February 6, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith celebrates Polar Pete Alonso’s’ return to the Big Apple. Jason and Mike tell you exactly why the Warriors traded for Jimmy Butler and the guys’ debate if the trade will ultimately pay off.
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I'm being told, Mike Carmon, we have news just in,
like real news, like not like hey, this is something
(01:00):
we cha. No, we have real news just in to
our to our studio. Your Frostburg's got it, and he's
going to tell us, now, this isn't the Lakers got Luca?
All right, you can't give me the Lakers got I mean,
I mean we we know still can.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I mean, there might be a couple of folks tuning
in for the first time they've been on a seventy
two hour radio fast.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Frostburg. If I go to you and you say the
Lakers breaking news is the news is the Lakers are back. Okay,
that's not that's not new news. It's not new.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Are you sitting down?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I am sitting down? Yes? I am?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Are you buckled in?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I am? I am buckled in.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
When's the last time you took a poll or plunge?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh o did it happen? Oh it, did it happen?
Did it happen? Tell me, tell me, tell me, give
me the detail.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Loonzo to the Mets. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's all that matter. For ten years and four hundred million.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Dollars, I get to let shit out if you need me.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
To us ago two years in an opt out. Okay, Okay,
now now I go oh there, yeah, okay, thirty million
a year for two years with an opt out. Wow,
this is this is as good as it possibly could
have ended for the Mets and for pet A Lonzo
at this point to no even cheaper. It's too fifty four? Yeah,
(02:21):
I mean at thirty million this year than twenty four
million next year. Again this news justin Look, I'll tell
you a couple of things. Every day I wake up
and I go, is today the day we we is today?
The day we wet? That Pete Alonzo comes in? And
every day I'm like, that's.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
What you do every day?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
What is happening?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Of course it is when your life sucks, that's what
you do.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh would you stop, Frostburg. You woke up every day
calling teams around the league, pretending to be Rob Polinka, saying, oh,
this is Rob Polinka. Would you take ad in the trade?
All right? Call me back?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Uh this.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Bye?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
By the way, Jason, Jason, Jason, Come on, if he
was truly wearing the Rob Polinka outfit, that voice, it's
a lot higher, how tight?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, he's a clothing is no? That is true. Yes,
he would sound like a Geddy Lee singing on a
Rush album. Yes, it would be very very Oh but
look like every day because like this is the last move, right,
it's the it's the It made sense. His first base
market was completely eradicated over the course of the free agency,
(03:23):
and it made sense to come back, right. I was
just hoping at the end. It wasn't going to be
a case where Boris tells him, Hey, I you know
I have the destination. What is it? Yeah, we're gonna
get four years and one hundred and ten million dollars.
Where is it? It's the last place you ever want
to go. But it's four years and one hundred and
ten million. Yeah, but where am I going? It's the
(03:44):
last place. It doesn't matter. I got you four years,
one hundred and ten million dollars. I'll take it right.
That was my big fear, where someone's going to come
through at the end and go, why not, let's go
through here. But the more time went on, this made
absolute sense. Now they have another person to protect Soda
in the lineup. The Mets make over is complete. I
am so I'm gonna go and be an ordering fiend tonight.
(04:04):
I'm gonna order some that new that new spring training
hat I was waffling on, I'm buying it in the
next ten minutes. I'm buying that with mister Met with
the glasses on.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Oh I'm so kind of looks like the Syracuse Orange.
Yeah yeah, I love that, mister Met.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah No, I love that.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I pay you to take that hot.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh that's the best hat in the world. Are you kidding?
That is the best hat in the world.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
What world is that?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You can look at the hat? Man, it's fantastic. Stop,
it's a great hat. Now I'm in bench and purge.
I mean, that's not a terrible thing. It was a
whole Metallica thing. Remember, man, outside light every day. I'm
going We're really gonna go in and move Vientos over
to first and have Brett Batty's really gonna come back.
We're really gonna give Brett Batty another chance to Look.
This makes sense, right, It makes sense for the Mets
(04:47):
because they wanted Pete Alonzo and the's a thirty year
old first baseman coming off the worst year in his
in his career. But he had the home run against Milwaukee.
I wanted to give him a hundred million dollars just
for that home run. So I am extremely happy that
he is back. Uh, maybe it was not he did
not have a bad season, right, it was. It was
(05:07):
worst year though. It's his worst year, you know, I mean,
and bottom line, look, bottom line is this with with Alonso?
Is that is that you know when you say, oh,
this is what he got the first base market was depressed. No,
you have to understand that when you go to free
agency coming off your worst year in the major leagues,
no one's going to come up and say we got
to give you money Like that's that's that, that's kind
(05:28):
of an elementary thing that, oh, well, you come off
your worst year and find you know, your power numbers
are down, everything is done. You're not going to get
that contract you want. Look, he turned down six and
one hundred and seventy last year, six one hundred and
fifty eight last year. Uh, you know that was that
that was the deal to get. And now and now,
well that that was that's been documented that that's what
he turned down.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You know, so you have to understand that when you're
when you're coming off that kind of season, you may
not get what you want. And and in the end
you can sit here and blame Scott Boris all you
want for everything going on and and and and did
he he screw up with Alonzo? No, in the end,
you know he got him what the best deal he
possibly could at the end, right because no one was
(06:08):
knocking on the door for Pete A. Lonzo. Sometimes free
agents you have the guy and you get the contract
like Juan Soto. Sometimes you don't. And I'm glad that
it came down now, there's still a little bit of
time before spring training for him to get there and
everything else. It's that everything worked out fine. It was tough,
and I agree with Steve Cohen when he said these
negotiations have been exhausting, because this is kind of what
(06:29):
it should be. But it took time for both sides
to arrive at a number. This is the number. It's
incredibly great news for both sides. Pee can hit free
agency again, have a big year. Go hey, hit fifty
one runs again, knocking one hundred and twenty runs, hit
free agency again. I don't care. That's fantastic. So now
we can do that. Everybody wins in this situation. I
don't say that that often.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah, Hymn had the report that he had two offers
on the table, three years, two years. Chose the two
years only thirty years old. Last year actually hit twenty
three points higher than the year before, even if the
power numbers were down. He had ten more doubles, twelve
fewer home runs. Let's let's ponder that a second Okay,
good enough for me? Uh and then the RBI obviously
(07:11):
total took an obvious hit. Now, when when I say
reported versus you want to go documented, unless someone's showing
me the print out of the contract that was put
in front of someone with a pen next to it,
I'll always, uh, you know, one wonder what real numbers
are and where the fuzzy math is.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Dude, it was report. It's been they talk about it
every game. It's something great. If that was not if
at this point, if he didn't turn it down, somebody
would have said something at this point, I didn't turn
this down. It's well, I mean, you can't think that
if he if he was pretty well in.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
That neighborhood, that he turned it down, that he turned
down a six year deal. That's the bigger thing than
the than the money, because he still ends up getting
paid pretty well for two years here, and I'm already
seeing the reaction of how do you give this guy
thirty million? Now, I was like, what are we doing?
It's baseball, you spend money. That's the whole reason Cohen
(08:06):
bought this. It's a toy and it's two years. Right,
If he was giving him thirty a year over the
next six, eight and guaranteeing him deep into his thirties.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Sure, have at it.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
This is a complete all right, We'll make a small
bet on you that it works with Juan Soto, and
you make a bet on yourself that it's gonna work,
that you're gonna go make another pile of money.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I mean, it's it works that. The length of the
deal is absolutely brilliant. I love when you get the
two or three year deal. That's why you know, when
we always talked about Snell and other Boris clients is
I and most most of those guys are mercenary guys.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
That's why they hire.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Him, right, It's all about extracting the most money they
can from a marketplace, which means you've got to put
yourself out there. It puts a lot of pressure on
you to perform, but you reap the benefits if you do.
And the mets also the other part of it, right,
the dollars for the contract. This is where you get
into the Boris math, which we love so much. Of
(09:08):
what Pete Alonso means in terms of ancillary revenues that
pay his salary. It's not just about the box score.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, No, it's it's well and that's why they gave
one so too all that money because he's the guy
that's gonna pay everybody salary.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But the point, the point being that there is he's
your guy, and I don't know are they would they
have offered refunds a.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Dallas, Hey, sorry, Alonzo back. If anybody wants their money back, hey,
just just let us know, and what we'll let you
buy back tickets for the next year. Stop. Our attendance
was absolutely square, middle of the pack. You stop with that, Frostburg.
