June 6, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike update Game 1 of the NBA finals. Shai Gilgeous Alexander is showing why he is the face of the league. We made Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers happen. And Rick Pitino tells the Knicks to BEAT IT!
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Here we are, Game one of the NBA Finals. Thunder
lead the Pacers sixty five fifty three, eight minutes to
go on the third quarter. Let me take a look
at my my checklist of reasons why I picked the
Thunder and five hang.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
On SGA will do his thing.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Check The Thunder defense is unlike what the Pacers have
seen before in the playoffs, and that's going to bring
them the championship.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Check.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Okay, everything going according to plan, my carbon, my evil plan.
Everything is going according to plan. Yes, the thunder doing
exactly what I thought.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
They would do.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I feel like I should be petting in a white
cat very in a very evil way.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Going. Yes, mister Bond, it's all going according to plan.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Playing haphazard offense in the first half, did the Indiana
Pacers credit to the ok see defense, but a lot
of unforced and let's just play hot potato with the basketball. Uh,
you know, the Pacers have done a good job defensively
though you look at it.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Okay, see they're only shooting thirty nine percent. Job except Sga.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Sga is carrying them like he you know, which is
what MVPs and great players do. And okay, one of
the NBA Finals is gonna be a little different, all right,
There's gonna be a little bit of nerves, a little
bit of getting used to things. Get on my back,
Get on my back, because I got it and he's
had them the entire way so far.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Allowed them to battle a bunch you know. One of
the things as you're watching it listening to it. Whatever
you're seeing, the physicality that we talked about would be
part of this series, certainly on display full cord press.
The only thing missing was the floor slap like they
were wojah Howski going back to the Duke days.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Uh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I got a Wojo reference in three minutes in as
we go in.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You gom, Yeah, yeah, I got a wo I remember
that guy.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I remember.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Anyway, So you're watching just the implosion of a squad,
yet they're hanging around. You can't play any worse, except
you know, defensively, they did a pretty good job to
cap the results of all those turnovers, big sloppy nineteen
in the first half. But the points off turnovers only nine.
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That's not terrible. That's a good job of covering up
your deficiencies, kind of like they did against your beloved
Nicks a series ago. But yeah, if you don't take
care of the basketball, you got no shot against the squad.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's it issue.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And you know, see this game unfold, right, and you know,
we talked about the Thunder defense, and we gave you
all kinds of reasons why this is gonna be a
Thunder victory. Right the way they play defense. The Pacers
are used to one level of defense they saw in
the Eastern Conference Finals against the Knicks. And it's not
like the thunder have come out full court press, you know,
forcing these bad pat You know, this is not forty
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minutes a hell Arkansas razorback of the nineteen nineties, going
back to the nineties and college basketball.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
But this is the Pacers are finding out.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh crap, because this is what like you would say,
you watch them play in the first half, and you
would say, well, this is kind of exactly how they
played against the Knicks, except it worked because the Knicks
are a bad defensive team. All these passes they tried
to make, wait a minute, guys usually open here at
the end of the shot clock. The Pacers are trying
to you know, first game and trying to feel things out, obviously,
but the Pacers they're just playing the same game. This
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looks like the same kind of game they tried to
play against the Knicks, except they're finding out.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh, when a team is better defensively, it's really more difficult.
I'm shocked. I can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And there's only so much you can do if you're
Rick Carl's only so much you can do with your
the pacers. You can plan for different things. Sometimes you
just have to see it to understand that. Okay, now
that I've seen it, we can make adjustments. It's a
critical Game one for the Thunder to continue on to
win this game because you know the Pacers will adjust
after seeing this and you know going into game two.
But this so far as the Pacers realizing that, oh,
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we're doing the same things we did three days ago,
and wow, we are just getting absolutely boat race while
we're doing it.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Turnovers twenty one to four, thus far, rebounding wise, a
decided advantage for the Pacers in this one. We saw
the change in the starting line of Hartenstein went to
the bench to start things and then came off, and
he was a fire starter when he did come off
the bench, seven and four and a plus seven for
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him in his eight minutes of action. I mean, they've
already gone eleven deep, you know, because Williams came off
the bench for a minute. So you know, you're you're
getting everybody involved, which is what we we predicted. What
happened as this series went went and flowed is that
you know you're you're gonna play up tempo.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You're gonna play with pace.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Uh and you're gonna have to try to slow things down,
change things.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Up as you go.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Wallace got the start twenty minutes for him, he's two
of five from the field thus far. But for the
Indiana side, you've seen Siakam come out, uh and and
he's running the floor and he's making plays. But while
he's filling up the stat sheet thus far, for Tyrese Haliburton,
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you're looking at a two of six effort right now,
five of those being three point shots, which is not
his game.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And uh so again sixty seven to fifty five.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And I love that they're they're putting out all these
these right away facts off of the internet right now.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And I mean they're putting up who do you believe?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
You know?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Who you know?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Trump or Musk? Who do you like? Who side do
you want? Who you got you? No, they're putting up.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Just seven minutes these good well, dude, come on, man,
I mean Trump versus Musk has been I mean that's
bigger than Indiana.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Oh, money in the bank is Saturday, plenty of time
to get it on the car like Kendrick versus Drake,
but only two Drakes.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I mean, watching this today is just it's it's absolute insanity.
But I would be it would be a great final four,
Like say, this wasn't the NBA Finals, it was Hey,
the winner of Oklahoma City, Indiana takes on the winner
of Trump Musk like that, that's what happens, that these
guys are both playing for a spot in the finals.
But I love that they put up you know, the
Google instant searches that up twenty six hundred percent. They
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just put this on the screen. I think it's pretty cool.
Up twenty six hundred percent on the internet right now
are the searches most turnouf verse in an NBA Finals game.
Like that, that is what the most people are searching
right now on the Internet. And I think that's pretty
cool when you when you can bring stuff like that
up and make that part of the broadcast, because yeah,
I'm sure that that is the number one thing of
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man twenty one turnovers.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
We're midway through the third quarter. What the hell is
going on here?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Well, but that's it. You have.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
You can now get stats for everything, like we we
always have our guys Steve de Sager and he cites
the great statist statistician in baseball analysts Sarah Langs often
and you know, off her Twitter account and now commemorated
with the top set and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And certainly for the.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
NBA people are trying to match up for the finals,
it's like, we're just gonna inundate you with different stats.
No team has ever done X, no team, no player
has ever done X. I mean that Haliburton statistics against
the Knicks. Now he didn't win the series, MVP, but
how many times was it?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Really?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
You just had that one at the ready? At no
point has any player done this, this, this and this together,
like all right now, now we're just inventing statistics that
uh and and categories like used to just be when
was the last time a player recorded a no hitter?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Great?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
No, Now it's how many guys took a no hitter
into the seventh before plunking a guy on his shoe
and fracturing an ankle. You know, I mean things like that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon lie from the Fox Sports radio studios.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Now, now tell me the truth. I don't want you
to lie and just say oh no, no, no, no,
no way, no no.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I just don't want you to tell me, to tell you,
tell me the truth, because I think you have to
agree with me on this is that.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Doesn't it feel like? And and this again?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
This is this is fun for me because I get
that it's kind of my way of of of my
team being in it. But doesn't it feel like the
specter of the Knicks is just hanging over this NBA Finals,
Like just the just the spect the Knicks, the conversation,
the firing of TIBs.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And what are they going to do next?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And and the Pacers winning and and the big rivalry
like here they are?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Doesn't it fit?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Doesn't it feel like the Nicks, the presence, the aura
is just is just hanging over kind of like in
Harry Potter in Goblet of Fire when you know Voldemort's
back and and he hangs over the whole book and
it's like, oh, what are you gonna see him?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
What are you gonna see it?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He just hangs over the whole book and you finally
see him, you know, at the end, it's like, oh,
my goodness. Like that's kind of what the NBA Finals
feels like me, Like the specter of the Knicks is
just hanging over everything going on.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Well, it's certainly there.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I mean, cause look, there's gonna be dead points, especially
if you know the thunder eventually take care of all
of the carelessness by Indiana, se what they did there
is and actually do something with all those turnovers. Then
it becomes a blowout, which means, let's fill some time.
Oh what are we gonna fill time with Aaron Rodgers
(09:45):
to the Steelers. No, we're gonna talk about the Knicks
and they're gonna have a parade of all Now they
can't photoshop them into the uniform, but into the different suit,
combination suit and tie, maybe a pocket square, and you'll
just go through the forty seven candidates for the next job,
and you'll just do that bit by bit, game by
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game of the series as it gets away, and eventually, okay,
see finishes the job. But until then, it's more about
the why do we not have a picture and picture
of Paul George?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Who's he rooting for? I don't think it is blue print,
you know, is his footprint is on Bold squads?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I know, but I don't think. I think just now,
I think if you're Paul George, you're you're rooting for
both teams to lose. It's like, you know, I tried
it with both these teams and I left and both
of them look at them back in the finals when
I'm not there. It's like when I was not me
for the Patriots Giant Super Bowl, when I was like, okay,
at the both of them, I said, at least I
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know one of them is gonna lose. I just have
to figure out which team I want to lose more.
