September 26, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason smith told you earlier this year Caitlin Clark was Magic AND Larry coming into WNBA with a game like Steph Curry’s. The Mets/Braves series postponed due to weather. And UNLV’s QB Matt Sluka is quitting the season because of NIL money!
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we got big baseball stuff, big football stuff to get to.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Butt over the place.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Tonight it is the night the Caitlin Clark Ride of
this year has come to an end.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The NDA. It was a year run, it was it was.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
A great kind She had a run. Unlike few people
in the history of sports had a run.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
She come.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
She comes out of college as the as the biggest
score in the history of the game. The most popular
college basketball player the last twenty years men or women,
comes to the WNBA, gets them to a level like
the NBA when they got Magic and Larry to come in,
and yes, she is Magic and Larry in this all
the way through the season. And it comes to an
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end tonight as the Fever fall of the Connecticut Son
they get knocked out of the playoffs best of three.
I got a feeling next year the playoffs will improve
the best of five.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
But that's just me.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But a big night for Caitlyn Clark. And I will
say this on because a big, big thing to say
about her. But I really do wish I said it
last night. I said, you know, watch the game she
has tonight. She's pissed about the Carrington ipoke. She knows
it was a dirty play. Watch her come out tonight.
I'd go over on all the props for her tomorrow night.
Over on points, over on rebounds, over on assists.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I said, I should go, I should bet it right,
I should do it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
What happens, She's over on points, she's over on rebounds,
she's over on assists. The Fever almost pull the upset
but Connecticut wins. I should have done it, Mike, I
said it, and I should have done it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, you know, just place a call or drive to
the border and away you go ten to twenty three
from the field, three to twelve from three point range
for twenty five points.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Look, it was a.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Back, great back and forth fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I mean frenetic pace, a lot of activity, a lot
of officials looking at each other as if you're going
to call that?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Or am I calling that? Or what are we doing?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
And some intense, anxious moments that you want, hard fought,
physical playoff game. It goes down as a sweep, but
as you say, hey, there's more money to be had.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
This will expand next year. But in the end, hey,
you tell me it's best of three, we do best
of five. I think we can do that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
We do best of five in the first round, that'd
be better, but I think an extra game for Katelyn. Look,
and also, this is probably the last time for quite
a while Caitlyn Clark's gonna go home in the first
round of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The team is just getting better.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
They had a huge stride this week, making the players
for the first time in like eight years she's becoming
a better but she's becoming a better player. Look, she
ended the year one of the top five players in
the league, finished fourth in MVP voting. This is the
last time anybody's gonna say, hey, we're favored over the
Fever in a large way in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I think that changes for her. No, you get good balance.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And you watched as this team came together second half
of the year, and you know, at points you wonder
any of the rookies, but particularly Clark. You know, if
they're honest about it, the way the schedule works, going
straight off the college season and grind through the NCAA
tournament and right into the season, whether that's to their detriment,
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they'll lie to you straight faced about it. But let's
you know, the old truth serum thing of hey, what
did you have left? How did you get through the
final month? Because even with the Olympic break, I mean,
that's just a grind and a half for all of
the young players coming into the league. But it was
a fun as hell game to watch as it rolled up.
I mean, for a while it looked like maybe Connecticut
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was going to pull away and maybe this would become
a laugher in the fourth quarter, but not so fast
cut that eleven point deficit. Take a brief lead in
the fourth quarter, but you know, get the tongues wagging. Unfortunately,
now with Indiana out, you know, we immediately start to
tense up a little bit, wondering, you know what the
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coverage and expectation and interest level is going forward.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, well, the first thing that happens that happens in sports.
Ask baseball what happens when the Yankees and Dodgers get eliminated?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Right? Ask ask the NFL what.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Happens when the Cowboys and Steelers aren't play. I mean,
that's just how sports go. Yeah, I mean we're talking
about you know, but this is go to be But
I could see it being already presented as, oh see,
these are all fake WNBA fans. You just tune in
to watch Caitlin, which is like, you don't want that, really,
you don't don't want people. I mean, people just want
to move the goalposts on how they feel about cal
of course, but this is just how it goes when
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the popular teams go out, yet less people want that.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That's kind of how it goes.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Ask that again, Ask any sport if they have surprise
teams making it far ask the final four, the NCAA
tournam Hey, do you like all the upsets? Yeah, we
like the upsets until we get to the final weekend.
We don't want San Diego State. Come on, what were
you crazy?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
No, we need North Carolina, we need Michigan State, and
we need you. So this is just how it goes.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
But I could already see it being presented a different
way just because people want to be mad.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But that's just the fact of how sports goes.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
No, but it's all fair. It's more just the the
longer term, right. Obviously, reinforcements are coming. We're already seeing
the excitement for the pending college basketball season, all the
promos for pagebackers and for Juju Watkins and everything else.
But it's more so for the w NBA. This is
the first year of you know, that splash of success,
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celebrity whatever, you know, where you want to sustain, you
know that that crest of goodwill, et cetera. And let's
face it, she doesn't touch a basketball again in the
public form until April.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, she said, I'm not playing I'm not playing it
like I'm I'm not going to be doing three out there.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
None of this.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
She's like out of the public eye as far as
being bad being televised playing basketball. She's going to be
out of the public eye now until April.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
But that's the question, right, So coming back when you
get back into it next April, you know, the thirstiness
for a repeat performance or was this the the grand Hey,
everybody came to the party this time around.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I'd like to.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Think it's it's the former and that you know, you're
building on this and certainly the league growing and expansion
and all those plans.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
But it's just the curiosity. People are fickle.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Nah, this is that there is no danger of this
going away.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
She's this big a deal, this fat and people will
be ready for her to come back in April.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Just it's just it's part of the sports calendar. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The WNBA is one of the major leagues in the
sports calendar. Hey, they come back in April, they play
until the middle of late September. That's kind of how
it goes now. Yeah, you're pretty hey, Ron right later
than September after what happened today. But this is not
She's a big superstar. She'll find a way to stay
in the public eye. There's enough polarization about her to
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keep interest level in her growing, and we saw that
was on display tonight. But this gets into the bigger
thing about Caitlin Clark as her star power grows, as
a league grows, and now the money they have now
television wise, the charter flights all of these things, is
that when she came in right because she just keeps
hitting comparisons to big time NBA superstars, right Magic and
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Larry with her effect on the WNBA a game kind
of like Steph Curry's, except now it's actually a little
more well rounded than Stephs because she's become the best
point guard in the game as well at leading the
league and assists.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Doesn't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
He's a much bigger scorer. But you know, her game
was much Hey pattern a lot like Steph Curry. I
get my shots, I hit a lot, I should get
a lot of threes. That's kind of what it was.
But after the playoffs and now now putting this season
into perspective, you had a couple of plays tonight that
were crying out for calls that Caitlyn Clark should have gotten.
A couple ones that are really weird that she doesn't
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get and she gets absolutely hacked by Maybury in the
lane when she goes up doesn't get a foul call. Uh,
you had you had the play earlier in the in
the game that that that went viral when Bonnerd doesn't
give her a landing spot coming down off of three
and Caitlyn Clark gets mad and gives her a shove, like,
these are things that have to be called, like the
these are things that and w NBA referees as time
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has gone on, like this is like there's some of
the worst in all of sports. Like there's plays that
you see that go on in front of you and
and you say there's no call on that. I mean,
you're watching the action and there's still no call. The
referees just missed, and they miss a lot on her,
and seeing how things go with her, you're ready for this.
She now sort of reminds me her impact on the game, right,
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Magic and Larry coming in game like Steph. But the
way she's treated, the way she's perceived is very lebron esque,
in which she is a superstar who is polarizing, and
a lot of it through none of her own fault.
Because Lebron early in his career was very much and
always was a look at me kind of guy. Caitlyn
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Clark doesn't look at me on the court, not so
much off it, But that breeds jealousy, that breeds contempt,
that breeds players not respecting you, and players going out
of their way to either poke you in the eye
or faulue it. Also, still after twenty years in the league,
I say, how does Lebron not get these calls? How
does Lebron and you keep going back to that play
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where he's crying after the foul that what didn't get
called against the Celtics, Like, how does a superstar like
that not get the calls that Michael Jordan got that
most superstars get. So seeing now where Caitlyn cl ar is,
that's kind of where I can slaughter now with the
impact of magic and larry the game like steps but
a little bit more well rounded, but the perception and
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being treated like Lebron who still gets treated that way.
Players still don't treat him with the respect that normal
players treat the great players in the game with respect.
