May 6, 2026 • 41 mins
Pistons looked like themselves tonight.
So did Playoff James Harden.
This could be a Detroit sweep.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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Speaker 4 (00:54):
Well, much as it is during the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I have at night off, Yeah, dixir up the by fifty.
Everybody else is sweating it out. We jump right in
with the NBA playoffs Tonightoo years I'm living it up
on top right now.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I don't know when it's gonna be summertime in hell again,
and I gotta go back I'm living it up on top.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Right now like an eighties staying down below and every
year and finally finally wait for me.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, I'm coming. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Halftime Thunder and the Lakers. The good news, good news
and bad news. Actually, there's good news, good news and
bad news.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
For the Lakers. Okay, all right. The good news is I.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Really thought they'd be losing by a lot more. It
is a sixty one to fifty three deficit. Lebron has
been fantastic so far. It's taken over the scoring otus again.
It's an eight point game at halftime. They it was
a big lead. They had cut it to one. Uh,
Oklahoma City goes up by a bit at the end
of the first half. But still this game is still
there for the Lakers. That's the good news. I can't
(02:03):
give you the the other good news until I give
you the bad news, so I gotta give.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
The bad news next.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Austin Reeves has continued to be terrible and tonight, I mean,
they're they're not gonna win this game. They're not gonna
even be close unless Austin Reeves is Austin Reeves. And
so far in the first half, tonight four points one
out of seven from the floor. He has just not
found his stroke since coming back from injury. He's not
been able to be the number two guy the Lakers
(02:31):
needed him to be jumping in and they're not gonna win.
They're not gonna come close to winning if he doesn't
pick it up in the second half. He's the most
important player on the floor right now.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The good news is, at least he's making it easier
for the Lakers to keep him in the offseason because
you know he's got that option.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
That he's gonna decline. He's gonna be more money.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So you know, hey, coming off this, if this is
his playoff's gonna make it much easier for the Lakers
to keep him next season.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So there is a silver lining in all of this.
Mike Well, two.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Games returning in that Houston series. You know your Rockets
that are at home tonight in that second game, the
closeout game. So you'll take that, you'll wear that. What's
curious as you go through and I was finding the
stats because you know Lebron James not only does he
love a taco Tuesday, he has been magnificent historically on
(03:23):
the Cinco Demayo. Well, it's Taco Tuesday and Sinco Tomayo
the same day, but that's shit. They may mash up here.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
He is on case.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
He's never scored fewer than thirty two points in a
game on Cinco Demiyo.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So like, I got this for you, though, smart guy.
If that's Lebron so far, what about Chet Holmgren. Maybe
maybe Cinco de Mayo on Taco Tuesday is chet Holmgren's day.
He's got twenty just another alley feel like every play
is an alleyup for chet Holmgren.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Well, I mean it's the Mike Harmon Spectacular because you
know nobody loves him, some Chet Holmgren more than me.
But here's Lebron all time Cinco de Mayo, thirty two,
thirty four, thirty five, thirty eight, and then you have
your requisites seven to ten rebounds and seven assists in
three of those four games. So he comes to play.
(04:10):
It's just a matter of whether everybody else can match
his energy. I love when he was ball hawking and
he had that big steal on the laziness of Shay
Gilgess Alexander who had an uncharacteristic four turnovers. They were
asking it, and half is they were going, it's like,
what the hell? You guys had eight turnovers? What's going
on in there? It's like, calm down, calm down, It'll
(04:30):
be just fine, but a little sloppy with the basketball
to let the Lakers hang around.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So wait, So what you're saying is, if I'm getting
everything you're saying, you are, you are basically accusing the
NBA and Adam Silver of pushing this Lakers game an
extra day to Tuesday, not just to get Luca potentially
healthy to play, which they didn't, but to get Lebron
to play on Taco Tuesday, on Sinco de mine.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
That's it, because he is a more motivated, consistent, and
brilliant operator when tacos are on the line.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean really well, I mean and
plus I mean being sick with to Mayo. I mean,
I mean, I I I can see that, man, I
feel like Silver. I can see Adam Silver doing that.
What do we need you want me to get Scott
Foster there? No, no, no, no, no, not not yet.
Don't worry about it. We'll do something else first. We'll
do the whole a single dot. That's what the Lakers
are gonna play, but boy, really they should really play
(05:23):
on Monday because they've had rest, and maybe the Knicks
and the sixth No, no, no, we need the Knicks
to make it to the finals.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Let's put this.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Let's put the Sixers up on Monday, where they're really,
really exhausted, and the Knicks can win by fifty. Wait wait,
do you see what social media is like the next
day for the Knicks. Now, let's do that. Screw the Sixers,
make them play Monday, Put the Lakers on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
We gotta have it.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yeah, all in, you know, the invisible hand, right, just
like we'll all be anxiously awaiting the results of the
draft lottery when that goes down. Right, One chance that
Dallas was able to at least save some faith after
the Luka Doncis trade last year. Tada, Hey the kid
from Akrons coming out in two thousand and three, Hey,
(06:06):
who's number one?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Cleveland?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Hey Derek Rose, you like Chicago? Hey, go to the Bulls.
It's almost like you can pick your spot. It's almost
I mean, don't draft at all.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And I think I think you're I think you're you're
you're you're you know, blowing past the big thing a
congratulations Toronto Maple Leafs that they basically tank this year
and they get the number one pick in the NHL
draft that just came out today.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Congratulations Toronto.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
See they worked themselves right into that. Never mind me
the whole thing. Hey, who works really well with big men? Popovich? Hey,
Victor Wembiama, go to go to San Antonio and then
we'll do it again and again, and now we'll and
act some rules so you can't do those things. But
all of that is is secondary. I mean, Detroit Basketball
(06:49):
holds serve Game one and now we've got you know
this the second half of OKC and and the Lakers underway.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So again, eight and a half to go in the
third quarter, still a ten point lead for the Thunder.
Game is still there for the Lakers. It's not been
a an SGA takeover, which I thought. Look, I told
you last night, Hey, whatever the spread is, what was it?
Fifteen and a half went off at Yeah, yeah, I'll
take you give me the Thunder and twenty five, give
me twenty five, give me almost thirty. This game is
(07:18):
still there for the Lakers. SGA is not taking it over.
He's had a customer an unaccustomary, unaccustomed slower type of
first half. But chet Holmgren's played really well. He's hit
a couple of threes. Now it's a seven point game.
This game is still there for the Lakers. I mean,
I think pretty good, right right, You did not talk
(07:41):
about the not talk about.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
This game about it? Yes, Well, he was looking for
you to have a big opening on the Houston Rockets,
which is three or four times. It's one thing to
be said though, is certainly in the first quarter, maybe
a little less than the second. But first quarter they
let them get physical and even you know, as I
was in my commute to the studios and listening to
(08:05):
a little of the local broadcast and they're like, wow,
they're letting him beat each other up either physicality on
Lebron and look, he's just gonna bulldoze through people like
he tried to do at the end of the half
when they threw it up and he ran through three guys,
fell harmlessly on to the to the floor and missed
the shot. But for shay Gil just Alexander only three
(08:27):
free throw attempts in the first half, so he got
bodied up a little bit, tried to create a little
bit of contact and the refer he's just looked at
him and smiled literally, So it'll be curious to see
how that's adjudicated here in the second half.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So we'll keep you updated here again. Seven point game
for the Thunder and the Lakers. Meanwhile, earlier tonight, game
one of the East Semifinals, the Pistons, despite a subpar
shooting game from Kate Cunningham, and that's being kind six
out of nineteen tonight, but he still went nine flooding
for the free throw line, the Pistons outlast the Cavs
(09:02):
one eleven to one oh one. And this is probably,
I would say the biggest nightmare for the rest of
the Eastern Conference is that tonight the Pistons looked like, hey,
we shook off the first round. This is who we are,
Like they had like it the way they played tonight.
Their body language they they had turned into in the
first round. They were Caid Cunningham and that's it, right.
(09:24):
They had a tough time seeing their supporting cast step
up and it was hey, Caid's gotta save us. Then
you know, Orlando blows the three to one lead, they
come back. The Pistons were really on the Ropes tonight.
They looked like a team that had figured it out.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
They jump out to a huge lead right away in
the first quarter and they kind of coast from there.
You know, a couple of mini runs by Cleveland and boy,
you talk about a horrendous game. Jared Allen just eighteen minutes,
two points in that one.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
But James Harden going very much James Harden in the
second round of the playoffs, six out of fifteen, seven assists,
seven turnovers, right like the like this series. This might
be a Pistons sweep because it looks like the Pistons
have figured it out in the combination of the Cavaliers.
