Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

On tonight’s edition of The Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys kick things off by reacting to Joey Chestnut’s return to the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and share their predictions on how many hot dogs the 16-time champion will devour. Then, they break down Clayton Kershaw’s historic night as he reaches 3,000 career strikeouts. Plus, Jason loses his mind trying to remember a Shaboozey song! Don’t miss all that and more in The Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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(00:52):
is the way tire buying should be. Well, yeah, that's
what it was like, you know, July third, Hey, the
fourth of July tomorrow, and you know, welcome back Joey Chestnut.
But boy, today felt like a day where it's like, okay,
nobody really wants to do anything. The fourth of July
is tomorrow. It's a Friday. Let's start now, let's really
start the weekend. Now, let's speed up a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Everybody's saying, wait for it, wait for it. Maybe half day,
maybe a little longer lunch, maybe a little more time
around the water cooler, the coffee pot, or the smoke break.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
That never ends.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
All of that to say, good luck in your cars,
thanks for listening to us and letting us come along
for the ride. Channel your anger towards us for the
next four hours.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Do people still take smoke breaks? I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh, you know that there's a lot of smoking going on.
You live in California, so it's it's a different world.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Go back to the Midwest, Go walk around, Go walk
around to downtown area and tell me you're you're not
walking into a lot of plumes of smoke. Yeah, but no,
but doesn't. Don't most people vape?

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Now? Is it like smoking? Just like for the old
school smokers, like the.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Pay Yeah, there's still a lot of them out there, buddy,
and they can't retire the cost of living.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
I mean it has has kept them in the workforce,
which means more smoke.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I just I just I just know that I'm like
I know, I haven't seen people. No, even like I
go back to Detroit because you think, okay, well you
go back to Trout you'll see people smoking, Like I
even when I go back there for vacation, like, I
don't see as many people smoke as I used to.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
It's weird.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
You just blew the minds of a lot of people
right there. You don want to go back to Detroit
on vacation.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, yeah, well, because look, there's lots of casinos in Detroit,
right so obviously, I mean, if you're gambling, okay, chances
are hey, you'll be smoking too, because a man, I'm
kind of nervous. You're on the so you would think
there would be that. But I just I just don't see.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
For some folks, the the cigarettes calm down. Yeah no,
I mean right, I mean it's yang thing right of
the you're agitated, but now you got a fixation there.
So there you gonna make that jump and you start
thinking about the meaning of life as you stand there
staring at the stars and hearing people scream about about
what they just lost, or maybe there's a fight at

(02:58):
the poker table.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
I don't know, there's a lot going on.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
You you talk a lot about the meaning of How
often do you do you think about the meaning of life?

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Like you to you every day? That phrase life? Really?
Oh that sounds exhausting.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
No, not really, It's it's usually when I'm walking the
dog and and you know, I'm happy, I'm in a
good space, and it's just like, all right, why are
we here? See that's just when I'm in this moment
walking the dog right now. See, when I take the
dog for walk is when I think, Okay, what are
the Mets needs? Who do they need to bring up?
Because obviously okay, Blackbird's on the alisle now and Nunez
but he never really came back. What should they? Should

(03:32):
Sproke come up? Should they? You know, Tidwell should be
back up and singing like That's what I think of
when I go walk the dog.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Tid Well got his extension from the Cardinals. Leave him alone, okay.
Before he passed, Glenn pry took care of him.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I'm just okay, I'm just.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
I introduced you to your wife. Oh come on, Jerry,
that is not fair.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
You're gonna pay.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
But today, just to start with this before before we
get to the big event tomorrow. Today is the fortieth
anniversary of what we have talked about in the last week,
the best movie of the modern era of film, which
begins with Jaws in nineteen seventy five, that began the
modern era of movies. We have pre nineteen seventy five Jaws,
which celebrated fiftieth anniversary today.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Back to the Future turns forty.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
For bringing this up again, You're going back to that
greatest thing you've been trying to because it's fun. I'm
not trying to I'm telling you it's forty. It's not
the truth. I'm telling you categorically false. What do you
mean categorically? How could you say categorically false? Didn't you
have time and on many of your dog walks Meaning
of life to to to think about what the best
movie of the and come around to there there is blood?

(04:43):
There There was really that's on no one's list, that's
on absence. There will be Blood is a top ten
movie on all time lists. There's no way, yeah, on
a list of movies where the word blood is in
the title. And also there will be that is in
the top ten one hundred percent. You're out of your
mind or as my mom would call that movie dig

(05:05):
we Must. I go, I said, what what did we might?

Speaker 4 (05:08):
That movie?

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Daniel day Lewis. There's another movie with Daniel de Lewis now,
the one where he comes and he's he's it's the Oil.
I said, you mean there will be blood. Where did
you get dig we Must from shooes? I thought that
was the name of the movie. I'm like, that's not
even close to what the name of the movie was.
So that movie in our house for a long time
was dig we Must, And still when we talk about
it is it is sometimes dig we Must.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
That is kind of interesting.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
It's almost like it's mashed with you know, a New
Hope which people love, you know, Apocalypse. Now, you know,
you've got so many other Dark Dark, Dark Knight. Dark
Knight really better than The Future, Wow, even though Jack
Nicholson was a better joker than Heath Ledger, but.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
So it got so it's somehow better than another movie
where a guy was better in the big starring role.
Now that Batman nineteen eighty nine was a fantastic movie.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Dark, it was really good. Hits all the notes.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
That's okkay, But I mean I'm just saying, like, hey,
you think you get everything great from everywhere.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
But okay, you have a movie where.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'm not saying Heith Ledger was any slouch. I mean
he was given an award for his performance by others.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Hey listen, never sell anyone short because they can always
be a tremendous louch. So Back to the Future turns
forty Mike Harmon on the Meaning of Life, and tomorrow
Joey Chestnut makes his triumphant return to the Nathan's Hot
Dog Eating Contest once again. You can watch the Nathan's
Hot Dog Eating Contest and I'll tell you what it
has to do with NBA Free agency in a couple

(06:39):
of minutes. But I will tell you this right off
the bat, since today's been a big day for gambling
because apparently, you know, everybody's getting investigated for pitches that
are thrown or dunks that are made.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
And you know, Heyd turns.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
General Outlaw Daily Fantasy. Here in California, it's the Wild West.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
I will say this, I don't know what the odds are,
but because I know you will, you'll be able to
tell me in like four seconds. But Jess Nuts got
the record for seventy six hot dogs, right, And we
spent today going through all the different records that are
out there for competitive and some of the stuff. I'm like,
you've just got to be kidding me, Like I think
the record, I think Matt Stoney has the record for
peeps in eight minutes by eating two hundred and fifty five.

