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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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Speaker 1 (00:54):
Here we are to appetizer games before the main course.
We will find out tonight if the Lakers are indeed back.
If the Lakers are back, they win tonight. The Lakers
are not back. Oh boy, it gonna get more stories
about Shannon Sharp sex life.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Wow, that's yeah good. I know Paul Hayman has some
thoughts coming Outsmania weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I know, I know way more about Shannon Sharp sex
life than I ever wanted to over the last time.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
When is the docu series? I mean, I mean, there's
there's evid there's videos, there's there's there's all kinds of
everything is out there. Everything we know. It might be
the only Hollywood production still going on here over here
in the valley. They might have a film in the works.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
I feel like this is this is this is one
of those scandals that both sides are racing to release
the stuff so people can hear it like this is insane.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Well that's it. Just keep feeding more and more information.
Here's your overla parse it out and try to figure
out usual where you land. Usually it's hey, nobody wants
the details. I know everybody. Let's get the detail. Let's
get them all out. Let's get let's everybody one side gets,
but no, the other side wants to get it out more.
Now we're gonna get out.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Now we're gonna get now we're this this I mean,
I look at the Shannon Sharp story and I go,
this is the decline and fall of Western civilization part three.
This is the decline. We had the TV we had
the movie in the eighties with the heavy metal and
now this.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Is part three? Wasn't there part three? Didn't they already
do one? No, we take that. I don't think anybody
saw it. Wow, that's a whole other question. I mean
it's it's like, you know, did they really did they
do Hangover four? There was? U Was there a Hangover four?

Speaker 4 (02:26):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Okay? Was You should wash your mouth out for just saying,
are they still doing like this? It's up to descendants five?

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Now?

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Is that what it is? Descendants? Fiveden? They just had
what is it, the Red Queen or something like that
Red Hulk that was a new event. No, no, no, it's
a different person. That wasn't That wasn't as terrible as
I thought.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I thought the Red Hulk and the Red Queen together,
Maybe that's the next movie would.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Have been a good one. My end Listen. Nineteen ninety
eight was a decline of Western civilization. This is part
this is this is already this is more five. No, no,
this is already this, this supersedes No. I mean, this
just comes back to the age of all right, until
there are criminal you know, charges, to the point where

(03:08):
you're convicted, just let it play out, okay, right, I
mean that that's kind of where we're at, you want
to put them on TV? Put him on TV. I mean,
it was gonna be one hundred million dollars man, wasn't
He wasn't that there last year? Yeah? One hundred million
dollar guy. Now it's a hundred million going the other way.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
So, getting set for the Lakers Game two against the
Tea Wolves, all of a sudden, maybe now this is
the year they should run with the Hey, you know,
the Anthony Edwards Michael Jordan storyline might actually be better now
than it was a year ago.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
We really forced it so much, but uh, Michael Jordan
never get fined that much.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
But that game coming up will of course keep you
updated throughout the night tonight. The Lakers need to tie
this series up, going back to Minnesota. Meanwhile, earlier we
saw the thunderbeat the Grizzlies one eighteen ninety nine.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
No surprise there.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
And uh, but here I am all ready to make
a coaching change for next season. I'm all ready to
make because I know what's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Didn't we already kill this guy off early year? I
know it's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
The Pacers lead the Bucks two games to none. Yep,
they win it one twenty three, one point fifteen. Uh
Siakaman Trent get into a little bit of a scuffle
back and forth during this one, and the Bucks and
Doc Rivers now down twos. It like I throw Duck
Raddock Rivers in there. The Bucks and Doc Rivers down
Two's it been this series?

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Number one? It's gonna be tough because Doc can't say,
oh well, not gonna blame me for blowing a three
to one series lead this time. Can't do it? What
are all my critic's gonna say? Now, I can't blow
it three? Oh he does blow three to one series?
We're down oh two? What do you think about that?
You have nothing to say to you? We're down oh two?

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Keep quiet, Yeah, I'm winning winning. How many times it's
been a sweat? We're gonna get to that pretty damn
quick to where this is going. Uh but yeah, I mean,
look that's where we're at.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Look, Damian Lillard makes his return to I clearly not
the same Damian Lillard coming back from from the blood clot.
Great to see him back, I mean that's the number
one thing. Great to see him back that because what
he's suffering through and Wemby. It's not These aren't injuries.
These are these are serious medical conditions. And to see
Damian Lillard come back as.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Fast as he has is a great, great story, and
you know, but clearly not the not the same player yet.
He's gonna need to ramp back up into basketball shape.
But I'll tell you what I'm already not only am
I gonna make a coaching change, I'll tell you who's
gonna get the job. Okay, So who's doc Rivers? Leave
doc Rivers? So I realized that did I spoil its time?

(05:32):
Might just leave? I might just leave. I don't know,
I like to I might do the George Costanza. You
can't fire him if you can't find me. So maybe
I just go on vacation, believe it or not, docusing
at home Doc Rivers, because this is just I mean, look,
it's not getting any better for thought though, it's not. Yeah, yeah,
first half was it? And they literally like it was yes, yeah,
literally did. But it was another one of those situations

(05:54):
like they're gonna play some defense, aren't they. They're gonna
play a little bit of defense. And then they fought back.
They end up losing by eighth, but they at least
put up a fight. I mean they lost by eight,
and Bobby Porters went for twenty eight and twelve off
the bench tonight. I mean twenty eight and twelve and
you lost. He's still playing, Oh, yes, he is.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
He's gonna be ten years, He'll still be playing. He'll
still be coming off the bench.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Bobby still still the same Bobby Port. It's former Bull
and Knicks still Bobby Ports. I mean, look, is there
anything that's gonna happen. I'll give you this lead pipe, certain,
I'll give you this this NBA playoff guarantee. The head
coach of the Milwaukee Bucks next year is Mike Malone.

