July 10, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Monse Bolanos are talking about all the BIG NBA signings of the day. Did the NFLPA/NFL conceal collusion findings?? And Jackson Chourio walks it off for the Brewers to sweep the Dodgers!
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
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Speaker 1 (00:41):
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Sports Radio videos on YouTube. Now I feel it we
could have hit you with the final call of the
Dodger game, considering now you know, six in a row
and the sky is falling for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It is a little bit, ain't it ain't? And thank
you for bringing that up. I forgot about it for
a second, for a hot second, I forgot that happened.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You're doing updates, You're talking about it all day home.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Oh I know, I stopped talking about it. Uh, you know,
I'm just not.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Giving the score on the updates.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm not giving the scoring, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Or playing the walk off. I did play it earlier
for the first I'm a team player.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And Dodgers played in Milwaukee today, and uh that Stilly's
wound up shutting out the Giants thirteen to nothing and
just blow it right.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Past it, right past it. That was the positive. Giants
sucked at home. Okay, all right, you know we still
have a nice lead. Okay there, Giants missed an opportunity there.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That would have been a great and the Dodgers played
the safe through in Milwaukee. That was a tight game, and.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
The Giants suck and the Giants suck.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Now back to you, Jason, Okay, that works. That's a
different that's a very different way. What's trending.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
That covers the story of what happened today.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It covers the story. It's like when I watch It's
like when I watched The Bear and I just say, hey,
I didn't watch this week at the Bear. I could
sum up what happened in less than five seconds. That's
how boring the show is. Now, I could tell you
what happened everything in that for in less than five seconds.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I have not gone on that show? Are you telling
me it sucks?
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And then watch the first two seasons and then just
stop and then just stop.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yeah okay, kind of like Dexter after four seasons?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Sure why you made it four seasons through Dexter four?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Season? Was was is that where Rita passed away? The
scene in the bathtub? Was it that season four? There
were lots of scenes because that's that's where it lost
me once Rita.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Okay pasted Okay, all right, you know what I mean.
And that's still pretty good for that for that show
and make it through four seasons, it's good. Yeah, no,
it's all. But I'm telling you first two scenes a bear,
it's it's phenomenal. And then it's like it's you know
when you watch a soap opera and you feel like, boy,
if I miss a month, you don't really miss you
caught up in like a day. Yeah right, Because my
wife and are huge Guiding Light fans and we and
I was like, wow, we went on vacation for we
(02:45):
haven't missed anything like the same thing. Josh and Reva
are still fighting, okay, and she goes, yes, this is
how it goes. Okay, great, that's kind of like the bear.
You can it doesn't matter. You don't need to see it.
I could just tell you in five seconds. Will Poulter
came back to work and yeah, and since that had
a heart attack, what else. That's it. That's it. But
that's all. That's all. That's forty five minutes, because twenty
(03:06):
five minutes of it is them chopping onions and making
a dessert, them going wild chef, wild chef, wold chef.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Oh, you're really selling it, that's what it is. You're
really selling it.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay, seasons, two seasons, amazing, amazing, amazing. Wait, but not
the first not the first show where the first couple
of seasons are great, and then after it's hey, we're
kind of out of ideas. All right, let's just uh,
let's just put a lot of music montages in. Let's
just run it out and just extend it as far
as we can. Let's just keep going.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Speaking of extensions, big news today. If I said to you, hey,
guess who's gonna be the highest paid player in the
history of the game per year by the end of
the day today. I'm so excited it. Maybe you would
have gotten to this person. Maybe not. However, uh Shamsterrania
just putting this out about a half hour ago. Devin
Booker has agreed to a two year, one hundred and
(03:53):
forty five million dollars maximum extension with the Suns through
the twenty twenty nine twenty thirty season. Now, this money
that he is getting puts him just above Shake Gildess
Alexander for the richest contract ever Shake Gildess Alexander seventy
one point two five million dollars a year. And now
you have Devin Booker who is two more years. Because
(04:14):
Phoenix is desperate to keep their stars, He's now getting
the most money per year in the history of the NBA,
history of the league.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I mean, it sounds crazy, but I think Devin Booker
realizes the situation and he's like, all right, we don't
control our draft picks for the next seven years. We're
kind of screwed, but I can make money hang out
here in Phoenix whatever. Clearly he doesn't care about winning.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He's it's not like the sun Set. You know, he
made the Sun's game with a bunch of guys and saying, Hey,
you're gonna pay me now or I'm gonna wreck this
play with me. This is such a crack my knuckles.
Did you hear me crackles doing that?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Such tough?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, I've been watching watching too many movies like that. Yeah,
you come in here, you do. You're gonna give me
every two million dollars a year, then you're gonna see
what happens. All right, let's go.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
No, you're right. He was not this New York gangster
mob Mooster that came in and took this money. It's
the situation that he is in, and I want to
blame him.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
But at the same time, I'm like, what else is
he supposed?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You wouldn't say no.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I would, I wouldn't say no.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But the Fox Sports radio say, hey, Monci, here's two years,
one hundred and forty five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I would say, I'll take one forty four Give one
million to Jason Smith.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh okay, so that's cool, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I got you.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I only get a million, and I want to get
it's just a million.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You're the only one that's getting anything.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Oh, okay, you're getting the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That's fine, Exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I know I hear what you're saying. Says. I'm not
blaming him because in other situations we would be like, oh,
you should probably take a pay cup to make your
team better, Lebron James, you know you should probably take
a pay cup. But for him, I don't think there's
another scenario for him, Like he doesn't want to leave.
They don't want him to leave. The Sons have no
other option. Like you said, we got to keep someone
here because we don't know the future. The future looks
(05:59):
real for the Sons with this Western Conference. They know
they don't need one move, they need twenty seven moves
to all of a sudden be competitive.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
So I think they're just.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Like, all right, we're screwed. We'll keep our star. People
will keep coming to see Devin Booker. Devin Booker's like,
all right, I don't have to go anywhere that's cold.
I'll hang out here, make a lot of money, and
see you guys in two years, see where we're at.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
This sounds like, okay, I'd love for us to get divorced,
but we can't. Oh yes, you're the only one working
right now. I'm you know, I'm not worried. We have
our you know, our son, we got it. We got
one kid getting ready to go to college. Our daughter's
gonna be going in three years. We can't sell the
house because we're underwater on it. So okay, we're just
gonna have to be together for the next couple of
(06:43):
years because leaving doesn't help either of us. Yeah, but
that's perfect. That would be exactly what it is. It's
exactly what it.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Is that you hit it right on the money.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
The house is Bradley Bial right now. The house we
can't house, let's Bradley Beil.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
We have a bad realtor. We can't sell this out. No,
but look there now it's the Suns, and they have
tried a lot of different things. There's worse things than
building around Devin Booker. Right, he's one of one of
only two. He and Giannis are the only guys in
the last seven years to average over twenty five a
game every year. So there's worse than building around him. Obviously,
you give him a lot of money, it's less to
get other players. But hey, you just got to find
(07:18):
the right formula. But you know, so here's the money
for Devin Booker. Now you want to get bigger than
this for Devin Booker. Right, And this, this is going
to wind up being my greatest bull prediction that I've
ever made, because two years ago when when Jokic signed
his extension a couple of years ago, and the last
year he was making sixty two million a year. Right now,
this this extension that he no longer wants, that he
(07:40):
wants a new one next year so he can make
in the eighty like eighty one million a year at
the end, right by twenty thirty, Okay, by the year
twenty third, we're twenty twenty five. Right now, in the
summer twenty twenty five, there will be an NBA player
making one hundred million dollars a year. Someone's going to
sign a contract that's going to be for one hundred
million dollars a year. And again, we talked about this
(08:01):
last night because Yokicic was, hey, he wants to opt
out so we can sign a bigger deal next year
and he would be in the eighties for his final
he would be in like eighty four million a year
for the last year or two whatever. It could wind
up being for him. So now you're talking about a
year from now, Jokis jumps from seventy two to eighty four.
So I got four years. I bet it happened before that.
Devin Booker got seventy two. Man, how many guys in
league on a I need more money than that. It'll
(08:22):
probably be Wemby. It'll probably be when because you're talking
about in five years, there's gonna be somebody who's twenty four,
twenty five gonna get that kind of money. But someone
one hundred million dollars a year. I thought it could
happen in the NFL too, But you know, now we
see that salaries are being controlled a little bit morech
we'll get to win a few minutes. So I thought
maybe a quarterback would get there, but probably not. By then.
They're growing a little bit more incrementally. But by twenty thirty,
(08:45):
if Devin Booker's getting seventy two million dollars a year
now for the last couple of years of his contract extension,
someone's gonna sign by twenty thirty for one hundred million
dollars a year. Oh ye, one hundred million.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Any I don't even know how to process that, right
now because I think you're on I think you're on it.
I don't think this is that crazy of a take.
It really isn't. And that's the crazy side of it
that this seems like right on par with what we're
gonna see. I was gonna say, maybe even Luka Doncic
could get up there if he continues to do could
get closer.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He keeps in shape, another couple of good years and
maybe sure they could be Wamma's.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
A great one. That is ridiculous to think about.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
So when you put it that way, do you think
the Phoenix Suns were smart and doing this now?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, I always think anybody who wants to see somebody
you sign a guy early because the contract's just gonna
get more money. Anybody that doesn't do stuff like this,
you could tell they're scared. So at least Phoenix has
been aggressive. You could tell Manshpi's a guy. He guy
opens up his computer every day and see somebody says, oh,
I didn't know this, Let's go get this guy, Let's
go spend this money. Right, there's worse owners to have
the ones that gets scared of stuff and say ooh,
(09:49):
I don't know. It's a lot of money and maybe
we can get him on the cheap. If he has
kind of a down year, it's like, okay, that's just
not gonna work. So yeah, locking him in now, by
the time it would come up to he's thirty two
years old, coming up for the next deal, it would
be more money. It would be a longer time for
more money. So yeah, locking him in for the next
four years of his prime, which are gonna take him
into thirty two. You're thirty two to thirty three, Okay,
(10:10):
Now you just got to get it right right and
said you have to get it right. Building around him,
they were aggressive. They thought KD was coming. Obviously, Kevin
Durant hasn't led anybody to anything in six years. I
could have told you that, but hey, you know, Matti
Spa didn't call me. Bradley Beal's gonna come. Now you're stuck. Okay,
Now he's got the note trou Okay, that's great. But
at least they're being aggressive. So I enjoy the aggressiveness
of it because I'm never gonna fault someone for that.