But it doesn't matter because in the end, if the
team that I want to lose doesn't lose, at least
I know the other one's gonna lose.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
So that's kind of where I think.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
If you're Paul George as well, you know, I'd love
there to just be a tie, or you know, the
Knicks the hire somebody that just makes people stop, uh
watching the NBA Finals, Like, hey, you get a big push,
and hey, the Knicks are hiring Steve Kerr as their
new head coach and he's bringing Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
With him to New York. Like that, we wouldn't need
the finals.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It would be okay, sorry, because of lack of interest,
We're stopping the finals and it's all going to be
about Steph Curry and Steve Kerr joining the Knicks like that,
that that would be the only thing that that would
stop that from happening, which and Paul George would love
to be both us on the same island.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
But to be fair though, Jason, I mean, the big
complaint about these finals is nobody's watching anyway, so you
don't have to pause anything.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
They can play off on their side channel.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
We don't preempt this for Nicks that has been relegated
to Well, no, it's splitting screen with the impractical Jokers.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, but that's but it's good because it makes me
feel like the Knicks are kind of in the finals,
like they're kind of like, I.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Mean, already claim that by all the guys that are
former Knicks that are part of this. I mean I
just saw movie Top and he hit a three point shot.
Now you want to talk about a guy who was
uh sabato were in the first quarter?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Wow, but hits a big three.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
We got an eleven point game with three minutes left
in the first half. But there's Nicks or I should
say x Knicks all over the place. Yeah, so you
can at least find some solace that it really was
you and not them. I mean, really, maybe maybe you know,
Hot take the best team in the NBA the last
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five years is the Knicks. Look at look at the
blueprint of all wes.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
No, it was a big failure.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
No, no, no, no, because we've talked about that. But we
didn't have all of that. We couldn't have We couldn't
have Top in the same time as we had other guys. Right,
we couldn't have Hartenstein because we signed other guys. We
had to trade Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo for Karl
Anthony Towns. It's maybe the Knicks roster of the last
five years, they were the best that we can hang
a banner with that at MSG. Now, Hot take it.
(12:53):
We'll put it up as a poll question. I'd say,
open the phone lines. Would you have rather they not
have made the deals? Kept and de Vincenzo and Hart
and Stein and run it back eight seven?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
The best team in the NBA the last five years
this edition is the New York Micks.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
See I just Fano snapped out existence in the next
timeline and gave you your other guys back.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Well, I gotta say, if you said, hey, can you have.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Those guys back, I would go, I think I might
like to have those guys, which which I believe if
you turned back time, it was something this guy was
going ecause again because again, honestly, what did I tell you?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Another big reason.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Why TIBs got fired, whether the Knicks are hanging over
the finals is look, they were just out talenting teams
when they were winning games r because I had the
most talented starting five in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
But were they playing together? Was it working? Again?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
We talked about this. They were just out talenting teams.
They didn't work together. Kat was a very difficult fit.
It took mcal Bridges so long to get his role involved,
and now Josh Hart wasn't the same role as he
had last year.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I mean really it was. It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
More time goes on and I think people are coming
around and say, oh, yeah, I kind of see why
they fired Tips. I can't say what happened.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
He had a good run and he gets thirty million
dollars to go away. Why are well this is true, TIBs,
This is true.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
This is true.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
He goes into the Business Hall of Fame, he doesn't
have to coach to day.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
On that extension, if.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You watch the Ai Tips video after he got fired here,
you might have a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Different perception of Tips.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Uh. Jason Smith Mike Harvin live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios again, Thunder lead the Pacers seventy seven sixty
six three minutes to go in the third quarter. Shake
Gildess Alexander having the night right now for Oklahoma City
with twenty five lou Dort five out of seven from
three point range. He is the only other Thunder player
in double figures with fifteen. Meanwhile, Halliburton with ten. Siakam
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has thirteen and twenty one turnovers for the Pacers, who
somehow are in this game when it should be a
thirty point lead right now.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
For Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So we'll have more on this game coming up Game
one of the NBA Finals throughout the rest of the show.
But straight ahead, boy, do we have something for you
because Michael.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It's not. No, it's not Michael Conforto's rb I. You don't. No,
you have to pick a lane, Frostburg. You can't.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Last night, all might say, Jason, you're talking about a
baseball series in June.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
What does it matter to his old team?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Who does.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Sweet release Dodgers have taken the lads. Michael CONFORDA next
delivered in.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Your choice problematic but hey, you know, but but you
know you laugh, Oh, Jason, it doesn't it's a it's
a series in June.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
What does it matter? And now?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
But you can't honk it up today. You got to
pick a lane either.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
It's in June about Michael Conforto.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
That it's it's about Conforido getting a hit when everybody
has packed his bags.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Packed his house.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
How many times do we see that with coaches there's
four sale signs on their lawns.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Conforida was that guy?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, Actually it's medicine because the Mets one that's in
the series with the Dodgers four to three this year.
So Mets it just like the NLCS Mets and seven.
That's where we go, Mets in seven right now, Mets
in seventy NLS shoes.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Boy would love to do it against his old team.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Who does CONFORDO?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Sweet?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Please, Dodgers have taken the laid her next Michael Confordo,
that's delivered.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, it is so there it is Dodgers TV.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
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Are we in that Barbie scene now where like Marvel
seimou Leu and they're all dancing.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yes, I kind of feel like where we are right now.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah, this is the part where she's dating Michael Conforto. Sure,
he's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
We go to the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Do you have a bobblehead yet?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Thunder lead the Pacers eighty five seventy six. And I'll
tell you what we've told you all along the NBA
play you're looking for a face of the league. Shay
Gilges Alexander Right. The guy is everything you'd wanted a superstar.
We talked about what he does, the leadership qualities he
has as teammates love him and no one and no
matter what, he shows up in every big game. You
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can't say that for Anthony Edwards. You can't say that
for Tyrese Haliburton. You can't say that Freevene. Some members
of the Knicks that I don't want to name, Jalen Brunson,
who like maybe once in a while, but he comes
up big in every single game, no matter what it is.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
There's no games where you go. Boy.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Sga had a bad game and he's got twenty eight
right now to lead the Thunder. The Pacers had just
cut it to six, right It was a pretty good
third quarter for Indiana, and the Thunder had the ball
for one last possession and Sga just hangs out behind
the three point line and he's got Shepherd on him,
and he watches the shot clock just tick all the
way down to three seconds and he doesn't have a
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ton of space, but he's got a shot. And and
you know, because only three is there are are cold
blooded and he just puts up a three with no difficulty,
nothing but the bottom of the net, is what Dan
Patrick would say on Sports Center. And now it's a
nine point lead going to the fourth quarter, and you
saw the Pacers their shoulders just slumped at the end
of the third, like all this to get back to
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within six and SGA comes down and absolutely cool, no pressure, No, hey,
things are getting a little weird right now. It's get
on my back when things aren't going our way. I
got us, I got I mean really, I mean for
what we talk about what Jalen Brunson does for the
Knicks and how and how clutch he isn't all of that,
Like SGA is just okay.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
You just stand around and watch him.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Whatever it is, he's gonna make the right play, whether
it's a three with no pressure, whether I'm getting in
the free throw line, whether I'm making a couple of
big passes, freeing up Chet Holmgren for a couple of
easy dunks. Because he's having a tough game shooting the basketball,
like he shows up all the bleep in time. Man,
you want face of the league that as someone who's
gonna be there in big moments every single time you look.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It's SGA. Doesn't get any more crystal clear than that.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yeah, I mean, one of the biggest things with this
squad coming into this series, go back to the to
the last it was we're not done.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
We've got work to do. Right then, we haven't won anything.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yeah, well we'll raise whatever trophy they give us or whatever,
but it's back to the drawing board because we have
a new chess match that needs to be done with
the team that's that's deep, that matches up in a
lot of ways except for the cold blooded killer as
you call him in SGA, get through three quarters, twenty
(20:08):
six shot attempts and just saying it's on my shoulders
to get us across this finish line. Now Dord had
his five to three point shots and other contributors, no
question about it, the turnover battle twenty one to five.
So the defense team defense give everybody a participation trophy
in the best of ways, you know, not as a
(20:30):
pejorative term, but for SGA, it's about the consistency of
thirty point games We've talked about quiet thirty point games.
This one's anything but quiet because it's on the big stage.
