Hour 3 – Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson

Published Jan 18, 2025, 7:13 AM

Jason and Mike debate which QB needs a win more on Sunday between Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen. The guys preview and pick Rams @ Eagles. And Roki Sasaki announced he's signing with the Dodgers!

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He gets some battleship in there. I mean, we got them.

All we were playing cribbage. Well you were trying to figure out who's going to signe.

Well, you know, I did have my five minutes of Man, that's just too bad because this is a guy that White Sox could have actually afforded if you wanted to go there.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

I mean, look the Rokie Sosaki, who is the big superstar pitcher this offseason, coming over from Japan, just like Yoshinobu Yamamodo was last year. But obviously you're not spending as much money on him because of his age and the lack of years he is spent in the Japanese League. He comes into Major League Baseball as a free agent who is still under team control. You're only paying this guy six million dollars a year, and he could be a superstar.

It's it's a freebie.

It's it's it's you know, the Dodgers are this franchise and it's getting a free superstar as much as he doesn't put them over the top, because you can't do that in baseball.

Uh, this is this is about.

As great a move as you can get. You mean, we get a guy that could be a potential start. Yeah, what's it gonna cost us six million dollars?

Yeah? What about what about anything?

No?

No, what about players?

No?

Who do they want return? No, you don't need any of that. You just need to pay him. What the Major League Baseball says is the the minimum you need to pay a guy. Uh, coming over with this sort of of of detail about him and how much he has played or not played yet. Uh, it's it's a it's a win. It's it's free money. It's free money for the Dodgers. Right, he's they've already spent more money on him for this year. Think about the Dodgers more money on him for this year. Then they'll pay for Otani last year, this year, and the year after. They've already had that because Otani's only making two million a year the next three all his money's coming do in like fifteen years when the Dodgers are going to sell the team when it's worth like twenty five billion dollars, so they never have to pay that out. But I mean, you're paying more money for Sasaki now than technically you're paying Otani for the next two years and the year you just had where you won the World Series.

I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Yeah, that's how it goes.

Shar Ali Guinness, Bobi Wan Kenobi, congrats on aj Minter, Buddy.

I'm excited about aj min That's.

How sucking your franchise is.

Dude.

When when when the Mets beat the Dodgers in the NLCS this year and it's you know, because we keep them morning unlike last year where not a lot of money was on the field.

Billy likes to keep the money on the field.

Uh, with the money when you're watching guys like Minter and we re signed Ryan's Stannik and he's got.

What How are they sawing off Dodger bats? How are they winning? How are the Mets winning? Their not nearly as good as we are.

We're striking a blow for all the other small market teams like the Mets and the Yankees and the Red Sox who can't afford players like this. Now suddenly we're the underdogs. We're the good guys. Hey, look at look at those small market Mets Yankees teams. They just can't compete with the Dodgers. Man, they just can't do it. We look like we're scrimping nickels together just to get a guy at the major league minimum, Like the Dodgers make the Mets and the Yankees look like the A's Like, that's how bad it is. That's how bad of a differential there is between star power and money and what you're paying out the guys from the Dodgers compared to the rest of the league, even the big market guys.

Look at what you're doing.

Yeah, just truly setting them up as we did so aptly long ago as a new evil empire. And now folks, because the devil's in the details about the contracts and you know, choice of where you can go in Major League Baseball, like they get everybody.

It's like, yeah, guys have to choose to go there.

Yeah, that's called free agency. If it was not free agency, they would call it that. It would be oh, what's up for? Not free agency? Oh yeah, Yeah, that's where a player has to go to a team that Major League Baseball says he has to go to.

Oh okay, what about free agency? Oh that's different that.

That's that would have been kind of interesting in the auracy of competitive balance, kind of like watching a game that is on tape delay.

Hey we move the action further into the third quarter.

Say think are in the interest of competitive balance, the Dodgers, Red Sox, Cubs, Yankees, and Mets will not be able to participate in this round of free agency.

This is controlled agency. That's what it is.

There's no there's nothing free about this is controlled agency.

