July 12, 2025 • 37 mins
Jason Smith & Steve DeSaegher discuss a potential divorce next year for a superstar and his team, make their surprise teams and long shots for the NFL this year, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Happy Friday. Jason Smith, Steve de Sager in from Mike
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Be sure to subscribe so you never miss our very
best Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. And you know, Steve,
you know I got a start. I gotta call you
out on this. You know, you texted me earlier today
and you said, Hey, bet the house on Tarik Schooble today,
Tigers at home day, best pitcher in baseball against the Mariners,
whatever you need, put it all on Schooble. You tell
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me all of that today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
All I needed to hear was the first part of
the sentence you texted me today, And I know whatever
follows that is completely false. Although the guy doesn't have
many bad outings. Hearing the bit of the Detroit Tigers broadcasts,
they said, I think we have to go back to April,
since the last time this guy had a bad start.
We're at mid July here. So yeah, it's notable that
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it's been a while, and I guess even he is
due for one of these, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And the funny thing is is that we started watching
this game in the top of the fifth in because
you're my wife from Detroit. You know, the whole family's
Tiger fans. They're all Tigers.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It was one of the one Detroit goes the fifth.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I mean, it has been an unbelievable run for Detroit
Sports in the last couple of years with the Lions
being so good and now the Tigers come out of
nowhere to their run last year. Now that the best
team in baseball. Really it's it's been in the Pistons
having a you know, finally there they're good in in
basketball again working on the Red Wings. But Michigan wins
the National Championship, obviously, and they're still really good. Number
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one recruit in the country. Like Detroit Sports has been
off the hook for what they've been able to celebrate.
So we come home today, she goes, Hey is the
is and I love this? This This is my wife
different to my wife and my dad. Oh oh, the
games on Apple TV, right, I'll get it up. I'm like, wow, Okay,
where's my dad? Is like, okay, so how do I
how do I find the I just click on the
apple to oh my dad. Okay, dadd, I'll tell you
to find it. So we turn on the game in
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the top of the fifth inning, and you know, and
and the Mariners got a scratch run and then Riguez
goes deep and they put up another run and it's
four and it's four to one.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Goes deep is an understatement.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It was four forty he clocked. I mean that was
when he hit it. He stopped and he stared, and look,
it's not been an unbelievable last year or two from
from j Rod, but he hits that home run. All
of a sudden, my wife goes click, I go what
happened to just I'm a jinx. The game was fine
until we turned it on.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It's and then she tuned back in. And the ninth inning, no,
cause it's been a seven run top of the ninth
for Seattle, twelve three, the lead at Detroit and not
over bases loaded two outs for the man.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
No, you told me, hey, what do you think cal
Rally's gonna hit two more home runs and knock in
five runs? You told me bet the Tigers today, bet
everything on it. I bet the Tigers look on you know.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I'm more amazed. I think that the guy's been hitting
close to two seventy this year that I even mmased
at the power, because this is a guy who could
have serious power and go with a two to twenty
batting average the whole season. All the accolades he's getting
and the MVP votes, Okay, fine, if he's runner up
this year, all of that well deserved for Calrowly.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, I mean, this is a guy who's going to
go into the All Star break with at least thirty seven,
you know, with two more home runs today. I mean,
you're dear talking about a guy that, yeah, being leading
the league in home runs thirty eight home runs. It's
not crazy to say by the All Star break he
could be at forty home runs. I mean, really, he's
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a he's on pace right now. I mean, I mean
he's on pace right now. I believe for for sixty
five home runs I think is where he's at right now.
I mean, really, cal.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Parry Bonds has the record, by the way home runs
before an All Star break of thirty nine.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I mean he could he could have forty home runs
by the All Star break.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Now, Grant did some season start earlier than I'm still impressed.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yes, I mean for it could be forty for the
big dumper by the All Star pars.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And this was a Gold Gloves catcher last year. First
somebody at the catcher position doing this where you know,
let's be honest, where you wears you down. He had
about five hundred and fifty at bats last year and
still had a thirty homer, one hundred RBI season and
a Gold Glove. And he's been even better this year.
He has more homers right now than he had all
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last year.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I think he has more homers than he has hits.
I think he's I think, but big Baseball night tonight.
Obviously we got the Dodgers the Giants coming up later
on last weekend before the All Star break. But I
just want for all of the talk and now that
you know, obviously the offseason in the NBA has been
going exactly how Lebron James wants it to everybody's talking
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about him. I want for everybody who thinks Lebron James
is not gonna get traded. I just want to throw.
I just want to throw this out there. I want
to be very calm. I want to very quick because
we I've told you for the last couple of weeks. Hey,
this is the closest we've ever seen to Lebron being traded,
and the Lakers are daring him to ask for a trade.
They are just continuing to up the annie to get
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Lebron to say I want out and they'll trade him
back to Cleveland. Okay, just understand I'm gonna go through here,
especially coming off the latest today that Ramona Shelbourne and
Brian Windhorst worked on for ESPN and ESPN dot Com
on the changing of the guard for the Lakers from
Lebron to building around Luka Doncic. Okay, so let me
(05:31):
just let me just recap some stuff, and I'm gonna
ask a very simple question. Okay, Lebron James, who has
stirred the drink For the entirety of his NBA career.
The NBA has been all about him. He has enjoyed
it being all about him. He has been the biggest
star for twenty years, unchallenged, unchallenged in this sport. He
is the biggest. He is the biggest star on the
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planet of the last twenty years. He's outlasted Tom Brady,
He's outlasted Christiano Ronaldo, He's outlasting Leonel Lessie. He's outlet.
He is the guy. He is the guy. This is
what's going on now since the season, or since the
Lakers got Luka Doncich and what is put out by
Ramona Shelburn and Brian Winhorse today. So they go get
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Luka Doncic, and they did not give Lebron any notice
they were trading Anthony Davis for Luka Doncic, ad who
Lebron brought in. They're both clutch sports, they're both really tight.
Right right after they get him, they try to get
Williams in the deal from the Hornets and it doesn't
go Lebron, who of course have been begging for a
center for a long time. The Lakers don't try to
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get a center until after they go get Luka doncig Right,
they agree to sell the team to Mark Walter in June,
and Luka Doncic got a heads up and post the
congratulations on social media. Lebron James did not get the
same notice. Right, did Lebron get an extension a we
still love you, we want to build around you even
though we're not telling you what we're doing. No, no,
they said, one year you have to decide to opt
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in or not. Of course he opting in for fifty
two million dollars this year. Nobody else is paying him.
He has been pushed to the side, and he has
since responded by showing up working out at the Cavaliers
facility on July fourth, pictures and videos of him wearing
a welcome home hat that he says, oh, no, no, no, no,
come on, it's just a hat said to my company,
(07:19):
I'm not wearing a welcome home hat around Cleveland for
any other reason.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Not.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Are you guys reading into it. As we have said,
Lebron doesn't do anything without any sort of forethought or plan.
To get this out there, he is trying to push
this narrative of okay, if you want to put if
he's doing this through the media because it's kind of
how he has to do it, because nobody wants to
look bad. Hey, Cleveland is where I can go. This
is where I get That's where I want to go.
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And we have said from the beginning, that's why I
can be an NBA inside because I told her from
the beginning the only place he can finish is Cleveland,
because if it doesn't, he doesn't win there, it can
still be a success, right, can still be a success
because he goes there to finish his career. He can win.
He can he can walk off with with laurels and
presents and all kinds of stuff. He can move and
be the guy that takes the pressure off the young players.
(08:07):
That's where he can go. Right, So I ask you
this now after I just outlined all of that, with
what's going on in the offseason, how the Lakers are
moving away from Lebron, and you've seen different reports every
day from different insiders. The relationship between Lebron and the
Lakers is not there. The Lakers are waiting for him
to demand to trade. They both would would do everything
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they can to make it happen. This is an everyday thing.
There is so much smoke around this story. Lebron could
simply put it to bed by saying, I'm a Laker,
I don't know what you're talking about. I'm here, I'm
excited to win a championship. Lebron has not done that.
Lebron has not done that. The Lakers could put out
say hey, stop all this. We're not trading Lebron. He's
here fifty two million, We're making a big run this year.
