July 3, 2025 • 40 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Hello, Welcome inside, and Happy Wednesday, The Jason Smith Show
with my bes friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
No reset, Oh sorry, sorry, sorry, yes, you're right. Sorry, Jason,
You're crazy, You're this is a long reset Okay, but
it's a really long reset rise eight thousands.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Look at it.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What a be's hat. It's a long, redset, tight shirt.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Jason Smith.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Greetings, Welcome Inside, Happy Wednesday, The Clayton Kershaw Show with
my best friend. The first three batters of the game
for the Chicago.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
White Sox.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
As we are getting ready for history in Major League Baseball.
Clayton Kershaw about to take the mound for the Dodgers,
three strikeouts away from the three thousand mark, which again,
maybe we'll see one more time in our lives if
Chris Sale gets there, but we're gonna see it maybe tonight,
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and I'm surprised. It's it's the the odds are so low.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's all.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's eleven to one that he gets in the first inning.
I said, okay, three striking. He's not striking everybody out anymore,
but still eleven to one for three strikeouts in the
first innings.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Still audacious.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I mean, you look at the uh the immaculate inning
is five hundred to one, So if you really want
to that's all it is.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I mean, there's how how many Immacula innings in the
history of the game of their bit it's only five.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I feel like they certain you know what Vegas. Hey,
I'm sorry, you're scared.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Vegas is now scared because certain things that should be
much longer odds, It should be much more gambler friendly.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh no, no, we're.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Gonna set it lower because you know we got protection. No,
you know you're making enough bleeping money. There's new casinos
that go up every single day in Vegas. Almost cursed
right there. No, you get you can make the odds
a little bit longer on something like that to make
it actually worth the bet, Like Kershaw's striking out the
first three why it should be fifty to one? Why
that he strikes out there? Because Kershaw is not a
(02:39):
strikeout pitcher like he was anymore. And even though it
is the White Sox striking he is averaging about five
a game. Okay, striking out the first three for anybody
striking out the first three batter should be a long
odds bet. But oh no, no, eleven to one. It's ridiculous.
It's I'm calling out Vegas for the way it I'm
calling out.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'll have to go into what what those two odds are.
I'll get get in touch with all our Vegas before
they had out on their sojourns ahead of the football season,
getting some time in. But I mean, Kershaw is still
his strikeout rates, you know, per nine is still strong.
What is he at thirty? How many strikeouts in his
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thirty nineties? A twenty nine strikeouts in thirty eight innings?
A little lower rate than normal, but you know for
his career he's still better than one per inning.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, but this, okay, this is not twenty fifteen Clayton Kershaw.
This is again five player. This is the bet is
tonight the bet is not a we can count some
stuff from earlier on bet back in the day, it
probably would have been seven and a half to one.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, come on, it should be it should be at
least fifty to one. Yeah, so three or more strikeouts
and well it's fuzzy math that you're just throwing, just
throwing numbers at it at a way side. Well, I'm saying,
I don't want to say it should be a million
to one. I mean, although a million, I mean for
the first three. Oh, we got to protect ourselves. But
you sounded like Walt when you were doing your whole thing.
It's like, well, well, you know, if it was really
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that long, then i'd bet it. He's like, well, if
it's such a sure thing taken at the five hundred
to one for the immaculate inning, Yeah, all right, three
plus strikeouts on the game ninety four percent implied rate
at minus sixteen hundred four plus strikeouts minus three point
thirty that is a seventy six percent likelihood. Six plus
is plus one sixty is over. Under for the game
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is at four and a half.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, I'm sorry your the game is four and a half, okay,
but but I'm gonna eleven to one that he strikes
out the first three.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Come on, Jason, if you realize the only thing that
matters right now is this game starting at seven ten
on the dot. Yeah, well he gets sick control that No,
watch out. He choked people out. Watch out man. By
the way, it is, it is the yammodo bobblehead die.
Let's have a moment to celebrate him. And you just
see Kershaw start turning purple. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
If he doesn't get it tonight, Frostburg, the Dodgers should
release him. If you can't get three strikeouts against the
White Sox, you should be released just in the middle
of the game. See I'd be secking the White Sox.
Cut Carlton Fisk in between double headers and the nineties.
He goes, You don't get it, you come out, you
just keep going. Yeah, keep that uniform, you know what,
Take that jersey off, take the hat off. You walk
out in your cleats and an undershirt. You can't get
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three strikes.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
If you're vent of all I'm going I'm telling all
my guys, can you bunt? Can you get some berry
bonds armor? Can you go up looking like you're a
member of the Transformers, Uh, you know that you're ready
for battle, and you stretch this as long as you
can and get a little bit chaotic. But would be
the twentieth pitcher in Major League Baseball history for the uh,
(05:32):
the circle of life kind of moment. There have been
one hundred and eighteen immaculate innings in baseball history, in
the history in one hundred and hang one hundred and
ten against thirty five in almost one hundred and fifty
now enemy, really, in one hundred and fifty years of baseball,
there's been one hundred and nineteen of them. Okay, but
the odds for that is only what what is the odds?
(05:53):
One hundred and one, five hundred, five hundred and one?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Come on, man, really, come on, that should be that
that should be ten thousand to one.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
How about twenty thousand a week? The other is that
what what is the outcome of the first pitch? This is?
This is one that was pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
If you if you go in and and let me
let me pull it up, because you're talking about is
it a called strike, a swinging strike, is it a ball?
Is it any other outcome? Is it a base? It
is an extra base? It all of those you can
bet on every one of those prop bets as you
flow through. Interesting, Yeah, you could really be a degenerate
(06:31):
with all the Clayton Kershaw he bets today, he doesn't
get three strikeouts to night or retire or so you know,
that's it. It's just kno gonna wow, you're retiring him now? Yeah?
I retire? Wait whatever it, man, I just can't. I
can cut print that. I mean I already put that up. Man,
I'll tell you well, because really anybody you know sunsetting
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more and two thirds innings against the White Sox. Yeah,
how many strikeouts you have?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Two?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
You're done? Turn turn it, turn it, turn in your
stuff out where you can take all the stuff out
of your locker or whatever's in there, and we're never
gonna see you again. It's done, done, absolutely done. Well,
will Clayton Kershaw record a win plus one.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Fifths fin if you can't beat the White Sox, you
should If he doesn't beat the White Sox and get
three strike cuts and he is taking the mound right now,
Clayton Kershaw for the top of the first in against
the White Sox will bring you an update throughout again,
just three strikeouts away from the big number of three
thousand and again he's gonna get there, maybe, Chris Saale,
(07:30):
and maybe that's it. For the rest of our lifetimes.
We may never see this happen. It'll happen tonight most
like again not he should retire.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
All right? Place your bet whoa wow? Rosburg? Whoa hey?
First pitch taking strike, swinging strike or a foul ball
minus one forty five? Ball are a hit by pitch
plus one thirty any other out outcome plus twelve hundred.
A base hit is thirty four to one. An extra
base hit is fifty to one.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Tell Seacott to hit the first batter at to fix
it on anyone connects mister Rothsteine to this.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I come back and say you want that at plus
one thirty? You don't want that? Yeah, exact.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So again, a big night for Clayton Karsher will keep
you updated. But speaking of big nights, a big night
for the US men's national team into the Gold Cup
final and TJ clearly the US men's national team seeing
they can rely on Polisic and or Diego Luna when
it comes down to it.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
TJ, did they include a an answer key to Diego
Luna's body art. That's a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's gonna be the most just that's gonna be the
most confusing thing on Twitter, because now you can't go
to Twitter or x anymore and see something trending and
get what it is on the first try, because it's
just it's the way the algorithms are.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
They're just stupid. It's just sure. But like seeing Diego
Luna trend like you're said, wait, why what happened in
it's pictures of Diego Luna the actor, then Diego Luna
the soccer player. The a brace for Diego Luna in
the first fifteen minutes of the game. And it wasn't
perfect against Guatemala tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Like Guatemala they put on what once the United States
got that too, nothing lead, They kind of sat back
a little bit too much. Guatemala was able to keep
a lot of pressure on. They scored to make it interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But had one disallowed. Yeah yeah, clearly offside done. Yeah,
two players off for sure. But well, I was tough. Unfortunately,
they have the eye in the sky that's gonna catch
you as opposed to the ars trying to hustle up
and down on a league weekend. But after an awful
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beginning to the Gold Cup for the United States where
the the dedication of star players like Christian Polistic and
Robinson and guys were all out there. Hey are you know?
Why are they not playing? What's going on? Canada is
trolling the United States with.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
All our guys are here? Oh wait, all our guys
are not here. That's why we lost.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Here's the United States into the Gold Cup final with
a lot of a B team. But this is the
big thing. They have done exactly what they needed to do,
because is now this team is Mauricio po Chattino's team.
He is now.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
He is now the he is now the definition, and
he is the brand of United States Soccer, the USMNT.
