July 22, 2025 • 51 mins
Mike Harmon and Chris Plank got to the bottom of all the Dodgers' recent troubles/struggles. And the guys debate if Micah Parsons should leave the Cowboys after Jerry Jones' weird comments!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the best of the Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Greetings and welcome in.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
We begin another beautiful week here Fox Sports or Radio.
As the Big Voice guy said, there is no Smith.
He is gone and gallivanting. Therefore, like Keith Richards, I'm
saddling up, sidling up to the big microphone in the spotlight.
I'll sing you a couple of songs over the course
of the week with some guest stars. First up, coming
(00:51):
off the left of the stage, our guy Chris Plank
at Plank Show. You hear him on the weekends with
our guy Ernie Spaniard. He's been doing yeomen's work between
his college football and softball work, and then four straight
days here on the network. So let's see if he
sounds like his aforementioned colleague, Arnie span your it's Chris Blank.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
What's going on? Chris? Come on, man?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Four days in a row is child's play here? It's
it's all good, Jayson God already fire. No, you get
it out of the way early, then you're good. It's
been good man. We're getting close to football. The countdown
is on. We got a game next Thursday that everyone
will be excited about, and then they'll grinch about two
plays in because no one's playing, of course, and then
we're less than the gosh, we're less than a month
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really away from the start of the first Saturday of
college football. So game on, Micha. Let's have some fun.
Tonight should be a fun week for you. You do
have a very I guess I should say like rotating.
It's an electic mix. That's you're not gonna say. There's
no settling into a comfort zone. Is that in the contract?
You gotta have someone different every day. You can't just
(01:56):
say hey, I like Plank or I like Buyer. I
know you wouldn't like Arnie, but you just say, hey,
that's the person I want to be with every day.
Is that contractually? So it stays fresh?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well, I mean, maybe Jason's got that in because it's
in place of him, but you know, for me, I
kind of throw it up. Scott and I come up
with a you know, cursory list, and then we see
how it falls out based on availability, based on other
needs at the network or people's other jobs and attending
to so they're in. It becomes a all right, here's
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what the computer spits back out.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
That is the boos. Very much like Dave Roberts very much.
You just throw it in there and then it gives
you the lineup. By the way, I got to get
on that level. I have never not once had Scott
be like, hey, man, who you want. I gotta get
on that level like you Harmon I and Arnie you know,
runs the network.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
That's what he tells me. Yeah, right, So I got
to find that level.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Good stuff. Man, we pump to be here. Should be
an awesome kind of a big deal in my own mind.
If that's what else. Glad to have you with as
we've got some college football we can get to with
some of the media days out there and some of
the rumor conjecture speculation A two hundred and fifty million
dollars to Ken BEI mutumble like rejection from one conference
to a would be member earlier. But we'll start where
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I know your heart is, and that is also the
same spot on my guy Justin Frostberg, who's just those
ten days away from that Hall of Fame game, and
his guy Antonio Gates going in, our guy Steve Disager,
who's at the news desk, who you know all too well.
And of course for you, Melk, I've lived in Los
Angeles a long time. I'm a White Sox fan, so
the fact that they're actually scoring runs is a very
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exciting thing.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But let's talk about the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Let's talk about the defending champion and all the chaos
that has ensued. Tonight is Mystery grab Bag Championship Ring night,
where you can get one of five players. It's a
pretty good looking replica of the World Series ring. That's cool.
Sho heeo. Tani is on the mound, that's fantastic. We've
got Freddie Freeman. He's gonna be in the lineup, but
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he tells people he thinks he's figured out in a
sleepless night how to fix his swing. Meanwhile, Mookie Betts
just says, I don't know when asked about his continued
struggles going all the way back to the weight loss
and mystery illness that started the season. So all of
that things, all of those things converge into tonight, Chris,
the swoon of the Dodgers, the inability to get over
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against winning teams, overall being owned by the Milwaukee Brewers.
And then last night, just after yesterday afternoon, I should say,
here West Coast time, after all of the positivity and
grab ass that Clayton Kershaw played during the All Star Game,
he was back to being red ass. Clayton Kershaw, throwing
his glove and refusing to comment, figuring he'd get himself
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in trouble after several errors were committed in the field
to base running gaffs and everything else, and all of
a sudden, every string that was pulled right a year
ago looks like it's been snapped along the way, as
if we were in some horror movie.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
For the Dodgers this season.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
They're struggling, and they were struggling before the end of
the first half. Disager had this note last night, and
it absolutely blew my mind. Mookie Bets in July is
hitting just ten to fifty three, just ten, and again
this isn't all on Mookie. I don't know how a
team that appears to have so much talent can be
this enupt defensively in antipaus death. He makes this spectacular
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play and then has the one that I still don't
know how he missed it. I've I've tried to watch
that thing five or six. I don't know if he
got caught in the lights. I don't know what his
excuse was. And then you again you mentioned Freeman's in
the lineup tonight. So that's good, but you know, Glassnew
gives you a real What's frustrating about the sweet to
the Brewers is that Tyler Glasnew gave you something, Mike.
He gave you something that was a solid outing from
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him and his first what opportunity since April Frosburg. I
think that's right. But you got something from your staff
that you hadn't consistently got this year. You got to
do that took the fourth, So it's a very confusing time.
I think it was the hot streak of product of
just playing no fense to the White Sox, but just
a stretch of not very good baseball teams right where
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you look back like oh, they won, like for it.
They're good, But then you realize they're now going up
against good teams. Brewers are tied for first skate of twins.
Not so much, they're they're in trouble right now in
the American League Central. But this is where you need
to get right. And it leads to a longer term
question for me, which is simply, are the Dodgers back?
Are they going to be a dominant team? Is this
one of those things that guys get healthy and you're
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ready to go in the postseason or hasn't kind of
dropped a bit because of the struggles and maybe some
guys have, you know, not really lived up to the expectations.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Injuries are killing this team right now, which.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I Mike that being so consistent with this team over
the last couple of years is absolutely mind boggling.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It just makes no sense to me. But I bring
that up with NFL teams all the time. I did
it with the Chargers much and I used to get
things thrown at me by Frostburg for doing so and
so many other teams, the Ravens for years, like what's
going on in your where you were having this year
after year?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And I know, the Dodgers, given the financial.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Resources at their disposal, they can generally buy their way
out of trouble. And certainly we'll see in the next
two weeks what that could be. And yes, you got
everybody getting ready to ride back into the mix, be
it Blake Snell or some of these others who have
been waiting Glass now who you mentioned. But will he
make his next start?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I don't know. We've seen him.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Ask out right, we've seen those issues through the back.
How does he recover five days later? Otani? How much
will you really be able to stretch him out? We've
seen three innings. How far does that go?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Tonight?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
He's going to start this game and then we'll see
Dustin May again. But it just you're bringing up the
injury issue. I mean last year they navigated it about
as well as you could. I mean they pulled the
string at every turn, all those starting pitchers, all of
the relief appearances, and the opener with Keith a Hernandez,
although now he's got an injury to his off arm
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so he can't do any of that.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But all of that to say, I mean, you've navigated
through it.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
But as much as you marvel at what because they're
still in first place and you've got San Diego chasing,
and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
They finally got a good start out of DAL. Yeah, No,
that's just it.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You got these teams hanging around, and when we go
to strength of schedule, well, Dodgers have the fourth quote
easiest path remaining a lot of losing squads coming up
here series for series, so some opportunity maybe to create
some distance again, but banking on full health and for
every every turn in the analytics to work right again,
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it's a dangerous proposition then and flirtation and if they
don't get right hitting wise, I mean you brought up
the PA has a fielding issue and then base running
one oh one. I mean we're seeing on display time
and again with the squad some of the fundamentals have
just gone out the window. But the injury issues is
something that I think from an organizational standpoint, you got
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to pull back and just try to figure out what
in your training processes. Even if you have been really
good at picking up the reclamation projects from other squads,
you know what's going on, what's in the water for
your own organization. Because while you can buy your way out.
It's a dangerous way to.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Live, but it's still it's pretty cool to see show
hee Otani's he just jogs out to no matter that
this thing started. It's it's a very it's not necessarily
a full sigh of relief, but it's one of those.
All Right, I took my tom so the indigestion went
away for a little bit. See him out there for
a couple of innings. Now is he only going three tonight?
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I thought they were gonna try to push him. They
may try to stretch. I think it's gonna be dependent
on on the pitch count and ease. Right, we talked
about stressful out, stressful innings, and the fact that the
first pitch got tattooed for a home run is probably
not the second pitch of the game. He goes sailing
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out Iron Buckston his twenty third home run of the year.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
All right, recess, great start, great start. Well you have
him a fatball exit velocity of about one hundred and
five miles.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
An hour, so now you know when you're struggling, let's
just go ahead and have the bottom completely fallout. But
I still it'll be very interesting to see what the
moves are coming up in a couple of weeks now
with the trade deadline. You know, it's still because of
the job their front office is done, and not to
like completely dodge your home or out, but it's still
one of the top prospects, one of the top farm
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systems in all of Major League Baseball? And you know,
do you start risking some of that? Do you really
swing for the fences? Do you call Pittsburgh and say,
all right, what do you want for Paul Skiings?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
You know actually won.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Today, Chris, I saw that you believe that first one
since May twenty eighth? How about that?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
So hold on, I just want to give you an
idea how behind my feet is for the game right now?
Boom Byron Buxton just hit a home run. It's one Minnesota,
but it's a It really is kind of a fascinating
time to decide if your buyers are sells and not
just for the Dodgers. Right look at the Red Sox
and are you satisfied with just kind of battling for
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that wild card? Is that where you want to be
or do you think, hey, I can get a little
bit more and maybe if we get in the wild card, great,
But then we're set for the future.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
I know this, the Dodgers are not a team that's
going to be in any other mode than buying. They're
gonna be out there trying to find the pieces that fit.
If it's if it's getting a third basement, if it's
getting involved in schemes or another starter, if they have
to truly go and find themselves a closer. I don't
know what it is, but Mike, there's no if, ans
or butts about it. This is one of those that
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it's kind of hard to explain away with just how
bad it's been for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Struggle Bus has certainly been there.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
And what's funny is, you know, you get the shot
and freud of it all where folks are gonna be
very excitable because you got to explain that one to me.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
The shot and that is taking joy in the misery
of others. Okay, I don't have to google that. There's
a whole soul.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You can do it in song form from Avenue Q
I'm a Publisher, which which I have always described since
seeing it off Broadway many years ago as the Muppets
on crack okay, and they have a whole song about schadenfreude,
So you can go run with that one a little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
As you will.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Hey, Hey, who said we wouldn't learn something tonight on
the show I'm here for Oh No, We're gonna teach
a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
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you're enjoying some of the current struggles of the Los
Angeles Dodgers. We coined them the Evil Empire several years ago.