Yeah, free except for level one teams. You are now a level one team. You you are super saturated, saturated with stars.

I feel like you're in ready player one.

Congratulations pars of all on making it past the first level.

You've made it. That's great.

Now get another key, go to the second level, go see all the blood in the shining, and then come back to me.

It'll work. There you go.

So we'll have more on the Sasaki situation coming up in a little bit. But yes, the Dodgers get what could be another great player for not a lot, and it's just the rich get richer and the Dodgers at another great player for next season. But with this weekend coming up, we talked about the Bills and the Ravens Last hour game of the week, probably game of the year in the NFL, and it's it's just to see Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen go at it when when so much is at stake with their legacies and and their teams and how you view a guy as as a success in the playoffs or not. I gotta say the storyline I'm looking forward to seeing the most this weekend is either Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson is gonna get absolutely destroyed on Monday. Yeah, the world can't win the big game. It could be a fifty one fifty game. And Lamar Jackson could go for three hundred yards and five touchdowns and one hundred yards rushing and Josh Allen could go for three point fifty and six touchdowns, three passing, three rushing. But if if the Bills defense gives up a last minute drive, it's Josh Allen's fault, like like one of these guys is like it's it's made to order, no matter how they play, just because of the playoff failures that we want to pounce up and down on these two quarterbacks for it's absolutely happy for one of them. One of them is going to be completely overrated on Monday, regardless as to whatever they do on Sunday.

Well, and this is where we get to sit back and chuckle after we watch a thriller, hopefully on Sunday, and they both ball out and give us big stat lines, highlight performance reels for days to see. Who shows their ass on Monday morning, right in terms of what they watched, what's real versus hot take nonsense. You can line them up in your head. Go ahead, everybody, America World. Yeah, there you go as to where that'll go. But yeah, it's the unfortunate occurrence that they play in the same conference, so we get this game earlier than unfortunately the Super Bowl. Otherwise then we can fight about it there, but at least you'd have gotten to a super Bowl. Unfortunately, the road ends pretty early, lucky for us as football fans and fans of all the guys in that twenty eighteen draft. I'm looking at you two, Josh Rosen. But all that to say it, it's truly fascinating in the fact that we're gonna also have the weather as an element that will be not considered in any way, shape or form except when it comes to the failures of kickers.

I will say this.

I will say this far with these two like Okay, what's on the line for them? On the line for them Sunday obviously a trip to the AFC Title Game, ptention to.

The Super Bowl.

But I will say this the quarterback who needs the win more, who needs the win more? Right, forget about the ridiculous this guy's not got, but someone who needs the win more for his resume. Lamar Jackson needs to win a little bit more because the convenient narrative about Lamar Jackson here's in the playoffs. He hasn't played well a few times. He's been in the league a while, he's been the MVP three times. He's someone that, hey, we need to see something more from him. So he's got more at stake. If Josh Allen loses, Yeah, there's still gonna be some of the boy Josh Allen's got to win one boy, the pressures on him, man, how do you not win? But I still think he avoids a lot a lot of the criticism that Lamar will get if he loses the game. So I think the guy with the more at steak on Sunday for his legacy and how he's viewed it is Lamar just because he has reached a little bit higher a little bit higher level than Josh Allen over the course of his career. We though they're look, they're about the same age and accomplished almost the same.

But Lamar does have the MVPs.

I think they'll still be some of the excuses for Josh Allen more so than there would be for Lamar Jackson. So I will say he's got more at stake this weekend.

Well, but at.

Least with Lamar you've got the MVPs.

Now we're still looking at the odds even with all the award other award voting, right, you get your aps and everything else going out there, all pro teams getting to going to Josh Allen at last. Look from an article from the fifteenth with still minus four fifty with Jackson at plus three twenty, so it looks like he ends the MVP drought. But what's curious in Buffalo is you're gonna lose Joe Brady most likely, and potentially you know, there's some calling kind of in that Ryan Day kind of world where McDermott suddenly gets shown the door if they can't solve Baltimore this week. So a lot of that comes into well, Josh Allen didn't get it done, and look at all the change and will he ever Now, if he actually gets named MVP at NFL Honor, then he at least gets to put that feather in his cap. But for now he's got nothing. He's got a couple of empty pockets. Yeah, and guys getting thrown through tables.

