May 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if last year’s KAT/Randle/DiVincenzo trade is the best trade for both teams in the last 20 seasons. The guys react to NFL players will be allowed to compete in Flag Football at the LA28 Olympic Games. And we pay our respects to an absolute LEGEND Bob Swerski!
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way tire buying should be. Well, here we are, halftime
of the game one of the Western Conference. Fine third period,
game one of the Eastern Conference Finals in hockey. Not
happy with that, but I got a lot going on
the Mets to that, I got the next Now the baseball,
baseball listen. I know all we'll get to the Sodo
(01:14):
stuff and all that, but really, baseball, I'm sorry, it's
gonna take a back seat for the next seven to
ten days. It's it's got to I mean, I got,
I got two teams in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's may okay.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I mean there's a big stuff with Sodo, big stuff
going on in the Mets. Get it and they all think,
but there there's I got, I got bigger stuff going
on right now. I'm gonna got to prioritize well, But
can basketball and the hockey bridge you to the opening
of any offseason workouts for the Jets? Oh no, we
got I got No matter what the record of the
Mets is right now, it's still you know, like the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff swirling and a lot
of unrest.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
But I got, I got time for the It's okay,
I got time. I mean, I got big stuff, right,
I got, I got, I got the West Eastern Conference Finals.
Stard that I'm already locking in for. I've already told
my wife you listen tomorrow. I'm not gonna be any use,
But can we go to Costco tomorrow? Maybe May, I
don't know, depends how early of the day, like maybe
eleven thirty. Yeah, But once we get to like one
two o'clock like no, no, well, no, you got to
(02:09):
go at opening so they can go to the food court,
you can get yourself you know, stuffed, and then you'll
be ready to go. So I'm not going matter early,
Like if you want to do one thing, yeah, okay,
so we go ten thirty, eleven o'clock, we go.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, it's it's fine.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Let the initial Luna sego because folks that need stuff
for their their food trucks or their restaurants to let
them stock up, and then you come in in the
second wave. I just you know, I got the next tomorrow, right,
you know I got the Now, I'll put the schedule
up on the fridge. Nick's hurricanes, Nick hurricanes, I'll put
it up. It's doors here, Zoe has up that I
don't care the Nicks and the Cave.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I mean, I'm really locked in.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Don't ask me to make any big life decisions over
the course of the next week because I'm too locked in.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It means I can't really do anything else because I'm
just I'm gonna be, you know, like where I'm kind
of like now when I say I'm locked in, it's
kind of like in a zombe b movie where the
zombie when when when when the when the the person
gets bit and they don't tell anybody, and they're they're
starting to turn, but they want to keep it as
suit because they don't want to get killed. Starting to
get a little purpleish around. They're thinking maybe something will happen,
(03:13):
will find something I don't But you can see their
behaviors getting a little weird twitch. Yeah, Like that's kind
of where I'm at. And I'm kind of like in
the just bit phase and now I want to I'm gonna,
you know, put a put a hoodie on or something,
show people I'm not bit. And but but it's gonna
just eventually get to that point. Yeah, that's I thought
you were gonna go in a completely different direction of Hey,
you know, it's like when you have to have a
(03:34):
medical procedure and they tell you you can't sign anything right,
no important paperwork, no important decisions for the next twenty
four hours, because you're not gonna be with it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So it's all, you know, the circle of trust.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Whoever who's looking out for you, that's something important isn't
putting in their hands where suddenly they can fleeceh you
I would I could just say no. By my wife,
she takes out, I don't make it. That's fine, I'll
be fine. You're good with that making important? Yes, yes, yes,
it's the daily important decisions that I'm really that that
I'm in on that I that I'm really that's that's
you gonna take me out of the big long term
(04:07):
and she can handle right, it's fine, does she handles it?
But the daily stuff, okay, the stuff that I'm really
good at. Yeah, you can't bring me into that because
you gotta understand making making. I'm really good at that. Oh,
I'm so good at that. I am so good at
sitting in front of the TV. And here's here's how
good I Here's how I've watched a lot of losses.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But here's how good I am. Is that my dog Bennie, Right?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And you know dogs, when you when they lay in
your lap and you move too much, they get up
after a few minutes, you're pissing them off. Right, But
Benny can say, like, I'm so good no matter what
happens in the game, that he's good laying in my
lap for however.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Long, Like maybe a good couple of hours now just that. No,
he likes to go.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
He'll give you a little like blank you dad, Okay,
all right, get up.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
No, but he's good.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
He's like Helas puts his puts his uh, puts a bottom,
his head on my leg and he lays there.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
He closes his eyes. He's all comforble. Does he have
a Pacers pillow? Nah? No Pacers.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Although I could I put of it, I don't think
that would be a great video to put up on
the internet.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Him him, you know, partying with a PACER's pillow, and
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
If he goes to the bathroom on I was gonna say,
it depends what partying with a PACER's pillow means.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
That can mean a lot of stuff. So we're waiting
for that game.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Meanwhile, we are just at the start of the third
quarter of the Tea Wolves and the Thunder. It is
a fifty to forty nine lead for Minnesota. Okay, not surprising.
This is a pretty even series. What's surprising is who
has been carrying the Minnesota Timberwolves so far. Tonight Well
and Edward No, okay, well, Rudy go Bett no well,
(05:45):
Jada mcdebt no, it is all Julius Randall twenty points.
He's got five threes, six out of eight from the floor.
He is absolutely carrying the Tea Wolves on his shoulders
and this game and now pretty much the big question
you have to say is, and you answered, I'll give
you a hot take. The Julius Randall Dante DiVincenzo for
(06:08):
Carl Anthony Towns trade last year maybe the best overall
trade in twenty years in the NBA. Not sure, Not
from a team where we made a great trade and
we didn't give up anything, because that's a bad trade
for somebody, right Obviously, if you give up nothing, it's
a great trade, view prest. But where this trade now?
(06:29):
Both teams in the final four in the NBA, Both
teams in the conference finals did not get there last
year with what they had knew they needed to improve
and of some kind of different energy. Carl Anthony Towns
has clearly worked with the New York Knicks. He's been
able to fit in and Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo,
especially Randall. Over the course of this season, he has
(06:50):
become that great, complimentary, one b Ish type piece. Rightley,
He's definitely one a to Ann Edwards, but he has
really slid in and has his games where he has
big games but is not relied on to always score,
which is the big thing with the Knicks. Is that Okay,
so it's you and Jalen Bruntson. I don't need to
watch Julius Randall again try to io up against two
(07:11):
defenders when he can't dribble the ball more than once
before he gets it taken away. He's not that kind
of player, but to get his chances within the offense,
that's a little bit deeper than it was last year
when when Randall was healthy. Yeah, this trade has worked
immensely well. This may be the best NBA trade when
you talk about what both teams have been able to
do accomplish off of this in twenty years. Both teams
(07:32):
would say would you do that trade again? They would
both say one hundred percent, not thinking about no. I
would never think twice about it. The Teables wouldn't think
twice about trading away Karl Anthony Towns, and the Knicks
wouldn't think twice about trading away Devincenzo and Julius Randall.
They would both do it over again. Both teams are
in the conference finals. I mean, I'm trying to find
another trade where it's worked out that great for both teams.
I don't know that it's there. Yeah, it's the top
(07:52):
of my head. I mean, we'd have to get our
crack research staff and by that I mean my fat
fingers working over the course of the night to to
come up.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
With something better.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
But for the Timberwolves, they've at least run back to
where they were a year ago before falling to the
Dallas Mavericks, so it's at least as good and Julius
Randall with some style points. We had a moment in
the first half where he left the court and started
walking towards the locker room. Never found any reason why
because we didn't enough sound up right, We're conversing and
(08:21):
we've got the Canes game on, and we.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Looked at each other's like why is he leaving?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He's like, oh, because he's scorching hot and they have
to cool him down.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That's why five.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Three porters in the first half. But it freedom up
right where it's not the same style of flow and offense.
And what was crazy in the first half is how
deep both rosters getting their workouts in early because you
went nine to ten deep early on. But yeah, your
(08:51):
Nicks have obviously moved on to the next round, led.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
In large part by the Heroics and Bronson. But your guy.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Cat is hailed as a hero wherever he shows up.
Just put him on a video board. It didn't even
have to be in the crowd. Just put him up
on the video board. People start to scream. In next
train arriving at you know, Penn, Nah, it doesn't matter.
There's a picture of Juliet of Karl Anthony Towns gets
everybody fired up like goad. The trade's gonna be the
late two hours, doesn't matter. Just keep showing Nicks up there.
(09:21):
That's how excited the city is. But thinking about trades,
I made a lot of it becomes the immediacy of
it too, right, because it's the next season, not a hey,
you got three draft picks, and what it becomes, right,
let's wait and see and you got a seat did
you draft? Well, where did this guy turn into? Yeah,
because we've got the the NFL one that obviously gets
thrown back up again today and over the last forty
(09:43):
eight hours. You go back to the twenty seventeen draft.
The Mitchell Trubisky right because it hits home because oh,
you could have drafted Mahomes. No, they wouldn't have drafted Mahomes.
