March 27, 2025 • 41 mins
Mike Harmon and Aaron Torres LIVE reaction to LeBron James incredible buzzer beater in Indy! Aaron explains why the college basketball portal being open during the tournament is not a big deal at all. And Jim Nantz says he will retire from calling the Masters in 2036.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Ah, it's a beautiful night.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Welcome in Wednesday, the calm before the storm, Sweet sixteen,
all the fun that you could possibly imagine. Why cause
the heavyweights are coming to town. Mike Carbon alongside Aaron Torres,
special guest star to my Radio Right Radio. Well you're
left of me, but TV right, whatever the case is.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Welcome in body. It's good to see you. It is
my absolute pleasure to be here Wednesday night. But I'll
tell you this, Lakers are on. Got a little nit.
Like you said, that feels like the calm before the storm.
I don't know about you, but you know you watch
four straight days of college back. I needed a break.
It was funny like Monday. People were like, oh, who
(01:10):
do you like in the Duke Arizona game. I'm like,
can you give me ten minutes to just decompress?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Sound like tom Izzo trying to get back. I don't
need to know what I'm playing next week exactly, want
to go.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
To the locker room exactly. So it's like, did you
see the mc cronan. They asked him about his plans
for the offseason. He's like, I just want to get
on this crappy allegianate flight and get back to Los Angeles,
thank you very much. Not of anger.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
McK cronan, so angry, such an angry man. So that
just difficult process here. But we got a one point game,
Pacers Lakers coming down fifteen second shot clocked down to
three and the shot is no good. So now the
Lakers with the ball one last gasp would be a
fourth loss in row. Lebron did extend that streak of
(01:55):
double digit scoring games. Is it gonna count? We're gonna
get a review. Lebron with a tip in live action.
I think it's good, but I like chaos, so let's uh,
let's pause, let's pause the great celebration. Uh, Luca with
a runner in the lane that comes off. Lebron comes
(02:17):
in unchecked. Uh for the tip in and it looks
like the Lakers are gonna leave Indiana with a w
We're watching a replay now, Aaron, sure does he get it?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
We need another angle? We need Oh, this is this
is one.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
They might as well go order out for dinner now
while they review this.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
My goodness, off of his finger. It's good.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
See we got the second angle. Looks like it's gonna
be good.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It looks like it's.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Gonna be a game winner.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
And all of the the Lakers are sinking, dying. I
was gonna say, floating, floating gearge the bottom might actually
end here?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Does this mean that they're back to being the best
team in the history of the NBA? Like some more
arguing a week into the Luca Lebron uh dynasty here.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Well, that is generally one of the things I really
wait for Frostburg to acknowledge.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yes, yeah, there you go back to what they're back
the playing or beyond the plane or what we're back
to greatness. Okay, I told Mike it's hard for me
to get the last coach that you just fired made
the Western Conference finals in year one. Coach before that
won an NBA title. I need to, you know, like,
I'm glad you had a good two weeks, but let's
let's pump the brakes on. Uh So you're not buying
(03:31):
the Lakers at all with Luca, I'm saying we need
a little time asking buying them. No, no, no, I'm not
buying them to do anything other than wait, championship this year.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
They will, but I'm going to do this on the
one the one time I'm going to steal from our buddy,
the stinking genius. Oh no, the show is today. The
show is today, So we're going to talk about the Lakers.
It's the in the now. We're not looking ahead towards
the likely in like a likelihood of an injury as
we've seen before so many But.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I will say this though, I think when you're relying
on a forty year old to get through two months
with and by the way, he just took a couple
of weeks off though, yeah because grind, Yeah, okay, he
was hurt well, but it was a growing injury. But
here's the thing, though, right is that isn't that a metaphor?
Is that they already need everything. They don't have a defense,
they're not very good defensively, they don't have a true five,
(04:22):
and so they basically need everything to go perfect for
four straight rounds with a forty year old pretty much
playing thirty eight thirty nine minutes a game. And so
you asked me the show is tonight, I will tell
you the Lakers are not winning the championship. Sorry to Ruin.
Justin Frosburg's May and June. You can take time off
in late maybe try not.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I look forward to sending you that tax when they do.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And even if they do, he'll be so ensconced in
Dodger Blue it won't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I know.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It turns out they might not have lost a game
by that point, so well, so we might be on
the road to one sixty two, you know. Yeah no,
and then the Chargers, I mean, look good reboot and
getting ready. I mean he gets to start as you're
in Brazil. Whoa, well not start, but he will be
in Brazil. So I mean, like there's all this stuff.
I'm we got Opening Day truly tomorrow in Major League Baseball.
(05:10):
I mean there's just a lot.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Did you get get a passport stamp by the way yet, Mike,
I don't have that one yet. Aaron, what about you've
been to Brazil.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I've never been to Brazil, but I've been.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I was, Uh, passport's ready, I know.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It, Yeah, I was ready. I my mine's renewed.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I've got eight years and a lot of space.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
My wife is from Guatemala. We went to Guatemala last
summer and it was an amazing trip, but had to
get a new passport, got it stamped, got back into
the country, so I know it's up to date because
I got back in with that it.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I know a lot of folks that do the last
minute Oh yeah, well I decided to go here.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's like, what are we doing? You want to hear
a story about that? Plenty of time, man. We were
planning a trip my wife and my sister in law
and me summer of twenty twenty for a trip to Europe,
and like literally mid January, my wife was like, you're
gonna need a passport in like eight weeks, and so
I paid for the whole express this that it was
(06:02):
like an extra three hundred bucks or something. And of
course a week later there was, you know, a global
shut down, and you know, we don't need to go
back to you know, February and March of twenty twenty,
twenty twenty. I'm just here to say that spent a
lot of money to get my passport ready to go
for a trip that obviously.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Well, but then you were ready once everything opened back
up and you could go make that trip. And hopefully
you've used it a few times.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Just for Guatemala, we have not been. I want to
get back. I've been to Europe once when I was
much younger, and I'm hoping to get back soon.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Past summer. I got to go to Ireland to go
see Taylor Swift. Yeah, you that was fun. How long
were you there for?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
We were?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
We did about a week between Ireland and England.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Did you have a good time. I've only been to Ireland,
I've never been to England.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
England's like London is basically New York City.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Everyone since London's great.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, a lot of theater at a lot of stuff
to see. Food still rates lowest done my international travels,
but can always find something.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
The only thing I remember about Ireland, which I don't
think you probably did with your children, was the Guinness Brewery. Obviously.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Well that was good. That was a good one. I
went there years ago. Yeah, yeah, I did that. And
I went to the why is my brain My brain
isn't the synapses are not firing. The people that make
the trophies for the AFC and NFC that crystal, Well,
we went and did a tour of that. So you
had me holding the base of the AFC really quick.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I know we have a lot of sports to get to,
but we also have four hours. You said London was
at the bottom of your international food ranking. Yeah, so
what is it the top? I have to know. I'm
not able to make it through another segment with them.
The milkshake at raat Field, how dare you? It is
a pilgrimage to go back to the South side of
the way. There's no question about it.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
No, this ice cream milkshake that they're giving away if
you come to the White Sox game.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Not giving it to you.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I mean last year they had the campfires to come
out to the game. Well that was the big thing.
Last year they kept run out of the milkshake because
nobody wanted to watch.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Shirts brings everybody to the yard. So there's no question.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And this year there's more like a birthday cake confection
kind of thing that has people fired up because it's
been all food talk so last two weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So what is number one? On number one?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
We actually found a cool little pub in Dublin outside.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
It But so you said London was number was the bottom,
but Dublin is.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
The top, not just from this trip you said, no, no, no, look,
the top would be when we went to Scandinavia. Ooh,
we're gonna talk about this, so hanging out and that's
a bucket list from Copenhagen and then uh wow, this
is Oslo and then a little bit of Stockholme Marmon
with bared chest.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Have you really you've been there?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Well, no, I haven't gone bare chest, and yet I'm
still working on the PhD weight loss. I got another
fifteen pounds to go. And then maybe you know it's
it's we're going streaking in the quast harm beer fast there.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Have you really been to scandon Navia multi.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Couple of times? It's glorious. Do you have like a
Y's wife was Swedish? Oh okay o cook and her
family had come over so we always had a place
to stay for front.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's like a bucket list that part of the world.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Like you said, Norway, you know what, you know what
the little dirty secret in it is, though we get
to it could be lazy because English is compulsory there
as of third grade. What do you mean, so everybody
figuring it? Yeah, unless they just decide they don't like you. Sure,
you might meet some old timers, but then once they
find out you're from Chicago or LA you must know
(09:29):
either celebrities or gangsters. Oh yeah yeah, And so now
they're buying you beer to tell you to tell some stories.
