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 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Fox Sports 6 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: Radio dot com, or stream us live every night on 7 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome inside Final Hour tonight to Jason Smith Show 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon. Tony, gotta got that 11 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 1: T shirt? Mucho, hobo? 12 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 3: Did you like the logos? 13 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: I said, yes, logo looks great. Which one did you like? Boy? 14 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:47,760 Speaker 1: I like them both. Let me I'll pick out the 15 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 1: one I like the most. Now, I like the one 16 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: with the to the guy with us. I like the 17 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: one with the not strong not strong muscles. 18 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 3: You don't like the strong man? 19 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, not not the strong man. 20 00:00:58,320 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 2: That's awesome. 21 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: The puff that's awesome, but that's not what like? Why 22 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,839 Speaker 1: if the guy's that buffy? Because it's yeah, well. 23 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 3: I'm not quite a lucha door, but has that power. 24 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: I didn't think about that that now, I didn't think 25 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: about that. That is a good Jo Hoobo. I didn't 26 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: think about that. You know what. That's like a good 27 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: logo for the back of the T shirt maybe because 28 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: we have you have the face in the o and 29 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 1: then like on the back of that. But I have 30 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: Mucho Hobo's pretty good. There you go, And you bought 31 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: the domain to Mucho hobo dot com to really do that. 32 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, hey man, I'm pot committed. Let's go. 33 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: Really, I didn't see god Muccho build it. But yeah, 34 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: hey go mucho. We're under construction. Please for it updates. 35 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 3: That's it, Ucho. 36 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:54,279 Speaker 1: Hobo dot that's a lot of o's Mucho Hobo. Okay, 37 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: we'll see if Mucho hobo dot com works. I think 38 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: it would work for one of those simple sites that 39 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 1: that says like, did did Ohio State beat Michigan today? No, 40 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: this makes it, you know, three four and seventy four 41 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: days since Ohio State beat Michigan something like that. I 42 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: like the Muccho Hobo be be in that kind of site. 43 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 3: This might be the encapsulated rundown of what we do 44 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 3: each show, right each segment, so I can then point 45 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 3: back to the iHeartRadio app so you can download the podcast. 46 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: Maybe makes it a studio Ghibli Mucho, So we could 47 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:26,639 Speaker 1: do that too. 48 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 3: Maybe could we could do like different car animation styles 49 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 3: in Mucho Hobo? 50 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: Okay, now, hey, uh with this quick NFL storre. We 51 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: talked about the college football play a few minutes ago. Uh, 52 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: this quick before we get into a rivalry that I 53 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: don't think we're going to have this year that we 54 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: were all banking on having all the big change in 55 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:49,679 Speaker 1: the NFL yesterday. And look, obviously the Nicks and the 56 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: Pacers game one took over for ridiculously bad reasons. But 57 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: you know, we talked a lot about the Tush push 58 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: today and how really the NFL has to understand their 59 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: galvanized the Eagles with this. It's giving them something to 60 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: rally around. It's making them stronger. I mean, it's it's 61 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: really I mean, just let it go. 62 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 3: Let the anti kryptonitis what you're saying, Yeah. 63 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: Like, let it go. Every team has something they ray. 64 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: All winning teams have stuff they rally around. There's things 65 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: they do, and when you have that special extra something, 66 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: it helps. And you know, we talked about OMG with 67 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: the Mets last year. We talked about when your White 68 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: Sox won, it was it was don't stop believing all 69 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: these teams have that crazy. When the Blues won the 70 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,680 Speaker 1: Stanley Cup, that was Gloria and a Tea. A local 71 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: radio station in Saint Louis played Gloria for twenty four 72 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: hours the day after the Blues won the Cup, Like 73 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: you need stuff like that. All you're doing with this 74 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: whole band, the Tushbush band, the Tushbush is you're feeding 75 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: that fire to the Eagles. And it's not like the 76 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: tush pushes a play that. Hey, they run it all 77 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: the time, and they make it all No, two years 78 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: ago somewhat unstoppable, last year not nearly as much. You 79 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: can stop it. And it's something that you need fourth 80 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: in the yard or less than the yard. It's not like, hey, 81 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: every third and three were converted, right, It's it's not 82 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: that big a deal. It's it's it's it's overblown. The 83 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: story was overblown from the beginning. Too much attention was 84 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: spent on it. Now the NFL should realize all we're 85 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: doing is empowering the Eagles with something to rally around. 86 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 1: It's just walk away from it, right, just walk away. 87 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 3: Well, but just keep going back to the idea though 88 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 3: that part of it is. It's the unstoppable play, and 89 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 3: it's non football. It's not aesthetically pleasing some of those 90 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 3: arguments that have come to Eventually we'll have all sorts 91 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 3: of health things like you know what, I was under 92 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 3: the pile and uh, you know I had problems there 93 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 3: after some folk was there was reports there was one 94 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 3: ownership group trying to claim that's why Kelsey had to retire. 95 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 3: Not hey, I made a lot of money, I had 96 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 3: a good run, I won a super Bowl. See you later. 97 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 3: But but all of that to say, it's like, do 98 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,799 Speaker 3: we now start taking everything? You know, a halfback dive 99 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 3: now it's not sexy. I mean, the guy made break 100 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,280 Speaker 3: a tackle, but most of the time he falls down 101 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 3: at the line of scrimmage after a game of one 102 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 3: or two. So is that gone? Due may come out 103 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 3: what are we doing? 