June 24, 2025 • 41 mins
If Tyrese Haliburton didn't get hurt, Pacers would have won Game 7 & be the champs. Game was flowing Indiana's way until that point. Thunder had a clunker of a game but b/c of the injury they were able to win. Plus, why there were huge ratings for Pacers-Thunder NBA Finals Game 7!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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that made that really great play out there in the
outfield is faking the throwback the fans.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Got on him to keep that baseball and welcome inside.
Happy Monday. It is the Dickey love Lady Show with
my bas friend Dicky love Lady.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Look, I'm gonna do things my way, and my way
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Speaker 3 (01:11):
I think I'm gonna go through that the rest of
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Speaker 3 (01:36):
I hate But Steve de Seger gave you the positive
me what was a positive note? You guys hit his
seventeenth home runs in a year.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
When it didn't matter, leaving out the fact that he
struck out with the tying run at you tying runs
on in the bottom of the eighth inning, waving at
a breaking pitch that I told you what was gonna happen?
Did I did not say. He just he just threw
a fastball and Sodo just missed it. He's gonna throw
you a breaking pitch outside the strikes own lay off it.
What does he do? He waves at it for strike.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, But you were speaking to him like you were
the little voice in his head, like you were the
great Kazoo, you know, talking to Fred Flintstone, going hey,
I like that that gleam in your eye. You're staring
him down after just missing one, and then you missed
it by two feet.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I would. I tell you a lot of baseball players
he better if they can hear my voice in their
head before that. Okay, so you just threw you the
fastball and you just missed it. It's three and two.
You think you're gonna see another one? Or is he
gonna throw your breaking pitch off the plate and outside
of the I'm just saying what you think because you know,
you make seven hundred sixty five billion dollars and I don't.
But I know what's coming and you didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
All right, Ronald here with his ninth home runner.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, that's great. Yeah the bra Yeah, brah, that's great.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Brave who's got the best record in baseball?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Not the Braves. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I mean, I'll one up here. Nothing to the diamond back.
We're still nine games ahead of the Braves.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's fine. It's it's really not fine. It's just now
Chris Sales hurt. So I mean that helped y? Yeah, yeah,
I didn't. It doesn't help tonight, doesn't matter, no, but
makes no difference on the grand spot. We have Dicky
love Lady. That is I mean, come on, man, the
Mets sign reliever Richard love Lady today. It was like okay,
And he made some headlines when he first came up
a few years ago. I was the name Richard lovelady
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is a big deal.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And then you look.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I look today and I see why is Dicky love
Lady trending?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And I see it and I go, oh, what oh?
Because he says, I'm now gonna go by my my
childhood nickname of Dicky. When he said he was Richard
like when he first met No, I'm Richard though you
can't know. But now he's Dicky love Lady.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
This is the guy is now realized how much money
there is in trading cards and signatures, because that made
his old signature sucked, this guy, I was. I looked
it up just to see, all right, how did he
use to sign his name? You couldn't tell if it
said Richard. Now you're gonna get every letter, man. I
think I want to.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think I want to put the emphasis on a
different syllable. Like if you say Dicky love lady, okay,
But then if you say Dicky love lady, okay, then
it's a completely different Go love lady, okay, all right, God,
that's better than.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Dicky love lady, Love lady, Dicky Love Lady, Dicky Love
love Lady, Love Lady, Dicky Love Lady, Lady, Dickey Love Lady,
Dicky Love Lady, Dicky late dangerously Close's play like Dickey
Love Lady, right stop.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, I hope he was gonna. I thought he's gonna
pitch tonight. I thought we get to see him tonight,
at least if they didn't lived play, well, we get
to see Dickey Love love Lady.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What is his entrance music? Is it like shot a,
like smooth operator, like Rick Rude?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
No, no, no, I think it's gonna be uh Barry White.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Barry White going on.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I like that, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that that's
a that's a song. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
No, no, I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Good enough of your love.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Mix it up everyone version, and there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He kind of just dances in. It's like it's a
four minute entrance.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
The guy goes, he's got a sprawling red carpet coming
down from this is better than Narco. Oh, here it comes, Hologram.
Barry White. One wasn't on the Simpsons.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
When Barry White was on the Simpsons, he was in
his Love the Love Square. I already come down to
my love square. Everybody's square. It's really big.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh, yes, Happy Monday.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
We're off Dicky Love Lady, New met Superstar. There we go.
At least if they lose, they have Dicky Love Lady.
You may lose something, but we have Dickey Love Lady.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Always got to have a consolation prize, and there's there's
far worse to be had.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Uh Now, obviously a big headline today following Game seven
of the NBA Finals, Yoklahoma City Thunder win, and we
get confirmation of the news that we thought was happening
yesterday during the game, because you know, ESPN showed the
replay five hundred thousand times just in case, in case
you couldn't tell, here's Tyres Halliburton blowing his achilles. Case
you missed the first five. Yeah, you see it right there. Yeah, Okay,
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you got it. God has got it.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
But to their credit, I mean, they recognize that people
suddenly realized that Game seven was being played. Yea. And
you know, if they're gonna trumpet all of those viewers, yeah,
they're always tuning in. The audience continues to change after
time out. Hey, in case you missed it, this is
where we stand.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Now I'm gonna say this because I generally, I generally
don't feel that when a guy is injured, you look
at a game and say, Okay, this game would have
gone differently, This game could have done this way because
obviously Halliburton getting hurt in the first half, the thunder
go on to win. And the big question, obviously the
first one is Okay, if Halliburton hadn't gotten hurt, right,
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if Halliburton played able to play the whole game, is
it a different outcome yesterday? And generally when cometimes, I said, well,
it doesn't matter because this is what happened, and the
thunder one and they do. But I look at that
game yesterday. I was just so unimpressed with the thunder
closing this game the way they did in game send.
It was one of the worst game set. I don't
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know what team has won a Game seven with the
worst performance than the Thunderhead. They shot poorly, they didn't
They didn't really look really sharp offensively at all. SGA
had a horrible game shooting, almost like the nerves got
to them. They tried to close out game six, didn't
have it, tried to close out game seven. It just
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so happened that the Pacers are playing a game. Now, Okay,
now you've taken one of our top two best players
and a guy who's gonna have the ball the majority
of the time away. What's going to happen. This should
have been a game where when Halliburton goes out, it
should have been a ten point lead at halftime. For
Oklahoma City, it should have been a twenty five point lead,
and it should have been middle of the fourth quarter.
Everybody's yelling at each other on the bench and reserves
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are hitting three. But they were just so unimpressive. And
this is the worst part for the for the Pacers
because they have to see that and go, Man, if
he didn't get hurt, what would happened. I'll tell you.
If Halliburton stays in the game, the Pacers win, the
Pacers the World champions, because that game was going a
very PACER's way, right. You were at halftime still even
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without Halliburton. At the end, it's a one point game
and the Pacers had the lead. The Pacers, this is
kind of what they did the entire playoff. No matter
what happened, they are always able to stay close enough
to reel you in before they could, they could get
at you in the third and fourth quarter, right, because
that's really what the Pacers would always do, right, Their
pace would get to you. The Stars would tire in
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the fourth quarter, and by the time you got to
middle third, fourth quarter, guys are a little bit more
open for their threes, a little bit more offenses flowing
a little bit more, And we've seen that the entire playoff.
That's what would have happened if Halliburton hadn't gotten it. Yes,
you had a big night from from Matherin off the bench.
Of course we've seen that big night from Connell off
the bench, but it's a different flow to the offense
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when Halliburton is running things in his helter skelter way
and being able to get in and come back out
and find players. This game was going the PACER's way.
They were keeping it close, they were playing their pace,
they were imparting their well on the game. They started
out shooting threes pretty well. They wind up not being
able to hit anything in the second half, but this
game was really going the Pacers way. And then at halftime. Okay,
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the Thunder come out in the third with a big run,
but at this point it was all right, what are
the Pacers really going to do? We know that you're
limited and without this happening, we know you're not going
to hit your threes. We know you're not gonna You know,
as good a player as McConnell is, he's not going
to be someone who finds finds players wide open shots
like Halliburton does. That's not going That's not going to
be a part of what this offense is in the
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second half. So yeah, in the third quarter they go
out and Okay, they're up big, and then the Pacers
come back and they make it a close game midway
through the fourth quarter. I mean, I'm watching this, I'm saying,
if Halliburton's here, this game goes a different way. And
as the second half goes on, the game would start
tilting towards the Pacers and their pace of play, and
you would see the Thunder getting tired and suddenly it's
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a big question mark and a little bit of choking
going on. Hey, we're not closing out this game at home.