We were right smack damn in the middle.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Of the.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That What what are you, Harry Doyle? What about those
paternity suits that Park Mescott.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I don't have?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Oh dude, got there? Come on, man, yeah, come on, come,
can I enjoy Let me enjoy this for five minutes,
for six minutes. I gave you an extra minute to
enjoy this, all right, now, you gotta understand that's why filibustered.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
He said he needed a minute.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
And then the longer you got to sit and calm
down and your heart rate went back to normal, then
we can we can turn the page.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Look, the Mets win, Alonzo wins, America wins, the world wins,
the galaxy wins. Every everybody wins, and every single person
wins in this we all win. We're all winners. How
did I win? You won? You won because you got
to hear me get excited.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
That's you have to be.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You got you got to You got to hear your
best friend celebrate good news on the radio and and
hear something happened for the first time you got here.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yeah, you called me a killer?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So what do I call you a killer for? What
did you do yesterday? Got to listen to the whole show? Yeah? No,
I remember. I mean I say a lot of things.
What did I call you a killer for? Yesterday? What
did I know?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
People can go to the podcast on that one.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Tell me what I did. Tell me what I did,
so I can say, Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I had heads in a freezer. Oh no, I said
it was full of stuff that we No.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
No, I didn't say you did. I didn't say you did.
I said I wouldn't be surprised if we got to
your place and they were head I just said surprise,
I wouldn't be surprised. Didn't say you had them, I say,
would not be surprised, because now you've had a whole
day to move them for wherever you had to do.
I don't know what you did. Maybe you drove to something.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I went and saw Mufasa.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I don't I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I cooked a nice dinner, I hung out with my
daughter for a while, took a nice nap, took another walk.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
He ride with me. Where are we going? Where we go?
With all these jars in the back, just don't worry
about it. Just you hand them to me. They're wrapped
up for a reason, and I'm gonna throw them over
this cliff into the ocean.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
We rented a bus and I called it the harm
in reality Tour. Like it was muffin stumps that I
had to dump and it became very difficult.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
How many blankets did you wrap? Ted Williams in.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Oh, he would water, he would save that, he would
He wouldn't do it, Come on, he wouldn't, he would not.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
That's what I meant by the blankets, the moving blankets.
You know, when you loaded on the truck, you wrap it.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
No, the coils, it doesn't break for the freezing element. Yeah,
that's hey. It's not cheap, and I mean it's heavy stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Man, What does Hammer and Hill have all those bungee
cords in the back. Don't worry about it. Just don't worry.
And you can't pull hairs off him or anything. Don't
worry there. They're absolutely fine. They're nylon. They leave no
trace of any DNA or anything else.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Absolutely truck wasn't refrigerated in the back.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
They got you.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Gotta have to cover as the neighborhood ice cream man.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I'm just picturing Hartman driving down like the opening scene
and breaking bed where Walter White's got the gas mask
on his face. He's in his underwear and he's driving
the r V and You're like, what the hell is
going on like that? Until I see Harmon doing it.
Of course under it show purple underwear, I mean and
and and a and a purple RV. You know that
would be it.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I mean, you got you gotta stick on brand.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But let's but let's understand, let's not be too far
from the point here. The Mets win, America wins, the
World wins, the Galaxy wins, Alternate Earth's win. Galactus has
heard this wherever he is getting ready to torment the
Fantastic for It says, oh, that's a pretty good move.
That's got ped Alonzo. Hey, Silver Surfer, Let's go to Earth.
Let's go to Earth and see it. Let's go in. Listen,
(13:24):
let's take in a Mets game. Let's watch ped Alonzo.
Then we'll just do whatever we have to do. The
Fantastic Four, whatever it is. And the guy from the
Bear who is gonna just he's gonna try to distract
me by telling me about food and car me and
all kinds of stuff. Well, watch a Mets game, dou
will take care of the Fantastic Four. Let's go do it.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, I had a big problem with that part of
the trailer, huge problem with that. But but you know,
Galactus Eater of Worlds. Remember back in Shark Nato, they
were at city Field, So if nothing else, you could
distract him by aim meeting a bunch of sharks and
bias a couple of minutes to evacuate the planet.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Alight, all right, Galacta said a Mets game. Didn't think?
Didn't think that's where we'd end this last few minutes with.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
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(14:40):
Pete Alonso is a met And now we get to
the other huge trades of the day. As we are
closing in on the NBA trade deadline, one wanna be
title contender got their player today. Is it gonna be enough?
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Maybe we'll just replace videos of us for today and
tomorrow with just a loop of Pee Alonzo's home run
against the Brewers. We're just gonna play over all the
different languages. Here it is in Spanish, Here it is
in French. Here it is I'll just keep going all
the way through. Here's the Moneyball version. Here's the Howie
Rose version. Here's the Bob Buker version. Here's the John
(16:55):
Shombie version. Here's all of that through. Maybe maybe that
would be even better, so you celebrate murder, stop stop,
stop stop. It was a home run. If if the
Brewers wanted to win that game, Devin Williams would have
pitched better. That's all we did say.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You got taps playing in the background. The other thing is,
I mean we we would cost a lot for the rights.
So this is where you need to get your markers
and crans together, or just a whiteboard that you're drawing
like little stick figures running around the bases and stuff
like I think they're gonna do in some of these
alternate Big game broadcasts over the course of the weekend,
(17:30):
because they can't actually show highlights of the game, so
we just have to talk about it in a very
nebulous term.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Maybe with some starting lineup figures.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Maybe we do the same thing with your guy with
the you know, a little polar bear plush animal.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
That you you go to work with there.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I just I just watch it like four times in
the last few I just watched it like four times again.
I actually listened to the the best thing. It is
my favorite. If the Internet went away, but this was left.
That's all I need. Like when I get in traffic
driving up to work right in traffic has been really
not that any complain about traffic, but traffics. Los Angeles
has the worst traffic in the world. Where we drive,
(18:06):
where Mike and I drive to get to work, it's
sometimes well over an hour hour and a half to
go eight miles right and there's no other way to
get there.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Right now, for us.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Right. But what I'm saying is when I get mad,
when I'm not moving, I just go. I get on
my phone. I go, Okay, Mets Brewers ninth inning, Howie
Rose call, And it's twenty five minutes of the Mets
top of the ninth inning, right, and I and I
listen to that, and immediately I'm just like my happy place.
I'm my happy place. It starts out the beginning of
the inning and it goes all the way through the end.
(18:35):
They score, Winker scores the run to make it for
to it and by the end, I'm like, okay, I'm okay,
now I just got that. You know I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna listen to it again, and of course, have
enough time in the car, I'll go and listen to
that again. And now I'm gonna probably listen to it again.
I'm gonna put it on my headphones when I when
when I go to bed tonight, What are you listening to?
Listen to a new album? Do anything new music? What
do you got? No? No, No, Mets ninth inning against the Brewers.
(18:56):
It's how he Rose called Pete a Lonzo's home run.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
I usually listen to Sidewan a thick as a brick.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
What do you get, Jason? That might work?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
What did you say for the dude from the Big Lebowski?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, listening to bowling playoffs? What was it? Venice bowling playoffs?
And he had on his game. Yeah, you just just
hear the pins crashing as he's going to sleep.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Listen, he's been happier.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh boy, All right, now, let me let me just
say this before we get into the big trade today.
Jimmy Butler finally getting his wishes dealt to the Golden
State Warriors. You know what I thought? It was the
age they were.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
They were taking power back and pat Riley was gonna
shake his fist and laugh like a lunatic.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But here's what I want to say first, buddy, and
this is this is where, yes, you're you're getting sideswiped here.
You know, you have all of these good teams making
trades to try to get better to win. You know,
you have the Lakers try to get better, The Mavericks
tried to do the best they could, and they're trading Luca.
The Warriors make the trade. The Bucks go forward to
day and making a better trade. And then you have
(20:02):
the Bulls, who I don't think have signed or traded
for anybody in four years. I don't think they've traded
for anybody or traded away. And instead they give Lonzo Ball,
who's finally back on the court this year for the
first time in like six years, they give him a
two year contract extension. What the hell is that? Man?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
What the hell is that?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
They're not gonna send anybody out, We're not gonna take
anybody in. We're just gonna suck. And now we're gonna
do the compound that we're gonna make up for it
by giving Lonzo Ball two more years.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Like what two year, twenty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
The second year is a team option, so he's gonna
have to earn it. But yes, otherwise, I mean, look,
you got a reunion. They were laughing when DeRozan and
Levine are like, Eh, good to see it here in Sacto. Yeah,
and everybody else that's gone away. The summary statement goes,
and remember how I used to talk about garpacks so
(20:56):
so positively.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
The yeah, sure, sorry.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You could argue that the general general manager there, uh,
and the front office of the Bulls is even worse.
H under the the in its current iteration. And I
saw a number of people that decided this is We're
gonna take every angle of the shot of Derek Rose
crumbling to the ground that we can to point out
(21:22):
that nothing has happened right since that moment.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Okay, all right, that's a long time ago. Okay, that's fine.
