Hour 2 - Blake Snell Cooked Up A No Hitter!

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon React to Giants Pitcher Blake Snell hitting his first career no hitter against the Reds. 

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We had a big NBA story to get to coming
up in a couple of minutes, and oh boy, well
'll tell you what happened in Cowboys camp coming up
in about twenty minutes. But uh, the big headline of
the night tonight, no hitter in Major League Baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Not one of those.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Hey, four guys and one guy went four innings. Next
guy with you no, no, we had an honest to
goodness no hitter. Blake Snell of the Giants no hits
the Reds through one hundred and fourteen pitches, first time
he pitched in the ninth inning in his career, first
time he pitched in the ninth inning in his career.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
And here's what the final out sounded like.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Ellie d la Cruz from the right side, first pitches,
swaying fly ball right center, moving over. I Isyastremsky. He's there,
He's done it, and Blake.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Snell has done it. Snell has thrown.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
A no hitter for the Giants tonight in Cincinnati. Blake
Snell makes history with a performance for the Ages tonight
here at Great American Ballpark, a no hitter is the.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Giants have won three nothing yea Giants Radio network on
the call, And you know a couple of big things
about this. The first thing, what I was really surprised
is last two batters swung at the first pitch.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah, right, like that. That really surprised.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
You have a guy pitching a no hitter, and I
get the philosophy of Okay, he's gonna he's just gonna
try to throw the first pitch over for a strike
and because he wants the no hitter, and I know
that's gonna be a great pitch me to jump on,
and I understand that, but boy, you're helping him out right,
Like this is where every pitch the no hitter just
builds in the guy's mind. And now you're you're you're

(02:34):
two outs away, you're one out of way. It's like, okay,
you want to get him a little deep in the
count and let him make a mistake. If you're jumping
on the first pitch. Just a real, just real difficult
strategy for me to see that. The last two guys, hey,
we're going hacking at the first pitch right like that? Really,
and especially day La Cruz, one of the best players
in baseball, that he goes after the first pitch and
flies out to right center field. So that's the first

(02:56):
thing that surprised me a little bit. The second thing, yeah,
the second thing is this, And here's what we have
to understand. We forget about this too much. Blake Snell
threw one hundred and fourteen pitches tonight. He looked fine,
He looked fine. That last pitch was fine. He wasn't
grabbing at his arm. He was able to celebrate with
his teammates. He hugged everybody. His left arm is. Okay,

(03:17):
it's one hundred and fourteen pitches, and look, Blake Snell
looks to be fine. I'm sure he's going to be fine.
I'm sure everything will be fine. It's one hundred and
fourteen pitches. Guys can throw one hundred and fourteen pitches.
Guys who have no hitters going to the eighth or
ninth inning and their pitch counters in the nineties, they
don't always have to come out, Dave Roberts. They can
stay in the game because they're pitching a no hitter.

(03:41):
This means they're having a lot of innings with no stress.
They're not throwing twenty five twenty eight pitches in an inning. No,
this has been a machine like game. You can leave
those guys in one hundred and fourteen pitches, come one
hundred fourteen pitches going. Look, Blake Snell's going to be
just fine. I don't think you're gonna see it all boy.
They left him in there so long, and look what happened.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
That ruined his career.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, okay, if you leave a guy in for one
hundred and forty, one hundred and fifty pitches, Yo and
Santana like that is something. Okay, you're gonna do dabit
but one hundred and fourteen.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
But yeah, guys can do that. It's okay.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
That doesn't need to be some hard and fast ruled
at all. The phone's gonna ring from upstairs, take the
guy out of the game. No guys can go a
little bit over one hundred pitches and pitch a no hitter.
If a guy goes into the eighth inning and his
pitch count is in the nineties, you should still look
at it and say, this game is out there for
you as long as you have the no hitter.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
If you if you're.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
If you need to come out, if you give up
a hit you want, hey, great, tell me and I'll
go to the bull I'll have the guy ready in
the bullpen.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Ready.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
But you're in nineties pitches, don't worry. You're in this
game until the no hitter. We're gonna give this to
you all the way through. You can do that in baseball.
It's actually okay, Mike Carmen. Not everybody's arm falls off
when you get past one hundred.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Pitches, doesn't happen.

Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah, I did not fly into the third deck, uh
and suddenly or get dislocated, et cetera. Now that doesn't
mean that this isn't the high point. And he says,
I've done. I need you to get a forty million
dollar contract. I'll see y'all later. I'm out after this.
But it's the The idea of the first ball swinging
just baffled me, right, And we were reacting to it,

(05:13):
and you know, you're keeping an eye on the clock,
trying to keep the line moving, all of those things
that are swirling when you're up at that type of
pitch count. And I guess bound and determined that he
was going to finish it. But don't you make him
work a little bit. Don't you make him, you know,
exert himself a little bit more. Maybe he's got that

(05:33):
you know, adrenaline kicked up to a whole other level
that you know, he he gets a little erratic or
gives you an opportunity and makes a mistake.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
First ball swinging seems like you helped him out a
little bit, not that he needed a ton of it.
Three walks, eleven strikeouts on the night, and obviously you
didn't get any solid contact in a bunch of those
at bats either. But the other we've argued it long ago,
and it sometimes gets dismissed as in my day and

(06:05):
the old guy thing, and then you conjure images of
Nolan Ryan and some of these iron men of days
gone by, But it is something to that. At this point,
we've got enough evidence that this five innings, one hundred
hard count pitch and out kind of thing that's not

(06:28):
protecting anybody from any injuries.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Right, I think we could probably rule that out at
this point.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
We've got enough evidence that guys are gonna break down,
and pitchers are gonna break down no matter how much
you coddle them and restrict innings and pitches. Right, there's
stressful innings, there's easy innings, there's flow, there's all of
that stuff. And to make it a universal thing that
you're gonna just take a guy out, it's like the

(06:56):
blackjack card we joke about. You know, back when people
would call National League manager's genius for pulling off double
switches and stuff. You knew what the situations were, you'd
seen it enough, you made you made the move. Same
thing here. You can tell one of guys actually got
issues versus you know, some imaginary number that you've decided

(07:17):
based on an algorithm you've written up that pitcher to
pitcher doesn't hold up.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
I remember Mike Harmon when Christy Matthewson once forgot his
spikes at home and had to wear his work shoes,
and he threw three hundred and eighty six pitches in
a nineteen inning no hitter, which he lost five to four.
It was some kind of game. Then he came back
the next day and pitched a perfect game in ten innings,
throwing one hundred and eighty six pitches, winning two to nothing.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
He was something that Christy Mathewson nicely done. That's all.
That's all. But that's just it.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
You start going back into the days of yesteryear, and
I'm not, you know, trying to say, hey, guys should
be throwing twenty seven complete games a year again.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Like we did back in the day.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
You look at some of the old baseball cards and
the numbers that you know as a kid, you know,
you're looking at the guys of the seventies and early eighties, like, wow,
they just did not believe in relief pitchers and just
said that we're just running this guy out. Nowadays, it
becomes a if a guy pitches that much like, oh,
the bullpen must have really been text.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Right well enough, and they had nobody else.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
They didn't make any move to the to the minor
leagues to call the guy up to steal an aninger
to No, they decide, or maybe he did something and
they were pissed at him, so he was gonna wear
it and stay on the mound no matter what. But
you know, I'm not saying that every fifth day you've
got to just decide all right, well, you know, just
go at it until you're the wheels truly come off.

(08:50):
But we've seen so many instances, and certainly living in
Los Angeles, that's been one of the knocks on Dave
Roberts for a long time.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
Conversely, we we'd watch Dusty Baker do the thing till
his guys were I think literally throwing their arms off
into the third deck back in the day with some
of those starting rotations. So different ways to work it.
But for Blake Snell, he's getting pretty chesty in his
postgame comments against the the the naysayers and the haters.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Really, yeah, okay, you know what they can't.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
You know, maybe, but you know, Patrick, let's grab some
of Blake Snell's post games if he's postponing his Twitch session,
you know NCA twenty five to talk about everybody and
all the name says, let's grab some of that.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
We'll listen to it coming up in a bit.

Speaker 5 (09:43):
Oh ex genius smile on his face the whole time.
But the you know asked and answered, do you want
to talk about guys keeping receipts?

Speaker 1 (09:52):
But speaking of listening to guys for a while, do
you really believe right now? You know, right now in
the shadow coach of Team USA Olympic Basketball, am I
the shadow coach?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
What do we tell you if the shadow man is
the greatest villain in Disney history?

Speaker 1 (10:06):
So okay, after the second game and Joel Embiid was
a DNP, which we told you Joel Embiid was going
to be the DNP, Tatum was going to play.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I told you.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
This is a story that has been completely created by
the media because there's not a lot of drama because
Team USA in men's hoops is going to win the
gold medal. It's just gonna be a little bit tougher
because every year it gets a little bit tougher. The
FOBA rules are tough to suddenly play against. The teams
are getting better, better players in the NBA playing for
their home country every year. It just gets a little tougher.