He stands up to Polisic and the guys that didn't
want to come and what do you have? That big
same right before the Gold Cup started, I'm not a mannequin, right,
which I mean, what a great thing. I'm not a mannequin,
right you you you know, you don't get to decide
when you want to come play, So, you know, we
(10:25):
kind of threw that out there to the players who
we've said this, the players that the up and coming
stars have been anointed stars way too early, uh in
in in their careers.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
They haven't done anything.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But yet, you know, you see Polistic and Robinson and
all these players, and and and and even when you
want to get even closer to Raina and his parents
getting involved with the team, where hey, you're not you
haven't done anything to be entitled. And so he put
his foot down and said, you're not entitled. You don't
run this team. I run this team. I'm going in
with these guys.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
And clearly he's still got He's got a couple of
really good players are there to start.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You get some publicity. Now, you know, Luna a terrific
Tillman the other night, and you see how they're gritty,
they stick together, they have a lot more fight. Like
I seeing this team play. I see the change that
I saw when the women's team came back with the
triplets right with a try and when all of a
sudden we said, hey, when the three scorers are healthy,
watch out, this is what the team's gonna be built
(11:20):
on the next ten years. They show up for the
Olympics and all of a sudden, US is the big
bad bully on the block again, right, I see that
with this version of the United States team where hey,
they're gritty, they fight. They have talented players that are
now getting a chance because these other entitled players are
not there anymore. And this is the best of both
worlds for the United States. And why today was such
a great day and this has been such a great
(11:41):
tournament because now if you're one of those players that's skipped,
you're saying, uh, oh not that.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Suddenly it means Pochattino says, hey, you're not on the team,
but now there's competition, I have options. You better buy
in to what I'm doing here and what we're doing.
You don't buy in, you're gonna be sitting at home
watching the World Cup. Next year sitting on your couch
watching the Red Sox win the World Series. This is
what he has done over the course of just the
past two weeks with the Gold Cup. Is that wow. Now, hey,
(12:10):
they have an identity which he has brought. He is
in charge of this program and there's players that he
can rely on. You hear him talk about some of
the players about how how great they are. How you
know Tilman, I mean he could he couldn't go on
enough about Tilman and how how great a player he is,
and now tonight, obviously it's gonna be Diego Luna is
going to be a thing and Freeze the big hero
in the in the shootout the other day. So all
(12:31):
of a sudden, oh wait a minute, I better buy in.
So now there will be that for the United States
men's team. I feel more optimistic right now than maybe
I have any time in the last five years, all
because of what he's been able to accomplish in the
last week. Well, the old coaching back and forth and
fighting about direction, right, you had different agendas. You mentioned
(12:52):
the stuff with rain, I mean that smelled like any
ayso stuff you would have had or stuff you would
have dealt with with your daughter's team when you were coaching,
you know, parents getting involved in the infighting that you had,
so all of that got washed out and some of it.
Look at look at the effusive praise for the guys
that are there and that are performing, Like he's he's
(13:14):
gonna show you your flowers, but he's also not gonna
kiss your ass, right, So it's that nice blend. You
earn his respect, you earn your pt and if anything,
you get deeper out of this Mexico and Honduras now
up and flowing the final. If they play Mexico. They've
lost them five times in the finals. So you got
(13:36):
that hanging out in the balance, but you get a
new look, energized squad. I'm not a fan of parking
the bus. I got a two nil lead, I'm gonna
keep attacking. They got out shot twenty to twelve of
the game, including absolutely obliterated the final, you know, eighteen
to twenty minutes of the first half if you go
into the raw stats and just flow of the game,
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but enough to make it hold up. So yeah, positive
direction from a squad that we've wrung our hands about
for what going on three plus decades.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike car I mean,
I feel better about this team now than any time
in the last five years. And sometimes it happens. Sometimes
it happens.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Over the course of two weeks, you do realize that's
the Gold Cup, not the World Cup. You know, I
know what we're getting ready for. Hey, the long road
begins with the first step Gold Cups in the world.
The tournament going on now, it's it's what we have
going there? Sucked in it? There's building.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Okay, on, don't you go root for Canada? What's you
go root for Canada? Jesse March?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Go root for Canada? He bet that first pitch? Yeah,
he's just upset.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
No strikeouts for Kershaw so far, White Sox runner at third,
two outs, top of the first thing again, three strikeouts
away from three thousand, but coming up next. Evidence that
not only I could be an NBA insider, I can
be an NBA team consultant because I will get you
the head coach you need. That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fough.
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Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Well, Clayton Kershaw gets out
of the first inning for the Dodgers, not unscathed, gives
up a run, but Michael confordo with a leaping grab.
(16:19):
And I want to say this because he didn't really
have to leave, but he You're trying to figure out
the angle, right, I need I need a reverse angle
on that as to where he was relative to the wall.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
He didn't need to jump, but you know the the
left field wall and Dodger Stadium, it's right at the
partition where it goes from the high wall to the
low wall. Probably would have been a home run if
he doesn't grab it so another, I mean, it was
a foot away and he saves.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
The ending would have been for nothing. White Sox with
the lead, and you know, that's probably gonna be a
short night for Kershaw as he chases three thousand, but
the Dodgers get out of it. Kershaw gets out of
the first inning down one nothing to the White Sox
and look just to you know, seeing Clayton Kershaw pitches
I have for the you know, the better part last
fifteen years, he looks like he needs to settle down.
(17:04):
You're coming into this first inning. He just looks a
little bit jumpy, and see he knows the moment obviously,
it's a little bit more like it looks like he
needs a little bit more body control. He was up
in the zone a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
He is, Yeah, he was. He was very erratic in
the first inning. So I think he just he needed
that first inning and now probably likely because it's Kershaw,
he will calm down and be a much different pitcher
here going out for the second inning. Maybe you come
out it's all you know, the Dodgers, all the television
cameras are following him out. He's on the field at six,
twenty three, and here he is and warming up and
(17:38):
there's seven cameras right next to him while he's throwing
his last warm up pitch, like, okay, you got to
get the game to start. Sometimes you get the extra
adrenaline and sometimes it works for you at a couple
extra miles hour on your fastball, but sometimes it has
the opposite effect, where Okay, I'm really my thoughts are
all over and I'm sure he is taking his time
in the dugout. He will be a different pitcher, a
little bit more control in the second inning.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Twenty nine pitches in the first nineteen for strikes, three hits,
allowed the earned run, and now the Dodgers at the plate.
But you know, as I said, Canford it with the
big catch, A big day for the ex Mets as
we were talking about, with a couple of all star
announcements that really did not make you happy. But this
is history, man, We're probably not gonna see this again.
(18:21):
Zach Granky's close if he wants to come out of retirement.
But other than that, you got a long, long way.
I hear people going, oh, this guy's gonna get them,
Like he's got three hundred strikeouts, he's pitched a year
and a half, Like, like, what are we doing? Yeah,
so again, we'll keep you up date.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
You usually do stuff after Otani does something, but kershaw again,
three strikeouts away from three thousand, the Dodgers back in
the bottom of the first hitting. Meanwhile, I'd always say
I could be an NBA insider.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I can do all that. You've been declaring that a
long time. Yeah, Now I think.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
The better job for me now in my fifties, Like,
I'd rather be a consultant, far less work, because sounds
like the greatest gig. Like, you show up, you have lunch,
you tell people what you think, and you leave. You're
kind of like the wolf in pulp fiction.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, you show up, you solve a problem, then you
get the girl, and you get back in your fastcar
and drive away. Here's here's my.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
One thing about pulp fiction. What kind of party is
he at it nine o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
It hasn't ended.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
He's in tuxedos. Yeah, he hasn't ended the party. You
think it's an after pay.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
He's kind of a big deal, you think, Yeah, but
that's a long after party for people in their fifties.
Because Harvey I tell was in this fan that's a
long after party. You go from whatever night it was
before at nine in the morning, even when I was
in my overnight after party, like by six, I'm like, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Guys, Jason, there's there's things you can you can maybe
ingest at a party, no, I know, to keep things going.
But there was a tell. It's part of the largest
the legend of him. No, he was not walking around
naked saying I did so many bad days. But no,
it wasn't. There was the nineties, man, there wasn't as
much stuff as there is now. This is the nineties.
(19:57):
What kind of party? And he answered the phone in
the first string, Hello, oh oh okay, well I'm gonna
put that's a special bat phone. So I guess he
is the wolf. And when the wolf, when you call
the wolf, when you call you know you're in desperate straits,
which means he's gonna get compensated. But Jeweles had the.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Wolf's number, so I got to think that, Okay, anybody
could have called them, like you know, I realized, No,
I gotta I gotta think.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
That's reserved for special jobs. Em that that's only imparted
upon you. The break glass against the emergent because if
you're calling him and it's not something he needs to
come deal with, ye bet he beats your ass.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well he did, and Marcellis did as you did, Marcellistic Okay,
Marcellus Wallace to go all right, So that's fine now, I.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Mean, and he's a guy that we we have lots
of questions of his origin story. Consultants would be the
best bleeping gig. You could be a big deal.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You know. Go back to the beginning of June. I
know you put this on social media earlier today. The
odds were up there on June seventeenth. No, no, go
back to June third, Okay, oh yeah, June third when
the Knicks fired Tips and I said, okay, they kind
of had to. He took him as far as they did.
