Best of The Week: Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

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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 (00:29):
You didn't need to watch a game.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
You could have just listened to the last eight seconds
and that tells you everything you need to know about
what happened tonight between Belgium and the United States, the
Balligan controversy, President Trump getting involved, should he play?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Should he not? Should he be benched? Should he not?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, when you play a craptastic game all around, generally
nothing else matters other than that, because hey, it's over
now in Seattle, Jium has defeated the United States. For one,
we are out of the World Cup and this game
was just a disaster from the jump. We have four

(01:09):
hour post mortem on Team USA and the World Cup
and the battlet controversy. But I'll tell you what, Mike Harmen.
Sometimes it's as simple as saying, boy, this was not
the same team we saw the first four games of
this tournament. And sometimes you just pick a bad time
to have a bad game. And this was across the board,

(01:30):
the worst game you could see from the United States,
and no questions, no ups downs. What if that they
picked a bad time to have a bad game and
now we're going home.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
What I was telling you, they don't have to be
the heavyweon and it's the old beautiful girls line. They
don't have to look like they did in high school. Right,
the big, bad, badass defensive lineman doesn't need to wreck
people like he used to. He just needs to wreck you.
And so the Belgium team that didn't look like the
Belgium teams of years past, except for back in what

(02:03):
was it March? I believe it was the the five
to two defeat, no starting goalie, all of those things.
They came out and they just hammered them from pillar
to post. I mean it was just a one sided effort.
You saw the the opportunities that every once in a
while you did break into the attacking third, only to

(02:24):
kick the ball out of bound yourself only to mishandle
a touch, only to mishandle a touch out of bounds.
Just and then that third goal. I felt like I
was living in my past club soccer matches watching that,
going Okay, this is where the goalie goes to handle
the ball, doesn't always do it Smith, I am beyond
beyond ticked and what I just witnessed. See.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
The thing is, I don't think Belgium did anything special
tonight except the United States is not ready for this moment.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well that's it. You didn't have to be special.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
They changed their lineup, their two biggest goal scorers are
coming off the bench now right, and they still put
three goals on us right before they subbed into the game.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
And Lucak, who came in in the seventy fife four
Nett came in and he did his magic again.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
We looked terrified from the beginning of the game. We
looked like how I remember the United States national team
looking in World Cups and in big games defensively the
last fifteen years, where it looks like we didn't We
had no communication, We didn't play with any confidence. On
the back line, nobody knew where they were supposed to

(03:30):
be Oh my god, tim Reim, Tim Reim, his last
game should be his last games the US men's national
team should have been his last game in the middle
of the first half. But like I said it going in,
what was my one question about about the men's national team?
How good is our back line? Is our back line
good enough? Everything else seemed good tonight, Everything was craptastic,

(03:50):
but the back.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Line was awful.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
You didn't see any communication, you didn't know where they
were supposed to be on set pieces. They were giving
up chances and it could have been three to nothing
in the first fifteen minutes and he's made a couple
of sayings before he says I'm gonna give one back
in the second half. But really, like they looked like
the team USA from the last fifteen years where they
get to a certain point of the tournament where we
play against another team and they're just at another class

(04:13):
than we are. Except we did this to ourselves tonight,
not being ready for the game, playing flat, playing our
worst game more so than anything the other team did. Right, Like,
you want to go back and say, hey, here's a button,
like when we lost to Belgium. You know you go
back fifteen years. We lost that, you know, in twenty
eleven to Belgium twenty fourteen, Like that Belgium team was
really good, right, and they were and you could see

(04:35):
fundamentally we were not in the right places, and I
wonder what was going on tonight. It was it was just, hey,
we're not doing anything special. We're just gonna go out
play our game. We're gonna play younger players, We're gonna
pressure you the out of the gate. And the United
States has not played a game where they don't come
out of the gate controlling the first fifteen minutes. And
when you get punched in the mouth in the first

(04:56):
five minutes of the game, whoa, how do you react?
And it took the United States the entire hire half
to really respond to that, and they never really did.
So I watched this game and I go, this looks
like I'm watching a game from twenty eighteen or twenty
fourteen or twelve. I mean, this is this is how
far back I go, or I think this is what
they looked like tonight. We're defensively, they just had no

(05:16):
idea what was going on.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Well, that's the biggest part, right, you mentioned the two
guys that didn't start. I mean de Bruna didn't start,
Doku didn't start, Lukaku. We knew we'd see later on
so you'd get the big bull rush late. But all
of it just right off the jump, looking uncomfortable. And
we talked about it a lot between the back line
and me raising my hand sheepishly, just going this looks great.

(05:39):
I like the aggressiveness. Can we keep this? And then
you get the step up in class. Right Belgium? What
were they ranked ninth or thereabouts in the FIFA rankings
as we came into this game tonight. So it's like,
all right, we took care of business in these other matches,
but they were all teams that, let's face it, on
the surface, you say, well we should handle well, you

(06:00):
had the wild card for a couple of days. Are
we gonna have our striker? Are we not? And then
while we get the word yesterday, I was on air
as it broke and just beyond U disbelief of okay,
well here we go. Uh And that did nothing for us,
no attack, no semblance of cohesion up front and the

(06:21):
back line. I mean that that's droshes. I'm getting texts
so all over the place going. You like, defense, where
the hell is it? Why didn't it show up tonight? Like,
oh no, everywhere else the legion of boom built, come
on to the thing.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's like you could say that, but you could say, look,
Sergenio dest was terrible, right, and I said at halftime,
you have to do something. In midfield, Raina came in
and things were a little bit better. Everywhere.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I looked politically scared.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
He looked like he was just running up in dead
We'll get we'll get into Polisic because there's a bigger
conversation that we had about him. But he looked like
he was just running up and down the field. In
the first half.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
He looked like Dave Rodgers. He was supposed to be
Captain America.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
I mean, you see why the big deal over Balligan
because anytime the United States got him the ball, he
was able to almost make something happen entirely by himself.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
That's why he's just so good.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
But everything else across the board. Okay, so we were
out coached in the beginning because we weren't ready for
the pressure that Belgium was going to put on us. Defensively,
there was no communication. I don't know what happened on
the first couple of goals. We fell asleep after we
scored our first goal and allowed them to come in
a minute later and basically run the same kind of
play they scored the first goal on. Right, Like you,

(07:27):
there is no one person I can say, boy, they
were great today, Well, they were absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Hey, Tilman had a really good game.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Right, Tilman had a really good game, and they're doubling
him at the end because he was the only one
that was having a really good game. I will say
Tillman had a really good game. Not just a set piece,
but he had a really good game. And you can
tell at the end. Okay, he and Baligan were the
two guys they knew they had to stop. But overall,
like this was just a complete and total Sometimes teams
just come up flat. And we can get into just