(10:38):
Now when they lose, that's the story. Then it becomes
to what Until then it's what do we do? Jason
Tatum doesn't play? And suddenly it's oh, my goodness, Jason
Tatum doesn't play, And what did we tell you after
that happened? Hey, this is not really that big a deal.
Steve Kerr is the right guy to be coaching this team.
There is no controversy. Jason Tatum is not said how
upset he is. I'm sure he's not happy with not playing,

(11:00):
but he's not going on social media saying things. He's
not liking posts about Oh Steve Curt doesn't know what
the hell he's doing not play at Jason Tatum.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
Now he's humbling and something that he now relates to
the guys at the back end of his roster better
shorting teachable moment.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
However, right, but whatever, whether he believes it or not,
he's he's he's doing the right thing. Joel Embiid, you
know he's not happy. You look at him on the bench,
He's like, I'm not getting off the bench.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
What the hell? Why am I even here?

Speaker 1 (11:26):
But even he hasn't said anything. Everything is fine. We've
told you everything is fine, and it's just gonna be
Let's try to make something up, some kind of controversy
when there isn't. It's impossible for Steve Kerr to to
coach a team made up of twelve of the best
players in the world, and some of them have huge
egos and they're huge superstars. Not everybody's going to be happy.

(11:49):
Lebron is probably not all the way happy. A d
is probably all the way happy. I'm losing time to
Bam out of Bio. Come on, Matt, Well, when Bam
doesn't miss, he's gonna stay in the game, right But
Sam hates now, So I mean, you know, you got
the guys getting beef all over. But it's the Olympics,
and everybody is and everybody understands, and everybody gets it

(12:09):
and they put whatever they're thinking aside because it is
the Olympics. If you think I'm lying, I told you
Steve Kerr is the right guy to do this. He's
the right guy to run this team. He can deal
with all these egos. He should have the job anytime
he wants to. Here was Steve Kerr today talking about
the the the chatter all around the team and his
lineup quote doesn't make a whole lot of sense for

(12:31):
us to put our five leading scorers on the floor
from an NBA season just because those guys don't compliment
each other. Well, just coaching basketball, it's pretty simple for us,
regardless of all the noise, And that's what it is.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
It's all noise, right.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
He went on to say, guys are playing different games
certain things because of their skill set, because of the matchups.
That's why Jason Tatum didn't play in game one little
bit of impetus to say, hey, you're not playing, let's
see a better effort the rest of the way. Because
Tatum hadn't had the best games leading up to it.
I'm sure the same great in his return either.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Look, but I'm sure the same thing for Joel Embiid.
Hey I've played you a lot, you haven't been great.
You're gonna sit and now we see what we get
the rest of the way. So a little bit of
it is matchup, A little bit of it is is
is motivation. This is what it means to be a coach.
But there's no contrabary. There's no anything bad going on
with Team USA. There's no whispers because there would be.
There would be all kinds of stuff happening if there were,

(13:22):
if there were big time dissension, or Jason Tatum was
done and Joel Embiid wanted to go home, or Tyree's
Aliburton wanted to go home.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
But there's not.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
It's an overblown story. Steve Curson, Listen, It's just a
lot of noise. And I believe it right now. Part
of it and and and this, this is a big
part of it, is that we're here in the United States, right,
And I really do do think that this is something
that weighs into it. It's not just hey, I'm right
about this, but if the Olympics is in the United States,
maybe it's a different story.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Right.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
But these guys are in France, right, They're they're completely
off are they on social media? It's eight hours ahead,
so the time they're doing things, it's a downtime here
and vice versa. When you're not embroilered, they're not walking
down the street. People aren't walking around the arena's going
Jason Data's not playing Hey, Jason Data's not play it.
These guys aren't walking into arenas and fans are there

(14:14):
with signs because they were Olympic fans. It's just a
different vibe. They were allowed to be there and just
play basketball. All the noise is coming from here. Now,
if these games were in Madison Square Garden or at Crypto,
or they were in Dallas, or they were in Chicago,
then it's a different story because then you're in it,
and you're in it and you're following every day at

(14:35):
all you're hearing is people saying this, and your friends
are texting you and doing all this. But being so
far away and being removed from it it makes it
a lot easier, so it's not always just hey, I
get it. Steve Kurr is great, and the players understand
being far away is a part of it too, But
it doesn't change the fact that when you add it
all up, it is noise.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
We told you it was noise.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Steve curR is telling you it's noise, and you don't
hear any noise from there, So there you go to
noise being the operative word.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
The last few minutes, loud things, loud noises. Look.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
I mean, part of it is very much that it's
they're isolated. I mean, I guess we could try to
create some beef by saying, all right, who goes with whom?
Did the different events? Who showed up with Steph to
go see Ping Pong? Who showed up with KD to
go watch the three on three? We can play those
games till we're blue in the face if we really
just want to shoot our shots in the socials and

(15:27):
try to get people mad or get engagement, because certainly
they've got a lot of downtime. So Kd' has been
active in a bunch of debates which have been fun
to watch, and the other guy's posting, but it's it's
the type of thing, and it's great, a great piece
of advice I got a long time ago of you
can get through anything for a couple of weeks, maybe

(15:48):
a couple of months, maybe a year or two.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Right that you know, job's not watch.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
In a couple of weeks, a couple of months, or
a couple of different No, that's a different note.

