February 22, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike with the latest on another epic Knicks LOSS. The guys tell you why the concern for Wemby is HUGE. And the New York Yankees getting rid of their facial hair mandate after 49 years!
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we're gonna be close, Mike Carmon. We've made it, you know,
just one more day until the NBA begins their games again,
start the second half of the season. One more night
of no games. So we've almost made it there, buddy,
We've almost made.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You got the flashy thing put on your head already.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Or what almost made it? Almost no NBA games? There
was no NBA games.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Did you get men in blacked?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
There was no, was no. I don't know what you're
talking about. Would you see these games that are supposedly
updated in quotes on social media on website? Uh, these
are just computer projections of certain hypothetical matchups. The real
game start tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So what you're saying is we we just had an
old update of Steve playing.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean really Steve. Well, well
I think it's Ai Steve Disager too, who is giving
the updates of the basketball game.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So just some random scores kind of uh, brought out
of thin air.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
None, none of these going back to prior All Star
breaks for the NHL, So no games being played there either.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
What you really think calvs. One one oh five was
a real score? Come on, man, that doesn't go well
you think that was real?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
That Lebron showing up in the garden, I got.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A bridge to sell you. That's not a REALCT wasn't
a real game. It didn't happen tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
But I heard it. I thought I heard it somewhere
that this was the case.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It was Also it was like it like in a
Captain America First Avenger. They went through the whole thing
to make him think he was, you know, back in
nineteen forty two and they're playing the old baseball game.
That's what they do, do you. Let's say, just once
you make you think, hey, we're back when the NBA,
NBA doesn't come back for another night, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Is that really the case? Because I thought I heard it.
Let's hear it the final call.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, let's hear the final call of the Yeah, play
that fake final call, the fake.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Fund Yeah, that's the buzzer. The Knicks suck.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
They follow the O and six against the Calves Celtics
and thunder.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That sounds like a very disinterested announcer.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, it's well, what do you expect?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
My eyes hurt? Well, I mean you start doing filler stuff.
That's where you have a lot of Hey, did you
know where this guy's favorite sandwich join is when he
comes down the road?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
They were doing that in the second quarter tonight in
this game.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You know, he visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He was incredulous that such and such a band wasn't in.
This becomes the opportunity for the host to hill for
whatever band he feels has been snubbed to load these
many years say look good.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I'll say I'll say this right, well, because there is
a big take coming off of this game, the marquee
game of the night. It really was unfair. Look, the
Knicks are coming off the game they played the night before.
Doesn't matter that the Cavaliers played the night before. Clearly
it's an un it's a it's an unfair advantage that
the Cavaliers are to have coming off of a game
the night before. Then the Knicks did coming off the
(03:39):
game the night before as well, and if you played
the Bulls, that's it doesn't matter. That's something that they rectify. Yeah,
I mean that's like a day off. You need to
rectify that fact that playing the second night a back
to backs affect some teams differently, and it clearly affected
the Knicks more tonight. They expended more energy and had
a lot of It was unfair. I mean, it's unfair.
It's unfair. I both teams come off back to about
(04:00):
you know one team's not gonna play. Well, that's what
happened tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
To be true and fair, you you did really struggle
against the Bulls, and earlier today I called for your
you to be relegated.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, wait, we won though, it doesn't matter. There's a
win column and a laws.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
But if you're gonna then use it as an excuse
going a you know, we played yesterday, so yeah, we
had nothing left in the tank.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No, the Cavaliers clearly knew something. Look, clearly the Cavaliers
been given an advantage by the NBA in the second
night of back to back that the Knicks don't have.
It's a way of keeping the Knicks down, right, Oh,
we got to keep the Knicks down. You got to
keep the Knicks down. Can't reward the big market teams, right,
Rick Carlisle tell you that again, all the big market teams,
all the you guys can carry something going on. There's
something going on.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I guess technically you did play the slightly better Bulls
team as opposed to Cleveland playing Brooklyn a night ago.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But all of that to say just slightly better, Well.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I mean, look, Bulls twenty two wins Brooklyn. Now with
twenty No yah, now.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Look I did. Here's the thing, and here's where I'm
at with this. Really, would I like the Knicks to
have played better tonight? Sure? Right, it's a marquee game
of the Night national television. I wanted them to play well,
but they got boat raced. And I know the big
thing is zero to six against the Cavs, Celtics and Thunder. Okay,
I understand that, but really nobody has a good record
(05:20):
against those three teams. So it's not like saying the
Knicks are an outline, but I would want the Knicks
to be playing better against the best teams because to
win an NBA championship, in theory, you have to go
through the best teams. But it's February twenty first, so
I'm a it's not the going to.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Change, buddy.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's not the Eastern Conference finals, and it's not. Everything
is fine and the Knicks are their benches coming back
starting to get hell, they got a couple of guys
coming back to the rotation. It's February twenty first. I
don't get too worked up in regular season games like this. Hey,
they went and they played the best team in the
Eastern Conference so far on their court and they got killed.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You're really cute with your company. First couple of guys
coming back to the rotation. It's very twe Tom Thibbadeau,
you can't lie through your teeth like that, Coden, Well,
we got a couple of guys coming back to the rotation.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
They won't play. But now that is the thing. Now,
that's the big thing. They won't play, Mike Carmon. That's
the big thing is that it's It sounds crazy, but
if the Knicks don't have a successful playoff, right, this
season is fine, They're twenty games, over five hundred, everything
is fine, right, can't be good teams, but they gotta
have a successful play It's not the playoffs, man. But
(06:29):
if they don't have a successful playoffs, and by that
I mean they don't go further than they did a
year ago, Tim's is gonna get fired. As good a
coach as he is, a good a defensive coach as
he is, he's gonna get fired because two big things.
The Knicks are clearly not as good defensively as they
were the last few years. Making the changes to the
team they did, yes, you know, Ruin not ruined, but
(06:50):
messed with a little bit of the chemistry. But they
brought in Karl Anthony Towns and of course the guy's
been phenomenal, right, he's been fantastic, But his calling card
is defense, And the Knicks are no longer a defense team,
right they're not, So what are you keeping him around
for if they no longer do what he does? But
he's there to be a great head coach defensive or
keeping going. If they're no longer defensive team, then he
(07:12):
loses a little bit of his value. But as long
as the team is good, he's gonna stay. But the
Knicks didn't make these moves and send five number one
picks for Mical Bridges and make a big deal with
with Julius Randall and de Vincenzo for Karl Anthony Towns
and Jalen Brunson didn't say, hey, I'll take less money
so we can get more guys in here so we
can make this work. They didn't extend O g Andrew Nobi.
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They didn't pay all these guys to not get out
of the second round of the playoffs. So yeah, if this,
if they don't make it out of the second round,
he's gonna get fired. You can and you can merit
hey should they should? They not? But if they don't
make it, and if they're not, if defensive is no
being great defensively is no longer their hallmark, then I'll
tell you what, what are they doing? Then? Like the
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Knicks are, they're gonna be really upset. The front front
off is gonna be mad. Do one's gonna be bad?
At Wait a minute, I'm spending all this money. We
have the best starting five in the NBA top to bottom,
and here's where we're at. We don't get out of
theecond round of the playoffs. Like if that, if they're
not in the Eastern Conference finals, it's going to be
a new head coach for the next time.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
There's no question about it. They went all in and
made the big move to give him what he needed.
Why he still is reluctant to expand beyond a six
man rotation? All right, occasionally you'll get that seventh guy in,
but only if you're blowing a team out. But I mean,
I was heartened today and very excited for you, as
(08:34):
I'm sure all Knicks fans were. And I mean, this
is You're a brilliant And why you really want to
dismiss today's efforts because according to reports, I mean, you
got the inside track to land Victor Oladipo from the
analyst chair.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean, come on, why not? Right? Why not? I mean, hey,
and sometimes, Look, I'm okay with getting anybody who can
come off the bench no matter what. They don't care. Yeah, no,
I don't care. Whatever you need coach player, Hey, we
got to get somebody that can help coming off the
bench and not the starting five. I'm good with him.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well, if you can bring Noah, I mean he gets
your heart and hustle.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You got that for you, Yeah, I mean that's that's
the thing. Oakley might. Oakley might. They may actually he
might actually get to come down and take over mid
game for TIBs if they're not doing well in the playoffs,
like he could. I could see him getting allowed back
in the.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Garden coming in, like not making the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Now, like Hogan coming in off the side, and everybody's
yelling his name, and Oakley's ripping his tie off, he's
taking off his jacket. He's allowed back in the garden.
