July 11, 2024 • 38 mins
Mike Harmon and Jason Fitz debate if Davante Adams will be a Raider for life. The Big 12 is in "early conversations" about expansion with Clemson and Florida State. And The MLB All-Star Game will have actual robot bartenders!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Greetings and welcome in hour two of the program, Jason
Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon. Smith off gallivanting, Jason
Fitz in his stead. See his work at Yahoo at
Jason fits on Twitter. You want to catch up on
everything he's doing. He's got some new music out, so
he's got that pinned to the bed as well that history.
And you hear him on the weekends Saturday Morning alongside
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Anthony Gargano, part of the Fellas. He's a Raider fan,
but Andy Barron's a fellow, you know, a mutual friend,
trying to convert you to being a Bears fan.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
So you got a lot going on.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
You say convert, I say troll like I said some
complimentary things about the Bears, and all of a sudden
he says, welcome, you're now officially a Pears.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Did he send you any gear?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Because if he sends you any gear, if it's a
large or bigger, you could just send it my way.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Look, I will say one thing, you know, of course,
I have allegiance to only one football team, and that's
my beloved Raiders. You can't be my age. I'm forty seven.
You cannot be my age and not have had a
soft spot in your heart for what the Bears were
in the mid eighties. Like I remember reading the Jim
McMahon autobiography and thinking, oh my god, this is like
the coolest dude in the world. Like there was just
something different about that eighty five Bears team that I
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think resonated at a different level. So I have a
little tiny soft spot for the Bears, but I only
have a love for one. I'm a very monogamous relationship
with my beloved Raiders.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I think I might be the last person that lived
in Chicago during those years that hasn't written a book
about the experience of the eighty five Bears, talked about
it enough here and lived in the memories of those years,
And anytime I get to meet any of those guys. It's,
you know, a holy kind of moment. Steve McMichael going
into the Hall of Fame is is everything, uh for
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me because he was always my favorite even before he
and then he joined the Four Horsemen, So I mean,
I mean, what else could I want there?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
He goes, Look, you've now mentioned wrestling twice. I would
just tell the world you didn't know this. But like
before we connected and started the show tonight, I was
on a website that sells like they make new versions
of those big WWE guys from when we were kids,
like the big rubber ones. Yeah, and I was trying
to get you know, the British Bulldogs are impossible to get,
and there was a site that said they had him,
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so I was trying to figure out if I was
gonna bid on the British Bulldogs. So like that's where
I'm like made you know, I'm out, No no free
shout outs to the company, Like I'm not a little
Davy boy and.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
The Dynamite kid. Let's go Harmonal find me for you.
I'll find it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm pretty good at ferreting that stuff out the memorabilia world,
and uh, those toys my favorite until all the controversy.
One of my favorite pieces in the larger collection was
still in packaging, the Vince McMahon WWF microphone.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Oh wow, yeah. So here's the funny thing when you
say still in packaging, I am the worst because, as
I mentioned flippantlay earlier, but like very real for me,
we didn't have anything. My parents did their best, but
we just didn't have anything when I was a kid,
So you know, there were birthdays and Christmases where there
were no presents. That just wasn't part of life. So
I didn't have some of the toys that a lot
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of people have. So as I got older, I decided,
especially when I was in the music world and I was,
you know, writing songs and everything with people, I wanted
to make sure that I had like a cool writing
office that people would say, oh, that was fun. So
I started getting toys. But the thing for me is
I always wanted toys that were out of the package,
because like when you didn't get to play with them
as a kid. I wanted to make sure. So I'm
the worst. Like I was at this comic con and
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there was a like a Transformer that was super collectible.
I ripped that thing out of the box at the
Comic Con and you would have thought that I shot
a bunch of people's grandmothers, Like the looks of shocking
on people's faces. And I'm like, y'all, I'm a grown
ass man, but I don't have kids.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
But guy, and it's no longer a collectible, He's.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Like, you can never resell that, and I'm like, well,
I wasn't really planning on that, so I am. I
am the worst for that. So you know, a lot
of times with these wrestling toys, I just wait until
there's one that's like, you know, a little scuffed up
and makes it on eBay, and then I go out
and get it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Do it well.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And then you got you got guys that run a
whole business world. They'll match the paint and repaint pieces
if you need a little help there too.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
So like I grew up on the West Coast and
went to the old A W A matches when I
was a kid, So like the Midnight Rockers were life to.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Me that I'm a legion to Doom. Guy, I was
actually wearing a Legion of Doom shirt yesterday.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
I got some Legion of Doom toys about road.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Wars is what it's all about right there.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
The the Midnight Rockers ones though, like those A W
A toys they made. I had them as its. Yeah,
the rem cos they were with.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The Wooden Ring. Did you have the Wooden Ring?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Oh yeah, did you ever have?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And you'd make so much and mom would come down
and well that was the end of playing with the restlers.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Well now I want to get them, but you just ge't,
Like they're so expensive, like especially if you want the
Midnight Rockers one, You're you're talking like six seven hundred
dollars toys. I'm like, no, I'm not doing that like
I want. So I went to somebody and was like, hey,
can you just do me like a custom knockoff? And
that's so that's what I have. Like they have no
value at all, but they look like the real ones,
and that that that makes me happy.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
They challenge accepted.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
It's my version of a Ucci purse.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
See, I'm just.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Putting that into the margins of my rundown here as
we go through. Hey, it's now tied twenty one, twenty
one US and Canada. Boy, this game is boring the
most exciting thing and and Frostburg brought it to My
attention is that we've got Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
court side. Can he give them a couple of minutes?
He used to have a pretty good jump shot. I
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remember they used to run a lot of games when
he was in the White House.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Being absolutely just bombarded for pictures.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Oh, no doubt so.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Uh and yeah, and I will say the game, the
pace on the game is finally picking up, like both
teams are trying to push the ball a little bit
more so maybe it's less of a snoozer, but yeah, look,
if Obama went out there and gave three or four
minutes of this wouldn't be any worse than what we've
actually seen from Team USA.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, we got past the first five. We gotten into
substitutions as we go midway through the second quarter, four
ten minute periods rolling through this one. We'll keep it
apprized of it and after it's all over, Mark Medenhall
join us. We'll break down what we saw, what else
is going on with Team USA, and of course everything
going on in NBA free agency. You find me over
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Now.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I haven't been a fan of a lot of these
documentary kind of shows that you know. I watched The
Quarterback One, Little Kirk Cousins, Patrick Mahomes all that fun stuff.
Receiver premiered and we have already got Aman Ross Saint Brown.
He said some crazy stuff about what he played with
last year. We'll go through that. But your receiver, DeVante Adams, boy,
(07:12):
he's making the rounds and he's making some noise yesterday
on the show. Here you can find the podcast wherever
you get your audio downloaded.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Give it five stars. We'll love you forever.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'll walk to your town and maybe give you a
hug for his gump style, and maybe I'll leave a
smile on your shirt as well. But we went after
the social media team of the Los Angeles Chargers because
they had him with the trash can popcart pop tart
in the latest schedule release. So, you know, the old
keep your name out out in my mouth, you know,
(07:42):
kind of thing like Will Smith. He's gonna slap some people.
But he also well started talking about contract negotiations with
the Packers when he was there. But now he's talking
to a former teammate who's found his way to Green
Bay as well.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Jack. He's always in the in the news after saying something.
But he told the media about a text that he
sent asking if you were thinking about returning to the Packers,
saying yesterday it was a joke. What would you like
to say?
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Yeah, that was truly just send that over And I mean,
Josh is one of my best friends.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Man.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
He's first of all, he's hilarious. People don't know how
funny he is. It was definitely a joke, but it
was one of those jokes where he was serious because
he definitely would like that. But I told him, you
go ahead and hold it down, and you know, I'm
gonna hold it down over here. I don't think I'll
be coming back over there. You know, never know what's
gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
If we whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That's why I say, if they shipped me off, then well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
See there you go. That's on k Adams Show. Up
in Adams show. Is the Twitter handle for that one?
But you know, he went all over the place. He
was an open book during this interview, Jason Iman, it's
just one thing after another, talking about the contract negotiations
with the Packers as well to where their final off
or wasn't even commensurate with the franchise tag or even
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close to it, which means he becomes a Raider now.
