1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. 9 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,160 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in side final hour tonight, the Jason Smith 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Here's why Brady's 11 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: the greatest of all time. We are going live to 12 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: Italy coming up in twenty minutes. Yay from a man 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: who is covering hockey and simultaneously trying to get an 14 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: interview with the Pope. 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:48,480 Speaker 3: Is it the Tony Romo guy? 16 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 4: It me? 17 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 3: I wish. 18 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: I want to say it's not the Tony Romo guy. 19 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 1: I wish sound really disappointed as I asked that I 20 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: want to talk to the biathline guy that sounds like 21 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: Jim Jim's and rifles. 22 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 3: Jim, what kind of sport is this? Jim Jim? I 23 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 3: can't believe that, Jim. It was a good bit, but just. 24 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,759 Speaker 1: Really quick on the Olympics before we get to big 25 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: NFL story, like the United States game today against Sweden. 26 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: I hated over time because it's not the it's not 27 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: the style of play the United States is built for. 28 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 1: They have built with a suffocating defense, and that's what's 29 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: been on display the entire Olympics so far. And look, 30 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: Hella Book's been good, but he hasn't really had to 31 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: be great clearly and seeing he's seeing the puck really well, 32 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: which is awesome, but he hasn't had to stand on 33 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 1: his head because the United States defense has been that suffocating, which, hey, 34 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: pat yourself on the back. Taking twenty one of the 35 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: twenty four players from the four nations last year, they've 36 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: played together, they've been able to jump in after two 37 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: practices and play so well defensively. Look, even Canada is 38 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: having more trouble defensively. It's a much more wide open game. 39 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: They're giving up more scoring chances than we are. Our 40 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: offense is not great. I mean Quinn Hughes came to 41 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: the rescue in overtime. I'm going, oh my, the first 42 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: good shot is going to win this game. And he 43 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: comes up with a big rister that just rings in 44 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: off off the post. But I'll tell you what, I 45 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: have not been this confident that the United States can 46 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: win a gold medal in hockey, probably since Miracle on 47 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: Ice because every year when they go in to United 48 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: States Canada, whether it's World Cup or whether it's the Olympics, 49 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,399 Speaker 1: it's Canada has such a big advantage, and it's it's 50 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: the United States can win if they do X, Y, Z, A, B, C, 51 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: D E n F. Hey, they can win. But that's 52 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 1: almost impossible cause the team is talented as Canada. But 53 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 1: coming into this building from the back out, the way 54 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: they have HELLI bucks the best goalie, best American goalie 55 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: we've ever had, best goalie left in the tournament, and 56 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: the way we're playing defensively, I have confidence we'll get 57 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: that clutch goal because anybody named Kachuk is always going 58 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: to break your heart with a goal late. 59 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,399 Speaker 3: So uh. And the fact that Canada. 60 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 1: Is playing much more wide open, yeah, I have I've 61 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: We're going into this as long as both teams get 62 00:02:57,600 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: out of the semi final game, we get the United 63 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: States for the gold medal. As long as that happens, yeah, 64 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: we're going in as the co favorite, at least the 65 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: way we're playing versus the way Canada is playing. Again, 66 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,520 Speaker 1: I have not been more confident that we can win 67 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 1: the gold medal in hockey more than I am right now. 68 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: Eighty nine percent probability with the minus eight twenty line 69 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 1: against Slovakia to advance to that final game you're looking at. 70 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: The Canada is a slight favorite over the US in 71 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: the look Ahead US at about plus two twenty. So yeah, 72 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: it's Look, I'm not a huge fan of three on 73 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:38,080 Speaker 1: three hockey. 74 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 3: I like finishing the game as it like. I don't. 75 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like those one offs. I don't 76 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: like shootouts. I don't like in soccer or hockey. I'm 77 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 1: not a fan. But it looked inevitable, just the way 78 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: that they dominated, to the point where like when when 79 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: he started skating off the ice a little bit started 80 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: back it up just so he can communicate with the bench. 