(10:31):
It's just okay, you want to be able to make
the right decisions to keep flexibility. But I mean who
else are you gonna give that money to? Right, Devin
Booker one of the best pure scorers in the game, Clearly,
I feel like he's kind of on the Damian Lillard
path where we're gonna be talking about him and he's
gonna keep scoring twenty five a game and the Sons
are gonna keep losing and by the time he gets
at thirty two to thirty three, we're gonna say the
same thing with Lillard. Boy, I wish he would get
(10:53):
to another team, right, just like because that was the
way with Damie Lard, Like, like like a few nights
NBA nights a year he would go for like forty
five and on the show, we'd go, man, nobody else care.
No one's gonna be talking about this tomorrow because it's
late at night. It's the Blazers and the Kings or
the Blazers, and no one's gonna do. Would love Lillard
to get to another team. That's gonna be the same
thing for Devin Booker, Boy, he's a bigs would love
(11:13):
to see him get to another team at some point.
That's what we're saying for him.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I totally hear the comparison, although it was I feel
like it was a little different because right now, the
Sun's like, you're I don't expect you to do any
damage in the Western Conference in the next two years.
If I'm being completely honest, You've got to make sense.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Don't sell them short. Two years maybe maybe ten, maybe
twelve they think fifteen, Still sell them short.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I feel like with Portland there was a bit of hope,
like they were putting pieces around Damian Lillard, and it's again,
it did not go the way that they thought, but.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I feel like there was hope. There's no hope with
the Sons right now.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Right now, what.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Happens next the Sons get a first round pick or
the Mets get done paying Bobby Benia, Okay, because that's
twenty thirty five. Okay, that's twenty thirty five. It's gonna
be It's close.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It's real close. It's close because they don't have all
over their picks for seven years, so it's like it's
not it's not looking good for them. So it's a
little bit different with the Portland and the Blazer situation
with with Lillard, but it does seem like it's going
in that direction where it's like he's gonna keep having
a great career. But that's as far as it's gonna go. Yeah,
I mean it seems success is not looking good for him.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
No, it's it's it's always hard, and it's kind of
the philosophy of you want to build a team when
your quarterback is on a rookie contract, so that's when
you have the money to be able to pay other players,
and you know your quarterback's still making money in theory,
but hey, while Jalen Hurts is on his rookie deal
or someone else is on their rookie deal, Hey we
can win now. And that's great. If you don't, okay,
it gets a little bit tougher because you're paying your
(12:39):
quarterback now, so it's harder to go out and get
other players. So yeah, it's a lot tougher in the NBA,
but you have to keep your big players. You can't.
You can't win in the NBA without stars, you don't.
You No one wins a championship without at least two superstars. Yeah,
it doesn't happen anymore that way. That that's kind of
how it goes. And so you saw, hey, you know
Homegron today with the with the rookie Max that he
(12:59):
got with the thunder, and now you're talking about Shay Gilders,
Alexander and chet Holmgren and Williams and you need great players.
So it's it's a catch twenty two. But you gotta spend, man,
you got you got. If you don't spend, you're gonna
sit there and say, Okay, Greg, you gonna try to
be the little engine that could. Little engines don't do
it in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah you know. Okay, So he is spending money because
they have to for one reason. Sons are spending money
because they have to for another completely different reason.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, you know, but yeah, at.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Least at least you're being aggressive.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Hey, that's all. It's all good. Yeah, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
It's better than the alternative.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, no, this is true. This is true. You wait,
you wait. By twenty third, you're gonna remember this cop.
You could say, I was doing a show at Jason
Skim you know, the guy that was on The Golden
Bachelor in one Yeah, remember that guy. Yeah, remember he
was here Fox Sports Radio. Yeah yeah, yeah. And then
and he said, by twenty thirty, someone's gonna be making
and look at that Wenby signs that extension hard because
(13:49):
it's I got five years to make this come five years,
it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
And the way it's looking like this, yeah, like you said,
I might even have before that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well that's the big thing is Yokic is gonna do
it next year? Like but that big jump he's gonna make, Okay, Well,
you guys are gonna be up in the eighties, all right?
Then did need somebody else to make a big jump?
And then somebody else make it and then Wenby's the guy,
and maybe's not Wenby, it's Cooper Flag. But somebody's got
one hundred million dollars a year. It's never gonna go back.
Oh so you should have been a basketball player.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I should have been a basketball there at five feet, Yes.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You could have.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You know, if you could have made money in like
a six foot under league or something like that, and
one of those leagues, yes, this is fifty and over
softball les. Is there like a height league for uh?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure there is actually, but
one that pays you. The rims are like it's seven
and a half.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I don't want you to move the rim I'm not
I can't I would be able to make a basket
like that. I'm so used to the basket being where
it is. I don't want you to move it. I
don't want you to also to give me a lighter ball,
all right, played with the lighter ball.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Okay, all right, all right, very just see if there
was a six season money was there? Hey? If Big
three can make money and then your rival money money, Yeah,
well it's still around money. Exit out about a fresco
monse at mons Jason Smith, Monsey and from Mike Harmon. Tonight.
Oh we have another. We have a double shot in
money conversation coming your way. Next, a big headline out
(15:06):
of the NFL today that I'll tell you exactly why
no fans care about it. That's next right here, Jason Monci,
this is Fox Sports Radio.
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is like a big money hour here we have. It's
a big lots of money left money, money, money, money, money, money.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I wish money was coming at us.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I wish you well. I'll give tishirt a bunch of
ones and he can just make it money in the studio.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, gosh, how exciting would that be?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Tysan? How long would take you to make it rain
with like ten ones? Oh point two seconds? Okay, very good?
I just did are you are you preparing like mancy
you that's you're the one raining in no no dancing?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh wow? I just yeah, you've got a plan here,
talk less smile more so, like like how many ones
would you need to do an effective make it rain
like legit in a row? Yeah? Forty probably forty? Yeah,
all right, okay, al right. It looked good and they
got to be really crisp.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, but not because they get stuck together. Separate them first,
you know.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Wow, he says, seem like you have some experience.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I may have, you know, thrown ones at people the
time or two.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Okay, making it rain and throwing ones at people.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
You know, sometimes it's throwing, sometimes it's making a rain. Okay,
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
All right, all right, sliding in after dark here on
Fox Radio. So we had the deaf books money conversation
a few minutes ago. Now, how about this as far
as money goes from the NFL, A big story today.
It's weird We're gonna do a big story. I'm gonna
tell you why fans don't care. Is this Kirk Cousins.
(18:04):
It's not. No, we'll get I know, I I know,
we talked before the show. We'll get to your discovery
that Kirk Cousins is overpaid later on. No, we'll get
to that. It don't start on Matt Ryan. Apparently Pablo Torri,
who was you know, seen on ESPN for the last
few years, suddenly heast now turning into the new mark
(18:26):
for Nei Ruwata investigative reporter. Uh. That is going to
blow the lid off of stories, whether we want them
or not. Because you know, we had the whole thing
about Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson a few weeks ago,
and I remember hearing that going, I don't get why
why is he looking into this? This is just weird.
There's no crime, there's no anything. It's just weird. Why
is this taking up all this time? But there is
(18:49):
something else taking up this time, obviously on the Pablo
Tory Finds Out podcast, in which there is evidence now
that the NFL and senior leaders of the NFL Player
Associe committed collusion together. There was an agreement between the
NFL and the NFLPA to limit the restricted guaranteed money
(19:10):
in player contracts. So basically what happened was everybody got
mad when Jimmy Hasselm decided, oh we need a quarterback.
Hey to Sean Watson, you don't want to be here
at all?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
But what if we guaranteed every penny of your contract?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well then I want to go.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Okay, great, So all of that money guaranteed to a
guy coming off an awful story and an awful headline,
and I don't even know what to say at that
point where how you can redeem anything, where yeah, you
went through all of this, but here's two hundred and
fifty million dollars guaranteed. So a lot of people were
upset about this, right and now apparently there's evidence that
both the NFL and the Player Association colluded to keep
(19:44):
the guaranteed money from skyrocketing. So ensuing years, Lamar Jackson,
Josh Allen Mahomes, all these guys got new contracts, and
so now they can suddenly say, wait a minute, we
could sue the league, we can declare free agent, we
can do maybe we could do a lot of things.
Because now there's evidence that both sides colluded to keep
that going. Now there's two takeaways from this right before
(20:07):
one takeawa before you get to why why fans don't care?
Number one is that, man, if I'm a player and
I go, wait a minute, I understand the NFL colluding
with the owners saying we don't want to keep that,
we don't want to keep this money. How do you
keep that from the players. Hey, we're gonna make we're
gonna take care of you. I get that you have
to work together, there's symbiosis there, but you work for
(20:27):
the players and you keep this and you keep this
quiet Like this is where you have to just clear
out everybody leading the NFLPA and find new leadership because
they're supposed to be working for the players and instead, Yeah,
we kind of had this agreement that we're gonna limit
the guaranteed money and salaries. Wow, I can't believe NFL
players are they haven't all just stormed three four five
(20:48):
Park Avenue and said, Okay, something's got to happen, right,
like Frankenstein, they're all with torches at the end, going
throw him down, throw them down. I can't believe that
hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
You're not wrong. When I read the story, that's all
I cared about, because you're right, what don't fans care about?
