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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 (00:31):
Step right up and sweep the Mets.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Just kill yourself.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
The Mets are swinging in missing that ball. The other
team's home runs over the wall. This isn't entertaining anymore, yea,
I would really like, you know, here's my favorite. I
ask for so little, right, I asked for so little here.
I would really like if the Mets are gonna lose

(01:01):
this game right where where you know, they've allowed five
and the seventh to the Mariners. They're losing eleven, nine
and the ninth inning. If they're gonna lose, lose before
the Dodgers Padre starts. Okay, so I can have a
clean slate for the biggest baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Series of the year.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
All right, I don't want to have this hanging If
you're gonna lose, I don't want it hanging over me
and have to worry about going back and forth everything
I like lose so I can go right to Padres Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, I mean, you gotta have a little bit of
suffering in. You gotta pay for your sins. What do
you mean? What do you think it's been all suffering?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
What are you talking about today?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Allowed, levelbrated Beatles Day and everything. Yeah, yeah, that's great.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
And another L and another it's gonna be another L
yet yeah, okay, Well, I.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Mean it's inevitable. As he walks the bas is full,
of course it is, of course it is. It's I mean,
if you're gonna, I mean I may just I may just.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Have to pull the plug and just go over to
Padres Dodgers and in uh in six minutes, I just
have to do it. So you know, it's sorry, I
gotta just go.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
I gotta.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm sorry, I can't anymorez hits a grand slam on you.
But then I'm gonna throw my TV out the window,
which is one of my favorite chips is the guy
that yanks's TV out of the wall and.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Throws throw yourself out the window. They're so bad.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
The better one is just going back to the old
Elvis theory of having a long line of TVs and
waiting and if you didn't like what was on, you
just shoot it. Yeah. No, but here's it, shoot it now.
But here's the thing is is, I don't really, I
don't really care.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I I can't do that because you know the nixt
I mean, come on, this is gonna be our year, right,
this is the final.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
It gives you a couple of months to replace it.
Give me a bigger TV. Look, you got out of
the inning, first ball, swinging Rodriguez lines to write. Now
you get you just need three in the bottom of
the ninth.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Man, I'll tell you, well, all right, let I'll take two.
I'll take two. I'll also take a quick one two
three so I can get over to Padres Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
No, really, I mean this is screen experience. Let's go.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
I mean, so this is the baseball series of ye
there has not been one bigger where the Dodgers somehow
enter this series trailing by a game in the NL West.
It has been a trade deadline where the Padres have
just continued their hot play. They've added to their bullpen.
They're closing games out. They're bringing relievers in in the

(03:19):
third inning. Even in shutout games when the starting pitchers
given up no hits and hasn't thrown a ball, they're
still going to the bullpen and the third they are winning.
This is they are playing as well as they have.
The Dodgers are questionable. If this is a Padres sweep,
and clearly you look at which team is playing better
going in like that, that that might that might basically

(03:41):
have the Dodgers have to settle for a wild card
if this is a four game lead coming out, and
I can't say it's not gonna happen even Look, Dodgers
are home everything. But the Dodgers aren't playing well. They
got problems up and down the lineup, problems with pitching.
The Padres have none, which is clearly means the Dodgers
will get five in the first and win this game
nine to one. But look what you're doing, You're you're
salting them away before the saltiest of them all, Clayton

(04:02):
Kershaw takes the mound and throws that first pitch at
seven ten.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Right at seven eleven, not seven or nine, seven ten,
because he's salty. You're talking sweep already. I mean, that's
that's dangerous stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
You don't think if you're Manny Machado, you're finding some
way to delay the start of the game by a
minute to get so seven eleven. There's another minute when
Kershaw throws.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
The trying to get under his skin. Like you start
walking up towards the batter's box and somebody you got
a cramp in your cap allegedly, Oh yeah, give me
a second, give me a second, oh for a second.
Yeah yeah, And.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
They bring out the the the what the cold stuff
that they spray on, and they need the band and
the whole nine yards holder. The trainer says, listen, it's nothing.
It's just like all that just it just protects you.
Don't worries nothing. I just here you go.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay, very good.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
You get up there and hit all right, that's fantastic, alb.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, eight and a half runs is the was the open.
It's up to nine and a half. As we get
ready for first pitch, it's seven twelve.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
We can start now. He's never going to get out
of the first inning. This again, this is some again,
biggest baseball series of the year. Nothing else has closed.
Padres Dodgers just a few minutes away. Will of course
keep you updated on this throughout the stats stats on Kershaw.
If it does get delayed, how does that? I don't,

(05:16):
I don't. I don't you know what I would have
to ask Ai, But I don't think it's good.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
I don't. I don't think it's good.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
What what happens when Kershaw? Okay, what happens? Okay, it
auto filled for me? What happened to Odell Beckham Junior? Right,
that's the auto film.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
That's what happens when Kershaw has a game start late.
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
The answer is uh, it makes him difficult to regain
his ramp up. It could lead to a shortened outing,
with the team opting to use the bullpen to cover
the longer duration of the game. Basically, Frostburg, you're screwed.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
There you go, there's any I'm not a nuts fan, yeah,
but there was no specificity to that at all.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
No, no, not you the way Oh yeah, saying up
screws bonded?