Like you're tracing Luca back to when Michael Finley took
his beer. That's right.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
That Hey, you can see his heartbreak right here.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That's it. Freeze frame.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
The incredulity on Luca's face there. But for the Bulls
and that organization, You've had a couple of pretty talented
guys come through. You've got a young rookie there. Now,
who's who's starting to show, you know, get his legs
under him and and everything else. That's great, doesn't matter.
They've been a train wreck, man. Go We joked about,
you know, first round picks the last couple of days.
(22:08):
I actually had someone reach out to me and goes,
you really think those those are nothing? I'm like, oh yeah,
I don't think there's anything in this world that Jason
and I agree with more than the absolute non value
of draft picks in the NBA. But then maybe we
both like cheese. Now it's just a question of which
cheez we like most. But when it comes down to it,
(22:32):
you know, yeah, the bulls they selected Patrick Williams. You
know what what his call calling card was. He's a
tenacious defender. That's my top ten pick. Yeah, top ten pick.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Yeah, you know what. He really gets after it.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
That's like saying, you know what, hey, he tries really hardy.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Hey yo, Kim Noah, where did he play? Both patrons say,
of he tried harder?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
What can you say about him? But I tell you
he really tried hard, really good hair, he's really well,
tries really hard. A good interview.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I mean, the guy was a great quote, lots of
good stuff. And yes he played hard. I guess that's
a positive. I like, normally you want to get me
to celebrate you as a player, show me that you
get the damn and so you can know him for
all his short cummings as a player.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
He tried, he tries hard. He tries hard. He's like
at the at the end of the year when uh,
you know, and and you're giving out trophies or medals
to to to a team and and and the coach
says about the you know, one of the one of
the players who's not very good. Let me tell you
who's got it. Come came to practice every day with
a great attitude, that always would do whatever was asked
(23:44):
and was a great teammate. Hey, hey, congratulations and that's
what Yeah, all right, that's what we did. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, the old great attitude, sparkling personality, man able to
bring people together.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Bull's gonna bull one hundred percent. Oh no, they sucked.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
They're like all the teams in Major League Baseball that
aren't spending any money.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Bulls are gonna bawl.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
And they signed Lonzo Ball.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
But it's a feel good story.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I don't know if this means his brothers contractually obligated
to show up and do a bunch of random one
off songs or something like that, or if they think
they get to talk to LaMelo.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
At some point.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
I but whatever the case may be. I mean, it's
nice to see the guy battle back from injury. I
root for him. That's great. This is your move. Everybody
else is wheeling and dealing.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
In the next twenty four hours, you may see some
of the biggest names in basketball downing in New Jersey.
The All Star Game might just be a meet and
greet of what team do you play with?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Now?
Speaker 6 (24:45):
And the Bull signed Lonzo.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Ball Mike, Yeah, you know what doesn't feel good about Lonzo?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
What's that? Bunny?
Speaker 5 (24:52):
His legs?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
No, hey, come on, he's got he's got to be
wearing the right shoes. Now, come on, man, he said, Come,
that's happening.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Come on, Well that's it. I mean, if nothing else,
they can take up a fund. We all sent you
a different pair of shoes to try.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Well, I think right.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Now, but hey, manos that would help you.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Gotta get you gotta get out of the way. Man,
you don't want to get kicked in the shins. If
he's driving the lane, work, that's it.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I mean, that's a strategic masterpiece.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You don't want none of his iron cheek boots, smoke
he yells at he drives down the lane.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Tell you what you start talking about it as part
of a cultural thing and a celebration of heritage.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
They can't touch.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You, boy, I'll tell you. Uh Now, the big trade
we're gonna break down here over the course of the night. Right,
We got Mark Stein coming up later on in the
show to talk about well, Jimmy Butler proving that if
you hold your breath long enough and cross your arms,
eventually you will get what you want. Uh. Finally, the
Jimmy Butler saga is at an end. He gets dealt
to one of his preferred destinations, a big deal with
(25:59):
the Golden State Warriors. It winds up being a three
team deal. Initially, the Warriors tried to get Kevin Durant.
Kevin Durant said today, yeah, no, I'm not coming back there. Man.
You like how I let this go for so long
before I finally pulled the rug out. Yeah, I'm not
coming back there. So instead, the Warriors trade Andrew Wiggins
and Kyle Anderson, a top ten protected twenty twenty five
first round pick to the Heat. Also, Dennis Shrewder winds
(26:22):
up going to the Jazz. It's a big deal involving
three teams, but basically the nuts and bolts is the
Warriors get Jimmy Butler. And I'm gonna say this, right,
whatever I said about Jimmy Butler, I'm going to say
the same things I would say about acquiring Joel Embiid,
acquiring James Harden, acquiring Chris Paul Is that this is
(26:44):
an incomplete trade, Like, what's the grade on this trade?
It's incomplete because the Warriors, Hey, it's good getting Jimmy Butler. Right,
Obviously what they had wasn't working. They needed another dynamic scorer.
So yeah, you made this move. But this is a
move that's really for next year and the year after
because he signs to a big sixty million a year
(27:04):
contract extension with the with the Warriors for the next
two years after this. All right, so the Warriors know
we're not just hey, we got we got a thirty
five year old Jimmy Butler. We're gonna be great. No,
it's it's it's Jimmy Butler's here. And this is the
first of what needs to be a couple of things
that need to happen. Right, the fact that he comes
in and he signs for two years after this year.
They have other things at work and didn't have to
(27:26):
trade Jonathan Kamengo, who looks like he's blossoming after his
you know, first couple two and a half years we're
kind of rough. He's playing, he's playing much better. He's
out now, but he's playing much better. So I like
this move, and I like the risk of it because
for the for the everybody who says Jimmy Butler is
kind of washed, he says he's kind of I can't
(27:46):
say that because I don't know if Jimmy Butler just
quit with the Miami Heat and stop playing and stop
really trying, because we see that's what players do. Players
quiet quit in the NBA now all the time, right.
Quiet quitting was a big thing coming out of the pandemic. Guy,
I'm quiet quitting, I'm quiet quitting. But NBA players have
been quiet quitting for the few for the last few years.
When it gets really bad, they said, Okay, we can't
(28:07):
quiet quit anymore. I gotta actually say something so I
can get out of here. Darryl Moury is a liar,
so you see that happened. So is Jimmy Butler really
just kind of a twenty game point of game guy. Now,
where there's lots of guys like that in the NBA,
and his his peak really was a few years ago.
I'm willing to gamble that, Hey, maybe he was quiet
quitting for a while. The guy got suspended three times. No,
(28:30):
he wanted out of Miami, and now he got out,
So maybe now we're gonna get what's the closest version
we can get at this point to Jimmy Butler. So
for those two reasons, I really like the trade. It's
a matt trade if this is all they're doing for now,
for this year, because the Warriors aren't a Jimmy Butler
away from, like the Lakers are a Luca Dantic away from, Hey,
maybe they're at the top of the conference now right.
(28:51):
The Spurs are a de Aaron Fox away from going, hey,
we're in the MyD thick of the playoffs. Trace now,
he had a huge game tonight when they beat the Hawks.
But Jimmy Butler by himself is not a great move.
So this year the impacts kind of met. But after
this as they start building for the last for the
next two years for Steph Curry and after Yeah, no,
that's why I like this move.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
No, I dig it, because I mean, we talk about
guys trying harder, Like when he wants to play basketball.
He still is a very good defender, right, He's still
a guy that on that end of the court, you know,
the anti Luca in that regard I and Luca. You
don't really want him to because he has to expend
so much energy offensively you do which can to cover
(29:34):
it as you can. But for Butler, whether it's twenty
one twenty two a game, I think his career best
was twenty three to nine is last year, you know
with the Bulls all those years ago, But you know,
twenty two a game is what you're looking at with
some efficiency that look, we're never gonna know all the
(29:54):
details of what really went went down, conversations, things he
thought he had assurances and clearances on versus where suddenly
there was a line in the sand with Spolstra and
pat Riley, you know, playing hard guy in his executive
suit and everything else. But all of that to say,
it comes to its natural end and he and he
(30:15):
gets what he wanted. He wanted out and whether the
Warriors were a preferred destination initially because we had those
reports that he wasn't gonna sign an extension, and that
always gets into well, we're talking long term, short term ops.