104 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: I know? But the other thing that came out of 105 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: yesterday that's gonna be a bigger deal, okay, is they 106 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: have now changed the on sidekick. Right now, Now you 107 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: can do it anytime in a game, but you have 108 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 1: to say when you're gonna do it. So okay, not 109 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: really helping because the whole part of the on side 110 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 1: kick is the surprise. Obviously there's the end of the 111 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: game on sidekick, but the surprise, right, but now you can't. Hey, 112 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: guess what, We're gonna surprise you with an on side kick, 113 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: so you have to say it. But at least it 114 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: allows you to do the on sidekick whenever you want to. 115 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: But I mean, who's gonna take advantage of that, because 116 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: again it's about the surprise. But the big change is 117 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: now players on the team are allowed to line up 118 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: a yard closer to the football. And think about all 119 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: the on side kicks where you see, oh wow, a 120 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,040 Speaker 1: clean play was made by a guy catching it and 121 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: the defender just needed another yard to get there, or 122 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: a yard and a half to get there where he 123 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: could have stuck out his hand, could have got the ball, 124 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 1: could have laid a hit on the guy. I know 125 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 1: a yard doesn't seem like it's a big deal, but 126 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: the NFL wants the on sidekick to become a play 127 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: right when you're down to under eight percent overall and 128 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: on side kick, it needs to change now. In its hey, 129 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: at its best, the on side kick was about somewhere 130 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 1: between fifteen and twenty percent. And I'll tell you moving 131 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: moving a yard closer to the ball. Letting the kicking 132 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: team move a yard closer. That's gonna get this up 133 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: from eight percent to fifteen to twenty percent again, because 134 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: I've met so many plays are just that close where 135 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 1: it's a yard's that's one step from a player to 136 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: hitting another player, and it's a you know, it's it's 137 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 1: that close when players, when kickers can get the ball 138 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:36,839 Speaker 1: up high enough in the air, you're getting them a 139 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: yard closer. They are there just that much quicker, and 140 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: that can be all the difference. Not that suddenly you're 141 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: gonna see it's gonna be fifty seventy five percent, but 142 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 1: it will get the on side kick back to between 143 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: fifteen and twenty percent, where it becomes a play where okay, 144 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: hey the on side kick, Hey we have a one 145 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: in five chance at okay, that's better than one to 146 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: twelve chance. You're won in fourteen chance. So that's kind 147 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 1: of where you want it to be. It will get 148 00:06:57,720 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 1: there this year. Yeah. 149 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,719 Speaker 3: I mean, I still like the other thing of hey, 150 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 3: you got a fourth and fifteen, you really want to 151 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 3: gamble that you're gonna get the fifteen, have at it, 152 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 3: But that that's off to the side as far as 153 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 3: this play goes, I still hate the one, two, three four. 154 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 3: I declare a thumb war element of it where I 155 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 3: have to declare it. 156 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:16,559 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do here? 157 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 3: Are you gonna have a regular kickoff? You're gonna go onside? 158 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 3: Walk up? I think we're gonna do the onside? 159 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: Yeah? 160 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 3: No, I that's just dopey. There should still be what if. 161 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: He let the kicker when he started running, he had 162 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: to say what he was doing. 163 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 3: He's biked up and it's over the loud speaker. I mean, like, 164 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 3: get they already licensed James Earl Jones' voice for eternity, 165 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 3: so maybe he sub license in here. So the kicker 166 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 3: now has the gravity of Darth Vader. 167 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: I'm talking deep. 168 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 3: Kick here is Wow. He really slowed up his approach. 169 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: We used to do that like that. 170 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 3: Why do I have to declare right before I kick? 171 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: Yeah? When when we played football on the street, when 172 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: we played two hand touch like it would always get 173 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: to fourth down and and the minute the third down 174 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: was over? Who if if the defense would say signals 175 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: on meant that whatever you decided to do on offense, 176 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: you you had to do it. Like if you said oka, 177 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: you got to make a sense, say we're going for 178 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: it or we're kicking. Right, If you said signals on 179 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: before they could say signals off, then they they they 180 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: had to do what they said. But if signals were off, 181 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: they could line up for the play and either go 182 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: for it or punt. And then that was that. That 183 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: was like a thing like signals. I said signals off 184 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: before you said signals no, I said signals on. It 185 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: went on, and then you said off on and off, 186 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: like I would like to do that at the end 187 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 1: of games. Let me take me back to when I 188 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: was seven eight years old playing in the streets. 189 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 3: All of those things, right, and then we have what 190 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 3: a designated quarterback for both teams. If you official quarterback sucks, yeah, 191 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 3: official quarterback. He's official quarterback. It's like no, but we 192 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 3: drafted and we're paying him. It doesn't matter. Our guys 193 00:08:58,480 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 3: and we need a chance. 194 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 1: We have Josh Allen playing for both teams because I 195 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: got justin bleeping fields. Come on, man, hey, hey, hey, you. 196 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 3: Don't go after my guy. 197 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: All right. 198 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 3: He used to be my guy. Now he's your guy. Uh. 199 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: We'll have more on the thunder Wind over the Timberwolves 200 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,599 Speaker 1: Tonight one eighteen one oh three coming up in a 201 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: few minutes, because a real you know, curious glass half full, 202 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,199 Speaker 1: glass half empty when it comes to the Julius Randall experience. 203 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: But the Caitlyn Clark Angel Reese debate the last few 204 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 1: days has really sent it around race and what may 205 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: or may not have been said Angel Reese not doing 206 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,719 Speaker 1: her best and trying to tamp things down by retweeting 207 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 1: something that's someone put up, reposting something on TikTok that 208 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: was against Caitlin Clark. It's like, what are we doing? 