June 28, 2024 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Thursday, The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Hart, who is on vacation in London,
especially Lively Steve de Sega. He's in for Ahman this week,
So for the entire week I would talk like this
while Almond's gone. Then I'll go to London. I talk
like that for the week after back. Well, that's not
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annoying at all. No, No, he's gonna walk out right.
Why if? Why if? Why if? Why if? What if?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
What if?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What if? What if?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
What if?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We why if? We hit on something that's pretty good,
It's gonna be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You're sounding like the British tourists.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I sat next to it at Dodger game once I
was explaining in our outfield pavilion seats. You realize the
ball in the sport leaves the field of play, a
home run could actually like be hit here. And the
response was the ball could come here, yes, actually yes.
Later that night a fly ball came over our heads.
I watched it back on the news. The two of us,
(01:24):
my friend and I were reaching for the ball. The
two tourists were literally cowering. If they could have gone
on the concrete under the seats, they would have. But
it was that exact voice, what happens if hit by that?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
What happens? What happens?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's on the back of the ticket. Well, when we
have tickets.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Sometimes the cricket it goes out, but the throw right
in there, how it.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Goes The other thing with that, with that accent, was
when I said, hey, there's a runner leading off first base.
He could actually like try and steal and the pitcher
throws over and I hear sneaky.
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want to say, after watching the first forty five minutes
of the presidential debate, there is one clear choice for president,
(02:23):
and it's Grimace. That is the He needs it on
that stage right away with the METS hat and the
glove and start talking about I turned around the fortunes
of the Mets. I can do the same thing for
everybody here in the United States. Whatever you want ask
me questions. Well, mister Grimas, what is your plan? I
throw out the first pitch in any city that's having
any kind of difficulty. What happens after that? They rebound?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So your bumper sticker would be a purple over orange.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Exactly, exactly, exactly, yeah, exactly, say hey, and I would say,
you know, here's the thing. This is where we all
come together. Because Republicans the color is red, Democrats the
color is blue. It would get excluing red together, you
get me, you get purple. So he's the great uniter, Grimace.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
So what you're saying is, if Krimis is our president
in this country.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
President Grimace, don't hurt him with respect.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
The whole presidential physical fitness for kids goes out the door.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, you have a shake every day? Yeah, exactly, and
you wind up his size. Hey, kids would love that,
right way, I have to work out. I just have
a shake the size of a bell that was on
your mom's shelves growing up, like a protein shake that.
I'm like, no, no, no shake. He's in cream, chocolate,
whatever you want making a meal? What do you got, frostburg.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I'm following this debate very carefully here in the studio.
I got the volume up.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, this is like crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
They've actually agreed on something here, really, Biden and Trumpet.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
They both agreed. Okay, what do they agreed on?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
The bur altar should be fire.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Sitting avation? Oh my goodness, yeah, I don't see. After
you watch I gave today? How you okay? Well, things
are still gonna go for the United.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
States evenwell, immediately on the postgame show on Fox.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I think he was I think he was foaming at
the mouth with what he had to say right away
after that, and it was unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I think I can quote him directly after the US
lost to Panama to one tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Boy, if the.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
US doesn't get out of its group on Monday night,
after that game against Uruguay.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Greg Burholter will lose his job and he deserves to.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh yeah yeah, but it was much more like I'm shaking.
I'm talking. It's like when you when what are your
kids does something that makes you so mad or somebody's
something so mad and you're just shaking because you're so
upset what you're saying, Burholter will lose his job and
rightfully so, I mean he threw that at the end,
and rightfully so.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I mean it's and not just getting out.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
And this is what I was thinking most of the
second half of tonight's game watching Fox.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Is you know, it could be worse.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
The US could lose this game and then a goal
in the eighty third minute, and they did lose this
game to one to Panama, which means now the US
will likely need to beat first place Uruguay on Monday
night just to advance out of the group. That game's
Monday Night on FS one. Why you say would they
have to win and not get a tie because Panama,
(05:12):
whom the US tied tonight, gets to play last place
Bolivia on Monday to finish up, So probably.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
A win there. Now, Look that's like your homecoming game. Yeah, exactly.
We're only going to play seven or eight. We don't
need to play all eleven.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
But Bolivia tonight was down in the first twenty minutes
or so, down to nothing to ergo.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, it was very quickly that happened, which is why
you heard the entire day. And most likely they will
need to beat Uruguay because they will be most likely.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, but we can't put it in pen. But that's yeah,
quite likely.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Here's my two biggest concerns about US Soccer and where
they are run after losing today to Panama, which was
incredibly embarrassing. Yes, you had stuff happened during the game.
You had Tim Way getting an awful red card and
undisciplined punch in the back of the head. The official
looked at it for all of three seconds, so once
said up ye, red card, you're out. So that changes
(06:03):
everything graded after video review, it's like, would you like
to upgrade to a red card? No, I'd like to
say to the La super.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Size, We're gonna keep the grimace thie, We're.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Gonna upgrade you to a red card. Oh okay, that's great.
But here's here's the two things that that really hit
me about this and why Burholter. I mean, I feel
like we just have to go on from this era. Please.
We've seen so much of Greg Burholter, and you can debate,
and here here's the thing about this. You can debate
his tactics during the game and what he did and
(06:33):
some adjustments that he made, some adjustme that he made worked,
some adjustices that he made didn't work. I don't know
that Baaligan was got to take out of the game
at that point. I agree with Clint Dempsey. He had
just had it. He biffed a big scoring chance by
taking a shot because he got a little shot appy,
but still he was playing well. He scored the big
goal early. I him.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
It's it reminds me of when Kristin Press was playing
for the US women. You could get instant offense and
somebody not afraid to shoot, and somebody that just doesn't
send the ball into the crowd actually makes the goalie work.
This guy's been good in the year less than a
year we've been seeing him with the US.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah. But outside of that, the two biggest things right
that I look at, I say, we need a change.
And this is why people are going to be watching
the game Monday night hate watching because it's going to
be Oh, if we win, we move on. But if
we lose, hey, we're gonna get rid of Burholter. Is
that he's been the coach now for a long time? Right,
I still don't know what our identity is. If you said,
(07:27):
what does the United States do? Well, what do they do?
What do they game plan every every game to impart
their will on the game? What do they do? What
is their identa? What does you know? We're gonna do
X and Y every single time and other teams know
we have to stop X and Y. The only thing
I come up with is get the ball to Polistic,
which as a youth coach, I get it. I want
to get the ball to my best player too. I
(07:49):
don't know what the plan is at midfield. I don't
know what the plan is to try to figure out offensively?
Is he married to what he has up at striker?
I just don't know. I do is toughness going to
be part of our what is it? It's still just
a bunch of guys out there, and I don't know
what our identity is. This is not life and that's
a big and that's a big thing. Right, you think
by now you at pieces. We're built on the back
(08:11):
line and everything comes out of there. We're built in
our midfields because we attack. We're built here. And I
don't know what that is. And that's a big question,
because this is what is falls under your category of
head coaches to we have to instill a culture. We
have to tell you what we're about. We have to
tell you exactly what our plan is and what our
identity is. And they still don't have one.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
A couple of holes on defense tonight, but as far
as him, and this is again through the last World
Cup cycle and then an interim coach for month after
month after month, and then they rehire the same.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Guy, which is a who led the search a search
of my success? Who is it? It's me? Oh hey,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That works.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
We all collectively did a literal face Paul, not the emoji,
but like, are you kidding me? And the guess who's
co hosting the World Cup in two years? They got
to figure this out. We have to let's say this
out loud. We're not the first to say that out loud.