And in that case, coming at the end of the
third quarter, you had the Pacers who've shot up to
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what forty seven percent shooting when they haven't turned the
ball over. They've actually played pretty well. Probably they did
that twenty one times.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's tough thing tough.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Right, So it's like you, you have all of these flaws.
You played terriblancing. We're within six, all right, we're gonna
go to the fourth like, hold my beer.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, Face of the League says, no, no, I got this.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
He is a you know, like every single every single
uh a phrase that I could think of, every single cliche,
stone cold killer, just all but they all apply to him.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yeah, but he can't be the face of the league
until we are next annex Canada.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Uh no, no, no, he could be a fair It's fun.
He's on TV now, everybody is watched.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Me.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It's gonna make the next Olympics really difficult. I forget
about France, We're gonna have Canada deal with.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
But think about a US versus The world got that
much harder. I mean I mean the next Canada is
part of the world.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, but I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Next Olympic step is gonna be Forty's not gonna be
making all those threes at the end of the championship.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Kate, like, I mean, like now, he's just spotting up.
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So again, facing the league.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Really every he shows up all the time. Now you're welcome.
You're welcome Steelers Nation.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You're welcome NFL fans because we made Aaron Rodgers to
the Steelers happen today. All right now, if you listened
to the show last night, we did this a couple
of times and we stopped and I said, okay, listen,
here's why Aaron Rodgers is not going to be a
Steeler right now.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Dot tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
When I'm wrong I miss something, I'll tell you. But
now I'm pretty sure Aaron Rodgers listens to the show
and sign with the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Today just to spite me. Jee's there just to spite me.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
But again, stealer Nation, you're welcome, because what did I
say last night? If he really was going to be
a Steeler, all the questions would be taken care of,
meaning he would have a contract and he would say
I'm showing up for the beginning of mandatory mini camp.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Like those two things.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
He doesn't have to be there, but those are two
things that absolutely would be done. Does he sound like, yeah,
that's gonna something, just say I'm done, I'm ready, I'm
showing up next week.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Of course not. He's gonna sit.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
He's gonna wait for the opening that he really wants,
which is either JJ McCarthy stinks or a quarterback gets
hurt and he signs some point later on in the
summer or early part of the season. But the two
things I said that if he really was going, he
would have his contract and he would say I'm out
right now, but I'm reporting, and that would stop all
of the bad optics and the bad headlines of what
(23:25):
is he doing? Does he really want to be here?
All of the craziness and what happens today? Aaron Rodgers
signs a one year contract and says, I'll be at
mandatory mini camp next week. We made that happen. We
dared you into the arena, Aaron Rodgers, and he showed up.
So everybody football fans at Steeler Fan, you're welcome. I
made it happen. I put it out there, and I'm
(23:45):
sure I Rogers sit there and says, you know, I
really don't want to play for the Steelers, really want
to wait, wait see if the Vikings call me. You know,
I really like that O'Connell system, and point Justin Jefferson
is so gooder.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You know, somebody gets hurt. I could go play for
the Bills. I go play for the Ravens. I go.
But no, there's lots like I played for the forty
nine Ers. I could play that.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Oh wait a minute, Oh that Jason Smith Bend always
been saying to it. You know what, No, just a
blank that guy. Hey, hey, call the Steelers, tell him
one year whatever they want to give me, and I'll
be there next week. Yeah, Blake, that guy man. Now
so now he and JJ Reddick, both of them.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
No, I like all the theoreticals, and certainly it always does,
you know, help to hear that so many luminaries, producers,
industry people, quarterbacks and their agents listen to the show.
I mean, we appreciate it, there's no question about it.
But you know, we just add this to the list.
Go back to when Fisher got fired, when McVeigh shows up,
when McVeigh was going to become a member of the
(24:37):
Fox family, and we said, don't go to the light.
You're not done yet. Don't be scared of the sideline.
You know, sometimes you have to have a hard season
of what happens, comes back reinvigorated and ready to go.
And now they're one of the favorites in the NFC.
So yeah, we have all of that. Now, this Aaron
Rodgers thing, now he'd left so many breadcrumbs that it
(24:57):
was all right. I thought he was going to It's
one of two things. Either walks the earth like Kane
and Kung Fu, and he never touches another football except
you know, to show up at a golf tournament when
someone throws him one so he can sign it and
throw it back. Or he eventually was going to be
a stealer because of all of that talk. But what
was curious is not everybody in the organization present and past,
(25:22):
got the memo right, Terry Bradshaw and so many others
just taking him, taking the bat out to smash him
about decisions and not being there again. Did he need
to be there? No?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
No.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Does he need a lot to other than a video,
a DVD or access to NFL dot com to know
what Arthur Smith's offense is. No, he's a pretty smart guy.
I think he can pick it up pretty fast. Right,
and then if he's already been throwing with Metcalf and
other members of that organization, then he's already, you know,
(25:56):
ahead of the game.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Right.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
It's like when Tom Brady was taking guys out to
the park during COVID. These guys aren't sitting on their asses.
They're working, might be not maybe not in the the
same way you you would like them to be where
they're present at at all off season, you know, workouts
and you know, like checking a perfect attendance so they
can get some free tickets to a ball game or
(26:17):
to an amusement park like we did as kids. No,
he showed up when it was winning time and time
to go to work. But I did like the news
coming down this morning directly after us talking about it
that it's like, well, there's another guy.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
We made it happen, man, We made it happen.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Proud how the Steelers have their man. Rudolph goes to
just being a backup that might create noise. As we
talked about a little bit yesterday too.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
You're gonna regret it, though, Jason.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
How am I gonna regret it? I made it happen.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
The Jets one come on revenge game right off the jump?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I thought it was just the Justin Fields the jet.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
You just wait on Justin What about the Justin Fields
revenge game? And it's just this big a revenge game
for him.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
But it was until now Aaron Rodgers comes in and
supplants that it's all revenge.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It's a big revenge. It's it's revenge week one. That's
what it's gonna be. It's revenge. It's revenge of the
revenge of the We gotta have like and we gotta
have one of them as Obi wan Kenobi, and one
of them is Darth Vader. It's gotta be like Revenge
of the Sith. No, it's gotta be that.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
But do we do a thing where he's got to
go become a tourist of the city of Pittsburgh and
all the things around it, like he visits Primanty Brothers.
He's hanging out at the Fred Rogers Museum section like
things of that nature, like he did in New York
Hot Hailing Alley that Jerome Bettis used to get everybody
(27:45):
away because that was the only thing they had. Talking
to the guys at training camp, what are you gonna do?
What's the night out? Go to the bowling alley because
Jerome likes the bowl. That's all we got.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Hey, hot children, I have ayahuasca in my pocket and
my cart again, do you know what that is? That's
something you can put right in a nice cup of
tea right here. It just and then he's just he's
just turning it around and it's like in Get Out
when what's her name is hypnotizing everybody by doing the
teeth with the spoon.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Around the team.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Wow, man, this new, this new mister Rogers ayahuanska stuff
is great And I love this show.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
What's it about? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I just start watching and the next thing I know,
it's like twelve hours.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Later, ready in the hot take theater here I wanted
the program, and there's the way.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
They stirred on my fingernails and a dead body next
to me. I don't know what happened, but I'm just
watching television.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I don't know. That is great.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Exit al Vouti Fresco ex and swollen dome. Jason Smith
with my carpet. So again, you're welcome. We made it happen.
Me being so incredibly wrong. I did hell, Danny, I
dared you in that court where I practically dared you.
You got bullied in that courtroom by the memory of
a dead lawyer. You got bullied into another season, Aaron Rodgers,
by the memory that Jets fan that you let down
last two years in New York.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
We made it happen.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
We made man, Look I did something great for the NFL. Man,
I feel good about come to an end.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
I did.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I made people's dreams come true. Where you love Aaron Rodgers,
Hey him, I made dreams come true.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Man.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
But now that's an off season or that goes away.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
It's a big day.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
You robbed all of us out of We'll get you
the industry of lazy. End of June early July segments
we hear you. We're gonna have to pick up other content.
Now here's Aaron Rodgers eventually going to be a Steeler.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
It's done.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
We can't talk about Rogers because Jason Smith he freaking ruined.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It for all of them.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
You jerky.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
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From someone who had all the pressure in the world
on her today. She had promised a Vin Scully bobblehead
(30:08):
for Justin Frostburg for the better part of the last
two weeks, kept forgetting.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
To bring it in, forgetting to getting bring it in.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
She says to me, last night, if you can remember
to text me at three o'clock, sometimes three or three thirty,
so I don't forget the bobblehead. And I said for Justin.
Because the Mets won in the dominant fashion last night.