(06:37):
Oh sorry, Michael Malone. Oh you got it right, Mike. Yeah,
I mean you got Mike. You know he's the job
right now.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
He's the head coach of the Bucks next season, right
because it clearly look you're you're continuing to waste the
prime of Giannis. Look, they get to the mountaintop and
they win, but they've not been able to keep it
going since.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
And you have a lot of issues. Obviously, it's not
been anything close to what you envision when you got
Damian Lillard and you thought we're gonna run rough shot
over the Eastern Conference. Instead, you have watched at least
three teams pass you by in the Eastern, maybe four
teams have passed you by in the East. Overall. That's
not good man. So you know what change is coming.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
But who's got the experience of coaching a big superstar,
a big in the middle, had to respect won a championship. Yeah,
Michael Malone's gonna come in and get this job over Doc.
Because someone's gonna come in. You need a little bit
of a hard ass now, right, You got to follow
a player's coach kind of with a hard ass coach,
and not that Doc isn't always the most players of coaches,
but still you need a couple of different philosophies. And

(07:34):
Malone coming in, that's the guy. Who else are you
gonna get? Guy won a championship two years ago and
he's out. Okay, maybe he's humbled a little bit. I
gotta come in. But they need someone to grab a
hold of this of this program and say, okay, this
is what we need to be because right now the
Bucks it's like they just go out there and play.
You had Kyle Kuzma, who was a really dynamic player.
And I'm at least he scored in this game. At

(07:56):
least he scored twelve in this game. He didn't go
zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Did you have kind of feel bad for him in
that game?

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Though?

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Hoof just a little bit like twenty two minutes and
nary a stat to be found. That's almost impossible. It's
only ten guys on the damn court. The ball had
to hit you in the hands at some point on accident.
Is that count? As an assistant bounced off his head
to a teammate, does that count? I don't know. The
favorite earlier in this season when it looked like Doc

(08:23):
might have been on the hot seat was Terry Stotts. Okay,
so you've got him. You you go over and look
at some of the other would be Wizards of on
benches elsewhere, and then Mark d'antoni's still up there, Manti Williams.
So there's there's guys. How excitable you are about any

(08:46):
of them? I don't know, but certainly sure not yet,
not yet soon though maybe well we called that one
about six weeks ago, long time ago. I did like
there was a thing going around though, where there was
a great camera angle on TIBs where it looked like

(09:08):
he'd had a hair restoration. Okay, all right, all of
a sudden it looked like he was walking with a
full head of lettuce and it was just the way
it blended in the background of him. But you know,
he might need that he can show a renewed, youthful
appearance to give him that shot at that next gig.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Look, and I'll say this, because we were both off
last night. We had, you know, night with all our
families at California Adventure with iHeart. Was a great night
last night. You and I were there, Justin was there,
Alex Tischer.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Was there, Thanks ninety eight seven, and you know the
Nicks lose.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
And you know all the how are you? How are Jason?
Oh my god, how do you have? And I'm honest
with I'm honest with you right now. I am absolutely
fine because because you had a turo because well, no,
because I did have. I did have shwarma last night
saved the world. Then shwarma is because I have zero
expectations for this next team. I told you I had

(10:05):
zero and that this is not their year. The roster
did not come together. And I'll tell you this much.
The guy following TIBs out the door if they lose
this round of the Pistons is mcal Bridges, and it's
gonna be This is how we revamp the team for
next year is taking one of the stars because it's
starting five is in credit put together an incredible starting five.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
It's not gelling like you would expect. And mcal Bridges
is not someone that's seen the basketball enough. He's had
a tough time getting hot. He has games where he
absolutely disappears, and he is your most marketable asset that
will bring back what you need to complete this team,
because it's just how they have it now. It's this
iron man basketball of Hey, we're gonna have the five

(10:44):
stars out there as much as possible. There's still not
enough flow and sometimes there's not enough touches for Karl
Anthony Towns and trying to get too many people involved
is really difficult. And when Brunson's has the ball most
of the time and it's he and Kat all right,
you're trying to bring another scorer in that's not working.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
And Unobe with his three and D is great. Josh
Hart finds his spots right. That's but the Bridges thing
is a really difficult thing. And they traded five number
one picks for him. So that so following TIBs out
the door, if the Knicks lose to the Pistons, is
gonna is gonna be Michal Bridges because that's the only
way they get a couple of pieces that can either
supplement or work better with what they have, because you

(11:22):
just have a collection of talent right now with the Knicks.
And I thought, oh, this is gonna come to that.
It's gonna be unbelievably awesome. Now it's like, oh, you know,
they'll win.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
They'll beat the teams that are about as good as
them and not quite as good, but the team's better
than them, forget it right, Like I mean, and again,
I have no expect and I'm not saying no, no, no.
The Mets I have big time expectations for. And I'm like, okay,
now I'm I'm gripping my ass off this year because
this is now, this is We're we have the best
record in baseball. We're not even hitting yet, and this
is it. But the Knicks, I'm like, yeah, whatever, man,

(11:50):
what they have? I have zero expectation. Whatever happened to there.
If they win the series, great, it's a bonus. Right,
That's how I look at a bonus. Now, what's gonna
likely happen is I'm sure they're gonna they're gonna win.
They're gonna lose this series and then somehow the Celtics
will get upset and the cas will get upset and
it will be oh, it's there for us. That's climply
how it works for the mix.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
But like, if they get out of here, great, If not, okay,
I I zero expectations for.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
The Jason Tatum doubtful for the next game, the Celtics
with that wrist injury where they said, let him get
up himself, he's really hurt, get up, rub it off.
So it's that curiosity will watch you and continue to
monitor your heart rate, uh and your your angst akstiness.
Then the Mets helping you quite a bit because yesterday,