As you know, we are ahead of the curve once
the bye really started going. Uh And to your point
about the wild card, that's the beauty and the horror
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of all of this stuff when you get to the
trade deadline, Because once upon a time you knew where
that dividing line was, right, and now you start looking
at well, here's our expected schedule, here's the guys coming
back from injury.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Here's all that.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I'm a White Sox fan. I just want them to
play spoiler to somebody. I don't care who pick a
name out of the hat, that one team gets wrecked
because of us.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
That's my goal. I just I was looking. Do you
let's see here, White Sox, We're thirty games under five hundred. Okay, okay,
join it. They just swept the Pirates. GM was getting
fired because of them. So you got that.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
They were beating up on the Rays the last I saw. Now,
my screens are replete with images of Sho Heyo Tani
wherever I look right now. So you got that going
for you. So but you know, look, the long road
begins with the first step. I can't be a front runner.
I'm still celebrating two thousand and five. You know that
title that refuses to acknowledge one of the greatest pitching
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performances in baseball history. That's starting. For hell, they put
a statue up a Burley last week. There's my celebration moment.
That's all I got right there, Chris.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
That's it. That's it. I'm living twenty years ago. All right,
a strikeout for Otani.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Here.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
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on the hotline to try to make some sense of
what the hell's going on with NFL owners, what's going
on with the union and everything else across our NFL landscape.
It's our body one oh five seven the fan in Baltimore.
It's got his betting podcasts, longtime friend of the show
at Jason lockinfor in the Twitter Chason Lockinbora, Jay, what's
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going on?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Buddy?
Speaker 6 (17:03):
What's going on? Gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Welcome to the party as we get ready for what
we got ten days left till we get our Hall
of Fame game and all that excitement, which is at
the end of the weekend. There's a Nickelback show too.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Who knew? You didn't know? And you didn't care.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Actually I did. I saw it somehow popped up on
my Twitter. But what I didn't know is like that
they're like and special guests like Prudy McNuggets or whatever,
like whoever the special guy. I'm like, I totally don't
know this person. I'm like, I don't know. Did I
know this person? Like is this that big in Canada?
I don't know, you know, because they're Canadian. But yeah,
if you seriously though, if you see like the promo stuff,
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there's like this other guy who they're with, who's wearing
like an old school Houston Oilers jersey, And I'm like,
don't know that guy. I am unfortunately familiar with Nickelback.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I'm gonna have to go do the deep dive of
what's going on there.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you guys probably know him, like you guys,
I mean, it's good just be me an old man thing.
But AnyWho, I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Right there with you.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Hey, you want to start with some Lloyd Howell fun
Now he's his other job. You go through the expense reports.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
J C.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Tretder.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He's no longer gonna seek a job in this process.
Demorris Smith. I haven't read the book yet. But does
this mean he was complicit or just dumb.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
No, jeez, you're gonna put You're gonna put Lloyd Howell
on him. I mean, I I don't think Hell. I'll
see how you can do that.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Well, just saying in terms of the overall union ineptitude
in some of those discussions about GUARANTI right.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Now I'm picturing d Smith like that Kermit Defrogg meme
of him sitting back sipping his teake. I mean, de Smith, like,
look how looks I mean, Jesus, you can say to
one about him having a replace a legend, you know
what I mean? Like, he had a place and he
was never going to be it for everybody, and he
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certainly had his faults, and that union remains the weakest
of the professional sports unions, despite the sport making more
money revenue wise than any other and frankly more than
most of them combined. But I think history won't be
quite as unkind to him as I mean. He came
in and was immediately in a bit of a labor war,
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and it was one in which the owners were willing
to lock people out. It was a really tough circumstance.
And I feel like, yes, they could have done a
lot of things better. But the number of people who
left when d Smith left, who said now at the
time to take my buyout, because this guy coming in
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looks like a total clown. It was a charade. How
he was elected, it was everything was a mystery. Guys themselves.
I think some of them didn't even really know who
else they could have voted for. The process was a sham,
and it has sham results. And whoever takes over is
now going to be I don't know, at most a
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couple of years removed from the league, opting out of
these TV deals and you know, having this global turn
it into more of a global sport, and they're going
to cram eighteen games down. People's boats and franchise tags
aren't going anywhere, and we're going to continue to play
more games abroad than ever before. And I just think
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they're going to get whatever they want. And the Union
is in an incredibly vulnerable place right now, far more
so than any time during D Smith's the most controversial tenure.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
I'm not a smart man, Jason Jason Smith's autam Chris
Plinkson and Jason locking Forth, So good to talk to you, man,
I'm not a smart dude, so I don't really know
the ins and outs of how this affects anything now
for the Players Association, because it seems as if what
the CBA is in place until at least twenty thirty,
So are we just exhale labor piece.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
We don't have to worry about about strikes or anything.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
How does it affect them? I mean, I feel like
if you read the sixty one page document, considering it
was a tangaroo court stacked against them and a special
master who's never going to look the you know, is
never going to throw too many rocks at h at
the five million pound guerrilla who employs them. But like,
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I feel like that collusion case was a win for them,
and they're so inept and so compromised, and J. C.
Trader acted like such a jackass that they collectively decided
not even to spread the word like that they they
kind of sort of won a collusion case. And then
they're so backwards and and and so myopic that they've
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been colluded with the league. They'll the fightings. I mean,
you're gonna tell me how it affect the players? Mean,
how do you think it affects with Mark Jackson.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I'm more as the fans.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
How it affects us watching a day to day I mean,
we're not gonna have to worry about a lockout or anything.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I mean, obviously no, it.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Effects but me, well, I mean I don't know. I
mean eventually, I don't. I mean I can't answer that
question because I don't. I mean, you're I don't know
that this is rock bottom. I can't remember how many times,
like with Jimmy Has I'm running the Browns, I'm like, well,
this has to be rock bottom. You know, it's never
rock bottom. So I don't. I don't. I mean, are
they going to clean up their process? Like are they?
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Is this going to be transparent? If it's not, I mean,
how will it affect it if someone gets in there
who doesn't know what they're doing, Could that, you know,
further hasten or prolonged a potential workstopic? I don't, I
don't know. I mean, is is the PA going to
be ripe with clicks? And is that going to make
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it even harder to negotiate? How empowered will this person be?
I mean from a football day to day watching games,
you know, quality of play all that. No, But in
terms of the players, Oh, the players can definitely continue
to get hosed, and even more so than ever by
having completely enough leadership at the helmet. It isn't even
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smart enough to know when they've won.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Because that's always been the question in terms of the
rank and file, Jason, like, where we've got the different
levels that players are at, salary wise, tenure, and trying
to get everybody on the same path to vote towards
the same things has always been a challenge. But now
how far removed does someone have to be from the
institutions to be trusted at this point?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I mean, I don't know how to answer that. I mean,
it sounds like the last time around, the reps and
the rank and file weren't even on the same page
as to the process itself. And if we're now led
to believe that the executive committee didn't even think this
guy was worthy of it in the first place, yet
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they passed it along to sort of the popular vote,
I mean, it's hard to speak about because it was
so shrouded in mystery. We didn't even know Lloyd how won,
and up until recently most people didn't even know who
the hell he was running again, Like I I don't know.
I mean, he clearly was doing clownish, buffoonish stuff. He
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wasn't there that long. This started immediately. How yeah, Like,
how did he ever get that position in the first place?
How much of a leadership vacuum was there? And is there?
You know, do they need to have an independent audit
and some third party come in there and make recommendations
(24:38):
like do they need to make it a prerequisite that
whoever they hire next has had significant experience at a
different labor union, maybe ideally a sports labor union, and
has been, you know, in somewhat of a prominent role,
whether current or past. Like yeah, I mean, and certainly
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there's discord, there's a lack of harmony. I think among
the players. We're talking about what is it right now? Right?
You got ninety guys on rosters, You've got thirty teams
through the math, it's a lot of people at various
points in their career, with various earning potential and various
earning past and various earning futures. It's it's it's hard
(25:28):
to get them on the same page. I mean, looks
how hard it is to get thirty two billionaires on
the same page, and now we're talking about you know,
twenty seven hundred.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Guys, it's gonna be tough. Jason locking For is our
guest all right on the well kind of on the field.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Stop.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
It looks like Michael Parson's gonna be still showing up
at Cowboys camp. But Jerry Jones is doing Jerry Jones things.
The bottom line more than anything else, he usually gets
these deals done. What kind of situation do you feel
like this ends up being for the Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Do they get it done? Does it cost him too much?
Or could this one drag on a bit?
Speaker 6 (26:05):
No, they'll get it done. They'll get it done, probably
right before this. These stars, Yeah, it'll call them too much.
They'll have egg on their face. I'll probably regret it
within a couple of years. It's just the same old
dog and pony show. I mean, like we were talking
(26:26):
last week, Garry eats this stuff up. I mean the
fact that there's all this discord and disharmony, and then
he eventually gives the guy more than anybody else would have.
And so you know, the guy eventually gets a smile
on his face. But the star culture continues, and certain
people are propped up and there's an underbelly to that roster.
(26:47):
There's never really cohesion in that locker room because certain
guys are treated like rock stars and you know, everybody
else just is sort of everybody else. And you know,
I think Jerry he's gotten increasingly chalous and slippe with
how he talks about injuries and talks about players worth,
(27:08):
and it really kind of started, you know, around the
Kaepernick stuff, and I feel like it's it's kind of
escalated since then, and he continues to message to that
locker room in a way that I don't think resonates
with a lot of those guys, especially the ones who
aren't being paid as best to breed in their positions.
