June 11, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon explain how the Men’s US Soccer Team plays uninspired soccer. The guys weigh-in on Aaron Rodgers cryptic "marriage" press conference from earlier today and tell you that Rodgers has officially hit the “Aging Hollywood star pushing their image whenever they can" part of his career!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:30):
Always great to watch a Mets walk off and then
start the show. Is it really though, Yes, it is, Yes,
it is. Yes. That's the great. That's the great. That's
the greatest way I could ever start a show. Mets
walk off we come on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean, it does get you excitable because in the
pre show environment we were cursing about the US men's
national team.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
We'll get to them in a second. We'll get okay,
just get we have negativity and now we get the
wave of positive tivity.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We've got the angst and the anger going on between
the Dodgers and the Padres.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I mean, there's just lots going on the way the
wave of the wave of happy right now, and then
we get to then we get to you, and you.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Were dance and that might have been more air than
you've ever gotten out. Hey, hey, the way you jumped,
just so you know you leapt.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I got Louis Ang's lacuna to home plate without a throw.
Go go, go go. I'm screaming. Goes ran me over
trying to get to the TV.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Because what you were really sizing up was as soon
as he crossed the plate, how quickly you can get
in front of the window and taunt or celebrate with
Steve Disager.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm not quite sure what that was. That was a
That was a Mets walk off. And now we get
the best rivalry in baseball. Second night and night we
got the Dodgers and the Padres. Last night was everything
you could have hoped for with the resumption of the
best rivalry in baseball and the top five rivalry overall
in sports. I mean, it's the top of the second
It's nothing. Nothing. I'm feeling I'm let down a little bit.
(01:58):
I mean, last night, by this point, what was it
was for by this time last week?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, maybe they punched themselves out like a boxing match.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And I think my favorite part of the day, uh,
because we talked about this last night when it had happened
the umpire, the home plate umpire video of Manny Machado
after he gets called out on strikes in the tenth
inning and just getting right up front to the the
umpire and right in his face and yelling at him
and disagreeing with the call. I mean phenomenon like this
is now I'm all in on the umpire cam right
(02:27):
when you see stuff like that was right front. But
I love how and Frostburg said to me earlier today
someone superimposed it like it was a ring doorbell and
like Manny Machado was going up to your door, and
that was the video you had that or the hey,
we have the full audio.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Because they remember they clipped it, started cursing, yeah, yeah,
you've got to cut it, h and then it was
just a crying baby. Yeah yeah, So you got those
running in parallel. Ring doorbell was very ring doorbell, like
he's going right up to the door, yelling.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
At you of you didn't chip me, you didn't hit me.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I mean, it's reminiscent of so many door dash uber
eats and I was like, I'm taking your food back.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Usually like no, no, you gotta you gotta delivery fee.
I'm a thing that when I see a ring doorbell video.
I know one of two things is happening. Okay, there's
either some kind of crazy uh thing happening with food delivery,
or there's gonna be an animal I'm not used to see.
That's gonna be on the front por Part three. It's
a full work just for engagement. Oh, look at this
black bear eating this deer on the these people's ports. Wow,
(03:31):
look at that. That's it. You don't that in a while. Oh,
here comes some other bears. Oh, it's gonna be a
big boy. I hope you weren't going out anytime soon.
You guys, stay in your house. It really one of
those two things. No, that's good. That that is. That
sums it up nicely. Uh so, yes, yes, So we
start with the Mets walk off and now okay, now,
now okay, okay, okay. Now now we get to something
(03:52):
we touched on briefly. Uh, Monday night on the show Monday,
what's today? Tuesday? Ye? Last night? It seems later the
week immediately, does I mean? We just watched Switzerland Beth
the United States in a friendly is the United States?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Was it really that friendly? No? Not? Well, you know
it's friendly. It was friendly for Greg Burhalter, it was
not friendly for poaching. Do you think it was after
Do you think he and he and Klinsman hang out
and watch games together the zoom call? Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Hey yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Then it's going back and forth by who's laughing louder
as opposed to who's speaking?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Hey, you're good a gb Hey, what's happening?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You're ready? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Let's watch anyway, let me go, I got I got
a I got a sandwich coming out of the microwave.
Let me go grab it, let me come back. Wait,
who's call? Who's that calling? Oh, it's Polistic's dad. It's
like that. It's like their own personal manning cast that
they have. When I watched a US men's team play, No,
that sounds about right. Look, this has been an absolute disaster.
This is probably Boy twenty eighteen not qualifying for the
(04:54):
World Cup, but also not qualifying because of some questionable
officiating in other games contributed to US not qualifying. But this,
this is right now. I'd say it's the low point
of men's soccer in the United States in the past
six seven years, because here they are now, you know,
getting ready for the Gold Cup. And it's the B team, right,
(05:15):
it's definitely a B team coming and in a Polistic
and other players. Robinson's not playing, so it is a
B team. But still they get absolutely drugged by Switzerland
after a loss over the weekend, and it's for nothing
after the first forty minutes of this game. And the
big thing, right, well, you can sit here and say, well,
Poachetino is building, it's all of these things happening. But
(05:37):
you know, we mentioned this very briefly last night. You know,
you can take this any way you want to and say, yeah, yeah,
let's make excuses. But the bottom line is when was
the last good story coming off of the men's national team,
either on the field or off the field. I can't
even tell you because you can't count Pochctino being hired
because so far it's been a disaster.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I don't know if it's the players don't respond to him,
they don't want to play for them, But clearly, you know,
guys like Polistic and Robinson you want to play here
because the oh, by the way, the World Cup is
next year. Don't you want more as much time with
your teammates as possible? I you know, I hear you
can say, hey, we're gonna play a pre tournament. Say, okay,
I understand, but I mean they automatically qualify, But don't
(06:17):
you want to have as much time with your teammates
as possible. Like I get that people are upset at
Landon Donovan because he's a guy that actually skipped took
time off earlier in his career. So when you sit
here and say, oh, you know, these guys should be playing,
Politics should be playing, I get where that's met with
with a bit of a side eye by Policic and
Politic's dad. But I look at what's going and I
(06:38):
don't even know what they're about. I don't know what
their identity is. I don't know how well how much
the players are are excited about playing. I don't know
how motivated they are. You know, I watched them, and
i'm watching the first half I'm doing. They just look
like they're they're playing. They don't look like they're motivating,
they don't look like they are they have any kind
of edge to them. And again it's still this is
now how many years, this is like the fifth year
(06:59):
in a row. I could say with the third head coach,
I could say, I don't know who we are. I
don't know, I don't know what we want to be.
I just don't get a feel that everybody is all
on board with US soccer going forward when this is
the pride of all other nations, right and certainly it's
the prime. You look at the women's side, and they
figured it all out. They hire the right coaches, they
have the right players. They look now. Obviously they have
(07:19):
a big head start because they were the biggest we're
the biggest country in the world in women's soccer for
a long time. But at this point you United said
the men's NAE needs to catch up. Oh, we have
all these great young players. Well it's been seven years
we've been we've been hearing about these young players and
I don't even know if can we even win a
game in the World Cup. Like, I don't even know
they're gonna have enough time to get together. I don't
even know if there's any togetherness about this team.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Well, I think that's the biggest point coming out of
this land. And Donovan flap is that normally you see
some inspired soccer, football, basketball, whatever, and take take it
what you will. We've joked about it and we'll get
into the NBA Finals in a little bit. But of
the you know, whether you've got to take it personally
(08:00):
and have the chip on your shoulder as an individual
or as a squad. Right when Landon Donovan's making comments, yeah,
he's calling out the guys that are there, but he's
saying the secondary guys are good enough. Right, he's saying
that without saying it. And when you put up a
listless effort like this, you're only reinforcing it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And we've been talking for as long as we've been
doing the show, right, we've been doing it in eleven years.
We touch on anything that's big and moving, and we incorporate,
and we always have women's sports, women's college basketball and soccer,
the men's national team as there's big headlines, and we've
had the selling of hope time and again. All right,
(08:42):
here's the new striker. Meet the new striker, same as
the old striker, hurt, ineffective and no build, time and
time again.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
All right, here's the coaching problems. Well, here's the next
guy coming in. He's going to fix it all. And
it takes time, obviously, rebuilds and trying to put yourself
on par with some of these other nations. Yeah, you're
not expecting to be top tier, you're expecting to be competitive. Right,
There's been a couple of generations at this point. Right,
(09:12):
this is not a new invention. I remember in the
mid nineties that that all right, soccer's on the comp
all right, I'm finishing high school, I'm into college. And
I got a lot of friends that started playing in
high school and went on and played some college soccer,
and like, no, no, no, it's starting to build. And you
saw it in the city of Chicago where I grew up,
and nationwide leagues popping up, and certainly my daughter being involved,
(09:36):
your daughter being involved. You watch the proliferation of all
these club sports and the build nationwide. It's not translated
into anything for the national team to this point.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
No, Andre's and here's the thing, here's the bet. Like
we talked about this, they're absolute dumpster fire right now.