When you could pick the most obscure movie and start
going down the facts of that.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
When I was in Europe, it was like the height
of the show Entourage, and everyone was convinced that every
American just sat by the pool all day and just
completely hung out. And I'm like, no that, No, I
actually have like a job and I show up every
day for like eight hours, and they pay me to
do that because I don't just hang out and sit
at the pool with pretty girls like I actually have
stuff to do. Well, you would like to be Turtle.
(10:00):
So that's an open audition right now.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Dad, Aaron underscore towards former Fox Sports radio host Jerry
Ferrara Sunday Afternoons.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
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All of that to say, you know, we started with
(10:31):
the the Lakers, and well their long arduous journey might
as well be a global expedition to try to get
towards the NBA Finals. But you know, not often do we.
We were just complaining for days having no buzzer beaters.
So how about they didn't see them?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
There is down court Gluco for two for the wind
James the buzzer, he didn't see him. Where's your buzzer beater?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Now?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
All right? There you go.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
ESPN on the call. And that was the curiosity, right
the parting of the red sea. Nobody recognizing where Lebron
James was after him could put that ball up basketball
one on one box out the best player on.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The floor, that's also the best athlete.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Generally a pretty good idea, right, you lose space spatial recognition.
But he he finishes with thirteen boards on the night,
thirteen points, seven assists in a plus five after only
shot four to twelve from the field. After all the podcasts,
you know, always wondering whether he was a retired after
his new podcast was announced, and then hanging out with
(11:44):
mcafeel all day doncic for his part thirty four, seven
and seven with a big, robust minus sixteen. So this
is where we start getting into the minutia of fun
watching down the stretch of pretending to play defense effecting defense.
Because right the other night, I'm sure you guys had
a little bit of it a Saturday and last week
(12:06):
you you and Jason talking a little bit on your
Saturday show about Bronnie James and his big, oh big
performance right against against Milwaukee. I mean, he had his
seventeen points but was a minus forever in a day.
What was it thirty six or something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
All I know is I think the title of the
segment was Bronnie James just had the best game of
his career and it means absolutely nothing. There you going if.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You missed, and then he doubled up and I mean
he came up with a huge G League.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Well, you know what was funny because we were on
air during the Lakers Bulls game and I said, you
know how I know that game means much of a game?
You know how I know that game means nothing Because
if Bronnie was some rising star that this seventeen point
performance meant something, you feel like you would to put
him in for a minute or two before the game
(12:58):
got completely out of hand. If you have a young
rookie that is on the cusp of greatness, I don't
know that you wait down till you're down thirty to
put him in. But what do I know. I'm not
JJ Reddick. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Well, none of us are. And by the way, he
hates Jason Smith too.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You know he hates me too.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Oh does okay? Yeah, he gave him a good Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
What did you do? What did you do to him?
I've told this story so many times for I bore
everyone with all of the details. He misinterpreted a tweet
that I said about college basketball. This was when he
was in the media. He tweeted, tell me you don't
know college back, tell me you don't know basketball. Without
telling me you don't know basketball. Oh No. Then on
(13:40):
his podcast with Kevin Durant, he said, yes, some college
guy was trying to talk to me. First of all,
he tweeted it me, and so basically the premise was
I basically said that NBA players were not allowed by
rule to play college to play defense like college players were.
He perceived that as, oh, so you're one of these
guys that the NBA players don't play defense. So anyway,
(14:03):
so I said something to the effect of, if NBA
players were allowed to play defense like college players, we
would have plenty of games and NBA teams would be
scoring in the seventies or eighties. And that was when
he said, tell me you don't know basketball. If you
don't know basketball, and so that I then proceeded to
every single time a team scored in the eighties, just
(14:23):
tag them and say, I thought you said this was impossible,
including a game that he called on ESPN. I said, JJ,
I know you were courts. I don't know if you
picked up on this, but I think it was the
MAVs Sun series when the MAVs knocked out the Suns
a few years ago. And so I kept doing it,
and then all my followers kind of picked up to it.
So every time a team would score in the seventies
(14:43):
or eighties, they would tag him on it. So eventually
he just blocked me. It's a better story than that,
But I tried to paraphrase it into ninety seconds so
I don't bore the audience.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
But it still comes back to nobody loves themselves some,
JJ Reddick no more than JJ le and maybe we
should all love ourselves the people around us as much
as JJ Reddick loves him some. JJ Redick, All right,
as we just get things started, there's an exciting open
to it world travel. JJ Reddick hates more people that
(15:11):
I know. It's going to be a giant board before
the night's over. It's really great. And then we've got
obviously Major League Baseball starting tomorrow, more in the NBA,
but a lot in the NCAA tournament. Because we are
everybody who was complaining about Cinderella over the last several days,
I say, it's okay that she didn't show up for work.
(15:32):
We'll talk about that as we continue. He's Aaron, I'm Mike.
We're just getting started the Jason Smith Show with me
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Speaker 1 (16:49):
Talk Off the Lakers Poti good seven seconds left.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
The cops got it with full cuick three, Look up count.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I think the lights were on. Open your eyes too.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, the lights weren't on for that announcer.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Fortunately, fortunately for the Lakers. He needs to go to
what laser Laser Eyes Center, NS Crafters or whoever else.
They're not sponsors, but whatever, go get those eyes check
Lakers TV.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
On the call of that is that part of the job.
You gotta be able to see, okay, to call games.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Well, but you know, split second thing. You know, maybe
you're trying to like if he was doing a better sell. Oh,
I don't know what's gonna count. Oh we gotta out
like here's like a SA good account.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Have you ever done play by play before? I have not,
so I haven't either. But I think that's like one
of the cardinal rules is that you never assume anything.
You always like lay out as if it could be
about like, like you said, does it count? Is it good?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Not?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Well? That though though the light's clearly off, you know,
it's like, I don't think they're supposed to do that.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
But well, and then you have the I mean from
the analyst job, but what are you doing? I mean
you have to do that for football. It's like I'm
assuming there's a fumble on the play. I don't here
it was. Did the light go on? Sometimes we're all
waiting for the light to go back on. I could
start singing the Billy Joel song that was released last
year if you want, but we'll leave it for now
(18:18):
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(18:39):
we'll be on JJ Reddick's hit list if things go
arrive for the season, no question about it. But one
of the things that we talked about a lot, and
for me, it hasn't been a detriment. It's it's a positive.
Now the ratings might back me up. Now it's a
new ratings metrics system. We talked about that a little bit,
(18:59):
Jason and with our resident television ratings guru Steve Desager
in the chair yesterday. But all of that to say,
men's basketball tournament this time around, healthy, We're not getting
the buzzer beaters, lamentation. Cinderella did not show up in
some thirteen seed or fifteen seed that rises up. Justin
(19:22):
is still fixated on the Maryland. Was it a travel
was it not? Is it a blue dress or a
black dress? I mean, all of those things beauty in
the eye of the beholder. I'll let basketball Twitter sort
it out. As a guy who picked Maryland to keep
dancing for a while, I was okay with the no call.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It's really funny. I'm hosting a survivor pool and I
had Maryland in that game, and I was so excited.
But then today I went to set, you know, I
set my picks for me, for my wife, whatever, and
I went and looked, and I would say probably a
third of the pool had Maryland, and I was like,
I just told my wife before I left. I was like,
you know, it actually would have been best if I
had just lost that and Maryland had lost, because a
(20:02):
third of the pool would have been out, so it
is what it is. Succeed and proceed.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
But yeah, there was your one spot, and which is
why we celebrated the Lebron buzzer beater, because again we're
not seeing a big run of those and people like
them in the moment because it's the Hey, get to
your TV, get to your phone, get your your digital
device for the final four minutes because the game is close, right,
set up your alerts and away we go. That's how
we're consuming a lot of this. But I do believe
(20:29):
that we've got a proliferation with legalized wagering in a
lot of states. The people that are betting the five
to ten dollars not the professionals. Professionals, it's the Ronco
set it and forget it. I've made my bets. I'm
gonna go live my life and I'll check my account
later whether I want or not, and whether the math
was math and by how I analyzed the game before it.
We'll talk to Todd Furman later on in the show
(20:51):
from Vegas to Behind the the Bet the Board podcast
to get into that a little bit later on. But
with Cinderella not making you know what is always a
rare appearance right in terms of making a real run,
it's one thing to get a win on the first
Thursday on the first.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Roundays for the for the for the the upset.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, it wasn't even hanging out in the rafters like
sting back in the day for w c W.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
We didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
We didn't even get any threat uh that she was
showing up. But for me, it's the okay, that's that's
fine for bracketology and the oh I get to go
to the watercoorn and say why I picked that one?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Right?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
So I got that one point, which is great, But
on the whole it's the we're gonna get better basketball.