(07:55):
the effect of the of the reinsertion of Balligan in
and the suspension of the Red Hard and President Trump's involvement,
Like we can get into all of that, but bottom line,
like they came into this game and it was just
they were flat from the beginning. They didn't know how
to respond. They they had no plan offensively. They couldn't
They couldn't control the middle of the field, and that
was a really big deal. Was like, okay, it's it's

(08:16):
gonna be long ball haven. They're just try trying to
get up to Baligan in the second half because they
can't control the middle of the field at all. Like,
I can't tell you there was any point where I
really felt confident, even after we scored to tie the
game at one a piece and said, okay, well there
was a we expended a lot to come back there.
We still aren't playing well. We get a break off
of a set piece because Baaligan gets pushed, okay, And

(08:38):
then the rest of the game it was just, yeah,
we can't do anything, and Belgium was just content to
sit back and wait for us to throw up on ourselves.
And that's exactly what we did. Every They just waited
for us to make mistakes, and we made mistakes and
they pounced on it right the second goal, the third goal.
They just waited for us to not be able to

(08:58):
have enough focus or desire or or or enough guts
to make a play to make the right play, to
lose focus, and they were there right away for everything
they needed to do in that game like that. That's
what was really that was really sucks for me, is
that if we had lost this game three two or
four to three or two to one, it was a
great game back and forth. We had some chances and

(09:19):
you know, defensively it played well. Okay, but this is
really tough to swallow because I kind of feel, like
Jesse Marsh, we're the better team, I kind of, but
I feel like with there that that was not nearly
the game. We should have given them, right, like Jesse
Marsh to win. You know, maybe maybe Belgium's good enough
to win right there. Higher ranked team than us, they're
a FIFA top ten in the world, but we're not
far behind. We're fifteen or sixteen like that. That look

(09:41):
at today tough part. No, that's a tough part is
that I know we're better than this and we didn't
give them that kind of game.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
That that's the most upsetting part. Yeah, from from the
start to finish, Like there are just so many times
you're you're scratching your head, you're shouting at your television,
maybe you're throwing things at your television. Maybe you're like
that guy from Mexico that made the rounds on social
media where you shot your TV like Elvis after the
match ended. I don't know, but just a dismal effort

(10:07):
all around and everything you say, just punctuate it, you know.
Unlike the Canadian squad, the United States did have a
lead in possession and accurate passes. And we were really
accurate in our shooting. I mean we had two shots
on Gold scored once. So that's good.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, no, that's true. If we could have got ten shots,
we would have won five four. Yeah, I mean tell
you just light it up.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
But all of it just from the jump, right, you
got the ruling nobody expected, but seems like a nice bonus.
You're in front of what has been termed the loudest,
most aggressive, best place to play in front of fans,
right the Seattle. We talk about the beast quake, We
talked about it when they played there before. Right, the

(10:51):
reaction that you get off juice and there was nothing
to get the crowd fully into the game right off
the jump after fifteen minut that you got more folks
in a prayer pose than screaming and yelling towards the
towards the pitch because you're just getting man handled and
not being able to connect, not being able to the

(11:12):
back line we knew was potentially a major issue. And
then you saw the just just combobulated and lack of
cohesion at all back there in terms of clearing away.
The amount of space that Belgium was able to operate
in just throughout the game just leaves you bewildered because

(11:33):
you've built up all this good will and that's the
outside stuff, and that's great. And then we have the
ruling and then you literally had folks saying that we
hope we lose. Okay, go do with that what you will,
but it's it's the idea. Then you come out flat,
You come out flat foot. How do you not come
out running like you're gonna run through a brick wall?
You know that.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
That's the thing is that, Like you know, every you're
gonna hear a lot of people say that and say, boy,
how do you come out flat? How do you come
out flat? But that's something in sports. You could say
eighty years ago, you could say sixty years ago, you
could say forty years ago, you could say twenty years ago,
you could say five years ago, you could say today.
Sometimes teams just come out flat, and there's no reason

(12:15):
for it.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
They just do.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
And I it's it's I know people are gonna look
at this and say, oh my god, But how many
times have you seen teams come out flat in the
big playoff game in the NFL, right, in a big
playoff game.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
In the NBA?

Speaker 1 (12:26):
How many times you see a team, Hey, how are
we out? How are we getting worked like this?

Speaker 4 (12:29):
Right?

Speaker 1 (12:29):
How is this happening to us? How are how are
we out so flat in this right? NHL two, especially
when you can say, boy, how are we getting getting
men handled up and down the ice?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Here?

Speaker 1 (12:38):
We're a better team. It happens sometimes. I wish there
was a way to go.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
We don't know what said, Hey, we got ninety plus minutes,
let's go ahead and at this and come at it
slowly in a place where we've never been, where the
nation has never been this excited about what we're about
to do. But hey, let's ease into this. I mean,
I wish there was a way to figure it out.
I wish there.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
But but teams have come out flat in big game
since the beginning of time. And it's it doesn't make sense,
and everybody questions why, and there's no answer for it.
It's just sometimes you just do. And again, you could
talk about the emotion coming off of yesterday and Baligan
coming back when they thought they didn't have him, and
we'll get into the effect that had coming up in
a few minutes, because you know, really that that's the

(13:20):
big story still is that. But this game here is like, okay,
they can't and and I thought, okay, well at least
they're you know, they get the goal by Tillman and
that's gonna get him back in it. But wow, man,
you fall asleep again and Tim Reim gets beat again
and all the good everything you had going on was
just out the window at that point. Like that's the
point when when they got that second goal a minute

(13:42):
later and Tim Reim just got got absolutely abused.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
On that goal. Uh I.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
That's that's where I said, oh man, this is this
is not gonna go. That's when Pochattino kicked the up
power and over Like when I saw that happen, I said,
oh man, that's because that that's just a that's just
number one. It's it's it's bad play. It's not learning
from the first play, because it was basically the same
play that you had first where hey, they were coming
on the left side and that was open, and you know,

(14:11):
again that moment just took so much wind out of
the sales and then freeze his mistake, which we'll get to,
but like, I mean, there's so many things to talk
about this, but just that they never were able to
get a sense of anything going, you know, because it's
not like they played really really well and they got
that first goal. It's okay, they had a bad a
good play, right, they had a good play that got
the first goal, and then a minute later it was

