July 19, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon open hour 1 of the show reacting to the NFLPA's executive director stepping down after it was found that he spent hundreds of dollars of the union's money at strip clubs. Then they discuss recent comments from Scottie Scheffler where he reflected on how unfulfilling it really is to win in golf. Plus, reacting to an all-time throw by Ronald Acuna against the Yankees!
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
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Speaker 3 (01:17):
Here. We are back the second half of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Second half ish underway, obviously after the All Star break,
got tons of baseball to get to coming up for
the play of the day. In about fifteen minutes, we
had an all time great Major League Baseball play tonight.
I've seen it about fifteen times. I still can't get
over it. We're gonna bring it for you for the
Play of the day when this game ends. I mean
(01:42):
it's this is all time on one of those lists
of the top types of this play in baseball history.
Like this is one of the top three or four
that I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So it's not involving Tim Deep. I'm so excited. I
mean Tebo saving the guys.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I mean he he doesn't get as much credit as
he should for saving the one guy at Mets camp
a few years ago. Like that's a big thing, Like
that's a save, Like you know, Edwin Diaz, Kenley Jansen.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Say that's a save. We save a guy. You know,
something's happening. He tebo saved a guy.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
But we begin with this absolute tire fire out of
the NFL right now last night, probably about an hour
into the show, right about an hour into the show,
and the story breaks that NFLPA leader Lloyd Howell Junior,
who's been running the NFL Players Association for the past
couple of years since the Maury Smith is no longer
(02:35):
running the Players Union, is stepping down as director. Oh so,
pretty big story. Not completely unexpected because we had the
story about ten days ago that potentially, according to sources
and Pablo Tory because he finds everything out now that
the NFL and the NFLPA colluded with one another to
(02:58):
keep salaries down following DeShawn Watson signing his big contract
a few years ago. Everybody was mad, Why is Deshaun Watson?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I was mad.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Everybod Harmer's met, everybody's mad. Everybody's mad. Oh, let's go
so Deshaun Watson gets this money, and they all allegedly
decided reportedly that hey, let's make sure we keep all
the guaranteed money down because the quarterback's coming out for contracts.
Where Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow and Josh Allen, guys
that were going to reset the market, Trevor Lawrence as well,
(03:27):
So let's keep it down. Incredibly embarrassing. When that story broke,
I said, I can't believe Lloyd Howell still has a job.
You have to sweep out everybody running things at the NFLPA,
because this is absolutely terrible. You have to sweep everybody out, right.
But a few days go, buy nothing happens. Okay, Then
we get the story yesterday or early in the day
that hey, you know what, hey, well, maybe the players
(03:51):
were being advised running backs were being advised during contract
negotiations to play up injuries and overexaggerate them because it
would help them in negotiations. Okay, Now you gotta think, Okay,
this is the final straw, and Lloyd Howell's got to
be out after this, right. This is not collusion with
the NFL, but Lloyd Howell's got to be out after this, right, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
End last night around nine.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
O'clock our time, maybe eight thirty, so eleven o'clock eleven,
eleven thirty on the East coast, it comes out that
Howell is stepping aside, resigning his post.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Right, So Mike and I.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We were talking about this last night and you said
to me, and I vividly remember you said, I think
it was in the last hour of the show. You said,
doesn't this seem like a Friday night news dump? Like
this story here, Like here's the NFL. It's a Friday
night news dump story. Right, We're gonna have this Friday
night eleven o'clock. This is really embarrassing. This guy's gonna
walk away Friday night eleven o'clock. So by the weekend
(04:44):
comes and it gets lost in the shuffle, And what
did I say? And I'm only, you know, I'm off
the cuff. This is what tells me being ahead of
the curve and just you know, hey, letting it fly.
What did I say to you? I said, well, unless
they're unless they're trying to get ahead of something that
could come out on Friday, right, Well.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You know there's always the other shoe.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, And I'm like, okay, but I mean, really, what
they really got to get ahead of something coming out
on Friday?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Turns out he needed to resign to get ahead of
this on Friday, as the reason for his resignation came
up after reports surface that an outside investigator that was
hired by the union got documents this week that showed
Howell charged the union for two visits to strip clubs,
including a seven hundred and forty dollars car service that
(05:30):
took him from the airport to one of the clubs.
The documents are Union approved expense reports and receipts. So basically,
the dude wanted to go to a strip club a
couple of times, and how he got there and what
he spent he wanted the NFL Players Association to pay for. Well,
so this this is falsifying your expense. Now how did
this get found out?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
This is my favorite part.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So one receipt that ESPN obtanks this is a Don
Van Nada special. Right, He's been doing nothing but doing
stories like this for the past twenty years. Said he
got picked up in a sedan by car service at
Fort Lauderdale International Airport on Thursday, November two, of a
couple of years ago. Cars first stopped at a nearby
Miami Gardens address, right, and the rashet shows the receipt
(06:14):
shows one other stop nearly eight hours later. Okay, so
what it was was car put him up the airport,
brought him to this place and then brought him home
eight hours later. They saw that the car services exorbitant
costs really raised red flag, so they looked into it.
They searched online for the Miami Gardens address, discovering it
(06:35):
was a seventy six thousand square foot venue that bills
itself as the world's larger strip club Full Nude number
one rated called Tutsi's Cabaret.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Seventy six thousand square feet Smith, that's I mean seventy
six down.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'm trying to get in my head, like what seventy
six thousand square feet is That's like a full city block, right,
Like that's like like and I don't mean like hey,
small town like that's like a full New York city
block a strip club, Like, I mean that's why that's
like going and said, this is like I'm in like
there's like how many how many units are in this building?
Seventy five hundred units in this building? Like that's how
(07:13):
big this thing is, seventy five thousand square feet.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well, that becomes the question. I mean, like, now you're
talking about the city.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, it's its own municipality in that, but I mean
think about the guy that was driving the car.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I mean, that's one hell of a night.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
You drop him off, you sit there for eight hours,
take it back, get eight hundred bucks, and you're felled
because of an eight hundred dollars expense.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Right, It's always it's like al Capone, you got busted.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
For tax evasion because they couldn't nail down everything else. Right,
Because that's the crux of a lot of this investigation,
Pablo Tory everybody else. You've got a bunch of information
on messages exchange between owners which are collusive in nature,
but don't prove collusion. Right, you still like skating on
(08:03):
that line where you might teeter over, and reasonably minded
folks would.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Go, come on, what are we talking about here?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
We're equivalent over some antics versus letter of the law
kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
But no, this is how he gets felled. Now.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
The rest of the investigation he was also part of.
There was a sexual discrimination lawsuit going back to twenty
eleven that he'd been named as part of, and all.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Sorts of other things.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
But no, no, no, it's seven hundred and twenty eight
dollars to a seventy five thousand square foot I mean
on a per square foot basis, Boy, that's cheap, boy,
that's cheap.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Good for him, but it's the thing that costs of
his job. And now that's not it. It's not you know,
that's the one thing.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
But also they also found out he accompanied other employees
to the Magic City Strip Club. Now I don't know
Rob Parker, Rob partner Magic City Strip Club for an
outing wa wow, twenty five hundred charges, including cash withdrawals
ranging from two hundred to five hundred dollars from a
club atm They used two VIP rooms. One of the
(09:08):
other employees who accompanied Howl on this also submitted expense
reports for this outing. Right, okay, number one, this is
it's absolutely stupid. Okay, I mean this is hey, come on, man,
we do stuff it. We can slide this by, right, Yeah,
don't worry about I just put that through my expense report.
This is coming through. This is absolutely stupid. I mean,
I can't get I can't get over this. I mean,
(09:30):
did you really think that avention you're just gonna be
I mean maybe, I guess after you use it in
twenty twenty three, something happens, you know, but then you
use it again and then you go again. You go, hey, okay,
I can't. I can't stop myself. Yeah, you're gonna get
caught with this man. You're gonna get at some point,
someone's gonna find out that you use you're using company
resources to go to a strip club. And even though
(09:51):
it's the biggest strip club in the country, it's so
oh oh, but it's the biggest one.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Oh, then that's okay.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
If you just went to some small rinky dink, you know,
strip club, uh in a in a you know, in
a in a strip ball like you know, yeah, no,
not at all about that. But he went to the
biggest one. I mean, that's okay. Well, we'll look the
other way on that one. Like I mean, I mean,
and this guy, you're the executive director of the NFLPA.
I'm sure you make enough money to be able to
pay for this to go out there. But no, the
(10:17):
hubris and the I don't think I'm ever gonna get busted.
Just always amazes me that people have, especially now in
twenty twenty five, Like, could you have gotten away with.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
This in nineteen eighty two, nineteen.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Eighty five, of course you could have, right, But now
that you're not getting away with that, eventually you're going
to get caught, especially if you still continue to do it,
you're gonna get caught.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Well, the bigger thing is you probably can still get
away with it in a lot of circumstances.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Until somebody comes for your head. Then it's gonna be
the thing that that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Might be the again, the crossing, the t's dot in
the eyes. All right, we have all this other stuff.