So yeah, I mean, he'll get his, like that got his,
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but he'll end up hurting the team because of the
contract structure and because of what else they won't be
able to do. And he just he's just so stuck
in his own ways, and the older he gets, the
more stubborn he gets, and it's his way or the highway,
and it's just going to be another, I think, pedestrian
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season in Dallas.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Big effort from us here out on Monday Night from
our guy Jason Lock and for at Jason Lock Andfa
is where you find him in the Twitter verse, see
what he's got going on the Wanta bet podcast, and
so much else than he does one O five to
seven the fan there in Baltimore, Jason, thanks for taking
a few time minutes out with us here on a
Monday night. Next time we'll be talking about more camp
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fun and getting ready for that Hall of Fame game.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Yeah, get on Malmo and get on FC cloth and
from the Czech Republic tomorrow and Champions League qualifying. Think
of that. Pick them both on the money lines, maybe
parlanm together.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Malmo is a wonderful place to visit, by the.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Way, gorgeously Yeah, it's wondering lovely.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Yeah, I can't wait to go back. Thanks for hanging
out with us, buddy.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
We'll talk to you again, guys.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Thank you a little bit of betting advice on the
way out for you there, plank. Can't beat that.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific. Welcome back and.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Fired up to be with you here at Jason Smith
Show with me Mike Carbon There's no Jason Smith this
week on vacation. Yes, the back end of the week,
he will be sampling Muskrat dinners in Detroit. So if
you're on the streets of Detroit, look out for a
guy wearing nothing but mets.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Garb on purpose. He's going to Detroit.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Yeah, he vacation's in Detroit. It's where his wife's family's from.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Oh, very cool. I've never been, so I can't talk
any trash on it. Everything I know about Detroit I
learned from eight Mile.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
It really just kind of comes down to this. If
I'm in the summer months and I live in southern California,
where the hell am I going? That's going to be
better Detroit? Evidently. Well, I mean, you know, there was
a kid rock line where he's saying, if heave it
ain't a lot like Detroit, I don't want to go.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
That's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I just I always took Jason to be a beach guy,
like to get away and want to be in like
a scenic area. But as you laid out, you live,
you work every day in Los Angeles's kind of hard
to beat that scenery on a regular basis, So that
makes sense.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
He's pastier than I am, so I don't think he
sees the sun. Oh are you guys kind of like powder?
Remember that movie? Is that what we are with Jason White?
To that level?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
But you know, I mean, look enough dog walking and
enough soccer tournaments for me. I'm some shade of red
most of the time. At one point, about six weeks ago,
they could have hired me as one of those actors,
you know, like when of the movie's coming out and
all of a sudden, like they're in the third row
and they look like someone from a horror movie or
whatever and they stand there. I could have been a
stand in for the thing. Like I had such a
(30:26):
bad case of sunburn. My skin was peeling and like
got all scaly looking. I could have passed for this
iteration of you know, cousin Richie, who's gonna play him
in the in this current iteration.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
It'll get you if you're not cared for the Sun's undefeated. Man,
it'll get you if you're not caring.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
No, that's it.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
And one you're as pasty as I am, you go
from what I am to beat red really fast. There
is no tan, There is none of that, all right,
So we've got Big Ten media days coming up, and
the billion dollar question, multi billion dollar question when you
talk about the future of college athletics, and we have
many of them that will traverse a little bit over
the course of the night and throughout the week as
(31:04):
we go, is what the playoffs look like after this
coming year, because we'll have a title game on the
nineteenth of January. And then you back that out, so
you get those travel plans in place. But if you
want to go looking further of how you have to
budget and how you have to analyze things, well, it
gets a little more chaotic. Rt your Mark of the
Big twelve likes his five and eleven kind of situation.
(31:26):
You're five champions and you're eleven at large.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
But for the Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
In an interview with Joel Klatt a few weeks ago, Petiti,
the new Big Ten commissioner, outline the idea of the
four four two two one. Now we'll see what he
does and in terms of verbalizing that this next iteration
in front of all the assembled media masses, but for
for the Big ten, four, for the SEC and Greg
(31:51):
Zankee always you know, looking for global expansion his own self.
And then we start going down you know, for the
for the Big twelve in ACC and everybody else as
we go through, so you have automatic bids would be
thirteen of the sixteen as laid out in that interview
with Joel Klatt. And now it's the constant fight for
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supremacy as we see teams getting gobbled up in conference realignment.
Maybe some buyer's remorse for schools like USC and some
others when they realize what was could have been if
not for some bad media rights deals. All the way
back then, Hi, I remember that that was fun. But
(32:34):
for tomorrow, I think that's that's the billion dollar question
in all of it.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Chris does he double down on automatic bids?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
And you know that interview with Joe Clatt or I
don't know, Joe Clatt talking to Tony Pettitia really seemed
like it was more Joe Clatten. Yeah, yeah, you know,
but they even when it is kind of you know,
convoluted as going for four two and a half two
and a half one, we'll give that third spot in
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the Big twelve or the ac ACC or whoever's coming out. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
just it made it made no sense. Listen, It's not
an invitational, it's a tournament, and you don't give automatic
bits outside of a champion unless it's an invitational.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'm not I was out a fan of this when
it came out. Mike, I don't know where you stand
on it.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
I'm a Big ten apologist, a proud Northwestern alum, so
so good for bids. Well, no, I don't agree with
it in a as a radio host and a larger
thought process, but you know, damn it, my guys, anybody
but Illinois quote representing the Big Ten, TD said that's
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my job.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
But I mean, in most situations, if you're at sixteen,
if you're at sixteen teams, you're probably getting four just
about every single year. If you're the Big ten anyway, right,
you're definitely getting four about every year. If you're the SEC.
You know, the Big twelve in the acy can't support this,
they can't come out. And obviously Brett Yormar a couple
(34:04):
of weeks ago Big twelve media Day down in Frisco, Texas,
he was like, we are five and eleven five automatic bids,
eleven at large qualifiers and they have to be because
they can't take less. The first time they take less
will take more and more from them now that's it, right,
when they're at negotiation, right, they'll take more and more
from them. So you've got to stay strong with five
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and eleven if you're the Big twelve.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
In the ACC.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
But the Big ten apparently wants to force the SEC
to play nine conference games. But they sure as hell
don't care that the ACC only plays eight conference games too.
You don't hear him grinchin about that at all.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Well, and that's where the curiosity of all this happens,
right when we're talking about the size of the conferences
as it. I mean, I remember back in the day
when the Big ten was still legitimately ten before Penn
State came on, and then after that it was a
land grab and bit by bit, like I actually registered
the big twenty dot com domain name.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Good call, we were heading that we might still be,
we might.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Still want to be aheading there as we go. But
it's just the idea of the absurdity of some of this.
But also we'd been seeing the prediction of the super
conferences so long ago, right where we just have a
couple of sixteen or thirty two team super conferences in
the end, and everybody else is playing off in their
(35:23):
own little sphere and navigating their own globe, which still
may end up becoming the case as more of the
rights deals come to fruition and the curiosity here. But certainly,
if you're not the big ten or SEC, you got
to do everything you can to talk about the greatness
of at large teams. Otherwise you're just going to be
(35:43):
lost in the shuffle.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Yeah, and especially if you're only in these projections getting
two bids, and that's the case, you gotta say no.
So AC Jim Philip's gonna speak this week to ACC
Media Day coming up later in the week.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
We'll learn a lot. This would be a very interesting.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Week to see if anyone really, as your Mark put
it a couple weeks ago, doubles down on their beliefs.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Well, and everybody else still has to figure out how
to pay everybody and where the proper dollars and cents are.
And because you are my college football guy at Plank Show,
find me over at Swollen Doome. We'll talk about that
coming up next as we continue. Because Sarkesian had some
interesting comments on the future of this college football wave.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
We got that next on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
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 4 (36:37):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Carmon. There's no Jason Smith this week. He
is off circumnavigating the globe, probably celebrating a Mets win,
maybe eating a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
You can find him at how about a Fresco check
in on his whereabouts? Find me over at Swollen Dome.
Find our buddy Chris Blank in with us this week day.
He'll be back on Friday night after our show, after
I deal with Arnie for four hours. Yeah, there you
go at Plank Show and another Mets fans see. That's
that's all I get all the time at Plank Show,
(37:12):
where you find Chris. You know, we leave no pop
culture stone unturned. Today would have been don knotts one
hundredth birthday, So there you go.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Don Knotts would have been one hundred today. What year
did he go?
Speaker 5 (37:27):
That's a good question. I'm looking it up as we speak.
It was two thousand and six, so some time ago.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
But there you go.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
We've got a couple of other pop culture things we'll
touch on as we roll through. But a legend in
his own right Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is everybody reports
to Oxnard getting things ready for another big run. You
saw the highlight reel stuff. There's Dak Prescott and George
Pickens and all of this fun and excitement on the
first play. That's all finding good. But what did Jerry
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Jones have to say about here, squad? What he's expecting
as camp gets underway.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
Just because we've signed him doesn't mean we're going to
have him. He was hurt six games last year. Seriously,
we've signed I remember signing a player for the highest
paid at the position in the league and he got
knocked out two thirds of the year, Dark Prescott. So
there's a lot of things you can think about just
as the player does when you're thinking about committing and
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guaranteed money.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
There you go, there's the Micah Parsons of one hundred
billion dollar question right there, and he's right right. He
and Mike Brown both took different tax in talking about
guaranteed moneys and what could happen to you? From Mike
Brown of the Bengals talking about Jamar Stewart and the
language of his contract that keeps him a holdout. He
(38:47):
went down the avenue of the worst case scenarios of
potential allegations and incarceration and such. For Jerry Jones, it
becomes Oh, you get hit by a bus.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
I don't know if I'm gonna have him.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
This, I don't know if I'm gonna have him, And
then he sideswipes Dad Prescott in the same comment. I
mean that was the Hey, here's my combination as I'm
sidling up to the.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Pool table with this one. So there's Jerry.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
He was also asked about, you know, had he ever
thought about stepping aside from his you know, GM duties
and everything. He started cackling like a madman, said maybe,
you know, little parts of seconds before continuing. But the
Michael Parsons thing is interesting because he has, according to
Jane Slater and others, shown up for camp at Oxnard.
(39:34):
We'll see how much you get participation or whether he
decides to step away. But history says eventually, as Jerry
even alluded to himself, eventually he pays them out. Saw
what he did when he went down to Mexico to
find Ezekiel Elliott. All those years ago, precedence has been set.