(07:20):
I'm like, how can you eat two hundred and fifty
five peeps in six minutes? Like how is that you?
I mean, I get the hot dog thing because I
watch it, but stuff like that, like you know, yeah,
two hundred and fifty five peeps in six minutes, Like
I can't believe that, But it's on the Major League
Eating website.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Here's all the records, and that's one of them.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Well, but that's the beauty of it is there's so
many of these contests that are absolutely insane, including eating
hot dogs. My god, I eat about four.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Become accept that's become acceptable now, you know, Like I
hain'te hot dog the hot dog eating CODs Okay, it's
oh yeah, but I'm gonna tell.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
You that he's what is it?

Speaker 1 (07:59):
It is?

Speaker 4 (07:59):
He's one to twenty.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
To well of course, because he wins every year by
like thirty odds about ninety six percent.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Eh So you're saying there's a chance.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's almost like there's a you know, you went back
to your your Clayton Kershaw eleven.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
To one and you were mad that immat lenning.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
It is like it should be like a million to one.
It should be five hundred to one. Should have been here.
Here's one where Joey Chestnutt. This is almost like begging you.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's like he's gonna be out of shape man, like
he took last year off, he was eating those vegan things.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
It's like, there's no way he's ready for this man.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Bernoletti plus sixteen hundred esper plus twenty two hundred, web
plus twenty five hundred.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
I'm gonna tell you this. It's been a year away.
He's mad, he's motivated. Now he's back. He wants to
announce his presence again with authority. I would go authority.
I would go over eighty hot dogs for Joey Chestnutt.
He's got the record at seventy six, right, and clearly
a lot of that he said have been a few

(09:00):
years ago.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Look at us breaking down competitive eating. This is so
much fun to eat.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
But if seventy six is the record I got, he
wants to hit eighty tomorrow and say I am back
and never think about having this without me again, and
put me in all the kind of stuff you want
to say. I would take over eighty hot dogs for
Joey chest That's wrong.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
What are the odds on? That was Vegas? Is Vegas?
Shorten me on those odds too? Oh, it's only four
in a water, it's only three to one.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
I am what are you working on that as we speak?

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Hold? Please?

Speaker 1 (09:30):
You know you need to wear you need to wear
Advisor when when we do gambling stuff like I think,
I think it might help you know, you know, focus
a little bit, you know, if you wear a Visor
then okay, I'm in.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
I'm in Mike Harmon gambling mode right now.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Yeah, because I've gotten let's see hot dogs eaten by
Joey Chestnut.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
The over under is only seventy one and a half.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Wow, So over is minus one oh five. Under is
minus one thirty five. And I'll tell you why ready.
It's because last year year.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
As to be the champion, Bertoletti only eight fifty eight.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Yeah, they come on. That's which means.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Which means Chestnut unless he's really to your mind of
I want to show people, you know, and leave no
doubt who's the greatest of all time. Yeah, Gastronow making
delights and watching my stomach balloon. He's not gonna need
more than say, sixty to beat Bertoletti this year. So

(10:29):
how much does he need that huge margin of error?
Because think about it, that guy won in his ten minutes,
he was still eighteen short of the record.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, but this is what goats do. They're not motivated by,
you know, by by who they're playing it. They're motivated
by history. They're motivated by what.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Get motivated by the sheep.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, it's it's it's I'm not motivated by the people
I'm playing against them. I'm motivated by history, what I
can accomplist. It's me against It's like in Rocky four
when Rocky says to Apollo, says.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
You ever think sometimes it's just you against you? I
mean that's that's what most think. That's good. It's me.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Hey, it's me against me. What can I do? Eighty
hot dogs? I would say I would go over eighty
hot dogs tomorrow. I bet you there's money to be
made there. I'm not sure, but because everywhere I've looked,
because I thought you would find, because you're the expert
on ever I've looked at keep selling me that. Yeah,
some books will take odds on over eighty hot dogs,
but it's not like readily available. So I wonder if
the odds are really low and there's money to be made. Well,

(11:24):
I'm looking for prop bets here. The over hot dogs
eating by the win winner over seventy one and a
half is minus one ten special to win the contest
by at least twenty five hot dogs is fifteen to one.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
By twenty or more.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's plus four point fifty. Want me to keep going, Okay, okay, okay,
And then you've got a bunch of you know, head
to head and competitions a web versus chest not web
versus b.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Versus chest.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Now you got the women's contest has a bunch of
prop bets as all as well. You can get ten
to one on both the men's over seventy six and
women's over fifty one to be broken tomorrow for the
records for Chestnut and Pseudo to combine to eat at
least one hundred and twenty hot dogs just plus one fifteen.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Okay, all right, all right, all right, I still like
my as I want to find out why the eighty
is so difficult to find, But I get maybe there's
money there maybe well, but I think that becomes the
money the over under got said at seventy one and
a half, and that becomes a you contact your book
and especially if you have a relationship, like we've talked
with our buddy Todd Furman lo these many years, you

(12:36):
got that information like how many times did he say
I'll give you whatever a hud you want? He used
to do work for Caesar's doing that.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
If you have a relationship, you could probably get them
to make a custom bet for you.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Hey, k, what line do you give me at eighty?

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Like you know, you can just need to start traveling
to Vegas a little bit, establish a rapport, hang out
with the smokers outside see full circle, and then you
have your opportunity to say, hey, I'm looking at this
hot dog contest.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Hey, what kind of odds you give me that he
tops eighty eighty eighty? Now here's the thing, and here's
why it's great that we have the fourth of July
hot dog eating Contest book ending the week that began
with NBA free agency.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Right, all all that so far NBS.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
So far, NBA free agency has been okay, right, Like,
I'm not following all the ESPN and NBA hype all
the fast and frenzied signings. The biggest person to change
teams was Miles Turner. Understand that that's not a frenzy.
That's that's okay. Yeah, there's a lot of signings, but
when you talk about big things that are going on, yeah,

