going to help my image with something, Whether it's an whether an actor or an actress who says, Oh, I'm gonna lend my voice to this project and not tell anybody, or I'm gonna do this and not tell anybody. People are gonna figure it out. Or there'll be a story that my public relations people plant about something I did on the movie set that I'm not gonna say it, but it's gonna come out there and it's gonna get people talking about it. Like That's where Rogers is right now. He's at that I love being famous, and I guarantee you he would say I wish I was this guy ten years ago, but he really only hit it big as far in the fame department where you're the most famous player in football after he got mad at the Packers and wanted out because they drafted Jordan Love. So he's had four years of the fast lane of being the guy that's moved the needle in the NFL. Now he sees his coming to an end. And now I'm using this to foster along me continuing to own the headlines and be famous. I really I don't know how much he's into playing as much as he is. Well, I'm gonna play a little bit here and I'm gonna use that to help push my fame forward for whatever I want to do after football. This year, I see this and that stands for everything. Because if you want to keep it quiet, and keep it quiet, but no, no, no, Now you want people to keep asking and keep digging into what this is because you really want to keep the headline.
Well, that had been speculated about for several months, and certainly going back to that Netflix series, you know what's going on and talking about his past relationships and the public nature of those and whether it was good, bad, and different. Right, we talk reference to the dani Ka Patrick comments of the last couple of weeks, you go all the way through that. For Rogers, I just wonder if he's not in that place where he's found peace, whatever that is, you know, the Ayahuascar retreats, the darkness retreats, the you know, whatever it is. Look, everybody's on a different path. I don't condemn it. I don't understand some of it, but that's fine to each their own is not as long as you're.
Not hurting anybody.
But for him, I think he's at a place where he's like, look, I can still sling it. And we watched at the back end of that season last year where he's coming back and he's finally fully healthy, puts up some big numbers, got an opportunity to go to Pittsburgh, big big marketplace in terms of the global popularity of the squad that you can say, all right, I'm gonna go in and give it the old college try and you can play football and maybe find some balance in your life where it was always about football and antagonism and this is a I'm gonna make you work a little bit. It's like you got part of the story. Why do the big reveal. Now it's only the first day of veteran mini cams.
He's got the because he's got the headlines. And now here's how I foster this?
Right?
But I could go to work over here, you guys worry about this and we'll all meet in the back back back nine. Nah, he's he knows you know. Look, he's masterful with that. He knows it. But he's at the Hollywood part of his career. Hey, my image is everything. How do I foster it? And really wears football other than a tool to keep him famous, Like that's that's Aaron Rodgers at this point, with that nice little ring that he had. We gonna win more games for the Steelers that he did the Jets. But that's not it's not that difficult to do.
It's not that well, I mean, you're you're just dismissing him categorically, like a spurn love hard to do, Like you're mad he got married somebody else.
Steelers for a better football team than the Jets. So yeah, okay, I get that. Uh time not to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. But guy's been called the Aaron Rodgers of Fox Sports Radio. Huh. When he writes scripts and works. You can see his wedding ring as well. It's Steve Disager.
There is no correlation between Aaron Rodgers and except for, of course, salaries and longevity of career. Okay, maybe not even that. But you I like no, I like doing the cut of your Jim Steve. You mentioned the US men's socker. It was down for nothing in the first half, lost for nothing to Switzerland and Ashville tonight. Officially, the US had no shots on goals.
Yeah, I couldn't played that means I could have played keeper for the Swiss. Yes, and the score would have been the same, means the Swiss didn't need a keeper, no empty net.
A literal block of Swiss chief could have played goalie from the Swiss tonight. To Major League Baseball, the Yankees lead with two outs in the ninth, ten to two at Kansas City, again their bottom of the ninth. There Aaron Judge with an early home run, his twenty fourth Gencarlo Stanton, with the elbow injury, started rehabit double a at a two run single, at an RBI single. Texas won sixteen to four at Minnesota. Toronto secured a ten to nine win at Saint Louis. Victories for Boston, Milwaukee and the Mets, who won in ten innings in a comeback over Washington five to four. Jeff McNeil RBI single and the game winning double victories for Miami and the Cubs. Cincinnati won its fifth straight winning pitcher Andrew Abbotts six and one after his complete game one nothing at Cleveland. Detroit won again five to three at Baltimore. The White Sox lead at Houston four to two and the top of the ninth, and Houston is the first place team in the AL West, three games over Seattle. The Seattle Mariners are down two nothing at Arizona in the bottom of the fourth. The Padres have just taken two nothing lead against the Dodgers in the bottom of the third, and all bullpen night for La A's at Angels, scoreless in the top of the fifth.