It's Charles Oakley. And Oakly comes and and and sticks
his thumb out and and puts his TIBs out, and
TIBs leaves and he walks off, of course with his
arms folded, hunched over, wondering what happened. And Oakley says, okay,
it's my team, and everybody goes crazy and the Knicks
(09:51):
go on a big run. I could see that.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Tell me, you don't half expect Oakley to show up
either like Terry Cruz in Idiocracy or looking like Jim
Brown from The Running Man.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's got electrolytes coming from one.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Or the others.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Either way, his chest is moving without him moving, right.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Oh, that's it. Yeah, like it's an electro stimulus thing
going on. Yeah, Jason, you're gonna cry when they don't
make it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Dude, what are you talking about? Man? What are you talking?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
It's February. You've been warned.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It's fine, It's it's fine. We're twenty games over five
hundred Frostburg. We didn't just spend the last two nights losing.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Remember it's February. There's plenty of time.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
We didn't spend the last two nights losing to two
teams with a combined twenty seven wins like the Lakers did. Okay,
just so.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
You know, let's James got minutes against you guys, cancel
the season.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
No, see, look, I'm not letting you do the Vegas misdirection.
The Hey, we we have a very short bench. Tims
is gonna run these guys until they're tripping over their tongues,
that we're gonna have an early exit, and he could
be fired too. Yeah, but we didn't lose too in
a row.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Like the Laker Bradford once come in and say something
something outlandish and foolish, like you're not big in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
You might not.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Frostburg brought that up.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Because those are all losses.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
If the rest of the games were against the Cavs
and the Celtics and the Thunder, I would say, yeah,
I'd be in trouble. But they're not going to be everything.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It's fun that we lost that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
We did lose that game, that's okay. The game where
the Lakers knew that they were trading for Luka Doncic,
they were clearly more motivated to play that game. You
guys played it, Lakers played well that game. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
The next time this season you beat somebody a good
it'll be the first.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Okay, all right, Fun. What's the Lakers record against the Thunder,
Celtics and Cavaliy, Yeah, I don't I don't know that
it is, man, I don't know. I don't know if
it's not all right, look it up right now, there
we go six.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Remaining strength of schedule and see where are the Knicks? Years?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Sign me the Lakers record against the best three teams
in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
But as you talked about the other night, I mean,
the Lakers do have They're tied for the hardest schedule remaining,
and unlike the Phoenix Suns, they'll actually want to play it.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Oh why did you gotta sideeswipe the Suns?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Like?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Did you not watch some of that game last night?
I mean my dual screen experience was obviously the Nation's
Cup Final and watching the Sun's kind of sleepwalk through
a game against the wenby less San Antonio Spurs to
where they look like they'd rather be anybody anywhere else,
like the guys Charles and Kenny and everybody else. They
(12:34):
could have done the gone fishing emojis for them last night,
the way they were looking around at each other.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, we're just gonna hang that side up, but walk away.
Where are you guys going to get the second half? No? No, no,
we're done.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
We're kind of they're done.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
We're done. Okay, Just so you know, I don't like
each other.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
We don't want to be here. The only reason I'm
still here Kevin Durant is I didn't want to move
and the other guy he wouldn't wave is no trade clause.
Otherwise we don't be in a different destination.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But here we are, exit out about a Fresca exit
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that's the big takeaway. The Knicks don't get out of
the second round. It's gonna be a new head coach,
Phil jack Jackson. Next, he's coming back. He's gonna wake
him up off the subway and Phil's gonna take over.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I'm telling you it's virtual Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's a robot that goes up and down come hovered
by remote control with a monitor for a head, and
he never leaves the TP.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
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times before I actually had to believe it. What is it?
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Radio videos on YouTube. Now, before we get to that
big fact today, I'd look at it three times before
us how true it was. You know yesterday you and
I we were on during the day in for Cavino
and Rich and Doug Gottlie been obviously right in our
window of doing the show. The Wemby story broke Victor
Wembin Yama out for the season. The Spurs are shutting
(15:42):
him down with deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder,
and you and I talked about it and it became
a thing today all all over. Yeah, you got some
good who man. Uh And and I feel like, ah,
I mean I don't know. I have doctors who are
upset with what I've said, and I'm like, I don't
(16:03):
understand what is a bit what what people seem to
be upset about. But heay, that happens, right, I mean, look,
the Wemby thing was big. It's a big deal. And look,
you can get the uh, you can listen to it.
It's on a Fox Sports Radio Twitter account. It's it's
up there. You can go grab it. Mike and I
have retweeted it as well. But basically, you know we
talked about this is that you know, this is not
(16:24):
an injury for Wemby, Like this is this is a
medical condition and it's a big concern like thrombosis and
deep vein thrombosis. Blood clots are a big deal. And
he's got to take blood thinners and he can't play
while he's taking blood thinners. And you want to think, Okay,
he's gonna be all right. Yeah, yeah, I hope, So
everybody hope. So prayers up for Wenby because you know,
we want to see the guy back, want to see
(16:45):
him healthy and the Spurs had to say yesterday that yeah,
we think he'll come back from the beginning of this season.
Like and and when I see this, I go, I
don't know what what the normal is gonna be. And
I say this, like, I literally don't know, because this
is something that's got to be managed because if you
look at you look at the deals with thrombosis and
deep veane thrombosis. It affects people who are tall, and
(17:05):
it affects people who fly a lot, you know, and
and hey, what are NBA players, right? They're tall and
they fly a lot, right, And it's a it's a
big thing. Like even you know, the last few times
that we've flown when we flew to the United Kingdom
this summer, my wife is like, you gotta wear the
compression socks. And I'm like, why wear them? It's a
big long flight. We're over fifty I said, Okay, okay,
so where the compression socks? I mean, it's a thing.
(17:26):
And and this is something, you know, thrombosis a little
bit different for Chris Bosch, but this basically cost him
his career. Now. The flip side of it is Brandon Ingram,
who had it a few years ago. He's been able
to bounce back and look, the guy's got a big
contract all Stars. So you know you're seeing like kind
of both ends of the spectrum on this. But this
is like a condition that's got to be managing. I
don't know what the what the norm is going to
(17:48):
be for Wemby going forward. You hope it's a big recovery,
and you hope it's a big h you know, Hey,
he's back and he's better than ever and being in
his shoulder is probably better than it is being in
his leg. But like, what's going to be a thing
like our longer flight, it's going to be something that
maybe you have to sit out and miss a couple
of these games man, you know, I mean all the
international travel that I mean, I don't know what the
new normal is going to be for him as far
(18:08):
as flying and monitoring this. But it's a thing. It's
you know, it's it's not an injury. It's a condition
now from someone who was in their early twenties that
hopefully they can manage it the rest of his career.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, talking about you know, blood clots in the lungs
versus you know, the injury and the effects of the shoulder.
So but all of it to say, and I saw
the internet. Doctors were out there, and then you know
they're trying to get the distinction from a number of
you know, leaders in the field. So you know, saying
(18:40):
that it has less risk, well that doesn't make it zero.
It still needs to be treated and monitored on a
daily basis. You're still talking about being away from the
game a minimum of five to six months before you're
resuming working out and trying to get back on the court,
and you don't know what the lingering effects are right
in the long term, treatment plans are going to be different.
(19:02):
You know, there's no one size fits all. And we're
talking about a guy, uh, you know, when we're looking
at to your point of international travel and and in
his case, just needing to be on a plane and
back to backs and all of those things. You start
changing up the schedule, uh, and needing to bring in
teams of doctors and surgeons to go through this to
(19:25):
make sure he's got everything he needs. So just dismissing it, Hey,
he's younger and it's got less of a chance of
being a recurrent issue because of its placement. Doesn't again
mean it's zero, So you know, dismissing it categorically is foolhardy.
It does. Yes, it sounds like it's a much better situation.
(19:48):
We're also that many more years developed in terms of
what we know about, you know, the these kind of
syndromes and how to treat and right, you know, we're
always getting modern metaicle advances, how quickly things move. But
it's when min Yama, it's a guy that last week
everybody was you know, wagging their fingers and talking about
(20:09):
as the face of the new NBA. Uh yeah, No,
it's it's still a serious thing. You don't categorically rule
anything out. You're hoping for the best, and it sounds
like it should be manageable. But what that looks like
nobody knows yet.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well, it's it's it's like, think about it like this.
You go to the doctor and the doctor tells you
have high blood pressure. Okay, well, high blood pressure is
not great. Now, if your blood pressure is a little
bit high, okay, that's still a concern. If it's a
lot high, obviously it's a much bigger concern. Hey, we
really got to bring this down. There's more. But if
you have high blood pressure. That's still a thing you
(20:47):
have to monitor, and especially if your job is something
that brings high blood pressure along with it. Well, your
blood pressure little high, while my job's a little stressful. Okay,
Well we got to monitor this.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And maybe, I mean I do that every day Smith. Yeah,
I mean it's I deal with you for four hours.