81 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: He's off the screens like no, no, no, no, pull back, 82 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: I need that, Like what the hell is going on? 83 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: And then he comes back in and hits the wrister 84 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: like done right, and away we go. 85 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:12,119 Speaker 3: We hear that, clientk. It was like a church bell 86 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 3: on a Sunday morning. 87 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: Clean And then it was like the power went out 88 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: of everybody associated with Team Sweden. Oh yeah, I mean 89 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: there's just a shot when they had that shot from 90 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: far off from behind the net of the defenseman and 91 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 1: their goalie just on a knee, Like we just lost. 92 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 1: Like we scored a goal in the final minute of regulator, 93 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: the final ninety seconds of regulation to send this thing 94 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: to overtime, where we have the advantage because we're much 95 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: more we're much more built to be an open ice 96 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: team than the United States is, and the United States 97 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: found a way to win. If any game should tell 98 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: you shoot the puck right, because I was telling you 99 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 1: to coach them in soccer, I always say shoot, shoot, shoot. 100 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: Don't try to make the most pretty play, because I 101 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: guarantee you that you try to make a pass, the 102 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: extra two to three extra passes. Just shoot sho. Today 103 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 1: was that game because the couple of chances at Sweden 104 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: had Philip Forsberg. Hey, I'm I'm gonna pass up high 105 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: level shots to try to thread the puck through three 106 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: defenders to get to a guy open on the back end. 107 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: And it didn't work. And what did Quinn Hughes do? Yeah, 108 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: not looking for some kind of fancy one timer slapper. 109 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 1: I'm just get in the middle of get in the 110 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: middle of the ice, and I am just burying this 111 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: rister up high and shoot the puck, shoot the little 112 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 1: bit of space, and then it pays off with the advancement. 113 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 3: It's funny. 114 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: That's the one thing that the only time the uh 115 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: my daughter's soccer coach has ever kind of yelled at 116 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: the stands is when we're yelling shoot it, like no, no, no, 117 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: he wants It's like he's watching it and you know 118 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: the old basketball films like nope, five passes. 119 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,359 Speaker 3: You're like, no, no, you have a shot. 120 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 2: You can't. 121 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: I always tell her you can't dribble the ball into 122 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: the back of the net, right, you have to shoot. 123 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 3: Shoot, shoot, shoot. 124 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's dribble to the middle where there's nine people 125 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: waiting for shoot the ball. And because the funny thing 126 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: is I always I talked to when I I told 127 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: you when I coached soccer and softball too differently, it 128 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: was I had a strategy that was different from many 129 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:15,960 Speaker 1: other coaches, strategies that grew up on the game all 130 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: their lives. They all had the same thing. They all 131 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 1: wanted to play like Barcelona we're going to triangle the 132 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: ball up the field. We're going to complete twenty five passes, 133 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: and we're going to put the ball in the net. 134 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,760 Speaker 1: And we're going to look amazing doing it, right, because 135 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: we're going to have one more person. You're going to 136 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: be there, and we're going to do it. And I said, yeah, 137 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: that's not modern soccer. You're not completing twenty five passes 138 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: against me. My defense is going to get the ball 139 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: from you, and my defense got the ball. I said, 140 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:39,359 Speaker 1: what's pretty is the ball in the back of the net. 141 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: Modern soccer now is about long passes and breakouts and 142 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,479 Speaker 1: making plays and transition. And that if I could say, 143 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: the one thing that I had that I wish i'd 144 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: been able to to give all the girls more is 145 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:52,359 Speaker 1: to get them on page. Is to get them on 146 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: page with that. This is where soccer is now. It's 147 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: not like it was. You got one on one plays 148 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: getting the ball to your to your strikers and they're 149 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: one on one with a defender. Yeah, maybe they win 150 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: a third of those. But when you win a third 151 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: of those, guess what, it's a shot on goal from 152 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: close right. I mean, that's that soccer. That's modern soccer 153 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: in transition, get the uh and and the same thing 154 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: I can say for it. And a lot of them 155 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: were like, well, my other coach says. 156 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 3: We should do this. 157 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: I go, I go, I understand, but that's not where 158 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: the game is. And they all hated me because they're like, well, 159 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: this is soccer. I go, Yeah, that's what soccer was. 160 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: That's not where soccer is now and it's not where 161 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: it's going. And congratulations on convincing the girls that what 162 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: you know is great, that you know that way, that's awesome. 