A's without a hit so far.
As for the NFL News, Washington Commander's wide receiver Terry McLaurin is skipping mandatory mini camp this week. He's due to finish contract extension this year. Among those who did not report seeking new contracts, Steelers linebacker TJ. Watt and Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson not at Dolphins mini camp, or defensive back Jalen Ramsey and tight end John U. Smith.
We can update.
It looks like the Padres are extending the lead against La bottom of the third. Now three nothing, POD's back to you.
Hey, this battle to be the second best team in the National League's team. This is a big deal, and it's a really big deal right here.
You know, the Yankees aren't that far behind the overall records. As much as you may bash the yank They're going to be forty and twenty five in just a minute.
Yeah, that's all right, I still look at still look at another way. Max Freed is going to be nine and one this year.
Thank you, Steven. Up next, there's a big time NBA stars we get set for Game three tomorrow night that I absolutely need more from way do we tell you who it is? That's next? Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Why?
Well, look, Halliburton was eleven points, you know, three out of eight from the field, and he had you know, seven assists and five rebounds. Why if Halliburton had the game, he has two of those games a series. And if you're that good, you have to be able to play a little bit more consistent than that. And I'm not saying every game needs to be where you're thirty and ten and ten, but there's got to be times where I'm controlling the team and I'm out here leading and I'm doing my damnedest, and if I'm not hitting shots, and it's me setting things up because I could clearly I can get my own shots, I can get into the paint, I can get the ball to the right guys because everybody on the PACER's cannet threes. So there's games where he can do he just doesn't. And you need to be more motivated than just Hey, when people say I'm overrated, or look at look at the Pacers series against the Knicks. There's no bigger example. I could tell you that after Game three where Halliburton was bad and the Knicks cut that series to two to one, what did the Pacers do, Hey, your dad's coming back to the game, we're having your dad come back for game four. Could have had him come back for Game three, but it's like the Pacers were saving it knowing that we may need to motivate Halliburton during the series, which would be a big red flag. Shouldn't have to motivate a guy. You could have him come back for game three, but no, no, no, he had a really bad Game three. We're down to one. We got to motivate, and what happens. Haliburton comes back in Game four and he has one of the best games of his NBA career. Like that should be. All that tells you about Halliburton is that, dude, you have to find some way to be this motivat, be this version of yourself every time you step on the floor, especially when you get to the NBA Finals and the conference finals. It can't just be hey, couple of times, Yeah, don't know what happened in that game. It's why guys like an it's a home well.
But on the plus side for him, up until about two weeks ago, nobody expected any of this. Right with Ann Edwards, it was he was coronated, right. You might as well have had the SI cover like they had for Lebron all those years ago where he then decided to start calling himself the King and adopted it and whatever. But for Anthony Edwards, like I played good enough defense, I did this, I did that right, those were his comebacks in media sessions. But expectations heavy is the head who wears the crown or that people are trying to shove it on his head With Terry's Aliburton, he was just a guy on a pretty good team, flashed every once in a while, but clearly has a pension for last minute shots right now, thirteen of sixteen because that last one didn't count, but it's but it's the kind of thing that.
We want to look at his numbers.
He's not a volume guy, right he shot thirteen point eight shots per game this year. You're been talking about the depth of what Indiana is where he can take over at times. Even from an assist perspective, You're looking at a guy nine point two ten point nine a year ago. That's the career high, ten point four distributing well, he was fourteen ten and six in the first game. Makes the big shot, but we don't talk about the rest of that game because he makes the big shot, right fourteen, ten and six is a pretty damn good stat line. Yeah right, Jason Kidd, your next head coach is the guy that went that was not scoring fourteen.