It's it's but how many guys have gotten thrown through tables? A lot? Okay, So where does that stuck up for me?

I mean really, But that's that's how insane it is for Sunday. For Sunday is that whoever loses, no matter what it's gonna be, look at them. They can't win the game, can't win, and there will be all kinds of outline. Look at this game here, and this game in the playoffs here, this game in the playoffs here, and it's wow. I mean, look, I'll be the first guy to tell you that if Josh Allen has a Sorry Frostburg, if either Alan or Jackson have a Justin Herbert like game on Sunday, yeah, okay, then it's gonna be legitimate.

But I'm telling you it doesn't matter.

It doesn't mean Alan could go for three point fifty three touchdowns. And two picks right and run for seventy five yards, have a great game. But all we're going to talk about is, look at those two interceptions. It costs them the game, right, look at those two it costs them the game. But wait, but he actually he accounted for five touchdowns and four hundred and fifty yards of offense. You have at those two picks cost him the game, cost him the game right there, And they'll say the same for Lamar Jackson. Hey, look at Lamar can't get it done without good wide receivers. They Flowers is out, couldn't win the game. I mean they it's the same old story, Neil Lamar needs more help. They can't get it for him. They had Derrick Henry this year who had a phenomenal year and it still wasn't enough. And he got it done all the way till now. And how does he have that game? Like, No matter how this game comes out, that's going to be the narrative for Lamar Jackson. It could be he throws for two seventy five, throws for two touchdowns, runs for one to twenty five and two touchdowns. But if the final drive of the game he gets picked off on fourth down, or he throws an incomplete pass that looked like a receiver could have gone. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that the criticism of either one of these guys.

Is going to go through the roof.

No.

And that's the beauty and the horror of the sports chock media fandom world, right, because even within Baltimore and in Buffalo, you're gonna have those small communities of people going, I don't know, maybe the blowhards on national ring over right, our guy can't get it done. He's not our guy. I might start hearing from old colleagues telling me that Josh Allen's just a running back again.

I don't know, Yeah, yeah, no sense that you're gonna see all those convenient narratives they out come rushing back to you, rushing back like James Earl Jones and Field of Dreams that wipe away the memories Ray, They'll wipe them away in front of them like uh thet like like what is say, fireflies. They'll have to brush the memories away, and they'll be so thick, like all these storylines will be so thick.

Oh, I can't even see I can't even see out my windshield. Oh, look at all these storylines with Lamar and Josh Allen. That's how it's going.

Jim, Jim, Jim did you see that throw?

Jim, Jim?

You know what I just found out, Jim Olmore Jackson's never won a Super Bowl?

Jim. Do you believe that?

Jim Jim Jim. Neither is Josh Allen like Jim Jim. Neither of these guys have what I didn't know that, Jim. I thought Lamar had like three or four at Josh Allen had like two.

Jim.

Apparently Patrick Mahomes has all of them. Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim Jim.

Why why are you shaking your head at me? Jim Jim? Why are you? Why are you getting up and walking away? There's gonna be a play Jim, Jim Jim. Yeah, I want to see.

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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon live from the tirack dot com studios. Hey, uh, you know, I feel well, I really don't feel bad about this. But remember last week when we talked on Friday Night, Boy, Georgetown's twelve and two. Maybe Georgetown basketball is back? Well, I tell you they finally figured it out. Uh do You're a big believer of that?

Yeah?

Yeah, Look tonight and this is why I don't feel bad about it, because you know it's Georgetown.

Yeah.

Uh.

Tonight, DePaul snapped their thirty nine game regular season Big East losing streak by beating Georgetown seventy three sixty eight, their first regular season Big East win in seven hundred and thirty days.

How about that Markaguire and Terry Cummings were still running the paint. Who well score Dillard action getting that.