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Oh my screw right there?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
If they start the game late, I just read you
the whole thing off of AA what happens when the
game starts late?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, AI also has the Mets winning tonight.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
They did get in one hundred and thirteen bucks for
this game, oh boy, fifty strong as the Dodgers host
the Padres.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
So we'll keep you updated on this throughout the night.
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(06:47):
and it's really hard to do this. I mean, first,
while we got Kansas City, Seattle is just underway. Titans
lead the Falcons right now, twenty three to twenty late
in the fourth court.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
And the Chiefs are already cheating.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
This is already they're.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
They're giving it. They gave him a first down. They said,
Mahomes got laid hit on a handle.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
They don't even have the ball. They gave him a
first down.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
But this is really hard to do, Mike, But absolutely
this has happened. The number one overall pick in the
NFL draft, who is a quarterback, has been absolutely invisible
and off the radar screen since the NFL draft. Well,
Camwar being drafted by Tennessee. But but still, though, I mean,

(07:29):
this is this is It's not you know, in the NBA,
I get it because you see that you need guys
to start in bigger markets.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
It happens that way.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
But the NFL, they find you everywhere, They find you everywhere,
and here's the number one pick. And it's not it's
not like he's an offensive tackle, it's a defensive end.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
This is a quarterback.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
It's about a quarterback man and cam Ward who has
been perfectly acceptable so far. Right, he had an okay
first game, He had an okay first quarter tonight, you know,
finished two out of seven for forty two yards in
limited play, but still led the Titans down to his
score in the first quarter before he came out. Everything
was you know, he's been perfectly acceptable so far. And

(08:09):
there has been absolutely no buzz, no attention, no anything,
nothing about the number one overall pick in the draft.
And that that you know, in a in a time
when not a lot in the NFL shocks me. This
does because it shouldn't be no buzz on cam Ward.
It's wild that this is the case that we talk

(08:29):
way more about Shador Sanders, who is fourth string not
playing this weekend, and all the drama that goes along
with it, with the If you had a pie chart,
it would be ninety nine point nine percent Shador Sanders
in the in the country. And the only reason it's
point point one percent cam Ward is because we're talking
about it right now. This is the first time he's

(08:49):
been mentioned since he got drafted. This is done, and
he's a quarterback and he's exciting, and he throws for
a lot of yards, and still it's like, oh, yeah, yeah,
how's cam Ward gonna do?

Speaker 3 (08:59):
He's let he's not even on page one of you know,
you've not even below the fold.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
He's what Bin o'cook would say, it would be page
f eight in the agate type on the bottom of
the page.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
That's how unimportant is that's how low.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's how low cam Ward has been and he's the
number one pick in the draft.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, I think a couple of things come into play,
right we'd been talking a lot about the veterans, you know,
the back stuff with Matthew Stafford the last week or so,
Aaron Rodgers. For the longest time, was he going to play?
Where was he going to go? Was the thing with
Pittsburgh inevitable? It ended up happening, and here we are,
and then you've got so many questions about the second
year guys. I mean, look at all the hot air

(09:40):
being blown about Caleb Williams. Just every every day, it's
a new headline, it's a new breakdown, it's a new Hey,
maybe this was an AI driven bot versus an actual
source telling you something about what's going on behind the scenes. Right,
You've got so much chaos and all of that, and
the shedor Sanders because of the surname and what we've watched.

(10:02):
That takes up a bit of the pie chart. Travis Hunter,
how much is he going to play on both sides
of the ball. We got to give it a sliver
off to him. So, yeah, cam Ward has been able
to operate in relative anonymity there in Tennessee. Not often
you get to do that as a number one pick.
But when last year's is drawing so much higher and
slinging ink in one of the big metroplexes. That's what

(10:25):
it does.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
I mean, just think about what the the preseason has
been so far as we get into week two, think
about what it's been so far, which has been basically
Shador Sanders has been the story. And you want to say,
what's the second story. Well, if there's drama with Jerry
Jones about paying or not paying Micah Parsons or Jerry
Jones saying something or doing something, or just general Cowboys,

(10:50):
the Shenanigans, right that there's number two state in general.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Really that that's been it like like it's it. I
know that the draft didn't go well with a lot
of big playmakers at the top, and obviously Travis Hunter,
you know we're waiting.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
It's basically just seeing him play both sides of the ball.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
But this that's why I thought, for sure, well we're
gonna at least default to cam Ward that the number
one pick in the draft's gonna get something.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Nope, Nope, he's even he's even being.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Looked over in every kind of dynasty draft I'm doing
in fantasy where he's the only quarterback you're gonna take,
and I'm seeing Dynasty rookie drafts where he's making it
out of the first round, like no, one's even not
test but he's a starting quarterback. And when you do Dynasty,
it's it happens that way, like, oh my goodness, No, no, no,
he's making it out of the Nada.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
No.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Don't like cam Ward to going.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Out of the first round, number one pick of the draft.
This is how much it is, and I really it
really shocks me. I hope he has some sort of
incredible run beginning of the season. He bursts on the
scene like Cam Newton and all of a sudden, it's,
oh my goodness, he throws for four hundred yards and
look at what Cam Newton did.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
You know?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Remember his first couple of games with the Panthers were
like eight hundred yards passing and Steve Smith had like
six hundred yards receiving. Like, I hope he does that
because he he should be getting a little bit more
of the the spoils that go along with being the
number one pick in the draft.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah. I mean, look, sometimes it's good to not have
the spotlight be quite so loud and bright for you.
But you know, I get what you're saying. Let's see,
they are currently at plus seven seventy five to win
the AFC South one that we've discussed at at nauseum,
going back to some of the Jacksonville stuff and our
discussion of the Colts, and look, the Texans are the favorite,

(12:31):
but they're just minus one oh five, so not exactly
a prohibitive favorite by any stretch of the imagination. So
you know, things break right, you have the opportunity to
go make some noise. You got a couple of playmakers
in there, some decent wideouts that have been added over
the course of this offseason. We'll see what Calvin Ridley's got.
But you bring in Tyler Lockett. Van Jefferson has shown

(12:53):
as a third at spots. Now he's got to take
on a bigger role Tony Pollard. You lost Spears to injuries,
so keeping an eye on the running back position behind Pollard.
But you got some playmakers. Hell, you got a guy
named Gunner running a tight end along a conquo. He
had a big game tonight, So yeah, curiosity no question
in that division. So maybe he'll start getting some noise

(13:17):
in some pub But you know, I think most guys
would rather come into their first camp and be left
alone as opposed to the constant headlines and talking heads
right to go owing back to Denzel Washington or going
back to Shador Sanders trying to find his guy Tony
Grossi afterwards like, hey, why do you hate me? So

