September 3, 2025 • 41 mins
🎙️ Hour 1 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
The guys kick off the hour by recapping North Carolina’s tough loss to TCU, along with head coach Bill Belichick’s surprising struggles. They break down what Belichick just doesn’t seem to understand about the college football landscape. Later, they provide an update on WNBA star Caitlin Clark, with Jason offering her some pointed advice. All that and more in Hour 1 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hello, welcome inside. Happy Tuesday. That is Happy Tuesday, everybody
who doesn't live in Detroit, Happy Tuesday, The Jason Smith
Show with my bas friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Look at you getting all chesty again, buddy boy. I'm
sorry I missed at the last.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah. Well, I gotta say the the family chat that
I have with everybody in Pam's family is a lonely place.
The last couple of days with the Mets taking the
first two as big as I have against the time.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Are you just got a texting into a black hole
at this point? No, he's engaging.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, I texted when it was Walt when.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
The Yankees are going bad.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
When McNeil singled to make it ten to two, I
gave him the Simpsons jiff of Stop Stop he's already dead.
And I got crickets. I got absolute crickets, no blowbacks,
I got so absolute crickets. Yeah, they're just.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Too busy reveling in Underwood having a good performance.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah. Well yeah, listen, hey, he's he's got everybody going, oh, okay, okay,
things might be all right this year. Now, things might
be okay, they might be okay. All right, we got
a quarterback. Okay, I remember they won a title.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
With a guy who nobody loved his quarterback just a
couple of years ago. As I recall, all right, well,
you know they're a long nightmare of mediocrity. Oh it
lasted a year.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
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(02:08):
wall Look, baseball is getting hot and heavy right where.
I can't believe we're into you know, we're getting twenty
games left in the regular season, and I could tell
my baseball friend fans who are all nervous now about
what because their tempers are shorter. Their tempers are shorter now,
and I can't believe my temper is as good as
it is. I'm like, hey man, we love three or
four of the Marlins.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
No, it's a prime.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I'm okay. Maybe because it's lightning McClain day. And watching
McClain throw is so much fun because nobody in Major
League Baseball has his stuff. He throws a frisbee for
a cutter that is just out of this world. He
is so much fun to watch pitch, like in an
era when you like to see guys that throw big
heat and throw certain pitches and the ghost fork has
become a big thing and draw. But he throws some
(02:51):
cutter that just floats. And even the Tigers guys were
amazed today, going they're going, I don't know what that was,
but it was glowing when it crossed the like, that's
how wowed they were by Nolan McLain.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
No, that's just it. Four straight wins. He's been fantastic.
You know, it's funny if you look to an AI
overview of this game, he's the first Mets pitcher to
win his first four MLB starts since twenty fourteen, when
another pitcher parenthetical who has not yet been named named
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from twenty fourteen. Hey, we don't know who he is.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yet, I don't know, don't know wich we'd have done.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I love that. Yeah, but but it's exciting, right. You
got two young pictures that that have electrified the world.
You got Juan Soto who after a rough start and
a lot of bad press, horrible ink, and all the
talkers they're in New York trying to pile up as
fast as they can, all of a sudden they look
up and they look at those numbers, are like, he's
(03:50):
doing things no one he's ever done before. Yeah, yeah,
I just hasn't done it quite quite a long time.
But because of Schwarber, but because of Otani, it gets
pushed to the way. So uh and it's gonna be
overshadowed by these young guys, particularly when they get nineteen
runs of support and all that kind of nonsense. But uh,
Wan Soto having himself the year that you paid all
that money for.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And listen, if you listen to the odd couple a
few minutes ago with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington talked
about how you know Wan Soto hasn't lived up to expectations.
There's a reason why I ked Rob Parker's car on
the way in for the show today. Said, okay, you're
gonna say that, I'm gonna key your car. So his
car's got a nice little jagged s O t O
on it, So he's got like that's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
He said, Yeah, I would have just put a giant
question mark like the Riddler. It's like, I don't understand
what's he supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I mean, he's like he's gonna in the end, Wan
Soto's gonna finish in the top five and MVP voting
in the National League. I'll finish there right, Like he's
gonna fin Yeah, it could be his highest depending on
how the rest of it he He and Alonso are
dragging the Mets, the players, whether they want to go
or not. They're just dragging you and new rookie the
babes will lead them. Yeah, and McLean has showed up
and he's he's at four starts. He's our best pitch.
(05:00):
He's had forced major league starts. He's our best picture.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Everybody else the day without having a picture of Bruce
Willis in my head though.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh see, I just keep thinking of Lightning McLain, like
lightning mcqueenchow, good chow, good chow.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Either that or Denny McClain. Uh oh, it's.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Got different, different McClain, different McLean he was. He was
in prison for a while. The guy won thirty games,
but to prison.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
That's fine. I read.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Remember I read the third thirty one and six, the
story of Denny McClain. I read that book, you know,
and by teachers. Here's the thing, okay, as a book
report at least, I really no, I really want to
go back, No to the baseball Life of Sandy Kofax
was my I had the Mickey man. Oh that's a
good one too. Yeah, no one too. But like like,
I want to go back and tell my teachers, all
(05:42):
my English teachers and my you know they taught me
in like you know, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, in elementary school,
in middle school, and say, hey, I have I am
an incredible reader. I read fifty books a year. I read.
I read all kinds of fiction I read. I want
you to know this because they probably they think back
now they're all in their eighties now, but they go
Jason Smith. All he did was do book reports on
(06:03):
sports players and athletes. It's all he did. No, I
don't read a lot of sports books anymore. I read novels.
I read. I'm all into mysteries and thrillers and everything
the novels. I'm not your credits niverse.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I read there.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I read everything. I read everything on the top list
of the year, I read all of it. Wild Duck
Shores might pick for best of twenty twenty five, so far,
all of it. I don't read sports books, but I
want that out there because I don't want to be
Yeah he was that guy that just loved sports, and
yeah he did the did that, did the thirty one
and six, The Story of Denny McClain and all that.
Oh yeah, yeah, all the big sports books.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah. I used to pick some that were kind of controversial,
like in between all the sports I was like, why
did you pick that one? I'm like, cause it really
shouldn't be on a librate for why did yous in
fifth grade? Why did you pick lou brock Well. The
beginning of free agency was a new dawn in the
era of Major League baseball.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh okay, sure.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
So going all the way back now, I'm read a
book about dopamine.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Oh okay, why is it? Does it make you feel good?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Very no?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Oh wow, it must not be a good book. No,
it must not be a good book. That how we Chase,
Why we chase, and all all of these. Yeah, it's
it's very interesting, reed, And I don't feel good. What
was it?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What was the uh? I don't feel good about it now?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It was the South Park, the Chasing the Dragon, the
one where the the video the Chasing the Dragon video game.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
That's kind of where we're at.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But here we are now as we get set for
Week one in the NFL again, we're happy NFL Eve
the eve, yeah right now? And uh the end of
the week where college football doffs its cap and says, hey,
we have all the attention for this run of five
seven days. The latest AP poll came out this week
and to no surprise, Ohio State number one team in
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the country after beating Texas fourteen to seven last week.
They ascended number one. Other teams four top ten teams lost.
They didn't drop all that far, which is good. When
wasn't a knee jerk reaction to what we saw first
week of the season. Look, we saw some big games
and clearly none was bigger on the field we talk
about in the standings and the rankings than Ohio State
in Texas. And the funny thing is this is that
(08:10):
all the attention the last couple of days has been
on arch Manning, and rightfully so. Right arch Manning and
Bill Belichick are the two stories of college football, and
arch Manning and his debut and how poorly he played
and what he has to do and that what he
has to work on and his arm angles and all
of that. I get that that was the complete total story.
Ohio State did not play well. Okay, Ohio State didn't
play well. Are we sure that Ohio State is good?
(08:35):
Just saying are we sure? Because we don't know if
Texas is good? And Ohio State they were just sort
of hanging around like they didn't do a lot offensively. Yes,
defensively they played, but arch Manning missed a lot of throws.
It was not a well played game. And I get Look,
obviously arch Manning is a story, he's the rockstar college football.
But man Ohio State coming off the championship, I get it.