Speaker 5 (15:57):
But but it depends, it depends on what the circumstances
and just talking about it, you know, relationship wise, a job,
maybe you're in a rough season, to wait it out
a little bit, you know, all sorts of different scenarios
and circumstances. But just you know, all things do pass,
right the old George Harrison album from seventy one. But

(16:21):
just that idea that you could do anything for a
couple of weeks, may not be easy, may not like it, right,
I know, right now people are so giddy that the
Hall of Fame game happened last night because maybe in
their internal show meetings on sports television and radio, they're
allowed to say, I'm not talking about the Olympics or
the WNBA or anything else.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Again, I didn't want to do it. You made me
do it.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Football's here, leave me alone, right, that's part of our business.
But for a couple of weeks, WNBA was the hottest
thing going and the Olympics survived.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
So guess what you had to wade.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
Into some waters you didn't like talking about our business,
talking about you know, accountants, you got three or four
weeks that are going to be absolutely miserable because everybody
needs it now.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
But they wait until the last minute to file.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
But the rest of the year, nice and easy pace,
normal quarterly income statements coming in from businesses. Whatever, you
move on, go job to job. Everybody out there, you're
not in your head right. The first couple of weeks
of a new school year, if you're a teacher or principal,
are absolute madness. Changing of classes. Kids have been running

(17:28):
amok for the last two to three months with no schedules,
and now they have to come and pay attention for
five hours, six hours a day. They don't want to
be there, neither of the teachers. So just guess what conflict.
But eventually you find your way. Same thing here.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
They don't have to be happy.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
Matter of fact, all twelve guys, fifteen guys, they can
all hate each other, but in three weeks they'll have
a gold medal something else on the resume and they
go back to their other jobs. As NBA players exit
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Speaker 1 (18:02):
Mean Shadow Coach TMYUSA. You want to know, tell me
I'm telling Steve Kerr what to do.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
I'm telling what to do. You never liked Steve Kerr,
so this is interesting. Well, Steve Kerr was the other.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
You know, hey, twenty years ago, Bill Belichick said, I
resign as HC of the NYJ. And you know, twelve
years ago Steve Kert told Phil Jackson, Yeah, I think
I want the next job. Well unless the Warriors job.
Oh I'm taking that instead. Yeah, thanks appreciate.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Think about that five million dollars a year for five years.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Coming up next, a moment we predicted in sports tonight
actually just happened. Plus we'll tell you what was said
coming out of Cowboys camp today. That's straight ahead right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.

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friend Mike Harmon Livemtireck dot Com Studios. And I'll tell you, Mike,
I was wrong. I was off by two innings. I
was I was off by two innings. Mets Angels Tonight
Mets ley the Angels.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Five to one. Why are we talking about this game?
Not just because it's the Mets. The age just tonight
decided to not have a play by play guy to Cotton.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
You know, they've also decided to not have Mike Trout
for a while, but they decided to have a hey
by play guy. So it's just Bobby Valentine and Mark
Gooba is a in a manning cast type thing, just
telling stories, right, Tim Salmon stopped by Angels legend? Right
there you go, okay rookie, right, yeah, let's go all right,

(20:15):
best player never make an All Star team, right, Tim Salmon.
So it's crazy because watching the game, I can't listen
to the audio.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
But it's just these guys.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
You know, Bobby v he could tell stories and it's
the Mets. Yeah, well look the team he managed for
a long time. And I mean I'm watching the second
inning of the game, there was a single and there
was video of Bobby V ballroom dancing with someone, and
then there was a hit by pitch. Like that's how
the game. I don't know if this broadcast is working
or not. I have no idea, but I'm telling you
what I see. But I told you said, Okay, when

(20:45):
does Bobby V come out with the fake mustache? And
I said, Okay, it can't be too early, but it
can't be too late. So I told you fourth inning
is when the mustache is coming out?

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Right?