He also talked about the fact that Aaron Rodgers keeps
getting into his into his mentions and contacting him about yeah,
we got to run it back, we got to get
back together, et cetera. Tampering but hey, it's it's all
fun games until something crazy happens. But certainly no love
(09:25):
loss for Green Bay. But is that a guy you
expect to see by the end of the year or
by trade deadline?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Is he in another uniform?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yeah? I don't think he's going anywhere. And part of
what we sort of forget with DeVante is the age
and the contract number. So before last season, before we
even started last year, I asked a couple of insiders
and experts that I really trust that are plugged into
the league, and the question I asked is if the
Raiders tried to trade Davante, and this is before last season,
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what would they realistically get from him? And across the board?
I think I surveyed probably half a dozen people. The
highest answer I got was a mid second rounder. So
because of the age and because of the contract, people
are not going to be looking to give up. I
think his cap number next year is forty four million dollars,
so a first round pick is out of the question.
So if you're the Raiders, why would you possibly trade
one of the best wide receivers in the league for
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a second round pick? Like, there's no value to that.
So I think we forget that a little bit. And
much has been made about Deavante being unhappy, But what
did we learn from that? Kay Adams in the interview
and frankly the entire press junket he's been doing right now.
He's pretty good at telling you exactly what's going on.
Like he's not a guy that really sugarcoats much, and
he's been pretty adamant. N I'm here and I want
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to win here, and I think we can win here.
Like I think Davante is gonna be with the Raiders
through this year. Where it gets much more interesting is
going into next year. What are the Raiders going to
do because you just can't continue the cycle. I don't
think the Raiders made a mistake having Aid O'Connell and
Gardner Minshew as their quarterback. I think they played that
situation the best they could. Unfortunately, the draft didn't work
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in a way that they could get the guys that
they wanted. So they're just sort of stuck at that position.
But if you're DeVante, they're going to have to ask
him to restructure next year to stick around. Is he
going to restructure to play with Aidan O'Connell. No, I
don't think so.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, they do have a potential out after this year.
You know, the fun and exciting world of NFL contracts.
But yeah, to your point, it is a pretty sizable
cap hit as it stands for this year. Next year
the base jumps to thirty five to six. So this
year it's not as bad, bases only at about seventeen. Signing, bonus, restructuring,
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all of that, you know, add it up and we
get to somewhere in that twenty six twenty seven. But yeah,
the jump comes after this season. There's still two more
years on the deal as it stands before he would
become an unrestricted free agent. I would just say this
one of the other questions that was asked here and
on Speak and all over the place because he's doing
the press. Junket was talking about the quarterback situation, and
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this is where we get down to. As much as
we celebrate and love the world that is Gardner Minshew,
you've got Aid O'Connell there. I gotta imagine it gets
a little stickier if they can't get him the ball
and we're rehashing what you've come to know. Look, I
know it with the Bears, so I feel for you
when it comes to all right, it's another one of
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those seasons, a little bit of promise, a couple of stars,
but not being able to register much in the win column.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
The interesting part, because you said how much we love
Gardner Minshew. I think in society in general, we apply
benefit of the doubts to characters we love. So when
we really love Anthony Edwards on the off the court,
we love what he's doing on the court doesn't really matter,
right Like, there is some level of Gardner Minshew's such
a celebrity. I would say, though, if you go back
and watch some of how those wins happened last year
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for the Colts, Shane Stikeen did a really nice job
of masking some things. Gardner was fine. Abe O'Connell over
the course of the last year was fine. I don't
think he's a world beater, but most people don't think
of him as being even remotely good. I think these
are two pretty evenly matched quarterbacks, and if that's the case, Aiden,
I think Aiden's gonna win the job. The question is
just what does that really mean for the future, because
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next year's draft quarterback class stinks. That's why I honestly
believe that this Raiders room from from a talent standpoint,
is good enough that in a year they're gonna back
up a brink struck and they're gonna make Dak Prescott
the highest Bay quarterback in the NFL. And that's the
way they're gonna try and keep everybody happy and win.
They're gonna bring Dak sixty plus million dollars a year,
and they're gonna bring a quarterback in because they're just
tired of trying to roll the dice.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And find one, keep trying to dance. It all goes
back to remember Derek Carr. As soon as he yelled
it's broke, It's broke, everything changed just that fast. See
now bringing up bad memories, fits is gonna hate me,
and now he's gonna just go and buy a bunch
of wrestling toys on till.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
So way it all works?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
You got me figured out?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
No way it all works all together.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
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(14:17):
aggressive expansion. US with a four point lead under four
minutes left in the first half. Coming up next, we
turn our attention to the Big twelve. Some big talk
from the commissioner yesterday and now well doubling down on
something we brought up a long time ago again regarding expansion.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
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fitz in his stead Us has now opened up a
seven point lead as people furiously run down court side
to find Barack Obama to get that selfie, just like
that guy on the plane when he was stalking Bill Clinton.
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The other day thirty nine thirty two fifty one seconds
remaining here in the first half, a little more life
to Team USA. As the night's going on, it's almost
like it's they're in Vegas right with that dust kind
of time where you're a little lethargic, But guess what.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
The night light comes up, it's like, let's go, what
do you got?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Have you ever like? Is there is there a celebrity
in your life that you've ever just done that? I
have to and walked up and gotten a selfie?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
What's upon a time?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I was a big autograph guy like to where I
still have a collection and would love to continue adding
to it. There's still a couple that I need to
and I've got an All Century Baseball book from nineteen
ninety nine. Remember when they did all that stuff at Fenway.
My brother was able to get Mays and Aaron they
did a signing in Chicago, and then I took it
when I lived up near Cooperstown for a while where
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I just started adding guys when they'd come to town
for enshrinement. So that's one of those projects. But in
terms of the selfies, Oh, I don't know who would
have been the last guy that I got a selfie.
I mean, I've got a Kelsey one that really tracks well.
When he visited us on Radio Row when he was
doing his dating show.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Who was that potty mouth white Sox pay sure we
ran into Oh no, no, no, it wasn't a picture.
Was Ron Kittle? Well?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Ron kittleh nineteen eighty three American League Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
We did. Yeah, I definitely got one there.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Did you did you have to like muster up the
courage or was that an easy That one was pretty easy.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah, that one was pretty easy. Yeah, he made it easy.
He started dropping some bombs on us.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Oh yeah, no, it was well, I tell you every
third word, what was it?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
What was he over under on the next sentence?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
And the exploitive like because ego would have been fun
to have on Radio a bunch, but I think we
would have been playing pressure luck no Whammyammy, no whammy.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
We'd all be out of jobs. I mean, think about it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Remember when we had Eric Dickerson on one of the
finest interviews we ever did, when he went off on
Jeff Fisher and the the Rams and everything else, and
really we're still waiting on our Super Bowl rings. Fits
because that brought Sean McVay to town. But we were
we ran out of dump opportunities with him in that interview.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
That's wild, especially for somebody that should know better, right,
like he definitely knows better than to do that.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Well, he got.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Fired up like whatever, you know the snubs that were
going on, and he was ready to go.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You wear goggles and run for two Okay, you can
say whatever you want.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Look, if you've if you've got if you can pull
off those goggles, no matter what you run for, you
could say whatever you want. And he did, he pulled
off those goggles. I asked this question because I've recently
had this experience. I this year was the first time
ever that I got to cover a Final Four in person.
I've never done that. And so Yahoo sent me out
to the Final Four and I was sitting on press
rows the first day, you know, as we were getting
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ready to film some of our stuff, and I was
right there and all of a sudden, like after I
was filming the anthem and just having a good old
time like I wanted. I wanted to embrace the beginning
of the Final Four. Only to find out right after
that Bill Murray had been apparently seated in the wrong section,
and he was right in front of me, and I
didn't know that, and like, I'm a massive Ghostbusters and
Saturday Night Live fan, So I spent the whole the
(18:57):
next day lamenting the fact that one of like the
icons of my life was right in front of me
and I didn't even like, I didn't even see it,
And so it was in my mind. I was like,
if I run into him, I'm gonna I'm gonna say something. Well,
flash forward. You know, his son is a bench coach
for Yukon, so he flashed forward. He was obviously there
for the championship game. Right after the game ends. If
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you were covering it, you have the right credential. You're
allowed to walk right up on the court. So as
Bobby Hurley's cutting down the nets, I'm standing two feet
from Bobby Hurley and they've got this little tiny stanchion
and there's Bill Murray standing right there. The whole time,
I'm like, I don't know, should I ask him? I
can't ask him. I got to ask him, but I
hear he's, you know, a little bit prickly sometimes and
this isn't the right time he's here. With this kid,
like I went through all of this in my mind
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the whole time. And then after they finished cutting down
the nets, they walked to the other end of the court,
walked right by me, and I finally I was like, dude,
I gotta ask, can I get a selfie? And begrudging
you could tell he didn't like it, but he's like fine,
So I pulled out and it's not even a good selfie,
but it didn't matter to me. Like I had such
a rush because I was like, oh my god, I
just met Bill Murray. So that's why I because like
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I'm looking at all this and I'm thinking, man, if
you're sitting in front a couple of rows, you know,
and and Obama sitting there, like, that's got to be
for a lot of people, that's got to be very cool.