(08:57):
But are we sure that they're good? Because they didn't
look that great on Saturday. There's a couple other teams
that look better. And yes it's one week one of
the season, but all of a sudden, hey here's Ohio
State number one. You expected a little bit more. If
they were that good, that'd be more sloppiness in the game,
be more offense in the game, and there wasn't. And
Julian saying didn't put up a lot offensively, and it
was just it wasn't a great game to watch when
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we think these are two great teams. So I mean,
are we sure Ohio State is good? Because I don't
know that Ohio State is a great team.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I'm gonna put it this way. I'll put it in
terms because we try to grab the sporting world in
a giant hug. I felt like I was watching a
Floyd may Weather fight.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
That he was gonna win. He was holding up the
other person for a few rounds, and I was gonna win.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But like we're just kind of dancing and watching the
clock tick away, not taking a lot of shots downfield,
not getting really creative and going for the jugular on
either side. Right, Because for Julian saying right, he was
the number one quarterback the year after Arch or two
years after Arch. Right, So, young guy with a lot
of expectations on I know you had a lot of
(10:03):
attrition both sides. You're losing players to the draft, to
the portal and all that stuff, new bodies whatever, some
of it owing to the you know, play it close,
so don't take a lot of chances to where you
end up getting run out the gym. Now, the fact
that the lack of creativity or taking the points whichever
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side you want to go on. In that third quarter
possession where they run the ball four straight times inside
the Ohio State ten and get stuffed, that was one
where I'm just standing there with my you know, shrugging,
going what are we doing? What I mean, absolutely nothing,
no juice and the play calling and certainly the excellence
(10:44):
of execution on the Ohio State side, but all of
that to say we danced and look at what it
costs Texas their number seven. Yeah, I mean, but the
thing is is that, and this is what gets me
about this is that this is Ohio State Texas. This
is a game that hey, both teams need to win
this because this is a if we lose this game,
you only have so many losses till we can't put
(11:06):
you in the College Football Playoff anymore. This is a game, right,
but this is But you know, Ohio State's got some
tough games this season, So I get that when you're
playing a Tate Michigan for example, right when they go
out and they play New Mexico, I get how vanilla
their offense was. They don't want to put anything on
tape for Oklahoma. Look, and no one's seen outside of coaches,
no one sees more mission games last thirty years, and
(11:27):
I have this.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Is what they do. They never put anything out there
until they absolutely have to. It's why when they play
early in the season they don't blow teams out by
as much as you think, because they don't put stuff
out there until they get to their first test. So, yeah,
the offense was a little vanilla, and Bryce Hunter was
really good, but the offense was vanilla. They didn't really
do a ton And I get that because, well, we're
gonna win this game, and if we get to a
point where things are a little loose, we can make
(11:51):
an adjustment. But ohiose Texas, Hey, you got to throw
it all out there. Because you lose this game, all
of a sudden, well, you only have one more loss,
maybe to the way to get into the playoffs. Two
more losses, maybe forget it. You're out at three. Three
is like that line of demarcation where hey, two, you
should be able to stay in in a Power five conference.
Three I don't know. So all of a sudden, you're
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one more away and you have a tough schedule. So
I expected to see more creativity, more stuff, a little
more of a normal, outside the box, tight game plan.
And you had Sarkisian at halftime telling arch Manning, hey
take what the defense gives you, don't you? And and
Ohio State being incredibly conservative unless they don't just don't
trust Julian saying which if they don't trust him, goes
back to my first point. Are we sure Ohio State
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is a great team? Because man, I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
So pay you to say that?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, no, I said to Pants. Did Pans pay you?
They had an extra portion of.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The no no, I need her putting.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And Ohio State loves me because I said on Friday night,
what if arch Manning sucks, what does that mean for
college football? He sucked on Saturday. So you're welcome Ohio States,
and we give it. We get uh so, yeah, so
they're okay, they want they want.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
House State have like two order thirteen yard they weren't
great like they did or something. You see these other
ones we needed to tate. Yeah, forty yard touchdown mass
that's it. There's your explosiveness.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But you saw these other teams that were all playing
top five, you know, two other top ten games, right,
and no, tre Dame still moved the football and looked
okay offensively against a really good Miami team. And Miami
did the same thing against nore Dame. When we watched
LSU and Clemson, even though it was seventeen ten, Clemson
still moved the football. LSU still moved the football. They
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were able to do that. You can't sit here and
tell me the Texans Ohio States defenses are so good.
They're replacing so many players. You can't say, well, there
are two best defense in the country. Of course, I
got it no Week one. If you have any kind
of talent offensively, you should be able to exploit the
defense a little bit. I'm not saying it should have
been forty one forty, but it should have been a
little bit. But fourteen to seven, man, it's like, whoa,
I get that. The next couple of days belonged to
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arch Manning. But man, ohast I get they're the champs
and I get, but are they are?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They really?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Are they that great? I don't know, man, I mean really, Like,
that's a tough thing to suddenly say, hey, they're great
because they did not look good.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, but that was ignoring that. But that's the beauty
of the early part of the season, right, because now
if you want to get in on the arch Manning
by low situation right post post draft hype and all
that kind of stuff like we would do for trading
cards of like, hey, he was the prospect everybody wanted,
and then he didn't. He comes up as a bad call,
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call up in September, so everybody jumps off his cards
and it's like, all right, he comes back, he adjusts,
he'll be better. Arch Manning fourteen to one. Now he
was the leader in the clubhous in six or seven
to one. Yeah, coming into the year, nus Meyer who
had a big one, big drive but got it done.
And then Leonora's sellers, Yeah, suddenly get hey.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You know where he started his career and couldn't get
on the field and transferred Syracuse.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, we'll get into transfers. Yeah, I got a great
story after Notre Name game, right, Yeah, So you know,
maybe in the South Side Chicago, got a lot of
vested interest because you know, friends, family that went there,
and and a lot of my colleagues from from high
school that shoot me the line of expectations and whatever else.
They're they're at times insufferable. But my daughter at her
(15:11):
job on Sunday, they have a resident who is a
Notre Dame guy who was really excited to watch the game.
So they all gathered to watch that in the common area,
and they indulged him. They stayed up late, they're watching
the game, and then they were all pissed off after
the game ended. I stayed up late for this. This
is the worst thing.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well, they felt bad for the guy because I mean,
he had he had a loss, so he was salty,
and everybody else like stayed up way past bedtime.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I'll tell you, Dan Devine, I'll have him ready for
the next game. I'll be sure about that. No more
players walking in saying take my jersey. If the ruddicker
kid doesn't dress Take that jersey back. Exit out bout
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here we are another day closer to the beginning of
the NFL season. Happy NFL Eve Eve and then we
got two games, got games Thursday and Friday. Fun as that.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
All our friends, h you know that that are drifting
in this random trip to Brazil.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Frostburg still on a plane. He left like five hours ago.
He's in the middle of the thirteen hour flight to
Brazil for this.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Chargers just begging me. He's can I have a password
to this so I can download some shows?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I told him. I said, dude, hey, I just start binging.
We just start binging Sneaky Pete. You'll love it. Sneak
He's Sneaky Peter. I said, yeah, so hope. He's probably
as far into it as we are now, like we're like, okay,
like six episodes into season one. I'm like, oh my god,
I can't believe I didn't watch the show until now,
but like it's so good. And I told him. He
was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, where's it on?
I go Amazon? Netflix? Yes both, I'm okay, great, yeah,
yeah yeah Amazon Netflix A sorry. Great. So I know
(18:35):
he's in the middle of a Sneaky Pete marathon right now,
are we go? I did full Old Guy the last
couple of days.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Uh, finish my rewatch of Downton Abbey plus the movie
because the new movie is out on the twelfth.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Oh that's yeah, I do see that. The experience, the
end where it began down to Abbey.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, if you go to the movies, there's actually a
whole thing with mister Carson. Uh, but saw that saw
the Roses. Okay, Coleman and Cumber. That's sure hilarious. I
can't wait for the outtake. So that was good.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And then I went and saw Jaws on the big screen. Ooh,
didn't end any differently, No, did a shark win this time.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
But it's funny how much has been edited out for
television that you're just so conditioned, and a lot of
the scenes actually having like another minute of dialogue or
the eerie silences they're staring at him, like, yeah, it's
much different experience. Yeah, yeah, wow, you add that back in.
There's there's a there's a little more don' of tennor
as opposed to hey, were you in an accident late?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah? Yeah, well there's all you know, And there's also
certain things to be said, Like a movie like that
where you've seen it so many times, right, and you
see it on TV and stuff is going on, and
you watched like the opening scene again when it's the
guy and the guy and the girl around the beach
and she's out in the water, and just that when
she's up out of the like you're in a silent theater,
you're hearing and just hearing the like there's a panic
(19:50):
out of her, which you don't really get when you're
watching it on TV. It's like, oh yeah, yeah, here
comes this shark. But you get that in the theater,
you remember, oh my god, that's how that's how how
how intense this scene was. She's just a puff water
but we went breathtas just next level stuff yet farewell.
(20:11):
Uh so another day and look the story that's just
gonna keep on giving all year long is Micah parsons
trade from the Cowboys to the Packers. Today U Michaeh
Parson's agent, David Mulligata, who I've just referred to him
as the agent agent, like it's a TV show on Netflix.
It's uh uh that Mark Wahlberg was the agent and
I saw him in it. He was in Boston and
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he tried to stop a bad guy from doing stuff,
and he had a Boston accent, and Christian Bale was
there and an Affleck kid, and then all of a sudden,
Matt Damon's drawing stuff on a on a board and
it looks like all kinds of math and I look
at it and see, well, does any of this the
NFC standing? So I really didn't care about it. Then
the Peter Sarsguard, isn't it Uh? And uh, you know
(20:54):
he's a guy.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
He's a guy.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That's a whole I found out there Stars Guard and
scars Guard. You gotta go. A bunch of two different
families thought it was the same, Like the the Phoebe
Waller Bridges and Phoebe Bridges, two different people didn't know that.