Speaker 1 (20:55):
What he wore the fake mustache and made all headlines
twenty years ago, got thrown out of a game, came
back wearing a fake mustache.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Uh, sixth inning.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
They waited till Bobby V with He just had the
fake mustache on as the Mets were back in the
top of the sixth inning.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Like I think that, I think that's me. I think
that's a missed opportunity.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Like you could have had a handlebar mustache, a pencil mustache,
a tooth broth mustache, a fu manchuu.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
You come back with the Van Dyke. Yeah, I mean
you got the whole dollie yards.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Yeah, Like once you get to the fourth inning, like
every inning should be a fake mustache for Bobby Valentine.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
All bets are off. You have fun with it and
play with it. But I mean they waited until it
was an official game. All right, You've been waiting because
that made it look because if you were if you
were tuning in because of the style of broadcast, right,
if you were tuning in because of the style of broadcast,
you needed to string it out.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
All right, I got you in on a Friday night.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
Maybe you put off going to the bar to meet
up with your friends. Maybe you made a late dinner
reservation because you wanted to watch Goobaza and Valentine get
after it and tell some stories. You know, you're a
big baseball fan, particularly you know eighties, nineties when you know,
hey days for both of them. And then all right,
now it's it's an official game. We've had you here

(22:07):
for at least what an hour and a half. All right,
now we'll give you what you came for. There's the mustache.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
So so you're so you're saying, hey, we had to wait.
You couldn't waste it if it wasn't official, Like what
would happen? But if it wasn't official and it gets
wiped out, wouldn't people just forget it like Men in Black,
like with the with the big peg.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
No, that's true, but like it. But you doesn't want
out the fourth inning?

Speaker 5 (22:28):
But then you're done, right because some folks they were
just waiting for the fake mustache story.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, but the explanation and for him to put one
on and ha ha.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
But buddy, so you're you got Look, you gotta keep
teasing ahead, buddy, Bud, like when you tease a story,
we pay it off, not necessarily in that segment, but
you're gonna get that story.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
But buddy, this is this wasn't this isn't in Chicago,
it's Anaheim. Chances are there's not going to be a
rain out. We're going to get an official game in here.
Doesn't happen.

Speaker 5 (22:56):
But again, it's just the idea of all right, when
when do we we deploy this because if we go
too early.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Look, they're tuning out, man, they're tuning out. I see
the tune. As soon as Bobby V takes off the
fake mustache, I'm done. I'm Mets. You're invested walking away.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Look, you're invested as a Mets fan, because you're you know,
your team's back and relevant and playing some good baseball.
Lindor's been on fire, Pete Alonso didn't get traded, right,
you know, the reversal of fortune.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
There were a couple of weeks where it looked like
maybe a big sell off was coming. All of that stuff.

Speaker 5 (23:30):
So Mets fans, you're invested right East Coast, You're you're
dialed in, and you're ready for this game. You already
decided if you were going out, you went out, or
you're watching in the bar saying, hey, turn down that music.
I need to hear Bobby ve spin some tales of yesteryear.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
But if you're there, you know, an Angel fan, what
do you got? What do you got? Wishing and hoping
on a couple of young guys.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
No, if you're watching this broadcast in the Greater Anaheim area,
you came for the stories tonight from Gooby and Bobby Valentine.
So you can't blow it by giving it too early.
You gotta wait, all right, when is it official game?

Speaker 3 (24:05):
All right?

Speaker 5 (24:06):
We made you wait an hour and a half average
run time of the game. What now two twenty or
whatever it is? So yeah, we've got you invested. Our
advertisers are gonna be happy because you stayed around a
bit a little bit longer. So now you can give
the people what they want.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Next thing, I'll tell you when I beat up Mike
Piattz in the locker room following a game.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
That's a great story. I'll tell you that, Nick.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
Now, look, this is one where if you know, does
Bobby Valentine have a book to shill yet? Because the
the unentailed, untold stories of Bobby Valentine coming soon too.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
You know your but Barnes and Noble, let's go. I'll
tell you it is again.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
I don't know if this broadcast is working because the
video is certainly jarring. Oh there's a base hit, there's
Bobby v ballroom dancing, okay, and in the top of
the six inning for the Mets, it was it was
a basic for the met The Mets Quarter Cup was
a basic for the Mets. They had a runner at first,
Bobby V's got the fake mustache on there showing video.
Then they had to dump out of it because because
uh JD. Martinez got a base at the score a run,

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they had to cut right to that. Then they cut
back and the next thing I see is Mark Goobas
are showing everybody how to throw a curveball. Now they
have hand puppets on. Now they got hand puppets on.
This is this is the broadcast right now. The Angel
is it a like a muppet one that looks like
Patrick Mahomes. No, no, I get that Raiders practice lest No. No,

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well a little bit, a little bit, except it's a
rally monkey. And apparently maybe they gave him out tonight
at the game.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
I don't know. Oh is that the giveaway tonight? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:32):
But now they're now they're doing hand puppets with each other.
It's hand puppet time in the studio. This is this
is where we're at now, This is this, This is
Angels Baseball.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
You know what we we should be doing a competing
broadcast live from Angels Stadium.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
I think we're doing a competing broadcast right now, right now. Yeah,
except we're not talking about the actual game. So there
you go.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
Yeah, the rally monkey hand puppet giveaway August second.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
Great day.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Uh so we'll have more on who knows what's gonna happen,
but we'll have more on it. I can guarantee you.
Because they're only in the seventh inning.