I don't care or am I surprised that the owners
want this and wanted to control right guaranteed money. But
the NFLPA, huh huh? What else are you colluding? What
else are you hiding? What else have you withheld details
(21:20):
to the players about you? You know, that's what The
next question is? What else have you kept from us?
What else have you not done in our favor when
you were supposed to be fighting for us? Because if not,
then what's the point here? Very it's very disappointing, I'm
sure as a player to read that, but as the owners,
it's like, I'm not surprised about that.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
I'm not surprised that the owners are doing this.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
All the owners are. I'm sure the owners are mad
they got found out, absolutely mad.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
They not found out that you found out that they
were in on it?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah now yeah, now everybody, but all the anger is
really going to wind up going to the NFLPA because
I think people are got well. Of course, the NFL
wants to keep salaries down. I'm sure they all taught. Hey,
there's collusion for different times for keeping money down, whether
it's keeping Colin Kaepernick out of the league, wherever you want, wherever,
whatever side you come down on that. But to hear
that though the Players Association is doing this is this
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is where like this is like if if you were
being defended for a crime and at the end the
lawyer says, hey, I uh, you know you gotta take this. Yeah,
you gotta take a deal. I'm not I can't get
you off. You got to take a deal. Okay, what
is it. So you gotta do five years? Oh okay, great,
and then five years go by and you find out
oh yeah, yeah, maybe they're the prosecutor. We just didn't
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want to try the case. We were tired of going
on vacation, so we just struck a deal with each
other that yeah, you were gonna get five years and
that was it, and I wasn't gonna try. I had
a lot of evidence I could have got I could
have got you off. Yeah, I got DNA, I had everything. Man,
you didn't do this. I know you didn't do it,
but boy, it would have been a lot of money
and waiting for the lab to come in and you know,
we had this vacation book to Egypt with Aaron Rodgers
(22:50):
and it was such a bit there, so we really
didn't do it. That's that's finding this out. Now you're
supposed to be working for me, you're supposed to be well, nope,
but they're not.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Now they're not and probably making money themselves out of
this deal. That's the other side of it. It's like,
you agreed to this for what perk? What did you
get out of this? Because this is a big deal.
The minute it came out, you knew this was gonna
hit the fan for you.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Not the owners, because again we expect this from the owners.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
In a sport where injury can be so high, it's
very different than in other sports. Kind of like you
said in the last hour that you thought maybe in
the NFL one hundred million dollar contract annually could be
a thing, but because of injuries and the demanding physical
toll that this sport takes, it's very different from the NBA.
But none of this is surprising from the owners. Nobody
is now looking at their owners differently. Now they're just
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looking at the people they trusted the most differently, and
that's like worst case scenario out of this story.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Can't trust anybody, can't trust anybody.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And it's like, what did you get out of this?
You didn't just agree to this without getting anything out
of it? So you got the money that was guaranteed
for me?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Instead? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
And not.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The thing is that you're right, what does this open
the flight door too? Yes?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Because it's not just one.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
When there's one ant, you know, there's not one ant.
There's hundreds of ants. That's always what I've been told
my mom. But there's one, you know, there's a lot,
so handle it. So there's one here, there's a lot more.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
But I don't want to keep looking.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
And that's the thing. I don't want to look. No,
keep looking, get that spray out, that raid spray out,
and handle your business.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah. But but they're the red ants. They bite you.
I'm sorry, you have to. You got to get out there.
I'm sorry, pants on, No, that's red.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You get out there and you kill every ant until
but I don't want to do it, But you do
it or you're not eating tonight. All right, fine, going
out to kill the ants. I got them all, mom,
So now the other part of it is this is
one of the biggest reactions I would say of this
is boy, I can't believe it's not a bigger story, right,
(24:52):
I said, like, I can't. How is this not a
bigger story? Like that was a big thing that I
saw most of the day on social media? How is this?
How is this is not a big deal? How more
people not care about this? And like, you know what,
it's a very inside baseball thing where Okay, we're keeping
salaries down and people understand. I'm not saying people don't
understand it because certain things, okay, a little too much
for you know, I only have so much ram in
(25:14):
my head for stories and stuff and what I care
about what I don't. Okay, But this is a case
where if you ask the average fan, hey, are you
outraged over this? The average fan is gonna say players
get paid too much? Anyway, what do I care? I mean, really,
I'm supposed to be upset that Joe Burrow couldn't get
three hundred and ten million and had to settle for
two hundred and seventy five million. Right or wrong, People
(25:35):
don't care. People don't care about that they've done. Players
have been overpaid since we since we knew what salaries
players were making. I'm short in the forties and the fifties,
if there was sports talk radio and you found out
that players, you know, hey, so and so signed such
a big contract in baseball, he doesn't have to take
a second job in the off season selling shoes, which
is what a lot of the players did. They would say, oh,
(25:56):
he's overpaid if he has need to work in the
off season. I know guys, their shoes, they were construction.
They do this, they work in the tax office like that.
I'm sure you would have found fans back then go all,
this guy's way overpaid. He's getting five hundred dollars a year.
That's way too much money. I mean, fans generally think
athletes are over as much as they love sports, much
as we love sports. Mostly we care about the money.
(26:17):
And fans care about the money when it comes to
being able to sign other players, right, I don't care
what it costs. I want to be able to bring
in player X, or I want to be able to
have enough money in the salary cap to bring in
an edge rusher, you know, a box safety, a running back, whatever.
That's where we care about money for but this money, Oh,
(26:37):
so players couldn't get paid money. You're talking about the
upper one tenth of one percent of players in the
NFL that have kept salaries down. Because are they really
talking about keeping salaries down for a guy who's gonna
sign for two years and four million. No, But it's
the big top end guys, the big quarterbacks that are
out there that we're going to reset the market. And
I'm sure the owners saw that and said, Okay, here
comes Lamar and Burrow and Mahomes and all, Okay, let's
(26:59):
make sure we take care this. But generally, yeah, this
is not gonna be something that you're gonna whip fans
up in a frenzy because that's ninety percent of the
fans are gonna say, hey, I don't care. I don't care.
And if we were doing the show for the players,
it'd be different. We do four hours as if it's
just players listening. But fans, Yeah, I get it. I
get that fans, because honestly, I have to think about
(27:19):
how much do I care about this? Right? I care
more about it from the perspective of the people supposed
to be working for the players, the players associations that yeah,
we had this agreement that was screwing you. So sorry
about that. That's the part I care about more. But
the money thing, it's gonna be really hard to make
this to sell. This is Oh look at this story
and all of a sudden, there's got to be investigations
in the NFL and people have to lose jobs. That's
(27:40):
not gonna go that way.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
No, it's hard to have sympathy for rich people just
wanting to make more money, right, It's like problems we
don't understand. So it's the rich getting richer, but we
don't have sympathy because, like you said, it's not the
guy coming in that's making a couple of million, it's
the guys that are already making millions. And you you
think there's no more collusion here as to why the
(28:01):
story isn't pushed. You think it's fans not being interested,
and I agree to that, but I also feel like
there's probably people sending messages to those who control the
stories saying, hey, you know, don't write about this, don't
retweet this. You know that's going on as well. Oh yes,
it's being controlled on the media level of those people
(28:22):
who would be tweeting this information.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Out.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Pablo tweets about things that people aren't talking about, just
like you mentioned the whole thing with Jordan Hudson and
Bill Belichick, Like nobody cared about that. He chose to
dive into.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
That, and so like what is he gonna if he's
gonna uncover something illegal? Or somebody wait, what what do you?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
What are you uncovering?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Maybe he was trying to find something new, like oh,
you know spygate point point two. Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
But here I feel like there is you knew ahead
of time that Jordan Hudson would say, yes, exactly, you
ahead of time, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Ahead, Yeah, I have the signals down. They had a
guy filming. Hey, okay, I see that's okay, so she'll
say yes if you ask around. So we know ahead
of time and that's exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
But here I do feel like maybe there's just a
bit of a couple of people saying, hey, don't wrung
with the story. Let's just let it die down, let
the players handle it themselves, don't let the public get involved.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah, this is and I'm sure it was. This works
best for both of our sides. If you do this
for us. The owners say, we'll do something for you.
We'll make sure this is the case. I mean, I
understand it in theory. I understand it in theory, but
in the end, what you got to say, Okay, if
it gets out, and look, the NFL has done a
pretty good job of keeping things secret that they don't
want out. But yes, if this gets out, if the
(29:36):
shield is not protected and this gets out, because it
always that happens once in a while in every zombie movie.
You think you have a great, great defense, but all
you need is one crazy ass zombie to make it through.
A one guy to fall asleep or one guy to
leave and go to the bathroom, and one zombie gets
through with suddenly, awe, now we got a problem, right
like this episode two of the Last of Us. Right
now we got problems. Now we got all kinds of
(29:56):
problems because the zombies broke through. Sorry spoiler, Now we've
got problems. And now Joel's going to pay the ultimate price.
So so there's that. Yeah, but it's a while people
know that by now.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Also spoiler, it's not good here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So I mean, like, if that gets you understand that,
you could ruin so many things like the is the
risk versus the reward here of now the players are
going to say, we need all new elected officials. We
need to rip up this collective bargaining agreement and get
a new one. That's the first thing I would do
if I was one of the players in charge, I
would say, we got to rip up this CBA and
sign a new one because we don't know what else
(30:29):
is going on. We need a new CBA ratified right now.