163 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: But like the same thing for for hockey is that, yes, 164 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: you have to shoot the puck, right. I mean, I 165 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: will take the team that takes forty five shots on 166 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: goal that to volume of shots, rather than a team that, 167 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: hey we're gonna we're gonna be pretty and take nineteen shots. 168 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 3: You know what. No, you gotta get the puck on. 169 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: The Eventually, the puck's gonna take an edge, it's gonna bounce, 170 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: it's gonna roll, it's gonna kick us off a skate, 171 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: or someone's gonna get just the front of the stick 172 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: on a poke check like and it just rupts everything 173 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: he just tried to build time and again even with 174 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: or ice, the three on three concept, how many times 175 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: did you see that just the desperate lunge to where 176 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: whatever momentum and swing back across the ice got reset. 177 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 1: Like even in those couple of minutes, there were a 178 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: number of instances on both sides where that happens, like, no, 179 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: move the bucket, the buck efficiently and shoot it. Now, 180 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: make the goalie make a play, so we'll love more 181 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: in this come we're gonna live again, live to Italy 182 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: up in about ten minutes. But the other big NFL 183 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: quarterback story we talked about two a few minutes ago. 184 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: Miami should eat all ninety nine million dollars a day here. 185 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: But it was three months ago when I said get 186 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: the Chiefs now because they're gonna be on the twenty 187 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: twenty six Revenge Tour in the offseason. It's because they 188 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: know they have to rebuild their offense, and they get 189 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: them now because they're struggling. They're going to I'm sorry, Frostsburg, 190 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: I know this is painful for you. Are you don't 191 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: raise your voice to me, RaSE your voice to me. 192 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 1: I can't even repeat what he said today. Patrick Mahomes 193 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: restructured his contract for the Chiefs this year to create 194 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: an enormous amount of salary cap room. The Chiefs converted 195 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,319 Speaker 1: fifty five million dollars of his salary into a signing bonus. 196 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 3: So now they. 197 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 1: Have created over forty three million dollars in cap space 198 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: and they need it because they were at the number. 199 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: But they know they need to go out this offseason 200 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: and do things differently. Right, this is now Mahomes coming 201 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 1: back from injury back half of his career. They tried 202 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 1: the strategy of will replace a peak Tyree Hill and 203 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: a peak Travis Kelcey with declining Travis Kelcey and a 204 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,559 Speaker 1: bunch of numbers at wide receiver, whether it's Juju Smith, 205 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: Schuster or now Rashid Rice, who knows if he ever 206 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 1: plays again for the Chiefs. Domestic violin story on him today, 207 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: Whether it's Hollywood Brown doesn't matter, and their offense is struggling. 208 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 3: Mahomes is a. 209 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: Game manager for a couple of years, and the Chiefs, 210 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:50,560 Speaker 1: because they didn't have a lot of money, tried to 211 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: make it work with just we can put a bunch 212 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: of okay weapons out there, Mahomes will make us better. Well, 213 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: guess what the rest of the league caught up and 214 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,079 Speaker 1: it didn't happen. And I said at the time, catch 215 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: the Chiefs now, because in the off season they're gonna 216 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 1: go out and get a number one running back who's 217 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: a star, a number one wide receiver who's a star, 218 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: and probably another tight end because this clearly will be 219 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: the last year for Travis Kelcey. And there's enough guys 220 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,719 Speaker 1: out there that are number one, number two guys in 221 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,679 Speaker 1: their team that are really talented, that aren't gonna cost 222 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: a ton of money to go to the Chiefs. I 223 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if they come out of this year 224 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: with a trade for a number one receiver with either 225 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 1: Bryce Hall or Kenneth Walker or David and Joku or 226 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,199 Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard. This is how they're gonna come out of 227 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: the offseason. It's gonna be whoa. The Chiefs are right 228 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: back to be in Super Bowl favorites. They know they 229 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: can't take the strategy they have