Is it fireable? Is it something that forces him to resign?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Was he on the.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Giant jumbo tron and a Coldplay concert? I mean, all
of these things that could come to play. But you
piss somebney off, or you've got some rumblings of you know,
malfeasans and improprieties on a larger scale when we're talking about,
you know, the suppression of wages when you're supposed to
be the guy fighting for the union and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You know, it's just twenty three billion dollar business.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
This is hey, listen, we're gonna keep we're gonna keep
guaranteed money down. But it's gonna pay for me to
go to a strip club. But that's it, right.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Because on a grand scale, we talked twenty three billion, right,
and the players get their cut.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Man a couple grand at a strip club.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
If I mean you can have a legitimate business meeting
at a strip club, I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh yeah'sluitely.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Well, look, every movie cops have to have at least
one meeting at a strip club. No, that's gorn to
go talk to a dancer or the owner, or they
get there to talk to somebody who's a patron there,
but he sees them get squirrely and leaves and they
have to chase him out an alley. Like clearly it's
a place that they need to visit one every single
movie there, we gotta go to a strip club.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And they never go at night.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
They always gets always in the day when like there's
one dancer and it's it's just really depressing and they
have to go in.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Really that's what.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It's never at night where hey we got the big
show going on and here is everything. We got people
coming down there repelling down onto the stage. Now it's
always like, hey, it's just depressing and guys are there
just nursing their drinks and oh, we gotta talk to you,
gotta talk to you, do you know, uh, you know
jumping knucklehead Billy. I haven't seen jumping knucklehead Billy since
he's stiffy on that five hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I owt.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, Well we want to know about jumping knucklehead Billy. Oh,
I can tell you about him. Hey, Billy, Hey, what
are you doing? No talking to the girls while they're working.
It's okay, we're un to cover police officers. Oh, I
got it, I got it. So yeah, I get it.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
It's an important These guys are drinks around the house,
whatever they need.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I mean, I it's it's I can't get over the
hubris on this by by Howell that I'm going to
do and I have this high ranking position that that's
a big thing, and I'm gonna try to do this,
and I'm and I'm gonna I'm gonna expense this when
clearly I can afford it.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I cant afford to.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I could have gone to any restaurant and submitted any
sort of business expense. But you know, here's car service again.
The car services what got him, right, because that's what
got them looking into all his expenses. Right, Hey, the
car service got him and we're looking into it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And this is what.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh so he's going to He's going to Tutsi's Tutsi's
paradise or Tutsi's cabaret whatever it's called.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Seventy six thousand square feet.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
We almost have to go as a show, as as
an investigative, don ban not a kind of thing. And
then we'll see if we can talk to the dancers.
Hey hey they're working here. It's like, hey, hey, we've
got questions.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And TJ clearly walking into Tutsi's cabaret they said, vil
come in beyond venue dj uh. I can't get over
this like this is this story just gets worse and
worse for the NFL and the NFLP because nobody looks
good on this.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Right. You have the collusion with the NFL.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Now you have the NFLPA and leadership it's doing this
like you really, I mean you we're colluding to keep
the salaries down so you guys can't get paid more.
But yeah, but I'm gonna go to a strip club
and I'm gonna make sure they expense that two grand
like I mean, this is this is so they need
to clean out I mean everybody that's running things with
the NFLPA. You need to clean everybody out and say this,
(14:21):
and you have to go outside to bring people in
to say we have to be able to trust someone
because this is this is just infested and nobody wins
on this.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
The NFL.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
That's why no one's saying anything. It's not like there's
a side that can The NFL can't talk. That's dude,
you colluded to keep the salaries down. NFL PA can't go.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, that's no.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You guys colluded to keep it down. Oh yeah, that's right.
But the NFL is evil. Wait but you just said
that you told running backs to fake injuries or negotiations. Yeah, okay, yeah,
but still the NFL is evil. Wait a minute, Wait
a minute. Year, your executive director is saying all kinds
of stuff. He's resigning and he's trying to expense strip
club visits. Yeah yeah, in the NFL is going, yeah,
but look what they're doing. But dude, you're still colluding
(15:01):
to keep salaries that Oh yeah. Yeah, So nobody's saying
anything because nobody looks good no, and declare to draw.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Look in the end, this guy goes away.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
And you'll do your outside search and this time, you know,
maybe they'll look to make sure there's not some improprieties
about who the who he's working with on the NFL side.
If he's representing the players. For the players, they're in
a tough spot because Treder and all their leadership did
them dirty. So how do you go and find Hey,
who's the honest guy in our locker room? I don't
(15:31):
know there's some you know they were done wrong by
their own guys, And I would be remiss if you
do a quick Google search.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I don't recommend this on your work computer. For tootsies.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Here's your what comes back gallery VIP packages the moniker
of the biggest strip club in America, menu, the club,
and then the final line that I can't even read
on air.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
This is what the NFL is. Lucky that everybody's a
waste them. They might keep people out of camps. Hey,
we don't watch your report from the few days. Why dude,
are you watching the news? This story is terrible to everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Stay out.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
What you know we're gonna push the season? When are
we gonna start the season November? Okay, we're gonna November
to April and then we'll get back on But what
this is really bad?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
But here you go, Jason, how long could you go
player to player if you're a reporter going around the
opening of training camp before PR and the team officials
tell you can't keep asking about this crowd.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You gotta leave these guys. You can't ask coach, you
can't ask the assistant coach. You can't ask the legends
on the sideline. No, keep it moving.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
They don't have any potential intimate knowledge of this place
or any like it.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
They're gonna deny, deny, deny, exit out about a Fresca
exit swollen dome. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carmen.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Uh, Tutsis Cabaret Maybe we'll call it, hey lit from
the Tutsis Cabaret Studios.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Can we do or we have to pay? Now? Probably? Well, well,
I mean, what does it matter.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
It's right if they contact the sales folks and we
can work out a deal.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I mean, that'd be one.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
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(17:27):
a few minutes ago, one of the all time great
plays in baseball history happened earlier tonight, and a very
specific kind of play. It's on the metal stand, one
of the top three plays I've ever.
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Speaker 1 (17:40):
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the day and at that again, one of the three
best throws I think I've I've ever seen in my
life tonight in Major League Baseball, a play that just
continues to get more and more views and clicks.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It's amazing. But you know, I.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Wanted to continue on with this, this that I keep
wanting to say, Magic City. I wanted to get tell
I mean, that's part of the I mean it is right,
it is part of it, sure, But you know it's
it's you know, it's it's it's Toutsi's cabaret. The story
about the NFLPA had look Lloyd Howell, who had to
resign last night after two really embarrassing stories the last
(19:28):
couple of weeks about the NFL the NFLPA, and now
we find out today he was charging the union basically
expensing visits to strip clubs, including a seven hundred and
forty dollars car service that took him from the airport
to one of the clubs.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Right, so this is embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And I said, you know, you have to understand that
you're gonna get caught, right these things are gonna happen,
and that you know, no matter what you do, when
when you send stuff expense, it can it can become
a thing, right Like, And I wanted to tell you
this story because this is when I learned this lesson
really young. When I had left ESPN as a producer, Okay,
(20:04):
and I went to KBC here in Los Angeles, Right,
so I'm producing sports here in LA and I had
to go out to Fontana Speedway to for the day
to do sports right like we were doing there was
one of the big events, like the California five hundred
when it was in its infancy, when they only had
it for the first couple of years. This is this
is the late nineties. It might have been two thousand
(20:24):
and California five hundred. So we decided that they said, hey,
we're going to send you out there to do sports.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I'm like, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So I'm the producer, Bill Weir is the talent, and
we go out there and we spend the entire day
out there and it starts raining. We're like, oh my goodness,
like wow, it starts raining. And I didn't bring anything
with me, so I had to buy a slicker, you know,
to wear because we're outside, you know, doing sports. Again,
I'm like, okay, so I got to buy a slicker. Now,
at ESPN they would always you know, and look me.
(20:51):
This is me coming from the ESPN world where hey,
when they sent you out on a shoot, if you
had to, if you had to buy something because of
what was going on, it's like, yeah, just expense it.
It's my god, God, I would never buy this regularly.
So I'm going to buy something.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Expense it.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So I buy this spy I think it was a
punch or whatever it was, and I expense it and
it was like, you know, twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
And they come back and they.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
And they and the person in charge of the expenses says, uh,
this puncher right here go Yeah, because it was raining
for a little bit, we had to say, oh yeah,
we don't. I said, oh, okay, I'm sorry, and she
looked at me and I said, well, I said, look
because it because it was ABC. I said, listen, I
didn't know if ABC ESPN were the same.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
This is something.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
When I was at ESPN, they would expense because this
was this happened while I was out there right, like
I had to buy this. I would never buy it,
and they said okay. So the next time I go
out and do something, and I turned in my expense report,
all of a sudden, I start getting calls from from people.
