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Jason and Mike weigh in on JJ Redick’s introductory press conference. Jason tells you why he’s done hearing "It's just sweat & rosin with Edwin Diaz. I'm done hearing "It's just sweat & rosin. And the guys react to the Florida Panthers winning Game 7 of The Stanley Cup Final.

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about less than forty minutes away from crowning dual champions
here tonight. We're going to the third period, Game seven
in the Stanley Cup Final. The pan There's are twenty

(01:01):
minutes away from taking the Cup after blowing a three
games to non lead. Meanwhile, Tennessee just has to navigate
five more outs. However, Texas A and M has cut
that lead to six to three in the deciding game
of the College World Series, which I'm glad Steve de
Seger keeps saying the final game ending tonight, because outside

(01:21):
of that, it's impossible.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
To know he was trying to help you out. It
is impossible to know.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
You know, trying to take that great because we had
it in Chuck on the Wall. I got mad at
us because we kept kind of exing things out. I say,
I don't think that's how just going.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
You could just have them keep going into the fall
into college football and say he has another super read
now is super due the regional Yeah? Oh more again,
well now they won. So now Tennessee and Texas A
and M have won this big Super World series. Right now,
we have other teams coming into play. Teams have even
lost earlier. They just come back and they get resurrected
like Zump exactly. Yeah, no, I know, and here they are.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, like in episode one, you played h you know,
a guy who was a clerk, and then you came
back in episode four and play it is about that.
It's like, yeah, hey, team that got knocked out three
weeks ago. People don't remember. They just come back and
play like this. The College World they were eliminated.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I wish I could keep it. I wish I could
keep it straight. But now you can. It's a final. No, no,
now it's and the Stanley Cup Final. I mean, now
it's easy. This is it, This is whin.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
The winner of this game wins the College World Series.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
There's no no more.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Yeah, unless the guy that looks like you know, Rod
Beck is coming in.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
They got to stop you wait, well, tarp On at
Harmon's house.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Stop the bleeding.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
I did see that.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
After a really bad throwing out the white flaggers out
of tart. It's a giant white slide. They're trying to
catch Otani and roll him up under it. That's the
only way they're gonna he was, well, he was gonna
have the plate right.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
Hitting RBI and a scored running like seventy eight straight games.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Stand in front of this tart. But we're rolling over here, Tani.
We gotta win this game. Oh yeah, Dodgers White Sox
only two nothing Dodgers, Well surprising and that's a recent event.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, had had it.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
I mean he's a hell of a pitcher. Yeah, he's
fun to watch. No, it's a yeah, No, not Bob cratching. No, no, no, Bob,
not part of a Christmas carol. You of the ghost.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
No, no, it's not, it's not. I don't think something. Sure, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Mean for marketing purposes, perhaps you'd go that way.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
DJ.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Clearly plenty of room in a pair of pants in
the crotch if you were where DJ.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Uh so. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
So this is where we're at right now. Again, it
is the championship between Tennessee and Texas A and M.
If the winner of this wins, neither of them have
won the national title before the winner of this game
wins the championship. Meanwhile, in the Stanley Cup final, the Panthers,
everybody's nervous, everybody's going nuts of the or we We
could be seeing something that you and I will never

(03:42):
see again in their lives. No one really that that
is alive now has seen it. That remembers the last
time a team came in professional sports from down three
zip to win a championship, not just got winner championship.
Do you remember the Toronto Maple Leeves, say dad, Dad,
your seventy I remember maple leafs right, No, when it's happened,
my dad is seventy seven.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Five years.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
They remember that don't live in Canada. Hey, that don't
live in Canada. Not everybody, and suddenly remember can do
it that don't live in Canada. I mean people who
watch it the first time around that don't live in Canada.
It's gonna be tough. There's gotta be a few that
also might be the last time the Leafs made the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
If I'm to eightians are gonna hate you.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
But I mean, like, right now, you're getting away from
what might be the cruelest taunt in all of sports.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Hey, we had a three nothing lead.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Welcome back into the series. Oh to slap you upside
the face? So far and so far we'll get to
the big goal. That's the difference right now. And they
were not happy so far.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Alanis Morissette has been a good luck charm for the pants.
Are singing the national anthem.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Clearly, TJ.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
The fans falling head over feet for Lettice Morrison who
did the drum Phil Collins, Oh.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Did he do the thing?

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Clearly?

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Alanis Morris set telling fans you want to know the
Stanley Cup is going to be awarded tonight.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
TJ.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Also in attendance, damn coolier, everybody, Hello, DJ, isn't it
ironic that we go to Game seven of the Stanley
Cup Final when the Panthers were up three games to none.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
DJ. The beauty of it is.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
None of that was ironic, djcident losing of three games
to none lead.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
It's like rain on your wedding day. It's like, I
hate they must really love her head over feet TJ.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
But look the goal.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
That's the difference right now, that has the Panthers up
to one and again ready from you know, hopefully for them. Hey,
we're twenty minutes away from not having the worst, most
embarrassing storyline haunt us for the rest of our lives.
Reinhart is the goal score in the second period and
Stuart Skinner, Skinner, who has McDonough sounded like he's kind.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Of been up and down this postseason. Skinner yelling at uh,
but he allows a goal. That's a really bad goal.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
I know that the defenceman kind of laid back a
little too much and allowed him to get too close
to the net. But this was not a great shot.
This was not hey, he went high, this was this
was something that's got to be saved. That kind of
that Skinner kind of just moved his arm a little
bit like he kind of reacted like I don't know
if it It still came in almost eighty miles an hour,
so it's not like it was a flutter off puck

(06:36):
or anything, but like it, No, he's got.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
To make that save. Like it didn't get deflected. It was.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
It's something that should have hit him like in the
upper part of the chest, and instead it bounces off
his arm and and and it and it and it
and it goes in for the goal. I mean, that's
that's a really crappy goal. I mean that that's a
goal that you go. Man, I really want that back.
I really I gotta have that one back because if
that's the if that's the goal that wins the Stanley
Cup for you or lose the Stanley Cuppets. Man, we
came all the way back and that that's got to

