Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the Knicks blowing a six-point lead with 30 seconds to go against the 76ers. The guys are also joined by Knicks insider John Schmeelk to dive in further, and MLB insider Jon Paul Morosi joins later to hit on all of the biggest storylines from around Major League Baseball. Plus, the Dodgers game was delayed by... bees?

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Smith that died that I possessed by Pizuzu from The Exorcist.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Call father Kris. You okay over there.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Body, No no, no, no no.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
That one stings, especially when your nemesis.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Sucks as badly as he did.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
I am I am Ving Raams in pulp fiction. No, butch,
I'm pretty far from okay. I am No, not great Bob,
not great Bob, but not boy.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's an interesting comparison. We want to draw that one
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Speaker 2 (01:48):
The Knicks had onej The Knicks.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Had one big comeback in the final thirty seconds down five.
You didn't think that was gonna happen again. Nope, Nicks
couldn't close the deal up six with thirty seconds left
to go at home with a birth in the conference
semifinals on the line, and they lose to the Sixers
in overtime one twelve, one to ZHO six. I don't
know what to say. I don't know what to say.

(02:12):
This was such an awful throwing up on themselves by
the Knicks, and for everything that's happened up until now,
I go great because obviously now they're having tried, they
have trouble with the Sixers team that Joel Embiid is
a shell of what he is normally. Offensively, they can't
go to him down the court. Right. He's still a

(02:33):
force defensively when he can move rebounds, he's still passing well,
but he is not doing he can't do anything offensively.
And still the Knicks have trouble and they can't guard
Tyree Maxey. Okay, final thirty seconds of this game, three
big things happen. Okay, three big things happen and over
the course of the game. And number one is, I
don't know how you foul Tyree s Maaxey and give

(02:55):
him a four point play. I don't know, Mitchell Robinson,
what you're doing. You're up six with thirty seconds left.
You don't make sure you're not fouling him and putting
him on the free throw line for a four point play.
The guy is hot, Maxy is hot. What are you
doing fouling him? You have that, then all Josh Hart
has to do is hit both free throws, and the
Knicks are winning this game. And he misses the first

(03:15):
one with about twelve seconds left so badly that you
knew right when it left his hand it was about
a foot and a half short. Like this wasn't just hey,
I missed it and it bounced off the back of
the rim. This was like did hetin it slip out
of his hand, like as soon as he as soon
as it left his hand, I said, he missed that,
he missed that. And then you have Maxi hitting the
big well, what can you say? You hit a logo three? Maxi?

(03:38):
He was heat check all night. So you had the
two times. You have those two big plays, and Knicks
missed a free throw, you send him to the free
throw line for four point play. But mainly I look
at this and I go man as hot as Maxi was,
he sure had a lot of shots where there was
nobody between between There was about five feet and there
was nobody in his face. There was five feet between

(04:00):
him and the closest defender. Like you know, he's taking
all the shots. Embiid is the decoy. And you want
to make somebody else. Make Kelly Oubray hit a shot, right,
Make make Tobias Harris hit a shot. Yes they shot well,
but make somebody else. And every time that it's like
Maxie would dribble find the open spot, and I'm like,
how does how does he just back the defender off?
And then and the Knicks don't throw any kind of

(04:22):
look at him, like, hey you have a help defender
over here that's gonna help get you a double. There's
none of that, and Maxi has all kinds of time
to shoot. I felt like Ruy Hatchama was guarding Maxi
and and T and Darvin ham was calling the defense.
Last watching tonight's game like those the Knicks just threw
up on themselves, and then watching the watching this it
all break down, I'm saying to myself, Yeah you can.

(04:42):
You can go through the ins and outs about all
the different strategies and fouling not fouling. I get that,
But overall, I mean when you watch Tyrese Maxi get
the ball very easily down court and get shots when
the six are doing the same thing the Jalen Brunson
and at least they're making them work for it more
like like they make brunts really work to get open.
And no, Brunson is not physically the same player as

(05:04):
Tyres Maxie is, but wow, you think the Knicks can
make at least a little bit more difficult for him
and not just say hey I'm gonna take a quick
drive that I'm gonna take a jab step and I'm
gonna have eight feet in front of me, and as
hot as I am, I'm just gonna keep going, man.
I mean that that was the most frustrating part watching
that game. Well, that is a misfree throw in the
four point play. Those are your three biggest things from
the game tonight. This is why I opened the show

(05:25):
by going blur, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
They even gave you that gift of the flagrant fall.
You even got that you gotta two free throws.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
I'm pretty I'm pretty sure Joelle embiid meant to hit
uh sit him on the head.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
I'm pretty i I would say, on the head. By
that point, he'd lost all benefit of the doubt.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
I mean, look, you see a normal flow.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Of things that say, all right, you bought the pump
fake and you thought the ball was coming up and
you grazed his head.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
But since you've been on the head of.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Every newspaper, every talk show, radio, and television that you're
becoming a dirty player.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, you ain't winning that one.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah. I mean, look, you've seen over the course of
the past couple few days. This is not oh, I'm
protecting myself. It's oh, no, you're going out of your
way to be a dirty player. And you can just
see it on it. He's got Brunson in front of him.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
He just comes down with his head with his hand
around the top of his head, and you watched the foul.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
I can't believe they didn't. They didn't look at it
more earlier in the quarter, in the fourth quarter, when
Brunson was going to the hoop and Tyrese Maxie just
pushed him down from behind, like that's dangerous man. It
was just whistle he goes to the free throw. I'm like, wow,
he just he just blew by him and he just
pushed him in the hips down to the ground. I'm like,
this is that that's dangerous man. You can't got mine

(06:42):
like that. A couple of things where it got got
a little out of sorts. Now, let's let's rewind as
you talked about the four point four point play. I mean, Robinson,
you know, just got caught in the air, caught the fake,
took the lean in and the bump. Never mind that
max he took a couple extra steps after he'd already
established his position. But yeah, they don't They're not gonna
call it the baby steps. They still come and then

(07:03):
the miss free throw. I like it it too, my
daughter's reaction when she goes to kick a free kick
and mishits it. So it's not the high arcing shot
down the line kind of thing, and instead it's like
a worm burner, and you'll hear a yell a damn it.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
And everybody goes your kid off, like that's my kid.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
What am I gonna do?