Speaker 8 (26:07):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
But earlier today, Dak Prescott spoke from Cowboys camp about
his contract situation. He wants a new deal, so does
ce d Lamb. Ceede Lamb is holding out from camp.
Dak has been kind of down the middle on things
so far, but here he was today with a big
statement when it came to, hey, Dak, where are things
with your contract?

Speaker 3 (26:27):
You need to get paid an extension? What's going on?
Here's Dak's answer.

Speaker 8 (26:31):
The money's out there, the money can it can happen,
it can be done. There's ways to make everything work
for both ways.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (26:38):
And that's in that sense as it's always about pushing
the envelope for the next man.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
And that's why I said that. But then again it's
I've never truly cared about the number. Yeah, okay, I've
never cared about the number. I never cared about that
he got.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
He just had, you know what, Dak? This is this
Dak just has no idea what he wants, what he
should say. What the right thing to say is Jerry
Jones has him bamboozled, right, because what did Dak say there?
The money's out there for an extension. But I also
have to know I need to set it up for
the next guy. I E, hey, I know that I
need to sign for a certain amount of money so

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the next guy can get a little bit more, a
little bit more. I gotta set up for the guys
behind me and then he but when I'm gonna finish
by saying, but I never cared about the number, Like
Dak has no idea what to say, what side to present,
what where he should be at, mentally, what he should say,
what his attitude should be towards the contract.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
And look, this goes into what we've told you forever.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Jerry Jones is okay with letting Dak hit the market,
right Dak in ten seconds, Dack went from the money's
there too. But I got to make sure him set
it up for the next guy too. I don't care
what the number is. Like, he just has no idea
what he wants.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
This is a mess.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
It's been a mess, and you have a quarterback right
now that really doesn't know where to go and doesn't
know how to go into this season, does know where
it's going to be, doesn't know if he's gonna have
his best wide receiver or not, doesn't know if the
team wants to keep him around if they're gonna keep
him around, doesn't know if he's gotta say, all right,
I'll take less money to be a Dallas Cowboy, or
say screw it, I'll go to free agency and someone's

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gonna give me sixty million dollars a year, because somebody
will right may not be the Cowboys, but somebody will
give you sixty million dollars. This shows you how where
the Cowboys are and where Dak Prescott is and if
you expect them to have a big season, forget it.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Forget it.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Your quarterback doesn't even know what to say about his
contract when that's basically he knows that's always gonna be
asked every single day is about the contract, and he
has no idea what to say, like things are just so,
just so, hanging by a thread with the Cowboys. When
the season gets here, you say, okay, well the games
are gonna get here. Things yet know when the games
get here, it's gonna be worse because you have no

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idea who's gonna be playing, and they're not gonna be
very good because they didn't go out and get anybody
in the offseason and there were a twelve and five
team last year and everybody else got better, And good
luck when your quarter back is trying to play this
season for a new contract and you didn't give him
anybody new and you're gonna run out Ezekiel Elliott in
his second time back with the team as a number
one running back.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Good luck. The Cowboys are just an absolute mess and.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
We are gonna be here for it for the rest
of August, September, October, November, and December.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
Well, it goes back to what we were talking about,
what's Skip gonna do? He resigned like he doesn't have
the what's he gonna do during a Cowboys season down?

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Yes, you know I'm worried about Skip. Well, maybe Skip
will be the new head coach. Maybe that's what it is.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
He's saying, not at FS one anymore, and he replaces
McCarthy next year as the head coach of the Calendary.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Right, well, Soco, ric o'dowdell will be your number one
back in theory.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
In theory, all right, it'll be a terrible split until
Zeke falls into the line.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Just help me out here. Put it out in the universe.
They're gonna start Zeke again. Come on, man, that's gonna
be that put it out there. We haven't been a
dynasty league to try. They're over under his ten and
a half wins still at this point. Remember, Dak last
week went to the podium and that was part of
where this question and answer today went through.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
Was last week he was talking about the guys he
grew up with that went and played in other uniforms.
Right that that is a reality that he's seen, talked
about family, all that stuff. The whole idea of I
gotta set it up for the next guy is the
biggest pile of nonsense time and time again, because you
can be the outlier if you choose to. Not everybody's

