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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Welcome inside. Happy Wednesday.
It's a happy Wednesday in Canada. I know that, no
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
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Mariners aren't going to the World Series. It is twelve
to two. The Blue Jays home run party continues in Seattle,
their first ALCS game in twenty four years, and they
might give up twenty. Kirk has just gone deep for
a home run.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Again.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We are barely halfway through this game. The game had
started about four hours ago, sometime in the nineteen nineties,
and it is twelve to two Blue Jays. I feel
pretty safe and saying I feel like they're gonna cut
the deficit to two to one the Alses.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I feel pretty safe for that. Well, remember the it
was a long time ago where Julio Rodriguez hit that
two run home run. Long time, long time ago.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You thought, oh, here they are, man, it's gonna be
three zip that they're printing World Series tickets in Seattle
after Jay Rodd hit that home and then we had
to back the bus up. Yeah, as it's been twelve unanswered,
get a t oh baby, get a t o.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's a toggly. You're playing good ball. Don't come down here.
You gotta get a time out. Talk it over. Kirby,
uh was allowed to stay in long enough to give
up eight earned.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Did not have that in my banko card that George
Kirby was going to stay in the game that long
and give up three bombs like that. Did not have that.
But you're torn. You're in the all right, he's getting
absolutely shellac.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Do we just let him just get beaten to a
pulp so we don't go deep into the bullpen? Yeah reaction,
all right, we're done. Yeah, but then they took him out.
It was to get out of the fifth. Now it's
like it doesn't matter who we bring it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, and it makes no Next next man up, conga
Line Spranger with a homer.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Vladimir Garel Junior. Rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated,
and he had a big solo home run back and
letting collar him. N S and Kirk. He got so many.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The best part of this game is that if you squint, Yeah,
if you squint, I can see Dave Steve pitching with
these uniforms, glorious uniforms that the that that the Blue
Jays have their throwback unis. I can see Dave Steve pitching.
I could see ground balls to either Kelly Gruber or
Ed Spring right a sprce squint, I could see maybe
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it's Joe Carter batting right like. With these uniforms, they're
so I mean, these are some of the best uniforms.
We're gonna have talk a lot about uniforms like the
Chargers are wearing. They're all gold uniforms are interesting. But
like these Blue Jays, I love gold. These Blue Jay uniforms. Man,
I don't know what it is, but the the light
blue seventies throwback unis that you see from the Phillies
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and the Cardinals and the Blue Jays like it just
I don't know what it is. It just absolutely I
just go, oh man, these are great. I could just
start thinking about all those from back in the day
like you just did there. Yeah, you started thinking about
Ernie Witt, started thinking about all of those pictures, and
certainly Dave Steve comes to mind. John Mayberry, sure sure,
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Jesse Barfield, George Bell, Yeah, George Bell, White, Sox legend, yeah,
Devon White, sure, Divo when he wasn't an angel, the
late Tony Fernandez, sure sure, all of them.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Hell of a shortstop. Those some teams.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Man, these I mean, these uniforms are just absolutely outstanding.
I mean, really, you squint because anybody with a mustache,
well that's Dave Steve. Okay, mustache is Dave Steep. Okay,
that's great. You get a mustache, you're pitching, and you
know what's the thing. Now, Like the last couple of years.
I feel like it's it's it's not it's more pictures
than anything else.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But like, wow, why do so many pitchers have mustache?
I don't know, it became's become a thing. Skis all
all the way down. Yeah, Like I mean you feel
like it not even manchu though, No, we're going straight mustag.
Why are the pictures going with mustache lasso?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh wow, I don't know. Well, as I say, they
cut away to Calorawley mustache. I mean, like lots of
players have. But I feel like pictures now they've really decided, Hey,
we're going with the mustache. We like the mustache looking,
We're going with the mustache, like we're bringing that back.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah. By the way, you know, we've been talking about
the National League and the failed to hit by pitch
that could have saved them in Game one. Jui Rodriguez
just tried to lean into one. He just didn't get there. Yeah,
but he tried to put his ass into it to
get a base run it.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I don't know that I would lean it, worry about
leaning into it in the sixth inning of a twelve
it's only six outs. I might save that. I got
twelve outs man, you might save that for when I
have a baseball shaped bruise on my ass. If I
can beat you, become a legend. No, I think I
was standing there with a pitchfork forever. You know, you
know you, and you're tried. And here's where I learned work.
Here's here's I tried to who you did that. Here's
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where I learned about saving a play like that for
when you need it, right, which obviously Bryce Terrang needed that.
Like I remember, I used to work with James Worthy
at Fox Sports one and he was great. He would
no no, no. I played softball with Worthy like Worthy was, so.
He was such a fun dude. And one of the
big plays he had in the finals and the end
of one of the games against the Celtics in the finals,
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was when he stole the inbounds pass because Kevin McHale
kind of threw in a lazy pass and he deflected
it and they stole It was a really big play.
And I remember asking him about that once and I said, Hey,
what about that play was Let me tell you about
that play. I said, well, he goes. I knew I
was gonna have that in the first half. I said,
what he goes because I saw a beginning at the
beginning of the game. A couple of times on I
guard the inbound and Michale was really lazy, you know,
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passing that ball out, and I said, okay, you know what,
I'm gonna save that for when we need it. You know,
I can get a turnover now and we can get
the ball, but it's along.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But I'm not getting that.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I'm and I'm gonna save it for when I need it,
because then that's all it is.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
He was.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So I saved that, and I knew the inbound play here,
then this is what I'm gonna use it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And I got it. And now, hey, no one would talk.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You wouldn't ask me about that if I did that
in the first quarter, wouldn't you.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I said, no, I wouldn't go.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
But I knew.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I said, I'm gonna save that. I'm gonna save that.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I was like, okay, Jane, I get I understand now,
crazy like a fox, I understand. Yeah, guys, Champagne James man,
he was fun deal. He was fun and fun and
fun dude to uh to play softball with? Ye like
he had softball skills, man, Like it would.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Take big hands. You know he would.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
He had a he had a corkscrew swing. And we
got big basketball story coming up in a second. Is
he would have He was like, looked like he was
maybe five to seven, and then he would completely come
out of his into his into his uh, into his stance,
and it's like, oh my god, he looks like he's
twelve feet tall, and he would corkscrew. He hit a
ball down the line once in a game that should
have been a double, right, It was down the line
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over that he was Lefty hit the ball over the
first basement's head. And this is Worthy is in his forties, right,
like I'm probably thirty, you know, my late twenties or
worthies at this point, probably in his early forties. And
it should be a double because it's over the first
baseman's head. It's down the line, and the right fielder
goes to get it, stops, turns, and throws it in.
But I'm watching Worthy run and it is I've never
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far the basis. It was the base, the normal soft
normal size, normal normal softball feet sixty feet soft ball,
sixty feet softball. And I'm watching him run and I've
never seen someone run like this ever. I'm not lying
when I'm telling you it's three straws or to get
from base to base. And I'm watching this, going he's
going to get a home run because he's nearly as
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second base when when normal, you're turning first base, when
the ball's about to be got and you make the turn,
you go in and you always like, I'm going, he's
gonna he's good, this is gonna be a home run.
And I'm watching I've never seen someone the strides in
him rounding the bases like that, you know, Worthy sixty nine.
I've never seen that before or since. And I said, oh,
my guy, said James, that was unbelievable. He goes, I
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have I have a set of skills, and I was
like wow. And then years later Liam Neeson used that
in the movie. I'm like, wow, you should have saved that.
What should have pattened that because he's he said I
had a special set of skills. Before Liam Neesa.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Had a special set of skills that was Worthy. Man.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
See, I probably would have gotten punched in the face
by going, yeah, you're six now, Yeah, you're supposed to
be doing that, Okay, you got big strides six nine,
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Uh So again look, we'll keep you updated.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
With what's going on in Major League base Ball. I
think I just saw Alfredo Griffin. Yeah, twel Alfredo Griffin,
Bob Baylor. Yeah, oh yeah, we go. Let's we go
all through this all night, man Ron, fairly sure. All
the way back. Willie Upshaw.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Was one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Hey, Willy Upshaw, home run, strikeout or a walk? No,
that was really Upshaw. He could have played. He fits
right into today's game. It would have been a superstar
in today's game. But look, we have a big preseason
NBA game coming up in about twenty minutes. It's Skinny
Luca against the Mavericks and Cooper Flag. So that's gonna
be fun. Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
So we'll keep you posting on that because don't Anthony
Davison the gut.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Uh maybe maybe maybe I'm miss skin I'm telling you
it's the middle finger. Luka dantche store. It's gonna be
You didn't think you thought I was gonna be pudgy
the whole time? Yeah, okay, middle fingered. I don't care
if Lebron's playing or not. I'm dragging us to the
top of the Western Conference. That's gonna do a cross
court pass that might be a bit errant that lands
on a bat chair back next to Nico. No, no, no,
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he just completely throws a baseball pass like five feet
away and just guns it like one of those chest pass. Sorry,
I thought my guy was gotting back. He's got no
touch on it, like he's Bryce Underwood. He's got no touch.
It just flies right by, just a little slide by
and rids Underwood. You just opened the card doors. You
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just gotta have a little bit of touch on the ball.