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Same thing here with that free throw, Like as soon
as it left his hands, you're like you could you
could read the giant thought bubble cartoon thing going on
in his head right there, MAXI finds and creates space
time and again, showing and giving him his proper credit.
As good as the Knicks are at shutting down most
guys and defending as well as they do against most guys,

(07:48):
he ain't most guys. And I think the box score
needs to be updated because mb did have a quadruple
double tonight.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
When you add that tenth turnover.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
It, yeah, yeah, add that turnover right now, it's only
sitting there at nine.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
He's done.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Don't go shorten him. He earned that tenth turnover.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Look, And let's let's talk about embiid for a second
before we got a lot to get to with tylers. Maxi,
embiid Is, Look, embiid is.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Look you see the kind of player he is playing
basically on one leg with a triple double, now quadruple double.
You get that tenth turnover.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Right also had five blocks, Right almost had a five,
almost had a ten by five game five more blocks
for embat But defensively, embiid Is still is still the guy.
You could tell he is still moving well enough defensively
and on offense when he is when he gets the
ball on the block and and it's it's a clear
out for him. He definitely still sees the floor well

(08:38):
enough to make the right play. It's just you can't
dump the ball into embiid and expect Okay, em Bead's
gonna get to the up. He's the MVP, and he's
gonna score thirty five. He can't do that right now.
And that's what baffles me about the Knicks is that
you know, Maxi is the only guy that's gonna really
kill you in this game, and still you have one
guy on him and and and he's and he's losing

(08:59):
him and he's not. You know, I'm watching this, I'm
going Okay. Embiid clearly is is just is a shell
of himself. Offensively, he can't move, He can't move, he
can't do anything that he normally does. This is where
you have to say, all right, we have to this
is Maxie. They are gonna be Maxie driven. The only
way back in this game is if they're hitting threes
and hitting aim big from the outside. It's where you say, okay,
that's the number one guy. We got to stop now

(09:20):
because Embiid, if he gets who knows, the guy's exhausted,
he gets in the lane. Who know he has trouble
hitting free throws from time to time. But this is
where the Knicks completely failed. And I think the Sixers
are walking away from this game going man, I mean MAXI, well,
that was a great game. It's like like the Nuggets
walking away from the game last night, man that it
was a great game there, Jamal Murray, what do you
think about that last shot? Yeah, I'm surprising they didn't

(09:41):
close out on me on that play, Like every play
I'm watching, How are you not closing on Tyrese Maxy?
How are you not making it more difficult for him?
Because clearly he's more athletic than to have one guy
trailing him. You gotta roll coverages towards him. You got
to have some kind of help where he can't just
dribble and find a spot and take a step back
and just hit it when he's When a guy's going
like that, I mean, you gotta do something. I mean, look,

(10:03):
I give Maxi all the credit in the world. The
guy's been on a heater man. And you know, look,
we talked about the beginning of the season. Hey, the
Sixers finally found their guy to be the number two
guy for embiid, Right, all this searching, all this, they
finally found their guy and he was doing it. But
when you're up six with thirty seconds left and you're
fouling the guy behind the three point line and then
you're you're allowing him to make these big heat check

(10:24):
shots or these shots that keep the Sixers in the game,
when it looks like the Knicks are up five and
they're gonna run away with it, and he hits a
big three. Oh yeah, now it's two point game again.
I mean, these are these are huge momentum swings. These
these are huge moments in the game. And you know,
I don't see Maxi with a hand in his face.
I don't see Maxi having hit one of those Kobe
Bryant fade away off one leg over two guys. Like

(10:45):
I mean, it was. It was immensely much easier than
I expected to see him hit those shots night. I mean,
take nothing away from him, but wow. I mean, when
a guy's on that kind of heat, you you kind
of gotta do something a little bit different. This is
This is on Thibadeau for for not react to that thinking, okay,
we're gonna scape this way. They're not gonna keep hitting shots.
Everything is fine, We're gonna get winned on the offensive end,

(11:06):
and not being more proactive in the second half and
fourth quarter in overtime of this game.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Well, conversely, you had a number of possessions for your
knicks where it just became all about Brunson and a
lot of standing around. So when he did go to
give the ball up, guys were very slow to react
because they just thought he was all right, it's my
game now and taking over. I don't discredit him because
I mean, look what he's done for you and some

(11:32):
of the shots he's hit along the way, a little
at the elbow kind of coming across the lane, little floaters,
all of that stuff, you know, just shot after shot.
He's been tremendous, but sometimes he ended up ball watching
as teammates. So when he goes to fire the pass
in the corner, you're not even looking up. You're expected
the shot to go up, So you're taking a little

(11:55):
bit of a breather kind of like, all right, I'll
get back on defense when I need to, but in
the moment, good. Uh So that that came back to
bite him. We could talk about time out management and
Tim's trying to slow down some of the runs as such,
but it's one game. And I did like the fact
that on the national broadcast they were scolding the Knicks
fans like, wait a minute, you want you've been watching

(12:16):
this game and you're getting up and leaving.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
Hell are you doing like that?

Speaker 1 (12:21):
The clock hasn't expired yet. I mean, it's still shot
of John Stewart's about as good as a gain. No,
It's like it's like the end of side the last
episode of Seinfeld when they were leaving the before the
verdict was read.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
And and and George's dad says, we have to go,
we have to beat the traffic. We have to go.
Let's go. But they haven't sentenced him yet, Frank, we
have to beat the traffic. Let's go.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
This is to say this is disappointing, is just it's
just an unbelievable And that's such an understatement.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
I mean, this was thirty seconds left and go New York, Go,
New York Go.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
And they're showing Bill Bradley is at the game, like,
oh no, you had that whole row of seven Yeah,
the whole row of guy veteran Nick's former players there,
including the Patrick Man, mean, all of it is there
to celebrate, and then that happened. Like, fortunately we came
on air right after, so we got to have you
throwing up live and in living color, because otherwise we