Players and their agents know they can wait Jerry out.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
What do you make of this philosophy that Jerry's had
where he always ends up paying them, Yeah, and he
always says something stupid.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
I mean, I was going through some old notes.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
Last year was the we got no urgency to get
a CD LAMB deal done, and then twenty three days
later he signed him to a four year, one hundred
and thirty six million dollars.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
You didn't have it in that moment, and it made
for a good SoundBite.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Yeah, And twenty nineteen Ezekiel Elliott, it's not about I'm
not about to do a deal that would shake the
foundation loose. And then a month later gave him a
six year, ninety million dollar deal. So he says all
this stuff. I mean, he's like history where repeats itself
and he ends up paying them in the long run,
but it ends up costing them more because he drags
it out.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
What do you make of this approach that he has.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
It's bad business but greed, but some of it becomes
the all right, if I'm not one hundred percent sure,
I defended only to that point of if I'm not
one hundred percent sure that I want a guy full time,
long term, especially when injuries have already cropped up, no
matter how productive they may be. Right, because you look
at Parsons' numbers when he plays and what he's meant
(40:57):
to that defense.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
But then you take the.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Larger scope of what your team has done, is it
wise to pay, you know, top dollar? I mean, look,
I always talk about my tap system. It's the the
patented Mike Harmon tap. I need a thrower, I need
an attacker, and I need a protector. Beyond that one,
I'm just about to ask you that. So the tap
system is in. It's like the dentistystem. That's it for me,
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or call it the pat whichever one you want, protector,
attack or thrower. You know, you go with it what
you will. But beyond that, then then I got to start,
you know, parsoning out my dollars. So certainly Parsons fits,
you know, what I need as one of my major three.
But I understand sometimes, you know, the reticence to commit,
because we've seen a number of other teams where they've
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committed too early and then all of a sudden they realize, Wow,
now we're really on the hook. In this case, he waits,
and then the back end is that much worse and
the dollar per average, you know, per year average, and
everything goes through the roof because four or five other
guys have been paid. In this case, you know, with
t J. Watt having just gotten his money, Michaeh. Parsons
(42:03):
agents sure as hell ain't coming back on. I'm gonna
take a lot less than that guy, m right, and
then he wants dollar for dollar or a dollar more
because it's a better headline.
Speaker 5 (42:12):
Michael Parsons is one of the best defensive players in
the NFL. And to your point, I could not agree more.
I love the tap system. I'm adopting it now.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (42:21):
You need your quarterback, you need your left or right tackle,
probably both right. And you saw a couple of years
ago John Gruden he really invested in the right or
didn't really invest in the right tackle, and everyone had
like de Lane Johnson's of the World and others, I
mean even prior to him, Trent Brown, but is left tackle.
You know, if you got a right handed quarterback, but
the attacker doesn't have to be Oh, it's got to
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be an edge rusher or it's got to be a
defensive tackle. It can just be the position that is
the best player on your defense. And right now, boy,
Jerry's waiting three years, one hundred and twenty three million dollars.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
That was the deal for That was a deal for J.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
TJ.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Watt.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
You had Max cro get paid. You had Miles Scaret
get paid. Remember Miles scared wanted to trade. He's like
trade mate, and the next thing you know, he gets paid.
It just keeps driving that dollar up and up and up.
So it's gonna get done, right, It's it's eventually gonna
get done. But now you've got to that number has gone.
The only person who didn't really go up was Max Crosby,
(43:19):
Like his was thirty five point five. Daniel Hunter's deal
with the Texans thirty five point six, Miles Scaret forty mil, TJ.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
Watt per season, forty one meal.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
It's gonna be a lot of your salary cap and
taking care of the guy whenever you're already a little
bit and wonky on that number for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Anyway, now we know Michaeh.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
Parsons did take the social media a little bit earlier
because he liked and reposted a take from future Hall
of Famer JJ Watt. We talk about TJ. Let's talk
about his brother quote. Any time you can publicly take
a dig at your star quarterback and your star pass
rusher simultaneously right before the season begins, you just gotta
take it dot dot dot. Nothing makes guys want to
(43:58):
fight for you more than hearing how I'm that you are,
that they got hurt while fighting for you.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Boy, If ever, there was a need.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
For the sarcasm font, like I always joke here in
the Fox Sports Radio studio, we're all pretty adept at
it doing what we do, there's some level of snark
and cynicism. No matter how many positive twists we can
take to stories, there's some some snarkiness that comes through.
I talk about my sarcasm bucket and how it's level
of done this over the course of a four hour here.
(44:28):
JJ Watt would have needed to take that out and
dump that and just reset from start, because every word
of that just gets the tone, tenor and verbiage is
just a masterclass right there and just waving at Jerry Jones.
Speaker 5 (44:44):
I know we're up against it for the Seger's update, Yeah,
but is it doing damage to the cowboys with this
approach earning you're out from jering to where they get
paid and everyone smiles, but you remember the process to
get there and what he said, is it affecting things?
Speaker 6 (44:59):
No.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
I In the end, you make your decision.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
Look, Jerry's very loyal to his stars, particularly if he
feels like he found you, right and even if he
takes the side swipe of Dak, you know, the next
time he gets an opportunity to throw flowers in his
general direction, he's gonna tell you that he's one of
the greatest throwers of the football. Ever, I can't I
can't believe. I don't have like a four minute clip
of him or even ai Jerry talking about some of
(45:25):
those darts to George Pickens practice today, right like, Oh,
that's Dak, that's the guy we paid, that's my guy,
right because I mean again, look what he did with
Ezekiel Elliott. He went down and found him in Mexico
to bring him back and get him paid.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
So you know he will do that.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
You know, he does that tough love thing and eventually
writes out the giant novelty check like he's at the
end of a game show. So you know, it's gonna
you just have to wait him out. It's just a
matter of time. Now, how does that affect everything else? Well,
it leaves a fewer dollars to spend elsewhere, that's for
damn sure.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
But you don't think it does long term damage. You
don't think these guys keep in the back of their
mind the fight they had to go through to get it.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
They're getting paid and then see their next deal like
once once you get the second one. I mean, if
you're still playing at the level high enough to go
get a monster third, then great. But I think Jerry
has shown it. It may be a painful process, but
eventually you're gonna get your dollars. So if you're anywhere
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near the level that you are now, and even that,
what are you seventy eighty percent he's not going and
finding the next shiny object. If he has a guy
that he thinks can play, because that's still his guy, right,
he doesn't let him out the door. Yeah, that's just
been his history, for better or for worse. And certainly
I know plenty of cowboys fans. My ex wife's dad,
(46:49):
we still exchange texts every year. It's like we're not
winning a damn thing until this guy has gone. And
I know exactly what he means by that, and I'm
not going there. I'm joetivity here, but he ain't leaving that.
Steven or whoever else isn't coming over the top to
make decisions for him. So you just got to ride
the lightning. Look, I'm a Chicago guy. What do you
(47:12):
think I've been waiting for all the positivity and feel good? Yeah,
they won the off season and then rewarded Ryan Poles
before they won a damn game.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
How do you think I feel? That's still wild to me?
Still wild to me? I mean, was he was? He
in a contract year?
Speaker 9 (47:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Two years left? Makes no sense.
Speaker 4 (47:29):
Dumbest thing I've seen. Well, actually there's plenty of them,
but you know who's never done.
Speaker 10 (47:34):
He's In fact, the Twins put ten balls in play
against him, half of them at exit velocities of one
hundred miles an hour or higher. Off the bet Otani
allowed a lead off homer, but then you know he's
showing Otani. So he hit a two run homer in
the bottom of the first and the Dodgers have led
ever since. That's thirty five home runs for this pitcher.
A you Henny Osuarez of the Diamondbacks with home run
(47:55):
number thirty six. But in Arizona, the d Becks, who've
won four straight, are trailing Houston six' to. Three at
the seventh inning, stretch The brewers were scoreless and in
fact were no hit By George kirby And seattle until
the sixth. Inning then they got four runs top of the.
Six it's now six to Nothing milwaukee over The mariners
in the bottom of the. Eighth The brewers have won ten.
(48:17):
Straight they came into tonight tied for first with The
cubs in THE Nl. Central The cubs lost at home
twelve to four To Kansas City Salvador perez with two home,
runs and The royals are reportedly calling up veteran Pitcher Rich.
Hill this would be his fourteenth team of his major league,
career tying a record that is the sound of one hand.
Clapping texas And Saint louis with wins. Each White sox
(48:40):
won eight three At Tampa. Bay atlanta Sent San francisco
to a sixth straight, loss nine to, five and The
BRAVES Dh Drake baldwin had three hit six RBIs. Tonight
toronto is first in The Al. East they've won eleven
straight home. Games they beat The yankees four to. One
they're up four games on The yanks in The east.
Standings in THE, nls it's The, phillies still a half
(49:01):
game over The. Mets The phillies won in bizarre. FASHION
a tenth inning catcher's interference call with bases loaded got
him a three to two win Against. Boston The mets
came back to beat The angels seven to five with
two runs in the, eighth despite a bad start From Kodai,
sango who had been seven and three but in three
innings allowed the first Four angels. Runs San diego And
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Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Greetings and welcome in.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
We begin another beautiful week here Fox Sports or Radio.
As the Big Voice guy said, there is no Smith.
He is gone and gallivanting. Therefore, like Keith Richards, I'm
saddling up, sidling up to the big microphone in the spotlight.
I'll sing you a couple of songs over the course
of the week with some guest stars. First up, coming
(00:51):
off the left of the stage, our guy Chris Plank
at Plank Show. You hear him on the weekends with
our guy Ernie Spaniard. He's been doing yeomen's work between
his college football and softball work, and then four straight
days here on the network. So let's see if he
sounds like his aforementioned colleague, Arnie span your it's Chris Blank.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
What's going on? Chris? Come on, man?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Four days in a row is child's play here? It's
it's all good, Jayson God already fire. No, you get
it out of the way early, then you're good. It's
been good man. We're getting close to football. The countdown
is on. We got a game next Thursday that everyone
will be excited about, and then they'll grinch about two
plays in because no one's playing, of course, and then
we're less than the gosh, we're less than a month
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really away from the start of the first Saturday of
college football. So game on, Micha. Let's have some fun.
Tonight should be a fun week for you. You do
have a very I guess I should say like rotating.
It's an electic mix. That's you're not gonna say. There's
no settling into a comfort zone. Is that in the contract?
You gotta have someone different every day. You can't just
(01:56):
say hey, I like Plank or I like Buyer. I
know you wouldn't like Arnie, but you just say, hey,
that's the person I want to be with every day.