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gonna follow your lead, nor are you gonna set the
quarterback world. This is a self aggrandizing statement described you know,
with with he tried to do the humble.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
It's like, hey, the money doesn't matter, the number doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
Like no, the rest of the quarterbacks are gonna say blank, Dak,
I'm not doing what he did, just like everybody did
with Tom Brady all those years.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Boy, look what Tom does.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
He sets it up. Look what we could do if
you did? What's no to hell with you give me
my thirty million dollars. Same thing here, now it's sixty. No,
I'm not doing what Dak does. So if Dak wants
to take a lesser, lesser deal to make everything right
and get everybody play it paid and get his assurances,
he's well with it, his right to do so. So

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trotting out the I've got to make sure it's right
for those behind me is crap. It's a terrible logic,
terrible argument, and anybody that falls for it, it's the
banana and the tailpipe for crying out loud. It doesn't matter.
Every other guy is gonna tell his agent, screw you,
get me paid. That's the way it works, and that's
the bottom line. But this is setting up to be messy.

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I still think Jerry does an eleventh hour realizing this
is gonna go to hell because Dak's gonna show out.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
They're gonna still put up some numbers.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
Yeah, it's him and Ceedee Lamb, who also is sitting
there with a sign saying show me the money as well.
So and now Michael Harts is gonna be mad because
he was low on that stopey fl one hundred lists.
So you got all sorts of stuff swirling about good
luck Mike McCarthy. If the seat wasn't hot enough for
bad two minute decisions. You got a lot of things

(32:11):
festering in that locker room exit out about a Fresca
exit swollen dome. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Speaking of festering, let's talk to Steve to Sager and
find out what's trending in.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
The wide world of sports. I have no segor well,
I had no segues.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
What I'm always gonna say is speaking of festering a
guy who once wrote appreciation letters to uncle Fester.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
It's Steve. What's nice?

Speaker 6 (32:35):
Yeah? Through Ai?

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, atter I.

Speaker 6 (32:40):
Heard those Olympic ads have been pulled finally, thikes.

Speaker 9 (32:43):
Because of course that's why people want to write a
letter of appreciation.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
Let's just have AI do it. It means nothing to
me personally.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
I really want to write a letter. She's my hero. Dad.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, listen, you can spend more time on your phone
going through TikTok videos.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Just have a I write it.

Speaker 9 (32:59):
It'll be exact, Yes, teach the kids that way. Well,
that Blake Snell was nor story is going to lead
things tonight. My goodness, San Francisco three nothing winners. At Cincinnati,
Blake Snell had the Giants pitched a no hitter with
eleven strikeouts three walks, his first ever complete game. In fact,
stat Sing points out that Snell had never completed eight

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innings in a start in two hundred and one career
starts until tonight, which is the longest streak to begin
a pitcher's career in the history of Major League Baseball.
So this might have come up in the Giants' locker
room with the media afterwards.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
I mean, the first time you've pitched into the ninth inning.

Speaker 10 (33:39):
And I can't say it anymore, you know, complete game.
Shout out no hit or leave me alone. You don't
go eighty'll get that, FILS, just ate it, leave me alone.

Speaker 6 (33:51):
One Blake Snell, San Francisco Giants. There you go, one hundred,
answer your honor.

Speaker 9 (33:58):
One hundred and fourteen pitches own his career high end
pitches still won seventeen, but returning from the groin entry
less than a month ago, he's been superb. Last five starts.
He's allowed eight hits in thirty three innings. Kansas City
winners of five straight games now after a nine to
two victory at Detroit, beating All Star pitcher Derek Scoogle,

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who was twelve and three five straight wins for Cleveland
now after defeating Baltimore eight to four, but the Orioles
are still tied with the Yankees for first place in
the Al East. Toronto has just beaten the Yanks eight
to five. That ends the five game winning streak of
the Yankees. Aaron Judge did it his fortieth home run
in the loss. One hundred and one RBIs for him.

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Updating the late games, Seattle got an early grand Slam
from Justin Turner and it's Mariners nine nothing over the
Phillies in the bottom of the seventh. The A's lead
the Dodgers six to two. In the top of the
eighth inning. The Dodgers starting pitcher tonight was Gavin Stones.
Four innings, five runs allowed. If anybody knows how to
pitch and could also get into the fifth inning, I

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think the Dodgers might be interested.

Speaker 6 (35:03):
Just for the record.

Speaker 9 (35:04):
Rockies five to two leaders at San Diego in the
bottom of the seventh and the met at the seventh inning,
stretcher ahead at Anaheim five to one over the Angels.
Pee Alonzo with his twenty third home run of the season,
twelve hits for the Mets so far in seven innings
of work. Earlier wins for Boston and Atlanta, for Houston
and Minnesota, which sent the White Sox to an eighteen

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straight loss ten to two.