I thought it was all the same person a singer
actress of two different people.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Didn't know.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
If you didn't know, no idea, I know I have
no idea. But all of that to say, I mean
when when we look at the the Micah Parsons, I
mean we're ready for another agent show, aren't we. I
mean our list was thirty years ago. Well we fifteen
years ago. Yes, Ballis was a long time ago. Yeah,
we need more glazed and confused. Yeah, but today was
(21:36):
the Agent's revenge. David Mullagata on ESPN Today on First Take,
talked about everything that went on from his perspective and
Michaeh Parson's perspective with the Dallas Cowboys. Uh, some of
the things that went on, I'll tick off really fast.
He said. The Cowboys were never told that Parsons wouldn't
play for them, Mulagedta saying, no, Michael loves the game
too much. He was gonna play Week one no matter what.
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Mulageda also went on to say that Parson since first
choice was always to stay in Dallas, he wanted to
be a cowboy. They did everything they could. He also
talked about, hey, what about this contract agreement between Micah
Parsons and Jerry Jones, and Mulaghetta said, well, when you're
a twenty five year old football player and your boss
was the most powerful person in the NFL calls you in,
what are you gonna do? And so all of this
(22:19):
is the power dynamic as well that he got into.
So seeing this from Michah Parson's side, Okay, you understand,
this is Michah Parson's side, and we've heard both Jerry
Jones and his version of events. We had a deal
which technically was not illegal for him to do, but
it's really frowned upon by the NFL. Beyed to go
shape directly with a player, and you don't know did
(22:41):
he cross the line. Who knows what happened in that conversation.
But with this war of what's going on the last
few days. Clearly the public sentiment is we're anti Jerry Jones.
Jerry Jones screwed this up, and he did because he
had the best defensive player in the NFL and he
couldn't sign him to a contract. Well, the interesting part though,
in the mulaghetti stuff as he enumerated, and a lot
of it really tracked with things we're theorizing the entire process,
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and I believe I used the term the devil's in
the details right of what the handshake agreement that Jerry
thought he had with.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Mike or whatever. But it all comes back to a
fifth year is the thing that really ends up blowing
it up right. One more year that would get him
to free agency and whatever sixty million dollars or whatever
the marketplace would be at that point. But it's just
kind of an interesting all right. Now we're getting the
enumeration in all of this in the PostScript, and it
(23:34):
goes back to what I said with Michael all the
time when he was looking all sad on the sideline,
he wanted to be on it with his guys.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah, whether he was laying on a table or eating
an orange or whatever, he was doing I doesn't want
to do that.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I want to go back to work.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
But if you're looking to if I'm saying, who I
believe with everything that went on between Micah parsons side
and Jerry Jones's side after hearing the stuff today, I'm
gonna believe Michaeh Parsons and his side, because number one,
when Jerry Jones said, hey, we offered Micah Moore guaranteed
money in this deal. Okay, but how many years did
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you offer? Like it's yeah, that's great, did you have
and and we Lagetta said, hey, yeah, they offered, but
it was for it was for more years, right, that's
none of it. This is he's losing forty five million
dollars in this negotiation. So the fact that that was
Jerry Jones's big trump card and that's all he said,
that was his big trump card, was we offered more
guaranteed money. Yeah, but if he did it over less years,
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that's really way less money from Michaeh Parsons. And the
fact that that's all we heard from Jerry Jones and
we hear this from Micah Parsons, I'm gonna believe everything
that went on from Parsons perspective, because if the cowp
if it really was bad and it was parsons fault,
Jerry Jones would be singing that from the mountaintops because
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he's not taken blame for anything with this. Remember right
after the press conference he had it was that we
had to get better against the run. Oh right, Jerry, Yes,
you had to get better again, the right, right. He's
not taking any blame for this negotiation. This is we
had the player wanted to pay, he didn't want to
be here, made a decision, X, Y and Z, we
moved on. He would be singing details from the mountaintops
(25:12):
when all we're getting out of Dallas. Now, what's the
biggest thing they can say with Parsons being gone?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Eh? Maybe in the locker.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Room he wasn't as well beloved as you thought he was. Right,
You heard stories that Dak Prescott wasn't a big fan
of his podcast. Maybe he was a little bit too
much by himself. You know, they said, sometimes well he
came in, he didn't come in on time for treatment.
But then you heard other stories that no, he always
came in early. So all you're hearing out of the
Cowboys end of this now is nothing business wise, nothing
(25:42):
from negotiation wise. Was Jerry Jones would again would run
it up the flag pole and say, look, I'm telling
you everything went wrong, and all you getting from the
Cowboys is that, Yeah, yeah, Michael Parsons is a dude. Yeah,
I don't know how much we'll miss him. There was this,
There was that Okay, yeah, call me this weekend and
tell me how much you miss him Opening night, Tell
you gonna miss him terrorizing the quarterback and the Eagles
(26:02):
looking to him on the line of scrimmage, pointing him
out before every play. Where is he what is he doing?
Tell me what you miss him? Meant so the fact
that what we're getting from the Cowboys, Okay, what's your
perspective from Michael Parsons? Nothing business wise? And the Cowboys
just insinuating that maybe some people he wasn't their cup
of tea, not they didn't like the guy, not that
he was awful, just that, hey, maybe we didn't like
(26:24):
his podcast, Maybe we didn't like that he was you know,
he's a little too much of a superstar. Maybe we
didn't like the fact that he went through some antics
on the sideline, because what but this is part of
the negotiation. Ezekiel Elliott left camp right this part of
the negotiation. They didn't like that, and I understand that
because that that wasn't a big thing because it looked
like Parsons had to have a bit of a hissy
fit to get what he wanted. But again, this is
how we wanted to get paid and he did.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
So.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
The fact that these are the sides, here's mullagetto with
all these details about what went on, and there's no
blowback from the Cowboys, no response that hey, they got
it wrong. We wanted to give him this this, this
is what happened. The fact that we're not getting anything
and we're just getting a this is kind of like
in the locker room, tells me, Yeah, I'm believing Michah
Parson's side of it, and it's even more Jerry Jones's
(27:06):
fault than it was before today.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's to relitigate it at
this point, when you'd gone to the wall saying we
thought we had this agreement, right, whatever that conversation was,
Micah with Michael was and Mouligeda even kind of said it,
you know, as you laid out the what's he gonna do,
he's going to nod, he's gonna, you know, listen and whatever.
(27:28):
But he didn't think he had an agreement. But if
you talked in general terms, this is again where you
can understand. I think from Jerry's point of view that
he thought he had something at least shell of a
deal done and then it was, as Wolagetta said it,
the devil was in the details. All right, let's parse
(27:48):
out these years and guarantees or whatever. But then it
became a sticking point. So to not keep fighting over that,
I think they've just I'll give Jerry and Steven and
the brain trust in Dallas credit. You're not winning this.
It's like Nico Harrison going, well we got Cooper flag.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah it's great. That's great.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, Like you're not winning it, right, and no matter what,
like even if you tried to do the thirty thousand
foot view like we did as the trade went down,
of all right, does this push them in a direction
that's better? If they hadn't picked up the twenty million
dollars a year on Kenny Clark, then that I feel better.
Right If it was however, many trade you know, draft
(28:31):
picks or if you really open this to the market,
because this is where it does look like the other
part of the Mavericks trade of all right, you just
went straight to these guys like that's it, because Mike
could have had other teams he was looking to. I mean,
I'm sure if you really opened it up, would Buffalo
not have come to the table or one of these
(28:52):
other squads with some kind of offer that might have
pushed to a better.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Prece traded to the AFC getting out of it. So
you want to play week five when you're gonna be
zero and four, he's gonna just put the dagger in
your side.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
He comes in and he's terrorizing, like like I never
liked your podcast as he's running out of bounds.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Like when Grudon traded Khalil mack in every week was
I can't believe another scoop and score a fumble, a
sack in a return for a touchdown from this guy,
Like that's what it's gonna be everywhere. I can't believed
another one, and I traded him. Now.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
What is curious though, is legitimately that there is concern
about his back, right. That's the part of all of
this that is curious. The second opinion and what's really
going on with him? And once again it becomes the
what do you trust as regard to medicals? I gotta
think as soon as there's an opening and he gets
(29:43):
to say Micah Parsons and deciding whether he cites his family,
his agency, Penn State, or whoever his affiliation was that
he's part of the starting line up in the announcements
on Thursday. Right, But like we talk about with Stafford
and so many others, as soon as we start talking
about your back at all and there's even a little
(30:04):
bit of credence that it's legit, my eyebrows get raised,
and I wonder if if Jerry and company aren't sitting
over there going holding no venus and everything else going.
All right, he's gonna only play twelve games, right.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
You're telling me this, right, I mean the doctor said that,
Oh no, he's gonna go right out there.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Okay, all right, that's great. He's gonna miss a bunch
of games. Right, He's not gonna be available for week five.