(13:15):
might have found you, you know, in a dungeon somewhere.
Can't you know, just kind of rocket yourself back and forth.
So here we are. You get a little bit of
therapy for the next four hours.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah, I mean, I I don't know, man, this is
just you said. See I always go back and forth
like is this the best thing to be on the
air after a game like this to talk about it?
Hell yeah, I get back, Or is the best thing
to just forget about it and and go drink, Like,
what's what's the best thing to well, you know what,
I don't even drink that.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
If you were to say, pull out a little bit
of tequila, uh maybe uh maybe maybe something that would
go nice with a cup.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Of coffee, you know you'd be okay.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
I wouldn't tell on you.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
I'll tell you man, this is this is just awful.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
You know you just get another big mac. Maybe that
is calm your nerves. It is just awful.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
Now now away from this, let me just say this
because away from this, yes, we'll have a lot on
the Knicks game tonight. Yes, go New York, Go New York.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Oh yeah, I know it's sounds like you have any
heart behind it at all, like on your squad.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Yeah, go New York and New York oh going yeah
and yeah yeah they're gone, They're gone. Now we gotta
go back. It's gonna go seven games and who knows
what's gonna happen, and more guys are gonna get hurt
because you lose a guy every day. Now, So that's
go New York.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Does Joel Embiid have an extra day whereby he could
travel to Germany? To get some platelet and other treats.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
You bring that. Why do all these people have to
travel at this point? They have enough money. You fly
that blood in from Germany and get it.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
You fly those players. Might still be some legal ease
between you know, you can procedures that you can do
abroad versus here. Yeah, I might still be going to
Jack Nicholson's Mob Doctor nineteen eighty nine classic film Batman.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
No, no, you can. I think you can fly blood
across the across the ale. You to do that, right,
I think that's a big deal. They can fly blood,
can't You tried? You put it a little Caprice sun
bag and it looks like you got drinks and stuff. Yeah,
that's fine, it's under this there. Yeah, I think it's
a little biscuits.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
But you know what, it's special sugar added to thicking
it up.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
But wow, I do want to say this because this
is this is something you don't get every day. Yes,
we'll get to more there. Uh. The Dodgers right now. Uh,
and the Diamondbacks are in a delay in the top
of the first any wait, it's raining in Arizona. No,
they are in a b delay because there's a spelling

(15:40):
bee going on, and it's in ex No, there is
a b delay because near the field there is a
hive of bees that is formed and it's too dangerous
to play. And so now it's it's on the it's
on the netting behind the plate, and it's getting bigger
and bigger. So there's a bee delay and it's it's
a lot of bees. Is not small hive by any means? Is?

(16:01):
It keeps growing? So now they need beekeepers. I guess
Jason Statham shows up, and they need beekeepers to come
and get rid of the bees and hopefully save the
bees and bring them out someplace I'm sure they will
and where they can go and and you know, have
their hive in a safer place. So we have a
bee delay going on right now. In Major League Baseball.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
You know, there's a really good old Randy Travis song
called smoking the Hive, Okay, talking about how you you
don't reach for the honey without smoking the hive. Maybe
that's the song they're playing while they're waiting for this
game to be You don't point your pistol before you
check each chamber. You don't drink, No, you don't drink
when you drive exj ordinary common sense to avoid that danger,

(16:41):
and you don't reach for the honey without smoking the hive.
It'd be a great rendition of that with him in
Clint Eastwood, if you want to hear it sometime.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
See I'm thinking it's really fascinating to watch and see
the video of this. I'm thinking like that, what was
it in Singles when when Pearl Jam they were all
high and they were watching the bees goes, Oh, this
is really good show.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
We have a shortage, right, so this is kind of
a big deal.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
That's why I said, you got to save the bees.

Speaker 6 (17:04):
Man.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
You gotta be careful here.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
Save the bees.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
You gotta what happens to the guys that were warming up?
Are they are they now gonna be unavailable?

Speaker 2 (17:12):
The pitchers US already short staff.

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Speaker 2 (18:41):
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Speaker 4 (18:49):
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Speaker 2 (18:57):
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Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yes the night in the NBA. Let's just say coming
up in a few.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Minutes, bree just breathe. It's okay.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
We are now underway with the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks. Yeah,
we have a big deal. I'm zero zero top of
the second. Wait a minute, it's almost midnight now. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
There was a delay of over eighty minutes because of
a bee situation, a swarm of bees trying to create
a nest on top of the netting behind home plate.
Can't play, it's dangerous, and they had a bee keeper come.
They put him up on the joist and he went
up and you know, it was very excited. You know,

(19:38):
it really leaned into it. You know, got the bees
up in the shop back and took the you know,
took the joist back down and went out throughout the
first ball. And after eighty minutes we had baseball and
the bee delay was finally solved, and he'll Carmen sometimes
they wear be hats and bant.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
No, he really owned this right.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
He didn't take the uh netted hat off until he
got there, and it was like tada here, I am no.
Good for him, Good for him, Matt Hilton living it up,
huge press conference after the fact as well. So, I mean,
you know, take the victory lap.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
You know, TJ. Clearly there was a buzzkill, but then
it was solved before the game DJ.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
And evidently they were playing I Need a Hero while
he was up there taking it.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
Of course, Now I want to know. Now I'm pretty
sure I know this. But if it's bees, you have
to save them because of the bee shortage. But if
it's wasps or hornets, like, you don't have to because
they don't reproduce it, don't reproduce honey or anything, so
I think you don't have to do that. But if
it's bees, you have to save them.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
I still think Pete is gonna come get you.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
No, no, no, I'm just wondering, like, but I know
there's like a rule about it, Like I remember having
a we had a situation on our block a few
years ago. And when we called the beekeeper, he just said, yeah, no,
the bees we save and we just, you know, we
bring them someplace else. But if it was wasps you
didn't or hornets you didn't have to. You could have
just hey, I'm vacuum up the bees and they're gone.
Like that's I'm pretty I'm pretty sure that's how it goes.

(21:10):
I'm not. I mean, and I don't know what kind
of bees these were. I don't know if they were hornets,
if they were washed, they were honey bees, I don't know.
But I wonder if that's like a like I'm thinking about,
is that like a fifty state law as there's the
laws differ on bees from state to state.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
I don't imagine there's got to be different uh legislation
and acted for every municipality. Yeah, I mean, I'm probably
going to care more about bees in California than they do.
And you know, I'll let you all pick a random state.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
No, I think you care about bees. There's not like
there's a bee shortage in only some states and there's
a no surplus of bees in another.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
No, And what was it Black Mirror? Isn't that the
show that did a whole thing about the robotic bees
that they had going on that suddenly it went out
of control.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
No, No, that was that was Hunger Games the tracker Jackers.
That well we did at the tracker Jackers. Yeah, you
know there's there's that. Yeah, that was that, So just
understanding that was that was in a movie.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
That was can we can we play one of the
sad songs from the latest Hunger Games movie for Jason.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
No mechanical bees, No, not yet. Apparently at some point
will be. But no mechanical bees yet. But I know,
I'm pretty sure that's that's the rule. Like that's what
the beekeeper told us when he came to take hair bees.
Yeah that if it's bees like you gotta be really
careful and take him and up in the shop back
and then you let him go and and but like
other bees, you don't have to. And I don't know
if that's the rule everywhere. But now I feel like