(13:39):
all of that to say for cam Ward, wish him
the best. We certainly watched a lot of his games
the last couple of years in the studio and he
made his share of big plays. So with that he'll
get his He'll just due. But for the off season,
sometimes it's okay to just go go do your work
behind the scenes. Your next success can begin sooner than

(14:01):
you think.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
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Pete Alonzo grounded out to second. I was able to
flip right over to see Clayton Kershaw throw his.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Final warm up pitch.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
I did not miss the opening pitch of Padres Dodgers
Padres go out one, two three.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
Top of the first Dodgers coming to the.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
First pitt was at seven eleven though it.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Was it could be a short out, and that was
a great first inning. And I gotta give credits to
the Mets. They clearly wanted to watch the Dodgers and podcast.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Mike wash your mouth out with soap for giving credits
than that.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Well, no, just because they went meekly in now what
we do here? Come wanting to watch some real baseball, buddy.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Come on, you can't get credit to them.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
The Mets lost in time so nobody could look. The
game was on MLB network, was a big thing. Was okay,
we're all good man, what's happening? What's happening?

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Coming up next?

Speaker 1 (15:03):
It will keep you posted, of course on Dodgers padres,
but coming up next. Finally, after what seems like a
decade but really more like three years, the most controversial
story in college football has come to a close. We
got that next right here, Jason and Mike.

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Speaker 2 (15:19):
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Speaker 1 (16:19):
Dodgers, padres, nothing, nothing, top of the second inning, My
dad on the hook our streak for the MLB dot
com thestreak you know, you get the fifty six games
within five and a half million dollars. We are at ten.
We are at ten, and my dad took Otani for tonight,
so he's feeling the pressure right now.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
So almost as long as your underwear streaks.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
All well, one day for putting my underwear on the
right way after my seventeen thousand plus day of doing that.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
So yeah, nobody. Nobody's looking to verify that though. So
how do we know you're telling the truth?

Speaker 5 (16:55):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Well, I told the story last night. Of course, you
think I'm doing that enough. I'm going to tell you
a bad story. I'm not lie to you about it.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
Tell us bad stories all the time.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Dude, I tell you great stories. I tell you great.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Maybe decided you kind of liked it? No, I no,
I didn't know. I didn't. Okay, in case at the
last pressure and snugness, no reason to rehash, keep it moving,
But you bring it up.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
I got at least I found out last night at
about ten thirty. You know, my pants hadn't been feeling great, Mike,
what's going on?

Speaker 4 (17:25):
How you doing?

Speaker 3 (17:26):
I'm good. I know what was going on. And I
realized that after.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
I had my underwear on backwards, I put my underwear
on backwards for the first time in my life.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
I lost it.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I was the cal ripken of putting my underwear on
the right way over seventeen thousand days in a row
my life. I looked it up seventeenth that now I'm
at one day and somehow I did that.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
You know, you got to pick.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
A lane, Frostburg. You can't bring it up and then
say no, we adn't talk one or the other.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Jesus, just because it was brought up does not mean
you have to tell this whole story again.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
You're going to talk about the Mets.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
I mean really, I mean, I'd rather talk about putting
my underwear on backwards in the Mets. It's where we're
at right now in the season, which is more embarrassing.
Eight ninety we've lost fourteen out of sixteen. What's where
the Mets losing fourteen out of sixteen or me wearing
my underwear backards horrible for about eight and a half
hours last night.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
It's terrible.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, they're both bad. They're both bad. But I've seen
the Mets lose. I've seen them lose lots of games.
I will see them lose a lot again. I will
see that I've never done that before.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Again.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'm like cal Ripking at the end, I'm I'm high
five and with the fans going up and down.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
The side of the field, the streak is over. He
put his underwear on backwards and didn't notice. Okay, now,
mid day one one day it was. It was a
big fail. It was a big fail.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
But but this is how it goes now. So now
there you go, Frostburg, I told the story. Are you
happy now?

Speaker 3 (18:52):
No?

Speaker 4 (18:52):
I didn't want to hear it.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
All right, all right, Well, I think the the fates
punished you because we just got that is a foul run,
Loreano a solo home run off of Clayton Kershaw. It
took a little bit to see if the ball was
fair or not, so the Padres with a one nothing
lead over Dodgers and Kershaw. It would have been a strikeout,

(19:15):
but Frostburg decided to be haughty about my underwear story.
And so here the baseball fates have punished you with
a home run by Ramon Loreano. Oh yeah, it hit
the pole.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
It hit no I really? Do you like? You watch baseball?
Do you watch baseball?

Speaker 4 (19:33):
I watched real baseball.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
I like you. That's because it landed in faull territory. Smith.
It should be a ball's.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Actually, if it hits the foul pole and then lands
in foul territories, it's also called the foul pole, so
if it hits it, it should be foul.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
It can't.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
I was thinking more that the padres hit it, so
it's fell ball.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh okay, well advantage, okay, all right? That the umpire
should have overturned it.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
Right like uh angel underwear round?

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, I should have. I wish I should have.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
I would have had a more comfortable day yesterday. I mean,
really like eight hours of why is my why do
my pants feel?

Speaker 3 (20:08):
So? I don't understand this? Why what's going on? I
don't get this. I don't get it. I never thought
to chat. I just thought, okay, I ate too much
or whatever it was.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
And I'm kind of a bummed because I'm gonna have
my way in this week with PhD weight loss and everything.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's gonna be no.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
And I realized, oh, I just had my underwear on backwards.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Okay, So I felt good in the moment, Then I
felt bad overall. Did you then shame me?