But uh no, but clearly felt that one to have
a bit of an appreciation moment here because because this
is this is a big story from today, right like again,
the Laker game is gonna be funny.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Maybe Nico gets a ball in the face.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Maybe not Skinny Luca, Yes, Skinny Luca, but uh, Skinny Luca.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Is that a QR coat on his arm though? Or
what's that tattoo of? I think you scan it? No,
I think you missed, Skinny Luca. I was just talking him,
Skinny Jason.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You were already going on to the next his big well,
the game starting at twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
We got time for the games. Canny Luca, Skinny.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Lucas ain't gonna play though he's still skinny. Luca Reeves
is not gonna play it. Yeah, Oh, we're just we're
just getting word. We're seeing it in the Lakers pregame.
Luca Queen of garb is not gonna play tonight. Luca
sitting out the back to back not playing. Load management
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comes to the preseason. Two more games in the preseason.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Let's get to worry about that game. That's the end
of that one I worry about. We're all going on.
Let's go back to blue j No, we call that
in Lakerland, right, what's that Lebron, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
He's gonna he's gonna be doing a live stream in
the middle of the game. Hey, I'm fine. I'm not
I'm just sitting out back to back.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
It's holding up hennessy, I mean all good. But an
appreciation moment here for a couple of minutes, because Russell
Westbrook is back for his eighteenth year, signing with the Kings.
This is someone whose career I thought was over I
don't know, six years ago, when it seemed like nobody
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wanted him. And is he really gonna come off the
bench and he's really be somebody that that is a
lesser version of the superstar version of himself that he was.
That's it, man, He's done, and here he is. It's
six years later and he's still kicking it. He's still
playing some important and look the Kings, they could have
a you know, look, the Kings are a team with
a lot of young talent. And look, we've seen Russell
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Westbrook fit in at in other places playing a lesser role.
I appreciate the fact that he is still doing this.
He is still willing to come off the bench, beers
or whatever it is, and he's still doing knowing full
well that not every NBA player would do that, and
knowing that the criticism that he gets that he has
gotten throughout his career, and he's still coming back to
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the NBA to play every year. That really is something.
He's gonna be a guy. He's gonna be forty seven
years old and we're gonna say back for back for
year twenty eight. He's be Julio Franco the NBA. He's
gonna be playing all the way down. I'll I'll come.
It's like he might come off the bench for twenty years,
like he might be a twenty year bench guy. After
winning the MVP and being a starter and averaging a
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triple double during the season, A couple of times like
I'm coming off the bench for fifteen twenty years, that's
my last act in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
He's gonna shoot in the low forty percentile. He's gonna
score twelve to fourteen points per game, give you a
handful of assists, a handful of rebounds, a couple of
anxious moments. But as a second unit guy at this point,
if he's willing to play for lesser money, why not?
Yeah right, I mean we talk about the intensity again.
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There are moments that are head scratchers. Same day that
they announced Keegan Murray got his five year, one hundred
and forty million dollar extension. Remember we drafted fourth overall
out of Iowa in twenty twenty two, So a huge
day for the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Exit out about a Fresca exit, swollen Dome to Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Rman, just to
have an appreciation moment here for Russell Westbrook eighteen years
in kicking, I met that I want him to have
fifteen years off the bench that's what I wanted to
be fifteen years off the bench.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I appreciate him. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Coming up next, not one, not two, but three late
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wide receivers who may or may not be happy with
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Speaker 2 (14:12):
No, yeah, no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Did the gopher see itself that it's not It's not
a gopher should be It's okay, No, it's maybe they's
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Speaker 2 (14:23):
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Speaker 2 (14:41):
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Speaker 4 (14:42):
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Speaker 3 (15:08):
He's still moving.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Hey, Mike, this is good friend Paul Canerko, just calling
in to wish you a happy birthday. I hope you
have a great day, man, take it easy.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Greetings, Welcome inside the Jason Smith.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Show with Paul and Erko's best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Is that a new one?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The last time Paul can Erco picked up the phone,
that was eight years ago. I think I think he
broke it in half and threw it in a river.
I had to delete the ending. Did blank you you
remember correctly?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You did?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You did? That was the good part of the message.
That's okay, that's all right. Happy birthday you old man.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But yes, in an effort that now makes it even
easier to seal Harmon's identity. Today is Mike Harmon's birthday.
Happy birthday, my friend. Thanks buddy, I appreciate that we
got everybody out trying to hack everything that I do.
All right, Harmon's October fifties, get that Okay, happy birthday?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Makes it easier. Ty Shirt has your credit card information.
He's had it for months, so I mean it's gonna
make it even easier. No, it's been a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Every once in a while there's a an eyebrow raizer
and then I go okay, girls, and they immediately just
going no, it's probably ty Shirt. They're running a game
on me, like they're playing the Spider Man meme with
my credit card.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yes, And I'm glad that we ordered wings tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah. No, I appreciate your birthday because you brought in
the saddest looking dinner. It was a good looking vegetable
omelet with with a little half of a sweet potato.
You brought in the food version of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
That was no, no, no, I have it. I also had
all on it.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I also have his Halloween outfit with all the holes
that got a rock.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That meal looked awful.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
But dude, we're gonna order wings for your birth Come
on and let's let's have your b We're gonna order.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Wings, put whatever that is, put it away. What I
wanted to wait for now, I'll give it away. Way
it'll be there for me. It's lots of vegetables. But
happy birthday, Mike.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I appreciate you, buddy, thank you. We made it another spin.
It's your birthday allegedly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So type in
that's what my mom's all of all of Harmon's, all
of Harmon's bank accounts. Now, just type in ten to
fifteen and see if that's the password and see if
they get you in. Go ahead, Sorry, what yeah, ten
to fifteen. Yeah, my mom sent me a card that
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said it was, in fact my birthday, so I have
to believe them.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
All right, Well that's good. I don't know, right, that's good.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
She still send your get a car. You're getting paid
for my lunch for sure. I got to take eleanor
off for lunch. And oh, she sent you like a
gift card. They always send me money, like ten dollars
more than that. Here's ten dollars more than The great
is that, you know. I have to hug a little
longer for that, and then you get five at the
end of it.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You're in your fifties and your mom still send you money. Well,
does Walt ever pick up a check? Oh no, no, no,
I'm asking. I'm asking a legitimate questions. Check will be
his first.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
All I'm saying is, if my family lived closer, We're
talking Illinois and Florida, the odds are we'd go out
to a meal once in a while and they'd pick
up a check. Well, said, show, that's kind of what
the deal is. Some money for his birthday.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
He's fifty one, Send him a cup.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I think my mom's gonna come and kick your ass.
I've seen her throw down before, so be careful. I was.
I was once tied to a share because I was
a lefty in kindergarten, I think, and my mom had
to come get me to go to the hospital because
my grandma took a fall. She about knocked the substitute
teacher out. I was the devil because I was left handed.
I think, once I've seen her throw she'll get at you.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Once you're about twenty five, I think you still stop
getting money. No, let's stop getting money y. I'm not
living with them. I know they decided to pick up
the check for a meal from three thousand miles away.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That's a problem.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
But they she said you a gift card or something
like that, it's just the same damn's face, you might how.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Is that different. It's the thought that counts. It's always
the thought. But if they give me a gift card,
it's to a specific place.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
That I may not want to go, and then I've
got to put it off on somebody else, and all
I have to do is regive that instead. So you
gave me the cash, I can do whatever the hell
they want. I want to gamble it, so I want
to go throw it down on the pone Hanes. I
want to go back.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I want to go. I want to go back by scratchers.
I can do that. Mom, who loves you?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, because you're you're the only one of the grandchildren,
so you're like the number one son.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Don't say that.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Okay, you're the number one son. She would send you
a gift card to a place you would want to
go now, But the potential is no, no, no, It's all
about potential, right, It's all about potential that that you
send me something because you think, hey, this would be cool,
and then I say, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
On my bag. Michael, I know you hate.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
This place, but your father won a gift card down
at the UH at the at the Knights of Columbus,
So here you go.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Hey, the potential is here. I don't see anybody except
merchants in this weird state live in UH that don't
accept cash. Oh, because that's the most offensive thing to
me when I go to try to buy something and well,
we don't take cash.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
No, no cash, we're cash. In other words, you don't
trust your employees.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, well yeah at all? Well, or it's just easier
without cash.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You have to wear to worry about all the pesky
counting on being even and all that stuff, and the cash.
Don't you don't trust your employees or yourself. Hey count
One of the biggest phrase words in business is shortage.
Hey want to go make sure shortage doesn't happen? Right,
It's why Costco. They always look at your thing. Are
we're gonna check off? You know it's not seeing everything.
You're not seeing everything in my car?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Now I just gotta check it. Oh okay, great, Yeah they
count the number of items. Yeah they don't. They don't
look for the actual items they have to.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I don't think they can because if you have twenty
items in your car, they're not gonna count twenty.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And then can they just.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Take your receipt and go, okay, it looks yeah, it
looks back a great. There you go, hire, we'll go
give it to you. Get out of here. You must
look more honest than I do. I guess I get
the the one.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So you go to Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Okay, maybe or maybe they just at that particular location
have more shrinkage that they have to deal with. Either way,
you feed out to the food court, you get your
double chunk chocolate chip cookie, a nice frosty mocha, and
you go on your way. So my Carmen birthday show again. Yeah,
swollen dome and tell me how pretty I am?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Is it really your birth in your fifties getting cash
from your parents? Hey, judge as you will.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Just because Walt doesn't pick up a check, he throws
money on the table. I think this is for me,
Like he's like a big spent here.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I think this is me. I mean, here's a twenty
okay that your meal.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Was okay, Well he's at least paying part of it.