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This is what's going on. Instead, the message has been, yeah,
you opt it in because okay, it's a bad deal
for us, and the end of next spring that's gonna
be it. We're gonna be done and we are walking
away from you. Again what I said like a couple
months ago. So again I could be an NBA insider,
but I'm leading to this, Steve, because I ask you
this question, and for anybody who thinks Lebron's not gonna
get traded, this is the question I want to ask,
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after all of what's gone on, after the Lakers have
done so much to minimize him and to minimize his
impact and his standing with the team, can he really
come back and play this season for the Lakers at
this point with all that's going on, can after all
of this, can he really come back and play this
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year with the Lakers be happy and be happy being
a guy that's just shunted to the side for Luka Dansiic.
That's my question. And if you can answer yes, well
I disagree. I think you're absolutely wrong, But the answer
is no. There's no way. This is not who Lebron is,
it's not what he does. All this is going on,
there's no way he comes back. And I'm telling you
I think a trade by the end of July, we
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might see it. We might see it by July thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
First, it is, and we've talked about this. It is
the dream scenario for Lebron to finish his NBA career
where it started in Cleveland. Once he opted in, that
made that monumentally more difficult, especially to turn trade before
camp starts. Once you opt in to as you say,
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the over fifty million for this, Okay, maybe that's attractive
as an expiring contract at the trade deadline or something
like that. First off, there's a tiny handful of people's
who could even go after the type of money that
would be attached to this player, much less have the
interest in him having him short term. But also the
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Lakers have other things on their plate, such as what
you mentioned Luca being their guy, and in a month
or two they've got to sit down with him because
he's going to be eligible for an extension of up
to four years two hundred million plus. That's the person
that is their focus. Understandably, I don't know the mechanics
of how Lebron can be traded before.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh well, first things first, he's gonna say, what's been
the record for most teams involved in the trade? Seven?
Kevin Durant, I want ten? Ten. I want ten too,
And seriously, it may take ten teams because of all
the crazies. Look, just go to the ESPN NBA trade machine,
try to make a trade for Lebron and the Cavaliers happen.
It's almost impossible, right, but it can be done. It
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would have to be around Mobiley or Garland plus something
else going back. Maybe the Lakers would have to part
with a Dalton connect, or maybe it's a bigger deal
where hey, if they get Garland, gee.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Would Lakers ever part with Dalton connect? The ever, I
can't think of a deal out there that it would
have involved him.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
They said we're keeping him forever. He's a superstar. Or
it could be something where if they're getting Garland back,
then it's gonna be the same a simultaneous deal of
Austin Reeves going someplace else. They can make it work, right,
but this is kind of who it has to be
centered around. They can make that work. Now, the biggest
thing is are the Cavaliers okay with saying, all right,
we need to do something to our team to be
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all right with bringing Lebron in, thinking we could be
Lebron away from the championship. I can easily convince myself
for that because you know Lebron, he doesn't want to
play an expiring contract, does want to hit free agency
and have nobody give him any sort of offering the offseason.
He's gonna he's he would say, listen, I'll come there,
give me a two year deal. I'll stay however you
want to. However it works out money wise, but clearly
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Cleveland needs a little bit more than they had this season.
Lebron coming in could take the pressure off of them
because hey, in the second round of the postseason was
way too much against the Indiana Pacers. So I can
see it very easily the Cavaliers, and it's a great story.
They get back to being the one of the pre
eminent franchises in the NBA. They win, they win the offseason,
they win the regular season, they become must see TV,
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and again Lebron will probably play a couple of more years,
and maybe because he's still a periphery top tennis player
in the NBA. He's not gonna make his teammates better,
but he's gonna make big shots and he's gonna make
big plays like he's done throughout the past few years.
So I can see it easily making sense. And if
right now, behind the scenes it is being back channeled
like crazy, I would not be surprised. But the bottom
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line is, every few days there's a there's a new
entry into the Lebron James Lakers offseason storyline that ramps
up the urgency of a trade happening. And today was
Here's the column written by Ramona shell Burnen and Brian
Windhors FORESPN dot com detailing how the Lakers are moving
on to Lebron, moving on to Luka Doncic, and moving
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away from Lebron James. Like what the big line from
the article is, Hey, spring of twenty twenty six is
Lebron's end date with the Lakers. Like He's not gonna
want to play this season in Los Angeles if that
is the case, right, he wants to he wants to
push his future. He wants to make sure that I'm
retiring on my terms and not because no one's gonna
sign me. I'm not gonna go out being a guy
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that they show the door at the end of the
season two. That's not gonna happen. I mean, I can
see by July thirty first, I can see Lebron doing
a Cleveland uniform thing, and and and and and all
of a sudden it shakes the NBA world. That can
happen in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And on my terms would be what you say if
he and his representation asks for a two year deal,
that would be one year plus an option, then he
holds the cards. After that what might be last year
before we break. I can say it is now a
final at Detroit. Mariners have beaten the Tigers twelve to three,
two home runs for cal Raley. He has thirty eight
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and the Red Sox have won their eighth straight on
a two run homer bottom of the ninth off the
Rays closer Pete Fairbanks five to four, Boston over Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Woo, there we go, all right, Thank you, Steve though
Jason Smith, Steve de Sager, Hey, Lebron trade. By July
thirty first, again, we're getting just follow follow the follow
the tea leaves. Read the tea leaves. We're getting there.
He's not gonna stay being shunted to the side. That's
not who Lebron is. Exit. How about a fresca Jason
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He has that very sexy sound. Yes, very much like
very white Steve the singer.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
When he comes in, we are confused.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Starting.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I was gonna start singing like no, no, that's lou
Rolls never mind right exactly. Yeah, you're going to miss
my k thank you. There you go.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Let's get down load for those notes.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Durn you get that low as long as I didn't
say I could get back up? Uh ty shirt? Do
you know who is?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I have no idea, okay, but I like the song
you Will Never Find?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah yeah yeah. He was the lead singer of led Zeppelin.
Yeah really yeah yeah, you can't he left. No, no, no, no, no,
actually no, I'm sorry. Sting was the lead singer of
the Rolling Stones mixed up Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Yes, for
the Rolling Stones, got it? Yeah you miss it? Yeah, okay,
but that's okay. I mean so, I mean, my dad
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tells me some of the concerts he went to when
Lou Rawls was singing for ed Zeyon.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Was it magical?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, I mean it was when they started, Yeah, Michael
Landon showed up and then he uh yeah for Highway.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Michael Douglas.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Do you know who? You don't know who Michael Lindon is.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I know Michael Douglass. That was one of the great
careers in television, actually, Michael Lyndon.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah. From Little House on the Prairie Highway to oh
is he the one that shot Lassie? Whoa Lassie was
never shot? Oh? That would have scored every kid of
the seventies. They didn't do that on TV back Oh
my goodness. On a very special.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Last being the three o'clock slot in the afternoon, when
you got episode just the just pick just video of
Lassie bleeding out, It's.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Like, no, no, no, no, I actually read this week
because now you know they're doing the sequel to I
Am Legend, that it's going to come out.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Did anybo.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, I think Will Smith said, hey, that's a movie
I did that was really really good and we should
do another one, and the the director did an interview
this week saying that the biggest thing, you know, revisiting
I Am Legend, which is again one of the great
action movies of all time, Like I Am Legend was
so good. Uh the scene when the dog dies, he's
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I can't tell you how much. Well, it's it's the
movie's been around a long time. Still when Sam dies, Wow,
number of people that got up and and and left
the theater was I still can't get over it, Like
the number of people that got up in the left
because that happened.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
As he was like, okay a little late on this show.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, people understand, it's in a movie. You know, it
didn't happen in real life. It was in a movie,
you know, Okay, but still a number of people get attached.