A Lonzo hit a home run like seven thousand feet absolutely, so, Manci,
I texted you around three twenty and said bobblehead. Yes,
(30:34):
did you bring the bobblehead in for Frostburg?
Speaker 8 (30:36):
The bobblehead is in studio. It has been handed to Frostburg.
I was already on the road when you texted me.
But I appreciated the text.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I love exactly Michael Conforto. Today, you said between three
and three third.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I wasn't sure what time I was gonna leave. It
depends on whether I was gonna pick up food and
all of that.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yes, so I text you when I text you with
three twenty, that's between three.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
And three third.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
No, no, no, And I appreciate it, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Would you have gone back to get the bobble back?
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I probably would have.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yes, I see there you go. Okay, shame Frostburg.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
She didn't want to hear the shame bell if Vin
didn't make it.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
So, but Rupert wants to keep He wants to keep
bringing up good fourn no good for Look what I
did for you today, justin to make sure you got
that Vin bobblehead.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
He texted me.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Always come my way regardless.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, oh really, because Monty had brought it in. She
had twelve times. She was oh for twelve you know,
she's a point. She's like watching She's like watching Juan
Soto back. She's oh for twelve the last twelve chances
to bring this insta I like that one.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
But she delivered.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Like Michael CONFORDA we did We did it together, Jason.
The Indiana Pacers had nineteen turnovers in the first half
of Game one of the NBA Finals, and they have
been climbing back since those turnovers. Okayse is up ninety
four to eighty two with about nine minutes to go
(31:58):
in the game. There up to twenty three turnovers, so
they definitely protect the ball better in the second half.
But it has been okay, see this whole game. Shake
Gilles Alexander leading the way with twenty eight points, He's
twelve of twenty six. When it comes to Indiana, it's
Pascal Siakam.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Who's leading the way.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
He's got sixteen points. Tyrese Haliburn has ten, Obi topping
off the bench has eleven. So ninety six eighty two
is a score right now, nine minutes to go in
Game one of the NBA Finals. We've also got the
Women's College World Series Championship Finals and Texas Tech is
up on Texas two to one, bottom of the sixth inning.
It's a best of three series and Texas leads the
(32:38):
series one zero. In baseball, after a very long rain delay,
the Astros and the Pirates, I guess are back in
action instead of just canceling the game, and the Pirates
are up one zero bottom of the third inning. In Pittsburgh.
The Royals and the Cardinals in a double header today,
Game two. Right now, Royals are up seven to five,
but bottom of the ninth inning in Saint Louis earlier today,
(32:58):
the Cardinals won six to five in ten innings. The
Cubs outscored the national seven to one, the Yankees blank
the Guardians for zero, and the Rays edged the Rangers
four to three. And yes, Michael Confordo come in clutch
with the go ahead RBI single in the eighth inning
as the Dodgers held on to defeat the Mets six time.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Jason, we won the season series Mets in seven.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
We won four four against you for Mets in seven. Yeah, okay, yeah.
The last time I wish I had Michael Conforta was
twenty fifteen. I'm voting today.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it. I'm okay,
I'm absolutely I'm absolutely fine.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
No, I really am.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I really am fine. I really am fine.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
He's good.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Thank you Mond, thank you for bringing Frostburg that Vin Scully, yes, and.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Thank you for texting me go team.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Uh exit about a Fresco exit. Swalling Dove Jason Smith
Mike Harmon. Eleven point lead for the Thunder ninety six
eighty five, eight minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
Alex Caruso within with a circus hoop and one getting
a knock to the ground by Obi toppin Let's see
if the Thunder can put this game away again. It
feels like it should be a thirty point lead for
(34:08):
Oklahoma City, but instead it's eleven. Now coming up next,
we talked about how Game one of the NBA Finals
is going according to script so far. There's another huge
story out of the NBA that is one hundred percent
going according to script, and it's got to do with
one big time college basketball coach. That's next right here,
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few minutes things have gotten pretty interesting. The Pacers have
(36:20):
clawed to within five of the thunder. It's one oh
one ninety six right now, just under six minutes left
to go. SGA with thirty points. Meanwhile, Jaylen Williams finally
heating up after a rough night shooting the basketball. He
and Lou Dort have fifteen. Meanwhile, for Indiana, Miles Turner
with fifteen and five and nine rebounds. He's been a
(36:41):
huge guy in Obi Top, seventeen Obi Top and seventeen
off in the game game of life for Indiana.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Right, maybe that's what it is for the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Every game, somebody's gonna have the game of their life
and that's how they win the title.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
I mean, he had a couple of big moments against
this former squad last series, but now it's a standout
performance from beyond the arc. After a really rough start
because he was careless with the basketball, some defensive lapses,
but now making up for it on the offensive end.
They've had a tremendous run to get it back to six.
And I was standing up in the studio like I
(37:15):
was at a WWE live event, yelling, this is awesome.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
That's nice. That's that's like really great.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, that sounds really great watching. Hey, I'm sure that
look starting. Yeah, I'm sure that look completely normal. I'm
sure that Okay, Harmon's I don't know what's going on,
but Harmon's doing something. I don't know what it is,
you know what, So you can judge all they want.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I don't care. Radio people, you're by definition.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
So one O two ninety eight, Oklahoma City with the
lead again just under five.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Minutes left to go in the fourth quarter. So we'll
have more on this game coming up in about ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
But as we told you, right, first half, NBA Finals
went exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
According to plan.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
As taking over Oklahoma City defense was fantastic. The other
thing going completely according to plan. What did we tell
you last night about how the Knicks coaching search was
gonna go. They're gonna draw this out because they're gonna
love the limelight and love all the attention. All the
Knicks were a destination. We're gonna be the story that
hangs over the NBA Finals. All the big names are
(38:21):
gonna be mentioned, and this is not gonna be filled
for a while.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
And the next few days are.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Going to be be taken up by all these big
names that we're going to think, Oh, would this guy
be a great fit? Would this guy be a great fit?
I told you it's what's gonna happen. You're gonna hear
all these big names just thrown around, not interviewed by
the Knicks, because then it will look bad if these
guys keep saying no.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
But all these names thrown out there, and what do
we get today?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
What was a big thing that trended because of what
he said last night on the broadcast The Yankees and
the Guardians. Here is Saint John's head coach and former
Knicks head coach Rick Patino saying, Nicks, I don't know
about that.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Nick John does only to be wanted. Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Michael Kay on the sw so I guess he's answered.
If you hear that, allowed Paul O'Neal was chuckling.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Although I gotta say, here's the thing. It sounds pretty
much like Rick Patino is saying no. But you know what,
Rick Patino says, There's no way I'm going there, and
this is where I am. He leaves right, So really
you could you could say, well, that means he's gonna
be a Nick's head coach, because he's never said that before.
It actually stayed right. I'm staying. Iona is my last stop.
I'm not leaving Iona. I'm staying and I I will
(39:33):
finish my current IONA a year later.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Oh, I didn't know Saint John's just gonna come open.
I didn't know that I was gonna.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
This is like Cruise at the end of Jerry Maguire
where he makes the money. Signed to Glenn Fry, Yes,
Glenn Fry of the Eagles as the GM of the Cardinals.
You're gonna pay I know, I know. That's when Patino
and a whole host of coaches are gonna do just
like Dan Hurley did a year ago. It wasn't about leverage.
It wasn't my It was all about leverage. You didn't
(40:03):
or you didn't get the job offer. It was one
or the other. Either way, you got a nice big
pay raise and more cloud out of it. And there's
gonna be a parade of coaches that are currently employed
at the NBA or NCAA level doing the same thing. Hey,
can I get an extra half a million here as
an assistant? Because then I'm I have some responsibility, but
(40:25):
I'm not the first guy to get blown out the door.
So I'll stay there as opposed to you know, maybe
going and fighting to try to really put my resume
up and then being you know, kind of left short
and now I've got to go back with my tail tucked.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
So all this leverage plays across the landscape over the
next couple of weeks, and you get your name in there,
you know, like the natural geographic.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
I'm telling you, man, We're gonna keep track. Every day
there's gonna be a new big name mentioned. Right, So
day one Rick Patino, right, Okay, let's let's see who
Day two is.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
We're gonna get a bit name every single day, and
it's gonna be like the col Ripken streak.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Wow, two thousand straight days of big names.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Larry Brown is rumored to come back, as Nick said, cut,
I'm telling every single day is gonna.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
Be somebody already said he's not going right.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Yeah, maybe he gets another couple of years added to
that contract.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
At you gotta have a few more million dollars. Uh.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Coming up next, Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers what it
has to do with Tim Tebow.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
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Here we are, Game one of the NBA Finals. Thunder
lead the Pacers sixty five fifty three, eight minutes to
go on the third quarter. Let me take a look
at my my checklist of reasons why I picked the
Thunder and five hang.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
On SGA will do his thing.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Check The Thunder defense is unlike what the Pacers have
seen before in the playoffs, and that's going to bring
them the championship.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Check.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Okay, everything going according to plan, my carbon, my evil plan.