Then is it more than one hundred bucks?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Over there?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Here's the Times here's part whenever he shows up, Dad,
your meal's thirty seven dollars. My kids don't get to
see their grandparents that often. You want to do that,
I'll play the violin while on the twenty should be
enough that this is not even the Then you got taxed,
you know what. Never mind, do't worry about them. So
three big late breaking NFL stories in the last few hours,
We're gonna hit them all right now. Number one involving
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everybody's favorite darling running back ric O'dowdell. Rico now Cuba
Hubbard coming back to play for the Panthers this week,
but Rigo Daddell is on a heater the last two weeks,
unlike what we've seen in the NFL in any of
the past twenty years. He came just sure to be
in the first player to run back to back two
hundred yard games, and uh Dave Canalis said, being very
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cagy about the running back situation. We don't want to
get into a situation where a guy loses his job
because of injury. But certain things have to be taken
into account. And I don't know what the actual division
is going to be on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Dude, what the blank. Are you talking about? Man?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Rico Dawdell is your guy until he can't. Don't be stupid,
don't overthink it. The guys. The guy's run for four
hundred yards in the last two weeks. What do you
mean we're gonna give the ball to somebody else? What
the hell are you talking about. I think it's easy
enough to see that. I think Cuba Hubbard would even say, well, yeah,
you kind of got to ride the hotthand because this again,
this guy's at a two week stretch, unlike we've seen
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in football in the last twenty years.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I just think you're in a beautiful spot. This offense
is starting to click for Izick and for Canalis, and
that you go back last year Cheubuhubbard one of the
great fins, nearly twelve hundred rushing yards, double digit touchdowns.
The offensive set is working well, the offensive line playing
well together, and that's only gonna benefit mister young. So
all of that to say, you've got an opportunity here
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with a two man. I know it's bad for fantasy owners.
I know it's a sad day, but if you could
use both of those guys and carry the ball thirty
five to forty times, shortened games, win games four point five,
four point eight to Carrie, Let's go Rigo, du give
him the ball five hundred times and keep calling him
Rico Suaeco.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Story Number two. George Pickens, very non committal about his
future in Dallas, loves it there, said today I love
it here, but you know, hey, I just want to
put my talents on display. Anybody remind him that he
keeps ten percent by not leaving these I think he
might understand that they made me to Florida.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Texans. Maybe get three teams in Florida. The Houston certainly
can use a number two next to Nico.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
But you would think George Pickens would say, hey, I
want to be here my whole career. That because he's
had a run the last five weeks and has been outstanding.
I mean, he has been no ceedee lamb doesn't matter.
This Cowboys offense has been incredibly good. And he says, yeah, no, no,
it's not a big thing at this point to say
I'd love it.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I want to be here.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Let's figure it out that you can say I really
want to be here, and then we wait till the
end of the season when I'm a free agent and
then I go to the highest bidder. But for him
to now say, yeah, no, I love it here. But
you know, hey, I just want to put my talents
on display. I gotta be honest with you, and I know,
as good as George Pickens has been, I would be
really nervous about giving him a big contract.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Really. Oh we said that one to the point, to
the point.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Where if he wants all kinds of cash, I'm Jerry Jones,
and look, this year doesn't work out because you made
the horrible Micah Parsons trade. Look, you have a couple
of big draft picks now you're gonna get because of
Micah Parsons. You can potentially replace George Pickens. As good
as he is, he's a guy. I can't give him money.
I can't give him a ton of money for a
long time because you saw what happened in Pittsburgh before
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he even got paid.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
And he's like, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Know how many times you have to see George Pickens
is not trying, George Pickens is not blocking, George Pickens
is uninvolved in the offense.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Like he's a guy.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I am completely nervous, and I don't care what stats
he puts up this year. If I'm Jerry Jones, George, Yeah,
I'm sorry, George, I already paying one wide receiver and
we're paying CD.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So hey, that's great, it's awesome. We got you.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
It didn't work out overall, but you had a great
good luck. I would say good luck and good luck
to that team that decides I want to get into
George Pickens business long term.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah. The only thing I would look at is potentially
you can go down the road in the franchise if
you really wanted to go that route, because you do
have the extra draft picks, maybe to bolster the defense
and push that forward whatever it becomes. Going forward, We're
gonna play more Maine and all of those things. He's saying.
Eber Flu's coach his zone. That's what he does. So
I don't know how you're saying gonna make this change.
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But five straight weeks with at least a touchdown, two
one hundred and thirty plus yard games in the last
three weeks, he's fun as hell to watch. But this
is one of those scenarios. Like we've talked about the Chargers,
we talk about the Ravens, and we talk about the
forty nine ers of teams where we need exorcisms when
it comes to the injury bug that's in there. With
the Steelers, that wide receiving section has had its share
(26:23):
of issues, one guy after another that they finally just
had to say, you know what, it's been a good run.
Let's get let's.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Get out of here, because you're getting a little bit
bigger than perhaps you should be for your your status
on the squad. So yeah, the cautionary tails are certainly there,
so nervous. Meanwhile, your guy Caleb Williams, Yeah, involved in
a big back and forth now with Troy Aikman coming
off the Monday night game that Caleb Williams in the
last few hours has opened up on During the game,
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Troy Aikman very critical of Caleb Williams, which I mean,
come on, dude, Troy Aikman, you just sound.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Like the old guy. Now.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I don't like the way they scored the you don't
like the way they scored the time that won, Well,
they don't want the fact it was a mistackle, like
he threw a pass and they got. This is two
straight weeks he has driven the Bears down for the
game winning score at the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
What does it matter how the play unfold? What does
it matter?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
What? Oh, Caleb Williams has to do a better job
throwing the ball certain parts of his receivers. He's not
a fan of the play. DeAndre Swift that a tackler
fell down. It's like, dude, like Troy, you just sound
like you're mad. And now we may be getting the
reason why right because apparently the big production meeting, which
you know, people want to keep Tom Brady away from
the Raiders. Because this production meeting, Troy Aikman did not
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meet with Caleb Williams in the normal production meeting that
you'd have before Money Night football. Caleb Williams couldn't get there,
and so he didn't get there for the meeting. He
said he reached out to Aikman, and Aikman never responded,
which kind of might put Troy Aikman's salty comments about
Caleb Williams on display on Monday Night's something you referenced
to day ago, and I gotta be honest with you,
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Troy Aikman. He looks bad. He looks bad again. He
looks like the old guy. I'm bitter. You didn't come
sit down now it's like, is that being I'm just bitter.
I'm bitter you didn't come sit down. I'm bitter you're
not throwing better passes. Like, dude, Like, I don't know
what it is, but Aikman's become really really salty and
and and just much more negative over the course of
the past couple of years, and he's been throughout his career,
and especially this thing right here when he says, when
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he said Monday, yeah, well this play, it only happens
because the tackler fell down.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
You didn't have any big plays in her career because
tacklers fell down or guys ran into each other. You
got to pick play you didn't like. I can't believe
he's criticizing the play that went for a touch that
went for a long game rather that set up the
game winning. So I don't understand that. Like he just
sounds really bad about this.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I just really love it. Yesterday there was a lot
of Ben Johnson responding to this, a lot of Chicago
media asking questions about the tone of the coverage, and
you know me, as Ben Johnson does kind of hit
it straight on, and I surmise that there was something
going on with the meetings that either it didn't go
well or it didn't And sure enough, Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Is like, I'm not wearing this. It was sad and
salty about what we're doing. Like Dedre Swift play is
you just go back and listen to the play by
play and you cringe.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Right. His analysis of it of well, luck like guys
fall down, Guys slip tackles all the time. Don't you
normally give a guy credit for slipping a tackle instead
of just saying, ah, it's a lucky play. Okay, Jayden
Daniels dropped the ball, it was raining, he mishandled a
snap and a handoff. That's football, that happens. Go back
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in Troy and I've defended Troy's career forever, right because people,
who's that guy? A Hall of Famer? I don't know,
super Bowls winning and efficiency whatever, the numbers are not
the same because he wasn't asked to do the same thing.
But when you're criticism of an offense and it wasn't pretty,
We've talked about it, like the Bears, they're still miles
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to go before this thing is really clicking on all cylinders.
But you've won three games in a row, all right,
They don't all have to be pretty not everything's going
to be a perfect you know, thirty five yard bomb
down the left sideline to your guy just inside the boundary.
You know that he gets his separation. There's a lot
of luck that goes into this game one way or another.
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I mean, we talk about injuries all the time. Hey,
that guy was having a great game and then he
missed the fourth quarter. What happened? The team came back
and got beat right, Things happen. But for Troy Aikman, Yeah,
the negativity is certainly there. And I think we can
all stipulate we've watched six weeks of NFL football. Would
you say it's.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Been a really clean and great season to this point
outside of a handful of teams.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
No, it's been ugly football all over.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
And you're a Jets fan, so obviously you're green colored
glasses on it this time. But your job, you're still
selling the product. You can be honest with people without
being dour and negative. And if you're mad that Caleb
stayed at the facility instead of going to wherever to
meet you, and then he called you a little bit later,
and you didn't pick up.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
That's on you. I'm sorry your bedtime was or whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You just sound bitter and old and like oh and
I like dude, you just like I went out of
my way to criticize Caleb Williams. I went out of
my way to criticize that and take shots at the squad.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Again. It's not pretty, but you know what, winning football
doesn't have to be. All you need is at the
end of sixty minutes, are they coming over to shake
your hand and putting their heads down as they do.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So that's what the Bears got to do on Monday
night time now to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. And someone who's been called the
Troy aikman Oh of Fox Sports Radio. So she's all
a famer because I've seen her being salty on a
Monday night, usually when the Clippers are playing.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It's Manzi Vaalan, I have a.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Salty a lot of Monday nights. Let's be real. First
of all, happy birthday, Harmon very much. Thank you for
hanging out with us on your birthday. That's what I'd
be doing living in your best life elsewhere, but you're
living your best life here, so it's not five.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Let me tell you about my kid man. My kids
have all the things to do. He's on the ball pit.