Jason Kidd was ten and ten and you know ten.
Well, But that I'm looking for balance because I'll take those four off there, I'll put it over the assists column and now I got ten, ten, ten, Okay. But it's it's just the idea that he's not been the guy that we've been trying to crown, and now all of a sudden we are. It's like we're chasing him down because we can't give it to Anthony Edwards.
Just let it be.
Let it be. He doesn't have to be that guy. Everybody's got to find a way to bring more to the party, and it's got to be if you're that great, Toby Topic got to be that good. Two big hot takes on the NBA Finals Next.
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I am outstanding? I can exclusively report to you that here at my home in Michigan, the home run that Aaron Judge hit just landed beside me. Oh got a second ago, Because here's the thing.
Major League players.
Are used to seeing extraordinary things. They do it every day, and then many of them author extraordinary things every day. The Aaron Judge home run that was hit tonight in Kansas City, if you look at the reaction in the Yankee dugout, it was even by judge and standards, something truly out of this world, out of the ballpark, out of the state, as far as I'm concerned, land on my front lawn. It was that kind of a home run. To be honest, it felt like four sixty nine was an underestimate of exactly how far that ball went. And again it seemed like the momentum. Hopefully the Royals don't have to do repairs on the Hall of Fame there so they've gotten left field because they seemed to crash right into the windows of that It is just an absolutely titanic shot. And listen, the Yankees and Aaron Judge, I mean, it's gonna be a fun storyline. We've got that game on Thursday. An MLB Network you've got Judge, You've got with It's gonna be a lot of fun to watch them both play. But what Aaron Judge is doing right now, guys, it's just difficult to describe in any sort of normal terminology.
Now, so we're here and getting into the middle of June, and here's Judge today, two for five, he's hitting three ninety six. Give me the percentage chance you think that he can make a run at hitting four hundred this year, I'll make it one. We're talking about it throughout the summer into September, like, hey's a percentage he can make a run at four hundred.
I think he can. It's it's right there. I'm going to say better than fifty percent. I'm going to say fifty five forty five. I'm not going to say that he's going to finish it at four hundred and predict that, because that is really hard to do. But what he's able to do even without necessarily getting a ton of infield singles, let's say it's just the damage is so great. And listen, the game has changed a bit with the shift not being in play, and not that the shift really matters that much for him, because he usually hits the ball over the infielders. That tends to be what he's doing, and off and over the outfielders too. But he is in a spot where I just have never seen a player from a power hitting perspective. This locked in in the last probably twenty five years, and it is remarkable to watch it on a consistent basis. And if there was going to be a sort of diminishment of his of his numbers, and if there was a regression to the mean, if you will, I think it would have happened by now. He his performance is the mean. This is his mean right right now? This is it. Uh And and again he's upper in the three nineties, he's taken his walks and I think probably the most impressive thing too is that. And again we could talk about which which order they're hitting in Soto Judge, but Soto's absence has not impacted him at all. And I think that is that is a really really impressive statement to make that when you have a player of Sodo's caliber no longer in your lineup, it does change how people get pitched to. And with Judge, there's just there's no impact on his numbers, which says a lot about him as a person and a professional.
All Right, So let's grab and a guy who's been photoshopped in the Yankee uniforms since his debut a year ago, and that's Paul Skeins. Last year eleven and three. This year he's four and six. But every other metric is the same. What's more likely, Judge, it's four hundred or he creates a new win regular season record for himself by winning twelve games.
That's a great question, fall Skins, as you're pointing out it's not easy to win games you're starting at Pittsburgh Park.
No, it's just not.
It's just not. I think there's actually a better chance of Judge hitting four hundred. I really do. I love fall team, but this is there, you go, this is not his this Let's put it this way. As long as the Skeins is wearing the black and gold of the Bucos, and as long as they're in their current lack of competitiveness, wins will not be the stat in which Schemes is a dominant pitcher in He's going to be really good in that, in that by those standards, in that, in that category, but just not not the league wide he's just I think double digit win seasons. It's just crazy to say it, but that's just where the pirates are right now. He's still great, he still is going to be an All Star, He's still going to be a perpetual die on candidate, and there'll be the eight for Team USA at the WBC. All those things are true. But he might have a losing record when the season is done, and that is a that is an indictment of where the pirates are right now.