They would have, you know, gone and drafted to Shaun
Watson based on what he did in college. If you
could buy, you could, if you could do that trade. Now, yes,
then you take Patrick Mahomes. But no one will saying
about But in all of it, now you've got a
would be Hall of Famer. And Fred Warner, who was
(10:04):
the fourth round pick that came back from the Bears.
Right that first round guy was Solomon Thomas. He ended
up having a cup of coffee, played for the Raiders,
did whatever, you know, a Jag offensive lineman Alvin Kamara
was a fourth round pick conferred to New Orleans and
all of that. You know, he's had a fantastic career
for the Saints and for fantasy owners.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
But now it's Fred Warner is the lynch of that.
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
But at the time I was like, all right, good player,
we'll see what he becomes. And now he signs this
monster deal. It's like, see, the forty nine ers are
the smartest guys. No, no, no, we can't keep doing that.
He can't relitigate it eight years later. It doesn't this guy,
I be can't And it's that's what we do. Doing
draft picks is tough because okay, you got these draft picks,
but then you turned them into So this wasn't player
(10:50):
X for player Y and player Z. Right, here are
the players coming in and a first round pick was
thrown in there, right, that's right. Oh, I don't forget
that first reupid But this deal, I mean, this was
this was shocking what it was because it was close
to the beginning of the season, right like the Knicks
moved around and they went out and got Michel Bridges
and all these things, and then and then end of September,
right like they're coming to camp soon and suddenly it's yep,
(11:11):
we got it done. Karl, Anthony Towns, Julius Randal, Dante
Di Vincenzo, and I remember when that trade happened. What
did I say, Knicks t Wolves in the NBA Finals
next year. I'm ready for it, and here we are
this close to it. Like that's a great, big, bold
prediction that I want to start bringing up again because
we're so close. I don't want to go crazy with
it because it has to get here. But then in
case it doesn't get here, I want to be able
to talk about a little bit. So I got to
(11:32):
kind of got a back door bring that up right here.
So well, some of it was also, I mean, you're
an eight Knicks fandom, so you were going to pick
them to go to the finals every year?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Anywow?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
No, no, no, no, no, come on, i'ven't picked them to go
to the finals until last year and then this year,
well really this year.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I didn't pick them to go to the finals last year.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
No, no, I did not, No, I definitely you're not
here before that, I didn't pick them to go to
the finals live. I picked them to go to the
finals this year. And then when they made the Karl
Anthony Towns trade, absolutely hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
But really this is this worked.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I really, it's it's so rare that a trade works
that this fast, right, Like, not not just it worked,
but it worked this fast for both teams. Not hey,
it took a player a player X a season and
a half to get comfortable and they became a really
good point at piece. He came in right away like
they need like like the the te wolf saw. Okay,
you know what, we're deeper than we need to be,
(12:19):
and Karl Anthony Towns, for whatever reason, it's just not
working with him. We have him, we have Gobert. It's
too difficult. And Karl Anthony Towns obviously is going to
bring a lot more in trade value because Gobert is
getting older, so okay, and he's not the offensive player.
Town is right, right, So you can argue about defensive
because go Beart is a guy that folks try to
chip away at his accolades.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
He won the awards. Yeah, sorry, I'm sorry, you're mad.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
They had an odd fit and okay, and bringing in
Randall who could fit into the offense and sometimes be
the number two guy, sometimes number three, because that was
the best thing about him was that when he was
forced to be the one A, one A guy with
the Knicks, it got to a point where the league
sort of figured him out a bit and he would
still take shots.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It would still be very difficult. Possession.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Possession is enough for difficult for the Knicks at the
end of games anyway, when Jalen Brunst holds the BA
all the time. Now we had Brunson and Julius Randle
holding the ball, but that worked. And now the Knicks,
I said, okay, we need that big in the middle
that's going to be able to make us go right
because Randall's not going to fit there. We had an odd,
odd fit. The Knicks had a great positionless team, but
they needed something a little bit more, especially to get
(13:24):
through the East. And it, I mean really it worked,
and right away it was you can tell with both
of these teams. Took the Tea Wolves a little bit,
not too much longer, but they were playing great basketball
the last half of the year. And it's this fast
for both like this is this is where you examine
this trade and go, I don't know both gms, both
teams deserve all their flowers for making trades to get
(13:45):
them this far. And as you see this fast from
it from a trade that happened just a few months ago,
we're not even the we're not even moving up on
the cow one year marking this trade. Weren't like the
eight month the seven month mark of this trade. Yeah,
but we still need the truth serum to Tom Thibodeau,
how do you get Karl Anthony Towns to commit to
playing some defense and moving his feet?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Okay, well, they're gonna wait and do that at the
end of games. Do we need to wait the end
of their season? End of games?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
No, No, end of games. End of games will be fine.
He's playing better, they're playing better defense in the fourth
defense at the end. But is this something we have
to wait till lead to see how the story ends?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No story.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Before I get to ask that question, we're sweeping the pacers.
You can ask that question after that. Plus nine to
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we'll have more on this coming up next. A big game,
Game one of the Western Conference Finals. Minnesota leads Oklahoma
City sixty to fifty eight, about six and a half
left to go in the third quarter. But we got
some big NFL stories to break down with you coming
up next.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
A huge one involving gold.
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So a little bit of reversal of fortune, t Wolves
and the Thunders. A two point lead for the Timberwolves.
(16:49):
They had led throughout this game pretty much. Now make
it a six point Thunder lead. Sixty six to sixty
shake Gildess Alexander now with eighteen, Williams fifteen and Knicks
legend Isaiah Hartstein now with twelve and five rebounds. He
is six out of eight from the floor. It's the
(17:10):
Knicks Final four. The Knicks, they're big long time. So
it's like the Globetrotters and the Generals. You have the
Knicks and the Pacers. You have Randall and de Vincenzo.
You got Isaiah Hartenstein like this, Maybe last year's Knicks
team was the best team in the NBA. We should
take the Larry O'Brien Trophy from the Celtics. Give it
to them, because clearly last year's Knicks team has the
(17:31):
most talent that's still out there here a year later
in the league. Well, that means they grossly underperformed and
should be relegated.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
How about that. I remember everybody got hurt. We didn't
have anybody at the end.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, what's funny is Berks was playing big minutes in games.
That Berks is one of the finest outfielders we'd seen.
He teamed with those guys in Colorado. Damn, that was
a line.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
It's loud of the nineties. We're getting Cecil Fielder in
the shows. We're getting Ellis Burks right now.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
No, we're goodly, Oh absolutely, But yeah to your point,
I mean, how many times have you seen the graphic.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Here's what the Knicks did. They xcized three fifths of
their starting.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Five, and now they're in the Eastern Conference final.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
We're even better, sucker, faster, stronger.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Good thing for the think about that thundertaking care of
business ten oh run the last three minutes plus and
doing it by attacking the rim, just saying all right,
you got files to give, We're gonna make it. Commit
all of them and keep wearing you down. Live at
the free throw line. But an inordinately low number of
three point shots relative to what the Timberwolves have tried
(18:38):
in this game. And well, here we go in the
final throws of the third period, just under four minutes
left to go, six point lead, Thunder lead at sixty
six to sixty. So we'll have more NBA on the waist.
You will have more details on this game and what's
trending in a few minutes. But big story out of
the NFL today as.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
A players are going to get to win gold.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Medals as flag football has been okayed for the twenty
twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Jet's been playing that for years.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
We couldn't even win in flag football. You kidding.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
We couldn't find we would get a quarterback in flag football.
It turned out to be like the guy that said
he was better than Mahomes. It can't even throw like
that's what we would get. That's who wind not be
in our guy justin Jefferson said today, Hey did the
Olympic gritty dance as he left the lectern today talking
about he's been a big proponent of trying to get
flag football into the Olympics in twenty twenty eight, and
(19:30):
now the NFL owners vote thirty two zero to unanimously.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Approve the proposal.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
So now you're gonna have NFL players playing in flag
football in the Olympics. This is gonna look like the
very first dream team. Okay, first of all, say this,
Remember the very first dream team in nineteen ninety two
that was Jordan and Bird and Ewing, and it was
like every game they're beating Angola like one twenty eight
to thirty s. That's what this is gonna look like.
That's exactly what this is gonna look like flag football.
(19:56):
The question you know that it begets is you want
to be in the the room where it happens and
get access to the spreadsheets that have been generated off
of this stuff. Right in terms of what is the
economic window and the ceiling I should say for the
NFL and allowing this change, because I got to think
(20:18):
coach to coach when you start thinking about players that
might be inclined to want to throw their hat in
the ring.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I'm looking at say John Harbaugh because he said this
back in March quote, I'm afraid I have a quarterback
that'd probably be pretty.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Good at it. So no, I'm not that excited about it.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
In all honesty, I believe in America, I want gold medals.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
But and that's kind of where I sit, and a lot.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Of this and go, all right, this is good in theory, right,
and you're expanding the game and obviously flag football, generating
a whole new generation of players and finding talent and
creating a whole new marketplace. Right, Because now you figure out,
all right, how do we monetize that it's running joke
and a lot of the the opens that we have
(21:02):
for the show, if you or I kind of joking out,
how do I make money on this? Well, that's what
the NFL is trying to figure And about thirty two
nothing vote would indicate to me they figured out at
least the cursory part of that in terms of generating revenue.