Is that contractually? So it stays fresh?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well, I mean, maybe Jason's got that in because it's
in place of him, but you know, for me, I
kind of throw it up. Scott and I come up
with a you know, cursory list, and then we see
how it falls out based on availability, based on other
needs at the network or people's other jobs and attending
to so they're in. It becomes a all right, here's
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what the computer spits back out.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
That is the boos. Very much like Dave Roberts very much.
You just throw it in there and then it gives
you the lineup. By the way, I got to get
on that level. I have never not once had Scott
be like, hey, man, who you want. I gotta get
on that level like you Harmon I and Arnie you know,
runs the network.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
That's what he tells me. Yeah, right, So I got
to find that level.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Good stuff. Man, we pump to be here. Should be
an awesome kind of a big deal in my own mind.
If that's what else. Glad to have you with as
we've got some college football we can get to with
some of the media days out there and some of
the rumor conjecture speculation A two hundred and fifty million
dollars to Ken BEI mutumble like rejection from one conference
to a would be member earlier. But we'll start where
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I know your heart is, and that is also the
same spot on my guy Justin Frostberg, who's just those
ten days away from that Hall of Fame game, and
his guy Antonio Gates going in, our guy Steve Disager,
who's at the news desk, who you know all too well.
And of course for you, Melk, I've lived in Los
Angeles a long time. I'm a White Sox fan, so
the fact that they're actually scoring runs is a very
(03:30):
exciting thing.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But let's talk about the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Let's talk about the defending champion and all the chaos
that has ensued. Tonight is Mystery grab Bag Championship Ring night,
where you can get one of five players. It's a
pretty good looking replica of the World Series ring. That's cool.
Sho heeo. Tani is on the mound, that's fantastic. We've
got Freddie Freeman. He's gonna be in the lineup, but
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he tells people he thinks he's figured out in a
sleepless night how to fix his swing. Meanwhile, Mookie Betts
just says, I don't know when asked about his continued
struggles going all the way back to the weight loss
and mystery illness that started the season. So all of
that things, all of those things converge into tonight, Chris,
the swoon of the Dodgers, the inability to get over
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against winning teams, overall being owned by the Milwaukee Brewers.
And then last night, just after yesterday afternoon, I should say,
here West Coast time, after all of the positivity and
grab ass that Clayton Kershaw played during the All Star Game,
he was back to being red ass. Clayton Kershaw, throwing
his glove and refusing to comment, figuring he'd get himself
(04:40):
in trouble after several errors were committed in the field
to base running gaffs and everything else, and all of
a sudden, every string that was pulled right a year
ago looks like it's been snapped along the way, as
if we were in some horror movie.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
For the Dodgers this season.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
They're struggling, and they were struggling before the end of
the first half. Disager had this note last night, and
it absolutely blew my mind. Mookie Bets in July is
hitting just ten to fifty three, just ten, and again
this isn't all on Mookie. I don't know how a
team that appears to have so much talent can be
this enupt defensively in antipaus death. He makes this spectacular
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play and then has the one that I still don't
know how he missed it. I've I've tried to watch
that thing five or six. I don't know if he
got caught in the lights. I don't know what his
excuse was. And then you again you mentioned Freeman's in
the lineup tonight. So that's good, but you know, Glassnew
gives you a real What's frustrating about the sweet to
the Brewers is that Tyler Glasnew gave you something, Mike.
He gave you something that was a solid outing from
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him and his first what opportunity since April Frosburg. I
think that's right. But you got something from your staff
that you hadn't consistently got this year. You got to
do that took the fourth, So it's a very confusing time.
I think it was the hot streak of product of
just playing no fense to the White Sox, but just
a stretch of not very good baseball teams right where
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you look back like oh, they won, like for it.
They're good, But then you realize they're now going up
against good teams. Brewers are tied for first skate of twins.
Not so much, they're they're in trouble right now in
the American League Central. But this is where you need
to get right. And it leads to a longer term
question for me, which is simply, are the Dodgers back?
Are they going to be a dominant team? Is this
one of those things that guys get healthy and you're
(06:29):
ready to go in the postseason or hasn't kind of
dropped a bit because of the struggles and maybe some
guys have, you know, not really lived up to the expectations.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Injuries are killing this team right now, which.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I Mike that being so consistent with this team over
the last couple of years is absolutely mind boggling.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It just makes no sense to me. But I bring
that up with NFL teams all the time. I did
it with the Chargers much and I used to get
things thrown at me by Frostburg for doing so and
so many other teams, the Ravens for years, like what's
going on in your where you were having this year
after year?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And I know, the Dodgers, given the financial.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Resources at their disposal, they can generally buy their way
out of trouble. And certainly we'll see in the next
two weeks what that could be. And yes, you got
everybody getting ready to ride back into the mix, be
it Blake Snell or some of these others who have
been waiting Glass now who you mentioned. But will he
make his next start?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I don't know. We've seen him.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Ask out right, we've seen those issues through the back.
How does he recover five days later? Otani? How much
will you really be able to stretch him out? We've
seen three innings. How far does that go?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Tonight?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
He's going to start this game and then we'll see
Dustin May again. But it just you're bringing up the
injury issue. I mean last year they navigated it about
as well as you could. I mean they pulled the
string at every turn, all those starting pitchers, all of
the relief appearances, and the opener with Keith a Hernandez,
although now he's got an injury to his off arm
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so he can't do any of that.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But all of that to say, I mean, you've navigated
through it.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
But as much as you marvel at what because they're
still in first place and you've got San Diego chasing,
and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
They finally got a good start out of DAL. Yeah, No,
that's just it.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You got these teams hanging around, and when we go
to strength of schedule, well, Dodgers have the fourth quote
easiest path remaining a lot of losing squads coming up
here series for series, so some opportunity maybe to create
some distance again, but banking on full health and for
every every turn in the analytics to work right again,
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it's a dangerous proposition then and flirtation and if they
don't get right hitting wise, I mean you brought up
the PA has a fielding issue and then base running
one oh one. I mean we're seeing on display time
and again with the squad some of the fundamentals have
just gone out the window. But the injury issues is
something that I think from an organizational standpoint, you got
(09:03):
to pull back and just try to figure out what
in your training processes. Even if you have been really
good at picking up the reclamation projects from other squads,
you know what's going on, what's in the water for
your own organization. Because while you can buy your way out.
It's a dangerous way to.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Live, but it's still it's pretty cool to see show
hee Otani's he just jogs out to no matter that
this thing started. It's it's a very it's not necessarily
a full sigh of relief, but it's one of those.
All Right, I took my tom so the indigestion went
away for a little bit. See him out there for
a couple of innings. Now is he only going three tonight?
(09:39):
I thought they were gonna try to push him. They
may try to stretch. I think it's gonna be dependent
on on the pitch count and ease. Right, we talked
about stressful out, stressful innings, and the fact that the
first pitch got tattooed for a home run is probably
not the second pitch of the game. He goes sailing
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out Iron Buckston his twenty third home run of the year.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
All right, recess, great start, great start. Well you have
him a fatball exit velocity of about one hundred and
five miles.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
An hour, so now you know when you're struggling, let's
just go ahead and have the bottom completely fallout. But
I still it'll be very interesting to see what the
moves are coming up in a couple of weeks now
with the trade deadline. You know, it's still because of
the job their front office is done, and not to
like completely dodge your home or out, but it's still
one of the top prospects, one of the top farm
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systems in all of Major League Baseball? And you know,
do you start risking some of that? Do you really
swing for the fences? Do you call Pittsburgh and say,
all right, what do you want for Paul Skiings?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
You know actually won.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Today, Chris, I saw that you believe that first one
since May twenty eighth? How about that?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
So hold on, I just want to give you an
idea how behind my feet is for the game right now?
Boom Byron Buxton just hit a home run. It's one Minnesota,
but it's a It really is kind of a fascinating
time to decide if your buyers are sells and not
just for the Dodgers. Right look at the Red Sox
and are you satisfied with just kind of battling for
(11:08):
that wild card? Is that where you want to be
or do you think, hey, I can get a little
bit more and maybe if we get in the wild card, great,
But then we're set for the future.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
I know this, the Dodgers are not a team that's
going to be in any other mode than buying. They're
gonna be out there trying to find the pieces that fit.
If it's if it's getting a third basement, if it's
getting involved in schemes or another starter, if they have
to truly go and find themselves a closer. I don't
know what it is, but Mike, there's no if, ans
or butts about it. This is one of those that
(11:39):
it's kind of hard to explain away with just how
bad it's been for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Struggle Bus has certainly been there.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
And what's funny is, you know, you get the shot
and freud of it all where folks are gonna be
very excitable because you got to explain that one to me.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
The shot and that is taking joy in the misery
of others. Okay, I don't have to google that. There's
a whole soul.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You can do it in song form from Avenue Q
I'm a Publisher, which which I have always described since
seeing it off Broadway many years ago as the Muppets
on crack okay, and they have a whole song about schadenfreude,
So you can go run with that one a little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
As you will.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Hey, Hey, who said we wouldn't learn something tonight on
the show I'm here for Oh No, We're gonna teach
a lot of stuff.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
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you're enjoying some of the current struggles of the Los
Angeles Dodgers. We coined them the Evil Empire several years ago.
As you know, we are ahead of the curve once
the bye really started going. Uh And to your point
about the wild card, that's the beauty and the horror
(13:05):
of all of this stuff when you get to the
trade deadline, Because once upon a time you knew where
that dividing line was, right, and now you start looking
at well, here's our expected schedule, here's the guys coming
back from injury.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Here's all that.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I'm a White Sox fan. I just want them to
play spoiler to somebody. I don't care who pick a
name out of the hat, that one team gets wrecked
because of us.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
That's my goal. I just I was looking. Do you
let's see here, White Sox, We're thirty games under five hundred. Okay, okay,
join it. They just swept the Pirates. GM was getting
fired because of them. So you got that.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
They were beating up on the Rays the last I saw. Now,
my screens are replete with images of Sho Heyo Tani
wherever I look right now. So you got that going
for you. So but you know, look, the long road
begins with the first step. I can't be a front runner.
I'm still celebrating two thousand and five. You know that
title that refuses to acknowledge one of the greatest pitching
(14:03):
performances in baseball history. That's starting. For hell, they put
a statue up a Burley last week. There's my celebration moment.