The rules of engagement have changed. So while Cinderella is
not dead, it's like chivalry, like I always say, like
if you open a car door for someone that or
hold a door for someone, they're shocked and a pulled
like wait what huh? Like just absolute exasperate and like no, no, no,
(21:51):
it may be on life support.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But it's not dead.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
And I think right here, we're we don't have to
kill Cinderella off because there's still gonna be a school there.
Major will We'll get into some comments about mid majors
or lower tier schools in the bigger conferences, because do
they still count the same just because they come from
the Power Conference? Should they be counted the same as
the top end of that bracket? You know, if it
(22:15):
also ran suddenly sneaks in based on a fun little
run in the conference tournament, that they get treated the
same as the team that finished first in the Power Conference. Yeah,
they all, I guess count the same because you know,
we do the math of where they come from. But
my point just being someone will figure out, you know,
the the leftover kids to cobble a team together that
(22:39):
competes and can win one game.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, I mean, listen, Drake did it this year. I
mean they were a bunch of d two kids. The
only thing I will say, and I think, first of
all I agree with you, Mike, is that everybody wants
to complain about the Cinderellas. But one I don't think
there's anything we can do. I think the reality is
the reason there's no good mid major teams. All the
good mid major players are playing at high major schools.
(23:03):
Walter Clayton, maybe the best player in this tournament, started
his career at Iona jan I brewm maybe national Player
of the Year started his career at Morehead State. Mark
Sears started his career in the MAC now the Star
at Alabama. So one, that's why it's not happening. But two,
to your point, just because it didn't happen this year
doesn't mean that it's never gonna happen again. But what
(23:24):
I would also say, and I'm curious for your perspective
on this, I think what we have to start to
accept as a college basketball audience, whether you're somebody who
loves the sport like me or you just tune in
for three weeks, I think you have to accept that realistically,
with the best players at the mid major level transferring up,
we are probably going to see less significant upsets early
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in the tournament. But I think that also sets up
much better games later in the tournament. And I know
this is always a talking point, but I think it's true.
Would you rather see Duke Arizona this week or Duke whoever?
I don't remember who Arizona played in the first round.
You know Arizona Oregon played Liberty, Right, what if Liberty
beats Oregon in Arizona? Would you rather see Duke Liberty
(24:09):
or would you rather see Duke Arizona, and Arizona has
three or four NBA players, And so I think we're
gonna have to start to accept that we're probably gonna
have to sacrifice some early round upsets for just better
games overall. If they start tomorrow, I know you're gonna
be on with Dan Bayer, but Duke Arizona Tennessee, Kentucky
on Friday, Perdue Houston. I mean, these are great games,
(24:30):
big brands, coaches, you know, maybe players you know in
some cases, and I think overall it's a net positive
to have fewer upsets earlier in the tournament.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Well, and that's the thing, right the old you pay
for it somewhere in the quality. Now, Duke Duke looks
like they may dispatch of everybody pretty handily. Perhaps we'll see,
we'll see, right, I mean, every game to game bad shooting.
Florida is really a really good squad. And look there's
still some heavyweights still in her Texas Tech has had
(24:57):
a fantastic season. You just go on down the line.
You mentioned Alabama, But all that to say, yeah, you
might get a couple in that first round, but we
get better basketball later. It's the way this plays out,
and with the money flowing, because that's the other part,
Like that Genie's not going back in the bullpe, So
anybody's like suddenly the NCAA, with what little power they
(25:21):
have the last vestiges holding on, they can't. They're not
putting that back in. Like if nothing else, you come
to an agreement on how frequently people can transfer, maybe
you change what the portal dates are, which has been
a big complaint this week by a lot of coaches,
Like if the kid was gonna leave, you knew it.
But if you're a coach and you were gonna leave,
you knew it. Right, It's trying to keep that cat
(25:44):
in the bag. There's too much information flow.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So, right, is I've heard so many why is no
portal open during the tournament? It's like, first of all,
there's only sixteen teams left, osay, so ninety five plus
percent of the sport is not playing, and all these
kids know what they're gonna leave and know where they
want to go, So why are we pushing it off?
The analogy that I use, the whole NBA draft process
goes on during the NBA playoffs, So if you make
(26:10):
the NBA Finals, you're at a disadvantage come draft night.
But guess what, you made the NBA finals. You won
an NBA title. And it's the same thing. If you're
in the final four, by definition, you're pretty good, and
by definition, you are going to be attractive to other
to players that are not in your program. So everybody
just calmed down about the portal being open. It's not
that big of a deal. And the thing I realized, Mike,
(26:32):
no matter what happens, somebody's gonna complain about something. Did
you see this story today by Ross Dellinger. So we're
gonna go to rev sharing next year where the schools
can pay the players. And apparently now SEC coaches are
complaining that the Big East, which does not have football,
they're gonna be able to share a bigger percentage of
(26:52):
their revenue with foot with their basketball players because they
have no football. And so these SEC coaches are like,
it's not fair that they get to spend and it's like,
you're freaking Tennessee. And I'm just using It wasn't Rick Barnes,
but I'm just saying hypothetically, you're Tennessee, you're Alabama, you're Georgia.
If you want a player, you're gonna be able to
get it. But the only point that I'm trying to
make is, no matter what rule you change, people will complain.
(27:15):
If they move the portal back till after the season,
players are still gonna announce, players are still gonna enter.
They'll probably commit before they're even allowed to be in
the portal. There's no perfect system for any of this.
People like to complain. Well, but that's it.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Like change is always hard in any way, shape and
form in your life, right, trying to do anything as
you go through. Right now, we know Smith and I
are doing our work here with PhD weight loss, right,
and it's early on, early on, a little a little difficult, right,
you know, cause you a schedule and whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Work sound weird, but you look great. I appreciate it.
Just Jay Smith look great too?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Or he lost two hat sizes in this way. Yeah,
So like he's been leaving hats around And it's not
like when he was trying to pick up girls when
he was a Teamerlogey you would say, you know, talk
about hats, Well, his grandpa would take them all and
then date the girls. Wow, that escalated quickly somewhere. It
could very well be he never got messages from his
(28:11):
grandpa about people calling his house, wow, long long harboring ill.
But but the idea is, like those first couple of days, right,
we're working weird schedules, getting off late. What's what woulds
the trap we fall into eating late or drinking a
soda or something to keep your yourself moving. That's one
aspect of change. We talk about sports. The good old
(28:33):
days weren't always good. I agree the guys that we're
paying players, that's always been there like that, just now
it's just somewhat out in the open because I still
think there's, you know, some other caverns that need to
be explored in this process. But to the revenue share, like,
as long as we're talking percentages like that's that's if
everybody's got to play by the percentages, all the sec
(28:54):
guys need to shut off.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Well, I mean the argument is is there they're going to.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Get more, right, they're gonna have a higher dollar amount
from well, there's suppose everyone's supposed to have a cap
on what they can spend. But as you know, there's
gonna be lost. Nothing's gonna change because as you said,
the NCAA is on its deathbed. There are no rules,
and every time they try to enforce a rule, somebody
sues them in court and they just say screw it.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Whatever. So but it's the only point is everybody likes
to complain, whether it's about the portal, whether it's about
I mean, the Cinderella stuff. I think is an interesting conversation.
I am just on your side personally about it's better basketball.
The ratings reflect that people want to watch. I know
you said like that the ratings can be skewed a
little bit, but I think it's a net positive. But
I also think some of these other things people just
(29:37):
like to generally complain about one.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Hundred percent always find and any bit of change is
gonna make people uncomfortable. And I was trying to explain
this to my daughters a little bit earlier today we're
talking about some other stuff. When you get into the
now teenagers, you know, they what do you think of this?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
What do you think of that? Very large global.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Kind of things, And it's like, just always remember people
that have power, people that have influence and have money
will be damned if you're just gonna come and take
it away. So anything they can do to hold on
to the last vestiges of that they will, which makes
everything a little awkward and clunky, which is why you
had a number of coaches that decided to leave, and
then guys who were kind of doing this model all along.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
That's why Hey, here we are.
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Buffalo's the one that's right.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
That's a good look at Hatten Ye thank you, little
little little hefty but I'm powering through. It's so we're
the lost angeg muscles. It's it's Mark McGuire like neck muscles.