(12:36):
I mean as Justin is wont to do to poke
the bear, as as the Knicks go down and defeat. Yeah,
but the Mets one jerk. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
I gona look at the positives, right, I gonna if
I line for a ride, you have it. That's one
that's the Philly is all good, man, All good.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
It's like, but it comes back to the ability of
a squad because you got health for the most part,
for your next seventeen. Health is great. If you get
sixty five in this day and age in the NBA, yeah,
that means you had a healthy year, right, But when
you're playing with such a short rotation, those guys are
on heavy minutes, and now you try to extend that

(13:15):
into play. It's a lot easier to shrink it down
and just say, hey you you got used to your
twelve minutes in the regular season. You got nothing now,
versus hey, you ready to come off the bench. What's
my role? Don't know? Remember, because when Brunson suddenly was out,
everybody's standing around. Look at who's taking it, who's getting
the ball on the inbound I don't know. Zero. Expect
that's it. Expect nothing, but you'll never be disappointed. See

(13:37):
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Speaker 1 (17:16):
Speaking of Yeah, we had some big talk today that
maybe the Browns and the Giants looking to trade out
of the second and third selections of the draft. The
Titans and know that we're good. We're staying at number one.
We took a phone call for good. We're feeling okay.
Is twenty thousand when when Kem Warden said the best
running backs in the NFL were the guys on our team.

(17:39):
We figured we need to draft the guy. But could
we see some move right now? Every team has their
first round pick?

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Will that change?

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Speaker 3 (18:02):
It's about right. We got all the senses engaged. It
is Jason locking for it. Jay, what's happening?

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Man?

Speaker 3 (18:06):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (18:09):
I'll be happy when this thing's over. I gotta be
honest with you.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, but yeah, but here's the thing, though, I know
the Orioles aren't playing well, so you're gonna be focused
more on the Orioles on your radio show.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
I don't know, man, it's it's low IQ bad baseball, man,
I don't know. It's not great to talk about.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
But they'll be mediocre enough, like the problem.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
Is that they won't be just truly horrific, Like they're
going to be mediocre enough that it's kind of like
it's interesting and people won't get fired like they should,
and changes won't be made like they should because you know,
they've expanded the playoffs and you can keep convincing the
new owner that we're still in it. I don't know,
I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, let's get to some more certainty easier. Let's look
at thirsday. That the week, the week we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Get by here, h do you believe the Browns and
the Giants can move from two and three or is
this just smokest green, this is just.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
What we do two days before the draft. I mean,
people are calling each other. I don't think that qualifies
as news. It's it's what happens. People set their boards
over the weekend, and then they start, you know, talking
to other teams and exchanging ideas and it goes from
kind of being everybody in their silo to much more
of a sort of ongoing dialogue. And that's part of

(19:32):
why you see betting markets crystallized, and you start to
see the kite. The kind of value, a potential value
that was there a week ago, two weeks ago, a
month ago, disappeared for a lot of these picks, and
it basically becomes you put up a whole bunch of
money to win your money back, because that's that's all
you're that's all you're doing, because these these things are

(19:55):
kind of they kind of are what they are. And
I think the first really, for me, really the first
five picks are pretty well set now and I don't
think there's going to be a trade that changes that.
I don't think we're going to see nearly as many
trades as we normally do. Certainly the pace of the
conversations have been slower. There's less of a consensus on

(20:19):
who really the top players are, and it's harder to
think that you know your guy Kenner can't be there
because a lot of these opinions are more all over
the place. I don't think it's as deep and blue
chip players at most key positions. There's a lot of
other drafts, but it has oodles of depth, which is
another reason why people are not that inclined to trade

(20:41):
picks to give away, you know, or a part with
some of these Day two and early Day three picks
where they think they can really do some damage. So
I do think somebody will trade into the back end
of the first round for a quarterback, and it stands
the reason there'll be another trade or two where people
flop spots unless deals. But I don't think we're gonna

(21:01):
have blockbusters. Now, they'll be players, but you'll get dealt
But even a Trey Hendrickson, I don't think you're getting
a one straight up for him. So a lot of
those trades might not happen until Day two because they're
probably only gonna involve Day two picks and Thursday night. No,
I don't anticipate much trade action, certainly not in the
top three.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
All right, so let's see this. Then I'll go through
the fret. I'll start with pick one and then we'll
stop and you go from where you think the picks.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Are gonna go when you disagree. Ready, okay, all right?

Speaker 1 (21:28):
So number one cam Ward, Tennessee, keep going, okay. Number
two Travis Hunter Cleveland ramble on.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Okay. Number three the Giants Abdul Carter proceed. Okay. Number
four the Patriots, well, boy, yeah, they break the Jets
heart and they go with Membu out of Missouri.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
I think it's probably can't think it's probably the other
offensive lineman.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
You will gamble, yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
And then five Jacksonville, Oh boy, five makeson Graham Jacksonville.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
I think it's shinty, it's Genty or Graham, but I
would I believe it's.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Sent Oh okay, I like that him sneaking in the
top five. Go out of their work to make that happen,
do you the Raiders don't try to do something to
get up to get Genty?