Like it's even more Jerry Jones's fault. After today, time
not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports with someone who's been called the Micah Parsons
of Fox Sports Radio. When he's doing something he doesn't like,
he lays on a table covers his eyes himself.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Let's start with the Major League in Baseball as we
did have. I don't know if you heard this a
game at Colorado tonight, where first off, the Rockies might
be losing number one hundred of the season Yay. Current
record is thirty nine and ninety nine. They're trailing at
home to the Giants five to two in the bottom
of the six Starting pitcher tonight for Colorado, Kyle Freeland,
is three and thirteen. He allowed a first inning homer
(31:04):
to Rafael Devers, then yelled at him for admiring it,
and the bench is cleared. Freeland was kicked out. In fact,
after the long discussion by the group of umpires, they
pointed at Devers and said, please continue circling the bases
and score and then just go sit down the dugout.
The Giants do still lead in the sixth. The Yankees
are up seven to one at Houston. In the bottom
(31:24):
of the eighth, Boston was an eleven to seven winner
over Cleveland with four runs in the bottom of the eighth.
First place Toronto won twelve to nine at Cincinnati, two
more homers for George Springer. Now, the Reds were due
to start pitcher Nick Lodolo, he was scratched due to illness,
who was an all bullpen game. The Reds were down
eight to one in the second and actually made it
a little close. The Orioles now lead at San Diego's three.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Now I think they lost, and now they trail that
final wildcard spot by fight five games with twenty three
games left in the Major League.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Season, five back of the Mets, who won twelve five
at Detroit Pee Alonzo two solo homers, but starting the day,
San Francisco is only five back of the Mets for
the wildcard. The Padres are getting shut out at home
three nothing Baltimore bottom of the third. The Dodgers have
lost nine to seven Pittsburgh the final. Sho hey Otani
did hit his forty sixth home run, three hits for him,
(32:15):
including a late RBI double. Cal Raleigh hit his fifty
first of the year, but Seattle lost six to five
at Tampa. Bay Rays have won five straight. Raleigh struck
out with bases loaded to end the top of the seventh.
The Rangers have won six in a row, and they're
leading to nothing at Arizona tonight going to the fifth inning.
The Texas Rangers started the day just a game and
a half behind Seattle for the last al wildcard. Kansas
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City was two and a half back, but Casey lost
at home five to one to the Angels. Attendance just
thirteen thousand in Kansas City. Attendance eleven thousand in Minnesota
as the White Sox beat the Twins twelve to three.
Attendance twelve thousand in d C. Washington over Miami five
to two. Ohio State is number one, and the new
college football polls Penn State is still number two. LSU
(32:59):
is up to number three ap then it's number four
Georgia at number five Miami. The Patriots A wide receiver
Stefan Diggs will play Sunday against the Raiders. After last
year's torn ACL the Giants listed rookie quarterback Jackson Dart
as the backup to Russell Wilson. Jameis Winston is listed
as third string. Number four seed Jessica Bagouler won a
Corps final at the US Open. Next you'll face number
(33:21):
one Arena Sablenka, who advanced when her opponent withdrew with
a knee injury. Right now in New York four seat
on the men's side, Taylor Fritz has dropped the first
two sets to Novak Djokovic. Fritz is up four to
one in the third. Two WNBA games tonight, they're each
in the first half. And Hall of Fame basketball coach
George Raveling died at the age of eighty eight. I
remember seeing an interview with him where he said, as
(33:43):
a young man in the summer of nineteen sixty three,
he and a buddy were walking around Washington, d c.
Because they were attending the March on Washington the next day.
They met an organizer for the event, saw them at
basketball size and said, hey, can you young men help
us with security tomorrow? And in fact, a young George
Raveling was stationed on the stage throughout that event in
(34:04):
nineteen sixty three, very close to Martin Luther King giving
his famous speech, and at the end of the speech,
Raveling says, doctor King, can I have that copy? And
he turned and handed his notes to him. George Raveling
had the original copy of the I have.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
A dream for each billion dollars right now from Martin
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Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Coming up next, we got the play of the day
and could one super duper star be on their way
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buying should be. Well, when you start your Major League
Baseball career four and oher and you have single handedly
savior team season, and you have the opposing team's broadcasters
talking like this about your stuff, well, Lightning McClain, you
get to be the play of the day.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
Oh and he just buries that sinker. That was a
terrible pitch crucer. Oh my, what is that thing?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (35:49):
I mean after seeing four seen fastballs, Jason, that is
a strike like bottom third of the sound at ninety
four in Gone.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
It was glowing at one point when they were saying
about Nola McClain stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
It was glad. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
It was glowing when he struck out. Telling you, man,
I get that. We're trying to that. Look, Mett's try schemes.
Just watch his highlights, just watch his strikeouts. And you
see that cutter that he has. I mean, it's a frisbee.
I mean, that's that's what they should call. They should
just call it the frisbee because that's how it moves.
And I don't know how you had the spin rate
on it, man, I don't know how you do it.
(36:26):
I really don't know how you do it. Maybe he's
have a bigger hand than they may have one of
those Thanos hands. It's able to spin that ball, But man,
the movement he has on that is just insane.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
That kind of spin rate. I'll tell you what. At
some point down the line that becomes a problem. But
for now, we celebrate man.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Uh, so there you go, there's your play of the day,
Tiger's TV on the call.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Now it gets you so excited? Are we on the.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Cusp of a return to play of Caitlyn Clark? She
is now back at practice. Hey, doing five on oer work.
So every time you get a fast break and nobody
gets back defensively, she's good. Uh, she's doing five on
zero work, but is still not cleared to return to play.
(37:09):
She's not cleared for contact. She's still been rehabbing a
couple of injuries and clearly look WNBA has missed her
this season. Miss dans Reese when she was out has
been really really difficult.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
But they've done pretty well ratings and attendance and like
that's the thing. It's the metrics still say as a
league it's it's supported. Well, doesn't mean that there's still
not you know, the the cherry on top of the
old Sunday now that's missing.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
They have three games left aft tonight before the playoffs start,
and not cleared for contact. Like, I don't know that
we see her again in this season a WNA, which
would be just awful. But does it mean I can't
give her advice, Well, you just can't reinsert her into
the lineup, don't you know that you can't just do that.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
They're down fifteen and a half to Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Doesn't mean that I don't have really good advice for her, okay,
because I have really good, really good advice. She hasn't
played in a couple of months. It's been a lot
great advice. Okay, great advice, Caitlyn Clark. Stop yelling at
the referees, okay, Stop complaining to the referees. Stop walking
on the court. Stop walking up to the refs and complaining.
(38:15):
It's a bad optic. Every Caitlyn Clark story for the
last few weeks about it She's coming back? Is she not?
Is accompanied by a picture or a video of her
screaming at a referee and showing her displeasure with a
call that they made. And I gotta be honest, that's
the worst optic Caitlyn Clark has had in her career
so far.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
But that's curious editorial though, isn't it. That is the
that that but that that that's the b roll that
you're like, Hey, she's on the comeback trails. She's she's
working to get back here's a shot of her scream.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Not just old video of her or her working out.
That's what I mean, right, you're not showing Uh well,
here's what we're missing. Here's what she's working. Back to
the fact that you choose that as the B role.
Depending on who that is, folks get really upset about
you know, hey, why did you choose that clown? She
she looks petulant, she looks like she's whining and complaining.
It's a bad optic and also it's not her job.
(39:08):
Stephanie White's gotta say, Caitlin, Okay, you know what, stop
doing this. This is this is me saying this for
you and the team. Stop complaining to the rest. I'm
not gonna get a tea at the wrong time. You're
not gonna screw it's not you gotta just let me coach. Okay,
I get that you're passionate. That's awesome. But she's on
the court. I can't believe she's not teed up every
single night because everything is her getting really mad right now?
(39:30):
When when when the game against the Sparks where she
was so mad that the foul got called and the
Sparks had a chance to win, she's on walking up
to the ref after the game is over and they
have to pull her away like she looks awful. She
looks like a whiny kid. Stop deb's the worst thing
you have done since you came into the league. Stop
doing that. Stop putting that optic out there. I was
laughing as I was driving in.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
UH.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
A couple of things happened in the Dodger game that
just had the radio booths losing their mind. One of
which was there was a foul tip that the catcher
caught for the bye, but they missed the call, so
it should have been strike.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Three right right, And Caitlyn Clark came out. Don Kelly
comes out to yell, but he literally takes the ball
and he's showing the umpire of the ball and he's
like shaking it in his face and repeatedly, and then
they don't kick him out.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
He gives it back and play goes on. Same kind
of thing, Kaylyn Clark being able to do whatever the
hell's you are, like, Yeah, what are you gonna just because.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
The umpire said listen, listen, I get it pirates and
it's not been a great but you know what happened
the next time be a great last thirty years. I'm gonna,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna let you go with this. Okay,
I'm gonna let you go. I'll let you go thirty years.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
So they let him get his money's worth from the
from the dugout after after that.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Okay, okay again, okay, pirates, Okay, I get pirate. Okay,
now you're done. I gave it to you. Now you're done. Okay,
all right, we're done. Now done, going back to Spanky
Lavalley and not tagging sid Bream in time. Okay, you're done.
Now you're done. Well, we got Mike Levale in n
can't just stop that optic. That's the worst optic. Worst
thing she's done. SKA in the league. Stopped doing it.