I have to my blood pressure, my salt intake.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
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I'm I'm the brother you need it, not the brothers
you have.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
The dumbest thing I've ever heard you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Come on, man, you could put all your brothers together.
They're not the influence on you that I am.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
My brothers are wizards.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
It's not even because there's they're still driving that stolen
golf cart full all bertrandice off of Bear's campus.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah. My younger brother's coming off by a giant meeting
that he's just like thanks for the note. I'm going
to bed. I'll talk to you Sunday, Like, wow, you're
sleeping for twenty four plus.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I mean, look, and and it's because but your point
is apt. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's what it is.
It's like you know, Yeah, Okay, it's not as high.
It's not you know, there are certain conditions that you have,
but when you get diagnosed with something, it still means
that it's something that's got to be taken care of,
and especially if what you do for a living plays
into it. How many people when when they get older
and they have a you know, whether it's a it's
(21:59):
a art condition or something, they go, you know what
you just you need you can't have stress anymore, you
can't do what you do for a living because it's
bringing you too much stress. You have to retire. Like
we've seen that. I've seen that, you know from my uncle,
you know, had to had to retire because of that.
So it's like, so it just realized that that there's
a there's a different there's a wide swath of things
it can be. And that's why the whole comparison of Hey,
(22:21):
Chris Bosh again a little bit different kind of thron
but still it's deep vein thrombosis and cost him his career,
brandon Ingram comes back from it. There's a wide swath
of it, and I just don't know because it's a
condition and not an injury, Like what does the future hold, Like,
I don't know what kind of new normal you have
to find now if you're Wenby, if you're the Spurs
or him for his career, hopefully they take care of it.
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It finishes and and the blood finners work and everything
is great. But just the fact they said, yeah, we
hope that he's ready to go for this fall. Whoa, whoa,
whoa you mean October. It's February and you hope that
he's ready to go in the fun I mean, this
is not. Hey, Unfortunately, he's going to miss the rest
of this season. We're probably not going to the playoffs,
so it's only a couple more months before the playoss. Yeah,
we're going to keep him out. This is we hope
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he's ready for the beginning of the season. You're you're
talking about late September. When when when this goes on
and it's only the middle of February. Like, that's where
that's where I put my antenta up and said, oh wow,
this is this is really something.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, a couple of months to monitor, right, decide a
course of action and and how his body responds. I mean,
I have joked about a Madden Cruiser in terms of
road trips, and you know, things of longer length where
the schedule permits. But you really do start looking into
the different long term effects of this and how you
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have to to manage it right, much like your high
blood pressure situation, whether it's medication, whether it's just a
change in diet and exercise. What do you have to
do when you first meet a new doctor, Well, I
need a family history. Give me a legitimate family history
if you have it right, because that's the other thing.
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A lot of times you're flying blind because you're your
parents rench your grandparents either didn't believe in going to
the doctor unless you know they literally had a life
altering event. Uh you know, I may raise my hand
in that in that regard. H So you're guessing at
what family and back in the day they just chronicled
everything as a heart attack. So you might have died
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from any myriad of things. But oh what happened, Oh yeah,
his heart failed in this case. For when bin Yama,
I hope they have an extended family history that's really
well and in depth so that they can draw from
that and try to build on on towards a definitive conclusion.
But in the interim, you know, it's it's a lot
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of hot. Does his body react to stress? And and
and what got do you need surgery? Is that it right?
They say, it's an isolated thing for him versus where
where bosh, it became a chronic, chronic issue that needed
you know, more than and then one treatment, one course
of management. Uh, you have to adapt and move on.
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So all the best young guy obviously very able bodied,
except in this and people were trying to pinpoint, all right,
well here's the injury. Here's the shoulder injury that must
have caused it, Like you don't know that. It's a
nice try, like we all love to play junior cis agent,
you know, going on William Peterson on stuff to try
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to figure out causes. But you know, for now we
don't know. But hopefully by the beginning of next year,
this spurs squad that we were getting excited about Smith,
that the the trade deadline, that they're fully reformed and
ready to go.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tirec dot Com studios.
That big sports fact that I still can't believe coming
up in ninety seconds. But first special delivery Steve de
Saga with us a guy who's been called the Greg
Popovich of Fox Sports Radio. You look at him and
you go, boy, he really could be nicer to people.
But that's kind of what he know.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
It's the trending, not as moody and not giving the
one word answer, so really not really much of a
correspondence there.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Those first are in action tonight and down twenty in
the fourth quarter. Mid fourth, Detroit leads at San Antonio
one seventeen to ninety seven. Big lead for the Thunder
late first half sixty four to forty one. At Utah
Dallas Mavericks with eight minutes to go. I had ninety
four eighty six over the Pelicans, who might be falling
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to thirteen and forty three on the season. And right
now it's in the second quarter. At Houston. At the
end of one the Rockets led Minnesota forty eight to
thirty eight. Right now Houston is tied fifty eight all
against Minnesota with about four minutes left in the second quarter.
Anthony Edwards was questionable with a sore hit, but he
is playing. Cleveland won at six straight game, beating New
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York one forty two to one oh five. Cap shot
sixty one percent from the floor, og Ananobi did return
for the next had five points. Josh Hart was out
again with a sorne. Miami in overtime won at Toronto
one twenty to one eleven, ending a four game losing streak.
Memphis edge to Orlando one oh five one oh fours.
The Magic went scoreless for the last two and a
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half minutes. Milwaukee wonted Washington one oh four to one
hundred x of the Wizards. Kyle Kuzma had nineteen points tonight.
The Wizards have lost five in a row. Washington as
a record of nine and forty six. In the late
game at Sacramento, it's tied late first quarter Kings and
Warriors even at twenty six. Two games of note in
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men's college basketball, only a couple weeks left in the
regular season Top twenty matchup at Michigan went to the
rival Michigan State Spartan seventy five sixty two. This was
a two point lead with under twelve minutes to go,
and this on the day that Michigan gave coach Dusty
May a new contract, no details announced. At Villanova earlier
on FS one, the Wildcats beat up number sixteen Marquette
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eighty one sixty six. Villanova had lost seven of its
last eleven games. The NHL is off until Saturday, after
almost two weeks off fourteen hockey games tomorrow. Of course,
there was no NHL All Star Game this year. They
played the Four Nations Tournament instead. The Winter Olympics are
one year from now in Italy. The New Orleans Saints
new defensive coordinator will reportedly be Brandon Staley. He worked
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with new head coach Kellen Moore two years ago with
the Chargers. Jacksonville's new general manager as James Gladstone from
the Rams. Eagles linebacker Nolan Smith had triceps surgery this week.
He played through the injury in the recent Super Bowl.
The Bears cut tight end Gerald Everett and defensive end
DeMarcus Walker. Cincinnati released defensive tackle Sheldon Rankings. Pittsburgh signed
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tight end Donald Parham. The NFL scouting combine starts Thursday.
In fact, on Saturday, March first, not that far away
as the workouts for the quarterbacks, wide receivers and running backs.
Nebraska canceled its home and home football series against Tennessee,
which would have been in twenty twenty six and twenty seven.
With Nebraska siding its upcoming stadium renovations and Yankees man,
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your Aaron Boone signed an extension through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Back to you, thanks Steve, though, and just real quick
to to you know, for something that could be great
for the Spurs. Right. We had a quick fun joke
there about you know, Greg Popovich, you know, being you know,
the krusty Greg Papa that we know and love.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, and that might be the first time that Steve's
are rebuffed any comparisons normally gives it a little bit
of credence. This one.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
What a great story it would be if he could
come back for the end of the season, right, like,
like Wenby is out and you're hoping that but like
I know, he's been really aggressive in his rehab. Chris
Paul says he calls him after almost every game. This
is what I see. This is what I see. And
I know there's no timetable, obviously, you're coming back from
the from the stroke he suffered last fall. But boy,
what a great story would be if he could get
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back to the sideline before the end of the season.
Still some time to happen, and the fact that he's
still involved and still talk to the team and talking
to the players like that's all awesome, awesome stuff, and
you know that'd be that'd be a great thing for
them and for the NBA, and also for T and T.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Maybe one last game with them before they lose the
NBA and one last chance to give a one word answer, oh.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
That is that could happen. Thank you, Steve now Hey,
speaking of TV this story today that I knew the
number would be high. I didn't know it would be
this high when we went into previewing the Four Nations
Championship between Canada the United States the other night is Look,
it's the biggest hockey game in forty five years. You
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go back to Miracle on Nice. There are just too
many confluence of circumstances that make this bigger than any
game since then, right, Bigger than any Olympic game, Bigger
than a World Cup game. You have the the the
NHL situation between having the best two most popular teams playing,
You have the rivalry with them, You have the geopolitical
background and backdrop of Trump and Trudeau in Canada and California,
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and we knew it was going to be that big,
biggest game in forty five years, and We saw an
amazing game last night. And when I say we saw,
I mean we in the general we as ten and
a half million people watch this game at its peak
and overall nine and a half million viewers. It is
the largest audience ever for a hockey game on ESPN,
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also the largest audience for a non NFL event on
ESPN plus. And ESPN has had hockey for the most
part since the late seventies. Okay, Like there's a few
years where hockey went away, and then you know, the
NHL did that thing where they went to versus and
they tried to go and they were this on the
CW and you crazy stuff. Then it came back to ESPN,
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and you know they've had it for you know, they've
had it on and off, you know, for a long time.