(22:31):
I should have been up more on bee law coming
in tonight than I was.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Well, it gives you another opportunity to be a better
man and more educated man tomorrow. This is tinunce. You
can go get yourself one of those netted hats. Yeah, oh,
walking around.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
You know, that's never been a great Halloween costume. And
I always thought it would be like a beekeeper's kind.
It's kind of easy.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
You're the man with the yellow hat, except you put
a just put a vent in front of your face,
the man with the yellow hat. Now we're going curious, George, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Yeah, yeah. I mean look, and I'm trying to google
save Bees Arizona, and like the only thing coming up
is like stuff from twenty twenty and bee farms and
everything else. I can't find anything about these bees tonight.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
Over time, you will be educated.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Exit out about a fresca. Coming up. Next, Mike and
I get into what was, without a doubt, the biggest
story of the night, regardless as whether or not it
makes me want to throw up Fox.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
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tire buying should be. Well, it looks like we're gonna

(23:51):
get Game six. The Bucks are thumping the Pacers right now.
It's like the Pacers said, yeah, we're up three to one,
it doesn't matter. Yeah, No yond George and snow Lillard
and the Bucks lead a one nine eighty eight with
two minutes to go in the fourth quarter. I mean, really,
the paces right now are going Thank goodness for the
Nick tonight. No one's gonna talk about us joining us

(24:14):
now on the hotline to break down one of the
most horrendous losses that I can never remember. Uh Nick's insider,
longtime friend of the show, John Schmilk. He's on Twitter
at Shmelk John. This is one of those games where
I don't know what time I'm gonna go to bed tonight, man,
after the show is over. I really don't. I'm gonna
be up late thinking about the fourth quarter in overtime.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
Yeah, I've been sewing. I got home. I literally took
my dog for a walk at like eleven forty five
getting home from the game, just because I didn't know
what else to do with myself. It's raining outside. I
didn't care about Okay, good top the Hour against the Holes.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
That's what I get. That's what I get on the show.
That's what I for all the go New York, go
New Your go that that's kind of my penance on
the show. That's what I get.

Speaker 6 (25:05):
Well, I mean, look, this is this is right up
there games set. I mean, look, obviously it's the States
start a high, but this is right up there with
you know, Regul Miller eight points and nine seconds. You know,
if this is as bad as a playoff loss as
you can have because the ones are self inflicted, right,
and look, teams miss free throws. You attend the games,
it happens. Josh Hart miss the free throw, it happens.

(25:25):
You know, it doesn't tend to happen. Four point plays
and and not and letting the guy she mos the
logo three two points isn't hurts to that. You can't
let a guy pull up and shoot a wide open
three in this age of the NBA. And there's a
video after I'm not sure if you guys have seen it,
where Tom Thibeau's streaming at duced to Bryce the foul MAXI,
which is what they should have done, and he doesn't

(25:46):
hear him, or it doesn't execute or whatever it is.
I mean, it's as bad as it gets.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
You know. I go back and I keep saying, I
don't know what I'm more mad about, and and nothing
takes the lead. It's it's Josh Hart missing the free
throw because he doesn't just miss it, he misses it
like it left his hand bad, Like you can tell
right away when he shot that wasn't going right. The
four point play Mitchell Robinson, which is ridiculous. But what
I keep going back to is that you know, Tyres

(26:13):
Maxie makes the heat check three, you make a shot
from the logo. Okay, you make a shot from the logo.
But by and large, he was able to run around
and there wasn't guys in his face. It didn't roll
coverages for Maxi. When Joel Embiid was pretty much a
decoy offensively. As much as he could do defensively, Joel
Embiid could do nothing on offense. And yet still Maxi's
able to dribble around, stop jab step and there's nobody

(26:35):
in his face. Defenders are still five feet off him
like you would expect that. Hey, how about we want
to cover Maxi a little bit more because the guy's
hitting stuff from everywhere. I wanted to see that more
than we didn't. So those are my three things, John
that I'm up with. I can't decide what I'm more
upset about.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
Yeah, I agree, I think the divs of Maxie could
have been better. Now, look, they running highend screwing roll
with embiid as hurt as he is, he could still
hit wide upon spot up three, so that that is
not an easy play to the same and by any means,
but it could have been better. And that's what's so frustrating, right.
I don't think the Knicks played even their B game tonight.
They did not play well. The guys other than Jalen Brunson,
I don't think played very well in the game, and

(27:11):
their defense wasn't up to par and massive. They came
out of the gates flat, They came out of the
second half flat. Yet they were still in a position
up six, with you know whatever, twenty seconds to go
to win this game. And you know, Mitchell Robinson does
things that he would have done three or four years ago.
I thought he had become a smarter player. He didn't

(27:32):
show at the end of the game, and you know,
these are the type The thing that hurts is that
these are the types of losses that can swing a series.
This reminds me of the Yankees Red Sox right two
thousand and four, where the Yankees are up three over
those two brutal League game losses, won an extra innings
and you just feel the momentum of the series starting
to shift in front of your eyes. And that's what

(27:55):
it felt like being at that game today. So the Knicks, now,
you can't let this get back to Game seven. You
got go into Philadelphia and take care of business because
you don't want that do or die game seven. Anything
can happen Max he gets out and be get high,
gets hot, whatever. But the good thing about the Zick
King guys, and you know this from watching them every
time this year where you think they're done and they're
out and they play terrible, they always figure out a

(28:15):
way to bounce back. They're very resilient. To this group.
They will one more chance to show that are two
more chances really in game six and seven.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
So that's the one thing that we've defined it over
the course of the year. I mean, and Jason living
and dying, I don't know how much your arrival here
with us helps or his catharsis here and processing.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
It or not.

Speaker 6 (28:36):
John, Yeah, I mean, I mean this is as bad
as he gets, if you want to laugh. So there's
this guy sitting in front of me at the game
up in the two hundred section. He sits in the
seat for the first quarter. You could tell he's kind
of waste. Disappears for two quarters all right, comes back
at the start of the fourth loaded, I mean absolutely
loaded that in his mind. Till in the middle of

(28:57):
the fourth quarter you sit down, puts all this stuff,
like his sweatshirt and like his his his, his, his
little mixed drink on the stairs, like at the table
right like on the stairs in the alleyway. So something
big happens. He gets up with the drink in his hands.
The old alcohol flies out of it, hits the stairs,
hits people, tries to drink, looks confused that nothing's there.