It's because it's worldwide publicity. And here's the thing, forget
about money. Even have the money part, it's oh, we
(21:22):
have our stars on display on a world state where
we're trying to grow the game. That's why they voted
thirty two zero because wait, we are. We've been trying
to find a way to grow the game globally and Sully,
we're adding more international games? Are seven this year?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
How do you mean we can have the NFL on
display in the summer of twenty twenty eight all the
biggest stars in the game and we'll have it'll be
my homes or Justin Fields, I mean he maybe the
quarterback then, I don't know, but like, we'll have all
our big stars out there.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Hey, Justin Fields and Garrett Wilson, we'll have you know,
and they'll be and they'll be one player. And that's
the rule one. No more than one player from every
team unless another name. Right, you can play for other day,
but but one tim for the team USA. One team,
one player per team. I don't know, twenty three and
me getting a lot of that sort right now?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Sure? Hey, what else have you got in the blood?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
How many are is it gonna be like the WBC
where like players who like I remember when what was it?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Where are the Olympics?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
When Piazza wasn't good enough to play for Team USA anymore,
And he just preemptively said I might play for Team
Italy because you know that's where I'm from. Oh, you're
just not good enough to start for Team USA anymore.
So yeah, you're preempting, Like how many people are gonna go?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, I mean, I know, I'm probably one of the
top ten wide receivers in the game, but I'm not
gonna play if for the United States. But I could
play for Canada, but then I could play for you
know whatever. I could come from there one hundred Yeah,
well look at you all, embiid he had multiple opportunities
and fights at the Apple for the Olympics. Oh, he
would absolutely do that. In four years, he's absolutely doing that.
He's not he's not even gonna mess around with Team US.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
But do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Though, Like this time, he had the opportunity, and for
the NFL players, certainly where guys can go in and
take a look at their antsy and maybe have that opportunity,
it'll be there. It'll just be the curiosity of you know,
from a marketing perspective, and certainly the players themselves going
to the all right benefit versus risk reward kind of thing. Well,
(23:16):
it's not quite the old you know, sayd football games
that we'd have at the Yeah, but but it's still
in that same vein of Look, but it's an event,
it's one of our events, but it's really not our event.
Let's finish the good part of it. Yeah, right, it's
good for the it's great for the NFL. It's all
(23:36):
sorts of publicity. They're going to be the dominant story
of the Olympics. I mean, obviously basketball is going to
be big, Track and field will be big, but having
the best stars in the NFL, especially here in the
United States where we're in local time across the country,
it's going to be incredibly huge.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Unless they bring break Dancing back, that would be the
only thing that could take it down. No, no, no, they'd
have to bring Raygun back, like you, you can't just
bring break Dancing back. You'd have to bring ray Gun back.
She's retired, She'll come out of retirement. Yeah, you think
ray Gun would be like y Gun coming back would
(24:17):
be like Trey Young. If the Knicks called to say
we want to trade for you, Yeah, of course I'll
go there. I love the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, one hundred percent, that's absolutely gonna happen. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Now that's all the good, right, it's all the good
it's all the good things. I want everydy think all
good things, all good things, all good things, all good things.
Because I want to say this, don't take any players
from my favorite team.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I want no jets on that team.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Not that you have to worry about that, but I
want zero jets because I don't want my guys getting hurt.
I don't want my guy getting hurt in a in
a in an event that you don't need him for.
That's a made up thing for the Olympics. I don't
want one of my best players getting hurt because I
still have the have the aftershocks and the fallback to
what's going on with Edwin Diaz from two years ago
(25:00):
on the WBC, and he's just getting back to normal now,
Like yes, oh, but the WBC means so much. No,
it means a lot to the rest of the world.
It doesn't mean as much to to us here in
the United States. Yes, it's fun to watch, and it
was fun to watch Trout and Otani, but it means
much more to the world than it does here.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
What did I have to watch in a celebration mound.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I watched Edwin Dias terror's achilles and he's done, and
he's done for the year, doesn't throw a pitch for
the Mets, and they just gave him one hundred million
dollar contract, right, so I know this, right, that's why,
don't take any Jets again, not that you would not
not that they would be at the top of the list,
or they would even be on a list right now.
For course, maybe maybe one, I mean maybe maybe they're
on the maybe list, or maybe they're on that you
got a couple after lists, or you'd have to put
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that list together. But don't take any take any anybody
you want. Don't take any of my players. I love it,
but don't take anybody from the Jets. Takes something you
want to take me, I'll give my I'll give my
pick to the Bills. I'll give my pick to the Dolphins,
or the or the Patriots. I'll give you take somebody.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I'll give you that. Don't take my players because I
don't want my guys. There.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
The other thing that that come out of it, when
you're talking about just straight up injuries and now now
we're getting into as we watched the NBA and the
proliferation of Achilles injuries and everything that we're trying to get,
the Commission started to figure out exactly why, how and
in this day of training and preparation and metrics that
you have so many injuries. When we talk about the
(26:21):
international appeal of getting these guys out there and expanding
your brand, you also are.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Looking at a football game. I don't know that there's a.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Lot of standing around and just you know, being the
slack jawed yokel thing that was going on globally for
the dream Team.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I think by then folks are going to be ready
to play. And it's football, which takes out a hole.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
It's flag football where they're stopping fast and cutting and
jumping and anything can understand a guy that's a bit
out of control and all of a sudden you're bodied
up in a non context more.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I think, got it?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Think it.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Think about it like this, right, think about an injury
like this. This will break it down for you. Okay,
let's just say that that's over. Okay, we have justin fields. Now,
we have a good quarterback that's gonna run for twelve
hundred yards and throw for twelve hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Why is it still? Just watch it? Just because it's
done is the deepest, it's over. We hurt the most.
He's gonna the one, the one that happened on that fourth.
Lots of lots of snaps, lots of that was a
double snap. Lots of snaps, lots of snaps.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
So I'll say this right. Last week we had to get.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
The the spring in our garage door replaced right because
it snapped right so we couldn't close the door. So
we called flashbacks to Rogers No no, no, no, no
no no, flashed back to Edwin dis no. So the
the it snapped, and and and Pam was like, what
do you think happened? Look, I said, well this thing
is not connected anymore, so I assume whatever that is snapped. Okay,
(27:49):
So we called and the guy came to do the
spring right. It says, okay, great, how often do you
come in and out of the garage?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
You go, I don't know, we usually leave the garage
like you know, I don't know half the doll I
don't know. Four times a day, three four times to day.
Goes ok. Just to let you know, look, you'll be
good for a long time.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
But usually these springs they got about ten thousand closes
in them and then that then they're gonna snap. I'm like,
oh okay, all right, great, So now I'm like, okay,
we're not leaving the garage anymore, we're not opening the door.
We had ten thousand closes, right, And my wife says,
I wish she'd never said, I wish you would.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Be an umpire clicker.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I wish I wish you had never heard that, because
now you're gonna say you don't go out the girl?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
We've got on in the garage six times today? How
close we're getting to ten thousand? Like I need that
clicker that goes from ten thousand click ticking down. So
now you have the pace today till you're marked for death. Right, Yeah,
you're backing out ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
You want to go out of the garage again? You
see her? Right now?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We have eighty four hundred and twenty one closes left.
We just had this guy come and do this like
four months ago. So because I'm actually counting in my head,
like okay, so if we go out six times a
day after you know, okay, so how long one hundred days,
like what does this mean? Like how long is this
going to go? And my wife is like, I really,
I can't believe. I wanted him to take the words
back as soon as he said that to you, because
(28:57):
I knew you were going to obsess over this.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Right, we have to do a press conference at the
first hundred days. Yeah, yeah, we're really using a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
We use it eight times the other day and now
it's this and uh, just because just because it's more
convenient for us to go out to our car, but
we could go out the front door. We've been going
out the front door more. I'm like going out the
front door, not opening the garage again because you know
the closes so and so that's the thing is like, Okay,
an injury or something's bound to break down the more
you use it. And what you're doing is you're adding
(29:27):
these reps to a player who's going to play without equipment,
with not knowing what it's going to be like, to
really protect himself because he's never done anything like this before.
You don't know how many other nations are going to say, oh,
I want to take a shot at this guy's justin
Jefferson's the best receiver in the NFL. Okay, let's let's
see how great a receiver he is. Or you come
down because you're jumping for a ball that you normally
(29:49):
wouldn't be doing in practice, but you come down on
somebody's ankle and it's a sprained ankle and you're out
for eight weeks. Like, there's lots of things that can
happen because you're going hard in something that's a new experience.
It's like, oh, I've never done that before. And it's
the same thing for the WBC and that Okay, players
know how to ramp up to get ready for the
beginning of the regular season. Right, players come to Okay,
(30:10):
I don't I don't care that I'm not hitting the
ball right now.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
This is how I do it. I work on things
I need to be at my best when I'm getting
ready for opening day.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Pitchers don't care if they give up six to seven
runs their first three starts. They're just extending themselves getting
ready for opening day.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
So it's it's in the WBC, it's about we're going
too hard too early. So you see injuries because of that.