And again, this is why I always say, I don't
know why people think there were James Harden away from anything,
(10:11):
because this is who Harden is. Yeah, he'll still show
I can do it in the regular season. The playoffs
come when he's playing every other night, he gets tired
by the time you get to the second or third round.
This is who James Harden is. He fell down like
three times, just dribbling the basketball, trying to go trying
to attack the basket. He just fell and the ball
fell out of his arms. Like like, this is the
(10:32):
James Harden that that unfortunately we have.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Seen, and I have seen so many times.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
In the last few years, like like, okay, James Harden's
not gonna carry you anywhere in the playoffs, right, He
was much better in the regular season than I thought
he would be, and he continues to do that. Every
time I think he's done in the regular season, he
shows I still have a little bit left. But he
has been the same guy in the playoffs for the
last few years. And again, seven assists, seven turnovers, you
can't have it. I mean, some really bad time he
(10:57):
had a he had a turnover on a three on one.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I just said, what what the hell is that? Man?
Like what you get?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You got two guys wide open? You dribbled off your foot,
off the defender's foot, and it went the other way,
Like what.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Is happening here?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
You've never gotten over excited, I mean in any type
of moment like.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
That, and you're likely in the drive throughout McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I think, yeah, especially when they tell me, hey, you
know the value men, you when you get two things
off the value meaning it's two for one. Oh really yeah, yeah,
oh it give me two things off the value bet takes.
So I mean, really, I mean this. I've seen this
from James Harden. I've seen this so many times, and
this is what we get from Harden. And at this point, honestly,
I'm thinking this is gonna be a Piston sweep and
they're gonna be waiting around for the Knicks and the
(11:36):
Sixers as they finished their series.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Six to fifteen from the field, one of seven from
three point range to your point, the seven turnovers, but
another one of those, You're you're trying to find some
help somewhere else. Strus had had nineteen off the benchage fantastic,
but Wade and Allen played a total of forty six minutes.
They gave you seven points. Donovan Mitchell went to the
free throw line twice for the night, and you add
(12:00):
it all up, it's a losing proposition for Detroit. You
had good balance, all five starters in double figures, including
five three pointers from Duncan Robinson a huge effort, nineteen
points for him, and he had Tobias Harris with another twenty.
So you're you're looking at your starters taking care of business. Jenkins, Stewart,
Holland all gave you contributions from the bench. So you
(12:24):
know the old it's it's not a series until you
know a home team loses or whatever. But I don't
know that we're gonna see it. The James Harden thing
is always it's always tough to watch because you know,
he's a guy that during the course of a regular season,
you'll you'll see those games where clearly huffing and puffing
and grinding through heavy minutes. But by time you get
(12:45):
to the postseason, he's got nothing left.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I mean, that's James Harden's James Harden.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Is every man because you want a cheer for him
because he is every man grinding away, and then we
got nothing left when we needed most.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I mean, these teams that still think, yeah, we'll go
get somebody in their thirties to play such a huge
role for us and think that that's gonna get us
to the NBA finals.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's never been a younger man's league than the NBA
is right now, and James Harden is that.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Look, James Harden was getting tired of the playoff when
he was twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, like he would get to the he would get
to the end of the game in the second round,
Harden would be tired, he'd miss a shot, he'd turned
the ball over like that's been James Harden's entire career.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Man like.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
But it's also that argument though, Jason of you know,
we were talking about it. I said it jokingly. With
the Kevin Durant injury that pops up after he plays
seventy eight regular season games, young guys didn't know what
to do because suddenly the guy that was doing all
the shooting and taking care of the ball at the
end of games isn't there. So they were confused. With
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James Harden, go back and look at his game log.
You know, he would have been one of those guys
that we would have championed for at least, hey, at
least you tried. He would have gotten the Bart Simpson
cake once upon a time for showing up seventy five
games a year. At least, you know, he has that
to hang.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
His hat on. Exit.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
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Speaker 1 (14:09):
So again, a seven point lead for the Thunder has
just turned into a four point lead for the Thunder.
Ruey Hachimura buries a three big, big third quarter so
far for the Lakers, staying in this game again. Six
and a half to go. It is a four point lead. Now,
Hatcham up to twelve. Marcus mart has twelve. Austin Reeves
(14:30):
still with four points, one out of eight from the floor.
He's just gone down in a heap. So we'll keep
you up here.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Just start talk.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I mean, dude, I mean this has been Austin Reeves.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Man.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
The guy's got hurt. You come back.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Hurt and they're done now.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
He's getting I gotta tell people what's happening for I
can't lie to people, Like when I say the Knicks are.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Going to the finals, I can't lie. I can't. That
was three years ago. You've come back to that, yeah,
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Speaker 4 (15:13):
The hell our house band, worst band in the world.
It's Geese. Everybody.
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My base
friend Mike Harmon Hobo. Three and a half to go
in the third quarter, Lakers still hanging around. Seventy six
sixty nine, lebron with eighteen and six assists. Austin Reeves
still four points, just one of ten from the floor.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
He just has not been able to get it going.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
He's getting there being physical with him, and I mean,
it's been amazing that the Lakers have been able to
keep it going despite the fact that he's not really
been affecting the box score and affecting it negatively. But
they're gonna need him at some point if they're gonna
make a run in this game again. Seventy six sixty nine,
staying close with three and a half to go in
the third.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Quarter, Hotchamura taken over as Robin.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
We'll have more on this coming up in a few minutes,
teve To say, we'll have it for you in What's Trending.
But right now, time to break down all the latest
news in Major League Baseball with a man who has
spent the last twenty four hours convincing his dad without
to wreak Schooble things, they're gonna be okay, don't worry
about it. It's MLB Network insider extraordinaire, Proud Michigander John
(18:05):
Paul Morosi, John Paul, what's happening man?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Happy Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I am outstanding, my friends, and listen the Tigers. Another
lost to night for the Detroit baseball team. But Detroit
basketball teams looked pretty good. That was an impressive game
one win. Cade was excellent as always during as well,
So I could just talk about the Pistons for a
minute and get to lift the spirits. But you're right,
(18:31):
Trek Scoble out indefinitely, and who knows, will it be weeks,
will it be months? Probably more months than it is
weeks for Trek Scooble having the loose bodies removed from
his elbow. But this is not how the Tigers drew
it up, nor is it how the Mets drew it
up this season, Jason, as you well know. But I've
(18:51):
got some great news for you. The Mets did not
lose tonight because the Mets did not play, so there
is some good news for you.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Then needed an.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Act of God snowstorm to cancel the game tonight, like
one of the biggest snowstorms in May and Rockies, Colorado history.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
We get a May snowstorm to stop the game.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
As they know, the mid May clipper that comes through
through Colorado and snows out of ball game. You're right,
it is. It has been one of those years. It
has been one of those years for the New York
Mets and the pieces just not fitting. But there are
some teams that are playing well. And you look around
and the Cubs walk off win last night with Conforto,
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and the Braves getting even healthier right now with the
Glaciers coming back, and the Yankees are playing really good baseball,
and that the Rays are actually playing excellent baseball right now.