Do they still have those?
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Oh no, asked Jason.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Those they.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Ball pits are bou.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Ballits for everybody, including dogs.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
I feel like I've seen people have it for their dogs.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Like it's just a popular thing.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
That's the next level stuff. And we've got a big
ALCS game that I had to come in and solute.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
It is a little bit but happy birthday you to
be hanging out with you.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
The Blue Jays definitely came alive. I don't know if
the weather in Seattle is something that they like better
than the weather in Toronto. I doubt it, but their
bats came alive.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
How many hits now? Sixteen?
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Are we at sixteen hits? Sixteen hits for Toronto? Vladimer
Guerrero Junior has been a perfect four of four. His
last hit was a double and you could tell they
were really hoping it would have been a triple because
then he would have hit for the cycle.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, but it was a.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Double, his second double. He's also homeward in this one.
It is twelve to three against the Mariners in Seattle
where Seattle leads the ALCS series to zero. It's the
bottom of the eighth inning. Okay, we've maybe cut the deficit.
Cal Rawley just hit a home run, home run by himself,
so we've cut the depth.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Sit twelve four, come.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Back is it?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
The long road begins? The first step, Let's go.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
But caw Rawles is his third home run of the postseason,
so twelve to four, it is still the bottom of
the eighth and he in Seeattle.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
This wait, wait, this is like in the episode of
The Simpsons when they said, Homer, we're going to give
you a new identity, and he says, I want to
meet John Elway and he goes, he goes into the
end zone and the announcer says, and thanks to Elway's
last second heroics, the final score of Super Bowl thirty
is done for seven San Francisco fifty six.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Exactly. Hey, that's exactly it.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
This just in.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Shaan's Sharnia of ESPN literally just tweeted a video five
minutes ago talking to about Lebron James because they have
a preseason game against the Maps starting soon that he's
going to be reevaluated on October thirty first, and that
the earliest that he is expected to maybe make his
Lakers season debut will beat mid November. That they're going
to take a very patient approach before he returns and
(33:58):
makes zeer off.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, just take little, just take the year. What do
you think is Halloween cost who was going to be
eight seven to seven up.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
The King sparking and where he has agreed to a
five year, one hundred and forty million dollar Rickey contract extension.
Sacramento also signed Russell Westbrook today to a one year deal,
and I fell to us for Thursday Night Football.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
The Bengals are listing.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Pass rusher Trey Hendrickson is questionable for their game against
the Steelers because of a hip injury, and no practice
today for Rams wide receiver Pukinakua because of an ankle injury.
Lion safety Brian Branch's one game suspension has been upheld
by the league after his appeal, so he's going to
be out for Week seven against Tampa Bay on the
ice only four games today in the NHL, the Red
(34:38):
Wings defeated the Panthers already four to one, Sabers over
the Senators eight to four. Right now, the Flames and
the Mammoth are tied at one apiece early in the
second period, and after the first period, the Blackhawks and
the Blues are tied at two.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Back to you, thank you very much, Law.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harman coming
up next, something special for Harmon's birthday.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
We haven't done this in a while, but it's coming
up next Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (35:13):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Speaker 2 (35:20):
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seven years ago today, in a season so incredibly improbable,
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Speaker 2 (35:54):
And with chillaw do you talk about a roll of
the dice. This is it.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
If he hits the ball on the ground, I would
imagine he would be running fifty percent the first base.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
So the Dodgers trying.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
To catch lightning right now, Sach's waiting on deck.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
So the game right now is that the plight high
fly ball in the right field. She is gone.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
There was Vince Scully on the call Kirk Gibson's home
run off of Dennis eckers Lee, and Dennis Eckersley to
this day will tell you the same thing. What are
you most upset about? I'm upset I walked Mike Davis
the batter before and instead of a game tying home run,
game winning home run. Dodgers in nineteen eighty eight, they
win the World Series. They upset the Mightia, the worst
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team to ever win the World Series wins the World
Series in a home run, one of the top three
plays in the history of Major League Baseball thirty seven
years ago. Tonight, that's like your opinion, man, I think
I'm pretty solid with that opinion. One of the three
most famous players in baseball history. I feel pretty good
about that. Oh, I just meant the worst team to
win the ro they were terrible. That team was awful. Man,
(37:15):
Mickey Hatcher was hitting clean up for that team. That
team was awful. And yes, I'm still bitter. They beat
the Mets, but that team was terrible. That was an
awful team.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
The Met's playing him like sixteen games in the regular
they go fifteen out of sixteen regular season. All of
a sudden, Oh, Oral hersheis is great now, and that
David Cone can't close his mouth, and Davy Johnson leaves
in Dwight Good instead of going to Jesse Rosco.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Do I gotta keep going?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Are you just trying to get a full lineup of
people that want to come in here and kick your ass?
You already got my mom and dad, you know, because
you're mad at them that they sent me a couple
of bucks.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
And then now you're going back at Oral Hirscheiser a
little bit, a little bit, little bit. I already hate you. Well,
it's I mean, why are you trying to hang him out?
And he's got an off day to day? You need
to worry about anything anymore home, It doesn't matter. He's
gonna sitting around listening to the yoke and the show
up going. Hey, so starting pitches don't matter. Huh, where's
that fool? Where's that fool? After those leftud game with
(38:06):
smelling yamamono? Where is he? Where's that God? I'm still
trying to find his one of one autographed card out
of this year's top chrome because he put out a
big bounty on it. Okay, okay, because he owns a
trade card shop. Yep. Yeah, so I was kind of
hoping to walk off with a lot of merch.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
If I were able to pull that, I would say
the three most famous plays in baseball history Merkle pulls
boner no, which there's no video of that. Uh, but
that makes it, Yeah, it makes it great. I actually
read a book on that. It was awesome, pretty cool
right the end of the season. One of the great
baseball cards. Oh man, it was such a great But
I love reading books about like the early the early
(38:45):
nineteenth cent or early twentieth century major League baseball. You're like,
there's no way that happened. Nope, that absolutely happened.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
You know what else happened on this day? Every page,
No way that happened. Nope, absolutely that happened. You know
what else happened on this day? In baseball history. What's
that Marlins beat the Cubs. Oh, we just celebrated can.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I And it's your birthday and you got to celemate Cubs. Yeah,
best birthday out, No, fantastic, Yeah, good stuff. No, I
would say, listen, the three most famous plays in baseball history.
Gibson's home run, the Buckner play, and Bobby Thompson. I'd
say those are the three most famous plays in baseball history.
I think big plays, surely, but I would say those
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are your three biggest plays. Yeah, that sounds about right
and crazy how we had two of them within two
years of each other. Right, you had the the Buckner
play in eighty six and you had the Gibson home
run in eighty eight, right, Like, that's that's really something.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
We got the Willie Mays catch because that's been Yeah,
that's been put up on a million billboards and trading cards,
and yeah, posts is one of the great plays in baseball.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Oh, oh, one of the great plays. Oh, for sure. Absolutely,
probably the most difficult catch made.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yeah. Growing up, I had a lot of folks around
me that were like, if he just ran into the spot.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
It turned around, he's got it. Instead of measuring it
that way, yeah, you say things like that. Aaron Judge
catches that just loping back and puts his glove up.
Oh no, it probably bounces off. I just glove. I'm
sorry too soon.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah, they've been eliminated. There's a song about it. There is.
The Blue Jays have a song about eliminating the Yankees.
A good thing. They're winning today.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yeah, yeah, this is where things stand right now. You
thought that Mariners comeback was No. Thirteen to four Toronto
with the lead as the Mariner's bat in the bottom
of the ninth inning. Again, this series is going to
be two games to one. We'll have more on this
coming up in a bit. But it is your birthday
and I talked about this, but obviously we had to
(40:30):
celebrate the play of the day, of course, and we
had the big call by Vin Scully. But coming up next,
have a surprise for your birthday. Jim Palmers fellow birthday boy. No, Jim, Yes,
Jim Palmer here in the underwear like he was in
the nineteen eighty My mom was a big fan. Hey, dip, okay,
we got to talk more about your mom.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
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Speaker 1 (40:53):
Why not, It's coming up next, right here, Jim and
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Mariners aren't going to the World Series. It is twelve
to two. The Blue Jays home run party continues in Seattle,
their first ALCS game in twenty four years, and they
might give up twenty. Kirk has just gone deep for
a home run.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Again.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We are barely halfway through this game. The game had
started about four hours ago, sometime in the nineteen nineties,
and it is twelve to two Blue Jays. I feel
pretty safe and saying I feel like they're gonna cut
the deficit to two to one the Alses.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I feel pretty safe for that. Well, remember the it
was a long time ago where Julio Rodriguez hit that
two run home run. Long time, long time ago.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You thought, oh, here they are, man, it's gonna be
three zip that they're printing World Series tickets in Seattle
after Jay Rodd hit that home and then we had
to back the bus up. Yeah, as it's been twelve unanswered,
get a t oh baby, get a t o.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's a toggly. You're playing good ball. Don't come down here.