This is the largest audience for a hockey game ever
on ESPN last night, and it was an insane game.
And like we said last night, I'm hoping that this
is going to be a big rebirth or the next
big jump that they can capitalize in springboard off of this,
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just like hockey springboarded off the Miracle on Ice in
nineteen eighty and and the NHL saw great heights in
the late eight early nineties before lockouts, and Gary Bettman
decided to say, oh no, no, no, we're gonna we're gonna
push this all the way down. So it's a fringe sport.
Now they have that chance. They add that to You
saw the best players in the world on the ice.
You saw the best player in the world get you know,
score a goal in overtime to win it. And maybe
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this is gonna be something that gives you that next
great springboard into hockey, and that can really capitalize on
it because last night you went through and saw you know,
you see social media the top twenty posts are all
about this game. Like even the Super Bowl, the top
twenty posts on social media not about this game. But
everybody's on there, whether it's it was Bennington or Kuchuk
or doesn't matter who it was or McDavid, it was
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everybody watched this game. It was an insane event and
for hockey, it's the biggest thing that's happened to them
in nearly five decades.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah, it would be nice to think you can capitalize
on it. I fear a lot of it is just
with the geopolitical backdrop that folks wanted to get their
memes and jokes and in and certainly watched and we're
treated to do a fantastic, fantastic spectacle with a really
head scratching end to it in terms of how the
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play wore out. Uh your physical physical Oh wait, there's
the best player in the world standing by himself in
the slot. But all of that to say that, look,
you got a lot of good will, right, a lot
of people talking hockey. PK. Suban got to go and
evangelize for hockey on any number of platforms today. Great
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spokesman for the game, great enthusiasm, and I.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Thought we're gonna fight last night.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Oh yeah, but that's just it, right. It brought out
that intensity and then he was able to carry it
forward with a number of appearances today. So hopefully that
that brings more folks to the yard, if only short term.
You just wish that the hockey playoffs were coming straight in, right,
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because you match that intensity, because I fear folks going
into second half quote unquote hockey, you're gonna be like
that wasn't the game I saw like the other night, right,
Whereas with the playoffs, I mean that's what you get
each and every.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Ding way off something that knicks aren't going to.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Step what you don't just stop, you would keep losing credibility. Frostburg,
You're like indibility. You're like Luca taking a three. Everyone
is worse than the last one. That's what's happening right now, dude, I.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Have the crystal ball for your teams?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Just script? Do you have the script? All good? Okay,
all right?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Are your teams? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Because they're easy to call where they start?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
All your team stinks? Smith?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yeah, By the way, in the world is sports dog
radio and television the next He's not even close to
the metal stand at this point in terms of craziness
coming out of his mouth and credibility. Come on, we
shore that. We smile it.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's all I got. That's all I add. Man, coming
up next, speaking of fifty years, right, biggest hockey game
in the last forty five years? How about something huge
in sports that end today that's been around for longer
than that, something just shy of fifty years. Nope, not
gonna see it anymore. What is it that's next? Jason
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to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (35:20):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon Live Fromthtirack dot Com studios, where today ended
nearly fifty years of a long standing rule and now
it's over. The New York Yankees announced that no longer
will they have a rule against facial hair like they've
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had in place for the better part of the last
forty nine years.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Simpsons episode is obsolete.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Metically shave those sideburns. I don't think you know what
they mean, coach. The Yankees are now going to allow
well groomed beards on the field, not the ALBN beards,
not like zz Top. I'm gonna grow them all the
way down to the no. But if you have a
nice trimmed beard, you're allowed to have it on the
field with the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Evidently Cashman said, well, we're not going for duck Dynasty.
Here was the reference he used, What when was the
last time they made that show?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
A look that shows you how out of touch the
Yankees are. Because this is the big point. Why is
this such a big deal? Right? Obviously to laugh a going, yeah,
I don't want to go to the Yank and I'll
be able to wear a beard. You know what, what
do I go back to saying all the time? One
thing I know from coaching youth sports, I know from
a happy player is a good player. Right. I always
know a happy player is always gonna be better than
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better than a player that's not happy. And the Yankees
have these crazy things that they stick to that are
so outdated that turn players off. One of the reasons,
not the reason, but clearly it's part of it. Hey,
they lost Juan Soto because they wouldn't give him a
sweet and his and his family a sweet at Yankee games. Well,
we don't do that. We didn't do it for Jeter,
didn't do it for Judge. We're not gonna do it
(37:01):
for you. Okay, Hey, the Mets said, yeah, Jeef Cohen said,
how many sweets do you want? You can have my suite.
I don't care. Now, you can come and come live
with me. It doesn't matter. You can have a suite. Right.
It's not that he signed with the Mets because of that,
but that's a thing that goes in the Mets favor
or another team going, yes, we'll do this for you,
And how many players are gonna say, yeah, you know, Yankees,
what's the whole thing with the facial hair? That's ridiculous.
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It gives me a bad vibe. It doesn't give me
confidence that I can go there and be myself that
I have to worry about, you know, if I don't
shave for a day or whatever it's going to be.
The Yankees are still conducting business like it's nineteen eighty
five and nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety six and two thousand,
where we're the destination and if you can come here,
(37:45):
and but you're gonna do it our way. And players
are saying, no, I don't need to I can go
someplace else and get paid. I don't need to go
there and play by these ridiculous rules of certain things
like no facial hair. There's a reason why the Yankees
did this. After the the offseason, they lost Jan Soda. Right,
all these changes they're making, they lost one soda. They
realized he thought I could go to Queens and have
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a better chance of winning a championship and I can
have a better baseball life with the Mets than I
would have with the Yankees. Then I give the Yankees credits.
It's a look in the mirror moment. It's more than
outdated for them to continue to subscribe to thoughts like this,
where players right now are going, Dude, I could play
for you or not. You to tell me that I
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got I can't have a beard. You can tell Jesse
Winker could never play there. You're really gonna do this
to me. You're not gonna give me a sweet I mean,
this is how negotiations are in twenty twenty five. I
don't know what year you're negotiating in or what year
you're trying to get players are, but this is twenty
twenty five and the Yankees need to get out of
that if they're gonna continue to get free agents and
keep players and not have them leave and other than saying, well,
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we're just gonna overpay, and that's gonna be the thing,
right what they did for free agency offseason. We're gonna
way overpay for guys because well, it's how we get
guys into New York. It's how the Mets used to
do things. Now it's like, hey, we we offer a
good situation. Yes we paid a lot of money for Sodo,
but look, the guy's the best free agent on the
You know him and Otani best free agents the last
twenty five years. But yeah, but other guys, we want
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to go play there. We want to go play there.
It's a destination. Yankees had to wake up. And while
this is completely old and outdated and it seems kind
of minor, it's part of them understanding they got to
go in a new direction.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Well, you have to recognize the seed change across the league,
right from what the Mets are doing to how the
Dodgers are operating. Rob Manford making the statement he did,
I can guarantee you the next set of owners meetings
there'll be a lot of discussion about it. But the
reality is you have to play by different rules and
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free agents have a lot of different asks, right. I remember,
even just going back to the NFL, what was one
of the rumors of Caleb Williams He's asking for an
ownership stake. Whether that was real or not, it became
a thing that people had to address of wait, is
that possible? Is that allowed? And for play? Yeah, they've
asked for all sorts of things, and a suite is
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not anywhere near close to the most outrageous. Man, that's nothing.
That's that's a We've had private jets right go back
to Kevin Brown have been part of it, or allowances
for such things and ancillary you know, media tags and
you know, access to the playing field, the clubhouse, whatever else.