I'm just in now. John paulond Is picturing you on MLB Network tomorrow with Lauren Shahati in the big box with your head is really huge saying and her saying to you, did you really say, Aaron Judge get it four hundred more than Paul Paul Skeins can win twelve games. You're gonna say, yes, Yes, I did, Yes, I did. I can see that happening tomorrow.
I guys, I mean that's the numbers say right now. Yeah, the look at get where again schemes were about halfway through the year. It's just my goodness, we have to go go through and actually look at the statistical likelihood that a pitcher would have an ERA under two with by the end, you'll probably pitch one hundred and seventy innings. So a sub to e R one hundred and seventy innings, what's the lowest number of wins? And I'm gonna probably I'm not going to look this up necessarily, right, I mean, maybe I will while you're asking the next question, I'll look this up. I cannot, I cannot imagine that it's that this number is. I mean, how many guys could have possibly had an ERA under two with one hundred and seventy innings and one fewer than ten games. We're about to find out literally as you ask me this question. I'm going to work on this as as we're talking right now. It is a that's that is where that that is where the pirates and schemes are right now, all right now.
So speaking of pictures, you'll look. We watched sho Heyotani warm up during the playoffs last year, thinking, Okay, he's throwing because he's going to pitch in the playoffs. No, no, we still haven't seen him. But Dave Roberts said there is a north of zero chance that he pitches before the All Star break, meaning it's not zero north of zero could be ninety percent, it could be fifty percent, it could be ten percent, it could be five percent, but north of zero, which tells me that Otani potentially is on the way back. Like, what are you hearing? Is this feasible? Could we see Otani pitch before the All Star break?
It's feasible. And I think that why it's feasible is that the Dodgers have certainly let him They I'm not saying that they've had him take too much time, but they've been very deliberate about the pace of all this, and I think part of it is that just that they didn't want to have him dedicated completely to the pitching side of things, because obviously he's their DH So I think that they have been monitoring this very very carefully. They have been, They have been overly careful to this point. The reason why I think that the that this has come up, and I think it's entirely appropriate by the way that it has, is that the Dodgers need him right now. Show is probably on a faster track to coming back than Glass now is, and then Snell is so as long as that's the case, as long as Show is ahead of them, then then basically it's kind of his turn. The Dodgers have had so many issues with pitchers who have been hurt. They've come back, they've gone back on the ielt. The need, the acute need for the Dodgers is today, is this week, is next week is certainly early July, let's say, And tonight Tonight's game is a perfect example. The Dodgers do not currently have the pitching depth to be able to chase wins on on consecutive days every time. Because of where of where their depth is, they just don't have the innings to be covered. They cannot bring in their a bullpen all the time. Guys like Dryer and Casperri's are too valuable for them in the bullpen to put in starting roles. It seems on a consistent basis they're stuck. And the reality is one of the best and I mean and not as we can't expect him, by the way to come back and pitch like Paul scheme, but he's going to be a well above average starting pitcher because that's what he's been throughout his career and the need for him is now. He seems to be by all accounts, a very healthy player. We see him swinging it all the time. I think that he's I'm with Dave Roberts there, and I think that that's maybe Dave Roberts's way of sort of communicating to the organization this is the time that we need showing, and I think that it's the right thing for the manager to say, and it may just happen right around the All Star Game that Oltani is back on the Mount.
Jason Show with me.
Mike Carmon here from the Fox Sports Radio Studios on the hotline with us MLB Network, our Superstars, our guy John Paul Morosi at John Morosi, leave out the h because, as he said a couple of weeks ago, literally Mom said, so j O N mr Osi, did you get the answer?
Because I think I had the answer. I had a guess, and I think it's been confirmed.
Oh on on the the Subimber two.
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It fed me a guy named Ed Seaver with the Tigers in nineteen oh two. No, wow, head, go all the way down. Yes, Tom Seavers, great great grandfather.
All right, so ja b Let me ask you.