And Lebron has carried the NBA for the better part
of two decades and still and still here we are
in twenty twenty four and there's tons of players where
I go, Lebron really doesn't get that call?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
How does Lebron not get that call?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That's where Caitlin Clark is gone in a short span
of from April this year to where they sit right
now the end of September.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
See, I got the other NBA comp which is a
lot of Luka doncic, a lot of flash, a lot
of substance, a lot of points, and a lot of
complaining to the officials.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Coach taking a beer away from her in the locker
room too.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We haven't seen that yet, but I mean, you know,
if they'd advanced, maybe we have seen that. I don't know,
but because that's part of the equation that I don't
think can be ignored, right, is that it's Look, the
officials were awful all night long. And it's not just
Caitlin Clark calls that weren't made. I mean, how many
times you see someone get hacked in the lane and
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it's kind of the shrug play on. Oh yeah, three
people are laying on the court loo getting around going
there's no fill and there was.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No risk it right, And I'm going in the reffor
they're looking right at it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I mean they're looking. There were a.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Couple of calls down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It's like there's a body that.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Flew into the second row behind the stanchion, and there's
two other people that kind of go down to one
knee and it's.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Like, wow, that's a lot of contact.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
No call, mislay, a ball going the other way with
three players still getting up off the court. I mean,
there were just so many of those where you're just
scratching your head, going, all right, I like letting let
them play to a point. Like I always say this,
and you know, whatever sport we're watching and what you
and I have been doing together for years or you
know it left to my own devices when I go
watch you know, games my daughter's in or tournaments that
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they're around, it's like, all right, at some point you've
got to stop because the elbow is gonna come up
a little higher. Until you do right, you're gonna you're
gonna push the envelope. And we certainly have seen that
in in the w NBA as the season.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
War on, uh and more and more.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
You know, the intentional or not of game one, Game two,
congratulations not only did everybody say and try to get
on the Hey, there's nothing to see here.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Here's also an award for most improved Player.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
It's like, all right, let's go and then you're watching
this game coming down the stretch. But you know all
of that to say, she's got Caitlin Clark, a bunch
of Lebron in her and Luca in her in the
I'm gonna go after the official after every.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Play where I think I'm I'm fouled or I've.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Been done wrong, and and after a while they're gonna
they're gonna turn a deaf year to it, right, You're
only you're only gonna get so many of those calls.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, well, I think for her, I understand the frustration
of you gotta call this, you gotta call this right?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
How you how many times can you go back to
the official after they've they've not and it's the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
At some point you gotta get it. You can't if
you don't say anything. And I get what you're saying,
but this is this look I see Luca. Luca gets
it's the image of him. He cries after every single
one I get. Caitlin Clark in the beginning in this
doing it because it's hey, we need to get calls
at some point, right, we need to start getting called.
And if I don't, if I don't complain, we're not
going to get them if the referees aren't giving two
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of them.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Us if we don't complain.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
But if we start complaining and we feel like, hey,
you're in the crosshairs and you better start giving us
some calls, maybe you get them. You know, like like
that that that's that's part of gamesmanship. But yeah, you
do have to pick your spots a little bit, and
I think you don't think your spots things. Yeah, you
got to pick your spots. After you get poked in
the eye. Yeah, after you get poked in the eye,
after you know a player doesn't give you a place
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to land, that's where you kind of get Hey, listen,
this is injury stuff, Like this is where I could
get hurt and and be out and I understand the
rest of it, but this is where you got to
really start up and do something. So again, that's why
I mean like, she's Lebron, that's where she is magic,
Larry Steph Lebron.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's a pretty good company to be in.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
So you're saying she's a man.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I think she would like stop. I think you would
say she would like to get those calls make looks clasted.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
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We're going to get into now the big night in
the NFL Major League Baseball. Mike and I love all
the support and thank you for all the support you've
given us throughout these last few years. Mike, this is
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weird because the first thing I want to say is,
obviously everybody is hopeful that Hurricane Helen hitting the East
coast and we're seeing the reports about Florida and Atlanta,
and that everybody is safe and everybody is able to
get to the ground they need to and is able
to do whatever they need to protect themselves, their family
and their properties. That's the number one thing we want
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to say, because everything else is secondary.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Right we see things like this happening, and you.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
See videos of what a category four hurricane looks like.
That's kind of what Hurricane Helene is supposed to look like.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Now. Now, obviously things change. We have no idea.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
But these next couple of days are going to be
really really big deals. And again, we hope everybody is safe, however,
for this, because we're a sports station and we're a
sports network, and what happened today in Major League Baseball,
the fiasco that went on today involving the Mets and
the Brave Series is going to affect everybody in the playoffs.
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We have to get to it from the baseball side
of it, because it's a really big deal. And all
you've seen all day is how Major League Baseball has
blown it by not being able to play these games earlier.
Then they should have played the games on Monday and
Tuesday instead.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Of having the off day on Monday.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And then we find out the Braves didn't want to
move games because they didn't want to either lose gate
or gamesmanship, because they liked their pitching rotation the way
they had it. With Chris Sale was scheduled to go
tonight in the middle game, they moved him. So for
whatever reason, this thing didn't happen. Right, Yeah, they gotta
make up the games.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
The extra option of, hey, maybe it'll dissipate and change, right,
And we've seen many, many a storm in the past
of hey, this is gonna hit, this is gonna be huge,
and nothing. I mean, having lived in the Midwest, you
know for the first half of my life, I mean
plenty of times it was hey, you're gonna get nine
inches of snow, and then you walked out it was
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sixty five degrees. I mean, there's plenty of those things.
And hopefully, look, everybody spared the worst of what's expected here.
But yeah, I mean, it's not all the farious gamesmanship,
I guess, which is what the side of it on
the Twitter version.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
But in the beginning, Hey, the Braves didn't want baseball
could have stepped in, but they didn't. And look, the
Braves wanted to keep it. They weren't looking. There's other
times during the season. Look, the Mets had a chance
to make this game up.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Earlier in the year.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
They didn't want to do it on an off day,
so they had it here. Look, let me just say
this before we get to a big sports takeaway from.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
This, right, is that.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Playing these two games on Monday and then figuring out
the baseball schedule after is absolutely the right move. Did
you really want to sit here and try to jam
in two games during a hurricane. When maybe you're only
playing a couple of innings, if you can even get
on the field, and not knowing what's happening from one
moment to the next, you are sowing absolute chaos. I
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get that it's making chaos with the rest of the
MLB schedule, but this was the right decision. It was
the right call to say, let's kick the can down
the road. Let's schedule these two games from Monday if necessary,
because we don't know what's going to happen this weekend.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
We don't know how the Mets games.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Are going to go, how the Braves games are gonna go,
how the Diamondbacks games are going to go. Yes, there
could be a scenario where a team could have to
play eighteen innings on Monday and then fly to l
A or fly to San Diego, UH for a game
on Tuesday. I gotta think Major League Baseball is gonna
do something there. But they don't need to make any
changes now because it's it's Wednesday, and and and we're
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day to day and let's see how things go. And
trust me, major League Baseball can make moves and make
decisions if they have to. There's so many things still
at play. There's even a scenario in which the Mets
and Braves clinch because the Diamondbacks don't make it, and
the teams decide if they want to even play the games,
and Rob Manford would decide who gets the higher seeds
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as so you know, who goes into playoffs as the
higher seed, which would probably be easy because the Braves
have won more games in the Mets. So if that's
how you do it, I understand that's how you do it.
They've won six, the Mets have won five against each
other this year's see I'm good at math.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
You later in the show, I got a good math
story from today for you.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But so it's it's it's very easy. This thing can
be figured out. Everybody needs to just relax. Yes, all
the all the doom and gloom scenario of flying it,
playing eighteen innings of this and figuring out your pitch it, Yeah,
I get it. But this is a hurricane. It's a
big hurricane that showed up and it's a big deal.
So yeah, let's do the smart thing. Let's postpone it
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and we'll see where we go. I mean, this is
this is not the evils of sports and all kinds
of different things. Yes, could major League Baseball stepped in?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah? Did the Brays really want them to step in?
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
At the end when it came down to it and
they saw they had to postpone, they postponed, right. They
did it early enough. No one got tryout to come
to the game. And who knows when the hurricane would hit.
What be like trying to drive home, light poles falling
in the street, whatever it could be. So it's fine,
everybody should just relax. They'll play the rest of the
games this weekend. We'll see where we're at on Monday.
