1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. 9 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in side final hour tonight Jason Smith Show 10 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 1: with my base friend Mike Harmon. Bores her up, Let's 11 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 1: go where By this time tomorrow night, we are breaking 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: down the winner of the World Baseball Classic, United States 13 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: and Venezuela for all the marvels tomorrow after Venezuela defeated 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: Italy tonight four to two, coming from behind to win. 15 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: So now it's met superstar Nolan McLain on the hill 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,440 Speaker 1: for the United States tomorrow night five and one, two 17 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: oh six c R A high strikeout to walk rays 18 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: show and strikeouts for nine a year ago, and now 19 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:11,319 Speaker 1: it's all on his young arm. Would you stop, frostbring 20 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: to go four innings? No? What do you want me 21 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: to stop? With? Seeing this guy's resume? What do you 22 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: mean you've seen this garbage really really wow? You know 23 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: you know you heard, you heard the last time he 24 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: started for team. Let me just gave the number. Gave 25 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: up back to back home runs. Now you gave up 26 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: two home runs. It's okay. You would love to have 27 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: Nolan McLain on your team. You would love to have 28 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: Nolan McLain. Yeah, as the ball boy. I was just 29 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: about just about everybody, any starting pitcher on your name. 30 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: Just stop, Frostburg. I'll see you in the NLCS. Nolan McLain, 31 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: will see you for game watching. I'll see you with 32 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: mclan and Peralta. I'll see you in the nl C. 33 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: White a chance you just you know, Frostburg, just enjoy 34 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: the Lakers winning again. Just enjoy the Lakers being back. Okay, 35 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:03,360 Speaker 1: well again, we'll have more on that game coming up 36 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: a little bit, but so tomorrow night World Baseball Classic. Look, 37 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: it's the United John Paul Morosi kind of put it 38 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: on the and pit the nail on the head with 39 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: us a few minutes ago. What he said, Look, the 40 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: United States has had a lot of baseball karma and 41 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: baseball luck to get to this point. They need to 42 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: make their own luck. Tomorrow night. This is the United 43 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: States can win it all. It's not Japan, it is 44 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: not Dominican Republic. You know, two of the best teams 45 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: out the US. Venezuela is really tough. Their bullpen win 46 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 1: a lot of innings tonight, right, and all of a 47 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: sudden with all this emotion you could see. And that's 48 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: where this this gets you a bit, where you see 49 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: the emotion from all the players for this game. And 50 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 1: when you have to do it two nights in a row, 51 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: and you got to come back and you have your 52 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: bullpen's got to go back and give you big innings 53 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: because this is how it goes in the World Baseball Classic. 54 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: No one goes and pitches seven eight innings. It's not 55 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: how it's done. It's not how teams allow their players 56 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 1: to be used. Yeah, it's gonna be a difficult thing 57 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 1: tomorrow night. The sooner the United States gets into that 58 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: venezuel A bullpen, the better off. They're going to be 59 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: seven different pitchers for Venezuela. Tonight, starter Montero only went 60 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: one and a third. Eventually you get to the Cubs 61 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: closer Palencia, who finished it off. He was topping out 62 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: at one one hundred and one miles per hour, bringing 63 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 1: the heat to close things out. But some stressful innings 64 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: along the way. Italy had plenty of chances. Couldn't kick 65 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: that door open. In the sixth inning, bases loaded, they 66 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: went quietly into the good night, and then Acunya Junior 67 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: good to see him back. He echoed the sentiments of 68 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: Aaron Judge talking about the size and scope of the 69 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: event and the emotions kind of running over going. Look, 70 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: I love my braves, but I was born there first. Yeah, 71 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: and you know, look, I understand that emotions are running high, 72 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: and I get that they're saying this, and it's not 73 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: like they try any less. You know, players try any 74 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: less when they're back with their teams. It's just weird 75 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,800 Speaker 1: to hear Aaron Judge saying, I look, well, dude, if 76 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: you had won the world no, no, no, but that's 77 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: just it. But YEA dropped that fly ball. Maybe it's 78 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: a little different. No, But I understand people getting people 79 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 1: getting caught up in this. I get that, Hey, it 80 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 1: is something because normally baseball players don't don't see stuff 81 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: like this, right. They really can't wait for the Olympics 82 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight and all of this, so I 83 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: understand that they get. So I'm not going to be 84 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,919 Speaker 1: too crazy about this