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Find your local station for 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. 8 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 2: Let's give you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. 9 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show 10 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 1: with my bas friend Mike Harmon, as we get set 11 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: for a Fourth of July, fireworks, baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, Chevrolet, 12 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 1: all the big things, all of those things and then 13 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: some I like that Chevrolet is still part of that 14 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: after all these years. Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. Okay? 15 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 3: Actually done? That is that? 16 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: That is advertising that is effective because it stayed in 17 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: my head. 18 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 3: That's true. 19 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, Baseball, catch. 20 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 3: It away we go. Ye. You know a lot of 21 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 3: those old jingles were also written by Barry manilone. Now 22 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 3: I don't think that one was. 23 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: But get a Chevy Chevrole coope and eat a hot 24 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 1: dog and a slice of have some pie and and 25 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: more pie and okay, uh he. 26 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 3: Did stuck on band aid. You deserve a Break Today? 27 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: Did he really write McDonald's He wrote all of this 28 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: stuff really yeah, wow, like he could have He could 29 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: have been even he could have turned those into real songs. 30 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. He and Randy Newman wrote a lot. 31 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: Like you could turn you Deserve a Break Today into 32 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: a mcdont from a McDonald's jingle into something that's hey, man, 33 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: I do deserve a break today. I deserve I deserve 34 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: a break today. They do it all for me and 35 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: I deserve a break like. That's a that's a big 36 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: self empowerment song. That could it could have been a 37 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 1: big thing. I mean, he sang the doctor Pepper. I'm 38 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: a pepper, You're a Pepper was written by Randy Newman, 39 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 1: but he sang it. 40 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 4: Doctor Pepper, Imperial Hallway Man drinking that diet Doctor Pepper 41 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 4: on the Highway. 42 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 3: Is that how we do we we bring it all together? 43 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 3: I mean, because we certainly played that last night after 44 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 3: the Dodgers came and took that win from the White Sox. 45 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: I love zero sugar, diet doctor. 46 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 3: Boy, the voices inside your head rolling. 47 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 4: Out cherry vanilla, diet Doctor Pepper Man, I drink that thing. 48 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: I get both flavors and one time. 49 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, I hear voices in my head. I mean that's 50 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 3: the theme song for Randy Orton, of course, the Legend Killer. 51 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 3: But I'm always curious as to if I could do 52 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 3: the box right, which is the Jim Carrey Riddler version 53 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 3: in the Batman series, if I could see what's in 54 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 3: your head right, the cartoons and all those other things 55 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,079 Speaker 3: that are dancing around as you formulate your sentences. Here 56 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 3: at Fox Sports Radio, it is a fascinating world. 57 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: Now, we have a big football story coming up in 58 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: about fifteen minute. Wait, wait, a big football story is 59 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: July three. Yes, a big football story coming your way 60 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: in about fifteen minutes. But what is going to be 61 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: the hotter take tomorrow? Okay, got two choices, Mike Carmen, 62 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: you can also choose A and B as your answer. Okay, 63 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: is the hotter take? Front PAGEVSPN dot com right now. 64 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: Page Becker's the Dallas Wings really not a great team 65 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: in the WNBA, but twenty three points for Paige Becker's 66 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: All Stars starter. She's come in and played even better, 67 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: I mean better than I thought she she'll play. And 68 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: I thought she was going to be a star. Paige 69 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: Beckers greater than Caitlyn Clark or or or Indiana Fever 70 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: after absolutely blowing out the Las Vegas Aces site. Way 71 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 1: do we tell you what Vegas Head coach Becky Hammond 72 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: had to say after this game eighty one fifty four 73 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 1: Indiana Fever thrilled Indiana Fever say, you're right, she was not. 74 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: Indiana Fever better off without Caitlin Clark. Which hot take 75 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: do you like more? For the next twenty four I 76 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: was because you know we're gonna hear both of them. 77 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: Which one do you like more? 78 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 3: I like the the individual battle, so page Beckers greater 79 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 3: than Caitlin Clark because it's just a one on one, 80 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 3: right mono imano, much like our our random Do you 81 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 3: ever think about it being like it's you against you? 82 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, very good. 83 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 3: No, that's good. That's good. I like that you're running 84 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 3: that line. 85 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 1: We got that line in like three times to night, because. 86 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 3: That's that's how I feel most days. You know, you 87 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 3: questioned my my battle of the meaning of life, But 88 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,800 Speaker 3: it's also the am I doing enough? Am I doing? Okay? 89 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 3: Have I done enough for my kids? Have I do 90 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 3: I look after my parents, Do my brothers hate me? 91 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 3: Does Jason secretly want to stab me with a pen? 92 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 3: You know all of us secret not quite so secretly. 93 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 3: I mean, it might just be straight out there that 94 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 3: he's gonna hit me with that bat. Make sure coming. 95 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 1: That'll be fine, you'll see it coming. 96 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,039 Speaker 3: Well, as long as I get that moment of clarity 97 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 3: right before things go. 98 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,720 Speaker 1: Good, Hey, Harman, turn around, that's what you'll get right before. 99 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 3: No, that's it, right if I get my moment like 100 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 3: Gandelfeen he did at the end of The Sopranos because 101 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 3: he don't know what necessarily happened, but he sure as 102 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 3: hell does. So all of that to say that, yeah, 103 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 3: I think the one on one battle like we we 104 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 3: set up the the WWE the Oval, as has been 105 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 3: suggested by some of our folks. Eric espoused that on Instagram, 106 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 3: wherever you're you're finding us, we appreciate you being part 107 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 3: of the extended family. But I think the one on 108 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 3: one thing because we can go into the nuance of 109 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,559 Speaker 3: team and how things change when a player is taking 110 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 3: off the court, and that that's not nearly as sexy 111 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 3: as this player better than that player. 