209 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: Come on, what are you doing? But if you want 210 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: to take this because I love this, I love the 211 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: idea that let's take these these conversations need to come 212 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:51,319 Speaker 1: to the court, right because I said it the other night, 213 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: the last in the w wants is to have the 214 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark Angel Reese conversation become about race. And I 215 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: know there's nothing you can do about it on social media, 216 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: but you gotta be a to take care of this 217 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: where this is not a thing where you focus on 218 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: the basketball. Well, the good news is that now hey, 219 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: you know what you want to focus on the basketball, 220 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: we can do it. The Fever Sky rivalry has already 221 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:19,199 Speaker 1: reached Yankee, Red Sox, Dodgers, Padres, Alabama, Auburn type of 222 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: hype in just a year because of the sharedness that 223 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 1: Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese have had going back to college, 224 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: the championship into the W last year, all their games 225 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: on TV a really big deal. But I don't know 226 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: that we're gonna get that on court rivalry this year. 227 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: All that. Look, the W's got a lot wrapped up 228 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: in the Fever and the Sky, and man, I'll tell you, 229 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: the Sky have just looked absolutely terrible in their first 230 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: two games. First they get beat by the Fever ninety 231 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: three p. Fifty eight. Right, you lose by thirty five. 232 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: You're opening game to Indiana and Caitlyn Clark has a 233 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: triple double and things aren't even to where you thought 234 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: they would be. Now, you may change in the offseason. 235 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: You know, you replaced Tretha Weatherspoon, you made some moves, 236 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 1: you got better defensively, brought in Courtney van der Slute, Right, okay, 237 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: but you didn't really get better. Kennedy Carter's not playing. 238 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: People on Twitter want Kennedy want the Sky to drive 239 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: down and pick up Kennedy Carter and bring her back. 240 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:17,960 Speaker 1: We don't care what the locker room was all about. 241 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: We need somebody that could score. Yeah, you kind of 242 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: do right. The Sky said after opening game against the 243 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: against the Fever, was this game's not going to define 244 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: our season. Well, tonight they play at home against the Liberty, 245 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: and look, Liberty are the champs, so you get they're 246 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: playing well, but they lose again by twenty five, and 247 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: they're not even competitive in this game. And what stands 248 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: for basically Angel Reese and the Sky is a snippet 249 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,439 Speaker 1: from this game in which in the first half Angel 250 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:53,200 Speaker 1: Reese nails five offensive rebounds on the same possession and 251 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: misses four times and gets her offensive rebound every time. 252 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:59,960 Speaker 1: It's insane. It's all that she was. They said about 253 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 1: last Well, when you rebound all your own misses because 254 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: you're not good offensively, they're okay, yeah, okay, I get 255 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: it. It was kind of a fun thing to say because 256 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: she had some time where you know, she's not a 257 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: great offensive player, right, she's Rodman, right, that's what she is. 258 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: But watching the sequence tonight where she gets an offensive rebound, 259 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: goes up and misses because she's got two and three 260 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: players below kick the ball out when you come up 261 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 1: with that rebound, right, But no, she goes up and misses, 262 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: gets her own offensive rebound because it's she misses under 263 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,600 Speaker 1: the basket, grabs it, goes up again and misses, gets 264 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: the rebound again, which is great, goes up and gets blocked, 265 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 1: grabs it again and goes up again. She's one on 266 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: three what are you doing? And goes up and gets 267 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: blocked a four second time, five offensive rebounds and four shots, 268 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: two blocked and two misses before she finally kicks it out. 269 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 3: That is fifteen seconds from hell. Is like play by 270 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 3: play then, and that is. 271 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 1: The fifteen seconds that defines Angel reaches A player finally 272 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: finds the sky, season finally gets it back out. 273 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,240 Speaker 3: Nurse misses the three point shot, Natasha Cloud rebounds, and 274 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 3: ian Escu then with a pull up jumper. 275 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: I mean it's it's really it's it's it's stunning. And 276 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,840 Speaker 1: this is right off the jump. This is like early 277 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: part of the first quarter of this game. 278 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, they were three minutes into the game. 279 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 1: What is what is happening here? Like again, this play 280 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: stands for the sky, it stands for Reese and and 281 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 1: are rebounding prowess and and offensive game that's just not there, 282 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: and the Sky losing by thirty three and twenty five 283 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: their first two games. It just might not be there 284 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: on the court for them this year. And you know, 285 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: the changes they made didn't really get better. You know, 286 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: I know they're trying to reset, and you know we 287 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 1: were resetting a culture and bringing play. Okay, I understand that, 288 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: but wow, man, I mean, how do you get excited 289 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 1: for the season when these are your first two games, 290 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: your biggest rival in the champs. You're saying, Hey, we 291 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: can show you the growth we had from last year, 292 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 1: and instead, Nope, we don't. We look like we're further 293 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: away from these teams. We've never been further away from 294 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: the top of the standings than we are right now. 295 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, you look at Reese and Cardos, so being the 296 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 3: base you bring in Van lit right, all sorts of 297 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:10,199 Speaker 3: goodwill from her time in college. Obviously long remembered for 298 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 3: that exchange and the Michael Jordan like shoulder shrug, but 299 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 3: because she couldn't have an answer as opposed to Jordan 300 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 3: hitting threes when she was trying to guard Caitlin Clark 301 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 3: a couple of years ago. But she comes off the 302 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 3: bench fifteen minutes, she goes over the field and it 303 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 3: just got out of sorts when you know, for the 304 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 3: final stat line, Angel Reese finishes with two points over 305 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 3: eight from the field with those twelve rebounds, half of 306 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 3: which came on that sequence of her own. It was 307 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 3: on like she was doing drills in that fifteen seconds. 