(29:18):
Still loaded. About three minutes later, the guy starts rolling
weed on his whack. In the middle of the game,
the same thing happens. This hit of three gets up.
The thing's not rock yet. The weed flies everywhere. It's
been older than a game. I couldnot believe what I
was seeing. It was the most ridiculous thing I've ever
seen being at an NBA basketball game.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
You had to see that. Then you had to see
the fourth quarter in overtime for the Knicks. I mean,
that's that's a that's a tough view. I only had
to watch a fourth quarter in overtime. I didn't get
to see that.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
That self made it.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Medicating might have helped if it had been correct.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
And the funny thing is, the minute that dude came back,
things started going sound. So I I planned that dude.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
That guy's gonna get famous virally going Hey, everything was
great for the Knicks until this happened. Right, Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (30:09):
I mean, guys, like, well, and I was at Game
two that was one of the most exciting best basketball
games I've ever been at. The way that game ended,
this was equally as bad. So now I feel like
it's kind of even now with the way those two
games ended with Frankly, the Sixers probably should have won
Game two, and Nick probably should have won this game,
and now you got two more games to go. I'm curious,
what do you guys think, Like, do you think Embida

(30:29):
is just so toast in terms of his knee and
his conditioning, or do you think he has something left
for the last two games?

Speaker 4 (30:35):
No, I think this is the NBA we're gonna get.
I mean, look, you could see that at least he
is close to what he is defensively right, because he
could still move around as well defensively as he needs to.
He can still facilitate on offense again a triple double tonight.
But offensively, this is just what he is on one leg.
He is eminently defendable. He's not shooting well, he's shooting volume.

(30:57):
He is going like this is that the Knicks there,
if they're looking at game six, I'm saying, Okay, the
guy we have to stop is Maxi because Embiid, no
matter what he does, by the time we get to
the fourth quarter, he's gonna be wiped, right. He's he
can't sit down, right, you can't play him all forty
eight minutes because he's exhausted. But he can't sit him
down because the Knicks come back, and what do they
do tonight when Embid sat down? So there's nothing you

(31:18):
can do. I'd I'd let Embiid b Embiid, and I
would make sure because Maxi is the guy that's killing
them in this game, and that's what that's what you
have to look at for Game six. Nobody else is
gonna step up. Tobias Harris is not going to score
forty points. Maxi's the guy. He's been feeling it and
he's having one of those all time great playoff series.
They have to change and say, okay, instead of Embiid
being the one and Maxie, it's got to be Maxi's

(31:40):
the guy. We got to stop and then bid can
get his points a while, but eventually he's just gonna
get tired.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
And you look get the factor Tony. You guys and
Nick said six offensive rebounds. They've had fewer than six
offensive rebounds only two other times this entire season. From
the start of the year to now, they've have fewer
than six offensive rebounds only twice. I wonder how much
of that is. Is Bogdanovic being out and having to
stretch these guys even further in terms of minutes. Are
they losing some of that extra energy. I don't know

(32:06):
what the answer is. I don't know. If you want to
see Alex Burk's out there, you know what I mean.
So I don't know what the answer is there. But
you know, the Knicks, they had at least eleven or
twelve offensive rebounds and in a couple of games fifteen
and twenty in this series, and to have only six
not getting those second chance points, and combined now with
the general poor shooting, it's it's just going to be
tough to win these games. And that's the thing that sucks.
They were still going to win the game if they

(32:27):
would have just not done multiple really dumb things at
the end. Heck, I can even argue and look, I look,
I'm the one that always playing the coach. Tibodau apparently
told Douce big Bright the foul. But at the same time,
after he makes after he makes that three, you know
you've got to quote Tendahan, advanced the ball. You know,
you least five or six seconds off that shot. Walk
with Brunson dribbling down the floor, he gets off a

(32:49):
really poor shot. It gets partially blocked by Batoum. I
think I think should have called the time they were
to advance the ball and on the MAXI three before
Mitchell Robinson shouldn't be in the game. All right, you
got two times mouth there use one. You've got to
put your five smartest switchable defenders on the floor. You
don't need size on the floor. They need a three
point shot hard you want to post up Joe, indeed,
have fun, go ahead, don't care Mitchell Robinson s shedn't

(33:12):
get me on the floor there to not step up
on the long MAXI three. So just between the coaching
and the execution at the end of the game. These
are again, these are games that if you throw them away,
they usually come back to launch you. Luckily the game
Knicks had a two game cushion and they'll have a
chance to kind of make good on it. But I
mean it's not good. It's just not good. Yeah, what
do we have.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
One to one on these type of games?

Speaker 6 (33:34):
Right?

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Six ers eighty nine percent chance to win game two
off of all those statistical algorithms we run, and then
today ninety five percent for the Knicks.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
But five was the win.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Prop Yeah, yeah, ninety five point four if we want
to be precise.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
So the question is that's fantastic, thanks Budd, you know we.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Like the specificity. Uh So, get in right now.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Is one hundred ninety bucks on the re sale market
for tickets for Game six? How many Nick fans get
to take over this time.

Speaker 6 (34:06):
Oh, that place is going to be packed. And I
was shocked because I you know, I have two young kids,
so I'm not gonna go down there because my wife
would murder me. But you know, I was looking and
good seats like twenty rows up sent to court with
like two hundred and fifty bucks. You got to spend
four hundreds to get into the upper deck at the
Garden for anty of these games. So I think there
will be plenty of nick fans in the building for

(34:27):
game number six, no doubt about it.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
All right, Well, from your lips to God's ears, that's
what I'm hoping for, because you know, honestly, if I
wasn't on the air, like Harmon said to me before
the show tonight, hey this is good. You get to
talk about this game for four hours, and I'm like, no,
I want to just shut everything off and go in
a sensory deprivation tank and wake up Thursday night, right
when the game is tipping off, like, I don't want
to think about it. I don't want to sit who
spend the next two days thinking about it because I've

(34:51):
done that so many times for the Mets and Jets games.
And now at the Knicks, and I just want to
fast forward.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
And by the way, here's the worst part apparently at
Lisa's co according to a uh oh, there's the worst
part minutes ago that since the Pacer and Buck series
is going six geames, that game is going to be
at seven o'clock on Thursday. Do you know what time
tip off for Nicks and Sixers are going to be
on Thursday in Philadelphia? Nine pm?

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Oh boy, oh man, it's a full day of revelry
before the.

Speaker 6 (35:22):
H Can you imagine how lit in many different ways
that is going to be with that game?