Stop that done a good look.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
It doesn't know how he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
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night that shows you that maybe Bill Belichick just isn't
cut out for college football. It's next right here. This
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Speaker 3 (00:40):
Look at you getting all chesty again, buddy boy. I'm
sorry I missed at the last.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah. Well, I gotta say the the family chat that
I have with everybody in Pam's family is a lonely place.
The last couple of days with the Mets taking the
first two as big as I have against the time.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Are you just got a texting into a black hole
at this point? No, he's engaging.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, I texted when it was Walt when.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
The Yankees are going bad.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
When McNeil singled to make it ten to two, I
gave him the Simpsons jiff of Stop Stop he's already dead.
And I got crickets. I got absolute crickets, no blowbacks,
I got so absolute crickets. Yeah, they're just.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Too busy reveling in Underwood having a good performance.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah. Well yeah, listen, hey, he's he's got everybody going, oh, okay, okay,
things might be all right this year. Now, things might
be okay, they might be okay. All right, we got
a quarterback. Okay, I remember they won a title.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
With a guy who nobody loved his quarterback just a
couple of years ago. As I recall, all right, well,
you know they're a long nightmare of mediocrity. Oh it
lasted a year.
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wall Look, baseball is getting hot and heavy right where.
I can't believe we're into you know, we're getting twenty
games left in the regular season, and I could tell
my baseball friend fans who are all nervous now about
what because their tempers are shorter. Their tempers are shorter now,
and I can't believe my temper is as good as
it is. I'm like, hey man, we love three or
four of the Marlins.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
No, it's a prime.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I'm okay. Maybe because it's lightning McClain day. And watching
McClain throw is so much fun because nobody in Major
League Baseball has his stuff. He throws a frisbee for
a cutter that is just out of this world. He
is so much fun to watch pitch, like in an
era when you like to see guys that throw big
heat and throw certain pitches and the ghost fork has
become a big thing and draw. But he throws some
(02:51):
cutter that just floats. And even the Tigers guys were
amazed today, going they're going, I don't know what that was,
but it was glowing when it crossed the like, that's
how wowed they were by Nolan McLain.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
No, that's just it. Four straight wins. He's been fantastic.
You know, it's funny if you look to an AI
overview of this game, he's the first Mets pitcher to
win his first four MLB starts since twenty fourteen, when
another pitcher parenthetical who has not yet been named named
(03:24):
from twenty fourteen. Hey, we don't know who he is.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yet, I don't know, don't know wich we'd have done.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I love that. Yeah, but but it's exciting, right. You
got two young pictures that that have electrified the world.
You got Juan Soto who after a rough start and
a lot of bad press, horrible ink, and all the
talkers they're in New York trying to pile up as
fast as they can, all of a sudden they look
up and they look at those numbers, are like, he's
(03:50):
doing things no one he's ever done before. Yeah, yeah,
I just hasn't done it quite quite a long time.
But because of Schwarber, but because of Otani, it gets
pushed to the way. So uh and it's gonna be
overshadowed by these young guys, particularly when they get nineteen
runs of support and all that kind of nonsense. But uh,
Wan Soto having himself the year that you paid all
that money for.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And listen, if you listen to the odd couple a
few minutes ago with Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington talked
about how you know Wan Soto hasn't lived up to expectations.
There's a reason why I ked Rob Parker's car on
the way in for the show today. Said, okay, you're
gonna say that, I'm gonna key your car. So his
car's got a nice little jagged s O t O
on it, So he's got like that's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
He said, Yeah, I would have just put a giant
question mark like the Riddler. It's like, I don't understand
what's he supposed to do.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I mean, he's like he's gonna in the end, Wan
Soto's gonna finish in the top five and MVP voting
in the National League. I'll finish there right, Like he's
gonna fin Yeah, it could be his highest depending on
how the rest of it he He and Alonso are
dragging the Mets, the players, whether they want to go
or not. They're just dragging you and new rookie the
babes will lead them. Yeah, and McLean has showed up
and he's he's at four starts. He's our best pitch.
(05:00):
He's had forced major league starts. He's our best picture.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Everybody else the day without having a picture of Bruce
Willis in my head though.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh see, I just keep thinking of Lightning McLain, like
lightning mcqueenchow, good chow, good chow.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Either that or Denny McClain. Uh oh, it's.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Got different, different McClain, different McLean he was. He was
in prison for a while. The guy won thirty games,
but to prison.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
That's fine. I read.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Remember I read the third thirty one and six, the
story of Denny McClain. I read that book, you know,
and by teachers. Here's the thing, okay, as a book
report at least, I really no, I really want to
go back, No to the baseball Life of Sandy Kofax
was my I had the Mickey man. Oh that's a
good one too. Yeah, no one too. But like like,
I want to go back and tell my teachers, all
(05:42):
my English teachers and my you know they taught me
in like you know, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, in elementary school,
in middle school, and say, hey, I have I am
an incredible reader. I read fifty books a year. I read.
I read all kinds of fiction I read. I want
you to know this because they probably they think back
now they're all in their eighties now, but they go
Jason Smith. All he did was do book reports on
(06:03):
sports players and athletes. It's all he did. No, I
don't read a lot of sports books anymore. I read novels.
I read. I'm all into mysteries and thrillers and everything
the novels. I'm not your credits niverse.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I read there.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I read everything. I read everything on the top list
of the year, I read all of it. Wild Duck
Shores might pick for best of twenty twenty five, so far,
all of it. I don't read sports books, but I
want that out there because I don't want to be
Yeah he was that guy that just loved sports, and
yeah he did the did that, did the thirty one
and six, The Story of Denny McClain and all that.
Oh yeah, yeah, all the big sports books.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah. I used to pick some that were kind of controversial,
like in between all the sports I was like, why
did you pick that one? I'm like, cause it really
shouldn't be on a librate for why did yous in
fifth grade? Why did you pick lou brock Well. The
beginning of free agency was a new dawn in the
era of Major League baseball.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Oh okay, sure.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
So going all the way back now, I'm read a
book about dopamine.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Oh okay, why is it? Does it make you feel good?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Very no?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Oh wow, it must not be a good book. No,
it must not be a good book. That how we Chase,
Why we chase, and all all of these. Yeah, it's
it's very interesting, reed, And I don't feel good. What
was it?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What was the uh? I don't feel good about it now?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
It was the South Park, the Chasing the Dragon, the
one where the the video the Chasing the Dragon video game.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
That's kind of where we're at.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But here we are now as we get set for
Week one in the NFL again, we're happy NFL Eve
the eve, yeah right now? And uh the end of
the week where college football doffs its cap and says, hey,
we have all the attention for this run of five
seven days. The latest AP poll came out this week
and to no surprise, Ohio State number one team in
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the country after beating Texas fourteen to seven last week.
They ascended number one. Other teams four top ten teams lost.
They didn't drop all that far, which is good. When
wasn't a knee jerk reaction to what we saw first
week of the season. Look, we saw some big games
and clearly none was bigger on the field we talk
about in the standings and the rankings than Ohio State
in Texas. And the funny thing is this is that
(08:10):
all the attention the last couple of days has been
on arch Manning, and rightfully so. Right arch Manning and
Bill Belichick are the two stories of college football, and
arch Manning and his debut and how poorly he played
and what he has to do and that what he
has to work on and his arm angles and all
of that. I get that that was the complete total story.
Ohio State did not play well. Okay, Ohio State didn't
play well. Are we sure that Ohio State is good?
(08:35):
Just saying are we sure? Because we don't know if
Texas is good? And Ohio State they were just sort
of hanging around like they didn't do a lot offensively. Yes,
defensively they played, but arch Manning missed a lot of throws.
It was not a well played game. And I get Look,
obviously arch Manning is a story, he's the rockstar college football.
But man Ohio State coming off the championship, I get it.