I get it. It's difficult. Who is the guy? I said,
Mike Brown, I said, go get Mike Brown is the guy.
(21:05):
And again the laundry list of stuff Mike Brown has
coached in big situations before. He's coach Lebron. He's coach
Steph Curry and Draymond and Clay and Pal Gasol, Duncan
Jenobli some as an assistant some as a head coach.
He's got a really good defensive system. Offensively, what he
likes to do fits with what the Knicks want to do.
He is a perfect choice. He's a perfect choice. And
(21:28):
I said, go get him. He's the guy to go get.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
What did I do that? And in two minutes I
gave you Mike Brown? But what did the Knicks to? No, no, no,
we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Call other teams and embarrass ourselves because they're gonna say no,
we're not giving you permission to talk to our head coach.
So the Knicks look like it's not a destination. Oh
but now, okay, now they go through it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
What do they do? They talk to Mike Brown, right,
they interview Mike Brown, They interview Taylor Jenkins. You were
on Taylor Jenkins. They talked to a couple other guys,
Mike and Norri. And now we get the story today
that Mike Brown will be named the knicks next head coach.
This source is telling ESPN and Shampstererania on Wednesday that
they will be hiring him, a two time Coach of
(22:06):
the Year, and he's the best choice first of all
for me. For a second, consultant. No, I mean I
did put it up up on accident. I'm sorry I
didn't get the specificity there. I knew. I knew the
seventeenth because it's a date. We'd been talking about a bunch,
but certainly with Mike Brown. We hadn't done the specificity
of the June third day for you in a while,
(22:27):
so it wasn't top of mind. And then my coffee
order was ready, so I hit send and grabbed my
coffee and scurried out the door. So I apologize for
not giving you that you were on it for two weeks,
because that's two weeks of time saved. Now in the end,
I still don't think they look dumb in all of it,
because guess what, Mike Brown was sitting there twiddling his
(22:48):
thumbs waiting for that call to come. Okay, but I
do have to ask this two time Coach of the
Year undisputed resume a lot of wins on there. He's
also been dismissed from a lot of places. Yeah, well, look,
guys that win NBA titles get fired out. It's kind
of how it goes. That's why it's gonna fast there. Yeah,
(23:08):
like ten years ago, it was there's not many guys
that have won titles. Well this is you know, because
the Lakers won so many and Greg Poppich would win
won every forty every presidential election they win, they win
a championship. So it wasn't a lot of guys out there.
What did take the other thing? Now there's more guys
out there that I've won that after a couple of years.
Hey sorry, uh were your star doesn't all beat it?
So that's just the way it is.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
That that that I'm not as worried about as I
was years ago because now that's just the way teams
do business.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Still the Knick Show. So now he's got to deal
with James Dolan and he's can he get Kat and
Brunson to buy in? And then he leveled defensively. That
is the billion dollar question? What are they worth? Ten
billion dollars or thereabouts fifteen if you include MSG. I've
(23:55):
that can he get this roster? And I'm curious to
see what what happens now that we hit this next
phase that you'll actually install a coach, some talent off
the board, but still a lot of chess pieces to move,
a lot of stars still with their wandering eye of
where they may look for the grass being greener. But
I can tell you this by just hiring a head coach,
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you are now the favorites in the East. I know
that wasn't a big difference from where you were with Cleveland,
but this takes them over the top. Fifty grand. I
could have gotten you that fifty grand. That was a
million dollar hour basically based on we did the pro
ration right, you can multiply it by twenty. Now I
would have said, give me an hour. Well, you build
by the hour. Your doctor sheriff, I would give her
(24:38):
fifty minutes. I would have done for an hour. I
would have done three minutes to tell you, hey, Mike Brown.
Then I would have went, got a sandwich, come back,
you know, checked a couple of things in fantasy and
everything else, and it said, oh, an hour, it's an hour.
Let me text James Dolan Boom one hour, Mark, Mike Brown.
Mike Brown is your guy? Well, I mean someone else's
is prettying up the language because you can't just send
the higher Mike Brown in a picture of him. Someone
(25:00):
else asked add, well, after an exhaustive search, are you
are you asking me there? Telling you Mike Brown go
get them.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah, but that's what your assistant does during the hour
while you get your sandwich.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Mmm, okay, all right, that's fine. Yeah because then because
then you get a legitimate hour. I'm fine, because because
you also have an output other than you texting and
number brown, what brown?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
What brown?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Is your man?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I'm not giving you a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I mean, and you wouldn't have had all the crazy
embarrassment permission asking stuff that went on.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
But I will say that, See, I still like that.
I might be the only guy that like that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I agree with you that once the Knicks realized, okay,
these these guys telling us, no, we have to go
away from that, right, I get that, and they sort
of got back the hey, okay, the Knicks is a destination.
You see the injuries that are going on, what teams
are doing in free agency. The Knicks got back there
bit of hey, this is now a destination again. Now
obviously you can you can say, hey, we tried. Maybe
(25:58):
these guys would have said yes, but the tea said no.
But it's still embarrassing to say, hey, we like to
talk to them and not getting permission because all the
coach had to say was yes, Hey, I want to
talk to the Knicks. And suddenly, well, guess what, that
guy's gotta leave because you can't go back.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Well, but that's also a guy that you may decide
you don't want to hire. So they got to decide.
They're on steady ground speaking about that. Sorry man, but yeah,
we don't like you. I know you can't go back
to your old team now because you want to, but yeah,
we don't like But with the old team, though, is
they're gonna weigh of what else is out there? As
you said former coaches of the year, You've got college coaches,
(26:32):
You've got assistants waiting on the turn. Look, it's the
old if the price is right. We talk about compensation
for players and how many you know, pieces of confetti
also known as second round draft picks. You'll give up
same thing for coaches. You want our coach, Yeah, if
he wants to talk to you, talk to you, because
if nothing else, you're gonna get compensation for it. And
if you think that guy's replaceable, oh yeah, maybe there's
(26:54):
a little schism in the locker room. Whatever, Why would
you not allow them to examine their options? Like I
think it was a win and all side, like, I
don't think it was necessarily an embarrassing look and.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Loss, you know, after it was embarrassing for a week
or so, and now it was and then it was okay.
Now they're talking to the guys they should be talking to.
They're talking to the well respected coaches, and they wound
up getting Mike Brown. And I I the one thing
that I want to say, because the one one thing
I can't believe that that's actually been going around is that, ah,
Mike Brown is not exciting. Why couldn't they do better
(27:28):
than Mike Brown? This is the guy that's been fighting
to talk about it. He's got ups and downs on
his resume. But I just want to say this, Okay,
who did you want? No, but that's the thing. Who
did you want?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
To go get?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Don't say talking?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
We still said who did I want? That's not yeah,
well you did? Who did you want that Knicks fans
would want? Like?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Who did you want? There was nobody else out there?
The whole question, Yeah, Knicks fans, go go go Knicks fans.
Would you rather Mike else?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Who?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I mean? Well, but if you get all five of
them to respond with Doc Rivers, we haven't unt I mean,
it's not statistically valid because it's not more than thirty.
But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
If you want to tell me you don't like Mike Brown, Okay,
I get it. But sometimes you can only hire who's available.
It's like having the number one pick in the draft.
Oh we didn't get a great guy. Well, Andrew luck
is not available all the time at number one. Overall,
Cam Newton's not available at number one all the time.
Sometimes the number one pick is Jake Long, Right, it
just so happens, like you have to go with who's
(28:22):
out there, right, And there was nobody better than Mike Brown.
He was the guy from the beginning. And again, if
you don't like him, who did you want? Who else
was coming in to do it? He's the anti Tims,
He's a players coach. He's getting the blessing of because
you know it wouldn't be at this point if he
didn't have the blessing. He's been leading for a long time. Look,
Mark Medina told us this on Friday night that Hey,
(28:42):
all the people I've talked to said that Mike Brown
is fully in the lead for this, Like, I don't
know who else you wanted.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, it's great to say, Oh, I'd rather have Steve Kerr.
I'd rather have Eric Spulsive.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, I'd rather have those guys too, but they're not
available and someone has to coach the team and they
didn't call me, So okay, if it's not me, where
I could do the show at night and the games
because like the games Len right before we go on there,
like it could work.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
West Coast have to take some time off. But like,
if it's not me, okay, then Mike Brown, Yeah, he's
a leader in the betting odds for a full two
weeks plus and now here we are. Jake Long number
one pick in the two thousand and eight draft, followed
then by Chris Long, Saint Louis Rams, Matt Ryan third,
the Atlanta Falcons, McFadden, Dorsey Goldstin Ellis, and of Harvey
(29:25):
five Rivers draft. We picked six that year. I remember that. Yeah,
Gerard Mayo goes tenth. Sure, keep on going down. Joe
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buying should be. The Knicks get their guy. He's the
best choice. I told you should have been him, done
and done. But time to find out what's trending in
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Speaker 6 (30:03):
I got waiting for Clayton Kershaw. He's got no strikeouts
going into the bottom of the second inning. So he's
pitched two, given three hits, one run, and again no strikeouts.