Speaker 1 (20:31):
I did not shame it, No, I just I was
able to move past it. And then Frostburg brought it up.
And now now it's a sad thing. And now I
you know, to that.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
End, since the Brewers won again coming back from a
huge deficit to Cincinnati to extend the winning streak to
thirteen games. Does that add an extra day of burgers?
Or is it only when they to mark the twelfth.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
I would think it's got to be a burger a day, right,
especially when I mean they were getting.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Killed was eight to one in this game. Yeah, because
they announced that it's his twentieth is the burger day? Yeah,
to go and get your burger? Yeah, just add on.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
I don't know I did must I would say if
you if you're who is it?

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Is it? Who is it?

Speaker 1 (21:12):
A Chuck Web? What's the what's the David Webb? What's
what's David Webb? Is Jason Bourne's real name? What's the
name of the George Web?

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Right? Georgeorge?

Speaker 1 (21:21):
If George Web really wants to win people over, be hey,
free burger every day until they lose?

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Right like that?

Speaker 1 (21:28):
That all of a sudden, then you got something that's
whoa hang on a second, you.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Had a free burger every day until they lose? All right? Wow?
They even have the the the airport George Webb actually
participated by handing out vouchers. How about that? Probably the
airport people tell you to go pound saying we don't
participate in any of those giveaways and stuff.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yeah, and I believe Mets fans are burning gear with
every passing loss.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Ye oh that's yeah, that's the Colors hit the Colors.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Meanwhile, are fine.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
National nightmare has ended because we got the final final
NCAA decision on University of Michigan's penalties for their spygate
scandal with Connor Stallions from I believe it was nineteen
ninety seven was when this started.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Michigan gets a series.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Of fines that could be as much as thirty million dollars,
but didn't get a postseason ban, didn't get vacating victories,
did not have to vacate the National Championship, as the
Committee on Infractions finally ruled on the Wolverines advance scout
in case on Friday, there's going to be an extra
suspension for Serean Moore, the head coach. He's getting two

(22:38):
games this year, served in Game three in Game four
because Michigan was like, hey, listen, we got like Western
and Nebraska in those two games. Rather be suspended there. Meanwhile,
Nebraska's going, hey, come on, man, you were you want
your coach to be suspended? I thought we were, Oh no,
that's a big look in the mirror moment for Nebraska
if they haven't had that already. But he also is
going to get the first game of the twenty two

(23:00):
twenty sixth season, which potentially could be in Germany, I think,
or somewhere in Europe. They're debating to play Western Michigan
in Europe for opening week next year. So Searan Moore
is getting game three in game four this year and
opening game of next year. And finally, this has been

(23:20):
a twenty plus million dollar five which means about thirty
million dollars overall.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
This is what Michigan is getting. And finally this story
is over. Finally, seventy four page report, you get the
two game suspension add on, I mean he doesn't get
to go on a European vacation like the Grizwolds. That
sucks twenty five percent reduction and official visits for the
twenty five twenty six school year. But seeing as what
the football budget is overall, some two hundred and sixty

(23:48):
million dollars or something is what I saw it estimated
at that, I think they'll be able to take the
short term hit. The fact that they don't vacate wins. Good.
Somewhere along the way, the Rules and Fraction Committee finally
learned something that we all knew. It was dopey and ridiculous,
but I know across the Big ten uh, reaching back

(24:10):
to Chicago with the northwestern side of things, obviously in
Buckeye Land keeping an eye on like like, I'm the
dude from the Seahawks and draft dam watching all the
message boards. I was reading stuff all day. Why why
don't they they had these these more penalties? Why aren't
they banned from bowl games? Why are they? And they
came down with the well, I mean, no player was

(24:32):
ruled ineligible, so you know, no vacating vacating wins, and
then it would be wrong to punish kids who weren't there.
What an enlightened stance. How does USC feel about all
of that? And other and other schools who have faced
the wrath of this dying institution low these many years.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
I mean, really, I mean the big loser the more
I think about this, the big loser really is Nebraska
because there is there is no other thing you need
to know how far that football program has fallen, but
the fact that Michigan, Michigan, if their first two games
in New Mexico, and then it's Oklahoma. Right, Oklahoma's a
top twenty team. It's gonna be tough. I'm telling you.
I think I think the tier has a lot of

(25:15):
money on this kid. So you know they want, they wanted.
You're on more for the first two games. Yeah, we
want the next two. Game four is at Nebraska, Yeah
we want. We We're okay without having our coach for
Nebraska like this. There's no other bit of evidence he
to show far Nebraska has fallen than that, right there. Yeah, yeah,
we're okay not having our head cut it's Nebraska, come on, man,
But that's what's gonna happen. Nebraska is terrible, Like this

(25:39):
should be brought bottom for Nebraska, which.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Is worse being the team that your coach serves a
suspension in and a chosen kind of wheel of fate
or your name the homecoming opponent.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Oh ah, oh wow, well you know the thing is homecoming?
Ooh no, I think this is it? Like yeah, like
this is everybody coming. Oh man without our head coach.
Oh wow, that's a tough one, Mike. Uh No, you
know what I'm gonna have to say this. I think
there's more. I think there's more scheduling and situations that

(26:16):
go into scheduling when homecoming is going to be, when
the weekend works best, when it can be, and yet
there's more pieces have to fall into place. This was Michigan,
knowing the schedule, going yeah, we're okay with a two
game band went.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Ah, boy, what's the best two games? Yeah? Three and four? Yeah,
three and four.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, that's what we want right there, that's we want,
we want. We're okay not having him against Central Michigan
and Nebraska. But you know, the thing is, this is
why I laugh about this, because I'm so glad this
is over. I'm just embarrassed for all of college football.
Not that this wasn't a big story, because it was not.

(26:54):
That it wasn't something that was shocking and shouldn't have happened.
I say this living in a Michigan house, knowing full
well that I go to sleep next to a Michigan
grad and now I'm gonna sleep with one eye open tonight, right,
I knowing full well that I toured the Michigan campus,
you know, three weeks ago. Okay, I say all this
knowing this, But I mean, the thing is is it
was a big deal and something should have been done,

(27:14):
but instead the NCAAA, how the blank do you.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Drag this thing out for three years?