Like that's what I think is going to wind up
being the Hey, now, then you suddenly get to a
oh boy, now you've done it, so I understand that
was it worth it to keep salaries down for like
three or four quarterbacks when when this is going to
be the result?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Well, they didn't know it was going to come out, right,
And that's what the shield, that's the shield is probably
doing just that, trying to control this, keeping it down,
keeping it low so it doesn't more details don't get
out to the public because you know, there's more to it.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
This is not it.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
There's more to the story, more intricate details that we're
probably not gonna know. But the shield wants to protect it.
The shield. If there is a problem now with the
NFLPA and the players. The Shield does not want the
public to know that that is information that we may
not hear unless Pablo decides to dive into it and
finds out more information.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
We jumped into something else, but.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
It's damage control almost right. Now, here's this point.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Here's who was dancing with Tom Brady at the Bezo's wedding. No,
now you look, as Sidney Sweeney was dancing with Brady
then photographed for the Orlando Bloom, We're gonna see where
we're at. Was she really the person everbody wanted to
talk to? Who else did Brady talk to at the wedding?
Pablo Tory finds out and then.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That would be a great story, and that would be great.
Do you have footage of said Tom Brady with miss Sweeney?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Because I would have loved how to throw a football,
so you.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Hold it like that.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I would have loved to have seen that. I want
to know how much game Tom Brady has.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
If you want to flick your wrist like this a
little bit and then you want to just kind of
flick it.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Like that is no game. Yeah, I feel like he
has no game.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
He doesn't need me. He has to walk out, Hey,
that's tom Brady. That's the only game you need.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
You need against against Sweeney, you need some games.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's that's tom Brady. That's still the only Sweeney. He's
still the only game he needs, the only game. The
only game she needs is I'm Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
That's right, right, No, she really does.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Oh but really tom Brady doesn't need anything else other
than she doesn't care about football.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
He's going to be more than that.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
If she still knows who tom Brady is, though, that
doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
It's about caring.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I have friends who know who tom Brady. Don't care.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
You call Pablo Tory and you find out what he
says about this.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Pablo, get the details on this.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
But speaking of finding stuff out right now, what's trending
in the wide world of sports?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Well, a lot of baseball today, and Jason, we got
some games still going on. The Angels and the Rangers
right now in La Angels up four to three, top
of the fourth inning, Diamondbacks on the scoreboard. First against
the Padres in San Diego, it's two zero, top of
the fifth inning, Diamondbacks. Do you have a man on
first and second? Still have two outs to go?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Here?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
The Braves are all over the eight six to zero
top of the third inning. The Yankees defeated the Mariners
nine to six. Jazz Chisholm Junior with two homers in
that one. It was all Red Sox against the Rockies.
Ten to two was the final score. Jaron Duran with
the three run shot in the win. The Pirates did
tie the game against the Royals, but Kansas City wins
at four to three. The Nationals defeated the Cardinals eight
(33:19):
to two, and the Guardians held on to take down
the Astros four to two. And the Dodgers, well, now
they've lost six.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
In a row.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
The Brewers brought out The Brewers brought out the brooms
today in Milwaukee. Three to two was the final score
in ten innings, and the White Sox snapped the Blue
Jays ten game winning streak, coming out on top two
to one, while the Phillies crushed the Giants in San Francisco.
Thirteen zero was the final score. MLB also announced today
that they're gonna use the automated ball Strike Challenge system
(33:47):
during Tuesday's All Star Game at Truest Park in Atlanta
and at Wimbledon Yonick Center defeated American Ben Shelton in
three sets, so he's set it to the semi finals.
Yonick Center, He's gonna face no back Djokovic after all
the seeds that were knocked out in early Wimbledon at
East we're getting Jonick Center, Na Novak, Djokovic show.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg we're getting them too, sure, Yeah,
Von Lendell McEnroe, Okay, Yeah, we're getting the mall, all
the good ones, Agacy in Sanpris. They're all coming back.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
They well might as well. Might as well at this point.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Exit up out of Fresco at Monty Blas Jason Smith,
Monsey and for Harmon Tonight. Coming up next is the
best team in baseball really in trouble after another loss today.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
That's the stop.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
It's a tease. People supposed to understand. Oh are they
talking about the Dodgers. Oh wait a minute, that's next box.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
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Speaker 1 (34:54):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Monty in for
Mike Harmon Tonight. Not a hobo, not a no, It's
a non hobo week. Not say no hobok so no
hobo week. Yes, Steve and I are not hobo not hobos.
No hobo Week's what it is?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
No no, no, asked man.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yes, yes, ask man, but no hobo. No man.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I don't know, but I wanted to say.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
No, Okay, you want you to get in his car
to show up here and talk to you guys about this?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
At him? At him?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Hey, Just because ty Shirt asked you a question doesn't
mean you have to give him the right answer. You
could just say, yeah, I don't know. He's not he's not.
He's not looking out for you, MONSI, okay, he's not.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
He's not.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
He's saying what can I get Monsie. I'm just gonna
ask any question I want to, and he got me.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
I was intrigued by it. I was intrigued.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
You know that's a good question. I am an asked
man is Steve de Sager?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
And asked man, Now, he's going to play that back
every single time he's on She's gonna, I am an
ask man. No, he's gonna play the bat that you
think Steve Disager always and Steve's gonna go Okay, I
don't know where that came from.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
You're like, no, I think he likes Sydney Sweeney types.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Did you see that?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I mean, you know, no, I'm just guessing here. No
reason to believe what I'm believing, No.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
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Speaker 2 (36:37):
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Speaker 4 (36:40):
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Speaker 1 (36:45):
Jackson Urio has left looks the Dodgers here this afternoon
in Milwaukee. It is brooms for the Brewers as they
sweep the Dodgers for the first time ever. Here in
mob first sweep of the Dodgers in a series in
franchise history. They have never swept the a three game
(37:09):
series in Milwaukee. Even the Dodgers were terrible in some
years ago, they have never swept them until today Brewers
TV on the call for the play of the day
and the first time it's ever happened. And now the
Dodgers have lost six in a row. So we have
to have the conversation we had coming off the three
games sweep at the hands of the Astros. Hey concern
(37:30):
about the Dodgers, right ELLOK. Obviously between the Dodgers and
the Yankees, the two big high profile teams. More concerned
about the Yankees because they're just not as good the Dodgers.
This is where I feel. I'm out with the Dodgers
right now. Losing six in a row. Their big thing
is going to be, oh, are they gonna wind up
with the best record of the National League right making
(37:50):
the playoffs and being ready to go that That's not
gonna be the question. But I gotta say I do
not fear the Dodgers like I did last year. I
think the average fan I like that Mets fan. I
don't fear the Dodgers right now. We already beat him
four out of seven, So okay, just like that. In
the NLCS, we'll have so it woann to be fantastic.
So I no longer I don't fear the Dodgers. Yes,
(38:11):
they have injury issues and they're gonna be getting back
healthy at some point. But you know, when you're midway
through the season and you're saying, hey, we're hoping to
get healthy, it's kind of what it is, a hope
because if a players have been out for that long,
who knows how they're gonna come back. Yest, Glasdow came
back today. Any pitch, well, okay, great, but you're clearly
not quite the same team you were a year ago.
Tani's not having quite the same year. Mookie Betts has
(38:33):
not been very good. Will Smith has been great right
a catcher, hitting three thirty a phenomenal year. But I
don't fear the Dodgers like I have the last couple
of years. I'm not going into a playoff series thinking
it's been a great run. Maybe if something happens we
get lucky. No, I'm going in thinking we can win this.
They they are beatable. We can beat the Dodgers in
a series in the playoffs. It doesn't mean we're going home.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah yeah, Chip Chip cheerio over there to I'm Johnson
Cherif congratulations to him. I completely understand.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
That was very sarcastic. I don't think you really meant
to congratulation.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I hope you got it.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
I hope he got it.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Uh, you are not wrong in that feeling, Jason, because
right now, a team like the Dodgers, we're on paper,
no team that has that type of roster should lose
six in a row. So right now, yeah, they look
very normal, very human, and I think last year, for
a second, they did it. There are issues. You're right,
(39:29):
I'm not worried about the Dodgers making the playoffs. No,
they're gonna make the playoffs, that's not the question. But
they these issues are real. I don't know, Muki, you know,
struggling going to shortstop, Like there are plays where he
looks really good and then there are plays where he
doesn't look that great. Port Furthy Freeman has to save
a lot of the balls thrown at his way at
(39:49):
first base, not just from Wookie bets. That is something
that's a real question. They Alsott had none this last
year was our star, and he had a great start
to the year. He's dipped off.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
We want him to come back.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
There's a lot of players that we're hoping to come
back to their high potential, but it's a lot. And
then with Shoho Tani, like now you're pitching and you're hitting,
has taken a dip, understandably so and I hate that
the All Star break is actually coming right now, specifically
for Shoheo Toni. He's trying to get in a rhythm
of pitching and hitting and now you're about to take
a break. So that rhythm is going to take a break,
(40:23):
and that's not great for him.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Freddie Freeman right now, he has this whole this whole
month of July has like fifty strikeouts career, He's like
a twenty percent when it comes to strikeouts right now
fifty percent. Like they're just swinging that stuff. So they
look very normal, very human. You should feel like they're
not scary. Now, hopefully that is all part of the plan.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
And it's you in exactly all sense of security, exactly
what the trade deadline. Yeah, hopefully that's the thing. At
the trade deadline, we're gonna get Max.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Yeah, now, ye do all those things. But yeah, they
definitely look real human and normal right now with the
sixth game losing streak, first time being
Speaker 5 (41:04):
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Dodger game, considering now you know, six in a row
and the sky is falling for the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It is a little bit, ain't it ain't? And thank
you for bringing that up. I forgot about it for
a second, for a hot second, I forgot that happened.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You're doing updates, You're talking about it all day home.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Oh I know, I stopped talking about it. Uh, you know,
I'm just not.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Giving the score on the updates.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm not giving the scoring, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Or playing the walk off. I did play it earlier
for the first I'm a team player.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And Dodgers played in Milwaukee today, and uh that Stilly's
wound up shutting out the Giants thirteen to nothing and
just blow it right.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Past it, right past it. That was the positive. Giants
sucked at home. Okay, all right, you know we still
have a nice lead. Okay there, Giants missed an opportunity there.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That would have been a great and the Dodgers played
the safe through in Milwaukee. That was a tight game, and.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
The Giants suck and the Giants suck.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Now back to you, Jason, Okay, that works. That's a
different that's a very different way. What's trending.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
That covers the story of what happened today.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
It covers the story. It's like when I watch It's
like when I watched The Bear and I just say, hey,
I didn't watch this week at the Bear. I could
sum up what happened in less than five seconds. That's
how boring the show is. Now, I could tell you
what happened everything in that for in less than five seconds.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I have not gone on that show? Are you telling
me it sucks?
