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It's a bold Proposition's Kirk Cousins got any throws ready for?
Can he come out of the pen?
Uh? Oh, that's a good, good question.
Find some used for him, because otherwise he's on moth balls in these days where but yeah runs uh spars for the visitors.
Tonight, Oh, the Braves are about to go zero and five, the Dodgers with a six nothing lead over Atlanta. The Dodgers about to go to six and I mean really one hundred and ten wins for the Dodgers. What we say the overrun hundred and ten? I mean have to it was.
On three and a half or one hundred and four and a half.
By the way, I wanted to give you your you know, love for the the English language. You got the word dallians in I did. I like, dare I dare you to find another sports radio talk show that dares you such a dare you dighte phraseology?
Uh so yeah, I mean look, one hundred and ten with maybe one hundred and twelve now for the Dodge I mean really, it's like they're winning without even trying. You know. It's like, yeah, we're not We're not even out there. Freddie Freeman got hurt. I had a shower accident, and so he's hurt tonight he's out there. If it doesn't matter, the Dodgers still just win, it doesn't they just go I mean it doesn't matter. I mean really, one hundred and twelve hundred and fifteen wins me. Oh my goodness.
I mean I don't know, but I showed you guys earlier where where it's at. If you want to get it, just into the stadium, right. So the Cubs come to town next weekend schedule is kind of cleaner for the kids and me more than normal. So it's like, hey, maybe we could get to a game. I can go booed the Cubs. I can go have a giant you know, nacho helmet or whatever the case may be.
Uh.
And the last row with fees was seventy five bucks. Now I haven't paid to park yet, but that's the last row. And as Frostburg so astutely pointed out, that's the price of greatness.
Yeah it is. It's a good line. Bought this for years. How great is to go to an Angels game? Because you could basically park right next to the row you sit in. They bring you sandwiches, the people, Hey, can I help you with stuff?
Yeah?
Okay, I mean you want you want a great ballpark experience, it's going to the Angels. But you watch the Angels, you know you got you gotta Dodger stated, you watch the Dodgers, you know you get you get helmet notches. You watch the Dodgers, I mean you get them full on.
I mean, look at the Angels game, you're more most likely gonna have a giveaway that day.
Uh yeah, I think so.
You don't know what it is. I mean, they got a couple of cool things coming.
They got the big A with the giant millennium falcon over the top of it.
Eighty one home games, eighty one giveaways. That's gonna be their slogan for the rest. Eighty one home games, eighty one giveaways. My favorite, every single.
Time, favorite baseball question I was asked this week though it comes from my dad. Uh, they're down in Clearwater, Florida, so near near Tampa and obviously home of the Rays.
Goes, Who the hell's going to any of these games?
Once we hit in June, it's gonna rain all month and then it's gonna be one hundred and forty five degrees the rest of the season.
Yeah, that's good, Wit too. That's gonna be tough. That's good. That's gonna be a tough ticket man. Who is who do you think is gonna have better attendance the Rays there or the or the A's in Sacramento. Hey, yeah, you know what, You're probably right. I know, by the way, big props of the Ace tonight. They're all wearing number twenty four tonight in honor of Ricky Henderson. Uh, pretty cool thing. And I told you, don't be surprised if the A's contend for a while. Man, the A's have a pretty good young team. They locked up a couple of really good young players before the season starts. We did our we did our preview, We did our preview. The other night. We talked about mlbpre Don't be surprised the division is terrible, right, don't be surprised they hang around there in the in the in the Al West, because you know, they got a great closer. They got a couple of guys can really mash. They're young. Ah, maybe maybe they start to they can hang around five hundred for a while.
So is he always gonna be Laurence or are we gonna start calling him Larry Butler?
Uh? LB, LB is just gonna be LB ALB.
That sounds like I'm gonna ask him stock advice.
Yeah, LB, Yeah, because I keep thinking that. I keep thinking of Billy Butler, right, who played with the.
Billy Butler aweso Billy Butler.
Yeah, that's just Dodger, great Billy Butler. And then I jumped from Billy Butler Bob Hamelin for some reason. I don't know.
A bullet Bob, get it done.
He was Rookie of the year, wasn't he?
Yes?
He was nineteen ninety five, memory serves.