We have the best home court advantage in the NBA.
SGA is not making shots. This game would have gone
the Pacers. We'd be talking about the most improbable NBA
championship that we've seen probably since the Pistons beat the
Lakers back in two thousand and three. Like that two
thousand and four, too soon? Oh sorry, man, sorry, this
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would be talking about that if Halliburton didn't get hurt.
That's how that game was going to day.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
No, that's it watching that game unfold, and certainly something
we talked about a lot with Aliburton and the injury
and thresholds for pain discomfort and how serious it was
in terms of minutes played and how he looked going
back to game six and he comes out like a
house of fire and nails three three point shots very early.
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The running joke in the Twitter verse immediately was like, Wow,
he's already cashed the over for all these people with
their three point prop bets. McConnell great at getting his
own shot, not a great distributor for the game, Nemhard
is your leader with six assists, so not a lot
of moving the ball around to the open man once
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Haliburton's out of the game, so certainly it bogs down there.
For the thunderside of things, Yeah, they shot forty percent,
so Indiana's defense did his job, missing a number of
wide open looks. I can't tell you the number of
times you're throwing your hands up going he's standing by himself.
He's basically he could pull out any type of scientific
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implement to calculate angles, and he's still missing the shot.
That's how much space you had. Lou Dort the most
accounted for participant in that regard, but all of it
to say right and chet Holmgeren finally played a big
game for them, came up with a number of blocks,
defensive stops, but it did feel like the game was
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still there to be had if you could have made
one stop here. He kept Sga off the foul file stripe.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
He got to the line twelve times over the course
of the game, and that's where he imparted. Part of
your prediction did come true and that he lived at
the pre throw line at times. But for Indiana and
for Carlisle, there are only so many strings he could pull.
Once Aliburton went down, you got big efforts from McConnell.
I mean, Alex Crusoe had to be stopped in the interview,
(12:28):
Hey how do you stop? TJ. Mcconnoy. Did you ever
think you'd get that question? Yeah, how do you stop TJ?
How do you stop TJ? McConnell, and the lookout of
fans like wow, okay, and Matherin showed up in a
big way. He'd had seventeen points combined his prior to
three games, right, So all of that that, you got
that effort, but in the end, it's just not enough,
and Oklahoma City walks away with the title. And it's
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funny because all throughout the playoffs, through the regular season,
it became a Wow, look at the They've got the
blueprint and all this, and now we're watching them walk
away with the title, going I'm not impressed. And we
watched a lot of their games, right, so like they
were on a lot and we got a lot of windows.
But you come away going, wow, they had a lot
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of issues that could have been exploited if you had
your playman.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I'm telling you. And that's added heartbreak. If Halliburton was
healthy and he played a regular game, Yet we're talking
about the Pacers being the champions that it would have
happened that way.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I just wanted to see what kind of defensive structure
Carlisle would have had for the fourth if you had
all five of his normal starters, exit out about a
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few minutes, including way do We Tell you what the
final numbers were for Game seven ratings wise? Oh my
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on Wanna Bet as well. It is Jason locking for it?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Jay?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What's happening?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Man? How are you going on? Guys?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Dude?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Did I get a line? We're gonna get a line
on the Dodgers Dodgers, Dodgers, Dodgers. I don't care who
they're picking. Can we get a line on that game?
I want Dodgers run line. I don't really care who.
How they pack it together anyway.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, Frostburg will see what he can do on that
since he's waiting for the Dodgers too. Uh No, but
I wanted to ask you, so you want to bet
Frostburg cash with Trevor Rodgers earlier? He said, so he's good?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Oh good for him?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, well done?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Uh Now, I saw want to bet you actually have
your first bet of the nfls You had their first
Week one bet?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Ready to go for Week one? What is it.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I made it over the weekend. I grabbed uh the
Cardinals laying four and a half at New Orleans and
this thing opened at three, and some places already have
it at six. And I think once we see the
atrophy word, but I'll use it anyway, that is the
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Saints quarterback situation. And as they have to start, you know,
showing what they have and don't have through the course
of the preseason, I just don't think that that four
and a half is going to do the trick. I
think the Saints of the worst team in football. I
think the Saints don't really have much of a of
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a strength from a roster standpoint. It's a coach who
may or may not be ready for this. It's a
GM who's really let that thing rot with no real
checks and balances from ownership. And I'm not a big
Kyler Murray guy, and I don't like to back Kyler
Murray as a favorite. But again, I think the number
I'm getting here by the time we get the opening
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day will look pretty damn good. And that's a Saints
team that you go back to twenty twenty two and
look at the Saints at home outside the division, the
only teams worse against the spread are Atlanta and the Patriots,
or the third worst team in those situations. And Kyler
Murray Week one has been damn good. Ten touchdowns, three interceptions,
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seven yards per rush. You know, he usually comes out
shot out of the cannon. The problem is, want to
get some bumps and bruises around Week eight, week nine,
That whole thing tends to crumble. But I think Arizona's
defense will be you know, adequate. Their their fringy ish
playoff team for me. And again, I think the Saints
are there with the Browns as the worst team in football.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
There you going week one firing already out.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
The Saints are the worst team in football last year,
right before and then they beat the Cowboys. They was like,
oh look, how good the.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Saints remember that. Wow, it's a lifetime ago, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Nose Chickens came home the ruse pretty quickly, but they
did have They were fun for a couple of weeks
in September.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean I'm looking at the rest of the Week
one slate. Now you got me salivating because that Steelers
Jets game. You're looking at a two and a half
or three point spread there, Jason Jet getting points.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Our buddy Eric Tacilius is on that one, and he
likes the under that game, specifically Jet under the team total,
and I get that as well. I mean, Tomlin's defenses
usually start the season pretty well.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I think taking the Jets in the I think taking
the under in Jets games the whole season is going
to be like, I think you can run that every week.
Jay taking the under in Jets games, I think that's
a week one.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, and I'm done. Tomlin on the road as a
dog or as a small favorite. You can just play
that money line and you'll do pretty well. And he
obviously knows fields incredibly well. And I think they'll get
this Watt thing taken care of and whatever Aaron Rodgers has.
I guess we'll see the best of it there. So yeah,
there were like four games that kind of stood out
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to me, and those were two of them.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, if nothing else, we know that Rogers doesn't think
much of the Jets in their run game.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I guess he shouldn't because it completely went in reverse
once he got there, so he probably, Yeah, I guess
you shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Jason Locking for our guest the Jason Smith Show with
Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
so Jays, as we get here now and we're getting
set now, teams are going away sign and see what
they have before we start camp. There's some big unsigned
players that we're still waiting to see drop. We've heard
rumors of guys like Amari Cooper and other players, like
do you see anything happening in the next few weeks
(20:24):
as far as hey, some of these free agents that
we expected to have jobs, big names could wind up
signing somewhere. They're gonna have to wait till after camp starts.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I think some it'll probably be really close to camp
at this point. Like I mean, a lot of people
this is their only time of year to actually spend
time with their family and have a couple of weeks
at the beach and all that. So not that you
can't make a phone call here or there, but it's
not real pressing, I think as we get closer to
teams reporting. But yeah, I mean there's interesting names out
there for sure. I mean Simmons, you know, Zadarius Smith,
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metchn you know, those are some guys you know on
the defensive side of the ball. Who you know, I
think we'll certainly be playing football somewhere this year. Jdaveon Clowney, right,
I mean, if you really dig in on his numbers,
like you did not have a horrible season, might any
stretch of the imagination of a Panthers team that you
know doesn't really play to his strength. He's a bit
of a front runner, right him on a team that
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was underachieving even by those their lowly standards early in
the year, and the quarterback change and all that. But
you look at his past rush win rate, you know,
you look at his percentage of pressures per pass rush,
you look at you know, some of his metrics. They
we wasn't what he did the year before in Baltimore,
probably his best season ever. But like that, he ended
up back with the Ravens. I mean, I I don't
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think that's out of the question. So, yeah, there's there's
some there's some interesting guys out there, but this is
kind of the duldrums right now.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Jason. Let's go to the fun and exciting world of
the AFC South, go to Indianapolis. Anthony Richardson's saying his
shoulder injury isn't even a bump in the road, but
Daniel Jones just might be. What do we think about
that set up?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I just don't truck the durability of either of those guys,
you know. I mean, they played the game one way
and it hasn't worked out real great for them. Leslie Richardson,
who's missed more time than he's played. I do think
their defense could be interesting, your quasi interesting. I guess
this is Chris Balid's last dand it certainly should be.