And you can kind of see the crowd in Dodger
Stadium every time he gets to that second strike and
at like whenever he doesn't get that third strikeout, there's
(30:25):
a collective Oh.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
But they're getting some updowns in though, getting on their feet.
That's the benefit.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
They are getting a little bit more exercise than they
probably would have expected to on a July day against
the White Sox. It's one to one tide right now,
get bottom of the second ing, Will Smith with a
home run. Elsewhere in Major League Baseball, at bottom of
the eighth inning, the Cubs lead the Guardians five to three.
Top of the seventh, the Astros lead the Rockies five
to two rolls with a one nothing lead over the
(30:52):
Mariners top of the fourth, bottom of the fourth inning,
the Giants and the Diamondback San Francisco with a two
to nothing lead.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Earlier, the boys were just talking about it.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
The New York Knicks hired Mike Brown to be their
new head coach. The Lakers expected to sign free agent
center DeAndre eight into a two year contract. The Memphis
Grizzly said they'll evaluate All Star Darren Jackson Junior's toe
in twelve weeks following the.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Turf toe surgery.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
The Athletics report that the Warriors, Lakers, and Celtics have
reached out the free agent.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Guard Damian Lillard.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
He's a free agent after Milwaukee decided to wave him.
The Hornets have signed Spencer Dinwiddie to a one year deal,
and Anthony Pocez just hit a home run in that
Dodgers game. So it is now two to one LA
with the lead in the bottom of the second, ending
on waiting for Kershaws to get his three thousand strikeout.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
If it happens today, he's got three to go back
to you guys.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Thanks bunch, Martin, Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios. Coming up next, we got the
play of the day, and you want a big hot
take about NBA free agency to this point right the
first Big Waves Gun three day NBA free Agency. Get
a big hot take for you. That's coming up next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
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Speaker 1 (32:16):
Welcome inside the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Uh, so far, Clayton Kershaw is just giving
up a leadoff single in the top of the third inning.
What is that six hits he's giving up so far
to the White Sox who somehow still only have one run.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
That's what That's what the White Sox do, Jason Smith,
Dodgers lead at two to one. Andy Pa has homers
in the bottom of the inning. About it of the
second give the Dodgers a two to one lead. But
Kershaw is still so far tonight no strikeouts, is still
three away from three thousand. So we can't make Clayton
Kershaw the play of the day. But I think I
(32:53):
have a pretty good idea of Oh, play of the
day is going to be okay.
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Speaker 3 (33:13):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
When football is life and you help the United States
into the Gold Cup finals where the brace in the
first fifteen minutes, you get to be the play of
the day.
Speaker 7 (33:24):
Cuts it back in, tell them what the fake turns
it inside, and that's del Tire says, go back to
the games. Had a perfect early start for the United States.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Here's Diega loada now Luda.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
FS one on the call. The United States wins it
two to one. They move in to the Gold Cup finals.
They play Kenda. Oh no wait, sorry, Canada loss because
they didn't have their guys know their guy, Yeah, they
were missing a bunch of their guys. That's right. So
I'm a little disappointed. We didn't either get a clip
from Rogue one or and door.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I gave my Indor line earlier the same day, wouldn't
give me anything, thank you for it. I'm like, come on, man,
relying on Polisic and or Diego Luna is right now.
I gotta get deeper into the filmography of Diego Luna
to come up with more bermanisms.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Book of life.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
They take on a book of life Mexico and Honduras,
which right now is scoreless, nearing halftime.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Again, excuse me, I'll choked up on f s one.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Now.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
That first goal, by the way, that that we heard
the call doesn't do it justice. That defender should have
been thrown off the pitch for his lack of effort
trying to poke at the ball and allowing Luna to
come straight through him to get the putback of the rebound.
So again, could be United States on Duras, could be Mexico.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Well, wait and see, we're keeping an eye on this
as well as well as Oh my good goodness, Clayton
Kershaw is just giving up a two run homer.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Now it's a throw.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
White Sox lead Austin Slater, who I believe is a surfer,
is also playing for the Well, Sean Burke is pitching
for the White That's true.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
He was terrific Goaldie for the Whalers back in the nineties. No,
we certainly have guys all over the place, multiple identities,
just like Diego Loen.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Don't know if Kershaw is going to be around long
enough tonight for those three struck outs to get to
three thousand.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Boy, the ball your fault too, It's not my faults.
You didn't start the show with it. Hey, Hey, you
said we ruined the vibe. Hey, I did not ruin
ruined Kershaw day. To be fair, right now, I think
Kershaw has ruined Kershaw Day.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I think Kershaw's eighty eight mile an hour fastball is
ruining Kershaw Day.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
That's what's happen, leaving it up and yeah and hitting
the upper eighties. But now, well, we have big stuff
on Lebron and the Lakers, who make a who make
a big splash today for the Lakers coming up in
a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
But you know, I gotta say this, so far, we're
now three days into NBA free agency.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
We can stop and take a breath because all the
big names they've changed, they've changed places. Right, we've seen
the bit and most of them have re signed with
their teams.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
There's still some big players out there, right, So still
guys out there going oh man, okay, but they're restricted
all for players, so you don't know kind of how
that's gonna go. So there's still some guys out there.
But now we've seen the first big wave. And I
gotta stop for a second. This is for ESPN, this
is for NBA. This uh.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
The first three days of free agency has not been insane.
It's been a frenzy.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Not it's not been it's not been a frenzy. It's
not been incredible move it has not been jaw dropping.
It's been the beginning of free agency. Have some perspective.
It's been the beginning to free agency. I can'tsider and
tell you that it's frenzied and it's incredible and it's
jaw dropping. When the biggest name to change teams is
Miles Turner, I mean, come on, man, I get look,
(36:55):
it's a big story from a day ago because Turner
plays in a Damian Lillard and Yannis. But when you
say free agency is telling me, oh, it's fantastic, dude.
The biggest name has been Miles Turner. And unless there's
a trade. Now, trades are different because the trade we
talked about the trade season, we're gonna wind up seeing
some stuff get loosened up. But the free agency season,
it's just been okay. This is like the nb NBA
(37:17):
fregency has been the hype and the execution of the
Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest without Joey Chestnut,
Like was it like, no Joey Chesnut?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Lads, what we okay? But now he's back. Okay. Some
years free agency is great. Some years it's not.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
No, there's it's not been a great There's been some
solid moves, but there's been nothing so far that I
can sit there and say, oh wow that this is
cutting across from coast to coast. You can't make Miles
Turner happen more than it should. You gotta have a
little bit of proportion to it.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
But all I mean, all of this, look at what's happening. No, no,
just you know, don't don't try to convince me on stuff.
It's not been. This has been just a start for
free agency. So no one's no one's taken all the
bait of going all in and overpaying for guys that
they should have shouldn't overpay for. It's been a start
to NBA Free agency. Yes, teams, names and players have
changed teams, but what have we seen so far that suddenly,
(38:06):
oh my goodness, look at this right again, the biggest
name has been Mile turn Let's just have the perspective. Well,
he's got a big deal. He just played in the
NBA Finals. He played big minutes, give you big, big moments.
We've spent with teen extensions and new contracts, nearly three
billion dollars. That that counts. And if I have the rights,
(38:27):
I'm selling the hell out of it. I mean, how
did a former colleague if I used to start a show,
that's the best fifteen minutes you're ever gonna hear? All right,
what about the next fifteen minutes? But we'll get to
that when we get to that. For us, it's all right.
Now it's time to entertain you with the next act.
And now here's something you really like. And for the
NBA free agency, if I'm the rights holder, every move
(38:51):
is the greatest move ever made because it's next, it's now,
and you have to sell, sell sell. Might just be
a minimal deal, might just be a resigning of a
guy that's gonna sit at the end of the bench.
I mean we're over hyping the fact that DeAndre Eaton
was once upon a time.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Now look, now, the thing is is that there are
moves that play into bigger things. Because coming up in
a few minutes, why the DeAndre eight move plays into
something so much bigger for the Lakers in the NBA,
just like we said, look the Miles Turner move, you know,
stretching out the salary for Damian Lillard and now when
is he gonna play again?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
And now what about Giannis? Like, okay, the honest part
of it gets big, but this part, okay, well the
Lillard part was big too, though, because it showed once
again NBA contracts. Man, here's your one hundred and twelve
million dollars. You didn't like being here. Now we part
as friends and you move on, kind of like the
end of what was that book and Harry Potter where
(39:48):
they got that cool little animated sequence and the guy
flies away with death. I mean, Lillard gets to keep
over one hundred million over the next five years and
he gets to go wherever you want. I mean, that's
kind of a big deal. We all aspire to that
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
No reset, Oh sorry, sorry, sorry, yes, you're right. Sorry, Jason,
You're crazy, You're this is a long reset Okay, but
it's a really long reset rise eight thousands.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Look at it.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What a be's hat. It's a long, redset, tight shirt.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Jason Smith.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Greetings, Welcome Inside, Happy Wednesday, The Clayton Kershaw Show with
my best friend. The first three batters of the game
for the Chicago.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
White Sox.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
As we are getting ready for history in Major League Baseball.