Okay, all right, let's see if you're right about bullet Bob Hammel. Let's say Bob hammelin Bob hammelin Wikipedia page. He Rookie of the Year in nineteen ninety four, very good, four off year.
I thought he was a decade behind Azzie Gian But that was so who's ninety five?
Now?
I was obsessed.
I don't know. It's not Bob Hamelin. It's not I won if it was me, it's Todd Hunley.
Sure it was not.
League Rookie of the Year nineteen ninety five. It was Marty Cordova of the Twins.
Marty, Yeah, Marty Grandova, Marty cordon alongside hit A Onomo.
So there you go, there you go.
So, and that's one to grow on exactly.
No, No, We'll just think how Bob Hamlon would have been if he had the torpedo bat oh godh he would have been so good. So we just watched the final four get shaken out for both the men's and the women's over the course of this weekend. Right, four number one seeds in the men's tournament led by Duke and now here. Women's tournament tonight, Paige Becker's and Yukon. She had some big shots late when it looked like US was chipping away at the lead, Yukon back in the final four. And for the second year in a row, Right, this is just this is just me. But for the second year in a row. If you said to me, I could watch the men's final four or the women's final four, only what would I pick? I would pick the women's final four. I'd picked the women's final four. You have four great teams in college basketball, right, four great teams. The average college basketball fan knows nobody who's who's in the men's tournament outside of Cooper Flag Right, No, no, no, anybody else A plays for Houston or AUBURNA. No, nobody knows. Right, But you have four great teams. But the women's tournament has the storylines. It's it's Page Becker's and Gino Oriema trying to get back to win. It's down Staley in South Carolina trying to win again. And boy, I'll tell you how much I'm all in on a Yukon South Carolina national championship. That would really be something, right South Carolina replacing players from last year to this year, and you know, can Gino get over the hump with the best player he's had in the last few years and a star that he's had a kind of weird relationship with on the court over the course of the past few months. Like the women's game seems to have the storylines more and mainly it has to do with a lot of well, the players stay longer. Right, We've been here and talking about Page Beckers for a long time, and Gino Orion we've been talking about him as a coaching Yukon for the past twenty five years. But Down Staley's become a big, a big character in women's college basketball, getting all the way last year and winning and beating Caitlin Clark and winning the championship. It's a there's more storylines in the women's game because the players are around long and we have become a society that we are more addicted to star players in games than we are about great teams. You can sit here and tell me too, blue in the face, Look how good Florida is. Look how good are we? Yeah that's great. Now that that's it. They're all great to They each have superstar players, right sec Player of the year. You know, Look you had Danny Hurley basically saying that we lost to a guy who put up a Michael Jordan and Steph Curry like performance and that knocked us out. Okay, you were in an a scene, you got knocked out. It's okay. But like, the storylines just aren't there as much as they are in the women's game because they kind of roll from star to star. Now, you're not gonna see the impact of this year's turn because Paige Becker's as good as she is, is not Caitlin Clark. But the overall interest level, Yeah, I look at both these say if I could only watch one of them, I'd watch the women's Final four over the men's.
Yeah, it's just that curiosity, I mean, on both sides. Right at the end, Look, the only team to crash. The party that wasn't a one seed in the women's side is the Yukon squad right there, number two seed, and that was Gino Ariema's sixteenth time taking down a number one seed in the tournament. Just for clarification, they're twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen the last time that they raised a banner. But certainly setting up the potential of an Oriama Staley matchup for the Crown is delicious theater, right, given how outspoken they've been in what stars.
They've become in their own right through the years.
We look at the men's side, and you mentioned Cooper Flag, we start getting back into the coaches a little bit, right.
Here's some more video of Shire as a player. Here's some more.
Celebration of Calvin Samson and what he's been able to do and trying to push through. But yeah, I think you're right on a large scale, just from the women's side, because there's been a lot of belly aching about Cinderella and all. It's all coming from radio hosts. I don't hear anybody complaining about this, yeah at all. Like my timelines are not replete with oh man, it really I've screwed because we don't have an number eight seed. No, it's everybody telling us that they think that's what the reaction is like. No, people are happy to get good basketball. Sure they didn't get that extra point in their bracket in the first round, that's a lifetime ago. At this point, you got good basketball coming up. So there's not a whole lot of complaining. But you know, we're trying to set the story line up other than hey, here's four teams that rate among the greatest defensive squads we've seen in recent tournament history. You gotta tell me more than that.