(07:03):
be a play you make a save on.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Well.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
Meant it's say he got cute right after that and
got out out of the crease and almost gave up
another big opportunity seconds later. Right, It's like, you know,
we watch you know, you got copa and you're a
going and you watch hockey and guys make a play
or don't. And then they go the opposite extreme right,
all of a sudden, you're flying like Luca when he

(07:25):
was not getting calls, All of a sudden, he's sprinting
back like, look at how much great defense I'm gonna
give you. It's get her same thing. It's like, why
I missed that one? But watch me, big, watch me
play this puck behind the net, and all of a
sudden like, oh crap, I can't get to that puck
behind the net. Let me scramble back the other way
and try to thwart this. So yeah, they almost found

(07:45):
themselves in a deeper hole just that fast. So to
to one, I think it's like sixteen minutes of ice
time for McDavid. He's got two shots graphic they just
put up on the broadcast Florida eighteen another the last
two postseasons. When leading atter to two periods, I mean really,
because I don't have a dog in the fight here.
I mean, obviously, look, I do hits in Edmonton, you know,

(08:06):
fairly often, So it's kind of fun. Our show does
well and out chard as well in Miami too and Florida.
But it's kind of fun because I have that personal
connection to Edmonton. I've been there before and and it's
kind of like, oh kay boy, I'd love to see
Edmonton do this, you know, But really it's like it's
like a it's almost like a sports bucket list thing,
no matter what kind of fan you are, to see
a team come back from three to nothing in the

(08:28):
final to win. I mean, look again, it's something nineteen
forty two the last time has happened. And if it
doesn't happen now, when can you say we're ever gonna
see it? I mean, can you oh yeah, we're gonna
say that will happen sometime the next couple of years.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Up here, I mean we haven't.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
This is the closest it has been, and it's twenty
minutes away from saying.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Oh so close to forrest game seven.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
No, but at the insanity of it, right when whenever
we get into the playoffs and you start charting out,
all right, here's how long it could go whatever, but
it never does. Maive rarity that we even get games
sevens in championship rounds. We're blessed when we do. But
like legitimately, it's it's twenty minutes, maybe an overtime period,

(09:08):
maybe two if we're lucky, because I love free hockey.
But the idea that you know, this is it your
last game. You made it to your final twenty minutes,
there's no hey, we can play for tomorrow. We can
do the stuff like the Celtics stand. I mean, Florida
already tried that. I guess what, it didn't work out
so well because I had to work all the way
to a game seven. But this is it, I mean,

(09:29):
the the ultimate night of hockey for this season, and
we'll see if you know, the superstar can make a play.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah. And that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Now. We always talk about athletes under pressure and who's
under the most pressure.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
In the NBA Finals, in the.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
World Series, in the super Bowl, there's always one player
that it's more than more than that four. But right now,
these last twenty minutes, there is nobody under more pressure
than the best player in hockey and that's Connor mc data. Everybody, Okay,
now this is it, this is you're the best player.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
We need a goal. Go get one.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Well, because you saw how the rhetoric and need talking
points as the lead extended from one game to two
game to three games, it became a you know, shots
how much ice time, how quickly they were shifting off,
and then when they won the game to force things
forward where he didn't have a shot on goal, no points.

(10:19):
This is the first time in seven times, seven games
in his career that that happened. But he's looking wrong
on how the hell did that happen?

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Hey, you need to be better next time. We don't
have that again.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
This just goes to show you to widen this point
out of it. Now is obviously the cope America and
euro we're watching.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
It's great.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
These two competitions are going on right now, and we
get games in the middle of the day and they're
fun and watching. You think the America, you think we
have problems trying to score goals. Just watch Italy play.
Oh my goodness, loving how many times in the box
Italy have to biff the ball and it winds up
going out of bounds, but just finally.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Score that equalized. Is there a minute and a half left?
An extra time? Baby? But you just think about caz.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Soccer and hockey are very extremely similar in in players
with their responsibilities and what you ask certain players to do.
Did you just say sake and hockey, yes, sake. If
you're drinking sake.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
I don't know if I've ever drank soake. Really, I
think I've tried it.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
What's wrong?

Speaker 5 (11:13):
We've never had sushi? No, I have sushi right now.
You haven't.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
What do you mean? I eat? I eat the sushi.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
California's sake, No noumber.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Now. I want sushi like with with the crust cut
off the end of my sandwiches.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Take a regular suits. Whether it's whether it's yellowtail or.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Never had the experience of sushi. If you haven't drinking sake.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
With it drinking. If I haven't drinking sake, he didn't,
he didn't do the drink. You were drinking sake. If
you haven't drinking drinking, If I haven't drank or drink
drink it depends the world.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I've tried. I've tried. But listen, I'm so. I've told you.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
I don't want any kind of alcohol to mix in
with the eating experience I am having.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
I don't want I want to open the pale up.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
I'll have some ginger or some some of that, some
of that there pistachio I it's cream, you know I
can have it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
I canna have some of that with sabby that clean, that's.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
You get a good sake going, come on, but look
it's we're going for sushi for real. It just shows
you the pressure that when because there's players and then
there's the scores, the strikers, the scorers in hockey that
are under incredible amounts of pressure more than all the
other players, because there hey you played well, you didn't

(12:31):
play well? Is never looked at anything more than what
did you put up on the score show? I mean,
look at men's what it is. Whatever he did the
game yesterday, you looked.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
At how did you? How did you do it?

Speaker 4 (12:40):
It wasn't about it was polistic scored, yeah, but it
didn't matter who he played for.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
It was all about hey it's captain America. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
But I mean you had you had Balligan scored and
he didn't have a great game. But Peppy comes in
for twenty five minutes. It creates like five chances Balligan scores,
Peppy did What are people say, oh Balligan played what?