112 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: Look at the. 113 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 3: The reigning Rookie of the Month and all of this 114 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 3: stuff that we have for Paige Beckers. Yeah, so I'll 115 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 3: take the individual battle. 116 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: Oh see, I'm gonna go the other way because because 117 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: knowing how knowing how people feel about Caitlin Clark, all 118 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: better off with that, because there's a little bit more 119 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: evidence there that at least you can have started having 120 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: the conversation. Right like here the fever who again that 121 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: you know, they win the Commissioner's Cup right there, the 122 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: ist champions five. 123 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 3: Hundred grand they got to spin. Yeah, and then they 124 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 3: called out the commissioner saying, we get more for this 125 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 3: than our paychecks and winning a title. 126 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, how about but how about you work on the money? 127 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: Moore le let's wear Hey, Kathy, gotta get us some 128 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: more money. I like how Kyler Clark, Hey Kathy, work 129 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: on that. 130 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 3: Right in between all the other nonsense that was going on, 131 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 3: Sophie Cunningham went viral again for twerking, and they were 132 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 3: reading off comments and going who's daddy. It's like that's 133 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 3: actually my dad? 134 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, even Lebron doesn't say, hey Adam, work 135 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: on that, Hey Adam, Hey Adam, go work on that. Hey, Kathy, 136 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: go work on that well, ye, Kathy, get on that way. 137 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 3: Yeah. I think I think there's plenty of evidence of 138 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 3: Lebron calling out the commission stuff. 139 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: I always like when when Jordan when Doug Collins would 140 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,679 Speaker 1: coach the Bulls and he would talk about he would 141 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: say Doug. He would always say, well, what Doug w 142 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,000 Speaker 1: Doug was saying this, and Doug he would never call 143 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: him coach or call he would just say, well, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug. 144 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: You know, I think Doug wants to do this, and 145 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: Doug Doug likes this. And then they pushed Doug out 146 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: so Phil Jackson could come in. They got rid of Doug. 147 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 3: But yeah, he and Pippen were really good at going 148 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 3: Doug Doug. 149 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna say Kayler Clark because here's here's what 150 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: it is is, there's going to be that push of Hey, 151 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: the fever better off without Caitlin Clark. Look at what's 152 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: going on. You know, they spread the floor, the players 153 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: get involved more. Look you have you know, you have 154 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: talent on the team. You have a former Rookie of 155 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: the Year. You know she went for twenty five tonight y. Hey, 156 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,560 Speaker 1: they're better outside of Caitlyn Clark's one person show. Okay, 157 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: let me tell you why that's not the case, and 158 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: then I'll give you something different to think about. And 159 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: it goes to the hatred of Caitlin Clark, but not 160 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: how you think. So first of all, okay, we've seen 161 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 1: this in sports so many times, right, star X gets 162 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 1: hurt and for a short period of time, because a 163 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: team is pretty good, they're able to figure out a 164 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: way around it. Right, it's a little bit different away 165 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 1: they attack, and so teams are seeing how you're doing 166 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: things for the first time, because hey, without the star player, 167 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: without the catalyst, how we don't know what's gonna happen. 168 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: Who's gonna take on the lion's share of the ball handling? 169 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: How is the game going to evolve? And when a 170 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: team is good, Because I told you by game thirty, 171 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna say the Fever the best team in the WNBA. 172 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:05,560 Speaker 1: They made a lot of big improvements in the officing 173 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: point and a lot of players. They needed time for 174 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: that to coalesce. Now, obviously that that timeline is going 175 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: to be a little bit pushed back now because Caitlyn 176 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: Clark has been injured. So now integrating all the different 177 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: players together is gonna take a little bit longer, But 178 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: you don't forget they're they're good, right, They have really 179 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 1: good players like Mitchell is really good and Cunningham's become 180 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: a start. The didn't have a big night tonight, but 181 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: a big night plus minus wise. So yeah, for short 182 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 1: periods of time, you've seen this, right. We saw you know, 183 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: when Halliburton got hurt and somehow the Pacers are up 184 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: by one at halftime in Game seven of the NBA Finals, whoaha, whoa, 185 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: Now this is okay? What how did they do things after? 186 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: There's no Halliburton and then the thunder? Just give them 187 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: a clinic the rest of Game seven? But we've seen this, right, 188 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,559 Speaker 1: you say, And for short periods of time, you can 189 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: do that, right. A team can go, hey without how 190 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: are you doing this without your start? Well, look at 191 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: what's going on, and then you get that, hey, maybe 192 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: they're better off for that. No, it's going to be good. 193 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: And as long as a team is talented and they 194 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,839 Speaker 1: and they're focused and they're and they're they're pumped to 195 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: work together on this, it's not just well, we're gonna 196 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 1: fall apart until Caitlyn comes back. To save us. Well, 197 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: you're gonna you can see that now after a handful 198 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: of games. Are team's gonna see how to attack the Okay, 199 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 1: this is what the Fever like to do. Without Caitlin, 200 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: we can do this and slow them down. Absolutely. The 201 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: better teams in the w NBA are gonna do that 202 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty percent. So this whole hey, just 203 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 1: understand that for short periods of time, when a team 204 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: is good, we told you the Fever are good, you 205 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: can get by without your start. That's what we're seeing 206 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:32,839 Speaker 1: right now with the Fever. 207 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, they've got enough depth. They made a lot of 208 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 3: uh alterations to that roster in the offseason. You changed 209 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 3: out your coach. You're trying to find some semblance there. 