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Man? Three and you get you get a suspension for
horriball and another suspension for Harball, and a suspension for Sharon.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Moore and now another suspension.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
You're suspending the coaches for a total before seasons like
somebody's gonna go to college. Go yeah, all four of
my years the coach suspended the very beginning of this season.
It happened all the time, like it's embarrassing, man, Like
oh now, and now the NCAA says, basically, the reason
is they didn't want to penalize people who are at
Michigan now that had nothing to do with the sign
stealing scandal, because basically everybody's gone. The only one left

(27:52):
is more so he's getting the suspension. And I wanted
to say, really, three years is what you needed. You
needed three years. I get that you needed month, I
get that you needed, but you needed three years for this.
I mean, come on, man, this is this is you.
You're not the you're not the police department, and you're
going after some sort of long game where people are
going undercover. Like in the movies when when somebody screws

(28:14):
something up and the grizzled cop comes in and says,
you ruined eighteen months of undercover work. I think that
was a point break. You were in eighteen months of
undercover work because you bought it to come in like
a cowboy here and go blasting guns.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
I was in.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
It took me so long to get in with this gang,
Like this is not what that is.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
Man.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
If you couldn't get the stuff from Michigan, you couldn't
get Connor Stallion's cell phone because he says he threw
it in the lake and that's where all the information was.
If you couldn't find it, you couldn't find it three years.
It's like what does it even matter at this point,
Like like I'm just I'm just glad that it's over,
and I'm glad that it's dune. It's embarrassing for the
NCAA to cit here and say, yeah, it took us
three bleeping years to figure this whole thing out, Like

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it was just embarrassing all around.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Well, but you took three years, a lot of committee ours,
a lot of investigation to do what like is there
was there really anything substantive out of this. No, there
was there seemed to be.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
And I'll say this for overall for the evidence, right
if I could sum it up, because I want to
do that, is that it's one of those cases where
when you see someone lose a case, a very highly
publicized case, and it felt like, oh, they should have won.
When the lawyer says, you know, we know a crime

(29:34):
was committed, we just didn't have enough to prove it, right,
which is kind of an excuse, but still you get that, like,
we know a crime was committed, we just didn't have
enough to prove it. And there's a lot of you know,
armchair lawyers and people that are following big court cases
that go on go, yeah, I can understand that, right,
pretty sure a crime was committed, but we didn't have
enough to prove it. That's kind of where I feel
the NCAA was, where they knew what Michigan did was wrong,

(29:57):
they just didn't have enough evidence to prove it, and
they dragged it out. I don't know what they're hoping for,
hoping for that at some point a long lost witness.
Now now I'm really getting into plotlines and movies would
show up and go, oh, this is so and so
she was there the night of the seventeen ten years
ago and she remembers everything.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Why didn't you come forward before? Now, well, I didn't know.
I was out of the country. I had no idea.
I came back in.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
My sister told me like like, the nca waited for
a day that wasn't coming. And it was just embarrassing
that they could have done something earlier. They could have
been strong. They could have sent a message. They could
have made Michigan ineligible from winning the Big Ten. They
could have made Michigan ineligible from going to the playoff.
They could have done a lot of things that this
is what we're doing. Sign stealing, scandal, boom, got it done,
We're over. But instead, no, let's drag it out. And

(30:38):
now it's got point where only the staunchest of Michigan
haters really care, and the NCAA just proves that, Hey,
give us enough time and we'll embarrass ourselves.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Don't worry about it. We will do it one hundred
percent time out.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
If I out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
But guy who's been called the Connor Stallions of Fox
Sports radio because one day I saw him break his
cell phone to throw it into a lake. It's Steve
Tsag even I.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
Have not been to that Mini games in the NFL.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
We have two exhibitions tonight and of the first quarter
at Seattle, Seahawks seven nothing over the chief Sam Darnold
four for four passing thirty four yards. Zach Sharbone a
fifteen yard touchdown run on the chief side isaat Pacheco
with a twenty two yard reception. Earlier Tennessee was a
winner at Atlanta twenty three to twenty. Titans quarterback cam
Ward went two of seven, passing forty two yards, most

(31:29):
of that on the first pass he played.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Three series.

Speaker 7 (31:31):
Titans led six to three late in the first half
to Major League Baseball. The Padres are leading at Dodger
Stadium one nothing in the bottom of the second on
a solo homer off Clayton Kersha. The Padres a first
in the NL West a game over LA. The Dodgers
have lost four in a row, while the Padres have
won five straight.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
In progress. It is the Rockies in the lead for
to three.

Speaker 7 (31:54):
Over the Diamondbacks. In the bottom of the seventh. Tiger's
up seven nothing at Minnesota bottom of the seventh, Yankees
holding on at the end of seven, four to three
now at Saint Louis Angels and A's tied one to
one bottom of the second, raise at Giants tied one
to one bottom of the second. All the other games
are finals, and that includes an Orioles seven nothing win

(32:15):
at Houston. Just one hit for the Stros tonight and today.
Houston closer Josh Hayter, with a strange shoulder was shut
down for about three weeks. Dodger third baseman Max Munsey
goes on the injured list with a strained oblique.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
Off the il.

Speaker 7 (32:29):
To pitch for Milwaukee tonight was Young All Star Jacob Mazerowski.
He got pulled in the second inning, and at one
point it was Red's eight to one over the Brewers
in the second. Milwaukee still won again their thirteenth straight victory,
ten to eight at Cincinnati. Christian Yelich four hits, five RBIs,
including two solo shots. Pittsburgh beat the Cubs today three

(32:51):
to two with a solo homer top of the ninth.
Philadelphia got Kyle Schwarber's forty third home run of the
season and a six to two victory at Washington, but
Phil's close. Joe On Duryan left after being hit in
the ankle by a line drive. He was carted off.
Seattle won at the Mets eleven to nine. The lost
to Ryan Helsley. Mets have dropped fourteen of sixteen. Cal

(33:11):
Rawley of the Mariners with his forty sixth homer, he
has one hundred RBIs here. In mid August, Toronto came
back with four runs in the bottom of the eighth
to edge Texas six to five. Boston with a run
in the bottom of the ninth beat Miami two to one,
Atlanta two nothing winners at Cleveland, the Royals had beaten
the White Sox three to one, and Yes, Michigan will

(33:32):
appeal its latest NCAA punishment, including the fines. Old miss
gave defensive coordinator Pete Golding a three year extension. WNBA
wins for Golden States, Washington and LA which won ninety
seven ninety six at Dallas. Kelsey Plum twenty eight points
back to you.