308 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 3: All right, Cardio, put it up off the glass, but 309 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 3: all right, we're gonna put a body up there so 310 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 3: that you got you know, Toddie, come on, let's go. 311 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 3: And that's really what it looked like. No, it was 312 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 3: a disastrous effort. And you see the effort of what 313 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 3: the liberty put to bring four in an off night 314 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 3: for Caitlin Clark and the fever because the two are 315 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 3: inextricably linked forever that she goes from three point range. 316 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 3: But they still have enough depth because they did retool 317 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 3: that that roster, they did bring in a new coach, 318 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 3: They did play defense and team defense down the stretch 319 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 3: to get a hard fought win on a night where 320 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 3: Clark was anything but herself. Gott in foul trouble, had 321 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 3: an exchange where she started getting into it with the 322 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 3: opponents because bodying up playing twice in the same week, 323 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 3: but just a great study in contrast of. 324 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: It didn't make the threeers? 325 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 4: Right, how many games was it for her with a 326 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 4: three to one hundred and forty in a row, going 327 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 4: back to January thirteenth of twenty twenty two, when she 328 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 4: went oh for six against the boiler Makers one hundred 329 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 4: and forty straight games with at least one made three 330 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:59,000 Speaker 4: point shot including play you know all new tournament and 331 00:15:59,040 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 4: everything else. 332 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 3: She was over five tonight. 333 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: Man perduke and hang a banner for that god boiler 334 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: last time Caitlyn didn't make a three. 335 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 3: Matt Pater used that on the recruiting trail. 336 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: All not fair, not fair. 337 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 3: I just grabbed the nearest boiler Maker and just threw 338 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 3: it out there. Well, I mean, you jinxed him. Remember 339 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 3: when they were number one, we had him on. You 340 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,520 Speaker 3: washed him up real good. They went and lost their 341 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 3: next game. 342 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: We jinked. 343 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 3: Who else? 344 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 1: Did you do that too, Mike Woodson? 345 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 3: Right, yeah, that's right. Wait, we did like three or 346 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 3: four coaches and we never had another coach on. 347 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: No, college coaches are never coming spread around. 348 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 3: They put our mugshots up like we were trying to 349 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 3: you know, hey, do not let these guys do not 350 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 3: catch any of their checks. 351 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen, dumb Jason Smith, 352 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 1: Mike Carment. So yeah, maybe on the court that fever 353 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: sky rifle is gonna take a year off this year, 354 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 1: just the tried. Coming up next, one of the biggest 355 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: superstars in his sport is officially unavailable in a trade. 356 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: You just have to wait a little while and it'll happen. 357 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 1: We got that story coming up next right here, Jason 358 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: to bike Fox Sports Radio. 359 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 360 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven 361 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 362 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: Should never have told this story last night. I should have. 363 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 3: But it was a good story. It showed a lot 364 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 3: of heart. 365 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: I should have never told that story. Never. 366 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 3: It was an online therapy session. Yeah yeah, still not great, 367 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 3: Bob A day later, not great, man, Yeah, not great, 368 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 3: not great. 369 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: Here's how bad it was today for me. If I 370 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 1: told you last night, I was gonna be I'm gonna 371 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: not look at I can't look at anything with this 372 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: game today. I can't get anything with Nicks Pacers Game one. 373 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: I can't do it. There could have been an article 374 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:02,359 Speaker 1: on the Internet that said Nicks Pacers Game one recap 375 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: or Knicks Pacers Halliburton breaks down you know shot at 376 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 1: the end, Halliburton talks choke gesture, all of this stuff, 377 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 1: and it could have said, hey, Halliburton breaks down choke gesture. 378 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: Also the secret to eternal life. Just click on it. 379 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 1: And I would have said, I don't need eternal life. 380 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 1: I don't know if I have to read about that 381 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 1: shot and then at the bottom is eternal I don't 382 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 1: need it. I'll figure it out. Or you could read, 383 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: you know, here's a Halliburton, here's eight thousand words on 384 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: Halliburton's shot and reaction from around the league. And if 385 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: you get to the end and you finish reading a 386 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:43,199 Speaker 1: a a thing will appear and you're gonna take a 387 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 1: picture of it with your phone and you're going to 388 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 1: get five million dollars wired to your bank. I would say, 389 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: I don't need it. Give a five million dollars to 390 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: somebody else, you know, could have the thing on that bar, 391 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: and you'll get no, I don't need it. I wouldn't 392 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: want it. Somebody else can have it, not me. 393 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 3: Now, the thing for eternal life would that you just 394 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 3: watched that movie Krazinski's got out right. 395 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: No, I haven't yet. 396 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 3: No, it's I haven't watched it yet either. I just 397 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 3: saw it. When it comes out tomorrow. 398 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:08,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it's out this weekend. 399 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 3: I thought, yeah, yeah, it s either that or you 400 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 3: go see Stitch. 401 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 1: What about Leelo? No, it's it's a it's a spin off. 402 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: It's just or it's like Roger Waters and David Gilmore. 403 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: They don't talk anymore. Lelo and Stitch are on opposite 404 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: sides of the stage. 405 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 3: We sold all the rights as a distressed property. We 406 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,679 Speaker 3: still got half a billion dollars, but you know, hey, 407 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,399 Speaker 3: we move on. And then I think that Mission Impossible 408 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 3: movie finally comes out, right, Yes, finally. Over the press 409 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 3: tour for it. 410 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,679 Speaker 1: All, I'm so nervous about it because I bet the 411 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: stunts are amazing and they went to the wall. It's 412 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: the last one, but I got a funny feeling it's 413 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 1: gonna be just as convoluted and messy as the last one. 414 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: I really, because the last one wasn't good at all. 415 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, Dead Reckoning was just confusing and all 416 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 1: over the place, And I got a feeling that this 417 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: is what it's gonna be too, because you're gonna try 418 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 1: to bring so many people back for the last one, 419 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: it's gotta I gott it's gonna I bet. Visually it's 420 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 1: gonna be amazing, and the stunts are gonna be fantastic. 