That's all I got right there, Chris.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
That's it. That's it. I'm living twenty years ago. All right,
a strikeout for Otani.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Here.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
We're keeping an eye on this game as it rolls
forward Minnesota with the one not de laid here in
the top of the first but coming up, We've got
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Speaker 4 (15:54):
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Plank in his stead shoe. Hao Toani gives up a
homer in the first comes back in the bottom half
and says, now, all right, I'll do it myself like
he's Thanos, and he snaps a two run home run
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on the hotline to try to make some sense of
what the hell's going on with NFL owners, what's going
on with the union and everything else across our NFL landscape.
It's our body one oh five seven the fan in Baltimore.
It's got his betting podcasts, longtime friend of the show
at Jason lockinfor in the Twitter Chason Lockinbora, Jay, what's
(17:02):
going on?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Buddy?
Speaker 6 (17:03):
What's going on? Gentlemen?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Welcome to the party as we get ready for what
we got ten days left till we get our Hall
of Fame game and all that excitement, which is at
the end of the weekend. There's a Nickelback show too.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Who knew? You didn't know? And you didn't care.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Actually I did. I saw it somehow popped up on
my Twitter. But what I didn't know is like that
they're like and special guests like Prudy McNuggets or whatever,
like whoever the special guy. I'm like, I totally don't
know this person. I'm like, I don't know. Did I
know this person? Like is this that big in Canada?
I don't know, you know, because they're Canadian. But yeah,
if you seriously though, if you see like the promo stuff,
(17:45):
there's like this other guy who they're with, who's wearing
like an old school Houston Oilers jersey, And I'm like,
don't know that guy. I am unfortunately familiar with Nickelback.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I'm gonna have to go do the deep dive of
what's going on there.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you guys probably know him, like you guys,
I mean, it's good just be me an old man thing.
But AnyWho, I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Right there with you.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Hey, you want to start with some Lloyd Howell fun
Now he's his other job. You go through the expense reports.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
J C.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Tretder.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He's no longer gonna seek a job in this process.
Demorris Smith. I haven't read the book yet. But does
this mean he was complicit or just dumb.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
No, jeez, you're gonna put You're gonna put Lloyd Howell
on him. I mean, I I don't think Hell. I'll
see how you can do that.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Well, just saying in terms of the overall union ineptitude
in some of those discussions about GUARANTI right.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Now I'm picturing d Smith like that Kermit Defrogg meme
of him sitting back sipping his teake. I mean, de Smith, like,
look how looks I mean, Jesus, you can say to
one about him having a replace a legend, you know
what I mean? Like, he had a place and he
was never going to be it for everybody, and he
(18:57):
certainly had his faults, and that union remains the weakest
of the professional sports unions, despite the sport making more
money revenue wise than any other and frankly more than
most of them combined. But I think history won't be
quite as unkind to him as I mean. He came
in and was immediately in a bit of a labor war,
(19:18):
and it was one in which the owners were willing
to lock people out. It was a really tough circumstance.
And I feel like, yes, they could have done a
lot of things better. But the number of people who
left when d Smith left, who said now at the
time to take my buyout, because this guy coming in
(19:39):
looks like a total clown. It was a charade. How
he was elected, it was everything was a mystery. Guys themselves.
I think some of them didn't even really know who
else they could have voted for. The process was a sham,
and it has sham results. And whoever takes over is
now going to be I don't know, at most a
(19:59):
couple of years removed from the league, opting out of
these TV deals and you know, having this global turn
it into more of a global sport, and they're going
to cram eighteen games down. People's boats and franchise tags
aren't going anywhere, and we're going to continue to play
more games abroad than ever before. And I just think
(20:21):
they're going to get whatever they want. And the Union
is in an incredibly vulnerable place right now, far more
so than any time during D Smith's the most controversial tenure.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
I'm not a smart man, Jason Jason Smith's autam Chris
Plinkson and Jason locking Forth, So good to talk to you, man,
I'm not a smart dude, so I don't really know
the ins and outs of how this affects anything now
for the Players Association, because it seems as if what
the CBA is in place until at least twenty thirty,
So are we just exhale labor piece.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
We don't have to worry about about strikes or anything.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
How does it affect them? I mean, I feel like
if you read the sixty one page document, considering it
was a tangaroo court stacked against them and a special
master who's never going to look the you know, is
never going to throw too many rocks at h at
the five million pound guerrilla who employs them. But like,
(21:20):
I feel like that collusion case was a win for them,
and they're so inept and so compromised, and J. C.
Trader acted like such a jackass that they collectively decided
not even to spread the word like that they they
kind of sort of won a collusion case. And then
they're so backwards and and and so myopic that they've
(21:42):
been colluded with the league. They'll the fightings. I mean,
you're gonna tell me how it affect the players? Mean,
how do you think it affects with Mark Jackson.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I'm more as the fans.
Speaker 5 (21:52):
How it affects us watching a day to day I mean,
we're not gonna have to worry about a lockout or anything.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I mean, obviously no, it.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Effects but me, well, I mean I don't know. I
mean eventually, I don't. I mean I can't answer that
question because I don't. I mean, you're I don't know
that this is rock bottom. I can't remember how many times,
like with Jimmy Has I'm running the Browns, I'm like, well,
this has to be rock bottom. You know, it's never
rock bottom. So I don't. I don't. I mean, are
they going to clean up their process? Like are they?
(22:17):
Is this going to be transparent? If it's not, I mean,
how will it affect it if someone gets in there
who doesn't know what they're doing, Could that, you know,
further hasten or prolonged a potential workstopic? I don't, I
don't know. I mean, is is the PA going to
be ripe with clicks? And is that going to make
(22:39):
it even harder to negotiate? How empowered will this person be?
I mean from a football day to day watching games,
you know, quality of play all that. No, But in
terms of the players, Oh, the players can definitely continue
to get hosed, and even more so than ever by
having completely enough leadership at the helmet. It isn't even
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smart enough to know when they've won.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Because that's always been the question in terms of the
rank and file, Jason, like, where we've got the different
levels that players are at, salary wise, tenure, and trying
to get everybody on the same path to vote towards
the same things has always been a challenge. But now
how far removed does someone have to be from the
institutions to be trusted at this point?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I mean, I don't know how to answer that. I mean,
it sounds like the last time around, the reps and
the rank and file weren't even on the same page
as to the process itself. And if we're now led
to believe that the executive committee didn't even think this
guy was worthy of it in the first place, yet
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they passed it along to sort of the popular vote,
I mean, it's hard to speak about because it was
so shrouded in mystery. We didn't even know Lloyd how won,
and up until recently most people didn't even know who
the hell he was running again, Like I I don't know.
I mean, he clearly was doing clownish, buffoonish stuff. He
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wasn't there that long. This started immediately. How yeah, Like,
how did he ever get that position in the first place?
How much of a leadership vacuum was there? And is there?
You know, do they need to have an independent audit
and some third party come in there and make recommendations
(24:38):
like do they need to make it a prerequisite that
whoever they hire next has had significant experience at a
different labor union, maybe ideally a sports labor union, and
has been, you know, in somewhat of a prominent role,
whether current or past. Like yeah, I mean, and certainly
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there's discord, there's a lack of harmony. I think among
the players. We're talking about what is it right now? Right?
You got ninety guys on rosters, You've got thirty teams
through the math, it's a lot of people at various
points in their career, with various earning potential and various
earning past and various earning futures. It's it's it's hard
(25:28):
to get them on the same page. I mean, looks
how hard it is to get thirty two billionaires on
the same page, and now we're talking about you know,
twenty seven hundred.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Guys, it's gonna be tough. Jason locking For is our
guest all right on the well kind of on the field.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Stop.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
It looks like Michael Parson's gonna be still showing up
at Cowboys camp. But Jerry Jones is doing Jerry Jones things.
The bottom line more than anything else, he usually gets
these deals done. What kind of situation do you feel
like this ends up being for the Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Do they get it done? Does it cost him too much?
Or could this one drag on a bit?
Speaker 6 (26:05):
No, they'll get it done. They'll get it done, probably
right before this. These stars, Yeah, it'll call them too much.
They'll have egg on their face. I'll probably regret it
within a couple of years. It's just the same old
dog and pony show. I mean, like we were talking
(26:26):
last week, Garry eats this stuff up. I mean the
fact that there's all this discord and disharmony, and then
he eventually gives the guy more than anybody else would have.
And so you know, the guy eventually gets a smile
on his face. But the star culture continues, and certain
people are propped up and there's an underbelly to that roster.
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There's never really cohesion in that locker room because certain
guys are treated like rock stars and you know, everybody
else just is sort of everybody else. And you know,
I think Jerry he's gotten increasingly chalous and slippe with
how he talks about injuries and talks about players worth,
(27:08):
and it really kind of started, you know, around the
Kaepernick stuff, and I feel like it's it's kind of
escalated since then, and he continues to message to that
locker room in a way that I don't think resonates
with a lot of those guys, especially the ones who
aren't being paid as best to breed in their positions.
So yeah, I mean, he'll get his, like that got his,
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but he'll end up hurting the team because of the
contract structure and because of what else they won't be
able to do. And he just he's just so stuck
in his own ways, and the older he gets, the
more stubborn he gets, and it's his way or the highway,
and it's just going to be another, I think, pedestrian
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season in Dallas.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Big effort from us here out on Monday Night from
our guy Jason Lock and for at Jason Lock Andfa
is where you find him in the Twitter verse, see
what he's got going on the Wanta bet podcast, and
so much else than he does one O five to
seven the fan there in Baltimore, Jason, thanks for taking
a few time minutes out with us here on a
Monday night. Next time we'll be talking about more camp
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fun and getting ready for that Hall of Fame game.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Yeah, get on Malmo and get on FC cloth and
from the Czech Republic tomorrow and Champions League qualifying. Think
of that. Pick them both on the money lines, maybe
parlanm together.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Malmo is a wonderful place to visit, by the.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Way, gorgeously Yeah, it's wondering lovely.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Yeah, I can't wait to go back. Thanks for hanging
out with us, buddy.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
We'll talk to you again, guys.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Thank you a little bit of betting advice on the
way out for you there, plank. Can't beat that.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific. Welcome back and.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Fired up to be with you here at Jason Smith
Show with me Mike Carbon There's no Jason Smith this
week on vacation. Yes, the back end of the week,
he will be sampling Muskrat dinners in Detroit. So if
you're on the streets of Detroit, look out for a
guy wearing nothing but mets.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Garb on purpose. He's going to Detroit.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Yeah, he vacation's in Detroit. It's where his wife's family's from.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Oh, very cool. I've never been, so I can't talk
any trash on it. Everything I know about Detroit I
learned from eight Mile.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
It really just kind of comes down to this. If
I'm in the summer months and I live in southern California,
where the hell am I going? That's going to be
better Detroit? Evidently. Well, I mean, you know, there was
a kid rock line where he's saying, if heave it
ain't a lot like Detroit, I don't want to go.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
That's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I just I always took Jason to be a beach guy,
like to get away and want to be in like
a scenic area. But as you laid out, you live,
you work every day in Los Angeles's kind of hard
to beat that scenery on a regular basis, So that
makes sense.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
He's pastier than I am, so I don't think he
sees the sun. Oh are you guys kind of like powder?