Everything is going according to plan. Yes, the thunder doing
exactly what I thought.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
They would do.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I feel like I should be petting in a white
cat very in a very evil way.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Going. Yes, mister Bond, it's all going according to plan.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Playing haphazard offense in the first half, did the Indiana
Pacers credit to the ok see defense, but a lot
of unforced and let's just play hot potato with the basketball. Uh,
you know, the Pacers have done a good job defensively
though you look at it.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Okay, see they're only shooting thirty nine percent. Job except Sga.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Sga is carrying them like he you know, which is
what MVPs and great players do. And okay, one of
the NBA Finals is gonna be a little different, all right,
There's gonna be a little bit of nerves, a little
bit of getting used to things. Get on my back,
Get on my back, because I got it and he's
had them the entire way so far.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Allowed them to battle a bunch you know. One of
the things as you're watching it listening to it. Whatever
you're seeing, the physicality that we talked about would be
part of this series, certainly on display full cord press.
The only thing missing was the floor slap like they
were wojah Howski going back to the Duke days.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Uh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I got a Wojo reference in three minutes in as
we go in.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
You gom, Yeah, yeah, I got a wo I remember
that guy.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I remember.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Anyway, So you're watching just the implosion of a squad,
yet they're hanging around. You can't play any worse, except
you know, defensively, they did a pretty good job to
cap the results of all those turnovers, big sloppy nineteen
in the first half. But the points off turnovers only nine.
(03:03):
That's not terrible. That's a good job of covering up
your deficiencies, kind of like they did against your beloved
Nicks a series ago. But yeah, if you don't take
care of the basketball, you got no shot against the squad.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's it issue.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
And you know, see this game unfold, right, and you know,
we talked about the Thunder defense, and we gave you
all kinds of reasons why this is gonna be a
Thunder victory. Right the way they play defense. The Pacers
are used to one level of defense they saw in
the Eastern Conference Finals against the Knicks. And it's not
like the thunder have come out full court press, you know,
forcing these bad pat You know, this is not forty
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minutes a hell Arkansas razorback of the nineteen nineties, going
back to the nineties and college basketball.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
But this is the Pacers are finding out.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Oh crap, because this is what like you would say,
you watch them play in the first half, and you
would say, well, this is kind of exactly how they
played against the Knicks, except it worked because the Knicks
are a bad defensive team. All these passes they tried
to make, wait a minute, guys usually open here at
the end of the shot clock. The Pacers are trying
to you know, first game and trying to feel things out, obviously,
but the Pacers they're just playing the same game. This
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looks like the same kind of game they tried to
play against the Knicks, except they're finding out.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Oh, when a team is better defensively, it's really more difficult.
I'm shocked. I can't believe this.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
And there's only so much you can do if you're
Rick Carl's only so much you can do with your
the pacers. You can plan for different things. Sometimes you
just have to see it to understand that. Okay, now
that I've seen it, we can make adjustments. It's a
critical Game one for the Thunder to continue on to
win this game because you know the Pacers will adjust
after seeing this and you know going into game two.
But this so far as the Pacers realizing that, oh,
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we're doing the same things we did three days ago,
and wow, we are just getting absolutely boat race while
we're doing it.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Turnovers twenty one to four, thus far, rebounding wise, a
decided advantage for the Pacers in this one. We saw
the change in the starting line of Hartenstein went to
the bench to start things and then came off, and
he was a fire starter when he did come off
the bench, seven and four and a plus seven for
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him in his eight minutes of action. I mean, they've
already gone eleven deep, you know, because Williams came off
the bench for a minute. So you know, you're you're
getting everybody involved, which is what we we predicted. What
happened as this series went went and flowed is that
you know you're you're gonna play up tempo.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
You're gonna play with pace.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Uh and you're gonna have to try to slow things down,
change things.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Up as you go.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Wallace got the start twenty minutes for him, he's two
of five from the field thus far. But for the
Indiana side, you've seen Siakam come out, uh and and
he's running the floor and he's making plays. But while
he's filling up the stat sheet thus far, for Tyrese Haliburton,
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you're looking at a two of six effort right now,
five of those being three point shots, which is not
his game.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
And uh so again sixty seven to fifty five.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And I love that they're they're putting out all these
these right away facts off of the internet right now.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
And I mean they're putting up who do you believe?
Speaker 5 (06:07):
You know?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Who you know?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Trump or Musk? Who do you like? Who side do
you want? Who you got you? No, they're putting up.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Just seven minutes these good well, dude, come on, man,
I mean Trump versus Musk has been I mean that's
bigger than Indiana.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Oh, money in the bank is Saturday, plenty of time
to get it on the car like Kendrick versus Drake,
but only two Drakes.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I mean, watching this today is just it's it's absolute insanity.
But I would be it would be a great final four,
Like say, this wasn't the NBA Finals, it was Hey,
the winner of Oklahoma City, Indiana takes on the winner
of Trump Musk like that, that's what happens, that these
guys are both playing for a spot in the finals.
But I love that they put up you know, the
Google instant searches that up twenty six hundred percent. They
(06:51):
just put this on the screen. I think it's pretty cool.
Up twenty six hundred percent on the internet right now
are the searches most turnouf verse in an NBA Finals game.
Like that, that is what the most people are searching
right now on the Internet. And I think that's pretty
cool when you when you can bring stuff like that
up and make that part of the broadcast, because yeah,
I'm sure that that is the number one thing of
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man twenty one turnovers.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
We're midway through the third quarter. What the hell is
going on here?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Well, but that's it. You have.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
You can now get stats for everything, like we we
always have our guys Steve de Sager and he cites
the great statist statistician in baseball analysts Sarah Langs often
and you know, off her Twitter account and now commemorated
with the top set and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And certainly for the.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
NBA people are trying to match up for the finals,
it's like, we're just gonna inundate you with different stats.
No team has ever done X, no team, no player
has ever done X. I mean that Haliburton statistics against
the Knicks. Now he didn't win the series, MVP, but
how many times was it?
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Really?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
You just had that one at the ready? At no
point has any player done this, this, this and this together,
like all right now, now we're just inventing statistics that
uh and and categories like used to just be when
was the last time a player recorded a no hitter?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Great?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
No, Now it's how many guys took a no hitter
into the seventh before plunking a guy on his shoe
and fracturing an ankle. You know, I mean things like that.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Jason Smith, Mike Harmon lie from the Fox Sports radio studios.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Now, now tell me the truth. I don't want you
to lie and just say oh no, no, no, no,
no way, no no.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I just don't want you to tell me, to tell you,
tell me the truth, because I think you have to
agree with me on this is that.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Doesn't it feel like? And and this again?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
This is this is fun for me because I get
that it's kind of my way of of of my
team being in it. But doesn't it feel like the
specter of the Knicks is just hanging over this NBA Finals,
Like just the just the spect the Knicks, the conversation,
the firing of TIBs.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And what are they going to do next?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And and the Pacers winning and and the big rivalry
like here they are?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Doesn't it fit?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Doesn't it feel like the Nicks, the presence, the aura
is just is just hanging over kind of like in
Harry Potter in Goblet of Fire when you know Voldemort's
back and and he hangs over the whole book and
it's like, oh, what are you gonna see him?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
What are you gonna see it?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
He just hangs over the whole book and you finally
see him, you know, at the end, it's like, oh,
my goodness. Like that's kind of what the NBA Finals
feels like me, Like the specter of the Knicks is
just hanging over everything going on.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Well, it's certainly there.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I mean, cause look, there's gonna be dead points, especially
if you know the thunder eventually take care of all
of the carelessness by Indiana, se what they did there
is and actually do something with all those turnovers. Then
it becomes a blowout, which means, let's fill some time.
Oh what are we gonna fill time with Aaron Rodgers
(09:45):
to the Steelers. No, we're gonna talk about the Knicks
and they're gonna have a parade of all Now they
can't photoshop them into the uniform, but into the different suit,
combination suit and tie, maybe a pocket square, and you'll
just go through the forty seven candidates for the next job,
and you'll just do that bit by bit, game by
(10:06):
game of the series as it gets away, and eventually, okay,
see finishes the job. But until then, it's more about
the why do we not have a picture and picture
of Paul George?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Who's he rooting for? I don't think it is blue print,
you know, is his footprint is on Bold squads?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I know, but I don't think. I think just now,
I think if you're Paul George, you're you're rooting for
both teams to lose. It's like, you know, I tried
it with both these teams and I left and both
of them look at them back in the finals when
I'm not there. It's like when I was not me
for the Patriots Giant Super Bowl, when I was like, okay,
at the both of them, I said, at least I
(10:46):
know one of them is gonna lose. I just have
to figure out which team I want to lose more.