After I'm done with this hat dramatic finish.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Tonight in the NBA in Indiana.
Speaker 6 (31:24):
The Pacers led the Lakers one nineteen to one eighteen
in the dying seconds.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Seven seconds left, quick loc.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
I think the lights waring.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I'm hoping it'll count.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
But it did count Lakers within one. Twenty one nineteen
on Spectrum Sports Net. James finished with thirteen points, thirteen rebound,
seven assists. Luka Dancits thirty four points, seven rebound, seven assists.
Austin Reeves scored twenty four. Right now, Denver holding on
to a ninety three to eighty nine lead over Milwaukee
one twenty four left in the third quarter. Bucks playing
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with that Giannis on Ted Kumpo because of a sprain
left foot. Luka Dacich excuse me, Nikola Jokic twenty nine points,
six rebounds and six assists. Michael Porter Junior with twenty
points and nine rebounds for Denver. Also right now, the
Boston Celtics playing without Jason Tatum because of a sprain
left ankle, but they have a forty two to thirty
six lead at Phoenix, and the dying moments of the
(32:31):
first quarter there the Sea is shooting sixty four percent
from the field at the outset of the game. Guys,
back to you, thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Iilo at Isaac Lohenkron where you can find him. On
March eighteenth, nineteen ninety five, seventeen months after retiring to
play baseball, Michael Jordan announced that he was back, effective immediately. Today.
We got the greatest retirement announcement of all time. We'll
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tell you who it is and what it's all about
and figure out what the statute of limitations are on
those kinds of things. He's erin Torres in for Jason
Smith on Mike Carmon. Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
continues on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
That man put his hands on me, I would have
immediately swung on them immediately.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 4 (33:22):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with Me Mike Carmon. No Jason Tonight or the rest
of the week. He's off Gallivantink, probably celebrating the entire
Mets New Food Fair, or maybe he's auditioning to be
one of.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
The vacation with Saint John's. Let's be honest.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Oh wow, he's gone fishing with Cacoon. Okay, that is
no question about it. Erin Torres the voice you hear
in for Jason Smith tonight. Appreciate you all giving us
a few minutes of your time. Hey, speed up your
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early fourth six point lead for Denver. Obviously Milwaukee going
through it. Giannis's injury and then the Dame Lillard blood cloths,
so keeping an eye and you know what the medical
(34:20):
updates there, and then we've got the Celtics and Sons
getting after it in this one as well, So keeping
an eye there. But a story that popped up on
the radar as the afternoon warhn Aaron, which made me laugh.
We teased it ahead with the Michael Jordan anniversary which
we commemorated on the eighteenth of the I'm back, okay,
(34:40):
cool effective immediately, I've done with this baseball experiment. I've
done with the SI covers mocking me, and I'm going
back to basketball and I'm gonna do my thing comes back.
Where's number forty five? We have all of that, and
eventually we get another three championships from Jordan and the Bulls.
What do you mean we basketball loving society? I mean,
(35:03):
I'm not that guy. Just because I'm sitting in the
chair Jason usually occupies, doesn't mean I went full we
as if I were a member of the team.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Just because you watched a winner every once in a while,
it's been a minute, though, I know it's been a minute, buddy.
For same for Jason Smith. If it makes you feel anybout.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
It in nineteen seventy three, for him, how's he.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Feeling about the justin fields there? Is he fired up?
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Or he's selling it like they're gonna go and run away? Kidding?
That's the greatest thing that ever. Unfortunately we do collide
in a way in that I think Arthur Smith holds
everybody back. Sure, So for me him getting away from him,
it's like, hey man, who knows what you can unleash,
get away from the ineffectiveness and an aptitude of the
(35:46):
Bears coaching staff for those years. And now Arthur Smith's true,
maybe he really could be that guy. Mean, look, Sam
Darnold took him a lot of years before he found
someone to bring out his greatness. But it's still the Jets.
But all that to say, we round out and Jason
has not announced his retirement, if you think that's what
I'm getting to. But Jim nance did. He said he's
going to retire from calling the Masters.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Dan Patrick on our network has announced that, look after
the Super Bowl in Atlanta in a couple of years,
he's done right, tapping out doesn't say he will stop
doing vocal tracks and doing sports at every level, but
not doing the five day a week show.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
He's been very upfront about this in his conversations. I
was talking with Ernie Johnson a little bit about it today, saying, hey,
maybe we got together, you know kind of thing because
they'll be back in Atlanta. But Jim Nantz announced he's retiring,
not in three years now. He's got not a five
year plan, aaron.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
One year plan. Has he done after this Masters.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Now he's gonna quit in twenty thirty six.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Oh okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
And here's his logic one it would be the perfect
place to walk out. Well, of course, you know, a
tradition unlike any other. Do I owe him seven dollars?
I don't know, but it would be his fifty first
time calling the tournament under that for a second, that's great,
that is great, And the one hundredth anniversary of the Masters.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I mean, the fifty one is crazy, but not and
no more significant than fifty, I will say.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
When I saw him, and I mean, you got the percentage,
the percentages.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
I guess, so he'd be covering more than half of
the Masters for two years and then he wouldn't be anymore.
So when I saw this headline, I was like, well,
that's just preposterous. But I will also say I do
think I do get the idea of it will be
the one hundredth Masters, he will have been at more
than half of them. I get it. I'll also say this,
(37:42):
if you enjoy doing what you're doing, and you're still
doing it at a high level, why put an artificial
cap on it? Like you know, somebody else stepped away
from something, and I'm blanking on who was the most
recent person to retire. But it's like, if you're still
good at it, and we'll see Jim Nantz is sixty
five right now, We'll see if he's still at the
top of his game at seventy six. I don't know,
(38:05):
just I get it sort of.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
It's calling golf though, do you really have to be
at the top here here?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
I mean in theory, right, the worst you are you
put people to sleep.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
That's I mean, there's a lot of but there's a
lot of empty spaces that you're not filling. That's true, right,
Let the action there a lot of silence.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
No, just sure, I want to talk. You're not getting
paid by word there? Yeah, Vernon Lungquist, I think that's
the only thing. I think he just retired for that.
But it was the one hole. Yeah, it was the
only thing he did all year long. Quit quit quit
college football quick NCAA tournament was like, I'll call the masters, but.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
That's it, right, I'm a big believer in let him
tear the jersey off you.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Whatever you're doing, right, take the microphone from my cold
dead hand here in the that's Hierach dot Com fought
sports radio studios. But for all players, when people, ah,
that guy should hang it up, right, because we're having
that conversation. Russell Wilson's still out there now that he
he's a Giant's like, oh, you should have quit.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
It's like, why I agree?
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Someone pay him twenty million dollars yep to come in
and have a back and forth preaching. Justin and I
were joking about it yesterday, the Righteous Gemstones meme for
Jamis and Russell Wilson in a locker rooms.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
That sums it up.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
He's got half the guys he's preaching two over here,
he's got half over there, and you're trying to figure
out what the hell either of them actually mean. So
you've got that process. But like when when Brady was
in his final throws, like I kept hoping he would
come back Lebron, Well he won't be the same. Players
like fine, adapt and move into a new role.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Sure, I mean if they want to play, yeah, I
just I just think people underestimate how boring retirement is. Now.
Jim lant Natz clearly likes to golf, so maybe he
will be the one guy that's happy golfing every day.
But like, if you're good, I don't know, if you're
good at your job and you enjoy doing it. Now
you know, if you don't enjoy doing your job, if
you're Nick Saban and it's no longer fun to deal
(40:00):
with the nil era, that's a different conversation. But I
get it. I also think it's interesting it was broken
by the magazine Bunkard, which I had not heard of
until this. You feel like this would be like a
big announcement that would come, you know from Jim Nantz self.
Is the own part of that? He might probably not though.
Is there a tournament right now? He said, it's the
(40:21):
Scottish golf magazine bunkerd.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Okay from Glasgow, Scotland.
Speaker 5 (40:26):
But I'm eleven year run, guys, an eleven year retirement run.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
But I mean, think of.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
All the gifts eleven times. I also even Kareem didn't
do that, doesn't any rocking chairs he's gonna get it?
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Doesn't it make it less fun because then you're like, oh,
I'm down to eight, I'll be down to five by
the You know, you get a lot of gifts, But
I just feel like, just when you're ready, just give
it a year's somebody? Oh it was uh Gary Danielson
today said one, yeah, yeah, I'm taking twenty twenty five
and then I'm out. And it's like, that's fine. I
just think eleven years, it's just gonna be miserable. Every
(40:59):
year you go to the oh, one less year, one
less year, one less year. But what do I know.