You gotta get a time out. Talk it over. Kirby,
uh was allowed to stay in long enough to give
up eight earned.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Did not have that in my banko card that George
Kirby was going to stay in the game that long
and give up three bombs like that. Did not have that.
But you're torn. You're in the all right, he's getting
absolutely shellac.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Do we just let him just get beaten to a
pulp so we don't go deep into the bullpen? Yeah reaction,
all right, we're done. Yeah, but then they took him out.
It was to get out of the fifth. Now it's
like it doesn't matter who we bring it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, and it makes no Next next man up, conga
Line Spranger with a homer.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Vladimir Garel Junior. Rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated,
and he had a big solo home run back and
letting collar him. N S and Kirk. He got so many.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The best part of this game is that if you squint, Yeah,
if you squint, I can see Dave Steve pitching with
these uniforms, glorious uniforms that the that that the Blue
Jays have their throwback unis. I can see Dave Steve pitching.
I could see ground balls to either Kelly Gruber or
Ed Spring right a sprce squint, I could see maybe
(03:07):
it's Joe Carter batting right like. With these uniforms, they're
so I mean, these are some of the best uniforms.
We're gonna have talk a lot about uniforms like the
Chargers are wearing. They're all gold uniforms are interesting. But
like these Blue Jays, I love gold. These Blue Jay uniforms. Man,
I don't know what it is, but the the light
blue seventies throwback unis that you see from the Phillies
(03:30):
and the Cardinals and the Blue Jays like it just
I don't know what it is. It just absolutely I
just go, oh man, these are great. I could just
start thinking about all those from back in the day
like you just did there. Yeah, you started thinking about
Ernie Witt, started thinking about all of those pictures, and
certainly Dave Steve comes to mind. John Mayberry, sure sure,
(03:51):
Jesse Barfield, George Bell, Yeah, George Bell, White, Sox legend, yeah,
Devon White, sure, Divo when he wasn't an angel, the
late Tony Fernandez, sure sure, all of them.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Hell of a shortstop. Those some teams.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Man, these I mean, these uniforms are just absolutely outstanding.
I mean, really, you squint because anybody with a mustache,
well that's Dave Steve. Okay, mustache is Dave Steep. Okay,
that's great. You get a mustache, you're pitching, and you
know what's the thing. Now, Like the last couple of years.
I feel like it's it's it's not it's more pictures
than anything else.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But like, wow, why do so many pitchers have mustache?
I don't know, it became's become a thing. Skis all
all the way down. Yeah, Like I mean you feel
like it not even manchu though, No, we're going straight mustag.
Why are the pictures going with mustache lasso?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Oh wow, I don't know. Well, as I say, they
cut away to Calorawley mustache. I mean, like lots of
players have. But I feel like pictures now they've really decided, Hey,
we're going with the mustache. We like the mustache looking,
We're going with the mustache, like we're bringing that back.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah. By the way, you know, we've been talking about
the National League and the failed to hit by pitch
that could have saved them in Game one. Jui Rodriguez
just tried to lean into one. He just didn't get there. Yeah,
but he tried to put his ass into it to
get a base run it.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I don't know that I would lean it, worry about
leaning into it in the sixth inning of a twelve
it's only six outs. I might save that. I got
twelve outs man, you might save that for when I
have a baseball shaped bruise on my ass. If I
can beat you, become a legend. No, I think I
was standing there with a pitchfork forever. You know, you
know you, and you're tried. And here's where I learned work.
Here's here's I tried to who you did that. Here's
(05:26):
where I learned about saving a play like that for
when you need it, right, which obviously Bryce Terrang needed that.
Like I remember, I used to work with James Worthy
at Fox Sports one and he was great. He would
no no, no. I played softball with Worthy like Worthy was, so.
He was such a fun dude. And one of the
big plays he had in the finals and the end
of one of the games against the Celtics in the finals,
(05:49):
was when he stole the inbounds pass because Kevin McHale
kind of threw in a lazy pass and he deflected
it and they stole It was a really big play.
And I remember asking him about that once and I said, Hey,
what about that play was Let me tell you about
that play. I said, well, he goes. I knew I
was gonna have that in the first half. I said,
what he goes because I saw a beginning at the
beginning of the game. A couple of times on I
guard the inbound and Michale was really lazy, you know,
(06:10):
passing that ball out, and I said, okay, you know what,
I'm gonna save that for when we need it. You know,
I can get a turnover now and we can get
the ball, but it's along.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But I'm not getting that.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I'm and I'm gonna save it for when I need it,
because then that's all it is.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
He was.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So I saved that, and I knew the inbound play here,
then this is what I'm gonna use it.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And I got it. And now, hey, no one would talk.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You wouldn't ask me about that if I did that
in the first quarter, wouldn't you.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I said, no, I wouldn't go.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
But I knew.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I said, I'm gonna save that. I'm gonna save that.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I was like, okay, Jane, I get I understand now,
crazy like a fox, I understand. Yeah, guys, Champagne James man,
he was fun deal. He was fun and fun and
fun dude to uh to play softball with? Ye like
he had softball skills, man, Like it would.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Take big hands. You know he would.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
He had a he had a corkscrew swing. And we
got big basketball story coming up in a second. Is
he would have He was like, looked like he was
maybe five to seven, and then he would completely come
out of his into his into his uh, into his stance,
and it's like, oh my god, he looks like he's
twelve feet tall, and he would corkscrew. He hit a
ball down the line once in a game that should
have been a double, right, It was down the line
(07:14):
over that he was Lefty hit the ball over the
first basement's head. And this is Worthy is in his forties, right,
like I'm probably thirty, you know, my late twenties or
worthies at this point, probably in his early forties. And
it should be a double because it's over the first
baseman's head. It's down the line, and the right fielder
goes to get it, stops, turns, and throws it in.
But I'm watching Worthy run and it is I've never
(07:37):
far the basis. It was the base, the normal soft
normal size, normal normal softball feet sixty feet soft ball,
sixty feet softball. And I'm watching him run and I've
never seen someone run like this ever. I'm not lying
when I'm telling you it's three straws or to get
from base to base. And I'm watching this, going he's
going to get a home run because he's nearly as
(07:58):
second base when when normal, you're turning first base, when
the ball's about to be got and you make the turn,
you go in and you always like, I'm going, he's
gonna he's good, this is gonna be a home run.
And I'm watching I've never seen someone the strides in
him rounding the bases like that, you know, Worthy sixty nine.
I've never seen that before or since. And I said, oh,
my guy, said James, that was unbelievable. He goes, I
(08:21):
have I have a set of skills, and I was
like wow. And then years later Liam Neeson used that
in the movie. I'm like, wow, you should have saved that.
What should have pattened that because he's he said I
had a special set of skills. Before Liam Neesa.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Had a special set of skills that was Worthy. Man.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
See, I probably would have gotten punched in the face
by going, yeah, you're six now, Yeah, you're supposed to
be doing that, Okay, you got big strides six nine,
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Uh So again look, we'll keep you updated.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
With what's going on in Major League base Ball. I
think I just saw Alfredo Griffin. Yeah, twel Alfredo Griffin,
Bob Baylor. Yeah, oh yeah, we go. Let's we go
all through this all night, man Ron, fairly sure. All
the way back. Willie Upshaw.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Was one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Hey, Willy Upshaw, home run, strikeout or a walk? No,
that was really Upshaw. He could have played. He fits
right into today's game. It would have been a superstar
in today's game. But look, we have a big preseason
NBA game coming up in about twenty minutes. It's Skinny
Luca against the Mavericks and Cooper Flag. So that's gonna
be fun. Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
So we'll keep you posting on that because don't Anthony
Davison the gut.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Uh maybe maybe maybe I'm miss skin I'm telling you
it's the middle finger. Luka dantche store. It's gonna be
You didn't think you thought I was gonna be pudgy
the whole time? Yeah, okay, middle fingered. I don't care
if Lebron's playing or not. I'm dragging us to the
top of the Western Conference. That's gonna do a cross
court pass that might be a bit errant that lands
on a bat chair back next to Nico. No, no, no,
(09:52):
he just completely throws a baseball pass like five feet
away and just guns it like one of those chest pass. Sorry,
I thought my guy was gotting back. He's got no
touch on it, like he's Bryce Underwood. He's got no touch.
It just flies right by, just a little slide by
and rids Underwood. You just opened the card doors. You
(10:13):
just gotta have a little bit of touch on the ball.
But uh no, but clearly felt that one to have
a bit of an appreciation moment here because because this
is this is a big story from today, right like again,
the Laker game is gonna be funny.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Maybe Nico gets a ball in the face.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Maybe not Skinny Luca, Yes, Skinny Luca, but uh, Skinny Luca.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Is that a QR coat on his arm though? Or
what's that tattoo of? I think you scan it? No,
I think you missed, Skinny Luca. I was just talking him,
Skinny Jason.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
You were already going on to the next his big well,
the game starting at twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
We got time for the games. Canny Luca, Skinny.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Lucas ain't gonna play though he's still skinny. Luca Reeves
is not gonna play it. Yeah, Oh, we're just we're
just getting word. We're seeing it in the Lakers pregame.