They hire Pochattino to come in, and the biggest hallmarks
for him are his culture, physical play. Hey, you're gonna
get the best effort out and the United States team
has always been a team that. Boy, at times, they
look like they're gonna run people off the pitch and
(10:07):
then after fifteen minutes of that, they kind of sit
back and just meander through the course of the game. Right,
they get a goal early and they try to just
play on the war. There's no killer instinct. They do
it very for very brief periods of time. But this
is where, okay, this is where I get that kind
of effort because you see that, you know the talent
potentially is there. But I go back to this and
I'll give you a hot take on the US mental.
(10:27):
I'll you a great hot take. Right before they got
ready for the Gold Cup. For this prep for the
Gold Cup, Poachtino said, what did he say, Hey, if
you're coming to play, leave your golf clubs at home, right,
this is not going to be something where we go
out like everybody's gonna come and work hard. And what happened.
Three of the best players, including your captain, said yeah, no,
I'm not there. So if you know how important it
(10:49):
is to get ready and get on the same page
with everybody else for the World Cup, you know how
important these games are because you're you're not playing together.
The fact that they still stayed home and going this bad. Honestly,
I wonder if he even makes it to the World Cup.
If Poachatino still is a guy that makes it to
the World Cup, makes they have if they if they
have an awful flame out here, if they keep playing poor,
(11:12):
can you really stick with them or is it? Hey?
You know what, Yeah, we're gonna give them time because
clearly maybe maybe nobody wants to play for me? About that.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I take Tom Timodo's got time on his hand. Oh,
it would show up, but he would just stand in
with his arms. He'd get him to work hard. Well, well,
he would actually know, he would grind him too much,
and like more guys.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Know there, there would be no substitution. So his starting
eleven would be his starting but everybody would leave.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, they're the start you're working me too hard. No,
it's it's a very good point, very good question going
forward because look after each loss, it's the cell of
what's going well.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You can't you can't try to sell this effort today. No,
you can't. And and it's all about culture and going
forward and how we're going to play and how they're
going going to win. I really, I I can't. I
can't even say that. I really I can't even say that.
What we're going to what he's trying to build, right
if this Gold Cup goes badly, I I really wonder
(12:13):
if he makes to the World Corps, it's gonna be
we have maybe to bring bur Halter back, but maybe
it's it's somebody else that comes in, because I don't
know how much the team wants to play for any
of the coaches they had, from Kleinsman to you know,
to burr Halter. Here it's it's the same kind of
lack of effort, lack of cohesion, lack of desire. There's
nothing that could I don't know what fixes it, but
(12:34):
but I know this right now. If it continues like this,
I really wonder if he makes to the World Cup
next year, bring back Cleansman. That would be something laalass
out of the booth. Ted Lasso, well, I would go
If Ted well, listen, If Ted Lasso, oh boy, let
me see if we had if you had everybody, if
(12:55):
you had Ted and Beard and Roy Kent and Nate
the Great, then I'd be okay. But you gotta have
all of them though, gotta have all me. Wow, come on,
he's a wonder kid. But what's the end for then
it's wonder Kinnu kid, it's kiinned, It's wonder kid. What
does that mean?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's just it's really the that really is problematic. All right,
You're okay, that whole thing never really happened.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I really if if it continues like this, I really
want if they're gonna have a new head coach for
the World Cup. Yeah, they cleaned that up a lot
easier than they will for the men's national team. That's
for damn sure exit. How about a Fresco exit swollen dome.
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But coming up next, right, I mean get ready, Hey,
if you want to coach the men's national team, I'll
write a letter for you.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But coming up best maybe of the women's ching staff
can take over.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The coach, both Jays coach, both coach both go ahead,
go ahead, bring the trident over, let them, let them play,
but let them play there too, bring it back, whatever
you need to do, let's make it happen. But coming
up next, the big NFL bombshell that was dropped earlier
today is next. Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Be
(14:32):
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(14:54):
from the NFL earlier today, coming up in a minute,
the big reveal. WHOA we found out something?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
WHOA?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I didn't know this. Did you really have that reaction? Uh?
Kind of sort of sort of kind of so I
had assumed it would have been reality And in the
end is good for him, But you throw the ball.
But first it's time for the Play of the Day,
(15:23):
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(15:44):
you walk off giving yourself a five count five game lead,
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(16:10):
just pulling out. I'm done hearing of the Mets, the
Mets one. I'm just gonna take it out.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Well, I mean it was the play, right, he didn't
need the aftermath, the aftermath of the play of the day. Yeah, okay, okay,
and you had already talked about your excitement and jumping
up and down and all of the festivities that went
through there. Yeah, I'm, you know, to some degree salty
that you know, ham handed, you know, and and force
(16:36):
the the Mets into the play.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Wait wait, wait wait wait, ham handed. I just want
to say, but that you made it, you know all
about the Mets. Well, no, it's a walkoff to walk off.
We can't use anything from the Dodger and the Padres
act only in the third inning.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, but didn't we have a complete game thrown somewhere
in Major League Baseball? Doesn't that doesn't that win just
by default because we get so few of them?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And uh and I oh, by the way, let me
just say this before we get to Aaron Rodgers. Let
me just say this. Okay, you want to take a
look at the last four games for Juan Soto. Don't
look now, but guess who's heating up? Did he take
it personally? Guess who's heating up? Juan Soto? All right?
(17:22):
Really reach Bay six times on Sunday. He had three
hits on Friday against Colorado. Another big night tonight, all
of a sudden, Oh so miserable. Oh he wished he
was a Yankee. Yeah, remember remember those are the days
three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well, I mean he's still may be miserable, he still
may wish he's a Yankee, but he's hitting.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah. Well yeah, well okay, yeah, if that's the legitimates, right,
Like he could be salty like some of us. You know,
in your individual lives, whatever you do for work, however
you deal with your family. I mean, you know one
or the other may not be going great. Yeah, but
you then put all your energy in somewhere else. So
he may not like the guys in the clubhouse. They've
been razzing on about something, maybe the way you know
(18:02):
he styled his hair or something I don't know. And
he gets notes from Aaron Judson, miss you and Andy's
salty that he's not there.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
But then he says, you know what, I'm gonna take
that aggression out in between the white lines. I've got
to refocus and channel that energy into greatness.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And guys, don't forget to vote for him. Oh yeah,
you get them both of the All Star Game, Mavericks.
Those kids need your help. You might not like the
guys you're flying with, they may not like you, but
who said do you want anyway? You think? Maybe they
get him the top guns? Absolutely, Hey one, you might
not like the guys you're playing with. They might not
like you, but who's sorry? Do you want? All right?
(18:40):
The better start hitting? Then that's it. You can get
recognized what you need to do. Hey, hits in his
last four games, all of a sud all of a sudden.
All my text from Fabiano where he's sending me, oh
we got ben Rice is playing just as good for
so less money. Yeah, it's been a ghost town for
the last few days. Ghost town for the last few days.
Remember New York, I like Ben Rice, home of the
(19:01):
best team in baseball and the New York So the
show is tonight. The show is tonight, Frossberg show. Hey,
this is a big Listen Dodgers Potters in October. Dodgers
Potter is a big deal for the battle to be
the second best team in the National League is really
being fought hardly between these two teams. Man, this is
a big deal for you. I get it. I get
(19:23):
I get it. Uh speaking, he thinks he does protest
too much, speaking of saying things to everybody's face. Aaron
Rodgers met the media today for the first time as
the new starting quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He talked
about how joining the team is best for his soul
and a lot of things Rogers good wide, but he
(19:45):
also addressed the elephant in the room because of the
very carefully posed picture of him signing his Steelers contract
with oh, his left ring finger has a ring on it. Oh,
is Aaron Rodgers married well? Aaron Rodgers confirmed that to
day during his press conference. Is that an or ring
or anything else? Said wedding ring. It's a wedding ring, congratulation,
(20:10):
thank you, I love it's been a couple of months ago.
It's marry now, I'm married. Now, I'm married now now.
The first thing I thought of is, Okay, who could
he be married to, you know, And I'm trying to
think it's famous actresses under forty he could be dating
or around forty. And I'm thinking, oh, okay, no, it's
no Hailey Steinfeld. No, it's not her. No, it's not she.
(20:32):
She married Josh Allen.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Let's get to say she she got married. It's not publicly,
not Shanlee Woodley.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's not because I think Hailey Steinfeld Shaneley Woodley people
kind of confused them a little bit sometimes. Oh okay,
they think they were both in Pitch Perfect. They were,
but were they not? I don't know. So it's it's
not her because not Olivia. They're broken up. Not Olivia Munton. No, No,
that's a whole other story. Yeah, there's a lot going on.
I was just saying it wasn't her, No, it's not no,
And I'm I'm trying to like, who could it possibly be.