Because now sudden the middle of februares, you got to
be ramped up and ready because we're playing so but
whenever there's more reps for something like this, there's more
that can go wrong, and I know for my team
it will go wrong. Oh yeah, So that's why, don't
take any jets. Take everybody else, anybody else. Let's go
take no jets. I guess not that you're gonna take
(30:44):
any But in two years, you never know, maybe we
have a really good player.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I woke up today. I don't get all the buzz
with this.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
This, this has been approved for years, this has been happening, right,
but now it's called the Pro Bowls. Fare very good
for Rostburg. Very good, very good, very good. I actually
think this is gonna be a little bit more, uh
more intense than the Pro Bowl. Now are a little
bit more possible that you can take.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
That very well.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
You gotta wake up as long as you look, as
long as the check clears. Am I getting credit for
showing up as a pro bowler and does my my
spot bonus?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Clear?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Beyond that, I'm good time not again, take don't take
any of my players. Let's find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. From a man who has
started the first flag football fantasy league.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
He's the commissioner.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
It's Steve de Sega, and I will take Tyreek Hill
and Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
You imagine that offense in flag football on the field.
It's a five on five format, and have about a
defense with like Travis Hunter and Patrick Certan and Mike
Parsons for the US man bring it on and Will.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Levis with that cannon of an arm throwing it to
all those wide receivers.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Steve, we might have other quarterback candidates in the United States.
I'll just say that out loud, but yes, NFL teams
will allow players to compete in flag football at the
LA Olympics in twenty twenty eight. The owners voted unanimously
for it. Today, the NFL Spring meeting concludes tomorrow in Minnesota.
The league is expected to vote on playoff seating, which
reportedly does not have enough support to change that. They'll
(32:16):
be voting on the Tush push play apparently as well.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
The Bears gave.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Former Chiefs guard Joe Tune a two year extension. Seattle
signed rookie quarterback Jalen Milroe. The Bears and Jets started
Ota offseason workouts today. Dallas and some other teams started yesterday.
Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons did attend. Minnesota Timberwolves are at
Oklahoma City in Game one of the NBA's Western Conference Finals.
Bad third quarter for the visitors to start the fourth
(32:43):
Okay see in the lead now seventy six sixty six.
Shake Ilgers Alexander was two of thirteen shooting from the
floor in the first half, but he's up to twenty
three points now. Julius Randall of the Timberwolves had twenty
points in the first half, none in the third quarter,
and the rest of his team is shooting just fifteen
for fifty three from the floor. In the WNBA, Atlanta
(33:06):
a winner at Indiana, ninety one to ninety Kaitlin Clark
twenty seven points, eleven assists in defeat about five minutes
to go. In the NHL game at Carolina, it's now
Florida five one in the lead over the Hurricanes. In
Game one of the East Final, the Boston Bruins gave
general manager Don Sweeney a two year extension. The Orioles
have lost again. Milwaukee beat him five to two. Baltimore
(33:26):
has dropped eight games in a row. The White Sox
have lost five straight, but they're winning against the Mariners
one nothing in the top of the sixth inning. Just
two hits for Seattle so far. Philly's up seven to
one in the seventh at Colorado. Cubs won fourteen to
one at Miami. Dodgers scoreless with Arizona in the third,
Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh with home wins. Yankees as well.
(33:48):
Yankees beat Texas five to two. Aaron Judge with his
sixteenth homer. He's betting four to oh three and it
was Boston over the Mets two nothing.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
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Speaker 3 (34:13):
Ten point lead for the thunder early in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Coming up next, we got the play of the day
coming your way, and we remember an absolute legend that
we lost today.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
That's next, Jason to Mike.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
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Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend
Mike Harmon. Eleven point lead for.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
The Thunder over the Tea Wolves, eight minutes to go
in the fourth quarter, eighty six seventy five. Minnesota has
stopped hitting from three to this half, although Devincenzo finally
hit one.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Hey, congratulations. Yeah, what he's like three of ten or
three of eleven on the night. Well, he's not playing
the Lakers anymore. Yeah, he's all good. Yeah, Yeah, it's
a lot more difficult now. Lost is mojo? Speaking of basketball?
That brings us to the play of the day.
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Well, the game of the night in basketball come down
to the final possession. Caitlin Clark and the Fever with
a chance to go to two and oh to beat
the Dream. Clark with twenty seven points, eleven assists, five rebounds.
Did she have enough or did one of her teammates
have enough for one final basket?
Speaker 4 (35:40):
So that is the reset timeout. A lot of contact
underneath Clark's gotta get it in. She lobs it up
for Howard, Howard had it blocked at the rim, Howard
pulls it down, Howard shot his shorts rebound. Atlanta. The
Fever have to foul here and they won't get it
foul away and Atlanta will.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Escape with victory.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
So the Fever dream not going well for Indiana TJ
And just up there on a tea, wasn't it NBA
TV on the call? So maybe maybe we tapped the
brakes a little bit on Hey, the Fever going to
roll to the WNBA title. I mean, look the dream
where they're really Look, they weren't great last year. They
didn't score a lot of points last year, and they
(36:22):
had one of the worst offensive teams in the game.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
And here are the new Fever. Their defense is really good.
All the change they made.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
I said, Oh, man, if I'm going to Vegas on
this game, yeah, lay the points, take the under nope,
nope dream come.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Out ninety one ninety over the Fever.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, this game played out a lot like we're anticipating
the pacers and knicks. Not a lot of contribution from
anybody off the bench, a lot of your starters taking
care of business. Grinder with twenty one and eight in
this one, you had nineteen twenty sixteen twelve nine was
the edge and bench scoring. But the Dream took an
(36:58):
eleven point lead into the fourth quarter. So even with
a little bit of a feverish run down the stretch,
not enough.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
The Fever needed more cow Bell. Really, had they just
explored the room, it would have been great. I'm telling you, fellas,
really don't. Don't be afraid to. So there's your.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Play of the day. We'll have more on Caitlyn Clark's
game tonight. Again a great game for individually, but the
Fever fall to one and one. We talked basketball there, I.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Mean, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Usually WNBA conversations aren't about basketball. Was pretty good. I
liked that it was usually not about basketball. But now
this is about basketball.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
That's good. Not not saying that, not saying it's gonna
change it all of a sudden, but this was about basketball.
It's a good conversation.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Just back, I had a tear to my eye huh
speaking a tear to your eyes. That look the biggest
story today. George went passes away at the age of
seventy six, one of the funniest comedic actors in the
history of television, who created a role that people still
cite and still know we'll talk about fifty years from now.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Uh, look that you know.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Obviously the bulls in SNL was a big thing for
him coming off of Cheers. But you know, look, Norm Peterson,
he's in the pantheon in the Hall of Fame of
Television Characters. He's one of those unanimous guys. Even the
guy that didn't vote for eachro would vote for Norm
to be in the Television Hall of Fame at the top,
(38:24):
the top level of the Hall of Fame. Not just
a guy getting in hey after a bunch of years
on the Seniors committee. No, No, he's in the very
top because again he's on that short list of Greatest
Television Characters of All Time eleven years as Norm, six
Emmy nominations started in.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
I mean, he's Chicago guy, so it hits you know, and.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Obviously Jason sudeikis his nephew, and all of that family
ties to all of that stuff, but it's just an
amazing run. I watched the full eighteen minutes of Entrances.
My brothers sent me it almost immediately. It's like, here,
watch this. He's like h No and coach selling hell
out of Sure. Sure, but you know, just all the
(39:03):
responses and the one liners and and everything through it.
I've recently found it in streaming. Obviously it's been on
in syndication forever, but when you can just sit and
binge watch, That's one of those shows that I think
the next generation like needs to discover that like this
discovered the Office and the Office guys all kinds of
new popularity now because generations he discovered.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Extream back, right, but they were the whole big thing.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Oscar Nunez is going to be in it, right, Dominic
man handle, Don Hall Gleason, who's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
He's yeah, he's gonna play the guy from the first order.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
So I Cheers is one of those that I think
that I wish gen Z would rediscover because like today,
like I had a conversation with my dad and Fabiano,
who are the other biggest my wife and I and
my dad Fabiano biggest Cheers fans, Right, it was the
defining sitcom of of me growing up right from the.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Mid eighties to the mid nineties.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
And we're just going over our favorite norm one liners, right,
and we're laughing tear because, hey, do you forget about
this one? Forget about this one? Forget about this one? Right?
Like I said, I said, Okay, I said, Dad, here's
my favorite. And I said, favorite this one. He walks
in in what he says, draw your beer, mister Peterson,
and he goes, I already know what they look like
what he just pour it from me?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
So he's laughing like tears in our eyes because we're
each Oh, I forgot about that one. I forgot about
that one is And I mean, I don't know how
you come up with because he had one an episode. No,
it's it's like twenty two entrances for eleven. You got
three hundred entrances, you know with Hey Norman, there's a
big one liner.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
That he had.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
It's a doggy dog world and I'm wearing milk bone underwear. Oh,
it's gone down the line. Today the thirty second anniversary
of the finale How, which was viewed by eighty two
million was the estimate, and he was in the very
the very last scene was him and Sam so good.
The very last scene was the two of them. I
always come back to what you love.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
George went an absolute legend, passed away earlier today in
his sleep at the age of seventy six.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Exit. How about a Fresca exit. Swallen owned the Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios. We got more from the NBA coming up next,
a bigger lead for Oklahoma City. Plus we have to
have the non hustling conversation because that's taken over.