Look, the men's Final Four is a final four for the top percentage of college basketball fans. Right, that's kind of what it is. It's a you have four number one seeds, and it's really impressive. Right, Duke, this is the best team, the best duke team we've seen in years. You have Cooper Flagg, who's a number one overall pick in the draft. He stays if he goes, hey, that that's fantastic, Right that. That that's absolutely that is indisputable what you get out of there. But Florida and Auburn, Yeah, they each have star players. They you know, you're talking about the coaching pound in Houston as well, Kelvin Sampson, it's it's it's more for the top percentage of college basketball nuts, whereas the women's Final Four is for the average college basketball fan. Like that that's kind of what what what it more is And that doesn't mean that it's a level of play is here. It's better, it's not. But you know, Page Becker's you know, Oriama down Stanley are kind of more. They're more rock star more power than Cooper Flag Broom and Clayton, right, like, like as good as these guys are, these are great players there, and Broom had a bit, you know, had a big game as well, and Clayton keeps making big shots. Like it's fun. But the overall, the overall appeal, it's it's it's more of a hey, the women's game has more of a mass appeal and this this game is more of a Hey, if you really like college basketball and you watch it all year long and you watch all of the teams, and like this kind this is your final four with four number one seeds and guys who are stars now that people are just learning about that you've known about for quite a while.
Yeah, I think there's the excitement of it, of learning. I mean, I know one of the storylines. You also have three Jewish head coaches in the men's games, so you know that's a little piece to the history of this as we're looking forward and you're trying to find new stars and unfortunately, you know college basketball the way it's been run for a while, and I know there's a lot of hand ringing over nil and the death of Cinderella, who only showed up once in a while. Anyway, what do you have six or seven data points that you're using over forty years to tell me how great it is? Okay, so when we don't have one one year, that's the worst thing in the world. No, it'll it'll be okay. We'll all get by and we'll enjoy watching college basketball. But a lot of it just comes back to you know, you're looking for the build of the stories, and as you said, you know these are players that.
We've gotten to know.
On the women's side, we've got coaches with the long tenders. Take nothing away from from Samson and Bruce Pearl, who we certainly have known forever. Todd Golden making his name, John Shire again going back to his history, and Duke's not hateable, right, They're not the Duke that you and I grew up with, where it's like, ah, you heard the mention of the name, and maybe you still do. But for me, I just shrug. I think of you know, Wojo slapping the floor. Think about all those squads that you couldn't get rid of.
Those guys.
How many years of eligibility do they get because they didn't leave Cherokee Parks and all those guys?
Oh yeah, sure right, Whereas now.
It's a one and done if you can. Although maybe that changes a little bit, right because you've got the guaranteed deals only for the first round guys in the NBA, so maybe you got a lot, maybe you'll have more fewer players decide to declare now they transfer portals a whole other thing to sort out the twelve hundred players plus.
We played a clip from.
Don McClain, who was on with Petrison Money last last week, and he was saying that he'd been told by some folks he trusted as his son weighs what he's doing at West Virginia that to be a rotational player, the starting rate is half a million dollars in the transfer portal, so good luck sorting out that math. In the interim page, Beckers has a lot of commercials. We watched a lot of commercials with Juju Watkins unfortunately injured before the season was.
It came to an end for USC.
But those are names we've gotten to know, right those are faces we've gotten to know and programs. So this week sell job by the NCAA Men's Tournament to try to bring more of these guys to the forefront beyond Cooper flag.
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The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend Mike Harmon. Lakers holding on to a one hundred ninety eight lead right now over the Rockets, thirteen seconds left to go, Lakers will be shooting free throws. Not a marquee night for the Lakers, but again doing just enough. Lebron fourteen eight and four, Luca twenty nine and two off the bench though it is it is Mike Harmon's pick the click tonight, Gabe Vincent Yeah twenty off the bench of the Lakers as they try to hold off this victory.
The pick to click.
I dig that pick the click, pick the click right Hawk Carrol said, absolutely pick the click tonight.