Remember that movie? Is that what we are with Jason White?
To that level?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
But you know, I mean, look enough dog walking and
enough soccer tournaments for me. I'm some shade of red
most of the time. At one point, about six weeks ago,
they could have hired me as one of those actors,
you know, like when of the movie's coming out and
all of a sudden, like they're in the third row
and they look like someone from a horror movie or
whatever and they stand there. I could have been a
stand in for the thing. Like I had such a
(30:26):
bad case of sunburn. My skin was peeling and like
got all scaly looking. I could have passed for this
iteration of you know, cousin Richie, who's gonna play him
in the in this current iteration.
Speaker 5 (30:38):
It'll get you if you're not cared for the Sun's undefeated. Man,
it'll get you if you're not caring.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
No, that's it.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
And one you're as pasty as I am, you go
from what I am to beat red really fast. There
is no tan, There is none of that, all right,
So we've got Big Ten media days coming up, and
the billion dollar question, multi billion dollar question when you
talk about the future of college athletics, and we have
many of them that will traverse a little bit over
the course of the night and throughout the week as
(31:04):
we go, is what the playoffs look like after this
coming year, because we'll have a title game on the
nineteenth of January. And then you back that out, so
you get those travel plans in place. But if you
want to go looking further of how you have to
budget and how you have to analyze things, well, it
gets a little more chaotic. Rt your Mark of the
Big twelve likes his five and eleven kind of situation.
(31:26):
You're five champions and you're eleven at large.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
But for the Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
In an interview with Joel Klatt a few weeks ago, Petiti,
the new Big Ten commissioner, outline the idea of the
four four two two one. Now we'll see what he
does and in terms of verbalizing that this next iteration
in front of all the assembled media masses, but for
for the Big ten, four, for the SEC and Greg
(31:51):
Zankee always you know, looking for global expansion his own self.
And then we start going down you know, for the
for the Big twelve in ACC and everybody else as
we go through, so you have automatic bids would be
thirteen of the sixteen as laid out in that interview
with Joel Klatt. And now it's the constant fight for
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supremacy as we see teams getting gobbled up in conference realignment.
Maybe some buyer's remorse for schools like USC and some
others when they realize what was could have been if
not for some bad media rights deals. All the way
back then, Hi, I remember that that was fun. But
(32:34):
for tomorrow, I think that's that's the billion dollar question
in all of it.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Chris does he double down on automatic bids?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
And you know that interview with Joe Clatt or I
don't know, Joe Clatt talking to Tony Pettitia really seemed
like it was more Joe Clatten. Yeah, yeah, you know,
but they even when it is kind of you know,
convoluted as going for four two and a half two
and a half one, we'll give that third spot in
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the Big twelve or the ac ACC or whoever's coming out. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
just it made it made no sense. Listen, It's not
an invitational, it's a tournament, and you don't give automatic
bits outside of a champion unless it's an invitational.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I'm not I was out a fan of this when
it came out. Mike, I don't know where you stand
on it.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
I'm a Big ten apologist, a proud Northwestern alum, so
so good for bids. Well, no, I don't agree with
it in a as a radio host and a larger
thought process, but you know, damn it, my guys, anybody
but Illinois quote representing the Big Ten, TD said that's
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my job.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
But I mean, in most situations, if you're at sixteen,
if you're at sixteen teams, you're probably getting four just
about every single year. If you're the Big ten anyway, right,
you're definitely getting four about every year. If you're the SEC.
You know, the Big twelve in the acy can't support this,
they can't come out. And obviously Brett Yormar a couple
(34:04):
of weeks ago Big twelve media Day down in Frisco, Texas,
he was like, we are five and eleven five automatic bids,
eleven at large qualifiers and they have to be because
they can't take less. The first time they take less
will take more and more from them now that's it, right,
when they're at negotiation, right, they'll take more and more
from them. So you've got to stay strong with five
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and eleven if you're the Big twelve.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
In the ACC.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
But the Big ten apparently wants to force the SEC
to play nine conference games. But they sure as hell
don't care that the ACC only plays eight conference games too.
You don't hear him grinchin about that at all.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Well, and that's where the curiosity of all this happens,
right when we're talking about the size of the conferences
as it. I mean, I remember back in the day
when the Big ten was still legitimately ten before Penn
State came on, and then after that it was a
land grab and bit by bit, like I actually registered
the big twenty dot com domain name.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Good call, we were heading that we might still be,
we might.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Still want to be aheading there as we go. But
it's just the idea of the absurdity of some of this.
But also we'd been seeing the prediction of the super
conferences so long ago, right where we just have a
couple of sixteen or thirty two team super conferences in
the end, and everybody else is playing off in their
(35:23):
own little sphere and navigating their own globe, which still
may end up becoming the case as more of the
rights deals come to fruition and the curiosity here. But certainly,
if you're not the big ten or SEC, you got
to do everything you can to talk about the greatness
of at large teams. Otherwise you're just going to be
(35:43):
lost in the shuffle.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Yeah, and especially if you're only in these projections getting
two bids, and that's the case, you gotta say no.
So AC Jim Philip's gonna speak this week to ACC
Media Day coming up later in the week.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
We'll learn a lot. This would be a very interesting.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
Week to see if anyone really, as your Mark put
it a couple weeks ago, doubles down on their beliefs.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Well, and everybody else still has to figure out how
to pay everybody and where the proper dollars and cents are.
And because you are my college football guy at Plank Show,
find me over at Swollen Doome. We'll talk about that
coming up next as we continue. Because Sarkesian had some
interesting comments on the future of this college football wave.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
We got that next on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
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 4 (36:37):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Carmon. There's no Jason Smith this week. He
is off circumnavigating the globe, probably celebrating a Mets win,
maybe eating a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
You can find him at how about a Fresco check
in on his whereabouts? Find me over at Swollen Dome.
Find our buddy Chris Blank in with us this week day.
He'll be back on Friday night after our show, after
I deal with Arnie for four hours. Yeah, there you
go at Plank Show and another Mets fans see. That's
that's all I get all the time at Plank Show,
(37:12):
where you find Chris. You know, we leave no pop
culture stone unturned. Today would have been don knotts one
hundredth birthday, So there you go.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Don Knotts would have been one hundred today. What year
did he go?
Speaker 5 (37:27):
That's a good question. I'm looking it up as we speak.
It was two thousand and six, so some time ago.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
But there you go.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
We've got a couple of other pop culture things we'll
touch on as we roll through. But a legend in
his own right Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is everybody reports
to Oxnard getting things ready for another big run. You
saw the highlight reel stuff. There's Dak Prescott and George
Pickens and all of this fun and excitement on the
first play. That's all finding good. But what did Jerry
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Jones have to say about here, squad? What he's expecting
as camp gets underway.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
Just because we've signed him doesn't mean we're going to
have him. He was hurt six games last year. Seriously,
we've signed I remember signing a player for the highest
paid at the position in the league and he got
knocked out two thirds of the year, Dark Prescott. So
there's a lot of things you can think about just
as the player does when you're thinking about committing and
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guaranteed money.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
There you go, there's the Micah Parsons of one hundred
billion dollar question right there, and he's right right. He
and Mike Brown both took different tax in talking about
guaranteed moneys and what could happen to you? From Mike
Brown of the Bengals talking about Jamar Stewart and the
language of his contract that keeps him a holdout. He
(38:47):
went down the avenue of the worst case scenarios of
potential allegations and incarceration and such. For Jerry Jones, it
becomes Oh, you get hit by a bus.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
I don't know if I'm gonna have him.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
This, I don't know if I'm gonna have him, And
then he sideswipes Dad Prescott in the same comment. I
mean that was the Hey, here's my combination as I'm
sidling up to the.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Pool table with this one. So there's Jerry.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
He was also asked about, you know, had he ever
thought about stepping aside from his you know, GM duties
and everything. He started cackling like a madman, said maybe,
you know, little parts of seconds before continuing. But the
Michael Parsons thing is interesting because he has, according to
Jane Slater and others, shown up for camp at Oxnard.
(39:34):
We'll see how much you get participation or whether he
decides to step away. But history says eventually, as Jerry
even alluded to himself, eventually he pays them out. Saw
what he did when he went down to Mexico to
find Ezekiel Elliott. All those years ago, precedence has been set.
Players and their agents know they can wait Jerry out.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
What do you make of this philosophy that Jerry's had
where he always ends up paying them, Yeah, and he
always says something stupid.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
I mean, I was going through some old notes.
Speaker 5 (40:04):
Last year was the we got no urgency to get
a CD LAMB deal done, and then twenty three days
later he signed him to a four year, one hundred
and thirty six million dollars.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
You didn't have it in that moment, and it made
for a good SoundBite.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Yeah, And twenty nineteen Ezekiel Elliott, it's not about I'm
not about to do a deal that would shake the
foundation loose. And then a month later gave him a
six year, ninety million dollar deal. So he says all
this stuff. I mean, he's like history where repeats itself
and he ends up paying them in the long run,
but it ends up costing them more because he drags
it out.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
What do you make of this approach that he has.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
It's bad business but greed, but some of it becomes
the all right, if I'm not one hundred percent sure,
I defended only to that point of if I'm not
one hundred percent sure that I want a guy full time,
long term, especially when injuries have already cropped up, no
matter how productive they may be. Right, because you look
at Parsons' numbers when he plays and what he's meant
(40:57):
to that defense.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
But then you take the.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Larger scope of what your team has done, is it
wise to pay, you know, top dollar? I mean, look,
I always talk about my tap system. It's the the
patented Mike Harmon tap. I need a thrower, I need
an attacker, and I need a protector. Beyond that one,
I'm just about to ask you that. So the tap
system is in. It's like the dentistystem. That's it for me,
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or call it the pat whichever one you want, protector,
attack or thrower. You know, you go with it what
you will. But beyond that, then then I got to start,
you know, parsoning out my dollars. So certainly Parsons fits,
you know, what I need as one of my major three.