(14:32):
we were chasing again and that really was it? Like
that was that was a huge take the wind out
of your sales moment, man, that was literally what a
minute in a second? Yeah, I mean again, sometimes you
pick a bad time to have your worst game, when
your entire team plays bad, and this was the worst.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Time for that to happen.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Sometimes it's that simple, right, I know, Like you know,
there's a lot of minu shit to get to on it,
but sometimes it's just that simple.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah, bad, bad, bad, more bad. And then when you
did have a big chance and a wide open net,
as you and I are both watching replay as Balligan
kicks it straight into the goalie who's gone to the
short side, which I believe we have that audio if
we want to hear how that sounded.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
You know, one of my best friends is in Scotland
right now, is one of the best friends. We coached
soccer together for a long time. And he's on a
big delay obviously, so it was like two thirty in
the morning for the second half, and he says, all right,
I gotta go to bed. We're up at seven o'clock
to sight see. But I'm gonna I'm gonna get up
early and watching him, but I gotta go to sleep
and watch a second half. He goes, just you know,

(15:33):
send me, send me a text to sum it up
for me just before I get out. So I get
it and I said, okay, great. So I waited and
I sent him a text and said, don't watch this game.
Just watch the second half of any game we've played
in the last fifteen years in the World Cup. He'll
get exact he'll get exactly what we looked like in
the second half to night.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
That about sums it up nicely. Unfortunately, he also that
means he stayed up long enough to go to bed
with a stomach ache after watching the first thirty minutes.
Oh yeah, I mean it was. It was just absolutely
awful this week. I had my acid reflux going. I'm
looking for the Toms. All that good will, Jason, all
that excitement, I know, I know, punch me in the face.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
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Speaker 1 (16:22):
Greetings, welcome inside, Happy Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
The Jason Smith Show with.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
My bes friend Mike Harmon Wednesday, Buddy, Day's Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
All right, hey, you're a step closer. That's fantastic. Remember
you stayed home. You tried to forget Monday because of
the miserable, horrible showing of the men's national team. I
really thought all day today was Tuesday. There you go.
That's great.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
So you lost the day of your life depending on
I mean, you're either a day closer to the weekend
or a day closer to death, depending on which way
you're taking.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh well, what's wrong with you? Man? I could I
couldn't even be excited about oh or one day closer
to the weekend.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
I thought it was Tuesday all day today, No, one
day closer to world, come back.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
That's you one day closer to day. Yeah, and maybe
maybe that's what's going on with you. Maybe it's you.
Maybe it's all about you.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
I was listening to Pink Floyd earlier and they sang
that line to me. So they didn't lie to me
in song. But it is Wednesday. Hate when people do that.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Jason Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, the Mets the off, come on. No,
we're winning tonight. They're actually yeah, runs tonight. No, we're playing.
You don't know you're gonna win.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
I'm what's fair. Yesterday you thought you were on a
road to a victory. Now wants to kill you.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, we have, we have audio evidence. The Mets are
killing Keither named bit by Bitch. Yeah, no, they kill everybody.

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Speaker 3 (17:55):
And should be.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yeah, the Jets killed Carl. Yeah, Mets are killing Keither.
To have to keep you know, the Knicks can only
do so much.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
They're still lifting people. Look, Marishka Hargateae just got named
Emmy Host? Is she getting named Emmy Host without the Knicks?
Be honest?

Speaker 3 (18:16):
It over to whatever year twenty.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
One was so good as for you. None of the
other years were good enough, but you're twenty one. She
was so good. She gets No, the Knicks got her
that gig. The Knicks got that.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
But she also helped propel the Knicks. So yeah, symbiotic
thing she did. Plus she did the one woman play, right,
she took over when our buddy Daniel Radcliffe stepped out
of that one person play, she came in and killed it.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yeah no, but what I'm talking about of it again
with the whole Taylor Swift thing. Yeah no, it all
came together again again with the killing. But but you know,
it's very subtle. You don't have to call it out.
People are paying attention. They're she's not getting that gig
without the Knicks. The Knicks got her that gig. Is
she gonna do some song and dance. I'm sure she
used to. I'm sure she's gonna come in and do

(19:03):
Empire state of Mind with jay Z all the consequences
that yet, what are the consequences a broken wrist?

Speaker 2 (19:09):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Stop it is did you see the the the dreams
of the uh the charaoke with that this weekend? The
pictures making the rounds today. Oh, here's here's an X
ray of Jalen Brunson's left wrist.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Is there a dog in it?

Speaker 1 (19:25):
No?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
No, no?

Speaker 1 (19:26):
And it's him and he's doing the you know he
does for three points with an outline of the championship
ring on his finger.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
It's awesome.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
I don't know, I'm not a doctor, but uh that
X ray looks like it's really messed up. Yeah, I
know you're not a doctor, but we just won the title,
so it's okay.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
He's like, I don't care if his risk. We just
want it just needs to be available come March or April,
depending on their seating.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Now, today is a day with no Soccer's that weird,
I know. It's all like, you know, for people that
don't work during the middle of the day, like me,
and like like like like a lot of us apparently,
Uh yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
Like, what what are you do at noon?

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Wait a minute, there's no game on what you mean
by the reaction of all your people? Yes, around all
the people reacting because if you're referring to me, yes,
I'm sitting next to you now, so clearly I mean like, like,
listen to a goal, open your window in the middle
of the day, go wow, it's really loud.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
A lot of people not working, okay, or working from home.
But yes, but with.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
No soccery, today is a great day to talk about this,
because this is the best way I can get everybody
to understand. With the US men's national team losing to
Belgium and all the fire and brimstone of the past
forty eight hours, things keep getting worse for Christian Polisic.
They get worse for everything associated with USA soccer.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Notice how everybody that's been in or around the program
suddenly decided it was okay to unleash on him. Yeah,
they didn't say anything about his deficiencies or anything, and
now all of a sudden, he's the worst break. You know,
I heard from people around the program.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
He doesn't say hig to people, doesn't say hi to
the commentators at games. All this stuff, right, But here's
this is honestly, you've heard a lot and again every
four years you get people that want to come up
and say things about soccer. Okay, but let me just
help because this is we're about helping here on the show.
We don't just point out problems, but we can solve them.
The anger that everybody feels for the United States team losing.