Speaker 6 (02:06):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And then watch the first two seasons and then just
stop and then just stop.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yeah okay, kind of like Dexter after four seasons?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Sure why you made it four seasons through Dexter four?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Season? Was was is that where Rita passed away? The
scene in the bathtub? Was it that season four? There
were lots of scenes because that's that's where it lost
me once Rita.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Okay pasted Okay, all right, you know what I mean.
And that's still pretty good for that for that show
and make it through four seasons, it's good. Yeah, no,
it's all. But I'm telling you first two scenes a bear,
it's it's phenomenal. And then it's like it's you know
when you watch a soap opera and you feel like, boy,
if I miss a month, you don't really miss you
caught up in like a day. Yeah right, Because my
wife and are huge Guiding Light fans and we and
I was like, wow, we went on vacation for we
(02:45):
haven't missed anything like the same thing. Josh and Reva
are still fighting, okay, and she goes, yes, this is
how it goes. Okay, great, that's kind of like the bear.
You can it doesn't matter. You don't need to see it.
I could just tell you in five seconds. Will Poulter
came back to work and yeah, and since that had
a heart attack, what else. That's it. That's it. But
that's all. That's all. That's forty five minutes, because twenty
(03:06):
five minutes of it is them chopping onions and making
a dessert, them going wild chef, wild chef, wold chef.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Oh, you're really selling it, that's what it is. You're
really selling it.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay, seasons, two seasons, amazing, amazing, amazing. Wait, but not
the first not the first show where the first couple
of seasons are great, and then after it's hey, we're
kind of out of ideas. All right, let's just uh,
let's just put a lot of music montages in. Let's
just run it out and just extend it as far
as we can. Let's just keep going.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Speaking of extensions, big news today. If I said to you, hey,
guess who's gonna be the highest paid player in the
history of the game per year by the end of
the day today. I'm so excited it. Maybe you would
have gotten to this person. Maybe not. However, uh Shamsterrania
just putting this out about a half hour ago. Devin
Booker has agreed to a two year, one hundred and
(03:53):
forty five million dollars maximum extension with the Suns through
the twenty twenty nine twenty thirty season. Now, this money
that he is getting puts him just above Shake Gildess
Alexander for the richest contract ever Shake Gildess Alexander seventy
one point two five million dollars a year. And now
you have Devin Booker who is two more years. Because
(04:14):
Phoenix is desperate to keep their stars, He's now getting
the most money per year in the history of the NBA,
history of the league.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I mean, it sounds crazy, but I think Devin Booker
realizes the situation and he's like, all right, we don't
control our draft picks for the next seven years. We're
kind of screwed, but I can make money hang out
here in Phoenix whatever. Clearly he doesn't care about winning.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
He's it's not like the sun Set. You know, he
made the Sun's game with a bunch of guys and saying, Hey,
you're gonna pay me now or I'm gonna wreck this
play with me. This is such a crack my knuckles.
Did you hear me crackles doing that?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Such tough?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, I've been watching watching too many movies like that. Yeah,
you come in here, you do. You're gonna give me
every two million dollars a year, then you're gonna see
what happens. All right, let's go.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
No, you're right. He was not this New York gangster
mob Mooster that came in and took this money. It's
the situation that he is in, and I want to
blame him.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
But at the same time, I'm like, what else is
he supposed?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
You wouldn't say no.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
I would, I wouldn't say no.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But the Fox Sports radio say, hey, Monci, here's two years,
one hundred and forty five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I would say, I'll take one forty four Give one
million to Jason Smith.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh okay, so that's cool, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I got you.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
I only get a million, and I want to get
it's just a million.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You're the only one that's getting anything.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Oh, okay, you're getting the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
That's fine, Exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I know I hear what you're saying. Says. I'm not
blaming him because in other situations we would be like, oh,
you should probably take a pay cup to make your
team better, Lebron James, you know you should probably take
a pay cup. But for him, I don't think there's
another scenario for him, Like he doesn't want to leave.
They don't want him to leave. The Sons have no
other option. Like you said, we got to keep someone
here because we don't know the future. The future looks
(05:59):
real for the Sons with this Western Conference. They know
they don't need one move, they need twenty seven moves
to all of a sudden be competitive.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
So I think they're just.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Like, all right, we're screwed. We'll keep our star. People
will keep coming to see Devin Booker. Devin Booker's like,
all right, I don't have to go anywhere that's cold.
I'll hang out here, make a lot of money, and
see you guys in two years, see where we're at.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
This sounds like, okay, I'd love for us to get divorced,
but we can't. Oh yes, you're the only one working
right now. I'm you know, I'm not worried. We have
our you know, our son, we got it. We got
one kid getting ready to go to college. Our daughter's
gonna be going in three years. We can't sell the
house because we're underwater on it. So okay, we're just
gonna have to be together for the next couple of
(06:43):
years because leaving doesn't help either of us. Yeah, but
that's perfect. That would be exactly what it is. It's
exactly what it.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Is that you hit it right on the money.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
The house is Bradley Bial right now. The house we
can't house, let's Bradley Beil.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
We have a bad realtor. We can't sell this out. No,
but look there now it's the Suns, and they have
tried a lot of different things. There's worse things than
building around Devin Booker. Right, he's one of one of
only two. He and Giannis are the only guys in
the last seven years to average over twenty five a
game every year. So there's worse than building around him. Obviously,
you give him a lot of money, it's less to
get other players. But hey, you just got to find
(07:18):
the right formula. But you know, so here's the money
for Devin Booker. Now you want to get bigger than
this for Devin Booker. Right, And this, this is going
to wind up being my greatest bull prediction that I've
ever made, because two years ago when when Jokic signed
his extension a couple of years ago, and the last
year he was making sixty two million a year. Right now,
this this extension that he no longer wants, that he
(07:40):
wants a new one next year so he can make
in the eighty like eighty one million a year at
the end, right by twenty thirty, Okay, by the year
twenty third, we're twenty twenty five. Right now, in the
summer twenty twenty five, there will be an NBA player
making one hundred million dollars a year. Someone's going to
sign a contract that's going to be for one hundred
million dollars a year. And again, we talked about this
(08:01):
last night because Yokicic was, hey, he wants to opt
out so we can sign a bigger deal next year
and he would be in the eighties for his final
he would be in like eighty four million a year
for the last year or two whatever. It could wind
up being for him. So now you're talking about a
year from now, Jokis jumps from seventy two to eighty four.
So I got four years. I bet it happened before that.
Devin Booker got seventy two. Man, how many guys in
league on a I need more money than that. It'll
(08:22):
probably be Wemby. It'll probably be when because you're talking
about in five years, there's gonna be somebody who's twenty four,
twenty five gonna get that kind of money. But someone
one hundred million dollars a year. I thought it could
happen in the NFL too, But you know, now we
see that salaries are being controlled a little bit morech
we'll get to win a few minutes. So I thought
maybe a quarterback would get there, but probably not. By then.
They're growing a little bit more incrementally. But by twenty thirty,
(08:45):
if Devin Booker's getting seventy two million dollars a year
now for the last couple of years of his contract extension,
someone's gonna sign by twenty thirty for one hundred million
dollars a year. Oh ye, one hundred million.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Any I don't even know how to process that, right
now because I think you're on I think you're on it.
I don't think this is that crazy of a take.
It really isn't. And that's the crazy side of it
that this seems like right on par with what we're
gonna see. I was gonna say, maybe even Luka Doncic
could get up there if he continues to do could
get closer.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
He keeps in shape, another couple of good years and
maybe sure they could be Wamma's.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
A great one. That is ridiculous to think about.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
So when you put it that way, do you think
the Phoenix Suns were smart and doing this now?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Well, I always think anybody who wants to see somebody
you sign a guy early because the contract's just gonna
get more money. Anybody that doesn't do stuff like this,
you could tell they're scared. So at least Phoenix has
been aggressive. You could tell Manshpi's a guy. He guy
opens up his computer every day and see somebody says, oh,
I didn't know this, Let's go get this guy, Let's
go spend this money. Right, there's worse owners to have
the ones that gets scared of stuff and say ooh,
(09:49):
I don't know. It's a lot of money and maybe
we can get him on the cheap. If he has
kind of a down year, it's like, okay, that's just
not gonna work. So yeah, locking him in now, by
the time it would come up to he's thirty two
years old, coming up for the next deal, it would
be more money. It would be a longer time for
more money. So yeah, locking him in for the next
four years of his prime, which are gonna take him
into thirty two. You're thirty two to thirty three, Okay,
(10:10):
Now you just got to get it right right and
said you have to get it right. Building around him,
they were aggressive. They thought KD was coming. Obviously, Kevin
Durant hasn't led anybody to anything in six years. I
could have told you that, but hey, you know, Matti
Spa didn't call me. Bradley Beal's gonna come. Now you're stuck. Okay,
Now he's got the note trou Okay, that's great. But
at least they're being aggressive. So I enjoy the aggressiveness
of it because I'm never gonna fault someone for that.