(20:59):
I'm trying to think of It's not Scarlet Johansson still
with Colin Jost no matter what Michael, she says on
on SNL and the jokes, whether she's at I've had it, okay, Colin,
I've had it with Shay when you write each other's
jokes and I'm in everyone now people know we're married,
all right? Can you just get him to stop it? Hey, hey,
take it easy, take it ease. That's the best bit
they've got going.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Actually, it is the jokes for each other because they
haven't seen it and all of a sudden it's in
the prompt. Oh no, yeah, oh I have to read this.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm trying to think, like, like
who could it be? Like who could it possibly be?
You know, I'm trying to think, can now it could be?
Is it Zenda? Maybe? I don't know? Sang it out
with Spider Man. Yeah, spider Man, Spider Man.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And there there's rumors they may be secretly married Spider Man.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
She's married to Spider Man, so she may be married
to Spider Man. Man. If there's video of their wedding
and Tom Holland is dressed in the Spider Man suit,
that would be the best and he just is it water?
He just web slings down the aisley lamps swinging in
have you the ring? Oh yeah, and just brings it
down from like up top of the get. That'd be
(22:11):
pretty good. That's pretty cool. But you know that happen
right before they would say I do. The Green Goblin
would come in and break up the wedding and wow.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I mean, look, if it gets an appearance by Willem Dafoe,
we all won well, or it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Could be a new green Goblin. Yeah really, William Dafoe
is like seventy man, I mean you know, yeah, okay, yeah,
but you just got to ride on that thing across
the city that looks like that, see the Green Goblin
that whatever that is he rides on. That looks like
something that in real life we could have at some point.
I think we could really have that at some point,
Like I believe you could probably find some similar test rug.
(22:46):
He's someone who's like one hundred and seventy five pounds
on top of that to stay up like that's a
that's a town. Like we're just the point now where
the Iron Man things are working out. Okay, and that's
still stilted, but that's something I can see. I can
see that green Goblin thing, you know, it's it's a
lot easier. I mean I would spend a lot of
money in that and ride around the desert and throw
those green Goblin bombs at things like you know, with
all bulls eyes and stuff and like scarecrows of Peter Park.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Might be might be the greatest invention that we've come
up with.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yet, what are you? What's your experience in the desert.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
You're gonna build a race track so they can simulate
right now that Richard Petton Now Goblin experience, We gobblin
experience like a hundred house No, no, completely.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You are the green gouys fly on his thing and
you have the.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Exoskeleton and little you know, the little pumpkin bombs and
you're able to say and there's big microphones and then
blast out on speakers where you could just say hello Peter.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
You get that laugh going on. Oh that's a great experience.
I gotta write that down. Green Goblin, let's figure out.
I mean, look, I can replace paintball really fast.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Taking that now you're throwing balls of paint, yeah, you
say the green Goblins. Yeah, we don't even need the propulsion. No,
you know, like which segues. Yeah, like those little things
that don't have the handle. Yeah, no, right, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah, yeah, like Joe Bluth when he made those popular.
But yeah yeah, like we don't need the blurt. We
need to now look now this, now, look this thing
with Aaron red there's obviously you know, something different here
other than you know, wondering who it could be like
this is This is why when I say, you know,
is Aaron Rodgers as locked in to football as he
(24:26):
has been for most of his career because with the
Jets and here with the Steelers, it's very loose. He's
always been very loose with the team. Now he's a
good leader. Teammates like him, you know you for all
this all Rogers, not this. No teammates like him, you see,
even even four members of the Jets. He's not gonna
say anything about the Jets ever. Like the story today,
he and Jermaine Johnson were texting with each other. Jamaine Johnson,
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one of the best young pass rushers in the NFL,
got hurt early last year. He said, Aaron Rodgers let
him work out with this guy in California, you know,
gave him some big props and said, listen, you have
a ten plus year career. Don't worry, it's a speed bump.
Like for all this, Oh, Rogers teammates likes him, they
like him, but this whole overall, his overall all attitude
towards the NFL is like I don't get the sense
(25:09):
that the guy is still as all in as he was,
and I get the sense that now he's using football
to further Aaron Rodgers and the optics. Right like he
he comes across as like a Hollywood celebrity that wants
to give you that little bit of mystery, that's always
worried about their image and their optics, and everything they
do is something to make sure that people are talking
(25:31):
about them or they're asking questions, right like why wouldn't
you not I've been married for a couple of months. No,
but I'm not going to say who I'm married to, Like,
just say it's private, right if you don't want to,
if you don't want to talk, like I get it, right,
Like when Otani got married, No, no picture of me
and my wife until we're ready, because there's you know
what people wanted to pay for it back in Japan
for pictures. The two of them like who is she?
Who is she? Right?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So don't run in parallel in terms of the uh,
you know, secrecy, privacy, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Let go tonn.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
He's got a bunch of those, right, But it's not
here's the dog, here's the why. Now we're having a baby?
I mean who I mean, who doesn't love decoy? I mean,
come on, but I mean like all of those the
gambling thing that was there and then but he disappeared.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
But as far as like for the marriage, it's not
like Otani came out and said anything. People found out
he was married. Keeping this fry. Aaron Rodgers clearly wants
to flaunt and have people talk about him. So he
wore the ring very prominently in that picture that they
took for him when he's signing his contract. Right, you're
signing a contract with your right hand. Why is your
left hand right in front of the picture unless you
(26:28):
want people to know, right, this is what I'm trying
to get. He's not like copy off your paint. He's
almost like this, I mean, don't look at my ring.
Don't look at the terms of this contract. How much
you want to bet the ring is made of hemp,
but I think it's a hemp ring. Well is it
one of those rubber ones? Those have gone in very
popular with athletes? Oh okay, are they okay?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Instead of your your traditional metal rings because those tear
up your fingers.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, like the rings you buy, like I said last night,
rings you by an anthropology. Oh that's a great ring
for eleven dollars. I'm gonna get the road. So if
it's if it's private and the wedding is private to you,
then yeah, you know, I really don't want to talk
about it. Thank you for asking, But it's a ring.
Whatever you want to say. But clearly he wants people
(27:13):
to know that he's married. But it's too much to
give away I'm married and who I'm married to, because
if it really was private, he wouldn't say, but oh
you haven't married. Oh yeah, married a couple of months.
What are you talking about here? Making it seem like, oh,
you guys are so late to the party. How do
you guys not know I'm married? But I'm not gonna
tell you who I'm married to because now I want
people to dig into it and people are gonna find out.
If Aaron Rodgers didn't want to know people wanted to,
(27:36):
he would have just said, you know what, Sorry, you
guys got to do your own stuff. I'm not gonna
help you out with anything. Oh but now we know
he's married married a couple of months. Who's he married to.
We're gonna find out who he's married to. It's gonna
become a story. Like I mean, he's he's at the
the Hollywood star part of his career where I keep
having to make sure I keep my name out there
and I'm relevant and people are asking about I'm always
(27:58):
worried about my image. What can I do today that's
going to help my image with something? Whether it's an
whether an actor or an actress who says, Oh, I'm
gonna lend my voice to this project and not tell anybody,
or I'm gonna do this and not tell anybody. People
are gonna figure it out. Or there'll be a story
that my public relations people plant about something I did
on the movie set that I'm not gonna say it,
(28:19):
but it's gonna come out there and it's gonna get
people talking about it like that. That's where Rogers is
right now. He's at that I love being famous, and
I guarantee you, he would say, I wish I was
this guy ten years ago, but he really only hit
it big as far in the fame department where you're
the most famous player in football after he got mad
at the Packers and wanted out because they drafted Jordan Love.
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So he's had four years of the fast lane of
being the guy that's moved the needle in the NFL.
Now he sees it's coming to an end. And now
I'm using this to foster along me continuing to own
the headlines and be famous. I really I don't know
how much he's into playing as much as he is. Well,
I'm gonna play a little bit here, and I'm gonna
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use that to help push my fame forward for whatever
I want to do after football this year, because I
see this and that stands for everything. Because if you
wanted to keep it quiet and keep it quiet, but no, no, no,
Now you want people to keep asking and keep digging
into what this is because you really want to keep
the headlines.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Well, it had been speculated about for several months, and
certainly going back to that Netflix series you know what's
going on and talking about his past relationships and the
public nature of those and whether it was good, bad
and different. Right we talk reference to Danika Patrick comments
of the last couple of weeks, you.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Go all the way through that.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
For Rogers, I just wonder if he's not in that
place where he's found peace, whatever that is, you know,
the Ayahuascar retreats, the darkness retreats, the you know, whatever
it is. Look, everybody's on a different path. I don't
condemn it. I don't understand some of it, but that's fine.
To each their own is not as long as you're
(29:56):
not hurting anybody. But for him, I think he's at
a place where he's like, look, I can still sling it.