I word like, Bill Weir calls me and he says, hey,
why is it? I forget the woman's name is called?
(21:49):
Why is she she called my phone.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Asking for you? And I'm like, oh, okay, maybe she's
not my phone number. Maybe all right, I'll call it.
She says, yeah. She just asked if I was there
and if Jason was there, and I said, no, this
is Bill. We're oh, okay, okay, great, and she hung up,
but I could tell it was her.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I'm like, okay. And then my boss said to me, hey,
why is she calling my She called my phone and
asked for you? I said really, I said, oh my god,
you go?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Did you do? So?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I go no, I go, I don't know anything. Let
me go find out. And so I go in and
I try to if I go, what's going I go,
what's going on? And she was like, we're just checking
your expenses to make sure that everything you are submitting.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Is above board. I go, so the phone call?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So wait, wait, so you're calling the phone numbers that
I called, but I expent, you know, because it was
back when you would expense individual calls.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It wasn't like it was now.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I said, so you're calling the phone yeah, to make
sure these are people that that that you work. I go,
you could ask me, or you could I could give
this to you. He said, yeah, no, no, we're just
we're just double checking. And they went through like the
next two expense reports sided. They went through with a
fine tooth comb, like everything I did, and it's not
like I was expensive, and it's like my expenses were
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like for like twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I'm like, this is like you know, it's like twenty
four dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It's like yeah, because I was and they were calling,
hey the phone calls, I'm like, yeo, I'm calling here,
and everything was fine. And after that it went away
and I was like, wow, okay, so they were really
they were really quite on it with that. So I'm like,
all right, I gotta know, I can't imagine being at
the level of trying to expect I'm going to a
strip club and I'm gonna build the NFL Players Union
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for that expense. I can't well imagine the guts to
try to do something like that.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
But I think it would come down to this though, Jason.
I mean, one, you know, I'm curious how long you'd
been there and who you'd pissed off. But the second
same thing with with Al here. I mean that's he's
looking around all right, which you jerks, But if you're
expensing meals and flights and car services on the regular,
what's two or three thousand dollars surrounding era, right, Yeah, yeah,
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when you're when you're that big, And my guess is,
and and look, I know folks that try to expense
everything they can on their tags like they're not gonna
hodd it all of it.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
It's like, okay, good luck.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
But it's the the kind of thing that if you
are submitting so many expense reports, yeah, car service is
probably if seven hundred plus dollars is going to stand
out because I mean, I don't know what the going
car right is. But you know what, if it was
one of those I was going to a meeting and
I just have the guys sit there and wait for me.
(24:18):
You're talking about a twenty three billion dollar business. I mean,
that's that's nothing. So I can understand the hubris of
who the hell is going to check on that? Yeah, yeah,
you know what I mean like that, that's the thing.
As egregious as it may seem, I also see the
logic in it of what the hell it's a two
thousand dollars expense again when I've normally spended twenty grand
on dinner to wine and dine, you know, big shots
(24:40):
and lawyers and whatever. When we're trying to fight for whatever,
you know, when we're not sabotaging what we're supposed to
be doing.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
So and I.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Kind of understand, where, how will you know you take
you take an inch, They say, give you the inch,
you take the mile. You know that kind of thing, right,
They don't call the foul early in your respective sports
soccer or basketball or whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
He'd just say, I can hit the guy a little
harder next time, But like, where's my line?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
But what I don't get is that this is a guy.
You're the executive director of the NFLPA. Right, You're the
executive director of the NFLPA, and you're you're okay because
you know this decision if you get caught could cost
you your job.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
You know it could, right.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
This is this is visiting a strip club and building
the union and that you know what a big deal
this is and to still be okay with that risk, Like,
that's what I don't That's what I don't get, you know,
I mean like that that's the part that doesn't compete
with me. It's like, it's not like he couldn't afford it.
It's not like it was something that hey, I got hot. No,
I'm gonna expense the NFL for this. I'm gonna expense
the union that I'm fighting to get them more money,
(25:45):
and I'm gonna make them pay out this money because
I went to a strip club.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Like That's what I'm like.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I like, you are not thinking clearly or you're just
thinking you are completely above it and you are teflon.
I'm the executive director of the NFLPA. You're not gonna
do this to me. But but to be able is
still make that decision that you know this could cost
you your job, and you go, yeah, yeah, what's the
worst can really happen?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
No? I just told you yeah, But what's really gonna happen? No? No,
I just told you yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Like that's the part that that I just shake my
head and go, man, what some people are okay with
trying to get away with well, but you.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Try to see where that line is and try to
you don't know what's the friends line. It's like you
didn't just cross the line in the sand. You erase
the line.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
There is no line, you know that that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
And I think for Howell and and for folks in
great power and this goes whatever business. I mean, how
many times have we seen this from from governmental officials local, state, federal,
to where it's like, really, you thought that was gonna
be okay? Or you did that? What wait, you didn't
think that would come back on you? I mean, hell,
look at look at the thing we were talking about yesterday.
(26:49):
You know I referenced it a little earlier. Because he's
keep scrolling up. No matter what I do, I can't
avoid memes like the haunted mansion. When they take your
picture in the mirror, it's those people from the Coldplay concert.
It's just the idea of you thought you were good,
you thought you were fine, whoever was in the box
with you, everybody's cool, and then bam, there it is.
(27:09):
So it's for Howel and for others in great positions
of power. It's the all right this look, look, look
how important I am on the grand scale again? Twenty
three billion yearly revenue and growing, just like the Flintstones
commercial for the vitamins.
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Speaker 3 (27:48):
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Speaker 1 (27:48):
When you make a throw that easily goes into the
top three or top five of greatest greatest throws in
baseball history, Ronald.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Acunya, you get to be the play of the day,
and there's a towering flyveball to d Bryant field. Acunya
back towards the corner, shy of the warning track, makes
the catch in de Bright Mimas tags from second and
he goes into third base and.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
They got him standing. He is shocked. He had no
idea who was in right field.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
That's Ronald Leecunya, Braves Radio Network on the call.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
There is so much with this play now.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
First of all, Viva's completely half asked it getting to
third or didn't slide, didn't think there was gonna be
any play on him whatsoever. Right, so obviously you have
to get there. You gotta slide, you gotta bust your ass, right,
that's on him. Still, despite that, he still might have
been safe. Right the tag comes up behind him, and
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he really might have hit the bag before the tag
hits his back.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
But that doesn't matter. This throw by Acunya.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Is unreal and he catches it. First of all, kind
of snakes Vivas little bit because the way he goes
after the ball, like he's near the warning track in
the corner, in the right field corner when he makes
this catch, he's he's got his back to the infield
almost like it makes it look like the ball's gonna
(29:12):
go off the wall and he's gonna play it, or
it's gonna go or it's gonna go foul. Most likely
to get Vivas to relax and maybe not tag or
think he's gonna keep going. But he positions himself under
the ball and he catches it, and he's already sort
of facing the infield, sort of facing back towards the infield.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's one of those I catch it, I turn in
one motion and he uncorks an absolute dart on the
fly to third base and a great play because you know, hey,
when you're you know when when you're the third baseman,
you're sitting there and and the throws coming in your
eyes get big, you want to make the play and
maybe the runner speeds up.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
No, no, no, this was I'm real cool. I'm putting
my hands up at the last second.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Grab tag out, double play, gets out of the inning,
Brays go up seven to nothing. They win this game
seven to three. This throw by a coun I mean it, Mike.
This is up there with like the Dave Parker throw
from the Kingdome that they've been showing this week for
the All Star Game with you know Parker passing away
a few days ago. That throw, it's one of the
greatest all times. Bo Jackson's throw from the left field
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corner on the fly to home plate that gets Harold
Reynolds out at the plate that you see, like, this
is how good of a throw?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
This is?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Like this is a top three, top five throws all
time that I've seen. I've seen it twenty five times
and I still can't get enough of it.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Yeah, I keep watching it on a loop, and then
I love the little celebration at the end where like
he's pulled a big fish out of the water. At
least that's how I'm interpreting it. Hey, snag me one.
But it's you know, he's flat footed, it's he spins
and fires the ball back. And the fact that dude
half asked it in the third we should all be
(30:49):
thankful because otherwise it's like, Wow, that's just a hell
of a throw.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
But it doesn't get.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
The spotlight that it now will, and you know, expanding
the legend of Ronald Acunya Junior. It's good to have
him back and healthy and playing well. Twenty third RBI tonight,
two for three from the plate. But this play, yeah,
it's It's mesmerizing just the the casual nature of the
catch turn. Let's just throw it and see what happens.