(21:20):
There's one word I can tell you that's going to
help you with this.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
It may not be what you.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Want to hear, but it is true and it will
help you because I always say the truth is the
best thing. Whether you want to hear it or not,
the truth is always the best thing. Now I'm sure
I have I've have some years left in my life
hopefully to test that theory. But the truth is always
the best thing. The biggest word I can tell you
is acceptance. Okay, not the stage of grief, but certain

(21:50):
things you just have to accept after a period of time.
And the acceptance what I'm talking about is that we're
just not as good as everybody body else in the
world at soccer, and we're never going to be as
good as the rest of the world in soccer. Every
four years the questions come up, why aren't we as good?
Look at our population, why are we not? Why are

(22:12):
we should be better? We have the players, we have
the numbers. Yeah, we're just accept that we are not
ever going to be a world power in soccer. There's
been forty years where okay, we're gonna get a big
boon ninety four World Cup. Oh my goodness, he has
a big boon for men's soccer. We were terrible in

(22:33):
ninety eight. Hey, ninety two quarter finals soccer era. No,
didn't happen, Oh, Lennon Donovan's goal against Algeria. Golden generation
of US soccer didn't happen. Right, We've had many times
over the past forty years to fix what is wrong,
to get good at soccer.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
We just aren't.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
And people are mad because for us as a country,
we don't lose it things. We don't look when we
do stuff creative, whether it's sports or entertainment or we
don't lose. That's why we are the land of opportunities, right,
we are the land of manifest destiny. We don't lose
at things. We win things. We are the best at
every sport across the globe except for soccer.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Right.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
We are the best in entertainment. We are the best
in movies, anything creatively you do. The only thing I
can say is, well, you want to look at what
China is doing internet wise, computer wise. Okay, so China
has become as good as we are. But we're in
that conversation, right, we ran things for a long time.
We're at the top of that conference. That's the one
thing I can tell you that. Well, okay, we watched
them come up and now we were you know, the

(23:36):
the race for computers and the internet and everything else
going on. We are at the top. We don't lose,
and nobody likes to lose. We are not used to losing.
On the world stage and anything. Creatively, we win everything.
But here in soccer, it makes people go bat bananas crazy.
Why can't we win? Why can't we win? There's gotta

(23:57):
be some reason, and everybody throws out all these it's
gotta be some reason, some reason, some reason. Just accept
that we're not going to be a world power. We're
just not. We've had time, we've had opportunity. Doesn't mean
we can't win at some point, doesn't mean we can't
have a good run where hey, a couple of World
Cups in a row. We make it into the into
the quarterfinals, right, we win our group, but it doesn't

(24:18):
we can't do that. But We're never going to be
a world power. We just aren't. Sometimes you just have
to sit back and accept that whatever the reasons out there,
it's just not gonna happen, right, It's it's it's the
it's the people that finally accepted. Okay, Shaq is just
not gonna make his free throws, right, Like, Shaq's gotta
do this to make us. He's gotta do this. Hey,

(24:38):
he's not gonna make them. It's not gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Right.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
I knew Mitchell Robinson's not making free throws in the final.
I'm not sitting here after on some sort of burner
account going ah manf Mitch could just do this and
this and make one of them. He's not gonna make
his free throws. We're just not going to be a
world power. But it's sports, and this is what you
do is you keep throwing stuff out there. See what works,
see what sticks. Maybe someday we'll find the right We'll

(25:01):
find the right to a combination of coaches and talent
and do it right. You have you have teams that
have been tried in sports for years to win and
they can't. Ronald Reagan was born was a broadcaster for
the Iowa Cubs lived his entire life where President died
never saw the Cubs win the World Series, and he
lived he was one hundred and seventeen years old. Okay,

(25:22):
sometimes you're just not great. But finally the Cubs won.
Didn't mean they could never win, but they won, Right,
it was great. It's just never going to be that case,
no matter what kind of questions you want to ask,
no matter how you want to cut it up, just
understand we're never going to be a soccer power doesn't
mean we can't be good and win and do well
once in a while, but that's not who we are.

(25:44):
The Miami Marlins, as good a ear as they have,
as whatever years they put to, they know they're never
gonna be the New York Yankees or the La Dodgers. Right,
that's just not going to happen. So once you accept that, okay,
well I can look at it more positively and hope
that hey, the next time around, things are gonna be
differentright like hades down. Right, Hey, we keep singing the
same song over and over hoping the next time things
are gonna change. But overall it's just just forget about this.

(26:07):
How do we catch up to the rest of the world.
We're not We've had chances, we've had opportunities. It's just
one thing we're not good at it. And I get
that it's tough to swallow. There's one thing that every
four years the rest of the world laughs out of
that because we don't even get in the top eight,
top ten. Just what to say, Yes, we can't win
absolutely everything, and soccer something We're just not going to win.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
At economic power, all these other things you talk about
the global impact. Look, when it all comes down to it,
and you mentioned Hadestown in theaters for a week in
a couple of weeks from Yeah kicks big, I'm ready.
But it's the inverse of the old Toby Keith, who
would have been sixty five today, right, the old I'm

(26:48):
not as good as I once was, but I'm as
good once. We're just trying for that once. Right.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
You mentioned the Marlins very much a if things coalesce
and come together, maybe have that opportunity for the United States.
You take the blame pie and decide how much is infrastructure,
how much is coaching, how much is the economic barrier,
whatever you want to ascribe to that, whatever coefficient, whatever, percentage.
But where we're at now is I know, folks get

(27:14):
frustrated because you're told this is the time, right, this
was the group Holisic being the poster child for this
next run and always being tabbed as Captain America.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Well he wasn't. We had Altador for a brief period, right,
he was going to be our version of Lukaku who
comes in and runs through you and is a prolific
goal scorer. Well he couldn't stay on the pitch. And
now you come to this next era where you've got
a couple of players to build off of. But the
expectations this time, because it was on American soil, because

(27:49):
you had the thumb press or full hand pressed back
on the scale to allow Balagin to play in that
game against Belgium, that it was supposed to be the
time to push, and everybody bought in because from a
television perspective, well, it was in our windows, right, It
was on all the news shows. Because it was local,
it costs a lot less to send people around to

(28:11):
these games, which meant you got more coverage and more
pro American team circumstance and pomp pumping, you know, pageantry
to it all that. So when folks saw it go
so terribly wrong on a big stage Monday, that that's
where they got disenchanted and disenfranchised. So now you just

(28:33):
have to figure out what that normal is of how
to keep people involved. And even at the end of
the broadcast, it was, hey, don't forget soccer plays on
for another these four years in between. Whether you jump
on or not, that's a that's a reality. But for
everybody it's it's recognizing there needs to be more investment,

(28:54):
more consistency, all of those things if you want to compete.
But even then it's a Marlin situation.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah, doesn't mean to stop trying, doesn't mean we can't,
it doesn't. But to be the world power like and
that that's where you really get it. Oh, I kind
of get it now. You're you know, no one's ever
gonna be the Yankees of the Dodgers right there, They're
never gonna be the Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
And never up in back to back since what sixty whatever.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
I mean, it's it's just it's just just get that
that and that's a conversation that once we understand that
losing okay, you can accept it a little bit.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
There can be one thing. We're not better than the
rest of the world does.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
But this happens to be soccer, and it's public and
it's and it's embarrassing for us. And when the rest
of the world is laughing, we don't like it because
we ain't used to lose it.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
But that's how it goes. But this is where I
can use your nicks for good. Is that it took
fifty three years for you to win a title. There
have been eight straight years with a different winner in
the World Cup. There's been six decades where there's been
no repeat. That's the reality of it. So you're hoping
everything coalesces. You're healthy, you're strong and ready to go,