So skip Dillard? Very nice? Ray Meyer Joey Meyer.

Oh sure, yeah, uh, oscar.

By, Yeah, that's true. You got it.

Yep.

The fourth We don't forget the wienermobile.

Yes, yep, wienermobile. Sure sure, uh. The fourth longest in the ap ERA. Fourth longest conference losing streak. The longest was Colgate, who lost forty seven games in conference in the Patriot Conference from eighty four to eighty seven. I mean, first road win for DePaul since December of twenty twenty two happened one on the road in almost three years.

Then they were Holegate was able to scrape away the tartar and get back into the wing column.

I like that. Very nice, very nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they were.

Able to crest over the edge and control you. Yeah, good for Paul. Maybe Georgetown's not so bad. I mean that's when we talked about him. They were twelve and two, and now.

The twelve and well, maybe it's just the latest in a long line of things you've jinxed.

I mean, we getting all excited about him.

I mean, hey, and I'm okay with that, because again, you know Georgetown.

But it was just it was it wasn't like it was a week before it was it was January third, and they beat Xavier and all of a sudden they were two. And it's wow, Georgetown's figured it out. And if I've cursed Georgetown, I'm okay with that. I'm absolutely okay with that, because they've lost four straight.

Now.

Granted they have played Marquette and Yukon, who are two of the top ten teams in the country, but then they lost to Saint John's Town, they lost to the Paul.

Well, but what do you do when Zoe decides she wants to go to Georgetown, not going to Georgetown, not going or someone comes into the life who you know has an affiliation with Georgetown.

You know, part of me is what doesn't matter. You're not allowed to talk to that person. It's like footloose. No, there's no dancing, no dancing in this town. There's no dancing. It's gotten to the point because you know, we've talked about this on the air. You just you know, I told Zoe each Pam and I have one school she can't go to. I said, you can't go to Georgetown, Pansas, can't go to Ohio State.

Everything else is out there. I told you that.

Now you know, when people ask her where she wants to go to school. She says Georgetown first, just to just to get my goat. But now her friends have picked up on it, and not only her friends, but her older friends. Like one of her friends is a senior going to college next year. And I was we were at a gathering about a week and a half an hour gathering and someone said, well, it wasn't a party. It was just a bunch of people hanging out and somebody and she was sitting, she was standing near me, and somebody so say, Ruby, where do you want to go to school? And she goes, I'm thinking Georgetown. And I turned around and she looked at me, and I'm like, okay, okay, no, stop, stop stopping.

I can't.

I can't have this happen. Now all her friends want to go to Georgetown. Oh, George down, say George to be fun.

Do you think someone prompted that trying to get get your goat?

You just wait for Patrick Ewing to come to your house and recruiter.

He's gonna knock on my door and say, hey, Patrick, let's talk about the NBA playoffs first. Let's talk about the Knicks. Okay, let's talk about that.

I think he might you out.

I'll tell you. I always talk. You can go anywhere you want to. Can't go to Georgetown, can't go there, can't.

Go to George.

Let your kids live their dreams.

Can't go to Georgetown, can't go There's a thousand other colleges. There's a thousand of them.

But maybe that would be the best one. No, that's not why an experience that you would never know. It's not because it's Georgiatown.

You gonna let her live her life. You a helicopter.

You don't want to go to You're not going to the tournament anyway. You go to Georgetown, doesn't matter. You want to go where. You're gonna go to the tournament a couple of times in four years. You're not gonna go there.

See. I think he probably does the little waving the hand thing like he's a Jedi master or a wizard regularity.

Joey, you don't want to go to Georgetown.

I don't want to go.

You can just stay here and go to school and live from upstairs. I'm gonna stay here, go to school and live upstairs. Great, all right, Great, we solved that. Let's play hungry hungry hippos. All right, let's go do it. Uh So, Georgetown, Georgetown. Sorry, Georgetown, I'm not really though, I'm really not. They lost four in all, I'm not really sorry.

I'm really not. I'm not I know, I know.