We have to take advantage of the crew that we
have on the roster these days. We have never in
(09:07):
our lifetimes had this type of young talent playing with
the famous clubs in Europe.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
We're finally getting that.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
We're progressing as US soccer development, if you want to
call it that.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And they've played together for a few years now. We've
got to get something out of this generation before Polistic
is thirty eight years old. That's boy, I never actually
got there.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But the other part of it is, and this is
even bigger than instilling the culture and what our identity is, right,
which still is amazing that he's been the head coach
this long. We don't have one.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Yeah, it's not like when you bring up Harbo for example,
you know what kind of identity win or loss you're
gonna get.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
There's a focus, you know, even with Kleinsman, it was okay,
the identity was this is Kleinsman's team and his decision. Okay,
it made like it or not like it, but that
was that was what the identity of this.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
You'll find every quasi American that you've never heard of
is living in Norway ready to come player.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well yeah whatever.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
But the bigger, the bigger part of it for me
is this is that and again this is away from
the from the gimmicks and away from the strategy, and
away from what Burlock does doesn't do. But this United
States team still is prone to bad decisions, emotional decisions,
stupid decisions way and not controlling himself and getting and
getting a red card. I still see so many goals
(10:23):
we give up where I go, how do the defenders
not know who to be marking on this play?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I get the ten or fifteen minutes following the red card,
things get a little weird because, all right, we're trying
to figure out what the best alignment were. Right the
first you get in to the eighty the two goals,
I mean the first goal, I'm like, okay, there were
three players surrounding their striker and they still scored. All right,
I get it. It's things are going. But that goal
in the eighty fifth minute, it's it's there's there's three
guys around there, and I'm saying, how do you not
(10:50):
know who to be marking? And we still see this.
We saw this at the end of the World Cup
last time, when we got absolutely embarrassed in the last
game in the knockout round where where players are running
wide open on the back because we're not covering the
right players. And I still see that. I still see
on the field our defenders not knowing where to go,
not knowing who to mark, and I see the ball
(11:11):
coming down and one striker having it between three players
and they still find a way to get get it
by them in the back of the net. I don't
see any bit of reliance or responsibility that the players
have taken. Why do we still talk about players being
unmotivated and up and down from game to game. This
is the United States men's national team. This is the
(11:31):
best we've ever been. How do you still take well
Weston McKenny and his motivation, Why is that still going on? Right?
This all falls under the category of the head coach.
And I know the players are pros and this is
what they're paid for, but this is different. You have
to make sure everybody's on the same page and everybody
knows what they're doing. And there's still times during a
game where I go, I know that we do what
we were doing. I don't know what we were doing
on that left when they were pressuring us so hard.
(11:53):
I don't know that we knew what we were doing.
And usually the back line is pretty stout, but boy,
they're out of position a lot, and I go, this
falls under this is the fact that we don't have
an identity and you still see mistakes, whether they're emotional mistakes,
whether they're motivational mistakes or on field mistakes. There's just
too many of them.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
And defense with the veteran he's passed thirty five I
think now with Tim Breem, his man beat him to
get the first half shot off that scored the goal.
He also remember had the off sides that cost the
US a goal after reader review in the fifth minute
of the game, and Anthony Robinson in the first half
couldn't stop the goal that went in, and in the
(12:32):
second half the game winner. He handed Panama that possession
with a bad clearance pass, kicked it right to him
and in the eighty third minute of Panama goal wins
it two to one. So when we're talking about the
coach not doing a good job, certainly we're not only
talking about tonight, and we're not only talking about the
opening game, which was two nothing over an awful Bolivia team.
(12:52):
Let's just call it what it is. You know, tonight's opponent,
Panama's not ranked in the top twenty. They're not ranked
in the top forty, is not in the top eighty
in the world. That should have been at least three
or four nothing last Sunday. And remember one of the
tune up games was a US five to one loss
against Columbia, a real opponent, and ever since he's come back.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Well, let's go back to October. What's the US record.
It's five five and one. This is not good enough.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, but and against teams not named Mexico, what's our record?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Oh eleven? I mean, I really it's.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I mean I don't get to play Al Salvador all
the time. Okay.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
By the way, the referee was from Al Salvador tonight.
Did not bathe himself in glory? No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
But I mean that's when you look at why does
Greg Burholton me? Why do people say this? Forget about
because you can question a guy's strategy and should he
have done this? Should he had done this? If something
works out, it works out. If it does it doesn't.
But just those two things, the lack of an identity
and the mistakes that are still made, both mental and physical,
how are we still going on with this? I mean,
like how is this okay? I feel like John Oliver,
(13:55):
how is this okay? Like I don't bred Bridge's okay,
I understand.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
And okay, let's bring it back to your hate watching comment,
which brings us back to a US super fan that
we have on the show all the time talking NFL,
Jason lock and Forre saying before this tournament started, he
loves these players and he hoped the US got creamed
and bounced quickly out of this tournament so US Soccer
would wise up and do something about this ridiculous coaching
(14:23):
we hire and do something about it so we can
actually plan properly and get something set before we co
host a.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
World Cup in two years exit, how about a fresca
that Jason Smith show Steve de Sager in for Mi
carbon I mean, talk about all the strategy you want.
Those two reasons right, there should be those blinking red
light blinking red lines. We'll have more on this coming up,
because now already Greg Burholter has late blame as to
whose fault it was for losing today. But straight ahead,
(14:51):
Brownie James is a laker, and you got people that
are all sorts of upset about this one thing. I
don't think the Lakers lebron Bronny have thought through when
they talk about Bronny playing on the Lakers with his dad.
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Speaker 1 (16:05):
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friend Mike Harmon Harmon On Vacation special Delivery Steve to
segare in for Harmon tonight. You know, I was thinking
about this devo instead of Grimace running for president. Oh
you know what if I ran under my normal my
my normal platform of gas and milk under two dollars
(16:26):
a gallon. Oh, everything else I figure out. But Grimace
is my running mate and Grimace is the vice president.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Even better?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Now, wait a minute, how how do you get gas
and milk under? Do you like massive subsidies like keeping
the wnba afloat so it's really not it's an artificial
price in other words?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, oh yeah, Well listen, here's the thing is, I
have the ideas. I just will have smart people figuring
it out. Oh that's what I'm smart people. Listen. What
I do is, here's I have the cabinet metaggor Listen.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
That's what you're gonna do differently.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Here's ideas I have, and then I say it, and
then it's up to them to go so implement it.
And I will take all the credit at the end,
you know, and add this idea of sending Grimace in
to all the cities that need help and him throwing
the first ball out. Look, look what happened to all
these cities there. They were in trouble. Here they need
they need money on education, the money schools were crumbling. Here.
I send Grimace in for the first pitch. Look what
(17:16):
happens right away. As a way to drive down those prices.
What you're gonna do is, instead of like Canada attacks
people so much so they get healthcare at this great deal,
you're going to tax them so that milk goes down, yes, milk, Yeah,
milk goes down and gas goes down. And I get everybody,
wait a.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Minute, what's your focus on here? And Grimace and all
the fast food for the kids.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Anyway, I just need Grimace. I just need Grimmace standing
next to me. It's like, okay, I got Grimace now,
and I got all the kids telling their parents you
got to vote for Grimace, vote for the guy with Grimace.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So this is like when the sugar dierial commercial comes
on and the kid influences the parents.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yes, that's how would go that's how would do it? Yeah,
and I would say this, hey, listen, you know you
all get sick of talking about my favorite teams. How
about this every Jets win on a Sunday in the
regular season, everybody's off from work on Monday in school,
so no days off. So basically three days off a
year and one day off in October.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
That's the Belichick crash.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Maybe one in November and one late December one too,
but Jets win on a Sunday, everybody's off on Monday.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well, this is actually gonna call whoever is the commissioner
by then and to play in the NFL. See, you
haven't heard the news of today's court case, but you
know that's kind of not really gonna mess with the
whole up and up aspect of everything's cool with the
referees not being influenced.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
What if I say this free NFL access to every
game to everyone. Oh so you don't have to buy
such ticket? No, no, everybody gets every game, no matter
what kind. As long as you have a television, we
get you and every NFL out of market you can.
Possibly you guarantee every postseason game will be on a
regular channel. Oh sure, one hundred percent, Yes, I will
(19:06):
do all of that.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, I might vote for you.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I also would have to guarantee that Jets make the
playoffs every year. They're going to buy you had me
they have a buy into the playoffs. They have a
special playoff spot for him. Jets raised in every row.
Yeah the other stuff gas great Gash would like to
see it. Should like to see that work free TV
for all the NFL playoff games. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but
then you win it, of course in a Jets direction.