whole. Hey, it's all about you know, 85 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: country first and my team is second. I know, I get. 86 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: I've also been told to sell, sell, sell, There's no 87 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: doubt about that in this process because the rest of 88 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: their teams are doing that. The other part by saying, hey, 89 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: we don't know if we want Mason Miller to pitch again. Hey, 90 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: we don't know if mccleans we want him to go 91 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: more than fifty pitches. Hey, uh, you know, schoobl we 92 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: don't want them back there. So the teams are saying that, yeah, 93 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: we love this event too to a point. We love 94 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:45,840 Speaker 1: it to a point, but we want our guys back, 95 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: We want them healthy. No, And that's the big pole 96 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: that's always going to be there when you have exhibitions 97 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 1: and tournaments and all of these competitions outside of the 98 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: purview of your one sixty two plug us the playoffs. Now, 99 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: you could say, well, they'd be working out at spring 100 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: training anyway, and then you try to decide exactly where 101 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 1: the scale is in that regard, right, because every pitch 102 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 1: is high leverage, every bat is high leverage. Base paths, 103 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: running all of those things where maybe you'd be back 104 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: on the backfield after four innings and chipping away on 105 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 1: a putting green and hanging out back there as opposed 106 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: to having another at bat and the emotion of a 107 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: full game. So you know the rammis like today, right, 108 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 1: the Dodgers game, I think, and it ended twenty four 109 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: to seven. I think that was the final score of 110 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: these spring training games. Like not exactly high leverage moments 111 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: as you go through versus here you're talking about the 112 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: way of the world. I've talked about it before. The 113 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: get in for this game is five hundred bucks a ticket, right, 114 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: we're talking about you know, Dugout and others where we're 115 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 1: talking seventy five hundred and ten thousand dollars a seed. 116 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: I know Carlin's man, your guy Ben's got. 117 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, when it's a Marlins game, those seats are like 118 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 3: two dollars. 119 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: No, I that best I made, right, Like we talk 120 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: about it for scale and scope, that that there's some 121 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,719 Speaker 1: some heat here for baseball two weeks before we start 122 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: the regular season, right because Yamamoto has now been named 123 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: the starter. Yeah, that opener on the twenty sixth. Now 124 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 1: there you go. So we have the game tomorrow night. 125 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: Maybe it will come down to an ABS lack of 126 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: an ABS like we saw. Nobody wants that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 127 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 1: something really far out of the strike zone. That a 128 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: good well as long as it's the Venezuelan guy getting 129 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: punched out by an Enrico Palazzo like Caul. So yeah, 130 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 1: it's still the biggest topic of conversation from the WBC. 131 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 1: The final strikeout, Well, that was a big topic that 132 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: he was upset about, the biggest. He was upset about 133 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: that call too. We got more on one, he said. 134 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: He still proved his great Now we got we got 135 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: stuff on It was a pretty big strikeout. Uh, but 136 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: Perdomo strikeout for US, Perdomo strikeout at the end of 137 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 1: the game, gaining a lot of attention in the last 138 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 1: twenty four hours. The pitch from Mason Miller not in 139 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: the strike zone by a couple of inches. It is 140 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: ruled strike three and the United States want to move on. 141 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: And you saw immediately and right away I said, it's 142 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: a boy. ABS would have overturned that. But there is 143 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: no ABS system in the World Baseball Classic. It's starting 144 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: this year obviously in Major League Baseball we'll probably have 145 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: it for the next World Baseball Classic in a couple 146 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 1: of years, I am sure. But this has been the 147 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: biggest conversation over the course of the past twenty four hours. 148 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: And there's two big takeaways on this, And the first 149 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,679 Speaker 1: one I'll tell you is this is that I don't 150 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: think the average fan really gets how revolutionary of an 151 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: idea and an impact ABS is going to have on 152 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: Major League baseball this season, because this is the first 153 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: time we've seen it where it means something. We've seen 154 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: the calls get overturned a bunch in spring training, but okay, 155 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: it's spring training. We're not looking at a scoreboard on anything. 