(22:28):
I think Daniel Jones is gonna end up being the guy.
Now does that guarantee much? Know? Because we know that
his play can oscillate pretty wildly and generally tends to
be not great. So I'm sure they'll get a look see,
you know, both of these guys. I'd be surprised if
Daniel Jones doesn't find a way to go in there
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week one. It's just such a bad division. Like I
don't think the Texans are the juggernaut that people make
them out to be by any stretch. I figure win
that division. I kind of like the Colts in a second,
because again, I think the defense could be interesting and
keep them in some games. Jacksonville defense was such a
train wreck. I don't think that coaching staff is fixing
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it overnight. I think the quarterback is what he is.
The Tennessee might take some baby steps, but they've obviously
got a huge hole to crawl out of. So I mean,
I could see the Colts being the second best team
in this division, but I don't think that's going to
be worth a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Jay, let's stay in the AFC. The Shador Sanders situation
last week, the two traffic violations that came out. The
Browns really didn't have a comment on it. Big deal
for him, you know these two things that happened. Or
will this be Hey, they we'll hit reset when when
camp starts.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Well, look everything with him it's different, right, I mean,
it's it's a big deal. His fall in the draft
was as big of a deal as I can remember,
Like a story like that dominating all three days in
the draft. It just doesn't really happen. Everything about his
dad is outsized, so now everything about his last name
is outside. So it's not going to be normal. Nothing
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about that quarterback competition and the four or five headed
monster that it is is going to be normal. I
don't think it's going to like Linger. I don't think
people rough preseason are going to be like, oh, let's
go to the traffic stuff. I just don't, you know,
I don't think there's going to be a corollary or
(24:25):
draw there. It doesn't mean some people won't try to
draw it. But I mean he's a young person. You know,
he's in limelight, and people tend to slip up for
one degree or another. I think if he's given a chance,
if that becomes or is something of a fair fight,
(24:47):
then again, I don't know that he's not the next
guy up after Flacco and after that runs its course,
however quickly that is, and that poor guy I hope man.
I hope he's got some sort of or like Michelin
manned stuff wrapped around him, underneath the pads or on
top of the pads, because I think he's going to
take a beating. But yeah, I mean, I don't know
(25:10):
how they're going to divvy up all their reps. I
don't know how everybody's going to get enough work. They're
going to have to different days. You know, it's going
to have to be one guy getting the scheft a
little bit. How much do they think black on the
you know, needs to run stuff like he's been there before.
But you know that's like two play callers ago, so
how much of that is still there? I mean it's
the Fancy's offense. So I mean I wonder if at
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a certain point you have to kind of just say internally,
if not externally, flackos our guy. He doesn't need a
ton of reps, right, He's been really good coming in
cold as a backup for years. Like let's let's you know,
give these developmental reps and these evaluation reps to these
kids so we can figure out our pecking order and
get somebody out of here or maybe two guys out
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of there, and then you know, put our football team together.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Let me end with going back to Jason's Jets thirteen
eleven and fourteen. That was Crystal Palace's record. Well, Woody
Johnson's attention to Crystal Palace allow the Jets to thrive.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Oh, I mean, I'm trying to what was their record
when he was in London.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I'm trying. It's not been over a decade.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I don't think it was great. Yeah, I just feel
sorry for supporters of Palace really, that's like, you know
what I mean, Like We've got to send tentacles out
all over the world for Woody Johnson crushing fan bases
like that's a shame, that's that's that's too bad. Yeah,
I don't know, keep them away from center bacha basketball
(26:38):
or whatever. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, he's on Twitter at Jason Locking for that is
at Jason Locking for Wanta bed as well. Hey, Frostburg,
frost will give you whatever update you need on the Dodgers, Jay.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
So just just I'm checking all these books.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Somebody give me a line before I go to sleep
if you want to hit that.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Now FROSTMCGUARDI said they're up five. Nothing again. Information from
Frostburg on the Dodgers. Sometimes it's true, sometimes it's not.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Just so tomorrow I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, all right, very good, Take it easy, Jay.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
No, the Dodgers do not play till no, it is
an off day after a very long Would they have
twenty three games in twenty four days or something like that, Yeah,
which is why we kept seeing Keith Arnandez Pitch and
everybody here in Los Angeles. It's the worst thing that's
ever been done in the history of the sport. You
know who did play today though, who's at the mats
and lost?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, that's okay, it's all right. Are you ever going
to beat the Braves?
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Did?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Don't you win in your beat the streak? Well, it's
funny you say that, okay, because all right, I'm invested.
I need I need to say yes, we have okay,
you want the good now?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
No good. Good news is Dad took a we got
a four game streak in the MLB street all right.
Because he said to me, because it's my turn to
pick today, said who do you want? And I said
Aaron Judge Judge Homer's in the first inning. And I
was like, goes, wow, great pick. I go, well, my
pick was only Aaron Judge because if you didn't get
a hit, I could blame you. He said that tracks.
But we should be we should be at six, but
we're not. We're at four because remember I told you
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the first one last week when he put in for Andy,
Pa has yeah, and he forgot to put in He goes, oh,
we have him the next day instead like.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
How did you not put him in the game is
in an hour? How did you miss putting him in?
So we didn't like, all right, great, So the next pick.
You know that I picked Otani. Okay, great. He picked
Ellie de la Cruz. Awesome, all right, great Ellie. Ellie
de la Cruz gets a hit first time up. All right, awesome.
And I'm like, all right, Dad, I'll pick the next day.
He goes, oh, no, no, somehow I put in Ellie
day la Cruz for tomorrow. I go, no, So we
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didn't get it there, but he got a hit in
the next one.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
So we're okay. And now he's how does he do? Hey,
who's your pick today? And I said, gim me judge
for today. Okay. So now we're at four. We could
be at six.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Do you start by asking him what day of the
week it is when your guns?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
This is what This is what I said to him.
I said, Dad, okay, so it's the MLB dot Com
the streak thing. If you pick someone to get a
hit every day, fifty seven days in a row, fifty
seven games a row, you win five point six million dollars.
And I said, Dad, here's the thing I can tell
you this is that the contest could be just for you,
Jason and your dad. Just get a pick in every
day for fifty seven days in a row.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Doesn't have to get a hit, doesn't have to get
a hit, just get a pick in fifty seven days
in a row.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Okay, we're five days into this already. We would have
failed that twice. Okay twice, we would have failed that.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We got five and a half million dollars. All you
gotta do is get a pick it twice. He doesn't
get the pick in once because the game had started,
said Dad, that was a good one. I said, Dad,
give me link. So so now this is this is now,
this is now twice that this has happened. I'm like Walter, Hey, Dad, okay,
all right. So but the streak is at four. I said,
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you're up tomorrow, and I said, okay, I go, don't
screw it up. And you already told me he's going
mookie bets tomorrow. So going Mookie because I'm gonna go
check the site. Make sure that picks in. Otherwise yourself. Yeah,
make sure. Hey, I got a call MLB dot got
yell listen, I'm Jason. I listen to my dad. Just
call me when you don't have a pick. Okay. And
so you know, people are telling me on social media,
other people and my friends that have done this called
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you know, you can do two picks a day.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
And I go, you see where we're at.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Let's work up to two picks, but get one pick
in for one day at a pretty consecutive consistent Then
we'll work on two picks for a day. An then
we'll do that. All right, let's just worry about getting
one pick in per day because we're failing at that.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Long road begins with that first step. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
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(30:50):
Steve the Seger.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
I enjoyed that story of mentally just the record, get.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It, hey, just get the picks, and not once but
twice we've already lost.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Don't get him stuck on All Star voting. You can
do that five times.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
No no, no, no, so talking on see we got
to work up too far Man, too far by the way.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
In Cincinnati tonight, La de la Cruz three hits, three RBIs,
including a homer. The Reds beat the Yankees six to one.