210 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 3: She would miss some time. Uh and and now you're 211 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,079 Speaker 3: you're pushing to that next part of the season. You 212 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 3: got forty four regular season games. Here's a small stretch 213 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 3: of it, small sample size. And yeah, they they've bludgeoned 214 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 3: these squads. So it is eyebrow raising. But to that end, 215 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 3: people pick up the game flows a lot differently. We've 216 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 3: seen this with other superstars in all sports, where you 217 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 3: get that bump as you like to call it, and 218 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 3: we certainly can find pieces where you have a different flow. Right, 219 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 3: the Celtics without Jason Tatum record was really good. Kevin 220 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 3: Durant missing time in Phoenix record was really good. Just 221 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 3: go superstar to superstar. You could pick out small sample 222 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 3: sizes right when we go into statistics, as we always say, right, 223 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 3: you need thirty case thirty samples for your case study 224 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 3: to be quote statistically relevant. Doesn't mean we can't pick 225 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 3: a couple of dates out of the air and have 226 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 3: a streak of five to ten games and try to extrapolate. 227 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 3: Just once we get thirty which is three quarters of 228 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 3: your WNBA season, that where we get it to where 229 00:11:56,040 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 3: it's statistically valid in the grander sense of your statistics coursework. 230 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's other players stepping up. Matchups always 231 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 3: a huge thing. Motivation for your opponent and how much 232 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 3: they're jacked up on a given night. Caitlin Clark not 233 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 3: there all of a sudden, you know, maybe maybe that 234 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 3: that emotion is a little bit different. You know, we've 235 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 3: talked about that a little bit as well. As you know, 236 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 3: you get up for this team, whether it's the Layton 237 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 3: hate or the outright hate as some will love to 238 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 3: call it because, let's face it, that's the thousand word 239 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,839 Speaker 3: thought piece that keeps flowing whenever anybody gets into the 240 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 3: w NBA sphere, like, hey, that did pretty good numbers 241 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 3: on TV. Do we have to talk about it? This 242 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 3: is TV and radio. Yeah, you probably should say something 243 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 3: about what do we say? Everybody hates Caitlin Clark? Good, 244 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:55,199 Speaker 3: let's go so how do we spin that off of this? 245 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 3: So here, it's just a flow in a couple of 246 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 3: games stretch curiosity. But you see it in arenas, Right, 247 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 3: people don't show up necessarily if she's not playing, and 248 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:11,280 Speaker 3: they don't show up at their television box, they go 249 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 3: and find another episode that they missed of Love Island. 250 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:18,600 Speaker 1: Now you say, you get into the next part, which 251 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: I really wonder how big a part of it that is? 252 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: Right now, the last three games they have won by 253 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: an average of sixteen points a game, right they Oh? Yeah, 254 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,680 Speaker 1: they nearly beat the Wings by double digits. They blow 255 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: out the best team in the WNBA in the Commissioner's 256 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:35,839 Speaker 1: Cup Final, and then the Aces, who yes, not as 257 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:37,920 Speaker 1: great a year at the changes they made in the 258 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: off season clearly didn't work for them. 259 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 3: But well, but I mean that's where I had my 260 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 3: hot take of I mean, look, ninth, she was voted 261 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 3: ninth by the players amongst guards. That was right because 262 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 3: they kicked the living snot out of the links in 263 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 3: the Commissioner's Cup of Finale. So I mean, look, how 264 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 3: much did they miss her? Eight seven ninety nine? 265 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: Look, and now you you know, and now you have 266 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: Kelsey Plumb leaving and the Aces clearly are not the 267 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: same team they are. But Asia Wilson is still the 268 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: best player in the WNBA. She's the only one who 269 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 1: showed up tonight. And it was never close, right, They 270 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: lost by one hundred and Becky Hammond after the game 271 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: said many bad things about the Aces, calling it, quote, 272 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: one of the worst games I've ever seen, a complete 273 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: lack of professionalism to come in here with that effort. 274 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: It's the worst offensive night I've seen since I've been 275 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 1: here the last four years. My team has to step up. 276 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: There has to be some kind of fight our team. 277 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: One team was fickle, one team was not. There's just 278 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: no bones about it. One of the worst games I've 279 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: ever seen. Right, So, she is absolutely not happy with 280 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: the effort that the Aces gay tonight. Right now, this 281 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: gets into it last three games now, the fever of 282 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: one pretty big, you know how much a lot of 283 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: the players. There's the jealousy and the hate of Caitlin 284 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: Clark throughout the league. There's the players and coaches that 285 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 1: hate her outright just because they don't believe she should 286 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: be getting the publicity and the recognition that she does. 287 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: Maybe it is jealousy, maybe it's an a RaSE perspective, 288 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: but it's out there. But there's also that the group 289 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: of people who's okay, that don't say things like that, 290 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: but obviously know, Hey, when we play the fever, I 291 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: got a little something something for Caitlyn Clark and the fever. 292 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: I'm getting up for this game because it's the same 293 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: philosophy of what happens and why it's so hard for 294 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: champions to repeat in sports and have the same record 295 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: during the regular season, because hey, everybody circles that game 296 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: when the champs are coming to town, right, everybody circled 297 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: this year when the Celtics were coming to town. Everybod's 298 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: gonna circle next year when the thunder are coming to town. 299 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: You're gonna get everybody's best effort every night. It's not 300 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: gonna be one Night of eighty two. It's gonna be, hey, 301 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: little bit something extra special. So a team is a 302 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 1: little bit more focused for those games, right, Obviously that's 303 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: the way it goes. Now, you have the desire the 304 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: Fever coming into town. It's like they're the champs, right, 305 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: It's like, Hey, here comes Caitlyn Clark, and there's gonna 306 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: be eyeballs and attention, and I really want to stick 307 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: it to them and show you that I'm really good too, 308 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: and we're Maybe I do it because I hate Caitlyn Clark. 