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And I'll tell you what. There's twenty five teams in
Major League Baseball. If you said, hey, we'll give you
a double header on Monday and if you win, you
go to the playoffs, but you got to play the
next day. There's twenty five teams. I would say, sign
me up. I'm sign me up for that. Sign me
up for that right now. I'll go do that.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Right now. Everything is going to be. People just need
to relax with this story.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Just relax.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Oh, it's like anything you add variables to the equation
and people freak out right because you can't necessarily quantify
the response and the.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Effect of each of them.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
You try to, but you also remember the human element
to it all, and and how players players will react,
you know, bullpen management, all of those things from the
game side of it, and trying to get through able
bodied and stress, all of that stuff. But it's four
days in advance. You got plenty of time, plenty of
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baseball that's going to be played in the interim that
may prove, you know, as you laid out, some of
this is going to be moot. And if it comes
down to Rob Manford making decisions, God help us all.
But at least in this case, it seemed that the
powers that be got together and came to some sort
of a logical conclusion to this and trying to do
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things at break neck speed or braid the element and
see what happens. No, it's decisive action on a Wednesday,
and we normally don't get that. So I'll give the
office credit. Whoever gets the you know, the lion's share
of it. Great if it's the Commissioner himself, because you
want to do it that way, fine. I got to
think there's someone else who was in his ear that
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had a bunch of fact figures and data points that
made the pitch, so they get the tag of the
real MVP to this. But in the end, it's baseball.
It's a diversion. It's a game. It's a big business.
There's no question about it, and we all care about it,
which is why we're yapping about it. And you're listening
and yelling at me right now, going I love my tape, jerk.
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But in the end, it is about keeping people safe. Yeah,
fifty thousand at a time in Major League ballparks, and
you know those on the roads come.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
On and seeing all the reaction today has just been
They knew what was coming for a week, they knew
they could have planned it. Yeah, okay, Well sometimes maybe
the hurricane makes landfall.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Maybe it does it. There's different things.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, you can always go back and say, oh, you
could have made this contingency plan and played this game
on Monday to okay, you didn't. It's a human thing
that happens, right. This is Mother Nature saying, Okay, you
think you like this little baseball thing you have going on,
I'll show you what everything is really all about.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Okay, just so you get it, everything's gonna.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Be fine now. From a perspective of this, what it
does for the teams. This is a much better situation
for the Mets than it is for the Braves.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
This is absolutely bad.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Like I'm I'm hop and mad if I'm the Braves
right now because I just lost all my momentum because
how this favors the Mets.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
The Mets have already come into this series.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
On the road and lost game one, right, they were
not good against a really good pitcher, and the Braves
lined up their pitching staff exactly how they wanted. Mets
lined up their pitching staff too, but the Braves really
wanted it to go the way they have it, which
with their two aces going on tonight and tomorrow, especially
with Chris Sale going in the middle game, who has
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been unbeatable the last eight nine starts, right, He's just
been a machine. So for the Mets to dodge both
of these guys right now, that's a really big thing.
It's a really big thing. And it's compounded by the
fact that the Braves being a game behind, they can't
save them. They can't say, okay, we'll say, they can't
save Chris Sale and Max Freed from Monday. They need
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to win, so they're gonna need Sale and Freed to
pitch Friday and Saturday. So guess who's not pitching Monday
in a double header if you need to. Tom Glavian
is not and Greg Maddox.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Is not walking from that shop.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Avery's not walking through that It's not it's not happening.
So Charlie Lee Brandt, you're to all too soon for
that home run, Charlie Lee Brant, too soon soon. So
you're you're talking about coming in with you know, maybe
one of your your your really good pitchers. You're not
gonna have these guys on Monday, right because they're not
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coming back on that short rest. It would be a
two day rest period for Chris Sale and in a
one day rest period for Free.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
So that's not happening.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
So now you have to navigate use those knowing full
well on Monday, those guys aren't going to be available.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And for the Mets, what have they been waiting for?
What are they waiting for to come back?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Francisco Lindor and with him pinch hitting, he was set
to pinch hit last night and the ninth inning, except
the Mets went out one, two, three, most likely, I
feel pretty good in saying Lindor will be back and
he'll be playing by Monday. He'll be playing by the
weekend and be ready to play. He's not going to
miss those games. So when you talk about who really,
you know who is affected.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
The most by this.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The Braves had everything lined up, they had all the momentum,
they had the pitchers like, they had it lined up
the way they wanted to, and now they have to
scramble and figure things out a different way. And the
Mets were able to postpone, say, Okay, we got our
asses kicked last night. Let's go into this series here
this weekend against Milwaukee's got everything clinched. Let's take care
of business. See where we sit on Sunday night, and
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we'll be ready to go on Monday. The Mets pitching staff,
while they do have top three pitchers, it's not like
the Braves where we really want these guys going. Yeah,
the Mets would love to have David Peterson or Sean
Manea go, but if not, they have confidence in the
other guys. So even though it you know, you see
that affect both teams, it really affects the Braves way
more than the Mets.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Oh certainly, Yeah, it was all set up perfectly to
get the Well, yeah, if you play today you get
sale much to your sugarn but now you're gonna miss
them entirely. It's just yeah, it's it's crazy, all right.
So it's the unfortunate part of the last week of
a season, right, we see lots of calculations and best
(26:35):
laid plans that get torn us under where. Unfortunately at
that point in the calendar, Hell, I already have the
bookmark for the NFL weather page, because it's only a
matter of time before, you know, we start having to
talk about that and factor that into our discussions about players, teams,
picks and everything else. So yeah, it's it's it's unfortunate.
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It's especially when you've managed it well and the baseball
gods have been on your side for much of the
year where you didn't miss giant chunks of time due
to injury like some other teams Dodgers and others that
you know. Now this comes up at the most inopportunity
of time, but you know it's a factor both teams
have to work through. Yes, it's unfair. Yes, if you're
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a Braves fan, you can write a letter to Mother
Nature and burn it in a fire. I mean, that's
about all you got. That's the only recourse you have
because it'll go on red at the Major league offices.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swallen down to the
Jason Smiths Show with Mike Carmon live from the tyreck
dot Com studios.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
That just relax. Everything is fine. Everything is fine.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Now let's talk to a guy who I know everything
is fine because I think he's still drinking champagne following
the padre last night. It is Brian Finley, who has
what's trending in the wide world?
Speaker 7 (27:51):
I am it was a triple play?
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Was that right?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Frostsburg?
Speaker 8 (27:53):
I can't remember from last night. I'll have to check
in with him. I know he's obviously very happy about it.
But you know who isn't fine as well? Caitlin Clark.
And as you guys are talking about to start off
the show, she and the Fever their season comes to
an end. They get bounced in the first round of
the WNBA postseason a game two eighty seven eighty one
in a best of three first round series. Clark, going
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for twenty five points, really nearly mounted a comeback with
her heroics down the stretch, but coming up just short.
Ten of twenty three from the floor, six rebounds and
nine assists, along with that one block Major League Baseball
that Mets Braves series that Jason and Mike were talking about.
There's two games left and they're gonna, as it appears,
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because of the hurricane in the area and the rain,
they're going to move it to Monday in the form
of a doubleheader. As it stands now, New York is
ahead by a single game over Atlanta in the NLILD
Card picture. But we know the Mets, we know how
they play at this time of here, and so that
might change.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Again. This is not editorialism here in the newsroom.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
No, not all, not at all, Hey you speaking not No,
not at all, speaking of that other team from New York.
They are trying to clinch the Al East.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
When would do it?
Speaker 8 (29:06):
As they were taking on tonight, the Baltimore Orioles swung.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
On that hit of the air the Jeep Love Center field.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That ball is high, it is far, it is gone.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
As a judge and blast, and so they visitors, both
Ben and Jeep Love Center.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
The Yankees Radio Network.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
It would be the fifty seventh home run of the
season for Aaron Judge a three run blast, but yeah,
it wasn't enough, and the Orioles win again. They went
it nine to seven against the Yanks. The Orioles have
a four game lead for first in the AL wildcard
picture as of right now. Who's behind them? It's a
tie between the Tigers and the Royals. Royals and Tigers
both winning their games tonight. Royals of the Nationals three
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and nothing, Tigers seven to one winners versus the Rays.