I'm gonna take one dog. I'm gonna go for Lance can't a corn for Lance. Lance.
He was always he was always the big Frank or cinerical guy.
Big Frank, big fan who would always pick Lance one dog. I'm going one dog, one dog with Lance.
Well you'd get a little DJ with that, maybe a little Tom patuc back in the day as well.
Okay, all right, Vergos, double.
Check anytime you get the one dog into a show though you won.
Yeah, sure, And well look at also, I mean because we may never get to you know, to to say this, you know, ever again, because you know how the baseball season goes and everything. Uh. The Chicago White Sox are a half game out of first place right now in the Al Central. You are a half game out of first place.
They are better than the Mets.
Uh. They're the same record as the Mets, same record, worst divisions, But.
They would beats had to head.
Uh No, I don't think that would happen. You're so unrealistic when it comes like like you're your meds. You're unrealistic.
Like the Met's making the playoffs.
You talk about the Mets like they're not a great team. They're not just last year. Okay, okay, uh, look, the Braves are terrible you keep playing the.
Braves right, and they'll still win the least.
Just keep beating the Braves. They're about to go to to five. Uh like to understand. Just give the Mets some respect because you know they're that's not going to happen. You sound bad, then you sound bad? You sound bad?
Really?
Yeah, you sound like a hater. You said sound like a hater. I mean, I know.
You sound like you got to earn respect.
Okay, we were in the NLCS last year. We signed one Sodo. Everything is fun.
That was last year.
Yeah, okay, well and we got Soto this year. What else do you want? We were four games into the season.
How do you do with two men on two outs? Bottom nine? Top nine?
He was He's been great.
He's still standing there.
He's been great, except for that one.
Hundred million dollars to stay on there. I wish I got that deal.
He's got an ops of one and a half. What else do you want from the guy? Yeah? I wanted. I wanted a home run of the ninth inning against Hater two. But it didn't happen. So it's okay. Hit over the next time.
Contract should have happened.
It should have maybe now We'll start using torpedo bats and then look what's gonna happen. All right, let's go to one. Elle Da Lacruz went to a torpedo back tonight. What do you have? Eight hits twelve RBIs do you have one of those?
Er?
Yeah?
Man, Yes, another game, another star with a big night using the torpedo bat, the bat that is going to rip the world apart at the seams, the bat that the Avengers will be fighting against. An Avengers Doomsday. They will team up with Doctor to fight against the torpedo bats. Oh, I like you. That's a new plot. Oh, by the way, how about they just released a new title, new spider Man movie. We had spider Man Breaking News tonight, spider Man's Spider Mans.
What they come up with?
Spider Man Brand New Day? Which which oh sing gonna do the theme song? I think?
So?
No, isn't that you too? Brand New Day? It's that's beautiful day.
It's started with the Yeah, the spider Man Brand New Day hits right after Doomsday, so I think Doomsday goes right into Brand New Day.
Spider Man Breaking News, spider Man, spider Man, He's spider Man Breaking news. Spider Man spider, So another day and another you know, look, the the the torpedo bats have gotten all sorts of attention over the course of last three days. And honestly, when I was off the end of last week and of the weekend, I'm like, man, I wish I was on the air to talk about these torpedo bats because my dad just keeps sending me home run after home run after home run. God, what are you gonna do? What do you do? What are you gonna do? And it was it's such a great story, right, I mean, this, this torpedo bat thing has taken the sports world by storm, and there's nothing illegal about it. Oh, by the way, I love the fact that that's the first thing everybody went to nothing illegal, nothing illegal, So you know there's nothing illegal. Nothing. The Yankees are hitting all these but nothing illegal. Every story is nothing illegal. Just want you know there's nothing about nothing illegal, nothing illegal. Wait, these special bats the Yankees. Yes, I know where your mind is going. Nothing illegal, nothing illegal. These bats are absolutely fine. Look, it's a great thing that that an Mit Grant came up with a while ago. Teams have started using them a little bit. Some players are using the bats a little bit last year, but obviously the Yankees and the day they had against Nestor Cortes clearly jumped that to the forefront. Now Nestor Cortez, who, of course, the last time we saw him pitching was giving up a grand slam, walk off grand slam to Freddie Freeman in Game one of the World Series. So it's gotten a lot of attention. Obviously, the Yankees are going to make this attention go. And this is where this is a win win story for all of us, right, and