(29:57):
and maybe the football gods come against your opponents somewhere
along the way.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
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Speaker 1 (30:16):
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Speaker 3 (30:23):
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Speaker 1 (30:27):
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(30:53):
one game today, Yeah we did. I mean, it's you
gotta understand, Harry Kab I understand.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Now.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
It's not gonna be the you know, the the salad
days we've gotten used to of, Oh there's three games.
I can watch a game and I can have lunch
and I can watch a game, and I could have dinner,
and I could watch a game and go of ice cream. No,
now it's you get one game a day. If you're lucky,
and you're gonna like it. You matter, hope, it's a
good one.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
You're dear to.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Where we are we having to And this is why
the World Cup is great because it shows you, Hey,
we're gonna give you all this great soccer for a
long time, but we can't go forever. So instead of
going cold turkey, we're just gonna taper it all. Right, Hey,
three games a day. Oh it's a great gun. Now
now okay, now we'll take a day off, don't worry,
we'll come back.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
With one game. They're gonna give you one game, will
need two games. Then it's gonna be one game. Then
it's gonna be a couple of days off. Then it's
gonna be my I mean, it's how it is. That's
the opposite of the old Let's entice you with one
game for free and then make you realize how much
you love it you want to pay for it.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
M you know, that's like so many street drugs. Yeah,
but that's the thing is that you know where that's
never gonna happen streaming. No, a game for free, but
we're not giving you anything for free.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
No, no, no.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
We spend a million dollars on this one game, and
it's the Dolphins and the Jets.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
You are spending money to watch this game. We're not
giving it as away for free. Yeah, we might find
a way to entice you with a little bit of
extra incentive, but yeah, it's it's a new world order,
no question about it.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
So today's game France and Morocco. France wins it to
nothing and another big day for Mbope nearly two goals,
nearly tying Leonel Messi for most World Cup goals all time.
But he misses a penalty early in the game. The
stupid ass stutters step.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
I don't know if I'm going forward, if I'm going
to fall over or whatever, because it is not working
in this world. God.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
The thing is, I'll tell you is that you know
how much I hate that. I'll I always tell you
someone who stutters steps and does that does not have
confidence in addressing the ball and making a shot. Oh ball,
But but Bope, is you know it was his first miss?

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yes? There he was nineteen for nineteen General.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Hey, all right, general and Bope, Yes, Frostburg sent me
the general U Bope Dictator.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yeah, I don't know. He's had a weird week with
politicos man. I don't even know where to start with
all of that going back and forth.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
But we kick things off our big discussion right now
on the World Cup, and we'll be able with our
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Speaker 3 (33:21):
Buying should be well.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yes, he missed the penalty, but then finding the back
of the net, that was all France needed to move
into the semifinals. And that is our play of the day.
Demia crosses it in, knocked away by Mosralli, Odio heads
it back in to able to find him bofe to Trafic.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Twenty World Top goals.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Gives Translate the quarterfinal.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
Harry Kane.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
No, Harry Kane today, he did not play. T No,
it wasn't on television. He hit his score somewhere so
he didn't have some good reps. Harriy Kane did not
play today, Yes he did. He did not play, although
you know I will.

Speaker 4 (34:04):
You know.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
My favorite thing of today was the picture making the
rounds of when Harry Kane when he was a youth
player him and and it shows you the picture here's
Harry Kane who is a great youth player, and here's
this girl who was a great youth player when they
met Beckham when he was young and Beckham was the
obviously the guy in England and then it's like yeah,
and now you know these two are married and they

(34:26):
have kids, they've been together and.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
It's like that's a football life right there. I would
just keep finding out more and more examples of what
an insulated world is. I refer you back to a
young Lionel Messi bathing. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
I mean that's that would be.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
That's like, uh, you know if that winds up if
they wind up playing, right, like if you know, if
you if you if you wind up playing. I would
think that'd be like the end of for love of
the Game, when Costner has to get out the son
of the guy that was his teammate to complete the
per the games. Like, really, who would ever send a
kid up there? Yeah, go up there and wreck a
perfect game. Nah, I'm not gonna do that, but that's kind.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Of what remind me of.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Oh yeah, my dad says, I great, and he's the
final out of the perfect game.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Okay, it's awesome. Yeah, it all all ties together. It's
a very very strange world. I'd like to go explore
it and do a deep dive research project. I bathed you.
I brought you into this world. I could take you
out of it, just so you know I can do that.
I'm messy, Okay, I bathe.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
But the big conversation coming off today, right the first
of the of the quarterfinal games in France's booked a
spot in the in the semifinals. Boy, it's really hard
at this point in the tournament to see another team
beating France. I know that we talked about them being
the overwhelming favorite all the way through, and but yes,
there's a lot of soccer to happen. A lot of

(35:47):
things can happen. Not a lot's gonna happen. There's only
two more games for France, and of the likely teams
that are going to advance, they all have problems. Right England,
their offense looks pretty good. Defensively talked about how shaky
they look. Argentina, Hey, they need everything they could end
and and and and fortuitous officiating just to beat Egypt.

(36:09):
You know, the other day that was a good way
to say it. The Egyptian coach would have come a
little stronger. Is Spain can't score and you won't score
against them, but they can't score. They all have problems.
France has none, right France, France that you're seeing, this
is the most complete team. And there's a reason why
we talked about them as being the overwhelming favorite. But
again remember as games go on, things happen. You have

(36:30):
no idea how this is gonna play it, this is
gonna play out, But there's no weakness and Embape is
simply going to score at least a goal every game,
no matter why. He could have a brace against Spain
and I wouldn't be surprised beIN out a goal in
the World Cup. But France is just overall, it's the
best roster top to bottom. They are playing the best
they are. They have peaked from the beginning of the

(36:50):
World Cup. It's not like they played difficult at first
that no, they've been playing peak performance since the beginning
of the World Cup. Morocco is a terrific team, right.
They blew out Canada was was you know, it was
a feel good story, but they in Canada is not
a bad team, but they blew them off the pitch.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Hey, Jesse marsh And is still defending his nation and
Kenny's team.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
They're doing a podcast yes about what Yes, and Mitch Johnson. Yeah,
they're all on the same podcast together. But you know,
this is this Morocco team that just blew Canada off
the pitch and they looked like they didn't even belong.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
On the same they managed five shots. The one shot
on goal came very late in the game, although they
started getting possession towards the end. I'm like, all it
takes is one of these set pieces and all of
a sudden we got a little bit of chaos. It
never came, of course, but you know, you look at
just the one sided nature of it twenty two to five.