(31:13):
And because dude was he was dogging it. I mean,
let's call it what it is.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
There's no chance in hell this guy can throw it
that far right and he still might have been safe
because you look.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Yeah, we haven't gotten a reverse angle yet to see
whether we slapped it on him before the foot hit.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
But no, I get your point there.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
It's an unreal throw. I mean, and from from where
he is all the way in the corner, which, as
you know, the one thing you were told growing up. No,
that's why your best arm goes on right field because
it's the longest throw to third base from the corner.
And Akunya is flat footed, like there's no I'm going
back and I have and I have a momentum where
(31:52):
I'm gonna step into the throw. He is absolutely flat
footed and he makes this throw on a line to
third base.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Unreal.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
I mean, man, yeah, no giant crow hops or or
sprints or or trying to get momentum back toward now.
Just literally wow, just absolutely flawless. I wish I could
get this like on a sport flicks card to what
you got, like the three is phases. There's the catch,
there's the first throw, and there's the tag getting slapped
(32:21):
on just to ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Ah it happens. It happened, I mean an amazing, amazing throw. Uh.
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Speaker 3 (32:31):
The only game.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Tonight or two games tonight, the Yankees lost to the
Braves and the Phillies loss earlier tonight to the Angels.
That's the only baseball tonight, Steve.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
I would say the Mets did not play, but really
that would be accurate.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
By the way.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
As far as great throws in the last decade, I
would add Yasiel Pleag at Colorado there was one from
near the edge of the warning track in right field
two third base on the fly. It literally third baseman's glove.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
On the bag.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
It was astounding. And then one in Anaheim Ramon Loriano,
an A's outfielder. If you can look that one up
from about the warning track in left center on the
fly over three hundred feet to first base to double
up a guy.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
What you saw it was so.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Unlikely that he would get the out at third. It
was truly amazing. You mentioned Atlanta seven to three to
the final over the Yankees, Azzi Alby's home run four RBIs.
Cincinnati beat the Mets in New York eight to four.
Red's hit four home runs San Diego and Toronto with wins.
That Toronto victory was four to nothing against the Giants,
beating Justin Verlander, who's n eight. Miami was trailing in
(33:39):
the tenth, but they did have All Star Kyle Stowers
at the plate. Stour's a guy who right before the
All Star Break had a three homer game, then was
in the All Star Game on Tuesday, including in that
home run derby at the end where he hit one out.
He'd already hit one out a two run shot in
the first Tonight, and then this evening at home against
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Kansas City, driving.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
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long unconscious Stars with the winner coming out of the.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
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seven over Kansas City. Kyle Stower is therefore in his
last two regular season games Tonight and Sunday, five homers
eleven RBIs eight hits in the two games. The only
person in the last century to have a two game
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Today Angel six' five over The, phillies and The rockies
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The seventh back, To you, Thank.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
You steve Though The Jason smith show with my Best
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the Fact that akunya is flat footed when he that's
what really. Cuts through because you go back a, little
bit people are gonna look, and, say hey because YouTube
has a top ten outfield throws in. Baseball, history right
you watch all. These throws they're all, Incredible plays but
how many of these throws are the guys able to
(35:05):
get their feet, under them get some momentum and make
the throw right more seven or eight, of them And
a kuna just, gets it turns sometime he's standing still
when he catches the ball because he's trying to, deek
him and he turns and makes that kind. Of throw
that that's what stands out to me about how he
does this, flat footed which is all, the.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Difference man the only thing that could be better With
at smith is if we get audio from him that
he looked at the people in the crowd, and, said
hey watch this.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Exit out About a fresca exit.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Swollen dome coming, up next we could see absolute history.
This weekend and the guy that could win this tournament
has made it really hard to root.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
For him i'll tell. You why coming, Up next Jason To.
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Mike harmon.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
So we're halfway Through The open, championship now, and uh
maybe to no one's surprise considering he's the best golfer in.
The World scotti scheffler atop the leaderboard At The open
championship ten under after An incredible. Day two and look at,
this point if if, you're playing, you're, saying, okay yeah
(36:26):
he's just, gonna, Win right he's he's just.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Gonna, win, okay.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Great he shot a sixty four for crying out loud with,
All right he's he's just, gonna win right, he was,
you know he had a just an Okay day.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Day one, all right maybe this is not. A, set
nope here he is all of a sudden ten under
has a stroke Lead, over fitzpatrick.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Two Over harmon harmon.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Harm exactly that's my brother's. Name too he's gonna win
instead OF an i, WOULDN'T say i just say that's,
my brother would not. TELL you, i, Mean look i'd
rather have him known for this than all of. These
shenanigan you keep trying to tie.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Him, to okay well, all right well.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
That's fine so here he is going in and what
look even you know you see, every headline it feels
like an inevitability he's going. To win and The Reason
scotty scheffer's gaining extra headlines this week is because of
The Pre open championship interview he did in which he
talked about how while he's really good, at golf winning
is not his big end and winning a championship is
(37:25):
not his focus because the feeling goes away after a couple,
of minutes and he wants to balance. His life and
there's certain things that you know doesn't understand, at times
why he tries so hard and why is all the practice.
Worth it here here's a Sample Of scotty scheffler from
his big press conference a couple of.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
Days ago is it great to be able to win
tournaments and to accomplish THE things i have in the game?
Of golf yet it brings tears myers to think about
because it's literally worked my entire life to become good at.
The sport and to have that kind of sense, OF
accomplishment i think is a pretty, cool feeling, you know
to get to live out, your dreams it's.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Very special but at the end.
Speaker 8 (37:59):
Of, The day i'm not out here to inspire the
next generation. OF golfers I don't i'm not here to
inspire somebody else to be the best player in, the
world because what's. The point, you know this is not a.
Fulfilling life it's it's fulfilling from the sense, of accomplishment
but it's not fulfilling from a sense of like the
deepest places of.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Your, heart, okay, WOW right i mean we.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Heard that we talked about it the, other day and
it makes and the, thing IS and i feel bad,
saying this but It makes scheffler really hard to, root,
For right it makes them BECAUSE what i want to, say,
is dude. Stop playing then if you're not fulfilled by.
Playing golf stop and do. Something else if this really
doesn't make, you happy then go do. Something else and
to be so flipping, And clip i'm not here to
(38:39):
inspire the next generation.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Of, golf okay if you're not there to be a,
ROLE model i.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Get it no need to rub everybody's nose in it
And say i'm not here to inspire the next generation.
Of golf this is not a. FULFILLING, Life whoa there's
plenty of people that love playing golf and want to
play golf for. A living there's people who golf is a.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Huge is a.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Huge sport it's a huge business that will a lot
of people love and a lot of people get a
lot of. Joy from if you don't want to do,
it anymore don't, do, IT right, i mean. That's it
it really it makes it makes it hard to root
for him because if this is if it's Such and
i'm glad he's honest, about it but if it's such a,
big deal if it's, not fulfilling that the dude don't
play because you can't sit here and tell, Me, THAT
(39:17):
well i dedicated my whole life to, doing this But
yet i'm not, you know it's. Not, fulfilling hey you
get one shot, at this going around, the, globe right
going around. The sun you get one shot. At this
do something that makes. You happy if you thought this
was going to make, you happy and it doesn't make you,
happy anymore, Guess what go do.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Something. Else right it's easy to, do.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
That, man really when, he's up, it's, LIKE yeah i respect,
his talent respect what, he DOES and i feel the, fact,
That hey i'm good, at This but i've just kind
of lost my passion. FOR it i don't see the
purpose in this kind. Of life you know what other
people like, Doing it so go do something else and
open up for other people to go. Do well the
first half of his statement was, really, GOOD right i
cried thinking about all, the work all, the, time whatever
and then he and then he goes to The next but,
(39:55):
you know we're getting into that area when people were MAD. THAT. J,
r smith who's currently still On The NORTH carolina A and,
t roster he took, his spot Or When tim tebow
became a, baseball player he.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Took, him no.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
He didn't he's still had it opp tounity And For
chef blair, was, like yeah he may be fleeting how
much he. Loves stuff but you could tell the first
part of, his statement and then he tried to go
wax poetic and get, all philosophical and THAT'S where i
think he.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Loses people, it's like just acknowledge.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
You're great they're starting to talk to you and talk,
about you like they talked about The run.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Tiger, HAD yeah i just. Own. It man if you.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Don't want to, do it or if you don't want to,
do it don't. Do it to, walk away don't.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Do it that's how. It is exit up By a
fresca exit.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Swollen dome coming, Up next there's been a big story
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Here. We are back the second half of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Second half ish underway, obviously after the All Star break,
got tons of baseball to get to coming up for
the play of the day. In about fifteen minutes, we
had an all time great Major League Baseball play tonight.