believe it or not, this is a win win story for all of us because it's a story that is gonna be fun. Your team is gonna start using torpedo bats. It's not like the Yankees are the only ones that can use torpedo bats. They've not gotten the mit guy on their payroll only and he only works for them, right, This is not when Billy Bean bought Peter Brand from the from the from the Indians and Moneyball, Right, anybody can use them, right, at least the guy said, hey, I got a lot of orders coming. Everybody wants them, so okay, every time you got the torpedo bats, and the torpedo bats are built a little bit thicker in the barrel, and it's described as the best way because they're thicker in the barrel and they're a little bit less thick off the top. It turns near misses into flares, and it turns flares into barrels and barrels into home runs. Right, You're you're extend expanding the area that you could hit the ball with. Right. So of course we've seen players at home runs and you know, Ellie de la Cruz using a torpedo back tonight, had an incredible night. The Yankees keep pitting home runs with him. Everybody's gonna use them. Everyone's gonna use them. So it's okay, there's no real advantage the Yankees are gonna have outside of them using them before everybody else. So okay, well I give them credit because again, nothing was illegal. Everything is fine. Everyone's gonna start using them and it's gonna be a big story for a while, and we'll spotlight when guys hit home runs and use a torpedo bat. Here's a three home run night by by this guy. Because it's impossible to underto to not think that and not understand that, yes, when you have a bat that you have a greater chance of hitting it squarer. Because you've increased that part of the bat. You're gonna be a better player. You're gonna hit balls went back, because the difference between you know, popping up and hitting a ball off the wall is a fraction of an inch, Right, it's a quarter of an inch or an eighth of an inch sometimes like that's what it is. Oh, here's a here's a huge moonshot fly out to right field, and here's one off of the off of the second deck. Right that. That's kind of how it is. So every's gonna to use them, and it's gonna be fine. And eventually the big hoopla over this will die down and players will have inflated stats this year. But everybody's gonna get to use it and it's great. And the other part of this is I can still tell my dad and all my Yankee friends, yeah, you're just cheating, And even though I don't believe it, saying that just upsets them so much, Like because all the all the big Yankee apologists who are now going crazy over this and say, oh, we're not doing anything bad. We're doing X, Y and Z and everybody else can do it. No, it's still fun to just say, yeah, you're cheating, you're using you're using bats and nobody else uses. Even though I know that's not the case, it's still fun just to have that because I love driving Yankee fans crazy. I did it with Fabiano this week on the on on Twitter, and it was awesome. Right, Hey, maybe Judge could have used a torpedo glove and I sent him that big giff that Frostburg you sent me earlier today of the big glove on on Judge's hand, right.
And how great is that?
It's like the glove in the outfield where the San Francisco Giants play.
Yeah, yes, I mean it's such a great thing because you could just you can just drive Yankee fans crazy by saying, yeah, legal bats, that's what's going on. Oh it's not illegal. I meanwhile, I know it's not, but it's still so much fun because you watch them go crazy. So it's a win win situation. Your team will get to use the bats, it's gonna be good. But you can still say cheating Yankees. It's kind of fun.
I think there are more searches into the Major League Baseball rule Book than there have been in a.
While, which is great.
Let's all learn about the specifications of bets and what's there. Guess what not all the lot So immediately there's gotta be parts and caveat it out right, there's gotta be adendyms to this.
No, there's not, there's not. It's okay for the Yankees.
Short lived first move or advantage before the trucks of bats start showing up all across Major League Baseball, and any advantage other than the fact that they have a high price payroll and big sluggers gets neutralized. Still got to pitch, Still, gotta make a pitch and not hit, you know, the better elongated spot of the bat. Right, But it's all about movement anyway in Major League Baseball. So slight advantage back to the batters. But it's gonna come back to pitching, pitching wins, and we'll we'll watch out players adopt it and which guys just issue it all together, right, Aaron Judge and others just going, I got a good thing going, This would be great. I'm not doing it until their their bat suddenly doesn't work for a couple of weeks and they go into a major slump. Then suddenly they walk out with the whiffle bat. You give a three year old, So that's good.