309 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: Maybe I do it because I respect her and I 310 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: want to show that I'm good too. Maybe I'm just 311 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: jacked up because it's a game on national TV. But 312 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: you get and the Fever get everybody's best game every 313 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: time they step on the floor. But look what's happened 314 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 1: in the last three games. No Caitlyn Clark, the Wings 315 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 1: look terrible, even though it's the Commissioner's Cup Championship. It 316 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: was a no show effort for the Links. It was 317 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: an absolute no show tonight for the Aces. And you 318 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: heard Becky Hammond say the effort tonight was abysmal, Like, 319 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: I really wonder how much of that goes into well, 320 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: there's no Caitlin Clark playing in this game, I'm not 321 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: as jacked up, I'm not as focused. This is just 322 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: one of forty four on the calendar, and it's a 323 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: Thursday night, right before the fourth of July, where the 324 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: holiday is coming up, and we're just not focused, whereas 325 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: if Kaitlyn Clark was playing, Hey everybody's jacked up to 326 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: go play in this game, and hey we're supporting Asia 327 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,520 Speaker 1: Wilson Moore who did basically try to do it all 328 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: by yourself tonight. And it's a much more competitive game. 329 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 1: I really wonder how much of there is there that 330 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: it's the champion's mentality. When you play the Fever in 331 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Clark, it's different than when you play somebody else. 332 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, like like I said, I mean when 333 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 3: we look at TV ratings when she doesn't play, I mean, 334 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 3: look at what happens to ticket prices. They absolutely plummet 335 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 3: in the secondary market. I haven't done the full chronicling 336 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 3: of the no shows, but you know those are numbers 337 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 3: that we you know, it's fuzzy math as we go 338 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 3: down that road. Right, So all of that to say 339 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,919 Speaker 3: that translates to the sidelines as well. You know, the 340 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,159 Speaker 3: energy is not the same in the building. That doesn't 341 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 3: mean people don't still love the Fever. And if you're 342 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,720 Speaker 3: at an Indiana Fever game at home, that you don't 343 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 3: have that kind of juice in the crowd because Caitlin's 344 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:48,159 Speaker 3: going to be there waiting, and she'll be there on 345 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 3: the road game signing autographs and hanging out. But it's 346 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 3: not the same juice. It's not that same to be 347 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 3: the man, you gotta beat the man kind of mentality, 348 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 3: and that translates to the players, it translates to the officials. 349 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 3: You're just gonna have a different flow to the game, 350 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 3: right when a superstar is not there. And we talk 351 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 3: about it all the time when we're watching you know, 352 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 3: games that matter. I mean, look look at that Clayton 353 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 3: Kershaw effort against It was the White Socks, but it's 354 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:18,400 Speaker 3: a historic game, and even the night before it's the 355 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 3: White Socks. You have these great giveaways. You have these 356 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 3: great giveaways. Tonight they did a one piece promotion. The 357 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 3: cards are selling for three hundred and fifty dollars a peach. 358 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 3: Yesterday you had a not only Kershaw Day, you gave 359 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 3: away forty thousand Yamamoto bobbleheads. You just have a different 360 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 3: energy at different stadium and with different squad, no matter 361 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 3: who the opponent is. But with the fever when Caitlin 362 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 3: Clark is in there. The ratings have told us that 363 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 3: the money in the secondary market against Dallas, you could 364 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 3: have gotten in for five dollars, and that's Page Becker's. 365 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: You said dollars. You get in for five dollars, But. 366 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 3: Obviously you moved it to a bigger arena, and we've 367 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 3: watched that phenomenon. So that means, all of a sudden, 368 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 3: you've got a glut of tickets on the secondary market 369 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 3: that supplied demand, fewer people in demand. Hey, you want 370 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 3: to get in, and any tickets that might have still 371 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 3: been held back that become available through the marketplace from 372 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 3: the venue itself. Guess what they just want you in, 373 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 3: So you order the aforementioned hot dogs. We talked a 374 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 3: lot about hot dogs, check it out in the podcast. 375 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 3: All of that, you're just trying to get butts and 376 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:36,239 Speaker 3: seats to extend some kind of the financial gains. But 377 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 3: it doesn't mean it translates into juice on the court 378 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 3: by the fans and certainly by the players on either 379 00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 3: side at that point. Now for all of them, they 380 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 3: realize the opportunity. Hey, you know what, We're expanding with 381 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 3: three more teams, So we need to kick ass every 382 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 3: time we're out here because it could with the new 383 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 3: CBA translate into a lot of money. But that doesn't 384 00:19:58,320 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 3: necessarily always make it. 385 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 1: So exit at about a fresca exit swalling down The 386 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Again, 387 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: I wonder how much when she's not playing. Yeah, I'm 388 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: not as juiced up and hit Hey three and zero 389 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: without Caitlin Clark. Think about that coming up next? Yes, 390 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,119 Speaker 1: it is going on the fourth of July, and we 391 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 1: have a big football story. 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Yeah, so wait a minute, how is 410 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 1: there a big football story on July third? Well, glad 411 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,439 Speaker 1: you asked? Glad you stay. There are a couple of 412 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: inside the athletic being one of them reporting that right now, 413 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: as things stand, the quarterback in pole position to be 414 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: the starting quarterback this fall for the Browns is Brian Side. 415 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: The quarterback in pole position. I just love getting Brian 416 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 1: Sipe in the show. 417 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 6: Uh. 418 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: The quarterback in pole position to be the starter for 419 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: the Browns this year is Kenny Pickett. Now he would 420 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 1: be the fourth guy you would have. Who's the guy 421 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 1: that's not good with Kenny Pickett? 