Where you're looking at it saying, man, a former president
is right there. I could get a selfie, but you
gotta muster up the courage to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, even in coach Don Staley that's going around on
social media that she she made sure to get one
with him as well, so you know everybody wants Yeah,
I go back. We were up in the Bay Area
when I was. I worked at Yahoo many many many
years before. I was the original harmon at Yeah, when
we started these sports. Unfortunately I didn't win the stock
(20:38):
option lottery fits so here we sit in twenty twenty four.
But you know, I helped build what became Yahoo Sports
and the fantasy engine that became the biggest thing in
the game. Yeah, I'm gonna pat myself on the back,
so sto damn it. But we were up there, my
then wife, she had started at Stanford in grad school,
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and it was my cousin's birthday, you know, living up
in the Bay Area, and we went out to eat
and all of a sudden we kind of got the
all right, it's gonna be a bit for a table
because the back room has been commandeered. Well, it was
graduation weekend and that's when Chelsea Clinton was there. So
I did have a second of meeting Bill Clinton and
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Hillary Clinton in this restaurant up in the Bay Area.
So that was kind of fun. You know, all of
those and some near misses in terms of autograph seeking, right,
Mohammad Ali at one point and a couple others. But
that's my I'm a big music guy. So if I
could start adding you know, signed CDs and stuff to
the wall. I've got a couple of those, and you know,
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looking for aggressive expansion there. Eventually I'll move to, you know,
one of those towns where it's all all music all
the time, and that'll be my thing.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Yeah, exactly, Like I'll tell you the three places to
go and you can just camp out and all of
a sudden you'll get all of the autographs from everybody.
Everybody's so nice. You know that that city's born for that.
I can help you with that. If it's country music
side you want, I got you well.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But because the other side of that is they're all
sports fans, right. One of the greatest things during our
time here was also being you know, Radio Row and
Faith Hill was going to do the national anthem. Well,
Tim McGraw was just wandering around hanging out. So we
were just starting to talk SEC football and the National
Football League and the Titans while he's just standing there
because he's got nothing else to do. Everybody's fawning and
(22:27):
he's watching her do interviews or whatever. He wasn't doing interviews,
he was just hanging out, so behind the scenes, you know,
that was one of the cool you know, little moments,
So you know, doing those kind of things is always
the best. You know, that intersection of sports and and
and and music. I mean, that's that's what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I mean it got me to where I am, so
I can't I can't disagree with that at all, for
for sure. And by the way, the first show I
ever played with the Van Perry we we were the
early opener. It was us, Luke Bryant and Tim McGrath.
So we spent a good year on that that tour.
Five that young had just started to come out and
just gotten popular. So it was pretty amazing to you know,
we had like ten feet of stage. It was tiny,
(23:07):
but to watch McGraw work every day was He's definitely
great at what he does, for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, we got to see him on the beach down
here in Huntington. See now I'm doing those little little
humble flexes of things we've been able to do.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Armen and Nashville is a show we need.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Well, I'm debating that might be one of my next
acts once my kids lead me for college.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Yeah. Problem is you missed the beat by like five
years on being able to afford to believe.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Knowing that, I know, like am iballing Franklin and looking
at the concentric circles.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
He's just gonna live on Broadway and not sleep.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Jay, I mean, I'm in for that. But like, this
is not an exaggeration. Houses in the suburbs that six
seven years ago were one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
with no renovations are now running between five and six
hundred thousand dollars. So it's it's it's a meteoritic explosion
of housing prices like I've never seen. So it's pretty
(24:00):
it's pretty wild. But you know fun fact that nobody
else cares about this listening look Nord, No, they do
Hendersonville places like that. If you're gonna go, if you're
thinking Franklin, if you're gonna go thirty forty minutes south,
you might as go thirty forty minutes north if you
you can find a lot better bang for your buck.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Up there, no go, there's my there's my real estate tip.
Jason fits in for Jason Smith at Jason Fitz. Maybe
he can help you with the local you're looking at too.
He seems to know a lot of things about a
lot of things. Mike Harmon with you here, Jason Smith
off this week the Big twelve big talk, and it's
something that we had brought up a while ago in
(24:36):
this giant I don't even know what to call it,
the Rubik's cube, right, we're changing sides and trying to
see where things match up along the way in college
football and college athletics as a whole, the reconfiguring. I
note today was the sad next funeral of the PAC
twelve conference, where they had just a little cocktail kind
(24:58):
of thing at the Bellagio to welcome media in to
talk about the year ahead. That's kind of where we're
at with things as opposed to you know, the lavish
spreads and big you know meeting rooms or hanging out
on a Sony lot or you know, across the Hollywood
landscape of years past. But the Big Twelve, you know,
they're making big talk of hey, it's us, it's the SEC,
(25:19):
it's the Big ten, and here we're going. And something
we've talked about for a while Smith and I on
the show. A couple of ACC schools are in their
targets Florida State. We know, going back well over a
year ago, they were starting to look into the economics
of getting out of their rights agreements and conference agreements
(25:40):
to see what the how punitive that would be. And
you've also got Clemson another big target out there, both
a lot of rumblings that they're going through the legal
processes and seeing what it would take to disentangle from
the ACC and the Big twelve seems to be the
option on the table. Looking for Jellinger who from your place,
(26:03):
Rah Yahoo Sports talking about early conversation with those schools
about the possibility. Don't know if anything serious, and he
throws in the term yet because they do have to
get out of the ACC through a settlement or court ruling.
Could be months years away from something, but it is
a possibility. Look if there's enough money, and again in
(26:23):
this day and age where people are really going back
to the trough to donors and boosters and everybody else
in a different way, and if it means long term
success getting on boards where where there's giant media rights deals, yeah,
they'll find a way to break those contracts and move on.
I think it just seems inevitable. All those talks of
(26:45):
the you know, Super League, like they tried to do
in soccer fits I think we're just a couple of
years away. You know, it's like Midwest weather. Wait five minutes,
you'll see something else. I mean, in Chicago, I saw
a weather report saying it's gonna be nine hundred and
forty five degrees on Monday.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
My brothers are screwed.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But the same thing when we talk about college athletics,
I mean, there's nothing that's going to be static. I mean, hell,
the Big Ten was once actually ten teams.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Well, the Big twelve can't be static because if they're static,
they won't be relevant. And you know, this really hit me.
I was down in Jacksonville a couple of weeks ago
for a rivals event with the top one hundred or
one hundred, I should say, of the top high school
football players across the country that are going to be
committing over the next two years, and most of them
have already committed somewhere. And when you start just talking
(27:33):
to the kids about what they're excited about where they
want to go, I mean, yeah, obviously name, image, likeness,
and money is a part of this, but also, you know,
it was pretty stunning to hear some of the kids
that are looking at and committed to places like Oregon
really excited about the fact that Oregon has joined a
huge conference where they're going to get to play against
teams that you know matter, And all you've got to
do right now is just look at the predicted you know,
(27:56):
standings this year for the Big Twelve, and the winner
of the Big Twelve addicted to be Utah and after
that Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Kansas. Those are fine schools,
but are any of them competing on a national Saturday
attention level with Oregon, Michigan, Ohio State, and then the
gauntlet of Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama. Like you go up and
(28:16):
down the list when you start looking with the Big Twelve,
and the sec have created they own the space. So
now you either got to figure out how to play
with the big boys or you're going to be left
behind completely. So I think there's going to end up
being a bidding war for the Florida States and Clemsons
of the world, because there just aren't that many other
schools that you can add that will suddenly make you
(28:37):
nationally relevant. And everything now about college football is about
nationally Like there are kids that in their name, image,
likeness deals all over the country. Now they get first
class plane tickets for their families to fly to and
from every game, Like that's real, and that tells you
how national the landscape is at this point. So if
you're the Big twelve and you want to keep up,
(28:58):
you need to figure out how to Even if it
costs you an astronomical amount of money, that's still better
than suddenly waking up one day and being as relevant
to the college football world as the Mountain West is.