Speaker 3 (12:57):
No, Peppy actually had the better game played way that is.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
But the pressure is is that you are judge. When
you are a scorer, you are judged by did you
did you put a notch in the score column. If
you did, you had a great game. If you didn't,
it's your fall. I used to tell us how great
a score you were in the on the ice when
you failed, how much did your teammates get out.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
I didn't fail. I never failed. I didn't fail. I didn't.
I don't believe you.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
There was never every championship when you were skating in
on a breakaway and you fell. The come on, man,
I had to go. I got the goalie to do
what I wanted to do, and then I put in
the back of the net. I know, I didn't feel.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
It's not like Barry Bond.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
I didn't fail that much in hockey. I was a
great hockey player. I didn't fail that much every championship
with In fact, you know, there's one play I remember
where I should have scored a goal. Is a third
period of a playoff game, wound up going to overtime,
wound up winning, and I shot. And I had a
great shot from from like between like between the two dots,
and I shot it, and I shot it right into

(13:57):
the goalies, right into a stomach when I meant to go.
And then everybody's going, oh, and I was so mad.
I'm like, how do I blank and shoot that puck
right between right between him?

Speaker 3 (14:05):
I got and and he and.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
The goalie makes say but he gets up and he
stares at me like like he uh, like he did something.
And I said, I said, yeah, wait, wait till about
ten minutes from now. See you're still standing up like that.
And he was like, and we scored in overtime. I
didn't score, but I set up the goal and we scored.
We had a two on one and I passed and
I went right around when I went whoo right in
his ear so.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
That he hated that Jamie. Instead of instead of shooting,
I scored, I scored. Yeah, no, it was it.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
I remember, and I scared, went round, I went whoo
right by his ear.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Like yeah, he's standing up. Yeah you nicknamed him. I shot, ah,
you dude. I hockey. I talked a lot of smack
Man about the five finger to the chest. I talked
right now. I wasn't a physical playing the chot. I
wasn't a physical player.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
I was a score.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
That's what normally follows a right, not right after a
game is over and you win.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
I was like, yeah, we're we're in the court celebrating.
After he won.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
I went like it was like I made a circle
right around his head went right around.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
I still remember.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
I still remember the past too, because the defender came
to me and I gave him a nice pass. Let
the puck settle bang he knocked it in. Oh it
was a great play. Oh man, it was a great play.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
Shout out to that guy that did the the five
finger to the chest Rick Flair style at the waffle House.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Oh yeah, dude, we're getting some Yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Yeah, there's some waffle House videos coming out man that
are I think they could be.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
What I'm saying is no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
What I'm saying, yeah me, would they tell you that
when I was at the waffle House last weekend?

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Uh No, there's a run of videos like there could
be a show.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
It could be like it could be like best waffle House. No,
but would help their bottom line. Yeah, just like anywhere
else you could have a best McDonald's. You know, drive
through things that happened like that, you get out that anywhere.

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coming up next. Finally, the coaching vacancies in the NBA
are filled. JJ Reddick is a Laker. I've told you
it's not gonna matter.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
But.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Maybe Isaig when you think I'm gonna zag on Reddick
and the Lakers.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
That's coming up next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
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Speaker 3 (17:09):
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Speaker 1 (17:10):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
live from the tyrack dot com studios, where now fourteen
minutes between the Florida Panthers and the Stanley Cup and
three outs between Tennessee.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
And the World Series Championship in college baseball. Jason, what's up,
Prosper there's a mustache? Oh yeah, the dude who was
just pitching for Tennessee.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, like I almost thought like Chad Powers was playing,
uh Eli Manning and the bit, you know, with the
mustache and everything else.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
Oh yeah, I mean he's got to be a captain.
Oh yeah, he's got the he's got the beard and
the mutton chops and the everything. Oh yeah, he's uh
that dude's a throw bat. He's I mean, there's no
question about it. He looks like you saw the crowd
when he came into the game.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
I mean yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
It was like he got a little bit of Pete Vukovich,
a little bit of Pete Vukovich a little bit, and
he's got the curls, a little bit of that.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
And I'll tell you what his breaking stuff was fantastic.
Whoof he does his own he gets after him? Oh yeah, yeah,
well he could he could. I almost expected, like if
he put the mask on, he could have been Wyatt.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Right, okay, like, oh he takes a mask off.

Speaker 5 (18:22):
That's why it okay, and the show can't be any worse, right.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
Yeah, oh man, I'll tell you this is uh, this
is really fun. And again Tennessee is three outs away
leadoff runner at second Uh Peyton Manning nervous in the stands. Uh.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
But I did say all the openings in the NBA
have been filled head coaching wise.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
I forgot about Detroit. You didn't count them as an
official NBA France.

Speaker 4 (18:48):
I did say NBA. So when I said l A
and Cleveland, I was right, say I was even though
trading Ning and I mean he put no timetable, no no,
no time.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
I'm trying to find a new coat.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
They could start the season without a coach. It wouldn't
surprise me.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Ye know, we're doing good.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
We're doing good.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
So because I don't think they dismissed the entire staff.
I think they just got rid of money. We could
win eighteen games without a coach, So I mean it's
it's fine.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
We don't.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
We don't just spend money on a guy until we
really find when we up again. I gotta be honest,
I would love to see that. Who's in charge? I
don't know, somebody, you know. We we spin the bottle
for the clipboard. No, just we go from there, just
way to Isaiah Thomas comes back that way they get Isaiah.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
You no, you didn't.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, buddy, wait a lit cause you know that's good.
What else are they gonna do? Let's get Isaiah Tom Okay,
Isaiah come on back and coach. All right, he'll sign
Jared Jeffries. It'll be great.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Jared Jeffries. There's a name I haven't.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
Heard now, but yes, JJ Reddick is now official. He
is the head coach of the Lakers. He's introducing the
press conference today. And one of the big questions that
JJ Reddick gott was about his podcast. Right of course,
got a couple of podcasts going on. It's the biggest
topic of all of it. What are you actually gonna
do with the team? Are you going to keep doing
a podcast?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
You're gonna keep your podcast? I mean, Gottleib's keeping his
show and he's coaching her show. He's got the What
the Three Men and an Old Lady podcast?

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Right?

Speaker 4 (20:10):
I got that one and in the three Yeah, and
the other one he has with Lebron Yeah. Is he
going to keep doing this while he's the head coach
of the Lakers? And this was his answer from earlier today.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
I am for the time being, and hopefully it's a
very very long time. I am excommunicated from the content space,
so there would be no podcast. We'll do something when
I have a breather from what we have coming up.
I'm gonna be drinking out of a fire hose for
the next month, but at some point we we'll just

(20:40):
do something for all the people that listened, and we'll
have a small little video. But I'm done with podcasting
for now.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
He and John Wick ex communicado.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
The bounty at John Wick seventeen million dollars.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
This one goes out to John.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Hey, guys, guess where he's not staying in La Where's
he not? It's the Continental?