422 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 2: No? 423 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: Apparently pole position, And according to these reports, it's because 424 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: his mastery of the offense, plus the fact that being 425 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: as as he is, he can execute some of the 426 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 1: plays and be a little bit more of a threat. Okay, 427 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 1: now I would have thought, Okay, Flacco will be the guy, 428 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: Shador Sanders will be the second guy. And you know 429 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: this is a team they also drafted Dylan Gabriel. But 430 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: the fact that Kenny Pickett could be sorry, Super Bowl 431 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,880 Speaker 1: champion winning Kenny Pictrick could be the uh it could 432 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback for the Browns. This is absolute 433 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: doomsday for Shador Sanders. Okay, you've seen the stories the 434 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: last few days, and hey, the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL. 435 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,239 Speaker 1: I remember the CFLs middle of the season right now, 436 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: right the CFL season goes as long as the MLS. 437 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: It's like thirty seven weeks. They play seventy five games. 438 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 1: It's amazing. And they have picked up his negotiation rights 439 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: and there's been a little bit of smoke connecting. Hey, 440 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,400 Speaker 1: Shador Sanders, if he's let go by the Browns could 441 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: wind up in the CFL. If this continues on and 442 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 1: when we get to training camp, and remember, because the 443 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: CFL season goes till the end of no beginning of December. 444 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: If this goes on, guess what and Kenny Pickett stays 445 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 1: in pole position. Yeah, but wait a minute, Shaduor Sanders 446 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 1: played pretty Yes, he did well and seven on sevens 447 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 1: against the backups, but he also had those two driving 448 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 1: infractions that we told you. He can't afford to have 449 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: bad optics, and he's had bad optics. If this continues 450 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 1: into training camp and he can't make any headway, the 451 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 1: Browns will absolutely cut him and he will go to 452 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: the CFL to play like that. That's how big a 453 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: deal this is that Kenny Pickett is the guy running 454 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: number one with the Browns, Because if this was Joe Flacco, okay, 455 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: Flaco number one, clearly there's an itch to scratch with Shador. Yes, 456 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: Dylan Gabriel's taking the third round for some ridiculous reason, 457 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 1: and yeah, Pickett is. At some point, you think during 458 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,439 Speaker 1: training camp they will trade one of their quarterbacks to 459 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: a quarterback needy team and they'll recoup like a seventh 460 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,400 Speaker 1: round draft pick or something for a team who needs 461 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: a backup or a third stringer. You would see something 462 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: like that. But if Kenny Pickett wins this job, what 463 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: does that tell you about about Chador Sanders? Right, if 464 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: Flacco wins it, it's okay, Flacco will start but eventually 465 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 1: Sanders has taken over right the skill said he has, 466 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: He will step in, he'll start by October. But the 467 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,679 Speaker 1: more that Kenny Pickett runs with this job, the less 468 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:20,360 Speaker 1: important and the less piece of the pie Chador Sanders 469 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 1: has to carve out there. You can't beat out Kenny Pickett. 470 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,679 Speaker 1: I mean, come on, man, like you got to. You 471 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: gotta find your way somewhere up the depth chart, because 472 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,160 Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett being number one tells me that Chador Sanders, 473 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,120 Speaker 1: as well as he was as did in Cleveland, might 474 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,439 Speaker 1: not be nearly as close as we think he is. 475 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: So I'm looking at if we get into camp in 476 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,359 Speaker 1: a few weeks and we're talking about Hey towards the 477 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: end of July, and the first couple of weeks go 478 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: and things aren't great, or Shadoor Sanders gets kind of 479 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 1: itchy as far as Hey his status with the team, 480 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: and and we want to know before we come to 481 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 1: training camp, what the job, what the situation is going 482 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: to be in the Browns tell him, Hey, Kenny's our 483 00:24:57,359 --> 00:24:59,400 Speaker 1: number one right now. If we had to say you'd 484 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: be our third ques quarterback, then shoud Or Sander's gonna 485 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: say give me my release so I can go play 486 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: in the CFL, and we will see him in the 487 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: CFL before we see him in the NFL, because he's 488 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: got to go somewhere to play. He's got to be 489 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: able to remake his image and get the optics better 490 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 1: on him where hey, we can trust him coming in 491 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: to be a part of our future. He's got to 492 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: get on the field and play. And he knows if 493 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,680 Speaker 1: I'm stuck as the third string quarterback in Cleveland, I'm 494 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: not seeing the field. I'm not gonna count on injuries 495 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 1: that's gonna get me. Oh, I've gotta get on the field, 496 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 1: because yes, guys get hurt every year, but you have 497 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: You can't sit here and say I'm a third string quarterback. 498 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna play. He's got to get out there and play. 499 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 1: Guy that comes in it doesn't play his first year 500 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: is not suddenly gonna be Hey, the shiny new toy 501 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 1: we're dusting off six months from now. So he knows 502 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go someplace. This could even happen 503 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: before they get to training camp if he doesn't like 504 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:48,479 Speaker 1: where his standing is with the Browns. 