And we watched at the back end of that season
last year where he's coming back and he's finally fully healthy,
puts up some big numbers, got an opportunity to go
to Pittsburgh, big, big marketplace in terms of the global
popularity of the squad that you can say, all right,
(30:19):
I'm gonna go in and give it the old college
try and you can play football and maybe find some
balance in your life where it was always about football
and antagonism and this is a I'm gonna make.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
You work a little bit. It's like you got part
of the story. Why do the big reveal? Now it's
only the first day of veteran mini cams. He's got
the because he's got the headlines. And now here's how
I foster this? Right? But I could go to work
over here, you guys worry about this and we'll all
meet in the back back back nine. Nah's he knows
you know. Look, he's masterful with that. He knows it.
(30:51):
But he's at the Hollywood part of his career. Hey,
my image is everything. How do I foster it? And
really wears football other than a tool to keep him fair?
Like that's that's Aaron Rodgers at this point, with that
nice little ring that he had. They'll win more games
for the Steelers than he did the Jets. But that's
not it's not that difficult to do.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
It's not that well, I mean, you're you're just dismissing
him categorically, like a spurn not love hard to do.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Like you're mad he got married somebody else. Steelers are
a better football team than the Jets. So yeah, okay,
I get that. Uh time not to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. But guy's been
called the Aaron Rodgers of Fox Sports Radio. Huh. When
he writes scripts and works, you can see his wedding
ring as well. It's Steve Disager.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
There is no correlation between Aaron Rodgers and except for,
of course, salaries and longevity of career. Okay, maybe not
even that, but you I like, no, I like doing
the cut of your Jim Steve. You mentioned US men, Soucker.
It was down for nothing in the first half, lost
for nothing to Switzerland and Ashville tonight. Officially, the US
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had no shots on goals.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, I couldn't played. That means I could have played
keeper for the Swiss, Yes, and the score would have
been the same. He's a Swiss, didn't na keeper? No,
the empty nets, a.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Literal block of Swiss cheese could have played goalie for
the Swiss Tonight. To Major League Baseball, the Yankees lead
with two outs in the ninth, ten to two at
Kansas City, again their bottom of the ninth. There, Aaron
Judge with an early home run his twenty fourth Gencarlo
Stanton with the elbow injury started rehabit double a at
a two run single and an RBI single. Texas won
(32:25):
sixteen to four. At Minnesota. Toronto secured a ten to
nine win at Saint Louis. Victories for Boston, Milwaukee, and
the Mets, who won in ten innings in a comeback
over Washington five to four. Jeff McNeil RBI single and
the game winning double victories for Miami and the Cubs.
Cincinnati won its fifth straight winning pitcher Andrew Abbotts six
and one after his complete game one nothing at Cleveland.
(32:48):
Detroit won again five to three at Baltimore. The White
Sox lead at Houston four to two and the top
of the ninth, and Houston is the first place team
in the AL West, three games over Seattle. The Battle
Mariners are down to nothing at Arizona in the bottom
of the fourth. The Padres have just taken a two
nothing lead against the Dodgers in the bottom of the third.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
An all bullpen night for La.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
A's at Angels scoreless in the top of the fifth,
A's without a hit so far. As for the NFL News,
Washington Commander's wide receiver Terry McLaurin is skipping mandatory mini
camp this week. He's due to finish contract extension this year.
Among those who did not report seeking new contracts Steelers
linebacker TJ. Watt and Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson not
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at Dolphins mini camp, or defensive back Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And tight end John U. Smith. We can update.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
It looks like the Padres are extending the lead against
La bottom of the third now three nothing pods back
to you.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Hey, this battle to be the second best team in
the National League seed. This is a big deal, and
it's a really big deal right here.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
You know, the Yankees aren't that but far behind the
overall records. As much as you may bash the yank
they're going to be forty and twenty five in just
a minute.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, that's all right, I still look at it.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Look about another in Max Freed is going to be
nine and one this year.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Thank you, Steven. Coming up next, there's a big time
NBA stars We get set for Game three tomorrow night
that I absolutely need more from way do we tell
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coming up at about ten minutes, two big takes as we
look ahead to Game three of the NBA Finals tomorrow night.
But first, a guy I need more from in the
NBA Finals. And it's crazy we're saying this considering the
playoff that he's had, clutch playoff, that he's had what
he had in Game one, But honestly, I need more
from Tyre's Halliburton. Okay, he still has these moments, these
(35:10):
wide swaths enduring series where he looks like the best
player on the court and it's not even close, and
the next game it looks like, dude, are you even trying?
Like he's got a little too much and Edwards in him,
where Edwards was someone who you see hey in a
six game series two out of every six games, it's like,
what's the guy doing. He's not taking shots, he's not
(35:32):
involved in the game. What is he really doing? Does
he know how to break down the defense is he not?
And it's a different situation for Halliburton than Edwards because
Haliburton's a guy. Look, he has the ball in his
hands a little bit more, but like that was a
big thing. This is why the tea Wolves went home
because SGA is a superstar that gives you everything you
need every game. And if he's not impacting a game,
(35:53):
if he's having a tough time lighting up, he's getting
to the free throw line, he's getting his teammates involved.
This is why the guy's the MVP, right. But Halliburton,
I'm done because I need more from him and I'm
done with the Halliburton story of being Oh what else
do you want from because he seems like he's only
really motivated when people doubt him or when something happens
(36:13):
to spur him on. Like, if you're a true superstar
in the NBA, if you're this good, right, and Halliburton
clearly has shown he's got the skills to be this good, right,
Anthony Edwards has the skills to be this good. Halliburton
has the skills to be an all NBA player. Why
is it two times in every series you go, wow,
they got boat raced in that game. Why well, look,
Halliburton was eleven points, you know, three out of eight
(36:35):
from the field, and he had you know, seven assists
and five rebounds. Why if Halliburton had the game, he
has two of those games a series. And if you're
that good, you have to be able to play a
little bit more consistent than that. And I'm not saying
every game needs to be where you're thirty and ten
and ten, but there's got to be times where I'm
controlling the team and I'm out here leading and I'm
(36:56):
doing my damnedest, and if I'm not hitting shots, and
it's me setting things up because I could clearly I
can get my own shots, I can get into the paint,
I can get the ball to the right guys, because
everybody on the Pacers can at threes. So there's games
where he can do that. He just doesn't. And you
need to be more motivated than just Hey, when people
say I'm overrated, or look at look at the Pacers
series against the Knicks. There's no bigger example. I could
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tell you that after Game three where Halliburton was bad
and the Nicks cut that series to two to one,
what did the Pacers do? Hey, your dad's coming back
to the game. We're having your dad come back for
game four. Could have had him come back for Game three,
but it's like the Pacers were saving it knowing that
we may need to motivate Halliburton during a series, which
would be a big red flag. Shouldn't have to motivate
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a guy. You could have him come back for game three,
but no, no, no, he had a really bad Game three.
We're down two one. We got to motivate, and what happens.
Haliburton comes back in Game four and he has one
of the best games of his NBA career. Like that
should be. All that tells you about Halliburton is that, dude,
you have to find some way to be this motivat,
be this version of yourself every time you step on
the floor, especially when you get to the NBA Finals,
(38:00):
the conference finals. It can't just be hey, couple of times, yeah,
don't know what happened in that game. It's why guys
like Ann Edwards are home well.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
But on the plus side for him, up until about
two weeks ago, nobody expected any of this. Right with
Ann Edwards, it was he was coronated, right. You might
as well have had the si cover like they had
for Lebron all those years ago, where he then decided
to start calling himself the King and adopted it and whatever.
But for Anthony Edwards, like I played good enough defense,
(38:29):
I did this, I did that right, Those were his comebacks.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
In media sessions. But expectations heavy.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Is the head who wears the crown or that people
are trying to shove it on his head With Terry's Aliburton,
he was just a guy on a pretty good team,
flashed every once in a while, but clearly has a
pension for last minute shots right now, thirteen of sixteen
because that last one didn't count, but it's but it's
the kind of thing that we want to look at
(38:57):
his numbers. He's not a volume guy, right he shott
team point eight shots per game this year. You've been
talking about the depth of what Indiana is where he
can take over at times. Even from an assist perspective,
you're looking at a guy nine point two ten point
nine a year ago. That's the career high, ten point
four distributing well, he was fourteen ten and six in
(39:19):
the first game, makes the big shot, But we don't
talk about the rest of that game because he makes
the big shot, right, Fourteen, ten and six is a
pretty damn good stat line. Yeah right, Jason Kidd, your
next head coach is the guy.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
That went that was not scoring fourteen, Jason Kidd was
ten and ten and you know ten well, but that
I'm looking for balance because I'll take those four off there,
I'll put it over the assists column and now I
got ten, ten, ten, Okay. But it's it's just the
idea that he's.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Not been the guy that we've been trying to crown,
and now all of a sudden we are. It's like
we're chasing him down because we can't give it to
Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Just let it be. Let it be. He doesn't have
to be that guy. Everybody's got to find a way
to bring more to the party, and it's got to
be I feel that Groby topic gotta be that good.