I've seen it about fifteen times. I still can't get
over it. We're gonna bring it for you for the
Play of the day when this game ends. I mean
(01:42):
it's this is all time on one of those lists
of the top types of this play in baseball history.
Like this is one of the top three or four
that I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So it's not involving Tim Deep. I'm so excited. I
mean Tebo saving the guys.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
I mean he he doesn't get as much credit as
he should for saving the one guy at Mets camp
a few years ago. Like that's a big thing, Like
that's a save, Like you know, Edwin Diaz, Kenley Jansen.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Say that's a save. We save a guy. You know,
something's happening. He tebo saved a guy.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
But we begin with this absolute tire fire out of
the NFL right now last night, probably about an hour
into the show, right about an hour into the show,
and the story breaks that NFLPA leader Lloyd Howell Junior,
who's been running the NFL Players Association for the past
couple of years since the Maury Smith is no longer
(02:35):
running the Players Union, is stepping down as director. Oh so,
pretty big story. Not completely unexpected because we had the
story about ten days ago that potentially, according to sources
and Pablo Tory because he finds everything out now that
the NFL and the NFLPA colluded with one another to
(02:58):
keep salaries down following DeShawn Watson signing his big contract
a few years ago. Everybody was mad, Why is Deshaun Watson?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I was mad.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Everybod Harmer's met, everybody's mad. Everybody's mad. Oh, let's go
so Deshaun Watson gets this money, and they all allegedly
decided reportedly that hey, let's make sure we keep all
the guaranteed money down because the quarterback's coming out for contracts.
Where Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow and Josh Allen, guys
that were going to reset the market, Trevor Lawrence as well,
(03:27):
So let's keep it down. Incredibly embarrassing. When that story broke,
I said, I can't believe Lloyd Howell still has a job.
You have to sweep out everybody running things at the NFLPA,
because this is absolutely terrible. You have to sweep everybody out, right.
But a few days go, buy nothing happens. Okay, Then
we get the story yesterday or early in the day
that hey, you know what, hey, well, maybe the players
(03:51):
were being advised running backs were being advised during contract
negotiations to play up injuries and overexaggerate them because it
would help them in negotiations. Okay, Now you gotta think, Okay,
this is the final straw, and Lloyd Howell's got to
be out after this, right. This is not collusion with
the NFL, but Lloyd Howell's got to be out after this, right, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
End last night around nine.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
O'clock our time, maybe eight thirty, so eleven o'clock eleven,
eleven thirty on the East coast, it comes out that
Howell is stepping aside, resigning his post.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Right, So Mike and I.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
We were talking about this last night and you said
to me, and I vividly remember you said, I think
it was in the last hour of the show. You said,
doesn't this seem like a Friday night news dump? Like
this story here, Like here's the NFL. It's a Friday
night news dump story. Right, We're gonna have this Friday
night eleven o'clock. This is really embarrassing. This guy's gonna
walk away Friday night eleven o'clock. So by the weekend
(04:44):
comes and it gets lost in the shuffle, And what
did I say? And I'm only, you know, I'm off
the cuff. This is what tells me being ahead of
the curve and just you know, hey, letting it fly.
What did I say to you? I said, well, unless
they're unless they're trying to get ahead of something that
could come out on Friday, right, Well.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You know there's always the other shoe.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, And I'm like, okay, but I mean, really, what
they really got to get ahead of something coming out
on Friday?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Turns out he needed to resign to get ahead of
this on Friday, as the reason for his resignation came
up after reports surface that an outside investigator that was
hired by the union got documents this week that showed
Howell charged the union for two visits to strip clubs,
including a seven hundred and forty dollars car service that
(05:30):
took him from the airport to one of the clubs.
The documents are Union approved expense reports and receipts. So basically,
the dude wanted to go to a strip club a
couple of times, and how he got there and what
he spent he wanted the NFL Players Association to pay for. Well,
so this this is falsifying your expense. Now how did
this get found out?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
This is my favorite part.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So one receipt that ESPN obtanks this is a Don
Van Nada special. Right, He's been doing nothing but doing
stories like this for the past twenty years. Said he
got picked up in a sedan by car service at
Fort Lauderdale International Airport on Thursday, November two, of a
couple of years ago. Cars first stopped at a nearby
Miami Gardens address, right, and the rashet shows the receipt
(06:14):
shows one other stop nearly eight hours later. Okay, so
what it was was car put him up the airport,
brought him to this place and then brought him home
eight hours later. They saw that the car services exorbitant
costs really raised red flag, so they looked into it.
They searched online for the Miami Gardens address, discovering it
(06:35):
was a seventy six thousand square foot venue that bills
itself as the world's larger strip club Full Nude number
one rated called Tutsi's Cabaret.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Seventy six thousand square feet Smith, that's I mean seventy
six down.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'm trying to get in my head, like what seventy
six thousand square feet is That's like a full city block, right,
Like that's like like and I don't mean like hey,
small town like that's like a full New York city
block a strip club, Like, I mean that's why that's
like going and said, this is like I'm in like
there's like how many how many units are in this building?
Seventy five hundred units in this building? Like that's how
(07:13):
big this thing is, seventy five thousand square feet.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well, that becomes the question. I mean, like, now you're
talking about the city.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
Yeah, it's its own municipality in that, but I mean
think about the guy that was driving the car.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I mean, that's one hell of a night.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
You drop him off, you sit there for eight hours,
take it back, get eight hundred bucks, and you're felled
because of an eight hundred dollars expense.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Right, It's always it's like al Capone, you got busted.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
For tax evasion because they couldn't nail down everything else. Right,
Because that's the crux of a lot of this investigation,
Pablo Tory everybody else. You've got a bunch of information
on messages exchange between owners which are collusive in nature,
but don't prove collusion. Right, you still like skating on
(08:03):
that line where you might teeter over, and reasonably minded
folks would.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Go, come on, what are we talking about here?
Speaker 5 (08:10):
We're equivalent over some antics versus letter of the law
kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
But no, this is how he gets felled. Now.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
The rest of the investigation he was also part of.
There was a sexual discrimination lawsuit going back to twenty
eleven that he'd been named as part of, and all.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Sorts of other things.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
But no, no, no, it's seven hundred and twenty eight
dollars to a seventy five thousand square foot I mean
on a per square foot basis, Boy, that's cheap, boy,
that's cheap.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Good for him, but it's the thing that costs of
his job. And now that's not it. It's not you know,
that's the one thing.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
But also they also found out he accompanied other employees
to the Magic City Strip Club. Now I don't know
Rob Parker, Rob partner Magic City Strip Club for an
outing wa wow, twenty five hundred charges, including cash withdrawals
ranging from two hundred to five hundred dollars from a
club atm They used two VIP rooms. One of the
(09:08):
other employees who accompanied Howl on this also submitted expense
reports for this outing. Right, okay, number one, this is
it's absolutely stupid. Okay, I mean this is hey, come on, man,
we do stuff it. We can slide this by, right, Yeah,
don't worry about I just put that through my expense report.
This is coming through. This is absolutely stupid. I mean,
I can't get I can't get over this. I mean,
(09:30):
did you really think that avention you're just gonna be
I mean maybe, I guess after you use it in
twenty twenty three, something happens, you know, but then you
use it again and then you go again. You go, hey, okay,
I can't. I can't stop myself. Yeah, you're gonna get
caught with this man. You're gonna get at some point,
someone's gonna find out that you use you're using company
resources to go to a strip club. And even though
(09:51):
it's the biggest strip club in the country, it's so
oh oh, but it's the biggest one.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Oh, then that's okay.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
If you just went to some small rinky dink, you know,
strip club, uh in a in a you know, in
a in a strip ball like you know, yeah, no,
not at all about that. But he went to the
biggest one. I mean, that's okay. Well, we'll look the
other way on that one. Like I mean, I mean,
and this guy, you're the executive director of the NFLPA.
I'm sure you make enough money to be able to
pay for this to go out there. But no, the
(10:17):
hubris and the I don't think I'm ever gonna get busted.
Just always amazes me that people have, especially now in
twenty twenty five, Like, could you have gotten away with.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
This in nineteen eighty two, nineteen.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Eighty five, of course you could have, right, But now
that you're not getting away with that, eventually you're going
to get caught, especially if you still continue to do it,
you're gonna get caught.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Well, the bigger thing is you probably can still get
away with it in a lot of circumstances.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Until somebody comes for your head. Then it's gonna be
the thing that that.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Might be the again, the crossing, the t's dot in
the eyes. All right, we have all this other stuff.