421 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: We talk about them. But the movie itself, you're gonna go, yeah, Okay, 422 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 1: I gotta see it another like three or four times. 423 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,719 Speaker 1: Really get what happened? Like, that's my fear for this. 424 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 3: I get Hayley Atwell and Hannah Watting I'm good and 425 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 3: Nick Offerman shows up. I mean, come on, do you. 426 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: Think at some point that Tom Cruise is gonna bring 427 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: Hannah wating Ham a biscuit to eat and she's gonna 428 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: eat it and she's, Oh. 429 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 3: That would be a nice little to play on things, 430 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 3: nice little twist. 431 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 1: Two big baseball stories to get to from today. The 432 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 1: first one, you know, I mean really, I say this 433 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 1: all the time. Stats sometimes, you know, can go in 434 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: one ear and out the other, so it's hard to 435 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 1: you know, you know, crush you with stats. A lot 436 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 1: of shows like to I'm like, why people are it's 437 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: so hard for everybody to pay attention to. But what's 438 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: going on right now with the Rockies. They lost today. 439 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: Thanks for not beating the Phillies once Colorado, thanks a lot. 440 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,119 Speaker 3: You really thought they were going to I thought at. 441 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: Home they could win one game, win one out of food. 442 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 3: Jay Bishd is not walking through that door. Ellis Burks 443 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,960 Speaker 3: reference for the second time this week, is not walking 444 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 3: through that door. Larry Walker's in the Hall of Fame. 445 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 3: He ain't coming back. 446 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: Mike Hampton, well, I don't know that would help him. 447 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 3: Clint Barmes is not gonna get hurt carrying deer meat 448 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 3: up the stairs again. 449 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 1: Colorado is eight and forty two. It is the worst 450 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: fifty game start in baseball history, which goes back to 451 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 1: the modern era of nineteen oh one. You have to 452 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: go back to eighteen ninety five and the Louisville Colonels, 453 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: who started seven and forty three to find a worst start. Okay, so, 454 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: worst start in MLB history since eighteen ninety five. Right, 455 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: But here's the big one. Rockies are on pace to 456 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 1: lose one hundred and thirty six games this year, which 457 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: would pass the eighteen ninety nine Cleveland Spiders. Spider expanded 458 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,680 Speaker 1: with a week left in the season because they were 459 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: so bad for the most losses by a baseball team 460 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: in history right now. Yeah, the White Sox got a 461 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,160 Speaker 1: lot of attention last year because they set the modern 462 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: era record with one hundred and twenty one. This would 463 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: blow past that. And still when you say, well, there's 464 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: still teams that were bad or no, this blows past 465 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 1: I mean the eighteen ninety nine Cleveland Spiders. Like, when 466 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: you're a sports fan growing up, you hear, yeah, worst 467 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: team ever disband at the end of the season, one 468 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four losses in one hundred and fifty 469 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: four games. The Rockies can lose more games than they did. 470 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 1: That's what they are on pace to do. Not just 471 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: past the sixty two Mets, but you're passing the eighteen 472 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: ninety nine Cleveland Spiders. Like that's you stop and go. 473 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,880 Speaker 1: We have to we have to go over some life 474 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: choices we have made here to get to this point. 475 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: We really do well. 476 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 3: We talked about organizations, lack of planning, continuity, minor league systems. 477 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 3: We had all those changes a couple of years ago. 478 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 3: As far as the minor leagues are can concerned. You 479 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 3: look at just building a staff, retaining and roster management 480 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 3: and then being willing to spend money. You're also in 481 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 3: a division that is not going to do you any favors. 482 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 3: So you don't have the schedule that you did a 483 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 3: few years back in terms of balance or whatever. It's 484 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:21,879 Speaker 3: still a daunting task and no picture except Mike Hampton 485 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 3: ever wanted to go there Wan. He got a lot 486 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 3: of money and he got to hit every fifth. 487 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: Day in Colorado. 488 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 3: So he was excited about that. And the schools were 489 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 3: good for his kids. Yeah, that's what he saw. Yeah, yeah, 490 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 3: you gotta remember this. 491 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: Go to private schools in New York. No private schools 492 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: in New York. No, no, No, didn't have the fifty 493 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: grand a year for a private school in New York 494 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: with one hundred and thirty million dollar contract. Guy, like 495 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:41,960 Speaker 1: the schools in Denver. 496 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 3: The school taxes were higher. What do you want? He 497 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 3: had more wide open spaces, starts singing the song all 498 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 3: that's say and storytime. Now, you know, every team does 499 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 3: all sorts of charitable things, you know, part of the community, 500 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 3: giveaways and days in the community. The White Sox always 501 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 3: do a garage sale, and many teams do these things 502 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 3: with proceeds, you know, to their foundation and so it's 503 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 3: old jerseys and batting helmets and autograph balls, left over bobbleheads, 504 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 3: all of those things. And they had it this weekend 505 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 3: and have yet to put much of it online, so 506 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 3: I don't get to participate. But there was a guy 507 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 3: that we know that was showing off his hull and 508 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 3: one of the things he bought it was the south 509 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 3: Side City Connect of Pedro Griffall. He's like, I had 510 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 3: to have the jersey of the losing his manager in 511 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,919 Speaker 3: baseball history, because I've got a lot of stuff in 512 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 3: the collection, a lot of jerseys I wear of guys 513 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,880 Speaker 3: that had a cup of coffee and you say, wow, 514 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 3: that guy was with the White Sox a minute, because 515 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 3: but I had to buy the Griffall and you know what, 516 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 3: only set me back fifty bucks. Fifty bucks for a 517 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 3: game warn Jersey City. Like he was just so jacked up. 518 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 3: He's showing off all this other stuff, but right buried 