(13:43):
so I can't.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
Really say it's a frenzy.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
It's more this is what free agency has been, right,
It's been an okay start to free age. Yes, there's
big money being doled out, but mainly it was it
was teams keeping their guys, which is, hey, what Adam
Silver and what the NBA want. We want to make
sure the teams are able to keep their players. Right.
You saw big extensions James Harden and we watch Shake
Gilders Alexander become the highest paid player in NBA history.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
So yeah, since how it goes.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
But it's just been an okay week, right, Like it
hasn't been unbelievable, and it's kind of like, hey, the
hot dog eating contest. Some years there's Joey chestnutt Right,
some years Lebron is out there, and you have other
big trades, and Chris Paul wants to get dealt and
David Stern is saying basketball reasons, and some years it's okay,
it's Miles Turner, Like Miles Turner is last year for

(14:31):
the hot dog Eating Contest, But now we got Joey
Chestnutt backing out. Suddenly, Hey, it's a much bigger deal,
right the hot dog eating contest? Ww it's hot dog
eating contest, whereas last year is, oh yeah, maybe I'll
watch all Oh how many he eat? He missed it
by twenty Yeah, I don't even care. Like that's kind
of what this NBA range. But now the best part
is coming up. When the trade season really hits. That's

(14:51):
going to be something because there's big names going to
be availab which we'll get to that in a few minutes,
but right now, it's like, Okay, this is kind of
what free agency is. When you don't have the big names,
you can't dress it up and sit here and tell
me that what a seismic move Miles Turner is to
the Bucks. I'm like, okay, let's just let's just understand
Miles Turner trade changing teams is not Lebron, you know,

(15:13):
meeting with teams and and Don Nelson and you know,
being wheeled in with a broken foot to try to
woo him to come to the Knicks and everybody going
to visit Lebron like.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
This is not that.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Okay, it's a it's a The NBA fregency is a
nod Joey Chestnut hot dog gear.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Now here's a couple of things to it. Number One,
last year, he battled Kobayashi in that away from the
Nathan's competition. He ate eighty three hot dogs, absolutely dusted
Kobayashi by a full fifteen to claim victory as they
hadn't gone against each other in what fourteen years or
something like that. Okay, fine, now he comes back, so

(15:53):
again you're over under proposition that we throw through. But
I also have one word that made define the next
couple of weeks in the NBA and team in Texas.
H kind of had it out there. It's something we've
circled him around as we've talked about. Uh, that Lebron guy,
and that's buyout that will.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Help to find tell you what to happen with Dame Lillard? Right, Hey,
huh let's all clap bands and go away man. A
bunch of teams I think behind the scenes are going, hey,
can we do that? The the Jerry McGuire ending, why
don't we.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
Have that relationship? And they tried to hug. Yeah, it
gets all weird.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radios
to I'm telling you go over eighty tomorrow for Joey
Chessman exit. How about a fresca at Swollen Dome. We'll
have more, Look, we'll keep eating. Maybe we'll eat hot
dogs tonight as a celebration. But we got more NBA
coming up next. Yes, Why what we've seen so far
is just an appetizer for what's to come.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
And you want to talk about the free agent moves that.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Are making teams look great and then look really bad.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's next Jason and Mike Fox.

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(18:15):
one of the greatest, most prolific actors Hollywood has ever seen,
at the age of sixty seven earlier today and social
media has been everywhere today with all of his roles,
and it was amazing to see people of course they're
gonna jump on Reservoir Dogs and kill Bill. But you know,
seeing people talk about, hey, I really loved him in
Free Willy and I'm gonna go watch Free Willie now

(18:37):
again because he was a good guy and just you
realize that he had so many incredible roles. I'll go back, like, look,
we'll get to Reservoir Dogs in a second, just because
it was such a big deal.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
But I go back.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
I remember seeing him for the first time in the
Natural and you know, and he was Bump Bailey and thinking, boy,
this guy like I met, got under my skin. I
didn't like him, and you know, I'm a teenager watching
movie and not really, Oh this is this is someone
doing a fantastic job as an actor because he absolutely
embodies he's the star and and and he's the guy

(19:09):
that obviously he has a he has a different standing
with the team because he's helping them to fix games,
and he's he's well dressed, and he's got the girlfriend,
and he's very dismissive of other people. And you know,
it was just an incredible I mean, that's the first
thing I ever saw him in when I was a teenager,
thinking wow, he was so good, and then that's who
he was the rest of his career, you know, and

(19:32):
and we can we could talk about all these movies
like Donnie Braska was one of the most underrated movies ever.
The amount of incredible performances in that movie, whether it's
Paccino so understated and Michael Mattson is Sonny Black.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
But you know, you get you get that.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Reservoir Dog scene that has been getting a lot of
play today, the stuck in the middle with you scene
where uh, he and Marvin Nash have a little bit
of an interaction. I'll just say for anybody who hasn't
seen a little bit, yeah, and uh, you know, it's
it an entire career you can see in that scene
because he is so unbelievably terrifying just in those three minutes,

(20:09):
like he's he's fan.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
That's I mean.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Look, the movie that launched Quentin Tarantino's career is is
Reservoir Dogs. And that scene, really, you could say is
responsible for a lot of it, because it's what everybody
keeps going back to. It's one of the most iconic
scenes in the history of film. And and he's absolutely
I keep going, he's absolutely terrifying. And that's what he
brought to so many roles is that he was so always,
so unpredictable. You never knew when he was on camera, Hey,

(20:34):
the scene could go this way, it could go this way.
You're kind of on edge and I'm watching him going, Okay,
what's gonna happen here? And you know that's where everything
just you know, for his whole career comes together.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
And he's not really gonna do that?

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Is he?

Speaker 4 (20:47):
Yes, he is?