(37:42):
But defensively they stood strong.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
I mean, because you thought it was going to get
out of sorts pretty fast the way France started their attack. Yeah,
but watching this game and seeing how it unfolds, you
see the speed of France and the speed of Imbape
and just forget Morocco looked like a team that you
forget this is a top ten team in the world.
They looked like they looked like the United States playing Belgium,
where it's like, okay, we're just wow, we just have problems.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Man.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
That that's what France is able to do to a
top ten team overall in the World Cup. Like I
it's it'll be great theater, whatever the matchup's gonna wind
up being. France beats spaint. France and England insane France
and Argentina insane and in the end France will win
both of those games, probably to nothing like that's how
good they're playing.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
But you watch the offense right and obviously in Bape
is gonna be the record setter in so many ways,
tied for the Golden Boot, all those things. But you
got Dimballe who's been fantastic, And we were passing around
the note Earliers Laton with the over over praise, the over.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
The top on Michael Michael Elise who's got five assists. Yeah,
and it is just like watching a point guard play
in the NBA. Well, he said he was like the
Tom Brady of he gave him the Tom Brady.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
I took it back to the piece of the point guard.
He's the Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Okay, two different sports, not but I get what you're
saying a lot on Okay, I know what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
But but just that idea of how he sees, anticipates
and you just go into the space because the ball
is going to be waiting. It's and it's very much
the Tom. Look, he's got to give his teammate Tom
Brady a little bit of love. Yeah, to where if
you're the running back out of the backfield, wide receiver,
tight end, run your route.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
It's gonna hit you in the face. So I mean
it's perfect. And this is the way this offense runs.
And you saw what they were able to do in
a dominant form today. Now I do have to give
you a hot take as we're going on, because you
men name Jets.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
To the super.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Come on, he did that last No, three years ago, Man,
three years ago, Nix and five Nix and five just
Nixon five.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Uh, I'm a little disappointed in lots on.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Why is that much? Okay, now he hasn't beaten up
right now and LEXI, let's go kick you to the
right now right now.

Speaker 3 (39:57):
No, I'm a.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Little I'm a little disappointed a lot on quite really
because quite honestly, I didn't expect him to give this
much credit to teams playing well or individual players playing
well in the World Cup, because I always expected to say, hey,
what do you think of him? Bape's a lot of time,
he is good, he is non oh but but wow,

(40:19):
but look at the record he has, Goald. I mean,
he's been only a couple of World Cups. He's gonna
finish with thirty five goals. When it's all said and done, Yes,
but he has not a lot ton like Okay, all right,
hey how about uh what about Jude Bellingham?

Speaker 3 (40:30):
What he's been terrific player for England. There's a lot done.
He's better player, Like I mean, I really, I.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Really every time somebody plays well, I really I'm hoping
and expecting him to tell this guy's not that good.
It's not me just to you know, how many goals?
What do you think about that goal that Messi scored?
How about that second goal to give them the lead?
How many goals has a lot Tons scored that way
in his career? I can't even count. I can't even
count how many.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
He has been pretty effusive with the praise, there's no question,
but really I thought, like the only place where he's
gotten a little bit negative. But even then it was
the snark as we talked about the gone fishing kind
of things as teams exit the stage.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
But I thought it would go a little more barkley.
He'd be a little more barkley in that I'll give
you praise, but but when somebody does something poor, they
play badly, I'm going to really just rip into Oh.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
No, he's gotten after that a little bit, but he's
generally it's the the coverage just focused on the positivity
of all the surround really right.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
And I hate to say this because you know me
something when we've talked about World Cup coverage of the
past and whether it's Fox or anywhere else, it just
is inherently negative, you know, mainly because Team USA doesn't win.
But like I really I feel like I feel like
it's too positive, Like a lot dons too positive. Man,
I love positivity. It's a positivity Thursday, But like I
feel like he's lot he's been too positive over all

(41:46):
the world. Jason, you want to know I can't agree
with you. Yes, this stupid take he had, that's I
want one word from you?

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Can the US win this World Cup?

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Or no?

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Okaya has spoken, didn't age well no, But again that
was positive.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Maybe the door's open? How positive was that? The other
the others? Is everybody telling you're so great? At some
point it's just like, Wow, they're liking that. I'm Joe positive.
I'm gonna keep giving them what they want.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
I mean his answer should have been this lots on, Yes,
one word, Can the United States win the World Cup?
It is joke time. Now we tell jokes, Okay, I
will tell you my favorite joke, Like that's that's what
I'm expecting from him more so that. I mean, he's
been so entertaining and it's it's been fun seeing them
go back and forth. But man, I'll tell you I
really thought that, you know, hey, a little bit more negative.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
Man.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
But off of that take that Tyser just played, I mean,
it is more proof that everybody listens to the show
and he got sucked into your why not us?

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Sure, sure, that's okay, So you're fault and listen, you
created positives a lot and then well super villain negatives lot.
Oh is this gonna be the weather one?

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (43:00):
You hear he is talking about the weather. This is
the great one.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
This is enjoyed today.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
They're gonna do their thing. I guess a difficult opponent
and this is the best eight teams in the tournament
so far. So let's see how it plays down. And
we are excited. The sun is shining. We are burning
from behind. But if you're hot as me, you can
handle it. Yeah, yeah, I did, very true. And if
you're white as the Alexi, you cannot handle it. But
I'm gonna cover you if.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
You are as white as I described myself as pasty
U off Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand. Yeah, the glare
off of you, Alexi is going to blind people watching
on television, you know, or something I like cover you. Uh,
I can't believe I've ever said that. I'm never gonna
say that. But yeah, there's too much positivity coming out

(43:47):
of lots On. I really, I really, you didn't know
how much I enjoyed the negative spin that he would
have on things.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
But does that go back to Lawless has covered that
enough and Ree's kind of just straight down them.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (44:08):
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Speaker 1 (44:10):
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(44:31):
tire buying should be. So tonight for the show, Mike
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Who do you want to be? Who do you want
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I all the sweet science, You and I will go
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a little bit ducking and weaving and bobbing and throwing.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Who you want to be? Who do you want to be?
You want to be? Who do you want to be?
What do you want to be? Do you want to be?
Significant others into the equation? Check that Bam huh Bam?
Oh too late?