Out of the fifty two million dollars gets two for
one eleven. It allows them through the way. You know,
this is where we actually can use that second Apron stuff, Jason,
(30:38):
because I started getting deep in the weeds on it.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
We're getting into two aprons now, Mike. Maybe you could
be getting the third apron pretty soon. We're getting it,
which is.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Why it's important that it's only a two year extension,
because if it was longer, it could cause bigger ramifications,
which means to say, as long as they don't decide
they hate each other, there's obviously gonna be some wiggle
room long time. You know, all those conversations behind the scenes. Hey,
get that paperwork together. We can't do anything about it now,
(31:05):
but as soon as it's actionable, you'll be a warrior
even longer.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
The warriors may one may not be done. But in
this iteration, when you don't have to give up everything,
you get rid of a couple of secondary pieces that
are more salary than anything else.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
I think they're in a pretty good shape to where
they'll be interesting and if nothing else, Draymond Green and
Jimmy Butler, sign me up.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Are you kidding? Man? All that locker room. That locker
room is gonna be insane.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
It's either the two of them against the world and
Steph just sitting there chewing his mouthpiece and laughing, or
I mean they're fighting and it becomes a hopefully a
healthy workplace battle. Either that or it burns down very quickly.
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spent last night with the wall, not listening to Pink
Floyd album, but instead at the Clippers game against the Lakers.
Monte Milagios, how did that game go for your Clippers?
(32:34):
Did they win? I forget you know what?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Jason?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Do you want me to tell you how syraccused did?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Oh? Yeah right? Please say, come on man, we stak
we're ten and thirteen. We're a football school.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Yeah, yeah, but I can tell you that don't don't
talk about my Clippers right now.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That was a rough and embarrassing game. Yeah, probably the.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Worst thing got the season. You got to see Lucas
first game with the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
He's sat on the bench on run.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, Kawai and then hard and play.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
They did play, just it's they had a slow going.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
It was.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
It was rough.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
Honestly, I really do think and a serious says it
was the worst loss for the Clippers this season.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
It was just embarrassing. Like I don't know if.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
If they thought it was gonna be an easy win
because of no Anthony Davis, but Aviza Zubats.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Was like, not good. I thought it was gonna be
dominanting that game.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
It was.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
It was a rough game. It was a rough game.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
From start to finish if you were a Clippers fan.
But yes, at least I was breathing the same air
as Luka Doncic.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
That's pretty that's a pretty.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Good You should you should have brought a bottle and
just put a sopper in it.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
You are so right. I missed an opportunity next time.
Next time.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Yeah, that multi team trade which you guys were just
talking about with Jimmy Butler seems a little bit more
complicated than open heart surgery.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
But this is what we know.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
That Butler is going to the Golden State Warriors. Andrew Wiggins, PJ. Tucker,
Kyle Anderson, they're going to the Heat. Dennis Shrewder is
going to the Jazz. Also part of this deal. Lindy
Walter is the third who's part of the Warriors team
not too long ago. Josh Richardson, who was on the Heat,
They're headed to the Pistons.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
And we do know also that Jimmy Butler has agreed
to a new two year deal with the Warriors.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
Shams tweeted it was one hundred and twenty one million,
but then ESPN's story says it's one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Eleven million, two year extension.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
He declined his twenty twenty five to twenty twenty six
player option to make this deal actually happen. Lonzo Ball
and the Bulls have agreed on a two year, twenty
million dollar contract extension.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
The Bucks. Now we're gonna go into the game's happening tonight.
The Bucks.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
They snapped their four game losing streak as they topped
the Hornets The final score was one twelve to one
oh two. Damian Lillard twenty nine points and twelve assists.
Earlier today, the Bucks traded Chris Middleton to the Wizards.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
For Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Now adding to this trade, apparently the Knicks are trading
center Jericho Sims to the Bucks.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
This is all part of that trade. But this Jericho
Sims just came out. Not long ago.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
The Cavaliers and the Pistons went down to the wire
in Detroit. Darius Garland wins it with a logo three
with five seconds, so Cleveland one eighteen to one fifteen
against Detroit.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Garland ended with twenty five points.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
The Spur survived one twenty six to one twenty five
against the Hawks, year and Fox's first game as a
Spur twenty four points and thirteen assists. Anthony Edwards dropped
forty nine points as the Timberwolves outscored the Bulls went
twenty seven to one oh eight.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Right now, in the NBA, the.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
Jazz are on top of the Warriors seventy nine to
seventy seven, four minutes to go in the third, two
minutes to go in the third, the Nuggets extending their
lead over the Pelicans one oh four to ninety one
at halftime.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
The Suns are beating the Thunder sixty three to sixty.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
One without Kevin Durant, and the Kings are losing to
the Magic at home thirty nine to thirty six early
in the second quarter.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
And of course, in baseball, the Mets.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
And Pete Alonso in agreement on a two year, fifty
four million dollar contract with a ten million dollars signing bonus.
Deal includes an opt out after this first season.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Okay, back to you guys, Thank.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
You Bot, say yes paular Bear. Pete is back there.
It is. It's a long drive to right field and
the Brewers because they in that party area for fans
to sit. It's a home run for Petere Lonzo whatnot?
A flyout to write the Met's take a three to
two lead. Yay, hey you Foxy Fox Sports Radio The
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Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
Live from the tyrack dot Com Studios. Welcome back, Pete.
Uh NBA trade deadline is now a day away. We
saw a couple of big trades today. Chris Middleton is deltaway,
Kyle Kusma gonna try to make it work in Milwaukee,
and Jimmy Butler or gets sent to the Warriors. But
(37:02):
you want to know that that two big effects, right
this is now Okay, let's see what we've seen so
far the last few days. We're still running with the
vapors of Luca and Ad and it's still an incredible trade.
I mean, this has been a four day topic, and
not many topics go four straight days, you know, with
with content creators like us are on television. But I'm
gonna tell you two things that are gonna happen as
(37:25):
a result of this trade. And the first one's a
really big one. And we kind of made fun last
night Mike that, you know, here's Nikola Jokic and Steph Curry,
you know said what do you think of the Luca trade,
No one is safe. No one can go to bed
feeling safe, like okay, no one's dying, no one's coming
to kidnap you and take you someplace. Yeah. I get
what you're saying, but you're being a little dramatic, especially
(37:46):
because you're okay with other players getting traded to your
team if it makes you better. Yeah, but I'm a star.
I shouldn't have to worry about this. Oh but so
your life is more valuable than someone else's life because well,
their life is getting upset and said, heyworre So that
was a little bit of crazy ass stuff out out
of Korea and KI, Right, but they are correct in that.
(38:08):
Because of the Donsic Jokic, because of the the Doncic
a d trade, you are going to see NBA stars
and big stars get traded way more often than we have.
We needed what it was, it was certain stars. Well,
there's no way these guys are tradeable, right, We're not
gonna make a move. It's not happening. We can't trade Luca,
(38:29):
we can't trade this guy. It's just not how it's
non starter. Once you get one trade to go through
and you see that oh, we actually could make a
trade like this, and Dallas is going to withstand all
the arrows now for a while because, oh, you gave
away Luca. Well remember we probably weren't going to give
money in the offseason. He didn't want to be here,
(38:49):
and we got we got an All NBA player, So
I think we did. Okay, the the that's gonna die
down amongst you know, amongst NBA fans, and the big
chatter about it will die down, and teams are gonna realize, yeah,
we can trade our superstar. It's okay, you know, certain
teams that hey, we can do as long as we
get what we need back. We got to good make
(39:09):
a good trade. We're happy what we're getting. We will
trade that superstar player. And already what did you see
today the Bucks like, yeah, let's let's get rid of
Chris Middleton, even though what he means the team we
want a championship. Jimmy Butler, who was with the heat,
with the heat, with the heat. Finally, pat Rilecey, I
forget it. Let's trade him, like Kevin Durant will get
dealt by this time, by some time tomorrow, and you're
gonna see those big names when they're due for big
(39:31):
contracts or they've had it with their team, someone's gonna say,
we're okay with trading our superstar. Nobody is untouchable anymore
in the NBA, because if a team is motivated and
they need to move on that guy, he is absolutely tradable. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
I mean it rains to be seen how many more
big moves we have, whether Durant finds his way out.
Watching a pretty good game tonight at shay Gil just
Alexander with twenty eight at break, and you know there
was the the little lower third, Kevin Durant. I never
asked for a trade. Okay, that doesn't mean you still
can't move, but no, But that's to that larger point.
(40:08):
I mean, what do we keep talking about. It's Lebron
and Beale are the only guys with no trades, right.
Doesn't mean that guys can't be a pain in the ass,
and there might not be an outpost they don't want
to go to. But if the price is right and
you're looking at your long term financials, again we get
into all this Apron stuff. It gets really complicated and
kind of chaotic as you look at extensions and what
(40:31):
contracts are longer term, you're gonna see more shuttling of players.
Just like players would do the two and one and
leave on their own accord, it reverses course a bit.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Get Ready, big big, big names will get moved now
with much more regularity. Exit. How about a Fresco at
Swollen Dome? Coming up next. More on the big NBA
trade deadline and the big baseball signing we just saw
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I'm being told, Mike Carmon, we have news just in,
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(01:00):
we cha. No, we have real news just in to
our to our studio. Your Frostburg's got it, and he's
going to tell us, now, this isn't the Lakers got Luca?