That's not where the Big twelve wants to end up.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, that's it about being creative, and that's something that
Brett Yormack, your mark, was talking about in his comments yesterday.
You know, we talk about expansion, talk about the next iterations,
but he was also talking about TV windows and trying
to get creative there, trying to, you know, figure out
if there are windows that are more advantageous where you're
not necessarily running up against you know, big noon kickoff
(29:34):
or what's been the traditional powerhouse slot you know on
CBS or on ESPN. So that I think is interesting
for all of us. Right it becomes the you know,
how do you get your programming in front of folks?
The streaming deals will get into the NBA and that
deal that was announced earlier today, in about twenty five
(29:54):
minutes from now. But it's just that curiosity of you know,
you're you're no longer just all right, what's the good?
And it goes back to that student slash athlete thing
we were talking about earlier in the show, Jason, you
know just that you know that line got erased. It's
not blurred, it's not Hey, we cut up the pie
a different way. No, no, no, we just erased it all
(30:15):
together to where it's just one piece and not for
all schools, certainly not. But when we're talking about the
larger business of conferences and how to stay relevant, Yeah,
it's all about the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Well, and when you start talking some about what they're
dealing with and trying to figure out the right TV windows,
I will just I remember being in the room. And
you know, when I worked for ESPN, they do something
every year called the College Football Seminar where they bring
in everybody that covers college football into one room and
you hear from everybody, You go over the rules changes,
(30:49):
you educate on the sport like and at the time,
the PAC twelve came in and presented and their issue
and this is you know, this is probably five six
years ago. Their issue is that the PAC twelve after
Dark was there way of capturing a better window in theory,
but they acknowledged at the time, and I think this
is important. They acknowledge that the issue they have is
if a touchdowns scored in a random game at noon,
(31:11):
that highlight is run all day, so you see the player,
you see the action, you see what's happening. The problem
with late night windows is that when you're on TV,
by the time people wake up on Sunday morning, they're
now in Fantasy football mode, NFL prep mode, they're embedding
mode for the NFL. Like what happened late at night
on college football more often than not is lost in replay.
(31:34):
So it's interesting that while the advantage was perceived for
a while of hey, we want to be back twelve
after dark, I think that actually the Pack twelve acknowledge
that genuinely hurt them. So the big twelves got to
look around and say, Okay, we got to get a window,
but we need to have a window that sits in
an area that's not so late that we're forgotten in
the highlight reels. Because if you're forgotten in the highlight reels.
You get less Heisman winners, you get less Award winners.
(31:56):
In general, you seem to get less hype when it
goes towards the college football playoff. Like those are all
things that genuinely happen by having the wrong time slot,
So you gotta be smart and careful.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Well, fortunately you wouldn't be kicking off at ten thirty
Eastern time, and my guess is you'll have much better
distribution deals in place than the Pac twelve ever did. Hi,
Larry Scott, nice job, He's Jason Fitzen for Jason Smith.
Coming up next to robots are taking over jobs and
more jobs being lost to robots, and one that I
(32:27):
didn't really think that was happening, but fitz says he's
already experienced it.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
We'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
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Speaker 3 (32:38):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jays Smith Show with
Me Mike Harmon, Jason fitz In for Jason Smith. Fifty
forty three seven minutes tremading and finally got the second
half underway of this exhibition between the US and Canada.
I hear Jason longest halftime interview ever. Grant Hill must
have had a lot of stuff to say.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Did he?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Or we just trying to milk this thing for Like
I feel like the halftime was longer than the actual period.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
So oh yeah that the second quarter seemed to blow by,
and then this just kept going and going. Here's some
more shots of who's taking a selfie with Barack Obama.
Here's some more crowd shots of Colangelo and uh coach
k because we got to keep showing them the architects
of everything and all of that fun stuff. But yeah,
it really that was a long halftime. I wonder what
(33:28):
it ad runs? What an ad runs during a halftime
show like that? I mean it's good for us. I
mean it's Foxmort's one, so I mean I can't complain.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
No, we want we want everybody making money here. Do
you think, uh that Barack is like out in the
clurb afterwards? Like do you think like they've they've got
a clurb destination for him.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Like.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
They have figured this out? I don't know, lebron Is
it makes the call?
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Yeah, like well, I mean mean the Secret Service goes
in and does all the actual work to get it done.
But I think it's Lebron. Then he decided to Barrock
and he's like yeah, like hey, let's do this. And
then yeah, they do a complete buyout somewhere, so kind of.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Like getting a coach and you know, doing GM work.
He makes the call for the club attendance too.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I feel like Lebron's got to be that guy, right,
nobody else on this, Like you're if you're gonna be
dealing with the rock star of hanging out with the president,
then you've got to have like the biggest rock star
on the on the court doing it. And there just
isn't a bigger bigger rock star in this era of
basketball than Lebron James, right.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
So I was just wondering it wouldn't fall to where,
you know, you get like the young guy, say the
young brash guy like Anthony Edwards, all right, you want
to be number one?
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Bill is on you. You figure it out.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
I think if it's so, if it were players only,
then it's going to the young guy.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
If it's if there's a super impressive person in the room,
then and you know the king wants to king it,
that's you know.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Well, he's gonna take credit if that goes well. Anyway,
So they're hey, major League Baseball All Star Game on
Fox next week in Arlington, Texas. They've now got robot bartender.
Now we've seen this, flipping burgers, We've seen all sorts
of things. It's not ten o'clock here on the West coast,
So save harbor. Use your imagination for other things for robots.
(35:26):
But in the concession stand I mean, you're gonna have
classic cocktails, all selection of mocktails for those that don't
want to, you know, add the the alcohol to things.
But all of a sudden slinging drinks. And I've not
experienced this. I mean I've read about the technology and
and certainly from an economic standpoint, I'm a nerd that
(35:48):
likes to look into the inevitability of the implement implementation
of this fast food restaurants or fast casual as they
like to be called, et cetera. But you say you've
already experienced this one.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Yeah. So there is a place called the Tipsy Robot
at the Miracle Mile shops in Vegas. And so it's
right inside the entrance and it's been open for a
couple of years and It literally is just a couple
of robots that sit there and you walk up to
a screen, you type in what you want, and then
the robot makes it and it gets put out on
the counter for you. So it's a super fast and
efficient process. And honestly, every time I walk by it
(36:23):
is packed because people are interested in the concept of
sh I want to see what this is all about.
I do think there's there's something weird. Like for me,
I love when I go out to eat sitting at
the bar, Like I like to sit at the bar,
and you know know that, like I got a good
vibe there, maybe good energy. It's awesome if you got
a bartender that's like worth talking to, the can strike
up a little conversation. I like all of those things.
(36:45):
So for me, I think it's a cold experience. But
you know, also, how many people a few years ago
were wildly worried about self checkout in grocery stores, and
now that's what ninety nine percent of the world uses
every single.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Day, except those are starting to go away in a
lot of places. Fit you know what, theft shrinkage is
off the charts, that small percentage of things that they're
actually scanning in versus what they're walking out.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
The door with.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
That's interesting. You've got, like.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
You know, Target in a number of other places where
it's like, you know what, I don't think we're gonna
be doing this and a lot of our locations anymore.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
I would prefer they didn't, Honestly, I like, I like,
I know, it's quick and easy in everybody's mind, I
got an extra five minutes. Like, I like the concept
of you know, walking up and I don't have to
worry about it. I just upload, I put the stuff
up on the on the belt and then they take
care of everything else. That's like I find even the
like the Costco thing, Like I went to Costco today, right,
(37:40):
and I find the whole process of like having to
go get a box and put everything in the box.
Like I found that to be very overwhelming for me.
I like to do as little thinking and working as
possible in this. So I'm all for people having.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Jobs there you go and with the robots. I mean,
the one thing you do if you're running the business,
it's not gonna be a heavy poor You're not gonna
have the shrinkage. Your bartender maybe doling out some free
shots and stuff to people. So your alcohol cost and
cost of goods is going to go down. Look, just
going to the economics of it. What a terrible cold
(38:14):
person I am.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
I love bar rescue, so I love that you're doing
this like it keeps all your beverage costs in line.