Is it fireable? Is it something that forces him to resign?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Was he on the.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Giant jumbo tron and a Coldplay concert? I mean, all
of these things that could come to play. But you
piss somebney off, or you've got some rumblings of you know,
malfeasans and improprieties on a larger scale when we're talking about,
you know, the suppression of wages when you're supposed to
be the guy fighting for the union and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
You know, it's just twenty three billion dollar business.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
This is hey, listen, we're gonna keep we're gonna keep
guaranteed money down. But it's gonna pay for me to
go to a strip club. But that's it, right.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Because on a grand scale, we talked twenty three billion, right,
and the players get their cut.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Man a couple grand at a strip club.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
If I mean you can have a legitimate business meeting
at a strip club, I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh yeah'sluitely.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Well, look, every movie cops have to have at least
one meeting at a strip club. No, that's gorn to
go talk to a dancer or the owner, or they
get there to talk to somebody who's a patron there,
but he sees them get squirrely and leaves and they
have to chase him out an alley. Like clearly it's
a place that they need to visit one every single
movie there, we gotta go to a strip club.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
And they never go at night.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
They always gets always in the day when like there's
one dancer and it's it's just really depressing and they
have to go in.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Really that's what.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It's never at night where hey we got the big
show going on and here is everything. We got people
coming down there repelling down onto the stage. Now it's
always like, hey, it's just depressing and guys are there
just nursing their drinks and oh, we gotta talk to you,
gotta talk to you, do you know, uh, you know
jumping knucklehead Billy. I haven't seen jumping knucklehead Billy since
he's stiffy on that five hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I owt.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, Well we want to know about jumping knucklehead Billy. Oh,
I can tell you about him. Hey, Billy, Hey, what
are you doing? No talking to the girls while they're working.
It's okay, we're un to cover police officers. Oh, I
got it, I got it. So yeah, I get it.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
It's an important These guys are drinks around the house,
whatever they need.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
I mean, I it's it's I can't get over the
hubris on this by by Howell that I'm going to
do and I have this high ranking position that that's
a big thing, and I'm gonna try to do this,
and I'm and I'm gonna I'm gonna expense this when
clearly I can afford it.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I cant afford to.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I could have gone to any restaurant and submitted any
sort of business expense. But you know, here's car service again.
The car services what got him, right, because that's what
got them looking into all his expenses. Right, Hey, the
car service got him and we're looking into it.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And this is what.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh so he's going to He's going to Tutsi's Tutsi's
paradise or Tutsi's cabaret whatever it's called.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Seventy six thousand square feet.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
We almost have to go as a show, as as
an investigative, don ban not a kind of thing. And
then we'll see if we can talk to the dancers.
Hey hey they're working here. It's like, hey, hey, we've
got questions.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Get out of here.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And TJ clearly walking into Tutsi's cabaret they said, vil
come in beyond venue dj uh. I can't get over
this like this is this story just gets worse and
worse for the NFL and the NFLP because nobody looks
good on this.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Right. You have the collusion with the NFL.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Now you have the NFLPA and leadership it's doing this
like you really, I mean you we're colluding to keep
the salaries down so you guys can't get paid more.
But yeah, but I'm gonna go to a strip club
and I'm gonna make sure they expense that two grand
like I mean, this is this is so they need
to clean out I mean everybody that's running things with
the NFLPA. You need to clean everybody out and say this,
(14:21):
and you have to go outside to bring people in
to say we have to be able to trust someone
because this is this is just infested and nobody wins
on this.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
The NFL.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
That's why no one's saying anything. It's not like there's
a side that can The NFL can't talk. That's dude,
you colluded to keep the salaries down. NFL PA can't go.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, that's no.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
You guys colluded to keep it down. Oh yeah, that's right.
But the NFL is evil. Wait but you just said
that you told running backs to fake injuries or negotiations. Yeah, okay, yeah,
but still the NFL is evil. Wait a minute, Wait
a minute. Year, your executive director is saying all kinds
of stuff. He's resigning and he's trying to expense strip
club visits. Yeah yeah, in the NFL is going, yeah,
but look what they're doing. But dude, you're still colluding
(15:01):
to keep salaries that Oh yeah. Yeah, So nobody's saying
anything because nobody looks good no, and declare to draw.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Look in the end, this guy goes away.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
And you'll do your outside search and this time, you know,
maybe they'll look to make sure there's not some improprieties
about who the who he's working with on the NFL side.
If he's representing the players. For the players, they're in
a tough spot because Treder and all their leadership did
them dirty. So how do you go and find Hey,
who's the honest guy in our locker room? I don't
(15:31):
know there's some you know they were done wrong by
their own guys, And I would be remiss if you
do a quick Google search.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I don't recommend this on your work computer. For tootsies.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Here's your what comes back gallery VIP packages the moniker
of the biggest strip club in America, menu, the club,
and then the final line that I can't even read
on air.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
This is what the NFL is. Lucky that everybody's a
waste them. They might keep people out of camps. Hey,
we don't watch your report from the few days. Why dude,
are you watching the news? This story is terrible to everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Stay out.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
What you know we're gonna push the season? When are
we gonna start the season November? Okay, we're gonna November
to April and then we'll get back on But what
this is really bad?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
But here you go, Jason, how long could you go
player to player if you're a reporter going around the
opening of training camp before PR and the team officials
tell you can't keep asking about this crowd.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You gotta leave these guys. You can't ask coach, you
can't ask the assistant coach. You can't ask the legends
on the sideline. No, keep it moving.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
They don't have any potential intimate knowledge of this place
or any like it.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
They're gonna deny, deny, deny, exit out about a Fresca
exit swollen dome. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Carmen.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Uh, Tutsis Cabaret Maybe we'll call it, hey lit from
the Tutsis Cabaret Studios.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Can we do or we have to pay? Now? Probably? Well, well,
I mean, what does it matter.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
It's right if they contact the sales folks and we
can work out a deal.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I mean, that'd be one.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
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Speaker 3 (17:39):
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the day and at that again, one of the three
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life tonight in Major League Baseball, a play that just
continues to get more and more views and clicks.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It's amazing. But you know, I.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Wanted to continue on with this, this that I keep
wanting to say, Magic City. I wanted to get tell
I mean, that's part of the I mean it is right,
it is part of it, sure, But you know it's
it's you know, it's it's it's Toutsi's cabaret. The story
about the NFLPA had look Lloyd Howell, who had to
resign last night after two really embarrassing stories the last
(19:28):
couple of weeks about the NFL the NFLPA, and now
we find out today he was charging the union basically
expensing visits to strip clubs, including a seven hundred and
forty dollars car service that took him from the airport
to one of the clubs.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Right, so this is embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And I said, you know, you have to understand that
you're gonna get caught, right these things are gonna happen,
and that you know, no matter what you do, when
when you send stuff expense, it can it can become
a thing, right Like, And I wanted to tell you
this story because this is when I learned this lesson
really young. When I had left ESPN as a producer, Okay,
(20:04):
and I went to KBC here in Los Angeles, Right,
so I'm producing sports here in LA and I had
to go out to Fontana Speedway to for the day
to do sports right like we were doing there was
one of the big events, like the California five hundred
when it was in its infancy, when they only had
it for the first couple of years. This is this
is the late nineties. It might have been two thousand
(20:24):
and California five hundred. So we decided that they said, hey,
we're going to send you out there to do sports.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I'm like, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So I'm the producer, Bill Weir is the talent, and
we go out there and we spend the entire day
out there and it starts raining. We're like, oh my goodness,
like wow, it starts raining. And I didn't bring anything
with me, so I had to buy a slicker, you know,
to wear because we're outside, you know, doing sports. Again,
I'm like, okay, so I got to buy a slicker. Now,
at ESPN they would always you know, and look me.
(20:51):
This is me coming from the ESPN world where hey,
when they sent you out on a shoot, if you
had to, if you had to buy something because of
what was going on, it's like, yeah, just expense it.
It's my god, God, I would never buy this regularly.
So I'm going to buy something.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Expense it.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
So I buy this spy I think it was a
punch or whatever it was, and I expense it and
it was like, you know, twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
And they come back and they.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
And they and the person in charge of the expenses says, uh,
this puncher right here go Yeah, because it was raining
for a little bit, we had to say, oh yeah,
we don't. I said, oh, okay, I'm sorry, and she
looked at me and I said, well, I said, look
because it because it was ABC. I said, listen, I
didn't know if ABC ESPN were the same.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
This is something.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
When I was at ESPN, they would expense because this
was this happened while I was out there right, like
I had to buy this. I would never buy it,
and they said okay. So the next time I go
out and do something, and I turned in my expense report,
all of a sudden, I start getting calls from from people.
I word like, Bill Weir calls me and he says, hey,
why is it? I forget the woman's name is called?
(21:49):
Why is she she called my phone.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Asking for you? And I'm like, oh, okay, maybe she's
not my phone number. Maybe all right, I'll call it.