Speaker 2 (21:00):
So done.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Women want to fire him. He just got to put
his hand on it. They can't fire him.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
No, I'm here. We wanted to fire you know, I
got my hand on the Continental.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Now you'd appreciate how he uh what was it content
farming or uh, click farming or however he termed.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Sure click for me, that sounds like a game you
would play on Facebook. So and so has invited you
to play click farming. Oh, I'd love to play click farming. Great,
thanks for that, because that's how he is. Another game
kind of.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Where we're at, right, I mean, but kind of making
fun of the space that he just lived in for
a couple of years on the way out.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, all of a sudden, I'm exting me.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
This is dude, this is how you got the job, right,
this is this is how you got the door of
It is how you got the job, and certainly not
you're coaching acting, which is third.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
I have a better resume coaching than he does.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
I have a better which means I want him to
succeed so I can manage the Mets in a couple
of years. Well, that's going to be here from gott Yes,
I need to hear from Reddick and he got leave
to make the tournament. I need Readick to get the
Lakers into the top six and then I then in
about a year and a half, Hey, okay, Jason, what.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
Are you gonna do being at Grimace's handler.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Dude, I'd bring Grimas, will be my bench coach. He'll
be right next to me the whole time. Oh yeah,
he should.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Own the team at this point.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Well, he's got to be next to me in the
dugouts so the players have room to go up and down. Like,
Grimace is a pretty big dude, and I need somebody
to go get me McDonald shakes to bring to the dugout.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
So he would be the guy to go, yeah shakes,
he'd be my guy. Where's your respect? Have a zero respect?

Speaker 3 (22:22):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (22:22):
We're in the hell. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's what people
expect Grimace to be. Hey, what grimm is gonna do? Like,
I'm not gonna have Grimace coach third base?

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Others what to do after this last two weeks?

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Listen, I got Grimace is going to close the next
ten days with has being suspended. Yeah, but you know what,
Grimace is a team guy because he's been in the
background for a lot of years. Remember he was introduced
as Evil Grimace going all the way back to nineteen
seventy one. Yeah, and then he was put out the
pasture for a while. The commercials kind of Wayne Ronald
McDonald was then creepy. He wasn't around much. The Burger

(22:55):
King ruled the air waves. Him and Jack in the Box.
Right now, all of a sudden, Grimace has He's day
in the sun. He's about servitude, He's about being a
man of the people and working behind the scenes to
get another opportunity.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
I think you'd be okay with getting Jason a shop.
I sent you the New City Connect, the Mass City Connection.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
The Grimmas jersey. Oh, I gotta, I gotta get one
of those. You're kidding, the purple jersey Grimace assists.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Letders you think went out for all this Bunco merchandise
that's been Oh I.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Think McDonald's is just oh wait wait, people are doing
stuff for Grimace. Yeah, let him have it. That's fine.
We'll announce a new sandwich. It'll be it'll be great,
it'll work for everybody. It'll be all good. Just put
Grimace's picture on the app so when people come in,
that's great, sign them up.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Do a whole thing.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Mention Grimace, when you said we'll give you a free
diet coke or whatever, not a coke, a diet coke.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
This is.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
Because they'll be the letigious ones because he's wearing a
Mets hat every everything you see. But let's look something
a little bit different on JJ Redder because you know
what I told you, I don't think it's gonna matter
because the way the Lakers are. Is he going to
be a culture guy? Is he not? But let me
tell you two things that I give him the benefit

(24:06):
of the doubt for and the opportunity that the Lakers
have right now. Number one is and this and this
is what they need. And part of the reason why
I said it's not really gonna matter because this Lakers
roster is pretty flawed and it's very difficult to make
decisions because of the of what they're butted up in.
Salary wise, Lebron's not gonna take less money and you're
still you're still reeling from the Russell Westbrook signing.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Two years ago.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
But to here now, every day there's a couple of
players that the Lakers are interested in that they are
talking with other teams about. Colin Sexton's name came up today.
He would be a great shooter that could come in
if they could figure out a way for that. Zach
Levine would be great. You've heard Hi about it, You've
heard his name for the last few months, and he's someone.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Look if the Bulls are.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Going to give everybody away, Okay, hey, look lineup for
Zach Lavine. So just the fact that it's a new
head coach and it's jj Reddick who might have pre
existing relationships that we don't know about, that could be
good thing because if this helps overhaul the roster. Okay,
that's different from his coaching input, because look, in the NBA,
it's about look, let's get the talent out there. We'll

(25:08):
figure it out, because this is what the Boston Celtics
do to win championships. We'll get the talent, put it
out there, We'll figure it out. Right, Joe Mazzoola is
not some mastermind every five we're gonna do this this, No,
but if he can bring in enough talent, if he
has the cachet with the modern day player, that's great
because the other part of it is just thinking about
a change in general. Right to your Austin Reeves say
and through his agent, Hey can't wait to start working

(25:30):
with jj W. He had a great we start working
talking about I mean, the guy's a genius. Whatever I
might just be sucking up because he wants a bigger
role and a reclamation to what he was before this
last year.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
But like he's glowing recommendations to your point, I mean,
Reddick's only three plus years out of the league. Yeah, right,
he's turning forty, right, he's his birthday, so he's forty
years old. So you still have a lot of connection
and relationship with guys in the league, or you can
you had the conduit to guys that are recently retired

(26:03):
that are you know, it's the two degrees of separation.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
So I'll open the door for that that if he
helps bring in talented players that they need, right, that's
a great thing because that's the one thing we haven't
seen the last They've not been able to bring people in,
bring in what they need. And sometimes it's just a
change in general. Right, And this is where I go
with with the Austin Reefs part of it.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
Now, how excited I am to work with JJ Reddick
and other players, How excited they are because you saw
how bad it was and how much they all just
were done with Darvin Ham That it's almost like in
Major League Baseball when you fire manager in baseball, it's
almost irrelevant who they bring in because it's on the
player so much.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Okay, well, hey, they just fired our manager.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
We're on notice, and we didn't like him anyway, So
now whoever comes in, everything is great. And that first
year or in that time after firing a manager, hey
you get an uptick. I'm going to open the door
for the same thing here, just moving out from under
Darvin Ham could be so much of a it's a
new day in Lakerland that it's okay that it could