But yes, the one was an Aaron Judge home run,
his twenty eighth of the year. You want home runs
and streaks, cal Raley hit his thirty second home run
of the season Seattle one at Minnesota in the game
on FS one today eleven to the final. The Twins
have lost four in a row. Cal Rally has four
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straight games with a home run for the first time
in career. It's six homers his last six games total.
They got the win here and now it's time to
take a look at the fact that Johnny Bench had
the record most home runs before All Star Break by
a guy who's primarily a catcher nineteen seventy, Bench had
twenty eight playing over half a season. Cal Rally, in
(31:51):
under half a season, has thirty two at this point
looking ahead, most home runs ever by a switch hitter
for a season is fifty four by Mickey Mantle in
nineteen sixty one. This is the think he can a second.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
He can set most home runs by a catcher all time.
Just what he's doing this season, You mean he might
get to like four hundred and fields. He hits a
home run every day.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Last year was Anthony Santander right, pretty much hit a
home run every day. Cal Rowly is hitting a home
run every day.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
So you mean that he's gonna double the home run
total on the second half of the same compared to four.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Hundred and fifty home runs, and the Mariners will still
just miss the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
They started multiplying Steed like Rock and Jock.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
You know what's gonna happen. He'll get in the home
run contest.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
That'll be it.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
He'll have ten home runs in the second half, and
that's all anybody will talk about. Jason loves the home
run contest. Pittsburgh winner at Milwaukee five four, ending the Brewers'
four game winning streak. Saint Louis over the Cubs eight
to two. By the way, Cubs pitchers showed to Imanaga
after a straight hamstring will rejoin the rotation Thursday. Arizona
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won ten nothing at the White Sox, but Arizona slugger
au Heennio Suarez left hit by a pitch on the
hand X rays were negative. He just won NL Player
of the Week for a third time this year. It
was Atlanta three to two over the Mets. The wind
to Spencer Schwell and Box seven innings of work, Baltimore's
Trevor Rodgers eight innings of pitching is the Orioles shutout
Texas six nothing. Jackson Holiday three hits, three RBIs the
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starting pitcher for Boston tonight in Anaheim is ex Dodger
Walker Buehler. He allowed five runs in the first to
the Angels, including a couple of bases loaded walks and
the bases loaded hit batter. It is the Angels five
to three over Boston. In the top of the fourth,
Bueller is still in there.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
The National is not doing well. If he's goal is
to get back to the Dodgers at the trade deadline.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
No, they're still calling Bueller Washington. With four runs top
of the fourth, it is now a four to one
lead at San Diego. In the bottom of the fourth,
Toronto's Vladimir Carrera Junior now leads the All Star voting
at first base, ahead of the Yankees Paul Goldschmid. In
the American League, Pacers guard Tyrese Halliburton is reportedly having
surgery tonight for his torn achilles from last night. He
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could miss next season. And Yes, Oklahoma City's Game seven
drew amazing ratings. Guys, the series had been averaging about
nine million viewers, largest NBA audience last night since the
twenty nineteen finals over sixteen mil. In fact, over the
past year, the top non football events are the World
Series clincher Dodgers Yankees last year and the March Madness Final.
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We're about eighteen million viewers each Kentucky Derby seventeen million.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
This was up close to that.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Very impressive, especially considering again how low the first six
games were.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Thank you, Steve Oh, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from
the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, we got
the play of the day and the real takeaway, the
real thing to know about. Why Game seven's ratings were
so much higher, the highest Game seven in years? Why
this blew out the ratings the rest of the series.
Because next one and pl no, dude, that would be
a ratings record.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Oh why We'll tell you next Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
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 (35:18):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Big take on the NBA Finals coming
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Speaker 2 (35:56):
Ronald gives this a ride to center field.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
How far is it gonna go?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Get tune it NOTHINGNA has done it again?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Is that like mine?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Not of Keim Loss? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:15):
The kid that made that really great play out there
in the outfield is baking to throw back.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
The fan fall on him to keep that baseball. Yeah yeah.
Brains Radio Network on the call, Hope is not a
strategy Smith.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
They're not playing that shit. No, it's not happening. They're not.
I got the full chance and bounce going. It almost
lines up well with the MLS game we're watching, like
good terms of the bounce. You know what, Hey, Luis
Suarez was going to be the play of the day.
But now Miami was up to nothing and now it's
tied two to two. Two going into ninety minutes.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
They've given up two goals in the least ten minutes
to tie the game.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
This is where we need the lip reading accounts to
really get after what MESSI had to say.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, no, MESSI not Jason. Let's be honest. The Braves
do own City Field well right right now, they've beating
the Mets. For the Braves are staying in their season
because they've been able to beat the Mets the last
two times they've played. I'm not happy, but okay, it's
still June. It's all right.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Ronald Lacuna Junior has one hundred and oneted bats on
the air already, fourteen extra base hits.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Bah Let's talk about ratings, because the NBA Finals ratings
for Game seven came out and they are terrific. I mean,
I know we talked about the raidings all the first
few games the NBA Finals. People aren't watching it's Indiana,
it's Oklahoma City. Blah blah blah. I tell you, look,
(37:41):
ratings stories, when you talk about low ratings are generally irrelevant. Right,
Generally that's the way because people are watching many different ways.
People are still paying attention. But yeah, okay, you're watching
fewer traditionally, you're watching more other ways. But here's a
good story. Because Game seven the highest NBA rated game
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Finals in six years. They average nearly seventeen million people
watching on ABC and ESPN, plus the audience peaked at
just over nineteen million people during the second half. Right,
first time we've seen those numbers since the Raptors beat
the Warriors in six games in twenty nineteen. Right, the
first time they've had more than sixteen million. It's a
(38:26):
great story now to talk about this, to want to
have a really constructive ratings conversation about the NBA, and
all ratings are up here ranging down here.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Comes back to the old you know who like it,
don't want? Right right there is you don't like watch
Kevin Durant, which we'll get to. But we have become
a we watch when it matters society in sports because
we get because seasons are so long and there's so
much we are we are generally oversearved for sports, particularly
in the NBA, which asks a lot of you. In
(38:56):
the playoffs, Hey, come with us all the way through
this journey in the playoff and then the NBA Finals
are gonna take eight weeks to complete. We're gonna take
four days off between games. They ask a lot of you,
and people generally know, Okay, I can unplug for these games.
Right if you are just an average NBA fan and hey,
here's Game one with the Pacers and the Thunder. Okay,
I don't know that I really need to get to
(39:18):
the television for Game one. In game two, But as
a series goes on, Hey, game five, game well, it's
Game seven, it's the NBA Finals. I'm gonna watch the game.
And that's why you get the numbers up because the
average fan I know when to tune in. I can
skip the grid most parts of the first six games.
I can tune at the end of a game. I
don't need to watch the very beginning. I can just
keep track of the game. Oh there's five minutes ago,
(39:39):
because there's other things I have going on. In my life,
other things I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
It's dinner, it's dancing, it's drinks, it's a movie, it's
putting the kids to bed. It's all these things. And
because we're so overserved, we now know, okay, I can
pick my spots, and so people are picking their spots.
They picked their okay games out of the m It
didn't matter who was playing. Could have been Indiana and
and Oklahoa City, could have been the Knicks and the Lakers.
People we're going to go to game seven because it's
game seven.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Well, it's anything urgency right, Award shows do well? Why
because it happens. Then in that moment you can get
it on Twitter, you can follow it the same way.
And for the NBA, that's a lot of the consumption
now and something they trumpet while bristling at any criticism
about the standard viewing metrics and consumption right, it's like
(40:24):
you can run with both, trumpet them both. You're still
drawing a very large audience on a relative basis. It's
just not consumed the same the same way it was
when we were watching the giant ratings for games twenty
five years ago. People are going at it a different
way and consuming the product. But when it gets down
to a winner take all, sure we watch it in
(40:45):
every sport. You get deeper into a series and people
come to the table who otherwise would have been just
fine to see the headline in the morning paper the
next day, exit out about a Fresco exit, swalling down
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Got more in the NBA Finals come up, But straight ahead,
how big a trade did we see yesterday?