Clayton Kershaw about to take the mound for the Dodgers,
three strikeouts away from the three thousand mark, which again,
maybe we'll see one more time in our lives if
Chris Sale gets there, but we're gonna see it maybe tonight,
(01:38):
and I'm surprised. It's it's the the odds are so low.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
It's all.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's eleven to one that he gets in the first inning.
I said, okay, three striking. He's not striking everybody out anymore,
but still eleven to one for three strikeouts in the
first innings.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Still audacious.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I mean, you look at the uh the immaculate inning
is five hundred to one, So if you really want
to that's all it is.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I mean, there's how how many Immacula innings in the
history of the game of their bit it's only five.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
I feel like they certain you know what Vegas. Hey,
I'm sorry, you're scared.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Vegas is now scared because certain things that should be
much longer odds, It should be much more gambler friendly.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Oh no, no, we're.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Gonna set it lower because you know we got protection. No,
you know you're making enough bleeping money. There's new casinos
that go up every single day in Vegas. Almost cursed
right there. No, you get you can make the odds
a little bit longer on something like that to make
it actually worth the bet, Like Kershaw's striking out the
first three why it should be fifty to one? Why
that he strikes out there? Because Kershaw is not a
(02:39):
strikeout pitcher like he was anymore. And even though it
is the White Sox striking he is averaging about five
a game. Okay, striking out the first three for anybody
striking out the first three batter should be a long
odds bet. But oh no, no, eleven to one. It's ridiculous.
It's I'm calling out Vegas for the way it I'm
calling out.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'll have to go into what what those two odds are.
I'll get get in touch with all our Vegas before
they had out on their sojourns ahead of the football season,
getting some time in. But I mean, Kershaw is still
his strikeout rates, you know, per nine is still strong.
What is he at thirty? How many strikeouts in his
(03:15):
thirty nineties? A twenty nine strikeouts in thirty eight innings?
A little lower rate than normal, but you know for
his career he's still better than one per inning.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, but this, okay, this is not twenty fifteen Clayton Kershaw.
This is again five player. This is the bet is
tonight the bet is not a we can count some
stuff from earlier on bet back in the day, it
probably would have been seven and a half to one.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Okay, come on, it should be it should be at
least fifty to one. Yeah, so three or more strikeouts
and well it's fuzzy math that you're just throwing, just
throwing numbers at it at a way side. Well, I'm saying,
I don't want to say it should be a million
to one. I mean, although a million, I mean for
the first three. Oh, we got to protect ourselves. But
you sounded like Walt when you were doing your whole thing.
It's like, well, well, you know, if it was really
(03:58):
that long, then i'd bet it. He's like, well, if
it's such a sure thing taken at the five hundred
to one for the immaculate inning, Yeah, all right, three
plus strikeouts on the game ninety four percent implied rate
at minus sixteen hundred four plus strikeouts minus three point
thirty that is a seventy six percent likelihood. Six plus
is plus one sixty is over. Under for the game
(04:20):
is at four and a half.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Yeah, I'm sorry your the game is four and a half, okay,
but but I'm gonna eleven to one that he strikes
out the first three.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Come on, Jason, if you realize the only thing that
matters right now is this game starting at seven ten
on the dot. Yeah, well he gets sick control that No,
watch out. He choked people out. Watch out man. By
the way, it is, it is the yammodo bobblehead die.
Let's have a moment to celebrate him. And you just
see Kershaw start turning purple. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
If he doesn't get it tonight, Frostburg, the Dodgers should
release him. If you can't get three strikeouts against the
White Sox, you should be released just in the middle
of the game. See I'd be secking the White Sox.
Cut Carlton Fisk in between double headers and the nineties.
He goes, You don't get it, you come out, you
just keep going. Yeah, keep that uniform, you know what,
Take that jersey off, take the hat off. You walk
out in your cleats and an undershirt. You can't get
(05:09):
three strikes.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
If you're vent of all I'm going I'm telling all
my guys, can you bunt? Can you get some berry
bonds armor? Can you go up looking like you're a
member of the Transformers, Uh, you know that you're ready
for battle, and you stretch this as long as you
can and get a little bit chaotic. But would be
the twentieth pitcher in Major League Baseball history for the uh,
(05:32):
the circle of life kind of moment. There have been
one hundred and eighteen immaculate innings in baseball history, in
the history in one hundred and hang one hundred and
ten against thirty five in almost one hundred and fifty
now enemy, really, in one hundred and fifty years of baseball,
there's been one hundred and nineteen of them. Okay, but
the odds for that is only what what is the odds?
(05:53):
One hundred and one, five hundred, five hundred and one?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Come on, man, really, come on, that should be that
that should be ten thousand to one.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
How about twenty thousand a week? The other is that
what what is the outcome of the first pitch? This is?
This is one that was pretty fun.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
If you if you go in and and let me
let me pull it up, because you're talking about is
it a called strike, a swinging strike, is it a ball?
Is it any other outcome? Is it a base? It
is an extra base? It all of those you can
bet on every one of those prop bets as you
flow through. Interesting, Yeah, you could really be a degenerate
(06:31):
with all the Clayton Kershaw he bets today, he doesn't
get three strikeouts to night or retire or so you know,
that's it. It's just kno gonna wow, you're retiring him now? Yeah?
I retire? Wait whatever it, man, I just can't. I
can cut print that. I mean I already put that up. Man,
I'll tell you well, because really anybody you know sunsetting
(06:52):
more and two thirds innings against the White Sox. Yeah,
how many strikeouts you have?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Two?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
You're done? Turn turn it, turn it, turn in your
stuff out where you can take all the stuff out
of your locker or whatever's in there, and we're never
gonna see you again. It's done, done, absolutely done. Well,
will Clayton Kershaw record a win plus one.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Fifths fin if you can't beat the White Sox, you
should If he doesn't beat the White Sox and get
three strike cuts and he is taking the mound right now,
Clayton Kershaw for the top of the first in against
the White Sox will bring you an update throughout again,
just three strikeouts away from the big number of three
thousand and again he's gonna get there, maybe, Chris Saale,
(07:30):
and maybe that's it. For the rest of our lifetimes.
We may never see this happen. It'll happen tonight most
like again not he should retire.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
All right? Place your bet whoa wow? Rosburg? Whoa hey?
First pitch taking strike, swinging strike or a foul ball
minus one forty five? Ball are a hit by pitch
plus one thirty any other out outcome plus twelve hundred.
A base hit is thirty four to one. An extra
base hit is fifty to one.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Tell Seacott to hit the first batter at to fix
it on anyone connects mister Rothsteine to this.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I come back and say you want that at plus
one thirty? You don't want that? Yeah, exact.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So again, a big night for Clayton Karsher will keep
you updated. But speaking of big nights, a big night
for the US men's national team into the Gold Cup
final and TJ clearly the US men's national team seeing
they can rely on Polisic and or Diego Luna when
it comes down to it.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
TJ, did they include a an answer key to Diego
Luna's body art. That's a lot of stuff going on.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's gonna be the most just that's gonna be the
most confusing thing on Twitter, because now you can't go
to Twitter or x anymore and see something trending and
get what it is on the first try, because it's
just it's the way the algorithms are.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
They're just stupid. It's just sure. But like seeing Diego
Luna trend like you're said, wait, why what happened in
it's pictures of Diego Luna the actor, then Diego Luna
the soccer player. The a brace for Diego Luna in
the first fifteen minutes of the game. And it wasn't
perfect against Guatemala tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Like Guatemala they put on what once the United States
got that too, nothing lead, They kind of sat back
a little bit too much. Guatemala was able to keep
a lot of pressure on. They scored to make it interesting.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
But had one disallowed. Yeah yeah, clearly offside done. Yeah,
two players off for sure. But well, I was tough. Unfortunately,
they have the eye in the sky that's gonna catch
you as opposed to the ars trying to hustle up
and down on a league weekend. But after an awful
(09:31):
beginning to the Gold Cup for the United States where
the the dedication of star players like Christian Polistic and
Robinson and guys were all out there. Hey are you know?
Why are they not playing? What's going on? Canada is
trolling the United States with.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
All our guys are here? Oh wait, all our guys
are not here. That's why we lost.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Here's the United States into the Gold Cup final with
a lot of a B team. But this is the
big thing. They have done exactly what they needed to do,
because is now this team is Mauricio po Chattino's team.
He is now.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
He is now the he is now the definition, and
he is the brand of United States Soccer, the USMNT.