(19:29):
For those who haven't heard the show before, of course
it eventually. You want off on Monday, don't you? And
you want off on You like to me off on Monday,
would't Youah, you like that? You'd watch that Jets game
real interesting on Sunday, wouldn't you come on? Man for
and goal punches in?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yeah, come off tomorrow would be the only reason to
watch the Jets, of course, Jason.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I think Steve told us without telling us that he
has bunny ears on his TV.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
When you watching, his wife stands next to TV and
puts the hands on the bunny ears. All the receptions
when you hold the bunny is, so stand there and
hold them.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
And what I'm telling you is that I work at
a place that, let's just say, did not have one
of the playoff games last year.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh no, I made a football for everyone that is corrected.
Football should be for everyone. Football should be for everybody's think.
There you go. So there's my platform. Really, you talk
about the US men's national team not having an identity,
that's my identity as a candidate everybody can get behind.
I want everybody to win. That's not my fault. Your
(20:28):
team stinks, but I want your team to win. If
you need help, you tell me, I'll send you Grimace.
Grimace gets out there. Oh the swag.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
He'll come back with this for four years from now.
You can't get anything done on a short between June
and November this year.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I know I got to strike while the iron's hot
on Grimace now, but I can't. I can't. I can't
shelve Grimace until twenty twenty eight comes.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You know, if you've seen his diet, he may not
be around four years.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Grimmas has been around since nineteen fifty five. I think
Grimas is gonna be He's.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Absolutely the idea of Grimmace has been around.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'm not sure that's they're gonna run out of costumes.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No, they could have run out of guys who are
on that diet, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Plenty of guys Hey, listen week that.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Movie Dave where a different guy plays the president. Yeah,
they just keep shoving a new guy in there.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Oh, this White House chief of Staff, how wonderful for you.
We're walking.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We're walking, Yeah, the old Bonnie Hunt walk.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
We're walking. We're walking. Meanwhile, while this was all going
on that we had the presidential debate, we had the
men's national team.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Both in Atlanta, by the way, and they actually congratulated
the US fans for being able to show up on
time to that game because it was six eastern and
roads were closed because of the debate. That's in Atlanta also,
and actually fifty.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Nine thousand people were there.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah. The one thing I didn't think they needed to
do is I didn't think Biden or Trump needed to
congratulate Georgia for beating Portugal yesterday. I don't think they
knew that. You know, in Swing State they mentioned Kirby
Smart a couple of times, like, I don't think that's
the right that's not the right one. I want to
go to get away from it.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I've never heard of the Shellish Kashweli, who's the Okay,
maybe he's a naturalized citizen. Maybe I had something to
do with I could see that going through their mines.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Meanwhile, Day two of the NBA Draft began at nine
am this morning, and you probably woke up and saw
that it ended and Bronnie James was a Los Angeles Laker.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Shock.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Just like I told you, I thought fifty five is
gonna be Bronnie. I bet you he wears fifty five
in the NBA reminder of what my draft position was.
Told you the Lakers were gonna take him. This amid
reports that Rich Paul had been calling teams and saying
that if you draft him, he's not gonna play for you.
He's going to Australia. So if any team outside of
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the Suns or Lakers, the only two teams that Bronnie
James worked out for, if any of those teams drafted Brownie,
he would go to Australia. Now I know there's a
lot of people. I can't believe an agent would do this.
We have to get out from under this. We can't
let him run the league. This would never happen in
the NFL. Rich Paul were telling teams, hey, don't draft
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Bronnie James is going to play in Australia. Is like me,
walking into a restaurant and the maitre d saying, hey,
if you order a salad, I'm kicking you out. Okay, yeah,
don't worry about it. Well, I'm good. Let's sit down.
I'm ready. I'm ready. Probably you could be. It could
be a Caesar salad, it could be a cop So
now you order a salad of any kind, I'm throwing
you out. Yeah, no, I'm good. Where's my seat? Where's
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my sat here? Really? I mean the teams did they
even look at a fax or see the email and
just delete it? Like facts, how many teams we're gonna
we're gonna say, yes, we want to draft Bronnie James.
Let's just be honest. How many teams are gonna draft him?
He was a player that you could take or not,
which is every player in the second round of the draft.
Every guy in the second round is a project. Maybe
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he works, maybe he doesn't. Sometimes you find a diamond
in the rough and the guy turns into an all star,
like a Gilbert Arenas. Sometimes, most of the time, the
second round pick plays in the G league for a
year or two and then just disappears, like I don't
know why this was met with such sudden hatred of
Oh well, I can't believe that ages trying to run
this dill. Nobody else was gonna take Bronnie James liked.
I get that you want to be chesty about this
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and say, hey, look at me, I'm pledge sports. None
of us were gonna take him. No, but there was
no rumor that any team was ever thinking about. Not
even the Sons who worked him out, was wow, we'd
really like to take him. No, no, no, no, no.
This was where it was going all along. The fact remains,
if he was a better prospect, it would be a
different story. But he was someone just like anybody else
taken in the second A J. Edwards, anybody else, Hey,
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any of the Knicks picks who who score like four
points a game, But it doesn't matter. They don't need it.
They have the best one three.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
I think in trade they picked up Tyler Klok, who
actually had a college career at Marquees.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I mean, listen, I understand we got to worry about
France in four years in the Olympics, because that's gonna
be good. All of a sudden, it's gonna be difficult.
But nobody was gonna take Brownie this was This was
an empty threat, and all it's gonna do is backfire
on Rich Paul because Rich Paul's got to get some
more clients if he wants to be continue to be
such a powerful agent. Because his guys, you'll be talked
about it last night, his main guys aren't going to
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be around for that much longer. And you want to
really want to stand up and and and and get
chesty about Bronnie James. Really, that's what you want to
that's what you want.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
To get that hill.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
He's going to Austra. Okay, hey, that's fine, thanks for
letting I guess that's that's great. I really appreciate that.
Thank you. I get that. I'm not eating the salad.
I'm not. Don't worry about it. I'm going right to
a main course. That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
It gets to the secondary issue of Wow, that's therefore
a perfect story for ESPN to create, because it's ESPN
that keeps telling us Bronnie James is a prospect. It's
ESPN who tells us, oh, what a great story for
the guy getting drafted into the NBA. It's a great dream.
And you know he's talked a lot about trying to
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get out from under his dad's shadow. It's a good
thing I was not eating when I heard that. For me,
ESPN forget the fact that, Okay, he didn't control how
he was named. He's been wearing his dad's number. Yeah,
he went to the hand selected private school in the
town where his dad moved. He went to the hand
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selected private college, and he's gonna go to the dad's
team and worked out for his dad's team. But yeah,
sure he's trying to get out from under the shadow
of his dad. Because what he's some top ten prospect
coming out of high school. He was not because he
averaged ten twenty points a game last year.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
He did not.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
He's Brownie James. If he was Joe Smith, would he
have been taken tonight?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Joe Smith went pretty high in the night he got it.
I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure Joe Smith might have
went number one overall.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Joe Jones.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I'm pretty sure Joe Jonas did not get a single jas.
Joe Jonas will get drafted ahead of Kevin Jonas, but maybe.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Behind Uther Joke not have been taken fifty fifth overall
or otherwise.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
No, But look this is and I still remember when
this has been. This is going back about five years
is that I remember I was coaching my daughter's soccer practice,
went to the field normally where we practice, and all
of a sudden, there's helicopters ring like a few hundred
yards in the field, and I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Probably not for you.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I didn't know what was happening. I'm like, what they
just just practice is like after school? Probably what is
going on? Why is it such a big deal? Because
the middle school that my daughter went, she wasn't there yet.