Speaker 1 (20:48):
And then not only does he do it, he basks
in the glow of it after is Marvin Natz is
just sitting there and he's moving his head and it's
just what did I just watch? I mean that that's
such an iconic scene. It really it sums up Not
many people could pull something like that off and be
charismatic while at the same time being so terrifying. And

(21:08):
that was Michael Matts. And I'm so glad that that
was getting most of the attention today out out of
everything for him. Yeah, I mean, so many of those roles,
it's that.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Same calm demeanor while being absolutely dastardly go go all
the way through his run of roles. Talk about kill Bill,
the scene that with Karenine or he's sitting there going, hey,
she's coming.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
He's like, yeah, we all deserve to die.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
It's just measured and cold, and he's got these piercing
eyes and it's like, oh, there's the innocence, but you
see the darkness just beyond. Just like that scene with
good old Marvin Nash. Still kind of funny, that one
of those very uncomfortable moments in a movie theater where
folks kind of are chuckling along, like, Okay, what's he

(21:55):
gonna do.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
He's just dancing with the knife in his head, and.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah, it's it's just you know, one of those you know,
And it's a movie that that I don't know.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
It was in my house.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
It was big because it was a million quotable lines
from him and Kitel and and all the way on
down the line, go back to the initial diner scene
and everything Lawrence Tierney uh getting after it. But for
for Michael Madison, I mean, you think about some of
the other stuff you talked about Donnie Brasco, you look
at Wyatt erp Sin City and just keep going on

(22:30):
down the line. There's just so many, so many iconic roles.
And you know, my daughter asked me as stuff started
scrolling and she recognized a few of the movie titles,
and like, he's just that guy that you know, if
you if you needed an actor that that you you
found him. If he was in a good space and
he had time on the calendar, it's like, yeah, let's
get him in Mulholland Falls.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
Yeah. He did.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
Like I mean, like you know, not all of them
are going to be great, but he found like that
one a year.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
That boy that's really good. Boy, he's really good.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
But that's just it, right, Hey bring him in for
a day or two to do one or two scenes
and he'd come in and kill it and give you
the complete tone of the movie.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Right.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
He showed up in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
as one of his final roles. So, I mean, there's
there's stuff all over the place, and folks will go
back into the filmography, but Matt's one hell of a
thirty plus year run.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
The thing is, we were talking about it to say.
We went to have lunch and we were waiting in
line to go at a at a burger place near
uh near our house, and we were probably about five
or six five or six feet away from the from
the cash register and we're talking about it and Zoe
hasn't seen Reservoir Dogs yet, and she says other stuff.
I said, oh my god, this scene because we were
talking about stuck in the middle and everything else. And

(23:44):
so when when the the server says okay, you know next,
I go, okay, great, and I start kind of walking
up like like Michael Matts. And when he's down at
the beginning, and I'm kind of shuffling and bouncing back
and and and the server goes, where's your knife? I
was like, oh, okay, okay, Well that guy's angling for
a big tip.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
I'm hoping nobody liking the kitchen.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
God, you just ask a customer whereas knife was what
the hell was that?

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Like?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
You know, but she got what I was done. I'm
just doing the I'm doing the whole And the song
wasn't even playing. I like the song was even playing.
I'm just I'm just doing the dance walking up. I
kind of been shuffling all day like Michael Madsen. It
was dancing in everybody's head all day long. You know.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
That's also one of those doors another good role. Yeah,
And today's the anniversary of Morrison's death, which is weird
that they're forever connected. Nineteen ninety one, he was also
in Thelma and Louise. Oh yeah, you want to talk
about a killer year for him? He had two two
monster hits, and then ninety two is Reservoir Dogs.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
You know, and you think, you know what this happens
a lot with songs, right, is that there's certain songs
that are big hits, and there's certain songs that, because
they're so identifiable, when you hear them, you think of
the movies.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
You don't think of anything else.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
You don't think of a time in your life where, oh,
this reminds me when I was in high school, when
I was a minds me and when I was on
my first date with my wife this rat.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
There's some songs that just take you. All you can
think of is the movie? Right? All you there?

Speaker 1 (25:06):
And like when I hear Leayla. Now, every time I
hear the Bridge of Leila, I don't think of the song.
You think of of of all the and goodfellas, everybody
getting killed, right, you know, de Neiro killing Everybody's discovery
exept all the discoveries when they when when he was
frozen so solid took him two weeks do the aud.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Time, go Franky Carbone.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
But even though that, there is nothing that stops me
and makes me think of it more than when I
hear Stuck in the Middle with You. I never I
think of nothing else other than that movie. And I
think about the movie and and things about it and
what I like, and there's there's I can't I I
was trying to think today, is there another song that
I hear that says Nope, that's that movie song, that's
that movie song.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
But stuck in the Middle with you. Every time you.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
Hear that bit, and then even when I hear ryl Crow,
all I want to do because you know, that's kind
of lifted right from Stuck in the Middle with You.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Uh, you know, I think the same thing.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
I'm like a and I'm thinking about Reservoir Dogs from
a movie where a where where a rif was lifted
from Stuck in the Middle with you like that, like
right away, boom, That's all I think about is that.
And the song ends and you know done. I'm dancing
along to it and it's it's it's a four minute
think about that movie and that scene. And Michael Mattson
every time I hear that song.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, otherwise you're looking at a bunch that are really
just you know, it's right on the nose, you know,
like Shaft when sure the anniversary of earlier this week,
or Frankie Valley with Grease, you know in Greece.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, well that songs that were made for that movie.
They were obviously made. Just this is a song that
came out in the seventies.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
That that that Oh I got I got one that
maybe worse. You know.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Go ahead, when you when you hear Glory of Love
by Peter Satara, what do you think? Okay, not that
they play that that often on the radio, but okay, sure,
I'll give you a glory of Love.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Even though it was the Karate Kid too, and not
actually the first, but you just say Karate Kid.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
I remember, I remember the first.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Time when I turned to my best friend in the
car when when it came on the radio, like this time.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
In the late nineties, I just go.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Joe Egan and Jerry Rafferty were duo known as Steeler's
Wheel when they recorded this pop dylanesque bubblegum favorite in
April of nineteen seventy four as k Billy Super sounds
of the seventies, continues. He looked at me and he goes,
what the hell was that? What the what the hell?

Speaker 3 (27:25):
What the hell was the how you can either people
are on your side or now they're freaked out a
little bit and a little.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
So I said, ah, it's a reservoir dogs again. But
I said it like so serious because I'm trying to
channel Steven Right, Joe Eagan and Jerry Raverick. Uh so, yes,
rest in peace, Michael mattson an incredible, incredible career. Now, look,
there's there's some big stuff to get to NBA wise tonight. Right,
we have the first week of free agency down and

(27:52):
certain teams achieving doing things. But I want to say
this because you know, I've seen a lot of Hey,
what are moves we've seen so far free agency that
people like the most? What move to people hate the most?
Right now, there's a couple I really don't like, which
we'll get to. But why I see, Oh I really
like this, I really like Miles Turners like. Okay, I
feel honestly, the right answer for the move that has

(28:15):
been the best that they like the most so far,
the right answer is it hasn't happened. Yet there's not
been one move. There's not been one move so far
that by itself vaults a team. So far, now, there
have been moves where, hey, this team, by by doing
these couple of things, they have done something. They have
done something great, but nothing to say all of a sudden, Wow.