519 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 3: in the middle of it was his excitement of yeah, 520 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 3: because that guy was terrible. They went into a die 521 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 3: and tribe about the Rockies. But it made for a 522 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 3: comical bit to where we talked today. I mean, like 523 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 3: I did the spot in Baltimore earlier talking about expectations, 524 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 3: and one of their producers had brought up your comments 525 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 3: about the Knicks and the catastrophic loss of a night ago, 526 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 3: and I'm like, it's all about expectations now. Where the 527 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,359 Speaker 3: Rockies expected to be good? No? Were the White Sox 528 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 3: expected to be good? No? But when you're like, all right, 529 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,679 Speaker 3: we'll fight, we'll compete, and you're not even pretending to 530 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,959 Speaker 3: do that. And a third of the way through the season, 531 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 3: it's like, can we fast track any more promotional days? 532 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 3: Anybody with some type of cultural heritage or our service 533 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 3: organization that we can honor to get some asses and 534 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 3: seats with a special giveaway or drink special. That's where 535 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 3: the Rockies are already at this point in the season. 536 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 3: And it's only Memorial Day weekend. 537 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: Man, I'll tell you good luck. The Yankees come to 538 00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: town this weekend. Good luck, guys. 539 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,360 Speaker 3: I mean this is even you know, the March for Arch. 540 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 3: I mean it is nothing, man. 541 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 1: See when do you see what Aaron Judge does this 542 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: week in a course field. But look the other big 543 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: baseball story today. Things have gone really wrong for the 544 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: Pirates this year, right, Look just read the recap the 545 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 1: story on ESBN where Pittsburgh is packed a half decades 546 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: worth of public relations missteps into two months. Because yes 547 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: they have, they've already fired their manager. The one thing 548 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 1: not on the table, though, is trading Paul Skeens, right 549 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: GM Bench Sherrington said today, No, not part of the conversation. 550 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,959 Speaker 1: All they're keeping Paul Skeens. Okay, I'll tell you this 551 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 1: for now, my best of Lauris Umbridge for now, Because yes, 552 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: you want to keep Skeens because he gives you an identity. 553 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,199 Speaker 1: He's the best young player in the game, has a 554 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: lot of attention on him. At least you get relevancy, 555 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 1: you get people come in to the park at home 556 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: every fifth day when he pitches. Yeah, you want to 557 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: keep a guy like that. But he's gonna be gone 558 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: eventually because he's going to be on the Wan Soto 559 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,879 Speaker 1: where the Pittsburgh Pirates are gonna understand, we're gonna get 560 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 1: to a point where we start feeling that we know 561 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: we're not gonna have him, and we got to maximize 562 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:13,479 Speaker 1: his value. Now to trade him right now is now 563 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 1: he's got a couple more years left under control. Arbitration 564 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 1: is coming in a year. But just like with Jan Soda. Okay, 565 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: the Nationals said, when are we gonna get the most out? 566 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: They won the World Series, they got closer. Hey, they're 567 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: two three years away from Soda. We're not gonna re 568 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: sign and we don't have the money. We didn't give 569 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,639 Speaker 1: them money to Bryce Harper. We're not gonna have the 570 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 1: money for Wan Soda, which is gonna be way more money. 571 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: So let's trade him. And they found that sweet spot 572 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: to move on. They got a lot of young players 573 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,359 Speaker 1: for him. The same thing's gonna happen with the Pirates. 574 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: They're gonna get to a point where it's like, okay, now, 575 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: the longer we keep him, the less we'll get for him, 576 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: because he's closer to not being in our control. So 577 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 1: they'll find a time, maybe the next eighteen months where 578 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: they understand, Okay, we've gotten everything we can out of 579 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 1: Paul Schemes. We know when he becomes a free agent, 580 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: someone else is gonna sign him. We're not gonna give 581 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 1: him five hundred million dollars. He's gonna get the biggest 582 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 1: contract that any free agent pitcher has ever seen. So yeah, 583 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 1: we're gonna trade him. Eventually. We're not paying him. We 584 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 1: don't have the money to pay him. Right, we're still 585 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: paying out Bobby Benia for nineteen ninety two. So let 586 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 1: let's only we understand that, so there will be that 587 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,159 Speaker 1: sweet spot for them where they go, Okay, we've gotten 588 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: as much as we can out of him, and now 589 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: the longer we hold on to him, the less we'll 590 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 1: get into trade. And that's when that will happen. It's 591 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: not gonna be at the trade deadline this year, so 592 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: the trade deadline next year, but looking at maybe eighteen 593 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 1: months from now, that's gonna happen. He's going to get 594 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,199 Speaker 1: dealt like the for Pittsburgh to say this, now, I 595 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: understand what you're saying, but he's gonna get traded. It's 596 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: just a matter of time. 597 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, arbitration eligible after next year. For now, you need 598 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 3: an identity. Reynolds and and Cruz and Cabrian Hayes. Those 599 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 3: guys are not putting asses in seats. And I know 600 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 3: he's a pitcher, so you don't get a ton of run. 601 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 3: But there's the off chance that some yokels will buy 602 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 3: tickets hoping that Livy Dunn shows up and waves at 603 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 3: them or whatever else you're hoping, or promotional days you've 604 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 3: got lined up, or meet and greets or personal service contract, 605 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 3: all of those things that add up to we can't 606 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 3: trade him yet because we got people signed up. Right. 607 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 3: We talked about it a lot with the Angels and 608 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 3: revenue loss or even the Mavericks before Tada they get 609 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 3: Cooper Flag of all the money they lost and went 610 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 3: out the window. When Luka Doncicz got traded, right, there 611 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 3: were other moving parts there in terms of the finances 612 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 3: for the Pirates. Gotta believe there's a lot of the 613 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 3: same things in terms of local television, radio coverage, local advertisers, 614 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 3: in stadium advertiser, all of that stuff. That scheme's his 615 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 3: name means a lot to box office for them, even 616 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 3: though they know there's no chance in hell they're gonna 617 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 3: be able to pay him what he's worth when it 618 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 3: comes time to hit the open markets. So for now, 619 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:58,560 Speaker 3: it's enjoy him every fifth days, buy all your memorabilia, 620 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 3: get out to the ballyard and just think about what 621 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 3: might have been, and then you can start assembling that 622 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 3: murderer's row, including Benilla and Bonds and all those guys, 623 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 3: Mike Levallier, all those guys that once passed through its 624 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 3: members dray Beck. Oh sure, well that's right. 