So maybe wasn't all the teams that we expected. But
it may sound surprising to you, Jason, but there are
teams out there playing beautifully, just crisp, clean, fundamentally strong, exciting,
(19:58):
exhilarating baseball is happening in places just not city field.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Well that's the thing, John, and you mentioned the Yankees,
and I think that this is a team that is
not getting the do for what they're doing right now. Yes,
first place, the al least. Okay, they're still waiting for
two studs to come back, not great Knights rehab for
Garrett Colin Rodan obviously, but it doesn't matter. They're still
rolling up at a six ninety four winning percentage and
(20:24):
they haven't even had two guys that are gonna just
put on jet packs when they come back into the
Yankee rotation. Like this is incredibly impressive what the Yankees
are doing without these guys.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
You're right, and to your point, they'll eventually get even
better when they add in additional layers of pitching. But
if you haven't been watching carefully, and some fans obviously
who are maybe just following the game, generally names like
Cam Schlittler, who's been great since last season, Warren Will
Warren has been excellent, and then also Ryan Weathers they
(20:59):
acquire last year. Last offseason. Rather, they've all pitched outstanding
to begin this season, and so when you consider that
the bullpen has been a little more stable now than
it was this time last year when they were going
the ups and downs with Devin Williams and then in
the lineup as the day began. The OPS leader in
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Major League Baseball playing for the Yankees, but his name
actually is not Aaron Judge's Ben Rice. Ben Rice leaving
the major leagues. In ops, Judge is fourth. Obviously, it
is still a really great season for number ninety nine,
but that has Ben Rice there. Honestly, this is what
made them special the year they went to the World
Series in twenty four, when it was Soto and Judge
and now Ben Rice is not at the same cachet
(21:44):
in the sport necessarily as as Soto does, but he's
playing that role very nicely. Where it's the two of
them and the Yankees right now, you start looking at
where they have some flaws, and yes, again maybe you're
gonna say, hey that they should you get all the
pitching back and before they can really have a full
determination of what they've got. But I like this team
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and they like themselves so much right now that they
kept plos A Cabierra is the everyday shortstop, and optioned
Anthony Volpi down to the minor leagues when his rehab
assignment was over. So when you consider all these different
decisions they're making right now, the Yankees like the mix
they've got, and they should because they're a really good
baseball team.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
All right, plenty of time to it stole the virtues
of my upstart White Sox as they try to crawl
back to five hundred JP. But we'll go to the
larger national international story that is Shoho Tani has struggle
at the plate, pitch well again tonight, but overall they're
dealing with a bunch of injuries with La not the
full lineup, but a lot of concern with the pitching,
(22:49):
hitting splits of Otani and what it means for the
long term here.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, you're right, and I think it's it's fair to
point out, as you know, his age starts with the three. Now,
he's not not a rookie any longer. He's been in
the league for almost a decade and it's probably starting
to wear a little bit. And by the way, he's
been an immortal for so long that he's allowed to
have at least mortal times, mortal months, mortal weeks. However
(23:17):
long this lasts, he's still excellent at what he does,
and obviously he does the things that no one else
has ever done for this long in the game. But
remember that it wasn't just that he did it. It's
trying to endure and maintain and get this out of
his body for a year after year after year. It
does seem like in the way that Dave Roberts's managed
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him to this point, giving him some days where he's
getting DH four so to speak of when he's pitching,
which I actually like because it allows the Dodgers to
rest some of their other players or at least partially
a Will Smith half day or a Rushing half day,
and rushing has been really good for them behind the plate.
So however it all plays out, I think it's actually
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smart baseball to to not always have Otani as the
DH on on days that he pitches, because that's the
one negative about all that is Otani is that you
don't have that DH spot to rotate anyone else through
and everybody that's in the lineup, they have to be
able to play every single day in the field. So
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that's a difficult part for the Dodgers. And so I
think that this this is now getting a bit more Uh,
it's just it's a it's a bit more like normal
baseball is about as normal as you're going to see
it when Otani's around. That you that on some days
at least you're going to have someone dhing on the
day that he starts, and and the fatigue might be
setting in a bit offensively, and he's just not driving
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the ball quite as well as as he has and
it's it's one of the longer dry spells from a
standpoint of damage that we've seen from him, and it's
probably to be expected. And and the Dodgers are still
an elite team. They're amazing and in just about every way,
but they're not as explosive as they have been. And
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at a large part of that is that Otani is
not as explosive as he has been. He still has
time to get it back, but what he's done in
the first six weeks or so of the season is
just reminding us of how extraordinary he's been for a
very very long amount of time. And it's probably time
to start, ever so slightly not significantly, but by a
(25:24):
little bit adjusting your expectations of what's possible for show.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Hey see, here's the thing, John Paul Is.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I don't know, because before the season started, I said, okay,
my Big Bowl prediction show hay Otani your twenty twenty
six National League saw Young Award winner. It felt like
this is what he wanted to take a lot of
time focusing on.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
He wanted to show everybody he's back. The guy's era
is under one.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Like I mean, he is having a Jacob de Gram
type start to the season where he's not giving up
any runs and the Dodgers aren't hitting, which is what
happened with to Grom with the Mets. I meant like
he lost night two to one, right he is, He's
allowed five runs in six games, Like he has been incredible.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
On the mound.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And I kind of feel like maybe that's a little
bit of it. That when when he spent so much
time and you hear all the Dodgers say in the
offseason he was so locked in, he was so obsessed
with Hey, I want to get back to being that picture.
I could see where things get down, you know, get
get down a little bit at the plate, until he
finds his happy medium.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
But on the mound, John Paul, he's been incredible.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
He has been and you're exactly right that this this
might be his ear to to chase the cy young
he's got. He's had obviously plenty of m vps and
now now was his chance to make a move for
this uh in in this part of his career where
he where he wants to check that box obviously and
really welcome himself back to being the full two way
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player and maybe even tipping towards the the the pitching
side of the equation, because as let's be honest, as
a d H, he's already done everything that you could
possibly do, the fifty to fifty the things that he
was able to achieve when he was strictly focusing on
that and and and oh to be so so blessed
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and so talented that you can take your pick of
which of the things you want to do, the things
that no one has ever done before, and and and
he's able to do that. So I think that's that
just speaks to what a unique talent he is. And
and I agree with you, Jason, I think he has
probably given a bit more uh more attention on the
(27:29):
on on the on the pitching side of things, and
that's and that's that's fair said. That is the one
thing that he has not been able to do before.
And by the way, it's probably the thing that his
team needs at the moment. Just you, given the rest
of the roster questions about Sasaki, et cetera, this is
where I think he can probably make the biggest impact
on the Dodgers right now. And it certainly was not
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his fault that they fell to one to the Astros tonight.
He did everything that he could have been expected to do.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
All right, I'll ask one. I'll go back to the
last really fast here. Jason's still kind of wringing his
hands with the Mets. What's the magic that Donnie Baseball
has brought to the Pills.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It's his name is Zach Wheeler, and he got activated
just as don Matticley took that job. It certainly again.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
The last ten now, right, right.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
So, So Donnie is a first of all, he's phenomenal person.
Everyone who's ever met him in baseball just has great
words to say about him. And so he has that
that calmness and the coolness about him that I do
think is is easily relatable for a veteran team with
guys like Schwarber and b Reale, Mutou and Harper in particular,
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Shorebert Harper have hit really well as Donnie took over.
And again, I wasn't just being glib there to say
that getting Wheeler back is a big deal because he
just he changes the whole staff. He doesn't pitch every day,
but his presence matters every day. And and look at
the way Luzardo is pitched. I think you get a
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better version of Lusardo when Wheeler's pitching, because he feels
like you can slot in a bit more to the
number two spot. I mean, when they're all going. I'm
not sure how many teams have a better one, two,
three than Wheeler, Lusardo and Christopher Sanchez when they're all going.
And by the way, look at how Santos pitched tonight.
I mean, it's just that they're the Phillies. I'm sad
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to say, Jason are just a much more fixable team
than the Mets. The Mets are it's difficult to see
what their path is the playoffs. With the Phillies, it's
a lot easier, and it's a lot clearer in terms
of what they are able to do. And I think
that the Phillies are very much alive in the the
NL East and or at least the NL wild Card.
(29:46):
The Mets are probably a separate conversation that we'll we'll
have more time for on a night when they actually
play and we have fresh, fresh data to discuss the
next time we have this conversation.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
His last appearance here on Fox Sports Radio, John Paul moros, Hey,
you never.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Know, you never know. We're gonna keep the faith. I'm
gonna I try my best to give you perspective, and
that's why I'm here.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
But uh, we appreciate the candor.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I appreciate that. And hey, we could still have another
Knicks Pistons rematch like from last year, just with a
whole lot more at stakes. So we'll just we'll keep
hoping that's the case.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, That is at John
Morosi MLB Network. John Paul as always, buddy, appreciate it,
enjoy the games. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Love this conversation, my friends. Thanks for everything.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
You're the best.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
There goes John Paul.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I like how he feels like he needs to be
delicate with me, like like hey, you know, hey, I
got some bad news for your mets.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
You think I don't know, Like like, no, but.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
It's your friend. He wants to tell you reality. But
he's not gonna slap you upside the head while he
does it.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Sometimes, I mean you need that, but I think he's
got the verbiage went without the the blow to the skull,
Like you're you know, John Stossel and he's doctor d
David Joltz. You don't need that.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's like it's like what you know when you get
a bunch of bad grades and your teacher tells you
you know, you know you got a fifty five in
this last exam. Yeah, you didn't turn in your your
turn paper.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
No I didn't.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Uh you got a forty two on the first QUI yeah, no,
I know that you are going to fail this class.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Wait, what what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (31:25):
I completely understand.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Uh. Time now to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports from special delivery Steve to seger
s D.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
What do you got for us tonight?