But it doesn't matter because in the end, if the
team that I want to lose doesn't lose, at least
I know the other one's gonna lose.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
So that's kind of where I think.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
If you're Paul George as well, you know, I'd love
there to just be a tie, or you know, the
Knicks the hire somebody that just makes people stop, uh
watching the NBA Finals, Like, hey, you get a big push,
and hey, the Knicks are hiring Steve Kerr as their
new head coach and he's bringing Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
With him to New York. Like that, we wouldn't need
the finals.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It would be okay, sorry, because of lack of interest,
We're stopping the finals and it's all going to be
about Steph Curry and Steve Kerr joining the Knicks like that,
that that would be the only thing that that would
stop that from happening, which and Paul George would love
to be both us on the same island.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
But to be fair though, Jason, I mean, the big
complaint about these finals is nobody's watching anyway, so you
don't have to pause anything.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
They can play off on their side channel.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
We don't preempt this for Nicks that has been relegated
to Well, no, it's splitting screen with the impractical Jokers.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, but that's but it's good because it makes me
feel like the Knicks are kind of in the finals,
like they're kind of like, I.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Mean, already claim that by all the guys that are
former Knicks that are part of this. I mean I
just saw movie Top and he hit a three point shot.
Now you want to talk about a guy who was
uh sabato were in the first quarter?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Wow, but hits a big three.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
We got an eleven point game with three minutes left
in the first half. But there's Nicks or I should
say x Knicks all over the place. Yeah, so you
can at least find some solace that it really was
you and not them. I mean, really, maybe maybe you know,
Hot take the best team in the NBA the last
(12:25):
five years is the Knicks. Look at look at the
blueprint of all wes.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
No, it was a big failure.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
No, no, no, no, because we've talked about that. But we
didn't have all of that. We couldn't have We couldn't
have Top in the same time as we had other guys. Right,
we couldn't have Hartenstein because we signed other guys. We
had to trade Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo for Karl
Anthony Towns. It's maybe the Knicks roster of the last
five years, they were the best that we can hang
a banner with that at MSG. Now, Hot take it.
(12:53):
We'll put it up as a poll question. I'd say,
open the phone lines. Would you have rather they not
have made the deals? Kept and de Vincenzo and Hart
and Stein and run it back eight seven?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
The best team in the NBA the last five years
this edition is the New York Micks.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
See I just Fano snapped out existence in the next
timeline and gave you your other guys back.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Well, I gotta say, if you said, hey, can you have.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Those guys back, I would go, I think I might
like to have those guys, which which I believe if
you turned back time, it was something this guy was
going ecause again because again, honestly, what did I tell you?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Another big reason.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Why TIBs got fired, whether the Knicks are hanging over
the finals is look, they were just out talenting teams
when they were winning games r because I had the
most talented starting five in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
But were they playing together? Was it working? Again?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
We talked about this. They were just out talenting teams.
They didn't work together. Kat was a very difficult fit.
It took mcal Bridges so long to get his role involved,
and now Josh Hart wasn't the same role as he
had last year.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I mean really it was. It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
More time goes on and I think people are coming
around and say, oh, yeah, I kind of see why
they fired Tips. I can't say what happened.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
He had a good run and he gets thirty million
dollars to go away. Why are well this is true, TIBs,
This is true.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
This is true.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
He goes into the Business Hall of Fame, he doesn't
have to coach to day.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
On that extension, if.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You watch the Ai Tips video after he got fired here,
you might have a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Different perception of Tips.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Uh. Jason Smith Mike Harvin live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios again, Thunder lead the Pacers seventy seven sixty
six three minutes to go in the third quarter. Shake
Gildess Alexander having the night right now for Oklahoma City
with twenty five lou Dort five out of seven from
three point range. He is the only other Thunder player
in double figures with fifteen. Meanwhile, Halliburton with ten. Siakam
(14:47):
has thirteen and twenty one turnovers for the Pacers, who
somehow are in this game when it should be a
thirty point lead right now.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
For Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So we'll have more on this game coming up Game
one of the NBA Finals throughout the rest of the show.
But straight ahead, boy, do we have something for you
because Michael.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It's not. No, it's not Michael Conforto's rb I. You don't. No,
you have to pick a lane, Frostburg. You can't.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Last night, all might say, Jason, you're talking about a
baseball series in June.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
What does it matter to his old team?
Speaker 2 (15:19):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Who does.
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Sweet release Dodgers have taken the lads. Michael CONFORDA next
delivered in.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Your choice problematic but hey, you know, but but you
know you laugh, Oh, Jason, it doesn't it's a it's
a series in June.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
What does it matter? And now?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
But you can't honk it up today. You got to
pick a lane either.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
It's in June about Michael Conforto.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
That it's it's about Conforido getting a hit when everybody
has packed his bags.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Packed his house.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
How many times do we see that with coaches there's
four sale signs on their lawns.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Conforida was that guy?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, Actually it's medicine because the Mets one that's in
the series with the Dodgers four to three this year.
So Mets it just like the NLCS Mets and seven.
That's where we go, Mets in seven right now, Mets
in seventy NLS shoes.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Boy would love to do it against his old team.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Who does CONFORDO?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Sweet?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
Please, Dodgers have taken the laid her next Michael Confordo,
that's delivered.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, it is so there it is Dodgers TV.
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I am pretty sure we absolutely made happen the biggest
NFL headline of the week, maybe of the month. We
made happen with what we said last night. That's next
right here, Jason Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
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Speaker 3 (17:13):
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Speaker 1 (17:14):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon.
Are we in that Barbie scene now where like Marvel
seimou Leu and they're all dancing.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yes, I kind of feel like where we are right now.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Yeah, this is the part where she's dating Michael Conforto. Sure,
he's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
We go to the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Do you have a bobblehead yet?
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Thunder lead the Pacers eighty five seventy six. And I'll
tell you what we've told you all along the NBA
play you're looking for a face of the league. Shay
Gilges Alexander Right. The guy is everything you'd wanted a superstar.
We talked about what he does, the leadership qualities he
has as teammates love him and no one and no
matter what, he shows up in every big game. You
(17:55):
can't say that for Anthony Edwards. You can't say that
for Tyrese Haliburton. You can't say that Freevene. Some members
of the Knicks that I don't want to name, Jalen Brunson,
who like maybe once in a while, but he comes
up big in every single game, no matter what it is.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
There's no games where you go. Boy.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Sga had a bad game and he's got twenty eight
right now to lead the Thunder. The Pacers had just
cut it to six, right It was a pretty good
third quarter for Indiana, and the Thunder had the ball
for one last possession and Sga just hangs out behind
the three point line and he's got Shepherd on him,
and he watches the shot clock just tick all the
way down to three seconds and he doesn't have a
(18:32):
ton of space, but he's got a shot. And and
you know, because only three is there are are cold
blooded and he just puts up a three with no difficulty,
nothing but the bottom of the net, is what Dan
Patrick would say on Sports Center. And now it's a
nine point lead going to the fourth quarter, and you
saw the Pacers their shoulders just slumped at the end
of the third, like all this to get back to
(18:52):
within six and SGA comes down and absolutely cool, no pressure, No, hey,
things are getting a little weird right now. It's get
on my back when things aren't going our way. I
got us, I got I mean really, I mean for
what we talk about what Jalen Brunson does for the
Knicks and how and how clutch he isn't all of that,
Like SGA is just okay.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
You just stand around and watch him.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Whatever it is, he's gonna make the right play, whether
it's a three with no pressure, whether I'm getting in
the free throw line, whether I'm making a couple of
big passes, freeing up Chet Holmgren for a couple of
easy dunks. Because he's having a tough game shooting the basketball,
like he shows up all the bleep in time. Man,
you want face of the league that as someone who's
gonna be there in big moments every single time you look.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It's SGA. Doesn't get any more crystal clear than that.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Yeah, I mean, one of the biggest things with this
squad coming into this series, go back to the to
the last it was we're not done.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
We've got work to do. Right then, we haven't won anything.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yeah, well we'll raise whatever trophy they give us or whatever,
but it's back to the drawing board because we have
a new chess match that needs to be done with
the team that's that's deep, that matches up in a
lot of ways except for the cold blooded killer as
you call him in SGA, get through three quarters, twenty
(20:08):
six shot attempts and just saying it's on my shoulders
to get us across this finish line. Now Dord had
his five to three point shots and other contributors, no
question about it, the turnover battle twenty one to five.
So the defense team defense give everybody a participation trophy
in the best of ways, you know, not as a
(20:30):
pejorative term, but for SGA, it's about the consistency of
thirty point games We've talked about quiet thirty point games.