(08:57):
But are we sure that they're good? Because they didn't
look that great on Saturday. There's a couple other teams
that look better. And yes it's one week one of
the season, but all of a sudden, hey here's Ohio
State number one. You expected a little bit more. If
they were that good, that'd be more sloppiness in the game,
be more offense in the game, and there wasn't. And
Julian saying didn't put up a lot offensively, and it
was just it wasn't a great game to watch when
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we think these are two great teams. So I mean,
are we sure Ohio State is good? Because I don't
know that Ohio State is a great team.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I'm gonna put it this way. I'll put it in
terms because we try to grab the sporting world in
a giant hug. I felt like I was watching a
Floyd may Weather fight.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
That he was gonna win. He was holding up the
other person for a few rounds, and I was gonna win.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But like we're just kind of dancing and watching the
clock tick away, not taking a lot of shots downfield,
not getting really creative and going for the jugular on
either side. Right, Because for Julian saying right, he was
the number one quarterback the year after Arch or two
years after Arch. Right, So, young guy with a lot
of expectations on I know you had a lot of
(10:03):
attrition both sides. You're losing players to the draft, to
the portal and all that stuff, new bodies whatever, some
of it owing to the you know, play it close,
so don't take a lot of chances to where you
end up getting run out the gym. Now, the fact
that the lack of creativity or taking the points whichever
(10:24):
side you want to go on. In that third quarter
possession where they run the ball four straight times inside
the Ohio State ten and get stuffed, that was one
where I'm just standing there with my you know, shrugging,
going what are we doing? What I mean, absolutely nothing,
no juice and the play calling and certainly the excellence
(10:44):
of execution on the Ohio State side, but all of
that to say we danced and look at what it
costs Texas their number seven. Yeah, I mean, but the
thing is is that, and this is what gets me
about this is that this is Ohio State Texas. This
is a game that hey, both teams need to win
this because this is a if we lose this game,
you only have so many losses till we can't put
(11:06):
you in the College Football Playoff anymore. This is a game, right,
but this is But you know, Ohio State's got some
tough games this season, So I get that when you're
playing a Tate Michigan for example, right when they go
out and they play New Mexico, I get how vanilla
their offense was. They don't want to put anything on
tape for Oklahoma. Look, and no one's seen outside of coaches,
no one sees more mission games last thirty years, and
(11:27):
I have this.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Is what they do. They never put anything out there
until they absolutely have to. It's why when they play
early in the season they don't blow teams out by
as much as you think, because they don't put stuff
out there until they get to their first test. So, yeah,
the offense was a little vanilla, and Bryce Hunter was
really good, but the offense was vanilla. They didn't really
do a ton And I get that because, well, we're
gonna win this game, and if we get to a
point where things are a little loose, we can make
(11:51):
an adjustment. But ohiose Texas, Hey, you got to throw
it all out there. Because you lose this game, all
of a sudden, well, you only have one more loss,
maybe to the way to get into the playoffs. Two
more losses, maybe forget it. You're out at three. Three
is like that line of demarcation where hey, two, you
should be able to stay in in a Power five conference.
Three I don't know. So all of a sudden, you're
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one more away and you have a tough schedule. So
I expected to see more creativity, more stuff, a little
more of a normal, outside the box, tight game plan.
And you had Sarkisian at halftime telling arch Manning, hey
take what the defense gives you, don't you? And and
Ohio State being incredibly conservative unless they don't just don't
trust Julian saying which if they don't trust him, goes
back to my first point. Are we sure Ohio State
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is a great team? Because man, I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
So pay you to say that?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, no, I said to Pants. Did Pans pay you?
They had an extra portion of.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The no no, I need her putting.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
And Ohio State loves me because I said on Friday night,
what if arch Manning sucks, what does that mean for
college football? He sucked on Saturday. So you're welcome Ohio States,
and we give it. We get uh so, yeah, so
they're okay, they want they want.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
House State have like two order thirteen yard they weren't
great like they did or something. You see these other
ones we needed to tate. Yeah, forty yard touchdown mass
that's it. There's your explosiveness.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
But you saw these other teams that were all playing
top five, you know, two other top ten games, right,
and no, tre Dame still moved the football and looked
okay offensively against a really good Miami team. And Miami
did the same thing against nore Dame. When we watched
LSU and Clemson, even though it was seventeen ten, Clemson
still moved the football. LSU still moved the football. They
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were able to do that. You can't sit here and
tell me the Texans Ohio States defenses are so good.
They're replacing so many players. You can't say, well, there
are two best defense in the country. Of course, I
got it no Week one. If you have any kind
of talent offensively, you should be able to exploit the
defense a little bit. I'm not saying it should have
been forty one forty, but it should have been a
little bit. But fourteen to seven, man, it's like, whoa,
I get that. The next couple of days belonged to
(13:52):
arch Manning. But man, ohast I get they're the champs
and I get, but are they are?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They really?
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Are they that great? I don't know, man, I mean really, Like,
that's a tough thing to suddenly say, hey, they're great
because they did not look good.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, but that was ignoring that. But that's the beauty
of the early part of the season, right, because now
if you want to get in on the arch Manning
by low situation right post post draft hype and all
that kind of stuff like we would do for trading
cards of like, hey, he was the prospect everybody wanted,
and then he didn't. He comes up as a bad call,
(14:25):
call up in September, so everybody jumps off his cards
and it's like, all right, he comes back, he adjusts,
he'll be better. Arch Manning fourteen to one. Now he
was the leader in the clubhous in six or seven
to one. Yeah, coming into the year, nus Meyer who
had a big one, big drive but got it done.
And then Leonora's sellers, Yeah, suddenly get hey.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You know where he started his career and couldn't get
on the field and transferred Syracuse.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, we'll get into transfers. Yeah, I got a great
story after Notre Name game, right, Yeah, So you know,
maybe in the South Side Chicago, got a lot of
vested interest because you know, friends, family that went there,
and and a lot of my colleagues from from high
school that shoot me the line of expectations and whatever else.
They're they're at times insufferable. But my daughter at her
(15:11):
job on Sunday, they have a resident who is a
Notre Dame guy who was really excited to watch the game.
So they all gathered to watch that in the common area,
and they indulged him. They stayed up late, they're watching
the game, and then they were all pissed off after
the game ended. I stayed up late for this. This
is the worst thing.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well, they felt bad for the guy because I mean,
he had he had a loss, so he was salty,
and everybody else like stayed up way past bedtime.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I'll tell you, Dan Devine, I'll have him ready for
the next game. I'll be sure about that. No more
players walking in saying take my jersey. If the ruddicker
kid doesn't dress Take that jersey back. Exit out bout
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here we are another day closer to the beginning of
the NFL season. Happy NFL Eve Eve and then we
got two games, got games Thursday and Friday. Fun as that.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
All our friends, h you know that that are drifting
in this random trip to Brazil.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Frostburg still on a plane. He left like five hours ago.
He's in the middle of the thirteen hour flight to
Brazil for this.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Chargers just begging me. He's can I have a password
to this so I can download some shows?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I told him. I said, dude, hey, I just start binging.
We just start binging Sneaky Pete. You'll love it. Sneak
He's Sneaky Peter. I said, yeah, so hope. He's probably
as far into it as we are now, like we're like, okay,
like six episodes into season one. I'm like, oh my god,
I can't believe I didn't watch the show until now,
but like it's so good. And I told him. He
was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, where's it on?
I go Amazon? Netflix? Yes both, I'm okay, great, yeah,
yeah yeah Amazon Netflix A sorry. Great. So I know
(18:35):
he's in the middle of a Sneaky Pete marathon right now,
are we go? I did full Old Guy the last
couple of days.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Uh, finish my rewatch of Downton Abbey plus the movie
because the new movie is out on the twelfth.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Oh that's yeah, I do see that. The experience, the
end where it began down to Abbey.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, if you go to the movies, there's actually a
whole thing with mister Carson. Uh, but saw that saw
the Roses. Okay, Coleman and Cumber. That's sure hilarious. I
can't wait for the outtake. So that was good.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And then I went and saw Jaws on the big screen. Ooh,
didn't end any differently, No, did a shark win this time.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
But it's funny how much has been edited out for
television that you're just so conditioned, and a lot of
the scenes actually having like another minute of dialogue or
the eerie silences they're staring at him, like, yeah, it's
much different experience. Yeah, yeah, wow, you add that back in.
There's there's a there's a little more don' of tennor
as opposed to hey, were you in an accident late?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah? Yeah, well there's all you know, And there's also
certain things to be said, Like a movie like that
where you've seen it so many times, right, and you
see it on TV and stuff is going on, and
you watched like the opening scene again when it's the
guy and the guy and the girl around the beach
and she's out in the water, and just that when
she's up out of the like you're in a silent theater,
you're hearing and just hearing the like there's a panic
(19:50):
out of her, which you don't really get when you're
watching it on TV. It's like, oh yeah, yeah, here
comes this shark. But you get that in the theater,
you remember, oh my god, that's how that's how how
how intense this scene was. She's just a puff water
but we went breathtas just next level stuff yet farewell.
(20:11):
Uh so another day and look the story that's just
gonna keep on giving all year long is Micah parsons
trade from the Cowboys to the Packers. Today U Michaeh
Parson's agent, David Mulligata, who I've just referred to him
as the agent agent, like it's a TV show on Netflix.
It's uh uh that Mark Wahlberg was the agent and
I saw him in it. He was in Boston and
(20:33):
he tried to stop a bad guy from doing stuff,
and he had a Boston accent, and Christian Bale was
there and an Affleck kid, and then all of a sudden,
Matt Damon's drawing stuff on a on a board and
it looks like all kinds of math and I look
at it and see, well, does any of this the
NFC standing? So I really didn't care about it. Then
the Peter Sarsguard, isn't it Uh? And uh, you know
(20:54):
he's a guy.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
He's a guy.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That's a whole I found out there Stars Guard and
scars Guard. You gotta go. A bunch of two different
families thought it was the same, Like the the Phoebe
Waller Bridges and Phoebe Bridges, two different people didn't know that.
I thought it was all the same person a singer
actress of two different people.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Didn't know.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
If you didn't know, no idea, I know I have
no idea. But all of that to say, I mean
when when we look at the the Micah Parsons, I
mean we're ready for another agent show, aren't we. I
mean our list was thirty years ago. Well we fifteen
years ago. Yes, Ballis was a long time ago. Yeah,
we need more glazed and confused. Yeah, but today was
(21:36):
the Agent's revenge. David Mullagata on ESPN Today on First Take,
talked about everything that went on from his perspective and
Michaeh Parson's perspective with the Dallas Cowboys. Uh, some of
the things that went on, I'll tick off really fast.