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Ah, you were picking it took it too long at Bam,
I hitch, I want to be Bam because his name
is Bam, So I want to be Bam. Okay, well
you gotta figure that's the guy gonna throw the punch.
His name is Bam, the guy that Bam is not
gonna take to be Bam here. It is like that
could be a wwe thing for him.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
You better keep doing that, and you're gonna have your
guy Emerald coming and suing your ass any second. Now. Well,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Wouldn't he have sued Bam out of Bio already? I mean,
I mean, that's a game. After the eighty four point game,
I think that I think that's where the lawsuit would
have come in.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
I mean, look, BAM's also with Asia Wilson, so I
mean he wins, even though Tyler Harrow was all, you know,
giggles and saying how everything was all fine and good
and great, it's good to see the executives, good to
see coach whatever. I mean, he said all the right
things in his interview.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
Never let it be said that Summer League in Vegas
is not without fireworks, as we found out. Yeah, today
the fight one punch fight. I guess that's kind of
like an octagon fight. I guess a one punch fight.
Former Heat teammates Bam out of Bio and Tyler Harrow
got into a physical altercation in Vegas earlier today in

(46:04):
which at A Bio threw a punch and struck Tyler
Herro in the head area. This was first reported by
ESPN shaans Cherania. Now, why did this happen? Why is
Tyler hero trending? This is not some random night in
the middle of the NBA season where he's got twenty
five through three quarters, right, Why guys like.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Him and and and.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Alex Caruso trend all the time. Why are they trending?
I can't believe the guy zach Levine. Why is zach
Lavine trending? Apparently this goes back to the big trade
that brought Giannis in to the Miami Heat a week
and a half ago, where Tyler Hero shared a graphic
on social media and social media is going to be
the downfall of Tyler Hero on the story about players

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with the worst mid range jumper conversion rates of the
past year. Number one on that list was Giannis. Number
ten in the list was bam Adebio, his former teammate
who we spent all kinds of time with, you know,
Finals team there in Miami a few years ago, and
all of a sudden, now okay, now they're not teammates anymore.
So if that was it, that would kind of be okay. Well,

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he shared this a little bit of shade. You don't know,
is this kind of fun thing like usually the Knicks
like to do with each other or is this a
serious thing? It turned serious when, according to reports, a
fan that Tyler Hero had been dming with over the
course of the past few months, a guy who I
think he identified himself as this guy who lives in
Canada or something that he was talking smack about at

(47:28):
a bio and the money that he that he's getting
and he shouldn't be getting sixty million dollars a year,
you know about, you know, for a guy that doesn't
play defense as often as he does. Basically, there's a
big back and forth and Hero saying stuff about at
a bio that you know is not flattering.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
The guy publishes the DMS, right.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
This is a story that's kind of been in the
periphery the last few days, okay, and at a bio
confronted Tyler Hero at it earlier today at a gym
and walked up to him and hit him once. Hero's
got a little bit of a tag under the eye
and had to be broken up. There was some stuff
being yelled back and forth, and now we have the
great Miami Heat Milwaukee Bucks rivalry. We didn't know we

(48:09):
wanted Mike Harmon, but we're getting.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
It just because he said, you guys can't hit a
mid range jumper.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
You take you guys, what'd you guys fight over? He
took my girlfriend out of the date. What'd you guys
fight over? I stole my car didn't tell me what'd
you guys fight over? He made fun of my mid
range jump shot ability, and that is not gonna happen. Man,
you do not cross that rubicon.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
He didn't show up at this basketball camp. He didn't.
I mean there's a million other things, like he shared
a graphic that had some unflattering business, i e. It
exposed the fact that I could only score in the
low post. Oh no, oh no. I mean I'd like
to think there were some other transgressions in chaos that

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would get you to come to blows. But hey, look,
if this gets people excited about Summer League. I mean,
we really haven't cared about Summer League other than these
Caleb Wilson with a big game. We talked about aj
debonsa a little bit yesterday. I mean, we haven't been
this excited since Lonzo Ball and his band of Merriman
were taking over Summer League a decade ago.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Yeah, I mean, really, this is we're gonna, We're gonna,
We're getting into this where now. I mean, I think
that's just an easy thing, like oh yeah, okay, Lonzo
Ball's that LeVar Ball saying stuff about the Aaron Fox
and now that's cool, Oh, we need something a little
bit more, uh, a little bit more subtle, a little
bit more twenty twenty six. Yeah, let's let's kick things
off with that mid range jump shot percentages list.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Let's get now.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
I gotta say, are all the guys in the top
ten now look at looking at Getty what Tyler hero
on this? Is it just bam Adebayo? Or since he's tenth,
does he now have to watch out that number nine,
number eight? And it's gonna end with the honest right, Like?
Is he gonna watch out now? Is this like you know,
Billy Madison or something. I don't know, man, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
No, it's pretty much a hit list, there's no question
about it. And he's gonna go Jim to Jim in
the wee hours of the morning and then he's gonna
find you. I mean, look, get what happens in Vegas?
Was supposed to stay in Vegas? Nope, jumps jumps. These
guys don't like each other, these former teammates at Beef,

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I mean really this this, I mean, nobody walked out
with a black eye or no.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Tyler Harroll was doing interviews after Bam threw a punch
at me now here's the thing. So there's two big
takeaways from this, right, because this is just so silly.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Number one, And I was thinking about this because it
used to be, right, you go back like twenty years
whatever it was if two people had a physical altercation
and you know, or I had an argument, whether it
was over you know, finances or mid range jump shot percentages. Uh,
the guy that threw the punch was always the guy
who walked away the winner, right, Like, well, he threw

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the punch, he was mad, and the other guy backed away,
and all you you cowered away and he threw a punch.
You didn't throw a punch back. Oh yeah, that's the way.
You know, Bam out of biles, he's the winner. But
I kind of like the fact that here we are
in twenty twenty six where when this happened today, the
first reaction I think everybody has and this shows you
I think that we're growing at least a little bit
as a nation. Is that, Oh man, here's a guy

(51:15):
that couldn't control his emotions. And when years ago, when
that would be something that would just get swept under
the rug, here's something where now at a bio's the
guy that seems like, dude, what.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Are you doing?

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Man?

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Really, you're arguing over stuff. You guys yell at you
other and you throw a punch at him. I mean, really,
you're arguing over stuff on the internet. You throw a punch.
You are not in control of your emotions.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Right like that. This is what my first reaction was.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Man, this is more embarrassing for at a Bio than
it is for Tyler Hero, even though Hero is a guy.
We'll get to him in a second, because he doesn't
escape nearly unscathed, but the whole physical confrontation of it.
Just thinking about how this story is consumed now and
how what we think about it than what we would
think about it twenty some odd years ago, where now, hey,
it's not too much to ask to be control of

(52:00):
your emotions and not throw punches when when something like
this happens, you guys are disagreeing over something.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Well, but that's it. All those years ago, those stories
got buried because you didn't have access, you didn't have
social media, and people and people run into guys like Cham's.
The guys that were the beat reporters city to city.
They knew they got no access and the free meals
were all gonna be turned off if they said a word,
whereas now it's like, eh, here you go go running

(52:27):
in and say, hey, there was an altercation. How much
of an altercations? Like what are you doing? I don't know? Okay,
that was an altercation?