Uh No, you know we've previewed all the games tonight in the NFL this weekend. Well, if you miss any of it, don't forget. Our Best Stuff podcast goes up right after the show is over. Wherever you get your podcasts from, just search Jason Smith and Mike Harmon, it will be there. Ray Us, give us five stars. We'll love you for the rest of our lives. Now, the Rams and the Eagles. A little bit of fun stuff today where Saquon Barkley is talking about one of the Rams players who said, ah, I hate the Eagles. I know, every time I look at the Eagles, I look at their green uniforms, I get mad. And Saquon Barkley said, you know, I don't know that I would say that. I really don't know. Jared Vers declaring how much he hates Eagles fans ahead of this game. I mean, I don't know that you want to do that going into Philadelphia.

I mean, you saw what happened.

You just saw what happened last week with the one fan who was yelling at the Packers fan.

You don't want to antagonize everybody.

Well, but then you saw that the Packers fan that was their objective, you know, like that came out as the week went on like it was a whole lot of bad.

Well, it was the guy's objective. I don't think it was the wife's.

No, no, no, no, I think I don't have that. It's the case she might have, you know, gotten caught in that crossfire.

Yeah, I don't know that. You want to sit there and be You're gonna be called all these names. Oh okay, yeah, but we're.

Gonna get hits on social media. It's gonna be great.

And then watch this guy's gonna get fired and I'm gonna wear a cheese hat.

I don't know that I would have said that if I was Jared Verse, but he said it, Okay. I picked the Rams for the Super Bowl before the season. I don't know if I know if I told you this, I remember that yet?

Did I remember that? I picked the Rams for the Super Bowl? And I'm not backing off it. Now?

Give me the Rams over the Eagles. The Eagles might be hitting the wall a little. Last week was not a great game for the Eagles. It looks like Saquon Barkley had a great game, and you look at his numbers, but he had one run at the end of the game. He had one run at the end of the game, and he slid down to clinch it. But it was tough sledding. It was twenty three carries for ninety eight yards for Barkley. The offense doesn't look the same. I mean, I know they're getting aj Brown back healthy this week, but it just I feel like the Eagles have They've gone all in on Barkley, which is great, but when he doesn't run wild, and let's face it, when running backs to you know, get two hundred and fifty three hundred touches, you get to the playoffs, some of them that gas tank hits empty. And the reliance on Saquon Barkley has been so much so that I don't know that they can change and suddenly go from hey, Barkley's not doing it, We're just gonna throw. We have to throw the football up and down the field. I don't know that they can. I don't know that they can. They can change that strategy to say, Okay, we're just not gonna run Saquon anymore. Like if if you run into trouble at some point you have to abandon the running game, but it's Barkley. Are you really gonna do that? The offense has become so Barkley dependent, which is great. During the season, he's had a phenomenal year and he's helped keep a lot of controversies at Bay because he's been the focal point of the team and not whatever relationship that Jalen Hurts has with his head coach or they have with aj Brown and should people read or not. In Philadelphia, if they're hitting the wall a little bit, they are gonna really struggle. And I'll tell you who's gonna exploit that as the Rams. We talked about it last hour with the Texans and the Chiefs. The Rams can get to the quarterback with just four down linemen and that's a big thing. That's gonna be a big thing. Forcing Jalen Hurts in the pocket to be able to have to throw the football in difficult coverage. That's gonna make it near impossible for Philadelphia to move the football. They're gonna rely on Barkley, who's gonna have tough sledding because I guarantee you Sean McVay is gonna say, we're gonna make Jalen Hurts win this game because I don't know that he can. We're gonna do everything we can to sell out and stop Barkley. Our defensive line is good enough, We're gonna have just enough offense, and we're gonna win this game. And I'm gonna take the Rams twenty to sixteen because in the end, I also believe in Sean McVay way more than I believe in Nick Sirianni.