All right, you can't give me the Lakers got I mean,
I mean we we know still can.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I mean, there might be a couple of folks tuning
in for the first time they've been on a seventy
two hour radio fast.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Frostburg. If I go to you and you say the
Lakers breaking news is the news is the Lakers are back. Okay,
that's not that's not new news. It's not new.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Are you sitting down?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I am sitting down? Yes? I am?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Are you buckled in?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I am? I am buckled in.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
When's the last time you took a poll or plunge?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Oh o did it happen? Oh it, did it happen?
Did it happen? Tell me, tell me, tell me, give
me the detail.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Loonzo to the Mets. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
That's all that matter. For ten years and four hundred million.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Dollars, I get to let shit out if you need me.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
To us ago two years in an opt out. Okay, Okay,
now now I go oh there, yeah, okay, thirty million
a year for two years with an opt out. Wow,
this is this is as good as it possibly could
have ended for the Mets and for pet A Lonzo
at this point to no even cheaper. It's too fifty four? Yeah,
(02:21):
I mean at thirty million this year than twenty four
million next year. Again this news justin Look, I'll tell
you a couple of things. Every day I wake up
and I go, is today the day we we is today?
The day we wet? That Pete Alonzo comes in? And
every day I'm like, that's.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
What you do every day?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
What is happening?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Of course it is when your life sucks, that's what
you do.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh would you stop, Frostburg. You woke up every day
calling teams around the league, pretending to be Rob Polinka, saying, oh,
this is Rob Polinka. Would you take ad in the trade?
All right? Call me back?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Uh this.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Bye?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
By the way, Jason, Jason, Jason, Come on, if he
was truly wearing the Rob Polinka outfit, that voice, it's
a lot higher, how tight?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, he's a clothing is no? That is true. Yes,
he would sound like a Geddy Lee singing on a
Rush album. Yes, it would be very very Oh but
look like every day because like this is the last move, right,
it's the it's the It made sense. His first base
market was completely eradicated over the course of the free agency,
(03:23):
and it made sense to come back, right. I was
just hoping at the end. It wasn't going to be
a case where Boris tells him, Hey, I you know
I have the destination. What is it? Yeah, we're gonna
get four years and one hundred and ten million dollars.
Where is it? It's the last place you ever want
to go. But it's four years and one hundred and
ten million. Yeah, but where am I going? It's the
(03:44):
last place. It doesn't matter. I got you four years,
one hundred and ten million dollars. I'll take it right.
That was my big fear, where someone's going to come
through at the end and go, why not, let's go
through here. But the more time went on, this made
absolute sense. Now they have another person to protect Soda
in the lineup. The Mets make over is complete. I
am so I'm gonna go and be an ordering fiend tonight.
(04:04):
I'm gonna order some that new that new spring training
hat I was waffling on, I'm buying it in the
next ten minutes. I'm buying that with mister Met with
the glasses on.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Oh I'm so kind of looks like the Syracuse Orange.
Yeah yeah, I love that, mister Met.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah No, I love that.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I pay you to take that hot.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh that's the best hat in the world. Are you kidding?
That is the best hat in the world.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
What world is that?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You can look at the hat? Man, it's fantastic. Stop,
it's a great hat. Now I'm in bench and purge.
I mean, that's not a terrible thing. It was a
whole Metallica thing. Remember, man, outside light every day. I'm
going We're really gonna go in and move Vientos over
to first and have Brett Batty's really gonna come back.
We're really gonna give Brett Batty another chance to Look.
This makes sense, right, It makes sense for the Mets
(04:47):
because they wanted Pete Alonzo and the's a thirty year
old first baseman coming off the worst year in his
in his career. But he had the home run against Milwaukee.
I wanted to give him a hundred million dollars just
for that home run. So I am extremely happy that
he is back. Uh, maybe it was not he did
not have a bad season, right, it was. It was
(05:07):
worst year though. It's his worst year, you know, I mean,
and bottom line, look, bottom line is this with with Alonso?
Is that is that you know when you say, oh,
this is what he got the first base market was depressed. No,
you have to understand that when you go to free
agency coming off your worst year in the major leagues,
no one's going to come up and say we got
to give you money Like that's that's that, that's kind
(05:28):
of an elementary thing that, oh, well, you come off
your worst year and find you know, your power numbers
are down, everything is done. You're not going to get
that contract you want. Look, he turned down six and
one hundred and seventy last year, six one hundred and
fifty eight last year. Uh, you know that was that
that was the deal to get. And now and now,
well that that was that's been documented that that's what
he turned down.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You know, so you have to understand that when you're
when you're coming off that kind of season, you may
not get what you want. And and in the end
you can sit here and blame Scott Boris all you
want for everything going on and and and and did
he he screw up with Alonzo? No, in the end,
you know he got him what the best deal he
possibly could at the end, right because no one was
(06:08):
knocking on the door for Pete A. Lonzo. Sometimes free
agents you have the guy and you get the contract
like Juan Soto. Sometimes you don't. And I'm glad that
it came down now, there's still a little bit of
time before spring training for him to get there and
everything else. It's that everything worked out fine. It was tough,
and I agree with Steve Cohen when he said these
negotiations have been exhausting, because this is kind of what
(06:29):
it should be. But it took time for both sides
to arrive at a number. This is the number. It's
incredibly great news for both sides. Pee can hit free
agency again, have a big year. Go hey, hit fifty
one runs again, knocking one hundred and twenty runs, hit
free agency again. I don't care. That's fantastic. So now
we can do that. Everybody wins in this situation. I
don't say that that often.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah, Hymn had the report that he had two offers
on the table, three years, two years. Chose the two
years only thirty years old. Last year actually hit twenty
three points higher than the year before, even if the
power numbers were down. He had ten more doubles, twelve
fewer home runs. Let's let's ponder that a second Okay,
good enough for me? Uh and then the RBI obviously
(07:11):
total took an obvious hit. Now, when when I say
reported versus you want to go documented, unless someone's showing
me the print out of the contract that was put
in front of someone with a pen next to it,
I'll always, uh, you know, one wonder what real numbers
are and where the fuzzy math is.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Dude, it was report. It's been they talk about it
every game. It's something great. If that was not if
at this point, if he didn't turn it down, somebody
would have said something at this point, I didn't turn
this down. It's well, I mean, you can't think that
if he if he was pretty well in.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
That neighborhood, that he turned it down, that he turned
down a six year deal. That's the bigger thing than
the than the money, because he still ends up getting
paid pretty well for two years here, and I'm already
seeing the reaction of how do you give this guy
thirty million? Now, I was like, what are we doing?
It's baseball, you spend money. That's the whole reason Cohen
(08:06):
bought this. It's a toy and it's two years. Right,
If he was giving him thirty a year over the
next six, eight and guaranteeing him deep into his thirties.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Sure, have at it.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
This is a complete all right, We'll make a small
bet on you that it works with Juan Soto, and
you make a bet on yourself that it's gonna work,
that you're gonna go make another pile of money.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I mean, it's it works that. The length of the
deal is absolutely brilliant. I love when you get the
two or three year deal. That's why you know, when
we always talked about Snell and other Boris clients is
I and most most of those guys are mercenary guys.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
That's why they hire.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Him, right, It's all about extracting the most money they
can from a marketplace, which means you've got to put
yourself out there. It puts a lot of pressure on
you to perform, but you reap the benefits if you do.
And the mets also the other part of it, right,
the dollars for the contract. This is where you get
into the Boris math, which we love so much. Of
(09:08):
what Pete Alonso means in terms of ancillary revenues that
pay his salary. It's not just about the box score.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, No, it's it's well and that's why they gave
one so too all that money because he's the guy
that's gonna pay everybody salary.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
But the point, the point being that there is he's
your guy, and I don't know are they would they
have offered refunds a.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Dallas, Hey, sorry, Alonzo back. If anybody wants their money back, hey,
just just let us know, and what we'll let you
buy back tickets for the next year. Stop. Our attendance
was absolutely square, middle of the pack. You stop with that, Frostburg.
We were right smack damn in the middle.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Of the.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That What what are you, Harry Doyle? What about those
paternity suits that Park Mescott.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I don't have?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Oh dude, got there? Come on, man, yeah, come on, come,
can I enjoy Let me enjoy this for five minutes,
for six minutes. I gave you an extra minute to
enjoy this, all right, now, you gotta understand that's why filibustered.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
He said he needed a minute.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
And then the longer you got to sit and calm
down and your heart rate went back to normal, then
we can we can turn the page.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Look, the Mets win, Alonzo wins, America wins, the world wins,
the galaxy wins. Every everybody wins, and every single person
wins in this we all win. We're all winners. How
did I win? You won? You won because you got
to hear me get excited.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
That's you have to be.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
You got you got to You got to hear your
best friend celebrate good news on the radio and and
hear something happened for the first time you got here.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yeah, you called me a killer?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
So what do I call you a killer for? What
did you do yesterday? Got to listen to the whole show? Yeah? No,
I remember. I mean I say a lot of things.