625 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: Get all those Pirates there. Remember when the Pirates were 626 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,080 Speaker 1: a destination in the lady eighties. I gotta go play 627 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. Yet nobody says that anymore. Yeah, nobody. Nice 628 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: ballpark though, great ballpark. Great ballpark, great ballpark. It is 629 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 1: uh time. How to find out what's trending in the 630 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: wide world of sports? From Monte bolagno sponsor. What do 631 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: you got for us tonight? Well, guys. 632 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 5: Game two of the Thank You of the Western Conference 633 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 5: Finals between the Thunder and the Timberwolves ended in a 634 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 5: win for Okay see shake Gildess. Alexander was presented with 635 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 5: the MVP trophy ahead of the game and then went 636 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 5: on to show why he's the MVP. Ended with thirty 637 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 5: eight points, eight assists, final score one eighteen to one 638 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 5: oh three. Jalen Williams had a double double for OKC 639 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 5: twenty six points, ten rebounds. Chett Holmgren had his own 640 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,600 Speaker 5: twenty two points. When it came to Minnesota, Anthony Edwards 641 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 5: dropped they two points and nine rebounds. Julius Randalls struggled 642 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 5: from the field, had six points, didn't play in the 643 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 5: fourth quarter. Edwards, though, is now the timberwolves new all 644 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 5: time leading score in the playoffs. Also, very early in 645 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 5: the game, Scott Boster was kind of elbowed in an 646 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 5: early jump ball by Lou Dort started, you know, bleeding everywhere. 647 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,280 Speaker 2: Is that poetic justice? 648 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 1: Because Chris Paul he got kicked in the stomach by 649 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: Julius Randall and then he got hit in the face 650 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 1: on the same ple. 651 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,880 Speaker 5: Absolutely so poetic justice because Chris Paul was in attendance. 652 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he didn't do it though, Yeah, but hey, hey, 653 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 1: why do I have champagne at my locker? Oh? It's 654 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: from Chris Paul exactly exactly. 655 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 5: The Nuggets and ar own coach David Adaman have agreed 656 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 5: on a deal to make Adamman the franchise's next head coach. 657 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 5: The NHL also had a playoff game, the East Final. 658 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 5: The Panthers scored one minute and seventeen seconds into the game, 659 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 5: never looked back. They shout out the Hurricanes five zero. 660 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 5: Florida now leads a series to zero. Let's check in 661 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 5: on baseball, where the Angels have one seven in a row. 662 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 5: After defeating the Eighties ten to five, Taylor Ward a 663 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 5: grand slam in the win, the Guardian shut out the 664 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 5: Tigers seven zero, the Brewers outscored the Pirates eight to five, 665 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 5: and the Astros top the Mariners nine to two. Hosale 666 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 5: Thuba had two homers in the win. The Nationals walked 667 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 5: it off eight to seven against the Braves and ten innings, 668 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 5: but Atlanta's Ronald Acuna Junior will be activated from the 669 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 5: injury list on Friday after following that ACL injury that 670 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 5: he sustained last season. And in the WNBA, the Fever 671 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 5: did defeat the Dream eighty one to seventy six. Caitlin 672 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 5: Clark eleven points, four rebounds, and six assists, but he 673 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 5: was he was. She was zero of five from the 674 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 5: three She had made a three in forty two consecutive games, 675 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 5: the longest streak to begin a w NBA career, and 676 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 5: didn't make one today. And the Liberty did cruise pass 677 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,640 Speaker 5: the sky no problem, ninety nine to seventy four. It's 678 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 5: been fun, guys, back to you. 679 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: Thanks so much. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the 680 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, we have some 681 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: last big thoughts on the Thunder and they're seemingly invincible. 682 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: Two nothing lead over the Minnesota Timberwolves. I will ask 683 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 1: maybe the biggest question left in the NBA playoffs, that's 684 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 1: next right here, Jason I Mike Fox Sports Radio The 685 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,000 Speaker 1: Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. 686 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:20,960 Speaker 2: Well dressed, hobo. 687 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: Uh. Look, while we're ready for some of us are ready, 688 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 1: I'm not ready for Game two between the Knicks and 689 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: the Pacers tomorrow night. The Thunder took a commanding two 690 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: nothing lead in the Western Conference Finals over the Tea 691 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 1: Wolves tonight one eighteen, one oh three, and it felt 692 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: like it was a quiet victory. Shake Gilders. Alexander had 693 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: kind of a quiet thirty eight points even though he 694 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 1: was dominant. This is and I don't mean quiet, oh, 695 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 1: I mean quiet where Hey, they were able to play 696 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 1: this good and there's still a lot of room between 697 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: their heads and the ceiling, right, Like, this is how 698 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: good they are. They have put together a perfect team. 699 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 1: You have the NBAVP, You have two young superstar players 700 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,360 Speaker 1: that are on rookie contracts. Right, you have an All 701 00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 1: NBA defensive player. You have two role players that are 702 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: the envy of everyone in the league. Right, I mean 703 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,360 Speaker 1: the Lakers fans still want alex Caruso back. You know, 704 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 1: by the way, you have as many as fifteen first 705 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,560 Speaker 1: round picks in the next seven drafts. Right, that's what 706 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,400 Speaker 1: you have done. You have put together a team that 707 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,640 Speaker 1: it should be illegal to put it together in a 708 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,840 Speaker 1: video game in dynasty mode. But this is what you 709 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,839 Speaker 1: have done. I don't know that there's a team out 710 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,680 Speaker 1: there that can give the Thunder a series. In fact, 711 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 1: if I said to you, Mike, at this point, if 712 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: I put the over under of Oklahoma City Thunder losses 713 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,040 Speaker 1: the rest of this playoffs right over under for losses 714 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: at two and a half, what are you taking because 715 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:53,160 Speaker 1: I know I'm taking the Unders. I don't know, man, Yeah, 716 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 1: I think the Unders pretty much there. Looking at series 717 00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 1: odds to finish this thing off, Scott Shapiro, our boss, 718 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,040 Speaker 1: your ears, ear muffs, ear muffs, the Thunder are minus 719 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: two thousand. That implies a ninety five percent likelihood that 720 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: they move on history Western Conference, what is it? Thirty 721 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:15,960 Speaker 1: three of thirty four, thirty four, thirty five historically up 722 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 1: two oh advance to the finals. So you know it's 723 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,320 Speaker 1: the you're saying there's a chance. 