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Always great to watch a Mets walk off and then
start the show. Is it really though, Yes, it is, Yes,
it is. Yes. That's the great. That's the great. That's
the greatest way I could ever start a show. Mets
walk off we come on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean, it does get you excitable because in the
pre show environment we were cursing about the US men's
national team.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
We'll get to them in a second. We'll get okay,
just get we have negativity and now we get the
wave of positive tivity.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We've got the angst and the anger going on between
the Dodgers and the Padres.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I mean, there's just lots going on the way the
wave of the wave of happy right now, and then
we get to then we get to you, and you.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Were dance and that might have been more air than
you've ever gotten out. Hey, hey, the way you jumped,
just so you know you leapt.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I got Louis Ang's lacuna to home plate without a throw.
Go go, go go. I'm screaming. Goes ran me over
trying to get to the TV.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Because what you were really sizing up was as soon
as he crossed the plate, how quickly you can get
in front of the window and taunt or celebrate with
Steve Disager.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I'm not quite sure what that was. That was a
That was a Mets walk off. And now we get
the best rivalry in baseball. Second night and night we
got the Dodgers and the Padres. Last night was everything
you could have hoped for with the resumption of the
best rivalry in baseball and the top five rivalry overall
in sports. I mean, it's the top of the second
It's nothing. Nothing. I'm feeling I'm let down a little bit.
(01:58):
I mean, last night, by this point, what was it
was for by this time last week?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, maybe they punched themselves out like a boxing match.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And I think my favorite part of the day, uh,
because we talked about this last night when it had happened
the umpire, the home plate umpire video of Manny Machado
after he gets called out on strikes in the tenth
inning and just getting right up front to the the
umpire and right in his face and yelling at him
and disagreeing with the call. I mean phenomenon like this
is now I'm all in on the umpire cam right
(02:27):
when you see stuff like that was right front. But
I love how and Frostburg said to me earlier today
someone superimposed it like it was a ring doorbell and
like Manny Machado was going up to your door, and
that was the video you had that or the hey,
we have the full audio.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Because they remember they clipped it, started cursing, yeah, yeah,
you've got to cut it, h and then it was
just a crying baby. Yeah yeah, So you got those
running in parallel. Ring doorbell was very ring doorbell, like
he's going right up to the door, yelling.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
At you of you didn't chip me, you didn't hit me.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I mean, it's reminiscent of so many door dash uber
eats and I was like, I'm taking your food back.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Usually like no, no, you gotta you gotta delivery fee.
I'm a thing that when I see a ring doorbell video.
I know one of two things is happening. Okay, there's
either some kind of crazy uh thing happening with food delivery,
or there's gonna be an animal I'm not used to see.
That's gonna be on the front por Part three. It's
a full work just for engagement. Oh, look at this
black bear eating this deer on the these people's ports. Wow,
(03:31):
look at that. That's it. You don't that in a while. Oh,
here comes some other bears. Oh, it's gonna be a
big boy. I hope you weren't going out anytime soon.
You guys, stay in your house. It really one of
those two things. No, that's good. That that is. That
sums it up nicely. Uh so, yes, yes, So we
start with the Mets walk off and now okay, now,
now okay, okay, okay. Now now we get to something
(03:52):
we touched on briefly. Uh, Monday night on the show Monday,
what's today? Tuesday? Ye? Last night? It seems later the
week immediately, does I mean? We just watched Switzerland Beth
the United States in a friendly is the United States?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Was it really that friendly? No? Not? Well, you know
it's friendly. It was friendly for Greg Burhalter, it was
not friendly for poaching. Do you think it was after
Do you think he and he and Klinsman hang out
and watch games together the zoom call? Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
Hey yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Then it's going back and forth by who's laughing louder
as opposed to who's speaking?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Hey, you're good a gb Hey, what's happening?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Man?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You're ready? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Let's watch anyway, let me go, I got I got
a I got a sandwich coming out of the microwave.
Let me go grab it, let me come back. Wait,
who's call? Who's that calling? Oh, it's Polistic's dad. It's
like that. It's like their own personal manning cast that
they have. When I watched a US men's team play, No,
that sounds about right. Look, this has been an absolute disaster.
This is probably Boy twenty eighteen not qualifying for the
(04:54):
World Cup, but also not qualifying because of some questionable
officiating in other games contributed to US not qualifying. But this,
this is right now. I'd say it's the low point
of men's soccer in the United States in the past
six seven years, because here they are now, you know,
getting ready for the Gold Cup. And it's the B team, right,
(05:15):
it's definitely a B team coming and in a Polistic
and other players. Robinson's not playing, so it is a
B team. But still they get absolutely drugged by Switzerland
after a loss over the weekend, and it's for nothing
after the first forty minutes of this game. And the
big thing, right, well, you can sit here and say, well,
Poachetino is building, it's all of these things happening. But
(05:37):
you know, we mentioned this very briefly last night. You know,
you can take this any way you want to and say, yeah, yeah,
let's make excuses. But the bottom line is when was
the last good story coming off of the men's national team,
either on the field or off the field. I can't
even tell you because you can't count Pochctino being hired
because so far it's been a disaster.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I don't know if it's the players don't respond to him,
they don't want to play for them, But clearly, you know,
guys like Polistic and Robinson you want to play here
because the oh, by the way, the World Cup is
next year. Don't you want more as much time with
your teammates as possible? I you know, I hear you
can say, hey, we're gonna play a pre tournament. Say, okay,
I understand, but I mean they automatically qualify, But don't
(06:17):
you want to have as much time with your teammates
as possible. Like I get that people are upset at
Landon Donovan because he's a guy that actually skipped took
time off earlier in his career. So when you sit
here and say, oh, you know, these guys should be playing,
Politics should be playing, I get where that's met with
with a bit of a side eye by Policic and
Politic's dad. But I look at what's going and I
(06:38):
don't even know what they're about. I don't know what
their identity is. I don't know how well how much
the players are are excited about playing. I don't know
how motivated they are. You know, I watched them, and
i'm watching the first half I'm doing. They just look
like they're they're playing. They don't look like they're motivating,
they don't look like they are they have any kind
of edge to them. And again it's still this is
now how many years, this is like the fifth year
(06:59):
in a row. I could say with the third head coach,
I could say, I don't know who we are. I
don't know, I don't know what we want to be.
I just don't get a feel that everybody is all
on board with US soccer going forward when this is
the pride of all other nations, right and certainly it's
the prime. You look at the women's side, and they
figured it all out. They hire the right coaches, they
have the right players. They look now. Obviously they have
(07:19):
a big head start because they were the biggest we're
the biggest country in the world in women's soccer for
a long time. But at this point you United said
the men's NAE needs to catch up. Oh, we have
all these great young players. Well it's been seven years
we've been we've been hearing about these young players and
I don't even know if can we even win a
game in the World Cup. Like, I don't even know
they're gonna have enough time to get together. I don't
even know if there's any togetherness about this team.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Well, I think that's the biggest point coming out of
this land. And Donovan flap is that normally you see
some inspired soccer, football, basketball, whatever, and take take it
what you will. We've joked about it and we'll get
into the NBA Finals in a little bit. But of
the you know, whether you've got to take it personally
(08:00):
and have the chip on your shoulder as an individual
or as a squad. Right when Landon Donovan's making comments, yeah,
he's calling out the guys that are there, but he's
saying the secondary guys are good enough. Right, he's saying
that without saying it. And when you put up a
listless effort like this, you're only reinforcing it.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And we've been talking for as long as we've been
doing the show, right, we've been doing it in eleven years.
We touch on anything that's big and moving, and we incorporate,
and we always have women's sports, women's college basketball and soccer,
the men's national team as there's big headlines, and we've
had the selling of hope time and again. All right,
(08:42):
here's the new striker. Meet the new striker, same as
the old striker, hurt, ineffective and no build, time and
time again.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
All right, here's the coaching problems. Well, here's the next
guy coming in. He's going to fix it all. And
it takes time, obviously, rebuilds and trying to put yourself
on par with some of these other nations. Yeah, you're
not expecting to be top tier, you're expecting to be competitive. Right,
There's been a couple of generations at this point. Right,
(09:12):
this is not a new invention. I remember in the
mid nineties that that all right, soccer's on the comp
all right, I'm finishing high school, I'm into college. And
I got a lot of friends that started playing in
high school and went on and played some college soccer,
and like, no, no, no, it's starting to build. And you
saw it in the city of Chicago where I grew up,
and nationwide leagues popping up, and certainly my daughter being involved,
(09:36):
your daughter being involved. You watch the proliferation of all
these club sports and the build nationwide. It's not translated
into anything for the national team to this point.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
No, Andre's and here's the thing, here's the bet. Like
we talked about this, they're absolute dumpster fire right now.