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Guys make all sorts of ass You have to decide
how deep you want to go in. And by the way,
the Duck Dynasty series ended ended in twenty seventeen. Now
they're coming back with something this summer, evidently some kind
of revival. But that's a nice eight year gap that
we're working with.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
That's how with the times the Yankees are that we
are ready to go.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Maybe he saw the notice of the revival and that's
what prompted it.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
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we're gonna be close, Mike Carmon. We've made it, you know,
just one more day until the NBA begins their games again,
start the second half of the season. One more night
of no games. So we've almost made it there, buddy,
We've almost made.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
You got the flashy thing put on your head already.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Or what almost made it? Almost no NBA games? There
was no NBA games.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Did you get men in blacked?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
There was no, was no. I don't know what you're
talking about. Would you see these games that are supposedly
updated in quotes on social media on website? Uh, these
are just computer projections of certain hypothetical matchups. The real
game start tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So what you're saying is we we just had an
old update of Steve playing.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean really Steve. Well, well
I think it's Ai Steve Disager too, who is giving
the updates of the basketball game.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So just some random scores kind of uh, brought out
of thin air.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
None, none of these going back to prior All Star
breaks for the NHL, So no games being played there either.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
What you really think calvs. One one oh five was
a real score? Come on, man, that doesn't go well
you think that was real?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
That Lebron showing up in the garden, I got.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A bridge to sell you. That's not a REALCT wasn't
a real game. It didn't happen tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
But I heard it. I thought I heard it somewhere
that this was the case.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It was Also it was like it like in a
Captain America First Avenger. They went through the whole thing
to make him think he was, you know, back in
nineteen forty two and they're playing the old baseball game.
That's what they do, do you. Let's say, just once
you make you think, hey, we're back when the NBA,
NBA doesn't come back for another night, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Is that really the case? Because I thought I heard it.
Let's hear it the final call.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, let's hear the final call of the Yeah, play
that fake final call, the fake.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Fund Yeah, that's the buzzer. The Knicks suck.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
They follow the O and six against the Calves Celtics
and thunder.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That sounds like a very disinterested announcer.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, it's well, what do you expect?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
My eyes hurt? Well, I mean you start doing filler stuff.
That's where you have a lot of Hey, did you
know where this guy's favorite sandwich join is when he
comes down the road?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
They were doing that in the second quarter tonight in
this game.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
You know, he visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He was incredulous that such and such a band wasn't in.
This becomes the opportunity for the host to hill for
whatever band he feels has been snubbed to load these
many years say look good.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I'll say I'll say this right, well, because there is
a big take coming off of this game, the marquee
game of the night. It really was unfair. Look, the
Knicks are coming off the game they played the night before.
Doesn't matter that the Cavaliers played the night before. Clearly
it's an un it's a it's an unfair advantage that
the Cavaliers are to have coming off of a game
the night before. Then the Knicks did coming off the
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game the night before as well, and if you played
the Bulls, that's it doesn't matter. That's something that they rectify. Yeah,
I mean that's like a day off. You need to
rectify that fact that playing the second night a back
to backs affect some teams differently, and it clearly affected
the Knicks more tonight. They expended more energy and had
a lot of It was unfair. I mean, it's unfair.
It's unfair. I both teams come off back to about
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you know one team's not gonna play. Well, that's what
happened tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
To be true and fair, you you did really struggle
against the Bulls, and earlier today I called for your
you to be relegated.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, wait, we won though, it doesn't matter. There's a
win column and a laws.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
But if you're gonna then use it as an excuse
going a you know, we played yesterday, so yeah, we
had nothing left in the tank.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
No, the Cavaliers clearly knew something. Look, clearly the Cavaliers
been given an advantage by the NBA in the second
night of back to back that the Knicks don't have.
It's a way of keeping the Knicks down, right, Oh,
we got to keep the Knicks down. You got to
keep the Knicks down. Can't reward the big market teams, right,
Rick Carlisle tell you that again, all the big market teams,
all the you guys can carry something going on. There's
something going on.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I guess technically you did play the slightly better Bulls
team as opposed to Cleveland playing Brooklyn a night ago.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But all of that to say just slightly better, Well.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
I mean, look, Bulls twenty two wins Brooklyn. Now with
twenty No yah, now.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Look I did. Here's the thing, and here's where I'm
at with this. Really, would I like the Knicks to
have played better tonight? Sure? Right, it's a marquee game
of the Night national television. I wanted them to play well,
but they got boat raced. And I know the big
thing is zero to six against the Cavs, Celtics and Thunder. Okay,
I understand that, but really nobody has a good record
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against those three teams. So it's not like saying the
Knicks are an outline, but I would want the Knicks
to be playing better against the best teams because to
win an NBA championship, in theory, you have to go
through the best teams. But it's February twenty first, so
I'm a it's not the going to.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Change, buddy.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's not the Eastern Conference finals, and it's not. Everything
is fine and the Knicks are their benches coming back
starting to get hell, they got a couple of guys
coming back to the rotation. It's February twenty first. I
don't get too worked up in regular season games like this. Hey,
they went and they played the best team in the
Eastern Conference so far on their court and they got killed.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You're really cute with your company. First couple of guys
coming back to the rotation. It's very twe Tom Thibbadeau,
you can't lie through your teeth like that, Coden, Well,
we got a couple of guys coming back to the rotation.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
They won't play. But now that is the thing. Now,
that's the big thing. They won't play, Mike Carmon. That's
the big thing is that it's It sounds crazy, but
if the Knicks don't have a successful playoff, right, this
season is fine, They're twenty games, over five hundred, everything
is fine, right, can't be good teams, but they gotta
have a successful play It's not the playoffs, man. But
(06:29):
if they don't have a successful playoffs, and by that
I mean they don't go further than they did a
year ago, Tim's is gonna get fired. As good a
coach as he is, a good a defensive coach as
he is, he's gonna get fired because two big things.
The Knicks are clearly not as good defensively as they
were the last few years. Making the changes to the
team they did, yes, you know, Ruin not ruined, but
(06:50):
messed with a little bit of the chemistry. But they
brought in Karl Anthony Towns and of course the guy's
been phenomenal, right, he's been fantastic, But his calling card
is defense, And the Knicks are no longer a defense team,
right they're not, So what are you keeping him around
for if they no longer do what he does? But
he's there to be a great head coach defensive or
keeping going. If they're no longer defensive team, then he
(07:12):
loses a little bit of his value. But as long
as the team is good, he's gonna stay. But the
Knicks didn't make these moves and send five number one
picks for Mical Bridges and make a big deal with
with Julius Randall and de Vincenzo for Karl Anthony Towns
and Jalen Brunson didn't say, hey, I'll take less money
so we can get more guys in here so we
can make this work. They didn't extend O g Andrew Nobi.
(07:34):
They didn't pay all these guys to not get out
of the second round of the playoffs. So yeah, if this,
if they don't make it out of the second round,
he's gonna get fired. You can and you can merit
hey should they should? They not? But if they don't
make it, and if they're not, if defensive is no
being great defensively is no longer their hallmark, then I'll
tell you what, what are they doing? Then? Like the
(07:56):
Knicks are, they're gonna be really upset. The front front
off is gonna be mad. Do one's gonna be bad?
At Wait a minute, I'm spending all this money. We
have the best starting five in the NBA top to bottom,
and here's where we're at. We don't get out of
theecond round of the playoffs. Like if that, if they're
not in the Eastern Conference finals, it's going to be
a new head coach for the next time.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
There's no question about it. They went all in and
made the big move to give him what he needed.
Why he still is reluctant to expand beyond a six
man rotation? All right, occasionally you'll get that seventh guy in,
but only if you're blowing a team out. But I mean,
I was heartened today and very excited for you, as
(08:34):
I'm sure all Knicks fans were. And I mean, this
is You're a brilliant And why you really want to
dismiss today's efforts because according to reports, I mean, you
got the inside track to land Victor Oladipo from the
analyst chair.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
I mean, come on, why not? Right? Why not? I mean, hey,
and sometimes, Look, I'm okay with getting anybody who can
come off the bench no matter what. They don't care. Yeah, no,
I don't care. Whatever you need coach player, Hey, we
got to get somebody that can help coming off the
bench and not the starting five. I'm good with him.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well, if you can bring Noah, I mean he gets
your heart and hustle.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
You got that for you, Yeah, I mean that's that's
the thing. Oakley might. Oakley might. They may actually he
might actually get to come down and take over mid
game for TIBs if they're not doing well in the playoffs,
like he could. I could see him getting allowed back
in the.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Garden coming in, like not making the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Now, like Hogan coming in off the side, and everybody's
yelling his name, and Oakley's ripping his tie off, he's
taking off his jacket. He's allowed back in the garden.
It's Charles Oakley. And Oakly comes and and and sticks
his thumb out and and puts his TIBs out, and
TIBs leaves and he walks off, of course with his
arms folded, hunched over, wondering what happened. And Oakley says, okay,
it's my team, and everybody goes crazy and the Knicks
(09:51):
go on a big run. I could see that.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Tell me, you don't half expect Oakley to show up
either like Terry Cruz in Idiocracy or looking like Jim
Brown from The Running Man.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's got electrolytes coming from one.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Or the others.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Either way, his chest is moving without him moving, right.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Oh, that's it. Yeah, like it's an electro stimulus thing
going on. Yeah, Jason, you're gonna cry when they don't
make it.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Dude, what are you talking about? Man? What are you talking?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
It's February. You've been warned.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It's fine, It's it's fine. We're twenty games over five
hundred Frostburg. We didn't just spend the last two nights losing.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Remember it's February. There's plenty of time.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
We didn't spend the last two nights losing to two
teams with a combined twenty seven wins like the Lakers did. Okay,
just so.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
You know, let's James got minutes against you guys, cancel
the season.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
No, see, look, I'm not letting you do the Vegas misdirection.