He said. The Cowboys were never told that Parsons wouldn't
play for them, Mulagedta saying, no, Michael loves the game
too much. He was gonna play Week one no matter what.
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Mulageda also went on to say that Parson since first
choice was always to stay in Dallas, he wanted to
be a cowboy. They did everything they could. He also
talked about, hey, what about this contract agreement between Micah
Parsons and Jerry Jones, and Mulaghetta said, well, when you're
a twenty five year old football player and your boss
was the most powerful person in the NFL calls you in,
what are you gonna do? And so all of this
(22:19):
is the power dynamic as well that he got into.
So seeing this from Michah Parson's side, Okay, you understand,
this is Michah Parson's side, and we've heard both Jerry
Jones and his version of events. We had a deal
which technically was not illegal for him to do, but
it's really frowned upon by the NFL. Beyed to go
shape directly with a player, and you don't know did
(22:41):
he cross the line. Who knows what happened in that conversation.
But with this war of what's going on the last
few days. Clearly the public sentiment is we're anti Jerry Jones.
Jerry Jones screwed this up, and he did because he
had the best defensive player in the NFL and he
couldn't sign him to a contract. Well, the interesting part though,
in the mulaghetti stuff as he enumerated, and a lot
of it really tracked with things we're theorizing the entire process,
(23:06):
and I believe I used the term the devil's in
the details right of what the handshake agreement that Jerry
thought he had with.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Mike or whatever. But it all comes back to a
fifth year is the thing that really ends up blowing
it up right. One more year that would get him
to free agency and whatever sixty million dollars or whatever
the marketplace would be at that point. But it's just
kind of an interesting all right. Now we're getting the
enumeration in all of this in the PostScript, and it
(23:34):
goes back to what I said with Michael all the
time when he was looking all sad on the sideline,
he wanted to be on it with his guys.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah, whether he was laying on a table or eating
an orange or whatever, he was doing I doesn't want
to do that.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I want to go back to work.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
But if you're looking to if I'm saying, who I
believe with everything that went on between Micah parsons side
and Jerry Jones's side after hearing the stuff today, I'm
gonna believe Michaeh Parsons and his side, because number one,
when Jerry Jones said, hey, we offered Micah Moore guaranteed
money in this deal. Okay, but how many years did
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you offer? Like it's yeah, that's great, did you have
and and we Lagetta said, hey, yeah, they offered, but
it was for it was for more years, right, that's
none of it. This is he's losing forty five million
dollars in this negotiation. So the fact that that was
Jerry Jones's big trump card and that's all he said,
that was his big trump card, was we offered more
guaranteed money. Yeah, but if he did it over less years,
(24:31):
that's really way less money from Michaeh Parsons. And the
fact that that's all we heard from Jerry Jones and
we hear this from Micah Parsons, I'm gonna believe everything
that went on from Parsons perspective, because if the cowp
if it really was bad and it was parsons fault,
Jerry Jones would be singing that from the mountaintops because
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he's not taken blame for anything with this. Remember right
after the press conference he had it was that we
had to get better against the run. Oh right, Jerry, Yes,
you had to get better again, the right, right. He's
not taking any blame for this negotiation. This is we
had the player wanted to pay, he didn't want to
be here, made a decision, X, Y and Z, we
moved on. He would be singing details from the mountaintops
(25:12):
when all we're getting out of Dallas. Now, what's the
biggest thing they can say with Parsons being gone?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Eh? Maybe in the locker.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Room he wasn't as well beloved as you thought he was. Right,
You heard stories that Dak Prescott wasn't a big fan
of his podcast. Maybe he was a little bit too
much by himself. You know, they said, sometimes well he
came in, he didn't come in on time for treatment.
But then you heard other stories that no, he always
came in early. So all you're hearing out of the
Cowboys end of this now is nothing business wise, nothing
(25:42):
from negotiation wise. Was Jerry Jones would again would run
it up the flag pole and say, look, I'm telling
you everything went wrong, and all you getting from the
Cowboys is that, Yeah, yeah, Michael Parsons is a dude. Yeah,
I don't know how much we'll miss him. There was this,
There was that Okay, yeah, call me this weekend and
tell me how much you miss him Opening night, Tell
you gonna miss him terrorizing the quarterback and the Eagles
(26:02):
looking to him on the line of scrimmage, pointing him
out before every play. Where is he what is he doing?
Tell me what you miss him? Meant so the fact
that what we're getting from the Cowboys, Okay, what's your
perspective from Michael Parsons? Nothing business wise? And the Cowboys
just insinuating that maybe some people he wasn't their cup
of tea, not they didn't like the guy, not that
he was awful, just that, hey, maybe we didn't like
(26:24):
his podcast, Maybe we didn't like that he was you know,
he's a little too much of a superstar. Maybe we
didn't like the fact that he went through some antics
on the sideline, because what but this is part of
the negotiation. Ezekiel Elliott left camp right this part of
the negotiation. They didn't like that, and I understand that
because that that wasn't a big thing because it looked
like Parsons had to have a bit of a hissy
fit to get what he wanted. But again, this is
how we wanted to get paid and he did.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
So.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
The fact that these are the sides, here's mullagetto with
all these details about what went on, and there's no
blowback from the Cowboys, no response that hey, they got
it wrong. We wanted to give him this this, this
is what happened. The fact that we're not getting anything
and we're just getting a this is kind of like
in the locker room, tells me, Yeah, I'm believing Michah
Parson's side of it, and it's even more Jerry Jones's
(27:06):
fault than it was before today.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's to relitigate it at
this point, when you'd gone to the wall saying we
thought we had this agreement, right, whatever that conversation was,
Micah with Michael was and Mouligeda even kind of said it,
you know, as you laid out the what's he gonna do,
he's going to nod, he's gonna, you know, listen and whatever.
(27:28):
But he didn't think he had an agreement. But if
you talked in general terms, this is again where you
can understand. I think from Jerry's point of view that
he thought he had something at least shell of a
deal done and then it was, as Wolagetta said it,
the devil was in the details. All right, let's parse
(27:48):
out these years and guarantees or whatever. But then it
became a sticking point. So to not keep fighting over that,
I think they've just I'll give Jerry and Steven and
the brain trust in Dallas credit. You're not winning this.
It's like Nico Harrison going, well we got Cooper flag.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yeah it's great. That's great.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, Like you're not winning it, right, and no matter what,
like even if you tried to do the thirty thousand
foot view like we did as the trade went down,
of all right, does this push them in a direction
that's better? If they hadn't picked up the twenty million
dollars a year on Kenny Clark, then that I feel better.
Right If it was however, many trade you know, draft
(28:31):
picks or if you really open this to the market,
because this is where it does look like the other
part of the Mavericks trade of all right, you just
went straight to these guys like that's it, because Mike
could have had other teams he was looking to. I mean,
I'm sure if you really opened it up, would Buffalo
not have come to the table or one of these
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other squads with some kind of offer that might have
pushed to a better.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Prece traded to the AFC getting out of it. So
you want to play week five when you're gonna be
zero and four, he's gonna just put the dagger in
your side.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
He comes in and he's terrorizing, like like I never
liked your podcast as he's running out of bounds.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Like when Grudon traded Khalil mack in every week was
I can't believe another scoop and score a fumble, a
sack in a return for a touchdown from this guy,
Like that's what it's gonna be everywhere. I can't believed
another one, and I traded him. Now.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
What is curious though, is legitimately that there is concern
about his back, right. That's the part of all of
this that is curious. The second opinion and what's really
going on with him? And once again it becomes the
what do you trust as regard to medicals? I gotta
think as soon as there's an opening and he gets
(29:43):
to say Micah Parsons and deciding whether he cites his family,
his agency, Penn State, or whoever his affiliation was that
he's part of the starting line up in the announcements
on Thursday. Right, But like we talk about with Stafford
and so many others, as soon as we start talking
about your back at all and there's even a little
(30:04):
bit of credence that it's legit, my eyebrows get raised,
and I wonder if if Jerry and company aren't sitting
over there going holding no venus and everything else going.
All right, he's gonna only play twelve games, right.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
You're telling me this, right, I mean the doctor said that,
Oh no, he's gonna go right out there.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Okay, all right, that's great. He's gonna miss a bunch
of games. Right, He's not gonna be available for week five.
Like it's even more Jerry Jones's fault. After today, time
not to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports with someone who's been called the Micah Parsons
of Fox Sports Radio. When he's doing something he doesn't like,
he lays on a table covers his eyes himself.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Let's start with the Major League in Baseball as we
did have. I don't know if you heard this a
game at Colorado tonight, where first off, the Rockies might
be losing number one hundred of the season Yay. Current
record is thirty nine and ninety nine. They're trailing at
home to the Giants five to two in the bottom
of the six Starting pitcher tonight for Colorado, Kyle Freeland,
is three and thirteen. He allowed a first inning homer
(31:04):
to Rafael Devers, then yelled at him for admiring it,
and the bench is cleared. Freeland was kicked out. In fact,
after the long discussion by the group of umpires, they
pointed at Devers and said, please continue circling the bases
and score and then just go sit down the dugout.