(10:31):
It's just okay, you want to be able to make
the right decisions to keep flexibility. But I mean who
else are you gonna give that money to? Right, Devin
Booker one of the best pure scorers in the game, Clearly,
I feel like he's kind of on the Damian Lillard
path where we're gonna be talking about him and he's
gonna keep scoring twenty five a game and the Sons
are gonna keep losing and by the time he gets
at thirty two to thirty three, we're gonna say the
same thing with Lillard. Boy, I wish he would get
(10:53):
to another team, right, just like because that was the
way with Damie Lard, Like, like like a few nights
NBA nights a year he would go for like forty
five and on the show, we'd go, man, nobody else care.
No one's gonna be talking about this tomorrow because it's
late at night. It's the Blazers and the Kings or
the Blazers, and no one's gonna do. Would love Lillard
to get to another team. That's gonna be the same
thing for Devin Booker, Boy, he's a bigs would love
(11:13):
to see him get to another team at some point.
That's what we're saying for him.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I totally hear the comparison, although it was I feel
like it was a little different because right now, the
Sun's like, you're I don't expect you to do any
damage in the Western Conference in the next two years.
If I'm being completely honest, You've got to make sense.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Don't sell them short. Two years maybe maybe ten, maybe
twelve they think fifteen, Still sell them short.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I feel like with Portland there was a bit of hope,
like they were putting pieces around Damian Lillard, and it's again,
it did not go the way that they thought, but.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
I feel like there was hope. There's no hope with
the Sons right now.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Right now, what.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Happens next the Sons get a first round pick or
the Mets get done paying Bobby Benia, Okay, because that's
twenty thirty five. Okay, that's twenty thirty five. It's gonna
be It's close.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It's real close. It's close because they don't have all
over their picks for seven years, so it's like it's
not it's not looking good for them. So it's a
little bit different with the Portland and the Blazer situation
with with Lillard, but it does seem like it's going
in that direction where it's like he's gonna keep having
a great career. But that's as far as it's gonna go. Yeah,
I mean it seems success is not looking good for him.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
No, it's it's it's always hard, and it's kind of
the philosophy of you want to build a team when
your quarterback is on a rookie contract, so that's when
you have the money to be able to pay other players,
and you know your quarterback's still making money in theory,
but hey, while Jalen Hurts is on his rookie deal
or someone else is on their rookie deal, Hey we
can win now. And that's great. If you don't, okay,
it gets a little bit tougher because you're paying your
(12:39):
quarterback now, so it's harder to go out and get
other players. So yeah, it's a lot tougher in the NBA,
but you have to keep your big players. You can't.
You can't win in the NBA without stars, you don't.
You No one wins a championship without at least two superstars. Yeah,
it doesn't happen anymore that way. That that's kind of
how it goes. And so you saw, hey, you know
Homegron today with the with the rookie Max that he
(12:59):
got with the thunder, and now you're talking about Shay Gilders,
Alexander and chet Holmgren and Williams and you need great players.
So it's it's a catch twenty two. But you gotta spend, man,
you got you got. If you don't spend, you're gonna
sit there and say, Okay, Greg, you gonna try to
be the little engine that could. Little engines don't do
it in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yeah you know. Okay, So he is spending money because
they have to for one reason. Sons are spending money
because they have to for another completely different reason.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, you know, but yeah, at.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Least at least you're being aggressive.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Hey, that's all. It's all good. Yeah, it's all good.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
It's better than the alternative.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, no, this is true. This is true. You wait,
you wait. By twenty third, you're gonna remember this cop.
You could say, I was doing a show at Jason
Skim you know, the guy that was on The Golden
Bachelor in one Yeah, remember that guy. Yeah, remember he
was here Fox Sports Radio. Yeah yeah, yeah. And then
and he said, by twenty thirty, someone's gonna be making
and look at that Wenby signs that extension hard because
(13:49):
it's I got five years to make this come five years,
it's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
And the way it's looking like this, yeah, like you said,
I might even have before that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Well that's the big thing is Yokic is gonna do
it next year? Like but that big jump he's gonna make, Okay, Well,
you guys are gonna be up in the eighties, all right?
Then did need somebody else to make a big jump?
And then somebody else make it and then Wenby's the guy,
and maybe's not Wenby, it's Cooper Flag. But somebody's got
one hundred million dollars a year. It's never gonna go back.
Oh so you should have been a basketball player.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I should have been a basketball there at five feet, Yes.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You could have.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You know, if you could have made money in like
a six foot under league or something like that, and
one of those leagues, yes, this is fifty and over
softball les. Is there like a height league for uh?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure there is actually, but
one that pays you. The rims are like it's seven
and a half.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I don't want you to move the rim I'm not
I can't I would be able to make a basket
like that. I'm so used to the basket being where
it is. I don't want you to move it. I
don't want you to also to give me a lighter ball,
all right, played with the lighter ball.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Okay, all right, all right, very just see if there
was a six season money was there? Hey? If Big
three can make money and then your rival money money, Yeah,
well it's still around money. Exit out about a fresco
monse at mons Jason Smith, Monsey and from Mike Harmon. Tonight.
Oh we have another. We have a double shot in
money conversation coming your way. Next, a big headline out
(15:06):
of the NFL today that I'll tell you exactly why
no fans care about it. That's next right here, Jason Monci,
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is like a big money hour here we have. It's
a big lots of money left money, money, money, money, money, money.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I wish money was coming at us.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I wish you well. I'll give tishirt a bunch of
ones and he can just make it money in the studio.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, gosh, how exciting would that be?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Tysan? How long would take you to make it rain
with like ten ones? Oh point two seconds? Okay, very good?
I just did are you are you preparing like mancy
you that's you're the one raining in no no dancing?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh wow? I just yeah, you've got a plan here,
talk less smile more so, like like how many ones
would you need to do an effective make it rain
like legit in a row? Yeah? Forty probably forty? Yeah,
all right, okay, al right. It looked good and they
got to be really crisp.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Yeah, but not because they get stuck together. Separate them first,
you know.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Wow, he says, seem like you have some experience.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I may have, you know, thrown ones at people the
time or two.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Okay, making it rain and throwing ones at people.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
You know, sometimes it's throwing, sometimes it's making a rain. Okay,
the same thing.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
All right, all right, sliding in after dark here on
Fox Radio. So we had the deaf books money conversation
a few minutes ago. Now, how about this as far
as money goes from the NFL, A big story today.
It's weird We're gonna do a big story. I'm gonna
tell you why fans don't care. Is this Kirk Cousins.
(18:04):
It's not. No, we'll get I know, I I know,
we talked before the show. We'll get to your discovery
that Kirk Cousins is overpaid later on. No, we'll get
to that. It don't start on Matt Ryan. Apparently Pablo Torri,
who was you know, seen on ESPN for the last
few years, suddenly heast now turning into the new mark
(18:26):
for Nei Ruwata investigative reporter. Uh. That is going to
blow the lid off of stories, whether we want them
or not. Because you know, we had the whole thing
about Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson a few weeks ago,
and I remember hearing that going, I don't get why
why is he looking into this? This is just weird.
There's no crime, there's no anything. It's just weird. Why
is this taking up all this time? But there is
(18:49):
something else taking up this time, obviously on the Pablo
Tory Finds Out podcast, in which there is evidence now
that the NFL and senior leaders of the NFL Player
Associe committed collusion together. There was an agreement between the
NFL and the NFLPA to limit the restricted guaranteed money
(19:10):
in player contracts. So basically what happened was everybody got
mad when Jimmy Hasselm decided, oh we need a quarterback.
Hey to Sean Watson, you don't want to be here
at all?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
But what if we guaranteed every penny of your contract?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well then I want to go.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Okay, great, So all of that money guaranteed to a
guy coming off an awful story and an awful headline,
and I don't even know what to say at that
point where how you can redeem anything, where yeah, you
went through all of this, but here's two hundred and
fifty million dollars guaranteed. So a lot of people were
upset about this, right and now apparently there's evidence that
both the NFL and the Player Association colluded to keep
(19:44):
the guaranteed money from skyrocketing. So ensuing years, Lamar Jackson,
Josh Allen Mahomes, all these guys got new contracts, and
so now they can suddenly say, wait a minute, we
could sue the league, we can declare free agent, we
can do maybe we could do a lot of things.
Because now there's evidence that both sides colluded to keep
that going. Now there's two takeaways from this right before
(20:07):
one takeawa before you get to why why fans don't care?
Number one is that, man, if I'm a player and
I go, wait a minute, I understand the NFL colluding
with the owners saying we don't want to keep that,
we don't want to keep this money. How do you
keep that from the players. Hey, we're gonna make we're
gonna take care of you. I get that you have
to work together, there's symbiosis there, but you work for
(20:27):
the players and you keep this and you keep this
quiet Like this is where you have to just clear
out everybody leading the NFLPA and find new leadership because
they're supposed to be working for the players and instead, Yeah,
we kind of had this agreement that we're gonna limit
the guaranteed money and salaries. Wow, I can't believe NFL
players are they haven't all just stormed three four five
(20:48):
Park Avenue and said, Okay, something's got to happen, right,
like Frankenstein, they're all with torches at the end, going
throw him down, throw them down. I can't believe that
hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
You're not wrong. When I read the story, that's all
I cared about, because you're right, what don't fans care about?