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Speaker 3 (34:54):
Well.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
When you're the biggest home run hitter in Major League Baseball,
check you hit another big home run to help your team.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
Win a game.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Check you do it against the Mets. Checker Rooney, you
get to be the play of the day.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
Here's the pitch to col swung on that is lifted
left field. Hit well, Mimo back He's looking up and
it is gone second cow Roy number forty six for
col Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
There it is Mariner's TV on the call. Yay, Mets,
get out to lead, doesn't matter. Marens fought back. Let's
get out tween against back. Met's get out to a lead.
Oh and then the Mariners decided, yeah, we're done. We're
gonna score six on this inning against what are your relievers?

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Mariners winning eleven nine and cal Raley is your play
of the day again.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
I hate Abner double day. I wish he never existed. Wow,
but then you wouldn't have the Mets to love or hate.
That's okay, that's all right.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Then I'd watch I just I wouldn't be watching Padres
Dodgers now either. I'd be wide. I'd be all in
on on the Chiefs and the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
So you wouldn't even with Sam dartled out there for
a minute. And what they Sam was perfect tonight. He
was four four throwing the football. Sam had a good night.
They look great.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
So a big story out of the NFL today. There
was a poll conducted. They tried to ask over eighteen
hundred players, basically everybody who played in the calendar year
nineteen eighty eight for the NFL. Right, And they wanted

(36:33):
to see This is an independent survey by ESPN and
its health policy research, and they wanted to find out
what the life outcomes of NFL players were who are
around the typical retirement age. That's everybody who played in
nineteen eighty eight. Right, So they tried to contact all
fifteen hundred players who played in the NFL that year.
They got five hundred and forty six players participated. Okay, okay,

(36:53):
They wanted again. They wanted to get players who are
around the typical retirement agent asked them questions about their life,
their choice, would they do it again? Overwhelmingly, the vet
said they would absolutely do it again, despite the fact
they're living with chronic pain or disability. They're more depressed,
more anxious, they're more likely to report having some sort

(37:15):
of cognitive decline than the average American man. They said
they would do it again despite the physical tolls. And
at first you would say, oh my goodness, how do
you say that, knowing you know, knowing what your life
is now, And I would say, well, hang on, a second.
I completely understand this because it's really hard for someone

(37:36):
when you're sitting there at you're retirement eight you know,
you're sixty two, and you're thinking about your life and
you're taking, hey, would you do your entire life differently
if you could? And then a lot of these guys
are thinking back, going, let's see, I was a superstar
and pop warner. I was a superstar in high school.
I got to date anybody I wanted to. I was
a superstar in college again, got today anybody wanted to,
got money. I had a great life. I got to

(37:58):
the NFL, I got to play in the NA again.
I got to do anything I wanted. I was treated
like a king. That was my life. I chose that.
Of course I would do that again. Right, of course
I would. Because people it's hard for people to say
I regret my entire life, because what you're saying is
would you never play football? And of course not like
it's sixty two people. Yeah, I mean yes, it's a

(38:19):
front loaded deal, right, NFL players, and sometimes when you
and you play something and do something very physical for
a living, it's a front loaded deal. And NFL players
enjoy an incredible quality of life for the most part
of their teenagers, twenties, thirties. Then things start to get
you start to deteriorate a bit, obviously, But you know,
players know this going in. I'm trading this for to

(38:40):
set up my family for life with money and whatever
else goes along with it.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
I completely get people who are sixty two not saying
I regret my whole life. So yeah, I get that
why they would all want to.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
Do it again. I think that goes for a lot
of professions. I mean there's parts of it and choices
and decisions that are made right, you make your decision
tree opportunity costs of what you might have done for
a lot of players, you know, I think some of
the question then becomes, well, what would you have done
if you hadn't been a football player? And I'm going

(39:13):
to guess it would have been a lot of awkward
pauses if you were actually having a face to face
conversation or a lot of times staring at a blank
text box on the online survey. If that's how they
were doing it, and you could do that across all professions.
I mean, in this case it's football. I mean all
of you out there ask yourself what you do on
a given day daily basis, you don't love it one

(39:35):
hundred percent at the time. No matter what you do,
there's always stuff that's going to eat at you. In
this case, you know, reading some of the you know,
free ran range responses about different parts of the physicality
of it all just kind of, you know, get you
a little bit sad. You know. They had the question
about did you discourage your kids from playing football? And

(39:56):
one of the first answers was, quote, didn't want them
ending up like me. Got that going on, And certainly
that's a whole other part of in permutation of this.
But to say, hey, would you give up your whole life? Man?
That's uh. Who's gonna be brutally honest with themselves and say, yeah,
uh that that that's something I shouldn't have signed on

(40:17):
for nobody. No, they're all gonna say they wanted to
do it. That look.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Some regret, sure, absolutely, But you're saying do you regret
your entire life?

Speaker 3 (40:25):
No, people aren't gonna say that again.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
They know I'm trading a front loaded deal and and
it's worth it for me because of what I was
able to do and do for my family.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Exit how about a Fresco exit swallowing down.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Big update from Padres Dodgers coming up next, as well
as we get back into the biggest football story of
the day.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Keep it here, Jason and Mike Fox. I think you've
got an edited one. Smith. You want more, Jan says,
Jan says Michael. I'm I'm not. I'm not gonna tell
them that. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not gonna tell them.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Jason punch, you're junk.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Oh another one? But well that wasp I just did.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
Okay, Oh do you see if you're underwears on right?