So this is in the this is in the mid
two thousands where people were a little upset when you
see a dog guy on film, you imagine that on
like NBC on Sunday night when when a bunch of
kids just taking their baths and showers getting ready for
school the next day. Oh yeah, here's wonderful world at
(19:29):
Disney and Lassie, Oh boy, Lassie ran on the wrong
person's property. What happened there?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
There was the old yellow reference and that is quite
an alert movie. By the way, we have an All
Star update as we get to Fox has the All
Star Game Tuesday night, and people are getting replaced Tummy's
rosters left and right. Pretty soon, it's gonna be like
the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
There's another replacement. Yes, there's a five hundred.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And two people were actually named All Stars this year.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
We know.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Uh pitcher Zach Wheeler of Philly replaced in the All
Star Game by Padre reliever Adrian marhone. I mentioned that
earlier because there's three relievers just from the Padres that
are All Stars now. But Jeff Passing reporting that the
Brewers rookie that's made such an impression already, Jacob Mitzerowski,
has been named to the National League All Star Team
even though he's only thrown in five games. Yeah, that's
(20:19):
the fewest games ever played by someone named the All Stars.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, this shows you where pitching is at in Major
League Baseball? Who do we got, Like, I mean, David
Peterson making it for the Mets yesterday. I was like, no,
that's that's that's got to be an onion headlined. Yeah,
I mean David Peterson's been okay, a good stretch. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Who's the Seattle outfielder that's just got added? Randy A.
Rose Arena has had a good stretch right now. He
replaces Julio Rodriguez on the roster.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, oh, like, okay, that that sounds great, but well,
but I'm looking at him, going, really, David Peterson.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
The Angels rep you say, Kakuchi the picture replaced by
Tampa Bay pitcher Drew Rasmussen. Jacob de Gram was replaced
random well, I was injured, so he was replaced. So
we got two Kansas City Royals in Carlosi Steves by
Keil Garcia.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Another Tiger, Brett Saberhagen is in Danny Jackson.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, Casey Mice is an All Star replacing Boston pitcher
Garrett Crochet. We do have another Giants home run four
two over the Dodgers in Dustin May bottom of the
fifth la.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Johnny Mice on the home run.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We just came Cacey Mice is going to Johnny Mies.
I only know the name because before he passed, he
was he appeared in literally every Old Timers game that
ever existed through the nineteen hies. I believe, Oh this
guy used to play third base for whoever it was.
And that's how you get to know the name.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
All right, Now, before we get to Dak Prescott, can
I tell you Johnny Meis, do you want to go Johnny.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Mice have a Johnny my Yeah, yah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
It's a great start. It's a great story. So this
is back when I was a production assistant at ESPN,
and so the news room was a bunch of desks
in a row, and everybody was there where you were
a production assistant, a producer, one of the talent, and
everybody worked together in different shows. Everybody had had their computer.
They were probably about like five or six rows of
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like six or seven computers, and you sat at that
your desk, and that's where you were for the day. Right.
So when the six o'clock Sports Center went on, like
everybody doing the six left their stations, went down to sit.
People were coming in doing the eleven o'clock show. They
came and took their seats everything else, right, So I
was working on the eleven, so I would get a
computer and everybody we'd be watching the six o'clock Sports
(22:27):
Center while we're planning stuff out. So six o'clock Sports
Center would always have like in the beginning of the show,
would always have big golf highlights, right, because that was
always the biggest thing going on. What's the big sporting
event they have on Thursday and Friday? Right, golf, You'd
be like three minute golf high like NFL Primetime, three
minute golf highlights from like the Deposit Guarantee Classic in Hartford, Like, okay,
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here's the got right, So there was there was a
Thursday and a Friday, and Larry Mize had a big
first couple of days, and so Thursday they get to
the point in the.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Highlight Larry's master's fame, not to be confused with Johnny
Mice wound up in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
So Charlie Steiner is voice in the highlight, and it's
gets to Larry Mice and he and and he goes
and there's the and there's the putt by couples. He
would finish at four under Johnny Mies on seventeen and
BZ would make the putt and we all laugh and go,
oh my god, he said, Johnny Miles.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Three hundred career hitter is lining up the putt.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, So nobody says it. He's like, oh my goodness. Okay.
So the next day it's Friday, right, It's right, it's
the next day, same thing happened. Six o'clock show goes down,
everything else right, and so we're we're sitting there and
the highlight comes up again, you know whatever it was
that the you know, the deposit guarantee whatever Mercedes, whatever
it was, and so it comes up and Larry Mice
had another couple another highlight. So when Charlie's doing the
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hoghlight again for the second day in the row, and
so we're sitting in there and he goes, you know,
and here it is, okay, and uh Nick Faldo there
he is the flop shot. There he would tap in
for Parr Faldo a big day. He's at six under
Johnny Maes. And then three different people, one person, one
executive from their office, one one per and a couple
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puters back of me just yelled out all the differ
time going? Can he stop calling him Johnny Boys?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I know Charlie's from New York. Johnny Mize after World
War Two plays for the New York baseball teams. I'm
not kidding. I looked it up. Giants, then Yankees starting
in nineteen forty six.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh boy, nikes, Oh my god. It was so fun.
It was he was getting stuck like Dowlings, like, come on,
stop calling him Johnny Bot.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Is going to be all of us eventually. I've said
it over and over. I don't think it's really dementia
that's going to get some of us at the end,
not being able to think things or confusing it. I
think it's just the file cabinet is too full. You know,
we remember the nineteen eighty eight baseball season, you know,
in so many seasons since, and there's just too much
info in there, and eventually it's just it just comes
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out like that.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
That's how it's gonna be. Jason Smith, Steve Desaga, Fox
Sports Radio. Now. A big NFL story this week has
been the return to health of Dak Prescott. Right. Dak
Prescott talked this week saying he feels great, He's ready
to go. The hamstring injury that was more serious than
we anticipated. This is yet another Dak Prescott injury that
is was more serious than anticipated. But he says he
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is a full go for training camp and he's ready
to go. Now all week, what is it?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
The cow the Cowboys? What? But I will tell you this,
this is probably the best thing I've said about the
Cowboys in months, right, maybe a year right, maybe maybe
going back to Jerry Jones saying we're all in and
by that I mean and not signing any players. We're
just all in. That's what's going on. But I will
say this, the Cowboys offense is going to have a
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really good year. Watch out right, even when the Cowboys
are at their normal right, not at their best, at
their normal which is they're a tennis team, and they
sniff one game in the playoffs and then Dak is
awful the first week in the playoffs and they wind
up losing. Dak has had some pretty big seasons and
you look at the weapons that he's got around him.
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Now another year of the Cede Lamb connection. Not worrying
about how difficult it was last year with the holdouts,
and then Dak wound up missing time. He talked about
the connection. He's out look Ceedee Lambs from the top
five receivers in the NFL. George Pickens in a honeymoon
season where if he's ever gonna really stand up and
fly right, get rid of the problems that that that
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followed him in Pittsburgh, this is going to be the
year to do it. I'm a big believer that, hey,
people would have issues. The first year in a new
location is always the best before the old issues crop
up again. But clearly Pickens wants to get paid now.
He's got a star on his helmet. Like Pickens is
extremely talented. Jake Ferguson had a phenomenal twenty twenty three
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year with Dak Prescott Right, people forget because Dak got
hurt and Jake Ferguson as well. Fantasy exactly fantasy, you understand, boy.
I can't trade Dave Jake Ferguson, no one wants him
at this point. But twenty twenty three full year with Dak,
he was fantastic. Their running backs are kind of Jags,
but I like Javonte Williams. They'll be okay. The best
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thing Dallas can do throw the ball seven hundred times,
go over the top. This is what you're paying Dak
Prescott for. He's got the weapons, he's got the offensive
line good enough, he can be able to He's still
got enough mobility to get out of trouble. He's got
a great he's got the best set of weapons around
him in the passing game then he's had in a
long time. This Cowboys offense is going to have a
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big season. Now again, still could wind up being ten
and seven or nine to eight. We miss because the
defense is not there. They lose a shootout because you know,
Dallas Cowboy things happen. But this is a this offense
is set up to put up some numbers this season.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, because a full season of Dak usually means what
sixty eight percent completion and over thirty touchdown passes and
moving the ball. And you're right, maybe throwing the balls
six hundred times.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I mean, well, I don't know. I think six hundred
is a little conservative. I go, seven hundred, seven hundred seven.
Why even run the ball? Right?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Okayn? Fourteen?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah? Yeah, no, no, seven sixty three to break the bonds.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Record if that's the record.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, well yeah, well, I mean it's it's in the
record books. Is the record.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Okay, if you say so, it's.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Still the record is still there. But I mean, this
is the best balanced offense, the deep weapons, it's going
to be very difficult to try to figure out what
to do offensively. And yes, Brian Schottenheimer has been pretty
good with that over the course of his career. So yeah,
I may not be may not matter record wise, right,
Cowboys still could be that nine and eight, ten and seven.