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way tire buying should be. Well, here we are, halftime
of the game one of the Western Conference. Fine third period,
game one of the Eastern Conference Finals in hockey. Not
happy with that, but I got a lot going on
the Mets to that, I got the next Now the baseball,
baseball listen. I know all we'll get to the Sodo
(01:14):
stuff and all that, but really, baseball, I'm sorry, it's
gonna take a back seat for the next seven to
ten days. It's it's got to I mean, I got,
I got two teams in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's may okay.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I mean there's a big stuff with Sodo, big stuff
going on in the Mets. Get it and they all think,
but there there's I got, I got bigger stuff going
on right now. I'm gonna got to prioritize well, But
can basketball and the hockey bridge you to the opening
of any offseason workouts for the Jets? Oh no, we
got I got No matter what the record of the
Mets is right now, it's still you know, like the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff swirling and a lot
of unrest.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
But I got, I got time for the It's okay,
I got time. I mean, I got big stuff, right,
I got, I got, I got the West Eastern Conference Finals.
Stard that I'm already locking in for. I've already told
my wife you listen tomorrow. I'm not gonna be any use,
But can we go to Costco tomorrow? Maybe May, I
don't know, depends how early of the day, like maybe
eleven thirty. Yeah, But once we get to like one
two o'clock like no, no, well, no, you got to
(02:09):
go at opening so they can go to the food court,
you can get yourself you know, stuffed, and then you'll
be ready to go. So I'm not going matter early,
Like if you want to do one thing, yeah, okay,
so we go ten thirty, eleven o'clock, we go.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, it's it's fine.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Let the initial Luna sego because folks that need stuff
for their their food trucks or their restaurants to let
them stock up, and then you come in in the
second wave. I just you know, I got the next tomorrow, right,
you know I got the Now, I'll put the schedule
up on the fridge. Nick's hurricanes, Nick hurricanes, I'll put
it up. It's doors here, Zoe has up that I
don't care the Nicks and the Cave.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I mean, I'm really locked in.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Don't ask me to make any big life decisions over
the course of the next week because I'm too locked in.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
It means I can't really do anything else because I'm
just I'm gonna be, you know, like where I'm kind
of like now when I say I'm locked in, it's
kind of like in a zombe b movie where the
zombie when when when when the when the the person
gets bit and they don't tell anybody, and they're they're
starting to turn, but they want to keep it as
suit because they don't want to get killed. Starting to
get a little purpleish around. They're thinking maybe something will happen,
(03:13):
will find something I don't But you can see their
behaviors getting a little weird twitch. Yeah, Like that's kind
of where I'm at. And I'm kind of like in
the just bit phase and now I want to I'm gonna,
you know, put a put a hoodie on or something,
show people I'm not bit. And but but it's gonna
just eventually get to that point. Yeah, that's I thought
you were gonna go in a completely different direction of Hey,
you know, it's like when you have to have a
(03:34):
medical procedure and they tell you you can't sign anything right,
no important paperwork, no important decisions for the next twenty
four hours, because you're not gonna be with it.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
So it's all, you know, the circle of trust.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Whoever who's looking out for you, that's something important isn't
putting in their hands where suddenly they can fleeceh you
I would I could just say no. By my wife,
she takes out, I don't make it. That's fine, I'll
be fine. You're good with that making important? Yes, yes, yes,
it's the daily important decisions that I'm really that that
I'm in on that I that I'm really that's that's
you gonna take me out of the big long term
(04:07):
and she can handle right, it's fine, does she handles it?
But the daily stuff, okay, the stuff that I'm really
good at. Yeah, you can't bring me into that because
you gotta understand making making. I'm really good at that. Oh,
I'm so good at that. I am so good at
sitting in front of the TV. And here's here's how
good I Here's how I've watched a lot of losses.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But here's how good I am. Is that my dog Bennie, Right?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And you know dogs, when you when they lay in
your lap and you move too much, they get up
after a few minutes, you're pissing them off. Right, But
Benny can say, like, I'm so good no matter what
happens in the game, that he's good laying in my
lap for however.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Long, Like maybe a good couple of hours now just that. No,
he likes to go.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
He'll give you a little like blank you dad, Okay,
all right, get up.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
No, but he's good.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
He's like Helas puts his puts his uh, puts a bottom,
his head on my leg and he lays there.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
He closes his eyes. He's all comforble. Does he have
a Pacers pillow? Nah? No Pacers.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Although I could I put of it, I don't think
that would be a great video to put up on
the internet.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Him him, you know, partying with a PACER's pillow, and
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
If he goes to the bathroom on I was gonna say,
it depends what partying with a PACER's pillow means.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
That can mean a lot of stuff. So we're waiting
for that game.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Meanwhile, we are just at the start of the third
quarter of the Tea Wolves and the Thunder. It is
a fifty to forty nine lead for Minnesota. Okay, not surprising.
This is a pretty even series. What's surprising is who
has been carrying the Minnesota Timberwolves so far. Tonight Well
and Edward No, okay, well, Rudy go Bett no well,
(05:45):
Jada mcdebt no, it is all Julius Randall twenty points.
He's got five threes, six out of eight from the floor.
He is absolutely carrying the Tea Wolves on his shoulders
and this game and now pretty much the big question
you have to say is, and you answered, I'll give
you a hot take. The Julius Randall Dante DiVincenzo for
(06:08):
Carl Anthony Towns trade last year maybe the best overall
trade in twenty years in the NBA. Not sure, Not
from a team where we made a great trade and
we didn't give up anything, because that's a bad trade
for somebody, right Obviously, if you give up nothing, it's
a great trade, view prest. But where this trade now?
(06:29):
Both teams in the final four in the NBA, Both
teams in the conference finals did not get there last
year with what they had knew they needed to improve
and of some kind of different energy. Carl Anthony Towns
has clearly worked with the New York Knicks. He's been
able to fit in and Julius Randall and Dante DiVincenzo,
especially Randall. Over the course of this season, he has
(06:50):
become that great, complimentary, one b Ish type piece. Rightley,
He's definitely one a to Ann Edwards, but he has
really slid in and has his games where he has
big games but is not relied on to always score,
which is the big thing with the Knicks. Is that Okay,
so it's you and Jalen Bruntson. I don't need to
watch Julius Randall again try to io up against two
(07:11):
defenders when he can't dribble the ball more than once
before he gets it taken away. He's not that kind
of player, but to get his chances within the offense,
that's a little bit deeper than it was last year
when when Randall was healthy. Yeah, this trade has worked
immensely well. This may be the best NBA trade when
you talk about what both teams have been able to
do accomplish off of this in twenty years. Both teams
(07:32):
would say would you do that trade again? They would
both say one hundred percent, not thinking about no. I
would never think twice about it. The Teables wouldn't think
twice about trading away Karl Anthony Towns, and the Knicks
wouldn't think twice about trading away Devincenzo and Julius Randall.
They would both do it over again. Both teams are
in the conference finals. I mean, I'm trying to find
another trade where it's worked out that great for both teams.
I don't know that it's there. Yeah, it's the top
(07:52):
of my head. I mean, we'd have to get our
crack research staff and by that I mean my fat
fingers working over the course of the night to to
come up.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
With something better.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
But for the Timberwolves, they've at least run back to
where they were a year ago before falling to the
Dallas Mavericks, so it's at least as good and Julius
Randall with some style points. We had a moment in
the first half where he left the court and started
walking towards the locker room. Never found any reason why
because we didn't enough sound up right, We're conversing and
(08:21):
we've got the Canes game on, and we.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Looked at each other's like why is he leaving?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
He's like, oh, because he's scorching hot and they have
to cool him down.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That's why five.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Three porters in the first half. But it freedom up
right where it's not the same style of flow and offense.
And what was crazy in the first half is how
deep both rosters getting their workouts in early because you
went nine to ten deep early on. But yeah, your
(08:51):
Nicks have obviously moved on to the next round, led.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
In large part by the Heroics and Bronson. But your guy.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Cat is hailed as a hero wherever he shows up.
Just put him on a video board. It didn't even
have to be in the crowd. Just put him up
on the video board. People start to scream. In next
train arriving at you know, Penn, Nah, it doesn't matter.
There's a picture of Juliet of Karl Anthony Towns gets
everybody fired up like goad. The trade's gonna be the
late two hours, doesn't matter. Just keep showing Nicks up there.
(09:21):
That's how excited the city is. But thinking about trades,
I made a lot of it becomes the immediacy of
it too, right, because it's the next season, not a hey,
you got three draft picks, and what it becomes, right,
let's wait and see and you got a seat did
you draft? Well, where did this guy turn into? Yeah,
because we've got the the NFL one that obviously gets
thrown back up again today and over the last forty
(09:43):
eight hours. You go back to the twenty seventeen draft.
The Mitchell Trubisky right because it hits home because oh,
you could have drafted Mahomes. No, they wouldn't have drafted Mahomes.
They would have, you know, gone and drafted to Shaun
Watson based on what he did in college. If you
could buy, you could, if you could do that trade. Now, yes,
then you take Patrick Mahomes. But no one will saying
about But in all of it, now you've got a
would be Hall of Famer. And Fred Warner, who was
(10:04):
the fourth round pick that came back from the Bears.