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Well, we'll start with baseball and veteran writer Bob Nightingale
has this on show. Hey Otani and his last nine starts,
his era is zero point seven to oh and the
Dodgers are two and seven in those nine games. Tonight,
Jasop de.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Gram would like a word, yes games Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Houston two to one over La tonight with two early
solo homers, so Tony finished with eight strikeouts no walks
in seven innings of work. His ERA is up to
zero point nine to seven. The Mets game at Colorado
was rained out. It'll be made up on Thursday. Wednesday's
game will now be at night in Colorado. The Saint
Louis home game against Milwaukee was rained out. They'll make
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that up in July as part of a doubleheader. It's
possible the Chicago White Sox could win tonight and with
a five hundred record, be in first place in the divisions.
They're tied to two at the Angels. In the top
of the fourth. Detroit was beaten at home ten to
three by Boston. The loss to from ber Veldez, who
allowed ten runs, three homers, and then hit a batter
(32:36):
in the fourth and was thrown out. Baltimore lost its
fifth in a row, nine to seven. Had lost five
in a row, I should say, but got two in
the ninth to win nine to seven at Miami. Tampa
Bay won it's fifth in a row. Yankees won their
fifth straight, Kansas City one. It's fifth straight. Cubs have
won six in a row, but they're tied in the
top of the tenth at home Cubs two, Reds two.
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The Reds closer Emilio Pagan was carted off with a
hamstring injury on his first pitch. Minnesota and Philadelphia with wins.
Among the Lake games it is the Braves tie two
to two at Seattle in the bottom of the fourth,
Diamondbacks two nothing over the Pirate's bottom of the fourth,
and already Padres five to four at San Francisco in
the top of the fourth inning. Well, Lakers got close
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in the third quarter. It's now heavily favored Oklahoma City
up eighty eight seventy three over La early in the
fourth quarter of their second round opener. Fifty three percent
shooting for the Thunder. They're led by chet Holmgren, who
has twenty points. Lebron James twenty two points for the Lakers,
but Austin Reeves is one of eleven shooting from the floor.
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Detroit won its second round opener at home against Cleveland
one eleven to one oh one. Cad Cunningham twenty three
points but six of nineteen shooting from the floor. AP
came out with a list of most turnovers in your
first eight games of a postseason at the last forty years,
because Charles Barkley apparently had forty five turnovers the first
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eight games of the nineteen eighty six postseason. Cad Cunningham
now has forty five turnovers. Also in this postseason, James
Harden's up to forty three.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
He had seven seven.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
Turnovers in the loss in this game at Detroit. By
the Way, Pistons were up eighteen late in the first quarter.
The Celtics Jalen Brown was fined fifty thousand dollars by
the league for criticizing the refs after Boston lost Game
seven at home against Philly. That telecast, by the way,
followed the great ratings Kentucky Derby, so that win for
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the seventy six Ers drew eleven million total viewers. The
first round average four million per game nationally for the NBA.
The NFL Referees Union is due to vote on a
new labor contract. Thursday, wide receiver Stefan Diggs was found
not guilty of assault. Seattle signed veteran defensive end Dante Fowler,
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and the Giants reportedly gave defensive tackle Dj Reider a
two year deal.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Oson The Smith's Show
with my bass friend Mike Harmon, we have more NBA
on the way.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
The Thunder now looking to run away from the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
A fifteen point lead, eighty eight to seventy three, ten
and a half to go in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
More NBA on the way. Next, we got the play of.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
The day end numbers that I really just can't believe
what I'm gonna tell you is true.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
That's next, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
Yes, Jason, we know Austin Reeves is struggling.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
You know, the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
That is not John Cena.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Lebron.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
James has twenty four points. That's the good news for
the Lakers. The bad news is the Thunder just keep
pouring it on. Seven and a half to go in
the fourth quarter, Oklahoma City has opened up a ninety
six seventy nine lead, Game one of.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
The Western Conference.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Semis will have more in this game coming up in
a few minutes, but time right now to bring you
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Speaker 4 (36:34):
Pardon eight to quit run a challenge Cunningham.
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NBC on the call.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yes, a James harden turnover I turned into a big
hoop for the Pistons. One of the seven turnovers James
Hardon had tonight as part of the Cavaliers one eleven
one oh one loss of the Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
I mean, I mean, I mean, I don't know what
else to say, Mike. Every year James Harden, I feel like.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Boy, I feel so smart because I'm right about James
Harden the playoffs every single year, I felt so intelligent.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Well, at this point, it's like just putting money in
a nice Fortune five hundred company and blue chip er
and just letting him roll. Okayra just playing the S
and P five hundred. You know you're gonna have a
down year now and again, but on average you're getting
your seven percent returns nice and steady as they go.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
I'm just gonna keep investing in Yahoo and all these
big pats. But it's not sexy, you're not tech out,
but I'm making money on it.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
I'm sorry. I'm just gonna invest in the big place.
I know. It's not Hey, Jim Kramer giving you advice
here at buy this and sell this and all this mad.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Money and George Clooney in a boxing ring telling me
what to do now. I mean, it's not that, but hey,
sometimes you just gotta you know, if if that's the
way it's going.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
That's the way it's going.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Look at you getting that Clooney movie in Mad Money
from all those years ago we tried to do. I
tried to pitch a fantasy bit in the early days
of Kramer when he was still on to come, and
they looked at me like I was insane. I'm like,
this is this is gonna become a big deal. And
it did, and it did, Bye bye bye sous out
and eventually Clooney actually did a movie on it. I mean,
(38:08):
come on, man, it could have been on it. By
the way, don't remind me of Yahoo Stuck, because on
paper I was a millionaire for about five minutes, and
by time I could do anything, I couldn't even have
paid off my two bit car.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
So that we had that five minutes though.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
Oh I felt great at that Christmas party. We were
all living large, and then by time we vested nothing.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
You can always make a jump to declusions, Matt.
Speaker 5 (38:29):
I can't, like, you know, like we do with each
of these sporting events. I do like that James Harden
turnover constitutes a play of the night in Game one
of a second round series, So that's good.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Yeah, But just.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Also think you jump to conclusions. So you jump, you
jump on the mat, you jump to conclusions.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Yeah. I was rewatching a little bit of the uh
the Book of Boba fet and you got Luke Skywalker
training training grogu Hey jump, yeah, don't think about it.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Jump.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That was that needed Luke to show up in the
worst way. Hey, we need something here. This show is
really not great.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
By the time we get to the sixth episode, we
got Luke. Okay, now we're gonna get to the sixth episode. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, yeah. Now, numbers,
I want to tell you that at this point, if
I'm the NBA, I just say every game is the
highest rated game we've ever had. Today, news comes out
that the Game seven this weekend between the Sixers and
(39:32):
the Celtics on NBC and Peacock averaged eleven million viewers,
making it the most watched first round Game seven in
NBA history and the highest first round game in twenty
seven years.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
It did follow the Kentucky Derby. Okay, great, but I
see this and I go, really that many to watch
the Sixers and the Celtics really to really that many?
Like I feel like with the way the NBA is
right now with the NBC and Peak and they claim
that Kaka Mami Hey, ratings are up eighty six percent.
I feel like I'm not gonna believe anything you tell
me about ratings. So just tell me whatever you want
(40:07):
lie to me, whatever you want to say.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
We had one hundred million people watching that game.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Great, Yeah, it's a hundred million people, just like the
Super Bowl watching Game seven between the Six and the Celtics.
Like we're still so early days with figuring out ratings
and streaming. Like I feel like anybody could tell us
whatever they want to when it comes to ratings.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
So I see this and I.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Go, yeah, maybe it was that big. I mean maybe not.
Maybe it was that big, but I don't know. I
can't tell you one way or the other. So I
would just I'd tell the NBA just make stuff up.
Whatever you want to say, Say it and people might
believe it, you know.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
But a lot of it has been fuzzy math and
extrapolating and kind of chaos going all the way back. Man,
how many people had a box in their house? Maybe
you did, maybe you didn't. I mean, maybe I flipped
and I got five seconds, ten seconds of a song.
Does that count? I don't know, but right now it's like, yeah,
it's it's fuzzy math. But I could say, and maybe
(40:58):
there's some truth to it that you would have had
a lot of people in New York hate watching that
series because they hate both those teams.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Bring out those guys now he hit a shot. Yeah,
bring on those dirty Yeah. I mean, because you might have.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Had a lot of that. I got I got no time.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I gotta watch a game today because I'm rooting against
both teams and one of them is gonna lose.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
So that's what I'm I lost my ass in the
derby and now I'm gonna hate watch this.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Exit. How about a Fresca exit?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Swelling dom No, come on, Nixon, four nix and four
nix and for coming up next, big stuff out of
the NBA Playoffs.
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Speaker 4 (00:54):
Well, much as it is during the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I have at night off, Yeah, dixir up the by fifty.