(27:03):
be Reddick. It could have been James Barrego, it could
have been anybody that you brought in. Hey, no matter
who we bring in, it's gonna wind up being okay.
So for those two reasons, Look, I said, let's look
at this from a positive thing now, because again I
don't think JJ Reddick can affect the team that much
on the court. But if those are things that can
happen because of him, his relationships with other players, and

(27:24):
just the fact that it's a new voice and someone
that the team doesn't hate, it doesn't matter they don't
like him that first year. Okay, Well, it's not Darvin
Ham telling us stuff that we don't like. It's not
Anthony Davis after a playoff game going, we didn't know
what to do. It's none of those things. This is
all new. So those two things, yeah, I'll say that's
something I can look at that. I say, maybe JJ
Reddick can work and we can wind up seeing something.

(27:45):
Those are the two things I would point to to say,
all right, maybe maybe that's where things can turn and
the Lakers fortune can turn a little bit.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah, it's the curiosity of it.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
Reddick also spoke about the fact that and again do
you buy or sell the legitimacy or reality of it? Say, well,
I hadn't talked to Lebron about the coaching stuff until
this was done, and I talked to him.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
For about fifteen minutes.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
I don't know how much you believe that, but that's
what he's going to continue to sell. That seems to
be the company line. Take of it what you will.
Anthony Davis, the idea of him being on board with
whatever JJ Reddick wants to sell. Right, that's one of
the big question marks that's out there. You talk about
where the roster is. Well, Vanderbilt, Vincent Cam Reddish three

(28:31):
guys that they expected a lot from. They were hurt
quite a bit this last year, and Vincent and Vanderbilt
were two guys that they expected to be big forces
for them defensively. And I think even going back to
his nixt days, waiting for Cam Reddish to kind of
rise up and become a little bit more. I mean,
he's still really young in the grand scheme of things,

(28:51):
but now it's time to push forward. Dejontain Murray's name
has come up a couple of times. You know, whether
Atlanta is going to do a full sell. They're actually
you know Mark Stein who joins us on the show
talking about mom, maybe Atlanta is making a deal to
go and get the you know, for the Spurs to
beat move up to number one. I mean, there's a

(29:12):
lot of potential chaos here over these next couple of
days and as we enter free agency. But for JJ Reddick,
like I know, it's it's hot take theater and you
got to decide whether he's he's the worst thing in
the world or the best or take all sorts of
other side storylines along with it.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Can it work?

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (29:30):
Can he keep Lebron James and Anthony Davis healthy for
seventy plus games? Again, that if He's magical and can
do that for a second straight year, he stands a
pretty good shot to at least be in the mix.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swelling down. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carment So.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
A little ziggo.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
You think I'm gonna zeg? Those two things, I'm telling you,
those two things are big. Not really relying on him
and what he would do as a head coach, but
what he could do as a head coach to help
the product get better on the floor this year. The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon Love
from the tirag dot com studios coming up next. Yes,
we'll get into the story the sticky stuff.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
I've not been avoiding it. We've just had a lot
of stuff to.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Get the stickiest of the ichy. We'll get to the
sticky stuff. And again I'm gonna zig where you think
I'm gonna zag. It's coming up next right here, Jason
and Mike. This is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 4 (30:35):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Mike Harmon You Aaron Rodgers live from the tirag dot
com studios where the Florida Panthers are three and a
half minutes away from the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
A lot of action in front of the Oiler's net
or from.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
The Panthers net. A couple of minutes ago, however, was
cleared out icing three and a half to go. Probably
a couple of time out skeep McDavid fresh as the
Oilers have one last gas towards the game, putting that
ticker up of how much his ice time is at
this point, it's like they're haunting it, like look at
what he's done now, Like ice time has become the
big metric that we need to add to every graphic now.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
So we'll have more on this game coming up in
a few minutes. Again, still three and a half minutes
left to go. Panthers up two to one. Uh but yes,
Edwin Diaz, because the Mets can't bleep and have nice things,
Taylor Swift sang about, uh you break them, she takes
them away. Now, Mets are playing great, the Grimace, everything's awesome,

(31:34):
and Edwin Diaz doesn't throw a pitch against the Cubs
last night and gets thrown out of the game because
of having too much sticky substance on his hands.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
You saw the pictures. It looked like it was Some
of it looked like it was purple, almost like what
did you do? I touched Grimace and he healed me,
and I didn't know what happened.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Do you see the light? I really what I says
it It looks better healed. You go out there and pitch,
Go out there and pitch.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Uh, you know, look, Grimas needs a shower. Grimace is
now closing for the Mets in good form, so today
he gets officially suspended. He said it was just sweat
and rosin. First thing I'm gonna say is this. I
am done hearing the sweat and rows and excuse from pictures.
Now it's very quickly gotten to the point where I'm
sick of here, Like I'm sick of hearing players say

(32:20):
I didn't know what illegal steroid was in that supplement
when I took it. Like I'm done hearing.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
We're trying to have a kid. I'm done trying to
have a kid. Man, I'm done with all that.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
I'm done.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
I'm done with that, And now I'm done with the
sweat and rosin. I'm done with sweat and rosin.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
And you got hacked.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
I'm done with done with sweat and rosin because look,
as the umpire said, look we do these thousands of times.
Did they want to throw Edwin Diaz out of the game? No,
this was something way more than that, and and we
had to throw him out. Okay, again, when you see
the discoloration, how much was on his hand? I'm like, yeah, grimas,
what did you dotted?

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Playing?

Speaker 4 (32:56):
He had taken a fall and it was bruising. I
get it was trying to pitch through it, you know.
And look, and here's the part where I said, where
you think I'm gonna zig instead of zagging? Because am
I concerned that of the eight pitchers now that have
been suspended for sticky stuff, three of them have been Mets.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
But for Diaz I could easily see this because he
is a guy that is a confidence pitcher, and when
he is not going well, it's because he doesn't have
his confidence. Does a locate his pitch as well? Maybe
he telegraphs him a little bit, but he is a
confidence guy. When he is confident, no one touches him.
When he's not confident, he gets hit and lit up
all across the yard. He went through that stretch earlier

(33:34):
this year, right blew four games in a row. Oh
my goodness. But could I see him, Hey, a little
bit more stuff on my hands. All pitchers used to
keep a better grip on the ball. Could I see
him going a little overboard?