Speaker 6 (35:27):
Back to you.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Wait, no, no, you miss something. Anthony Santander home run tonight? Right,
he's a home run every night?

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Where is that? Where was that? That's?

Speaker 6 (35:36):
Sorry?

Speaker 3 (35:36):
No, really, just when you think you can rely on
some people, I think.

Speaker 6 (35:41):
I mentioned that it's more like every other night is
what it feels like. So well, I guess you have show, So.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
All right, Thank you, Steve. I appreciated. My friend, The
Jason Smith Show is my best friend.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Mike Harmon coming up next, it is time to open
up and give you our advice for a very big
hire that the United States is going to need to
do sometime in the coming.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
Days and weeks. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
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Speaker 1 (36:22):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, I from the tire raq dot
com studios and U look, we got a big Olympics
story coming your way in a couple of minutes.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
But today look big headline of the day.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Kind of a light day on the docket for the Olympics,
you know, kind of the the bridge day to all
the big action this weekend, the end of the first week,
beginning of the second week, US men's soccer gets knocked out.
They lose four to nothing to Morocco. And it was
a game that just it got worse and work some
more time went on. It was just one of these
It just snowballed. The entire United States gets knocked out.

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So the U twenty three they come in, you thought
maybe they could have a big run, but now they're
out of the Olympics. So okay, But let me just
say this now, because this is what needs to happen.
In the last few days, we found out that you're
gonna clop who is the number one choice to replace
Greg Berhalter as coach the men's national team, said no,
not ready to come back maybe in a year and

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doesn't want to come back to coach the United States,
And honestly, I can't say I blame him because if
I'm the United States, I'd have to take as much
time possible because what you need to do is to
make this job look like a destination.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
Because right now, Team USA, the United States men's national team,
is a wreck. All right. You have players that it's
tough to get them motivated, right.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
You have roster drama with coaches and parents calling, hey,
my kid's not blamed, the coach doesn't like my kid.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Right.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Nobody knows what results are good enough because no matter
what happened, it's all we should be better. It's the
golden age of players in the United States. And maybe
it is, but maybe it isn't. And if I'm another
coach and I'm like, hey, I want a job, oh,
do I really want to put my reputation on the line?
Because the United States doesn't have its house in order.
It's just been chaos. The guy they fired headed up

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the search for the next coach and he named himself
the coach, So like, what is going on there?

Speaker 3 (38:22):
So United States?

Speaker 1 (38:24):
United States Soccer right now needs to take some time
and say, Okay, let's take care of stuff.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Let's get all the money in order.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Let's get our house in order so we can be
an attractive destination to somebody, because right now, who that's
a big name is going to come and say, oh, yeah,
I want the United States job. Yeah you want it
if you're in a position to succeed. But you see
all the drama that goes along with it, and you
walk into who wants it? Who wants a piece of that?
Right now, you're not gonna get anybody to take this job.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
It sixs to me.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Somebody just do is desperate, so you're gonna get the
best of a badpool of candidates. Right You need to
take time, turn it into a destination, fix everything behind
the scenes, so it's like having a big free agent party,
like when when people become free agents in the NFL
and the NBA and they come to your town and
you show them a great time, and you show them
what the team is like and what it's going to
be like if you play there, and this is Hey,

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I'm in love with this area, and you call your
agents say get me there, I get the money figured out,
that's where I want to be. That's the United States
wants to do because right now, the USMNT is not
a destination.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
They got to make it one. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
I think one of the biggest things is there's needs
to be a meeting in the minds for the all right,
what are the substance of changes? Whoever you need to
talk to. You got plenty of former US men's players
that are more than happy to share their experiences and
what they've seen from the ground up as to what
are problems with the United States system. Some can be

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remedied in a short order, some take more longer systemic changes.
But I don't know how much they embrace those conversations.
So to your point, yeah, it becomes a guy who's
in a reclamation, a guy who got fired from another
gig and is just eager to get back in the game.
And maybe you catch lightning in a bottle, right, They

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got that false nine thing that just you know, you
don't have no idea where it's coming from.

Speaker 6 (40:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
Maybe Na the Great can come coach. You get Nate
to come coach. It'll be good.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Let's let's go with all our Lasso references, but just
get false nine coach, right, right, So that's what I said.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
Yeah, fake nine, Yeah, look at the fake nine Basically,
you had this run. We're like, all right, they did
something they have in forever and then immediately got drummed
four nil. And for a half you tried to sell
yourself all right, the levee's not gonna break, the levee's
not gonna break, and then it broke.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Really, it's it's a time to say, let's make this
a destination. Let's fix it so we get somebody big
to come in.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
That's your need.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome. Coming up next,
the biggest sports lesson we all learned this week.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
That's next Fox