Speaker 3 (41:05):
Yeah? Say did you feel the pouch that time?

Speaker 5 (41:08):
No?

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Underwears on right?

Speaker 1 (41:09):
I do? I do the instead of the cup check,
where you would have to you know, in literally the
umpire would go by and go cup check and you'd
have to knock on your cup to show, and you'd
have to he'd have to know.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
That's how he would check it out. No, it's not.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
I think that's actually a really good way, because you know,
you don't want to say, hey, here's your cup.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
You can't, you know, you want to.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
And your top just a souvenir cup cup.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
So they were just they you knock it like that's
what I'm doing now. I'm just not okay, yep, nope,
got the got the pouch.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
I'm underwear is on the right ways, a little bit
on the right way. But you know what's funny is
they the fourteen of sixteen losses. It really takes on
a whole different gravity and weight. When Steve de Sager says.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
It, your cup's just a big old yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
When the Sager says, and the Mets they have lost
fourteen of sixteen, my goodness. Still they lead the Wild
Card by a half game over the Reds, who blew
an eight to one lead tonight against the Red.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
Hot thirteenth in a row, right there. But that is
the lead. What what's the lead?

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Nothing to do with playoffs because you're not going there.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Fourteen out of sixteen lead.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
The lead, I will say, is just watching Manny Machado
try to make a play at third base. That was
incredibly embarrassing. UH the Dodgers trying to bunt a runner
over to third base in the UH in the first inning.
In the bottom of the third inning, rather, Rojas pops
it up and Machado comes in and dives for the ball,

(42:40):
and it's not like he's got a really fully extend
and dive. But he dives and the ball hits off
the heel of his glove. It goes all the way
to the dugout instead of a sacrifice bunt. The Dodgers
load the bases, they get two runs in and on
Otani ground out. Uh so now it is a two
to one Dodger lead over the Padres. As the Padres

(43:00):
bat in the top of the fourth inning. Boy, I
mean really, he say, oh yeah, he dove it, But
that really should have been a play that Manny Machado
should have made. Like I know he do for it,
but he should have made that play.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
That was the try harder play. Yeah, I'll show you
I don't I dog it out here. Look at this. Yeah,
how about one you don't get it done?

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Johnny Hustle, Johnny Hussey Hussele tried and then Johnny Hustle.
I didn't try it all when I was with the Dodgers. Now,
see that's why I don't hustle, because look look at
what happened. I could I should have just caught it
on a bounce and thrown at the first base for
the out right. Don't be Billy Bean, don't be a hero.
Pick up the ball and throw it the first base.
Now I'm not gonna die. I'm not gonna try anymore.

(43:39):
You see what happens when I try. Not gonna do it?
Uh So Dodge again. Dodge lead the Padres two to one,
top of the fourth inning. Now look a little bit
more on. The biggest story of the day in football
has been the twenty million dollars fine levy to Michigan
for their part in the Connor Stallions sign stealing scandal.
Sean Moore, head coach, is going to get two games

(44:00):
mentioned this year for Games three in games four, which is.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Just really weird.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
They asked for those games because yeah, we'd rather not
have our coach again Central Michigan and Nebraska's what you
think of you, Nebraska. He's also getting suspended for the
opening game of twenty twenty six, which right now could
be played in Germany against Western Michigan. So this we're
at least we're done with the jurisprudence of this. We're
gonna get two more days for Sharon Moore, two more

(44:26):
games for him, and then one.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
More next year.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Now, twenty million dollar fine, right it seems laughable. It
sounds like a big number, but it really isn't, especially
when you think of the big numbers that athletics have,
that that athletic programs have and money they generate in revenue.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
But still twenty million dollars sounds like a lot.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
But in reality, as soon as this fine hit most
most of us saw it and said, Michigan, how much
money come with twenty million dollars? It's got to be
one hundred million dollars if you really want to hurt
Michigan and that it's the one hundred percent, you will
be one thousand percent on that. If you ever see
the athletics campus at the University of Michigan. And I

(45:10):
was just there a month ago, right, I told you
last night, like we toured Michigan. We wanted to see Michigan.
And the athletics campus is the size just the athletics.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Part, right, I'm not I don't mean football, I mean the.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Athletics campus is the size of a large university campus.
Just that, just the just the sports area is you
you drive to the athletics campus and the first thing
you see is the big House and there's a huge
sign with the national championship.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Uh banner up over it.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
It's like, uh, it's like remember when when when George
Bush dropped that big mission accomplished sign.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
It was that big in the background.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
You couldn't help but look at it, like that's what
this is, Like this big national championship sign on the
front of the Big House. And then you drive around
and you see there's that. They have something for every sport.
They have a big field hockey stadium.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
Not where Hey, this is the stadium.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
Where it's field hockey and it's tennis and it's cross
country and like the all Purpose stadium where they do
all the sports. No, it's a it's a big thirteen
thousand seat field hockey stadium that went through renovations a
few years ago.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
They only play field hockey here.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
It's a big stack that most other schools would say,
we could play football here, right, Like I remember going
to visit cal Davis, you know, a few months ago,
going Cal Davis could put their football program here on
the field hockey field for University of Michigan.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
You realize just then.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
I remember walking away going, you know, and we talked
about it and I said, man, whatever, however much money you
think Michigan makes for their school or for their athletics.
You got to times that by fifty because to have
this this it was the most impressive athletics area of
a school that I've ever got outside of Georgetown my

(46:52):
entire life. No, I'm never going there. It's always not
allowed to go within three blocks of Georgetown.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
I heard she's getting a free ride.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Well, well, that's the only way she could go because
I'm not writing a check from here for Georgetown.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
There's certain things that are not having. That's just silly.
But do I stunt her growth?

Speaker 1 (47:08):
Because she can go if she if she gets she
gets a scholarship, she can go to Georgetown.