What did I call you a killer for? Yesterday? What
did I know?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
People can go to the podcast on that one.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Tell me what I did. Tell me what I did,
so I can say, Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I had heads in a freezer. Oh no, I said
it was full of stuff that we No.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
No, I didn't say you did. I didn't say you did.
I said I wouldn't be surprised if we got to
your place and they were head I just said surprise,
I wouldn't be surprised. Didn't say you had them, I say,
would not be surprised, because now you've had a whole
day to move them for wherever you had to do.
I don't know what you did. Maybe you drove to something.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I went and saw Mufasa.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I don't I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I cooked a nice dinner, I hung out with my
daughter for a while, took a nice nap, took another walk.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
He ride with me. Where are we going? Where we go?
With all these jars in the back, just don't worry
about it. Just you hand them to me. They're wrapped
up for a reason, and I'm gonna throw them over
this cliff into the ocean.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
We rented a bus and I called it the harm
in reality Tour. Like it was muffin stumps that I
had to dump and it became very difficult.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
How many blankets did you wrap? Ted Williams in.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Oh, he would water, he would save that, he would
He wouldn't do it, Come on, he wouldn't, he would not.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
That's what I meant by the blankets, the moving blankets.
You know, when you loaded on the truck, you wrap it.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
No, the coils, it doesn't break for the freezing element. Yeah,
that's hey. It's not cheap, and I mean it's heavy stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Man, What does Hammer and Hill have all those bungee
cords in the back. Don't worry about it. Just don't worry.
And you can't pull hairs off him or anything. Don't
worry there. They're absolutely fine. They're nylon. They leave no
trace of any DNA or anything else.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Absolutely truck wasn't refrigerated in the back.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
They got you.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Gotta have to cover as the neighborhood ice cream man.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I'm just picturing Hartman driving down like the opening scene
and breaking bed where Walter White's got the gas mask
on his face. He's in his underwear and he's driving
the r V and You're like, what the hell is
going on like that? Until I see Harmon doing it.
Of course under it show purple underwear, I mean and
and and a and a purple RV. You know that
would be it.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I mean, you got you gotta stick on brand.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But let's but let's understand, let's not be too far
from the point here. The Mets win, America wins, the
World wins, the Galaxy wins, Alternate Earth's win. Galactus has
heard this wherever he is getting ready to torment the
Fantastic for It says, oh, that's a pretty good move.
That's got ped Alonzo. Hey, Silver Surfer, Let's go to Earth.
Let's go to Earth and see it. Let's go in. Listen,
(13:24):
let's take in a Mets game. Let's watch ped Alonzo.
Then we'll just do whatever we have to do. The
Fantastic Four, whatever it is. And the guy from the
Bear who is gonna just he's gonna try to distract
me by telling me about food and car me and
all kinds of stuff. Well, watch a Mets game, dou
will take care of the Fantastic Four. Let's go do it.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Yeah, I had a big problem with that part of
the trailer, huge problem with that. But but you know,
Galactus Eater of Worlds. Remember back in Shark Nato, they
were at city Field, So if nothing else, you could
distract him by aim meeting a bunch of sharks and
bias a couple of minutes to evacuate the planet.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Alight, all right, Galacta said a Mets game. Didn't think?
Didn't think that's where we'd end this last few minutes with.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
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It's only appropriate. And Max Sabbath is gonna do one
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Speaker 1 (14:19):
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(14:40):
Pete Alonso is a met And now we get to
the other huge trades of the day. As we are
closing in on the NBA trade deadline, one wanna be
title contender got their player today. Is it gonna be enough?
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Maybe we'll just replace videos of us for today and
tomorrow with just a loop of Pee Alonzo's home run
against the Brewers. We're just gonna play over all the
different languages. Here it is in Spanish, Here it is
in French. Here it is I'll just keep going all
the way through. Here's the Moneyball version. Here's the Howie
Rose version. Here's the Bob Buker version. Here's the John
(16:55):
Shombie version. Here's all of that through. Maybe maybe that
would be even better, so you celebrate murder, stop stop,
stop stop. It was a home run. If if the
Brewers wanted to win that game, Devin Williams would have
pitched better. That's all we did say.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You got taps playing in the background. The other thing is,
I mean we we would cost a lot for the rights.
So this is where you need to get your markers
and crans together, or just a whiteboard that you're drawing
like little stick figures running around the bases and stuff
like I think they're gonna do in some of these
alternate Big game broadcasts over the course of the weekend,
(17:30):
because they can't actually show highlights of the game, so
we just have to talk about it in a very
nebulous term.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
Maybe with some starting lineup figures.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Maybe we do the same thing with your guy with
the you know, a little polar bear plush animal.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
That you you go to work with there.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I just I just watch it like four times in
the last few I just watched it like four times again.
I actually listened to the the best thing. It is
my favorite. If the Internet went away, but this was left.
That's all I need. Like when I get in traffic
driving up to work right in traffic has been really
not that any complain about traffic, but traffics. Los Angeles
has the worst traffic in the world. Where we drive,
(18:06):
where Mike and I drive to get to work, it's
sometimes well over an hour hour and a half to
go eight miles right and there's no other way to
get there.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Right now, for us.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Right. But what I'm saying is when I get mad,
when I'm not moving, I just go. I get on
my phone. I go, Okay, Mets Brewers ninth inning, Howie
Rose call, And it's twenty five minutes of the Mets
top of the ninth inning, right, and I and I
listen to that, and immediately I'm just like my happy place.
I'm my happy place. It starts out the beginning of
the inning and it goes all the way through the end.
(18:35):
They score, Winker scores the run to make it for
to it and by the end, I'm like, okay, I'm okay,
now I just got that. You know I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna listen to it again, and of course, have
enough time in the car, I'll go and listen to
that again. And now I'm gonna probably listen to it again.
I'm gonna put it on my headphones when I when
when I go to bed tonight, What are you listening to?
Listen to a new album? Do anything new music? What
do you got? No? No, No, Mets ninth inning against the Brewers.
(18:56):
It's how he Rose called Pete a Lonzo's home run.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
I usually listen to Sidewan a thick as a brick.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
What do you get, Jason? That might work?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
What did you say for the dude from the Big Lebowski?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, listening to bowling playoffs? What was it? Venice bowling playoffs?
And he had on his game. Yeah, you just just
hear the pins crashing as he's going to sleep.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Listen, he's been happier.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh boy, All right, now, let me let me just
say this before we get into the big trade today.
Jimmy Butler finally getting his wishes dealt to the Golden
State Warriors. You know what I thought? It was the
age they were.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
They were taking power back and pat Riley was gonna
shake his fist and laugh like a lunatic.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
But here's what I want to say first, buddy, and
this is this is where, yes, you're you're getting sideswiped here.
You know, you have all of these good teams making
trades to try to get better to win. You know,
you have the Lakers try to get better, The Mavericks
tried to do the best they could, and they're trading Luca.
The Warriors make the trade. The Bucks go forward to
day and making a better trade. And then you have
(20:02):
the Bulls, who I don't think have signed or traded
for anybody in four years. I don't think they've traded
for anybody or traded away. And instead they give Lonzo Ball,
who's finally back on the court this year for the
first time in like six years, they give him a
two year contract extension. What the hell is that? Man?
Speaker 6 (20:19):
What the hell is that?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
They're not gonna send anybody out, We're not gonna take
anybody in. We're just gonna suck. And now we're gonna
do the compound that we're gonna make up for it
by giving Lonzo Ball two more years.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Like what two year, twenty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
The second year is a team option, so he's gonna
have to earn it. But yes, otherwise, I mean, look,
you got a reunion. They were laughing when DeRozan and
Levine are like, Eh, good to see it here in Sacto. Yeah,
and everybody else that's gone away. The summary statement goes,
and remember how I used to talk about garpacks so
(20:56):
so positively.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
The yeah, sure, sorry.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You could argue that the general general manager there, uh,
and the front office of the Bulls is even worse.
H under the the in its current iteration. And I
saw a number of people that decided this is We're
gonna take every angle of the shot of Derek Rose
crumbling to the ground that we can to point out
(21:22):
that nothing has happened right since that moment.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Okay, all right, that's a long time ago. Okay, that's fine.
Like you're tracing Luca back to when Michael Finley took
his beer. That's right.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
That Hey, you can see his heartbreak right here.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That's it. Freeze frame.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
The incredulity on Luca's face there. But for the Bulls
and that organization, You've had a couple of pretty talented
guys come through. You've got a young rookie there. Now,
who's who's starting to show, you know, get his legs
under him and and everything else. That's great, doesn't matter.