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Oh gosh, you know.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
And let me just bring this up with you lastly,
because you know you mentioned here and this is something that, look,
we just have to deal with with the NBA playoffs.
But you look at the injuries that everybody is going through,
and now that with Randall out and now Bogdanovitch is
out for the year. And I was thinking about this today.
Is that is that you talk about being stretched out
and playing in too many minutes. It's that the two
moves the Knicks made it the deadline, which are supposed

(35:52):
to catapult them. We're Bogdanovich and Burks and and Burks
can't even get in the rotation, and Bogdanovitch is now
out for the year after just kind of being okay
for a little while. So it's like everything they did,
the two big moves they made the young players, they
traded Quentin Grimes the deadline, like they now have nothing
to show for that, absolutely nothing to show for that.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Wait, wait, wait, Grimes doesn't playing for them anymore.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
Oh no, are you talking about Steven A.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Smith?

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Will tell you. Just ask steven A. Smith, I'll tell
you about Grimes.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Oh I forgot. That's good. Yeah, were talking about about that.

Speaker 6 (36:21):
But I'll be honest because though I'm not sure if
they win Game one and two and only only hit
a couple of shots, but Donovanc actually had some really
big shots in the first two games of this series,
like some really big threes when he played. They needed
those in two games that you know, went down to
the you know, only a couple points at the end,
and unfortunately Burke's played it with Burkes was knowing to
blame for himself. He played terribly since he got here,

(36:42):
and he played his butt right out of that rotation.
So I don't know what the option this year, maybe
you can play precious a little bit at the four
when when Josh Hart's not in the game. I don't know,
but and this isn't you guys remember this when when
you were growing up in the nineties, the Nixon Bulls
used to play back to backs in the playoffs on
Saturday and Sundays. I remember this. The ratings were so good.

(37:05):
They would play back to bad games and there was
always Nick home games and it will never win both
of them. He's hard to win back to bad games
in the playoffs. They would play back to back Saturday
and Sunday at the Garden on the weekends in the
mid nineties, Nixon Bold because they did such good ratings.
Then we didn't get the damn Now you get like
three games between you know, half of these games in
these playoffs series, which is ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
You can fall on Twitter at Shmelk That is Ad Shmelk,
Nicks Insider, Giants Insider pre post game host with the
Giants as well.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
John as always, Buddy, appreciate you staying up late. Hopefully
you've made my life a little bit easier tonight I
feel a little bit better. Hopefully you can get some sleep.

Speaker 6 (37:40):
At some point I will attempt it, and I might
have to do some self medicating before I do just that.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
God speed my friends.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
Take it easy, buddy.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
So yeah, well, you know, on this date in nineteen
ninety one, Michael Jordan had that great baseline dunk.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
Oh okay, No, that's great. That doesn't make me feel better.
It doesn't make me feel better.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Well, but to make you, you know, think about it
in your head, the little pivot.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
Now, I think about Josh Hart missing the free throw
and and and I think, you know, I think about
Jalen Brunson throwing the ball out of bounds. Yeah, with
with ten seconds left.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Yeah, I mean, just what an absolute course John John's
arrival with us today in our three of the show,
help at all? Or it's a little bit you're more
agitated that you're gonna need a uh late night burger
run or something. Oh I would need that regardless, Like
I'm not saying that, you know, no, no, I mean
it's Tuesday.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Yeah yeah, no, no, and look and look, no, you
really want to know. I'll tell you the truth. You
really want to know. What I don't know? This is
a dark side or the bright side is that if
the Knicks lose this series. Okay, it's game It's Game
six Thursday night, and then Game seven is Saturday. So
if the Knicks lose this series, they lose Saturday. There's Saturday,

(38:51):
Saturday night, Sunday, Sunday night, Monday. When we come on
the air, we're already into the next round of the playoffs.
I don't have to talk about it. I don't talk
about it. Greatwhere onto other things if we don't have to.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Talk about they lose. Not necessarily true.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
No, we're moving on. We're moving on.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
We'll talk about the results from the Kentucky Derby and
some of the other games that have been played, but
moving on, you know, get out unscathed me either way. Thursday,
we'll be in studio and watching it all go down
live and in living color.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Yeah again late game, late game on Thursday.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Oh, we'll have the second half during our windows, so
people can live and die with every shot miss every
free throw missed, every out of bounds call, every time
out that isn't communicated between Thibodeau and McBride, and we'll
just roll all the way through exit out about a
Fresca exit swollen down the Jason Smiths with Mike Carmon.
Coming up next, we get into what is, without a doubt,

(39:43):
the most bizarre story of the night in sports.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
Keep it right here, Jason and Mike Fox, Fox Sports Radio,
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
It is sad song for the next night tonight. And yeah,
we're getting some sad ones. Not the end of the road.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
It's three to two, going to game six. Let's just
understand it's top the breaks a little bit. Well, you're
heading down that way, Tap the breaks a little bit,
tat the breaks. Hey, you're standing at the crossroads.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Nowt Bella.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
We have more NBA on the way. But what was,
without a doubt, the most bizarre story of the night tonight.
If you had on your bingo card a bee keeper
would throw out the first ball between the Diamondbacks and
the Dodger tonight, well then you would have won a
lot of money. Because the Diamondbacks and the Dodgers were
delayed nearly eighty minutes tonight because of a b infestation.

(40:36):
Bees were trying to make a hive just above the
top of the netting behind home plate. The game was delayed.
Beekeeper showed up goes up on the joist, takes it down,
gets it throughout the first ball. Pretty fun, and now
the game is underway. Joining us now in the hotline
for that and more. We got stuff on Mike Trout
MLB Insider Extraordinaire. You can fall on Twitter at John

(40:57):
Morosi and that is John Morosi, John Paul. What's happening, buddy?
How are you? Man?

Speaker 6 (41:03):
H beekeepers everywhere in this great country are having a
big night. They're the coolest people on the block. That's
all I know. And I have to think that this
is the greatest night in the history of beekeepers. And
we may now, hey, I would suggest that we potentially
add the name of a of a minor league or

(41:24):
Major League Baseball team as the beekeepers. This is a
big night for the industry.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
I mean this may. I mean you may have to
get going. I mean for MLB network, you may have
to get going like a beekeeper All Star team, and
and and the votes and all kinds of you're gonna
start covering bee keepers across the country like this may
change what you do for a living.

Speaker 6 (41:42):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Now.

Speaker 6 (41:43):
Now this now, since we're close friends, I'll share this
with you for a long time I was allergic to bees.
It seems as though I have I have out grown
that allergy. But there was a while where if if
if I had been told there was a bunch of
bees at the ballpark, it would be the first time
I laugh. I'd say, you know what, guys, let's you
take this one the rest of the way. I am

(42:05):
out because I used to be like, definitely afraid of
of beastings because I was legitimately allergic, you know, carry
around the EpiPen all that stuff. So that would have
been for a while, that would have been like exit
stage right from eroson. That probably would have been the
one thing that would drive you away from a baseball game.
But now I'm good, so I'm more than happy to
cover the story.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Now there you go.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Seems like an opportunity for either the Salt Lake Bees
or the old Burlington Bees to go back to Iowa.