I've never done anything for fifty one years straight.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Ah, it's a beautiful night.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Welcome in Wednesday, the calm before the storm, Sweet sixteen,
all the fun that you could possibly imagine. Why cause
the heavyweights are coming to town. Mike Carbon alongside Aaron Torres,
special guest star to my Radio Right Radio. Well you're
left of me, but TV right, whatever the case is.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Welcome in body. It's good to see you. It is
my absolute pleasure to be here Wednesday night. But I'll
tell you this, Lakers are on. Got a little nit.
Like you said, that feels like the calm before the storm.
I don't know about you, but you know you watch
four straight days of college back. I needed a break.
It was funny like Monday. People were like, oh, who
(01:10):
do you like in the Duke Arizona game. I'm like,
can you give me ten minutes to just decompress?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Sound like tom Izzo trying to get back. I don't
need to know what I'm playing next week exactly, want
to go.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
To the locker room exactly. So it's like, did you
see the mc cronan. They asked him about his plans
for the offseason. He's like, I just want to get
on this crappy allegianate flight and get back to Los Angeles,
thank you very much. Not of anger.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
McK cronan, so angry, such an angry man. So that
just difficult process here. But we got a one point game,
Pacers Lakers coming down fifteen second shot clocked down to
three and the shot is no good. So now the
Lakers with the ball one last gasp would be a
fourth loss in row. Lebron did extend that streak of
(01:55):
double digit scoring games. Is it gonna count? We're gonna
get a review. Lebron with a tip in live action.
I think it's good, but I like chaos, so let's uh,
let's pause, let's pause the great celebration. Uh, Luca with
a runner in the lane that comes off. Lebron comes
(02:17):
in unchecked. Uh for the tip in and it looks
like the Lakers are gonna leave Indiana with a w
We're watching a replay now, Aaron, sure does he get it?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
We need another angle? We need Oh, this is this
is one.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
They might as well go order out for dinner now
while they review this.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
My goodness, off of his finger. It's good.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
See we got the second angle. Looks like it's gonna
be good.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It looks like it's.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Gonna be a game winner.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
And all of the the Lakers are sinking, dying. I
was gonna say, floating, floating gearge the bottom might actually
end here?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Does this mean that they're back to being the best
team in the history of the NBA? Like some more
arguing a week into the Luca Lebron uh dynasty here.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Well, that is generally one of the things I really
wait for Frostburg to acknowledge.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yes, yeah, there you go back to what they're back
the playing or beyond the plane or what we're back
to greatness. Okay, I told Mike it's hard for me
to get the last coach that you just fired made
the Western Conference finals in year one. Coach before that
won an NBA title. I need to, you know, like,
I'm glad you had a good two weeks, but let's
let's pump the brakes on. Uh So you're not buying
(03:31):
the Lakers at all with Luca, I'm saying we need
a little time asking buying them. No, no, no, I'm not
buying them to do anything other than wait, championship this year.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
They will, but I'm going to do this on the
one the one time I'm going to steal from our buddy,
the stinking genius. Oh no, the show is today. The
show is today, So we're going to talk about the Lakers.
It's the in the now. We're not looking ahead towards
the likely in like a likelihood of an injury as
we've seen before so many But.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I will say this though, I think when you're relying
on a forty year old to get through two months
with and by the way, he just took a couple
of weeks off though, yeah because grind, Yeah, okay, he
was hurt well, but it was a growing injury. But
here's the thing, though, right is that isn't that a metaphor?
Is that they already need everything. They don't have a defense,
they're not very good defensively, they don't have a true five,
(04:22):
and so they basically need everything to go perfect for
four straight rounds with a forty year old pretty much
playing thirty eight thirty nine minutes a game. And so
you asked me the show is tonight, I will tell
you the Lakers are not winning the championship. Sorry to Ruin.
Justin Frosburg's May and June. You can take time off
in late maybe try not.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I look forward to sending you that tax when they do.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And even if they do, he'll be so ensconced in
Dodger Blue it won't matter.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I know.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
It turns out they might not have lost a game
by that point, so well, so we might be on
the road to one sixty two, you know. Yeah no,
and then the Chargers, I mean, look good reboot and
getting ready. I mean he gets to start as you're
in Brazil. Whoa, well not start, but he will be
in Brazil. So I mean, like there's all this stuff.
I'm we got Opening Day truly tomorrow in Major League Baseball.
(05:10):
I mean there's just a lot.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Did you get get a passport stamp by the way yet, Mike,
I don't have that one yet. Aaron, what about you've
been to Brazil.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I've never been to Brazil, but I've been.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
I was, Uh, passport's ready, I know.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It, Yeah, I was ready. I my mine's renewed.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I've got eight years and a lot of space.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
My wife is from Guatemala. We went to Guatemala last
summer and it was an amazing trip, but had to
get a new passport, got it stamped, got back into
the country, so I know it's up to date because
I got back in with that it.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I know a lot of folks that do the last
minute Oh yeah, well I decided to go here.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's like, what are we doing? You want to hear
a story about that? Plenty of time, man. We were
planning a trip my wife and my sister in law
and me summer of twenty twenty for a trip to Europe,
and like literally mid January, my wife was like, you're
gonna need a passport in like eight weeks, and so
I paid for the whole express this that it was
(06:02):
like an extra three hundred bucks or something. And of
course a week later there was, you know, a global
shut down, and you know, we don't need to go
back to you know, February and March of twenty twenty,
twenty twenty. I'm just here to say that spent a
lot of money to get my passport ready to go
for a trip that obviously.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Well, but then you were ready once everything opened back
up and you could go make that trip. And hopefully
you've used it a few times.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Just for Guatemala, we have not been. I want to
get back. I've been to Europe once when I was
much younger, and I'm hoping to get back soon.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Past summer. I got to go to Ireland to go
see Taylor Swift. Yeah, you that was fun. How long
were you there for?
Speaker 5 (06:38):
We were?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
We did about a week between Ireland and England.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Did you have a good time. I've only been to Ireland,
I've never been to England.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
England's like London is basically New York City.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Everyone since London's great.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, a lot of theater at a lot of stuff
to see. Food still rates lowest done my international travels,
but can always find something.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
The only thing I remember about Ireland, which I don't
think you probably did with your children, was the Guinness Brewery. Obviously.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Well that was good. That was a good one. I
went there years ago. Yeah, yeah, I did that. And
I went to the why is my brain My brain
isn't the synapses are not firing. The people that make
the trophies for the AFC and NFC that crystal, Well,
we went and did a tour of that. So you
had me holding the base of the AFC really quick.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I know we have a lot of sports to get to,
but we also have four hours. You said London was
at the bottom of your international food ranking. Yeah, so
what is it the top? I have to know. I'm
not able to make it through another segment with them.
The milkshake at raat Field, how dare you? It is
a pilgrimage to go back to the South side of
the way. There's no question about it.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
No, this ice cream milkshake that they're giving away if
you come to the White Sox game.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Not giving it to you.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
I mean last year they had the campfires to come
out to the game. Well that was the big thing.
Last year they kept run out of the milkshake because
nobody wanted to watch.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Shirts brings everybody to the yard. So there's no question.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And this year there's more like a birthday cake confection
kind of thing that has people fired up because it's
been all food talk so last two weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So what is number one? On number one?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
We actually found a cool little pub in Dublin outside.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
It But so you said London was number was the bottom,
but Dublin is.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
The top, not just from this trip you said, no, no, no, look,
the top would be when we went to Scandinavia. Ooh,
we're gonna talk about this, so hanging out and that's
a bucket list from Copenhagen and then uh wow, this
is Oslo and then a little bit of Stockholme Marmon
with bared chest.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Have you really you've been there?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Well, no, I haven't gone bare chest, and yet I'm
still working on the PhD weight loss. I got another
fifteen pounds to go. And then maybe you know it's
it's we're going streaking in the quast harm beer fast there.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Have you really been to scandon Navia multi.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Couple of times? It's glorious. Do you have like a
Y's wife was Swedish? Oh okay o cook and her
family had come over so we always had a place
to stay for front.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's like a bucket list that part of the world.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Like you said, Norway, you know what, you know what
the little dirty secret in it is, though we get
to it could be lazy because English is compulsory there
as of third grade. What do you mean, so everybody
figuring it? Yeah, unless they just decide they don't like you. Sure,
you might meet some old timers, but then once they
find out you're from Chicago or LA you must know
(09:29):
either celebrities or gangsters. Oh yeah yeah, And so now
they're buying you beer to tell you to tell some stories.