She's an elementary school. But the one she wound up
going to, which is right there, you know, neighborhood middle School,
elementary school. That was Bronnie James's first game. He is
an eighth grade transfer student, and his first game was
(27:25):
against the middle school my daughter went up going to,
which is right near where we live. And that was
the coverage for basketball for Bronnie James, an eighth grade
basketball game.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
That's what there's a helicopter flying over.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
No, no, no outdoors outdoors, it's an indoor hella.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No, no, the game is indoors.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So if you have a hell for arrivals, for everything else. No,
the only indoor Helicai is in the mall going hey,
look at this, I can make this fly.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
So no, I'm saying the game is taking two hours.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
What is the point? There were live shots for for
local news and it was it was it was getting
I mean, look, this is how big a deal it
is for for Bronnie to come into the later.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I thought enough breath was wasted on the whole. Aaron
Rodgers first year with the Jets thing, this has top
that time three It's it's unreal how much Bronnie James
talk has gone on. Let's count two three years from now,
and let's see if any of that was worth it.
I mean, any of that on a basketball level.
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Speaker 3 (29:03):
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Speaker 1 (29:11):
The Jason Smith Show is Steve de Saga and from
Mike Harmon. And you know, the WNBA has grown so much,
so fast, Eve, I really think maybe twice a week,
like Thursday and Sunday, Caitlin Clark versus Angel Reese like
Fever Sky on Thursday night and on Sunday, and we
(29:33):
just change and in Indiana one in Chicago, we kind
of that it's like baseball what it used to be. Hey,
we gotta have Yankees Red Sox off. Yankees Red Sox
are on. Everybody's gonna watch. Okay, let's let's have Fever
and Sky. They play twice a week. Maybe they're in
their own wa like it's like it's a WNBA like
the English Premier League. The top league is Fever Sky
(29:53):
and that's it, and then everybody else below.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
So you have to actually prove your way into the
top league or else you get relegated the other.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Fever and Sky are always in the top league and
you can't go up to it. You just have that's
the top league and then there's a league under it.
There's no relegation, there's no promotion.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
You know.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
There has been a lot of attention, of course to
the WNBA, and justifiably so, but this is also quite starkly,
in my opinion, proven that the WNBA has not been
ready for prime time.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Now, what have I said, be ready to handle success?
Right and it's and the good news is that And
right now we have the last WNBA game of the
night going on right now, getting into.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Halftime, Kaylin Clark's team losing late first task to thirty
six and she's got nine, three and three.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Meanwhile Angel reached to night eighteen and eleven as the
Sky lost their game tonight. But look, it's be ready
to handle success and so far what we've seen the
last couple of weeks. Okay, things are starting to calm
down a little bit, which we said. I said, listen,
it's gonna start calming down right as bad as it was,
as bad as this, the racial back and forth, if
(30:58):
it was, and the jealousy, it's start, it's gonna calm down.
It's about the basketball now and now it's about the rivalry,
which is a better rivalry quite honestly, than we have
almost any other sport player versus player. We don't have that.
But for all of this, well, it's Caitlyn Clark, it's
Angel Rees, It's really Caitlyn Clark. And then it's Angel Reese.
(31:18):
Right now, I get Angel Reese's popular and she can
be and she can be a star too. She's already
a star. There's other star players in the WNBA. Caitlin
Clark is on a different level, all right. For Magic
Johnson to say, oh, it's like when me and Larry
came into the league. Yeah, thanks for thanks for taking
our take from two months ago. But Caitlin Clark is
magic and Larry. Like we said it, they said, she's
magic and Larry in this she's the one that's bringing
(31:41):
flights and moving games. To different arenas because our power.
It's what your people who want to come see the games.
This is like stuff from the twenties. Hey, the barnstorming
Yankees are coming to town. We can't have the game here.
We got to have it at Crossley Field where one
hundred thousand people are gonna come watch. Like this is
a Caitlin Clark effect on it, and and yes, yes
it is great. It is like Magic and La. I
(32:01):
said it was gonna be like when Magic and Larry
got to the NBA, the level of what they took
the game too. Caitlyn Clark coming in is like Magic
and Larry, but she's both of them. I know this
because there is no Angel Reese backlash on anything, right,
There's no Angel the rookie and Angel Rees and there's
backlash on her. Does she deserve it? Is she getting
extra fouls, she getting extra attention or people complaining about No,
(32:24):
there's no backlash for Angel Rees. So that should tell
you right there that Okay, yes, Angel Reese is a
really good player, and she's a star, and she's someone
that stirs the drink. But really it's Caitlin Clark. That's
how it goes. I mean there's if Angel Reese was
really operating on that level, she would be a bigger
deal daily and stuff that would happen. She would affect
(32:44):
change in the league a little bit more. It's just
Caitlyn Clark comes in with a resume that is unmatching,
a popularity that is unmatched. And to understand popularity, you
really have to understand that they're not moving every single
game that Angel Reese is playing into a different arena
so they could fit more people. They're moving games that
she's playing in. Oh, by the way, against Caitlin Clark
(33:04):
to a different arena. Even Kitlin Clark was mad last
week on we couldn't play this in the United Center. WHOA, Okay,
I thought we could play it, But that's above my
pay grade. But really understand that that that, yes, the
rookie class coming in is great, but the WNBA would
not be anywhere where they are right now if not
for Caitlyn Clark. If Angel rees doesn't come into the league,
right if Angel Reese is still in college right now,
(33:25):
let's say it's Kitlin Clark in the WNBA. This is
we're still getting what we're getting. They're still getting the
the the commercial the commercial flight set to charter. They're
still getting these games in different areas. They're still getting
more money for whatever. Uh, they're gonna wind up do
it for broadcast rights. They're talking about farming out the
broadcast rights for the Championship now because they could make
more money on it. If Angel Reese is still in college,
(33:48):
Caitlyn Clark comes out by herself. It's like this. If
it was the other way and Kitlyn Clark was still
in college and Angel Reese came out, we would not
be seeing this, no, and it wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Be As an example, the game about a week ago
at Atlanta and instead of in their three thousand seed arena,
it was put in the NBA Arena in Atlanta and
sold out over seventeen thousand tickets for Kaitlin Clark's visit.
And Clark, by the way, is near the top in
three pointers made this year and she's top five in
assists per game.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
But this is not a basketball discussion. I need to
emphasize this.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
You're talking about star power like Steph Curry, which comes
from his talent, but it's something different. Once he, for example,
had that run with Davidson in March Madness or what
he became as his career went on. In the NBA,
there was a fascination with his game. It wasn't just
the stat sheet of how many points did he score?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, and if it's almost like when we said the
games they kind of are similar to that. Her game
was Steph that Kaitlyn Clark, Yeah, and a lot of
game was Draymond Like, Okay, who's a more popular player? Right?
They're both popular, both stars. Who's clearly the more popular.
Both can win titles, they deserve to be on the floor.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Both have talent.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Angel Reese I looked it up, is eleven rebounds per game.
The leader in the league is eleven point three. So
to say she's having a good rookie season is an understatement.
She's doing exactly what they drafted.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Her in Chicago to do.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
And now, the thing about Angel Reese I'm gonna say
is this is now, this is gonna be the conversation.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
It's she really lasted till seven, Like really she lasted
till seven. Took the injured Stanford star earlier at what
two or three over over?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
I get Camilla Cardozo because when she's on, she just
has hadn't been stoppable. She's absolutely unstoppable now. But now
they have both of them. But I'm like, wow, Angel
Rees really lasted till seven. I mean, she's easily the
second best rookie night and her and Kate and Clark
had been great, and she lasted till seven. Man like
this is you know, even Jordan went three, you know whatever,
(35:48):
But her lasting till seven with what she had coming
out of college and the star power and the popularity,
and you knew it was gonna be some kind of
deal where when she got to the league she was
gonna help raise the Q where she went to bite
she still lasts until seven.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
So instead you had the La Sparks drafting Sam Bowie again.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
And so really this is parallel so far, oh so
so Cameron Brink is the Sam Bowie well of the
w in the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
No, no, you know, you know you're not. No, you're not.
And the thing is I can't unsee because she looks.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
A lot like in the bold figure.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
No no, no, she looks a lot like the in
in the uh Toby Maguire spider Man, the guy who
lived across the hall from him, the daughter he was
always asking for rent money, and the daughter that he
took to MJ's thing to make her jealous. Like somebody, yeah, yeah,
somebody put that on Twitter, and I go, oh, now,
I can't un see it, Like I cannot say that
that's Cameron Brink is the guy across the hall slacks
(36:47):
his daughter taller, yes, set slightly time. That's all Every
time I saw Cameron Brik, that's all I think of
is it's, hey, do you want to go to a
party with me? And then he just wants to make up. Well,
here's some dun'st jealous.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
She's got time and she does want go party with you.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's give this.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Thursday, The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Hart, who is on vacation in London,
especially Lively Steve de Sega. He's in for Ahman this week,
So for the entire week I would talk like this
while Almond's gone. Then I'll go to London. I talk
like that for the week after back. Well, that's not
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annoying at all. No, No, he's gonna walk out right.