She says, yeah. She just asked if I was there
and if Jason was there, and I said, no, this
is Bill. We're oh, okay, okay, great, and she hung up,
but I could tell it was her.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I'm like, okay. And then my boss said to me, hey,
why is she calling my She called my phone and
asked for you? I said really, I said, oh my god,
you go?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Did you do? So?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I go no, I go, I don't know anything. Let
me go find out. And so I go in and
I try to if I go, what's going I go,
what's going on? And she was like, we're just checking
your expenses to make sure that everything you are submitting.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Is above board. I go, so the phone call?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So wait, wait, so you're calling the phone numbers that
I called, but I expent, you know, because it was
back when you would expense individual calls.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It wasn't like it was now.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
I said, so you're calling the phone yeah, to make
sure these are people that that that you work. I go,
you could ask me, or you could I could give
this to you. He said, yeah, no, no, we're just
we're just double checking. And they went through like the
next two expense reports sided. They went through with a
fine tooth comb, like everything I did, and it's not
like I was expensive, and it's like my expenses were
(22:55):
like for like twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I'm like, this is like you know, it's like twenty
four dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It's like yeah, because I was and they were calling,
hey the phone calls, I'm like, yeo, I'm calling here,
and everything was fine. And after that it went away
and I was like, wow, okay, so they were really
they were really quite on it with that. So I'm like,
all right, I gotta know, I can't imagine being at
the level of trying to expect I'm going to a
strip club and I'm gonna build the NFL Players Union
(23:20):
for that expense. I can't well imagine the guts to
try to do something like that.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
But I think it would come down to this though, Jason.
I mean, one, you know, I'm curious how long you'd
been there and who you'd pissed off. But the second
same thing with with Al here. I mean that's he's
looking around all right, which you jerks, But if you're
expensing meals and flights and car services on the regular,
what's two or three thousand dollars surrounding era, right, Yeah, yeah,
(23:47):
when you're when you're that big, And my guess is,
and and look, I know folks that try to expense
everything they can on their tags like they're not gonna
hodd it all of it.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
It's like, okay, good luck.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
But it's the the kind of thing that if you
are submitting so many expense reports, yeah, car service is
probably if seven hundred plus dollars is going to stand
out because I mean, I don't know what the going
car right is. But you know what, if it was
one of those I was going to a meeting and
I just have the guys sit there and wait for me.
(24:18):
You're talking about a twenty three billion dollar business. I mean,
that's that's nothing. So I can understand the hubris of
who the hell is going to check on that? Yeah, yeah,
you know what I mean like that, that's the thing.
As egregious as it may seem, I also see the
logic in it of what the hell it's a two
thousand dollars expense again when I've normally spended twenty grand
on dinner to wine and dine, you know, big shots
(24:40):
and lawyers and whatever. When we're trying to fight for whatever,
you know, when we're not sabotaging what we're supposed to
be doing.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
So and I.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Kind of understand, where, how will you know you take
you take an inch, They say, give you the inch,
you take the mile. You know that kind of thing, right,
They don't call the foul early in your respective sports
soccer or basketball or whatever.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
He'd just say, I can hit the guy a little
harder next time, But like, where's my line?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
But what I don't get is that this is a guy.
You're the executive director of the NFLPA. Right, You're the
executive director of the NFLPA, and you're you're okay because
you know this decision if you get caught could cost
you your job.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
You know it could, right.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
This is this is visiting a strip club and building
the union and that you know what a big deal
this is and to still be okay with that risk, Like,
that's what I don't That's what I don't get, you know,
I mean like that that's the part that doesn't compete
with me. It's like, it's not like he couldn't afford it.
It's not like it was something that hey, I got hot. No,
I'm gonna expense the NFL for this. I'm gonna expense
the union that I'm fighting to get them more money,
(25:45):
and I'm gonna make them pay out this money because
I went to a strip club.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Like That's what I'm like.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
I like, you are not thinking clearly or you're just
thinking you are completely above it and you are teflon.
I'm the executive director of the NFLPA. You're not gonna
do this to me. But but to be able is
still make that decision that you know this could cost
you your job, and you go, yeah, yeah, what's the
worst can really happen?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
No? I just told you yeah, But what's really gonna happen? No? No,
I just told you yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Like that's the part that that I just shake my
head and go, man, what some people are okay with
trying to get away with well, but you.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Try to see where that line is and try to
you don't know what's the friends line. It's like you
didn't just cross the line in the sand. You erase
the line.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
There is no line, you know that that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
And I think for Howell and and for folks in
great power and this goes whatever business. I mean, how
many times have we seen this from from governmental officials local, state, federal,
to where it's like, really, you thought that was gonna
be okay? Or you did that? What wait, you didn't
think that would come back on you? I mean, hell,
look at look at the thing we were talking about yesterday.
(26:49):
You know I referenced it a little earlier. Because he's
keep scrolling up. No matter what I do, I can't
avoid memes like the haunted mansion. When they take your
picture in the mirror, it's those people from the Coldplay concert.
It's just the idea of you thought you were good,
you thought you were fine, whoever was in the box
with you, everybody's cool, and then bam, there it is.
(27:09):
So it's for Howel and for others in great positions
of power. It's the all right this look, look, look
how important I am on the grand scale again? Twenty
three billion yearly revenue and growing, just like the Flintstones
commercial for the vitamins.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
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Speaker 3 (27:48):
Well.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
When you make a throw that easily goes into the
top three or top five of greatest greatest throws in
baseball history, Ronald.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Acunya, you get to be the play of the day,
and there's a towering flyveball to d Bryant field. Acunya
back towards the corner, shy of the warning track, makes
the catch in de Bright Mimas tags from second and
he goes into third base and.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
They got him standing. He is shocked. He had no
idea who was in right field.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
That's Ronald Leecunya, Braves Radio Network on the call.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
There is so much with this play now.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
First of all, Viva's completely half asked it getting to
third or didn't slide, didn't think there was gonna be
any play on him whatsoever. Right, so obviously you have
to get there. You gotta slide, you gotta bust your ass, right,
that's on him. Still, despite that, he still might have
been safe. Right the tag comes up behind him, and
(28:44):
he really might have hit the bag before the tag
hits his back.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
But that doesn't matter. This throw by Acunya.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Is unreal and he catches it. First of all, kind
of snakes Vivas little bit because the way he goes
after the ball, like he's near the warning track in
the corner, in the right field corner when he makes
this catch, he's he's got his back to the infield
almost like it makes it look like the ball's gonna
(29:12):
go off the wall and he's gonna play it, or
it's gonna go or it's gonna go foul. Most likely
to get Vivas to relax and maybe not tag or
think he's gonna keep going. But he positions himself under
the ball and he catches it, and he's already sort
of facing the infield, sort of facing back towards the infield.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
It's one of those I catch it, I turn in
one motion and he uncorks an absolute dart on the
fly to third base and a great play because you know, hey,
when you're you know when when you're the third baseman,
you're sitting there and and the throws coming in your
eyes get big, you want to make the play and
maybe the runner speeds up.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
No, no, no, this was I'm real cool. I'm putting
my hands up at the last second.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Grab tag out, double play, gets out of the inning,
Brays go up seven to nothing. They win this game
seven to three. This throw by a coun I mean it, Mike.
This is up there with like the Dave Parker throw
from the Kingdome that they've been showing this week for
the All Star Game with you know Parker passing away
a few days ago. That throw, it's one of the
greatest all times. Bo Jackson's throw from the left field
(30:15):
corner on the fly to home plate that gets Harold
Reynolds out at the plate that you see, like, this
is how good of a throw?
Speaker 3 (30:21):
This is?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Like this is a top three, top five throws all
time that I've seen. I've seen it twenty five times
and I still can't get enough of it.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Yeah, I keep watching it on a loop, and then
I love the little celebration at the end where like
he's pulled a big fish out of the water. At
least that's how I'm interpreting it. Hey, snag me one.
But it's you know, he's flat footed, it's he spins
and fires the ball back. And the fact that dude
half asked it in the third we should all be
(30:49):
thankful because otherwise it's like, Wow, that's just a hell
of a throw.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
But it doesn't get.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
The spotlight that it now will, and you know, expanding
the legend of Ronald Acunya Junior. It's good to have
him back and healthy and playing well. Twenty third RBI tonight,
two for three from the plate. But this play, yeah,
it's It's mesmerizing just the the casual nature of the
catch turn. Let's just throw it and see what happens.
(31:13):
And because dude was he was dogging it. I mean,
let's call it what it is.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
There's no chance in hell this guy can throw it
that far right and he still might have been safe
because you look.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Yeah, we haven't gotten a reverse angle yet to see
whether we slapped it on him before the foot hit.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
But no, I get your point there.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
It's an unreal throw. I mean, and from from where
he is all the way in the corner, which, as
you know, the one thing you were told growing up. No,
that's why your best arm goes on right field because
it's the longest throw to third base from the corner.