Speaker 6 (42:32):
The Burlington Bees, yes, I remember that team now Midwest
League back in the day.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
Be yeah, they were the Bees.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Sure married too.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Anyway, So as we float through the the I guess
we call it the inevitable of Mike Trout anymore. JP
made another sad turn of meniscus tear and u promising start.
Batting average obviously struggling, but at least from a power supply,
he was there.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
I don't even know what to say anymore.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
It's tough. And obviously we're talking about one of the
greatest players we've seen in our lives. As we speak
right now, he was still tied with Gunnar Henderson as
the as the leading home run hitter in baseball, So he,
to your point, was off to a tremendous start from
power hitting perspective, and now this it's just not it's

(43:24):
not well any of us were hoping to see. I mean,
clearly he had put so much time and effort into
being that beacon for the organization, certainly losing show in
the off season, and Rendon hasn't been able to live
up to the expectations. So for all these reasons, he
looked at what he was doing and said, Okay, there's
some hope. Now there's at least some relevancy with the organization.

(43:48):
And now it's all gone with respect to his at
least the near term. Now it's been described that it's
not expected to be a season ending injury, but it's
obviously to take a pretty significant chunk out of his year,
and the Angels looking very listless right now in the
American League West, the managers who are playing really good

(44:09):
baseball that have playing another good ball game tonight against Atlanta.
You've got the defending World Series champions in your division.
And Mike Trout really was the one player who seemed
to be keeping this Angels organization relevant nationally, if you will.
And now not only is Otani gone, but the one
guy that people would still really be drawn to see

(44:31):
is on the il for a while. So it's just
a tough, tough bit of news all the way around
for a once once proud and still hopefully relevant organization.
But it just doesn't look that.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Way right now, you know.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
And the thing that I can't get past John Paul
is that, you know, I don't know what the solution
is for him. This is a solution for him to
not play the outfield anymore, is because that's you would
think number one. But then you think you can't even
trust him to run the bases, like it's such difficult thing,
Like I don't know what you can do because it's
just his body. He's been breaking down over the course

(45:05):
of the past few years. And you look at his
talent where he's out on the wrong side of thirty
and two hundred and twenty million dollars in that the
Angels owe him, and you just go, Wow, this got
really bad, really fast, right it did.

Speaker 6 (45:18):
And so the question there, and that's where you look
at a contract of that length, and certainly we would
hope and believe that the Angels have some insurance on
that to protect themselves against the downside of him not
being available at the moment. But when you look at
that and look at how much money is still left
on I mean, there were some rumblings in the off season.

(45:40):
Would would Trout be willing to accept the trade? And
is that something that he would consider? Perhaps? But who
can accept the contract? Not because of his ability, of course,
but because of the injury. And I think that's just
the reality of where the Angels have arrived with someone
that's been the standard bearer of the sport for a
very very long time. It's just the mathematics don't work

(46:03):
in any way. The games played are per year are
are dropping as his age is rising, and that that,
as we know, is not a promising combination. And it's
it's just difficult to see how that reverses itself here
in the.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
In the near term JP as we we look at
the standings as we get out of the first month
of play, the Orioles living up to expectations, even with
the brief appearance of Jackson Holiday uh tried to force
it didn't work, send him back down. But there's the Yankees,
because I got to keep piling on Smith because you know,
the Knicks lost, so that the Yankee doing well is

(46:39):
also going to hurt his soul.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
So let's talk about the Yankees moment. Yell sure.

Speaker 6 (46:46):
And by the way, Jason, not to not to uh
not to pile on here. But I was actually boarding
my flight and and for some reason, I very rarely
check NBA playoffs scurse as you know, I'm I'm a
baseball hockey guy. But I had I had walked past
the TV in the airport and and it showed the

(47:06):
next game. I said, oh, they're up by five with
like less than a minute left. They're good, that they're
gonna win this basketball game. And then I land and
I just legitimately I did not mean at all or
intend to mention this, but I was scrolled through Twitter.
I was like what what happened in that game. So anyways, Jason,
that that was how I experienced this very unique evening

(47:26):
in the in American professional sports. But but but the
New York Yankees, Uh, they they lost tonight though they
lost the Memorials and and so for me, it's not
just uh, they've they've played well. I think Baltimore right
now is a little bit of a better team. You
mentioned Jackson Holiday on Baltimore's side. For me, Gunnar Henderson's

(47:49):
the story. I mean, he has played like an MVP.
I know it's the first month of the year, but
this is what an MVP looks like. I mean, he's
a left handed hitting short stop with power and and
he's just a nic defensive players. So the al E
is good. It's seep the Yankees, I think when you
consider where they're at right now with Soto, Volpi's a

(48:09):
better offensive player than it was last year. Rizzo's playing
every day again. I think we've seen some better at
bats from the young catcher Austin Wells this week. So, Jason,
I'm sorry to tell you the Yankees are are better
than expected, But you know what the Mets are too,
And code I sing is gonna come back. The big question, though,
is how good do the Mets have to play to

(48:32):
convince my co host Turnsy to not sell at the deadline,
to not move guys like potentially a Louis Severino or
a JD. Martinez or a Pee Alonso. They're gonna have
to play really well because the braves in Philly is
my friend, they ain't going anywhere.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
All right.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
Well, here's where I got three big things to say
to your Oh, I just discovered what happened to the Knicks.
Rant Number One, the Mets need to be because right,
eighty five games gets you in the playoffs, as long
as they can't be five or six games, and if
they're five hundred, they're absolutely fine. So that that's I'm
absolute okay with them.

Speaker 6 (49:09):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Two, the Hurricanes won tonight, so my Stanley Cupper Bus
season moves on to the second round of the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
I'm happy about that.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
And three, if you remember, who did I tell you
was gonna be the al MVP this year? Who did
I tell you I told you Gunn Henderson was going
to be the al MVP this year?

Speaker 2 (49:26):
I told you that I never said that Gunner Henderson.
You got that.

Speaker 6 (49:28):
No, I'm I remember that from our earlier conversation, and
you're spot on about the Mets. I mean, the thing
about that I wonder is David is a long term
strategic thinker and very objective when you really get down
to it, Jason, think about this. Do you when you

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look at the Mets and you look at the Phillies,
you look at the Braves, do you watch these three
teams that say, yeah, yeah, I could see the Mets
beating these guys in a playoff series or or finished
ahead of them in the regular Seasont's I love you man.
That's been of a leaf of faith. So well, we'll
we'll see. But here's my thing.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
Just did you see the beating the Dodgers last year? I? No,
I didn't see it, right, I didn't.