He stands up to Polisic and the guys that didn't
want to come and what do you have? That big
same right before the Gold Cup started, I'm not a mannequin, right,
which I mean, what a great thing. I'm not a mannequin,
right you you you know, you don't get to decide
when you want to come play, So, you know, we
(10:25):
kind of threw that out there to the players who
we've said this, the players that the up and coming
stars have been anointed stars way too early, uh in
in in their careers.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
They haven't done anything.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But yet, you know, you see Polistic and Robinson and
all these players, and and and and even when you
want to get even closer to Raina and his parents
getting involved with the team, where hey, you're not you
haven't done anything to be entitled. And so he put
his foot down and said, you're not entitled. You don't
run this team. I run this team. I'm going in
with these guys.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
And clearly he's still got He's got a couple of
really good players are there to start.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You get some publicity. Now, you know, Luna a terrific
Tillman the other night, and you see how they're gritty,
they stick together, they have a lot more fight. Like
I seeing this team play. I see the change that
I saw when the women's team came back with the
triplets right with a try and when all of a
sudden we said, hey, when the three scorers are healthy,
watch out, this is what the team's gonna be built
(11:20):
on the next ten years. They show up for the
Olympics and all of a sudden, US is the big
bad bully on the block again, right, I see that
with this version of the United States team where hey,
they're gritty, they fight. They have talented players that are
now getting a chance because these other entitled players are
not there anymore. And this is the best of both
worlds for the United States. And why today was such
a great day and this has been such a great
(11:41):
tournament because now if you're one of those players that's skipped,
you're saying, uh, oh not that.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Suddenly it means Pochattino says, hey, you're not on the team,
but now there's competition, I have options. You better buy
in to what I'm doing here and what we're doing.
You don't buy in, you're gonna be sitting at home
watching the World Cup. Next year sitting on your couch
watching the Red Sox win the World Series. This is
what he has done over the course of just the
past two weeks with the Gold Cup. Is that wow. Now, hey,
(12:10):
they have an identity which he has brought. He is
in charge of this program and there's players that he
can rely on. You hear him talk about some of
the players about how how great they are. How you
know Tilman, I mean he could he couldn't go on
enough about Tilman and how how great a player he is,
and now tonight, obviously it's gonna be Diego Luna is
going to be a thing and Freeze the big hero
in the in the shootout the other day. So all
(12:31):
of a sudden, oh wait a minute, I better buy in.
So now there will be that for the United States
men's team. I feel more optimistic right now than maybe
I have any time in the last five years, all
because of what he's been able to accomplish in the
last week. Well, the old coaching back and forth and
fighting about direction, right, you had different agendas. You mentioned
(12:52):
the stuff with rain, I mean that smelled like any
ayso stuff you would have had or stuff you would
have dealt with with your daughter's team when you were coaching,
you know, parents getting involved in the infighting that you had,
so all of that got washed out and some of it.
Look at look at the effusive praise for the guys
that are there and that are performing, Like he's he's
(13:14):
gonna show you your flowers, but he's also not gonna
kiss your ass, right, So it's that nice blend. You
earn his respect, you earn your pt and if anything,
you get deeper out of this Mexico and Honduras now
up and flowing the final. If they play Mexico. They've
lost them five times in the finals. So you got
(13:36):
that hanging out in the balance, but you get a
new look, energized squad. I'm not a fan of parking
the bus. I got a two nil lead, I'm gonna
keep attacking. They got out shot twenty to twelve of
the game, including absolutely obliterated the final, you know, eighteen
to twenty minutes of the first half if you go
into the raw stats and just flow of the game,
(13:56):
but enough to make it hold up. So yeah, positive
direction from a squad that we've wrung our hands about
for what going on three plus decades.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike car I mean,
I feel better about this team now than any time
in the last five years. And sometimes it happens. Sometimes
it happens.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Over the course of two weeks, you do realize that's
the Gold Cup, not the World Cup. You know, I
know what we're getting ready for. Hey, the long road
begins with the first step Gold Cups in the world.
The tournament going on now, it's it's what we have
going there? Sucked in it? There's building.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Okay, on, don't you go root for Canada? What's you
go root for Canada? Jesse March?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Go root for Canada? He bet that first pitch? Yeah,
he's just upset.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
No strikeouts for Kershaw so far, White Sox runner at third,
two outs, top of the first thing again, three strikeouts
away from three thousand, but coming up next. Evidence that
not only I could be an NBA insider, I can
be an NBA team consultant because I will get you
the head coach you need. That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fough.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
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Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Well, Clayton Kershaw gets out
of the first inning for the Dodgers, not unscathed, gives
up a run, but Michael confordo with a leaping grab.
(16:19):
And I want to say this because he didn't really
have to leave, but he You're trying to figure out
the angle, right, I need I need a reverse angle
on that as to where he was relative to the wall.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
He didn't need to jump, but you know the the
left field wall and Dodger Stadium, it's right at the
partition where it goes from the high wall to the
low wall. Probably would have been a home run if
he doesn't grab it so another, I mean, it was
a foot away and he saves.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
The ending would have been for nothing. White Sox with
the lead, and you know, that's probably gonna be a
short night for Kershaw as he chases three thousand, but
the Dodgers get out of it. Kershaw gets out of
the first inning down one nothing to the White Sox
and look just to you know, seeing Clayton Kershaw pitches
I have for the you know, the better part last
fifteen years, he looks like he needs to settle down.
(17:04):
You're coming into this first inning. He just looks a
little bit jumpy, and see he knows the moment obviously,
it's a little bit more like it looks like he
needs a little bit more body control. He was up
in the zone a lot.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
He is, Yeah, he was. He was very erratic in
the first inning. So I think he just he needed
that first inning and now probably likely because it's Kershaw,
he will calm down and be a much different pitcher
here going out for the second inning. Maybe you come
out it's all you know, the Dodgers, all the television
cameras are following him out. He's on the field at six,
twenty three, and here he is and warming up and
(17:38):
there's seven cameras right next to him while he's throwing
his last warm up pitch, like, okay, you got to
get the game to start. Sometimes you get the extra
adrenaline and sometimes it works for you at a couple
extra miles hour on your fastball, but sometimes it has
the opposite effect, where Okay, I'm really my thoughts are
all over and I'm sure he is taking his time
in the dugout. He will be a different pitcher, a
little bit more control in the second inning.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Twenty nine pitches in the first nineteen for strikes, three hits,
allowed the earned run, and now the Dodgers at the plate.
But you know, as I said, Canford it with the
big catch, A big day for the ex Mets as
we were talking about, with a couple of all star
announcements that really did not make you happy. But this
is history, man, We're probably not gonna see this again.
(18:21):
Zach Granky's close if he wants to come out of retirement.
But other than that, you got a long, long way.
I hear people going, oh, this guy's gonna get them,
Like he's got three hundred strikeouts, he's pitched a year
and a half, Like, like, what are we doing? Yeah,
so again, we'll keep you up date.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
You usually do stuff after Otani does something, but kershaw again,
three strikeouts away from three thousand, the Dodgers back in
the bottom of the first hitting. Meanwhile, I'd always say
I could be an NBA insider.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I can do all that. You've been declaring that a
long time. Yeah, Now I think.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
The better job for me now in my fifties, Like,
I'd rather be a consultant, far less work, because sounds
like the greatest gig. Like, you show up, you have lunch,
you tell people what you think, and you leave. You're
kind of like the wolf in pulp fiction.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, you show up, you solve a problem, then you
get the girl, and you get back in your fastcar
and drive away. Here's here's my.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
One thing about pulp fiction. What kind of party is
he at it nine o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
It hasn't ended.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
He's in tuxedos. Yeah, he hasn't ended the party. You
think it's an after pay.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
He's kind of a big deal, you think, Yeah, but
that's a long after party for people in their fifties.
Because Harvey I tell was in this fan that's a
long after party. You go from whatever night it was
before at nine in the morning, even when I was
in my overnight after party, like by six, I'm like, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Guys, Jason, there's there's things you can you can maybe
ingest at a party, no, I know, to keep things going.
But there was a tell. It's part of the largest
the legend of him. No, he was not walking around
naked saying I did so many bad days. But no,
it wasn't. There was the nineties, man, there wasn't as
much stuff as there is now. This is the nineties.
(19:57):
What kind of party? And he answered the phone in
the first string, Hello, oh oh okay, well I'm gonna
put that's a special bat phone. So I guess he
is the wolf. And when the wolf, when you call
the wolf, when you call you know you're in desperate straits,
which means he's gonna get compensated. But Jeweles had the.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Wolf's number, so I got to think that, Okay, anybody
could have called them, like you know, I realized, No,
I gotta I gotta think.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
That's reserved for special jobs. Em that that's only imparted
upon you. The break glass against the emergent because if
you're calling him and it's not something he needs to
come deal with, ye bet he beats your ass.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well he did, and Marcellis did as you did, Marcellistic Okay,
Marcellus Wallace to go all right, So that's fine now, I.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Mean, and he's a guy that we we have lots
of questions of his origin story. Consultants would be the
best bleeping gig. You could be a big deal.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You know. Go back to the beginning of June. I
know you put this on social media earlier today. The
odds were up there on June seventeenth. No, no, go
back to June third, Okay, oh yeah, June third when
the Knicks fired Tips and I said, okay, they kind
of had to. He took him as far as they did.