Maybe we make the playoffs, maybe we don't. They're doomed
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to that because the roster is not that great, but
their numbers on offense should be really really good. Watch out.
Best thing I can say about the Cowboys, Steve. Best
thing I can say now, The best thing Steve the
Seger can tell you right now is what's trending in
the wide world of sports as day.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
What you got that the Dodgers are losing again in
San Francisco. Oh, it is four to two Giants over
the Dodgers. In the bottom of the fifth inning. The
two for la, a two run homer into the bay
by shoe Otani, is thirty second home run of the season.
Giants have bases loaded one out in the bottom of
the fifth Right now, the Dodgers have lost six games
in a row. Blue Jay's out to a seven to
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nothing lead at the A's in the bottom of the fifth.
Still Padres at home, leading the Phillies three to two
in the top of the eighth inning. The first place
Phillies only a game and a half ahead of the
Mets in the NL East. The Mets are now trailing
three to one at Kansas City in the top of
the eighth code. I Sengo, off the injured list, pitched
the first four scoreless innings for the Mets. Tonight. The
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Angels have taken a five to four lead on the
Diamondbacks bottom of the sixth, and Cleveland's playing two at
the White Sox after the rainout yesterday. Cleveland took the
opener four to two. The Guardians are tied four to
four at the White Sox top of the tenth. In
the nightcap, Milwaukee won its fifth straight game, eight three
over Washington, and the Brewers are now just one game
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back of the first place Cubs in the NL Central.
All Star Break comes up after this weekend. The Cubs
were shot out eleven to nothing in New York by
the Yankees, who've won five in a row. Cody Bellinger
hit three home runs six RBIs the winning pitcher Carlos
Rodan with eight strikeouts in his eight innings of work.
Rodin was also added to the AL All Star Team,
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replacing Max Freed. It was Atlanta six five winners at
Saint Louis. Matt Olsen to the Braves replaces Ronald Dcunye
for the Home Run Derby, which is Monday and then
the All Star Game Tuesday in Atlanta. Minnesota sent Pittsburgh
to a seventh straight lost two to one. Joe Ryan
over Paul Skens, Texas and Baltimore with wins. Colorado as well,
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thanks to a run in the eighth on a wild pitch.
Rockies won three two at Cincinnati. Colorado's record now twenty
two and seventy two. Boston won its eighth straight game
on a two run homer bottom of the ninth against
Tampa Bay closer Pete Fairbanks five to four. Red Sox
the final Ray's All Star second baseman Brandon Low finally
went on the injured list with a bad Obleaque and
Seattle got two more homers from cal Raley. He has
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thirty eight. Mariners won twelve to three. At Detroit, beating
Trek Scoubel, who had been ten and two but in
five innings allowed four runs. Just two games in the WNBA,
Seattle at home leads early fourth fifty nine fifty eight
over Connecticut, which is two and sixteen. Indiana beat Atlanta
ninety nine eighty two, Caitlin Clark twelve points, nine assists.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve oh coming up next. Yes,
Earlier this week, I bashed one NFL team mercilessly well,
because it's positivity Friday. Wait till you get my big
Bowl prediction about them. You want my long shot pick
for the Super Bowl in the NFC, I got it
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for you. It's next right here, Jason Smith, Steve de Sager,
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with special delivery
Steve de Sega in from Mike Harmon. Uh yeah, we
might be getting close to making that seven losses in
a row for the Dodgers. Giants lead LA seven to
two right now.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And they've chased the starter Dustin May, and the reliever
Anthony Bonda just stumbled covering first. The trainer is out.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Oh boy. Uh so we got more baseball on the way.
But with the debut of Quarterback this week, you got
a plethora of great storylines rather for some Kirk Cousins
or you know why Joe Burrow didn't buy the batmobile,
or Jared Goff not being you know, told he was
getting traded away.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Like the streaming documentary, Yes, yes, the.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Streaming documentary on Netflix Quarterback which Jared Goff. Dude, I'm
pretty sure that loss to the Jets was when Sean
McVay decided he was trading you. The game was that bad.
But all the criticism for the Falcons who screwed up
their quarterback situation by signing Kirk Cousins and then drafting
Michael pennockx junior because zero teams sign a guy for
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four years, one hundred and eighty million and then draft
a guy high in the first round. No teams do
that except the Falcons. So it was stupid. So they
were stuck quarterback wise, then they were stuck a few
months ago. They're stuck now. However, right now, a couple
of weeks ago, we talked about who my long shot
pick for the Super Bowl was in the ASC If
you're looking for a long shot pick, No, come on,
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well you're saying. If you're saying, who do you think
is going to pick first in the draft next year,
they're your answer.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
So, Steve, would that be considered a long shot? Wouldn't
that be?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Come on? Ja Okay, a team that I think can
get there, not a team that's not even going to
get close. That's gonna happen. Dude, Kenny Pickett can win
the starting job. He wears seven gloves on his right hand.
I mean, come on, he did. He doesn't wear that many.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
But the Browns were only three and fourteen last year.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, yeah, no, No, you're true, that's true. They could
and they could. You know what, hey, I could see
them winning four games this year. They can. They can
up that victory. That my surprise team. You're talking about
teams that are that your odds are talking about like
plus six plus eight plus ten thousand, the Indianapolis Colts
in the AFC. Right, they have all the weapons, Daniel
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Jones will be just fine. They had a lot of
moves to improve the defense. Uh, we've got to see
how it works out. But the division is terrible. But
offensively they have so many great weapons. Big draft, the
tight end as well. Watch out for the Colts.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
But you say Daniel Jones will be just fine. So
Richardson doesn't play QB and Jones is completely healthy, that's
what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
They are done with Anthony Richardson. The guy can't stay healthy,
he's not productive, and Jones will They're done, yes, yeah, yeah,
I mean Daniel Jones has to have the job taken
away from him because he's so bad, that's the whole thing.
But now he's got weapons. He's in a position to
succeed with the Colts, which he was never. You got
you got a couple of really good running backs. You
got four more good wide receivers. You got a tight
end that you went up and got in the first
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round of the draft. Like you got some weapons there
in a bed.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
The next Dallas Clark theft uh.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
In fact, it was Dallas Clark who they dragged again.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
It's just give them the same number, hey, forty four
some time.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Just squint your eyes. It looks like Dallas I think too.
But in the NFC. My surprise, My long shot team
at plus eight thousand is the Falcons. The Falcons have
a lot of young talent. I know I bashed them
because they completely biffed the quarterback position, but just think
how much better things would be if they didn't sign
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Kirk Cousins had all that money to sign other players
for different positions. But they do have so much young
talent across the board. On offense. If Michael Pennix junior
is who they think he's gonna be and it's all
on him, they have more than enough to win that division.
They'll win big at home and have teams to come
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play there in the playoffs. They just got to stay
away from drama. I mean, I know it's a thing,
and now they're trying to navigate Cousins in Pennix and
it's really crappy. And I'm sure at some point they'll
bite the bullet and move on from Cousins. But if
Michael Pennock's junior, I'm saying it's a big if, but
you're talking if for a quarterback. If second year the
reps the offseason, they have a lot of talent acrosspord.
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One of the best running backs the game in Bjeon Robinson.
There wide receivers are deep. This is again and a
bad division that they can dominate their plus eight or
nine thousand, that's a phenomenal value. My surprise team in
the NFC is the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
As soon as you said that, I said, that's not
a bad thing for one reason, and that's the division.
Because it seems like whoever wins that division seems to
be around nine and eight. So the Falcons were last
year around nine and eight. That means you're in contention,
not only for the division, but in the past that's
been the controversial home game for the playoffs as well
as an aside.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Yeah, I mean, because a lot of it comes down
to the schedule, comes down to who you play, comes
down to having games at home, especially when that that
home game is going to.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Be such a pre season schedule is different. You're right,
he goes by your previous season. By the way, do
we have a Mets update. Mark Fientos has just hit
a three run double and the Mets take the lead
at Kansas City four to three in the top of
the eighth.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I think that's Mark Vientos's first hit since the Grand
Slam against the Dodgers in the NLCS in October.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Thirteen.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Falcons plus eight thousand a huge Lebron James story. Next
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Happy Friday. Well, I mean, for everybody except Schooble, It's
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Be sure to subscribe so you never miss our very
best Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. And you know, Steve,
you know I got a start. I gotta call you
out on this. You know, you texted me earlier today
and you said, Hey, bet the house on Tarik Schooble today,
Tigers at home day, best pitcher in baseball against the Mariners,
whatever you need, put it all on Schooble. You tell
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me all of that today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
All I needed to hear was the first part of
the sentence you texted me today, And I know whatever
follows that is completely false. Although the guy doesn't have
many bad outings. Hearing the bit of the Detroit Tigers broadcasts,
they said, I think we have to go back to April,
since the last time this guy had a bad start.