Speaker 3 (41:06):
It was a huge trade.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Was it a good trade? That's next? Jason and Mike
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Ronald gives this a
ride to center field. How far is it gonna go
to tune it Upona has done it again. That kid
(00:49):
that made that really great play out there in the
outfield is faking the throwback the fans.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Got on him to keep that baseball and welcome inside.
Happy Monday. It is the Dickey love Lady Show with
my bas friend Dicky love Lady.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Look, I'm gonna do things my way, and my way
is terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I think I'm gonna go through that the rest of
my life with that moniker. See how that plays out
for me.
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Blah blah blah blah blah. There's no baseball tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I hate But Steve de Seger gave you the positive
me what was a positive note? You guys hit his
seventeenth home runs in a year.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
When it didn't matter, leaving out the fact that he
struck out with the tying run at you tying runs
on in the bottom of the eighth inning, waving at
a breaking pitch that I told you what was gonna happen?
Did I did not say. He just he just threw
a fastball and Sodo just missed it. He's gonna throw
you a breaking pitch outside the strikes own lay off it.
What does he do? He waves at it for strike.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, But you were speaking to him like you were
the little voice in his head, like you were the
great Kazoo, you know, talking to Fred Flintstone, going hey,
I like that that gleam in your eye. You're staring
him down after just missing one, and then you missed
it by two feet.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I would. I tell you a lot of baseball players
he better if they can hear my voice in their
head before that. Okay, so you just threw you the
fastball and you just missed it. It's three and two.
You think you're gonna see another one? Or is he
gonna throw your breaking pitch off the plate and outside
of the I'm just saying what you think because you know,
you make seven hundred sixty five billion dollars and I don't.
But I know what's coming and you didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
All right, Ronald here with his ninth home runner.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, that's great. Yeah the bra Yeah, brah, that's great.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Brave who's got the best record in baseball?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Not the Braves. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I mean, I'll one up here. Nothing to the diamond back.
We're still nine games ahead of the Braves.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's fine. It's it's really not fine. It's just now
Chris Sales hurt. So I mean that helped y? Yeah, yeah,
I didn't. It doesn't help tonight, doesn't matter, no, but
makes no difference on the grand spot. We have Dicky
love Lady. That is I mean, come on, man, the
Mets sign reliever Richard love Lady today. It was like okay,
And he made some headlines when he first came up
a few years ago. I was the name Richard lovelady
(03:18):
is a big deal.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And then you look.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I look today and I see why is Dicky love
Lady trending?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And I see it and I go, oh, what oh?
Because he says, I'm now gonna go by my my
childhood nickname of Dicky. When he said he was Richard
like when he first met No, I'm Richard though you
can't know. But now he's Dicky love Lady.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
This is the guy is now realized how much money
there is in trading cards and signatures, because that made
his old signature sucked, this guy, I was. I looked
it up just to see, all right, how did he
use to sign his name? You couldn't tell if it
said Richard. Now you're gonna get every letter, man. I
think I want to.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think I want to put the emphasis on a
different syllable. Like if you say Dicky love lady, okay,
But then if you say Dicky love lady, okay, then
it's a completely different Go love lady, okay, all right, God,
that's better than.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Dicky love lady, Love lady, Dicky Love Lady, Dicky Love
love Lady, Love Lady, Dicky Love Lady, Lady, Dickey Love Lady,
Dicky Love Lady, Dicky late dangerously Close's play like Dickey
Love Lady, right stop.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, I hope he was gonna. I thought he's gonna
pitch tonight. I thought we get to see him tonight,
at least if they didn't lived play, well, we get
to see Dickey Love love Lady.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What is his entrance music? Is it like shot a,
like smooth operator, like Rick Rude?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
No, no, no, I think it's gonna be uh Barry White.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Barry White going on.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I like that, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that that's
a that's a song. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
No, no, I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Good enough of your love.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Mix it up everyone version, and there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
He kind of just dances in. It's like it's a
four minute entrance.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
The guy goes, he's got a sprawling red carpet coming
down from this is better than Narco. Oh, here it comes, Hologram.
Barry White. One wasn't on the Simpsons.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
When Barry White was on the Simpsons, he was in
his Love the Love Square. I already come down to
my love square. Everybody's square. It's really big.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh, yes, Happy Monday.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
We're off Dicky Love Lady, New met Superstar. There we go.
At least if they lose, they have Dicky Love Lady.
You may lose something, but we have Dickey Love Lady.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Always got to have a consolation prize, and there's there's
far worse to be had.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Uh Now, obviously a big headline today following Game seven
of the NBA Finals, Yoklahoma City Thunder win, and we
get confirmation of the news that we thought was happening
yesterday during the game, because you know, ESPN showed the
replay five hundred thousand times just in case, in case
you couldn't tell, here's Tyres Halliburton blowing his achilles. Case
you missed the first five. Yeah, you see it right there. Yeah, Okay,
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you got it. God has got it.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
But to their credit, I mean, they recognize that people
suddenly realized that Game seven was being played. Yea. And
you know, if they're gonna trumpet all of those viewers, yeah,
they're always tuning in. The audience continues to change after
time out. Hey, in case you missed it, this is
where we stand.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Now I'm gonna say this because I generally, I generally
don't feel that when a guy is injured, you look
at a game and say, Okay, this game would have
gone differently, This game could have done this way because
obviously Halliburton getting hurt in the first half, the thunder
go on to win. And the big question, obviously the
first one is Okay, if Halliburton hadn't gotten hurt, right,
(06:57):
if Halliburton played able to play the whole game, is
it a different outcome yesterday? And generally when cometimes, I said, well,
it doesn't matter because this is what happened, and the
thunder one and they do. But I look at that
game yesterday. I was just so unimpressed with the thunder
closing this game the way they did in game send.
It was one of the worst game set. I don't
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know what team has won a Game seven with the
worst performance than the Thunderhead. They shot poorly, they didn't
They didn't really look really sharp offensively at all. SGA
had a horrible game shooting, almost like the nerves got
to them. They tried to close out game six, didn't
have it, tried to close out game seven. It just
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so happened that the Pacers are playing a game. Now, Okay,
now you've taken one of our top two best players
and a guy who's gonna have the ball the majority
of the time away. What's going to happen. This should
have been a game where when Halliburton goes out, it
should have been a ten point lead at halftime. For
Oklahoma City, it should have been a twenty five point lead,
and it should have been middle of the fourth quarter.
Everybody's yelling at each other on the bench and reserves
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are hitting three. But they were just so unimpressive. And
this is the worst part for the for the Pacers
because they have to see that and go, Man, if
he didn't get hurt, what would happened. I'll tell you.
If Halliburton stays in the game, the Pacers win, the
Pacers the World champions, because that game was going a
very PACER's way, right. You were at halftime still even
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without Halliburton. At the end, it's a one point game
and the Pacers had the lead. The Pacers, this is
kind of what they did the entire playoff. No matter
what happened, they are always able to stay close enough
to reel you in before they could, they could get
at you in the third and fourth quarter, right, because
that's really what the Pacers would always do, right, Their
pace would get to you. The Stars would tire in
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the fourth quarter, and by the time you got to
middle third, fourth quarter, guys are a little bit more
open for their threes, a little bit more offenses flowing
a little bit more, And we've seen that the entire playoff.
That's what would have happened if Halliburton hadn't gotten it. Yes,
you had a big night from from Matherin off the bench.
Of course we've seen that big night from Connell off
the bench, but it's a different flow to the offense
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when Halliburton is running things in his helter skelter way
and being able to get in and come back out
and find players. This game was going the PACER's way.
They were keeping it close, they were playing their pace,
they were imparting their well on the game. They started
out shooting threes pretty well. They wind up not being
able to hit anything in the second half, but this
game was really going the Pacers way. And then at halftime. Okay,
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the Thunder come out in the third with a big run,
but at this point it was all right, what are
the Pacers really going to do? We know that you're
limited and without this happening, we know you're not going
to hit your threes. We know you're not gonna You know,
as good a player as McConnell is, he's not going
to be someone who finds finds players wide open shots
like Halliburton does. That's not going That's not going to
be a part of what this offense is in the
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second half. So yeah, in the third quarter they go
out and Okay, they're up big, and then the Pacers
come back and they make it a close game midway
through the fourth quarter. I mean, I'm watching this, I'm saying,
if Halliburton's here, this game goes a different way. And
as the second half goes on, the game would start
tilting towards the Pacers and their pace of play, and
you would see the Thunder getting tired and suddenly it's
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a big question mark and a little bit of choking
going on. Hey, we're not closing out this game at home.