Speaker 4 (22:26):
I don't think so. I mean, it's not out of
the Roman possibility, but like, I don't know, like I
think I just have a hunch that they take McMillan
and that they make their offense better that way, and
that they think they can get a pretty good back
at the at the top of the second round. But

(22:47):
this receiver class, you know, and there's not even uniformity
about the top three and how how high those ceilings
may be. But I've just had this theory, and I've
run it by some people who are on other teams,
and they don't think I'm crazy. That this is tom
Brady's pick, and Tom Brady sees the games through the
eyes of a quarterback. And tom Brady, you know, for

(23:08):
the better part of his first twenty years in the league,
was under a guy's thumb who didn't want to do
anything for his offense, who wanted tom Brady to do
more with less, and who was you know, would never
give tom Brady this kind of capital in the first
round on a pass catcher, you know, even Gronk, you
got him lower than you probably should have because of
you know, concerns about his body even then. And so yeah,

(23:33):
I just think Tom Brady and they've already got to
Brock Bowers. You know, if they didn't have a Bowers,
then I would say that they jump all over Warren.
But I just have a theory that he's trying to
build a monster there for Gino and that's his call
way more than it's Pete Carroll's, and that that McMillan
kid he thinks is the best wide receiver in this
in this.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Draft interesting because I would have doubled up and gone
back to what he had. And you know, the human
must not be named in Aaron Hernandez alongside Gronk, so
you'd have the dual tight ends to go out there
and dominate.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
I mean, that would that would be something. I just
think that they feel like those parts of the field
are already pretty well covered and we need people to,
you know, to compliment that we're looking for a little
different skill set.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
Yeah, but we'll see.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Does Kirk Cousins get traded day one or day two?

Speaker 4 (24:26):
I mean he gets cradd in the next like he
gets traded his offseason. I don't believe it has to
happen this weekend. It's complicated. He's got a full no trade,
you know. The how willing are the Falcons to negotiate
the sort of rework the contract they're going to have
to do facilitated trade. But are those conversations that are
cann be going on, you know while all this activity

(24:49):
is going on during the draft. I mean, you can
walk and true come at the same time. But I
don't think that trade is I don't think it's it's
sort of incumbent on them getting this year's draft picks
for him. If that's what it was all about, it
should have already been done. They should have, you know,
stopped being fools about not wanting to eat any of

(25:10):
the money to get a real pick in return, and
it should have already been done. So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Jason Locking for NFL inside of our guest Jason Smith,
Mike Carmon Lot from the tirec dot Com studios. All right,
fill in the blank here for me. Well, that's what
it would take to get it when it's all said
and done. Shador Sanders is on what team? And what
round does he go in?

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Oh, come on roundly tomorrow night. I right now would
say twenty one to Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. I'm completely with you.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
And they walk Mike Tomlin gets to walk around like
he's the smartest guy in the room.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
See, look at what I did. Look at what I
did I did as a quarterback.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Well, look, I don't think he gets past my Tom.
And I'll put it that way. I think Mike tomins
very comfortable with him. I think that some of the
brashness and boldness and whatever that other people could talk
themselves out of, I think Mike Tom would have no
problem sort of harnessing and using to his advantage. They

(26:16):
obviously have an overt needt at quarterback. And I started
picking up over the weekend talking to coaches and gms
and and you know, you know, doubts evaluators. I mean,
too many people being convinced that Tellen Moore really does
have a fixation on Jackson Die and that the Saints

(26:39):
are in fact inclined to go that way. No one knows, right,
I mean, like you, no, very few people actually know
inside that building. And sometimes these things are completely right,
and sometimes there are smoke that's done out there that
people believe, and sometimes it was right until an owner
or somebody else stepped in and said, no, that's not

(27:00):
what we're going to do. So no one would sit there,
you know, rival gms and say we absolutely know that pick.
But there are people who you know that to the
best of their determination, for their internal draft boards and
mock drafts, they think Jackson Dart is the pick at nine.
So I'm who am I to say?

Speaker 5 (27:21):
No?

Speaker 3 (27:21):
Does Jerry Jones upset the Apple card to prove and
shut everybody up and to prove to himself that he's
still the smartest guy in.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
The room by doing what?

Speaker 5 (27:30):
Would he make it?

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Make it a giant trade, you know, one of those
let's go for Broke.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
For who who is this draft would like for Truvit Hunt.
I mean, I mean that would be the only person
that I think you could really make that case. He
doesn't need a quarterback. He just gave a guy sixty
million dollars a year, sure but grudgingly, but he did it. No,

(27:59):
I would be really surprised if he. I just think
he stays where he is and he probably takes a
wide receiver.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four That is
at Jason Locke and four. Check him out on Odyssey
one oh five seven the fan in Baltimore, Washington. Post
Jay has always buddy appreciated man enjoyed the draft on Thursday.
We'll talk to you always.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
My pleasure thank you, Jason.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Ay, there he goes. Now, I'm telling you, man, it's
gonna wind up. It's like I put it out in
the universe that that somehow Shador Sanders is gonna fall
to the Steelers and Mike Tomlin's gonna get to walk
around like see all he doubted me, think I didn't
know what I was doing, which they don't. Oh, we're
gonna win. I'm telling you it's gonna wind up happening.
And Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is like that kid that doesn't study

(28:40):
for a test in your class and winds up getting
a higher grade than you did when you go. I
studied until two in the morning, and I didn't eat,
and I even go to sleep. I just kept drinking
red Bull to stay up because my test was an eight,
and I want him getting to sixty seven.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
You don't even look.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
At a book and you got a ninety eight.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah I should have got that last one, right, that's
a little careless at the end.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
I just I should have got one hundred. Yeah, that's
all me. That's who, that's who. The Steelers are always
works out from. This is gonna work out for them
too well. But it's the perfect narrative too, because what's
the one thing you can't question about shudor Sanders his toughness. Right,
we watched that time and again, and where else can
that be sold. It's a great fit, and it's a
great and the thing is, it's a great fit on
an allion.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
Right.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
They got Jalen Warren to come back cheap, so they've
got a bunch of They made the trades, the splashy
moves to upgrade the receiving corps this offseason. So yeah,
it would be a perfect fall to opportunity. Probably not
gonna be so thrilled that he goes twenty first psychologically,
but they're gonna start, They're gonna start pushing the fit.
This is where he's on. This is the best fit

(29:42):
for him. This is the best place for him to go,
and it is.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
The thing is it is, it's the perfect place for
him to go. And they're gonna luck into it. They're
just gonna back into it and fall over and find
a briefcase full of money, because that's what happens.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
They're not in your division yet, I know, but still
it upset the Patres. Tomlins just starting to irk me
the last couple of years with the whole. Yeah, I'm
smarter than you, and look what I do at quarterback.
It's not working. Doesn't matter. I'm still smarter than you.
It's not working. It's not working. It's not working. He's smarter, No,
he's not is he is not? Stop he is if
an'thing else, Look, man, he may have a lucky rabbit's

(30:17):
foot or whatever the hell he's got going on, and
he still has that streak going. How is it even
with the quarterback position being what it's been.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
I told him, I told everybody that would listen last year,
Russell Wilson stinks he's done.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
No, no, no, no, I'm smarter. I'm smart, sow goes.
So what is sorry, buddy that goes?