I kind of love that I.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Might have a little bit of Taffer in me. I
may be known to yell a little bit around here
when things get out of source. Who knows, Well, let's
talk some more economics the NBA, the dreaded conversation over well,
inside the NBA, be back. All the hysterics will sort
it out. Next fits harmon Fox Sports Radio.
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Greetings and welcome in hour two of the program, Jason
Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon. Smith off gallivanting, Jason
Fitz in his stead. See his work at Yahoo at
Jason fits on Twitter. You want to catch up on
everything he's doing. He's got some new music out, so
he's got that pinned to the bed as well that history.
And you hear him on the weekends Saturday Morning alongside
(00:50):
Anthony Gargano, part of the Fellas. He's a Raider fan,
but Andy Barron's a fellow, you know, a mutual friend,
trying to convert you to being a Bears fan.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
So you got a lot going on.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
You say convert, I say troll like I said some
complimentary things about the Bears, and all of a sudden
he says, welcome, you're now officially a Pears.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Did he send you any gear?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Because if he sends you any gear, if it's a
large or bigger, you could just send it my way.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
Look, I will say one thing, you know, of course,
I have allegiance to only one football team, and that's
my beloved Raiders. You can't be my age. I'm forty seven.
You cannot be my age and not have had a
soft spot in your heart for what the Bears were
in the mid eighties. Like I remember reading the Jim
McMahon autobiography and thinking, oh my god, this is like
the coolest dude in the world. Like there was just
something different about that eighty five Bears team that I
(01:38):
think resonated at a different level. So I have a
little tiny soft spot for the Bears, but I only
have a love for one. I'm a very monogamous relationship
with my beloved Raiders.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I think I might be the last person that lived
in Chicago during those years that hasn't written a book
about the experience of the eighty five Bears, talked about
it enough here and lived in the memories of those years,
And anytime I get to meet any of those guys. It's,
you know, a holy kind of moment. Steve McMichael going
into the Hall of Fame is is everything, uh for
(02:10):
me because he was always my favorite even before he
and then he joined the Four Horsemen, So I mean,
I mean, what else could I want there?
Speaker 5 (02:18):
He goes, Look, you've now mentioned wrestling twice. I would
just tell the world you didn't know this. But like
before we connected and started the show tonight, I was
on a website that sells like they make new versions
of those big WWE guys from when we were kids,
like the big rubber ones. Yeah, and I was trying
to get you know, the British Bulldogs are impossible to get,
and there was a site that said they had him,
(02:38):
so I was trying to figure out if I was
gonna bid on the British Bulldogs. So like that's where
I'm like made you know, I'm out, No no free
shout outs to the company, Like I'm not a little
Davy boy and.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
The Dynamite kid. Let's go Harmonal find me for you.
I'll find it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm pretty good at ferreting that stuff out the memorabilia world,
and uh, those toys my favorite until all the controversy.
One of my favorite pieces in the larger collection was
still in packaging, the Vince McMahon WWF microphone.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Oh wow, yeah. So here's the funny thing when you
say still in packaging, I am the worst because, as
I mentioned flippantlay earlier, but like very real for me,
we didn't have anything. My parents did their best, but
we just didn't have anything when I was a kid,
So you know, there were birthdays and Christmases where there
were no presents. That just wasn't part of life. So
I didn't have some of the toys that a lot
(03:31):
of people have. So as I got older, I decided,
especially when I was in the music world and I was,
you know, writing songs and everything with people, I wanted
to make sure that I had like a cool writing
office that people would say, oh, that was fun. So
I started getting toys. But the thing for me is
I always wanted toys that were out of the package,
because like when you didn't get to play with them
as a kid. I wanted to make sure. So I'm
the worst. Like I was at this comic con and
(03:52):
there was a like a Transformer that was super collectible.
I ripped that thing out of the box at the
Comic Con and you would have thought that I shot
a bunch of people's grandmothers, Like the looks of shocking
on people's faces. And I'm like, y'all, I'm a grown
ass man, but I don't have kids.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
But guy, and it's no longer a collectible, He's.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Like, you can never resell that, and I'm like, well,
I wasn't really planning on that, so I am. I
am the worst for that. So you know, a lot
of times with these wrestling toys, I just wait until
there's one that's like, you know, a little scuffed up
and makes it on eBay, and then I go out
and get it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Do it well.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And then you got you got guys that run a
whole business world. They'll match the paint and repaint pieces
if you need a little help there too.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
So like I grew up on the West Coast and
went to the old A W A matches when I
was a kid, So like the Midnight Rockers were life to.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Me that I'm a legion to Doom. Guy, I was
actually wearing a Legion of Doom shirt yesterday.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
I got some Legion of Doom toys about road.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Wars is what it's all about right there.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
The the Midnight Rockers ones though, like those A W
A toys they made. I had them as its. Yeah,
the rem cos they were with.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
The Wooden Ring. Did you have the Wooden Ring?
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Oh yeah, did you ever have?
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And you'd make so much and mom would come down
and well that was the end of playing with the restlers.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Well now I want to get them, but you just ge't,
Like they're so expensive, like especially if you want the
Midnight Rockers one, You're you're talking like six seven hundred
dollars toys. I'm like, no, I'm not doing that like
I want. So I went to somebody and was like, hey,
can you just do me like a custom knockoff? And
that's so that's what I have. Like they have no
value at all, but they look like the real ones,
and that that that makes me happy.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
They challenge accepted.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
It's my version of a Ucci purse.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
See, I'm just.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Putting that into the margins of my rundown here as
we go through. Hey, it's now tied twenty one, twenty
one US and Canada. Boy, this game is boring the
most exciting thing and and Frostburg brought it to My
attention is that we've got Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
court side. Can he give them a couple of minutes?
He used to have a pretty good jump shot. I
(05:48):
remember they used to run a lot of games when
he was in the White House.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Being absolutely just bombarded for pictures.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Oh, no doubt so.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Uh and yeah, and I will say the game, the
pace on the game is finally picking up, like both
teams are trying to push the ball a little bit
more so maybe it's less of a snoozer, but yeah, look,
if Obama went out there and gave three or four
minutes of this wouldn't be any worse than what we've
actually seen from Team USA.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah, we got past the first five. We gotten into
substitutions as we go midway through the second quarter, four
ten minute periods rolling through this one. We'll keep it
apprized of it and after it's all over, Mark Medenhall
join us. We'll break down what we saw, what else
is going on with Team USA, and of course everything
going on in NBA free agency. You find me over
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keep your name out out in my mouth, you know,
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kind of thing like Will Smith. He's gonna slap some people.
But he also well started talking about contract negotiations with
the Packers when he was there. But now he's talking
to a former teammate who's found his way to Green
Bay as well.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Jack. He's always in the in the news after saying something.
But he told the media about a text that he
sent asking if you were thinking about returning to the Packers,
saying yesterday it was a joke. What would you like
to say?
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Yeah, that was truly just send that over And I mean,
Josh is one of my best friends.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Man.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
He's first of all, he's hilarious. People don't know how
funny he is. It was definitely a joke, but it
was one of those jokes where he was serious because
he definitely would like that. But I told him, you
go ahead and hold it down, and you know, I'm
gonna hold it down over here. I don't think I'll
be coming back over there. You know, never know what's
gonna happen.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
If we whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
That's why I say, if they shipped me off, then well.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
See there you go. That's on k Adams Show. Up
in Adams show. Is the Twitter handle for that one?
But you know, he went all over the place. He
was an open book during this interview, Jason Iman, it's
just one thing after another, talking about the contract negotiations
with the Packers as well to where their final off
or wasn't even commensurate with the franchise tag or even
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close to it, which means he becomes a Raider now.
He also talked about the fact that Aaron Rodgers keeps
getting into his into his mentions and contacting him about yeah,
we got to run it back, we got to get
back together, et cetera. Tampering but hey, it's it's all
fun games until something crazy happens. But certainly no love
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loss for Green Bay. But is that a guy you
expect to see by the end of the year or
by trade deadline?
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Is he in another uniform?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yeah? I don't think he's going anywhere. And part of
what we sort of forget with DeVante is the age
and the contract number. So before last season, before we
even started last year, I asked a couple of insiders
and experts that I really trust that are plugged into
the league, and the question I asked is if the
Raiders tried to trade Davante, and this is before last season,
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what would they realistically get from him? And across the board?