They hire Pochattino to come in, and the biggest hallmarks
for him are his culture, physical play. Hey, you're gonna
get the best effort out and the United States team
has always been a team that. Boy, at times, they
look like they're gonna run people off the pitch and
(10:07):
then after fifteen minutes of that, they kind of sit
back and just meander through the course of the game. Right,
they get a goal early and they try to just
play on the war. There's no killer instinct. They do
it very for very brief periods of time. But this
is where, okay, this is where I get that kind
of effort because you see that, you know the talent
potentially is there. But I go back to this and
I'll give you a hot take on the US mental.
(10:27):
I'll you a great hot take. Right before they got
ready for the Gold Cup. For this prep for the
Gold Cup, Poachtino said, what did he say, Hey, if
you're coming to play, leave your golf clubs at home, right,
this is not going to be something where we go
out like everybody's gonna come and work hard. And what happened.
Three of the best players, including your captain, said yeah, no,
I'm not there. So if you know how important it
(10:49):
is to get ready and get on the same page
with everybody else for the World Cup, you know how
important these games are because you're you're not playing together.
The fact that they still stayed home and going this bad. Honestly,
I wonder if he even makes it to the World Cup.
If Poachatino still is a guy that makes it to
the World Cup, makes they have if they if they
have an awful flame out here, if they keep playing poor,
(11:12):
can you really stick with them or is it? Hey?
You know what, Yeah, we're gonna give them time because
clearly maybe maybe nobody wants to play for me? About that.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I take Tom Timodo's got time on his hand. Oh,
it would show up, but he would just stand in
with his arms. He'd get him to work hard. Well, well,
he would actually know, he would grind him too much,
and like more guys.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Know there, there would be no substitution. So his starting
eleven would be his starting but everybody would leave.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, they're the start you're working me too hard. No,
it's it's a very good point, very good question going
forward because look after each loss, it's the cell of
what's going well.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You can't you can't try to sell this effort today. No,
you can't. And and it's all about culture and going
forward and how we're going to play and how they're
going going to win. I really, I I can't. I
can't even say that. I really I can't even say that.
What we're going to what he's trying to build, right
if this Gold Cup goes badly, I I really wonder
(12:13):
if he makes to the World Corps, it's gonna be
we have maybe to bring bur Halter back, but maybe
it's it's somebody else that comes in, because I don't
know how much the team wants to play for any
of the coaches they had, from Kleinsman to you know,
to burr Halter. Here it's it's the same kind of
lack of effort, lack of cohesion, lack of desire. There's
nothing that could I don't know what fixes it, but
(12:34):
but I know this right now. If it continues like this,
I really wonder if he makes to the World Cup
next year, bring back Cleansman. That would be something laalass
out of the booth. Ted Lasso, well, I would go
If Ted well, listen, If Ted Lasso, oh boy, let
me see if we had if you had everybody, if
(12:55):
you had Ted and Beard and Roy Kent and Nate
the Great, then I'd be okay. But you gotta have
all of them though, gotta have all me. Wow, come on,
he's a wonder kid. But what's the end for then
it's wonder Kinnu kid, it's kiinned, It's wonder kid. What
does that mean?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's just it's really the that really is problematic. All right,
You're okay, that whole thing never really happened.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I really if if it continues like this, I really
want if they're gonna have a new head coach for
the World Cup. Yeah, they cleaned that up a lot
easier than they will for the men's national team. That's
for damn sure exit. How about a Fresco exit swollen dome.
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
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that is the United States men's soccer team coming up
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But coming up next, right, I mean get ready, Hey,
if you want to coach the men's national team, I'll
write a letter for you.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
But coming up best maybe of the women's ching staff
can take over.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The coach, both Jays coach, both coach both go ahead,
go ahead, bring the trident over, let them, let them play,
but let them play there too, bring it back, whatever
you need to do, let's make it happen. But coming
up next, the big NFL bombshell that was dropped earlier
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(14:54):
from the NFL earlier today, coming up in a minute,
the big reveal. WHOA we found out something?
Speaker 3 (15:01):
WHOA?
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I didn't know this. Did you really have that reaction? Uh?
Kind of sort of sort of kind of so I
had assumed it would have been reality And in the
end is good for him, But you throw the ball.
But first it's time for the Play of the Day,
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(16:10):
just pulling out. I'm done hearing of the Mets, the
Mets one. I'm just gonna take it out.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Well, I mean it was the play, right, he didn't
need the aftermath, the aftermath of the play of the day. Yeah, okay, okay,
and you had already talked about your excitement and jumping
up and down and all of the festivities that went
through there. Yeah, I'm, you know, to some degree salty
that you know, ham handed, you know, and and force
(16:36):
the the Mets into the play.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Wait wait, wait wait wait, ham handed. I just want
to say, but that you made it, you know all
about the Mets. Well, no, it's a walkoff to walk off.
We can't use anything from the Dodger and the Padres
act only in the third inning.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, but didn't we have a complete game thrown somewhere
in Major League Baseball? Doesn't that doesn't that win just
by default because we get so few of them?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
And uh and I oh, by the way, let me
just say this before we get to Aaron Rodgers. Let
me just say this. Okay, you want to take a
look at the last four games for Juan Soto. Don't
look now, but guess who's heating up? Did he take
it personally? Guess who's heating up? Juan Soto? All right?
(17:22):
Really reach Bay six times on Sunday. He had three
hits on Friday against Colorado. Another big night tonight, all
of a sudden, Oh so miserable. Oh he wished he
was a Yankee. Yeah, remember remember those are the days
three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Well, I mean he's still may be miserable, he still
may wish he's a Yankee, but he's hitting.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah. Well yeah, well okay, yeah, if that's the legitimates, right,
Like he could be salty like some of us. You know,
in your individual lives, whatever you do for work, however
you deal with your family. I mean, you know one
or the other may not be going great. Yeah, but
you then put all your energy in somewhere else. So
he may not like the guys in the clubhouse. They've
been razzing on about something, maybe the way you know
(18:02):
he styled his hair or something I don't know. And
he gets notes from Aaron Judson, miss you and Andy's
salty that he's not there.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
But then he says, you know what, I'm gonna take
that aggression out in between the white lines. I've got
to refocus and channel that energy into greatness.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And guys, don't forget to vote for him. Oh yeah,
you get them both of the All Star Game, Mavericks.
Those kids need your help. You might not like the
guys you're flying with, they may not like you, but
who said do you want anyway? You think? Maybe they
get him the top guns? Absolutely, Hey one, you might
not like the guys you're playing with. They might not
like you, but who's sorry? Do you want? All right?
(18:40):
The better start hitting? Then that's it. You can get
recognized what you need to do. Hey, hits in his
last four games, all of a sud all of a sudden.
All my text from Fabiano where he's sending me, oh
we got ben Rice is playing just as good for
so less money. Yeah, it's been a ghost town for
the last few days. Ghost town for the last few days.
Remember New York, I like Ben Rice, home of the
(19:01):
best team in baseball and the New York So the
show is tonight. The show is tonight, Frossberg show. Hey,
this is a big Listen Dodgers Potters in October. Dodgers
Potter is a big deal for the battle to be
the second best team in the National League is really
being fought hardly between these two teams. Man, this is
a big deal for you. I get it. I get
(19:23):
I get it. Uh speaking, he thinks he does protest
too much, speaking of saying things to everybody's face. Aaron
Rodgers met the media today for the first time as
the new starting quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He talked
about how joining the team is best for his soul
and a lot of things Rogers good wide, but he
(19:45):
also addressed the elephant in the room because of the
very carefully posed picture of him signing his Steelers contract
with oh, his left ring finger has a ring on it. Oh,
is Aaron Rodgers married well? Aaron Rodgers confirmed that to
day during his press conference. Is that an or ring
or anything else? Said wedding ring. It's a wedding ring, congratulation,
(20:10):
thank you, I love it's been a couple of months ago.
It's marry now, I'm married. Now, I'm married now now.
The first thing I thought of is, Okay, who could
he be married to, you know, And I'm trying to
think it's famous actresses under forty he could be dating
or around forty. And I'm thinking, oh, okay, no, it's
no Hailey Steinfeld. No, it's not her. No, it's not she.
(20:32):
She married Josh Allen.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Let's get to say she she got married. It's not publicly,
not Shanlee Woodley.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's not because I think Hailey Steinfeld Shaneley Woodley people
kind of confused them a little bit sometimes. Oh okay,
they think they were both in Pitch Perfect. They were,
but were they not? I don't know. So it's it's
not her because not Olivia. They're broken up. Not Olivia Munton. No, No,
that's a whole other story. Yeah, there's a lot going on.
I was just saying it wasn't her, No, it's not no,
And I'm I'm trying to like, who could it possibly be.