Luca Queen of garb is not gonna play tonight. Luca
sitting out the back to back not playing. Load management
(11:06):
comes to the preseason. Two more games in the preseason.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Let's get to worry about that game. That's the end
of that one I worry about. We're all going on.
Let's go back to blue j No, we call that
in Lakerland, right, what's that Lebron, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
He's gonna he's gonna be doing a live stream in
the middle of the game. Hey, I'm fine. I'm not
I'm just sitting out back to back.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
It's holding up hennessy, I mean all good. But an
appreciation moment here for a couple of minutes, because Russell
Westbrook is back for his eighteenth year, signing with the Kings.
This is someone whose career I thought was over I
don't know, six years ago, when it seemed like nobody
(11:44):
wanted him. And is he really gonna come off the
bench and he's really be somebody that that is a
lesser version of the superstar version of himself that he was.
That's it, man, He's done, and here he is. It's
six years later and he's still kicking it. He's still
playing some important and look the Kings, they could have
a you know, look, the Kings are a team with
a lot of young talent. And look, we've seen Russell
(12:06):
Westbrook fit in at in other places playing a lesser role.
I appreciate the fact that he is still doing this.
He is still willing to come off the bench, beers
or whatever it is, and he's still doing knowing full
well that not every NBA player would do that, and
knowing that the criticism that he gets that he has
gotten throughout his career, and he's still coming back to
(12:27):
the NBA to play every year. That really is something.
He's gonna be a guy. He's gonna be forty seven
years old and we're gonna say back for back for
year twenty eight. He's be Julio Franco the NBA. He's
gonna be playing all the way down. I'll I'll come.
It's like he might come off the bench for twenty years,
like he might be a twenty year bench guy. After
winning the MVP and being a starter and averaging a
(12:49):
triple double during the season, A couple of times like
I'm coming off the bench for fifteen twenty years, that's
my last act in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
He's gonna shoot in the low forty percentile. He's gonna
score twelve to fourteen points per game, give you a
handful of assists, a handful of rebounds, a couple of
anxious moments. But as a second unit guy at this point,
if he's willing to play for lesser money, why not?
Yeah right, I mean we talk about the intensity again.
(13:16):
There are moments that are head scratchers. Same day that
they announced Keegan Murray got his five year, one hundred
and forty million dollar extension. Remember we drafted fourth overall
out of Iowa in twenty twenty two, So a huge
day for the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Exit out about a Fresca exit, swollen Dome to Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Rman, just to
have an appreciation moment here for Russell Westbrook eighteen years
in kicking, I met that I want him to have
fifteen years off the bench that's what I wanted to
be fifteen years off the bench.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
I appreciate him. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Coming up next, not one, not two, but three late
breaking NFL stories involving quarterbacks potentially coming out of retirement,
wide receivers who may or may not be happy with
your current team. Keep it right here, Jason and Mike
Fox Sports Radio, ty Shirt, ty Shirt. It's the end
of October, so exactly, it's the It's if we were
(14:10):
in Australia, you'd be correct.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
No, yeah, no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Did the gopher see itself that it's not It's not
a gopher should be It's okay, No, it's maybe they's
a groundhog.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Oh do you know that? Thanks to ty Shirt, this
song gets one click per week.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
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Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 2 (14:41):
Hi. This is Jay.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I'm the producer of the Paula and Toni Fusco Show.
Usually in these promos they asked you to listen to
the show. I'm here to ask you please don't listen
to the show. The hosts are two absolute morons who
have the dumbest takes on sports imagicable. Don't listen to
the show so it can get camp.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
What the hell are you doing out studio? Get him,
Paul Lee, Ignore that fool.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
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app or wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
He's still moving.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Hey, Mike, this is good friend Paul Canerko, just calling
in to wish you a happy birthday. I hope you
have a great day, man, take it easy.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Greetings, Welcome inside the Jason Smith.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Show with Paul and Erko's best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Is that a new one?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
The last time Paul can Erco picked up the phone,
that was eight years ago. I think I think he
broke it in half and threw it in a river.
I had to delete the ending. Did blank you you
remember correctly?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
You did?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
You did? That was the good part of the message.
That's okay, that's all right. Happy birthday you old man.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
But yes, in an effort that now makes it even
easier to seal Harmon's identity. Today is Mike Harmon's birthday.
Happy birthday, my friend. Thanks buddy, I appreciate that we
got everybody out trying to hack everything that I do.
All right, Harmon's October fifties, get that Okay, happy birthday?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Makes it easier. Ty Shirt has your credit card information.
He's had it for months, so I mean it's gonna
make it even easier. No, it's been a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Every once in a while there's a an eyebrow raizer
and then I go okay, girls, and they immediately just
going no, it's probably ty Shirt. They're running a game
on me, like they're playing the Spider Man meme with
my credit card.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yes, And I'm glad that we ordered wings tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah. No, I appreciate your birthday because you brought in
the saddest looking dinner. It was a good looking vegetable
omelet with with a little half of a sweet potato.
You brought in the food version of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
That was no, no, no, I have it. I also had
all on it.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I also have his Halloween outfit with all the holes
that got a rock.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That meal looked awful.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
But dude, we're gonna order wings for your birth Come
on and let's let's have your b We're gonna order.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Wings, put whatever that is, put it away. What I
wanted to wait for now, I'll give it away. Way
it'll be there for me. It's lots of vegetables. But
happy birthday, Mike.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I appreciate you, buddy, thank you. We made it another spin.
It's your birthday allegedly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So type in
that's what my mom's all of all of Harmon's, all
of Harmon's bank accounts. Now, just type in ten to
fifteen and see if that's the password and see if
they get you in. Go ahead, Sorry, what yeah, ten
to fifteen. Yeah, my mom sent me a card that
(17:27):
said it was, in fact my birthday, so I have
to believe them.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
All right, Well that's good. I don't know, right, that's good.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
She still send your get a car. You're getting paid
for my lunch for sure. I got to take eleanor
off for lunch. And oh, she sent you like a
gift card. They always send me money, like ten dollars
more than that. Here's ten dollars more than The great
is that, you know. I have to hug a little
longer for that, and then you get five at the
end of it.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You're in your fifties and your mom still send you money. Well,
does Walt ever pick up a check? Oh no, no, no,
I'm asking. I'm asking a legitimate questions. Check will be
his first.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
All I'm saying is, if my family lived closer, We're
talking Illinois and Florida, the odds are we'd go out
to a meal once in a while and they'd pick
up a check. Well, said, show, that's kind of what
the deal is. Some money for his birthday.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
He's fifty one, Send him a cup.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I think my mom's gonna come and kick your ass.
I've seen her throw down before, so be careful. I was.
I was once tied to a share because I was
a lefty in kindergarten, I think, and my mom had
to come get me to go to the hospital because
my grandma took a fall. She about knocked the substitute
teacher out. I was the devil because I was left handed.
I think, once I've seen her throw she'll get at you.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Once you're about twenty five, I think you still stop
getting money. No, let's stop getting money y. I'm not
living with them. I know they decided to pick up
the check for a meal from three thousand miles away.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
That's a problem.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
But they she said you a gift card or something
like that, it's just the same damn's face, you might how.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Is that different. It's the thought that counts. It's always
the thought. But if they give me a gift card,
it's to a specific place.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
That I may not want to go, and then I've
got to put it off on somebody else, and all
I have to do is regive that instead. So you
gave me the cash, I can do whatever the hell
they want. I want to gamble it, so I want
to go throw it down on the pone Hanes. I
want to go back.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I want to go. I want to go back by scratchers.
I can do that. Mom, who loves you?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, because you're you're the only one of the grandchildren,
so you're like the number one son.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Don't say that.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Okay, you're the number one son. She would send you
a gift card to a place you would want to
go now, But the potential is no, no, no, It's all
about potential, right, It's all about potential that that you
send me something because you think, hey, this would be cool,
and then I say, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
On my bag. Michael, I know you hate.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
This place, but your father won a gift card down
at the UH at the at the Knights of Columbus,
So here you go.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Hey, the potential is here. I don't see anybody except
merchants in this weird state live in UH that don't
accept cash. Oh, because that's the most offensive thing to
me when I go to try to buy something and well,
we don't take cash.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
No, no cash, we're cash. In other words, you don't
trust your employees.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, well yeah at all? Well, or it's just easier
without cash.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You have to wear to worry about all the pesky
counting on being even and all that stuff, and the cash.
Don't you don't trust your employees or yourself. Hey count
One of the biggest phrase words in business is shortage.
Hey want to go make sure shortage doesn't happen? Right,
It's why Costco. They always look at your thing. Are
we're gonna check off? You know it's not seeing everything.
You're not seeing everything in my car?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Now I just gotta check it. Oh okay, great, Yeah they
count the number of items. Yeah they don't. They don't
look for the actual items they have to.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
I don't think they can because if you have twenty
items in your car, they're not gonna count twenty.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And then can they just.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Take your receipt and go, okay, it looks yeah, it
looks back a great. There you go, hire, we'll go
give it to you. Get out of here. You must
look more honest than I do. I guess I get
the the one.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So you go to Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Okay, maybe or maybe they just at that particular location
have more shrinkage that they have to deal with. Either way,
you feed out to the food court, you get your
double chunk chocolate chip cookie, a nice frosty mocha, and
you go on your way. So my Carmen birthday show again. Yeah,
swollen dome and tell me how pretty I am?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Is it really your birth in your fifties getting cash
from your parents? Hey, judge as you will.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Just because Walt doesn't pick up a check, he throws
money on the table. I think this is for me,
Like he's like a big spent here.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I think this is me. I mean, here's a twenty
okay that your meal.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Was okay, Well he's at least paying part of it.