Everybody else is sweating it out. We jump right in
with the NBA playoffs Tonightoo years I'm living it up
on top right now.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I don't know when it's gonna be summertime in hell again,
and I gotta go back I'm living it up on top.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Right now like an eighties staying down below and every
year and finally finally wait for me.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, I'm coming. Let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Halftime Thunder and the Lakers. The good news, good news
and bad news. Actually, there's good news, good news and
bad news.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
For the Lakers. Okay, all right. The good news is I.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Really thought they'd be losing by a lot more. It
is a sixty one to fifty three deficit. Lebron has
been fantastic so far. It's taken over the scoring otus again.
It's an eight point game at halftime. They it was
a big lead. They had cut it to one. Uh,
Oklahoma City goes up by a bit at the end
of the first half. But still this game is still
there for the Lakers. That's the good news. I can't
(02:03):
give you the the other good news until I give
you the bad news, so I gotta give.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
The bad news next.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Austin Reeves has continued to be terrible and tonight, I mean,
they're they're not gonna win this game. They're not gonna
even be close unless Austin Reeves is Austin Reeves. And
so far in the first half, tonight four points one
out of seven from the floor. He has just not
found his stroke since coming back from injury. He's not
been able to be the number two guy the Lakers
(02:31):
needed him to be jumping in and they're not gonna win.
They're not gonna come close to winning if he doesn't
pick it up in the second half. He's the most
important player on the floor right now.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
The good news is, at least he's making it easier
for the Lakers to keep him in the offseason because
you know he's got that option.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
That he's gonna decline. He's gonna be more money.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
So you know, hey, coming off this, if this is
his playoff's gonna make it much easier for the Lakers
to keep him next season.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
So there is a silver lining in all of this.
Mike Well, two.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Games returning in that Houston series. You know your Rockets
that are at home tonight in that second game, the
closeout game. So you'll take that, you'll wear that. What's
curious as you go through and I was finding the
stats because you know Lebron James not only does he
love a taco Tuesday, he has been magnificent historically on
(03:23):
the Cinco Demayo. Well, it's Taco Tuesday and Sinco Tomayo
the same day, but that's shit. They may mash up here.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
He is on case.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
He's never scored fewer than thirty two points in a
game on Cinco Demiyo.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So like, I got this for you, though, smart guy.
If that's Lebron so far, what about Chet Holmgren. Maybe
maybe Cinco de Mayo on Taco Tuesday is chet Holmgren's day.
He's got twenty just another alley feel like every play
is an alleyup for chet Holmgren.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Well, I mean it's the Mike Harmon Spectacular because you
know nobody loves him, some Chet Holmgren more than me.
But here's Lebron all time Cinco de Mayo, thirty two,
thirty four, thirty five, thirty eight, and then you have
your requisites seven to ten rebounds and seven assists in
three of those four games. So he comes to play.
(04:10):
It's just a matter of whether everybody else can match
his energy. I love when he was ball hawking and
he had that big steal on the laziness of Shay
Gilgess Alexander who had an uncharacteristic four turnovers. They were
asking it, and half is they were going, it's like,
what the hell? You guys had eight turnovers? What's going
on in there? It's like, calm down, calm down, It'll
(04:30):
be just fine, but a little sloppy with the basketball
to let the Lakers hang around.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So wait, So what you're saying is, if I'm getting
everything you're saying, you are, you are basically accusing the
NBA and Adam Silver of pushing this Lakers game an
extra day to Tuesday, not just to get Luca potentially
healthy to play, which they didn't, but to get Lebron
to play on Taco Tuesday, on Sinco de mine.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
That's it, because he is a more motivated, consistent, and
brilliant operator when tacos are on the line.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean really well, I mean and
plus I mean being sick with to Mayo. I mean,
I mean, I I I can see that, man, I
feel like Silver. I can see Adam Silver doing that.
What do we need you want me to get Scott
Foster there? No, no, no, no, no, not not yet.
Don't worry about it. We'll do something else first. We'll
do the whole a single dot. That's what the Lakers
are gonna play, but boy, really they should really play
(05:23):
on Monday because they've had rest, and maybe the Knicks
and the sixth No, no, no, we need the Knicks
to make it to the finals.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Let's put this.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Let's put the Sixers up on Monday, where they're really,
really exhausted, and the Knicks can win by fifty. Wait wait,
do you see what social media is like the next
day for the Knicks. Now, let's do that. Screw the Sixers,
make them play Monday, Put the Lakers on Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
We gotta have it.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yeah, all in, you know, the invisible hand, right, just
like we'll all be anxiously awaiting the results of the
draft lottery when that goes down. Right, One chance that
Dallas was able to at least save some faith after
the Luka Doncis trade last year. Tada, Hey the kid
from Akrons coming out in two thousand and three, Hey,
(06:06):
who's number one?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Cleveland?
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Hey Derek Rose, you like Chicago? Hey, go to the Bulls.
It's almost like you can pick your spot. It's almost
I mean, don't draft at all.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
And I think I think you're I think you're you're
you're you're you know, blowing past the big thing a
congratulations Toronto Maple Leafs that they basically tank this year
and they get the number one pick in the NHL
draft that just came out today.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Congratulations Toronto.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
See they worked themselves right into that. Never mind me
the whole thing. Hey, who works really well with big men? Popovich? Hey,
Victor Wembiama, go to go to San Antonio and then
we'll do it again and again, and now we'll and
act some rules so you can't do those things. But
all of that is is secondary. I mean, Detroit Basketball
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holds serve Game one and now we've got you know
this the second half of OKC and and the Lakers underway.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
So again, eight and a half to go in the
third quarter, still a ten point lead for the Thunder.
Game is still there for the Lakers. It's not been
a an SGA takeover, which I thought. Look, I told
you last night, Hey, whatever the spread is, what was it?
Fifteen and a half went off at Yeah, yeah, I'll
take you give me the Thunder and twenty five, give
me twenty five, give me almost thirty. This game is
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still there for the Lakers. SGA is not taking it over.
He's had a customer an unaccustomary, unaccustomed slower type of
first half. But chet Holmgren's played really well. He's hit
a couple of threes. Now it's a seven point game.
This game is still there for the Lakers. I mean,
I think pretty good, right right, You did not talk
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about the not talk about.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
This game about it? Yes, Well, he was looking for
you to have a big opening on the Houston Rockets,
which is three or four times. It's one thing to
be said though, is certainly in the first quarter, maybe
a little less than the second. But first quarter they
let them get physical and even you know, as I
was in my commute to the studios and listening to
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a little of the local broadcast and they're like, wow,
they're letting him beat each other up either physicality on
Lebron and look, he's just gonna bulldoze through people like
he tried to do at the end of the half
when they threw it up and he ran through three guys,
fell harmlessly on to the to the floor and missed
the shot. But for shay Gil just Alexander only three
(08:27):
free throw attempts in the first half, so he got
bodied up a little bit, tried to create a little
bit of contact and the refer he's just looked at
him and smiled literally, So it'll be curious to see
how that's adjudicated here in the second half.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So we'll keep you updated here again. Seven point game
for the Thunder and the Lakers. Meanwhile, earlier tonight, game
one of the East Semifinals, the Pistons, despite a subpar
shooting game from Kate Cunningham, and that's being kind six
out of nineteen tonight, but he still went nine flooding
for the free throw line, the Pistons outlast the Cavs
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one eleven to one oh one. And this is probably,
I would say the biggest nightmare for the rest of
the Eastern Conference is that tonight the Pistons looked like, hey,
we shook off the first round. This is who we are,
Like they had like it the way they played tonight.
Their body language they they had turned into in the
first round. They were Caid Cunningham and that's it, right.
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They had a tough time seeing their supporting cast step
up and it was hey, Caid's gotta save us. Then
you know, Orlando blows the three to one lead, they
come back. The Pistons were really on the Ropes tonight.
They looked like a team that had figured it out.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
They jump out to a huge lead right away in
the first quarter and they kind of coast from there.
You know, a couple of mini runs by Cleveland and boy,
you talk about a horrendous game. Jared Allen just eighteen minutes,
two points in that one.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
But James Harden going very much James Harden in the
second round of the playoffs, six out of fifteen, seven assists,
seven turnovers, right like the like this series. This might
be a Pistons sweep because it looks like the Pistons
have figured it out in the combination of the Cavaliers.
And again, this is why I always say, I don't
know why people think there were James Harden away from anything,
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because this is who Harden is. Yeah, he'll still show
I can do it in the regular season. The playoffs
come when he's playing every other night, he gets tired
by the time you get to the second or third round.