The Brewers who were the NL Central winning champs, or
that's a little bit of a winning champs.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
It's like saying the same thing twice.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
They're just the NL champs. They are Central chair.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
They are the NL winners two to one. They lost against.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
The one the National League Central. The playoffs are still going.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Still Central winners.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
They didn't win the NL yet.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
That's putting the Jason and Central.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Winners they have one? Yes?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Is that work?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
NL East.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Well, you guys are always quick to point out the flaws,
but I'm not the only one that makes the Bay
steak or two.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
But I'm just saying, may so, what a mistake or two?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
We're human.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
We all.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
We all make mistakes.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Okay, Philly's nine to six over the Cubs, And with that,
let's get it back over to Jason Smith and Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Don't let him rattle you, hey.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I think Fenley was a little distracted, obviously, because the
Padres have just tied the game with the Dodgers one
apiece in the second inning. They have runners at first
and third, nobody out Jack Flaherty on the mound for
the Dodgers, and uh, you know, look, coming off that
and the game walk off triple play last night, which
we spent the entire last hour of the show talking about,
it still is just an insane play to think about.
(31:09):
There is no bigger must win game the Dodgers have
had in the regular season in a long time than tonight,
because they are at the lowest point of the season.
You're coming off the game in which you lost on
a on a walk off triple play. With Otani on deck,
the Padres clinch a playoff spot. They're the closest to
you in the standings that they've ever been, and if
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they win the series, they wind up winning the tie breaker,
and you're thinking about going into the playoffs as a
wild card and you still have no idea who's going
to pitch after Jack Flaherty, but hopefully yamamodo Like this
is like, this is the this is rock bottom. Today
is rock bottom for the Dodgers and they have to
get up off the mat. This is an absolute must win.
(31:51):
And it's hard to say that in baseball when they
play one hundred and sixty two games, you still have
five or six games left depending on your team.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
But this tonight against the Padres, this is an app.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
I'll give you a rock bottom.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
It's you have your ace on the mound. This is it,
Like this is you have to win this game rock bottom.
There you go.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
I was watching the Mister McMahon documentary earlier, so.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, I'm on in for it.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Get a couple of rock bottoms thrown in. Yeah, I
gotta imagine. It was an interesting couple hours on AM
five seventy l a Sports earlier today in terms of
phone calls dialing up with people's reactions to last night.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Everybody was so mad.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
I filled in today during the day with Fred roch
lg the hashtag.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
With Otani on deck.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Dude, it was like it was it was like, uh,
I could I could hear the blood in caller's eyes
when they were calling in to talk about that game
from last night.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Anger.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Everybody, my friend, everybody wanted to blame Dave Roberts. I'm like,
of course, okay, well did Dave Roberts fall into a
triple play?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Come on, man, but that shows you.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Hey, we told you Dave Roberts job is at stake
this year, depending on how the dog finish and when
fans are ready to blame him for a guy hitting
into a triple play, Like where do you think that?
Where do you think that? The bottom of that sock
drawer runs and runs empty? For giving Robert some cachet
Like people are done already, not even in the playoffs.
Oh it's that triple play. Gotta stay out of the
triple play. What are you talking about? Oh it's his fault,
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stay wrong.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Would you dedicate any songs like get the Let Out
to Rojas?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Uh no, no, we did not do that. In fact,
do anything with. We did not do anything with. We'll
have to do stuff with songs tonight. We'll do songs
and stuff tonight. Ins then exit out about a Fresca
exit swallen down the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
live from the tirec dot com studios. Coming up next,
a college football controversy that has just taken over in
the last few hours. And yes it's as silly as
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it's been reported.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That's next, Jason I, Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (33:57):
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Speaker 1 (33:58):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
Tirack dot Com Studios. Got a big NFL story coming
your way in a few minutes, about ten minutes away
from a quarterback who's about to lose his job any
week now.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
But TiVo, Uh, I don't even know what he's doing anymore?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
You probably now?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, I don't even know either, right Like, like he
hasn't been I haven't seen him a lot of college
football or anything.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Like, I don't know what he's doing.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
He's probably a Bible study.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Maybe I go back to his charities and philanthropic work.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Let me see, Hey, Tim Tebow, backup quarterback New York Jets,
hang out.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Okay, Uh, he may have just had sex to you.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Probably he's he's married now, I mean he's married. I
mean he's of course, that's probably happening. Yeah, he's married.
That happens when you get it.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Even if he wasn't, I mean, it's his choice.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Him and j or uh the You probably saw the
story too, involving the UNLV quarterback Matt s Luca teach.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
His name is Sluca. He no longer lives on the
second floor or in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Matt's Luca, who has left UNLV over a lack of
delivering of nil promises. He says that offensive coach, the
offensive coordinator promised him one hundred thousand dollars when he
transferred to the school this year. He did not get it,
and he is now taking his red shirt year and
gonna go play someplace else to finish his career. Now,
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this is not anything that's not above board. This is
nil money that he says he was supposed to get
but he didn't. UNLV just never came up with it.
According to his dad and his lawyer. Hey, he got
three thousand dollars a couple of times, but now they're
kind of paying out a pocket again. This is Sluca's
side of the story, but it's over one hundred thousand dollars.
He was promising nil money and he didn't get it.
(35:49):
And the thing is, this is the best UNLV has
been in years, first time they've ever been right in
the top since Kenny Maine was the quarterback there at UNLV.
They weren't right in the top twenty five, three and zero.
They got a couple of big games coming up. The
game against Syracuse is gonna be is supposed to be
the biggest sellout, the most anticipated football game in Las
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Vegas in a non Raider game in like like twenty
five years. Like it's an insane atmosphere, and Sluca's played
pretty well. Dual threat quarterback doesn't throw for three hundred yards,
but look, the guy throws for a hundred two hundred
yards a week, runs for seventy and one hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
He's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
And now he's not playing on the team because he's
not didn't get his one hundred thousand dollars that was
promised him in nil money. Now, my first takeaway is this,
before we waited to the contoversist, I want to say
they didn't have one hundred thousand dollars for their quarterback.
Really like this would have never happened to Jerry Tarkanian, like,
you don't have one hundred thousand dollars for your quarterback
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in Las Vegas?
Speaker 6 (36:47):
He would have paid them in towels.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
It's Vegas and the gold towels that the flex of
gold coming off the towels. Like, I don't understand how
your Las Vegas and you don't have one hundred grand
four your quarterback. This is not a defensive lineman that
you were trying to get or a shutdown corner. This
is your starting quarterback and Nile money. You don't have
one hundred thousand dollars saying come on.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
This reminds me of an episode of the Andy Griffith Show.
I saw a couple of weeks ago where they needed
a new organ for the church and a bunch of
people pledged money.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Oh yeah, let's get that organ. And then it came.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Time to pass the hat and they all said, I
don't have it, I have it. Times are tough, Andy,
I ain't got it, And they went to the next guy. Andy,
you wouldn't believe it, We wouldn't believe it. The kid
needs braces, Andy, go to the next guy. Hey, my wife,
you know she bought this thing for the house we need,
you know, all the way on down all that same
thing happened here, I guess for the one hundred grand.
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And then you have the other wrinkle of a relative
of the Cromartes of NFL fame is the guy's agent,
and there's no record of him being an agent in
the state of Nevada.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Yeah, yeah, no, I can't find it.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
So you just got wrinkles to this and layers to
the level of folly because not only did he leave,
but one of their up rushers also set out out
with it.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I'm done to.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Jason.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
You don't have one hundred grand for your quarterback. I mean,
come on, Ben.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
The big question is how did he not get this
in writing?
Speaker 5 (38:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Well, that's the whole same part, right, And that's the
other part is get that in writing?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
All right? Well, now there's there's going to be a binding.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
That's what part of this, uh, part of the legal
ramifications of this is now you're going to be able
to do that. You're going to be able to make
these promises and writing, because now you can't. So a
lot of the nil is just, hey, we promise to
do this handshake dealing. You come through for it. But
this is not going as as smoothly as they expected.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Clearly.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah, so there's a lot of uh.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
There's a lot of legal uh, a lot of legal
issues tied up in this, and they expect to have
it solved at some point where you can make it
binding and it's a contract and you can wind up
getting paid, right, But that's.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
A case, you know, it gets into a messy thing, Jason,
Just is that, you know, state to state you've got different.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Rules and in the end is all we know. They
have no power, so we have no plan. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
I don't know how college football makes the money it
does because no big business in anywhere that I've seen
has been run worse than college football. There's no plan.