Oh yeah, that's gonna be. That's gonna be the question. Do you think you should go to a bat? You're zero for nine. Do you think you should go to a torpedo bit? You're one for thirteen. Do you try the torpedo bat? Will you try that? Will you try it?
But that's just it.
I can't wait to hear the the first time a guy responds and he's salty about it.
No, man, you guys are in luck.
Well yeah, why is that?
Because when it comes to torpedo bats, I'm able to look into the future.
Oh okay, what can you see?
You're is how it would sound if Juan Soto use a torpedo.
Bat that way when you will run from first, Soto chases a slaughter stripe three, and they asked DROs beef for mats.
Wow. Yeah, even with a torpedo bat, he wouldn't have hit that one. You would not have hit that not check he was three and oh on that count too, and they would have put the bases loaded for Alonzo and he swings at that pitch. Uh, but uh, it doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. Everything is fine. Mets are two and two, Alonzo hit a grand Slam tonight. Everything is fine.
I keep telling yourself.
I think your blood pressure right now, if we took it, or we put you on a lie detector test like they do an NYPD blue, you might get the needle.
Well, I can't tell, because you know, I'm not feeling great, Like I came back from my little mini holiday with a with a cold. I'm like, am I getting a fever? Or am I just mad that Frostbur keeps doing this about the Torpedo Bat and the Mets, like I can't tell. I can't tell what it is.
And then you got a fever.
I can't tell. I want a player to say, oh yeah, yeah, what what can you what can you attribute your your great year too? I mean you're here, you are at the All Star break with with thirty home runs and ninety four RBI, you're hitting three seventy five, Like, what is it? Well, it's torpedo Bat and I am back on some great steroids. Man. We brought everything back, all the illegal stuff. Yeah, we're taking greenies. We got the torpedo bats, I got steroids, I everything, man, it's awesome. Yeah, that's why. Look look at me, Look at me, Look at That's why. That's why I'm thirty ninety five, three seventy five good with a triple crown, because I got all of them. I brought everything back, all the bad things, and in baseball, I brought back this is great.
At what point do they start, these guys that are using them to start carrying them around like Serrano does his bat and stuff.
Oh yeah, yeah, like like and they carry him around in the in what looks like a guitar case. They carry the bats around.
Oh I'm talking like sits in the front seat, like.
Wearing a.
Seat belt.
Yeah yeah, put the seatbelt over, make sure the bat doesn't go. Oh sure, yeah. I mean if this is how it is, I mean I think it's great.
I think you know part of your your logic of the Hey, just bring back all of it and people can get the super serum. And I don't think jerks in Profar got the memo.
Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's gotta be stuff that's got a big denial. It's gotta be stuff you can't detect. That's the Yeah, gotta build it's like this.
You gotta build the better, bigger mouse trap.
What if you built a bat? What if you built a bat that was just incredibly thick from the handle all the way to where the sweet spot starts, and then it was just a toothpick the rest of the way, Like, how would like could you do that? Like? Could would that be a great thing? I'm getting a sweet part of the barrel even that you jam me, I'm gonna get a great part of the barrel on it.
Well yeah, I mean, look, it's all about four sid.
Like dumble door. It looked like Dumbledore's wand yeah, yeah it's out a little bit out, it's out. Yeah, I want to see about that.
Can you do a bunch of carvings in it too? I mean oh yeah, there's no rules. Yeah yeah, yeah, And it was all about length and yeah.
You put hieroglyphics in there. Oh yeah, this is what happened. And then you know this, We used hunt bear and then we would we would we would get the bear rugs, and then we went out we invented fire.
Well what's this line saying? It says this was my third home run of this series. Yeah, because these dopes don't know how to pitch me.
Oh, I'm telling you man, it's gonna be at It's gonna be a great story and then we're going to forget about it. But it's going to be hot for a few weeks and that's awesome. Uh. Time not to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports from special Deliffery Steve to Sager, who has his own order for torpedo microphones ready to come in. Wait, do you hear how he sounds with a torpedo microphone when he gets him in later next week?