Roman Anthony the latest guy to get called up and Boston the White Sox had their starter tonight.
He's the eighth guy to make his major league debut.
Is it just me?
Or does it seem like we're just seeing this conga line of young call ups a lot earlier than we used to.
We are, and I think that it's for a couple of reasons. I'll mention a few number one hitters now have seen through their showcase career there's more pitches, more at bats than basically any other previous generation of hitters. They play that now they may not be organized games all the time, but they see a lot of pitching, a lot a ton of pitching, so the hitters are in many ways better prepared. Similarly, on the pitching side, you don't know when they're going to break down, so you better. Their innings are more valuable to you in the major leagues than they are in double as. So I think that there's an incentive, based on the reality of the game to promote the players. We also see this that because of the trade market, teams are very reluctant to give up their best prospects in trades. So if you're not going to trade them, you might as well play them. You might as well promote them and having part of your major league team. And I think also you've got a lot of teams that are trying to be mindful of their budget, and often the least expensive big change you can make to your to your club is to promote from within. They're going to make the major league minimum. So I think that for a lot of reasons financial and competitive, that's what we're seeing seeing teams do, and I expect it's going to continue. It's just this is the way of the modern game, and you may even start seeing some guys that started the season at Double A that are that are coming up quickly, and Anthony Long deserved its call up.
I'm glad he got it.
It's kind of a youth movement in Boston. But the point I'll make on the American League right now, in general, there's a lot of teams that are flawed. There's a lot of teams that are that have good enough team, good enough rosters to make a playoff run to where the American League is anybody's league. I think in the n L, I said it tel last week. I think Jason the Mets of the best team I've seen, they really are. Yeah, and and so I think that the NL is a little more top heavy. The American League is anybody's guests. And uh, you might see a central team in a America League central team in the World Series for what would be the first time since twenty sixteen with Cleveland. So I think we could be headed for one of those Midwest Baseball kind of a World Series.
JP, you might as well have just dropped the bar gold in front of this guy. His eyes glazed over and it was the biggest.
Smile I've ever seen. Well, he tell me something I know, yeah, I know, I remember the best team in the nice I know, I know they are.
They are.
That's my belief based on what I have seen, they're the best team.
Now, really are two things before we let you go. Number One, I need you to reach out to David Stearns like I did a month ago, and say every passing day that Alonzo contract gets more and more expensive.
Okay, just every time day, Doyn Pete, dyn Pete to get it done.
Now you got it.
Second thing is John Paul I forget with all these guys coming up. What's the name of that rookie in Kansas City you're going to get to see Thursday in the showcase? How do you say his name? I have a tough to how do you pronounce his name?
Jack Glean Glean? But we're gonna we're gonna work on that. It's to the anglophone here, it's hagli cagli is. How is how they've been saying it.
Yeah, that's that's not as good as how you say it.
That's that's not fun the fun way, the fun way, the correct way. Glean and by the way, we uh we Italy uh finally won a soccer match of consequence yesterday over over the formidable side from Moldova in World Cup qualifying so to nil. But the but the manager Spalletti was he was fired over the weekend, so.
We've got a new new beginning. We need to find who that new manager is going to because we cannot miss the World Cup for a third straight cycle. That would not be acceptable. So I'm I'm counting on the suit we to find their way to to get back in the big dance.
After tonight. I'll give you a Pochettino free, absolute well absolutely free, you can have.
We might he has an Italian surname and uh and and he probably would be able to find a way to to lead lead Italy to the qualifying But I but again, uh the US. I got two teams and I'm not terribly thrilled.
About either one of them right now.
So that's that's where that's where I'm at. I don't get to be a fan of many things, but world soccer I am, and right now being a fan of my two teams is not a ton of fun. So I've gotta we've we've got to work on that good thing. I'm trying to build the ambassador role there between the US and Italy and find a way to somehow cobble together a team release of Italian Americans that can maybe sploc some goals.
He's on Twitter at John Morose. You check him out. Thursday MLB Network Showcase Game of the Week, Yankees, Royals, John Paulo is always buddy Evergret, Well, we'll talk to you really good.
The conversation is always my friends. Thank you so much and looking forward to the next one.