Then is it more than one hundred bucks?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Over there?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Here's the Times here's part whenever he shows up, Dad,
your meal's thirty seven dollars. My kids don't get to
see their grandparents that often. You want to do that,
I'll play the violin while on the twenty should be
enough that this is not even the Then you got taxed,
you know what. Never mind, do't worry about them. So
three big late breaking NFL stories in the last few hours,
We're gonna hit them all right now. Number one involving
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everybody's favorite darling running back ric O'dowdell. Rico now Cuba
Hubbard coming back to play for the Panthers this week,
but Rigo Daddell is on a heater the last two weeks,
unlike what we've seen in the NFL in any of
the past twenty years. He came just sure to be
in the first player to run back to back two
hundred yard games, and uh Dave Canalis said, being very
(22:24):
cagy about the running back situation. We don't want to
get into a situation where a guy loses his job
because of injury. But certain things have to be taken
into account. And I don't know what the actual division
is going to be on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Dude, what the blank. Are you talking about? Man?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Rico Dawdell is your guy until he can't. Don't be stupid,
don't overthink it. The guys. The guy's run for four
hundred yards in the last two weeks. What do you
mean we're gonna give the ball to somebody else? What
the hell are you talking about. I think it's easy
enough to see that. I think Cuba Hubbard would even say, well, yeah,
you kind of got to ride the hotthand because this again,
this guy's at a two week stretch, unlike we've seen
(23:01):
in football in the last twenty years.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
I just think you're in a beautiful spot. This offense
is starting to click for Izick and for Canalis, and
that you go back last year Cheubuhubbard one of the
great fins, nearly twelve hundred rushing yards, double digit touchdowns.
The offensive set is working well, the offensive line playing
well together, and that's only gonna benefit mister young. So
all of that to say, you've got an opportunity here
(23:25):
with a two man. I know it's bad for fantasy owners.
I know it's a sad day, but if you could
use both of those guys and carry the ball thirty
five to forty times, shortened games, win games four point five,
four point eight to Carrie, Let's go Rigo, du give
him the ball five hundred times and keep calling him
Rico Suaeco.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Story Number two. George Pickens, very non committal about his
future in Dallas, loves it there, said today I love
it here, but you know, hey, I just want to
put my talents on display. Anybody remind him that he
keeps ten percent by not leaving these I think he
might understand that they made me to Florida.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Texans. Maybe get three teams in Florida. The Houston certainly
can use a number two next to Nico.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
But you would think George Pickens would say, hey, I
want to be here my whole career. That because he's
had a run the last five weeks and has been outstanding.
I mean, he has been no ceedee lamb doesn't matter.
This Cowboys offense has been incredibly good. And he says, yeah, no, no,
it's not a big thing at this point to say
I'd love it.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I want to be here.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Let's figure it out that you can say I really
want to be here, and then we wait till the
end of the season when I'm a free agent and
then I go to the highest bidder. But for him
to now say, yeah, no, I love it here. But
you know, hey, I just want to put my talents
on display. I gotta be honest with you, and I know,
as good as George Pickens has been, I would be
really nervous about giving him a big contract.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Really. Oh we said that one to the point, to
the point.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Where if he wants all kinds of cash, I'm Jerry Jones,
and look, this year doesn't work out because you made
the horrible Micah Parsons trade. Look, you have a couple
of big draft picks now you're gonna get because of
Micah Parsons. You can potentially replace George Pickens. As good
as he is, he's a guy. I can't give him money.
I can't give him a ton of money for a
long time because you saw what happened in Pittsburgh before
(25:13):
he even got paid.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
And he's like, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Know how many times you have to see George Pickens
is not trying, George Pickens is not blocking, George Pickens
is uninvolved in the offense.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Like he's a guy.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I am completely nervous, and I don't care what stats
he puts up this year. If I'm Jerry Jones, George, Yeah,
I'm sorry, George, I already paying one wide receiver and
we're paying CD.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So hey, that's great, it's awesome. We got you.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
It didn't work out overall, but you had a great
good luck. I would say good luck and good luck
to that team that decides I want to get into
George Pickens business long term.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah. The only thing I would look at is potentially
you can go down the road in the franchise if
you really wanted to go that route, because you do
have the extra draft picks, maybe to bolster the defense
and push that forward whatever it becomes. Going forward, We're
gonna play more Maine and all of those things. He's saying.
Eber Flu's coach his zone. That's what he does. So
I don't know how you're saying gonna make this change.
(26:01):
But five straight weeks with at least a touchdown, two
one hundred and thirty plus yard games in the last
three weeks, he's fun as hell to watch. But this
is one of those scenarios. Like we've talked about the Chargers,
we talk about the Ravens, and we talk about the
forty nine ers of teams where we need exorcisms when
it comes to the injury bug that's in there. With
the Steelers, that wide receiving section has had its share
(26:23):
of issues, one guy after another that they finally just
had to say, you know what, it's been a good run.
Let's get let's.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Get out of here, because you're getting a little bit
bigger than perhaps you should be for your your status
on the squad. So yeah, the cautionary tails are certainly there,
so nervous. Meanwhile, your guy Caleb Williams, Yeah, involved in
a big back and forth now with Troy Aikman coming
off the Monday night game that Caleb Williams in the
last few hours has opened up on During the game,
(26:51):
Troy Aikman very critical of Caleb Williams, which I mean,
come on, dude, Troy Aikman, you just sound.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Like the old guy. Now.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I don't like the way they scored the you don't
like the way they scored the time that won, Well,
they don't want the fact it was a mistackle, like
he threw a pass and they got. This is two
straight weeks he has driven the Bears down for the
game winning score at the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
What does it matter how the play unfold? What does
it matter?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
What? Oh, Caleb Williams has to do a better job
throwing the ball certain parts of his receivers. He's not
a fan of the play. DeAndre Swift that a tackler
fell down. It's like, dude, like Troy, you just sound
like you're mad. And now we may be getting the
reason why right because apparently the big production meeting, which
you know, people want to keep Tom Brady away from
the Raiders. Because this production meeting, Troy Aikman did not
(27:34):
meet with Caleb Williams in the normal production meeting that
you'd have before Money Night football. Caleb Williams couldn't get there,
and so he didn't get there for the meeting. He
said he reached out to Aikman, and Aikman never responded,
which kind of might put Troy Aikman's salty comments about
Caleb Williams on display on Monday Night's something you referenced
to day ago, and I gotta be honest with you,
(27:56):
Troy Aikman. He looks bad. He looks bad again. He
looks like the old guy. I'm bitter. You didn't come
sit down now it's like, is that being I'm just bitter.
I'm bitter you didn't come sit down. I'm bitter you're
not throwing better passes. Like, dude, Like, I don't know
what it is, but Aikman's become really really salty and
and and just much more negative over the course of
the past couple of years, and he's been throughout his career,
and especially this thing right here when he says, when
(28:19):
he said Monday, yeah, well this play, it only happens
because the tackler fell down.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
You didn't have any big plays in her career because
tacklers fell down or guys ran into each other. You
got to pick play you didn't like. I can't believe
he's criticizing the play that went for a touch that
went for a long game rather that set up the
game winning. So I don't understand that. Like he just
sounds really bad about this.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I just really love it. Yesterday there was a lot
of Ben Johnson responding to this, a lot of Chicago
media asking questions about the tone of the coverage, and
you know me, as Ben Johnson does kind of hit
it straight on, and I surmise that there was something
going on with the meetings that either it didn't go
well or it didn't And sure enough, Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Is like, I'm not wearing this. It was sad and
salty about what we're doing. Like Dedre Swift play is
you just go back and listen to the play by
play and you cringe.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Right. His analysis of it of well, luck like guys
fall down, Guys slip tackles all the time. Don't you
normally give a guy credit for slipping a tackle instead
of just saying, ah, it's a lucky play. Okay, Jayden
Daniels dropped the ball, it was raining, he mishandled a
snap and a handoff. That's football, that happens. Go back
(29:33):
in Troy and I've defended Troy's career forever, right because people,
who's that guy? A Hall of Famer? I don't know,
super Bowls winning and efficiency whatever, the numbers are not
the same because he wasn't asked to do the same thing.
But when you're criticism of an offense and it wasn't pretty,
We've talked about it, like the Bears, they're still miles
(29:53):
to go before this thing is really clicking on all cylinders.
But you've won three games in a row, all right,
They don't all have to be pretty not everything's going
to be a perfect you know, thirty five yard bomb
down the left sideline to your guy just inside the boundary.
You know that he gets his separation. There's a lot
of luck that goes into this game one way or another.