724 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 3: But on the other side, in terms of having to 725 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 3: keep your feet moving like the Knicks are dead in 726 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,560 Speaker 3: the water because these guys will just run them out 727 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:36,360 Speaker 3: at the gym right with that seven man rotation. No chance. Now, 728 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,920 Speaker 3: the Pacers could be interesting to a degree, but again, 729 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,160 Speaker 3: I think it's just too much. I would agree with 730 00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:44,359 Speaker 3: you the under two and a half. 731 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:46,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'd love 732 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 1: to see the teams, but I just don't know the 733 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,480 Speaker 1: Knicks or the Pacers can give them a series. I 734 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: just don't think they can. I mean, this'd be a 735 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,600 Speaker 1: great this is fun and entertaining, and boy is it awesome. 736 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,880 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, man, they've put together it's a 737 00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,799 Speaker 1: perfect right. You just have to sit back and just 738 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,399 Speaker 1: go I've done it. I just gotta watch him play. 739 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,440 Speaker 1: I just gotta watch them play the fun part. That's 740 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 1: all I have to do, because that's because all they're 741 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: gonna do is win. 742 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,880 Speaker 3: It is an amazing juggernaut right now. The way they're playing. 743 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,719 Speaker 3: The you know term we I think we coined it 744 00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 3: a few years ago, the Warriors and everything. Listen to 745 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,759 Speaker 3: the whole show of the podcast. We've discussed this a 746 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 3: little bit as the game was going on. That's spurt ability, right, Hey, 747 00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,480 Speaker 3: it's a five point game. We're climbing back. Nope, it's 748 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 3: twelve again. Nope, now it's nineteen. You're done. There's another three. Oh, 749 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,600 Speaker 3: and now you made another steal going back the other way. 750 00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:34,280 Speaker 3: And that's exactly what happened tonight. 751 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,319 Speaker 1: Now, part of the drama of tonight from the Tea 752 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,000 Speaker 1: Wolves side of it is at one game, after he 753 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:44,200 Speaker 1: had a first half for the Ages where Julius Randall 754 00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: had five threes, kept the Tea Wolves in it, laughing 755 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,920 Speaker 1: up and down the court. This is kind of what 756 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,440 Speaker 1: dotted his experience with the Knicks. The next game, he 757 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 1: could show up and not give you a great effort 758 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:57,600 Speaker 1: and sit on the bench. You go, what the hell 759 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 1: happened from game to game? This is the Julius Randall experience. 760 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,880 Speaker 1: He did not play in the fourth quarter tonight a 761 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,400 Speaker 1: horrendous game. I mean, ninety percent of the bets that 762 00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,239 Speaker 1: went on him tonight went for over nineteen and a 763 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:12,440 Speaker 1: half points. So, hey, congratulations. But after the game, Chris 764 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 1: Finch was asked, head coach of the t Wells, why 765 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,439 Speaker 1: didn't Julius Randall play in the fourth quarter? And here 766 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 1: was the official answer. 767 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,360 Speaker 3: Randall's limited impact carried over from the second half of 768 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 3: Game one to basically the whole night tonight. 769 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:28,520 Speaker 1: What did you see from him? 770 00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:29,720 Speaker 2: And why'd you go with Nas? 771 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,000 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean just I just thought, you know, Nas 772 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 6: has had a good game going, and just you know, 773 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 6: I just wanted to try to see if I can 774 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,560 Speaker 6: spread the floor and get some you know, quick decision 775 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,920 Speaker 6: making out there and just trying to change the complexion 776 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:46,319 Speaker 6: of the game. 777 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 3: You know. 778 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:49,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, just was a thing. 779 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:49,759 Speaker 6: Yeah. 780 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,799 Speaker 1: No, this is the Julius Randall experience that I am 781 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,720 Speaker 1: well aware of that I had so many times where 782 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,680 Speaker 1: where is he tonight? What is going on? Is he unhappy? 783 00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 1: How was he not playing? How was he go from 784 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,719 Speaker 1: the best player on the floor and then after a 785 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,520 Speaker 1: halftime you can't even put him back out there? Like 786 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 1: how does that happen? Welcome to Julius with the Julius 787 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:08,360 Speaker 1: Randall experience. 788 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,560 Speaker 3: Welcome see because Nas reed gets in the mix, I 789 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,720 Speaker 3: get to use the line from Omayer to the Afghan Whigs. 790 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,320 Speaker 3: I don't sleep because sleep is the cousin of death. 791 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,160 Speaker 3: At least that's what Nas said, owing to New York 792 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,319 Speaker 3: State of Mind by Nas. So there you go, and 793 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,160 Speaker 3: that's kind of what Julius randalled in tonight. It was 794 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,480 Speaker 3: the cousin of death because he was a non factor. 795 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,960 Speaker 1: Now I am gonna say this, maybe Julius Randall is 796 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,040 Speaker 1: still really suffering from the after effects of the Knicks loss. 797 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:37,600 Speaker 1: Last night. 798 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,759 Speaker 3: He and Dante were both struggling. 799 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,000 Speaker 1: Dante was what minus thirty five for the game tonight. 800 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,680 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that was I mean, maybe they're both tough. Hey, 801 00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:47,959 Speaker 1: they're both still nix at heart, and boy, that really 802 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 1: was tough for us. It was tough to get out 803 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:50,759 Speaker 1: here and play a day after that. 804 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,319 Speaker 3: Maybe they'll rally tomorrow. I don't know. 805 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,719 Speaker 1: I'm a rallying. That's gonna be a thing. Okay, hold 806 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:00,560 Speaker 1: on to your hats. We got aim too with the 807 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 1: Knicks and the Pacers. Tomorrow, my buddy Ben Malas next 808 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 1: Fox 809 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:10,160 Speaker 4: Mm hmm