This one's anything but quiet because it's on the big stage.
And in that case, coming at the end of the
third quarter, you had the Pacers who've shot up to
(20:50):
what forty seven percent shooting when they haven't turned the
ball over. They've actually played pretty well. Probably they did
that twenty one times.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's tough thing tough.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Right, So it's like you, you have all of these flaws.
You played terriblancing. We're within six, all right, we're gonna
go to the fourth like, hold my beer.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, Face of the League says, no, no, I got this.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
He is a you know, like every single every single
uh a phrase that I could think of, every single cliche,
stone cold killer, just all but they all apply to him.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yeah, but he can't be the face of the league
until we are next annex Canada.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Uh no, no, no, he could be a fair It's fun.
He's on TV now, everybody is watched.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Me.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It's gonna make the next Olympics really difficult. I forget
about France, We're gonna have Canada deal with.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
But think about a US versus The world got that
much harder. I mean I mean the next Canada is
part of the world.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Yeah, but I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Next Olympic step is gonna be Forty's not gonna be
making all those threes at the end of the championship.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Kate, like, I mean, like now, he's just spotting up.
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So again, facing the league.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Really every he shows up all the time. Now you're welcome.
You're welcome Steelers Nation.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You're welcome NFL fans because we made Aaron Rodgers to
the Steelers happen today. All right now, if you listened
to the show last night, we did this a couple
of times and we stopped and I said, okay, listen,
here's why Aaron Rodgers is not going to be a
Steeler right now.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Dot tell you.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
When I'm wrong I miss something, I'll tell you. But
now I'm pretty sure Aaron Rodgers listens to the show
and sign with the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Today just to spite me. Jee's there just to spite me.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
But again, stealer Nation, you're welcome, because what did I
say last night? If he really was going to be
a Steeler, all the questions would be taken care of,
meaning he would have a contract and he would say
I'm showing up for the beginning of mandatory mini camp.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Like those two things.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
He doesn't have to be there, but those are two
things that absolutely would be done. Does he sound like, yeah,
that's gonna something, just say I'm done, I'm ready, I'm
showing up next week.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Of course not. He's gonna sit.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
He's gonna wait for the opening that he really wants,
which is either JJ McCarthy stinks or a quarterback gets
hurt and he signs some point later on in the
summer or early part of the season. But the two
things I said that if he really was going, he
would have his contract and he would say I'm out
right now, but I'm reporting, and that would stop all
of the bad optics and the bad headlines of what
(23:25):
is he doing? Does he really want to be here?
All of the craziness and what happens today? Aaron Rodgers
signs a one year contract and says, I'll be at
mandatory mini camp next week. We made that happen. We
dared you into the arena, Aaron Rodgers, and he showed up.
So everybody football fans at Steeler Fan, you're welcome. I
made it happen. I put it out there, and I'm
(23:45):
sure I Rogers sit there and says, you know, I
really don't want to play for the Steelers, really want
to wait, wait see if the Vikings call me. You know,
I really like that O'Connell system, and point Justin Jefferson
is so gooder.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
You know, somebody gets hurt. I could go play for
the Bills. I go play for the Ravens. I go.
But no, there's lots like I played for the forty
nine Ers. I could play that.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Oh wait a minute, Oh that Jason Smith Bend always
been saying to it. You know what, No, just a
blank that guy. Hey, hey, call the Steelers, tell him
one year whatever they want to give me, and I'll
be there next week. Yeah, Blake, that guy man. Now
so now he and JJ Reddick, both of them.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
No, I like all the theoreticals, and certainly it always does,
you know, help to hear that so many luminaries, producers,
industry people, quarterbacks and their agents listen to the show.
I mean, we appreciate it, there's no question about it.
But you know, we just add this to the list.
Go back to when Fisher got fired, when McVeigh shows up,
when McVeigh was going to become a member of the
(24:37):
Fox family, and we said, don't go to the light.
You're not done yet. Don't be scared of the sideline.
You know, sometimes you have to have a hard season
of what happens, comes back reinvigorated and ready to go.
And now they're one of the favorites in the NFC.
So yeah, we have all of that. Now, this Aaron
Rodgers thing, now he'd left so many breadcrumbs that it
(24:57):
was all right. I thought he was going to It's
one of two things. Either walks the earth like Kane
and Kung Fu, and he never touches another football except
you know, to show up at a golf tournament when
someone throws him one so he can sign it and
throw it back. Or he eventually was going to be
a stealer because of all of that talk. But what
was curious is not everybody in the organization present and past,
(25:22):
got the memo right, Terry Bradshaw and so many others
just taking him, taking the bat out to smash him
about decisions and not being there again. Did he need
to be there? No?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
No.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Does he need a lot to other than a video,
a DVD or access to NFL dot com to know
what Arthur Smith's offense is. No, he's a pretty smart guy.
I think he can pick it up pretty fast. Right,
and then if he's already been throwing with Metcalf and
other members of that organization, then he's already, you know,
(25:56):
ahead of the game.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Right.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
It's like when Tom Brady was taking guys out to
the park during COVID. These guys aren't sitting on their asses.
They're working, might be not maybe not in the the
same way you you would like them to be where
they're present at at all off season, you know, workouts
and you know, like checking a perfect attendance so they
can get some free tickets to a ball game or
(26:17):
to an amusement park like we did as kids. No,
he showed up when it was winning time and time
to go to work. But I did like the news
coming down this morning directly after us talking about it
that it's like, well, there's another guy.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
We made it happen, man, We made it happen.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Proud how the Steelers have their man. Rudolph goes to
just being a backup that might create noise. As we
talked about a little bit yesterday too.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
You're gonna regret it, though, Jason.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
How am I gonna regret it? I made it happen.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
The Jets one come on revenge game right off the jump?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
I thought it was just the Justin Fields the jet.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
You just wait on Justin What about the Justin Fields
revenge game? And it's just this big a revenge game
for him.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
But it was until now Aaron Rodgers comes in and
supplants that it's all revenge.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It's a big revenge. It's it's revenge week one. That's
what it's gonna be. It's revenge. It's revenge of the
revenge of the We gotta have like and we gotta
have one of them as Obi wan Kenobi, and one
of them is Darth Vader. It's gotta be like Revenge
of the Sith. No, it's gotta be that.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
But do we do a thing where he's got to
go become a tourist of the city of Pittsburgh and
all the things around it, like he visits Primanty Brothers.
He's hanging out at the Fred Rogers Museum section like
things of that nature, like he did in New York
Hot Hailing Alley that Jerome Bettis used to get everybody
(27:45):
away because that was the only thing they had. Talking
to the guys at training camp, what are you gonna do?
What's the night out? Go to the bowling alley because
Jerome likes the bowl. That's all we got.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Hey, hot children, I have ayahuasca in my pocket and
my cart again, do you know what that is? That's
something you can put right in a nice cup of
tea right here. It just and then he's just he's
just turning it around and it's like in Get Out
when what's her name is hypnotizing everybody by doing the
teeth with the spoon.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Around the team.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Wow, man, this new, this new mister Rogers ayahuanska stuff
is great And I love this show.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
What's it about? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I just start watching and the next thing I know,
it's like twelve hours.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Later, ready in the hot take theater here I wanted
the program, and there's the way.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
They stirred on my fingernails and a dead body next
to me. I don't know what happened, but I'm just
watching television.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
I don't know. That is great.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Exit al Vouti Fresco ex and swollen dome. Jason Smith
with my carpet. So again, you're welcome. We made it happen.
Me being so incredibly wrong. I did hell, Danny, I
dared you in that court where I practically dared you.
You got bullied in that courtroom by the memory of
a dead lawyer. You got bullied into another season, Aaron Rodgers,
by the memory that Jets fan that you let down
last two years in New York.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
We made it happen.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
We made man, Look I did something great for the NFL. Man,
I feel good about come to an end.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
I did.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
I made people's dreams come true. Where you love Aaron Rodgers,
Hey him, I made dreams come true.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Man.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
But now that's an off season or that goes away.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
It's a big day.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
You robbed all of us out of We'll get you
the industry of lazy. End of June early July segments
we hear you. We're gonna have to pick up other content.
Now here's Aaron Rodgers eventually going to be a Steeler.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
It's done.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
We can't talk about Rogers because Jason Smith he freaking ruined.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
It for all of them.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
You jerky.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
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From someone who had all the pressure in the world
on her today. She had promised a Vin Scully bobblehead
(30:08):
for Justin Frostburg for the better part of the last
two weeks, kept forgetting.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
To bring it in, forgetting to getting bring it in.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
She says to me, last night, if you can remember
to text me at three o'clock, sometimes three or three thirty,
so I don't forget the bobblehead. And I said for Justin.