When you could pick the most obscure movie and start
going down the facts of that.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
When I was in Europe, it was like the height
of the show Entourage, and everyone was convinced that every
American just sat by the pool all day and just
completely hung out. And I'm like, no that, No, I
actually have like a job and I show up every
day for like eight hours, and they pay me to
do that because I don't just hang out and sit
at the pool with pretty girls like I actually have
stuff to do. Well, you would like to be Turtle.
(10:00):
So that's an open audition right now.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Dad, Aaron underscore towards former Fox Sports radio host Jerry
Ferrara Sunday Afternoons.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Absolutely, Oh my goodness, there you go.
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All of that to say, you know, we started with
(10:31):
the the Lakers, and well their long arduous journey might
as well be a global expedition to try to get
towards the NBA Finals. But you know, not often do we.
We were just complaining for days having no buzzer beaters.
So how about they didn't see them?
Speaker 3 (10:49):
There is down court Gluco for two for the wind
James the buzzer, he didn't see him. Where's your buzzer beater?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Now?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
All right? There you go.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
ESPN on the call. And that was the curiosity, right
the parting of the red sea. Nobody recognizing where Lebron
James was after him could put that ball up basketball
one on one box out the best player on.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The floor, that's also the best athlete.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Generally a pretty good idea, right, you lose space spatial recognition.
But he he finishes with thirteen boards on the night,
thirteen points, seven assists in a plus five after only
shot four to twelve from the field. After all the podcasts,
you know, always wondering whether he was a retired after
his new podcast was announced, and then hanging out with
(11:44):
mcafeel all day doncic for his part thirty four, seven
and seven with a big, robust minus sixteen. So this
is where we start getting into the minutia of fun
watching down the stretch of pretending to play defense effecting defense.
Because right the other night, I'm sure you guys had
a little bit of it a Saturday and last week
(12:06):
you you and Jason talking a little bit on your
Saturday show about Bronnie James and his big, oh big
performance right against against Milwaukee. I mean, he had his
seventeen points but was a minus forever in a day.
What was it thirty six or something like that.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
All I know is I think the title of the
segment was Bronnie James just had the best game of
his career and it means absolutely nothing. There you going if.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You missed, and then he doubled up and I mean
he came up with a huge G League.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Well, you know what was funny because we were on
air during the Lakers Bulls game and I said, you
know how I know that game means much of a game?
You know how I know that game means nothing Because
if Bronnie was some rising star that this seventeen point
performance meant something, you feel like you would to put
him in for a minute or two before the game
(12:58):
got completely out of hand. If you have a young
rookie that is on the cusp of greatness, I don't
know that you wait down till you're down thirty to
put him in. But what do I know. I'm not
JJ Reddick. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Well, none of us are. And by the way, he
hates Jason Smith too.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You know he hates me too.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Oh does okay? Yeah, he gave him a good Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
What did you do? What did you do to him?
I've told this story so many times for I bore
everyone with all of the details. He misinterpreted a tweet
that I said about college basketball. This was when he
was in the media. He tweeted, tell me you don't
know college back, tell me you don't know basketball. Without
telling me you don't know basketball. Oh No. Then on
(13:40):
his podcast with Kevin Durant, he said, yes, some college
guy was trying to talk to me. First of all,
he tweeted it me, and so basically the premise was
I basically said that NBA players were not allowed by
rule to play college to play defense like college players were.
He perceived that as, oh, so you're one of these
guys that the NBA players don't play defense. So anyway,
(14:03):
so I said something to the effect of, if NBA
players were allowed to play defense like college players, we
would have plenty of games and NBA teams would be
scoring in the seventies or eighties. And that was when
he said, tell me you don't know basketball. If you
don't know basketball, and so that I then proceeded to
every single time a team scored in the eighties, just
(14:23):
tag them and say, I thought you said this was impossible,
including a game that he called on ESPN. I said, JJ,
I know you were courts. I don't know if you
picked up on this, but I think it was the
MAVs Sun series when the MAVs knocked out the Suns
a few years ago. And so I kept doing it,
and then all my followers kind of picked up to it.
So every time a team would score in the seventies
(14:43):
or eighties, they would tag him on it. So eventually
he just blocked me. It's a better story than that,
But I tried to paraphrase it into ninety seconds so
I don't bore the audience.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
But it still comes back to nobody loves themselves some,
JJ Reddick no more than JJ le and maybe we
should all love ourselves the people around us as much
as JJ Reddick loves him some. JJ Redick, All right,
as we just get things started, there's an exciting open
to it world travel. JJ Reddick hates more people that
(15:11):
I know. It's going to be a giant board before
the night's over. It's really great. And then we've got
obviously Major League Baseball starting tomorrow, more in the NBA,
but a lot in the NCAA tournament. Because we are
everybody who was complaining about Cinderella over the last several days,
I say, it's okay that she didn't show up for work.
(15:32):
We'll talk about that as we continue. He's Aaron, I'm Mike.
We're just getting started the Jason Smith Show with me
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Speaker 1 (16:49):
Talk Off the Lakers Poti good seven seconds left.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
The cops got it with full cuick three, Look up count.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I think the lights were on. Open your eyes too.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, the lights weren't on for that announcer.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Fortunately, fortunately for the Lakers. He needs to go to
what laser Laser Eyes Center, NS Crafters or whoever else.
They're not sponsors, but whatever, go get those eyes check
Lakers TV.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
On the call of that is that part of the job.
You gotta be able to see, okay, to call games.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Well, but you know, split second thing. You know, maybe
you're trying to like if he was doing a better sell. Oh,
I don't know what's gonna count. Oh we gotta out
like here's like a SA good account.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Have you ever done play by play before? I have not,
so I haven't either. But I think that's like one
of the cardinal rules is that you never assume anything.
You always like lay out as if it could be
about like, like you said, does it count? Is it good?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Not?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Well? That though though the light's clearly off, you know,
it's like, I don't think they're supposed to do that.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
But well, and then you have the I mean from
the analyst job, but what are you doing? I mean
you have to do that for football. It's like I'm
assuming there's a fumble on the play. I don't here
it was. Did the light go on? Sometimes we're all
waiting for the light to go back on. I could
start singing the Billy Joel song that was released last
year if you want, but we'll leave it for now
(18:18):
at Aaron Underscore Tours where you find and you hear
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roll through Fighting with JJ Redicks. So very welcome addition
to the program this evening because we're racking up well,
(18:39):
we'll be on JJ Reddick's hit list if things go
arrive for the season, no question about it. But one
of the things that we talked about a lot, and
for me, it hasn't been a detriment. It's it's a positive.
Now the ratings might back me up. Now it's a
new ratings metrics system. We talked about that a little bit,
(18:59):
Jason and with our resident television ratings guru Steve Desager
in the chair yesterday. But all of that to say,
men's basketball tournament this time around, healthy, We're not getting
the buzzer beaters, lamentation. Cinderella did not show up in
some thirteen seed or fifteen seed that rises up. Justin
(19:22):
is still fixated on the Maryland. Was it a travel
was it not? Is it a blue dress or a
black dress? I mean, all of those things beauty in
the eye of the beholder. I'll let basketball Twitter sort
it out. As a guy who picked Maryland to keep
dancing for a while, I was okay with the no call.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
It's really funny. I'm hosting a survivor pool and I
had Maryland in that game, and I was so excited.
But then today I went to set, you know, I
set my picks for me, for my wife, whatever, and
I went and looked, and I would say probably a
third of the pool had Maryland, and I was like,
I just told my wife before I left. I was like,
you know, it actually would have been best if I
had just lost that and Maryland had lost, because a
(20:02):
third of the pool would have been out, so it
is what it is. Succeed and proceed.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
But yeah, there was your one spot, and which is
why we celebrated the Lebron buzzer beater, because again we're
not seeing a big run of those and people like
them in the moment because it's the Hey, get to
your TV, get to your phone, get your your digital
device for the final four minutes because the game is close, right,
set up your alerts and away we go. That's how
we're consuming a lot of this. But I do believe
(20:29):
that we've got a proliferation with legalized wagering in a
lot of states. The people that are betting the five
to ten dollars not the professionals. Professionals, it's the Ronco
set it and forget it. I've made my bets. I'm
gonna go live my life and I'll check my account
later whether I want or not, and whether the math
was math and by how I analyzed the game before it.
We'll talk to Todd Furman later on in the show
(20:51):
from Vegas to Behind the the Bet the Board podcast
to get into that a little bit later on. But
with Cinderella not making you know what is always a
rare appearance right in terms of making a real run,
it's one thing to get a win on the first
Thursday on the first.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Roundays for the for the for the the upset.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, it wasn't even hanging out in the rafters like
sting back in the day for w c W.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
We didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
We didn't even get any threat uh that she was
showing up. But for me, it's the okay, that's that's
fine for bracketology and the oh I get to go
to the watercoorn and say why I picked that one?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Right?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
So I got that one point, which is great, But
on the whole it's the we're gonna get better basketball.