We're at mid July here. So yeah, it's notable that
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it's been a while, and I guess even he is
due for one of these, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And the funny thing is is that we started watching
this game in the top of the fifth in because
you're my wife from Detroit. You know, the whole family's
Tiger fans. They're all Tigers.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
It was one of the one Detroit goes the fifth.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I mean, it has been an unbelievable run for Detroit
Sports in the last couple of years with the Lions
being so good and now the Tigers come out of
nowhere to their run last year. Now that the best
team in baseball. Really it's it's been in the Pistons
having a you know, finally there they're good in in
basketball again working on the Red Wings. But Michigan wins
the National Championship, obviously, and they're still really good. Number
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one recruit in the country. Like Detroit Sports has been
off the hook for what they've been able to celebrate.
So we come home today, she goes, Hey is the
is and I love this? This This is my wife
different to my wife and my dad. Oh oh, the
games on Apple TV, right, I'll get it up. I'm like, wow, Okay,
where's my dad? Is like, okay, so how do I
how do I find the I just click on the
apple to oh my dad. Okay, dadd, I'll tell you
to find it. So we turn on the game in
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the top of the fifth inning, and you know, and
and the Mariners got a scratch run and then Riguez
goes deep and they put up another run and it's
four and it's four to one.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Goes deep is an understatement.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It was four forty he clocked. I mean that was
when he hit it. He stopped and he stared, and look,
it's not been an unbelievable last year or two from
from j Rod, but he hits that home run. All
of a sudden, my wife goes click, I go what
happened to just I'm a jinx. The game was fine
until we turned it on.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It's and then she tuned back in. And the ninth inning, no,
cause it's been a seven run top of the ninth
for Seattle, twelve three, the lead at Detroit and not
over bases loaded two outs for the man.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
No, you told me, hey, what do you think cal
Rally's gonna hit two more home runs and knock in
five runs? You told me bet the Tigers today, bet
everything on it. I bet the Tigers look on you know.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I'm more amazed. I think that the guy's been hitting
close to two seventy this year that I even mmased
at the power, because this is a guy who could
have serious power and go with a two to twenty
batting average the whole season. All the accolades he's getting
and the MVP votes, Okay, fine, if he's runner up
this year, all of that well deserved for Calrowly.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, I mean, this is a guy who's going to
go into the All Star break with at least thirty seven,
you know, with two more home runs today. I mean,
you're dear talking about a guy that, yeah, being leading
the league in home runs thirty eight home runs. It's
not crazy to say by the All Star break he
could be at forty home runs. I mean, really, he's
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a he's on pace right now. I mean, I mean
he's on pace right now. I believe for for sixty
five home runs I think is where he's at right now.
I mean, really, cal.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Parry Bonds has the record, by the way home runs
before an All Star break of thirty nine.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I mean he could he could have forty home runs
by the All Star break.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Now, Grant did some season start earlier than I'm still impressed.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yes, I mean for it could be forty for the
big dumper by the All Star pars.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And this was a Gold Gloves catcher last year. First
somebody at the catcher position doing this where you know,
let's be honest, where you wears you down. He had
about five hundred and fifty at bats last year and
still had a thirty homer, one hundred RBI season and
a Gold Glove. And he's been even better this year.
He has more homers right now than he had all
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last year.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I think he has more homers than he has hits.
I think he's I think, but big Baseball night tonight.
Obviously we got the Dodgers the Giants coming up later
on last weekend before the All Star break. But I
just want for all of the talk and now that
you know, obviously the offseason in the NBA has been
going exactly how Lebron James wants it to everybody's talking
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about him. I want for everybody who thinks Lebron James
is not gonna get traded. I just want to throw.
I just want to throw this out there. I want
to be very calm. I want to very quick because
we I've told you for the last couple of weeks. Hey,
this is the closest we've ever seen to Lebron being traded,
and the Lakers are daring him to ask for a trade.
They are just continuing to up the annie to get
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Lebron to say I want out and they'll trade him
back to Cleveland. Okay, just understand I'm gonna go through here,
especially coming off the latest today that Ramona Shelbourne and
Brian Windhorst worked on for ESPN and ESPN dot Com
on the changing of the guard for the Lakers from
Lebron to building around Luka Doncic. Okay, so let me
(05:31):
just let me just recap some stuff, and I'm gonna
ask a very simple question. Okay, Lebron James, who has
stirred the drink For the entirety of his NBA career.
The NBA has been all about him. He has enjoyed
it being all about him. He has been the biggest
star for twenty years, unchallenged, unchallenged in this sport. He
is the biggest. He is the biggest star on the
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planet of the last twenty years. He's outlasted Tom Brady,
He's outlasted Christiano Ronaldo, He's outlasting Leonel Lessie. He's outlet.
He is the guy. He is the guy. This is
what's going on now since the season, or since the
Lakers got Luka Doncich and what is put out by
Ramona Shelburn and Brian Winhorse today. So they go get
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Luka Doncic, and they did not give Lebron any notice
they were trading Anthony Davis for Luka Doncic, ad who
Lebron brought in. They're both clutch sports, they're both really tight.
Right right after they get him, they try to get
Williams in the deal from the Hornets and it doesn't
go Lebron, who of course have been begging for a
center for a long time. The Lakers don't try to
(06:36):
get a center until after they go get Luka doncig Right,
they agree to sell the team to Mark Walter in June,
and Luka Doncic got a heads up and post the
congratulations on social media. Lebron James did not get the
same notice. Right, did Lebron get an extension a we
still love you, we want to build around you even
though we're not telling you what we're doing. No, no,
they said, one year you have to decide to opt
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in or not. Of course he opting in for fifty
two million dollars this year. Nobody else is paying him.
He has been pushed to the side, and he has
since responded by showing up working out at the Cavaliers
facility on July fourth, pictures and videos of him wearing
a welcome home hat that he says, oh, no, no, no, no,
come on, it's just a hat said to my company,
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I'm not wearing a welcome home hat around Cleveland for
any other reason.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Not.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Are you guys reading into it. As we have said,
Lebron doesn't do anything without any sort of forethought or plan.
To get this out there, he is trying to push
this narrative of okay, if you want to put if
he's doing this through the media because it's kind of
how he has to do it, because nobody wants to
look bad. Hey, Cleveland is where I can go. This
is where I get That's where I want to go.
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And we have said from the beginning, that's why I
can be an NBA inside because I told her from
the beginning the only place he can finish is Cleveland,
because if it doesn't, he doesn't win there, it can
still be a success, right, can still be a success
because he goes there to finish his career. He can win.
He can he can walk off with with laurels and
presents and all kinds of stuff. He can move and
be the guy that takes the pressure off the young players.
(08:07):
That's where he can go. Right, So I ask you
this now after I just outlined all of that, with
what's going on in the offseason, how the Lakers are
moving away from Lebron, and you've seen different reports every
day from different insiders. The relationship between Lebron and the
Lakers is not there. The Lakers are waiting for him
to demand to trade. They both would would do everything
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they can to make it happen. This is an everyday thing.
There is so much smoke around this story. Lebron could
simply put it to bed by saying, I'm a Laker,
I don't know what you're talking about. I'm here, I'm
excited to win a championship. Lebron has not done that.
Lebron has not done that. The Lakers could put out
say hey, stop all this. We're not trading Lebron. He's
here fifty two million, We're making a big run this year.