We have the best home court advantage in the NBA.
SGA is not making shots. This game would have gone
the Pacers. We'd be talking about the most improbable NBA
championship that we've seen probably since the Pistons beat the
Lakers back in two thousand and three. Like that two
thousand and four, too soon? Oh sorry, man, sorry, this
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would be talking about that if Halliburton didn't get hurt.
That's how that game was going to day.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
No, that's it watching that game unfold, and certainly something
we talked about a lot with Aliburton and the injury
and thresholds for pain discomfort and how serious it was
in terms of minutes played and how he looked going
back to game six and he comes out like a
house of fire and nails three three point shots very early.
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The running joke in the Twitter verse immediately was like, Wow,
he's already cashed the over for all these people with
their three point prop bets. McConnell great at getting his
own shot, not a great distributor for the game, Nemhard
is your leader with six assists, so not a lot
of moving the ball around to the open man once
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Haliburton's out of the game, so certainly it bogs down there.
For the thunderside of things, Yeah, they shot forty percent,
so Indiana's defense did his job, missing a number of
wide open looks. I can't tell you the number of
times you're throwing your hands up going he's standing by himself.
He's basically he could pull out any type of scientific
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implement to calculate angles, and he's still missing the shot.
That's how much space you had. Lou Dort the most
accounted for participant in that regard, but all of it
to say right and chet Holmgeren finally played a big
game for them, came up with a number of blocks,
defensive stops, but it did feel like the game was
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still there to be had if you could have made
one stop here. He kept Sga off the foul file stripe.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
He got to the line twelve times over the course
of the game, and that's where he imparted. Part of
your prediction did come true and that he lived at
the pre throw line at times. But for Indiana and
for Carlisle, there are only so many strings he could pull.
Once Aliburton went down, you got big efforts from McConnell.
I mean, Alex Crusoe had to be stopped in the interview,
(12:28):
Hey how do you stop? TJ. Mcconnoy. Did you ever
think you'd get that question? Yeah, how do you stop TJ?
How do you stop TJ? McConnell, and the lookout of
fans like wow, okay, and Matherin showed up in a
big way. He'd had seventeen points combined his prior to
three games, right, So all of that that, you got
that effort, but in the end, it's just not enough,
and Oklahoma City walks away with the title. And it's
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funny because all throughout the playoffs, through the regular season,
it became a Wow, look at the They've got the
blueprint and all this, and now we're watching them walk
away with the title, going I'm not impressed. And we
watched a lot of their games, right, so like they
were on a lot and we got a lot of windows.
But you come away going, wow, they had a lot
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of issues that could have been exploited if you had
your playman.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I'm telling you. And that's added heartbreak. If Halliburton was
healthy and he played a regular game, Yet we're talking
about the Pacers being the champions that it would have
happened that way.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I just wanted to see what kind of defensive structure
Carlisle would have had for the fourth if you had
all five of his normal starters, exit out about a
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Speaker 4 (14:16):
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on Wanna Bet as well. It is Jason locking for it?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Jay?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What's happening?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Man? How are you going on? Guys?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Dude?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Did I get a line? We're gonna get a line
on the Dodgers Dodgers, Dodgers, Dodgers. I don't care who
they're picking. Can we get a line on that game?
I want Dodgers run line. I don't really care who.
How they pack it together anyway.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, Frostburg will see what he can do on that
since he's waiting for the Dodgers too. Uh No, but
I wanted to ask you, so you want to bet
Frostburg cash with Trevor Rodgers earlier? He said, so he's good?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Oh good for him?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yeah, well done?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Uh Now, I saw want to bet you actually have
your first bet of the nfls You had their first
Week one bet?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Ready to go for Week one? What is it.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
I made it over the weekend. I grabbed uh the
Cardinals laying four and a half at New Orleans and
this thing opened at three, and some places already have
it at six. And I think once we see the
atrophy word, but I'll use it anyway, that is the
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Saints quarterback situation. And as they have to start, you know,
showing what they have and don't have through the course
of the preseason, I just don't think that that four
and a half is going to do the trick. I
think the Saints of the worst team in football. I
think the Saints don't really have much of a of
(17:22):
a strength from a roster standpoint. It's a coach who
may or may not be ready for this. It's a
GM who's really let that thing rot with no real
checks and balances from ownership. And I'm not a big
Kyler Murray guy, and I don't like to back Kyler
Murray as a favorite. But again, I think the number
I'm getting here by the time we get the opening
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day will look pretty damn good. And that's a Saints
team that you go back to twenty twenty two and
look at the Saints at home outside the division, the
only teams worse against the spread are Atlanta and the Patriots,
or the third worst team in those situations. And Kyler
Murray Week one has been damn good. Ten touchdowns, three interceptions,
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seven yards per rush. You know, he usually comes out
shot out of the cannon. The problem is, want to
get some bumps and bruises around Week eight, week nine,
That whole thing tends to crumble. But I think Arizona's
defense will be you know, adequate. Their their fringy ish
playoff team for me. And again, I think the Saints
are there with the Browns as the worst team in football.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
There you going week one firing already out.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
The Saints are the worst team in football last year,
right before and then they beat the Cowboys. They was like,
oh look, how good the.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Saints remember that. Wow, it's a lifetime ago, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Nose Chickens came home the ruse pretty quickly, but they
did have They were fun for a couple of weeks
in September.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I mean I'm looking at the rest of the Week
one slate. Now you got me salivating because that Steelers
Jets game. You're looking at a two and a half
or three point spread there, Jason Jet getting points.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Our buddy Eric Tacilius is on that one, and he
likes the under that game, specifically Jet under the team total,
and I get that as well. I mean, Tomlin's defenses
usually start the season pretty well.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I think taking the Jets in the I think taking
the under in Jets games the whole season is going
to be like, I think you can run that every week.
Jay taking the under in Jets games, I think that's
a week one.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, and I'm done. Tomlin on the road as a
dog or as a small favorite. You can just play
that money line and you'll do pretty well. And he
obviously knows fields incredibly well. And I think they'll get
this Watt thing taken care of and whatever Aaron Rodgers has.
I guess we'll see the best of it there. So yeah,
there were like four games that kind of stood out
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to me, and those were two of them.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah, if nothing else, we know that Rogers doesn't think
much of the Jets in their run game.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I guess he shouldn't because it completely went in reverse
once he got there, so he probably, Yeah, I guess
you shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Jason Locking for our guest the Jason Smith Show with
Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
so Jays, as we get here now and we're getting
set now, teams are going away sign and see what
they have before we start camp. There's some big unsigned
players that we're still waiting to see drop. We've heard
rumors of guys like Amari Cooper and other players, like
do you see anything happening in the next few weeks
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as far as hey, some of these free agents that
we expected to have jobs, big names could wind up
signing somewhere. They're gonna have to wait till after camp starts.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
I think some it'll probably be really close to camp
at this point. Like I mean, a lot of people
this is their only time of year to actually spend
time with their family and have a couple of weeks
at the beach and all that. So not that you
can't make a phone call here or there, but it's
not real pressing, I think as we get closer to
teams reporting. But yeah, I mean there's interesting names out
there for sure. I mean Simmons, you know, Zadarius Smith,
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metchn you know, those are some guys you know on
the defensive side of the ball. Who you know, I
think we'll certainly be playing football somewhere this year. Jdaveon Clowney, right,
I mean, if you really dig in on his numbers,
like you did not have a horrible season, might any
stretch of the imagination of a Panthers team that you
know doesn't really play to his strength. He's a bit
of a front runner, right him on a team that
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was underachieving even by those their lowly standards early in
the year, and the quarterback change and all that. But
you look at his past rush win rate, you know,
you look at his percentage of pressures per pass rush,
you look at you know, some of his metrics. They
we wasn't what he did the year before in Baltimore,
probably his best season ever. But like that, he ended
up back with the Ravens. I mean, I I don't
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think that's out of the question. So, yeah, there's there's
some there's some interesting guys out there, but this is
kind of the duldrums right now.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Jason. Let's go to the fun and exciting world of
the AFC South, go to Indianapolis. Anthony Richardson's saying his
shoulder injury isn't even a bump in the road, but
Daniel Jones just might be. What do we think about
that set up?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I just don't truck the durability of either of those guys,
you know. I mean, they played the game one way
and it hasn't worked out real great for them. Leslie Richardson,
who's missed more time than he's played. I do think
their defense could be interesting, your quasi interesting. I guess
this is Chris Balid's last dand it certainly should be.