Speaker 4 (28:37):
They're vaulted.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
They're gonna be a top three team in that in
the Eastern Conference, right, Like hey, Atlanta made some nice one,
They're gonna be a top three team all of a sudden,
come on, right.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
But that's why I.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Think the biggest thing is still to come. The best
free agent move or the best it's still coming. No
one's gone over the top, like Atlanta's flurry was lower
level free agent move so far, maybe to entice Giannis,
which would then make it into something bigger. But that's
kind of what I'm waiting for. We haven't seen the
big move yet. There's been some rearranging, and that's why

(29:06):
I think the trade season we're gonna get now is
going to be off the hook, because no longer to
team say all right, we're gonna make moves the beginning
of free agency and try to put our team together.
They want to put there because there's so much to
be known with them not known with the money and
the salaries. Now that's so difficult that teams are taking
a different strategy. And now it's okay, we're gonna go

(29:27):
through free agency first, and then we're really gonna trade. Like,
if there's a couple of minor trades happen, we can
do that. But if we're looking to make a big splash,
we kind of have to get our ducks in a row.
What acquire whatever expiring contracts we want to sign whatever
players in free agency. So we're building here and then
when other teams can see the landscape more fully and

(29:49):
stars can understand, Okay, this is what Team X is
trying to do. Yes, I would you can trade me
to that team because I see what their strategy is.
Because sometimes you just need a week or two for
player to say, yeah, why would I want to go?
Why would I want to go to Atlanta? Who knows
what the hell they're doing? Now Suddenly, oh wait, Atlanta's
making some nice under the radar moves. Oh that's something
that hey, I'm in for that. Gianna says, I want

(30:10):
to go to Atlanta, Like this is now going to
be the really fun part of the NBA offseason because
now we're getting away from the NBA free agency and
getting to the trade season.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yeah, obviously we still have the curiosity of whatever that
seven team thing, like a seven layer dip.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
That keeps growing. Hey, throw some of that on there too.
Does that count as an ingredient?

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah, now it's my you know, specialty forty seven layer dip.
As we move forward, so we'll see how many more
teams can get involved in that. I mean, you got
Jonis Valentunis debating whether he wants to play in the
NBA anymore. So, I mean that's one of the stories
that took over today. So you have all of that.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
I mean, the original trade down to Orlando might have
been the big thing, but I mean that was a trade, right,
the Kevin de Rant to Houston, whatever that ends up being,
you're making a big bet. Now a lot of stuff
falls out of that, and you know it remains to
be seen. Uh who's left standing? But yeah, get I

(31:11):
get your point.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
Waiting on more buyouts, waiting on more I mean, I
think to me, the Dame Lillard one is really it.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
In terms of singular things, Miles Turner going there afterwards
is great, but hey, here's a undred, twenty one hundred
and twelve hundred and fifteen million dollars, go rehab somewhere else,
have fun, congratulations on a job done. We decided we
didn't want to be together anymore, and away you go,
and he.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Gets to keep all that money and thence yeah, yeah,
like he's.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
Now the guy that you put a picture on your wall.
I want to be that guy.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
A lot of money to go away and I can
do what I want. I mean, just think about the
guys that we're going to start hearing about now over
the course of the next week plus, right, Joannis Lebron
maybe right, mcal Bridges, Karl Anthony Towns, Jalen Brown, Zion Jaw.

(32:04):
It's an electric time where anything can happen and teams
are gonna hey. Like, for instance, John Morans, he had
to address all the rumors that he could be on
his way. I don't want to leave. I want to
stay here. But hey, Memphis, good they traded Desmond Bane.
They might say, we're done with this roller coaster ride.
We're moving on to somebody else and we're gonna you know,
we got as close as we are to the top
with you, we can't trust that we can do that again,

(32:26):
and somebody else a fresh start somewhere. Maybe that's what
John Morant needs. Like this trade season is really what
everybody should be looking forward to. This was the free
agency was the appetizer. Now we're gonna get to the
main meal. That's what's coming.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
The other is the best.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
Everybody's trying to fight with Shams at the top of
the uh you know, top of the mountain, right and
he's just picking off things and he decides when he's
gonna I'm not gonna tip picks.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
It's just not fair to the rest of the world
and all of that.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
So everybody else is clamoring, which means you got a
lot of beat writers probably pounding the pavement a lot
harder than they happened years because like the national guy's
just gonna scoop it anyway, and the hell with it.
Now you're like, I can make my name. I can
go fill that void. You know, WOJE is over there
trying to get in an IL deal together. I'm here now.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. From Martin Wise Martin what do you
got for tonight, my friend? Congratulations to a Mets.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
How about that?

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Oh, we're back, We're back, now, we're back.

Speaker 6 (33:25):
Nothing, We're back about two to three over the Brewers.
How about that? That was impressive.

Speaker 7 (33:29):
Those free agency moves you were talking about. I guess
one year deal to bring back Jackson Hayes to the
Lakers did not make the top headlines for you guys,
but it did happen today.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Apparently would have been if he played in the playoffs.

Speaker 6 (33:42):
Well there you go.

Speaker 7 (33:43):
You know, so now they have two guys that won't
play a big playoff minus Deandrew eight and then Jackson Hayes.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
No, only got two guys that aren't going to play
in the playoffs. Hey, hey, hey, but.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
If Lebron can get Luca into the best shape of
his life, he can't.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Oh wait, I'll leave you.

Speaker 7 (33:59):
Guys after this one because this I just saw this
come across Max Month's See.

Speaker 6 (34:03):
It was a bone bruise yesterday. Six weeks.

Speaker 7 (34:05):
Does it change your opinion now knowing that it's not
that it was something a little She's gonna miss six
weeks that's pretty significant. I know you missed three thousand strikeouts,
which is probably more significant.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
But I know, man, I'm still so upset about that.
I got over upside as soon as they started chirping
in the post. Why is he stealing because he wants
to beat your ass?

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Shut up?

Speaker 6 (34:27):
All right, that's great, I got over. That's hilarious, all right.