I get it. It's difficult. Who is the guy? I said,
Mike Brown, I said, go get Mike Brown is the guy.
(21:05):
And again the laundry list of stuff Mike Brown has
coached in big situations before. He's coach Lebron. He's coach
Steph Curry and Draymond and Clay and Pal Gasol, Duncan
Jenobli some as an assistant some as a head coach.
He's got a really good defensive system. Offensively, what he
likes to do fits with what the Knicks want to do.
He is a perfect choice. He's a perfect choice. And
(21:28):
I said, go get him. He's the guy to go get.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
What did I do that? And in two minutes I
gave you Mike Brown? But what did the Knicks to? No, no, no,
we're gonna.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Call other teams and embarrass ourselves because they're gonna say no,
we're not giving you permission to talk to our head coach.
So the Knicks look like it's not a destination. Oh
but now, okay, now they go through it.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
What do they do? They talk to Mike Brown, right,
they interview Mike Brown, They interview Taylor Jenkins. You were
on Taylor Jenkins. They talked to a couple other guys,
Mike and Norri. And now we get the story today
that Mike Brown will be named the knicks next head coach.
This source is telling ESPN and Shampstererania on Wednesday that
they will be hiring him, a two time Coach of
(22:06):
the Year, and he's the best choice first of all
for me. For a second, consultant. No, I mean I
did put it up up on accident. I'm sorry I
didn't get the specificity there. I knew. I knew the
seventeenth because it's a date. We'd been talking about a bunch,
but certainly with Mike Brown. We hadn't done the specificity
of the June third day for you in a while,
(22:27):
so it wasn't top of mind. And then my coffee
order was ready, so I hit send and grabbed my
coffee and scurried out the door. So I apologize for
not giving you that you were on it for two weeks,
because that's two weeks of time saved. Now in the end,
I still don't think they look dumb in all of it,
because guess what, Mike Brown was sitting there twiddling his
(22:48):
thumbs waiting for that call to come. Okay, but I
do have to ask this two time Coach of the
Year undisputed resume a lot of wins on there. He's
also been dismissed from a lot of places. Yeah, well, look,
guys that win NBA titles get fired out. It's kind
of how it goes. That's why it's gonna fast there. Yeah,
(23:08):
like ten years ago, it was there's not many guys
that have won titles. Well this is you know, because
the Lakers won so many and Greg Poppich would win
won every forty every presidential election they win, they win
a championship. So it wasn't a lot of guys out there.
What did take the other thing? Now there's more guys
out there that I've won that after a couple of years.
Hey sorry, uh were your star doesn't all beat it?
So that's just the way it is.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
That that that I'm not as worried about as I
was years ago because now that's just the way teams
do business.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Still the Knick Show. So now he's got to deal
with James Dolan and he's can he get Kat and
Brunson to buy in? And then he leveled defensively. That
is the billion dollar question? What are they worth? Ten
billion dollars or thereabouts fifteen if you include MSG. I've
(23:55):
that can he get this roster? And I'm curious to
see what what happens now that we hit this next
phase that you'll actually install a coach, some talent off
the board, but still a lot of chess pieces to move,
a lot of stars still with their wandering eye of
where they may look for the grass being greener. But
I can tell you this by just hiring a head coach,
(24:16):
you are now the favorites in the East. I know
that wasn't a big difference from where you were with Cleveland,
but this takes them over the top. Fifty grand. I
could have gotten you that fifty grand. That was a
million dollar hour basically based on we did the pro
ration right, you can multiply it by twenty. Now I
would have said, give me an hour. Well, you build
by the hour. Your doctor sheriff, I would give her
(24:38):
fifty minutes. I would have done for an hour. I
would have done three minutes to tell you, hey, Mike Brown.
Then I would have went, got a sandwich, come back,
you know, checked a couple of things in fantasy and
everything else, and it said, oh, an hour, it's an hour.
Let me text James Dolan Boom one hour, Mark, Mike Brown.
Mike Brown is your guy? Well, I mean someone else's
is prettying up the language because you can't just send
the higher Mike Brown in a picture of him. Someone
(25:00):
else asked add, well, after an exhaustive search, are you
are you asking me there? Telling you Mike Brown go
get them.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah, but that's what your assistant does during the hour
while you get your sandwich.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Mmm, okay, all right, that's fine. Yeah because then because
then you get a legitimate hour. I'm fine, because because
you also have an output other than you texting and
number brown, what brown?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
What brown?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Is your man?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
I'm not giving you a million dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I mean, and you wouldn't have had all the crazy
embarrassment permission asking stuff that went on.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
But I will say that, See, I still like that.
I might be the only guy that like that.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I agree with you that once the Knicks realized, okay,
these these guys telling us, no, we have to go
away from that, right, I get that, and they sort
of got back the hey, okay, the Knicks is a destination.
You see the injuries that are going on, what teams
are doing in free agency. The Knicks got back there
bit of hey, this is now a destination again. Now
obviously you can you can say, hey, we tried. Maybe
(25:58):
these guys would have said yes, but the tea said no.
But it's still embarrassing to say, hey, we like to
talk to them and not getting permission because all the
coach had to say was yes, Hey, I want to
talk to the Knicks. And suddenly, well, guess what, that
guy's gotta leave because you can't go back.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Well, but that's also a guy that you may decide
you don't want to hire. So they got to decide.
They're on steady ground speaking about that. Sorry man, but yeah,
we don't like you. I know you can't go back
to your old team now because you want to, but yeah,
we don't like But with the old team, though, is
they're gonna weigh of what else is out there? As
you said former coaches of the year, You've got college coaches,
(26:32):
You've got assistants waiting on the turn. Look, it's the
old if the price is right. We talk about compensation
for players and how many you know, pieces of confetti
also known as second round draft picks. You'll give up
same thing for coaches. You want our coach, Yeah, if
he wants to talk to you, talk to you, because
if nothing else, you're gonna get compensation for it. And
if you think that guy's replaceable, oh yeah, maybe there's
(26:54):
a little schism in the locker room. Whatever, Why would
you not allow them to examine their options? Like I
think it was a win and all side, like, I
don't think it was necessarily an embarrassing look and.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Loss, you know, after it was embarrassing for a week
or so, and now it was and then it was okay.
Now they're talking to the guys they should be talking to.
They're talking to the well respected coaches, and they wound
up getting Mike Brown. And I I the one thing
that I want to say, because the one one thing
I can't believe that that's actually been going around is that, ah,
Mike Brown is not exciting. Why couldn't they do better
(27:28):
than Mike Brown? This is the guy that's been fighting
to talk about it. He's got ups and downs on
his resume. But I just want to say this, Okay,
who did you want? No, but that's the thing. Who
did you want?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
To go get?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Don't say talking?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
We still said who did I want? That's not yeah,
well you did? Who did you want that Knicks fans
would want? Like?
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Who did you want? There was nobody else out there?
The whole question, Yeah, Knicks fans, go go go Knicks fans.
Would you rather Mike else?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Who?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
I mean? Well, but if you get all five of
them to respond with Doc Rivers, we haven't unt I mean,
it's not statistically valid because it's not more than thirty.
But that's okay.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
If you want to tell me you don't like Mike Brown, Okay,
I get it. But sometimes you can only hire who's available.
It's like having the number one pick in the draft.
Oh we didn't get a great guy. Well, Andrew luck
is not available all the time at number one. Overall,
Cam Newton's not available at number one all the time.
Sometimes the number one pick is Jake Long, Right, it
just so happens, like you have to go with who's
(28:22):
out there, right, And there was nobody better than Mike Brown.
He was the guy from the beginning. And again, if
you don't like him, who did you want? Who else
was coming in to do it? He's the anti Tims,
He's a players coach. He's getting the blessing of because
you know it wouldn't be at this point if he
didn't have the blessing. He's been leading for a long time. Look,
Mark Medina told us this on Friday night that Hey,
(28:42):
all the people I've talked to said that Mike Brown
is fully in the lead for this, Like, I don't
know who else you wanted.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Yeah, it's great to say, Oh, I'd rather have Steve Kerr.
I'd rather have Eric Spulsive.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Yeah, I'd rather have those guys too, but they're not
available and someone has to coach the team and they
didn't call me, So okay, if it's not me, where
I could do the show at night and the games
because like the games Len right before we go on there,
like it could work.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
West Coast have to take some time off. But like,
if it's not me, okay, then Mike Brown, Yeah, he's
a leader in the betting odds for a full two
weeks plus and now here we are. Jake Long number
one pick in the two thousand and eight draft, followed
then by Chris Long, Saint Louis Rams, Matt Ryan third,
the Atlanta Falcons, McFadden, Dorsey Goldstin Ellis, and of Harvey
(29:25):
five Rivers draft. We picked six that year. I remember that. Yeah,
Gerard Mayo goes tenth. Sure, keep on going down. Joe
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buying should be. The Knicks get their guy. He's the
best choice. I told you should have been him, done
and done. But time to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports from Martin White. He's got
everything right now. What do you got?