I think I surveyed probably half a dozen people. The
highest answer I got was a mid second rounder. So
because of the age and because of the contract, people
are not going to be looking to give up. I
think his cap number next year is forty four million dollars,
so a first round pick is out of the question.
So if you're the Raiders, why would you possibly trade
one of the best wide receivers in the league for
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a second round pick? Like, there's no value to that.
So I think we forget that a little bit. And
much has been made about Deavante being unhappy, But what
did we learn from that? Kay Adams in the interview
and frankly the entire press junket he's been doing right now.
He's pretty good at telling you exactly what's going on.
Like he's not a guy that really sugarcoats much, and
he's been pretty adamant. N I'm here and I want
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to win here, and I think we can win here.
Like I think Davante is gonna be with the Raiders
through this year. Where it gets much more interesting is
going into next year. What are the Raiders going to
do because you just can't continue the cycle. I don't
think the Raiders made a mistake having Aid O'Connell and
Gardner Minshew as their quarterback. I think they played that
situation the best they could. Unfortunately, the draft didn't work
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in a way that they could get the guys that
they wanted. So they're just sort of stuck at that position.
But if you're DeVante, they're going to have to ask
him to restructure next year to stick around. Is he
going to restructure to play with Aidan O'Connell. No, I
don't think so.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, they do have a potential out after this year.
You know, the fun and exciting world of NFL contracts.
But yeah, to your point, it is a pretty sizable
cap hit as it stands for this year. Next year
the base jumps to thirty five to six. So this
year it's not as bad, bases only at about seventeen. Signing, bonus, restructuring,
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all of that, you know, add it up and we
get to somewhere in that twenty six twenty seven. But yeah,
the jump comes after this season. There's still two more
years on the deal as it stands before he would
become an unrestricted free agent. I would just say this
one of the other questions that was asked here and
on Speak and all over the place because he's doing
the press. Junket was talking about the quarterback situation, and
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this is where we get down to. As much as
we celebrate and love the world that is Gardner Minshew,
you've got Aid O'Connell there. I gotta imagine it gets
a little stickier if they can't get him the ball
and we're rehashing what you've come to know. Look, I
know it with the Bears, so I feel for you
when it comes to all right, it's another one of
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those seasons, a little bit of promise, a couple of stars,
but not being able to register much in the win column.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
The interesting part, because you said how much we love
Gardner Minshew. I think in society in general, we apply
benefit of the doubts to characters we love. So when
we really love Anthony Edwards on the off the court,
we love what he's doing on the court doesn't really matter,
right Like, there is some level of Gardner Minshew's such
a celebrity. I would say, though, if you go back
and watch some of how those wins happened last year
(12:51):
for the Colts, Shane Stikeen did a really nice job
of masking some things. Gardner was fine. Abe O'Connell over
the course of the last year was fine. I don't
think he's a world beater, but most people don't think
of him as being even remotely good. I think these
are two pretty evenly matched quarterbacks, and if that's the case, Aiden,
I think Aiden's gonna win the job. The question is
just what does that really mean for the future, because
(13:12):
next year's draft quarterback class stinks. That's why I honestly
believe that this Raiders room from from a talent standpoint,
is good enough that in a year they're gonna back
up a brink struck and they're gonna make Dak Prescott
the highest Bay quarterback in the NFL. And that's the
way they're gonna try and keep everybody happy and win.
They're gonna bring Dak sixty plus million dollars a year,
and they're gonna bring a quarterback in because they're just
tired of trying to roll the dice.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And find one, keep trying to dance. It all goes
back to remember Derek Carr. As soon as he yelled
it's broke, It's broke, everything changed just that fast. See
now bringing up bad memories, fits is gonna hate me,
and now he's gonna just go and buy a bunch
of wrestling toys on till.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
So way it all works?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
You got me figured out?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
No way it all works all together.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
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aggressive expansion. US with a four point lead under four
minutes left in the first half. Coming up next, we
turn our attention to the Big twelve. Some big talk
from the commissioner yesterday and now well doubling down on
something we brought up a long time ago again regarding expansion.
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Fox Sports Radio Studios, Jason Smith off this week Jason
fitz in his stead Us has now opened up a
seven point lead as people furiously run down court side
to find Barack Obama to get that selfie, just like
that guy on the plane when he was stalking Bill Clinton.
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The other day thirty nine thirty two fifty one seconds
remaining here in the first half, a little more life
to Team USA. As the night's going on, it's almost
like it's they're in Vegas right with that dust kind
of time where you're a little lethargic, But guess what.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
The night light comes up, it's like, let's go, what
do you got?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Have you ever like? Is there is there a celebrity
in your life that you've ever just done that? I
have to and walked up and gotten a selfie?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
What's upon a time?
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I was a big autograph guy like to where I
still have a collection and would love to continue adding
to it. There's still a couple that I need to
and I've got an All Century Baseball book from nineteen
ninety nine. Remember when they did all that stuff at Fenway.
My brother was able to get Mays and Aaron they
did a signing in Chicago, and then I took it
when I lived up near Cooperstown for a while where
(16:39):
I just started adding guys when they'd come to town
for enshrinement. So that's one of those projects. But in
terms of the selfies, Oh, I don't know who would
have been the last guy that I got a selfie.
I mean, I've got a Kelsey one that really tracks well.
When he visited us on Radio Row when he was
doing his dating show.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Who was that potty mouth white Sox pay sure we
ran into Oh no, no, no, it wasn't a picture.
Was Ron Kittle? Well?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Ron kittleh nineteen eighty three American League Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
We did. Yeah, I definitely got one there.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Did you did you have to like muster up the
courage or was that an easy That one was pretty easy.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah, that one was pretty easy. Yeah, he made it easy.
He started dropping some bombs on us.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Oh yeah, no, it was well, I tell you every
third word, what was it?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
What was he over under on the next sentence?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
And the exploitive like because ego would have been fun
to have on Radio a bunch, but I think we
would have been playing pressure luck no Whammyammy, no whammy.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
We'd all be out of jobs. I mean, think about it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Remember when we had Eric Dickerson on one of the
finest interviews we ever did, when he went off on
Jeff Fisher and the the Rams and everything else, and
really we're still waiting on our Super Bowl rings. Fits
because that brought Sean McVay to town. But we were
we ran out of dump opportunities with him in that interview.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
That's wild, especially for somebody that should know better, right,
like he definitely knows better than to do that.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Well, he got.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Fired up like whatever, you know the snubs that were
going on, and he was ready to go.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You wear goggles and run for two Okay, you can
say whatever you want.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Look, if you've if you've got if you can pull
off those goggles, no matter what you run for, you
could say whatever you want. And he did, he pulled
off those goggles. I asked this question because I've recently
had this experience. I this year was the first time
ever that I got to cover a Final Four in person.
I've never done that. And so Yahoo sent me out
to the Final Four and I was sitting on press
rows the first day, you know, as we were getting
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ready to film some of our stuff, and I was
right there and all of a sudden, like after I
was filming the anthem and just having a good old
time like I wanted. I wanted to embrace the beginning
of the Final Four. Only to find out right after
that Bill Murray had been apparently seated in the wrong section,
and he was right in front of me, and I
didn't know that, and like, I'm a massive Ghostbusters and
Saturday Night Live fan, So I spent the whole the
(18:57):
next day lamenting the fact that one of like the
icons of my life was right in front of me
and I didn't even like, I didn't even see it,
And so it was in my mind. I was like,
if I run into him, I'm gonna I'm gonna say something. Well,
flash forward. You know, his son is a bench coach
for Yukon, so he flashed forward. He was obviously there
for the championship game. Right after the game ends. If
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you were covering it, you have the right credential. You're
allowed to walk right up on the court. So as
Bobby Hurley's cutting down the nets, I'm standing two feet
from Bobby Hurley and they've got this little tiny stanchion
and there's Bill Murray standing right there. The whole time,
I'm like, I don't know, should I ask him? I
can't ask him. I got to ask him, but I
hear he's, you know, a little bit prickly sometimes and
this isn't the right time he's here. With this kid,
like I went through all of this in my mind
(19:39):
the whole time. And then after they finished cutting down
the nets, they walked to the other end of the court,
walked right by me, and I finally I was like, dude,
I gotta ask, can I get a selfie? And begrudging
you could tell he didn't like it, but he's like fine,
So I pulled out and it's not even a good selfie,
but it didn't matter to me. Like I had such
a rush because I was like, oh my god, I
just met Bill Murray. So that's why I because like
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I'm looking at all this and I'm thinking, man, if
you're sitting in front a couple of rows, you know,
and and Obama sitting there, like, that's got to be
for a lot of people, that's got to be very cool.