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Uh, it's time to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. And the guy who is the
smartest guy in the world, it's Steve to.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Say hi, Steve Therap, smart enough not to say that,
like fifteen, twenty, fifteen, thirty, what'd you get.

Speaker 7 (30:48):
Let's see one thousand thut No, I know it was
nothing close to that, Thank you. Really, although I'm smart
enough to know fourteen the max is and it's yeah,
it's like sixteen hundred.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
The max you get Fred for writing your name correctly.
You have to write it correct you can't. Maybe he
saw you get four points write in your name. You
got to write your name correctly. You screw that. I still, yeah,
el some.

Speaker 7 (31:09):
Recruits were prop forty eight. Even so, by the way,
Tomlin with his William and Mary education, so you got
to add that into the conversation. Mister smart guy.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Well we're talking. He needed to kill people. He needed
kill people sid William, William and Mary hed I got
by with like a half day full of Mary Falcons.

Speaker 7 (31:32):
Quarterback Kirk Cousins reported to voluntary workouts today. Michael Pennix
is now the starter there. Bill's running back James Cook
did not attend the start of his team's voluntary off
season program in San Francisco. Quarterback Brock Party showed. Tight
end George Kittle did not. Seventeen NFL teams open voluntary
off season workouts yesterday, eight more did so today. The

(31:52):
Bengals reached preliminary agreement with Hamilton County for stadium improvements
for next year. And I must mention former ESPN Sunday
Night foot announcer Mike Patrick died at the age of eighty.
He had a thirty five year career on cable and Yes,
Sunday Night Football used to be on cable to the NBA,
and he.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Was the voice of Sunday Night Football for many other
twenty years. Yeah, he did lots of other there, but
him and Joe Thisman and Paul McGuire were from almost
seven until the mid two.

Speaker 7 (32:19):
About twenty years ago. Yeh, yeah, exactly, and a lot
of other sports. I mean, I'd see him on college
basketball a lot over the years. He had a long
and great career at play by play in the NBA Playoffs,
the first quarter is over in LA and the Lakers
lead Minnesota thirty four to fifteen. Minnesota five of eighteen
shooting from the floor five baskets in the first twelve minutes.

(32:42):
Timberwolves had taken game one of the series. Over the weekend.
Oklahoma City's up two games to none and its first
rounder after beating Memphis again one eighteen ninety nine. Indiana
leads two games to none after defeating Milwaukee again one
twenty three to one fifteen. Despite Janis Antennacumpo's thirty four
points and fifteen eighteen rebounds. Boston's Jason Tatum is doubtful

(33:03):
for Wednesday with the Bruce wrist to the NHL playoffs.
The late game is still about a half an hour
away Minnesota at Vegas. Right now, Florida through two leads
five to two at Tampa Bay and they're early in overtime.
Ottawa tied at Toronto two two. Carolina leads two games
to none after beating New Jersey three to one to
Major League Baseball.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
What a ballgame at.

Speaker 7 (33:24):
Wrigley Field tonight. Bottom of the eighth inning, the Dodgers
are leading ten to nine against the Cubs. LA got
a three run homer top of the first from Tommy Edmund.
Cubs answered with five in the bottom of the first
against starter Dustin May. Eventually the Dodgers with five in
the seventh to take the lead, Freddie Freeman with a
two run double. Kyle Tucker though with a two run

(33:47):
shot to get the Cubs close, maybe still cheating. They
go to the ninth ten to nine Dodgers lead at
Wrigley Kansas City has won an eleven innings over Colorado
four to three. Rockies with a four an eighteen record.
Minnesota beat the White Sox four to two, White Sox
five and eighteen. Saint Louis ended a five game losing

(34:07):
streak with a comeback win at Atlanta ten to four.
Got three runs in the eighth, three and the ninth.
The Mets won there sixth in a row, five to
one over Philadelphia, was a two to one lead.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
In the seventh.

Speaker 7 (34:16):
Victories for Boston and Washington, wins for Miami and Cleveland.
The Guardians have won five straight, beat the Yankees three
to two, and San Diego won again two nothing at Detroit.
The Padres have posted seven shutouts this season, and the
Tigers in the defeat three for thirty at the plate.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Locke the Tirec
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Speaker 3 (34:38):
Coming up next.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
You want a great hot take, I will tell you
there will be one big trade.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
It will be in the top ten. I'll tell you
who's gonna make it and who they're gonna make it for.

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Speaker 1 (36:27):
So far tonight, reports of the Lakers' demise has been
greatly exaggerated. Already half of the Timberwolves rosters in foul trouble. Yeah,
we just started the second quarter. Devincenzo already has three
and the Lakers lead the Tea Wolves forty to twenty one.