156 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: Players are out saying, hey, this pitch looked like it 157 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: was low. Here, let's call for the review. Let's see. 158 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,559 Speaker 1: We're trying to figure it out. But you are seeing 159 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: a lot of calls get overturned in spring training. And 160 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: all you need is fifty percent of the calls to 161 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: be overturned. That's okay, well fifty percent, that's half the 162 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: calls that are being challenged are overturned. That means homeplate 163 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: umpires are getting half of those calls overturned. That would 164 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: be enough. It's gonna be way more than that because 165 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: the players are going to be a little bit more 166 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: judicious and say, hey, we're not going to do this 167 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: when it's the second inning and account goes to one 168 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: to zero, right, we're not gonna do that. But eighth 169 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 1: inning a three to one count, that turns from ball 170 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: four to three and two and instead of the bases 171 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: loaded one out, it's you know, runners at first and second, 172 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: two out. You are gonna see an impact this has 173 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: on the game immense You already see what it's like here. 174 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: Every time this has an impact on a game where 175 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 1: it's decided, it's going to leave Uh, it's going to 176 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: leave people wondering why didn't we have this from the beginning? Right? 177 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:02,199 Speaker 1: Why are we waiting so long? Eventually this is gonna 178 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:05,080 Speaker 1: put homeplate umpires out of business. They're gonna be in 179 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,680 Speaker 1: a couple of years. Homeplate umpires who were standing behind 180 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: home plate, that are ruling on foul balls, that are 181 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: ruling on catchers interference, that are calling plays at the plate, 182 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: that are calling bunts whatever it is, foul fare. That's 183 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: what they're gonna be doing, and they'll only be calling 184 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: balls and strikes if ABS is down because that's the 185 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: success that this is gonna have. If they know where 186 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: the ball, If ABS knows where every ball and strike goes, 187 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: why are we letting homeplane umpires call it? And all 188 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,520 Speaker 1: you need is the success of this to have this 189 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: go the way of well in a year, we don't 190 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: have to take we don't have to take jobs away 191 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: from home plate. We still need homeplate umpires. They're just 192 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: not gonna call balls and strikes. So that's where this 193 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: is going number one. And the other big thing is 194 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: that starting pitchers that are used to getting the benefit 195 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 1: of the doubt, good ones, really good ones, the best 196 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: ones that get the benefit of the doubt from homeplate 197 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: umpires suddenly aren't going to get that ABS. And hitters 198 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: that get squeezed on a routine basis, like Juan Soto, 199 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: like Bryce Harper, suddenly they're gonna be able to challenge 200 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: these calls and their stats are gonna go up in 201 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,560 Speaker 1: a big way because they're not gonna be victim to 202 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: these punch outs where that ball was outside. I think 203 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: of Harper all the time, going wow, he got squeezed. Wow, 204 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: Harper got squeezed. So these are the effects that the 205 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: ABS system's gonna have. I don't think fans understand how 206 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: huge of an impact this is. This isn't gonna be 207 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: something like bigger bases or the pitch clock, which has 208 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 1: somewhat of an impact, but overall it's not crazy enough. 209 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: This is going to have a revolutionary impact on the game. Yeah, 210 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: I mean the pitchclock. Obviously, you have those guys. Sometimes 211 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:35,719 Speaker 1: you need that moment to reset. Well, you don't get it. 212 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: Like you used to be able to walk off the mound, 213 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: take a deep breath and then wait for the umpire 214 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 1: to come curse at you over your catcher to eventually 215 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: come out. Now you don't get that. Because the clock 216 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,800 Speaker 1: starts running, batter's stepping out of the box, you don't 217 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 1: get that same leverage, right, So you have those issues. 218 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: What's interesting is Perdomo last year six hundred and ninety 219 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 1: two played appearance, he had eleven more walks than he 220 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: did strikeouts. So when we talk about benefit of the doubt, 221 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: he would have been one of those guys where you 222 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: get that benefit of the doubt most of the time. 223 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: But if the low strikes being called, the low strikes 224 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: being called, and that's where this gets interesting, is that 225 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: now you're standardizing no longer is hey, that guy loves 226 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: the you know a little bit beyond the black. You know, 227 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: we'll start having arguments from some of the seam heeads 228 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: ten years from now. You know, Greg Maddox would have 229 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: been an average pitcher in this time because he wouldn't 230 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: have been able to paint the corner. He would have 231 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: won one hundred and fifty seven games, lost one hundred 232 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 1: and forty three. He was out. That's it. That was 233 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: this guy. But but