Right that first round guy was Solomon Thomas. He ended
up having a cup of coffee, played for the Raiders,
did whatever, you know, a Jag offensive lineman Alvin Kamara
was a fourth round pick conferred to New Orleans and
all of that. You know, he's had a fantastic career
for the Saints and for fantasy owners.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
But now it's Fred Warner is the lynch of that.
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
But at the time I was like, all right, good player,
we'll see what he becomes. And now he signs this
monster deal. It's like, see, the forty nine ers are
the smartest guys. No, no, no, we can't keep doing that.
He can't relitigate it eight years later. It doesn't this guy,
I be can't And it's that's what we do. Doing
draft picks is tough because okay, you got these draft picks,
but then you turned them into So this wasn't player
(10:50):
X for player Y and player Z. Right, here are
the players coming in and a first round pick was
thrown in there, right, that's right. Oh, I don't forget
that first reupid But this deal, I mean, this was
this was shocking what it was because it was close
to the beginning of the season, right like the Knicks
moved around and they went out and got Michel Bridges
and all these things, and then and then end of September,
right like they're coming to camp soon and suddenly it's yep,
(11:11):
we got it done. Karl, Anthony Towns, Julius Randal, Dante
Di Vincenzo, and I remember when that trade happened. What
did I say, Knicks t Wolves in the NBA Finals
next year. I'm ready for it, and here we are
this close to it. Like that's a great, big, bold
prediction that I want to start bringing up again because
we're so close. I don't want to go crazy with
it because it has to get here. But then in
case it doesn't get here, I want to be able
to talk about a little bit. So I got to
(11:32):
kind of got a back door bring that up right here.
So well, some of it was also, I mean, you're
an eight Knicks fandom, so you were going to pick
them to go to the finals every year?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Anywow?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
No, no, no, no, no, come on, i'ven't picked them to go
to the finals until last year and then this year,
well really this year.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I didn't pick them to go to the finals last year.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
No, no, I did not, No, I definitely you're not
here before that, I didn't pick them to go to
the finals live. I picked them to go to the
finals this year. And then when they made the Karl
Anthony Towns trade, absolutely hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
But really this is this worked.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I really, it's it's so rare that a trade works
that this fast, right, Like, not not just it worked,
but it worked this fast for both teams. Not hey,
it took a player a player X a season and
a half to get comfortable and they became a really
good point at piece. He came in right away like
they need like like the the te wolf saw. Okay,
you know what, we're deeper than we need to be,
(12:19):
and Karl Anthony Towns, for whatever reason, it's just not
working with him. We have him, we have Gobert. It's
too difficult. And Karl Anthony Towns obviously is going to
bring a lot more in trade value because Gobert is
getting older, so okay, and he's not the offensive player.
Town is right, right, So you can argue about defensive
because go Beart is a guy that folks try to
chip away at his accolades.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
He won the awards. Yeah, sorry, I'm sorry, you're mad.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
They had an odd fit and okay, and bringing in
Randall who could fit into the offense and sometimes be
the number two guy, sometimes number three, because that was
the best thing about him was that when he was
forced to be the one A, one A guy with
the Knicks, it got to a point where the league
sort of figured him out a bit and he would
still take shots.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
It would still be very difficult. Possession.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Possession is enough for difficult for the Knicks at the
end of games anyway, when Jalen Brunst holds the BA
all the time. Now we had Brunson and Julius Randle
holding the ball, but that worked. And now the Knicks,
I said, okay, we need that big in the middle
that's going to be able to make us go right
because Randall's not going to fit there. We had an odd,
odd fit. The Knicks had a great positionless team, but
they needed something a little bit more, especially to get
(13:24):
through the East. And it, I mean really it worked,
and right away it was you can tell with both
of these teams. Took the Tea Wolves a little bit,
not too much longer, but they were playing great basketball
the last half of the year. And it's this fast
for both like this is this is where you examine
this trade and go, I don't know both gms, both
teams deserve all their flowers for making trades to get
(13:45):
them this far. And as you see this fast from
it from a trade that happened just a few months ago,
we're not even the we're not even moving up on
the cow one year marking this trade. Weren't like the
eight month the seven month mark of this trade. Yeah,
but we still need the truth serum to Tom Thibodeau,
how do you get Karl Anthony Towns to commit to
playing some defense and moving his feet?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Okay, well, they're gonna wait and do that at the
end of games. Do we need to wait the end
of their season? End of games?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
No, No, end of games. End of games will be fine.
He's playing better, they're playing better defense in the fourth
defense at the end. But is this something we have
to wait till lead to see how the story ends?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
No story.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Before I get to ask that question, we're sweeping the pacers.
You can ask that question after that. Plus nine to
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we'll have more on this coming up next. A big game,
Game one of the Western Conference Finals. Minnesota leads Oklahoma
City sixty to fifty eight, about six and a half
left to go in the third quarter. But we got
some big NFL stories to break down with you coming
up next.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
A huge one involving gold.
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So a little bit of reversal of fortune, t Wolves
and the Thunders. A two point lead for the Timberwolves.
(16:49):
They had led throughout this game pretty much. Now make
it a six point Thunder lead. Sixty six to sixty
shake Gildess Alexander now with eighteen, Williams fifteen and Knicks
legend Isaiah Hartstein now with twelve and five rebounds. He
is six out of eight from the floor. It's the
(17:10):
Knicks Final four. The Knicks, they're big long time. So
it's like the Globetrotters and the Generals. You have the
Knicks and the Pacers. You have Randall and de Vincenzo.
You got Isaiah Hartenstein like this, Maybe last year's Knicks
team was the best team in the NBA. We should
take the Larry O'Brien Trophy from the Celtics. Give it
to them, because clearly last year's Knicks team has the
(17:31):
most talent that's still out there here a year later
in the league. Well, that means they grossly underperformed and
should be relegated.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
How about that. I remember everybody got hurt. We didn't
have anybody at the end.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Well, what's funny is Berks was playing big minutes in games.
That Berks is one of the finest outfielders we'd seen.
He teamed with those guys in Colorado. Damn, that was
a line.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
It's loud of the nineties. We're getting Cecil Fielder in
the shows. We're getting Ellis Burks right now.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
No, we're goodly, Oh absolutely, But yeah to your point,
I mean, how many times have you seen the graphic.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Here's what the Knicks did. They xcized three fifths of
their starting.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Five, and now they're in the Eastern Conference final.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
We're even better, sucker, faster, stronger.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Good thing for the think about that thundertaking care of
business ten oh run the last three minutes plus and
doing it by attacking the rim, just saying all right,
you got files to give, We're gonna make it. Commit
all of them and keep wearing you down. Live at
the free throw line. But an inordinately low number of
three point shots relative to what the Timberwolves have tried
(18:38):
in this game. And well, here we go in the
final throws of the third period, just under four minutes
left to go, six point lead, Thunder lead at sixty
six to sixty. So we'll have more NBA on the waist.
You will have more details on this game and what's
trending in a few minutes. But big story out of
the NFL today as.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
A players are going to get to win gold.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Medals as flag football has been okayed for the twenty
twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Jet's been playing that for years.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
We couldn't even win in flag football. You kidding.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
We couldn't find we would get a quarterback in flag football.
It turned out to be like the guy that said
he was better than Mahomes. It can't even throw like
that's what we would get. That's who wind not be
in our guy justin Jefferson said today, Hey did the
Olympic gritty dance as he left the lectern today talking
about he's been a big proponent of trying to get
flag football into the Olympics in twenty twenty eight, and
(19:30):
now the NFL owners vote thirty two zero to unanimously.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Approve the proposal.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
So now you're gonna have NFL players playing in flag
football in the Olympics. This is gonna look like the
very first dream team. Okay, first of all, say this,
Remember the very first dream team in nineteen ninety two
that was Jordan and Bird and Ewing, and it was
like every game they're beating Angola like one twenty eight
to thirty s. That's what this is gonna look like.
That's exactly what this is gonna look like flag football.
(19:56):
The question you know that it begets is you want
to be in the the room where it happens and
get access to the spreadsheets that have been generated off
of this stuff. Right in terms of what is the
economic window and the ceiling I should say for the
NFL and allowing this change, because I got to think
(20:18):
coach to coach when you start thinking about players that
might be inclined to want to throw their hat in
the ring.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I'm looking at say John Harbaugh because he said this
back in March quote, I'm afraid I have a quarterback
that'd probably be pretty.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Good at it. So no, I'm not that excited about it.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
In all honesty, I believe in America, I want gold medals.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
But and that's kind of where I sit, and a lot.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Of this and go, all right, this is good in theory, right,
and you're expanding the game and obviously flag football, generating
a whole new generation of players and finding talent and
creating a whole new marketplace. Right, Because now you figure out,
all right, how do we monetize that it's running joke
and a lot of the the opens that we have
(21:02):
for the show, if you or I kind of joking out,
how do I make money on this? Well, that's what
the NFL is trying to figure And about thirty two
nothing vote would indicate to me they figured out at
least the cursory part of that in terms of generating revenue.