Speaker 3 (47:13):
That's fine. I'm not I'm not good school. No, it's not.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
It's a horrible school. It's We're school in the world. No,
you should see. I have a list of people that
have gone there that couldn't stand going there.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
It's better than Syracuse, I really.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
No, No, Syracuse is not. Come on, come on, you
go to Syracuse. You're in on the ground floor the
next great football program in the Northeast. I mean, we
haven't gone to the NCAA Tournament in basketball in five years,
but still, yeah, we got it going on now in
football lacrosse dynasty. You can go and stay inside for
seven months in a row. I mean what once, Yeah,

(47:47):
chess team is great, man, We're great chess team. Yeah yeah,
goodcause win Chess team wins. Whether we're black or white,
doesn't matter, doesn't matter what solid race that's the board,
black or white, black or white. We went on both sides.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Yeah, rhetor brings. You took it down to a weird
space right there. I mean, what do you do?

Speaker 1 (48:06):
We want to it doesn't matter. You make us whoever.
But I really I've not the athletics. I mean, look,
Michigan's a great campus. I see lots of Stanford's campus
was amazing. There's lots, there's lots of amazing campuses. But
the sports, specifically the sports, the athletics area, baseball stadium,
at basketball, it was it's so unbelievably impressive. And it's

(48:27):
like it's like it's like almost like a city, like
I've I've not seen anything to compare to that. And
in my entire life, I I said, we walked away
going man, Michigan.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
Just print money.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
It was just really funny operating budget. According to all
records was nearly two hundred million dollars a year ago,
and that seems good. I've seen a couple of other
estimates that are a little bit higher. So trying to
figure out where that sweet spot is. But let's just
say it's two hundred million. You're gonna lose ten percent.
That doesn't include the money that's flowing in. Uh now, right,
because you're looking at the next year and whatever is

(49:02):
is flowing, you've got some of the reductions like that.
It's just a curiosity. Uh to me. You come to
these decisions and you have a preponderance of evidence, right,
the more stuff of hey, here's all these deleted text messages,
but you have no ability to compel them because saying,

(49:23):
hey I had to delete them for storage.

Speaker 8 (49:25):
No, no, no, they're deleted off your phone. Yeah right, they're
not gone. We we we we all know this. They
they exist. The other dude throwing his in the water,
same thing.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Yes, you may not be able to recover from that
physical device, however, uh so, Yeah, it's it's just kind
of a clown show. Here's a job finding.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Because that that that's that's something that I really am
surprised about, right, Like part of this the situation was
the the NCAA. They find Michigan the money and they
suspense your on more. They couldn't get enough evidence obviously
to prove the case. Meanwhile, we all saw all the evidence,
we all know what happened, but they didn't have enough.
And Connor Stallion says, yeah, I threw my phone in
the lake. That's where everything was. They have anything backed

(50:08):
up on a hard drive, anything, It was just on
my phone.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
It's next to Tom Brady's phone.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
Yeah right, they tell I learned from Tom. Hey, Tom,
did it worked out for him?

Speaker 5 (50:16):
Like?

Speaker 1 (50:17):
I wonder if it was just like in the movies
where they actually have the flip phone and they break
it in half and throw it away. But like really,
I mean I see in the movies all the time.
It doesn't matter. They're still label to get a dump
off the phone, right, yeah, like they do that.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
You don't need I mean, what else did they?

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Like? I say, hey, let's get a let's run a
trace on that phone. It's get a dump on everything
on the Yeah, we have it right here. Look, here's
all the pictures, here's all the text messages.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
We got it all. How do we not have that?
But that's the thing. You have subpoena power in these
crime dramas you're watching. The NCAA doesn't have that, so
if you are a quote cooperating person.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
But they don't in the TV shows either, they find
a way around it. The cop asked somebody to do
them a favor, they say, okay, that's great, and they
do them a favor and it worked out.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
I see. It happens all the time. But that's if
you don't want to go through the proper channels and
you're trying to expedite things. Otherwise, there's paperwork. Man, it
gets bogged down unless it's Priority A one. Yeah, there
is not a lot of paperwork in all the cop movies.
It would be very boring if you if you slowed
it down with paperwork. Right, there's always the only time
the reports get referenced is when everybody's going out for

(51:17):
the celebratory end of episode beer and the one guy says,
I got to stay behind and catch up on my fives.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, ire I drew the short straw.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
Hey have a beer for me.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
Guys, All right, that's great, but I mean, really, I
mean he threw he threw his phone in the lake.
There's no other way. Everything else was taking there was
no other way to get it, no other way to
get any kind of evidence, Like like this was such
a a fly by night uh investigation into something that Look,
they were calling each other the KGB, and there were
so many people that were involved. And you're telling me

(51:51):
that Connor Stallion's a guy who was playing at being
you know, the rogue KGB operator taking over Michigan. This
guy out smart the NCAA, all the lawyers, everything else.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Because I threw my phone away.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
Really like that, I feel, I just feel the nca
is even more in nept after thinking about that that
this guy, this Connor Stallion's right, who was wearing a
wig and a mask and getting video and this this
whole thing that didn't really have anything official with the
with the Michigan athletic department the football team, but it
was there and it was involved so many people. They

(52:25):
all found a way to outsmart the NCAAA.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Like really, like wow, I really the.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Nca must have the worst investigators in the world if
that's the case, or they really didn't care.

Speaker 3 (52:35):
They half asked it all the way through. Just give
it some time, give it some lip service and we'll
move on, you know, for more. He gets a couple
couple more games. Everybody shrugs, because you'll have celebrity play
callers in those first and second halves auction. Look, they
might auction those off and they can raise the twenty
million to thirty million dollars to come back that way.

(52:58):
No bowl band, no nothings. You know, everybody else around
the Big ten's looking going, Wow, now's the time to
do a bunch of infractions. What do you all got?
All we're gonna lose is some money? Exit up about
a Fresca exit Swallen Dome.

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