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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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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.

Things are getting a little dicey and.

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.

It's at twelve after a three.

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.

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, we need that picture and picture of the coach, so we'll keep.

You updated on this again.

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.

About to be named in Jason minutes. Yeah, what do you got, Frostburg?

Make sure every time you talk about that, you make sure in every sentence, Juju Watkins is out.

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.

Yeah.

I don't think you'd play like golf where you get extra points or anything with it.

But I think you, like, maybe that's how they call it.

Yukon leads USC without Juju Watkins, Like it's not the USC Trojans. There, USC without Juju Watkins.

Is the name. That's exactly how it goes for the rest of the tournament.

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.

Half left to go without Jaffrew Watkins.

Without you, Yes, without ju Ju Watkins, and and you can not but not like Juju Watkins got traded.

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.

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.

You ready hit me.

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.

Oh yeah, he got a he got a lot of.

Money, six years, won seventy baby.

Come on now, he got a lot of money.

So it's not him.

Uh No, it's not him. It is not him.

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 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. 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 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 now you look at Divers again.

Oh for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts?

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.

Timing is a little curious.

However, is how much is Devers still mentally locked in?

Right?

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 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. 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 surprised at this point.

I mean, it's not a month.

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.

Yeah, I mean this becomes a huge issue.

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 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 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.

I like the idea, you know.

This makes for good uh good hot takery of hey, oh yeah, tak him.

To get out of there. He's trying to force an issue.

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.

I don't know that that.

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 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.

He doesn't hit two twenty.

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 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.

Well he's not.

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?

Right, how long do you keep him around?

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.

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?

Is this just you and Bregman?

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.

Uh huh uh.

Right over the last seven years, has he not led the major leagues and errors pretty much every year at the position.

So, I mean, it's not good.

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.

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.

We're not doing that.

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.

And it plays.

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. 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 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.

We're okay.

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.

So what does this mean for Rafael divers?

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.

You had the stitches on the mask. That was awesome. There you like that?

I see what we did there.

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.

If he was using a torpedo bat and he's still got fifteen strikeouts.

Well doing that?

Wan Soto's ops is one and a half. He's fine.

It's everybody else not hitting. It's it's every single play.

Well in Lonzo the ground.

Everyone's standing there waiting for haters pitch the break. Don't forget we also had the chiever letters.

Sure, oh, there is very good the chiever letters.

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?

Yeah, I think we just need to disclose everybody with a torpedo bat.

You don't have to agree about the Mets game because they're not hitting any Yeah.

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. 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.

Just think about how many home runs. Ron Karkawis would a hit.

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.

Let them do whatever they want.

I got no problem with it. Let's go. It's all for entertainment purposes.

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You know you were gone a couple of days, so I just get it my way.

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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.

We didn't set that. We didn't set the clocks back this weekend, did we.

That was no, no, okay, I mean it was I don't think there was anything there, okay.

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.

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.

Yeah, but you know what I had.

I had the one of the great sports days of my life on Thursday.

Though, Frida.

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.

Out and had a no hitter. Till your announcers bleeping jinkstick. Well they'll do that.

Hey, twenty three scoreless innings hurled by White Sox starters this year.

Did they play the Mats?

And uh?

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.

Got it, Ago, I got it? Yeah, you're behind.

I am behind that.

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.

So he must have gotten hit in that in the time that I did that.

Oh, okay, but that's before. But yeah, it wasn't.

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.

That's a fragile man, right now.

What are you worry about him?

What are you about a guy who gave up two runs?

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.

No, I do feel bad because I want to play you in the NLCS again, and this time we have Sodo.

That's what I want. That's what.

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.

NLCS, tomorrow the World Series. That's how it's gonna be.

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.

You guys, just wait till they start using torpedo bats.

Dum Man. I'll tell you. I'll tell how Johnny with a torpedo.

Bat for you far Max months, He's gonna launch a ball.

Wow, that get it.

That'll be like those guys going on the driving range or Happy Gilmore getting after it in a long, long drive contest.

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, 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.

Players are gonna use them.

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 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.

It was met with less of a less of a firestorm.

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.

Right now.

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 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.

This is not that, Sae.

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.

Oh, I don't know. I gotta wait on that. I think you gotta put that away for a while.

No, oh I'm bringing it back.

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.

It's too soon. You gotta gotta wait on that a little.

How about giving them mets a tee to hit off.

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.

You're tied with the White Sox.

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.

I mean really, I think that. I think that's what I think. I think he killed the Brewers franchise.

Man.

Well, I think it's the other way around. He killed a Brewer legend.

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.

Over the lot over. Yeah, I think it a little bit over the line.

I think it's a little over the line, a little bit, tiny bit, tiny bit, tiny bit too soon.

Tiny bit over the.

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.

Right.

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 we're not gonna get locked into taking a quarterback at two.

Okay, poker, I signed Miles Garrett. That's enough.

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 a little bit later in the first round. Poker by the Titans, Absolutely poker by the Browns, Absolutely poker.

By the Giants.

Ah.

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 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.

Justify their pick.

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.

Right.

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 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 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. 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.

At number three.

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 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 mediocrity now right now, with Russell Wilson and Jamis Winston on board, you know what they're over under for wins is three.

And a half. It's not a lot of wins.

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 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.

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 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?

Right.

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 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 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, 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.

Right.

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 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.

You kind of have to take him.

You say, go fish and you come back.

In the twenty twenty six draft, wishing hoping one of those guys is ready for prime time.

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 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.

I I was just assuming because I have no offensive line.

Oh and you threw him under the bus. That was my next choice.

By the way, do we.

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.

We're fine, will be good.

Eria fan can lead us.

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 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, 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 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 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 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.

Back to you, Thank You, Steve.

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Be in the NFL. Wait till I tell you.

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.

Well, it still could be.

It could be, but it's not Cleveland.

Definitely not the Jets.

It could be the Jets, no chan, but it's not Cleveland.

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I don't believe it.

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.

But then he offers buyouts to what like seventy percent of the staff or I know, want to fifty Yeah, we.

Want to change the uh change the energy with at at one jets.

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. 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.

You got an F. Yeah.

I know.

There's a lot of details that came out in terms of how big the packages are to walk away.

Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's weird.

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.

We're getting rid of all the bad energy. But that being said, uh, the last couple of days, and I know.

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.

All right. The reason is what we said in the last couple of days.

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 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 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.

What the hell's going on?

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 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. 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?

Where is he mentally right?

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?

Right?

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.

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 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.

Have been gimmes. You don't have any of those in division anymore.

Yeah, I mean, look, it's it's a tougher division, sure, but okay, I'm fine with that.

But sometimes.

Sometimes we're gonna make every game is against the AFC South, every game.

We're playing the Jaguars every week.

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.

Things got out of control.

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.

Now you do at the NFC South that helps.

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.

Well, at least he was never an ex jet now good.

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.

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