And Akunya is flat footed, like there's no I'm going
back and I have and I have a momentum where
(31:52):
I'm gonna step into the throw. He is absolutely flat
footed and he makes this throw on a line to
third base.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Unreal.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
I mean, man, yeah, no giant crow hops or or
sprints or or trying to get momentum back toward now.
Just literally wow, just absolutely flawless. I wish I could
get this like on a sport flicks card to what
you got, like the three is phases. There's the catch,
there's the first throw, and there's the tag getting slapped
(32:21):
on just to ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Ah it happens. It happened, I mean an amazing, amazing throw. Uh.
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Speaker 3 (32:31):
The only game.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Tonight or two games tonight, the Yankees lost to the
Braves and the Phillies loss earlier tonight to the Angels.
That's the only baseball tonight, Steve.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
I would say the Mets did not play, but really
that would be accurate.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
By the way.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
As far as great throws in the last decade, I
would add Yasiel Pleag at Colorado there was one from
near the edge of the warning track in right field
two third base on the fly. It literally third baseman's glove.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
On the bag.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
It was astounding. And then one in Anaheim Ramon Loriano,
an A's outfielder. If you can look that one up
from about the warning track in left center on the
fly over three hundred feet to first base to double
up a guy.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
What you saw it was so.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Unlikely that he would get the out at third. It
was truly amazing. You mentioned Atlanta seven to three to
the final over the Yankees, Azzi Alby's home run four RBIs.
Cincinnati beat the Mets in New York eight to four.
Red's hit four home runs San Diego and Toronto with wins.
That Toronto victory was four to nothing against the Giants,
beating Justin Verlander, who's n eight. Miami was trailing in
(33:39):
the tenth, but they did have All Star Kyle Stowers
at the plate. Stour's a guy who right before the
All Star Break had a three homer game, then was
in the All Star Game on Tuesday, including in that
home run derby at the end where he hit one out.
He'd already hit one out a two run shot in
the first Tonight, and then this evening at home against
(34:00):
Kansas City, driving.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
The inter right, building day prayers coming back at the
long unconscious Stars with the winner coming out of the.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Prey Marlin's TV Miami and ten innings wins eight to
seven over Kansas City. Kyle Stower is therefore in his
last two regular season games Tonight and Sunday, five homers
eleven RBIs eight hits in the two games. The only
person in the last century to have a two game
span like that, ty cop Comes being Boston four to one.
(34:35):
Today Angel six' five over The, phillies and The rockies
are still winning six' four Over the twins bottom of.
The seventh back, To you, Thank.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
You steve Though The Jason smith show with my Best
Friend mike harmon live From The Fox sports. Radio studios
the Fact that akunya is flat footed when he that's
what really. Cuts through because you go back a, little
bit people are gonna look, and, say hey because YouTube
has a top ten outfield throws in. Baseball, history right
you watch all. These throws they're all, Incredible plays but
how many of these throws are the guys able to
(35:05):
get their feet, under them get some momentum and make
the throw right more seven or eight, of them And
a kuna just, gets it turns sometime he's standing still
when he catches the ball because he's trying to, deek
him and he turns and makes that kind. Of throw
that that's what stands out to me about how he
does this, flat footed which is all, the.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Difference man the only thing that could be better With
at smith is if we get audio from him that
he looked at the people in the crowd, and, said
hey watch this.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Exit out About a fresca exit.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Swollen dome coming, up next we could see absolute history.
This weekend and the guy that could win this tournament
has made it really hard to root.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
For him i'll tell. You why coming, Up next Jason To.
Mike fox.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Be sure to catch live Editions Of The Jason smith
Show With mike harmon weekdays at Ten, pm eastern Seven,
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Speaker 1 (35:59):
Sports Radio The Jason smith Show with my Best Friend.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Mike harmon.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
So we're halfway Through The open, championship now, and uh
maybe to no one's surprise considering he's the best golfer in.
The World scotti scheffler atop the leaderboard At The open
championship ten under after An incredible. Day two and look at,
this point if if, you're playing, you're, saying, okay yeah
(36:26):
he's just, gonna, Win right he's he's just.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Gonna, win, okay.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Great he shot a sixty four for crying out loud with,
All right he's he's just, gonna win right, he was,
you know he had a just an Okay day.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Day one, all right maybe this is not. A, set
nope here he is all of a sudden ten under
has a stroke Lead, over fitzpatrick.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Two Over harmon harmon.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Harm exactly that's my brother's. Name too he's gonna win
instead OF an i, WOULDN'T say i just say that's,
my brother would not. TELL you, i, Mean look i'd
rather have him known for this than all of. These
shenanigan you keep trying to tie.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Him, to okay well, all right well.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
That's fine so here he is going in and what
look even you know you see, every headline it feels
like an inevitability he's going. To win and The Reason
scotty scheffer's gaining extra headlines this week is because of
The Pre open championship interview he did in which he
talked about how while he's really good, at golf winning
is not his big end and winning a championship is
(37:25):
not his focus because the feeling goes away after a couple,
of minutes and he wants to balance. His life and
there's certain things that you know doesn't understand, at times
why he tries so hard and why is all the practice.
Worth it here here's a Sample Of scotty scheffler from
his big press conference a couple of.
Speaker 8 (37:43):
Days ago is it great to be able to win
tournaments and to accomplish THE things i have in the game?
Of golf yet it brings tears myers to think about
because it's literally worked my entire life to become good at.
The sport and to have that kind of sense, OF
accomplishment i think is a pretty, cool feeling, you know
to get to live out, your dreams it's.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Very special but at the end.
Speaker 8 (37:59):
Of, The day i'm not out here to inspire the
next generation. OF golfers I don't i'm not here to
inspire somebody else to be the best player in, the
world because what's. The point, you know this is not a.
Fulfilling life it's it's fulfilling from the sense, of accomplishment
but it's not fulfilling from a sense of like the
deepest places of.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Your, heart, okay, WOW right i mean we.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Heard that we talked about it the, other day and
it makes and the, thing IS and i feel bad,
saying this but It makes scheffler really hard to, root,
For right it makes them BECAUSE what i want to, say,
is dude. Stop playing then if you're not fulfilled by.
Playing golf stop and do. Something else if this really
doesn't make, you happy then go do. Something else and
to be so flipping, And clip i'm not here to
(38:39):
inspire the next generation.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
Of, golf okay if you're not there to be a,
ROLE model i.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Get it no need to rub everybody's nose in it
And say i'm not here to inspire the next generation.
Of golf this is not a. FULFILLING, Life whoa there's
plenty of people that love playing golf and want to
play golf for. A living there's people who golf is a.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Huge is a.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Huge sport it's a huge business that will a lot
of people love and a lot of people get a
lot of. Joy from if you don't want to do,
it anymore don't, do, IT right, i mean. That's it
it really it makes it makes it hard to root
for him because if this is if it's Such and
i'm glad he's honest, about it but if it's such a,
big deal if it's, not fulfilling that the dude don't
play because you can't sit here and tell, Me, THAT
(39:17):
well i dedicated my whole life to, doing this But
yet i'm not, you know it's. Not, fulfilling hey you
get one shot, at this going around, the, globe right
going around. The sun you get one shot. At this
do something that makes. You happy if you thought this
was going to make, you happy and it doesn't make you,
happy anymore, Guess what go do.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Something. Else right it's easy to, do.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
That, man really when, he's up, it's, LIKE yeah i respect,
his talent respect what, he DOES and i feel the, fact,
That hey i'm good, at This but i've just kind
of lost my passion. FOR it i don't see the
purpose in this kind. Of life you know what other
people like, Doing it so go do something else and
open up for other people to go. Do well the
first half of his statement was, really, GOOD right i
cried thinking about all, the work all, the, time whatever
and then he and then he goes to The next but,
(39:55):
you know we're getting into that area when people were MAD. THAT. J,
r smith who's currently still On The NORTH carolina A and,
t roster he took, his spot Or When tim tebow
became a, baseball player he.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Took, him no.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
He didn't he's still had it opp tounity And For
chef blair, was, like yeah he may be fleeting how
much he. Loves stuff but you could tell the first
part of, his statement and then he tried to go
wax poetic and get, all philosophical and THAT'S where i
think he.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Loses people, it's like just acknowledge.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
You're great they're starting to talk to you and talk,
about you like they talked about The run.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Tiger, HAD yeah i just. Own. It man if you.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Don't want to, do it or if you don't want to,
do it don't. Do it to, walk away don't.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Do it that's how. It is exit up By a
fresca exit.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Swollen dome coming, Up next there's been a big story
in sports last couple. Of, Days mike you're gonna have
to explain its popularity. To, me okay explain this. To
me coming, Up next Jason To My, Happy Friday Fox,
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