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This is what's going on. Instead, the message has been, yeah,
you opt it in because okay, it's a bad deal
for us, and the end of next spring that's gonna
be it. We're gonna be done and we are walking
away from you. Again what I said like a couple
months ago. So again I could be an NBA insider,
but I'm leading to this, Steve, because I ask you
this question, and for anybody who thinks Lebron's not gonna
get traded, this is the question I want to ask,
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after all of what's gone on, after the Lakers have
done so much to minimize him and to minimize his
impact and his standing with the team, can he really
come back and play this season for the Lakers at
this point with all that's going on, can after all
of this, can he really come back and play this
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year with the Lakers be happy and be happy being
a guy that's just shunted to the side for Luka Dansiic.
That's my question. And if you can answer yes, well
I disagree. I think you're absolutely wrong, But the answer
is no. There's no way. This is not who Lebron is,
it's not what he does. All this is going on,
there's no way he comes back. And I'm telling you
I think a trade by the end of July, we
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might see it. We might see it by July thirty.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
First, it is, and we've talked about this. It is
the dream scenario for Lebron to finish his NBA career
where it started in Cleveland. Once he opted in, that
made that monumentally more difficult, especially to turn trade before
camp starts. Once you opt in to as you say,
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the over fifty million for this, Okay, maybe that's attractive
as an expiring contract at the trade deadline or something
like that. First off, there's a tiny handful of people's
who could even go after the type of money that
would be attached to this player, much less have the
interest in him having him short term. But also the
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Lakers have other things on their plate, such as what
you mentioned Luca being their guy, and in a month
or two they've got to sit down with him because
he's going to be eligible for an extension of up
to four years two hundred million plus. That's the person
that is their focus. Understandably, I don't know the mechanics
of how Lebron can be traded before.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh well, first things first, he's gonna say, what's been
the record for most teams involved in the trade? Seven?
Kevin Durant, I want ten? Ten. I want ten too,
And seriously, it may take ten teams because of all
the crazies. Look, just go to the ESPN NBA trade machine,
try to make a trade for Lebron and the Cavaliers happen.
It's almost impossible, right, but it can be done. It
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would have to be around Mobiley or Garland plus something
else going back. Maybe the Lakers would have to part
with a Dalton connect, or maybe it's a bigger deal
where hey, if they get Garland, gee.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Would Lakers ever part with Dalton connect? The ever, I
can't think of a deal out there that it would
have involved him.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
They said we're keeping him forever. He's a superstar. Or
it could be something where if they're getting Garland back,
then it's gonna be the same a simultaneous deal of
Austin Reeves going someplace else. They can make it work, right,
but this is kind of who it has to be
centered around. They can make that work. Now, the biggest
thing is are the Cavaliers okay with saying, all right,
we need to do something to our team to be
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all right with bringing Lebron in, thinking we could be
Lebron away from the championship. I can easily convince myself
for that because you know Lebron, he doesn't want to
play an expiring contract, does want to hit free agency
and have nobody give him any sort of offering the offseason.
He's gonna he's he would say, listen, I'll come there,
give me a two year deal. I'll stay however you
want to. However it works out money wise, but clearly
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Cleveland needs a little bit more than they had this season.
Lebron coming in could take the pressure off of them
because hey, in the second round of the postseason was
way too much against the Indiana Pacers. So I can
see it very easily the Cavaliers, and it's a great story.
They get back to being the one of the pre
eminent franchises in the NBA. They win, they win the offseason,
they win the regular season, they become must see TV,
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and again Lebron will probably play a couple of more years,
and maybe because he's still a periphery top tennis player
in the NBA. He's not gonna make his teammates better,
but he's gonna make big shots and he's gonna make
big plays like he's done throughout the past few years.
So I can see it easily making sense. And if
right now, behind the scenes it is being back channeled
like crazy, I would not be surprised. But the bottom
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line is, every few days there's a there's a new
entry into the Lebron James Lakers offseason storyline that ramps
up the urgency of a trade happening. And today was
Here's the column written by Ramona shell Burnen and Brian
Windhors FORESPN dot com detailing how the Lakers are moving
on to Lebron, moving on to Luka Doncic, and moving
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away from Lebron James. Like what the big line from
the article is, Hey, spring of twenty twenty six is
Lebron's end date with the Lakers. Like He's not gonna
want to play this season in Los Angeles if that
is the case, right, he wants to he wants to
push his future. He wants to make sure that I'm
retiring on my terms and not because no one's gonna
sign me. I'm not gonna go out being a guy
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that they show the door at the end of the
season two. That's not gonna happen. I mean, I can
see by July thirty first, I can see Lebron doing
a Cleveland uniform thing, and and and and and all
of a sudden it shakes the NBA world. That can
happen in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
And on my terms would be what you say if
he and his representation asks for a two year deal,
that would be one year plus an option, then he
holds the cards. After that what might be last year
before we break. I can say it is now a
final at Detroit. Mariners have beaten the Tigers twelve to three,
two home runs for cal Raley. He has thirty eight
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and the Red Sox have won their eighth straight on
a two run homer bottom of the ninth off the
Rays closer Pete Fairbanks five to four, Boston over Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Woo, there we go, all right, Thank you, Steve though
Jason Smith, Steve de Sager, Hey, Lebron trade. By July
thirty first, again, we're getting just follow follow the follow
the tea leaves. Read the tea leaves. We're getting there.
He's not gonna stay being shunted to the side. That's
not who Lebron is. Exit. How about a fresca Jason
Smith sd in from Mike Harmon tonight. Do your summer
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Mike Harmon Harmon out this week Steve de Saga in
and he sounds sexy. He does so that Steve does.
He has that very sexy sound. Yes, very much like
very white Steve the singer.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
When he comes in, we are confused.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Starting.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
I was gonna start singing like no, no, that's lou
Rolls never mind right exactly. Yeah, you're going to miss
my k thank you. There you go.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Let's get down load for those notes.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Durn you get that low as long as I didn't
say I could get back up? Uh ty shirt? Do
you know who is?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I have no idea, okay, but I like the song
you Will Never Find?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Yeah yeah yeah. He was the lead singer of led Zeppelin.
Yeah really yeah yeah, you can't he left. No, no, no, no, no,
actually no, I'm sorry. Sting was the lead singer of
the Rolling Stones mixed up Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Yes, for
the Rolling Stones, got it? Yeah you miss it? Yeah, okay,
but that's okay. I mean so, I mean, my dad
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tells me some of the concerts he went to when
Lou Rawls was singing for ed Zeyon.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Was it magical?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Yeah, I mean it was when they started, Yeah, Michael
Landon showed up and then he uh yeah for Highway.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Michael Douglas.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Do you know who? You don't know who Michael Lindon is.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I know Michael Douglass. That was one of the great
careers in television, actually, Michael Lyndon.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah. From Little House on the Prairie Highway to oh
is he the one that shot Lassie? Whoa Lassie was
never shot? Oh? That would have scored every kid of
the seventies. They didn't do that on TV back Oh
my goodness. On a very special.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Last being the three o'clock slot in the afternoon, when
you got episode just the just pick just video of
Lassie bleeding out, It's.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Like, no, no, no, no, I actually read this week
because now you know they're doing the sequel to I
Am Legend, that it's going to come out.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Did anybo.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Well, I think Will Smith said, hey, that's a movie
I did that was really really good and we should
do another one, and the the director did an interview
this week saying that the biggest thing, you know, revisiting
I Am Legend, which is again one of the great
action movies of all time, Like I Am Legend was
so good. Uh the scene when the dog dies, he's
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I can't tell you how much. Well, it's it's the
movie's been around a long time. Still when Sam dies, Wow,
number of people that got up and and and left
the theater was I still can't get over it, Like
the number of people that got up in the left
because that happened.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
As he was like, okay a little late on this show.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, people understand, it's in a movie. You know, it
didn't happen in real life. It was in a movie,
you know, Okay, but still a number of people get attached.