all of that's say, right, it 234 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: changes your approach at the plate because now you're going 235 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 1: letters to knees. You're also doing the same thing pitching wise, 236 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: Like you know, you might have a zone that you 237 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: pound and you get that benefit of the doubt from 238 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 1: the home plate umpire. Well now you don't, right, you're 239 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,319 Speaker 1: working to the edgees, You're you're getting that low strike call. 240 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: Now you're changing the approach both sides and I guess 241 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: both affected equally, at least at the outset. But we'll 242 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: see how the ab abs gets adjudicated, how frequently it 243 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: comes in to play. To your point, Yeah, you're not 244 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: gonna waste a challenge orly unless you see you're starting 245 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 1: to get the guy on the ropes if it's a 246 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: young pitcher, and maybe that call would would take them 247 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 1: out and get you into the bullpen ahead of a 248 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: big series or something. But yeah, it's it fundamentally changes 249 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:27,439 Speaker 1: the game. And we saw the umpire take one to 250 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: the face. Yeah today, fastball and he might he asked 251 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: the catcher about ten times, like you really got crossed up? 252 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: Like he looked like you wanted to bunch the catcher 253 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: in the face. Yea, I let this ball hit you 254 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,240 Speaker 1: in the face. Yes exactly. He just kept looking at 255 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: it goes you sure you sure you got crossed up? 256 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: There are some that deserve it though, Well, Angel Hernandez 257 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:52,080 Speaker 1: is not that he's he's at pea the face. That's 258 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: the third time he's been hitting the face in a row. Now. 259 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: The other aspect of this, of the ABS and all 260 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: the all, how awful this was that abs. Oh, it 261 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 1: costs the Dominican Republic the game, and it costs the game. 262 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: Stop it's fine for a couple of reasons. Number One, 263 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: we knew there was no ABS in this system. In 264 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: this It's not like they decided to last minute. I 265 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 1: guess what, We're not gonna have it a challenge. It's 266 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 1: I'm okay with that, And I'm not saying I'm okay 267 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: because the United States won. But the way the response 268 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: is to this is that it almost feels like, oh, 269 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic would have won if that whoa whoa, 270 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 1: whoa whoa. 271 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, And if the Mets won one hundred more games 272 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 3: than they would this year, it'd be one hundred and 273 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 3: sixty two. 274 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: Uh? Is that what would have happened if it was 275 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: called the ball was Perdomo would have been at first, 276 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: and it would have been first and third with two out, 277 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: and Mason Miller would be facing for Nano to teast Junior. 278 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: Now maybe to tease. Junior gets a hit, maybe strikes out, 279 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: maybe pops up. The odds are still in Mason Miller's favor. 280 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: This was not a basis loaded two hours full count 281 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 1: where oh, if the pitch had gone the other way, 282 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: it would have been a tie game. And now Venezuela 283 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: is one is ninety feet away from winning this game. No, 284 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: it simply would have extended the game. Now, did it 285 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: take them from a chance to win the game to 286 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: no chance? Yeah? But it's not like it was a 287 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: It was an all or nothing play. It's not like 288 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: it was. They got this call wrong and because of 289 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: that they wound up losing. No, it would have been 290 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: a different game. It would have the ending would have 291 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: been different. Maybe they would have won, maybe they would 292 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: have lost. Likely they would have lost, but maybe they 293 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't that right, I mean that when you're talking about 294 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: maybe all this did was it would have extended the 295 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: game one more batter. If it was more black and 296 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: white of a this was a run for a Dominican Republic, 297 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: then yeah, I'm with you on that. But it wasn't. 298 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: So let's just let's not treat this like all of 299 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: a sudden, oh, that call costs us the game, because 300 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: it didn't. Because Dominican Republic is is they were. They're 301 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: really you know, leaning into this and and every and 302 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: and that's not the case. And even I see a 303 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: lot of baseball inside going, oh my god, out end 304 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: the game that way. You took the game out away 305 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: from that. No, you took out a chance for them 306 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: to extend the game. That's what you took away. Datis 307 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: junior last year runners in scoring position to forty eight hitter, 308 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,800 Speaker 1: runners on first and third, very much smaller sample size. 309 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 1: He batted a nice mendoz are like two hundred, So 310 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: I mean