505 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 3: I enjoy the chaos of it all because once again 506 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 3: we pull back, you know, like an onion and all 507 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,639 Speaker 3: our layers. You know, the further down you get, the 508 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 3: more it it staks. Your favorite line is that we 509 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 3: go back towards the draft process and trying to decipher 510 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,399 Speaker 3: what's noise what's hate, right, because that became the great word, 511 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 3: going back to the Caitlin Clark stuff and entitlement and 512 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 3: all of these things. How much people were mad at 513 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 3: his daddy for trying to own the process, how much 514 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,560 Speaker 3: of the direction, How much do you take away from 515 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 3: what came out of the Giant's visit, How much was real? 516 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 3: How much was imagined there? Brian Dable pretty much just 517 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 3: said it's done, it's overleave me alone, but didn't categorically 518 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 3: deny anything in the process of whether Schador was disinterested 519 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 3: or failed in any of the whiteboard or any of 520 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,439 Speaker 3: the other questioning that they had. So you're trying to 521 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 3: parse through that versus what you watched on tape. How 522 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 3: great was he against a mediocre schedule, the win percentage, 523 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,360 Speaker 3: having Travis Hunter where he could just throw it up 524 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:06,400 Speaker 3: to go get it. He had a couple of other 525 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 3: wide receivers, right Burden and a couple others that performed 526 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 3: really well got drafted, so, you know, trying to parse 527 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 3: through all of that. And then you got a guy 528 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,479 Speaker 3: like Kenny Pickett, thirty career games that he's played, sixty 529 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 3: two and a half percent completion percentage, but playing for 530 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 3: a team that we've laughed at the Pittsburgh offense for years. 531 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 3: So was it the offense and what they were trying 532 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 3: to put forward versus the player that Kenny Pickett was. 533 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 3: Did they get overdrafted? You don't know, because did you 534 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 3: trust anybody that was he was running out for in 535 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 3: those scenarios? No, in Philadelphia, he was basically a mop 536 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 3: up guy. And so now he goes to Stefanski and 537 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 3: maybe there's something still to be unleased of this guy. 538 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 3: And I say that, you know, half serious, half I 539 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 3: don't know. I don't know. Also, people were trying to 540 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 3: tell me how great sho Door Sanders was a couple 541 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 3: of weeks ago when it was seven on seven against backups, right, 542 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 3: because he was thrown against the number twos the entire time. 543 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,880 Speaker 3: Yet I was supposed to believe, see he can really 544 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 3: sling it. Yeah, all these guys could throw the ball far. 545 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 3: Oh look at that deep ball that he hit down here. 546 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, boy, that's gonna back up turner back 547 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 3: cornerback who got turned around and he just threw it up. 548 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: Okay, great, hey, coach, good coach. When the season starts, 549 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: do we wear pads? 550 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 3: Yeah? 551 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: Oh, that's gonna make it more down. And will the 552 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 1: defenders try to hit me? Yeah, they're gonna kicked my 553 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: ass at Colorado for two Yeah, that's gonna happen here. 554 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, that's gonna Well, that's gonna change. 555 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 3: Thomas playing for us. 556 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, coach, that's gonna change things for me. Yeah you 557 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: think a little bit. That's absolutely gonna do that. 558 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 3: Joe Thomas. He we can put him, put his bust 559 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 3: away for a couple of years and allow him to 560 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 3: come back, right, m man. 561 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: But I'm telling you this is a this is a 562 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 1: huge This could doom should Sanders in Cleveland? It really, 563 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: it really can. I mean, I think this is this 564 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,840 Speaker 1: is the more interesting it goes that way, the more 565 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: it failed. I can't believe. I can see where he 566 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: might not even make it to August. Really, he might 567 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: not even make it to August with the team. Because 568 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,360 Speaker 1: you tell me what you would do if Okay, going 569 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 1: in here, Hey, we have an off for you. You 570 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 1: can come play for us, right because Chad Kelly is 571 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: the the CFL MVP. But he's out for another few weeks. 572 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: He's got a toe injury, and he got hurt at 573 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: the end of last year too, and you know, like 574 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: I said, the season is like twenty five weeks long, 575 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 1: so he's gonna be out for another few months. So 576 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 1: but he's gonna come back at some point. If you're 577 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: Sad Or Sanders, you want to get back in and 578 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 1: play as much as you can before Chad Kelly does return, 579 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: because maybe you just have to go for a couple 580 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: of months. Hey boy, he lit up the CFL for uh, 581 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 1: you know, in August, in September, Hey, guess what, We're 582 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: gonna sign him. He's gonna come in and be our 583 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 1: second string quarterback because we have a bridge guy right now, 584 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 1: and then next year he'll compete for the number one 585 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 1: job on our team. Like that might be the best 586 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: path for Shador Sanders to actually get to the NFL. 587 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: Might be the Sad go to the CFL play a 588 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: few months, then I can leave and a team will 589 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: sign me and say, listen, learn the offense. Staying right here, 590 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 1: staying behind us. We have a bridge guy right now, 591 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,239 Speaker 1: but hey, don't worry about it. Next year you come in, 592 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: you could be our guy, right like, maybe comes into 593 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: the Rams and the Rams Salvey, you know what we're 594 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: gonna I really like you, Sean mcvass do everything you 595 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: can come in here. Yeah, you know, Matthew's probably in 596 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: his last year. You know, let's come out and do this. 597 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: Let's come out like there's teams where that can happen, 598 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: and that might be his best path to the NFL. 599 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: It's crazy, but it could almost be over before August 600 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 1: gets here. 601 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 3: You sound like you're being affected by all our Laker 602 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 3: fan friends in our private lives and who wander around 603 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 3: the Fox Sports radio studios whenever it comes to that 604 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 3: guy's a future Dodger, that guy's a future Laker. You 605 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 3: keep trying to get every football player to the Sean 606 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 3: McVay world to fix him. 607 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: What quarterback doesn't want to go play for Sean McVay. 608 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 3: What you're always trying to talk him into a Ram. 609 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 3: Not everybody can play for the Rams, Smith, Not everybody 610 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 3: gets to go to the Sean McVay house and style 611 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 3: and then go over to training camp in Hawaii. 