in the past because 230 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: Mahomes is getting older and all right, it's just not 231 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: where we're not. We can't make a right decision. We 232 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: got to make a right decision on four receivers. That's 233 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 1: more difficult than making one right decision. On a number one, right, 234 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: it's much easier thing. Maybe they make a trade, it's 235 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: a move for aj Brown, whatever it is. They will 236 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: come out of this offseason with a stud running back, 237 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: stud receiver, and a dud tight end who will split 238 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 1: time with Kelsey and then eventually take over in a year. 239 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: This is what the Chiefs are going to do, which 240 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: is why you had to get him then, because now 241 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 1: they know this is the twenty twenty six revenge tour 242 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: for Kansas City. A lot of work to do. You 243 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: get the band back together with the enemy coming on board. 244 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: Matt Naggi gone, ah, so you have the opportunity to restructure. 245 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: You look at the ten point five wins in the 246 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: over under for the Chiefs as the betting markets started 247 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: to come out today off DraftKings and other sites. So 248 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 1: the expectation is then, therefore, that Patrick Mahomes is back 249 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: under center pretty early in September as we get things rolling. 250 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 1: They still need some work on the offensive line, They 251 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 1: still need to keep working on the books because they 252 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: were grossly over the cap before this first bit of restructuring. 253 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 3: But you talked about the tight end position. There's so 254 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:48,959 Speaker 3: many guys. 255 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Step you're talking about a quanko and all 256 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah, and then he's like knife, yeah right, 257 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:01,000 Speaker 1: because likely Kelsey re signed pits. Keep on going down 258 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: the line. There's a lot of guys. Dallas Goddard is 259 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: out in the marketplace as it stands, So Chiefs will 260 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: read tool and it'll be interesting to see how it goes. 261 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 1: You just talk about the odds. Also, Denver nine and 262 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 1: a half wins the Chargers set at ten and a half, 263 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: so AFC West. 264 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 3: Well, then there's the Raiders. 265 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, but I gotz. 266 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 3: That's fun over. 267 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 1: Under on sacks taken in the first six weeks thirty nine, Okay, 268 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 1: exit up ab out a Fresco exit, swollen Dove, Jason Smith, 269 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: Mike Harmon Lott from the Fox Sports Radio studios telling 270 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:39,959 Speaker 1: you you're not gonna like it, but. 271 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 3: The Chiefs are gonna be back. 272 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 1: Coming up next, we head to Italy for the latest 273 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: on USA Hockey, for the latest on everything Olympics, and 274 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: interview with the Pope potentially and oh, by the way, 275 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: major League Baseball, what now after Tony Clark, a man 276 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 1: uniquely qualified to talk about all of those topics, is 277 00:12:58,480 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: with us next? 278 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 3: Jason and Mike Sports Radio won't Go. 279 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 280 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven 281 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 282 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,679 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio is taking over YouTube and you can 283 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 2: be a part of it. 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The Jason Smith Show with my best 293 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:49,760 Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. 294 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 2: Jason, what do you got? 295 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 3: Ty shirt? 296 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 2: Don't make you care about the regid the worship won't go. 297 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 3: Raise your voice to me? Why are you? That's the 298 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 3: stupidest question. 299 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,200 Speaker 1: Congratulations, asking the stupidest question I've ever heard. 300 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:01,839 Speaker 3: You did raise your voice to me, man, I can't 301 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 3: believe you keep raising. Don't raise your voice by it. 302 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 3: Keep your voice lower. I'm good. Can't do that, man, 303 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,959 Speaker 3: I can't do that in the quiet store. 304 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 1: I'll throw you out. I'll throw you out of my teammate. 