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Yeah, you got you the security guard. Hey, Stu, Yeah,
what's going on? A couple of guys are fighting? Well
who is it? Well it's a guy in a bucket
hat and that guy that scored eighty four points last year.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Wait, bam abta bio and Tyler Harrow? Are you sure? Yeah?
I think those are the guys. I gotta get out
there and go, oh, it's over already.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Okay, all right, Well, I mean really, like, you know,
I get your arguing about this or whatever is said
back and forth. But the guy I'd be to throw
a punch in a situation like this, I mean, come on, man, like,
I gotta say that. The stupidity angle of that is
only topped by the stupidity angle of Tyler Harrow, who
decided I'm gonna DM some random dude about my teammate

(53:12):
and about stuff going on, and I'm gonna dm I mean, really,
I see this and I go I don't understand what
goes through people's minds sometimes, Like you're gonna DM a guy,
a total stranger that you don't know about your teammate,
and that's just insane to me. I can't get people
that have this addiction and think social media is their friend.

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And man, and this is not even a guy that
was saying, hey, I love your game, You're awesome. This
is the guy that he was Tyler Hero was kind
of feuding with right over over the course of this story,
and I'm dming this guy my stuff about Bamada BYEO.
You know, will you talk about the scales of stupidity? O.
It's like, yeah, okay, BAM's here. But then wow, man,
Tyler Hero, he's way you can't even see how high

(53:54):
up he is on that well.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
But you get into gaming rooms or whatever, all of
a sudden, there's your buddies on the headset. Think about
I mean so many others like Snell He's had his
issues in the gaming rooms, right, I mean all these guys.
So yeah, it's not that far down down the road

(54:15):
to be like, you know, the enemy, what the friend
of my enemy? And all those kind of things where
you go through the paces and you get the spider
Man meme when it's all said and done. But yeah,
Tyler hero, I was surprised that bam Adebayo and company
didn't just figure out what the graphic would be to
show how weak he was defensively and just put that up.

(54:39):
I don't know that he's bottom ten in the league,
but he's got to be pretty damn close. Yeah sure, sure, sure, right.
So I mean, if you're Yiannis and bam adebay you
can at least say we're tops on this list. Now, yeah,
I mean we're number one. We're number one. But I
mean you were watching what's the Diana Maslani, I mean

(55:01):
like you got people on the interwebs. Oh sure, yeah,
yeah to hell.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Hey, you know listen, just want to tell you, as
I learned from Maximum Pleasure, Guaranteed, camboys are not your friends.
Just so you know, I just had Tatiana Maslani learned
that lesson, and now Tyler here is learning that random
people want to about my teammate, right, Like, oh, what
what goes through your mind about stuff like that? Man? Seriously,
I can't I can't understand the devotion and the sense

(55:30):
of responsibility or the just the non thinking of it
that people feel on social media where I can do this,
Like social media is your friend, it's not. It's a
social media and Twitter is a venus fly trap. Man.
Oh of that smells so sweet in air. There's nectar
in there, but boy, those look like really sharp leaves coming. Oh,
that's just decoration. They don't move or anything. It's a plant.
Come on, and if it's a plant, it's gonna move

(55:50):
so slow. I'm getting get out of there. I'm not
worried about that. I'm going in there and getting that
nectar and suddenly oh wow, yeah, this is how it
answered me. Okay, I'm the I'm the guy inside the whale.
I'm Joanah. Jonah was inside the whale, right, was it, Jonah? Uh? Yeah,
I just said, you know what with holding up that lantern,
going yeah, this is just not going well.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
This is now, this is how it ends.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
This is you know, I I don't understand that you
think that I can I can send direct message to
a guy I don't even know about, my teammate that
I live with, that I've been a teammate with for
the past seven or eight years. And this is what
this is not well, but this is not after the trade,
this that this is before.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
I don't get I really don't, man, I really don't.
And I don't know if I'm alone on this, but
I feel like, you know, obviously the younger generation and
gen Z and and you know, the real lower end
of millennials, you know, grew up with social media being
prevalented in their lives. Like you know, they like gen
Z especially, doesn't know a life without social media. But still,

(56:52):
I mean to I don't know if I feel like, hey,
I should be teaching lessons on this or or just
I mean, people just walk into stuff like this blind
and I go, this is this is how you This
is now what you're known for because you decided to
d M. Somebody who was then says, well, I mean
I had to make sure this got out. You know,
people need to know this.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
This is news. Uh, you know, because of that, this
is what you're known for.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Like everything Tyler Harro was, forget about the bucket hat, forget.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
About the bucket hat, the guy with a good sweet
jump shot, and.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Forget about six Man of the Year and all that stuff,
and being the main guy being traded for Giannis. No, no, no, no, no,
that's what you're known for, right, Jordan Pool, what do
you think about?

Speaker 3 (57:28):
Jordan Poole bam.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Punch by Draymond's that's what you think of, man, that's
what you think of.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
He's a pretty good scorer too, He's an NBA champion,
but he's will always be the guy that got punched
in the face by Draymond and exiled. I mean, but
I really.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Am thinking of this, like, you know, when, uh, when
when when John Wick had the bounty put out on
him right in the in John Wick and john Wick
three and the john Wick four when and they you know,
they gave him till midnight that all the hit men
were coming after him. Like I wonder, like if that,
if we could do a movie where now, you know,
Tyler Herroll puts that thing up about the mid range
jumpers and now, well slowly everybody from ten all the

(58:02):
way to one on that list like approaches him in
the next few days and there's like some sort of
confrontation or involvement, and we can make a movie out
of it. No, make a movie like that, like five
minutes if I if I type.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
It in, yeah, I think it would but I think
we could probably get someone to green lighted for a
limited series that goes eleven episodes, one to set it
up and the countdown and all of the scenarios by
which they run into each other and settle their beef,
or maybe they don't, and maybe it becomes the end

(58:33):
like it's a nineteen sixty six Batman movie, or all
the super villains are together. Sure, and it's on a ship.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Oh, then it's like that scene in Karate Kid when
they're all beating them up in the skeleton constant is
I say he's had enough? You're honest, I'll say what,
he's had enough? See what we did? We just made
a great art for America. All of a sudden, like
you know, all the guy, all the first round, all

(59:03):
the picks that the bucks got for Yan has come
jumping over the fence to try to save him instead
of mister.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
Miyagi, we're here for you man. Who are you guys?

Speaker 1 (59:11):
We're the first and second round picks that you got
that came along with you man.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
We're Oh, you guys aren't gonna help me Alreadything