Why if? Why if? Why if? Why if? What if?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
What if?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What if? What if?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
What if?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We why if? We hit on something that's pretty good,
It's gonna be pretty good.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You're sounding like the British tourists.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I sat next to it at Dodger game once I
was explaining in our outfield pavilion seats. You realize the
ball in the sport leaves the field of play, a
home run could actually like be hit here. And the
response was the ball could come here, yes, actually yes.
Later that night a fly ball came over our heads.
I watched it back on the news. The two of us,
(01:24):
my friend and I were reaching for the ball. The
two tourists were literally cowering. If they could have gone
on the concrete under the seats, they would have. But
it was that exact voice, what happens if hit by that?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
What happens? What happens?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It's on the back of the ticket. Well, when we
have tickets.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Sometimes the cricket it goes out, but the throw right
in there, how it.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Goes The other thing with that, with that accent, was
when I said, hey, there's a runner leading off first base.
He could actually like try and steal and the pitcher
throws over and I hear sneaky.
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want to say, after watching the first forty five minutes
of the presidential debate, there is one clear choice for president,
(02:23):
and it's Grimace. That is the He needs it on
that stage right away with the METS hat and the
glove and start talking about I turned around the fortunes
of the Mets. I can do the same thing for
everybody here in the United States. Whatever you want ask
me questions. Well, mister Grimas, what is your plan? I
throw out the first pitch in any city that's having
any kind of difficulty. What happens after that? They rebound?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
So your bumper sticker would be a purple over orange.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Exactly, exactly, exactly, yeah, exactly, say hey, and I would say,
you know, here's the thing. This is where we all
come together. Because Republicans the color is red, Democrats the
color is blue. It would get excluing red together, you
get me, you get purple. So he's the great uniter, Grimace.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
So what you're saying is, if Krimis is our president
in this country.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
President Grimace, don't hurt him with respect.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
The whole presidential physical fitness for kids goes out the door.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, you have a shake every day? Yeah, exactly, and
you wind up his size. Hey, kids would love that,
right way, I have to work out. I just have
a shake the size of a bell that was on
your mom's shelves growing up, like a protein shake that.
I'm like, no, no, no shake. He's in cream, chocolate,
whatever you want making a meal? What do you got, frostburg.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I'm following this debate very carefully here in the studio.
I got the volume up.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, this is like crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
They've actually agreed on something here, really, Biden and Trumpet.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
They both agreed. Okay, what do they agreed on?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
The bur altar should be fire.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Sitting avation? Oh my goodness, yeah, I don't see. After
you watch I gave today? How you okay? Well, things
are still gonna go for the United.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
States evenwell, immediately on the postgame show on Fox.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I think he was I think he was foaming at
the mouth with what he had to say right away
after that, and it was unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
I think I can quote him directly after the US
lost to Panama to one tonight.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Boy, if the.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
US doesn't get out of its group on Monday night,
after that game against Uruguay.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Greg Burholter will lose his job and he deserves to.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh yeah yeah, but it was much more like I'm shaking.
I'm talking. It's like when you when what are your
kids does something that makes you so mad or somebody's
something so mad and you're just shaking because you're so
upset what you're saying, Burholter will lose his job and
rightfully so, I mean he threw that at the end,
and rightfully so.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I mean it's and not just getting out.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
And this is what I was thinking most of the
second half of tonight's game watching Fox.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Is you know, it could be worse.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
The US could lose this game and then a goal
in the eighty third minute, and they did lose this
game to one to Panama, which means now the US
will likely need to beat first place Uruguay on Monday
night just to advance out of the group. That game's
Monday Night on FS one. Why you say would they
have to win and not get a tie because Panama,
(05:12):
whom the US tied tonight, gets to play last place
Bolivia on Monday to finish up, So probably.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
A win there. Now, Look that's like your homecoming game. Yeah, exactly.
We're only going to play seven or eight. We don't
need to play all eleven.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
But Bolivia tonight was down in the first twenty minutes
or so, down to nothing to ergo.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah, it was very quickly that happened, which is why
you heard the entire day. And most likely they will
need to beat Uruguay because they will be most likely.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, but we can't put it in pen. But that's yeah,
quite likely.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Here's my two biggest concerns about US Soccer and where
they are run after losing today to Panama, which was
incredibly embarrassing. Yes, you had stuff happened during the game.
You had Tim Way getting an awful red card and
undisciplined punch in the back of the head. The official
looked at it for all of three seconds, so once
said up ye, red card, you're out. So that changes
(06:03):
everything graded after video review, it's like, would you like
to upgrade to a red card? No, I'd like to
say to the La super.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Size, We're gonna keep the grimace thie, We're.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Gonna upgrade you to a red card. Oh okay, that's great.
But here's here's the two things that that really hit
me about this and why Burholter. I mean, I feel
like we just have to go on from this era. Please.
We've seen so much of Greg Burholter, and you can debate,
and here here's the thing about this. You can debate
his tactics during the game and what he did and
(06:33):
some adjustments that he made, some adjustme that he made worked,
some adjustices that he made didn't work. I don't know
that Baaligan was got to take out of the game
at that point. I agree with Clint Dempsey. He had
just had it. He biffed a big scoring chance by
taking a shot because he got a little shot appy,
but still he was playing well. He scored the big
goal early. I him.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
It's it reminds me of when Kristin Press was playing
for the US women. You could get instant offense and
somebody not afraid to shoot, and somebody that just doesn't
send the ball into the crowd actually makes the goalie work.
This guy's been good in the year less than a
year we've been seeing him with the US.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah. But outside of that, the two biggest things right
that I look at, I say, we need a change.
And this is why people are going to be watching
the game Monday night hate watching because it's going to
be Oh, if we win, we move on. But if
we lose, hey, we're gonna get rid of Burholter. Is
that he's been the coach now for a long time? Right,
I still don't know what our identity is. If you said,
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what does the United States do? Well, what do they do?
What do they game plan every every game to impart
their will on the game? What do they do? What
is their identa? What does you know? We're gonna do
X and Y every single time and other teams know
we have to stop X and Y. The only thing
I come up with is get the ball to Polistic,
which as a youth coach, I get it. I want
to get the ball to my best player too. I
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don't know what the plan is at midfield. I don't
know what the plan is to try to figure out offensively?
Is he married to what he has up at striker?
I just don't know. I do is toughness going to
be part of our what is it? It's still just
a bunch of guys out there, and I don't know
what our identity is. This is not life and that's
a big and that's a big thing. Right, you think
by now you at pieces. We're built on the back
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line and everything comes out of there. We're built in
our midfields because we attack. We're built here. And I
don't know what that is. And that's a big question,
because this is what is falls under your category of
head coaches to we have to instill a culture. We
have to tell you what we're about. We have to
tell you exactly what our plan is and what our
identity is. And they still don't have one.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
A couple of holes on defense tonight, but as far
as him, and this is again through the last World
Cup cycle and then an interim coach for month after
month after month, and then they rehire the same.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Guy, which is a who led the search a search
of my success? Who is it? It's me? Oh hey,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That works.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
We all collectively did a literal face Paul, not the emoji,
but like, are you kidding me? And the guess who's
co hosting the World Cup in two years? They got
to figure this out. We have to let's say this
out loud. We're not the first to say that out loud.