The rules of engagement have changed. So while Cinderella is
not dead, it's like chivalry, like I always say, like
if you open a car door for someone that or
hold a door for someone, they're shocked and a pulled
like wait what huh? Like just absolute exasperate and like no, no, no,
(21:51):
it may be on life support.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But it's not dead.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
And I think right here, we're we don't have to
kill Cinderella off because there's still gonna be a school there.
Major will We'll get into some comments about mid majors
or lower tier schools in the bigger conferences, because do
they still count the same just because they come from
the Power Conference? Should they be counted the same as
the top end of that bracket? You know, if it
(22:15):
also ran suddenly sneaks in based on a fun little
run in the conference tournament, that they get treated the
same as the team that finished first in the Power Conference. Yeah,
they all, I guess count the same because you know,
we do the math of where they come from. But
my point just being someone will figure out, you know,
the the leftover kids to cobble a team together that
(22:39):
competes and can win one game.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, I mean, listen, Drake did it this year. I
mean they were a bunch of d two kids. The
only thing I will say, and I think, first of
all I agree with you, Mike, is that everybody wants
to complain about the Cinderellas. But one I don't think
there's anything we can do. I think the reality is
the reason there's no good mid major teams. All the
good mid major players are playing at high major schools.
(23:03):
Walter Clayton, maybe the best player in this tournament, started
his career at Iona jan I brewm maybe national Player
of the Year started his career at Morehead State. Mark
Sears started his career in the MAC now the Star
at Alabama. So one, that's why it's not happening. But two,
to your point, just because it didn't happen this year
doesn't mean that it's never gonna happen again. But what
(23:24):
I would also say, and I'm curious for your perspective
on this, I think what we have to start to
accept as a college basketball audience, whether you're somebody who
loves the sport like me or you just tune in
for three weeks, I think you have to accept that realistically,
with the best players at the mid major level transferring up,
we are probably going to see less significant upsets early
(23:47):
in the tournament. But I think that also sets up
much better games later in the tournament. And I know
this is always a talking point, but I think it's true.
Would you rather see Duke Arizona this week or Duke whoever?
I don't remember who Arizona played in the first round.
You know Arizona Oregon played Liberty, Right, what if Liberty
beats Oregon in Arizona? Would you rather see Duke Liberty
(24:09):
or would you rather see Duke Arizona, and Arizona has
three or four NBA players, And so I think we're
gonna have to start to accept that we're probably gonna
have to sacrifice some early round upsets for just better
games overall. If they start tomorrow, I know you're gonna
be on with Dan Bayer, but Duke Arizona Tennessee, Kentucky
on Friday, Perdue Houston. I mean, these are great games,
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big brands, coaches, you know, maybe players you know in
some cases, and I think overall it's a net positive
to have fewer upsets earlier in the tournament.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Well, and that's the thing, right the old you pay
for it somewhere in the quality. Now, Duke Duke looks
like they may dispatch of everybody pretty handily. Perhaps we'll see,
we'll see, right, I mean, every game to game bad shooting.
Florida is really a really good squad. And look there's
still some heavyweights still in her Texas Tech has had
(24:57):
a fantastic season. You just go on down the line.
You mentioned Alabama, But all that to say, yeah, you
might get a couple in that first round, but we
get better basketball later. It's the way this plays out,
and with the money flowing, because that's the other part,
Like that Genie's not going back in the bullpe, So
anybody's like suddenly the NCAA, with what little power they
(25:21):
have the last vestiges holding on, they can't. They're not
putting that back in. Like if nothing else, you come
to an agreement on how frequently people can transfer, maybe
you change what the portal dates are, which has been
a big complaint this week by a lot of coaches,
Like if the kid was gonna leave, you knew it.
But if you're a coach and you were gonna leave,
you knew it. Right, It's trying to keep that cat
(25:44):
in the bag. There's too much information flow.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
So, right, is I've heard so many why is no
portal open during the tournament? It's like, first of all,
there's only sixteen teams left, osay, so ninety five plus
percent of the sport is not playing, and all these
kids know what they're gonna leave and know where they
want to go, So why are we pushing it off?
The analogy that I use, the whole NBA draft process
goes on during the NBA playoffs, So if you make
(26:10):
the NBA Finals, you're at a disadvantage come draft night.
But guess what, you made the NBA finals. You won
an NBA title. And it's the same thing. If you're
in the final four, by definition, you're pretty good, and
by definition, you are going to be attractive to other
to players that are not in your program. So everybody
just calmed down about the portal being open. It's not
that big of a deal. And the thing I realized, Mike,
(26:32):
no matter what happens, somebody's gonna complain about something. Did
you see this story today by Ross Dellinger. So we're
gonna go to rev sharing next year where the schools
can pay the players. And apparently now SEC coaches are
complaining that the Big East, which does not have football,
they're gonna be able to share a bigger percentage of
(26:52):
their revenue with foot with their basketball players because they
have no football. And so these SEC coaches are like,
it's not fair that they get to spend and it's like,
you're freaking Tennessee. And I'm just using It wasn't Rick Barnes,
but I'm just saying hypothetically, you're Tennessee, you're Alabama, you're Georgia.
If you want a player, you're gonna be able to
get it. But the only point that I'm trying to
make is, no matter what rule you change, people will complain.
(27:15):
If they move the portal back till after the season,
players are still gonna announce, players are still gonna enter.
They'll probably commit before they're even allowed to be in
the portal. There's no perfect system for any of this.
People like to complain. Well, but that's it.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Like change is always hard in any way, shape and
form in your life, right, trying to do anything as
you go through. Right now, we know Smith and I
are doing our work here with PhD weight loss, right,
and it's early on, early on, a little a little difficult, right,
you know, cause you a schedule and whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Work sound weird, but you look great. I appreciate it.
Just Jay Smith look great too?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Or he lost two hat sizes in this way. Yeah,
So like he's been leaving hats around And it's not
like when he was trying to pick up girls when
he was a Teamerlogey you would say, you know, talk
about hats, Well, his grandpa would take them all and
then date the girls. Wow, that escalated quickly somewhere. It
could very well be he never got messages from his
(28:11):
grandpa about people calling his house, wow, long long harboring ill.
But but the idea is, like those first couple of days, right,
we're working weird schedules, getting off late. What's what woulds
the trap we fall into eating late or drinking a
soda or something to keep your yourself moving. That's one
aspect of change. We talk about sports. The good old
(28:33):
days weren't always good. I agree the guys that we're
paying players, that's always been there like that, just now
it's just somewhat out in the open because I still
think there's, you know, some other caverns that need to
be explored in this process. But to the revenue share, like,
as long as we're talking percentages like that's that's if
everybody's got to play by the percentages, all the sec
(28:54):
guys need to shut off.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Well, I mean the argument is is there they're going to.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Get more, right, they're gonna have a higher dollar amount
from well, there's suppose everyone's supposed to have a cap
on what they can spend. But as you know, there's
gonna be lost. Nothing's gonna change because as you said,
the NCAA is on its deathbed. There are no rules,
and every time they try to enforce a rule, somebody
sues them in court and they just say screw it.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Whatever. So but it's the only point is everybody likes
to complain, whether it's about the portal, whether it's about
I mean, the Cinderella stuff. I think is an interesting conversation.
I am just on your side personally about it's better basketball.
The ratings reflect that people want to watch. I know
you said like that the ratings can be skewed a
little bit, but I think it's a net positive. But
I also think some of these other things people just
(29:37):
like to generally complain about one.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Hundred percent always find and any bit of change is
gonna make people uncomfortable. And I was trying to explain
this to my daughters a little bit earlier today we're
talking about some other stuff. When you get into the
now teenagers, you know, they what do you think of this?
Speaker 3 (29:52):
What do you think of that? Very large global.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Kind of things, And it's like, just always remember people
that have power, people that have influence and have money
will be damned if you're just gonna come and take
it away. So anything they can do to hold on
to the last vestiges of that they will, which makes
everything a little awkward and clunky, which is why you
had a number of coaches that decided to leave, and
then guys who were kind of doing this model all along.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
That's why Hey, here we are.
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I am a.
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Proud member of what the International Order of Water.
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Buffalo's the one that's right.
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That's a good look at Hatten Ye thank you, little
little little hefty but I'm powering through. It's so we're
the lost angeg muscles. It's it's Mark McGuire like neck muscles.