it still would maybe he got I'm not 311 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: saying he wouldn't, right, but but you say, okay to 312 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: say that it was inevitable that they were gonna he 313 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: was gonna come up and either launch a three run 314 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 1: bomb or whatever. It's it's just it's bad logic. It's 315 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: fuzzy math. But I understand, yes, one, that we can 316 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: put the little grid over the top and say, hey, 317 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: it was clearly a ball. I mean, okay, fine, but 318 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: that's been baseball for as long as you and I 319 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: and everybody at home has been watching it. Take your 320 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: strikeout and beat it. Exit out by the Fresca exit 321 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend 322 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. Come up next. We have more on the WBC. 323 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: Wait till I tell you who's gotta just be quiet 324 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: and take the l Plus, we got more from the 325 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: NCAA tournament. Keep it right here, Jason and Mike. 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The rest of this week 355 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 1: with all the games on True TV gonna be exciting. 356 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: But I feel the need to put out this PSA 357 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:47,199 Speaker 1: for everyone, you know, be before we get to that. 358 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: Now when we play the True TV or Not game? Uh, 359 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: one of the greatest games on radio? Oh? Absolutely, you know, 360 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,400 Speaker 1: with this being the only week people watch True TV 361 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: on purpose, what do you mean one of Uh, what 362 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,800 Speaker 1: do you mean it's the best? Well, we have magic, 363 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: we have magic John's Twitter game right because we have 364 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: Magic Johnson Tweter. Well, this time of the year, it's 365 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,680 Speaker 1: the best game. Number one. Now, the way the game 366 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: goes is is that I give you a show because 367 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: we're watching truth People are watching True TV for the 368 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: first and only time of the year, and I wanna 369 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 1: give you a show. And it's okay. This is either 370 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: a show that was on True TV or completely made 371 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,479 Speaker 1: up by me in that vein. I want to say this. 372 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: There are gonna be times over the course of today, yesterday, tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday, 373 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: You're going to see an abnormal amount of coaching moves 374 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 1: that you think are incredible, news breaking moves that are 375 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 1: absolutely fake, and no bigger week for the yes in 376 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: the NFL. It's big at the end, but no, there 377 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: is no bigger week for fake coaching hirings than there 378 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 1: is right now NCAA tournament, because it's it's a little 379 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: bit easier to try to fool people on because oh 380 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 1: so and so looks like, oh, I'm a college basketball 381 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: insider for whatever, I don't know, Rob, Like if for 382 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: a head coach getting fired, oh okay, for head coach 383 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: of the NFL getting hired. It's like, dude, you don't 384 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:15,679 Speaker 1: really seem like an insider, right, I don't get what 385 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 1: that resume is, but you see it a lot now, 386 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: and I've seen stuff the last couple of days. I've 387 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: seen Bob Huggins is going to be the same coach 388 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: right today was Travis Steele was gonna be the Butler 389 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,480 Speaker 1: head coach? Right that always going back to Butler? Wow, okay, 390 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: like Belichick to the Jets, Yeah, Belichick, Belichick, like the 391 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: Bob Huggins pictures that everybody was using made him look 392 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: like Rex or Rob Ryan. See here's the thing, No, Frostburg. 393 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,440 Speaker 1: If the Jets called Belichick right, Georgetown, If the Jets 394 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 1: call Belichick now, he would go he would say, yes, 395 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 1: you do, sorry about that whole thing showed up. I 396 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: don't know, man, because it could it be any worse? 397 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 1: Would be no, no, no. But would that be the end 398 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: of it? Would you have to abdicate the Jets? Only 399 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: a wow? They would really would written. It would be well, 400 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: it would be really like, hey, how far can we 401 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: push our fan base until they just quit? How far 402 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:07,919 Speaker 1: until they just like? What's that kid's book? The day 403 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: the crayons quit? Like, what's the How far can we 404 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 1: push our fan base to get them to want to quit? 405 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: Is that the last book you read? Yeah, yes it is. 406 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: I read it twice. It was so good that and 407 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: go the Blank to Sleep. That's my favorite one. That's 408 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: a pretty good one. Beiden coach Georgetown. Oh no, no, 409 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 1: I could never come on, man, come on that Belichick 410 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: to the Jets. Which one would make you? Uh? Oh okay, no, no, no, no, 411 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 1: Probably Belichick to the Jets. Yeah, that would that would 412 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: hurt way more. Really, even though my hatred for Georgetown 413 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: is bigger than almost anything, that's where someone's going exactly. 