Where you're looking at it saying, man, a former president
is right there. I could get a selfie, but you
gotta muster up the courage to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, even in coach Don Staley that's going around on
social media that she she made sure to get one
with him as well, so you know everybody wants Yeah,
I go back. We were up in the Bay Area
when I was. I worked at Yahoo many many many
years before. I was the original harmon at Yeah, when
we started these sports. Unfortunately I didn't win the stock
(20:38):
option lottery fits so here we sit in twenty twenty four.
But you know, I helped build what became Yahoo Sports
and the fantasy engine that became the biggest thing in
the game. Yeah, I'm gonna pat myself on the back,
so sto damn it. But we were up there, my
then wife, she had started at Stanford in grad school,
(21:00):
and it was my cousin's birthday, you know, living up
in the Bay Area, and we went out to eat
and all of a sudden we kind of got the
all right, it's gonna be a bit for a table
because the back room has been commandeered. Well, it was
graduation weekend and that's when Chelsea Clinton was there. So
I did have a second of meeting Bill Clinton and
(21:21):
Hillary Clinton in this restaurant up in the Bay Area.
So that was kind of fun. You know, all of
those and some near misses in terms of autograph seeking, right,
Mohammad Ali at one point and a couple others. But
that's my I'm a big music guy. So if I
could start adding you know, signed CDs and stuff to
the wall. I've got a couple of those, and you know,
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looking for aggressive expansion there. Eventually I'll move to, you know,
one of those towns where it's all all music all
the time, and that'll be my thing.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Yeah, exactly, Like I'll tell you the three places to
go and you can just camp out and all of
a sudden you'll get all of the autographs from everybody.
Everybody's so nice. You know that that city's born for that.
I can help you with that. If it's country music
side you want, I got you well.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
But because the other side of that is they're all
sports fans, right. One of the greatest things during our
time here was also being you know, Radio Row and
Faith Hill was going to do the national anthem. Well,
Tim McGraw was just wandering around hanging out. So we
were just starting to talk SEC football and the National
Football League and the Titans while he's just standing there
because he's got nothing else to do. Everybody's fawning and
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he's watching her do interviews or whatever. He wasn't doing interviews,
he was just hanging out, so behind the scenes, you know,
that was one of the cool you know, little moments,
So you know, doing those kind of things is always
the best. You know, that intersection of sports and and
and and music. I mean, that's that's what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
I mean it got me to where I am, so
I can't I can't disagree with that at all, for
for sure. And by the way, the first show I
ever played with the Van Perry we we were the
early opener. It was us, Luke Bryant and Tim McGrath.
So we spent a good year on that that tour.
Five that young had just started to come out and
just gotten popular. So it was pretty amazing to you know,
we had like ten feet of stage. It was tiny,
(23:07):
but to watch McGraw work every day was He's definitely
great at what he does, for sure.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, we got to see him on the beach down
here in Huntington. See now I'm doing those little little
humble flexes of things we've been able to do.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Armen and Nashville is a show we need.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Well, I'm debating that might be one of my next
acts once my kids lead me for college.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Yeah. Problem is you missed the beat by like five
years on being able to afford to believe.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Knowing that, I know, like am iballing Franklin and looking
at the concentric circles.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
He's just gonna live on Broadway and not sleep.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Jay, I mean, I'm in for that. But like, this
is not an exaggeration. Houses in the suburbs that six
seven years ago were one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
with no renovations are now running between five and six
hundred thousand dollars. So it's it's it's a meteoritic explosion
of housing prices like I've never seen. So it's pretty
(24:00):
it's pretty wild. But you know fun fact that nobody
else cares about this listening look Nord, No, they do
Hendersonville places like that. If you're gonna go, if you're
thinking Franklin, if you're gonna go thirty forty minutes south,
you might as go thirty forty minutes north if you
you can find a lot better bang for your buck.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Up there, no go, there's my there's my real estate tip.
Jason fits in for Jason Smith at Jason Fitz. Maybe
he can help you with the local you're looking at too.
He seems to know a lot of things about a
lot of things. Mike Harmon with you here, Jason Smith
off this week the Big twelve big talk, and it's
something that we had brought up a while ago in
(24:36):
this giant I don't even know what to call it,
the Rubik's cube, right, we're changing sides and trying to
see where things match up along the way in college
football and college athletics as a whole, the reconfiguring. I
note today was the sad next funeral of the PAC
twelve conference, where they had just a little cocktail kind
(24:58):
of thing at the Bellagio to welcome media in to
talk about the year ahead. That's kind of where we're
at with things as opposed to you know, the lavish
spreads and big you know meeting rooms or hanging out
on a Sony lot or you know, across the Hollywood
landscape of years past. But the Big Twelve, you know,
they're making big talk of hey, it's us, it's the SEC,
(25:19):
it's the Big ten, and here we're going. And something
we've talked about for a while Smith and I on
the show. A couple of ACC schools are in their
targets Florida State. We know, going back well over a
year ago, they were starting to look into the economics
of getting out of their rights agreements and conference agreements
(25:40):
to see what the how punitive that would be. And
you've also got Clemson another big target out there, both
a lot of rumblings that they're going through the legal
processes and seeing what it would take to disentangle from
the ACC and the Big twelve seems to be the
option on the table. Looking for Jellinger who from your place,
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Rah Yahoo Sports talking about early conversation with those schools
about the possibility. Don't know if anything serious, and he
throws in the term yet because they do have to
get out of the ACC through a settlement or court ruling.
Could be months years away from something, but it is
a possibility. Look if there's enough money, and again in
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this day and age where people are really going back
to the trough to donors and boosters and everybody else
in a different way, and if it means long term
success getting on boards where where there's giant media rights deals, yeah,
they'll find a way to break those contracts and move on.
I think it just seems inevitable. All those talks of
(26:45):
the you know, Super League, like they tried to do
in soccer fits I think we're just a couple of
years away. You know, it's like Midwest weather. Wait five minutes,
you'll see something else. I mean, in Chicago, I saw
a weather report saying it's gonna be nine hundred and
forty five degrees on Monday.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
My brothers are screwed.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But the same thing when we talk about college athletics,
I mean, there's nothing that's going to be static. I mean, hell,
the Big Ten was once actually ten teams.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Well, the Big twelve can't be static because if they're static,
they won't be relevant. And you know, this really hit me.
I was down in Jacksonville a couple of weeks ago
for a rivals event with the top one hundred or
one hundred, I should say, of the top high school
football players across the country that are going to be
committing over the next two years, and most of them
have already committed somewhere. And when you start just talking
(27:33):
to the kids about what they're excited about where they
want to go, I mean, yeah, obviously name, image, likeness,
and money is a part of this, but also, you know,
it was pretty stunning to hear some of the kids
that are looking at and committed to places like Oregon
really excited about the fact that Oregon has joined a
huge conference where they're going to get to play against
teams that you know matter, And all you've got to
do right now is just look at the predicted you know,
(27:56):
standings this year for the Big Twelve, and the winner
of the Big Twelve addicted to be Utah and after
that Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Kansas. Those are fine schools,
but are any of them competing on a national Saturday
attention level with Oregon, Michigan, Ohio State, and then the
gauntlet of Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama. Like you go up and
(28:16):
down the list when you start looking with the Big Twelve,
and the sec have created they own the space. So
now you either got to figure out how to play
with the big boys or you're going to be left
behind completely. So I think there's going to end up
being a bidding war for the Florida States and Clemsons
of the world, because there just aren't that many other
schools that you can add that will suddenly make you
(28:37):
nationally relevant. And everything now about college football is about
nationally Like there are kids that in their name, image,
likeness deals all over the country. Now they get first
class plane tickets for their families to fly to and
from every game, Like that's real, and that tells you
how national the landscape is at this point. So if
you're the Big twelve and you want to keep up,
(28:58):
you need to figure out how to Even if it
costs you an astronomical amount of money, that's still better
than suddenly waking up one day and being as relevant
to the college football world as the Mountain West is.
That's not where the Big twelve wants to end up.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, that's it about being creative, and that's something that
Brett Yormack, your mark, was talking about in his comments yesterday.