612 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,840 Speaker 1: Not everybody gets that luxury exit out about a Fresca 613 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: exit swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best 614 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,719 Speaker 1: friend Mike harmon time not to find out what's trending 615 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: in the wide world of sports from someone who's been 616 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: called the Sean McVay of Fox Sports Radio. She walks 617 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: around the hallways yelling, run it back, run it back. 618 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: It's Brianna Murro with what's trending? What do you got? 619 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 6: Bre I wish I was cool like Sean McVay and 620 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 6: I had a hot wife and drink rose, Like how 621 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 6: cool would that be? 622 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I don't know about the other stuff, but 623 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 1: you can drink rose right away. I definitely can drink 624 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: drinks rose before every. 625 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:48,920 Speaker 6: Show, allegedly, but we don't know for sure. Right and 626 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 6: he never shares with me though. 627 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 3: I think he's, well, you do well, okay, So he 628 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 3: doesn't get if I had it, I would. Okay, that's true. 629 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 3: You guys. You're making it out like I would shun her. 630 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,479 Speaker 1: Anyboddy brings merlow, I am blank and leave it. 631 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 3: Well, that's the other thing. We'd go a little bougi here. 632 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 6: I'm more of a white wine girl. But it's fine, 633 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,160 Speaker 6: okay already. So somebody who won't be drinking white wine 634 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 6: is Maximuncy as he suffered a bone bruise and Wednesday's 635 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 6: game after and just like before that, the Dodgers beat 636 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 6: the White Sox six to two. The Angels beat the 637 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 6: Braves five to one. Zach Nato finished a triple shy 638 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 6: of the cycle. Toronto is in first place in the 639 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 6: Al East for the first time in July since twenty sixteen. 640 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:39,960 Speaker 6: So that's just wild to know. 641 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,160 Speaker 1: They broke my dad's heart. My dad is so mad 642 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:44,720 Speaker 1: right now. 643 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 6: They topped the Yankees eight to five. The Nationals dominated 644 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 6: the Tigers eleven to seven as James Wood had a 645 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 6: career high five hits. He also announced earlier today he'll 646 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 6: be participating in the home run derby. The Cubs beat 647 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 6: the Guardians one to zero and ten innings. Guardians are 648 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 6: arding pitcher Luis Ortiz has been placed on pay leave 649 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 6: over a reported MLV investigation into gambling. A betting integrity 650 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,520 Speaker 6: firm flagged two individual pitches in the month of June 651 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 6: from Ortiz, hang. 652 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: On, now I know you're really good friends with Manzi Blago, 653 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 1: so I know how much she bets. Did she bet 654 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: on either of those pitches? 655 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 6: You know, we kind of talked about it, but I 656 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 6: think it was only like one of those games. I 657 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 6: don't think it was the other games. 658 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: Only one of them, only one of them. Then the 659 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 1: heat got too bad and I had to back away. 660 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: Exactly as soon as he threw. 661 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,560 Speaker 3: That fifty one foot I knew it was on. 662 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 6: You know, she was really heavy into the Malik Beasley 663 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 6: like those games, those those prop bets. 664 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,840 Speaker 3: That lay watching. 665 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 1: Oh, that was so bad that got to hit the 666 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,760 Speaker 1: first batter. If the fix is on, anybody next, mister 667 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 1: rastein to this, I come back and. 668 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:56,160 Speaker 6: See you exactly. 669 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 2: So yeah. 670 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 6: So that's about it, guys, back to you, all. 671 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 1: Right, thank you very much for enjoy the night. Jason 672 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 1: Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. 673 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 1: Coming up next. Yes, so far NBA free agency has 674 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: been kind of However, that doesn't mean there's not something 675 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 1: incredibly great to look forward to coming up now in 676 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: the NBA offseason. What is it? We'll tell you next 677 00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,280 Speaker 1: right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. 678 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 679 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,320 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 680 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:31,799 Speaker 2: pm Pacific. 681 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:34,880 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best 682 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:39,280 Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Remember eighty hot dogs. I'm going eighty 683 00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:43,560 Speaker 1: hot dogs for Joey Nut tomorrow. Okay, Francesa, can't count that, Nata, 684 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,440 Speaker 1: but I'm going eighty. 685 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 3: Remember the over under is at seventy one and a 686 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 3: half eighty, and then he got prop BET's margins of victory. 687 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 3: Or if you want to go for the long shot 688 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 3: that somehow Joey Jestnut has a cramp or something that 689 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:05,319 Speaker 3: precludes him from finishing, then you can get cute and 690 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 3: your exotics. 691 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,080 Speaker 1: There she swam by me, she got a cramp. Haap. 692 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 1: I just say it's a twenty five hot dog spread, right, 693 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,920 Speaker 1: he's favored by twenty five hot dogs to win. 694 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,080 Speaker 3: Well, you can get plus four fifty at a margin 695 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:18,439 Speaker 3: of victory. 696 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: Now do I get? Do I get the field at 697 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:22,239 Speaker 1: plus twenty five? 698 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 3: I do? 699 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 1: Okay, But do I get the whole field at plus 700 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: twenty five hot dogs? 701 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:26,919 Speaker 3: No? 702 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,759 Speaker 1: Oh? Well, you know, I mean anybody do I get? 703 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,839 Speaker 1: I get anybody like I don't have to say he's 704 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 1: got to beat Matt Stoney. I get any whoever finishes second, 705 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: I get twenty five hot dogs. 706 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't even think Matt Stoney is a thing anymore. 707 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I'm just I'm just throwing guys out there. 708 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,280 Speaker 1: I'm not I know, it's not Kobayashi. I'm just throwing 709 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,040 Speaker 1: guys out there, Like what I whoever finishes seper and. 710 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,319 Speaker 3: You got Hendrickson, and you got all these guys. So 711 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 3: your twenty plus margin of victory, you were getting plus 712 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 3: I think it was plus four fifty and then you 713 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,279 Speaker 3: have the twenty five or more. That's where we were 714 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,239 Speaker 3: starting to get into. You know, that was fifteen to one. 715 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:07,440 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good. 716 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,600 Speaker 3: So if you think he's gonna win my twenty five plus, 717 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,719 Speaker 3: So if you go to his record seventy six last year, 718 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 3: the nearest competitor, the guy that won while he went 719 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 3: and did his competition with Kobayashi eight fifty eight. 