Speaker 7 (34:32):
Top of the tenth inning, the Guardians and the Cubs scoreless.
Still Guardians starting pitchers Luis Ortiz been placed on paid
leave after and that Baseball investigation into gambling. A betting
integrity firm flag the two individual pictures for Mortiz on
June fifteenth and June twenty seventh. The top of the
fifth inning, the Giants lead the Diamondbacks for it and

(34:53):
I think scoreless in for Kansas City and Seattle. Top
of the third inning, the Dodgers lead the White Sox
once to nothing. In the bottom of the second National
James National slugger in James Wood was five for five
today as the Nationals beat the Tigers eleven to seven.
He had his twenty third home run. He also announced
that he will be participating in the home Run Derby,

(35:15):
so busy day for him at Wimbledon. On the men's side,
ten seed Ben Shelton has won the first two sets
in the second round, match up five to four in
the third set of plays suspended right now due to darkness.
Novak Djokovic advance into the third round for a record
nineteenth time. Dallas Mavericks' sister Jared Dudley finalizing a deal
to become the top assistant coach for the Denver Nuggets

(35:35):
under David Adelman, and the Pittsburgh Steelers announced they signed
gm omark On to a three year deal that'll keep
him with the team through at least twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
Back to you, guys, thanks so much more, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
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Speaker 4 (36:17):
That's funny you play this song Alex Tyshert.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
I specifically didn't say anything going when is he gonna
play Shaboozi next this week?

Speaker 4 (36:24):
Because now I have a story about it.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
You have a story about shabou Yeah, yeah, and it's
really again like last night our story was because we
were watching the Munsey Injury.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
So we missed Clayton Kershaw's three thousand.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
Strikeout, which I said for the last ten days, watch
it because you may.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Never see it again. We missed it a lot. We're
watching the injury. Yeah, what are you getting? Oh man?

Speaker 1 (36:45):
So you know trivia I go to every week. We
go on Sunday, my dad and Pam and I. We
go right and what happens is like they ask a
question and you know, it's all different. So we go
to bar trivia. We won last week. Oh by the way,
thank you. Yes, we're very smart. The big sports question.
Let me see the big sports. I'll give you the
big sports question first, the big sports because there was

(37:06):
only one in the all four rounds. Because I always
do any time they get through the only one, I
always yell and I go, would it kill you to
have another sports question?

Speaker 4 (37:13):
Right? Any guy?

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Kind of lest which two networks have aired the most
Super Bowls of all time?

Speaker 4 (37:22):
Which two networks have aired the most Super Bowls? Right?

Speaker 1 (37:26):
So they let you go and you figure answer, but
then at a certain point they give you a song
clue that can help you with one of the things.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
Right.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
So one of the one of the songs that they
played one of the I didn't know the song, but
one of the person team was, oh, this is so
and so by the but oh, I said, okay, great,
well that's one of the answers. And then the second,
which was good because I wasn't sure about the second one.
The one I knew the ohem, go, I think this
is what it is. So anyway, what do you think
The answer is a two networks? Super easy? Yes, And

(37:55):
I said CBS absolutely number one. They absolutely have had
the most. They've had the NFL from the getting all
the way through. CBS is number one. But then second,
I'm like, I don't know, man. Fox has had a lot,
NBC had a lot, but they haven't had football in
a long.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
Way for a while.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yeah, I know, you start thinking about Don Kricky and
could it be Fox?

Speaker 1 (38:18):
I mean, I know ABC's had Super Bowls, but they
but they didn't have that many. So so the song
was by a group I didn't know, and the name
of the song was like like like U was nothing
but cash was the name of the song.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
We were like, oh, nothing but cash, NBC.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
It's a little on the nose, but right. So they
give you the clue, so yeah, lucky guess trivia. So
they give you the clues, you write it down, get
up and get it. Okay, great, So that was a
sports question. So we get to we get to later
on and it's one of the two questions we missed
and I was so embarrassed about it because they they
give the question, I'm like, oh, man, I have no idea.
I have no idea. Like the song that the question was,

(39:00):
this name is what but what whoever? Was? It was
a name question, this name is the most popular or
the name that means son in uh in in in
the most languages or something like that. It was a
word that meant son And we're going, okay, I don't
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
What it is.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
And then they play the song clue and it's that
Shahboozy song and I said, oh, this is shaboozy and
and not Zoey, and Pam says me, oh, they play
the song on your show all the time you talk
about you. I go, yes, because what's the name of
the song? I go, I have no idea, I have
no idea this is I could sing the words. I
don't know what this song. I don't know what I'm

(39:39):
singing the words going through him going now he's telling
me Mom, and okay, I.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Don't know the name of this.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
I can't believe I don't know this. This is like
in the Honeymoon is when when when Ralph didn't know
swany lake, Swane River And I'm sitting here, going, I
don't know what is it Ed Norton and I'm going, well,
I don't know what.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
The son the composer Norton. Can we hear a little
bit of a swunny river?

Speaker 1 (40:06):
And I no, no, I go no, And we got
it wrong, and he goes and he goes okay, And
the song cluse, of course, was Shaboozy, the bar song.
I was like, oh great, And the answer was barr
was the name of the song. So and I forget
how they and we thought like, oh, bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah.
We should have gotten it right, that was the thing.

(40:27):
So we didn't get It's one of the two questions
we didn't get. And I'm sitting here going yeah, and
I'm sitting going yeah, no, chaboozie. And I know the
song and I know the words, I don't I don't
know what the name of this song is. I can't
come up with it. In thirty seconds.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
I can't come up with it.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
And I begin I hear that, and I start bopping along.
I don't listen to the words. I'm like bouncing, like,
what's it called?

Speaker 4 (40:49):
No idea?

Speaker 1 (40:49):
But I can't. I can't even tell you. I can't
even tell you what it is. And I'm like, oh,
the bar song, right right right, okay, yeah, yeah, okay,
and and and the thing is is that it's not
like he says the bar song in the in the
in the song he doesn't like. He keeps saying the
bar song. You know, everybody at the bar getting tipsy