305 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: I'll throw you out of here, my player. I'll throw 306 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 1: you out. 307 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,719 Speaker 3: It way too excited. You're gone, man, You're gone. I'm 308 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 3: throwing you out. Don't raise your voice of me, reel 309 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 3: like I'm doing the schweaty ad. Now you have to 310 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 3: bring it down. 311 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: The more I hear Mick Cronin saying that we're gonna 312 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 1: get to that coming about a half hour, I really 313 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: I just think of the Frank castanza. You're saying you 314 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: want a piece of me that Elaine can't stop laughing 315 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: at it, and Julie Louise Rife has at all. There's 316 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: do it again, do it again. You're saying you want 317 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: a piece of me? Are you raising your voice of me? 318 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 3: Dude? Like that's what I think of You're saying you 319 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 3: want a piece of me. 320 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: He was doing everything to take away attention from his 321 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: burial and the terrible effort his team gave. 322 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,119 Speaker 3: It is a rainy morning in Italy. Right now. 323 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: He's joining us on the hotline, a man uniquely qualified 324 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: to talk about United States Olympic Hockey, a potential interview 325 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: with the Pope and Major League. 326 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:13,359 Speaker 3: Baseball Players Association. 327 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: Now under new leadership, it is MLB Network Insider Extraordinaire 328 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: John Paul Morosi. He is on Twitter at John Morosi 329 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: Live from Italy, Olympics and everything else, John Paul, what's happening? 330 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 3: How are you. 331 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 4: Amichi Domnqui in Milano, Italia. Beautiful morning here in Italy. 332 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 4: It's actually a little bit rainy, but my friends, the 333 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 4: rain will not dim the enthusiasm I have for the 334 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 4: game that we witnessed last night. One of the greatest 335 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 4: forty events I have ever seen, the USA in Sweden, 336 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 4: overtime win for the Americans onto the semifinals, and I'm 337 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 4: thrilled to be up early here and talk about with you. 338 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 4: It's one of those things where I think I'm calling 339 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 4: you from the future, and so I wasn't even really 340 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 4: sure and credits to our amazing producer, Justin Prosbergers. I 341 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 4: was trying to figure out which day I was going 342 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 4: to be calling you on and all these different logistics, 343 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 4: and I couldn't even figure out if I was going 344 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 4: to be able to fall asleep last night after watching 345 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 4: that game, let alone what day I was supposed to 346 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 4: call you. So I'm glad we're connected. Hope the signal 347 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 4: is good. And I have got some thrilling observations to 348 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 4: share with you from that game last night. 349 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 3: Well, i'll tell you. 350 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: Once it went to overtime, like the feeling in the 351 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: pit of my stomach, knowing that it's three on three coming, 352 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: knowing that that's not how the United States is built 353 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: to it in the Olympics, I just I was so 354 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: glad they don't take breaks. 355 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 3: I go, let's just play. 356 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: I can't sit around for twenty five minutes going I'm 357 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:53,960 Speaker 1: so nervous about this overtime. 358 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 3: Let's just play it. Let's get going. 359 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 4: No, And I tell you what, there was such a 360 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:03,560 Speaker 4: unique feeling in the building. It was the majority American fans. 361 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 4: Most of the people sitting around me were also American fans, 362 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,760 Speaker 4: and the noise in the building all game it was. 363 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:13,919 Speaker 4: It was great, but it was not. It was not 364 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,360 Speaker 4: what you would necessarily expect in terms of I think 365 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,479 Speaker 4: it was just the nervousness. I mean it was, it 366 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 4: was a packed crowd, but there was never some nerves. 367 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 4: And then this really remarkable thing happened right as overtime began. 368 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 4: It was almost as though all the US and Swedish 369 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 4: fans just decided to start screaming at once because everyone realized, Hey, 370 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 4: someone's journey is going to end here, and I'm just 371 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 4: gonna stream until that happens, because what else are we 372 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 4: gonna do? 373 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 1: Uh? 374 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 4: And And that was kind of the way that it felt. 375 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 4: And to be honest with you, the thing that I'll 376 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 4: never forget is how exhausted Quinn Hughes look before this 377 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 4: shift began on which he scored the game winning goal. 378 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 4: He was double shifted and it looked for a moment 379 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 4: like he was so exhausted that he was going to 380 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 4: come off the ice because he was already he had 381 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 4: already been skating and sprinting for about a minute and 382 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 4: a half. I just I could not believe that he 383 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 4: was still on the ice. I could not believe he 384 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 4: was still on the ice. It was that remarkable to 385 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 4: see him stay out there then of course, still have 386 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 4: the the the conditioning and the strength to put that 387 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:28,360 Speaker 4: puck in. I just thought it was one of the 388 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 