We have to take advantage of the crew that we
have on the roster these days. We have never in
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our lifetimes had this type of young talent playing with
the famous clubs in Europe.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
We're finally getting that.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
We're progressing as US soccer development, if you want to
call it that.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
And they've played together for a few years now. We've
got to get something out of this generation before Polistic
is thirty eight years old. That's boy, I never actually
got there.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
But the other part of it is, and this is
even bigger than instilling the culture and what our identity is, right,
which still is amazing that he's been the head coach
this long. We don't have one.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Yeah, it's not like when you bring up Harbo for example,
you know what kind of identity win or loss you're
gonna get.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
There's a focus, you know, even with Kleinsman, it was okay,
the identity was this is Kleinsman's team and his decision. Okay,
it made like it or not like it, but that
was that was what the identity of this.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
You'll find every quasi American that you've never heard of
is living in Norway ready to come player.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well yeah whatever.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
But the bigger, the bigger part of it for me
is this is that and again this is away from
the from the gimmicks and away from the strategy, and
away from what Burlock does doesn't do. But this United
States team still is prone to bad decisions, emotional decisions,
stupid decisions way and not controlling himself and getting and
getting a red card. I still see so many goals
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we give up where I go, how do the defenders
not know who to be marking on this play?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I get the ten or fifteen minutes following the red card,
things get a little weird because, all right, we're trying
to figure out what the best alignment were. Right the
first you get in to the eighty the two goals,
I mean the first goal, I'm like, okay, there were
three players surrounding their striker and they still scored. All right,
I get it. It's things are going. But that goal
in the eighty fifth minute, it's it's there's there's three
guys around there, and I'm saying, how do you not
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know who to be marking? And we still see this.
We saw this at the end of the World Cup
last time, when we got absolutely embarrassed in the last
game in the knockout round where where players are running
wide open on the back because we're not covering the
right players. And I still see that. I still see
on the field our defenders not knowing where to go,
not knowing who to mark, and I see the ball
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coming down and one striker having it between three players
and they still find a way to get get it
by them in the back of the net. I don't
see any bit of reliance or responsibility that the players
have taken. Why do we still talk about players being
unmotivated and up and down from game to game. This
is the United States men's national team. This is the
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best we've ever been. How do you still take well
Weston McKenny and his motivation, Why is that still going on? Right?
This all falls under the category of the head coach.
And I know the players are pros and this is
what they're paid for, but this is different. You have
to make sure everybody's on the same page and everybody
knows what they're doing. And there's still times during a
game where I go, I know that we do what
we were doing. I don't know what we were doing
on that left when they were pressuring us so hard.
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I don't know that we knew what we were doing.
And usually the back line is pretty stout, but boy,
they're out of position a lot, and I go, this
falls under this is the fact that we don't have
an identity and you still see mistakes, whether they're emotional mistakes,
whether they're motivational mistakes or on field mistakes. There's just
too many of them.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
And defense with the veteran he's passed thirty five I
think now with Tim Breem, his man beat him to
get the first half shot off that scored the goal.
He also remember had the off sides that cost the
US a goal after reader review in the fifth minute
of the game, and Anthony Robinson in the first half
couldn't stop the goal that went in, and in the
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second half the game winner. He handed Panama that possession
with a bad clearance pass, kicked it right to him
and in the eighty third minute of Panama goal wins
it two to one. So when we're talking about the
coach not doing a good job, certainly we're not only
talking about tonight, and we're not only talking about the
opening game, which was two nothing over an awful Bolivia team.
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Let's just call it what it is. You know, tonight's opponent,
Panama's not ranked in the top twenty. They're not ranked
in the top forty, is not in the top eighty
in the world. That should have been at least three
or four nothing last Sunday. And remember one of the
tune up games was a US five to one loss
against Columbia, a real opponent, and ever since he's come back.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Well, let's go back to October. What's the US record.
It's five five and one. This is not good enough.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah, but and against teams not named Mexico, what's our record?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Oh eleven? I mean, I really it's.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I mean I don't get to play Al Salvador all
the time. Okay.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
By the way, the referee was from Al Salvador tonight.
Did not bathe himself in glory? No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
But I mean that's when you look at why does
Greg Burholton me? Why do people say this? Forget about
because you can question a guy's strategy and should he
have done this? Should he had done this? If something
works out, it works out. If it does it doesn't.
But just those two things, the lack of an identity
and the mistakes that are still made, both mental and physical,
how are we still going on with this? I mean,
like how is this okay? I feel like John Oliver,
(13:55):
how is this okay? Like I don't bred Bridge's okay,
I understand.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
And okay, let's bring it back to your hate watching comment,
which brings us back to a US super fan that
we have on the show all the time talking NFL,
Jason lock and Forre saying before this tournament started, he
loves these players and he hoped the US got creamed
and bounced quickly out of this tournament so US Soccer
would wise up and do something about this ridiculous coaching
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we hire and do something about it so we can
actually plan properly and get something set before we co
host a.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
World Cup in two years exit, how about a fresca
that Jason Smith show Steve de Sager in for Mi
carbon I mean, talk about all the strategy you want.
Those two reasons right, there should be those blinking red
light blinking red lines. We'll have more on this coming up,
because now already Greg Burholter has late blame as to
whose fault it was for losing today. But straight ahead,
(14:51):
Brownie James is a laker, and you got people that
are all sorts of upset about this one thing. I
don't think the Lakers lebron Bronny have thought through when
they talk about Bronny playing on the Lakers with his dad.
That's coming up next right here, Jason Smith Steve de
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Speaker 1 (16:05):
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friend Mike Harmon Harmon On Vacation special Delivery Steve to
segare in for Harmon tonight. You know, I was thinking
about this devo instead of Grimace running for president. Oh
you know what if I ran under my normal my
my normal platform of gas and milk under two dollars
(16:26):
a gallon. Oh, everything else I figure out. But Grimace
is my running mate and Grimace is the vice president.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Even better?
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Now, wait a minute, how how do you get gas
and milk under? Do you like massive subsidies like keeping
the wnba afloat so it's really not it's an artificial
price in other words?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Yeah, oh yeah, Well listen, here's the thing is, I
have the ideas. I just will have smart people figuring
it out. Oh that's what I'm smart people. Listen. What
I do is, here's I have the cabinet metaggor Listen.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
That's what you're gonna do differently.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Here's ideas I have, and then I say it, and
then it's up to them to go so implement it.
And I will take all the credit at the end,
you know, and add this idea of sending Grimace in
to all the cities that need help and him throwing
the first ball out. Look, look what happened to all
these cities there. They were in trouble. Here they need
they need money on education, the money schools were crumbling. Here.
I send Grimace in for the first pitch. Look what
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happens right away. As a way to drive down those prices.
What you're gonna do is, instead of like Canada attacks
people so much so they get healthcare at this great deal,
you're going to tax them so that milk goes down, yes, milk, Yeah,
milk goes down and gas goes down. And I get everybody,
wait a.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Minute, what's your focus on here? And Grimace and all
the fast food for the kids.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Anyway, I just need Grimace. I just need Grimmace standing
next to me. It's like, okay, I got Grimace now,
and I got all the kids telling their parents you
got to vote for Grimace, vote for the guy with Grimace.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
So this is like when the sugar dierial commercial comes
on and the kid influences the parents.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yes, that's how would go that's how would do it? Yeah,
and I would say this, hey, listen, you know you
all get sick of talking about my favorite teams. How
about this every Jets win on a Sunday in the
regular season, everybody's off from work on Monday in school,
so no days off. So basically three days off a
year and one day off in October.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
That's the Belichick crash.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Maybe one in November and one late December one too,
but Jets win on a Sunday, everybody's off on Monday.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well, this is actually gonna call whoever is the commissioner
by then and to play in the NFL. See, you
haven't heard the news of today's court case, but you
know that's kind of not really gonna mess with the
whole up and up aspect of everything's cool with the
referees not being influenced.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
What if I say this free NFL access to every
game to everyone. Oh so you don't have to buy
such ticket? No, no, everybody gets every game, no matter
what kind. As long as you have a television, we
get you and every NFL out of market you can.
Possibly you guarantee every postseason game will be on a
regular channel. Oh sure, one hundred percent, Yes, I will
(19:06):
do all of that.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, I might vote for you.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I also would have to guarantee that Jets make the
playoffs every year. They're going to buy you had me
they have a buy into the playoffs. They have a
special playoff spot for him. Jets raised in every row.