I'm curious about that. In fact, it was referenced when the Dodgers said that they're going to order some of these bets some of the players and test them. They were referred to as torpedo curious. The Dodgers are now six and zero. They just beaten the Atlanta Braves six to one. Tyler Glasnow and his first outing since last August, had five scoreless innings eight strikeouts the Braves zero and five. The Ray scored no runs in their last twenty two innings in San Diego over the weekend, and no runs in their first seven innings of this game tonight. A lot of runs for the Cubs in Sacramento this evening, leading the As sixteen to three at the seventh inning stretch, Tiger's holding on nine to six at Seattle in the bottom of the ninth. Detroit scored six times in the top of the first inning, and the Padres, for the first time ever, have started five and Oh beat Cleveland seven to two. Manny Machado three hits, San Francisco and Toronto with wins angels in ten innings, won five to four at Saint Louis, which had been three and Oh. Mike trouted the Halo's two sacrifice flies. He has won for thirteen at the plate this year. And then there's Boston dh Rafael Devers oh for three today, three more strikeouts and two walks. At Baltimore, the O's beat Boston eight to five. Red Sox record one in four at the plate. Devers is oh for nineteen with fifteen strikeouts. The Red Sox are giving lefty pitcher Garrett Crochet a six year extension. The White Sox show out the Twins today nine nothing. White Sox led nine Zip in the third inning with three early home runs. The Twins offense went two for thirty with thirteen k's.
I asked you this, Steve to say her, what team has allowed the fewest runs in Major League Baseball so.
Far this season is the answer to the Mets.
The Chicago White Sox. Yes, oh that's right, because allowed.
That's right.
We're visiting, by the way.
Did you see that rain delay that they head over the weekend.
Yeah, tarp was great.
The tarp didn't make it over first base.
Yeah, and it got so wet in money.
They thought, I'm not sure we're gonna be able to continue.
This game after a couple hours of rado white hotly to their defense, Steve, they usually don't make it past first base.
We only need to cover first base. The rest of the field doesn't matter because maybe we'll get a walk or a hit by pitch. But the other bases we haven't seen them in years.
Then you own hell.
Eventually, as the rains kept coming down, it looked like they stitched together some people's jackets section two O four to put it over the first.
Bat code of many colors that my mama made for me.
Exactly that type of thing. Joseph would have been proud anyway. Minnesota ISZHO and four after getting shot out at Chicago and Milwaukee's zho and four After losing at home eleven to one to Kansas City Brewers, pitcher Aaron Savali goes on the io with a strained hamstring. The late NBA game went to the Lakers beating Houston one oh four ninety eight.
They're back.
Steve wins to Brooklyn and Indiana Oklahoma City one. It's ten straight. Boston won, it's ninth in a row. Texas is back. I think that gets said for any sport in their athletic department. Texas is onto the women's final four Friday. They'll face South Carolina after Texas eliminated TCU tonight in a regional final fifty eight forty seven. TCU shot twenty seven percent from the floor with twenty one turnovers. The late game Friday, we'll have UCLA against Connecticut. Yukon at thirty five and three eliminated USC seventy eight to sixty four. Page Beckers with thirty one points. She had scored forty in her previous game. And I don't know if you heard s he is without injured star Juju Watkins for the year. Oh Notre Dame's Olivia Miles will reportedly trying to say.
It just like that. Anytime you say USC, it's USC without Juju Watkins.
Yeah, it's all a run on sentence. Actually, everything's final in the NHL. Stars have just taken the late game three to one at Seattle, and Stanford's innerim football coach is frank Reich.