I don't care or am I surprised that the owners
want this and wanted to control right guaranteed money. But
the NFLPA, huh huh? What else are you colluding? What
else are you hiding? What else have you withheld details
(21:20):
to the players about you? You know, that's what The
next question is? What else have you kept from us?
What else have you not done in our favor when
you were supposed to be fighting for us? Because if not,
then what's the point here? Very it's very disappointing, I'm
sure as a player to read that, but as the owners,
it's like, I'm not surprised about that.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
I'm not surprised that the owners are doing this.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
All the owners are. I'm sure the owners are mad
they got found out, absolutely mad.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
They not found out that you found out that they
were in on it?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah now yeah, now everybody, but all the anger is
really going to wind up going to the NFLPA because
I think people are got well. Of course, the NFL
wants to keep salaries down. I'm sure they all taught. Hey,
there's collusion for different times for keeping money down, whether
it's keeping Colin Kaepernick out of the league, wherever you want, wherever,
whatever side you come down on that. But to hear
that though the Players Association is doing this is this
(22:10):
is where like this is like if if you were
being defended for a crime and at the end the
lawyer says, hey, I uh, you know you gotta take this. Yeah,
you gotta take a deal. I'm not I can't get
you off. You got to take a deal. Okay, what
is it. So you gotta do five years? Oh okay, great,
and then five years go by and you find out
oh yeah, yeah, maybe they're the prosecutor. We just didn't
(22:30):
want to try the case. We were tired of going
on vacation, so we just struck a deal with each
other that yeah, you were gonna get five years and
that was it, and I wasn't gonna try. I had
a lot of evidence I could have got I could
have got you off. Yeah, I got DNA, I had everything. Man,
you didn't do this. I know you didn't do it,
but boy, it would have been a lot of money
and waiting for the lab to come in and you know,
we had this vacation book to Egypt with Aaron Rodgers
(22:50):
and it was such a bit there, so we really
didn't do it. That's that's finding this out. Now you're
supposed to be working for me, you're supposed to be well, nope,
but they're not.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Now they're not and probably making money themselves out of
this deal. That's the other side of it. It's like,
you agreed to this for what perk? What did you
get out of this? Because this is a big deal.
The minute it came out, you knew this was gonna
hit the fan for you.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Not the owners, because again we expect this from the owners.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
In a sport where injury can be so high, it's
very different than in other sports. Kind of like you
said in the last hour that you thought maybe in
the NFL one hundred million dollar contract annually could be
a thing, but because of injuries and the demanding physical
toll that this sport takes, it's very different from the NBA.
But none of this is surprising from the owners. Nobody
is now looking at their owners differently. Now they're just
(23:38):
looking at the people they trusted the most differently, and
that's like worst case scenario out of this story.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Can't trust anybody, can't trust anybody.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
And it's like, what did you get out of this?
You didn't just agree to this without getting anything out
of it? So you got the money that was guaranteed
for me?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Instead? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
And not.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The thing is that you're right, what does this open
the flight door too? Yes?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Because it's not just one.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
When there's one ant, you know, there's not one ant.
There's hundreds of ants. That's always what I've been told
my mom. But there's one, you know, there's a lot,
so handle it. So there's one here, there's a lot more.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
But I don't want to keep looking.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
And that's the thing. I don't want to look. No,
keep looking, get that spray out, that raid spray out,
and handle your business.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah. But but they're the red ants. They bite you.
I'm sorry, you have to. You got to get out there.
I'm sorry, pants on, No, that's red.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
You get out there and you kill every ant until
but I don't want to do it, But you do
it or you're not eating tonight. All right, fine, going
out to kill the ants. I got them all, mom,
So now the other part of it is this is
one of the biggest reactions I would say of this
is boy, I can't believe it's not a bigger story, right,
(24:52):
I said, like, I can't. How is this not a
bigger story? Like that was a big thing that I
saw most of the day on social media? How is this?
How is this is not a big deal? How more
people not care about this? And like, you know what,
it's a very inside baseball thing where Okay, we're keeping
salaries down and people understand. I'm not saying people don't
understand it because certain things, okay, a little too much
for you know, I only have so much ram in
(25:14):
my head for stories and stuff and what I care
about what I don't. Okay, But this is a case
where if you ask the average fan, hey, are you
outraged over this? The average fan is gonna say players
get paid too much? Anyway, what do I care? I mean, really,
I'm supposed to be upset that Joe Burrow couldn't get
three hundred and ten million and had to settle for
two hundred and seventy five million. Right or wrong, People
(25:35):
don't care. People don't care about that they've done. Players
have been overpaid since we since we knew what salaries
players were making. I'm short in the forties and the fifties,
if there was sports talk radio and you found out
that players, you know, hey, so and so signed such
a big contract in baseball, he doesn't have to take
a second job in the off season selling shoes, which
is what a lot of the players did. They would say, oh,
(25:56):
he's overpaid if he has need to work in the
off season. I know guys, their shoes, they were construction.
They do this, they work in the tax office like that.
I'm sure you would have found fans back then go all,
this guy's way overpaid. He's getting five hundred dollars a year.
That's way too much money. I mean, fans generally think
athletes are over as much as they love sports, much
as we love sports. Mostly we care about the money.
(26:17):
And fans care about the money when it comes to
being able to sign other players, right, I don't care
what it costs. I want to be able to bring
in player X, or I want to be able to
have enough money in the salary cap to bring in
an edge rusher, you know, a box safety, a running back, whatever.
That's where we care about money for but this money, Oh,
(26:37):
so players couldn't get paid money. You're talking about the
upper one tenth of one percent of players in the
NFL that have kept salaries down. Because are they really
talking about keeping salaries down for a guy who's gonna
sign for two years and four million. No, But it's
the big top end guys, the big quarterbacks that are
out there that we're going to reset the market. And
I'm sure the owners saw that and said, Okay, here
comes Lamar and Burrow and Mahomes and all, Okay, let's
(26:59):
make sure we take care this. But generally, yeah, this
is not gonna be something that you're gonna whip fans
up in a frenzy because that's ninety percent of the
fans are gonna say, hey, I don't care. I don't care.
And if we were doing the show for the players,
it'd be different. We do four hours as if it's
just players listening. But fans, Yeah, I get it. I
get that fans, because honestly, I have to think about
(27:19):
how much do I care about this? Right? I care
more about it from the perspective of the people supposed
to be working for the players, the players associations that yeah,
we had this agreement that was screwing you. So sorry
about that. That's the part I care about more. But
the money thing, it's gonna be really hard to make
this to sell. This is Oh look at this story
and all of a sudden, there's got to be investigations
in the NFL and people have to lose jobs. That's
(27:40):
not gonna go that way.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
No, it's hard to have sympathy for rich people just
wanting to make more money, right, It's like problems we
don't understand. So it's the rich getting richer, but we
don't have sympathy because, like you said, it's not the
guy coming in that's making a couple of million, it's
the guys that are already making millions. And you you
think there's no more collusion here as to why the
(28:01):
story isn't pushed. You think it's fans not being interested,
and I agree to that, but I also feel like
there's probably people sending messages to those who control the
stories saying, hey, you know, don't write about this, don't
retweet this. You know that's going on as well. Oh yes,
it's being controlled on the media level of those people
(28:22):
who would be tweeting this information.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Out.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Pablo tweets about things that people aren't talking about, just
like you mentioned the whole thing with Jordan Hudson and
Bill Belichick, Like nobody cared about that. He chose to
dive into.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
That, and so like what is he gonna if he's
gonna uncover something illegal? Or somebody wait, what what do you?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
What are you uncovering?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Maybe he was trying to find something new, like oh,
you know spygate point point two. Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
But here I feel like there is you knew ahead
of time that Jordan Hudson would say, yes, exactly, you
ahead of time, that's what it is.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Ahead, Yeah, I have the signals down. They had a
guy filming. Hey, okay, I see that's okay, so she'll
say yes if you ask around. So we know ahead
of time and that's exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
But here I do feel like maybe there's just a
bit of a couple of people saying, hey, don't wrung
with the story. Let's just let it die down, let
the players handle it themselves, don't let the public get involved.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Yeah, this is and I'm sure it was. This works
best for both of our sides. If you do this
for us. The owners say, we'll do something for you.
We'll make sure this is the case. I mean, I
understand it in theory. I understand it in theory, but
in the end, what you got to say, Okay, if
it gets out, and look, the NFL has done a
pretty good job of keeping things secret that they don't
want out. But yes, if this gets out, if the
(29:36):
shield is not protected and this gets out, because it
always that happens once in a while in every zombie movie.
You think you have a great, great defense, but all
you need is one crazy ass zombie to make it through.
A one guy to fall asleep or one guy to
leave and go to the bathroom, and one zombie gets
through with suddenly, awe, now we got a problem, right
like this episode two of the Last of Us. Right
now we got problems. Now we got all kinds of
(29:56):
problems because the zombies broke through. Sorry spoiler, Now we've
got problems. And now Joel's going to pay the ultimate price.
So so there's that. Yeah, but it's a while people
know that by now.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Also spoiler, it's not good here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
So I mean, like, if that gets you understand that,
you could ruin so many things like the is the
risk versus the reward here of now the players are
going to say, we need all new elected officials. We
need to rip up this collective bargaining agreement and get
a new one. That's the first thing I would do
if I was one of the players in charge, I
would say, we got to rip up this CBA and
sign a new one because we don't know what else
(30:29):
is going on. We need a new CBA ratified right now.