So this is in the this is in the mid
two thousands where people were a little upset when you
see a dog guy on film, you imagine that on
like NBC on Sunday night when when a bunch of
kids just taking their baths and showers getting ready for
school the next day. Oh yeah, here's wonderful world at
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Disney and Lassie, Oh boy, Lassie ran on the wrong
person's property. What happened there?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
There was the old yellow reference and that is quite
an alert movie. By the way, we have an All
Star update as we get to Fox has the All
Star Game Tuesday night, and people are getting replaced Tummy's
rosters left and right. Pretty soon, it's gonna be like
the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
There's another replacement. Yes, there's a five hundred.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And two people were actually named All Stars this year.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
We know.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Uh pitcher Zach Wheeler of Philly replaced in the All
Star Game by Padre reliever Adrian marhone. I mentioned that
earlier because there's three relievers just from the Padres that
are All Stars now. But Jeff Passing reporting that the
Brewers rookie that's made such an impression already, Jacob Mitzerowski,
has been named to the National League All Star Team
even though he's only thrown in five games. Yeah, that's
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the fewest games ever played by someone named the All Stars.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, this shows you where pitching is at in Major
League Baseball? Who do we got, Like, I mean, David
Peterson making it for the Mets yesterday. I was like, no,
that's that's that's got to be an onion headlined. Yeah,
I mean David Peterson's been okay, a good stretch. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Who's the Seattle outfielder that's just got added? Randy A.
Rose Arena has had a good stretch right now. He
replaces Julio Rodriguez on the roster.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Yeah, oh, like, okay, that that sounds great, but well,
but I'm looking at him, going, really, David Peterson.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
The Angels rep you say, Kakuchi the picture replaced by
Tampa Bay pitcher Drew Rasmussen. Jacob de Gram was replaced
random well, I was injured, so he was replaced. So
we got two Kansas City Royals in Carlosi Steves by
Keil Garcia.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Another Tiger, Brett Saberhagen is in Danny Jackson.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, Casey Mice is an All Star replacing Boston pitcher
Garrett Crochet. We do have another Giants home run four
two over the Dodgers in Dustin May bottom of the
fifth la.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Johnny Mice on the home run.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
We just came Cacey Mice is going to Johnny Mies.
I only know the name because before he passed, he
was he appeared in literally every Old Timers game that
ever existed through the nineteen hies. I believe, Oh this
guy used to play third base for whoever it was.
And that's how you get to know the name.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
All right, Now, before we get to Dak Prescott, can
I tell you Johnny Meis, do you want to go Johnny.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Mice have a Johnny my Yeah, yah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
It's a great start. It's a great story. So this
is back when I was a production assistant at ESPN,
and so the news room was a bunch of desks
in a row, and everybody was there where you were
a production assistant, a producer, one of the talent, and
everybody worked together in different shows. Everybody had had their computer.
They were probably about like five or six rows of
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like six or seven computers, and you sat at that
your desk, and that's where you were for the day. Right.
So when the six o'clock Sports Center went on, like
everybody doing the six left their stations, went down to sit.
People were coming in doing the eleven o'clock show. They
came and took their seats everything else, right, So I
was working on the eleven, so I would get a
computer and everybody we'd be watching the six o'clock Sports
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Center while we're planning stuff out. So six o'clock Sports
Center would always have like in the beginning of the show,
would always have big golf highlights, right, because that was
always the biggest thing going on. What's the big sporting
event they have on Thursday and Friday? Right, golf, You'd
be like three minute golf high like NFL Primetime, three
minute golf highlights from like the Deposit Guarantee Classic in Hartford, Like, okay,
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here's the got right, So there was there was a
Thursday and a Friday, and Larry Mize had a big
first couple of days, and so Thursday they get to
the point in the.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Highlight Larry's master's fame, not to be confused with Johnny
Mice wound up in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
So Charlie Steiner is voice in the highlight, and it's
gets to Larry Mice and he and and he goes
and there's the and there's the putt by couples. He
would finish at four under Johnny Mies on seventeen and
BZ would make the putt and we all laugh and go,
oh my god, he said, Johnny Miles.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Three hundred career hitter is lining up the putt.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, So nobody says it. He's like, oh my goodness. Okay.
So the next day it's Friday, right, It's right, it's
the next day, same thing happened. Six o'clock show goes down,
everything else right, and so we're we're sitting there and
the highlight comes up again, you know whatever it was
that the you know, the deposit guarantee whatever Mercedes, whatever
it was, and so it comes up and Larry Mice
had another couple another highlight. So when Charlie's doing the
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hoghlight again for the second day in the row, and
so we're sitting in there and he goes, you know,
and here it is, okay, and uh Nick Faldo there
he is the flop shot. There he would tap in
for Parr Faldo a big day. He's at six under
Johnny Maes. And then three different people, one person, one
executive from their office, one one per and a couple
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puters back of me just yelled out all the differ
time going? Can he stop calling him Johnny Boys?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I know Charlie's from New York. Johnny Mize after World
War Two plays for the New York baseball teams. I'm
not kidding. I looked it up. Giants, then Yankees starting
in nineteen forty six.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Oh boy, nikes, Oh my god. It was so fun.
It was he was getting stuck like Dowlings, like, come on,
stop calling him Johnny Bot.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Is going to be all of us eventually. I've said
it over and over. I don't think it's really dementia
that's going to get some of us at the end,
not being able to think things or confusing it. I
think it's just the file cabinet is too full. You know,
we remember the nineteen eighty eight baseball season, you know,
in so many seasons since, and there's just too much
info in there, and eventually it's just it just comes
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out like that.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
That's how it's gonna be. Jason Smith, Steve Desaga, Fox
Sports Radio. Now. A big NFL story this week has
been the return to health of Dak Prescott. Right. Dak
Prescott talked this week saying he feels great, He's ready
to go. The hamstring injury that was more serious than
we anticipated. This is yet another Dak Prescott injury that
is was more serious than anticipated. But he says he
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is a full go for training camp and he's ready
to go. Now all week, what is it?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
The cow the Cowboys? What? But I will tell you this,
this is probably the best thing I've said about the
Cowboys in months, right, maybe a year right, maybe maybe
going back to Jerry Jones saying we're all in and
by that I mean and not signing any players. We're
just all in. That's what's going on. But I will
say this, the Cowboys offense is going to have a
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really good year. Watch out right, even when the Cowboys
are at their normal right, not at their best, at
their normal which is they're a tennis team, and they
sniff one game in the playoffs and then Dak is
awful the first week in the playoffs and they wind
up losing. Dak has had some pretty big seasons and
you look at the weapons that he's got around him.
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Now another year of the Cede Lamb connection. Not worrying
about how difficult it was last year with the holdouts,
and then Dak wound up missing time. He talked about
the connection. He's out look Ceedee Lambs from the top
five receivers in the NFL. George Pickens in a honeymoon
season where if he's ever gonna really stand up and
fly right, get rid of the problems that that that
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followed him in Pittsburgh, this is going to be the
year to do it. I'm a big believer that, hey,
people would have issues. The first year in a new
location is always the best before the old issues crop
up again. But clearly Pickens wants to get paid now.
He's got a star on his helmet. Like Pickens is
extremely talented. Jake Ferguson had a phenomenal twenty twenty three
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year with Dak Prescott Right, people forget because Dak got
hurt and Jake Ferguson as well. Fantasy exactly fantasy, you understand, boy.
I can't trade Dave Jake Ferguson, no one wants him
at this point. But twenty twenty three full year with Dak,
he was fantastic. Their running backs are kind of Jags,
but I like Javonte Williams. They'll be okay. The best
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thing Dallas can do throw the ball seven hundred times,
go over the top. This is what you're paying Dak
Prescott for. He's got the weapons, he's got the offensive
line good enough, he can be able to He's still
got enough mobility to get out of trouble. He's got
a great he's got the best set of weapons around
him in the passing game then he's had in a
long time. This Cowboys offense is going to have a
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big season. Now again, still could wind up being ten
and seven or nine to eight. We miss because the
defense is not there. They lose a shootout because you know,
Dallas Cowboy things happen. But this is a this offense
is set up to put up some numbers this season.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Yeah, because a full season of Dak usually means what
sixty eight percent completion and over thirty touchdown passes and
moving the ball. And you're right, maybe throwing the balls
six hundred times.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I mean, well, I don't know. I think six hundred
is a little conservative. I go, seven hundred, seven hundred seven.
Why even run the ball? Right?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Okayn? Fourteen?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yeah? Yeah, no, no, seven sixty three to break the bonds.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Record if that's the record.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Yeah, well yeah, well, I mean it's it's in the
record books. Is the record.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Okay, if you say so, it's.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Still the record is still there. But I mean, this
is the best balanced offense, the deep weapons, it's going
to be very difficult to try to figure out what
to do offensively. And yes, Brian Schottenheimer has been pretty
good with that over the course of his career. So yeah,
I may not be may not matter record wise, right,
Cowboys still could be that nine and eight, ten and seven.