It's because it's worldwide publicity. And here's the thing, forget
about money. Even have the money part, it's oh, we
(21:22):
have our stars on display on a world state where
we're trying to grow the game. That's why they voted
thirty two zero because wait, we are. We've been trying
to find a way to grow the game globally and Sully,
we're adding more international games? Are seven this year?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
How do you mean we can have the NFL on
display in the summer of twenty twenty eight all the
biggest stars in the game and we'll have it'll be
my homes or Justin Fields, I mean he maybe the
quarterback then, I don't know, but like, we'll have all
our big stars out there.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Hey, Justin Fields and Garrett Wilson, we'll have you know,
and they'll be and they'll be one player. And that's
the rule one. No more than one player from every
team unless another name. Right, you can play for other day,
but but one tim for the team USA. One team,
one player per team. I don't know, twenty three and
me getting a lot of that sort right now?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Sure? Hey, what else have you got in the blood?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
How many are is it gonna be like the WBC
where like players who like I remember when what was it?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Where are the Olympics?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
When Piazza wasn't good enough to play for Team USA anymore,
And he just preemptively said I might play for Team
Italy because you know that's where I'm from. Oh, you're
just not good enough to start for Team USA anymore.
So yeah, you're preempting, Like how many people are gonna go?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, I mean, I know, I'm probably one of the
top ten wide receivers in the game, but I'm not
gonna play if for the United States. But I could
play for Canada, but then I could play for you
know whatever. I could come from there one hundred Yeah,
well look at you all, embiid he had multiple opportunities
and fights at the Apple for the Olympics. Oh, he
would absolutely do that. In four years, he's absolutely doing that.
He's not he's not even gonna mess around with Team US.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
But do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Though, Like this time, he had the opportunity, and for
the NFL players, certainly where guys can go in and
take a look at their antsy and maybe have that opportunity,
it'll be there. It'll just be the curiosity of you know,
from a marketing perspective, and certainly the players themselves going
to the all right benefit versus risk reward kind of thing. Well,
(23:16):
it's not quite the old you know, sayd football games
that we'd have at the Yeah, but but it's still
in that same vein of Look, but it's an event,
it's one of our events, but it's really not our event.
Let's finish the good part of it. Yeah, right, it's
good for the it's great for the NFL. It's all
(23:36):
sorts of publicity. They're going to be the dominant story
of the Olympics. I mean, obviously basketball is going to
be big, Track and field will be big, but having
the best stars in the NFL, especially here in the
United States where we're in local time across the country,
it's going to be incredibly huge.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Unless they bring break Dancing back, that would be the
only thing that could take it down. No, no, no, they'd
have to bring Raygun back, like you, you can't just
bring break Dancing back. You'd have to bring ray Gun back.
She's retired, She'll come out of retirement. Yeah, you think
ray Gun would be like y Gun coming back would
(24:17):
be like Trey Young. If the Knicks called to say
we want to trade for you, Yeah, of course I'll
go there. I love the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, one hundred percent, that's absolutely gonna happen. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Now that's all the good, right, it's all the good
it's all the good things. I want everydy think all
good things, all good things, all good things, all good things.
Because I want to say this, don't take any players
from my favorite team.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I want no jets on that team.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Not that you have to worry about that, but I
want zero jets because I don't want my guys getting hurt.
I don't want my guy getting hurt in a in
a in an event that you don't need him for.
That's a made up thing for the Olympics. I don't
want one of my best players getting hurt because I
still have the have the aftershocks and the fallback to
what's going on with Edwin Diaz from two years ago
(25:00):
on the WBC, and he's just getting back to normal now,
Like yes, oh, but the WBC means so much. No,
it means a lot to the rest of the world.
It doesn't mean as much to to us here in
the United States. Yes, it's fun to watch, and it
was fun to watch Trout and Otani, but it means
much more to the world than it does here.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
What did I have to watch in a celebration mound.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I watched Edwin Dias terror's achilles and he's done, and
he's done for the year, doesn't throw a pitch for
the Mets, and they just gave him one hundred million
dollar contract, right, so I know this, right, that's why,
don't take any Jets again, not that you would not
not that they would be at the top of the list,
or they would even be on a list right now.
For course, maybe maybe one, I mean maybe maybe they're
on the maybe list, or maybe they're on that you
got a couple after lists, or you'd have to put
(25:41):
that list together. But don't take any take any anybody
you want. Don't take any of my players. I love it,
but don't take anybody from the Jets. Takes something you
want to take me, I'll give my I'll give my
pick to the Bills. I'll give my pick to the Dolphins,
or the or the Patriots. I'll give you take somebody.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I'll give you that. Don't take my players because I
don't want my guys. There.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
The other thing that that come out of it, when
you're talking about just straight up injuries and now now
we're getting into as we watched the NBA and the
proliferation of Achilles injuries and everything that we're trying to get,
the Commission started to figure out exactly why, how and
in this day of training and preparation and metrics that
you have so many injuries. When we talk about the
(26:21):
international appeal of getting these guys out there and expanding
your brand, you also are.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Looking at a football game. I don't know that there's a.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Lot of standing around and just you know, being the
slack jawed yokel thing that was going on globally for
the dream Team.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I think by then folks are going to be ready
to play. And it's football, which takes out a hole.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
It's flag football where they're stopping fast and cutting and
jumping and anything can understand a guy that's a bit
out of control and all of a sudden you're bodied
up in a non context more.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I think, got it?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Think it.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Think about it like this, right, think about an injury
like this. This will break it down for you. Okay,
let's just say that that's over. Okay, we have justin fields. Now,
we have a good quarterback that's gonna run for twelve
hundred yards and throw for twelve hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Why is it still? Just watch it? Just because it's
done is the deepest, it's over. We hurt the most.
He's gonna the one, the one that happened on that fourth.
Lots of lots of snaps, lots of that was a
double snap. Lots of snaps, lots of snaps.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
So I'll say this right. Last week we had to get.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
The the spring in our garage door replaced right because
it snapped right so we couldn't close the door. So
we called flashbacks to Rogers No no, no, no, no
no no, flashed back to Edwin dis no. So the
the it snapped, and and and Pam was like, what
do you think happened? Look, I said, well this thing
is not connected anymore, so I assume whatever that is snapped. Okay,
(27:49):
So we called and the guy came to do the
spring right. It says, okay, great, how often do you
come in and out of the garage?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
You go, I don't know, we usually leave the garage
like you know, I don't know half the doll I
don't know. Four times a day, three four times to day.
Goes ok. Just to let you know, look, you'll be
good for a long time.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
But usually these springs they got about ten thousand closes
in them and then that then they're gonna snap. I'm like,
oh okay, all right, great, So now I'm like, okay,
we're not leaving the garage anymore, we're not opening the door.
We had ten thousand closes, right, And my wife says,
I wish she'd never said, I wish you would.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Be an umpire clicker.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
I wish I wish you had never heard that, because
now you're gonna say you don't go out the girl?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
We've got on in the garage six times today? How
close we're getting to ten thousand? Like I need that
clicker that goes from ten thousand click ticking down. So
now you have the pace today till you're marked for death. Right, Yeah,
you're backing out ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
You want to go out of the garage again? You
see her? Right now?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We have eighty four hundred and twenty one closes left.
We just had this guy come and do this like
four months ago. So because I'm actually counting in my head,
like okay, so if we go out six times a
day after you know, okay, so how long one hundred days,
like what does this mean? Like how long is this
going to go? And my wife is like, I really,
I can't believe. I wanted him to take the words
back as soon as he said that to you, because
(28:57):
I knew you were going to obsess over this.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Right, we have to do a press conference at the
first hundred days. Yeah, yeah, we're really using a lot.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
We use it eight times the other day and now
it's this and uh, just because just because it's more
convenient for us to go out to our car, but
we could go out the front door. We've been going
out the front door more. I'm like going out the
front door, not opening the garage again because you know
the closes so and so that's the thing is like, Okay,
an injury or something's bound to break down the more
you use it. And what you're doing is you're adding
(29:27):
these reps to a player who's going to play without equipment,
with not knowing what it's going to be like, to
really protect himself because he's never done anything like this before.
You don't know how many other nations are going to say, oh,
I want to take a shot at this guy's justin
Jefferson's the best receiver in the NFL. Okay, let's let's
see how great a receiver he is. Or you come
down because you're jumping for a ball that you normally
(29:49):
wouldn't be doing in practice, but you come down on
somebody's ankle and it's a sprained ankle and you're out
for eight weeks. Like, there's lots of things that can
happen because you're going hard in something that's a new experience.
It's like, oh, I've never done that before. And it's
the same thing for the WBC and that Okay, players
know how to ramp up to get ready for the
beginning of the regular season. Right, players come to Okay,
(30:10):
I don't I don't care that I'm not hitting the
ball right now.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
This is how I do it. I work on things
I need to be at my best when I'm getting
ready for opening day.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Pitchers don't care if they give up six to seven
runs their first three starts. They're just extending themselves getting
ready for opening day.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
So it's it's in the WBC, it's about we're going
too hard too early. So you see injuries because of that.