Like that's what I think is going to wind up
being the Hey, now, then you suddenly get to a
oh boy, now you've done it, so I understand that
was it worth it to keep salaries down for like
three or four quarterbacks when when this is going to
be the result?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Well, they didn't know it was going to come out, right,
And that's what the shield, that's the shield is probably
doing just that, trying to control this, keeping it down,
keeping it low so it doesn't more details don't get
out to the public because you know, there's more to it.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
This is not it.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
There's more to the story, more intricate details that we're
probably not gonna know. But the shield wants to protect it.
The shield. If there is a problem now with the
NFLPA and the players. The Shield does not want the
public to know that that is information that we may
not hear unless Pablo decides to dive into it and
finds out more information.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
We jumped into something else, but.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
It's damage control almost right. Now, here's this point.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Here's who was dancing with Tom Brady at the Bezo's wedding. No,
now you look, as Sidney Sweeney was dancing with Brady
then photographed for the Orlando Bloom, We're gonna see where
we're at. Was she really the person everbody wanted to
talk to? Who else did Brady talk to at the wedding?
Pablo Tory finds out and then.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That would be a great story, and that would be great.
Do you have footage of said Tom Brady with miss Sweeney?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Because I would have loved how to throw a football,
so you.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
Hold it like that.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I would have loved to have seen that. I want
to know how much game Tom Brady has.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
If you want to flick your wrist like this a
little bit and then you want to just kind of
flick it.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Like that is no game. Yeah, I feel like he
has no game.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
He doesn't need me. He has to walk out, Hey,
that's tom Brady. That's the only game you need.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
You need against against Sweeney, you need some games.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
That's that's tom Brady. That's still the only Sweeney. He's
still the only game he needs, the only game. The
only game she needs is I'm Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
That's right, right, No, she really does.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Oh but really tom Brady doesn't need anything else other
than she doesn't care about football.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
He's going to be more than that.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
If she still knows who tom Brady is, though, that
doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (32:25):
It's about caring.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I have friends who know who tom Brady. Don't care.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
You call Pablo Tory and you find out what he
says about this.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Pablo, get the details on this.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
But speaking of finding stuff out right now, what's trending
in the wide world of sports?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Well, a lot of baseball today, and Jason, we got
some games still going on. The Angels and the Rangers
right now in La Angels up four to three, top
of the fourth inning, Diamondbacks on the scoreboard. First against
the Padres in San Diego, it's two zero, top of
the fifth inning, Diamondbacks. Do you have a man on
first and second? Still have two outs to go?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Here?
Speaker 3 (32:58):
The Braves are all over the eight six to zero
top of the third inning. The Yankees defeated the Mariners
nine to six. Jazz Chisholm Junior with two homers in
that one. It was all Red Sox against the Rockies.
Ten to two was the final score. Jaron Duran with
the three run shot in the win. The Pirates did
tie the game against the Royals, but Kansas City wins
at four to three. The Nationals defeated the Cardinals eight
(33:19):
to two, and the Guardians held on to take down
the Astros four to two. And the Dodgers, well, now
they've lost six.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
In a row.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
The Brewers brought out The Brewers brought out the brooms
today in Milwaukee. Three to two was the final score
in ten innings, and the White Sox snapped the Blue
Jays ten game winning streak, coming out on top two
to one, while the Phillies crushed the Giants in San Francisco.
Thirteen zero was the final score. MLB also announced today
that they're gonna use the automated ball Strike Challenge system
(33:47):
during Tuesday's All Star Game at Truest Park in Atlanta
and at Wimbledon Yonick Center defeated American Ben Shelton in
three sets, so he's set it to the semi finals.
Yonick Center, He's gonna face no back Djokovic after all
the seeds that were knocked out in early Wimbledon at
East we're getting Jonick Center, Na Novak, Djokovic show.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg we're getting them too, sure, Yeah,
Von Lendell McEnroe, Okay, Yeah, we're getting the mall, all
the good ones, Agacy in Sanpris. They're all coming back.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
They well might as well. Might as well at this point.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Exit up out of Fresco at Monty Blas Jason Smith,
Monsey and for Harmon Tonight. Coming up next is the
best team in baseball really in trouble after another loss today.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
That's the stop.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
It's a tease. People supposed to understand. Oh are they
talking about the Dodgers. Oh wait a minute, that's next box.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Monty in for
Mike Harmon Tonight. Not a hobo, not a no, It's
a non hobo week. Not say no hobok so no
hobo week. Yes, Steve and I are not hobo not hobos.
No hobo Week's what it is?
Speaker 3 (35:08):
No no, no, asked man.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yes, yes, ask man, but no hobo. No man.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
I don't know, but I wanted to say.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
No, Okay, you want you to get in his car
to show up here and talk to you guys about this?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
At him? At him?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Hey, Just because ty Shirt asked you a question doesn't
mean you have to give him the right answer. You
could just say, yeah, I don't know. He's not he's not.
He's not looking out for you, MONSI, okay, he's not.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
He's not.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
He's saying what can I get Monsie. I'm just gonna
ask any question I want to, and he got me.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
I was intrigued by it. I was intrigued.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
You know that's a good question. I am an asked
man is Steve de Sager?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
And asked man, Now, he's going to play that back
every single time he's on She's gonna, I am an
ask man. No, he's gonna play the bat that you
think Steve Disager always and Steve's gonna go Okay, I
don't know where that came from.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
You're like, no, I think he likes Sydney Sweeney types.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Did you see that?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I mean, you know, no, I'm just guessing here. No
reason to believe what I'm believing, No.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
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Speaker 2 (36:37):
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Speaker 4 (36:40):
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Speaker 1 (36:45):
Jackson Urio has left looks the Dodgers here this afternoon
in Milwaukee. It is brooms for the Brewers as they
sweep the Dodgers for the first time ever. Here in
mob first sweep of the Dodgers in a series in
franchise history. They have never swept the a three game
(37:09):
series in Milwaukee. Even the Dodgers were terrible in some
years ago, they have never swept them until today Brewers
TV on the call for the play of the day
and the first time it's ever happened. And now the
Dodgers have lost six in a row. So we have
to have the conversation we had coming off the three
games sweep at the hands of the Astros. Hey concern
(37:30):
about the Dodgers, right ELLOK. Obviously between the Dodgers and
the Yankees, the two big high profile teams. More concerned
about the Yankees because they're just not as good the Dodgers.
This is where I feel. I'm out with the Dodgers
right now. Losing six in a row. Their big thing
is going to be, oh, are they gonna wind up
with the best record of the National League right making
(37:50):
the playoffs and being ready to go that That's not
gonna be the question. But I gotta say I do
not fear the Dodgers like I did last year. I
think the average fan I like that Mets fan. I
don't fear the Dodgers right now. We already beat him
four out of seven, So okay, just like that. In
the NLCS, we'll have so it woann to be fantastic.
So I no longer I don't fear the Dodgers. Yes,
(38:11):
they have injury issues and they're gonna be getting back
healthy at some point. But you know, when you're midway
through the season and you're saying, hey, we're hoping to
get healthy, it's kind of what it is, a hope
because if a players have been out for that long,
who knows how they're gonna come back. Yest, Glasdow came
back today. Any pitch, well, okay, great, but you're clearly
not quite the same team you were a year ago.
Tani's not having quite the same year. Mookie Betts has
(38:33):
not been very good. Will Smith has been great right
a catcher, hitting three thirty a phenomenal year. But I
don't fear the Dodgers like I have the last couple
of years. I'm not going into a playoff series thinking
it's been a great run. Maybe if something happens we
get lucky. No, I'm going in thinking we can win this.
They they are beatable. We can beat the Dodgers in
a series in the playoffs. It doesn't mean we're going home.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah yeah, Chip Chip cheerio over there to I'm Johnson
Cherif congratulations to him. I completely understand.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
That was very sarcastic. I don't think you really meant
to congratulation.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
I hope you got it.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
I hope he got it.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
Uh, you are not wrong in that feeling, Jason, because
right now, a team like the Dodgers, we're on paper,
no team that has that type of roster should lose
six in a row. So right now, yeah, they look
very normal, very human, and I think last year, for
a second, they did it. There are issues. You're right,
(39:29):
I'm not worried about the Dodgers making the playoffs. No,
they're gonna make the playoffs, that's not the question. But
they these issues are real. I don't know, Muki, you know,
struggling going to shortstop, Like there are plays where he
looks really good and then there are plays where he
doesn't look that great. Port Furthy Freeman has to save
a lot of the balls thrown at his way at
(39:49):
first base, not just from Wookie bets. That is something
that's a real question. They Alsott had none this last
year was our star, and he had a great start
to the year. He's dipped off.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
We want him to come back.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
There's a lot of players that we're hoping to come
back to their high potential, but it's a lot. And
then with Shoho Tani, like now you're pitching and you're hitting,
has taken a dip, understandably so and I hate that
the All Star break is actually coming right now, specifically
for Shoheo Toni. He's trying to get in a rhythm
of pitching and hitting and now you're about to take
a break. So that rhythm is going to take a break,
(40:23):
and that's not great for him.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Freddie Freeman right now, he has this whole this whole
month of July has like fifty strikeouts career, He's like
a twenty percent when it comes to strikeouts right now
fifty percent. Like they're just swinging that stuff. So they
look very normal, very human. You should feel like they're
not scary. Now, hopefully that is all part of the plan.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
And it's you in exactly all sense of security, exactly
what the trade deadline. Yeah, hopefully that's the thing. At
the trade deadline, we're gonna get Max.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Yeah, now, ye do all those things. But yeah, they
definitely look real human and normal right now with the
sixth game losing streak, first time being
Speaker 5 (41:04):
Swept by the Astro since two thousand and eight at
Dodger Stadium,
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