The Hey, we we have a very short bench. Tims
is gonna run these guys until they're tripping over their tongues,
that we're gonna have an early exit, and he could
be fired too. Yeah, but we didn't lose too in
a row.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Like the Laker Bradford once come in and say something
something outlandish and foolish, like you're not big in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
You might not.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Frostburg brought that up.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Because those are all losses.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
If the rest of the games were against the Cavs
and the Celtics and the Thunder, I would say, yeah,
I'd be in trouble. But they're not going to be everything.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It's fun that we lost that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
We did lose that game, that's okay. The game where
the Lakers knew that they were trading for Luka Doncic,
they were clearly more motivated to play that game. You
guys played it, Lakers played well that game. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
The next time this season you beat somebody a good
it'll be the first.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Okay, all right, Fun. What's the Lakers record against the Thunder,
Celtics and Cavaliy, Yeah, I don't I don't know that
it is, man, I don't know. I don't know if
it's not all right, look it up right now, there
we go six.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Remaining strength of schedule and see where are the Knicks? Years?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Sign me the Lakers record against the best three teams
in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
But as you talked about the other night, I mean,
the Lakers do have They're tied for the hardest schedule remaining,
and unlike the Phoenix Suns, they'll actually want to play it.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Oh why did you gotta sideeswipe the Suns?
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Like?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Did you not watch some of that game last night?
I mean my dual screen experience was obviously the Nation's
Cup Final and watching the Sun's kind of sleepwalk through
a game against the wenby less San Antonio Spurs to
where they look like they'd rather be anybody anywhere else,
like the guys Charles and Kenny and everybody else. They
(12:34):
could have done the gone fishing emojis for them last night,
the way they were looking around at each other.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, we're just gonna hang that side up, but walk away.
Where are you guys going to get the second half? No? No, no,
we're done.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
We're kind of they're done.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
We're done. Okay, Just so you know, I don't like
each other.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
We don't want to be here. The only reason I'm
still here Kevin Durant is I didn't want to move
and the other guy he wouldn't wave is no trade clause.
Otherwise we don't be in a different destination.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But here we are, exit out about a Fresca exit
swollen dome. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live
from the Tireraq dot Com Studios. So I'm telling you
that's the big takeaway. The Knicks don't get out of
the second round. It's gonna be a new head coach,
Phil jack Jackson. Next, he's coming back. He's gonna wake
him up off the subway and Phil's gonna take over.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I'm telling you it's virtual Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
I'm ready.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's a robot that goes up and down come hovered
by remote control with a monitor for a head, and
he never leaves the TP.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Come it up. Next, Hey, we get into the most
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Radio videos on YouTube. Now, before we get to that
big fact today, I'd look at it three times before
us how true it was. You know yesterday you and
I we were on during the day in for Cavino
and Rich and Doug Gottlie been obviously right in our
window of doing the show. The Wemby story broke Victor
Wembin Yama out for the season. The Spurs are shutting
(15:42):
him down with deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder,
and you and I talked about it and it became
a thing today all all over. Yeah, you got some
good who man. Uh And and I feel like, ah,
I mean I don't know. I have doctors who are
upset with what I've said, and I'm like, I don't
(16:03):
understand what is a bit what what people seem to
be upset about. But heay, that happens, right, I mean, look,
the Wemby thing was big. It's a big deal. And look,
you can get the uh, you can listen to it.
It's on a Fox Sports Radio Twitter account. It's it's
up there. You can go grab it. Mike and I
have retweeted it as well. But basically, you know we
talked about this is that you know, this is not
(16:24):
an injury for Wemby, Like this is this is a
medical condition and it's a big concern like thrombosis and
deep vein thrombosis. Blood clots are a big deal. And
he's got to take blood thinners and he can't play
while he's taking blood thinners. And you want to think, Okay,
he's gonna be all right. Yeah, yeah, I hope, So
everybody hope. So prayers up for Wenby because you know,
we want to see the guy back, want to see
(16:45):
him healthy and the Spurs had to say yesterday that yeah,
we think he'll come back from the beginning of this season.
Like and and when I see this, I go, I
don't know what what the normal is gonna be. And
I say this, like, I literally don't know, because this
is something that's got to be managed because if you
look at you look at the deals with thrombosis and
deep veane thrombosis. It affects people who are tall, and
(17:05):
it affects people who fly a lot, you know, and
and hey, what are NBA players, right? They're tall and
they fly a lot, right, And it's a it's a
big thing. Like even you know, the last few times
that we've flown when we flew to the United Kingdom
this summer, my wife is like, you gotta wear the
compression socks. And I'm like, why wear them? It's a
big long flight. We're over fifty I said, Okay, okay,
so where the compression socks? I mean, it's a thing.
(17:26):
And and this is something, you know, thrombosis a little
bit different for Chris Bosch, but this basically cost him
his career. Now. The flip side of it is Brandon Ingram,
who had it a few years ago. He's been able
to bounce back and look, the guy's got a big
contract all Stars. So you know you're seeing like kind
of both ends of the spectrum on this. But this
is like a condition that's got to be managing. I
don't know what the what the norm is going to
(17:48):
be for Wemby going forward. You hope it's a big recovery,
and you hope it's a big h you know, Hey,
he's back and he's better than ever and being in
his shoulder is probably better than it is being in
his leg. But like, what's going to be a thing
like our longer flight, it's going to be something that
maybe you have to sit out and miss a couple
of these games man, you know, I mean all the
international travel that I mean, I don't know what the
new normal is going to be for him as far
(18:08):
as flying and monitoring this. But it's a thing. It's
you know, it's it's not an injury. It's a condition
now from someone who was in their early twenties that
hopefully they can manage it the rest of his career.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, talking about you know, blood clots in the lungs
versus you know, the injury and the effects of the shoulder.
So but all of it to say, and I saw
the internet. Doctors were out there, and then you know
they're trying to get the distinction from a number of
you know, leaders in the field. So you know, saying
(18:40):
that it has less risk, well that doesn't make it zero.
It still needs to be treated and monitored on a
daily basis. You're still talking about being away from the
game a minimum of five to six months before you're
resuming working out and trying to get back on the court,
and you don't know what the lingering effects are right
in the long term, treatment plans are going to be different.
(19:02):
You know, there's no one size fits all. And we're
talking about a guy, uh, you know, when we're looking
at to your point of international travel and and in
his case, just needing to be on a plane and
back to backs and all of those things. You start
changing up the schedule, uh, and needing to bring in
teams of doctors and surgeons to go through this to
(19:25):
make sure he's got everything he needs. So just dismissing it, Hey,
he's younger and it's got less of a chance of
being a recurrent issue because of its placement. Doesn't again
mean it's zero, So you know, dismissing it categorically is foolhardy.
It does. Yes, it sounds like it's a much better situation.
(19:48):
We're also that many more years developed in terms of
what we know about, you know, the these kind of
syndromes and how to treat and right, you know, we're
always getting modern metaicle advances, how quickly things move. But
it's when min Yama, it's a guy that last week
everybody was you know, wagging their fingers and talking about
(20:09):
as the face of the new NBA. Uh yeah, No,
it's it's still a serious thing. You don't categorically rule
anything out. You're hoping for the best, and it sounds
like it should be manageable. But what that looks like
nobody knows yet.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Well, it's it's it's like, think about it like this.
You go to the doctor and the doctor tells you
have high blood pressure. Okay, well, high blood pressure is
not great. Now, if your blood pressure is a little
bit high, okay, that's still a concern. If it's a
lot high, obviously it's a much bigger concern. Hey, we
really got to bring this down. There's more. But if
you have high blood pressure. That's still a thing you
(20:47):
have to monitor, and especially if your job is something
that brings high blood pressure along with it. Well, your
blood pressure little high, while my job's a little stressful. Okay,
Well we got to monitor this.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And maybe, I mean I do that every day Smith. Yeah,
I mean it's I deal with you for four hours.
I have to my blood pressure, my salt intake.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And I'm the greatest influence you've ever had in your life.
I'm I'm the brother you need it, not the brothers
you have.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
The dumbest thing I've ever heard you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Come on, man, you could put all your brothers together.