Yeah the other stuff gas great Gash would like to
see it. Should like to see that work free TV
for all the NFL playoff games. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but
then you win it, of course in a Jets direction.
(19:29):
For those who haven't heard the show before, of course
it eventually. You want off on Monday, don't you? And
you want off on You like to me off on Monday,
would't Youah, you like that? You'd watch that Jets game
real interesting on Sunday, wouldn't you come on? Man for
and goal punches in?
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yeah, come off tomorrow would be the only reason to
watch the Jets, of course, Jason.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
I think Steve told us without telling us that he
has bunny ears on his TV.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
When you watching, his wife stands next to TV and
puts the hands on the bunny ears. All the receptions
when you hold the bunny is, so stand there and
hold them.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
And what I'm telling you is that I work at
a place that, let's just say, did not have one
of the playoff games last year.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh no, I made a football for everyone that is corrected.
Football should be for everyone. Football should be for everybody's think.
There you go. So there's my platform. Really, you talk
about the US men's national team not having an identity,
that's my identity as a candidate everybody can get behind.
I want everybody to win. That's not my fault. Your
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team stinks, but I want your team to win. If
you need help, you tell me, I'll send you Grimace.
Grimace gets out there. Oh the swag.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
He'll come back with this for four years from now.
You can't get anything done on a short between June
and November this year.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I know I got to strike while the iron's hot
on Grimace now, but I can't. I can't. I can't
shelve Grimace until twenty twenty eight comes.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
You know, if you've seen his diet, he may not
be around four years.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Grimmas has been around since nineteen fifty five. I think
Grimas is gonna be He's.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Absolutely the idea of Grimmace has been around.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'm not sure that's they're gonna run out of costumes.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
No, they could have run out of guys who are
on that diet, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Plenty of guys Hey, listen week that.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Movie Dave where a different guy plays the president. Yeah,
they just keep shoving a new guy in there.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Oh, this White House chief of Staff, how wonderful for you.
We're walking.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
We're walking, Yeah, the old Bonnie Hunt walk.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
We're walking. We're walking. Meanwhile, while this was all going
on that we had the presidential debate, we had the
men's national team.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Both in Atlanta, by the way, and they actually congratulated
the US fans for being able to show up on
time to that game because it was six eastern and
roads were closed because of the debate. That's in Atlanta also,
and actually fifty.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Nine thousand people were there.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah. The one thing I didn't think they needed to
do is I didn't think Biden or Trump needed to
congratulate Georgia for beating Portugal yesterday. I don't think they
knew that. You know, in Swing State they mentioned Kirby
Smart a couple of times, like, I don't think that's
the right that's not the right one. I want to
go to get away from it.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I've never heard of the Shellish Kashweli, who's the Okay,
maybe he's a naturalized citizen. Maybe I had something to
do with I could see that going through their mines.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Meanwhile, Day two of the NBA Draft began at nine
am this morning, and you probably woke up and saw
that it ended and Bronnie James was a Los Angeles Laker.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Shock.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Just like I told you, I thought fifty five is
gonna be Bronnie. I bet you he wears fifty five
in the NBA reminder of what my draft position was.
Told you the Lakers were gonna take him. This amid
reports that Rich Paul had been calling teams and saying
that if you draft him, he's not gonna play for you.
He's going to Australia. So if any team outside of
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the Suns or Lakers, the only two teams that Bronnie
James worked out for, if any of those teams drafted Brownie,
he would go to Australia. Now I know there's a
lot of people. I can't believe an agent would do this.
We have to get out from under this. We can't
let him run the league. This would never happen in
the NFL. Rich Paul were telling teams, hey, don't draft
(23:00):
Bronnie James is going to play in Australia. Is like me,
walking into a restaurant and the maitre d saying, hey,
if you order a salad, I'm kicking you out. Okay, yeah,
don't worry about it. Well, I'm good. Let's sit down.
I'm ready. I'm ready. Probably you could be. It could
be a Caesar salad, it could be a cop So
now you order a salad of any kind, I'm throwing
you out. Yeah, no, I'm good. Where's my seat? Where's
(23:20):
my sat here? Really? I mean the teams did they
even look at a fax or see the email and
just delete it? Like facts, how many teams we're gonna
we're gonna say, yes, we want to draft Bronnie James.
Let's just be honest. How many teams are gonna draft him?
He was a player that you could take or not,
which is every player in the second round of the draft.
Every guy in the second round is a project. Maybe
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he works, maybe he doesn't. Sometimes you find a diamond
in the rough and the guy turns into an all star,
like a Gilbert Arenas. Sometimes, most of the time, the
second round pick plays in the G league for a
year or two and then just disappears, like I don't
know why this was met with such sudden hatred of
Oh well, I can't believe that ages trying to run
this dill. Nobody else was gonna take Bronnie James liked.
I get that you want to be chesty about this
(24:03):
and say, hey, look at me, I'm pledge sports. None
of us were gonna take him. No, but there was
no rumor that any team was ever thinking about. Not
even the Sons who worked him out, was wow, we'd
really like to take him. No, no, no, no, no.
This was where it was going all along. The fact remains,
if he was a better prospect, it would be a
different story. But he was someone just like anybody else
taken in the second A J. Edwards, anybody else, Hey,
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any of the Knicks picks who who score like four
points a game, But it doesn't matter. They don't need it.
They have the best one three.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
I think in trade they picked up Tyler Klok, who
actually had a college career at Marquees.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I mean, listen, I understand we got to worry about
France in four years in the Olympics, because that's gonna
be good. All of a sudden, it's gonna be difficult.
But nobody was gonna take Brownie this was This was
an empty threat, and all it's gonna do is backfire
on Rich Paul because Rich Paul's got to get some
more clients if he wants to be continue to be
such a powerful agent. Because his guys, you'll be talked
about it last night, his main guys aren't going to
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be around for that much longer. And you want to
really want to stand up and and and and get
chesty about Bronnie James. Really, that's what you want to
that's what you want.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
To get that hill.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
He's going to Austra. Okay, hey, that's fine, thanks for
letting I guess that's that's great. I really appreciate that.
Thank you. I get that. I'm not eating the salad.
I'm not. Don't worry about it. I'm going right to
a main course. That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
It gets to the secondary issue of Wow, that's therefore
a perfect story for ESPN to create, because it's ESPN
that keeps telling us Bronnie James is a prospect. It's
ESPN who tells us, oh, what a great story for
the guy getting drafted into the NBA. It's a great dream.
And you know he's talked a lot about trying to
(25:42):
get out from under his dad's shadow. It's a good
thing I was not eating when I heard that. For me,
ESPN forget the fact that, Okay, he didn't control how
he was named. He's been wearing his dad's number. Yeah,
he went to the hand selected private school in the
town where his dad moved. He went to the hand
(26:03):
selected private college, and he's gonna go to the dad's
team and worked out for his dad's team. But yeah,
sure he's trying to get out from under the shadow
of his dad. Because what he's some top ten prospect
coming out of high school. He was not because he
averaged ten twenty points a game last year.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
He did not.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
He's Brownie James. If he was Joe Smith, would he
have been taken tonight?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Joe Smith went pretty high in the night he got it.
I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure Joe Smith might have
went number one overall.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Joe Jones.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
I'm pretty sure Joe Jonas did not get a single jas.
Joe Jonas will get drafted ahead of Kevin Jonas, but maybe.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Behind Uther Joke not have been taken fifty fifth overall
or otherwise.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
No, But look this is and I still remember when
this has been. This is going back about five years
is that I remember I was coaching my daughter's soccer practice,
went to the field normally where we practice, and all
of a sudden, there's helicopters ring like a few hundred
yards in the field, and I'm like, what is going on?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Probably not for you.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
I didn't know what was happening. I'm like, what they
just just practice is like after school? Probably what is
going on? Why is it such a big deal? Because
the middle school that my daughter went, she wasn't there yet.