Yeah, you just want Nick Sirianni fired so we get that chaos come Monday too. Isn't it great how all of these storylines can get spun out left right? Yeah, there's a trust issue with the pass game for Philadelphia for sure. Now do I believe that the Rams won't need extra bodies to get home? Not against this offensive line. You're gonna need some extra extra bodies. You're gonna need to mix and match a bit. AJ Brown's gonna have to be more than a spectator and a book reader like he was a week ago, foreshadowing of what transpired a week ago, maybe a little salty. If he's not involved early, then they really none of those guys deserve the interviews.

They're getting bad coaching jobs.

I can tell you that DeVante, Smith, Dallas, Goddard guys that will be in the mix. And for Barkley, I'm not worried about the proverbial wall here. I think he's gonna be able to get to the finish line. But for Stafford in the offense, it's generally a two man gang. Very they got the six man tag Jamps. I guess Kyrin Williams, Phukin Nakua and Staffords the trigger man, even though he hasn't had to put up ridiculous numbers all year long. I picked Philly before the year. None often go chalk, but thought that they had the great path of least resistance coming out of that division, so that they'd be ready for this time of year. I'm gonna lay the points and I'm gonna take Philly to win.

Woo, you're laying I'll take off see, because I'll take the points, but i won't need them.

No, No, that's the thing.

I'll take the point.

You're gonna take them.

Yeah, I'm not gonna but I'm not gonna need them.

But you know they're there as a consolation when you lose.

Hey, your team didn't win, but did you get them?

Yeah, because they cover this spring, they took care of their backers.

Uh.

You know when last we saw them, Barkley was running wild. That won't happen again to that level. I don't believe and not, you know, because he's worse for the wear just second meeting, better better squad, healthier squad, all of that. Philly is six and a half. I could take him by a touchdown. Forty three and a half is your total? You're getting price one hundred and sixty bucks.

Yeah, I am.

I am okay with with being on the other side of this because you know, I mentioned Sean McVay and I mentioned I'll take him over Nick Siriotti. Because the other side of this for the Rams and the Eagles is this is an Eagles team that's been to the Super Bowl. They've also flamed out in the first round of the playoffs. They're a little more unpredictable, of course, they're a little more volatile, and the Rams are a bright lights team. When the lights are bright, they play their best right. We saw that against the Vikings. We saw that in the last few weeks of the season. The Rams have become that team where, hey, we're gonna start one and four, but we're gonna finish ten and three and we're gonna get in the playoffs and nobody's gonna want to play us. They are the definition of a bright lights team. And maybe they don't look like they have a lot of star power, but you look at the end, you watch the end of a game and go, how did Sean McVay do that?

How did the Rams do that?

Matthew Stafford's clutching the fourth quarter and he doesn't get enough due for being the clutch quarterback he has been throughout the back half of his career, and when the lights are bright, I trust him and McVeigh more than I'll trust Dick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts. It's been mainly because the Eagles offense has gotten so far away from Hurts being the focal point playmaker that I don't know that he steps right back into it, you know, I don't know. I don't know that he can. And the Rams being designed where we can do what we want to with just our defensive line. That's becoming the key to the NFL. Hey, if you can, if your defensive line can wreck havoc on the quarterback and the running game without having a blitz, you're gonna win.

A lot games.

Age old adage.

But yeah, Jalen Hurts is the wild card and all of this because what will be fun is Monday we start doing quarterback rankings and all of a sudden you get to jumble him and Sam Darnold so legends and fall into the wayside. Should they lose, boy, it becomes a whole other thing.

Yeah, it would be. It would be very difficult.

It would be a very different think about those conversations in Philadelphia.

You know, Hey, listen next year when Mike McCarthy's the head coach. This isn't it gonna happen in philadel.

Hey, Bill Belichick you talked about it doesn't have a signed contract.

How fast would Belichick if the Eagles lose, right and suddenly, how fast would he jump to the Eagles if they called him dude, He'll.

Be sitting there with a pen where they signed the Declaration of Independence.

Bill, I have a Howie Roseman on the line. Tell him never mind. I'm going to the airport. I'll be there in three hours. Get me a flight. I'm quitting, but you're quitting. We get your last act as my assistant. Get me a flight to Philadelphia.