They've been a train wreck, man. Go We joked about,
you know, first round picks the last couple of days.
(22:08):
I actually had someone reach out to me and goes,
you really think those those are nothing? I'm like, oh yeah,
I don't think there's anything in this world that Jason
and I agree with more than the absolute non value
of draft picks in the NBA. But then maybe we
both like cheese. Now it's just a question of which
cheez we like most. But when it comes down to it,
(22:32):
you know, yeah, the bulls they selected Patrick Williams. You
know what what his call calling card was. He's a
tenacious defender. That's my top ten pick. Yeah, top ten pick.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Yeah, you know what. He really gets after it.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
That's like saying, you know what, hey, he tries really hardy.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Hey yo, Kim Noah, where did he play? Both patrons say,
of he tried harder?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
What can you say about him? But I tell you
he really tried hard, really good hair, he's really well,
tries really hard. A good interview.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I mean, the guy was a great quote, lots of
good stuff. And yes he played hard. I guess that's
a positive. I like, normally you want to get me
to celebrate you as a player, show me that you
get the damn and so you can know him for
all his short cummings as a player.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
He tried, he tries hard. He tries hard. He's like
at the at the end of the year when uh,
you know, and and you're giving out trophies or medals
to to to a team and and and the coach
says about the you know, one of the one of
the players who's not very good. Let me tell you
who's got it. Come came to practice every day with
a great attitude, that always would do whatever was asked
(23:44):
and was a great teammate. Hey, hey, congratulations and that's
what Yeah, all right, that's what we did. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, the old great attitude, sparkling personality, man able to
bring people together.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Bull's gonna bull one hundred percent. Oh no, they sucked.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
They're like all the teams in Major League Baseball that
aren't spending any money.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Bulls are gonna bawl.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
And they signed Lonzo Ball.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
But it's a feel good story.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I don't know if this means his brothers contractually obligated
to show up and do a bunch of random one
off songs or something like that, or if they think
they get to talk to LaMelo.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
At some point.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
I but whatever the case may be. I mean, it's
nice to see the guy battle back from injury. I
root for him. That's great. This is your move. Everybody
else is wheeling and dealing.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
In the next twenty four hours, you may see some
of the biggest names in basketball downing in New Jersey.
The All Star Game might just be a meet and
greet of what team do you play with?
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Now?
Speaker 6 (24:45):
And the Bull signed Lonzo.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Ball Mike, Yeah, you know what doesn't feel good about Lonzo?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
What's that? Bunny?
Speaker 5 (24:52):
His legs?
Speaker 6 (24:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
No, hey, come on, he's got he's got to be
wearing the right shoes. Now, come on, man, he said, Come,
that's happening.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
Come on, Well that's it. I mean, if nothing else,
they can take up a fund. We all sent you
a different pair of shoes to try.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Well, I think right.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Now, but hey, manos that would help you.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Gotta get you gotta get out of the way. Man,
you don't want to get kicked in the shins. If
he's driving the lane, work, that's it.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I mean, that's a strategic masterpiece.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You don't want none of his iron cheek boots, smoke
he yells at he drives down the lane.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Tell you what you start talking about it as part
of a cultural thing and a celebration of heritage.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
They can't touch.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You, boy, I'll tell you. Uh Now, the big trade
we're gonna break down here over the course of the night. Right,
We got Mark Stein coming up later on in the
show to talk about well, Jimmy Butler proving that if
you hold your breath long enough and cross your arms,
eventually you will get what you want. Uh. Finally, the
Jimmy Butler saga is at an end. He gets dealt
to one of his preferred destinations, a big deal with
(25:59):
the Golden State Warriors. It winds up being a three
team deal. Initially, the Warriors tried to get Kevin Durant.
Kevin Durant said today, yeah, no, I'm not coming back there. Man.
You like how I let this go for so long
before I finally pulled the rug out. Yeah, I'm not
coming back there. So instead, the Warriors trade Andrew Wiggins
and Kyle Anderson, a top ten protected twenty twenty five
first round pick to the Heat. Also, Dennis Shrewder winds
(26:22):
up going to the Jazz. It's a big deal involving
three teams, but basically the nuts and bolts is the
Warriors get Jimmy Butler. And I'm gonna say this, right,
whatever I said about Jimmy Butler, I'm going to say
the same things I would say about acquiring Joel Embiid,
acquiring James Harden, acquiring Chris Paul Is that this is
(26:44):
an incomplete trade, Like, what's the grade on this trade?
It's incomplete because the Warriors, Hey, it's good getting Jimmy Butler. Right,
Obviously what they had wasn't working. They needed another dynamic scorer.
So yeah, you made this move. But this is a
move that's really for next year and the year after
because he signs to a big sixty million a year
(27:04):
contract extension with the with the Warriors for the next
two years after this. All right, so the Warriors know
we're not just hey, we got we got a thirty
five year old Jimmy Butler. We're gonna be great. No,
it's it's it's Jimmy Butler's here. And this is the
first of what needs to be a couple of things
that need to happen. Right, the fact that he comes
in and he signs for two years after this year.
They have other things at work and didn't have to
(27:26):
trade Jonathan Kamengo, who looks like he's blossoming after his
you know, first couple two and a half years we're
kind of rough. He's playing, he's playing much better. He's
out now, but he's playing much better. So I like
this move, and I like the risk of it because
for the for the everybody who says Jimmy Butler is
kind of washed, he says he's kind of I can't
(27:46):
say that because I don't know if Jimmy Butler just
quit with the Miami Heat and stop playing and stop
really trying, because we see that's what players do. Players
quiet quit in the NBA now all the time, right.
Quiet quitting was a big thing coming out of the pandemic. Guy,
I'm quiet quitting, I'm quiet quitting. But NBA players have
been quiet quitting for the few for the last few years.
When it gets really bad, they said, Okay, we can't
(28:07):
quiet quit anymore. I gotta actually say something so I
can get out of here. Darryl Moury is a liar,
so you see that happened. So is Jimmy Butler really
just kind of a twenty game point of game guy. Now,
where there's lots of guys like that in the NBA,
and his his peak really was a few years ago.
I'm willing to gamble that, Hey, maybe he was quiet
quitting for a while. The guy got suspended three times. No,
(28:30):
he wanted out of Miami, and now he got out,
So maybe now we're gonna get what's the closest version
we can get at this point to Jimmy Butler. So
for those two reasons, I really like the trade. It's
a matt trade if this is all they're doing for now,
for this year, because the Warriors aren't a Jimmy Butler
away from, like the Lakers are a Luca Dantic away from, Hey,
maybe they're at the top of the conference now right.
(28:51):
The Spurs are a de Aaron Fox away from going, hey,
we're in the MyD thick of the playoffs. Trace now,
he had a huge game tonight when they beat the Hawks.
But Jimmy Butler by himself is not a great move.
So this year the impacts kind of met. But after
this as they start building for the last for the
next two years for Steph Curry and after Yeah, no,
that's why I like this move.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
No, I dig it, because I mean, we talk about
guys trying harder, Like when he wants to play basketball.
He still is a very good defender, right, He's still
a guy that on that end of the court, you know,
the anti Luca in that regard I and Luca. You
don't really want him to because he has to expend
so much energy offensively you do which can to cover
(29:34):
it as you can. But for Butler, whether it's twenty
one twenty two a game, I think his career best
was twenty three to nine is last year, you know
with the Bulls all those years ago, But you know,
twenty two a game is what you're looking at with
some efficiency that look, we're never gonna know all the
(29:54):
details of what really went went down, conversations, things he
thought he had assurances and clearances on versus where suddenly
there was a line in the sand with Spolstra and
pat Riley, you know, playing hard guy in his executive
suit and everything else. But all of that to say,
it comes to its natural end and he and he
(30:15):
gets what he wanted. He wanted out and whether the
Warriors were a preferred destination initially because we had those
reports that he wasn't gonna sign an extension, and that
always gets into well, we're talking long term, short term ops.
Out of the fifty two million dollars gets two for
one eleven. It allows them through the way. You know,
this is where we actually can use that second Apron stuff, Jason,
(30:38):
because I started getting deep in the weeds on it.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
We're getting into two aprons now, Mike. Maybe you could
be getting the third apron pretty soon. We're getting it,
which is.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Why it's important that it's only a two year extension,
because if it was longer, it could cause bigger ramifications,
which means to say, as long as they don't decide
they hate each other, there's obviously gonna be some wiggle
room long time. You know, all those conversations behind the scenes. Hey,
get that paperwork together. We can't do anything about it now,
(31:05):
but as soon as it's actionable, you'll be a warrior
even longer.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
The warriors may one may not be done. But in
this iteration, when you don't have to give up everything,
you get rid of a couple of secondary pieces that
are more salary than anything else.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
I think they're in a pretty good shape to where
they'll be interesting and if nothing else, Draymond Green and
Jimmy Butler, sign me up.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Are you kidding? Man? All that locker room. That locker
room is gonna be insane.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
It's either the two of them against the world and
Steph just sitting there chewing his mouthpiece and laughing, or
I mean they're fighting and it becomes a hopefully a
healthy workplace battle. Either that or it burns down very quickly.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
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spent last night with the wall, not listening to Pink
Floyd album, but instead at the Clippers game against the Lakers.