(20:59):
I'm trying to think of It's not Scarlet Johansson still
with Colin Jost no matter what Michael, she says on
on SNL and the jokes, whether she's at I've had it, okay, Colin,
I've had it with Shay when you write each other's
jokes and I'm in everyone now people know we're married,
all right? Can you just get him to stop it? Hey, hey,
take it easy, take it ease. That's the best bit
they've got going.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Actually, it is the jokes for each other because they
haven't seen it and all of a sudden it's in
the prompt. Oh no, yeah, oh I have to read this.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm trying to think, like, like
who could it be? Like who could it possibly be?
You know, I'm trying to think, can now it could be?
Is it Zenda? Maybe? I don't know? Sang it out
with Spider Man. Yeah, spider Man, Spider Man.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
And there there's rumors they may be secretly married Spider Man.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
She's married to Spider Man, so she may be married
to Spider Man. Man. If there's video of their wedding
and Tom Holland is dressed in the Spider Man suit,
that would be the best and he just is it water?
He just web slings down the aisley lamps swinging in
have you the ring? Oh yeah, and just brings it
down from like up top of the get. That'd be
(22:11):
pretty good. That's pretty cool. But you know that happen
right before they would say I do. The Green Goblin
would come in and break up the wedding and wow.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I mean, look, if it gets an appearance by Willem Dafoe,
we all won well, or it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Could be a new green Goblin. Yeah really, William Dafoe
is like seventy man, I mean you know, yeah, okay, yeah,
but you just got to ride on that thing across
the city that looks like that, see the Green Goblin
that whatever that is he rides on. That looks like
something that in real life we could have at some point.
I think we could really have that at some point,
Like I believe you could probably find some similar test rug.
(22:46):
He's someone who's like one hundred and seventy five pounds
on top of that to stay up like that's a
that's a town. Like we're just the point now where
the Iron Man things are working out. Okay, and that's
still stilted, but that's something I can see. I can
see that green Goblin thing, you know, it's it's a
lot easier. I mean I would spend a lot of
money in that and ride around the desert and throw
those green Goblin bombs at things like you know, with
all bulls eyes and stuff and like scarecrows of Peter Park.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Might be might be the greatest invention that we've come
up with.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yet, what are you? What's your experience in the desert.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
You're gonna build a race track so they can simulate
right now that Richard Petton Now Goblin experience, We gobblin
experience like a hundred house No, no, completely.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
You are the green gouys fly on his thing and
you have the.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Exoskeleton and little you know, the little pumpkin bombs and
you're able to say and there's big microphones and then
blast out on speakers where you could just say hello Peter.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
You get that laugh going on. Oh that's a great experience.
I gotta write that down. Green Goblin, let's figure out.
I mean, look, I can replace paintball really fast.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Taking that now you're throwing balls of paint, yeah, you
say the green Goblins. Yeah, we don't even need the propulsion. No,
you know, like which segues. Yeah, like those little things
that don't have the handle. Yeah, no, right, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Yeah, yeah, like Joe Bluth when he made those popular.
But yeah yeah, like we don't need the blurt. We
need to now look now this, now, look this thing
with Aaron red there's obviously you know, something different here
other than you know, wondering who it could be like
this is This is why when I say, you know,
is Aaron Rodgers as locked in to football as he
(24:26):
has been for most of his career because with the
Jets and here with the Steelers, it's very loose. He's
always been very loose with the team. Now he's a
good leader. Teammates like him, you know you for all
this all Rogers, not this. No teammates like him, you see,
even even four members of the Jets. He's not gonna
say anything about the Jets ever. Like the story today,
he and Jermaine Johnson were texting with each other. Jamaine Johnson,
(24:46):
one of the best young pass rushers in the NFL,
got hurt early last year. He said, Aaron Rodgers let
him work out with this guy in California, you know,
gave him some big props and said, listen, you have
a ten plus year career. Don't worry, it's a speed bump.
Like for all this, Oh, Rogers teammates likes him, they
like him, but this whole overall, his overall all attitude
towards the NFL is like I don't get the sense
(25:09):
that the guy is still as all in as he was,
and I get the sense that now he's using football
to further Aaron Rodgers and the optics. Right like he
he comes across as like a Hollywood celebrity that wants
to give you that little bit of mystery, that's always
worried about their image and their optics, and everything they
do is something to make sure that people are talking
(25:31):
about them or they're asking questions, right like why wouldn't
you not I've been married for a couple of months. No,
but I'm not going to say who I'm married to, Like,
just say it's private, right if you don't want to,
if you don't want to talk, like I get it, right,
Like when Otani got married, No, no picture of me
and my wife until we're ready, because there's you know
what people wanted to pay for it back in Japan
for pictures. The two of them like who is she?
Who is she? Right?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So don't run in parallel in terms of the uh,
you know, secrecy, privacy, what the hell is going on?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Let go tonn.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
He's got a bunch of those, right, But it's not
here's the dog, here's the why. Now we're having a baby?
I mean who I mean, who doesn't love decoy? I mean,
come on, but I mean like all of those the
gambling thing that was there and then but he disappeared.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
But as far as like for the marriage, it's not
like Otani came out and said anything. People found out
he was married. Keeping this fry. Aaron Rodgers clearly wants
to flaunt and have people talk about him. So he
wore the ring very prominently in that picture that they
took for him when he's signing his contract. Right, you're
signing a contract with your right hand. Why is your
left hand right in front of the picture unless you
(26:28):
want people to know, right, this is what I'm trying
to get. He's not like copy off your paint. He's
almost like this, I mean, don't look at my ring.
Don't look at the terms of this contract. How much
you want to bet the ring is made of hemp,
but I think it's a hemp ring. Well is it
one of those rubber ones? Those have gone in very
popular with athletes? Oh okay, are they okay?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Instead of your your traditional metal rings because those tear
up your fingers.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, like the rings you buy, like I said last night,
rings you by an anthropology. Oh that's a great ring
for eleven dollars. I'm gonna get the road. So if
it's if it's private and the wedding is private to you,
then yeah, you know, I really don't want to talk
about it. Thank you for asking, But it's a ring.
Whatever you want to say. But clearly he wants people
(27:13):
to know that he's married. But it's too much to
give away I'm married and who I'm married to, because
if it really was private, he wouldn't say, but oh
you haven't married. Oh yeah, married a couple of months.
What are you talking about here? Making it seem like, oh,
you guys are so late to the party. How do
you guys not know I'm married? But I'm not gonna
tell you who I'm married to because now I want
people to dig into it and people are gonna find out.
If Aaron Rodgers didn't want to know people wanted to,
(27:36):
he would have just said, you know what, Sorry, you
guys got to do your own stuff. I'm not gonna
help you out with anything. Oh but now we know
he's married married a couple of months. Who's he married to.
We're gonna find out who he's married to. It's gonna
become a story. Like I mean, he's he's at the
the Hollywood star part of his career where I keep
having to make sure I keep my name out there
and I'm relevant and people are asking about I'm always
(27:58):
worried about my image. What can I do today that's
going to help my image with something? Whether it's an
whether an actor or an actress who says, Oh, I'm
gonna lend my voice to this project and not tell anybody,
or I'm gonna do this and not tell anybody. People
are gonna figure it out. Or there'll be a story
that my public relations people plant about something I did
on the movie set that I'm not gonna say it,
(28:19):
but it's gonna come out there and it's gonna get
people talking about it like that. That's where Rogers is
right now. He's at that I love being famous, and
I guarantee you, he would say, I wish I was
this guy ten years ago, but he really only hit
it big as far in the fame department where you're
the most famous player in football after he got mad
at the Packers and wanted out because they drafted Jordan Love.
(28:39):
So he's had four years of the fast lane of
being the guy that's moved the needle in the NFL.
Now he sees it's coming to an end. And now
I'm using this to foster along me continuing to own
the headlines and be famous. I really I don't know
how much he's into playing as much as he is. Well,
I'm gonna play a little bit here, and I'm gonna
(29:00):
use that to help push my fame forward for whatever
I want to do after football this year, because I
see this and that stands for everything. Because if you
wanted to keep it quiet and keep it quiet, but no, no, no,
Now you want people to keep asking and keep digging
into what this is because you really want to keep
the headlines.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Well, it had been speculated about for several months, and
certainly going back to that Netflix series you know what's
going on and talking about his past relationships and the
public nature of those and whether it was good, bad
and different. Right we talk reference to Danika Patrick comments
of the last couple of weeks, you.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Go all the way through that.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
For Rogers, I just wonder if he's not in that
place where he's found peace, whatever that is, you know,
the Ayahuascar retreats, the darkness retreats, the you know, whatever
it is. Look, everybody's on a different path. I don't
condemn it. I don't understand some of it, but that's fine.
To each their own is not as long as you're
(29:56):
not hurting anybody. But for him, I think he's at
a place where he's like, look, I can still sling it.