414 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: She's committed, right, No, no, no, the only two places you 415 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: can't go or Ohio State in Georgetown anywhere else? Do 416 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: you mean she can't go there? No? No, I said 417 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 1: to her, if you could pay for Georgetown, yeah, fine, 418 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: And and mom will tell you this, If you could 419 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: pay for Ohio State, hey, guess what you can? Yeah, 420 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: they do fund yourself. As begun. It's not enough that 421 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: when people ask her when we're in mixed company, and 422 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 1: by that I mean like you know, friends, you know, 423 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 1: not just like me, my dad or you know, where 424 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,119 Speaker 1: are you thinking you want to go? Zoe? And she 425 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: first he will say it's Georgetown, and they'll go, oh, 426 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,440 Speaker 1: and I'll just go Now, just give her the note, 427 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: I give the Jonah Hill meme. Yeah no, no, no, 428 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 1: you're not going to Georgetown. It's not happening. Wow, not happening. 429 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: Not going to George. Even though that might be the 430 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: path to greatness, now you're just putting a giant wall. 431 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: You can find other paths to greatness by besides Georgetown 432 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,160 Speaker 1: and Ohio State, you can find other pace Ohio State 433 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: part I get exactly. I don't get the no. But 434 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: I grew up on the Georgetown from for Saint John's 435 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: and Ohio State Michigan. That's that's what that's real. Yours 436 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: is fake, dude, dude, Saint John's Georgetown and Syracuse Georgetown, 437 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: that's what I grew up only get one. No forget well, 438 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: the thing is because it was Saint John's where I 439 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: grew up. That's where compared to Ohio State Michigan. No, no, 440 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 1: no, no no, but I grew up on No. I grew 441 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 1: up on that Saint John's Georgetown and then Syracuse Georgetown. 442 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: Yeah no, No, Georgetown A not happening. I don't care. 443 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 1: Georgetown could say free ride, free ride for four years 444 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 1: and grad school whatever you want. I would say, Yeah, Okay, 445 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: you're you're you're not coming back to this house again. 446 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,400 Speaker 1: You're done. You're done, You're done, no chance, you're done. 447 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: Free ride, you're throwing. I wanted all the money you're 448 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 1: not spending on college, you get that second TV experience. 449 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 1: I want to be able to wear a hoodie from 450 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 1: the school she goes to, and I am not wearing 451 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: a Georgetown hoodie. I am not doing it. It might happen. 452 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: Georgetown is a great school. I'm not kidding, right, I 453 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 1: would say Georgetown is a great, fantastic school. No way 454 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: she ever goes. I can't wait. No way, no way, 455 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: it's it's it's inevitable. It's like the fan of snap. 456 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: No way, that's that's just not happening. Psychologically, he's like, 457 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,639 Speaker 1: I could see him squirming, look at him twitch. It's 458 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: just not No, it's not gonna happen. I I go 459 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: to bed where she wanted to know, because there's other 460 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 1: schools she could go to that she'd want to go. 461 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: Patrick showed up at your doorstep? Now, Patrick Ewing, is 462 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:58,920 Speaker 1: he showing up in his Knicks gear or is he 463 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: showing up in his Georgetown gear? Georgetown gear? Would I 464 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: don't let him? But he shows up in his next gear, 465 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,360 Speaker 1: I let him in. That's how it goes. Yeah, right, 466 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: because that's the way he gets in. It's the trojan horse. 467 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 1: He gets in in the next gear and immediately starts 468 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 1: selling her on Georgetown and how it led him to 469 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 1: greatness in the NBA as a member of the Knicks, 470 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: that all the lessons he learned at Georgetown. If you 471 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:24,920 Speaker 1: you know what, if you are show up at my house, 472 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:26,399 Speaker 1: I'd let him in. How about that? No matter what 473 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: he was wearing, unless he wasn't wearing anything, What if 474 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: he was wearing a UCLA jumpsuit? If he was sure, 475 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: why not? Why not? Yeah? Sure? If MS already been sad, 476 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: prosper If mc croner shump at my house and threw 477 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 1: me or my wife out, I'd let him in. I'd 478 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: still be fine, be fine, Yeah, absolutely ready for his 479 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 1: trip back east. So you have to be ready for 480 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: the This is the worst week for coaching rumors to 481 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,800 Speaker 1: simply because college football is usually bad too. But generally 482 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,120 Speaker 1: that's gotten a little bit harder college basketball because well, 483 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 1: college football you pay attention to the sport way more 484 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: during the regular season. College basketball is more end of 485 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: the year. It's become a one month sports. A lot 486 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: of teams. Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot more. Yes, yes, 487 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: there's conferences and you under the radar. Yeah, you think 488 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: more about a coach of Miami of Ohio going someplace 489 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: big in college basketball, someplace really big, then you do 490 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: in football. You know, I agree with you that, but 491 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: but that all of a sudden I saw a couple already. 492 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my goodness, Oh my good my dad 493 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: sending me text yesterday, said Huggins. I said, Dad, no, don't, 494 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 1: don't worry about it. It's stay off the internet, dad. 495 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: That He followed up with Zoe to Georgetown and stay 496 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: off the internet. Stay off the internet. Next year. We 497 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: will next year, we will. Yeah. Yeah, well we get 498 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: Brian Hodgson said that every year. Yeah, yeah, but if 499 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: those two guys didn't fail, Yeah, when we get either 500 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: Jerry McNamara or Brian Hodgson, and will be fun. I 501 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,960 Speaker 1: saw that though, still the single game, right, forty three points? Yeah, 502 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 1: since two thousand and then two by Carson Edwards. Yeah, 503 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: the Boilers. So so while you wait, so big p 504 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 1: s A for that, big PSA for that. Also, I 505 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,879 Speaker 1: guess you could call this a PSA. Uh, because I 506 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: want to tell Juan Soto this right coming off the 507 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 1: WBC and the Dominican Republic being very upset about the 508 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: homeplate umpiring, Soto gets punched out in a big at 509 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: bat where he felt it wasn't a strike, and we 510 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,439 Speaker 1: know Perdomo got called out on strikes when it was 511 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: ball four. He could have been a first base Juan 512 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,119 Speaker 1: Soto said after the game last night, Hey, we proved 513 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 1: who the best team in the World Baseball Classic is. Yeah, 514 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: except you're not even close. You didn't make it out 515 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 1: of the semis. Okay. And Soto's my guy, right, And 516 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: this is weird because Soto's my guy now he's now 517 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 1: he's my guy because his World Baseball Classic is Oh, 518 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: your guy, he's my guy. Man Mets, Mets, Mets, No, 519 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: he's my guy. And I will tell him the same 520 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: thing that I said to Team Canada last month after 521 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: the Olympics. Take the L. Take the L. You didn't win. 522 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 1: You weren't the best team. Take the L. On paper, 523 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 1: you're the best team. Yeah, maybe on the field you're 524 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 1: the best team. You weren't. You had plenty of chances 525 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 1: to get the time winning runs in the last three FOURMS. 526 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 1: You had runners on base. You couldn't do it all 527 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 1: that The at batw with Perdomo last night would have 528 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: put first and third with two out and the outcome 529 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: is still up in the air. I know you beat 530 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 1: all the other teams by ten runs. That's awesome, right, 531 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: all those other teams that are not nearly as good. 532 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: You're a really good team. You're not the best, right Canada? 533 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 1: Were they the best team on paper for the Olympics? 534 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:26,800 Speaker 1: Uh huh. I know they weren't the best team in 535 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: the Olympics because I saw the scoreboard and I saw 536 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: how it ended with the United States winning in overtime, 537 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: and I saw Canada having their chances. I saw all 538 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: of that. I saw a big four minute, power players, 539 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 1: all kinds stuff. Canada couldn't score. We were better. Oh 540 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: but your goalie was better. Yeah, but the goalie plays 541 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,080 Speaker 1: on Team USA, so that means we were better. It's 542 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,840 Speaker 1: not like he's an independent contractor that showed up. Oh 543 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: he had the independent contractor show up and you wound 544 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,679 Speaker 1: up winning the game. No, I know that all but 545 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,679 Speaker 1: the Dominicans were better and the United States lost. Your bullpen. 546 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,600 Speaker 1: Bullpen's part of it, right, The top three leavers are 547 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: all part of it, right, shutting you down. We scored 548 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,200 Speaker 1: two runs, you guys scored one. I'm sorry that you 549 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: couldn't put another run across against a pitching staff that 550 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 1: is not quite what you thought it was gonna be. 551 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: But you lost. So just like Canada, take the l 552 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: you lost. You can't win all the time, can't win everyone. 553 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: You didn't even make it out of the semis. Take 554 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: the old rorld thumb. Execute when the opportunity presents itself. 555 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: Multiple times, runners in scoring position fail, Aaron judge the 556 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 1: big assist that forwarded a big threat, and then they 557 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: weren't as aggressive on the base paths. You look at 558 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:34,680 Speaker 1: the opportunities. Sotos strike out and then Perdomo and Prodomo again. 