They're not the influence on you that I am.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
My brothers are wizards.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
It's not even because there's they're still driving that stolen
golf cart full all bertrandice off of Bear's campus.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah. My younger brother's coming off by a giant meeting
that he's just like thanks for the note. I'm going
to bed. I'll talk to you Sunday, Like, wow, you're
sleeping for twenty four plus.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I mean, look, and and it's because but your point
is apt. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's what it is.
It's like you know, Yeah, Okay, it's not as high.
It's not you know, there are certain conditions that you have,
but when you get diagnosed with something, it still means
that it's something that's got to be taken care of,
and especially if what you do for a living plays
into it. How many people when when they get older
and they have a you know, whether it's a it's
(21:59):
a art condition or something, they go, you know what
you just you need you can't have stress anymore, you
can't do what you do for a living because it's
bringing you too much stress. You have to retire. Like
we've seen that. I've seen that, you know from my uncle,
you know, had to had to retire because of that.
So it's like, so it just realized that that there's
a there's a different there's a wide swath of things
it can be. And that's why the whole comparison of Hey,
(22:21):
Chris Bosh again a little bit different kind of thron
but still it's deep vein thrombosis and cost him his career,
brandon Ingram comes back from it. There's a wide swath
of it, and I just don't know because it's a
condition and not an injury, Like what does the future hold, Like,
I don't know what kind of new normal you have
to find now if you're Wenby, if you're the Spurs
or him for his career, hopefully they take care of it.
(22:41):
It finishes and and the blood finners work and everything
is great. But just the fact they said, yeah, we
hope that he's ready to go for this fall. Whoa, whoa,
whoa you mean October. It's February and you hope that
he's ready to go in the fun I mean, this
is not. Hey, Unfortunately, he's going to miss the rest
of this season. We're probably not going to the playoffs,
so it's only a couple more months before the playoss. Yeah,
we're going to keep him out. This is we hope
(23:02):
he's ready for the beginning of the season. You're you're
talking about late September. When when when this goes on
and it's only the middle of February. Like, that's where
that's where I put my antenta up and said, oh wow,
this is this is really something.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, a couple of months to monitor, right, decide a
course of action and and how his body responds. I mean,
I have joked about a Madden Cruiser in terms of
road trips, and you know, things of longer length where
the schedule permits. But you really do start looking into
the different long term effects of this and how you
(23:36):
have to to manage it right, much like your high
blood pressure situation, whether it's medication, whether it's just a
change in diet and exercise. What do you have to
do when you first meet a new doctor, Well, I
need a family history. Give me a legitimate family history
if you have it right, because that's the other thing.
(23:57):
A lot of times you're flying blind because you're your
parents rench your grandparents either didn't believe in going to
the doctor unless you know they literally had a life
altering event. Uh you know, I may raise my hand
in that in that regard. H So you're guessing at
what family and back in the day they just chronicled
everything as a heart attack. So you might have died
(24:19):
from any myriad of things. But oh what happened, Oh yeah,
his heart failed in this case. For when bin Yama,
I hope they have an extended family history that's really
well and in depth so that they can draw from
that and try to build on on towards a definitive conclusion.
But in the interim, you know, it's it's a lot
(24:40):
of hot. Does his body react to stress? And and
and what got do you need surgery? Is that it right?
They say, it's an isolated thing for him versus where
where bosh, it became a chronic, chronic issue that needed
you know, more than and then one treatment, one course
of management. Uh, you have to adapt and move on.
(25:01):
So all the best young guy obviously very able bodied,
except in this and people were trying to pinpoint, all right,
well here's the injury. Here's the shoulder injury that must
have caused it, Like you don't know that. It's a
nice try, like we all love to play junior cis agent,
you know, going on William Peterson on stuff to try
(25:23):
to figure out causes. But you know, for now we
don't know. But hopefully by the beginning of next year,
this spurs squad that we were getting excited about Smith,
that the the trade deadline, that they're fully reformed and
ready to go.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tirec dot Com studios.
That big sports fact that I still can't believe coming
up in ninety seconds. But first special delivery Steve de
Saga with us a guy who's been called the Greg
Popovich of Fox Sports Radio. You look at him and
you go, boy, he really could be nicer to people.
But that's kind of what he know.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
It's the trending, not as moody and not giving the
one word answer, so really not really much of a
correspondence there.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Those first are in action tonight and down twenty in
the fourth quarter. Mid fourth, Detroit leads at San Antonio
one seventeen to ninety seven. Big lead for the Thunder
late first half sixty four to forty one. At Utah
Dallas Mavericks with eight minutes to go. I had ninety
four eighty six over the Pelicans, who might be falling
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to thirteen and forty three on the season. And right
now it's in the second quarter. At Houston. At the
end of one the Rockets led Minnesota forty eight to
thirty eight. Right now Houston is tied fifty eight all
against Minnesota with about four minutes left in the second quarter.
Anthony Edwards was questionable with a sore hit, but he
is playing. Cleveland won at six straight game, beating New
(26:50):
York one forty two to one oh five. Cap shot
sixty one percent from the floor, og Ananobi did return
for the next had five points. Josh Hart was out
again with a sorne. Miami in overtime won at Toronto
one twenty to one eleven, ending a four game losing streak.
Memphis edge to Orlando one oh five one oh fours.
The Magic went scoreless for the last two and a
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half minutes. Milwaukee wonted Washington one oh four to one
hundred x of the Wizards. Kyle Kuzma had nineteen points tonight.
The Wizards have lost five in a row. Washington as
a record of nine and forty six. In the late
game at Sacramento, it's tied late first quarter Kings and
Warriors even at twenty six. Two games of note in
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men's college basketball, only a couple weeks left in the
regular season Top twenty matchup at Michigan went to the
rival Michigan State Spartan seventy five sixty two. This was
a two point lead with under twelve minutes to go,
and this on the day that Michigan gave coach Dusty
May a new contract, no details announced. At Villanova earlier
on FS one, the Wildcats beat up number sixteen Marquette
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eighty one sixty six. Villanova had lost seven of its
last eleven games. The NHL is off until Saturday, after
almost two weeks off fourteen hockey games tomorrow. Of course,
there was no NHL All Star Game this year. They
played the Four Nations Tournament instead. The Winter Olympics are
one year from now in Italy. The New Orleans Saints
new defensive coordinator will reportedly be Brandon Staley. He worked
(28:15):
with new head coach Kellen Moore two years ago with
the Chargers. Jacksonville's new general manager as James Gladstone from
the Rams. Eagles linebacker Nolan Smith had triceps surgery this week.
He played through the injury in the recent Super Bowl.
The Bears cut tight end Gerald Everett and defensive end
DeMarcus Walker. Cincinnati released defensive tackle Sheldon Rankings. Pittsburgh signed
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tight end Donald Parham. The NFL scouting combine starts Thursday.
In fact, on Saturday, March first, not that far away
as the workouts for the quarterbacks, wide receivers and running backs.
Nebraska canceled its home and home football series against Tennessee,
which would have been in twenty twenty six and twenty seven.
With Nebraska siding its upcoming stadium renovations and Yankees man,
(29:00):
your Aaron Boone signed an extension through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Back to you, thanks Steve, though, and just real quick
to to you know, for something that could be great
for the Spurs. Right. We had a quick fun joke
there about you know, Greg Popovich, you know, being you know,
the krusty Greg Papa that we know and love.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Yeah, and that might be the first time that Steve's
are rebuffed any comparisons normally gives it a little bit
of credence. This one.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
What a great story it would be if he could
come back for the end of the season, right, like,
like Wenby is out and you're hoping that but like
I know, he's been really aggressive in his rehab. Chris
Paul says he calls him after almost every game. This
is what I see. This is what I see. And
I know there's no timetable, obviously, you're coming back from
the from the stroke he suffered last fall. But boy,
what a great story would be if he could get
(29:44):
back to the sideline before the end of the season.
Still some time to happen, and the fact that he's
still involved and still talk to the team and talking
to the players like that's all awesome, awesome stuff, and
you know that'd be that'd be a great thing for
them and for the NBA, and also for T and T.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Maybe one last game with them before they lose the
NBA and one last chance to give a one word answer, oh.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
That is that could happen. Thank you, Steve now Hey,
speaking of TV this story today that I knew the
number would be high. I didn't know it would be
this high when we went into previewing the Four Nations
Championship between Canada the United States the other night is Look,
it's the biggest hockey game in forty five years. You
(30:24):
go back to Miracle on Nice. There are just too
many confluence of circumstances that make this bigger than any
game since then, right, Bigger than any Olympic game, Bigger
than a World Cup game. You have the the the
NHL situation between having the best two most popular teams playing,
You have the rivalry with them, You have the geopolitical
background and backdrop of Trump and Trudeau in Canada and California,
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and we knew it was going to be that big,
biggest game in forty five years, and We saw an
amazing game last night. And when I say we saw,
I mean we in the general we as ten and
a half million people watch this game at its peak
and overall nine and a half million viewers. It is
the largest audience ever for a hockey game on ESPN,
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also the largest audience for a non NFL event on
ESPN plus. And ESPN has had hockey for the most
part since the late seventies. Okay, Like there's a few
years where hockey went away, and then you know, the
NHL did that thing where they went to versus and
they tried to go and they were this on the
CW and you crazy stuff. Then it came back to ESPN,
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and you know they've had it for you know, they've
had it on and off, you know, for a long time.