This is who James Harden is. He fell down like
three times, just dribbling the basketball, trying to go trying
to attack the basket. He just fell and the ball
fell out of his arms. Like like, this is the
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James Harden that that unfortunately we have.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Seen, and I have seen so many times.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
In the last few years, like like, okay, James Harden's
not gonna carry you anywhere in the playoffs, right, He
was much better in the regular season than I thought
he would be, and he continues to do that. Every
time I think he's done in the regular season, he
shows I still have a little bit left. But he
has been the same guy in the playoffs for the
last few years. And again, seven assists, seven turnovers, you
can't have it. I mean, some really bad time he
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had a he had a turnover on a three on one.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I just said, what what the hell is that? Man?
Like what you get?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
You got two guys wide open? You dribbled off your foot,
off the defender's foot, and it went the other way,
Like what.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Is happening here?
Speaker 5 (11:08):
You've never gotten over excited, I mean in any type
of moment like.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
That, and you're likely in the drive throughout McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I think, yeah, especially when they tell me, hey, you
know the value men, you when you get two things
off the value meaning it's two for one. Oh really yeah, yeah,
oh it give me two things off the value bet takes.
So I mean, really, I mean this. I've seen this
from James Harden. I've seen this so many times, and
this is what we get from Harden. And at this point, honestly,
I'm thinking this is gonna be a Piston sweep and
they're gonna be waiting around for the Knicks and the
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Sixers as they finished their series.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Six to fifteen from the field, one of seven from
three point range to your point, the seven turnovers, but
another one of those, You're you're trying to find some
help somewhere else. Strus had had nineteen off the benchage fantastic,
but Wade and Allen played a total of forty six minutes.
They gave you seven points. Donovan Mitchell went to the
free throw line twice for the night, and you add
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it all up, it's a losing proposition for Detroit. You
had good balance, all five starters in double figures, including
five three pointers from Duncan Robinson a huge effort, nineteen
points for him, and he had Tobias Harris with another twenty.
So you're you're looking at your starters taking care of business. Jenkins, Stewart,
Holland all gave you contributions from the bench. So you
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know the old it's it's not a series until you
know a home team loses or whatever. But I don't
know that we're gonna see it. The James Harden thing
is always it's always tough to watch because you know,
he's a guy that during the course of a regular season,
you'll you'll see those games where clearly huffing and puffing
and grinding through heavy minutes. But by time you get
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to the postseason, he's got nothing left.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I mean, that's James Harden's James Harden.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Is every man because you want a cheer for him
because he is every man grinding away, and then we
got nothing left when we needed most.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I mean, these teams that still think, yeah, we'll go
get somebody in their thirties to play such a huge
role for us and think that that's gonna get us
to the NBA finals.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Stop.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's never been a younger man's league than the NBA
is right now, and James Harden is that.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Look, James Harden was getting tired of the playoff when
he was twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, like he would get to the he would get
to the end of the game in the second round,
Harden would be tired, he'd miss a shot, he'd turned
the ball over like that's been James Harden's entire career.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Man like.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
But it's also that argument though, Jason of you know,
we were talking about it. I said it jokingly. With
the Kevin Durant injury that pops up after he plays
seventy eight regular season games, young guys didn't know what
to do because suddenly the guy that was doing all
the shooting and taking care of the ball at the
end of games isn't there. So they were confused. With
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James Harden, go back and look at his game log.
You know, he would have been one of those guys
that we would have championed for at least, hey, at
least you tried. He would have gotten the Bart Simpson
cake once upon a time for showing up seventy five
games a year. At least, you know, he has that
to hang.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
His hat on. Exit.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
How about a Fresca exit swollen dome The Jason Smith
Show with my bas.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
So again, a seven point lead for the Thunder has
just turned into a four point lead for the Thunder.
Ruey Hachimura buries a three big, big third quarter so
far for the Lakers, staying in this game again. Six
and a half to go. It is a four point lead. Now,
Hatcham up to twelve. Marcus mart has twelve. Austin Reeves
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still with four points, one out of eight from the floor.
He's just gone down in a heap. So we'll keep
you up here.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Just start talk.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I mean, dude, I mean this has been Austin Reeves.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
Man.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
The guy's got hurt. You come back.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Hurt and they're done now.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
He's getting I gotta tell people what's happening for I
can't lie to people, Like when I say the Knicks are.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Going to the finals, I can't lie. I can't. That
was three years ago. You've come back to that, yeah,
is it not? You're giving us our house ban Geeese
the worst band in the world.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
I actually had an ads show up as they're on
like some concert tours like go see these guys live,
and it was all these headliners, you know, are Rodrigo
and whatever else and it mentioned gee So, like, what.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
The hell our house band, worst band in the world.
It's Geese. Everybody.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
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Speaker 1 (17:00):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My base
friend Mike Harmon Hobo. Three and a half to go
in the third quarter, Lakers still hanging around. Seventy six
sixty nine, lebron with eighteen and six assists. Austin Reeves
still four points, just one of ten from the floor.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
He just has not been able to get it going.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
He's getting there being physical with him, and I mean,
it's been amazing that the Lakers have been able to
keep it going despite the fact that he's not really
been affecting the box score and affecting it negatively. But
they're gonna need him at some point if they're gonna
make a run in this game again. Seventy six sixty nine,
staying close with three and a half to go in
the third.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Quarter, Hotchamura taken over as Robin.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
We'll have more on this coming up in a few minutes,
teve To say, we'll have it for you in What's Trending.
But right now, time to break down all the latest
news in Major League Baseball with a man who has
spent the last twenty four hours convincing his dad without
to wreak Schooble things, they're gonna be okay, don't worry
about it. It's MLB Network insider extraordinaire, Proud Michigander John
(18:05):
Paul Morosi, John Paul, what's happening man?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Happy Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I am outstanding, my friends, and listen the Tigers. Another
lost to night for the Detroit baseball team. But Detroit
basketball teams looked pretty good. That was an impressive game
one win. Cade was excellent as always during as well,
So I could just talk about the Pistons for a
minute and get to lift the spirits. But you're right,
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Trek Scoble out indefinitely, and who knows, will it be weeks,
will it be months? Probably more months than it is
weeks for Trek Scooble having the loose bodies removed from
his elbow. But this is not how the Tigers drew
it up, nor is it how the Mets drew it
up this season, Jason, as you well know. But I've
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got some great news for you. The Mets did not
lose tonight because the Mets did not play, so there
is some good news for you.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Then needed an.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Act of God snowstorm to cancel the game tonight, like
one of the biggest snowstorms in May and Rockies, Colorado history.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
We get a May snowstorm to stop the game.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
As they know, the mid May clipper that comes through
through Colorado and snows out of ball game. You're right,
it is. It has been one of those years. It
has been one of those years for the New York
Mets and the pieces just not fitting. But there are
some teams that are playing well. And you look around
and the Cubs walk off win last night with Conforto,
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and the Braves getting even healthier right now with the
Glaciers coming back, and the Yankees are playing really good baseball,
and that the Rays are actually playing excellent baseball right now.
So maybe wasn't all the teams that we expected. But
it may sound surprising to you, Jason, but there are
teams out there playing beautifully, just crisp, clean, fundamentally strong, exciting,
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exhilarating baseball is happening in places just not city field.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Well that's the thing, John, and you mentioned the Yankees,
and I think that this is a team that is
not getting the do for what they're doing right now. Yes,
first place, the al least. Okay, they're still waiting for
two studs to come back, not great Knights rehab for
Garrett Colin Rodan obviously, but it doesn't matter. They're still
rolling up at a six ninety four winning percentage and
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they haven't even had two guys that are gonna just
put on jet packs when they come back into the
Yankee rotation. Like this is incredibly impressive what the Yankees
are doing without these guys.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
You're right, and to your point, they'll eventually get even
better when they add in additional layers of pitching. But
if you haven't been watching carefully, and some fans obviously
who are maybe just following the game, generally names like
Cam Schlittler, who's been great since last season, Warren Will
Warren has been excellent, and then also Ryan Weathers they
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acquire last year. Last offseason. Rather, they've all pitched outstanding
to begin this season, and so when you consider that
the bullpen has been a little more stable now than
it was this time last year when they were going
the ups and downs with Devin Williams and then in
the lineup as the day began. The OPS leader in
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Major League Baseball playing for the Yankees, but his name
actually is not Aaron Judge's Ben Rice. Ben Rice leaving
the major leagues. In ops, Judge is fourth. Obviously, it
is still a really great season for number ninety nine,
but that has Ben Rice there. Honestly, this is what
made them special the year they went to the World
Series in twenty four, when it was Soto and Judge
and now Ben Rice is not at the same cachet
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in the sport necessarily as as Soto does, but he's
playing that role very nicely. Where it's the two of
them and the Yankees right now, you start looking at
where they have some flaws, and yes, again maybe you're
gonna say, hey that they should you get all the
pitching back and before they can really have a full
determination of what they've got. But I like this team
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and they like themselves so much right now that they
kept plos A Cabierra is the everyday shortstop, and optioned
Anthony Volpi down to the minor leagues when his rehab
assignment was over. So when you consider all these different
decisions they're making right now, the Yankees like the mix
they've got, and they should because they're a really good
baseball team.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
All right, plenty of time to it stole the virtues
of my upstart White Sox as they try to crawl
back to five hundred JP. But we'll go to the
larger national international story that is Shoho Tani has struggle
at the plate, pitch well again tonight, but overall they're
dealing with a bunch of injuries with La not the
full lineup, but a lot of concern with the pitching,
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hitting splits of Otani and what it means for the
long term here.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, you're right, and I think it's it's fair to
point out, as you know, his age starts with the three. Now,
he's not not a rookie any longer. He's been in
the league for almost a decade and it's probably starting
to wear a little bit. And by the way, he's
been an immortal for so long that he's allowed to
have at least mortal times, mortal months, mortal weeks. However
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long this lasts, he's still excellent at what he does,
and obviously he does the things that no one else
has ever done for this long in the game. But
remember that it wasn't just that he did it. It's
trying to endure and maintain and get this out of
his body for a year after year after year. It
does seem like in the way that Dave Roberts's managed
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him to this point, giving him some days where he's
getting DH four so to speak of when he's pitching,
which I actually like because it allows the Dodgers to
rest some of their other players or at least partially
a Will Smith half day or a Rushing half day,
and rushing has been really good for them behind the plate.