They just react to stuff and there's a big change
every three months. Like I don't understand how it's still going,
like how it's there's absolutely no plan. It's just it's
a wild West of conferences and nil and transfers and
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money and there's no way to keep track of it.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
And yet still college football is a big business.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
There's a school that would that would show you, hey,
this is how you run a successful company. No, they
would say this is how you don't do it. I
don't know how they make money.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Hey, did you get the memo to see those teams
leaving to go to the BAC twelve? How about that
some crazy stuff right there.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
We got that big NFL story coming up next Fox
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Speaker 3 (00:58):
Butt over the place.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Tonight it is the night the Caitlin Clark Ride of
this year has come to an end.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The NDA. It was a year run, it was it was.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
A great kind She had a run. Unlike few people
in the history of sports had a run.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
She come.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
She comes out of college as the as the biggest
score in the history of the game. The most popular
college basketball player the last twenty years men or women,
comes to the WNBA, gets them to a level like
the NBA when they got Magic and Larry to come in,
and yes, she is Magic and Larry in this all
the way through the season. And it comes to an
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end tonight as the Fever fall of the Connecticut Son
they get knocked out of the playoffs best of three.
I got a feeling next year the playoffs will improve
the best of five.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
But that's just me.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But a big night for Caitlyn Clark. And I will
say this on because a big, big thing to say
about her. But I really do wish I said it
last night. I said, you know, watch the game she
has tonight. She's pissed about the Carrington ipoke. She knows
it was a dirty play. Watch her come out tonight.
I'd go over on all the props for her tomorrow night.
Over on points, over on rebounds, over on assists.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I said, I should go, I should bet it right,
I should do it.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
What happens, She's over on points, she's over on rebounds,
she's over on assists. The Fever almost pull the upset
but Connecticut wins. I should have done it, Mike, I
said it, and I should have done it.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Well, you know, just place a call or drive to
the border and away you go ten to twenty three
from the field, three to twelve from three point range
for twenty five points.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Look, it was a.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Back, great back and forth fourth quarter.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I mean frenetic pace, a lot of activity, a lot
of officials looking at each other as if you're going
to call that?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Or am I calling that? Or what are we doing?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
And some intense, anxious moments that you want, hard fought,
physical playoff game. It goes down as a sweep, but
as you say, hey, there's more money to be had.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
This will expand next year. But in the end, hey,
you tell me it's best of three, we do best
of five. I think we can do that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
We do best of five in the first round, that'd
be better, but I think an extra game for Katelyn. Look,
and also, this is probably the last time for quite
a while Caitlyn Clark's gonna go home in the first
round of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
The team is just getting better.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
They had a huge stride this week, making the players
for the first time in like eight years she's becoming
a better but she's becoming a better player. Look, she
ended the year one of the top five players in
the league, finished fourth in MVP voting. This is the
last time anybody's gonna say, hey, we're favored over the
Fever in a large way in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I think that changes for her. No, you get good balance.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And you watched as this team came together second half
of the year, and you know, at points you wonder
any of the rookies, but particularly Clark. You know, if
they're honest about it, the way the schedule works, going
straight off the college season and grind through the NCAA
tournament and right into the season, whether that's to their detriment,
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they'll lie to you straight faced about it. But let's
you know, the old truth serum thing of hey, what
did you have left? How did you get through the
final month? Because even with the Olympic break, I mean,
that's just a grind and a half for all of
the young players coming into the league. But it was
a fun as hell game to watch as it rolled up.
I mean, for a while it looked like maybe Connecticut
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was going to pull away and maybe this would become
a laugher in the fourth quarter, but not so fast
cut that eleven point deficit. Take a brief lead in
the fourth quarter, but you know, get the tongues wagging. Unfortunately,
now with Indiana out, you know, we immediately start to
tense up a little bit, wondering, you know what the
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coverage and expectation and interest level is going forward.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, well, the first thing that happens that happens in sports.
Ask baseball what happens when the Yankees and Dodgers get eliminated?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Right? Ask ask the NFL what.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Happens when the Cowboys and Steelers aren't play. I mean,
that's just how sports go. Yeah, I mean we're talking
about you know, but this is go to be But
I could see it being already presented as, oh see,
these are all fake WNBA fans. You just tune in
to watch Caitlin, which is like, you don't want that, really,
you don't don't want people. I mean, people just want
to move the goalposts on how they feel about cal
of course, but this is just how it goes when
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the popular teams go out, yet less people want that.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
That's kind of how it goes.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Ask that again, Ask any sport if they have surprise
teams making it far ask the final four, the NCAA
tournam Hey, do you like all the upsets? Yeah, we
like the upsets until we get to the final weekend.
We don't want San Diego State. Come on, what were
you crazy?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
No, we need North Carolina, we need Michigan State, and
we need you. So this is just how it goes.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
But I could already see it being presented a different
way just because people want to be mad.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But that's just the fact of how sports goes.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
No, but it's all fair. It's more just the the
longer term, right. Obviously, reinforcements are coming. We're already seeing
the excitement for the pending college basketball season, all the
promos for pagebackers and for Juju Watkins and everything else.
But it's more so for the w NBA. This is
the first year of you know, that splash of success,
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celebrity whatever, you know, where you want to sustain, you
know that that crest of goodwill, et cetera. And let's
face it, she doesn't touch a basketball again in the
public form until April.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, she said, I'm not playing I'm not playing it
like I'm I'm not going to be doing three out there.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
None of this.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
She's like out of the public eye as far as
being bad being televised playing basketball. She's going to be
out of the public eye now until April.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
But that's the question, right, So coming back when you
get back into it next April, you know, the thirstiness
for a repeat performance or was this the the grand Hey,
everybody came to the party this time around.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I'd like to.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Think it's it's the former and that you know, you're
building on this and certainly the league growing and expansion
and all those plans.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
But it's just the curiosity. People are fickle.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Nah, this is that there is no danger of this
going away.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
She's this big a deal, this fat and people will
be ready for her to come back in April.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Just it's just it's part of the sports calendar. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
The WNBA is one of the major leagues in the
sports calendar. Hey, they come back in April, they play
until the middle of late September. That's kind of how
it goes now. Yeah, you're pretty hey, Ron right later
than September after what happened today. But this is not
She's a big superstar. She'll find a way to stay
in the public eye. There's enough polarization about her to
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keep interest level in her growing, and we saw that
was on display tonight. But this gets into the bigger
thing about Caitlin Clark as her star power grows, as
a league grows, and now the money they have now
television wise, the charter flights all of these things, is
that when she came in right because she just keeps
hitting comparisons to big time NBA superstars, right Magic and
(07:48):
Larry with her effect on the WNBA a game kind
of like Steph Curry's, except now it's actually a little
more well rounded than Stephs because she's become the best
point guard in the game as well at leading the
league and assists.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Doesn't do that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
He's a much bigger scorer. But you know, her game
was much Hey pattern a lot like Steph Curry. I
get my shots, I hit a lot, I should get
a lot of threes. That's kind of what it was.
But after the playoffs and now now putting this season
into perspective, you had a couple of plays tonight that
were crying out for calls that Caitlyn Clark should have gotten.
A couple ones that are really weird that she doesn't
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get and she gets absolutely hacked by Maybury in the
lane when she goes up doesn't get a foul call. Uh,
you had you had the play earlier in the in
the game that that that went viral when Bonnerd doesn't
give her a landing spot coming down off of three
and Caitlyn Clark gets mad and gives her a shove, like,
these are things that have to be called, like the
these are things that and w NBA referees as time
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has gone on, like this is like there's some of
the worst in all of sports. Like there's plays that
you see that go on in front of you and
and you say there's no call on that. I mean,
you're watching the action and there's still no call. The
referees just missed, and they miss a lot on her,
and seeing how things go with her, you're ready for this.
She now sort of reminds me her impact on the game, right,
(09:08):
Magic and Larry coming in game like Steph. But the
way she's treated, the way she's perceived is very lebron esque,
in which she is a superstar who is polarizing, and
a lot of it through none of her own fault.
Because Lebron early in his career was very much and
always was a look at me kind of guy. Caitlyn
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Clark doesn't look at me on the court, not so
much off it, But that breeds jealousy, that breeds contempt,
that breeds players not respecting you, and players going out
of their way to either poke you in the eye
or faulue it. Also, still after twenty years in the league,
I say, how does Lebron not get these calls? How
does Lebron and you keep going back to that play
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where he's crying after the foul that what didn't get
called against the Celtics, Like, how does a superstar like
that not get the calls that Michael Jordan got that
most superstars get. So seeing now where Caitlyn cl ar is,
that's kind of where I can slaughter now with the
impact of magic and larry the game like steps but
a little bit more well rounded, but the perception and
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being treated like Lebron who still gets treated that way.
Players still don't treat him with the respect that normal
players treat the great players in the game with respect.