But I understand sometimes, you know, the reticence to commit,
because we've seen a number of other teams where they've
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committed too early and then all of a sudden they realize, Wow,
now we're really on the hook. In this case, he waits,
and then the back end is that much worse and
the dollar per average, you know, per year average, and
everything goes through the roof because four or five other
guys have been paid. In this case, you know, with
t J. Watt having just gotten his money, Michaeh. Parsons
(42:03):
agents sure as hell ain't coming back on. I'm gonna
take a lot less than that guy, m right, and
then he wants dollar for dollar or a dollar more
because it's a better headline.
Speaker 5 (42:12):
Michael Parsons is one of the best defensive players in
the NFL. And to your point, I could not agree more.
I love the tap system. I'm adopting it now.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (42:21):
You need your quarterback, you need your left or right tackle,
probably both right. And you saw a couple of years
ago John Gruden he really invested in the right or
didn't really invest in the right tackle, and everyone had
like de Lane Johnson's of the World and others, I
mean even prior to him, Trent Brown, but is left tackle.
You know, if you got a right handed quarterback, but
the attacker doesn't have to be Oh, it's got to
(42:43):
be an edge rusher or it's got to be a
defensive tackle. It can just be the position that is
the best player on your defense. And right now, boy,
Jerry's waiting three years, one hundred and twenty three million dollars.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
That was the deal for That was a deal for J.
Speaker 6 (42:57):
TJ.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Watt.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
You had Max cro get paid. You had Miles Scaret
get paid. Remember Miles scared wanted to trade. He's like
trade mate, and the next thing you know, he gets paid.
It just keeps driving that dollar up and up and up.
So it's gonna get done, right, It's it's eventually gonna
get done. But now you've got to that number has gone.
The only person who didn't really go up was Max Crosby,
(43:19):
Like his was thirty five point five. Daniel Hunter's deal
with the Texans thirty five point six, Miles Scaret forty mil, TJ.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
Watt per season, forty one meal.
Speaker 5 (43:28):
It's gonna be a lot of your salary cap and
taking care of the guy whenever you're already a little
bit and wonky on that number for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Anyway, now we know Michaeh.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
Parsons did take the social media a little bit earlier
because he liked and reposted a take from future Hall
of Famer JJ Watt. We talk about TJ. Let's talk
about his brother quote. Any time you can publicly take
a dig at your star quarterback and your star pass
rusher simultaneously right before the season begins, you just gotta
take it dot dot dot. Nothing makes guys want to
(43:58):
fight for you more than hearing how I'm that you are,
that they got hurt while fighting for you.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Boy, If ever, there was a need.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
For the sarcasm font, like I always joke here in
the Fox Sports Radio studio, we're all pretty adept at
it doing what we do, there's some level of snark
and cynicism. No matter how many positive twists we can
take to stories, there's some some snarkiness that comes through.
I talk about my sarcasm bucket and how it's level
of done this over the course of a four hour here.
(44:28):
JJ Watt would have needed to take that out and
dump that and just reset from start, because every word
of that just gets the tone, tenor and verbiage is
just a masterclass right there and just waving at Jerry Jones.
Speaker 5 (44:44):
I know we're up against it for the Seger's update, Yeah,
but is it doing damage to the cowboys with this
approach earning you're out from jering to where they get
paid and everyone smiles, but you remember the process to
get there and what he said, is it affecting things?
Speaker 6 (44:59):
No.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
I In the end, you make your decision.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
Look, Jerry's very loyal to his stars, particularly if he
feels like he found you, right and even if he
takes the side swipe of Dak, you know, the next
time he gets an opportunity to throw flowers in his
general direction, he's gonna tell you that he's one of
the greatest throwers of the football. Ever, I can't I
can't believe. I don't have like a four minute clip
of him or even ai Jerry talking about some of
(45:25):
those darts to George Pickens practice today, right like, Oh,
that's Dak, that's the guy we paid, that's my guy,
right because I mean again, look what he did with
Ezekiel Elliott. He went down and found him in Mexico
to bring him back and get him paid.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
So you know he will do that.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
You know, he does that tough love thing and eventually
writes out the giant novelty check like he's at the
end of a game show. So you know, it's gonna
you just have to wait him out. It's just a
matter of time. Now, how does that affect everything else? Well,
it leaves a fewer dollars to spend elsewhere, that's for
damn sure.
Speaker 5 (46:00):
But you don't think it does long term damage. You
don't think these guys keep in the back of their
mind the fight they had to go through to get it.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
They're getting paid and then see their next deal like
once once you get the second one. I mean, if
you're still playing at the level high enough to go
get a monster third, then great. But I think Jerry
has shown it. It may be a painful process, but
eventually you're gonna get your dollars. So if you're anywhere
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near the level that you are now, and even that,
what are you seventy eighty percent he's not going and
finding the next shiny object. If he has a guy
that he thinks can play, because that's still his guy, right,
he doesn't let him out the door. Yeah, that's just
been his history, for better or for worse. And certainly
I know plenty of cowboys fans. My ex wife's dad,
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we still exchange texts every year. It's like we're not
winning a damn thing until this guy has gone. And
I know exactly what he means by that, and I'm
not going there. I'm joetivity here, but he ain't leaving that.
Steven or whoever else isn't coming over the top to
make decisions for him. So you just got to ride
the lightning. Look, I'm a Chicago guy. What do you
(47:12):
think I've been waiting for all the positivity and feel good? Yeah,
they won the off season and then rewarded Ryan Poles
before they won a damn game.
Speaker 3 (47:20):
How do you think I feel? That's still wild to me?
Still wild to me? I mean, was he was? He
in a contract year?
Speaker 9 (47:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Two years left? Makes no sense.
Speaker 4 (47:29):
Dumbest thing I've seen. Well, actually there's plenty of them,
but you know who's never done.
Speaker 10 (47:34):
He's In fact, the Twins put ten balls in play
against him, half of them at exit velocities of one
hundred miles an hour or higher. Off the bet Otani
allowed a lead off homer, but then you know he's
showing Otani. So he hit a two run homer in
the bottom of the first and the Dodgers have led
ever since. That's thirty five home runs for this pitcher.
A you Henny Osuarez of the Diamondbacks with home run
(47:55):
number thirty six. But in Arizona, the d Becks, who've
won four straight, are trailing Houston six' to. Three at
the seventh inning, stretch The brewers were scoreless and in
fact were no hit By George kirby And seattle until
the sixth. Inning then they got four runs top of the.
Six it's now six to Nothing milwaukee over The mariners
in the bottom of the. Eighth The brewers have won ten.
(48:17):
Straight they came into tonight tied for first with The
cubs in THE Nl. Central The cubs lost at home
twelve to four To Kansas City Salvador perez with two home,
runs and The royals are reportedly calling up veteran Pitcher Rich.
Hill this would be his fourteenth team of his major league,
career tying a record that is the sound of one hand.
Clapping texas And Saint louis with wins. Each White sox
(48:40):
won eight three At Tampa. Bay atlanta Sent San francisco
to a sixth straight, loss nine to, five and The
BRAVES Dh Drake baldwin had three hit six RBIs. Tonight
toronto is first in The Al. East they've won eleven
straight home. Games they beat The yankees four to. One
they're up four games on The yanks in The east.
Standings in THE, nls it's The, phillies still a half
(49:01):
game over The. Mets The phillies won in bizarre. FASHION
a tenth inning catcher's interference call with bases loaded got
him a three to two win Against. Boston The mets
came back to beat The angels seven to five with
two runs in the, eighth despite a bad start From Kodai,
sango who had been seven and three but in three
innings allowed the first Four angels. Runs San diego And
(49:23):
washington each. One cleveland And pittsburgh as. Well paul skeins
Over Jack flaherty as The pirates beat The tigers three.
Nothing and These tigers had lost six in a row
until a win on the road last. Night titans Quarterback
Will levis will have shoulder surgery next.
Speaker 3 (49:36):
Week he's out for the.
Speaker 10 (49:38):
Year cowboys pass Rusher Micah parsons reported to training camp
he wants a contract. Extension Green bay gave Tackle Zach
tom a four year. Extension Kansas City wide Receiver Rashi
rice will be a full participat in, camp he could
be suspended by the. League chiefs Tackle Juwan taylor was
placed on the pup. List New orleans officially signed second
(49:58):
round Quarterback tyler schuck. Her MOST nfl teams will have
their veterans reports training camp By. Tuesday the preseason schedule
starts With Chargers lions in The hall Of fame Game
july thirty, first so those teams veterans have already. Reported
VETERAN nba Guard Chris paul signed with The, clippers And
Caitlin clark will miss another game On tuesday night due
to the groin. Injury this will be your twelfth game
(50:20):
out this. Year THE wnba resumes with five games On tuesday,
night Including indiana At New. York the INITIAL tv ratings
For friday night's three point contests up eighty percent over last,
year over one point three million. Viewers clark In indianapolis
was due to, participate even though it seems like she
hasn't made a single three all season.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
Long, no it's been a.
Speaker 10 (50:41):
Minute, apparently people enjoyed seeing her on the. Sidelines are
just the fact that she was going to be in
the arena that. Night because the ratings were in fact
good or perhaps fans found out at maybe like five
minutes into the broadcast as she wasn't.
Speaker 3 (50:53):
Participating what's that second hour look, Like jane.
Speaker 10 (50:56):
Exactly congratulations for the.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
Numbers nonetheless back to, You thanks so, Much.
Speaker 4 (51:01):
Steve That's steve disager with us as he is during
the course of the week you work with he And
arnie On sunday. Nights he brings you the extra bonus
news as it were At plank shows where you Find
chris find me over At Swollen. Dome i'd be remiss
IF i didn't point out that the walls do have.
Ears roughly a half hour, AGO i received an email
that my TWENTY b number one g dot com registration
(51:27):
is due to, expire SO i need to there you,
go you, know get that start my domain there for another.
Speaker 3 (51:32):
Year SO i got that going for. Me i'd do.
That oh that's, crazy that's it's really. Weird Now i'm creeped.
Speaker 6 (51:39):
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