Maybe we make the playoffs, maybe we don't. They're doomed
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to that because the roster is not that great, but
their numbers on offense should be really really good. Watch out.
Best thing I can say about the Cowboys, Steve. Best
thing I can say now, The best thing Steve the
Seger can tell you right now is what's trending in
the wide world of sports as day.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
What you got that the Dodgers are losing again in
San Francisco. Oh, it is four to two Giants over
the Dodgers. In the bottom of the fifth inning. The
two for la, a two run homer into the bay
by shoe Otani, is thirty second home run of the season.
Giants have bases loaded one out in the bottom of
the fifth Right now, the Dodgers have lost six games
in a row. Blue Jay's out to a seven to
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nothing lead at the A's in the bottom of the fifth.
Still Padres at home, leading the Phillies three to two
in the top of the eighth inning. The first place
Phillies only a game and a half ahead of the
Mets in the NL East. The Mets are now trailing
three to one at Kansas City in the top of
the eighth code. I Sengo, off the injured list, pitched
the first four scoreless innings for the Mets. Tonight. The
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Angels have taken a five to four lead on the
Diamondbacks bottom of the sixth, and Cleveland's playing two at
the White Sox after the rainout yesterday. Cleveland took the
opener four to two. The Guardians are tied four to
four at the White Sox top of the tenth. In
the nightcap, Milwaukee won its fifth straight game, eight three
over Washington, and the Brewers are now just one game
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back of the first place Cubs in the NL Central.
All Star Break comes up after this weekend. The Cubs
were shot out eleven to nothing in New York by
the Yankees, who've won five in a row. Cody Bellinger
hit three home runs six RBIs the winning pitcher Carlos
Rodan with eight strikeouts in his eight innings of work.
Rodin was also added to the AL All Star Team,
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replacing Max Freed. It was Atlanta six five winners at
Saint Louis. Matt Olsen to the Braves replaces Ronald Dcunye
for the Home Run Derby, which is Monday and then
the All Star Game Tuesday in Atlanta. Minnesota sent Pittsburgh
to a seventh straight lost two to one. Joe Ryan
over Paul Skens, Texas and Baltimore with wins. Colorado as well,
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thanks to a run in the eighth on a wild pitch.
Rockies won three two at Cincinnati. Colorado's record now twenty
two and seventy two. Boston won its eighth straight game
on a two run homer bottom of the ninth against
Tampa Bay closer Pete Fairbanks five to four. Red Sox
the final Ray's All Star second baseman Brandon Low finally
went on the injured list with a bad Obleaque and
Seattle got two more homers from cal Raley. He has
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thirty eight. Mariners won twelve to three. At Detroit, beating
Trek Scoubel, who had been ten and two but in
five innings allowed four runs. Just two games in the WNBA,
Seattle at home leads early fourth fifty nine fifty eight
over Connecticut, which is two and sixteen. Indiana beat Atlanta
ninety nine eighty two, Caitlin Clark twelve points, nine assists.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve oh coming up next. Yes,
Earlier this week, I bashed one NFL team mercilessly well,
because it's positivity Friday. Wait till you get my big
Bowl prediction about them. You want my long shot pick
for the Super Bowl in the NFC, I got it
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for you. It's next right here, Jason Smith, Steve de Sager,
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with special delivery
Steve de Sega in from Mike Harmon. Uh yeah, we
might be getting close to making that seven losses in
a row for the Dodgers. Giants lead LA seven to
two right now.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And they've chased the starter Dustin May, and the reliever
Anthony Bonda just stumbled covering first. The trainer is out.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Oh boy. Uh so we got more baseball on the way.
But with the debut of Quarterback this week, you got
a plethora of great storylines rather for some Kirk Cousins
or you know why Joe Burrow didn't buy the batmobile,
or Jared Goff not being you know, told he was
getting traded away.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Like the streaming documentary, Yes, yes, the.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Streaming documentary on Netflix Quarterback which Jared Goff. Dude, I'm
pretty sure that loss to the Jets was when Sean
McVay decided he was trading you. The game was that bad.
But all the criticism for the Falcons who screwed up
their quarterback situation by signing Kirk Cousins and then drafting
Michael pennockx junior because zero teams sign a guy for
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four years, one hundred and eighty million and then draft
a guy high in the first round. No teams do
that except the Falcons. So it was stupid. So they
were stuck quarterback wise, then they were stuck a few
months ago. They're stuck now. However, right now, a couple
of weeks ago, we talked about who my long shot
pick for the Super Bowl was in the ASC If
you're looking for a long shot pick, No, come on,
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well you're saying. If you're saying, who do you think
is going to pick first in the draft next year,
they're your answer.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
So, Steve, would that be considered a long shot? Wouldn't
that be?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Come on? Ja Okay, a team that I think can
get there, not a team that's not even going to
get close. That's gonna happen. Dude, Kenny Pickett can win
the starting job. He wears seven gloves on his right hand.
I mean, come on, he did. He doesn't wear that many.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
But the Browns were only three and fourteen last year.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, yeah, no, No, you're true, that's true. They could
and they could. You know what, hey, I could see
them winning four games this year. They can. They can
up that victory. That my surprise team. You're talking about
teams that are that your odds are talking about like
plus six plus eight plus ten thousand, the Indianapolis Colts
in the AFC. Right, they have all the weapons, Daniel
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Jones will be just fine. They had a lot of
moves to improve the defense. Uh, we've got to see
how it works out. But the division is terrible. But
offensively they have so many great weapons. Big draft, the
tight end as well. Watch out for the Colts.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
But you say Daniel Jones will be just fine. So
Richardson doesn't play QB and Jones is completely healthy, that's
what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
They are done with Anthony Richardson. The guy can't stay healthy,
he's not productive, and Jones will They're done, yes, yeah, yeah,
I mean Daniel Jones has to have the job taken
away from him because he's so bad, that's the whole thing.
But now he's got weapons. He's in a position to
succeed with the Colts, which he was never. You got
you got a couple of really good running backs. You
got four more good wide receivers. You got a tight
end that you went up and got in the first
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round of the draft. Like you got some weapons there
in a bed.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
The next Dallas Clark theft uh.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
In fact, it was Dallas Clark who they dragged again.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
It's just give them the same number, hey, forty four
some time.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Just squint your eyes. It looks like Dallas I think too.
But in the NFC. My surprise, My long shot team
at plus eight thousand is the Falcons. The Falcons have
a lot of young talent. I know I bashed them
because they completely biffed the quarterback position, but just think
how much better things would be if they didn't sign
(35:40):
Kirk Cousins had all that money to sign other players
for different positions. But they do have so much young
talent across the board. On offense. If Michael Pennix junior
is who they think he's gonna be and it's all
on him, they have more than enough to win that division.
They'll win big at home and have teams to come
(36:00):
play there in the playoffs. They just got to stay
away from drama. I mean, I know it's a thing,
and now they're trying to navigate Cousins in Pennix and
it's really crappy. And I'm sure at some point they'll
bite the bullet and move on from Cousins. But if
Michael Pennock's junior, I'm saying it's a big if, but
you're talking if for a quarterback. If second year the
reps the offseason, they have a lot of talent acrosspord.
(36:20):
One of the best running backs the game in Bjeon Robinson.
There wide receivers are deep. This is again and a
bad division that they can dominate their plus eight or
nine thousand, that's a phenomenal value. My surprise team in
the NFC is the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
As soon as you said that, I said, that's not
a bad thing for one reason, and that's the division.
Because it seems like whoever wins that division seems to
be around nine and eight. So the Falcons were last
year around nine and eight. That means you're in contention,
not only for the division, but in the past that's
been the controversial home game for the playoffs as well
as an aside.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Yeah, I mean, because a lot of it comes down
to the schedule, comes down to who you play, comes
down to having games at home, especially when that that
home game is going to.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Be such a pre season schedule is different. You're right,
he goes by your previous season. By the way, do
we have a Mets update. Mark Fientos has just hit
a three run double and the Mets take the lead
at Kansas City four to three in the top of
the eighth.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
I think that's Mark Vientos's first hit since the Grand
Slam against the Dodgers in the NLCS in October.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Thirteen.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Falcons plus eight thousand a huge Lebron James story. Next
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