And Lebron has carried the NBA for the better part
of two decades and still and still here we are
in twenty twenty four and there's tons of players where
I go, Lebron really doesn't get that call?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
How does Lebron not get that call?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That's where Caitlin Clark is gone in a short span
of from April this year to where they sit right
now the end of September.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
See, I got the other NBA comp which is a
lot of Luka doncic, a lot of flash, a lot
of substance, a lot of points, and a lot of
complaining to the officials.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Coach taking a beer away from her in the locker
room too.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
We haven't seen that yet, but I mean, you know,
if they'd advanced, maybe we have seen that. I don't know,
but because that's part of the equation that I don't
think can be ignored, right, is that it's Look, the
officials were awful all night long. And it's not just
Caitlin Clark calls that weren't made. I mean, how many
times you see someone get hacked in the lane and
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it's kind of the shrug play on. Oh yeah, three
people are laying on the court loo getting around going
there's no fill and there was.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No risk it right, And I'm going in the reffor
they're looking right at it.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I mean they're looking. There were a.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Couple of calls down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It's like there's a body that.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Flew into the second row behind the stanchion, and there's
two other people that kind of go down to one
knee and it's.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Like, wow, that's a lot of contact.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
No call, mislay, a ball going the other way with
three players still getting up off the court. I mean,
there were just so many of those where you're just
scratching your head, going, all right, I like letting let
them play to a point. Like I always say this,
and you know, whatever sport we're watching and what you
and I have been doing together for years or you
know it left to my own devices when I go
watch you know, games my daughter's in or tournaments that
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they're around, it's like, all right, at some point you've
got to stop because the elbow is gonna come up
a little higher. Until you do right, you're gonna you're
gonna push the envelope. And we certainly have seen that
in in the w NBA as the season.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
War on, uh and more and more.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
You know, the intentional or not of game one, Game two,
congratulations not only did everybody say and try to get
on the Hey, there's nothing to see here.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Here's also an award for most improved Player.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
It's like, all right, let's go and then you're watching
this game coming down the stretch. But you know all
of that to say, she's got Caitlin Clark, a bunch
of Lebron in her and Luca in her in the
I'm gonna go after the official after every.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
Play where I think I'm I'm fouled or I've.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Been done wrong, and and after a while they're gonna
they're gonna turn a deaf year to it, right, You're
only you're only gonna get so many of those calls.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, well, I think for her, I understand the frustration
of you gotta call this, you gotta call this right?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
How you how many times can you go back to
the official after they've they've not and it's the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
At some point you gotta get it. You can't if
you don't say anything. And I get what you're saying,
but this is this look I see Luca. Luca gets
it's the image of him. He cries after every single
one I get. Caitlin Clark in the beginning in this
doing it because it's hey, we need to get calls
at some point, right, we need to start getting called.
And if I don't, if I don't complain, we're not
going to get them if the referees aren't giving two
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of them.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Us if we don't complain.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
But if we start complaining and we feel like, hey,
you're in the crosshairs and you better start giving us
some calls, maybe you get them. You know, like like
that that that's that's part of gamesmanship. But yeah, you
do have to pick your spots a little bit, and
I think you don't think your spots things. Yeah, you
got to pick your spots. After you get poked in
the eye. Yeah, after you get poked in the eye,
after you know a player doesn't give you a place
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to land, that's where you kind of get Hey, listen,
this is injury stuff, Like this is where I could
get hurt and and be out and I understand the
rest of it, but this is where you got to
really start up and do something. So again, that's why
I mean like, she's Lebron, that's where she is magic,
Larry Steph Lebron.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It's a pretty good company to be in.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
So you're saying she's a man.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I think she would like stop. I think you would
say she would like to get those calls make looks clasted.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
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We're going to get into now the big night in
the NFL Major League Baseball. Mike and I love all
the support and thank you for all the support you've
given us throughout these last few years. Mike, this is
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weird because the first thing I want to say is,
obviously everybody is hopeful that Hurricane Helen hitting the East
coast and we're seeing the reports about Florida and Atlanta,
and that everybody is safe and everybody is able to
get to the ground they need to and is able
to do whatever they need to protect themselves, their family
and their properties. That's the number one thing we want
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to say, because everything else is secondary.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Right we see things like this happening, and you.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
See videos of what a category four hurricane looks like.
That's kind of what Hurricane Helene is supposed to look like.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Now. Now, obviously things change. We have no idea.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
But these next couple of days are going to be
really really big deals. And again, we hope everybody is safe, however,
for this, because we're a sports station and we're a
sports network, and what happened today in Major League Baseball,
the fiasco that went on today involving the Mets and
the Brave Series is going to affect everybody in the playoffs.
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We have to get to it from the baseball side
of it, because it's a really big deal. And all
you've seen all day is how Major League Baseball has
blown it by not being able to play these games earlier.
Then they should have played the games on Monday and
Tuesday instead.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Of having the off day on Monday.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And then we find out the Braves didn't want to
move games because they didn't want to either lose gate
or gamesmanship, because they liked their pitching rotation the way
they had it. With Chris Sale was scheduled to go
tonight in the middle game, they moved him. So for
whatever reason, this thing didn't happen. Right, Yeah, they gotta
make up the games.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
The extra option of, hey, maybe it'll dissipate and change, right,
And we've seen many, many a storm in the past
of hey, this is gonna hit, this is gonna be huge,
and nothing. I mean, having lived in the Midwest, you
know for the first half of my life, I mean
plenty of times it was hey, you're gonna get nine
inches of snow, and then you walked out it was
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sixty five degrees. I mean, there's plenty of those things.
And hopefully, look, everybody spared the worst of what's expected here.
But yeah, I mean, it's not all the farious gamesmanship,
I guess, which is what the side of it on
the Twitter version.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
But in the beginning, Hey, the Braves didn't want baseball
could have stepped in, but they didn't. And look, the
Braves wanted to keep it. They weren't looking. There's other
times during the season. Look, the Mets had a chance
to make this game up.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Earlier in the year.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
They didn't want to do it on an off day,
so they had it here. Look, let me just say
this before we get to a big sports takeaway from.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
This, right, is that.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Playing these two games on Monday and then figuring out
the baseball schedule after is absolutely the right move. Did
you really want to sit here and try to jam
in two games during a hurricane. When maybe you're only
playing a couple of innings, if you can even get
on the field, and not knowing what's happening from one
moment to the next, you are sowing absolute chaos. I
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get that it's making chaos with the rest of the
MLB schedule, but this was the right decision. It was
the right call to say, let's kick the can down
the road. Let's schedule these two games from Monday if necessary,
because we don't know what's going to happen this weekend.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
We don't know how the Mets games.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Are going to go, how the Braves games are gonna go,
how the Diamondbacks games are going to go. Yes, there
could be a scenario where a team could have to
play eighteen innings on Monday and then fly to l
A or fly to San Diego, UH for a game
on Tuesday. I gotta think Major League Baseball is gonna
do something there. But they don't need to make any
changes now because it's it's Wednesday, and and and we're
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day to day and let's see how things go. And
trust me, major League Baseball can make moves and make
decisions if they have to. There's so many things still
at play. There's even a scenario in which the Mets
and Braves clinch because the Diamondbacks don't make it, and
the teams decide if they want to even play the games,
and Rob Manford would decide who gets the higher seeds
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as so you know, who goes into playoffs as the
higher seed, which would probably be easy because the Braves
have won more games in the Mets. So if that's
how you do it, I understand that's how you do it.
They've won six, the Mets have won five against each
other this year's see I'm good at math.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
You later in the show, I got a good math
story from today for you.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
But so it's it's it's very easy. This thing can
be figured out. Everybody needs to just relax. Yes, all
the all the doom and gloom scenario of flying it,
playing eighteen innings of this and figuring out your pitch it, Yeah,
I get it. But this is a hurricane. It's a
big hurricane that showed up and it's a big deal.
So yeah, let's do the smart thing. Let's postpone it
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and we'll see where we go. I mean, this is
this is not the evils of sports and all kinds
of different things. Yes, could major League Baseball stepped in?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah? Did the Brays really want them to step in?
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
At the end when it came down to it and
they saw they had to postpone, they postponed, right. They
did it early enough. No one got tryout to come
to the game. And who knows when the hurricane would hit.
What be like trying to drive home, light poles falling
in the street, whatever it could be. So it's fine,
everybody should just relax. They'll play the rest of the
games this weekend. We'll see where we're at on Monday.