4: more remarkable things I've seen in sports. And in a 389 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 4: full credit to his conditioning, obviously, the the US coaches 390 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 4: for trusting him to keep him out there. Obviously he 391 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 4: made an appeal to them to say, listen, I'm still good. 392 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 4: I can stay out here. Benny Trochak took some big 393 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 4: draws there in the overtime. I thought Dylan Larkin was 394 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,679 Speaker 4: excellent and I love too, the story of the of 395 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 4: the first goal of the game for the US, on 396 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:58,080 Speaker 4: which Quinn and Jack bullpad and assists to where that's 397 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,239 Speaker 4: a drill to the three of them have done so 398 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 4: many times. They all skate together in Michigan in the summers. 399 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 4: Lark and of course the Caps, the Detroit Red Wings, 400 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 4: Quinn and Jack along with Luke, they all spend the 401 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,639 Speaker 4: summer in Michigan. The youngest brother they skate with their dad. 402 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 4: It's just it's an amazing American hockey story, a great 403 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 4: US hockey and US sports moment. And now, of course 404 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 4: we are only one Canadian win and one American win 405 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 4: away from the matchup that we have been waiting for 406 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 4: for a long long time. 407 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 1: Really impressive that you still have your full throat in here, JP, 408 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 1: because figured yelling shoot the puck repeatedly for two hours 409 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: would have left you horse. 410 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 4: Well I tell you what there was. As I said earlier, 411 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 4: it was one of those. It was like a quiet 412 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 4: It was a quiet, cheering sort of a day where 413 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 4: everyone was just so tense and the game was so 414 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 4: tightly played that it wasn't one of It was not 415 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 4: like the game in Montreal that attended last year with 416 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 4: the three fights in nine seconds, and it was just 417 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,640 Speaker 4: this eruption of emotion. This was very, very different in 418 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 4: some ways. The game in Montreal year ago was a 419 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 4: little more of a thrill ride. This was like just 420 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 4: tension for two plus hours. And I tell you what, 421 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,040 Speaker 4: just you got to credit the Swedes as well, excellent team, 422 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 4: but Markstrom was really really good, Lucas Raymond excellent, just tremendous, 423 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 4: tremendous work. So I thought, in general, just a great 424 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 4: hockey game and a great, great sporting event all the 425 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 4: way around. 426 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 1: Now, the one thing about this, I'm sure this is 427 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,399 Speaker 1: kind of cutting into your time. This is the second 428 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: time you have been to Italy in the last couple 429 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: of years, where part of the reason you are there, 430 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 1: way you have done Olympics, you are trying to get an. 431 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 3: Interview with the Pope or mp. 432 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: And I want to know how that's going or if 433 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: maybe you know this pesky Olympics is dragging you away 434 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: from it. 435 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 4: So the Olympics are indeed complicating these efforts, they may 436 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 4: actually help in the end, because I am hopeful that 437 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 4: at some point if Popalo the fourteenth, noted White Sox fan, 438 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 4: if he if he arrives to the game on Sunday, 439 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 4: which really he should, and we are now, we are 440 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 4: now in his country, and I feel as though this 441 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 4: would be a very appropriate time for him to for 442 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 4: him to arrive, And I actually I will send word 443 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,959 Speaker 4: to the press office of the Holy See and make 444 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,160 Speaker 4: sure that they realize that the Holy Father is more 445 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 4: than welcome to join me at one of the remaining games. 446 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 4: So honestly, if he wants to meet me at the 447 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,199 Speaker 4: rink today, I'll just I'm sure the loyal listener of 448 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,959 Speaker 4: the show. I'm expecting he begins his days by listening 449 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 4: to this amazing radio program at Fox Sports Radio. So 450 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 4: I'm hoping that he picks up on this. And here's 451 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,120 Speaker 4: here's this invitation. But I would love to just hang 452 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 4: out with the Pope and watch watch the US and 453 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 4: Canada play for the gold medal woman hockey. Here later 454 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 4: on today. 455 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 3: That's pretty cool. 456 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: After the US wins, make sure you get an extra 457 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: ticket stub from one of the Canadians that are man 458 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: as they throw it down. 459 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 3: The rest of your experience. 460 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: There, like what other events are you getting in beyond 461 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: the hockey world in your sight seeing? 