(22:28):
I think Daniel Jones is gonna end up being the guy.
Now does that guarantee much? Know? Because we know that
his play can oscillate pretty wildly and generally tends to
be not great. So I'm sure they'll get a look see,
you know, both of these guys. I'd be surprised if
Daniel Jones doesn't find a way to go in there
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week one. It's just such a bad division. Like I
don't think the Texans are the juggernaut that people make
them out to be by any stretch. I figure win
that division. I kind of like the Colts in a second,
because again, I think the defense could be interesting and
keep them in some games. Jacksonville defense was such a
train wreck. I don't think that coaching staff is fixing
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it overnight. I think the quarterback is what he is.
The Tennessee might take some baby steps, but they've obviously
got a huge hole to crawl out of. So I mean,
I could see the Colts being the second best team
in this division, but I don't think that's going to
be worth a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Jay, let's stay in the AFC. The Shador Sanders situation
last week, the two traffic violations that came out. The
Browns really didn't have a comment on it. Big deal
for him, you know these two things that happened. Or
will this be Hey, they we'll hit reset when when
camp starts.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Well, look everything with him it's different, right, I mean,
it's it's a big deal. His fall in the draft
was as big of a deal as I can remember,
Like a story like that dominating all three days in
the draft. It just doesn't really happen. Everything about his
dad is outsized, so now everything about his last name
is outside. So it's not going to be normal. Nothing
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about that quarterback competition and the four or five headed
monster that it is is going to be normal. I
don't think it's going to like Linger. I don't think
people rough preseason are going to be like, oh, let's
go to the traffic stuff. I just don't, you know,
I don't think there's going to be a corollary or
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draw there. It doesn't mean some people won't try to
draw it. But I mean he's a young person. You know,
he's in limelight, and people tend to slip up for
one degree or another. I think if he's given a chance,
if that becomes or is something of a fair fight,
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then again, I don't know that he's not the next
guy up after Flacco and after that runs its course,
however quickly that is, and that poor guy I hope man.
I hope he's got some sort of or like Michelin
manned stuff wrapped around him, underneath the pads or on
top of the pads, because I think he's going to
take a beating. But yeah, I mean, I don't know
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how they're going to divvy up all their reps. I
don't know how everybody's going to get enough work. They're
going to have to different days. You know, it's going
to have to be one guy getting the scheft a
little bit. How much do they think black on the
you know, needs to run stuff like he's been there before.
But you know that's like two play callers ago, so
how much of that is still there? I mean it's
the Fancy's offense. So I mean I wonder if at
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a certain point you have to kind of just say internally,
if not externally, flackos our guy. He doesn't need a
ton of reps, right, He's been really good coming in
cold as a backup for years. Like let's let's you know,
give these developmental reps and these evaluation reps to these
kids so we can figure out our pecking order and
get somebody out of here or maybe two guys out
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of there, and then you know, put our football team together.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Let me end with going back to Jason's Jets thirteen
eleven and fourteen. That was Crystal Palace's record. Well, Woody
Johnson's attention to Crystal Palace allow the Jets to thrive.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Oh, I mean, I'm trying to what was their record
when he was in London.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I'm trying. It's not been over a decade.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
I don't think it was great. Yeah, I just feel
sorry for supporters of Palace really, that's like, you know
what I mean, Like We've got to send tentacles out
all over the world for Woody Johnson crushing fan bases
like that's a shame, that's that's that's too bad. Yeah,
I don't know, keep them away from center bacha basketball
(26:38):
or whatever. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, he's on Twitter at Jason Locking for that is
at Jason Locking for Wanta bed as well. Hey, Frostburg,
frost will give you whatever update you need on the Dodgers, Jay.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
So just just I'm checking all these books.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Somebody give me a line before I go to sleep
if you want to hit that.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Now FROSTMCGUARDI said they're up five. Nothing again. Information from
Frostburg on the Dodgers. Sometimes it's true, sometimes it's not.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Just so tomorrow I'll take it.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, all right, very good, Take it easy, Jay.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
No, the Dodgers do not play till no, it is
an off day after a very long Would they have
twenty three games in twenty four days or something like that, Yeah,
which is why we kept seeing Keith Arnandez Pitch and
everybody here in Los Angeles. It's the worst thing that's
ever been done in the history of the sport. You
know who did play today though, who's at the mats
and lost?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Yeah, that's okay, it's all right. Are you ever going
to beat the Braves?
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Hey?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Did?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Don't you win in your beat the streak? Well, it's
funny you say that, okay, because all right, I'm invested.
I need I need to say yes, we have okay,
you want the good now?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
No good. Good news is Dad took a we got
a four game streak in the MLB street all right.
Because he said to me, because it's my turn to
pick today, said who do you want? And I said
Aaron Judge Judge Homer's in the first inning. And I
was like, goes, wow, great pick. I go, well, my
pick was only Aaron Judge because if you didn't get
a hit, I could blame you. He said that tracks.
But we should be we should be at six, but
we're not. We're at four because remember I told you
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the first one last week when he put in for Andy,
Pa has yeah, and he forgot to put in He goes, oh,
we have him the next day instead like.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
How did you not put him in the game is
in an hour? How did you miss putting him in?
So we didn't like, all right, great, So the next pick.
You know that I picked Otani. Okay, great. He picked
Ellie de la Cruz. Awesome, all right, great Ellie. Ellie
de la Cruz gets a hit first time up. All right, awesome.
And I'm like, all right, Dad, I'll pick the next day.
He goes, oh, no, no, somehow I put in Ellie
day la Cruz for tomorrow. I go, no, So we
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didn't get it there, but he got a hit in
the next one.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
So we're okay. And now he's how does he do? Hey,
who's your pick today? And I said, gim me judge
for today. Okay. So now we're at four. We could
be at six.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Do you start by asking him what day of the
week it is when your guns?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
This is what This is what I said to him.
I said, Dad, okay, so it's the MLB dot Com
the streak thing. If you pick someone to get a
hit every day, fifty seven days in a row, fifty
seven games a row, you win five point six million dollars.
And I said, Dad, here's the thing I can tell
you this is that the contest could be just for you,
Jason and your dad. Just get a pick in every
day for fifty seven days in a row.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Doesn't have to get a hit, doesn't have to get
a hit, just get a pick in fifty seven days
in a row.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Okay, we're five days into this already. We would have
failed that twice. Okay twice, we would have failed that.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Dad.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
We got five and a half million dollars. All you
gotta do is get a pick it twice. He doesn't
get the pick in once because the game had started,
said Dad, that was a good one. I said, Dad,
give me link. So so now this is this is now,
this is now twice that this has happened. I'm like Walter, Hey, Dad, okay,
all right. So but the streak is at four. I said,
(29:46):
you're up tomorrow, and I said, okay, I go, don't
screw it up. And you already told me he's going
mookie bets tomorrow. So going Mookie because I'm gonna go
check the site. Make sure that picks in. Otherwise yourself. Yeah,
make sure. Hey, I got a call MLB dot got
yell listen, I'm Jason. I listen to my dad. Just
call me when you don't have a pick. Okay. And
so you know, people are telling me on social media,
other people and my friends that have done this called
(30:06):
you know, you can do two picks a day.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
And I go, you see where we're at.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Let's work up to two picks, but get one pick
in for one day at a pretty consecutive consistent Then
we'll work on two picks for a day. An then
we'll do that. All right, let's just worry about getting
one pick in per day because we're failing at that.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Long road begins with that first step. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
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Speaker 6 (30:52):
I enjoyed that story of mentally just the record, get.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
It, hey, just get the picks, and not once but
twice we've already lost.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
Don't get him stuck on All Star voting. You can
do that five times.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
No no, no, no, so talking on see we got
to work up too far Man, too far by the way.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
In Cincinnati tonight, La de la Cruz three hits, three RBIs,
including a homer. The Reds beat the Yankees six to one.