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And I'll tell you what. There's twenty five teams in
Major League Baseball. If you said, hey, we'll give you
a double header on Monday and if you win, you
go to the playoffs, but you got to play the
next day. There's twenty five teams. I would say, sign
me up. I'm sign me up for that. Sign me
up for that right now. I'll go do that.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Right now. Everything is going to be. People just need
to relax with this story.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Just relax.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Oh, it's like anything you add variables to the equation
and people freak out right because you can't necessarily quantify
the response and the.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Effect of each of them.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
You try to, but you also remember the human element
to it all, and and how players players will react,
you know, bullpen management, all of those things from the
game side of it, and trying to get through able
bodied and stress, all of that stuff. But it's four
days in advance. You got plenty of time, plenty of
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baseball that's going to be played in the interim that
may prove, you know, as you laid out, some of
this is going to be moot. And if it comes
down to Rob Manford making decisions, God help us all.
But at least in this case, it seemed that the
powers that be got together and came to some sort
of a logical conclusion to this and trying to do
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things at break neck speed or braid the element and
see what happens. No, it's decisive action on a Wednesday,
and we normally don't get that. So I'll give the
office credit. Whoever gets the you know, the lion's share
of it. Great if it's the Commissioner himself, because you
want to do it that way, fine. I got to
think there's someone else who was in his ear that
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had a bunch of fact figures and data points that
made the pitch, so they get the tag of the
real MVP to this. But in the end, it's baseball.
It's a diversion. It's a game. It's a big business.
There's no question about it, and we all care about it,
which is why we're yapping about it. And you're listening
and yelling at me right now, going I love my tape, jerk.
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But in the end, it is about keeping people safe. Yeah,
fifty thousand at a time in Major League ballparks, and
you know those on the roads come.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
On and seeing all the reaction today has just been
They knew what was coming for a week, they knew
they could have planned it. Yeah, okay, Well sometimes maybe
the hurricane makes landfall.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Maybe it does it. There's different things.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah, you can always go back and say, oh, you
could have made this contingency plan and played this game
on Monday to okay, you didn't. It's a human thing
that happens, right. This is Mother Nature saying, Okay, you
think you like this little baseball thing you have going on,
I'll show you what everything is really all about.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Okay, just so you get it, everything's gonna.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Be fine now. From a perspective of this, what it
does for the teams. This is a much better situation
for the Mets than it is for the Braves.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
This is absolutely bad.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Like I'm I'm hop and mad if I'm the Braves
right now because I just lost all my momentum because
how this favors the Mets.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
The Mets have already come into this series.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
On the road and lost game one, right, they were
not good against a really good pitcher, and the Braves
lined up their pitching staff exactly how they wanted. Mets
lined up their pitching staff too, but the Braves really
wanted it to go the way they have it, which
with their two aces going on tonight and tomorrow, especially
with Chris Sale going in the middle game, who has
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been unbeatable the last eight nine starts, right, He's just
been a machine. So for the Mets to dodge both
of these guys right now, that's a really big thing.
It's a really big thing. And it's compounded by the
fact that the Braves being a game behind, they can't
save them. They can't say, okay, we'll say, they can't
save Chris Sale and Max Freed from Monday. They need
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to win, so they're gonna need Sale and Freed to
pitch Friday and Saturday. So guess who's not pitching Monday
in a double header if you need to. Tom Glavian
is not and Greg Maddox.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Is not walking from that shop.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Avery's not walking through that It's not it's not happening.
So Charlie Lee Brandt, you're to all too soon for
that home run, Charlie Lee Brant, too soon soon. So
you're you're talking about coming in with you know, maybe
one of your your your really good pitchers. You're not
gonna have these guys on Monday, right because they're not
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coming back on that short rest. It would be a
two day rest period for Chris Sale and in a
one day rest period for Free.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
So that's not happening.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
So now you have to navigate use those knowing full
well on Monday, those guys aren't going to be available.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And for the Mets, what have they been waiting for?
What are they waiting for to come back?
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Francisco Lindor and with him pinch hitting, he was set
to pinch hit last night and the ninth inning, except
the Mets went out one, two, three, most likely, I
feel pretty good in saying Lindor will be back and
he'll be playing by Monday. He'll be playing by the
weekend and be ready to play. He's not going to
miss those games. So when you talk about who really,
you know who is affected.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
The most by this.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
The Braves had everything lined up, they had all the momentum,
they had the pitchers like, they had it lined up
the way they wanted to, and now they have to
scramble and figure things out a different way. And the
Mets were able to postpone, say, Okay, we got our
asses kicked last night. Let's go into this series here
this weekend against Milwaukee's got everything clinched. Let's take care
of business. See where we sit on Sunday night, and
(25:53):
we'll be ready to go on Monday. The Mets pitching staff,
while they do have top three pitchers, it's not like
the Braves where we really want these guys going. Yeah,
the Mets would love to have David Peterson or Sean
Manea go, but if not, they have confidence in the
other guys. So even though it you know, you see
that affect both teams, it really affects the Braves way
more than the Mets.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Oh certainly, Yeah, it was all set up perfectly to
get the Well, yeah, if you play today you get
sale much to your sugarn but now you're gonna miss
them entirely. It's just yeah, it's it's crazy, all right.
So it's the unfortunate part of the last week of
a season, right, we see lots of calculations and best
(26:35):
laid plans that get torn us under where. Unfortunately at
that point in the calendar, Hell, I already have the
bookmark for the NFL weather page, because it's only a
matter of time before, you know, we start having to
talk about that and factor that into our discussions about players, teams,
picks and everything else. So yeah, it's it's it's unfortunate.
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It's especially when you've managed it well and the baseball
gods have been on your side for much of the
year where you didn't miss giant chunks of time due
to injury like some other teams Dodgers and others that
you know. Now this comes up at the most inopportunity
of time, but you know it's a factor both teams
have to work through. Yes, it's unfair. Yes, if you're
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a Braves fan, you can write a letter to Mother
Nature and burn it in a fire. I mean, that's
about all you got. That's the only recourse you have
because it'll go on red at the Major league offices.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swallen down to the
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Speaker 3 (27:36):
That just relax. Everything is fine. Everything is fine.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Now let's talk to a guy who I know everything
is fine because I think he's still drinking champagne following
the padre last night. It is Brian Finley, who has
what's trending in the wide world?
Speaker 7 (27:51):
I am it was a triple play?
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Was that right?
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Frostsburg?
Speaker 8 (27:53):
I can't remember from last night. I'll have to check
in with him. I know he's obviously very happy about it.
But you know who isn't fine as well? Caitlin Clark.
And as you guys are talking about to start off
the show, she and the Fever their season comes to
an end. They get bounced in the first round of
the WNBA postseason a game two eighty seven eighty one
in a best of three first round series. Clark, going
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for twenty five points, really nearly mounted a comeback with
her heroics down the stretch, but coming up just short.
Ten of twenty three from the floor, six rebounds and
nine assists, along with that one block Major League Baseball
that Mets Braves series that Jason and Mike were talking about.
There's two games left and they're gonna, as it appears,
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because of the hurricane in the area and the rain,
they're going to move it to Monday in the form
of a doubleheader. As it stands now, New York is
ahead by a single game over Atlanta in the NLILD
Card picture. But we know the Mets, we know how
they play at this time of here, and so that
might change.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Again. This is not editorialism here in the newsroom.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
No, not all, not at all, Hey you speaking not No,
not at all, speaking of that other team from New York.
They are trying to clinch the Al East.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
When would do it?
Speaker 8 (29:06):
As they were taking on tonight, the Baltimore Orioles swung.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
On that hit of the air the Jeep Love Center field.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That ball is high, it is far, it is gone.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
As a judge and blast, and so they visitors, both
Ben and Jeep Love Center.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
The Yankees Radio Network.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
It would be the fifty seventh home run of the
season for Aaron Judge a three run blast, but yeah,
it wasn't enough, and the Orioles win again. They went
it nine to seven against the Yanks. The Orioles have
a four game lead for first in the AL wildcard
picture as of right now. Who's behind them? It's a
tie between the Tigers and the Royals. Royals and Tigers
both winning their games tonight. Royals of the Nationals three
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and nothing, Tigers seven to one winners versus the Rays.
The Brewers who were the NL Central winning champs, or
that's a little bit of a winning champs.
Speaker 7 (29:58):
It's like saying the same thing twice.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
They're just the NL champs. They are Central chair.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
They are the NL winners two to one. They lost against.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
The one the National League Central. The playoffs are still going.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Still Central winners.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
They didn't win the NL yet.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
That's putting the Jason and Central.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Winners they have one? Yes?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Is that work?
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
NL East.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
Well, you guys are always quick to point out the flaws,
but I'm not the only one that makes the Bay
steak or two.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
But I'm just saying, may so, what a mistake or two?