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Because hey, I got to get my mojo back, and
now that I've got it back, I'm gonna I'm gonna
stick with him that I'm gonna stick with this and
see how it goes. And I went a little overboard.
And because they checked me before I started pitching, the
stuff was really and it was. It was very difficult
for me for them to do that because sometimes the
check when they finish. Hey, they check when you're there.

(34:06):
And I could see it. I could see it happening.
Not saying I know, but could I see this and
this is what's going on with us? Because of his
confidence that this is what happened, Yeah, I can absolutely
see that.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
I'm gonna take a page from your book. The preponderance
of evidence says they're a bunch of systematic cheaters and
it's about time they've had their come up. It's one
after another. Does that sound familiar? Sure, jets faner, But
in the end I get it, the confidence, But it's
also just natural order from your kids and their boundary

(34:37):
testing with you as a parent. All Right, what's the
thing that's really gonna tick mom or dad or grandma
or grandpa off or whoever's sitting you know, babysitter or whatever.
What can I get away with? And it's the raptors
testing defence in juressing park. Where's the weakling?

Speaker 3 (34:52):
What am I gonna do?

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Or you're playing any sport, right, you're gonna try to
push the boundaries, especially the physicality basketball and the two
that I think we would stand out most.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
All right, they're gonna.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Let some physicality play. Uh go in the low post.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
We're gonna get to see, you know, a little bit
of action that way where we're not gonna have a
quick whistle and everybody moves on same thing here, all right.
We all stipulate that there's gonna be some level of
pine tar rosin whatever that's that's gonna find its way
to your hand, and then it just becomes the how
far we go? Just like you when you when you

(35:26):
have a bat right, how far up does the the
handle does the pine tar go?

Speaker 7 (35:31):
Right?

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Now, we're getting into a level of silliness that's helping
me hit because it's, you know, six inches above where
my hands are on the bet. But hey, we've seen
dumber things ruled. So in this case, yeah, I mean,
you push the boundaries and see where the suspension line is. Unfortunately,
it's ten games. It's not one. It's not one miss series.

(35:53):
It's it's a ten game bump. But you know what,
you get to test other closers in the interim again,
Oh not that, Jedd' done that already.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Sure, and especially let's do it in the subway here.
We played the team with the best and our crosstown
riders big time in here for the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
That's all we'll do.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
It.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
Didn't get thrown out during a Yank no game. No
looks you saw someone off and then throw a bad
at him.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
I need nothing like that.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
No, let's get suspended before it. He got suspended. I
could see it. I can't make an excuse for it
because when you look at his hand, you're saying, what
the hell is going on? But I mean it, if
the purple stuff was Grimace's fault. Then you know what,
there's gonna there's gonna be hell to pay in the guy.
I know, the Grimace era is the Grimace era, But
there's gonna be hell to pay if that happens. Man,
Maybe he just ate pie before he came to the
Mounta exit. How about a Fresca exit Swollen Dome. The

(36:37):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen Live
from the tie iraq dot com Studios. Coming up next,
are we gonna be crowning a new champion in the
Stanley Cup Final?

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Cleveland?

Speaker 4 (36:51):
Cleveland does not have a hockey Team's coming up next?
Right here, Jason and Mike Fox. I mean they should
one game? No, the Panthers said, here's three and then
we watched tonight. As you know, shots mounted ice time
became the metric of note why because you had to
track Connor McDavid. It was one of those things where
I thought they were just gonna start showing him like

(37:12):
he was an air tag.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
What's he doing on the bench? Trade now?

Speaker 2 (37:16):
In between shifts? Let's have a.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
Picture in picture because it became all about him in
the final minutes. When's he checking back in on the ice,
when's the next shift, when's the change? How do you
when do you pull the goalie? All of that stuff,
the anticipation of it. Steve Disager was up on his
feet in the final second. You and I are you know,
leaning in on our chairs? Are they gonna get one
last rush? Instead it ended up with a giant mush

(37:40):
in the corner to run out the clock.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
And now listen, everybody's gonna be hitting refresh in their
computers like every five seconds rest of to night, waiting
for Kate the Eulers fan, to have some kind of
She's got to have something tonight, right, Well.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Everybody's gonna she's got hot. How does this make us
feel better?

Speaker 5 (37:57):
No, it's a final for her. She's got But she's
gotta have sign because she teased us today and it's
you can't go back.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Well, she signed with Playboy. She signed with Playboy. But
there's gotta be say she's.

Speaker 5 (38:07):
Gotta have a video from a shower.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, but this is after the Oilers have won the
Stanley Cup. There's got I don't know what the con
I'm not saying what the cop, but there's gotta be
something from.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Oh I got what's work?

Speaker 1 (38:20):
I mean, she's telling people, the her critics, to go
blank themselves when like she did in that video, she
is walking. I mean, it's where I come to think
this down the waters it I mean, I mean there's
gotta be some kind of content from her tonight. I mean,
he's got to have something going on. I mean, this
is this is people go, Okay, I know it's eleven
o'clock on the day, Florida something definitely.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
I mean, I know we lost, but here's the after party.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Yeah, I mean, this is it all Florida parties they
do they also, I mean, look what happened.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
The Celtics said, Dell with this, We're going down to Florida.
We're not staying in Boston the party, and there's no
to buy end. There's no six foot rule from me
hitting refresh on my compute. But she's got I mean,
she's gotta there's got to be some kind of content.
I mean, she was very okay, bad word I was
going to use that she would no, no, no, She was
very forthright with how upset she was at her critics

(39:13):
who didn't like the fact that she flashed the cabin.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
And they said, if you don't like my lifestyle. Well yeah,
go blank yourself, right yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
Uh and and so I was okay, so she did that,
and then you put out the video again, Okay, well
hear that now they lost, Okay, it's got to be
like this is the demand, like now, like when the
Knicks lost, you wanted to hear what I had to
say because the bleep and Knicks lost, Like you wanted
to hear like when when this time? Are you kidd
that's the greatest podcast ever. Uh you got to hear
from Kate the oilers fan. She's got it, she's got

(39:40):
There's some kind of content, but in the end, you're
you've got your fifteen minutes of fame. Got this is the.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
End of this.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
No, no, you got a minute.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
And that's exactly it, which is why you've got a
thirsty society.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
I'm calling her what it is, been waiting with baited breath.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
You're talking about society.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
It's a thirsty society, waiting asiety we're going to do next?
I mean, they were hoping for more imitators to try
to rally the team today.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
What a thirsty society we live in?