Speaker 6 (30:03):
I got waiting for Clayton Kershaw. He's got no strikeouts
going into the bottom of the second inning. So he's
pitched two, given three hits, one run, and again no strikeouts.
And you can kind of see the crowd in Dodger
Stadium every time he gets to that second strike and
at like whenever he doesn't get that third strikeout, there's
(30:25):
a collective Oh.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
But they're getting some updowns in though, getting on their feet.
That's the benefit.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
They are getting a little bit more exercise than they
probably would have expected to on a July day against
the White Sox. It's one to one tide right now,
get bottom of the second ing, Will Smith with a
home run. Elsewhere in Major League Baseball, at bottom of
the eighth inning, the Cubs lead the Guardians five to three.
Top of the seventh, the Astros lead the Rockies five
to two rolls with a one nothing lead over the
(30:52):
Mariners top of the fourth, bottom of the fourth inning,
the Giants and the Diamondback San Francisco with a two
to nothing lead.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Earlier, the boys were just talking about it.
Speaker 6 (31:01):
The New York Knicks hired Mike Brown to be their
new head coach. The Lakers expected to sign free agent
center DeAndre eight into a two year contract. The Memphis
Grizzly said they'll evaluate All Star Darren Jackson Junior's toe
in twelve weeks following the.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Turf toe surgery.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
The Athletics report that the Warriors, Lakers, and Celtics have
reached out the free agent.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Guard Damian Lillard.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
He's a free agent after Milwaukee decided to wave him.
The Hornets have signed Spencer Dinwiddie to a one year deal,
and Anthony Pocez just hit a home run in that
Dodgers game. So it is now two to one LA
with the lead in the bottom of the second, ending
on waiting for Kershaws to get his three thousand strikeout.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
If it happens today, he's got three to go back
to you guys.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Thanks bunch, Martin, Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios. Coming up next, we got the
play of the day, and you want a big hot
take about NBA free agency to this point right the
first Big Waves Gun three day NBA free Agency. Get
a big hot take for you. That's coming up next
right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (32:16):
Welcome inside the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. Uh, so far, Clayton Kershaw is just giving
up a leadoff single in the top of the third inning.
What is that six hits he's giving up so far
to the White Sox who somehow still only have one run.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
That's what That's what the White Sox do, Jason Smith,
Dodgers lead at two to one. Andy Pa has homers
in the bottom of the inning. About it of the
second give the Dodgers a two to one lead. But
Kershaw is still so far tonight no strikeouts, is still
three away from three thousand. So we can't make Clayton
Kershaw the play of the day. But I think I
(32:53):
have a pretty good idea of Oh, play of the
day is going to be okay.
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Speaker 3 (33:13):
Well.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
When football is life and you help the United States
into the Gold Cup finals where the brace in the
first fifteen minutes, you get to be the play of
the day.
Speaker 7 (33:24):
Cuts it back in, tell them what the fake turns
it inside, and that's del Tire says, go back to
the games. Had a perfect early start for the United States.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Here's Diega loada now Luda.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
FS one on the call. The United States wins it
two to one. They move in to the Gold Cup finals.
They play Kenda. Oh no wait, sorry, Canada loss because
they didn't have their guys know their guy, Yeah, they
were missing a bunch of their guys. That's right. So
I'm a little disappointed. We didn't either get a clip
from Rogue one or and door.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
I gave my Indor line earlier the same day, wouldn't
give me anything, thank you for it. I'm like, come on, man,
relying on Polisic and or Diego Luna is right now.
I gotta get deeper into the filmography of Diego Luna
to come up with more bermanisms.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Book of life.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
They take on a book of life Mexico and Honduras,
which right now is scoreless, nearing halftime.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Again, excuse me, I'll choked up on f s one.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Now.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
That first goal, by the way, that that we heard
the call doesn't do it justice. That defender should have
been thrown off the pitch for his lack of effort
trying to poke at the ball and allowing Luna to
come straight through him to get the putback of the rebound.
So again, could be United States on Duras, could be Mexico.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Well, wait and see, we're keeping an eye on this
as well as well as Oh my good goodness, Clayton
Kershaw is just giving up a two run homer.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Now it's a throw.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
White Sox lead Austin Slater, who I believe is a surfer,
is also playing for the Well, Sean Burke is pitching
for the White That's true.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
He was terrific Goaldie for the Whalers back in the nineties. No,
we certainly have guys all over the place, multiple identities,
just like Diego Loen.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Don't know if Kershaw is going to be around long
enough tonight for those three struck outs to get to
three thousand.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Boy, the ball your fault too, It's not my faults.
You didn't start the show with it. Hey, Hey, you
said we ruined the vibe. Hey, I did not ruin
ruined Kershaw day. To be fair, right now, I think
Kershaw has ruined Kershaw Day.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I think Kershaw's eighty eight mile an hour fastball is
ruining Kershaw Day.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
That's what's happen, leaving it up and yeah and hitting
the upper eighties. But now, well, we have big stuff
on Lebron and the Lakers, who make a who make
a big splash today for the Lakers coming up in
a few minutes.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
But you know, I gotta say this, so far, we're
now three days into NBA free agency.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
We can stop and take a breath because all the
big names they've changed, they've changed places. Right, we've seen
the bit and most of them have re signed with
their teams.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
There's still some big players out there, right, So still
guys out there going oh man, okay, but they're restricted
all for players, so you don't know kind of how
that's gonna go. So there's still some guys out there.
But now we've seen the first big wave. And I
gotta stop for a second. This is for ESPN, this
is for NBA. This uh.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
The first three days of free agency has not been insane.
It's been a frenzy.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Not it's not been it's not been a frenzy. It's
not been incredible move it has not been jaw dropping.
It's been the beginning of free agency. Have some perspective.
It's been the beginning to free agency. I can'tsider and
tell you that it's frenzied and it's incredible and it's
jaw dropping. When the biggest name to change teams is
Miles Turner, I mean, come on, man, I get look,
(36:55):
it's a big story from a day ago because Turner
plays in a Damian Lillard and Yannis. But when you
say free agency is telling me, oh, it's fantastic, dude.
The biggest name has been Miles Turner. And unless there's
a trade. Now, trades are different because the trade we
talked about the trade season, we're gonna wind up seeing
some stuff get loosened up. But the free agency season,
it's just been okay. This is like the nb NBA
(37:17):
fregency has been the hype and the execution of the
Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest without Joey Chestnut,
Like was it like, no Joey Chesnut?
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Lads, what we okay? But now he's back. Okay. Some
years free agency is great. Some years it's not.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
No, there's it's not been a great There's been some
solid moves, but there's been nothing so far that I
can sit there and say, oh wow that this is
cutting across from coast to coast. You can't make Miles
Turner happen more than it should. You gotta have a
little bit of proportion to it.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
But all I mean, all of this, look at what's happening. No, no,
just you know, don't don't try to convince me on stuff.
It's not been. This has been just a start for
free agency. So no one's no one's taken all the
bait of going all in and overpaying for guys that
they should have shouldn't overpay for. It's been a start
to NBA Free agency. Yes, teams, names and players have
changed teams, but what have we seen so far that suddenly,
(38:06):
oh my goodness, look at this right again, the biggest
name has been Mile turn Let's just have the perspective. Well,
he's got a big deal. He just played in the
NBA Finals. He played big minutes, give you big, big moments.
We've spent with teen extensions and new contracts, nearly three
billion dollars. That that counts. And if I have the rights,
(38:27):
I'm selling the hell out of it. I mean, how
did a former colleague if I used to start a show,
that's the best fifteen minutes you're ever gonna hear? All right,
what about the next fifteen minutes? But we'll get to
that when we get to that. For us, it's all right.
Now it's time to entertain you with the next act.
And now here's something you really like. And for the
NBA free agency, if I'm the rights holder, every move
(38:51):
is the greatest move ever made because it's next, it's now,
and you have to sell, sell sell. Might just be
a minimal deal, might just be a resigning of a
guy that's gonna sit at the end of the bench.
I mean we're over hyping the fact that DeAndre Eaton
was once upon a time.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Now look, now, the thing is is that there are
moves that play into bigger things. Because coming up in
a few minutes, why the DeAndre eight move plays into
something so much bigger for the Lakers in the NBA,
just like we said, look the Miles Turner move, you know,
stretching out the salary for Damian Lillard and now when
is he gonna play again?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
And now what about Giannis? Like, okay, the honest part
of it gets big, but this part, okay, well the
Lillard part was big too, though, because it showed once
again NBA contracts. Man, here's your one hundred and twelve
million dollars. You didn't like being here. Now we part
as friends and you move on, kind of like the
end of what was that book and Harry Potter where
(39:48):
they got that cool little animated sequence and the guy
flies away with death. I mean, Lillard gets to keep
over one hundred million over the next five years and
he gets to go wherever you want. I mean, that's
kind of a big deal. We all aspire to that
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Speaker 1 (40:10):
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