Speaker 6 (50:14):
I didn't Corporn Carroll doesn't play for the Mets, though,
so I don't know what we're.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
Gonna We're gonna.

Speaker 6 (50:20):
Here's here's here's the thing. No, get very very fair.
That's all very fair. But my point is they're playing
better than you thought they were going to play. They are,
they're playing good baseball. There there was still I think
when you think about singer coming back. Nimo is gonna
hit better as the season goes along. This is the

(50:40):
baseball team, not a great team, but a good team.
And for that, Jason Smith, I congratulate you on this
final night of April.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
There you go, Smith, you got your your victory.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Lab can I can I pour one out for former
White Sox star jose A Brew who is designated for
assignment and what becomes the latest turn in a miserable
Houston season.

Speaker 6 (51:02):
Goodness gracious, what has happened there? You know the Astros.
I keep getting asked do I think they're gonna get better?
Do I see a pass for them? And the answer
is not really, to be honest with you, we just
talked about the Al West. Seattle is a much better team.
Texas is a much better team and a brain who

(51:24):
looks completely lost. The idea is he's gonna go down
to the minor leagues and find a way to get
his swing back and work on it. We will see.
But the question of what are we seeing that indicates
that he's close to bouncing back? The answer on that

(51:44):
is not a whole lot. I mean, he really there,
There is nothing I'm seeing right now. He's a great guy.
Classy guy. I was actually there on the first day
of his first free training with the White Sox. It
was fun to cover that. So I'm pulling for him,
rooting for him. But my goodness, guys, we're not seen
a whole lot of positive trend lines there for Jose.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
On Twitter at John Morosi.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
That is at John Morosi and maybe you're leading vote
getter in the bee Keeper All Star Team.

Speaker 4 (52:12):
Pope, as always, buddy appreciated my friend. We'll talk to
you soon.

Speaker 6 (52:16):
Sounds great, gentlemen. I love it, and I'm gonna pull
for the Knicks. I believe they can find a way. Jason. Now,
I'm behind you, supporting you, my friends, because last last
I checked, the Pistons are not involved in these playoffs,
is that correct? Or they have a buye.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
They're in. They're automatically in the finals.

Speaker 6 (52:33):
So they have Yeah, I believe they have a buye.
They have a buye to the twenty twenty eight playoffs.
I believe that's how that works. Hey, yeah, Well we'll
catch up with you in four years.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
All right, Pope, we'll see you man. Have fun all
of that.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Thank you, advance it four years, just skip it.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
The twenty twenty eight playoffs. There Kate Cunningham is going
to be thirty six by the time. Oh my goodness.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the
tyrack dot Com studios. Time now to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. From Brian Fanlely BF,
what do you got?

Speaker 5 (53:10):
My friend had Jason Mike? I thought the Pistons were
to get relegated to the G League. I guess that's
for another story in another day. But yeah, as far
as the NBA postseason is concerned, we got your Knicks
up by six with thirty seconds to go when a
closeout game.

Speaker 6 (53:24):
All the Luminaries were.

Speaker 5 (53:26):
Front row in Madison Square Garden, from Patrick Ewing and
Bill Bradley to John Starks, and they watched an epic
collapse by the Knicks as they got bamboozled in overtime
one twelve to one oh six. The seventy six years
force a Game six with New York leading the series,
now three games to Tyrese Maxi had forty six points

(53:47):
and he said it was his focus before the game
that allowed him to play like he did.

Speaker 6 (53:52):
Mandatory we had to a season on a Lile and
you know we fought for fifty two minutes, never gave
up even when we were down.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Late guys plays and it was big time, big time.

Speaker 4 (54:05):
Blah blah blah whatever.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Yeah, I know you like that.

Speaker 5 (54:08):
You know like that sound bite. We should just play
that coming into a break or coming out.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
Of a breakway, never play it again. That's what we
should do.

Speaker 5 (54:15):
Sounds fair as far as what we should play is
the hits, and that is talking NBA and the Calves
are the one to four to one to oh three
win over the Magic.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
So that was a Game five.

Speaker 5 (54:26):
Cleveland leads the series three games to two. Pala Bancaro
had thirty nine points eight rebounds in a losing cause
and no Dame Willard no Jannis dent to Koompo for
the Bucks as they outpaced the Pacers one fifteen to
ninety two. So Milwaukee keeps themselves afloat in the postseason
after they stay off elimination. As everybody likes to say,

(54:48):
in a Game five NHL postseason one game still up
and running, that would be the Conduction Predators and no
signs of this one ending anytime soon. It's one apiece
in the third period a Game five Vancouver win, they're
onto the next round. Boston had a close out situation
the Bruins, but they lost at home and overtime two
one of the Maple Leafs, so a Game six is

(55:09):
looming there. The Hurricanes did get it done. They closed
it out in a Game five, six to three over
the Islanders, and the Avalanche moving on after a Game
five triumph on the road against the Jets six to three.
So even the Jets in the NHL just find ways
to lose. Meanwhile, at least they're scoring.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
They score a lot.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
For hockey standards.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
I guess you're right. The Jets have scored seven goals
in the playoffs twice this playoffs. You know, the last
time the Jets scored seven points in a playoff game
in the NFL, you had to go back to like
twenty to twelve.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
That's true. That is well taken. And lastly, guys, just
a quick couple of mentions from baseball. We do have
that Dodgers Diamondbacks game up and running. It's the only
game that's still going on. It's only the top of
the fifth Diamondbacks leading one to nothing. That's because there
was a two hour delay because of a beehive that
had manifested itself and the netting behind home plate. They
brought out the beekeeper. He did his thing, and he

(56:04):
was the hero. As far as other games, the Orioles
over the Yankees four to two, Marlins win in tendings
over the Rockies, the Blue Jays fall short at home
to the Royals four to one, Mets win, White Sox lose,
Brewers victorious, so were the Rangers. Astros get it done
ten to nine against the Guardians in ten and lastly,
the Padres, trying to get themselves back to five hundred,

(56:28):
they win at home six to four against the Reds.
You Darvish picks up his first win on the bump
this season with the Padres are still three games below
five hundred, by the way, getting it back to you guys,
the White Sox are eighteen games below five hundred.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Thank you very much, Brian Fenley, and continue to get lower, lower, lower,
thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
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