(36:48):
Lucas hitting threes, not even looking to see if the
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this game coming up in a few minutes. Again, eight
and a half before halftime, and it kind of looks
like a thunder Grizzlies Game one right now, forty to
twenty one. It is everything Lakers and the Lakers need
this to tie the series up a one game of PA.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
I just want more of those hard picks like nas
Reed just set like he was bron breaker taking someone
out with a spear. We need more of that because
then we'll get some volatility or he's you know, some
excitement in a blowout scenario.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Eventually you're gonna you're You're gonna come down from your
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Speaker 3 (37:26):
Eventually you're gonna come down from that. No. I mean,
I'm doing crossovers here. We're trying to grab the entire Okay, everybody,
I give you the sports, we get some wrestling in.
I give you some hot takes because I could speak
better on the microphone than ninety five percent of the
guys that are that are doing the wrestling business right now.
So maybe they can make me a manager. It's also

(37:46):
an audition. And don't forget Nico Harrison. A lot of
people speak better than Nico hes as soon as he
opens his mouth, he loses. That's trouble. But I'll give
you this hot take, bold prediction for the NFL Draft.
You think I'm crazy, Okay, but that's OKAYNA be the
first time I don't. It's very hard to believe Jerry
Jones when he says anything. It's very hard, right, Sure.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
I'm gonna do it, No nopem just gonna go just
gonna wait a few months and go against it.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
That's all it's gonna happen. I'm gonna do it. Ma
Way and ma Way is terrible. Okay, So this is
the deal, he says today. He's working on a couple
of big moves. Right.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
The team is working on some big trades to make
in the NFL Draft, A couple of big things they
could be going on now. Normally you would say, yeah,
whatever Jerry Jones, Yeah whatever. Yeah, we're all in too,
right Jerry, Okay, right, no, no, But this I believe
him because this is what he likes to do. He
likes to make that big draft day trade. Now he
hasn't made the biggest one. You gotta go back to

(38:43):
Amari Cooper a few years ago. But he likes you
gotta look down just thirty five years of Jerry Jones
when he can. He likes to make those moves. He
likes to get up and do something really, really bold,
and he needs to do that. Right, So what's the
big bold move to make in the draft. The cowboy
sit right now, and for the first round of the
draft we're talking about they're picking twelve. Who is the

(39:07):
new apple of the eye of NFL teams? What's the
one position that is crying out for cowboy need? Because
if you add this guy, you can say, well, maybe
we're back to the team we were and we drafted
Dak and he was a rookie, and watch Dak and
Ezekiel Elliot run nuts up and down the field. Hey,
I just watched Sakuon Barkley go from one team in

(39:29):
the division to another team in the division and the
Eagles won the bleep in Super Bowl. Jerry Jones is
gonna go up to four or five. He will make
a deal with the Patriots or the Jaguars and they
will draft Ashton Genty Like that is your big surprise
move because at four and five the Patriots really want

(39:51):
to take Ashton Genty. Well, they gave him Andre Stevenson
some money. They're kind of Drake made driven. Ashton Genty
would be nice there.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
But when you're starting over, Jerry Jones, I'm sure overpay
because it's what he does in trades. Same thing for
the Jaguars. Right, you have a couple of guys you like,
not great, but okay, Is Ashton Genty gonna be the guy?
Or will you be able since you're starting over as well? Hey,
if I overpay for you with picks there one of
those teams he will move up for and take Ashton
Genty who doesn't get out of the top five. And

(40:17):
that's the big shiny move of the NFL draft. And
Ashton Genty's got a star in the side of his head,
and he goes, I'm gonna be Barkley.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
I'm gonna be Charles Barkley and Saquon Barkley. I'm gonna
even be I Ran Barkley, that boxer from the eighties.
In fact, I'm gonna be Barkley, who was the butler
and soap. I'm gonna be all these Barkley's is one. Yeah,
I'll even he win, So I'll even be Elizabeth Berkley,
which is close to Barkley.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
That's what he's gonna say, and it's gonna be the story.
So excited that's gonna be I'm so excited. Oh I'm
sorry too far. That's everything. That is everything. No, I
did that, I mean We just had Jason locking for
on a little earlier in the hour, and I asked
about Jerry Jones because I know the the hot buttons went,
we want to get a visceral response to something from

(41:03):
Jason Locamora. You got the Shed or Sanders questions. I
didn't really care to ask anything about Aaron Rodgers, so
I went Jerry Jones. They're like, come on, what's he
gonna go do? This is exactly what Jerry Jones would do.
It's the reverse hoshal Walker. I'll give you a bunch
of stuff to go up there, because right the Patriots,
right now they need to go and build the interior. Well,

(41:23):
you can get the other offensive lineman right if you
don't get the one on the board. We know that's
one of the areas of depth, and that's not sexy,
that's not moving the needle. It's good for long term success.
We're talking about this a little bit with the draft.
There's a lot of depth, there's a lot of greatness
to be had in teams to be built, but it's
not sexy and headline grabbing, which is why Jerry Jones

(41:45):
can cut through the mess and go get it. If
the Jaguars are so far from being a contender to anything,
no matter how bad the AFC South is. Yeah, yeah,
agents coming there is not solving anything. No. No, It's
like we said with Saquar Barkley, if he'd stayed with
the Giant, where do they go? Five over or under?
Five and a half week? Look at the right decide.
It's not a difference maker. You have to have everything

(42:05):
else in place.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
No, And and the Cowboys feel like we have everything
in place. We get a big star player, and I
not only do I win the draft, I win making
my team even better for the fall. And suddenly Micah
Parsons is doing a podcast saying, oh, let's go, let's
go pay me else go let's call it guy, I
want money, what money?

Speaker 3 (42:22):
I want to stay.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
All of a sudden, Ashton the Cowboys trade up for
Ashton Gent.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
There you go. There's your big bold prediction for the
top five of the NFL to see. I gotta go
and rework my mock draft that I'm getting ready, get ready.
Oh I like what that. Jason Kidd said on the radio, Steven,
make that happen a debt? Okay, Dan Powerhouses listen, all right, fine,
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It is John Palmrosi, John Paul, what's happening man.

Speaker 5 (43:48):
Good evening.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
That was an all time introduction, But you neglected to
say that you know what Morosi might have been right
when he said the Pistons would find a way to
be the Nicks, because we feel pretty good in Michigan
right now.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
Somehow, Now I got, I got? Have you explained this
to me? Jason?

