Jordan Walker Saves the Derby as Geno Smith Raises Red Flags | Evan & Tiki
WFAN Daily
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3.8 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Walker emerged as a breakout star in a Home Run Derby that finally felt fun again. Shaun Morash and Tiki Barber explain why the new format worked, how Philadelphia fans added energy to the event and why Major League Baseball delivered a much needed win.
The conversation then shifts to Geno Smith and the repeated speeding stories surrounding the Jets quarterback. Shaun and Tiki debate whether the incidents reveal poor decision making and why Smith must become a stabilizing leader instead of another offseason distraction.
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| 0:00.0 | Jordan Walker, surprising, or at least disappointing, I guess is the better way to put it. |
| 0:04.5 | The hometown Philly fans, as he knocked out or bested, Carl Swarber. |
| 0:10.1 | He was so chill. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he was great. |
| 0:12.6 | He was nice watching just no excess energy. |
| 0:16.7 | Just save it for getting a ball over the fence. |
| 0:18.9 | Yeah, it was sick. |
| 0:19.9 | And he made himself, you were just saying before the show, more money by winning a home run derby than his base salary is. Yes, he made $799,000 or something like that. Yeah. And he made a million dollars. And he has now named recognition. A star was born on, I think, what was a very successful night for Major League Baseball. |
| 0:38.6 | And let's just, let's start there. |
| 0:40.1 | I do want to get to Gino Smith in a couple of minutes as well. |
| 0:43.8 | Look, we played Jeff Passon yesterday on the air, and Jeff Passon to his credit by the end of last night had kind of quote tweeted the caption where he had basically predicted that the home run derby would stink by saying, well, I guess so. Or this age like milk, like bad milk or something. The home run derby last night felt legitimized again. It felt fun again. And it felt like it was supposed to be. And I think it starts right there with the rules. Like we talked about this yesterday. When you sit down to watch a home run derby, |
| 1:12.0 | it's meant to be goofy, |
| 1:13.2 | it's meant to be goofy, it's meant to be a break, |
| 1:15.4 | even for the fans. |
| 1:16.4 | Right, like, over the top. |
| 1:17.6 | Over the top. |
| 1:18.2 | Like, we sit there and watch these baseball games and, |
| 1:21.3 | oh, this manager sucks, |
| 1:22.6 | this bullpen sucks. |
| 1:23.8 | It's meant to be baseball adjacent |
| 1:25.5 | where you kind of just connect with some stars and watch some long balls. The problem with the clock in past years in the last decade and even some of the bracketed stuff they did was that guys would just be ripping pitches for two and a half minutes. You wouldn't be able to appreciate where they landed. What was going on, the nonsense of it. Yesterday when I sat down, Tiki and he said, all right, well, let's see where this goes. I couldn't figure out. |
| 1:46.1 | I just said Taylor, my daughter |
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