559 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:39,120 Speaker 1: It's funny because more walks than strikeouts last year, But hey, 560 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: he got the call against him here and some calling 561 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,640 Speaker 1: home cooking whatever else. In the end, swing the bat 562 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 1: and recognize there's still some level of human error here 563 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: for Sodo. For your sake, I hope he can infect 564 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: your Mets clubhouse with that level of delusional thinking we're 565 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 1: the best, because you could go run through walls for 566 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 1: a while with that, until you finally realize the Juggernaut 567 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 1: wasn't all that great in the X Men, until they 568 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: realized that the Mets. Eventually, you're gonna find that out right, 569 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: that moment of clarity. Met's gonna met you. I mean, 570 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,200 Speaker 1: when when I saw this, I was like, oh, dude, 571 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 1: just take the other Like, oh my goodness, what did 572 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: I just say? What? So do's my guy, what you 573 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: don't want it? Because if he takes, then he comes 574 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: back maybe not as as hyped up to be to 575 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:26,640 Speaker 1: get things started with the Mets, and you get off 576 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 1: to a slow start, never to recover. Look on a briadside, 577 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: what's that. Well, we'll lose about sixty games. That's we'll 578 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 1: go one hundred and sixty. That's about right. But I 579 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 1: felt like when I when I thought that, it's like 580 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: you know when you're you're you're at a party or 581 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: some sort of situation, and you say something that you think, Oh, 582 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 1: I shouldn't have said that out loud, Like That's how 583 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: I felt when I was like, so doo, take the l. Oh, 584 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: my goodness, what did I just say? I am sorry, man, 585 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,200 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, But dude, you gotta take the l. Yeah, 586 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 1: take the l. You start screaming and recognize it someone good, 587 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: I sorry, or your boss or somebody that you've now 588 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: chirped out, no, no question about it. But but for Soto, 589 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: I mean, and for the squad again, cumulative effect, they're 590 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: gonna lead to a lot of stats all right, coming 591 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,800 Speaker 1: out of the World Baseball Class because hey, we scored 592 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: a ton of runs, we had a couple of slaughter 593 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 1: rule games. All that's all finding good, but you don't 594 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: get credit and carry overs all of that. It's not 595 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 1: you know, hey to two games set like my daughter 596 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: had their their high school playoffs, like all right, you're 597 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: gonna play this team a home at home and the 598 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 1: cumulative score that's who goes on. It's like, no, that's 599 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: not the way this works. It's one and done. It's 600 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: like real baseball. You go home. You know you want 601 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: to you want a good quick story about you know, 602 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 1: say when you say something like, oh my goodness, I'm 603 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: sorry I said that. This is the ninety seven All 604 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: Star Game was in Cleveland and uh this first time 605 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: they had us since had Jacob's Field. So we're in 606 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 1: Cleveland and we're pulling up to an event somewhere. This 607 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: is when I was producing TV. We're pulling up to 608 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 1: an event where it's gonna be covering it. There's gonna 609 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: be All Stars there, everything else. And the parking lot 610 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: is just this. You know, you park outside in this lot. 611 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: It's not very big. And we're like, oh man, and 612 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 1: there's this guy walking towards the car and I'm driving 613 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: and and there's a couple of three of us in 614 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,040 Speaker 1: the car and I'm driving and I go, oh, man, 615 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: where the hell is this guy going to get your car? 616 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,360 Speaker 1: I rolled it in and cause he kind of stops 617 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: and he looks and I'm like, he doesn't know where 618 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: his car is. And he keeps going and he stops again, 619 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: and we're like, oh my god. He stops and I go, hey, 620 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: come on, man, you know where your car is. Where 621 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 1: are you going? And the guy turns around and says, oh, hey, yeah, sorry, 622 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: you could take my spot is right up here. And 623 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: it was Donald Fair. Oh my good, yeah, who are like? 624 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: And I go, oh, thank you, mister Fair, Thank you. 625 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 1: I appreciate thank you so much. And he was happy 626 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,160 Speaker 1: that we knew who he was. But I'm like, hey, 627 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,560 Speaker 1: come on, man, you know your car is and what 628 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: oh yeah, tell you a spot. Oh hey, thank you, 629 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: mister Fair. Yes, so we got Donald Fair gave us 630 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: his parking spot. That's pretty good. I was like that. Yeah. 631 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 1: I went from come on, who the hell is it? Oh? 632 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: Oh oh, mister Fair, thank you very much. Kind of 633 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: a big deal. Yeah, I'm now going to apologize and 634 00:30:59,040 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 1: everybody in 635 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 2: My car be sure to catch live editions of the 636 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 2: Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, 637 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 2: seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.