This is the largest audience for a hockey game ever
on ESPN last night, and it was an insane game.
And like we said last night, I'm hoping that this
is going to be a big rebirth or the next
big jump that they can capitalize in springboard off of this,
(31:54):
just like hockey springboarded off the Miracle on Ice in
nineteen eighty and and the NHL saw great heights in
the late eight early nineties before lockouts, and Gary Bettman
decided to say, oh no, no, no, we're gonna we're gonna
push this all the way down. So it's a fringe sport.
Now they have that chance. They add that to You
saw the best players in the world on the ice.
You saw the best player in the world get you know,
score a goal in overtime to win it. And maybe
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this is gonna be something that gives you that next
great springboard into hockey, and that can really capitalize on
it because last night you went through and saw you know,
you see social media the top twenty posts are all
about this game. Like even the Super Bowl, the top
twenty posts on social media not about this game. But
everybody's on there, whether it's it was Bennington or Kuchuk
or doesn't matter who it was or McDavid, it was
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everybody watched this game. It was an insane event and
for hockey, it's the biggest thing that's happened to them
in nearly five decades.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah, it would be nice to think you can capitalize
on it. I fear a lot of it is just
with the geopolitical backdrop that folks wanted to get their
memes and jokes and in and certainly watched and we're
treated to do a fantastic, fantastic spectacle with a really
head scratching end to it in terms of how the
(33:07):
play wore out. Uh your physical physical Oh wait, there's
the best player in the world standing by himself in
the slot. But all of that to say that, look,
you got a lot of good will, right, a lot
of people talking hockey. PK. Suban got to go and
evangelize for hockey on any number of platforms today. Great
(33:28):
spokesman for the game, great enthusiasm, and I.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Thought we're gonna fight last night.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Oh yeah, but that's just it, right. It brought out
that intensity and then he was able to carry it
forward with a number of appearances today. So hopefully that
that brings more folks to the yard, if only short term.
You just wish that the hockey playoffs were coming straight in, right,
(33:54):
because you match that intensity, because I fear folks going
into second half quote unquote hockey, you're gonna be like
that wasn't the game I saw like the other night, right,
Whereas with the playoffs, I mean that's what you get
each and every.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Ding way off something that knicks aren't going to.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Step what you don't just stop, you would keep losing credibility. Frostburg,
You're like indibility. You're like Luca taking a three. Everyone
is worse than the last one. That's what's happening right now, dude, I.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Have the crystal ball for your teams?
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Just script? Do you have the script? All good? Okay,
all right?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Are your teams? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Because they're easy to call where they start?
Speaker 1 (34:30):
All your team stinks? Smith?
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yeah, By the way, in the world is sports dog
radio and television the next He's not even close to
the metal stand at this point in terms of craziness
coming out of his mouth and credibility. Come on, we
shore that. We smile it.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
That's all I got. That's all I add. Man, coming
up next, speaking of fifty years, right, biggest hockey game
in the last forty five years? How about something huge
in sports that end today that's been around for longer
than that, something just shy of fifty years. Nope, not
gonna see it anymore. What is it that's next? Jason
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Speaker 2 (35:12):
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Speaker 1 (35:20):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon Live Fromthtirack dot Com studios, where today ended
nearly fifty years of a long standing rule and now
it's over. The New York Yankees announced that no longer
will they have a rule against facial hair like they've
(35:42):
had in place for the better part of the last
forty nine years.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Simpsons episode is obsolete.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Metically shave those sideburns. I don't think you know what
they mean, coach. The Yankees are now going to allow
well groomed beards on the field, not the ALBN beards,
not like zz Top. I'm gonna grow them all the
way down to the no. But if you have a
nice trimmed beard, you're allowed to have it on the
field with the Yankees.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Evidently Cashman said, well, we're not going for duck Dynasty.
Here was the reference he used, What when was the
last time they made that show?
Speaker 1 (36:17):
A look that shows you how out of touch the
Yankees are. Because this is the big point. Why is
this such a big deal? Right? Obviously to laugh a going, yeah,
I don't want to go to the Yank and I'll
be able to wear a beard. You know what, what
do I go back to saying all the time? One
thing I know from coaching youth sports, I know from
a happy player is a good player. Right. I always
know a happy player is always gonna be better than
(36:39):
better than a player that's not happy. And the Yankees
have these crazy things that they stick to that are
so outdated that turn players off. One of the reasons,
not the reason, but clearly it's part of it. Hey,
they lost Juan Soto because they wouldn't give him a
sweet and his and his family a sweet at Yankee games. Well,
we don't do that. We didn't do it for Jeter,
didn't do it for Judge. We're not gonna do it
(37:01):
for you. Okay, Hey, the Mets said, yeah, Jeef Cohen said,
how many sweets do you want? You can have my suite.
I don't care. Now, you can come and come live
with me. It doesn't matter. You can have a suite. Right.
It's not that he signed with the Mets because of that,
but that's a thing that goes in the Mets favor
or another team going, yes, we'll do this for you,
And how many players are gonna say, yeah, you know, Yankees,
what's the whole thing with the facial hair? That's ridiculous.
(37:23):
It gives me a bad vibe. It doesn't give me
confidence that I can go there and be myself that
I have to worry about, you know, if I don't
shave for a day or whatever it's going to be.
The Yankees are still conducting business like it's nineteen eighty
five and nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety six and two thousand,
where we're the destination and if you can come here,
(37:45):
and but you're gonna do it our way. And players
are saying, no, I don't need to I can go
someplace else and get paid. I don't need to go
there and play by these ridiculous rules of certain things
like no facial hair. There's a reason why the Yankees
did this. After the the offseason, they lost Jan Soda. Right,
all these changes they're making, they lost one soda. They
realized he thought I could go to Queens and have
(38:07):
a better chance of winning a championship and I can
have a better baseball life with the Mets than I
would have with the Yankees. Then I give the Yankees credits.
It's a look in the mirror moment. It's more than
outdated for them to continue to subscribe to thoughts like this,
where players right now are going, Dude, I could play
for you or not. You to tell me that I
(38:27):
got I can't have a beard. You can tell Jesse
Winker could never play there. You're really gonna do this
to me. You're not gonna give me a sweet I mean,
this is how negotiations are in twenty twenty five. I
don't know what year you're negotiating in or what year
you're trying to get players are, but this is twenty
twenty five and the Yankees need to get out of
that if they're gonna continue to get free agents and
keep players and not have them leave and other than saying, well,
(38:49):
we're just gonna overpay, and that's gonna be the thing,
right what they did for free agency offseason. We're gonna
way overpay for guys because well, it's how we get
guys into New York. It's how the Mets used to
do things. Now it's like, hey, we we offer a
good situation. Yes we paid a lot of money for Sodo,
but look, the guy's the best free agent on the
You know him and Otani best free agents the last
twenty five years. But yeah, but other guys, we want
(39:09):
to go play there. We want to go play there.
It's a destination. Yankees had to wake up. And while
this is completely old and outdated and it seems kind
of minor, it's part of them understanding they got to
go in a new direction.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Well, you have to recognize the seed change across the league,
right from what the Mets are doing to how the
Dodgers are operating. Rob Manford making the statement he did,
I can guarantee you the next set of owners meetings
there'll be a lot of discussion about it. But the
reality is you have to play by different rules and
(39:41):
free agents have a lot of different asks, right. I remember,
even just going back to the NFL, what was one
of the rumors of Caleb Williams He's asking for an
ownership stake. Whether that was real or not, it became
a thing that people had to address of wait, is
that possible? Is that allowed? And for play? Yeah, they've
asked for all sorts of things, and a suite is
(40:05):
not anywhere near close to the most outrageous. Man, that's nothing.
That's that's a We've had private jets right go back
to Kevin Brown have been part of it, or allowances
for such things and ancillary you know, media tags and
you know, access to the playing field, the clubhouse, whatever else.
(40:28):
Guys make all sorts of ass You have to decide
how deep you want to go in. And by the way,
the Duck Dynasty series ended ended in twenty seventeen. Now
they're coming back with something this summer, evidently some kind
of revival. But that's a nice eight year gap that
we're working with.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
That's how with the times the Yankees are that we
are ready to go.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Maybe he saw the notice of the revival and that's
what prompted it.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Coming up next, we get into a huge story involving
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