(41:09):
is the big one. But but it's the bar song.
And I was like, man, if he said it in there,
he might have guy, I would have got oh, it's
the bar song.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
But no, but just didn't get it.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
And I was so mad, Like I've heard this song
so many times and tystre plays it like three times
a week we play Shaboozie.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
It's just a feel good song.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
But the fact that it's called the bar song, he
could have plunked a lot of money.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
In front of me. I know, I would have.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Been guessing many other things. I was Oh, I was like,
oh my god, we got it wrong. I was like,
I can't believe we did that. I can't believe we
did that.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
You know, his next show you can get in for
one hundred and thirty two hours. It's Saturday in Belgium.
Shaboozie's in Belgium, Wow, and Germany, then Switzerland. Then he's
in Paris at the Hookodrome, followed by a couple of
shows in Montreal.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
Wow. So he's doing the big European tour.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Then he's coming making his way slowly backside end of September.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
All right, I'm sure. I'm sure his big song will
be the bar song, and people know play the bar song.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
And then he screws him all over by singing I
love this bar.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
So yeah.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
So I was kind of embarrassed, and Ty Shirt laid
off that song this week for some and maybe because
we were just kind of, you know, reading each other's
brains a bit.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
But you know, gets in on a Thursday night, we
got shaboozy. Look at that, a.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
Little bit of a holiday holiday holiday feel to it.
Wherever you are, however you're listening, Thanks for being part
of the extended family. As we get into the holidays.
I'll raise my oversized coffee cup in your honor and
we'll do the heavy lift and just sit back and
enjoy and enjoy your friends on the roads with you.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
So tonight, your White Sox are on the verge of
what's going to be another loss of the Dodgers. Five
shot King, Freddie Freeman having a big night. Michael Confordo's
got a home run. The Dodgers just continue to role.
And you know last night we spent a lot of
time on Clayton Kershaw. Right, Well, look, hey, last time
we ever see anybody get to three thousand strikeouts, Damn skippy,

(43:09):
We're gonna spend some a lot of time on Clayton.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
Kershaw get her to three thousand.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
And I forgot about this until my dad sent it
to me today because it started to make the rounds
on social media, like all Clayton Kershaw stuff like he
did throughout his career is starting to make the rounds
and you know, hitting that mark that he did, you know,
everything became all about Clayton Kershaw earlier today, and he
sends me this thing and I'm like, oh my goodness,
I forgot about that fifteen years ago.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Right.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
My dad had just moved out to Los Angeles from
Syracuse and I was looking for something fun to do
with him that I know he would like to do.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
And I got.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Tickets for what was called Safe at Home, which Joe Torrey,
who was then the manager of the Dodgers, was that's
his big charity, is Safe Charity, right, It's it's about
it's dedicated to raising awareness and aimed at ending the
cycle of domestic violence.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
Right, So he you know, he's Safe.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
At Home and he had Sandy Kofax as his guest,
and I was like, oh my god, my dad is
gonna flip if we get this.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
So I get tickets to go see it. And TJ.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Simers of the La Times, you know, you know who
for the longest time was one of the biggest writers
here in Los Angeles.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
He's the moderator. And I'm like, I got it.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Sandy Kofax, I the guy it's it's like seeing a yetti,
Like Sandy Covin's gonna come out. He's gonna talk about
his life and career and everything else. Oh my goodness. Right,
So he comes out and and and Cofax and Tory
sit down and TJ. Simers just jumps right in. And
the first thing he has Sandy Copax is Sandy Kofax,
I heard you tried to throw Willie Mays and couldn't
do it. And we're like, whoa, my and my dad.

(44:47):
My dad just goes holy blank, like the first question
about you know people he grew up watching you tried
to throw Willie Mays and you couldn't. And Sandy Kofax
tells this great story about how he was the one guy,
you know, when you tried to throw inside, you couldn't
throw inside at Willy made you couldn't hit him. You
could try to throw anywhere, you couldn't hit Willy, and
he would always be able to stay in the box.
It's this amazing story that he tells. And and you know,

(45:09):
he finishes telling the story and Sandy Koffex goes, you know,
so you couldn't hit Willy. Now we're in an auditorium
that's got about a thousand people in it, right, and
it's mostly filled. And you know, he tells that story, says,
but you couldn't hit Willy, and before people clap and
applaud me and my dad were about like ten rows back.
My dad just goes, yeah, you're right, really loud. That

(45:32):
is right, Dad, good.

Speaker 4 (45:34):
Okay, let Sandy tell the story. Right.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
So this is the point this gets to because the
big picture and stuff that made the round today is
at this event, this picture of Sandy Kofax showing Clayton
Kershaw how he threw his curveball right, and I'm like,
oh my god, I forgot I forgot about that that
Kershaw showed.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
Up midway through.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
And this is at the point like when Clayton Kersh
had been in the league for a year or two
and he was a really good pitcher, right, he was
really good, but he wasn't Clayton Kershaw yet, Like he
hadn't had a big he hadn't had a twenty win
year yet. He had a couple of years where his
war was really good. He had a low era, but
you could tell, okay, hey, Clayton Kershaw could be special, right,
But you know, he's still young and he got to

(46:17):
see which way it goes. And they bring Clayton Kershaw
out and I'm like, oh my goodness, and bring Clayton
Kershaw and he walks up to Kofax and he gets
on his knees right away and does it. We're not worthy, right,
he doesn't. We're not worthy for Kofax. I'm like, oh
my goodness, this is amazing. And then they're saying, you know,
and Kershaw you know, and now you think about Kershaw's
curveball and a slider and go, hey, Sandy, let me
show you something about how to hold you know, how to.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
Hold the ball.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
But like that was such a big moment because he's
showing them a right, this is what I do. This
is what I do, and I go, oh man, twelve
year old me would have liked to see this again.
I had to become a pitcher instead of playing trying
to play shortstop in third base man. Sandy Kofax showed
me how to throw his curveball what he would do,
and Kersher doing the same thing, and it was a
fun thing. Like they're just on stage, going this is
how I would hold it. And Sandy's like, I put
my finger here, my finger here, and I to get

(47:00):
the torque this way, and and kurshes, okay, well I
hold it like this and I just kind of I
have my arm kind of spin a little bit, and
it just watching you like, oh my good, these are
this is amazing. And like you could tell at that time,
here's one legend, Dodger legend who's trying to bring, you know,
bridge the gap to this next pitching legend that the
Dodgers have. And you know, look, Fernando Valenzuela was amazingly good.

(47:22):
He was terrific. You know, Kershaw comes up the same
kind of hype, the same sort of uh talent level
that he had. And so okay, well, now here's Sandy
with with Clayton Kershaw, who's the next big guy after Fernando.
And you know, Sandy's you know, almost in his eighties
at this point, and he's you know, still up here
telling stories and just watching them back and forth, talking
about how they're holding different pitches like it was it

(47:45):
was in raptures. I'm going, this is amazing, Like this
ping ponging back and forth between Kershaw and and Kofax
and Kershaw. I look over at my dad, and my
dad is just standing He's he's staring at Kofax the
whole time like he like even didn't even see it,
Like Clayton Curse is not even on the stage. It's
just like, oh, here's Sandy. This is how I hold
my curveball. I mean, it was really an amazing night.