Speaker 4 (40:14):
So I would expect some kind of truer words ever
been spoken.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
No, no, no, you're right.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
No, you're absolutely right. They're literally and figuratively. We are
a thirsty side. It's hot out there. It's hot out there,
I know, and people want, you know, their spicy content
as well.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Keep hitting the body like you want content now, so
you want it as well, now you know it or not,
we got to get some kind of content. But they
are awarding the Stanley Cup right now. Gary Bettman probably
getting booed. I'm just no question.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
We don't have to sound now everybody's out, but they're
too too busy filming. No, no, no, I think they're
actually playing booze off their phones, so they continuously boo it.
Because from all the crowd shots at this point it's
he's not being lustily booed. He is with normal appearances.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Where's that booing app where I can just put a
boo and I have to worry about it save my
I can just hold it out there.

Speaker 5 (41:01):
It's either he's getting boot or the five White Sox
fans there you know what to.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Look.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
I was in the middle of a module on workplace
violence earlier.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
Don't make me have to revisit it.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
So they were.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
Warning the Stanley Cup and then look, the thirsty panthers
are gonna be Stanley Cup. But listen now, I'll tell
you the story about how the guy that travels with
the cup yelled at me.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Okay, this was and I can't And you.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Know, does he hate you more or less?

Speaker 1 (41:30):
I don't know, because I may be incredibly memorable to
him as the guy who did that, even with all
the years of experience, because I don't know how many
people try to do what I did, and I was
a big thing.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
Try and eat him.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
No, no, no, eat the Stanley cup.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
No.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
When when it was a tin foil chocolate cup?

Speaker 7 (41:49):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Is the top of this where the chocolate fountain comes
out of and I could just dip my marshmallow under it?

Speaker 3 (41:53):
Where is That's really just a fondue fountain, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (41:56):
So the guy and so the guy who travels with
the cup, the guy with the hair the guy with
the marked his haircut.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Yeah, that's the guy, right. You see him all the time.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
He's got the white gloves, travels with the cup. So
there's been a couple of times.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
In my life where I have gotten to see the
cup from work. One time they brought it when I
was working at ESPN and you got to go take
pictures with it, which was kind of cool, right, I was,
that's great. You're not allowed to do anything.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
You can't put anything on the cup, Like I wanted
to put my Whaler's jersey on the cup, Like, no,
you can't do that.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Can't let anybody take a picture. Okay.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
I'm like, all right, that's fine, I understand. So but
that was where where they hustled you in. You got
a picture, you got out. Now this is about I
want to say about twenty years ago, and they brought
the Stanley Cup to KABC in LA. That's where I
was producing local sports. Sure Bill Weird, Rob Fukuzaki. They
brought the Stanley Cup. I don't know why they brought

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the Stanley Cup. And it's like, okay, the Stanley Cup
was on some kind of tour so they brought it.
Was like wow, So the Stanley cut and they brought
the Stanley Cup into the office and it's in our
sports office, in our bullpen office where like four of
us sit and the cup is right there and I'm
looking at because I'm looking for where like they spelled
Adam dead Marsh's name wrong. They called him theyd A
Dead March on the Cup when the Avalanche won in

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ninety six, and looking for all the names it was,
I'm like, I'm right up on it.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
I put my fingers on. It was so great.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
And so he's sitting there and we're we're doing this,
and you know, he's standing there as we're with the
cup and we're good. Then we're gonna get some people
to come in. We're gonna do a story on it.
We're gonna interview him, all this kind of stuff. And
I said, you know, and we talked about how heavy
it was. I go, you know, it's forty pounds or
whatever it was. And I said, but you know, and
some of the players you would see that they can't
lift it. Uh. And you know, when they win, they

(43:35):
could lift but the adrenaline, But when they can't, it's
a tough thing to lift. And I said, oh, let
me see. And I take the Stanley Cup and I
take it by the top, and I take it by
the bottom and I try to pick it up and
I go, oh, to pick it up over my head
and I get it up to the point where it's
about even with my head, and the guy.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Goes hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? What are
you doing? I said, well, why why?

Speaker 4 (43:52):
He goes put it down? Put it down, and I
saiddy goes, what are you doing? I go, I try
to put the Stanley.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
Cup on right. Hecuse, you can't do that?

Speaker 4 (43:58):
And I said why not? He goes, there's got to
be something for the players. I go, the players can't
do it because I did. He goes, oh, that's a
player thing. You can't do that.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
I'm like, why can't I do that? It's a player thing.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
The players get that, and I go the players play
and actually get the Stanley Cup. I'm here for two
minutes with the cup in my whole life. And he
got really mad at me because the parents you're really
smart off package.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
I said, why well, I said, why what did I do?
What did I do? Like, you know, what do you mean?
Side feel? I felt like tysh me and I couldn't
do it.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
There's times in I get when when I'm in a
back and forth with someone where sometimes I'll get a
little standoff.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
She go, what are you tell me?

Speaker 3 (44:32):
What are you yelling at me for?

Speaker 7 (44:33):
Right?

Speaker 3 (44:33):
And he goes, oh, you can't do what do you doing?

Speaker 4 (44:35):
What are you doing And I said, I said, what,
I can't do that, and he goes, it's got to
be something for the players, right, that was his whole thing.
And I said, well, the players play and they win
the cup and they keep it and they make a
lot of money. So I'm just trying to see if
I could pick up the cup. No, no, can't do it.