But yes, the one was an Aaron Judge home run,
his twenty eighth of the year. You want home runs
and streaks, cal Raley hit his thirty second home run
of the season Seattle one at Minnesota in the game
on FS one today eleven to the final. The Twins
have lost four in a row. Cal Rally has four
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straight games with a home run for the first time
in career. It's six homers his last six games total.
They got the win here and now it's time to
take a look at the fact that Johnny Bench had
the record most home runs before All Star Break by
a guy who's primarily a catcher nineteen seventy, Bench had
twenty eight playing over half a season. Cal Rally, in
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under half a season, has thirty two at this point
looking ahead, most home runs ever by a switch hitter
for a season is fifty four by Mickey Mantle in
nineteen sixty one. This is the think he can a second.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
He can set most home runs by a catcher all time.
Just what he's doing this season, You mean he might
get to like four hundred and fields. He hits a
home run every day.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I mean it.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Last year was Anthony Santander right, pretty much hit a
home run every day. Cal Rowly is hitting a home
run every day.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
So you mean that he's gonna double the home run
total on the second half of the same compared to four.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Hundred and fifty home runs, and the Mariners will still
just miss the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
They started multiplying Steed like Rock and Jock.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
You know what's gonna happen. He'll get in the home
run contest.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
That'll be it.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
He'll have ten home runs in the second half, and
that's all anybody will talk about. Jason loves the home
run contest. Pittsburgh winner at Milwaukee five four, ending the Brewers'
four game winning streak. Saint Louis over the Cubs eight
to two. By the way, Cubs pitchers showed to Imanaga
after a straight hamstring will rejoin the rotation Thursday. Arizona
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won ten nothing at the White Sox, but Arizona slugger
au Heennio Suarez left hit by a pitch on the
hand X rays were negative. He just won NL Player
of the Week for a third time this year. It
was Atlanta three to two over the Mets. The wind
to Spencer Schwell and Box seven innings of work, Baltimore's
Trevor Rodgers eight innings of pitching is the Orioles shutout
Texas six nothing. Jackson Holiday three hits, three RBIs the
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starting pitcher for Boston tonight in Anaheim is ex Dodger
Walker Buehler. He allowed five runs in the first to
the Angels, including a couple of bases loaded walks and
the bases loaded hit batter. It is the Angels five
to three over Boston. In the top of the fourth,
Bueller is still in there.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
The National is not doing well. If he's goal is
to get back to the Dodgers at the trade deadline.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
No, they're still calling Bueller Washington. With four runs top
of the fourth, it is now a four to one
lead at San Diego. In the bottom of the fourth,
Toronto's Vladimir Carrera Junior now leads the All Star voting
at first base, ahead of the Yankees Paul Goldschmid. In
the American League, Pacers guard Tyrese Halliburton is reportedly having
surgery tonight for his torn achilles from last night. He
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could miss next season. And Yes, Oklahoma City's Game seven
drew amazing ratings. Guys, the series had been averaging about
nine million viewers, largest NBA audience last night since the
twenty nineteen finals over sixteen mil. In fact, over the
past year, the top non football events are the World
Series clincher Dodgers Yankees last year and the March Madness Final.
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We're about eighteen million viewers each Kentucky Derby seventeen million.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
This was up close to that.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Very impressive, especially considering again how low the first six
games were.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Thank you, Steve Oh, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from
the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, we got
the play of the day and the real takeaway, the
real thing to know about. Why Game seven's ratings were
so much higher, the highest Game seven in years? Why
this blew out the ratings the rest of the series.
Because next one and pl no, dude, that would be
a ratings record.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Oh why We'll tell you next Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Big take on the NBA Finals coming
your way. But first we have the Play of the Day,
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tire buying should be. Well, let's see, there's two real
choices for Play of the Day. Yeah, let me just
mentally put out there. Don't be the one I think
we're gonna play, play the other one.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Ronald gives this a ride to center field.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
How far is it gonna go?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Get tune it NOTHINGNA has done it again?
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Is that like mine?
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Not of Keim Loss? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:15):
The kid that made that really great play out there
in the outfield is baking to throw back.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
The fan fall on him to keep that baseball. Yeah yeah.
Brains Radio Network on the call, Hope is not a
strategy Smith.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
They're not playing that shit. No, it's not happening. They're not.
I got the full chance and bounce going. It almost
lines up well with the MLS game we're watching, like
good terms of the bounce. You know what, Hey, Luis
Suarez was going to be the play of the day.
But now Miami was up to nothing and now it's
tied two to two. Two going into ninety minutes.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
They've given up two goals in the least ten minutes
to tie the game.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
This is where we need the lip reading accounts to
really get after what MESSI had to say.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Yeah, no, MESSI not Jason. Let's be honest. The Braves
do own City Field well right right now, they've beating
the Mets. For the Braves are staying in their season
because they've been able to beat the Mets the last
two times they've played. I'm not happy, but okay, it's
still June. It's all right.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Ronald Lacuna Junior has one hundred and oneted bats on
the air already, fourteen extra base hits.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Bah Let's talk about ratings, because the NBA Finals ratings
for Game seven came out and they are terrific. I mean,
I know we talked about the raidings all the first
few games the NBA Finals. People aren't watching it's Indiana,
it's Oklahoma City. Blah blah blah. I tell you, look,
(37:41):
ratings stories, when you talk about low ratings are generally irrelevant. Right,
Generally that's the way because people are watching many different ways.
People are still paying attention. But yeah, okay, you're watching
fewer traditionally, you're watching more other ways. But here's a
good story. Because Game seven the highest NBA rated game
(38:04):
Finals in six years. They average nearly seventeen million people
watching on ABC and ESPN, plus the audience peaked at
just over nineteen million people during the second half. Right,
first time we've seen those numbers since the Raptors beat
the Warriors in six games in twenty nineteen. Right, the
first time they've had more than sixteen million. It's a
(38:26):
great story now to talk about this, to want to
have a really constructive ratings conversation about the NBA, and
all ratings are up here ranging down here.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Comes back to the old you know who like it,
don't want? Right right there is you don't like watch
Kevin Durant, which we'll get to. But we have become
a we watch when it matters society in sports because
we get because seasons are so long and there's so
much we are we are generally oversearved for sports, particularly
in the NBA, which asks a lot of you. In
(38:56):
the playoffs, Hey, come with us all the way through
this journey in the playoff and then the NBA Finals
are gonna take eight weeks to complete. We're gonna take
four days off between games. They ask a lot of you,
and people generally know, Okay, I can unplug for these games.
Right if you are just an average NBA fan and hey,
here's Game one with the Pacers and the Thunder. Okay,
I don't know that I really need to get to
(39:18):
the television for Game one. In game two, But as
a series goes on, Hey, game five, game well, it's
Game seven, it's the NBA Finals. I'm gonna watch the game.
And that's why you get the numbers up because the
average fan I know when to tune in. I can
skip the grid most parts of the first six games.
I can tune at the end of a game. I
don't need to watch the very beginning. I can just
keep track of the game. Oh there's five minutes ago,
(39:39):
because there's other things I have going on. In my life,
other things I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
It's dinner, it's dancing, it's drinks, it's a movie, it's
putting the kids to bed. It's all these things. And
because we're so overserved, we now know, okay, I can
pick my spots, and so people are picking their spots.
They picked their okay games out of the m It
didn't matter who was playing. Could have been Indiana and
and Oklahoa City, could have been the Knicks and the Lakers.
People we're going to go to game seven because it's
game seven.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Well, it's anything urgency right, Award shows do well? Why
because it happens. Then in that moment you can get
it on Twitter, you can follow it the same way.
And for the NBA, that's a lot of the consumption
now and something they trumpet while bristling at any criticism
about the standard viewing metrics and consumption right, it's like
(40:24):
you can run with both, trumpet them both. You're still
drawing a very large audience on a relative basis. It's
just not consumed the same the same way it was
when we were watching the giant ratings for games twenty
five years ago. People are going at it a different
way and consuming the product. But when it gets down
to a winner take all, sure we watch it in
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every sport. You get deeper into a series and people
come to the table who otherwise would have been just
fine to see the headline in the morning paper the
next day, exit out about a Fresco exit, swalling down
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Got more in the NBA Finals come up, But straight ahead,
how big a trade did we see yesterday?
Speaker 3 (41:06):
It was a huge trade.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Was it a good trade? That's next? Jason and Mike
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