The Giants do still lead in the sixth. The Yankees
are up seven to one at Houston. In the bottom
(31:24):
of the eighth, Boston was an eleven to seven winner
over Cleveland with four runs in the bottom of the eighth.
First place Toronto won twelve to nine at Cincinnati, two
more homers for George Springer. Now, the Reds were due
to start pitcher Nick Lodolo, he was scratched due to illness,
who was an all bullpen game. The Reds were down
eight to one in the second and actually made it
a little close. The Orioles now lead at San Diego's three.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Now I think they lost, and now they trail that
final wildcard spot by fight five games with twenty three
games left in the Major League.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Season, five back of the Mets, who won twelve five
at Detroit Pee Alonzo two solo homers, but starting the day,
San Francisco is only five back of the Mets for
the wildcard. The Padres are getting shut out at home
three nothing Baltimore bottom of the third. The Dodgers have
lost nine to seven Pittsburgh the final. Sho hey Otani
did hit his forty sixth home run, three hits for him,
(32:15):
including a late RBI double. Cal Raleigh hit his fifty
first of the year, but Seattle lost six to five
at Tampa. Bay Rays have won five straight. Raleigh struck
out with bases loaded to end the top of the seventh.
The Rangers have won six in a row, and they're
leading to nothing at Arizona tonight going to the fifth inning.
The Texas Rangers started the day just a game and
a half behind Seattle for the last al wildcard. Kansas
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City was two and a half back, but Casey lost
at home five to one to the Angels. Attendance just
thirteen thousand in Kansas City. Attendance eleven thousand in Minnesota
as the White Sox beat the Twins twelve to three.
Attendance twelve thousand in d C. Washington over Miami five
to two. Ohio State is number one, and the new
college football polls Penn State is still number two. LSU
(32:59):
is up to number three ap then it's number four
Georgia at number five Miami. The Patriots A wide receiver
Stefan Diggs will play Sunday against the Raiders. After last
year's torn ACL the Giants listed rookie quarterback Jackson Dart
as the backup to Russell Wilson. Jameis Winston is listed
as third string. Number four seed Jessica Bagouler won a
Corps final at the US Open. Next you'll face number
(33:21):
one Arena Sablenka, who advanced when her opponent withdrew with
a knee injury. Right now in New York four seat
on the men's side, Taylor Fritz has dropped the first
two sets to Novak Djokovic. Fritz is up four to
one in the third. Two WNBA games tonight, they're each
in the first half. And Hall of Fame basketball coach
George Raveling died at the age of eighty eight. I
remember seeing an interview with him where he said, as
(33:43):
a young man in the summer of nineteen sixty three,
he and a buddy were walking around Washington, d c.
Because they were attending the March on Washington the next day.
They met an organizer for the event, saw them at
basketball size and said, hey, can you young men help
us with security tomorrow? And in fact, a young George
Raveling was stationed on the stage throughout that event in
(34:04):
nineteen sixty three, very close to Martin Luther King giving
his famous speech, and at the end of the speech,
Raveling says, doctor King, can I have that copy? And
he turned and handed his notes to him. George Raveling
had the original copy of the I have.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
A dream for each billion dollars right now from Martin
Luther King, Juli. Wow, Wow, Steve, that's a great story.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Coming up next, we got the play of the day
and could one super duper star be on their way
back to potentially save their team season. That's next Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
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Speaker 1 (34:52):
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buying should be. Well, when you start your Major League
Baseball career four and oher and you have single handedly
savior team season, and you have the opposing team's broadcasters
talking like this about your stuff, well, Lightning McClain, you
get to be the play of the day.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
Oh and he just buries that sinker. That was a
terrible pitch crucer. Oh my, what is that thing?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (35:49):
I mean after seeing four seen fastballs, Jason, that is
a strike like bottom third of the sound at ninety
four in Gone.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
It was glowing at one point when they were saying
about Nola McClain stuff.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
It was glad. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
It was glowing when he struck out. Telling you, man,
I get that. We're trying to that. Look, Mett's try schemes.
Just watch his highlights, just watch his strikeouts. And you
see that cutter that he has. I mean, it's a frisbee.
I mean, that's that's what they should call. They should
just call it the frisbee because that's how it moves.
And I don't know how you had the spin rate
on it, man, I don't know how you do it.
(36:26):
I really don't know how you do it. Maybe he's
have a bigger hand than they may have one of
those Thanos hands. It's able to spin that ball, But man,
the movement he has on that is just insane.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
That kind of spin rate. I'll tell you what. At
some point down the line that becomes a problem. But
for now, we celebrate man.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Uh, so there you go, there's your play of the day,
Tiger's TV on the call.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Now it gets you so excited? Are we on the.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Cusp of a return to play of Caitlyn Clark? She
is now back at practice. Hey, doing five on oer work.
So every time you get a fast break and nobody
gets back defensively, she's good. Uh, she's doing five on
zero work, but is still not cleared to return to play.
(37:09):
She's not cleared for contact. She's still been rehabbing a
couple of injuries and clearly look WNBA has missed her
this season. Miss dans Reese when she was out has
been really really difficult.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
But they've done pretty well ratings and attendance and like
that's the thing. It's the metrics still say as a
league it's it's supported. Well, doesn't mean that there's still
not you know, the the cherry on top of the
old Sunday now that's missing.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
They have three games left aft tonight before the playoffs start,
and not cleared for contact. Like, I don't know that
we see her again in this season a WNA, which
would be just awful. But does it mean I can't
give her advice, Well, you just can't reinsert her into
the lineup, don't you know that you can't just do that.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
They're down fifteen and a half to Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Doesn't mean that I don't have really good advice for her, okay,
because I have really good, really good advice. She hasn't
played in a couple of months. It's been a lot
great advice. Okay, great advice, Caitlyn Clark. Stop yelling at
the referees, okay, Stop complaining to the referees. Stop walking
on the court. Stop walking up to the refs and complaining.
(38:15):
It's a bad optic. Every Caitlyn Clark story for the
last few weeks about it She's coming back? Is she not?
Is accompanied by a picture or a video of her
screaming at a referee and showing her displeasure with a
call that they made. And I gotta be honest, that's
the worst optic Caitlyn Clark has had in her career
so far.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
But that's curious editorial though, isn't it. That is the
that that but that that that's the b roll that
you're like, Hey, she's on the comeback trails. She's she's
working to get back here's a shot of her scream.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Not just old video of her or her working out.
That's what I mean, right, you're not showing Uh well,
here's what we're missing. Here's what she's working. Back to
the fact that you choose that as the B role.
Depending on who that is, folks get really upset about
you know, hey, why did you choose that clown? She
she looks petulant, she looks like she's whining and complaining.
It's a bad optic and also it's not her job.
(39:08):
Stephanie White's gotta say, Caitlin, Okay, you know what, stop
doing this. This is this is me saying this for
you and the team. Stop complaining to the rest. I'm
not gonna get a tea at the wrong time. You're
not gonna screw it's not you gotta just let me coach. Okay,
I get that you're passionate. That's awesome. But she's on
the court. I can't believe she's not teed up every
single night because everything is her getting really mad right now?
(39:30):
When when when the game against the Sparks where she
was so mad that the foul got called and the
Sparks had a chance to win, she's on walking up
to the ref after the game is over and they
have to pull her away like she looks awful. She
looks like a whiny kid. Stop deb's the worst thing
you have done since you came into the league. Stop
doing that. Stop putting that optic out there. I was
laughing as I was driving in.
Speaker 5 (39:51):
UH.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
A couple of things happened in the Dodger game that
just had the radio booths losing their mind. One of
which was there was a foul tip that the catcher
caught for the bye, but they missed the call, so
it should have been strike.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Three right right, And Caitlyn Clark came out. Don Kelly
comes out to yell, but he literally takes the ball
and he's showing the umpire of the ball and he's
like shaking it in his face and repeatedly, and then
they don't kick him out.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
He gives it back and play goes on. Same kind
of thing, Kaylyn Clark being able to do whatever the
hell's you are, like, Yeah, what are you gonna just because.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
The umpire said listen, listen, I get it pirates and
it's not been a great but you know what happened
the next time be a great last thirty years. I'm gonna,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna let you go with this. Okay,
I'm gonna let you go. I'll let you go thirty years.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
So they let him get his money's worth from the
from the dugout after after that.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Okay, okay again, okay, pirates, Okay, I get pirate. Okay,
now you're done. I gave it to you. Now you're done. Okay,
all right, we're done. Now done, going back to Spanky
Lavalley and not tagging sid Bream in time. Okay, you're done.
Now you're done. Well, we got Mike Levale in n
can't just stop that optic. That's the worst optic. Worst
thing she's done. SKA in the league. Stopped doing it.
Stop that done a good look.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
It doesn't know how he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
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night that shows you that maybe Bill Belichick just isn't
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