Because now sudden the middle of februares, you got to
be ramped up and ready because we're playing so but
whenever there's more reps for something like this, there's more
that can go wrong, and I know for my team
it will go wrong. Oh yeah, So that's why, don't
take any jets. Take everybody else, anybody else. Let's go
take no jets. I guess not that you're gonna take
(30:44):
any But in two years, you never know, maybe we
have a really good player.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
I woke up today. I don't get all the buzz
with this.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
This, this has been approved for years, this has been happening, right,
but now it's called the Pro Bowls. Fare very good
for Rostburg. Very good, very good, very good. I actually
think this is gonna be a little bit more, uh
more intense than the Pro Bowl. Now are a little
bit more possible that you can take.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
That very well.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
You gotta wake up as long as you look, as
long as the check clears. Am I getting credit for
showing up as a pro bowler and does my my
spot bonus?
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Clear?
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Beyond that, I'm good time not again, take don't take
any of my players. Let's find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. From a man who has
started the first flag football fantasy league.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
He's the commissioner.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
It's Steve de Sega, and I will take Tyreek Hill
and Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
You imagine that offense in flag football on the field.
It's a five on five format, and have about a
defense with like Travis Hunter and Patrick Certan and Mike
Parsons for the US man bring it on and Will.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Levis with that cannon of an arm throwing it to
all those wide receivers.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Steve, we might have other quarterback candidates in the United States.
I'll just say that out loud, but yes, NFL teams
will allow players to compete in flag football at the
LA Olympics in twenty twenty eight. The owners voted unanimously
for it. Today, the NFL Spring meeting concludes tomorrow in Minnesota.
The league is expected to vote on playoff seating, which
reportedly does not have enough support to change that. They'll
(32:16):
be voting on the Tush push play apparently as well.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
The Bears gave.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Former Chiefs guard Joe Tune a two year extension. Seattle
signed rookie quarterback Jalen Milroe. The Bears and Jets started
Ota offseason workouts today. Dallas and some other teams started yesterday.
Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons did attend. Minnesota Timberwolves are at
Oklahoma City in Game one of the NBA's Western Conference Finals.
Bad third quarter for the visitors to start the fourth
(32:43):
Okay see in the lead now seventy six sixty six.
Shake Ilgers Alexander was two of thirteen shooting from the
floor in the first half, but he's up to twenty
three points now. Julius Randall of the Timberwolves had twenty
points in the first half, none in the third quarter,
and the rest of his team is shooting just fifteen
for fifty three from the floor. In the WNBA, Atlanta
(33:06):
a winner at Indiana, ninety one to ninety Kaitlin Clark
twenty seven points, eleven assists in defeat about five minutes
to go. In the NHL game at Carolina, it's now
Florida five one in the lead over the Hurricanes. In
Game one of the East Final, the Boston Bruins gave
general manager Don Sweeney a two year extension. The Orioles
have lost again. Milwaukee beat him five to two. Baltimore
(33:26):
has dropped eight games in a row. The White Sox
have lost five straight, but they're winning against the Mariners
one nothing in the top of the sixth inning. Just
two hits for Seattle so far. Philly's up seven to
one in the seventh at Colorado. Cubs won fourteen to
one at Miami. Dodgers scoreless with Arizona in the third,
Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh with home wins. Yankees as well.
(33:48):
Yankees beat Texas five to two. Aaron Judge with his
sixteenth homer. He's betting four to oh three and it
was Boston over the Mets two nothing.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Back to you.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Eventually the Mets will score again. Today is not that day.
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Speaker 3 (34:13):
Ten point lead for the thunder early in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Coming up next, we got the play of the day
coming your way, and we remember an absolute legend that
we lost today.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
That's next, Jason to Mike.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
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Speaker 3 (34:33):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best Friend
Mike Harmon. Eleven point lead for.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
The Thunder over the Tea Wolves, eight minutes to go
in the fourth quarter, eighty six seventy five. Minnesota has
stopped hitting from three to this half, although Devincenzo finally
hit one.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Hey, congratulations. Yeah, what he's like three of ten or
three of eleven on the night. Well, he's not playing
the Lakers anymore. Yeah, he's all good. Yeah, Yeah, it's
a lot more difficult now. Lost is mojo? Speaking of basketball?
That brings us to the play of the day.
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Well, the game of the night in basketball come down
to the final possession. Caitlin Clark and the Fever with
a chance to go to two and oh to beat
the Dream. Clark with twenty seven points, eleven assists, five rebounds.
Did she have enough or did one of her teammates
have enough for one final basket?
Speaker 4 (35:40):
So that is the reset timeout. A lot of contact
underneath Clark's gotta get it in. She lobs it up
for Howard, Howard had it blocked at the rim, Howard
pulls it down, Howard shot his shorts rebound. Atlanta. The
Fever have to foul here and they won't get it
foul away and Atlanta will.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Escape with victory.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
So the Fever dream not going well for Indiana TJ
And just up there on a tea, wasn't it NBA
TV on the call? So maybe maybe we tapped the
brakes a little bit on Hey, the Fever going to
roll to the WNBA title. I mean, look the dream
where they're really Look, they weren't great last year. They
didn't score a lot of points last year, and they
(36:22):
had one of the worst offensive teams in the game.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
And here are the new Fever. Their defense is really good.
All the change they made.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
I said, Oh, man, if I'm going to Vegas on
this game, yeah, lay the points, take the under nope,
nope dream come.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Out ninety one ninety over the Fever.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Yeah, this game played out a lot like we're anticipating
the pacers and knicks. Not a lot of contribution from
anybody off the bench, a lot of your starters taking
care of business. Grinder with twenty one and eight in
this one, you had nineteen twenty sixteen twelve nine was
the edge and bench scoring. But the Dream took an
(36:58):
eleven point lead into the fourth quarter. So even with
a little bit of a feverish run down the stretch,
not enough.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
The Fever needed more cow Bell. Really, had they just
explored the room, it would have been great. I'm telling you, fellas,
really don't. Don't be afraid to. So there's your.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Play of the day. We'll have more on Caitlyn Clark's
game tonight. Again a great game for individually, but the
Fever fall to one and one. We talked basketball there, I.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Mean, what are we doing?
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Usually WNBA conversations aren't about basketball. Was pretty good. I
liked that it was usually not about basketball. But now
this is about basketball.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
That's good. Not not saying that, not saying it's gonna
change it all of a sudden, but this was about basketball.
It's a good conversation.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Just back, I had a tear to my eye huh
speaking a tear to your eyes. That look the biggest
story today. George went passes away at the age of
seventy six, one of the funniest comedic actors in the
history of television, who created a role that people still
cite and still know we'll talk about fifty years from now.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
Uh, look that you know.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Obviously the bulls in SNL was a big thing for
him coming off of Cheers. But you know, look, Norm Peterson,
he's in the pantheon in the Hall of Fame of
Television Characters. He's one of those unanimous guys. Even the
guy that didn't vote for eachro would vote for Norm
to be in the Television Hall of Fame at the top,
(38:24):
the top level of the Hall of Fame. Not just
a guy getting in hey after a bunch of years
on the Seniors committee. No, No, he's in the very
top because again he's on that short list of Greatest
Television Characters of All Time eleven years as Norm, six
Emmy nominations started in.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
I mean, he's Chicago guy, so it hits you know, and.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Obviously Jason sudeikis his nephew, and all of that family
ties to all of that stuff, but it's just an
amazing run. I watched the full eighteen minutes of Entrances.
My brothers sent me it almost immediately. It's like, here,
watch this. He's like h No and coach selling hell
out of Sure. Sure, but you know, just all the
(39:03):
responses and the one liners and and everything through it.
I've recently found it in streaming. Obviously it's been on
in syndication forever, but when you can just sit and
binge watch, That's one of those shows that I think
the next generation like needs to discover that like this
discovered the Office and the Office guys all kinds of
new popularity now because generations he discovered.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Extream back, right, but they were the whole big thing.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Oscar Nunez is going to be in it, right, Dominic
man handle, Don Hall Gleason, who's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
He's yeah, he's gonna play the guy from the first order.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
So I Cheers is one of those that I think
that I wish gen Z would rediscover because like today,
like I had a conversation with my dad and Fabiano,
who are the other biggest my wife and I and
my dad Fabiano biggest Cheers fans, Right, it was the
defining sitcom of of me growing up right from the.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Mid eighties to the mid nineties.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
And we're just going over our favorite norm one liners, right,
and we're laughing tear because, hey, do you forget about
this one? Forget about this one? Forget about this one? Right?
Like I said, I said, Okay, I said, Dad, here's
my favorite. And I said, favorite this one. He walks
in in what he says, draw your beer, mister Peterson,
and he goes, I already know what they look like
what he just pour it from me?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Right?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
So he's laughing like tears in our eyes because we're
each Oh, I forgot about that one. I forgot about
that one is And I mean, I don't know how
you come up with because he had one an episode. No,
it's it's like twenty two entrances for eleven. You got
three hundred entrances, you know with Hey Norman, there's a
big one liner.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
That he had.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
It's a doggy dog world and I'm wearing milk bone underwear. Oh,
it's gone down the line. Today the thirty second anniversary
of the finale How, which was viewed by eighty two
million was the estimate, and he was in the very
the very last scene was him and Sam so good.
The very last scene was the two of them. I
always come back to what you love.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
George went an absolute legend, passed away earlier today in
his sleep at the age of seventy six.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Exit. How about a Fresca exit. Swallen owned the Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios. We got more from the NBA coming up next,
a bigger lead for Oklahoma City. Plus we have to
have the non hustling conversation because that's taken over.
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