Figure out who his favorite signer of the declaration was. He'll be standing in that exact spot where that quill.

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Its stems Wow, you know, first, I thought you were going like he argues with every fan in the no.

That that wouldn't be the case either.

That Philadelphia home game, by the way, against the Rams Snow is in the forecast Sunday, three pm Eastern Time. Eagles linebacker Nakobe Dean out for the postseason with the torn Pateeller tendon. Eagles had the top ranked defense easily in the NFL this year and allowed just eighteen.

Points a game.

After that.

On Sunday, it's Baltimore at Buffalo. Ravenstar wide receivers. Za Flowers is doubtful for Sunday on the road with his knee injury. He missed another practice after missing their wild card game last weekend. The temperature in Buffalo is due to be under twenty degrees for that Divisional round game. Two games tomorrow, starting with Houston at Kansas City temperature in the mid twenties, and then Detroit will be hosting on Fox TV Saturday Night a Washington team that's won six in a row. The Dolphins will play a game in Madrid next season. The full NFL schedule won't come out.

Until that's in Spain, Steve, that's in Spain.

That's in Spain.

That's correct.

They're going to be playing at the real Madrid stadium.

Yeah, we're gonna do that entire show in Spanish as a tribute.

Yes, I hear he can speak it fluently.

Uh mucho.

Gusta Pitcheroki Sazaki is coming over from Japan to sign with the Dodgers. He is twenty three years old. He was on the Japanese team that won the World Baseball Classic a couple of years ago with a couple of guys that are now Dodgers, sho Heyo Toni and Piccherioshinobu Yamamoto.

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The rookie Sasaki situation coming up in a few minutes, because.

Look, there's there's Look, all right, let's do it now. There's good news for everybody. All right, there's good there's good news.

Yeah yeah, ty Shirt's gonna keep playing that, so why not do it? The Japanese star says he's joining the Dodgers. He was the most sought after starting pitcher in free agency this offseason simply because of what it would cost, and he could be a potential star. It's only six million dollars a year because of his service time in Japan.

He doesn't come over with a.

Whole big bidding and three hundred million dollars like Yoshinobu Yamamoto did last year. So he comes over and like we said earlier in the show, it's like getting a free superstar, right, Like, there's no risk here anybody who got him. It's like having a lottery ticket. If he's great.

Great.

If not, what are you spending on him? Six million dollars? That's that's nothing. It's absolutely not your two dollars throw and a billion. Yeah, it's a it's a great day for the Dodgers. It's the rich getting richer. And already you can tell I already see people who are really mad. We have to kick the Dodgers out of Major League Baseball. They're getting an unbelievable advantage over everybody.

What is that reverse relegation?

You have to sit out?

Yeah?

And do we have enough of a league in your class? You just have to sit on the sideline.

You just sit and you just figure it out. But I look, I do have good news for everybody. There's no need to be really really upset about this. And the reason is because baseball is unlike all the other sports right where you build a super team, chances are you're gonna get to the finals of your sport and win. Right Uh, If you build the best team in the NBA, usually the best team wins. If not, the second best team is able is able to win.

Right in. In the NHL, it's the same thing in Major League Soccer. It's the same thing in the NFL. The best team wins.

There's no big, crazy run through the playoffs that a team has as a wild card. It happens once in a blue moon where a team sneaks in and suddenly.

Here they are in the super Bowl.

It just doesn't happen, and you you earn that championship. It's different in baseball is that it's not the best team that wins. It's always the hottest team, always, always, always, always, always, because it's three plus rounds of playoffs and it's short series and a sport that is predicated on playing every day and playing one hundred and sixty two games and having large sample sizes. A very short sample size can go somebody's way. It can go the underdog's way. If you have a starting pitcher that gets hot for three or four starts, you can win the World Series.

It's always the hottest team.

Now, the Dodgers are gonna come in as the best team right there, as the best team, the most talented team.

But I'll tell you it's very easy.