Because the Mets won in the dominant fashion last night.
A Lonzo hit a home run like seven thousand feet absolutely, so, Manci,
I texted you around three twenty and said bobblehead. Yes,
(30:34):
did you bring the bobblehead in for Frostburg?
Speaker 8 (30:36):
The bobblehead is in studio. It has been handed to Frostburg.
I was already on the road when you texted me.
But I appreciated the text.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I love exactly Michael Conforto. Today, you said between three
and three third.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I wasn't sure what time I was gonna leave. It
depends on whether I was gonna pick up food and
all of that.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yes, so I text you when I text you with
three twenty, that's between three.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
And three third.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
No, no, no, And I appreciate it, appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Would you have gone back to get the bobble back?
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I probably would have.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yes, I see there you go. Okay, shame Frostburg.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
She didn't want to hear the shame bell if Vin
didn't make it.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
So, but Rupert wants to keep He wants to keep
bringing up good fourn no good for Look what I
did for you today, justin to make sure you got
that Vin bobblehead.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
He texted me.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Always come my way regardless.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, oh really, because Monty had brought it in. She
had twelve times. She was oh for twelve you know,
she's a point. She's like watching She's like watching Juan
Soto back. She's oh for twelve the last twelve chances
to bring this insta I like that one.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
But she delivered.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Like Michael CONFORDA we did We did it together, Jason.
The Indiana Pacers had nineteen turnovers in the first half
of Game one of the NBA Finals, and they have
been climbing back since those turnovers. Okayse is up ninety
four to eighty two with about nine minutes to go
(31:58):
in the game. There up to twenty three turnovers, so
they definitely protect the ball better in the second half.
But it has been okay, see this whole game. Shake
Gilles Alexander leading the way with twenty eight points, He's
twelve of twenty six. When it comes to Indiana, it's
Pascal Siakam.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Who's leading the way.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
He's got sixteen points. Tyrese Haliburn has ten, Obi topping
off the bench has eleven. So ninety six eighty two
is a score right now, nine minutes to go in
Game one of the NBA Finals. We've also got the
Women's College World Series Championship Finals and Texas Tech is
up on Texas two to one, bottom of the sixth inning.
It's a best of three series and Texas leads the
(32:38):
series one zero. In baseball, after a very long rain delay,
the Astros and the Pirates, I guess are back in
action instead of just canceling the game, and the Pirates
are up one zero bottom of the third inning. In Pittsburgh.
The Royals and the Cardinals in a double header today,
Game two. Right now, Royals are up seven to five,
but bottom of the ninth inning in Saint Louis earlier today,
(32:58):
the Cardinals won six to five in ten innings. The
Cubs outscored the national seven to one, the Yankees blank
the Guardians for zero, and the Rays edged the Rangers
four to three. And yes, Michael Confordo come in clutch
with the go ahead RBI single in the eighth inning
as the Dodgers held on to defeat the Mets six time.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Jason, we won the season series Mets in seven.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
We won four four against you for Mets in seven. Yeah, okay, yeah.
The last time I wish I had Michael Conforta was
twenty fifteen. I'm voting today.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it. I'm okay,
I'm absolutely I'm absolutely fine.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
No, I really am.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
I really am fine. I really am fine.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
He's good.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Thank you Mond, thank you for bringing Frostburg that Vin Scully, yes, and.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Thank you for texting me go team.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Uh exit about a Fresco exit. Swalling Dove Jason Smith
Mike Harmon. Eleven point lead for the Thunder ninety six
eighty five, eight minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
Alex Caruso within with a circus hoop and one getting
a knock to the ground by Obi toppin Let's see
if the Thunder can put this game away again. It
feels like it should be a thirty point lead for
(34:08):
Oklahoma City, but instead it's eleven. Now coming up next,
we talked about how Game one of the NBA Finals
is going according to script so far. There's another huge
story out of the NBA that is one hundred percent
going according to script, and it's got to do with
one big time college basketball coach. That's next right here,
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best Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Well, the last
few minutes things have gotten pretty interesting. The Pacers have
(36:20):
clawed to within five of the thunder. It's one oh
one ninety six right now, just under six minutes left
to go. SGA with thirty points. Meanwhile, Jaylen Williams finally
heating up after a rough night shooting the basketball. He
and Lou Dort have fifteen. Meanwhile, for Indiana, Miles Turner
with fifteen and five and nine rebounds. He's been a
(36:41):
huge guy in Obi Top, seventeen Obi Top and seventeen
off in the game game of life for Indiana.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Right, maybe that's what it is for the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Every game, somebody's gonna have the game of their life
and that's how they win the title.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
I mean, he had a couple of big moments against
this former squad last series, but now it's a standout
performance from beyond the arc. After a really rough start
because he was careless with the basketball, some defensive lapses,
but now making up for it on the offensive end.
They've had a tremendous run to get it back to six.
And I was standing up in the studio like I
(37:15):
was at a WWE live event, yelling, this is awesome.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
That's nice. That's that's like really great.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, that sounds really great watching. Hey, I'm sure that
look starting. Yeah, I'm sure that look completely normal. I'm
sure that Okay, Harmon's I don't know what's going on,
but Harmon's doing something. I don't know what it is,
you know what, So you can judge all they want.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
I don't care. Radio people, you're by definition.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
So one O two ninety eight, Oklahoma City with the
lead again just under five.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Minutes left to go in the fourth quarter. So we'll
have more on this game coming up in about ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
But as we told you, right, first half, NBA Finals
went exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
According to plan.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
As taking over Oklahoma City defense was fantastic. The other
thing going completely according to plan. What did we tell
you last night about how the Knicks coaching search was
gonna go. They're gonna draw this out because they're gonna
love the limelight and love all the attention. All the
Knicks were a destination. We're gonna be the story that
hangs over the NBA Finals. All the big names are
(38:21):
gonna be mentioned, and this is not gonna be filled
for a while.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
And the next few days are.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Going to be be taken up by all these big
names that we're going to think, Oh, would this guy
be a great fit? Would this guy be a great fit?
I told you it's what's gonna happen. You're gonna hear
all these big names just thrown around, not interviewed by
the Knicks, because then it will look bad if these
guys keep saying no.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
But all these names thrown out there, and what do
we get today?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
What was a big thing that trended because of what
he said last night on the broadcast The Yankees and
the Guardians. Here is Saint John's head coach and former
Knicks head coach Rick Patino saying, Nicks, I don't know
about that.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Nick John does only to be wanted. Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Michael Kay on the sw so I guess he's answered.
If you hear that, allowed Paul O'Neal was chuckling.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Although I gotta say, here's the thing. It sounds pretty
much like Rick Patino is saying no. But you know what,
Rick Patino says, There's no way I'm going there, and
this is where I am. He leaves right, So really
you could you could say, well, that means he's gonna
be a Nick's head coach, because he's never said that before.
It actually stayed right. I'm staying. Iona is my last stop.
I'm not leaving Iona. I'm staying and I I will
(39:33):
finish my current IONA a year later.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Oh, I didn't know Saint John's just gonna come open.
I didn't know that I was gonna.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
This is like Cruise at the end of Jerry Maguire
where he makes the money. Signed to Glenn Fry, Yes,
Glenn Fry of the Eagles as the GM of the Cardinals.
You're gonna pay I know, I know. That's when Patino
and a whole host of coaches are gonna do just
like Dan Hurley did a year ago. It wasn't about leverage.
It wasn't my It was all about leverage. You didn't
(40:03):
or you didn't get the job offer. It was one
or the other. Either way, you got a nice big
pay raise and more cloud out of it. And there's
gonna be a parade of coaches that are currently employed
at the NBA or NCAA level doing the same thing. Hey,
can I get an extra half a million here as
an assistant? Because then I'm I have some responsibility, but
(40:25):
I'm not the first guy to get blown out the door.
So I'll stay there as opposed to you know, maybe
going and fighting to try to really put my resume
up and then being you know, kind of left short
and now I've got to go back with my tail tucked.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Right.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
So all this leverage plays across the landscape over the
next couple of weeks, and you get your name in there,
you know, like the natural geographic.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
I'm telling you, man, We're gonna keep track. Every day
there's gonna be a new big name mentioned. Right, So
day one Rick Patino, right, Okay, let's let's see who
Day two is.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
We're gonna get a bit name every single day, and
it's gonna be like the col Ripken streak.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Wow, two thousand straight days of big names.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Larry Brown is rumored to come back, as Nick said, cut,
I'm telling every single day is gonna.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
Be somebody already said he's not going right.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Yeah, maybe he gets another couple of years added to
that contract.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
At you gotta have a few more million dollars. Uh.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
Coming up next, Aaron Rodgers to the Steelers what it
has to do with Tim Tebow.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
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