462 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 4: So a great question. So we will see the US 463 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 4: in Canada and the Women's hockey final gold medal games today. 464 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,439 Speaker 4: I will be at the gold medal game on Sunday, 465 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 4: no matter who's involved. That's the point. We've got some 466 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 4: family activities planning, missus. For those who don't know, I 467 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 4: think we talked about it before. My mother's family is 468 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 4: from about about twenty miles away from where I'm standing 469 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 4: right now, so this is very much a homecoming for 470 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 4: me and for my family. So this is very much 471 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 4: one of those trips of a lifetime. Yes, I get 472 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 4: to work in some respects and that and that we're 473 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 4: I'm covering this uh and talking to you about it. 474 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:07,439 Speaker 4: I'm your your fearless correspondent here at the Olympics. But 475 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:11,880 Speaker 4: this is also a personal journey of sorts, and so well, 476 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 4: I'm not sure if we'll necessarily have the full if 477 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 4: I'll be explaining that this will be an interesting thing. 478 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 4: Will I end up explaining the nuances of of no touch, 479 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 4: icing and and and the lack of the trapezoid in 480 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 4: double I Jeff hockey to to my relatives in our village. 481 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 4: Maybe they're not huge hockey fans. They're more soccer people. 482 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,360 Speaker 4: So I will do my best, though, to make sure 483 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:42,199 Speaker 4: that they understand, uh, the nuances and importance of all 484 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 4: that we're witnessing here at the Olympics. It really it's 485 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 4: been a lot of fun. The unique thing I'll say 486 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 4: this too. Milt is such a big city, and and 487 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 4: obviously half of the events are up in the mountains 488 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 4: that you could certainly be in different areas of town 489 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,520 Speaker 4: and not even realize the Olympics are going on. I mean, 490 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 4: this normal life is happening. I've been walking by people. 491 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 4: I've been walking by people walking to school right now, 492 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 4: walking by people who are going to work, and they're 493 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 4: wondering why this American is walking around in our neighborhood 494 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 4: here yelling into the phone about Quinn Hughes. So there's 495 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 4: a lot of they're like, what's this guy doing, what's 496 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 4: he talking about? So there's some element of this is happening, 497 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 4: but it is. It is a great time to be 498 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,880 Speaker 4: in one of my absolute favorite cities in the world. 499 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 3: He's a legend. 500 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 1: He's with us each and every week, usually covering Major 501 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: League Baseball. Right now on the tour there of Italy 502 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,639 Speaker 1: with the Olympics. We'd be remissing we didn't get some 503 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: baseball in with him though. It's our guy, John Paul 504 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: Brosi at John Morosi, j O N m rs. I 505 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: leave out that age because Mom said so. Union strife. 506 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 1: Bruce Meyer now takes over Tony Clark resigns amid scandal 507 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,439 Speaker 1: personal and professional, and the two bleeding together here. What 508 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,480 Speaker 1: does this mean as we have all important twenty six 509 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: season yet to get underway in such a huge negotiating 510 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 1: table to be set. 511 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 4: Yes, like I think it's a fair question about the 512 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 4: impact of all this on the on the CBA talks. 513 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 4: It does not appear to me that the CBA talks 514 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 4: have begun in earnest yet. I would think that will 515 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 4: happen here in the in the coming weeks. Obviously, Tony 516 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 4: Clark's departure it adds to the tension around the situation 517 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 4: and the expectations of what could come in terms of 518 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 4: potential workshoppages after this season is done. I don't think 519 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:45,359 Speaker 4: it meaningfully moves the needle necessarily in that Bruce Meyer 520 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,719 Speaker 4: was already going to be the lead negotiator, So I 521 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 4: think that in that sense it does not change the 522 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 4: Union's position all that much, although it certainly I think 523 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 4: amps up the probably the feeling on the part of 524 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 4: the players that they that they have something to defend. Obviously, 525 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 4: the Union is for a long time fought a salary cap. 526 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 4: There are many fans who believe a salary cap is 527 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 4: is necessary to help balance out the sport from the 528 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,680 Speaker 4: competitive standpoint, and obviously there's a lot of evidence to 529 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,639 Speaker 4: suggests that would be a good idea based on what 530 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 4: the Dodgers have been able to do the last couple 531 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 4: off seasons. So that is where I think. Essentially this 532 