So however it all plays out, I think it's actually
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smart baseball to to not always have Otani as the
DH on on days that he pitches, because that's the
one negative about all that is Otani is that you
don't have that DH spot to rotate anyone else through
and everybody that's in the lineup, they have to be
able to play every single day in the field. So
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that's a difficult part for the Dodgers. And so I
think that this this is now getting a bit more Uh,
it's just it's a it's a bit more like normal
baseball is about as normal as you're going to see
it when Otani's around. That you that on some days
at least you're going to have someone dhing on the
day that he starts, and and the fatigue might be
setting in a bit offensively, and he's just not driving
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the ball quite as well as as he has and
it's it's one of the longer dry spells from a
standpoint of damage that we've seen from him, and it's
probably to be expected. And and the Dodgers are still
an elite team. They're amazing and in just about every way,
but they're not as explosive as they have been. And
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at a large part of that is that Otani is
not as explosive as he has been. He still has
time to get it back, but what he's done in
the first six weeks or so of the season is
just reminding us of how extraordinary he's been for a
very very long amount of time. And it's probably time
to start, ever so slightly not significantly, but by a
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little bit adjusting your expectations of what's possible for show.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Hey see, here's the thing, John Paul Is.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
I don't know, because before the season started, I said, okay,
my Big Bowl prediction show hay Otani your twenty twenty
six National League saw Young Award winner. It felt like
this is what he wanted to take a lot of
time focusing on.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
He wanted to show everybody he's back. The guy's era
is under one.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Like I mean, he is having a Jacob de Gram
type start to the season where he's not giving up
any runs and the Dodgers aren't hitting, which is what
happened with to Grom with the Mets. I meant like
he lost night two to one, right he is, He's
allowed five runs in six games, Like he has been incredible.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
On the mound.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And I kind of feel like maybe that's a little
bit of it. That when when he spent so much
time and you hear all the Dodgers say in the
offseason he was so locked in, he was so obsessed
with Hey, I want to get back to being that picture.
I could see where things get down, you know, get
get down a little bit at the plate, until he
finds his happy medium.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
But on the mound, John Paul, he's been incredible.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
He has been and you're exactly right that this this
might be his ear to to chase the cy young
he's got. He's had obviously plenty of m vps and
now now was his chance to make a move for
this uh in in this part of his career where
he where he wants to check that box obviously and
really welcome himself back to being the full two way
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player and maybe even tipping towards the the the pitching
side of the equation, because as let's be honest, as
a d H, he's already done everything that you could
possibly do, the fifty to fifty the things that he
was able to achieve when he was strictly focusing on
that and and and oh to be so so blessed
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and so talented that you can take your pick of
which of the things you want to do, the things
that no one has ever done before, and and and
he's able to do that. So I think that's that
just speaks to what a unique talent he is. And
and I agree with you, Jason, I think he has
probably given a bit more uh more attention on the
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on on the on the pitching side of things, and
that's and that's that's fair said. That is the one
thing that he has not been able to do before.
And by the way, it's probably the thing that his
team needs at the moment. Just you, given the rest
of the roster questions about Sasaki, et cetera, this is
where I think he can probably make the biggest impact
on the Dodgers right now. And it certainly was not
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his fault that they fell to one to the Astros tonight.
He did everything that he could have been expected to do.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
All right, I'll ask one. I'll go back to the
last really fast here. Jason's still kind of wringing his
hands with the Mets. What's the magic that Donnie Baseball
has brought to the Pills.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It's his name is Zach Wheeler, and he got activated
just as don Matticley took that job. It certainly again.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
The last ten now, right, right.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
So, So Donnie is a first of all, he's phenomenal person.
Everyone who's ever met him in baseball just has great
words to say about him. And so he has that
that calmness and the coolness about him that I do
think is is easily relatable for a veteran team with
guys like Schwarber and b Reale, Mutou and Harper in particular,
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Shorebert Harper have hit really well as Donnie took over.
And again, I wasn't just being glib there to say
that getting Wheeler back is a big deal because he
just he changes the whole staff. He doesn't pitch every day,
but his presence matters every day. And and look at
the way Luzardo is pitched. I think you get a
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better version of Lusardo when Wheeler's pitching, because he feels
like you can slot in a bit more to the
number two spot. I mean, when they're all going. I'm
not sure how many teams have a better one, two,
three than Wheeler, Lusardo and Christopher Sanchez when they're all going.
And by the way, look at how Santos pitched tonight.
I mean, it's just that they're the Phillies. I'm sad
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to say, Jason are just a much more fixable team
than the Mets. The Mets are it's difficult to see
what their path is the playoffs. With the Phillies, it's
a lot easier, and it's a lot clearer in terms
of what they are able to do. And I think
that the Phillies are very much alive in the the
NL East and or at least the NL wild Card.
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The Mets are probably a separate conversation that we'll we'll
have more time for on a night when they actually
play and we have fresh, fresh data to discuss the
next time we have this conversation.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
His last appearance here on Fox Sports Radio, John Paul moros, Hey,
you never.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Know, you never know. We're gonna keep the faith. I'm
gonna I try my best to give you perspective, and
that's why I'm here.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
But uh, we appreciate the candor.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I appreciate that. And hey, we could still have another
Knicks Pistons rematch like from last year, just with a
whole lot more at stakes. So we'll just we'll keep
hoping that's the case.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
He's on Twitter at John Morosi, That is at John
Morosi MLB Network. John Paul as always, buddy, appreciate it,
enjoy the games. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Love this conversation, my friends. Thanks for everything.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
You're the best.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
There goes John Paul.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I like how he feels like he needs to be
delicate with me, like like hey, you know, hey, I
got some bad news for your mets.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
You think I don't know, Like like, no, but.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
It's your friend. He wants to tell you reality. But
he's not gonna slap you upside the head while he
does it.
Speaker 4 (30:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
Sometimes, I mean you need that, but I think he's
got the verbiage went without the the blow to the skull,
Like you're you know, John Stossel and he's doctor d
David Joltz. You don't need that.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's like it's like what you know when you get
a bunch of bad grades and your teacher tells you
you know, you know you got a fifty five in
this last exam. Yeah, you didn't turn in your your
turn paper.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
No I didn't.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Uh you got a forty two on the first QUI yeah, no,
I know that you are going to fail this class.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Wait, what what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (31:25):
I completely understand.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Uh. Time now to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports from special delivery Steve to seger
s D.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
What do you got for us tonight?
Speaker 8 (31:34):
Well, we'll start with baseball and veteran writer Bob Nightingale
has this on show. Hey Otani and his last nine starts,
his era is zero point seven to oh and the
Dodgers are two and seven in those nine games. Tonight,
Jasop de.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Gram would like a word, yes games Yeah.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
Houston two to one over La tonight with two early
solo homers, so Tony finished with eight strikeouts no walks
in seven innings of work. His ERA is up to
zero point nine to seven. The Mets game at Colorado
was rained out. It'll be made up on Thursday. Wednesday's
game will now be at night in Colorado. The Saint
Louis home game against Milwaukee was rained out. They'll make
(32:14):
that up in July as part of a doubleheader. It's
possible the Chicago White Sox could win tonight and with
a five hundred record, be in first place in the divisions.