The Dodgers could have lost any round in the playoffs last year, right, they could have lost that. They almost lost the first round of the Padres. Right they were one game away from being eliminated, and Dave Roberts was probably gonna get fired, and what was gonna happen? They spend all this money on Otani and what are they gonna do? And they win the last two games, but the Padres had him on the ropes. They were joking around with the fans, they were in the Dodgers heads and then all of a sudden they just stopped playing. I don't get it, but it's what happened. They nearly lost to the Padres. The Mets gave him a huge series. And this wasn't even a Mets team that was really good. This was, Hey, we kind of piecemealed the team because a lot of money that they were spending on salary was not on the team anymore.

And they still took him to six games.

And if Tommy Edmond doesn't turn into Ted Williams, maybe the Mets win that series. I mean, you had a short start, the eleven hits, ten runs, twelve Army out, whatever the hell he was in the NLC. Yes, the greatest week of his life.

Do you hate him more or less than Nemar?

No? Oo?

Yeah, no him more, him more because the Knicks would have had to win another round and beat the Celtics to get to the finals. This was this was him keeping us from the World Series, right, this is this is this, This is him, Tommy Edmund, keeping us from the World Series because he picked one week to be the greatest version of himself he's ever been.

Right, Dear Cameo, please add Tommy, I have a friend.

And the World Series with the Yankees.

Yes, was the Dodgers in five, but remember Dodgers needed to walk off Grand Slam in Game one and the Yankees to throw up on themselves in the fifth inning of Game five with three eras in a row in a game they were controlling with Garrett Cole on the mount. So, yes, the Dodgers win. And I'm not taking anything away from they were the best team. They won the No, no, no, they were what I'm what, I'm sure exactly what you're doing.

No, no, no.

What I'm showing you is that the Dodgers are if even the best season. You know, try it, Frostburg, try put on a cape, jump out of the window.

And how it works. We're on the first the lord, jeez, we're on the first floor.

He's gonna be if we're on. This happened every year.

Every year teams get teams that win a championship in Major League Baseball win the World Series can be put on the ropes and they are hottest team wins. The best team doesn't always win. Asked the Phillies, we had they had a much better lineup than the Mets. What happened? The Mets were absolutely red hot. They even said it after the series. We have right into a buzz saw. It didn't take any responsibility for losing.

But still so that's the other part of the side of the coin is that it's not taking any responsibility.

Yeah, but it's still just.

Saying, hey, you got to get me mad at the buzz No, you played worse, you made a worse pick, you got picked off a base, you got caught stealing, you didn't effectively deploy a hit and run. Your guy dropped a fly ball in the outfield, high aeron judge, all of those things.

It's easy to deflect it.

Oh you know what, you know they were just a hotter team because you just have to absolutely abdicate any responsibility for the previous how many games one.

Hundred and eighty that you know.

But if you if you watch the Mets and the Phillies and didn't know anything about what their records were during the regular.

Somebody's watching that crowd, you would have.

Said, oh, the met What where the Mets have the ten game lead on the Phillies. Meanwhile, was a Phillies winning the division by twelve games?

Whatever?

It was like, That's what happens. It doesn't mean that Dodgers aren't going to be great next year. It doesn't mean they're not going to be the favorite to go to the World Series. It just means in the playoffs they're vulnerable, just like everybody else, because if you're not the hottest team, you're vulnerable to lose.

Yeah, but the worst news for Major League Baseball if you're a fan of other squads is in theory, the bug that.

Is, the injury.

You know, gods, they're finding another squad to pick on this year because the Dodgers sure as how had It doesn't mean their pitchers aren't still gonna have some issues. But I don't know that we're gonna run through the cavalcade of stars. I think that's longer list of guys that pitch for the Dodgers last year than quarterbacks for the Brown since ninety nine.

Dude, that's forty now, man, come on, did they have forty forty close?

Forty yeah, forty forty not forty one.

Forty and Tyger doesn't have enough time to play francesaccounting to forty one.

It works out for you, now, doesn't it?

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