Monte Milagios, how did that game go for your Clippers?
(32:34):
Did they win? I forget you know what?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Jason?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Do you want me to tell you how syraccused did?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Oh? Yeah right? Please say, come on man, we stak
we're ten and thirteen. We're a football school.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Yeah, yeah, but I can tell you that don't don't
talk about my Clippers right now.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That was a rough and embarrassing game. Yeah, probably the.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Worst thing got the season. You got to see Lucas
first game with the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
He's sat on the bench on run.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
Yeah, yeah, you're right, Kawai and then hard and play.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
They did play, just it's they had a slow going.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
It was.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
It was rough.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
Honestly, I really do think and a serious says it
was the worst loss for the Clippers this season.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
It was just embarrassing. Like I don't know if.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
If they thought it was gonna be an easy win
because of no Anthony Davis, but Aviza Zubats.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Was like, not good. I thought it was gonna be
dominanting that game.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
It was.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
It was a rough game. It was a rough game.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
From start to finish if you were a Clippers fan.
But yes, at least I was breathing the same air
as Luka Doncic.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
That's pretty that's a pretty.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Good You should you should have brought a bottle and
just put a sopper in it.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
You are so right. I missed an opportunity next time.
Next time.
Speaker 7 (33:42):
Yeah, that multi team trade which you guys were just
talking about with Jimmy Butler seems a little bit more
complicated than open heart surgery.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
But this is what we know.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
That Butler is going to the Golden State Warriors. Andrew Wiggins, PJ. Tucker,
Kyle Anderson, they're going to the Heat. Dennis Shrewder is
going to the Jazz. Also part of this deal. Lindy
Walter is the third who's part of the Warriors team
not too long ago. Josh Richardson, who was on the Heat,
They're headed to the Pistons.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
And we do know also that Jimmy Butler has agreed
to a new two year deal with the Warriors.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
Shams tweeted it was one hundred and twenty one million,
but then ESPN's story says it's one hundred and.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Eleven million, two year extension.
Speaker 7 (34:18):
He declined his twenty twenty five to twenty twenty six
player option to make this deal actually happen. Lonzo Ball
and the Bulls have agreed on a two year, twenty
million dollar contract extension.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
The Bucks. Now we're gonna go into the game's happening tonight.
The Bucks.
Speaker 7 (34:31):
They snapped their four game losing streak as they topped
the Hornets The final score was one twelve to one
oh two. Damian Lillard twenty nine points and twelve assists.
Earlier today, the Bucks traded Chris Middleton to the Wizards.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
For Kyle Kuzma.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Now adding to this trade, apparently the Knicks are trading
center Jericho Sims to the Bucks.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
This is all part of that trade. But this Jericho
Sims just came out. Not long ago.
Speaker 7 (34:54):
The Cavaliers and the Pistons went down to the wire
in Detroit. Darius Garland wins it with a logo three
with five seconds, so Cleveland one eighteen to one fifteen
against Detroit.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Garland ended with twenty five points.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
The Spur survived one twenty six to one twenty five
against the Hawks, year and Fox's first game as a
Spur twenty four points and thirteen assists. Anthony Edwards dropped
forty nine points as the Timberwolves outscored the Bulls went
twenty seven to one oh eight.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Right now, in the NBA, the.
Speaker 7 (35:20):
Jazz are on top of the Warriors seventy nine to
seventy seven, four minutes to go in the third, two
minutes to go in the third, the Nuggets extending their
lead over the Pelicans one oh four to ninety one
at halftime.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
The Suns are beating the Thunder sixty three to sixty.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
One without Kevin Durant, and the Kings are losing to
the Magic at home thirty nine to thirty six early
in the second quarter.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
And of course, in baseball, the Mets.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
And Pete Alonso in agreement on a two year, fifty
four million dollar contract with a ten million dollars signing bonus.
Deal includes an opt out after this first season.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Okay, back to you guys, Thank.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
You Bot, say yes paular Bear. Pete is back there.
It is. It's a long drive to right field and
the Brewers because they in that party area for fans
to sit. It's a home run for Petere Lonzo whatnot?
A flyout to write the Met's take a three to
two lead. Yay, hey you Foxy Fox Sports Radio The
(36:13):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Coming
up next, I'll tell you what you want to know.
Two big time effects that are going to hit the
NBA over the next few days, weeks, and months because
of the Luca trade. We'll tell you next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
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Speaker 1 (36:40):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon,
Live from the tyrack dot Com Studios. Welcome back, Pete.
Uh NBA trade deadline is now a day away. We
saw a couple of big trades today. Chris Middleton is deltaway,
Kyle Kusma gonna try to make it work in Milwaukee,
and Jimmy Butler or gets sent to the Warriors. But
(37:02):
you want to know that that two big effects, right
this is now Okay, let's see what we've seen so
far the last few days. We're still running with the
vapors of Luca and Ad and it's still an incredible trade.
I mean, this has been a four day topic, and
not many topics go four straight days, you know, with
with content creators like us are on television. But I'm
gonna tell you two things that are gonna happen as
(37:25):
a result of this trade. And the first one's a
really big one. And we kind of made fun last
night Mike that, you know, here's Nikola Jokic and Steph Curry,
you know said what do you think of the Luca trade,
No one is safe. No one can go to bed
feeling safe, like okay, no one's dying, no one's coming
to kidnap you and take you someplace. Yeah. I get
what you're saying, but you're being a little dramatic, especially
(37:46):
because you're okay with other players getting traded to your
team if it makes you better. Yeah, but I'm a star.
I shouldn't have to worry about this. Oh but so
your life is more valuable than someone else's life because well,
their life is getting upset and said, heyworre So that
was a little bit of crazy ass stuff out out
of Korea and KI, Right, but they are correct in that.
(38:08):
Because of the Donsic Jokic, because of the the Doncic
a d trade, you are going to see NBA stars
and big stars get traded way more often than we have.
We needed what it was, it was certain stars. Well,
there's no way these guys are tradeable, right, We're not
gonna make a move. It's not happening. We can't trade Luca,
(38:29):
we can't trade this guy. It's just not how it's
non starter. Once you get one trade to go through
and you see that oh, we actually could make a
trade like this, and Dallas is going to withstand all
the arrows now for a while because, oh, you gave
away Luca. Well remember we probably weren't going to give
money in the offseason. He didn't want to be here,
(38:49):
and we got we got an All NBA player, So
I think we did. Okay, the the that's gonna die
down amongst you know, amongst NBA fans, and the big
chatter about it will die down, and teams are gonna realize, yeah,
we can trade our superstar. It's okay, you know, certain
teams that hey, we can do as long as we
get what we need back. We got to good make
(39:09):
a good trade. We're happy what we're getting. We will
trade that superstar player. And already what did you see
today the Bucks like, yeah, let's let's get rid of
Chris Middleton, even though what he means the team we
want a championship. Jimmy Butler, who was with the heat,
with the heat, with the heat. Finally, pat Rilecey, I
forget it. Let's trade him, like Kevin Durant will get
dealt by this time, by some time tomorrow, and you're
gonna see those big names when they're due for big
(39:31):
contracts or they've had it with their team, someone's gonna say,
we're okay with trading our superstar. Nobody is untouchable anymore
in the NBA, because if a team is motivated and
they need to move on that guy, he is absolutely tradable. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
I mean it rains to be seen how many more
big moves we have, whether Durant finds his way out.
Watching a pretty good game tonight at shay Gil just
Alexander with twenty eight at break, and you know there
was the the little lower third, Kevin Durant. I never
asked for a trade. Okay, that doesn't mean you still
can't move, but no, But that's to that larger point.
(40:08):
I mean, what do we keep talking about. It's Lebron
and Beale are the only guys with no trades, right.
Doesn't mean that guys can't be a pain in the ass,
and there might not be an outpost they don't want
to go to. But if the price is right and
you're looking at your long term financials, again we get
into all this Apron stuff. It gets really complicated and
kind of chaotic as you look at extensions and what
(40:31):
contracts are longer term, you're gonna see more shuttling of players.
Just like players would do the two and one and
leave on their own accord, it reverses course a bit.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Get Ready, big big, big names will get moved now
with much more regularity. Exit. How about a Fresco at
Swollen Dome? Coming up next. More on the big NBA
trade deadline and the big baseball signing we just saw
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