And we watched at the back end of that season
last year where he's coming back and he's finally fully healthy,
puts up some big numbers, got an opportunity to go
to Pittsburgh, big, big marketplace in terms of the global
popularity of the squad that you can say, all right,
(30:19):
I'm gonna go in and give it the old college
try and you can play football and maybe find some
balance in your life where it was always about football
and antagonism and this is a I'm gonna make.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
You work a little bit. It's like you got part
of the story. Why do the big reveal? Now it's
only the first day of veteran mini cams. He's got
the because he's got the headlines. And now here's how
I foster this? Right? But I could go to work
over here, you guys worry about this and we'll all
meet in the back back back nine. Nah's he knows
you know. Look, he's masterful with that. He knows it.
(30:51):
But he's at the Hollywood part of his career. Hey,
my image is everything. How do I foster it? And
really wears football other than a tool to keep him fair?
Like that's that's Aaron Rodgers at this point, with that
nice little ring that he had. They'll win more games
for the Steelers than he did the Jets. But that's
not it's not that difficult to do.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
It's not that well, I mean, you're you're just dismissing
him categorically, like a spurn not love hard to do.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Like you're mad he got married somebody else. Steelers are
a better football team than the Jets. So yeah, okay,
I get that. Uh time not to find out what's
trending in the wide world of sports. But guy's been
called the Aaron Rodgers of Fox Sports Radio. Huh. When
he writes scripts and works, you can see his wedding
ring as well. It's Steve Disager.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
There is no correlation between Aaron Rodgers and except for,
of course, salaries and longevity of career. Okay, maybe not
even that, but you I like, no, I like doing
the cut of your Jim Steve. You mentioned US men, Soucker.
It was down for nothing in the first half, lost
for nothing to Switzerland and Ashville tonight. Officially, the US
(31:52):
had no shots on goals.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Yeah, I couldn't played. That means I could have played
keeper for the Swiss, Yes, and the score would have
been the same. He's a Swiss, didn't na keeper? No,
the empty nets, a.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Literal block of Swiss cheese could have played goalie for
the Swiss Tonight. To Major League Baseball, the Yankees lead
with two outs in the ninth, ten to two at
Kansas City, again their bottom of the ninth. There, Aaron
Judge with an early home run his twenty fourth Gencarlo
Stanton with the elbow injury started rehabit double a at
a two run single and an RBI single. Texas won
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sixteen to four. At Minnesota. Toronto secured a ten to
nine win at Saint Louis. Victories for Boston, Milwaukee, and
the Mets, who won in ten innings in a comeback
over Washington five to four. Jeff McNeil RBI single and
the game winning double victories for Miami and the Cubs.
Cincinnati won its fifth straight winning pitcher Andrew Abbotts six
and one after his complete game one nothing at Cleveland.
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Detroit won again five to three at Baltimore. The White
Sox lead at Houston four to two and the top
of the ninth, and Houston is the first place team
in the AL West, three games over Seattle. The Battle
Mariners are down to nothing at Arizona in the bottom
of the fourth. The Padres have just taken a two
nothing lead against the Dodgers in the bottom of the third.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
An all bullpen night for La.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
A's at Angels scoreless in the top of the fifth,
A's without a hit so far. As for the NFL News,
Washington Commander's wide receiver Terry McLaurin is skipping mandatory mini
camp this week. He's due to finish contract extension this year.
Among those who did not report seeking new contracts Steelers
linebacker TJ. Watt and Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson not
(33:31):
at Dolphins mini camp, or defensive back Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
And tight end John U. Smith. We can update.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
It looks like the Padres are extending the lead against
La bottom of the third now three nothing pods back
to you.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Hey, this battle to be the second best team in
the National League seed. This is a big deal, and
it's a really big deal right here.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
You know, the Yankees aren't that but far behind the
overall records. As much as you may bash the yank
they're going to be forty and twenty five in just
a minute.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, that's all right, I still look at it.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Look about another in Max Freed is going to be
nine and one this year.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Thank you, Steven. Coming up next, there's a big time
NBA stars We get set for Game three tomorrow night
that I absolutely need more from way do we tell
you who it is that's next? Jason to Mike Fox
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coming up at about ten minutes, two big takes as we
look ahead to Game three of the NBA Finals tomorrow night.
But first, a guy I need more from in the
NBA Finals. And it's crazy we're saying this considering the
playoff that he's had, clutch playoff, that he's had what
he had in Game one, But honestly, I need more
from Tyre's Halliburton. Okay, he still has these moments, these
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wide swaths enduring series where he looks like the best
player on the court and it's not even close, and
the next game it looks like, dude, are you even trying?
Like he's got a little too much and Edwards in him,
where Edwards was someone who you see hey in a
six game series two out of every six games, it's like,
what's the guy doing. He's not taking shots, he's not
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involved in the game. What is he really doing? Does
he know how to break down the defense is he not?
And it's a different situation for Halliburton than Edwards because
Haliburton's a guy. Look, he has the ball in his
hands a little bit more, but like that was a
big thing. This is why the tea Wolves went home
because SGA is a superstar that gives you everything you
need every game. And if he's not impacting a game,
(35:53):
if he's having a tough time lighting up, he's getting
to the free throw line, he's getting his teammates involved.
This is why the guy's the MVP, right. But Halliburton,
I'm done because I need more from him and I'm
done with the Halliburton story of being Oh what else
do you want from because he seems like he's only
really motivated when people doubt him or when something happens
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to spur him on. Like, if you're a true superstar
in the NBA, if you're this good, right, and Halliburton
clearly has shown he's got the skills to be this good, right,
Anthony Edwards has the skills to be this good. Halliburton
has the skills to be an all NBA player. Why
is it two times in every series you go, wow,
they got boat raced in that game. Why well, look,
Halliburton was eleven points, you know, three out of eight
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from the field, and he had you know, seven assists
and five rebounds. Why if Halliburton had the game, he
has two of those games a series. And if you're
that good, you have to be able to play a
little bit more consistent than that. And I'm not saying
every game needs to be where you're thirty and ten
and ten, but there's got to be times where I'm
controlling the team and I'm out here leading and I'm
(36:56):
doing my damnedest, and if I'm not hitting shots, and
it's me setting things up because I could clearly I
can get my own shots, I can get into the paint,
I can get the ball to the right guys, because
everybody on the Pacers can at threes. So there's games
where he can do that. He just doesn't. And you
need to be more motivated than just Hey, when people
say I'm overrated, or look at look at the Pacers
series against the Knicks. There's no bigger example. I could
(37:18):
tell you that after Game three where Halliburton was bad
and the Nicks cut that series to two to one,
what did the Pacers do? Hey, your dad's coming back
to the game. We're having your dad come back for
game four. Could have had him come back for Game three,
but it's like the Pacers were saving it knowing that
we may need to motivate Halliburton during a series, which
would be a big red flag. Shouldn't have to motivate
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a guy. You could have him come back for game three,
but no, no, no, he had a really bad Game three.
We're down two one. We got to motivate, and what happens.
Haliburton comes back in Game four and he has one
of the best games of his NBA career. Like that
should be. All that tells you about Halliburton is that, dude,
you have to find some way to be this motivat,
be this version of yourself every time you step on
the floor, especially when you get to the NBA Finals,
(38:00):
the conference finals. It can't just be hey, couple of times, yeah,
don't know what happened in that game. It's why guys
like Ann Edwards are home well.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
But on the plus side for him, up until about
two weeks ago, nobody expected any of this. Right with
Ann Edwards, it was he was coronated, right. You might
as well have had the si cover like they had
for Lebron all those years ago, where he then decided
to start calling himself the King and adopted it and whatever.
But for Anthony Edwards, like I played good enough defense,
(38:29):
I did this, I did that right, Those were his comebacks.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
In media sessions. But expectations heavy.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Is the head who wears the crown or that people
are trying to shove it on his head With Terry's Aliburton,
he was just a guy on a pretty good team,
flashed every once in a while, but clearly has a
pension for last minute shots right now, thirteen of sixteen
because that last one didn't count, but it's but it's
the kind of thing that we want to look at
(38:57):
his numbers. He's not a volume guy, right he shott
team point eight shots per game this year. You've been
talking about the depth of what Indiana is where he
can take over at times. Even from an assist perspective,
you're looking at a guy nine point two ten point
nine a year ago. That's the career high, ten point
four distributing well, he was fourteen ten and six in
(39:19):
the first game, makes the big shot, But we don't
talk about the rest of that game because he makes
the big shot, right, Fourteen, ten and six is a
pretty damn good stat line. Yeah right, Jason Kidd, your
next head coach is the guy.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
That went that was not scoring fourteen, Jason Kidd was
ten and ten and you know ten well, but that
I'm looking for balance because I'll take those four off there,
I'll put it over the assists column and now I
got ten, ten, ten, Okay. But it's it's just the
idea that he's.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Not been the guy that we've been trying to crown,
and now all of a sudden we are. It's like
we're chasing him down because we can't give it to
Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Just let it be. Let it be. He doesn't have
to be that guy. Everybody's got to find a way
to bring more to the party, and it's got to
be I feel that Groby topic gotta be that good.
Two big hot takes on the NBA Finals next
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