After I'm done with this hat dramatic finish.
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Tonight in the NBA in Indiana.
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The Pacers led the Lakers one nineteen to one eighteen
in the dying seconds.
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Seven seconds left, quick loc.
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I think the lights waring.
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I'm hoping it'll count.
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But it did count Lakers within one. Twenty one nineteen
on Spectrum Sports Net. James finished with thirteen points, thirteen rebound,
seven assists. Luka Dancits thirty four points, seven rebound, seven assists.
Austin Reeves scored twenty four. Right now, Denver holding on
to a ninety three to eighty nine lead over Milwaukee
one twenty four left in the third quarter. Bucks playing
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with that Giannis on Ted Kumpo because of a sprain
left foot. Luka Dacich excuse me, Nikola Jokic twenty nine points,
six rebounds and six assists. Michael Porter Junior with twenty
points and nine rebounds for Denver. Also right now, the
Boston Celtics playing without Jason Tatum because of a sprain
left ankle, but they have a forty two to thirty
six lead at Phoenix, and the dying moments of the
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first quarter there the Sea is shooting sixty four percent
from the field at the outset of the game. Guys,
back to you, thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Iilo at Isaac Lohenkron where you can find him. On
March eighteenth, nineteen ninety five, seventeen months after retiring to
play baseball, Michael Jordan announced that he was back, effective immediately. Today.
We got the greatest retirement announcement of all time. We'll
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tell you who it is and what it's all about
and figure out what the statute of limitations are on
those kinds of things. He's erin Torres in for Jason
Smith on Mike Carmon. Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
continues on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
That man put his hands on me, I would have
immediately swung on them immediately.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with Me Mike Carmon. No Jason Tonight or the rest
of the week. He's off Gallivantink, probably celebrating the entire
Mets New Food Fair, or maybe he's auditioning to be
one of.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
The vacation with Saint John's. Let's be honest.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Oh wow, he's gone fishing with Cacoon. Okay, that is
no question about it. Erin Torres the voice you hear
in for Jason Smith tonight. Appreciate you all giving us
a few minutes of your time. Hey, speed up your
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early fourth six point lead for Denver. Obviously Milwaukee going
through it. Giannis's injury and then the Dame Lillard blood cloths,
so keeping an eye and you know what the medical
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updates there, and then we've got the Celtics and Sons
getting after it in this one as well, So keeping
an eye there. But a story that popped up on
the radar as the afternoon warhn Aaron, which made me laugh.
We teased it ahead with the Michael Jordan anniversary which
we commemorated on the eighteenth of the I'm back, okay,
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cool effective immediately, I've done with this baseball experiment. I've
done with the SI covers mocking me, and I'm going
back to basketball and I'm gonna do my thing comes back.
Where's number forty five? We have all of that, and
eventually we get another three championships from Jordan and the Bulls.
What do you mean we basketball loving society? I mean,
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I'm not that guy. Just because I'm sitting in the
chair Jason usually occupies, doesn't mean I went full we
as if I were a member of the team.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Just because you watched a winner every once in a while,
it's been a minute, though, I know it's been a minute, buddy.
For same for Jason Smith. If it makes you feel anybout.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
It in nineteen seventy three, for him, how's he.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Feeling about the justin fields there? Is he fired up?
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Or he's selling it like they're gonna go and run away? Kidding?
That's the greatest thing that ever. Unfortunately we do collide
in a way in that I think Arthur Smith holds
everybody back. Sure, So for me him getting away from him,
it's like, hey man, who knows what you can unleash,
get away from the ineffectiveness and an aptitude of the
(35:46):
Bears coaching staff for those years. And now Arthur Smith's true,
maybe he really could be that guy. Mean, look, Sam
Darnold took him a lot of years before he found
someone to bring out his greatness. But it's still the Jets.
But all that to say, we round out and Jason
has not announced his retirement, if you think that's what
I'm getting to. But Jim nance did. He said he's
going to retire from calling the Masters.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Now.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Dan Patrick on our network has announced that, look after
the Super Bowl in Atlanta in a couple of years,
he's done right, tapping out doesn't say he will stop
doing vocal tracks and doing sports at every level, but
not doing the five day a week show.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Right.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
He's been very upfront about this in his conversations. I
was talking with Ernie Johnson a little bit about it today, saying, hey,
maybe we got together, you know kind of thing because
they'll be back in Atlanta. But Jim Nantz announced he's retiring,
not in three years now. He's got not a five
year plan, aaron.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
One year plan. Has he done after this Masters.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Now he's gonna quit in twenty thirty six.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Oh okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
And here's his logic one it would be the perfect
place to walk out. Well, of course, you know, a
tradition unlike any other. Do I owe him seven dollars?
I don't know, but it would be his fifty first
time calling the tournament under that for a second, that's great,
that is great, And the one hundredth anniversary of the Masters.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I mean, the fifty one is crazy, but not and
no more significant than fifty, I will say.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
When I saw him, and I mean, you got the percentage,
the percentages.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
I guess, so he'd be covering more than half of
the Masters for two years and then he wouldn't be anymore.
So when I saw this headline, I was like, well,
that's just preposterous. But I will also say I do
think I do get the idea of it will be
the one hundredth Masters, he will have been at more
than half of them. I get it. I'll also say this,
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if you enjoy doing what you're doing, and you're still
doing it at a high level, why put an artificial
cap on it? Like you know, somebody else stepped away
from something, and I'm blanking on who was the most
recent person to retire. But it's like, if you're still
good at it, and we'll see Jim Nantz is sixty
five right now, We'll see if he's still at the
top of his game at seventy six. I don't know,
(38:05):
just I get it sort of.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
It's calling golf though, do you really have to be
at the top here here?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
I mean in theory, right, the worst you are you
put people to sleep.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
That's I mean, there's a lot of but there's a
lot of empty spaces that you're not filling. That's true, right,
Let the action there a lot of silence.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
No, just sure, I want to talk. You're not getting
paid by word there? Yeah, Vernon Lungquist, I think that's
the only thing. I think he just retired for that.
But it was the one hole. Yeah, it was the
only thing he did all year long. Quit quit quit
college football quick NCAA tournament was like, I'll call the masters, but.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
That's it, right, I'm a big believer in let him
tear the jersey off you.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Whatever you're doing, right, take the microphone from my cold
dead hand here in the that's Hierach dot Com fought
sports radio studios. But for all players, when people, ah,
that guy should hang it up, right, because we're having
that conversation. Russell Wilson's still out there now that he
he's a Giant's like, oh, you should have quit.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
It's like, why I agree?
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Someone pay him twenty million dollars yep to come in
and have a back and forth preaching. Justin and I
were joking about it yesterday, the Righteous Gemstones meme for
Jamis and Russell Wilson in a locker rooms.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
That sums it up.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
He's got half the guys he's preaching two over here,
he's got half over there, and you're trying to figure
out what the hell either of them actually mean. So
you've got that process. But like when when Brady was
in his final throws, like I kept hoping he would
come back Lebron, Well he won't be the same. Players
like fine, adapt and move into a new role.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Sure, I mean if they want to play, yeah, I
just I just think people underestimate how boring retirement is. Now.
Jim lant Natz clearly likes to golf, so maybe he
will be the one guy that's happy golfing every day.
But like, if you're good, I don't know, if you're
good at your job and you enjoy doing it. Now
you know, if you don't enjoy doing your job, if
you're Nick Saban and it's no longer fun to deal
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with the nil era, that's a different conversation. But I
get it. I also think it's interesting it was broken
by the magazine Bunkard, which I had not heard of
until this. You feel like this would be like a
big announcement that would come, you know from Jim Nantz self.
Is the own part of that? He might probably not though.
Is there a tournament right now? He said, it's the
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Scottish golf magazine bunkerd.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Okay from Glasgow, Scotland.
Speaker 5 (40:26):
But I'm eleven year run, guys, an eleven year retirement run.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
But I mean, think of.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
All the gifts eleven times. I also even Kareem didn't
do that, doesn't any rocking chairs he's gonna get it?
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Doesn't it make it less fun because then you're like, oh,
I'm down to eight, I'll be down to five by
the You know, you get a lot of gifts, But
I just feel like, just when you're ready, just give
it a year's somebody? Oh it was uh Gary Danielson
today said one, yeah, yeah, I'm taking twenty twenty five
and then I'm out. And it's like, that's fine. I
just think eleven years, it's just gonna be miserable. Every
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year you go to the oh, one less year, one
less year, one less year. But what do I know.
I've never done anything for fifty one years straight.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
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