Speaker 6 (44:09):
Beasley and Hardaway combined for two points in Game two,
and somehow.

Speaker 5 (44:16):
The Pistons out a way to win at the Garden?

Speaker 6 (44:18):
Jason Smith, how did that happen?

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Here's how I explain this. Here's how I explain this
is pretty easy. The Mets have the best record in baseball.
That's how I explained and.

Speaker 6 (44:30):
So so as basically my understanding is the only reason
why I am on the show tonight is because new
Piston's icon Dennis Shrewder was not available. He is he is,
basically you surpd Vinnie Johnson as Michigan's favorite purveyor of late,
late second, late fourth quarter clutch shots.

Speaker 5 (44:54):
Though we're still early on in the series, Jason, a
lot of.

Speaker 6 (44:57):
Basketball is still left to be played, and Mets do. Indeed,
sources say they have a better record than the Dodgers,
and that is something that is all the more true
after that wild walk off win for the Cubs at
Wrigley this evening.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Well, and I will tell you this, John Paul, you
are the ninth person today from the state or the
last twenty four hours, from the state of Michigan to
trash talk me about the Pistons, and the next because
my wife's entire family has been busy doing that the
last twenty four hours.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
Well, I know this well.

Speaker 6 (45:29):
And of course, as you also know, the Pistons have
not done a whole lot of winning of series since
Rashid Wallace inexplicably left Robert or open for a three
pointer late in the two thousand and five NBA Finals.
Not that we still think about that in Michigan, that
we still think about that, but very little, very little

(45:51):
good has happened to the Pistons since then. But they
are now back in the conversation, as are the Mets,
as are the Cubbies. And this is really a great
time here for sports. I am I am loving it
as both a broadcaster and a fan.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
So as we look at the first couple of weeks
in the books, obviously Smith's all excited, Mets tied with
the Padres for the best record in baseball. Wan Sotos
still not hitting, as he's so often telling me, what's
your biggest surprise.

Speaker 5 (46:23):
Question. I think the couple things.

Speaker 6 (46:25):
The struggles of the Braves are really surprising me.

Speaker 5 (46:28):
I think on the on the negative side, and I.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
Certainly understand all the back and forth now about Jared
Kalmick and Robin Lacunya Junior. It really it takes it
takes a special skill to become the dominant debate in
baseball when you're not even on the active roster. But
that seems to have occurred with the Kuni in the
last couple of days. So I think the struggles of
the Braves are are probably the most surprising thing I've seen.

(46:55):
I did not think the Dodgers would have as much
competition and company atop the NL West as they have
right now with the Padres uh and the Giants. The
Padres Tonight, Nick Pavetta, for me, he's on his way
to an All Star appearance, a one point two oere
even after signing late. Usually that's not a beat as
usually a indication that the pitcher's gonna get up to

(47:16):
a slow start.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
But you got a credit Pavetta versus preparation.

Speaker 6 (47:19):
Coming in and being really good very early on. And
and so I think that the way the Cubs have
played has certainly impressed me. They're they're leading the NL
Central tonight, Amaya was a was a key hero for them.
They get Kyle fucker and the deal with Houston's. I
like the way the Cubs have played, and I think
that the AL East being pretty winnable. It appears is

(47:42):
also a bit of a surprise that the Orioles I
did not expect would be as bad as they've been.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
They they and And the thing.

Speaker 6 (47:49):
About the Orioles two guys is I just don't know
how quick that they can fix this. A lot of
their pitching is either looking overwhelmed or is just frankly injured.

Speaker 5 (47:58):
And I I don't know how.

Speaker 6 (48:00):
Quickly Michaelias and Brandon Hyde can correct the reasons why
the Orioles right now are struggling so much.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
You know you mentioned the AL East, John Paul and
the Yankees lead the AL East right now at fourteen
and ten. If you didn't know the scores of the games,
and all you did was read about the Yankees online
right whether it's New York Post, you know, I'm up
every day. If you didn't know the scores, you would think, oh,
the Yankees are what what two and twenty one like
if they even won to more wins in the Rockies

(48:29):
right now. But the Yankees, despite the fact that they're
not clicking, they have a lot of issues, they're still
in first place in the Al East.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 6 (48:38):
And obviously when you look at the big picture, they've
gotten zero starts from Garrett Cole and Luis Heal at
this point in the season. Devin Williams has struggled in
the ninth inning. I think that's that is the story.
It's certainly it is a correctable story, and I believe
I believe Devin will correct it. But that's a concern.

(49:00):
Aaron Judge has been just otherworldly, and I think that's
that's the key part of the story here, is just
how great he continues to be and and he is
now I think when Aaron Judge and you're looking at
the way that he is elevating this this franchise, even
amid all the injuries and not having Guan Soto. Obviously

(49:21):
he is now moving into the inner circle of the
greatest Yankees ever.

Speaker 5 (49:26):
And I know that there is this instinct with the Yankees.

Speaker 6 (49:29):
To always defer to the to the players who were
who were on television screens in black and white.

Speaker 5 (49:37):
But he obviously has.

Speaker 6 (49:39):
He's already hit more home runs in a single season
than anybody in that uniform, including Ruth, Gerig, Demaggio, Mantle.

Speaker 5 (49:45):
Everybody, and and so that's part A.

Speaker 6 (49:48):
But then look at the consistency year after year. I
just think that the way that he leads, the way
that he sets the tone on and off the field,
is really extraordinary.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
Even when he's been getting these these odd questions.

Speaker 6 (50:00):
About Toto, still where that that story won't go away.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
He's not going to about fifteen more years, John Paul,
he's a fit. That story's not going away for fifteen years.