Speaker 5 (44:47):
Now.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
If he had told me, hey, we don't want you
to drop it and break it, I was like, oh,
really probably he said that. I said, oh, you know what,
I completely understand, because if I break the Stanley Cup, boy,
I'm not going to be line completely. I'm not going
to be that guy. But but the fact that he told
me no, you're you're I was breaking some kind of run.
It seemed like a ground rule that should have been
established before the cup was left to all.

Speaker 5 (45:08):
The thinking like you won the cup and no touching
up the Stanley Cup, of course, but.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
I mean it's like he didn't walk up and try
to pour a forty in it and drink from it.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
No, I mean that's for the players. They can do that,
and I.

Speaker 5 (45:19):
Want you to pour ice light and in it.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
I want to know.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
I wanted to tell a couple of stories of what
I knew some players did with the cup and say,
so they could do that, but I can't do this,
Like I like, I know a couple of things that
that's pretty good Stanley Cup. Lord, you know that I
could have. I can't say it on the air. I mean,
I know a couple of things. Well, this is the
first letter.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
S. I know some things that have happened. And it's
not the S word you think. I'm thinking, that's not
that's it's it's it's no. The word is sandwich.

Speaker 7 (45:52):
No.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
Uh. And and I'm like, Okay, there's been something. But
I can't do that. I mean, really, you're gonna get
mad at me for pam, I know other people. But
I get it if it was a safety thing because
you want to because maybe he didn't see your tries
and you you my sleeveless T shirt today, so I
could lift the Stanley Cup over my head.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
And here's the other.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Thing is that I've seen pictures of people in their
lives holding the Stanley Cup over their head.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
So that's.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
These are people who are you know, these are people
who are like doctors and somehow I have the Stanley
Cup here or just you know, there's a guy who
was friends with one of my hang on, there's a guy.
There's a guy. There's a guy who is good friends
with one of my wife's good friends who it was

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on the beach holding.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
The Stanley Cup oversad. Look at the picture that.

Speaker 5 (46:47):
What was saying? Just look at the TV right now.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
That's what they get to do. Yeah, but I can't
be doing it.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
I get to do it in a in an office
by myself if I want to. It's the Stanley Cup. Now,
if I drop it, that's on me. But I should
be able to do the white Can I put the
Stanley Cup in?

Speaker 4 (47:01):
That guy's entire life is center around keeping the cup
safe and preserving the sanctity of that cup for the players.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
So I wonder if I'm the only guy with him
that's ever tried to pick the Stanley Cup up.

Speaker 4 (47:12):
Oh no, all right, man, that that's how he knows
he's alive.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Dumb good.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
I got to yell at a guy today. I got
to yell at this guy with curly hair tell him
to put the Stanley Cup down.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
It was crazy. He's like a cop.

Speaker 5 (47:26):
That's his one chance.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, he came actually came in on a segway when
he's not one, he can't do it. Remember, I remember
him looking at me in the disdain he had on
his face for me. I was like, wow, man, you
think like I just like I just took in spray
paint of it.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
To be fair, though, I like, I will give you that.
You know, there should have been some ground rules like
no touching in the hair or face. I mean, you
got to know these things before you go to reach.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
For the cup.

Speaker 5 (47:53):
Mike, look who you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Though.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
No, no, he would have gone quickly and there might
have been a big mac already inserted at the top.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
You're looking citizens arrested.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
I'm eating a big mac and fries out of the
top of the Stanley cup.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Boy, this is really good. That's never happened, and.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
I'm not gonna do that, knowing full well what I
know has been in the top of that cup. And
some stories again, that stuff you don't need to clean it.
That story's holiday Hey ha, what a great fun story
that as well. But this dude who's five nine that
if you can lift the cup over his head, it's
a pretty good achievement.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
No, I'm not gonna let him do it.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
Oh, Okay, I got the cup even even with my eyes,
even with my head. Now, the thing is I was
in an office, so I don't know if I could
have picked up because I might have touched the ceiling.
And I'm then again, I don't want to bring one important.

Speaker 5 (48:34):
Question I have. Yeah, and it's one of the most
important questions I'm ever gonna ask you. Okay, was that
story before twenty twelve?

Speaker 3 (48:42):
That story?

Speaker 5 (48:43):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Yeah, that story was It was two thousand something like that.

Speaker 5 (48:46):
Yeah, that was before twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Hey man, it's a thirsty world. What did I tell you?

Speaker 4 (48:54):
But dude, that had to be about twelve years the
Cup in twenty twelve. Yeah, well, you know, maybe they
watched the Maybe they're now you're connected to legends. Maybe
they're a plunger forever. The thing is the Cup changes.
What people don't know is that the Cup changes that
once you get to too many names, they take the
bottom rung like bottom plates off and it just becomes
the name of the team. So your name is only
on the Stanley Cup for a certain amount of I know, Grant,

(49:16):
it's on there a long time because it takes them
a long time to have to take the names off,
but like when they run out of room, they replace
the bottom level with here's the names of the teams,
like nineteen seventy five, Pittsburgh, peng In nineteen seventy six.
So and then when you get later on, you still
see the names on the cup. So I don't know,
I don't I don't know where they are with the
names right now, like where the teams are and where
the names are. But you know, yeah, they're taking the
black Hawks off for you. You're close there, Frostburg close.

(49:42):
Just keep thinking about your lips on the cup there? Yeah,
no thanks, Yeah yeah, what part of the cup did
you kiss?

Speaker 3 (49:48):
What part of it?

Speaker 7 (49:48):
No?

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Tell me if you kiss the top of the cup. Yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna wear a mask, make it joke.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
I don't even think I can.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
No, no, no, no no.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
If you if you just if you just kissed the
outside of the cup, Okay, that's fine because that but
if you kissed, if you kissed the top of the cup,
if you kiss the top of the cup.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Go see.

Speaker 5 (50:10):
I hate all of you.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Go see a doctor, go see, go see.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
After tomorrow again, it's gonna be like it's gonna be
like a contagion with every everybody's gonna be in the
in the beds going I kissed the top of the
Stanley Cup.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Yeah you did, Yeah, you did.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
Well, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
When we announced the end of the show in like
fifteen years, maybe that's the last story you tell.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
That's I got, I got receipts.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Let me talking about that guy and that guy

Speaker 3 (50:39):
And the thing I heard over there.