(30:14):
I mean, we talk about injuries all the time. Hey,
that guy was having a great game and then he
missed the fourth quarter. What happened? The team came back
and got beat right, Things happen. But for Troy Aikman, Yeah,
the negativity is certainly there. And I think we can
all stipulate we've watched six weeks of NFL football. Would
you say it's.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Been a really clean and great season to this point
outside of a handful of teams.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
No, it's been ugly football all over.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
And you're a Jets fan, so obviously you're green colored
glasses on it this time. But your job, you're still
selling the product. You can be honest with people without
being dour and negative. And if you're mad that Caleb
stayed at the facility instead of going to wherever to
meet you, and then he called you a little bit later,
and you didn't pick up.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
That's on you. I'm sorry your bedtime was or whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
You just sound bitter and old and like oh and
I like dude, you just like I went out of
my way to criticize Caleb Williams. I went out of
my way to criticize that and take shots at the squad.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Again. It's not pretty, but you know what, winning football
doesn't have to be. All you need is at the
end of sixty minutes, are they coming over to shake
your hand and putting their heads down as they do.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
So that's what the Bears got to do on Monday
night time now to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. And someone who's been called the
Troy aikman Oh of Fox Sports Radio. So she's all
a famer because I've seen her being salty on a
Monday night, usually when the Clippers are playing.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
It's Manzi Vaalan, I have a.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Salty a lot of Monday nights. Let's be real. First
of all, happy birthday, Harmon very much. Thank you for
hanging out with us on your birthday. That's what I'd
be doing living in your best life elsewhere, but you're
living your best life here, so it's not five.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Let me tell you about my kid man. My kids
have all the things to do. He's on the ball pit.
Do they still have those?
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Oh no, asked Jason.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Those they.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Ball pits are bou.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Ballits for everybody, including dogs.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
I feel like I've seen people have it for their dogs.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Like it's just a popular thing.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
That's the next level stuff. And we've got a big
ALCS game that I had to come in and solute.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
It is a little bit but happy birthday you to
be hanging out with you.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
The Blue Jays definitely came alive. I don't know if
the weather in Seattle is something that they like better
than the weather in Toronto. I doubt it, but their
bats came alive.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
How many hits now? Sixteen?
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Are we at sixteen hits? Sixteen hits for Toronto? Vladimer
Guerrero Junior has been a perfect four of four. His
last hit was a double and you could tell they
were really hoping it would have been a triple because
then he would have hit for the cycle.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, but it was a.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Double, his second double. He's also homeward in this one.
It is twelve to three against the Mariners in Seattle
where Seattle leads the ALCS series to zero. It's the
bottom of the eighth inning. Okay, we've maybe cut the deficit.
Cal Rawley just hit a home run, home run by himself,
so we've cut the depth.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Sit twelve four, come.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Back is it?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
The long road begins? The first step, Let's go.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
But caw Rawles is his third home run of the postseason,
so twelve to four, it is still the bottom of
the eighth and he in Seeattle.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
This wait, wait, this is like in the episode of
The Simpsons when they said, Homer, we're going to give
you a new identity, and he says, I want to
meet John Elway and he goes, he goes into the
end zone and the announcer says, and thanks to Elway's
last second heroics, the final score of Super Bowl thirty
is done for seven San Francisco fifty six.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Exactly. Hey, that's exactly it.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
This just in.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
Shaan's Sharnia of ESPN literally just tweeted a video five
minutes ago talking to about Lebron James because they have
a preseason game against the Maps starting soon that he's
going to be reevaluated on October thirty first, and that
the earliest that he is expected to maybe make his
Lakers season debut will beat mid November. That they're going
to take a very patient approach before he returns and
(33:58):
makes zeer off.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Yeah, just take little, just take the year. What do
you think is Halloween cost who was going to be
eight seven to seven up.
Speaker 5 (34:06):
The King sparking and where he has agreed to a
five year, one hundred and forty million dollar Rickey contract extension.
Sacramento also signed Russell Westbrook today to a one year deal,
and I fell to us for Thursday Night Football.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
The Bengals are listing.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Pass rusher Trey Hendrickson is questionable for their game against
the Steelers because of a hip injury, and no practice
today for Rams wide receiver Pukinakua because of an ankle injury.
Lion safety Brian Branch's one game suspension has been upheld
by the league after his appeal, so he's going to
be out for Week seven against Tampa Bay on the
ice only four games today in the NHL, the Red
(34:38):
Wings defeated the Panthers already four to one, Sabers over
the Senators eight to four. Right now, the Flames and
the Mammoth are tied at one apiece early in the
second period, and after the first period, the Blackhawks and
the Blues are tied at two.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Back to you, thank you very much, Law.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harman coming
up next, something special for Harmon's birthday.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
We haven't done this in a while, but it's coming
up next Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
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seven years ago today, in a season so incredibly improbable,
the impossible actually happened.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
And with chillaw do you talk about a roll of
the dice. This is it.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
If he hits the ball on the ground, I would
imagine he would be running fifty percent the first base.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
So the Dodgers trying.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
To catch lightning right now, Sach's waiting on deck.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
So the game right now is that the plight high
fly ball in the right field. She is gone.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
There was Vince Scully on the call Kirk Gibson's home
run off of Dennis eckers Lee, and Dennis Eckersley to
this day will tell you the same thing. What are
you most upset about? I'm upset I walked Mike Davis
the batter before and instead of a game tying home run,
game winning home run. Dodgers in nineteen eighty eight, they
win the World Series. They upset the Mightia, the worst
(36:53):
team to ever win the World Series wins the World
Series in a home run, one of the top three
plays in the history of Major League Baseball thirty seven
years ago. Tonight, that's like your opinion, man, I think
I'm pretty solid with that opinion. One of the three
most famous players in baseball history. I feel pretty good
about that. Oh, I just meant the worst team to
win the ro they were terrible. That team was awful. Man,
(37:15):
Mickey Hatcher was hitting clean up for that team. That
team was awful. And yes, I'm still bitter. They beat
the Mets, but that team was terrible. That was an
awful team.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
The Met's playing him like sixteen games in the regular
they go fifteen out of sixteen regular season. All of
a sudden, Oh, Oral hersheis is great now, and that
David Cone can't close his mouth, and Davy Johnson leaves
in Dwight Good instead of going to Jesse Rosco.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Do I gotta keep going?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Are you just trying to get a full lineup of
people that want to come in here and kick your ass?
You already got my mom and dad, you know, because
you're mad at them that they sent me a couple
of bucks.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
And then now you're going back at Oral Hirscheiser a
little bit, a little bit, little bit. I already hate you. Well,
it's I mean, why are you trying to hang him out?
And he's got an off day to day? You need
to worry about anything anymore home, It doesn't matter. He's
gonna sitting around listening to the yoke and the show
up going. Hey, so starting pitches don't matter. Huh, where's
that fool? Where's that fool? After those leftud game with
(38:06):
smelling yamamono? Where is he? Where's that God? I'm still
trying to find his one of one autographed card out
of this year's top chrome because he put out a
big bounty on it. Okay, okay, because he owns a
trade card shop. Yep. Yeah, so I was kind of
hoping to walk off with a lot of merch.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
If I were able to pull that, I would say
the three most famous plays in baseball history Merkle pulls
boner no, which there's no video of that. Uh, but
that makes it, Yeah, it makes it great. I actually
read a book on that. It was awesome, pretty cool
right the end of the season. One of the great
baseball cards. Oh man, it was such a great But
I love reading books about like the early the early
(38:45):
nineteenth cent or early twentieth century major League baseball. You're like,
there's no way that happened. Nope, that absolutely happened.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
You know what else happened on this day? Every page,
No way that happened. Nope, absolutely that happened. You know
what else happened on this day? In baseball history. What's
that Marlins beat the Cubs. Oh, we just celebrated can.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I And it's your birthday and you got to celemate Cubs. Yeah,
best birthday out, No, fantastic, Yeah, good stuff. No, I
would say, listen, the three most famous plays in baseball history.
Gibson's home run, the Buckner play, and Bobby Thompson. I'd
say those are the three most famous plays in baseball history.
I think big plays, surely, but I would say those
(39:21):
are your three biggest plays. Yeah, that sounds about right
and crazy how we had two of them within two
years of each other. Right, you had the the Buckner
play in eighty six and you had the Gibson home
run in eighty eight, right, Like, that's that's really something.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
We got the Willie Mays catch because that's been Yeah,
that's been put up on a million billboards and trading cards,
and yeah, posts is one of the great plays in baseball.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Oh, oh, one of the great plays. Oh, for sure. Absolutely,
probably the most difficult catch made.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Yeah. Growing up, I had a lot of folks around
me that were like, if he just ran into the spot.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
It turned around, he's got it. Instead of measuring it
that way, yeah, you say things like that. Aaron Judge
catches that just loping back and puts his glove up.
Oh no, it probably bounces off. I just glove. I'm
sorry too soon.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah, they've been eliminated. There's a song about it. There is.
The Blue Jays have a song about eliminating the Yankees.
A good thing. They're winning today.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Yeah, yeah, this is where things stand right now. You
thought that Mariners comeback was No. Thirteen to four Toronto
with the lead as the Mariner's bat in the bottom
of the ninth inning. Again, this series is going to
be two games to one. We'll have more on this
coming up in a bit. But it is your birthday
and I talked about this, but obviously we had to
(40:30):
celebrate the play of the day, of course, and we
had the big call by Vin Scully. But coming up next,
have a surprise for your birthday. Jim Palmers fellow birthday boy. No, Jim, Yes,
Jim Palmer here in the underwear like he was in
the nineteen eighty My mom was a big fan. Hey, dip, okay,
we got to talk more about your mom.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
You got talk. I'm a big fan of those Jim
Homer underwear commercial.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
Why not, It's coming up next, right here, Jim and
a surprise for all of us.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
That's next. Fox Sports Radio
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