Speaker 5 (50:10):
That's right, Jason.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
And something tells me that when when the Mets and
Yankees played for the first time in the Bronx, it'll
be it might be brought up by a couple couple
of tribes in New York as as the season is unfolding.
But I just think Aaron, I think the world of
him and the way that he's handling things, I think
is the biggest reason why that their record is running
quite counter to the narrative that you've.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
Read in the media there well, and that's the curiosity
going for how much do we expect You know, Stanton's
starting to ramp up a little bit with batting practice,
but is that something that we expect a longer lead
with him coming back, so they don't potentially lose them
all together.

Speaker 6 (50:50):
Well, Mike, it's a really good point. And the other
piece of that is is that to this point, and
I realize he's missed some time with injury, but Ben
Rice has been, aside from Judge, one of the most
important bats and I just cannot and I know.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
We've talked about it.

Speaker 6 (51:04):
Tom Berducci has mentioned this on our on our network
as well. It's going to be interesting to see what
Rice's role is once Stanton comes back and how they're
able to make it all work. And Aaron Boom's done
a really good job of balancing everybody's playing time. But
when you consider how important Rice has been in the lineup,
and also the success they've had in batting gold Schmidt leadoff,

(51:26):
which was really on nobody's being go card to begin
the year. But Paul's a really good base runner and
he gets on base and it gives you an excellent
at bat, and so in some ways, he's a you
can look past the fact that he's not Ricky Henderson
on the bass pass, but he's a good base runner
and he's a and he gives you a solid that bat.
So but again, he's another guy who's who's a corner

(51:48):
type bat that will impact, perhaps on some level, the
workload that Stan's gonna have. So for me, Mike, I
would be very very careful, very cautious with Stanton because
is honestly, once he's active, I don't know what that's
going to mean for the complexity of the lineup when
you consider how much Ben Rice has earned his spot

(52:09):
on this team.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
John Paul, when when do you start your NHL coverage?
When do you start your playoff stuff?

Speaker 5 (52:16):
So good question.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
I as at this moment in time, I am. I
am strictly planning on doing my MLB Network showcase games
every week.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
However, however, whenever I am.

Speaker 6 (52:28):
In a situation where I can sneak over and get
to a game, I will do that. It was actually
in an OHL game over the weekend.

Speaker 5 (52:35):
I've got some.

Speaker 6 (52:36):
Features still coming up for the Under eighteen World Championship,
so I still got.

Speaker 5 (52:39):
Some hockey stuff going. But the bulk of my travel
right now.

Speaker 6 (52:43):
My friends is all focused at the Diamond and uh,
and that'll be the case I've got.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
And and by the way, well in the Pistons and
the Pistons and.

Speaker 6 (52:52):
The Pistons, trust me, I'm working on the Pistons. We're
trying to find a way for me to be able
to call in live from from MSG. It's a point
next week, which would be a lot of fun.

Speaker 5 (53:02):
So I'm gonna work on that.

Speaker 6 (53:04):
But the other piece of it is talking about baseball.
Next week, I've got the Mets at City Field on
on MLB Network, so I will be personally, I'm gonna
I'm gonna reach out to David and see if we
could do a Sternsey in the Pope Show.

Speaker 5 (53:18):
Maybe he's you know, maybe pregame sometime at Cityfield.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
All right, now, good, I'm glad because you know I
don't I don't cash in this chip very often. But
you told me last year, you and David Sterns roommates
in college. It's a great story, and you said, hey,
once in a while, I will pass along a note too.
Have you passed along a note to the Tigers from
your dad a lot? And so you said, hey, if
you got something, you know you have something, let me
know it. I'll pass along to David Stearns. So I
have a note for you to pass along to David Stearns.

Speaker 5 (53:43):
You got it.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
The longer he waits, the more money it's gonna be
to give alon So to come back after, it's just
gonna get more and more expensive. Todd Paul his olbs
is almost one and a half.

Speaker 6 (53:59):
And by the way, and it seems it seems to me,
you know, correct me if I'm wrong, but that there
there there was a comment I believe from Juan Soto
saying that it does matter who's batting behind him, and
that is that is a thing. And so you want
to keep one Soto happy, probably keep pid Alonzo around.
And and uh, I think it's a point well taken.

Speaker 5 (54:21):
If it's not pid Alonzo, who's it gonna be?

Speaker 6 (54:23):
It better be somebody else could. And I don't think
the Yankees are going to trade Aaron Judge to the Mets.
There's about as much of a chance of Jason Smith
or John Morossi batting behind Juan Sota as there is
there in Judge right now. So, uh, I think we
we've gotta we've gotta uh maybe have a little bit
of a real conversation.

Speaker 5 (54:41):
There with David about his options right now for the
best line up.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
No, I can see that happening. And there's John Palmrosi
still wearing his suit and dress shoes with a bat
in his hand. He's gonna hit behind Soto home up.
He's got the bonds for his point appearance.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
Let's go.

Speaker 6 (54:57):
That was almost scullyesque.

Speaker 5 (54:58):
And look who's.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
He's on Twitter on John Morosi. Pope is always buddy,
appreciative man. We'll talk to you next week. I have
a great one.

Speaker 6 (55:08):
Love the conversation. Guys, thanks for everything, and they look
forward to next week.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
He'll get that note to David Stearns. There's no question
about it. It's just going to be more expensive. Man,
he is on a mission right now here. I thought
you were going to try to get a box of
commemorative merch. Oh, this is a big an opportunity to
be mister met No, I can playoff game. I could
get that from I could get that from a No. No,
this I get this.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
I got a cash in man. This is like this
is a you know, we have expectations now. The best
record in baseball with Padres. I mean that that's a
big thing now for us, better record than the Dodgers,
best record in baseball time with the Padres, it's a
big thing.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
Man.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
We got, we got, we got all kinds of stuff.
It's great though. You got balance in the forest because
everything is going wrong for the Knicks. Yeah, and you
got the It's good, it's okay.