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Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Mom jump up livetheti rack dot com studios where the uh the NFL owners meetings. There are league's annual meetings going on right now, and we got great big statements from owners and head coaches today the NFL understanding. Okay, it's been a couple of weeks here since we're talked about let's make sure we say some stuff and give people content. Stepping into that void is Brown's owner Jimmy Haslam, who said the quiet part out loud, saying today that the trade for Deshaun Watson was quote a big swing and miss. We took a big swing and miss with DeShawn. Hasselm said, quote we thought we had the quarterback. We didn't, and we gave up a lot of draft picks to get him. So we got to dig ourselves out of that hole. The trade was an entire organization decision, and it ends with D and I, So hold us accountable. Okay, the first thing I want to say is this. It's great when you hear people admit they did something wrong. But I wanted to this, Oh, hold D and I his wife that both Jimmy and d Hassselm are the owners of the Browns. Uh Uh? Who else were they gonna hold responsible? Was there somebody else people are holding responsible for this? I don't think there was anybody. I think everybody was blaming them any So it's like we want the blame for stuff who were getting anyway. No, it's like a freebie. You don't get that. You know, you're you're not maybe few k from arrest. Development Oh that was a freebie. No, no, no, no, you're getting blamed anyway, because you made one of the worst decisions that a sports team has made in the last twenty years. You didn't just sign the wrong guy. You traded away three first round picks for him. Yeah, and you traded for a guy that didn't want to be there, and you decided we're gonna overwhelm you with money and you're gonna want to go there right Because what was the story when we're waiting for Deshaun Watson to sign The Browns were out right, it was Atlanta, it was a couple of teams. And also the next day Browns, why, hey, we're gonna guarantee you all the two hundred thirty five million dollars. Oh, I'm gonna go there right away. Could you say was that the right thing? Because a guy who didn't want to go there, but you guaranteed him this money, suddenly I'm changing. How motivated is he going to be? I'm getting paid. I didn't want to be here, so it doesn't matter. And look how bad he's been and injured and how bad. Of course this is. You have to own this. This is not just hey, a big swing and miss, like I get that, we'd like that when when people say they're sorry, we kind of that takes the temperature of the room down a little bit. But this is one of those things that you've ruined the franchise for what could be ten years. You're wrong for the last few years on to Sean Watson, and now you don't have the first round picks that you need to build your team going forward. Now you gotta hope you get lucky with the number two pick and you get to the quarterback there. Maybe cam Ward's gonna be there. Maybe you have to jump and take your door Sanders. But like I mean, like you want credit for something that that, Yeah, you got to own this, that this wasn't just hey swinging to miss this was I realized that I set the franchise on what could be a decade long run of bad because of this decision. Yeah.
I don't know how much more you can say or whether you needed to really address it and do the miacoalplay here now unless you're setting it up for your next failure. Say hey, IOK, I took a lot of the onus on this one. Several years later, I would have gone to the wall saying, hey, we made the.
Playoffs with him on this roster. Look at how.
Smart we were with everything else. You want to get me for this one move, Jason Smith. I look at what Andrew Berry and everybody else did here to get us to the playoffs, and we resigned Miles Garrett. Did we tell you we resigned Miles Garrett? I'd be pointing out everything I did about a positive nature, because if you're a Cleveland Browns fan, those are few and far between, and I wouldn't work those for every bit I could.
We brought back a lot of guys from last year that got us to three and fourteen. Just so you know, we brought all those guys back, those three and fourty We brought them all back. This is the thing, and this is what sub owners don't get about quarterbacks and about teams. We're gonna get into this with another team coming up in about ten minutes, is that if you're building a team around every other position, but you're gonna try to get by with the quarterback, you're not gonna win. Right. That means you, Pittsburgh Steelers, You're not gonna win because it's the most important position. Now, Conversely, a team with a great quarterback that you have to fill in positions around you win super bowls. That's what the the Patriots did, That's what the New England Peyton, That's what the Kansaity Chiefs have done. You have the quarterback. Everything else you can for the quarterback will cover so many ills for you. You can load up the rest of your team, but the guy who handles the ball in every play has to be your number one priority. So I see teams like this going, we're not making the quarterback a priority, scratch scratch you from winning and has them even said, we're not locked into a quarterback at number two. We want to just get as many good football players as we can. So okay, so you're gonna suck again because boy, we have the rest of the team, we just don't have a quarterback.
Hey, they have a defending Super Bowl champion as their quarterback, and Kenny Pickett.
They do they do. They did get him.
You're right, Joe, I can sell it that way. This guy helped them win a Super Bowl.
In his tiny baby hands. He actually got run in the Super Bowl. He actually he was instrumental. He actually did get to play. Yeah, not about that. You're right, you're right, But that's what I don't get with teams like the Brent when they okay, we do this, but it does Just because you got you got burned by this quarterback doesn't mean okay, let's let's back off before you go get another guy. No, you gotta go back in and get on that and go get that quarterback.
Double down.
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