You know, we talk about expansion, talk about the next iterations,
but he was also talking about TV windows and trying
to get creative there, trying to, you know, figure out
if there are windows that are more advantageous where you're
not necessarily running up against you know, big noon kickoff
(29:34):
or what's been the traditional powerhouse slot you know on
CBS or on ESPN. So that I think is interesting
for all of us. Right it becomes the you know,
how do you get your programming in front of folks?
The streaming deals will get into the NBA and that
deal that was announced earlier today, in about twenty five
(29:54):
minutes from now. But it's just that curiosity of you know,
you're you're no longer just all right, what's the good?
And it goes back to that student slash athlete thing
we were talking about earlier in the show, Jason, you
know just that you know that line got erased. It's
not blurred, it's not Hey, we cut up the pie
a different way. No, no, no, we just erased it all
(30:15):
together to where it's just one piece and not for
all schools, certainly not. But when we're talking about the
larger business of conferences and how to stay relevant, Yeah,
it's all about the bottom line.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Well, and when you start talking some about what they're
dealing with and trying to figure out the right TV windows,
I will just I remember being in the room. And
you know, when I worked for ESPN, they do something
every year called the College Football Seminar where they bring
in everybody that covers college football into one room and
you hear from everybody, You go over the rules changes,
(30:49):
you educate on the sport like and at the time,
the PAC twelve came in and presented and their issue
and this is you know, this is probably five six
years ago. Their issue is that the PAC twelve after
Dark was there way of capturing a better window in theory,
but they acknowledged at the time, and I think this
is important. They acknowledge that the issue they have is
if a touchdowns scored in a random game at noon,
(31:11):
that highlight is run all day, so you see the player,
you see the action, you see what's happening. The problem
with late night windows is that when you're on TV,
by the time people wake up on Sunday morning, they're
now in Fantasy football mode, NFL prep mode, they're embedding
mode for the NFL. Like what happened late at night
on college football more often than not is lost in replay.
(31:34):
So it's interesting that while the advantage was perceived for
a while of hey, we want to be back twelve
after dark, I think that actually the Pack twelve acknowledge
that genuinely hurt them. So the big twelves got to
look around and say, Okay, we got to get a window,
but we need to have a window that sits in
an area that's not so late that we're forgotten in
the highlight reels. Because if you're forgotten in the highlight reels.
You get less Heisman winners, you get less Award winners.
(31:56):
In general, you seem to get less hype when it
goes towards the college football playoff. Like those are all
things that genuinely happen by having the wrong time slot,
So you gotta be smart and careful.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Well, fortunately you wouldn't be kicking off at ten thirty
Eastern time, and my guess is you'll have much better
distribution deals in place than the Pac twelve ever did. Hi,
Larry Scott, nice job, He's Jason Fitzen for Jason Smith.
Coming up next to robots are taking over jobs and
more jobs being lost to robots, and one that I
(32:27):
didn't really think that was happening, but fitz says he's
already experienced it.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
We'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
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Speaker 3 (32:38):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jays Smith Show with
Me Mike Harmon, Jason fitz In for Jason Smith. Fifty
forty three seven minutes tremading and finally got the second
half underway of this exhibition between the US and Canada.
I hear Jason longest halftime interview ever. Grant Hill must
have had a lot of stuff to say.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Did he?
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Or we just trying to milk this thing for Like
I feel like the halftime was longer than the actual period.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
So oh yeah that the second quarter seemed to blow by,
and then this just kept going and going. Here's some
more shots of who's taking a selfie with Barack Obama.
Here's some more crowd shots of Colangelo and uh coach
k because we got to keep showing them the architects
of everything and all of that fun stuff. But yeah,
it really that was a long halftime. I wonder what
(33:28):
it ad runs? What an ad runs during a halftime
show like that? I mean it's good for us. I
mean it's Foxmort's one, so I mean I can't complain.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
No, we want we want everybody making money here. Do
you think, uh that Barack is like out in the
clurb afterwards? Like do you think like they've they've got
a clurb destination for him.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Like.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
They have figured this out? I don't know, lebron Is
it makes the call?
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Yeah, like well, I mean mean the Secret Service goes
in and does all the actual work to get it done.
But I think it's Lebron. Then he decided to Barrock
and he's like yeah, like hey, let's do this. And
then yeah, they do a complete buyout somewhere, so kind of.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Like getting a coach and you know, doing GM work.
He makes the call for the club attendance too.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
I feel like Lebron's got to be that guy, right,
nobody else on this, Like you're if you're gonna be
dealing with the rock star of hanging out with the president,
then you've got to have like the biggest rock star
on the on the court doing it. And there just
isn't a bigger bigger rock star in this era of
basketball than Lebron James, right.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
So I was just wondering it wouldn't fall to where,
you know, you get like the young guy, say the
young brash guy like Anthony Edwards, all right, you want
to be number one?
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Bill is on you. You figure it out.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
I think if it's so, if it were players only,
then it's going to the young guy.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
If it's if there's a super impressive person in the room,
then and you know the king wants to king it,
that's you know.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Well, he's gonna take credit if that goes well. Anyway,
So they're hey, major League Baseball All Star Game on
Fox next week in Arlington, Texas. They've now got robot bartender.
Now we've seen this, flipping burgers, We've seen all sorts
of things. It's not ten o'clock here on the West coast,
So save harbor. Use your imagination for other things for robots.
(35:26):
But in the concession stand I mean, you're gonna have
classic cocktails, all selection of mocktails for those that don't
want to, you know, add the the alcohol to things.
But all of a sudden slinging drinks. And I've not
experienced this. I mean I've read about the technology and
and certainly from an economic standpoint, I'm a nerd that
(35:48):
likes to look into the inevitability of the implement implementation
of this fast food restaurants or fast casual as they
like to be called, et cetera. But you say you've
already experienced this one.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Yeah. So there is a place called the Tipsy Robot
at the Miracle Mile shops in Vegas. And so it's
right inside the entrance and it's been open for a
couple of years and It literally is just a couple
of robots that sit there and you walk up to
a screen, you type in what you want, and then
the robot makes it and it gets put out on
the counter for you. So it's a super fast and
efficient process. And honestly, every time I walk by it
(36:23):
is packed because people are interested in the concept of
sh I want to see what this is all about.
I do think there's there's something weird. Like for me,
I love when I go out to eat sitting at
the bar, Like I like to sit at the bar,
and you know know that, like I got a good
vibe there, maybe good energy. It's awesome if you got
a bartender that's like worth talking to, the can strike
up a little conversation. I like all of those things.
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So for me, I think it's a cold experience. But
you know, also, how many people a few years ago
were wildly worried about self checkout in grocery stores, and
now that's what ninety nine percent of the world uses
every single.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Day, except those are starting to go away in a
lot of places. Fit you know what, theft shrinkage is
off the charts, that small percentage of things that they're
actually scanning in versus what they're walking out.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
The door with.
Speaker 5 (37:11):
That's interesting. You've got, like.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
You know, Target in a number of other places where
it's like, you know what, I don't think we're gonna
be doing this and a lot of our locations anymore.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
I would prefer they didn't, Honestly, I like, I like,
I know, it's quick and easy in everybody's mind, I
got an extra five minutes. Like, I like the concept
of you know, walking up and I don't have to
worry about it. I just upload, I put the stuff
up on the on the belt and then they take
care of everything else. That's like I find even the
like the Costco thing, Like I went to Costco today, right,
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and I find the whole process of like having to
go get a box and put everything in the box.
Like I found that to be very overwhelming for me.
I like to do as little thinking and working as
possible in this. So I'm all for people having.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Jobs there you go and with the robots. I mean,
the one thing you do if you're running the business,
it's not gonna be a heavy poor You're not gonna
have the shrinkage. Your bartender maybe doling out some free
shots and stuff to people. So your alcohol cost and
cost of goods is going to go down. Look, just
going to the economics of it. What a terrible cold
(38:14):
person I am.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
I love bar rescue, so I love that you're doing
this like it keeps all your beverage costs in line.
I kind of love that I.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Might have a little bit of Taffer in me. I
may be known to yell a little bit around here
when things get out of source. Who knows, Well, let's
talk some more economics the NBA, the dreaded conversation over well,
inside the NBA, be back. All the hysterics will sort
it out. Next fits harmon Fox Sports Radio.
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