They're tied to two at the Angels. In the top
of the fourth. Detroit was beaten at home ten to
three by Boston. The loss to from ber Veldez, who
allowed ten runs, three homers, and then hit a batter
(32:36):
in the fourth and was thrown out. Baltimore lost its
fifth in a row, nine to seven. Had lost five
in a row, I should say, but got two in
the ninth to win nine to seven at Miami. Tampa
Bay won it's fifth in a row. Yankees won their
fifth straight, Kansas City one. It's fifth straight. Cubs have
won six in a row, but they're tied in the
top of the tenth at home Cubs two, Reds two.
(32:58):
The Reds closer Emilio Pagan was carted off with a
hamstring injury on his first pitch. Minnesota and Philadelphia with wins.
Among the Lake games it is the Braves tie two
to two at Seattle in the bottom of the fourth,
Diamondbacks two nothing over the Pirate's bottom of the fourth,
and already Padres five to four at San Francisco in
the top of the fourth inning. Well, Lakers got close
(33:21):
in the third quarter. It's now heavily favored Oklahoma City
up eighty eight seventy three over La early in the
fourth quarter of their second round opener. Fifty three percent
shooting for the Thunder. They're led by chet Holmgren, who
has twenty points. Lebron James twenty two points for the Lakers,
but Austin Reeves is one of eleven shooting from the floor.
(33:41):
Detroit won its second round opener at home against Cleveland
one eleven to one oh one. Cad Cunningham twenty three
points but six of nineteen shooting from the floor. AP
came out with a list of most turnovers in your
first eight games of a postseason at the last forty years,
because Charles Barkley apparently had forty five turnovers the first
(34:01):
eight games of the nineteen eighty six postseason. Cad Cunningham
now has forty five turnovers. Also in this postseason, James
Harden's up to forty three.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
He had seven seven.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
Turnovers in the loss in this game at Detroit. By
the Way, Pistons were up eighteen late in the first quarter.
The Celtics Jalen Brown was fined fifty thousand dollars by
the league for criticizing the refs after Boston lost Game
seven at home against Philly. That telecast, by the way,
followed the great ratings Kentucky Derby, so that win for
(34:32):
the seventy six Ers drew eleven million total viewers. The
first round average four million per game nationally for the NBA.
The NFL Referees Union is due to vote on a
new labor contract. Thursday, wide receiver Stefan Diggs was found
not guilty of assault. Seattle signed veteran defensive end Dante Fowler,
(34:53):
and the Giants reportedly gave defensive tackle Dj Reider a
two year deal.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve Oson The Smith's Show
with my bass friend Mike Harmon, we have more NBA
on the way.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
The Thunder now looking to run away from the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
A fifteen point lead, eighty eight to seventy three, ten
and a half to go in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
More NBA on the way. Next, we got the play of.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
The day end numbers that I really just can't believe
what I'm gonna tell you is true.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
That's next, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
Yes, Jason, we know Austin Reeves is struggling.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
You know, the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
That is not John Cena.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Lebron.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
James has twenty four points. That's the good news for
the Lakers. The bad news is the Thunder just keep
pouring it on. Seven and a half to go in
the fourth quarter, Oklahoma City has opened up a ninety
six seventy nine lead, Game one of.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
The Western Conference.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Semis will have more in this game coming up in
a few minutes, but time right now to bring you
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tire buying should be. Well, we all know he can
play offense. We all know he can shoot the basketball,
allegedly because he's been terrible shooting the ball so far
in the playoffs. But Kay Cunningham can also get it
done on the other side of the floor.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Pardon eight to quit run a challenge Cunningham.
Speaker 7 (36:39):
Cunningham till within the patoff with a stale skill put up.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Thompson can find.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
NBC on the call.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yes, a James harden turnover I turned into a big
hoop for the Pistons. One of the seven turnovers James
Hardon had tonight as part of the Cavaliers one eleven
one oh one loss of the Detroit Pistons.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
I mean, I mean, I mean, I don't know what
else to say, Mike. Every year James Harden, I feel like.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Boy, I feel so smart because I'm right about James
Harden the playoffs every single year, I felt so intelligent.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Well, at this point, it's like just putting money in
a nice Fortune five hundred company and blue chip er
and just letting him roll. Okayra just playing the S
and P five hundred. You know you're gonna have a
down year now and again, but on average you're getting
your seven percent returns nice and steady as they go.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
I'm just gonna keep investing in Yahoo and all these
big pats. But it's not sexy, you're not tech out,
but I'm making money on it.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
I'm sorry. I'm just gonna invest in the big place.
I know. It's not Hey, Jim Kramer giving you advice
here at buy this and sell this and all this mad.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Money and George Clooney in a boxing ring telling me
what to do now. I mean, it's not that, but hey,
sometimes you just gotta you know, if if that's the
way it's going.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
That's the way it's going.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Look at you getting that Clooney movie in Mad Money
from all those years ago we tried to do. I
tried to pitch a fantasy bit in the early days
of Kramer when he was still on to come, and
they looked at me like I was insane. I'm like,
this is this is gonna become a big deal. And
it did, and it did, Bye bye bye sous out
and eventually Clooney actually did a movie on it. I mean,
(38:08):
come on, man, it could have been on it. By
the way, don't remind me of Yahoo Stuck, because on
paper I was a millionaire for about five minutes, and
by time I could do anything, I couldn't even have
paid off my two bit car.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
So that we had that five minutes though.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
Oh I felt great at that Christmas party. We were
all living large, and then by time we vested nothing.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
You can always make a jump to declusions, Matt.
Speaker 5 (38:29):
I can't, like, you know, like we do with each
of these sporting events. I do like that James Harden
turnover constitutes a play of the night in Game one
of a second round series, So that's good.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Yeah, But just.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Also think you jump to conclusions. So you jump, you
jump on the mat, you jump to conclusions.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
Yeah. I was rewatching a little bit of the uh
the Book of Boba fet and you got Luke Skywalker
training training grogu Hey jump, yeah, don't think about it.
Speaker 6 (39:03):
Jump.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
That was that needed Luke to show up in the
worst way. Hey, we need something here. This show is
really not great.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Don't worry.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
By the time we get to the sixth episode, we
got Luke. Okay, now we're gonna get to the sixth episode. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, yeah. Now, numbers,
I want to tell you that at this point, if
I'm the NBA, I just say every game is the
highest rated game we've ever had. Today, news comes out
that the Game seven this weekend between the Sixers and
(39:32):
the Celtics on NBC and Peacock averaged eleven million viewers,
making it the most watched first round Game seven in
NBA history and the highest first round game in twenty
seven years.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
It did follow the Kentucky Derby. Okay, great, but I
see this and I go, really that many to watch
the Sixers and the Celtics really to really that many?
Like I feel like with the way the NBA is
right now with the NBC and Peak and they claim
that Kaka Mami Hey, ratings are up eighty six percent.
I feel like I'm not gonna believe anything you tell
me about ratings. So just tell me whatever you want
(40:07):
lie to me, whatever you want to say.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
We had one hundred million people watching that game.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Great, Yeah, it's a hundred million people, just like the
Super Bowl watching Game seven between the Six and the Celtics.
Like we're still so early days with figuring out ratings
and streaming. Like I feel like anybody could tell us
whatever they want to when it comes to ratings.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
So I see this and I.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Go, yeah, maybe it was that big. I mean maybe not.
Maybe it was that big, but I don't know. I
can't tell you one way or the other. So I
would just I'd tell the NBA just make stuff up.
Whatever you want to say, Say it and people might
believe it, you know.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
But a lot of it has been fuzzy math and
extrapolating and kind of chaos going all the way back. Man,
how many people had a box in their house? Maybe
you did, maybe you didn't. I mean, maybe I flipped
and I got five seconds, ten seconds of a song.
Does that count? I don't know, but right now it's like, yeah,
it's it's fuzzy math. But I could say, and maybe
(40:58):
there's some truth to it that you would have had
a lot of people in New York hate watching that
series because they hate both those teams.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5 (41:08):
Bring out those guys now he hit a shot. Yeah,
bring on those dirty Yeah. I mean, because you might have.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
Had a lot of that. I got I got no time.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
I gotta watch a game today because I'm rooting against
both teams and one of them is gonna lose.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
So that's what I'm I lost my ass in the
derby and now I'm gonna hate watch this.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
Exit. How about a Fresca exit?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Swelling dom No, come on, Nixon, four nix and four
nix and for coming up next, big stuff out of
the NBA Playoffs.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
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