720 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: Now, the other thing we're looking at right as we 721 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,240 Speaker 1: get here, think about those numbers for tomorrow pro session. 722 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:29,759 Speaker 3: There no question about it. 723 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,400 Speaker 1: Look, the first week of NBA free agency sort of 724 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,920 Speaker 1: been Look, I can't even I can't even sit here 725 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:40,080 Speaker 1: and say, oh my goodness, what an incredible frenzy. How 726 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,920 Speaker 1: crazy about Now? The biggest name to change teams is 727 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,879 Speaker 1: Miles Turner. Okay, I get, Look, big money is doled out. 728 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: I get. It's what NBA free agency is there for. 729 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 1: The league wants teams to be able to keep their players. Right, 730 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,399 Speaker 1: it's what it's there for. But you don't sit here 731 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 1: and try to, you know, sell me a bill of 732 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,279 Speaker 1: goods that. Oh, it's been an unbelievable free agency at all? 733 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,960 Speaker 1: What an incredible Yeah, Miles Turner going to the Okay, Yes, 734 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 1: the Pacers are upset. It's a big right. This is 735 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,440 Speaker 1: not a move that is going to tip the scales 736 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,000 Speaker 1: and suddenly turn the Bucks into a winning team. Now, 737 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 1: the big thing of this is, Okay, is Miles Turner 738 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 1: enough to convince Giannis to stay. The moves that are 739 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,000 Speaker 1: made now play into what is going to be really 740 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,920 Speaker 1: good because we have Look, it's been a jag kind 741 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:23,359 Speaker 1: of of free agency so far. Right, Yes, a lot 742 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 1: of a lot of signings, but it doesn't mean that 743 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: it's been stuff that's been really big. Again, the biggest 744 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,799 Speaker 1: free agent move, I've yet to see it, right, I've 745 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,600 Speaker 1: yet to see one move that's okay, or two moves Hey, 746 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,319 Speaker 1: this is gonna get this team all the way up here, right. 747 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 1: But I will say this, What is happening now is 748 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 1: we are gonna get to what could be an absolutely 749 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:49,799 Speaker 1: insane trade period in the NBA because it's done differently now. 750 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,239 Speaker 1: Teams no longer get to free agency. Okay, We're gonna 751 00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,239 Speaker 1: make some moves, bring in some players, then fill out 752 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,880 Speaker 1: the roster right now. How it's done is every every 753 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,319 Speaker 1: star player before they give them okay to where they 754 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,000 Speaker 1: want to go play, wants to see, hey, if is 755 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,799 Speaker 1: the team I'm going to Are they ready to win? 756 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,279 Speaker 1: Are they ready to you know, to achieve? Because I 757 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,400 Speaker 1: don't want to go there where. Yeah, our plan is 758 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,719 Speaker 1: to get you and then you and then somebody. No, 759 00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 1: it doesn't work anymore, right because you see, teams can't 760 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,680 Speaker 1: can't do that. So what's happening now is, hey, everybody's 761 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,160 Speaker 1: getting into their spot. They're signing their players. So now 762 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,440 Speaker 1: when the when the that as the first wave of 763 00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,000 Speaker 1: free agency is ending, teams are now sitting around and 764 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,239 Speaker 1: looking at their stars and saying, all right, now, can 765 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,600 Speaker 1: we go out and get Yannis? Can we go out 766 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:37,720 Speaker 1: and get Karl Anthony Towns or Michal Bridges, Jalen Brown, Zion, 767 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,200 Speaker 1: John Morant, who had to answer trade rumors the other day, Lebron, 768 00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,200 Speaker 1: if the Lakers are daring him to ask for a trade, 769 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,280 Speaker 1: now is when things are gonna get really fun, because 770 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,759 Speaker 1: this is when the stars get involved. If Lebron is 771 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,239 Speaker 1: gonna get traded, if Yannis is gonna get traded, any 772 00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,560 Speaker 1: of these guys. Okay, hey, I want to go to 773 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,920 Speaker 1: a team where Okay, I'm gonna go in here this 774 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,279 Speaker 1: is their finished product. Yes, I know who's coming back 775 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,200 Speaker 1: the other way, but yes, okay, I am good going 776 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,719 Speaker 1: there because I know I can succeed there, and I 777 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,719 Speaker 1: can win there and I can do well there. So 778 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 1: this is now the new way of doing things. Okay, 779 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,520 Speaker 1: we're going to set our team up and then we're 780 00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 1: going to look to make trade instead of trying to 781 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:16,759 Speaker 1: fill our roster with a couple of guys and then 782 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,680 Speaker 1: promising stuff that we can't deliver on. NBA players are 783 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,760 Speaker 1: smarter now. They want to see how the dust settles 784 00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,000 Speaker 1: before they decide, yes, I'll go here in a trade 785 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:25,040 Speaker 1: or no, I won't go there. 786 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,799 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's where you're at in your continuum. Are you 787 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:32,479 Speaker 3: looking for the biggest salary or do you really want 788 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 3: to go win? For some guys, it's the wight. I 789 00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,880 Speaker 3: can get one more deal of three years plus. You 790 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,399 Speaker 3: got guys that are scratching their head unless they're part 791 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,560 Speaker 3: of a larger deal. Like Jackson. Hayes goes back to 792 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 3: the Lakers that they didn't use him in the playoffs. 793 00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:49,719 Speaker 3: Yet he goes back there, don't you raise your hand 794 00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,360 Speaker 3: and go? Nobody else of the other twenty nine teams 795 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 3: wanted you for more than a year. He had a 796 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,400 Speaker 3: lot of good defensive metrics and a bunch of other stuff. 797 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,640 Speaker 3: Yet he's standing there going, wait, I gotta come back here. 798 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,200 Speaker 3: Hey last one, Nick Weary minus one and a half 799 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:06,760 Speaker 3: hot dogs over Mickey Pseudo. 800 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,680 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I'm taking Mickey Soudo. She's I'm not 801 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:10,239 Speaker 1: going there. 802 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,919 Speaker 3: She's the record holder taking them in. I'm going taking 803 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:13,359 Speaker 3: him down. 804 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,520 Speaker 1: I'm going big right there, going with Mickey. So you go, 805 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:18,959 Speaker 1: Happy fourth, buddy, exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. 806 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,480 Speaker 1: Happy fourth, Right back at you, my buddy. Coming up next, 807 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,480 Speaker 1: It's The Plank Show. This is Fox Sports Radio.