Speaker 6 (30:31):
We're human.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
We all.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
We all make mistakes.
Speaker 8 (30:35):
Okay, Philly's nine to six over the Cubs, And with that,
let's get it back over to Jason Smith and Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Don't let him rattle you, hey.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I think Fenley was a little distracted, obviously, because the
Padres have just tied the game with the Dodgers one
apiece in the second inning. They have runners at first
and third, nobody out Jack Flaherty on the mound for
the Dodgers, and uh, you know, look, coming off that
and the game walk off triple play last night, which
we spent the entire last hour of the show talking about,
it still is just an insane play to think about.
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There is no bigger must win game the Dodgers have
had in the regular season in a long time than tonight,
because they are at the lowest point of the season.
You're coming off the game in which you lost on
a on a walk off triple play. With Otani on deck,
the Padres clinch a playoff spot. They're the closest to
you in the standings that they've ever been, and if
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they win the series, they wind up winning the tie breaker,
and you're thinking about going into the playoffs as a
wild card and you still have no idea who's going
to pitch after Jack Flaherty, but hopefully yamamodo Like this
is like, this is the this is rock bottom. Today
is rock bottom for the Dodgers and they have to
get up off the mat. This is an absolute must win.
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And it's hard to say that in baseball when they
play one hundred and sixty two games, you still have
five or six games left depending on your team.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
But this tonight against the Padres, this is an app.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
I'll give you a rock bottom.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
It's you have your ace on the mound. This is it,
Like this is you have to win this game rock bottom.
There you go.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
I was watching the Mister McMahon documentary earlier, so.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, I'm on in for it.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Get a couple of rock bottoms thrown in. Yeah, I
gotta imagine. It was an interesting couple hours on AM
five seventy l a Sports earlier today in terms of
phone calls dialing up with people's reactions to last night.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Everybody was so mad.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
I filled in today during the day with Fred roch
lg the hashtag.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
With Otani on deck.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Dude, it was like it was it was like, uh,
I could I could hear the blood in caller's eyes
when they were calling in to talk about that game
from last night.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Anger.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Everybody, my friend, everybody wanted to blame Dave Roberts. I'm like,
of course, okay, well did Dave Roberts fall into a
triple play?
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Come on, man, but that shows you.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Hey, we told you Dave Roberts job is at stake
this year, depending on how the dog finish and when
fans are ready to blame him for a guy hitting
into a triple play, Like where do you think that?
Where do you think that? The bottom of that sock
drawer runs and runs empty? For giving Robert some cachet
Like people are done already, not even in the playoffs.
Oh it's that triple play. Gotta stay out of the
triple play. What are you talking about? Oh it's his fault,
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stay wrong.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Would you dedicate any songs like get the Let Out
to Rojas?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Uh no, no, we did not do that. In fact,
do anything with. We did not do anything with. We'll
have to do stuff with songs tonight. We'll do songs
and stuff tonight. Ins then exit out about a Fresca
exit swallen down the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
live from the tirec dot com studios. Coming up next,
a college football controversy that has just taken over in
the last few hours. And yes it's as silly as
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it's been reported.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
That's next, Jason I, Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (33:57):
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Speaker 1 (33:58):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
Tirack dot Com Studios. Got a big NFL story coming
your way in a few minutes, about ten minutes away
from a quarterback who's about to lose his job any
week now.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
But TiVo, Uh, I don't even know what he's doing anymore?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
You probably now?
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, I don't even know either, right Like, like he
hasn't been I haven't seen him a lot of college
football or anything.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Like, I don't know what he's doing.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
He's probably a Bible study.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Maybe I go back to his charities and philanthropic work.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Let me see, Hey, Tim Tebow, backup quarterback New York Jets,
hang out.
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Okay, Uh, he may have just had sex to you.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Probably he's he's married now, I mean he's married. I
mean he's of course, that's probably happening. Yeah, he's married.
That happens when you get it.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Even if he wasn't, I mean, it's his choice.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Him and j or uh the You probably saw the
story too, involving the UNLV quarterback Matt s Luca teach.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
His name is Sluca. He no longer lives on the
second floor or in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Matt's Luca, who has left UNLV over a lack of
delivering of nil promises. He says that offensive coach, the
offensive coordinator promised him one hundred thousand dollars when he
transferred to the school this year. He did not get it,
and he is now taking his red shirt year and
gonna go play someplace else to finish his career. Now,
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this is not anything that's not above board. This is
nil money that he says he was supposed to get
but he didn't. UNLV just never came up with it.
According to his dad and his lawyer. Hey, he got
three thousand dollars a couple of times, but now they're
kind of paying out a pocket again. This is Sluca's
side of the story, but it's over one hundred thousand dollars.
He was promising nil money and he didn't get it.
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And the thing is, this is the best UNLV has
been in years, first time they've ever been right in
the top since Kenny Maine was the quarterback there at UNLV.
They weren't right in the top twenty five, three and zero.
They got a couple of big games coming up. The
game against Syracuse is gonna be is supposed to be
the biggest sellout, the most anticipated football game in Las
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Vegas in a non Raider game in like like twenty
five years. Like it's an insane atmosphere, and Sluca's played
pretty well. Dual threat quarterback doesn't throw for three hundred yards,
but look, the guy throws for a hundred two hundred
yards a week, runs for seventy and one hundred yards.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
He's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
And now he's not playing on the team because he's
not didn't get his one hundred thousand dollars that was
promised him in nil money. Now, my first takeaway is this,
before we waited to the contoversist, I want to say
they didn't have one hundred thousand dollars for their quarterback.
Really like this would have never happened to Jerry Tarkanian, like,
you don't have one hundred thousand dollars for your quarterback
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in Las Vegas?
Speaker 6 (36:47):
He would have paid them in towels.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
It's Vegas and the gold towels that the flex of
gold coming off the towels. Like, I don't understand how
your Las Vegas and you don't have one hundred grand
four your quarterback. This is not a defensive lineman that
you were trying to get or a shutdown corner. This
is your starting quarterback and Nile money. You don't have
one hundred thousand dollars saying come on.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
This reminds me of an episode of the Andy Griffith Show.
I saw a couple of weeks ago where they needed
a new organ for the church and a bunch of
people pledged money.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Oh yeah, let's get that organ. And then it came.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Time to pass the hat and they all said, I
don't have it, I have it. Times are tough, Andy,
I ain't got it, And they went to the next guy. Andy,
you wouldn't believe it, We wouldn't believe it. The kid
needs braces, Andy, go to the next guy. Hey, my wife,
you know she bought this thing for the house we need,
you know, all the way on down all that same
thing happened here, I guess for the one hundred grand.
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And then you have the other wrinkle of a relative
of the Cromartes of NFL fame is the guy's agent,
and there's no record of him being an agent in
the state of Nevada.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Yeah, yeah, no, I can't find it.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
So you just got wrinkles to this and layers to
the level of folly because not only did he leave,
but one of their up rushers also set out out
with it.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I'm done to.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
Jason.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
You don't have one hundred grand for your quarterback. I mean,
come on, Ben.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
The big question is how did he not get this
in writing?
Speaker 5 (38:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Well, that's the whole same part, right, And that's the
other part is get that in writing?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
All right? Well, now there's there's going to be a binding.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
That's what part of this, uh, part of the legal
ramifications of this is now you're going to be able
to do that. You're going to be able to make
these promises and writing, because now you can't. So a
lot of the nil is just, hey, we promise to
do this handshake dealing. You come through for it. But
this is not going as as smoothly as they expected.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Clearly.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah, so there's a lot of uh.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
There's a lot of legal uh, a lot of legal
issues tied up in this, and they expect to have
it solved at some point where you can make it
binding and it's a contract and you can wind up
getting paid, right, But that's.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
A case, you know, it gets into a messy thing, Jason,
Just is that, you know, state to state you've got different.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Rules and in the end is all we know. They
have no power, so we have no plan. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
I don't know how college football makes the money it
does because no big business in anywhere that I've seen
has been run worse than college football. There's no plan.
They just react to stuff and there's a big change
every three months. Like I don't understand how it's still going,
like how it's there's absolutely no plan. It's just it's
a wild West of conferences and nil and transfers and
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money and there's no way to keep track of it.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
And yet still college football is a big business.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
There's a school that would that would show you, hey,
this is how you run a successful company. No, they
would say this is how you don't do it. I
don't know how they make money.
Speaker 3 (39:42):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Hey, did you get the memo to see those teams
leaving to go to the BAC twelve? How about that
some crazy stuff right there.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
We got that big NFL story coming up next Fox
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