She's an elementary school. But the one she wound up
going to, which is right there, you know, neighborhood middle School,
elementary school. That was Bronnie James's first game. He is
an eighth grade transfer student, and his first game was
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against the middle school my daughter went up going to,
which is right near where we live. And that was
the coverage for basketball for Bronnie James, an eighth grade
basketball game.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
That's what there's a helicopter flying over.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
No, no, no outdoors outdoors, it's an indoor hella.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
No, no, the game is indoors.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
So if you have a hell for arrivals, for everything else. No,
the only indoor Helicai is in the mall going hey,
look at this, I can make this fly.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
So no, I'm saying the game is taking two hours.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
What is the point? There were live shots for for
local news and it was it was it was getting
I mean, look, this is how big a deal it
is for for Bronnie to come into the later.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
I thought enough breath was wasted on the whole. Aaron
Rodgers first year with the Jets thing, this has top
that time three It's it's unreal how much Bronnie James
talk has gone on. Let's count two three years from now,
and let's see if any of that was worth it.
I mean, any of that on a basketball level.
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The Jason Smith Show is Steve de Saga and from
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just change and in Indiana one in Chicago, we kind
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and Sky. They play twice a week. Maybe they're in
their own wa like it's like it's a WNBA like
the English Premier League. The top league is Fever Sky
(29:53):
and that's it, and then everybody else below.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
So you have to actually prove your way into the
top league or else you get relegated the other.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Fever and Sky are always in the top league and
you can't go up to it. You just have that's
the top league and then there's a league under it.
There's no relegation, there's no promotion.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
You know.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
There has been a lot of attention, of course to
the WNBA, and justifiably so, but this is also quite starkly,
in my opinion, proven that the WNBA has not been
ready for prime time.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Now, what have I said, be ready to handle success?
Right and it's and the good news is that And
right now we have the last WNBA game of the
night going on right now, getting into.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
Halftime, Kaylin Clark's team losing late first task to thirty
six and she's got nine, three and three.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Meanwhile Angel reached to night eighteen and eleven as the
Sky lost their game tonight. But look, it's be ready
to handle success and so far what we've seen the
last couple of weeks. Okay, things are starting to calm
down a little bit, which we said. I said, listen,
it's gonna start calming down right as bad as it was,
as bad as this, the racial back and forth, if
(30:58):
it was, and the jealousy, it's start, it's gonna calm down.
It's about the basketball now and now it's about the rivalry,
which is a better rivalry quite honestly, than we have
almost any other sport player versus player. We don't have that.
But for all of this, well, it's Caitlyn Clark, it's
Angel Rees, It's really Caitlyn Clark. And then it's Angel Reese.
(31:18):
Right now, I get Angel Reese's popular and she can
be and she can be a star too. She's already
a star. There's other star players in the WNBA. Caitlin
Clark is on a different level, all right. For Magic
Johnson to say, oh, it's like when me and Larry
came into the league. Yeah, thanks for thanks for taking
our take from two months ago. But Caitlin Clark is
magic and Larry. Like we said it, they said, she's
magic and Larry in this she's the one that's bringing
(31:41):
flights and moving games. To different arenas because our power.
It's what your people who want to come see the games.
This is like stuff from the twenties. Hey, the barnstorming
Yankees are coming to town. We can't have the game here.
We got to have it at Crossley Field where one
hundred thousand people are gonna come watch. Like this is
a Caitlin Clark effect on it, and and yes, yes
it is great. It is like Magic and La. I
(32:01):
said it was gonna be like when Magic and Larry
got to the NBA, the level of what they took
the game too. Caitlyn Clark coming in is like Magic
and Larry, but she's both of them. I know this
because there is no Angel Reese backlash on anything, right,
There's no Angel the rookie and Angel Rees and there's
backlash on her. Does she deserve it? Is she getting
extra fouls, she getting extra attention or people complaining about No,
(32:24):
there's no backlash for Angel Rees. So that should tell
you right there that Okay, yes, Angel Reese is a
really good player, and she's a star, and she's someone
that stirs the drink. But really it's Caitlin Clark. That's
how it goes. I mean there's if Angel Reese was
really operating on that level, she would be a bigger
deal daily and stuff that would happen. She would affect
(32:44):
change in the league a little bit more. It's just
Caitlyn Clark comes in with a resume that is unmatching,
a popularity that is unmatched. And to understand popularity, you
really have to understand that they're not moving every single
game that Angel Reese is playing into a different arena
so they could fit more people. They're moving games that
she's playing in. Oh, by the way, against Caitlin Clark
(33:04):
to a different arena. Even Kitlin Clark was mad last
week on we couldn't play this in the United Center. WHOA, Okay,
I thought we could play it, But that's above my
pay grade. But really understand that that that, yes, the
rookie class coming in is great, but the WNBA would
not be anywhere where they are right now if not
for Caitlyn Clark. If Angel rees doesn't come into the league,
right if Angel Reese is still in college right now,
(33:25):
let's say it's Kitlin Clark in the WNBA. This is
we're still getting what we're getting. They're still getting the
the the commercial the commercial flight set to charter. They're
still getting these games in different areas. They're still getting
more money for whatever. Uh, they're gonna wind up do
it for broadcast rights. They're talking about farming out the
broadcast rights for the Championship now because they could make
more money on it. If Angel Reese is still in college,
(33:48):
Caitlyn Clark comes out by herself. It's like this. If
it was the other way and Kitlyn Clark was still
in college and Angel Reese came out, we would not
be seeing this, no, and it wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Be As an example, the game about a week ago
at Atlanta and instead of in their three thousand seed arena,
it was put in the NBA Arena in Atlanta and
sold out over seventeen thousand tickets for Kaitlin Clark's visit.
And Clark, by the way, is near the top in
three pointers made this year and she's top five in
assists per game.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
But this is not a basketball discussion. I need to
emphasize this.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
You're talking about star power like Steph Curry, which comes
from his talent, but it's something different. Once he, for example,
had that run with Davidson in March Madness or what
he became as his career went on. In the NBA,
there was a fascination with his game. It wasn't just
the stat sheet of how many points did he score?
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, and if it's almost like when we said the
games they kind of are similar to that. Her game
was Steph that Kaitlyn Clark, Yeah, and a lot of
game was Draymond Like, Okay, who's a more popular player? Right?
They're both popular, both stars. Who's clearly the more popular.
Both can win titles, they deserve to be on the floor.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Both have talent.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Angel Reese I looked it up, is eleven rebounds per game.
The leader in the league is eleven point three. So
to say she's having a good rookie season is an understatement.
She's doing exactly what they drafted.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Her in Chicago to do.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
And now, the thing about Angel Reese I'm gonna say
is this is now, this is gonna be the conversation.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
It's she really lasted till seven, Like really she lasted
till seven. Took the injured Stanford star earlier at what
two or three over over?
Speaker 1 (35:27):
I get Camilla Cardozo because when she's on, she just
has hadn't been stoppable. She's absolutely unstoppable now. But now
they have both of them. But I'm like, wow, Angel
Rees really lasted till seven. I mean, she's easily the
second best rookie night and her and Kate and Clark
had been great, and she lasted till seven. Man like
this is you know, even Jordan went three, you know whatever,
(35:48):
But her lasting till seven with what she had coming
out of college and the star power and the popularity,
and you knew it was gonna be some kind of
deal where when she got to the league she was
gonna help raise the Q where she went to bite
she still lasts until seven.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
So instead you had the La Sparks drafting Sam Bowie again.
Speaker 7 (36:06):
And so really this is parallel so far, oh so
so Cameron Brink is the Sam Bowie well of the
w in the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
No, no, you know, you know you're not. No, you're not.
And the thing is I can't unsee because she looks.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
A lot like in the bold figure.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
No no, no, she looks a lot like the in
in the uh Toby Maguire spider Man, the guy who
lived across the hall from him, the daughter he was
always asking for rent money, and the daughter that he
took to MJ's thing to make her jealous. Like somebody, yeah, yeah,
somebody put that on Twitter, and I go, oh, now,
I can't un see it, Like I cannot say that
that's Cameron Brink is the guy across the hall slacks
(36:47):
his daughter taller, yes, set slightly time. That's all Every
time I saw Cameron Brik, that's all I think of
is it's, hey, do you want to go to a
party with me? And then he just wants to make up. Well,
here's some dun'st jealous.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
She's got time and she does want go party with you.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
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