(48:06):
And you see the video of it and that came
out today in pictures, and you see how young Kershaw
is and you think about him now with his dad bought,
and you know, nearing the end, we talked about it
last night that this is probably gonna wind up being
the beginning of Kershaw's farewell tour, that this year's probably
gonna be it, because I don't know what kind of
place the Dodgers are going to have for him next

(48:27):
year when all their pictures do come back, Like this
is going to wind up being the ride for Kershaw.
And you just think back and go, man, those fifteen
years that they went by in a blink from Kershaw
where he was there, because I still remember that moment
clear as day to where we are right now.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Yeah, I remember that event and what a big deal
it was, right because Kofex was a yetti whatever. You
would show up at Varo Beach for a day or two.
It was all right if folks stood in.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Line long enough and we're polite enough that you might
get close enough to just breathe the same air let alone,
maybe get a bit sure an autograph and remember a
lot of that.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
I mean, this is right.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
The iPhone came out at the end of seven or
something like that, right eight, So you still end you
got a little bit of an older crowd. So it's
not like there's a lot of video and audio that
started circulating out of this. It became almost like Cofax
himself that this really happen.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
For those people that were there, it was magical. And
Simer's obviously writing it up and his colleagues at the
LA Times and it got some run. But yeah, it's
it's those moments, right. My daughter celebrated her seventeenth birthday
the other day. Man, I remember her, and I watch
our colleagues that have babies running around.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
I'm like, boy, that's a long time ago, but here
we are just that fast. And now Clayton Kershaw, he's
got all his kids that were watching the game last
night running into the locker room. All those videos you saw,
and when he wasn't answering questions about Michael Taylor stealing
third base and sliding and all that stuff, he was
talking about where he's at in his baseball mortality, of

(50:02):
how special it's been to be there, and how they
had his back.

Speaker 4 (50:05):
A lot of what we talked about.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
That should have been part and encapsulated in it, right,
because when you had that twenty ten conversation, he was
just starting to become that guy.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
Right.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
I heard Ned Coletti talking about it a little bit earlier.
He was on a five point seventy. I was in
the car and he was saying, look, we had to
send him down because he was striking guys out, but
he was wild. Like you remember Randy Johnson. When he
came up, it was a strikeout or a walk. Yeah,
walking six guys per nine Kirshab. Not quite as bad,

(50:36):
but enough to where it was a problem. So go
back and fix that and lo and behold you then
have this run of one of the most amazing things
we've seen. But I wish they would release that. I'd
pay for that to see every conversation.

Speaker 4 (50:49):
It really was fun. Man.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
I'll tell you time not to find out what's trending
in the wide world of sports. Martin Weiss has all
the details of the Mets three two win over the Brewers.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
Go ahead, what do you got?

Speaker 6 (51:02):
Did you know that? Today?

Speaker 7 (51:05):
Seriously, today is the first time a Mets starter recorded
out in the seventh inning since June seventeenth.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
That just sounds absolutely right. Yeah, we've been terrible.

Speaker 7 (51:17):
Yes, and over the last calendar month. Peterson the starting
picture today is the only Mets picture to start I'm
pitching to the seventh.

Speaker 6 (51:24):
He's done it four times.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
He's our best picture. I mean, he's our best picture.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
I mean it sounds like.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
He's our Kofax, he's our Kershaw, he's our best pitcher.

Speaker 7 (51:33):
I was going to say, he sounds like the smartest
kid in the summer school right now June seventeenth, but
I was reading that. I wasn't going to bring it up.
But since you know, you teed me up so perfectly there,
I felt, you know, congratulations three to two over the
Brewers today.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
Yeah, well, thank you, buddy, appreciate it. You're welcome, all right,
go look up at my team at the last time.

Speaker 7 (51:52):
Yeah, I was about to say, turning, turning to Live
Baseball Mike Harmer closed your eyes. Dodgers five nothing over
the White Sox right now in the bottom of.

Speaker 6 (52:00):
The sixth inning. They surely should have got that one
yesterday against Kershaw. That would have been there. No, that
would have been it. That's all.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
But for that fifth pitch that was called the ball
against will Smith.

Speaker 7 (52:14):
You know, and I went back and watched it. You
had a point, no argument at all from the White Sox.
They're like, let's get let's get out of here, because.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
They're saying, whatever, we're really going to get that call
on Culton Kershaw's three thousand strikeout night.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Let's just fight battles we can.

Speaker 6 (52:27):
Win, right, that's fair.

Speaker 7 (52:29):
The middle of the sixth inning, the Mariners, having won nothing,
lead over the Royals. Top of the ninth inning, the
Giants lead the Diamondbacks six to one. Earlier today in
Major League Baseball, we saw the Angels beat the Braves
five to one. Zacnetto finished a triple shy of the cycle.
The Blue Jays in first place. They haven't been in
first place in the AL, least this late in the
season since twenty and sixteen.

Speaker 6 (52:49):
Beat the Yankees eight to five.

Speaker 7 (52:51):
Clark Switt left in the third inning with right four
arm tightness and the bone bruise that caused all of
us here at Foxwork Radio to miss the actual live
shot of Kershaw's three thousand strikeouts. The bron brews suffered
by Max Munsey will have him out for.

Speaker 6 (53:08):
At least six weeks.

Speaker 7 (53:10):
Guardian starting pitcher Louis Hartiz has been placed on paid
leave over reported MLB investigation into gambling. The betting integrity
firm flag two individual pitchers for our ties on June
fifteenth and June twenty seventh. James Would announced that he'll
be participating the home run Derby and had a mini
home run derby himself with his twenty third against the
Tigers today and was five for five as the Nationals

(53:32):
beat the Tigers eleven to seven. In the NBA, the
Lakers have agriuto a one year deal to bring back
big man Jackson Hayes. The Dallas Mavericks are finalizing an
agreement to have Frank Vogel join the team as lead
assistant coach behind Jason Kidd. Speaking of those Mavericks, their
former assistant Jared Dudley finalizing a deal to become the
top assistant coach for the Denver Nuggets under former interim

(53:56):
now full time guy David Adalman, and the Steelers announced
they've signed Omar Khan, the GM, to a three year contract.

Speaker 6 (54:03):
He'll be there to at least twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Back to you guys, so clearly, TJ, there will be
no wrath of Khan looking for a new contract.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
DJ gord I had to get that