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 4: still remains. Are the owners able to get the salary 533 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,439 Speaker 4: cap that it appears is necessary to keep the sport 534 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:41,160 Speaker 4: competitive top to bottom, And how just just how thoroughly 535 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 4: and how desperately will the Union try to prevent that 536 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 4: from happening. So there's just a lot a lot of 537 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 4: conversations there. I do believe that the particulars because Bruce 538 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,120 Speaker 4: Meyer was going to be one of the top negotiators. Anyway, 539 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 4: I don't think this news is as sort of shocking 540 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 4: as it's been really changes the state of play all 541 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 4: that much. 542 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: Did you have to explain to uh, you know, maybe 543 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: some some average or beginner baseball fans in Italy that 544 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: not everybody's relationship with their sister in law is what 545 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: it looks like from this story? Like was that something 546 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,760 Speaker 1: that people asked to you and you had had to 547 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:15,560 Speaker 1: make sure they knew. 548 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 4: So I'll answer it this way. When when when you uh, 549 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,679 Speaker 4: I will say this family family family relationships in Italy 550 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 4: are are are often complicated and very emotional. H but 551 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 4: but the circumstance that we're talking about is not is 552 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 4: not a common one. 553 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 1: All right Now, lastly, let me ask you this, if 554 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 1: you could say, okay, at the Olympics, that what you're 555 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 1: going through right now, what you are experiencing. If you 556 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 1: came back and I said, hey, tell me the biggest 557 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: thing about the Olympics you want somebody to know, either 558 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: a story that nobody knows about, or just hey, what's 559 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: the biggest thing that that you want people to know 560 00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:58,280 Speaker 1: about this Olympics? 561 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,200 Speaker 3: Going on right now in Italy. What would you tell me, 562 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 3: I would. 563 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 4: Say that for all the conversations about the rink about 564 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 4: whether it would be up to standards, I'll just say this. 565 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 4: I was watching the game last night. I at no 566 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 4: point during the game did I look at the ice 567 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,400 Speaker 4: and say, oh, the ice is a little smaller than 568 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 4: I thought it was going to be, or there was 569 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 4: any sort of an issue with the rink. The rink was. 570 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,640 Speaker 4: You can tell that it's very new, you can tell 571 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 4: that it's not necessarily like a North American building in 572 00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,640 Speaker 4: the way that it's structured. But I thought it was. 573 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 4: It was engaged, it was passionate. It was just so 574 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 4: much fun to be there. And honestly, what I would 575 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 4: say to everybody my first Olympics. I've never seen one before, 576 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 4: and so obviously we know the next number games are 577 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,080 Speaker 4: going to be in LA were eight years from now 578 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 4: going to be in Salt Lake. My word on this 579 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 4: is go go. However you can get through an Olympics. 580 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 4: I know that there's a lot of people in the 581 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 4: city where you are right now who are who are 582 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,280 Speaker 4: feeling different ways about if they're going to love the 583 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 4: traffic and everything else is going on in Los Angeles 584 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 4: in twenty twenty eight. My advice is especially based on 585 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,400 Speaker 4: the Italian spirit that I've witnessed here in my time 586 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 4: back in Milan, is that there's a real belief that 587 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 4: it's a it's a special experience, is one to share 588 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,680 Speaker 4: with your loved ones. So please, by all means do it. 589 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 4: Go to the Olympics, because it is a great time 590 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 4: to share our our culture are the things that we 591 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 4: are passionate about. That that that sense of a fellowship 592 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 4: is real, and I would recommend to anybody to experience. 593 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 3: He's on Twitter at John Morossi. 594 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: That is that John Morossi is in Italy pursuing coverage 595 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,480 Speaker 1: of the United States gold medal in hockey and interview 596 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 1: with the Pope, and as much pasta as you could 597 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: possibly find, and one of those parogi plushies. 598 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 3: Oh sure, a couple of Oh sure. 599 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 4: Request the opportunately tis keep apresso. 600 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 3: Sean Paula join the rest of the games. We'll talk 601 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 3: to you next week, my friend Emigret. 602 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 5: Hey be sure to catch live editions of The Jason 603 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 5: Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, 604 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 5: seven pm Pacific