July 19, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike tell you how concerned they are with the Dodgers right now. Actor Bob Newhart has passed away at the age of 94. And Derek Carr says he was ready to sign with the Jets because of Robert Saleh.
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Summer League update for you get into a couple of
big bold predictions for the second half of the MLB season.
Brownie James has hit us three. Yay, he did a
step back three. The Lakers lead Cleveland ninety one eighty
nine or now ninety two eighty nine, just a few
seconds left to go in the fourth quarter. Yeah, Lakers
look like they're going to win. Hey, let's hear the
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Bronnie James three Frostburg.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Oh we can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Why not? We did it last night? Why can't we
do it now?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, I do have the highlight, it's ready to go,
but Mike's here, so we can't play it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, you know what.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, it's a clutch sports thing.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, yeah, you know. We gotta teach Michael Lesson. He
wants to take off the night that Bronnie James h's
his first three. He doesn't get to hear it the
second night. No, no, I agree with that. I'm on
board with that.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I'm gonna be okay. I really celebrated how his coach
was on the sideline, you know, not actually on the sideline.
He was in the stands with his kids being all
excited about it. So, you know, it's good to see
JJ Reddick, get to see him.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Knock that down, you know, just really quick.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
The more I keep seeing the games, right and the
more they keep cutting to JJ Reddick before I'm so
involved with everything going on in the summer, leave all
of this. Dude, coach the team. Coach that seriously, get
reps and coach the team. You have not coached a
game higher than a level of fourth grade.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And that's not a you found. No, that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I mean really, if you're here anyway and you're doing
just go coach a team.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It's just every time I see him, I go, this
is just stupid. He's not coaching the team.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
It really, it's just dumb, like if he needed time away,
if he needed to say, oh, you know, look, okay,
it's been a very big last few weeks and I
need some time to decompress. Because I did the NBA
Finals all the way through. I thought I was your guy.
Then you went after Danny Hurley. I understand. Now i'm
your guy.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You hire me.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I need some time way before I really get into
because it's gonna be you know, no holds, balld all gas,
no break all, Robert Salad all gas, no break That
I understand. But if you're there anyway and you hear
watching the games and you want to show yourself as
authority figure coach a team, I mean, really, go coach
a team. These are guys that maybe you're gonna be
coaching at some point. Don't you want to a feel
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for Brownie James a little bit? Don't you want to
get a feel for adult connect these are guys. Come on, man,
if you're gonna sit here anyway, like, why are you
not doing it? That's what every time I see it,
it just doesn't make It makes less and less sense
that JJ Reddick did not find a way that, hey,
I'm gonna coach the Lakers in summer League.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
That really it doesn't make any sense. He just looks nonplus,
non stressed whatever. At some point, you got to immerse
yourself in that side of the game, right the headspace
of in game decisions, et cetera. And I get it,
it's summer league. It's not the same, but it's at
least a step towards it. Instead of sitting in the
crowd eating popcorn and whoever you're you know, sitting and
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chatting with on a game by game base. It just
it just leaves me wanting. I'm like, really, man, come on,
and good good for the kids. They got some bother time.
At least I assume that's that's his kids. I don't
know his family too terribly well here, but we'll we'll
learn as we go. But a couple of little kids,
and they were jacked up after Bronnie's three point shot,
which I watched. I watched it back just to make
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sure I believe what I you know, I saw what
I think I saw, So yeah, good, good on him.
But yeah, jj reddick, it's leaving me with the eh.
You know, I don't get as excited about you know,
some call it the biggest Travis d ever what Lebron
James is in clutch have orchestrated there? I laugh and say,
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y'all wouldn't do the same. You never call another person
on behalf of your kid, your friend down the blocks kid,
the guy from works kid, or anything else by you know,
never buy another Girl Scout cookie or anything else because
you're helping empower people. You're done. You're done. You just
have to be a selfish son of a gun going
forward and never help anybody. Never try.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I'm done empowering you.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Why because those Smores cookies were the wrong girl Scout ones.
I like the other Smores ones.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
The other Sores are better wrong ones.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Right, So I'm not gonna empower you anymore because you
screwed me. Because now these boxes are six bucks apiece
and not five because of inflation. So now go get
empowered someplace else. Can't I can't trust you there's like
six bags of cookies. You couldn't bring me the right one. No, go,
you need to go learn someplace else. I'm not gonna
support you anymore. Yeah, you gotta make sure you got
the proper supplier. Yeah right, And you gotta read the
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labels like all of these things. You gotta read the
labels kind of like you know, also read the room
as to how fast the flatbread is disappearing.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, all right, let's stop, got a flat bread?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Stop, stop all of you stop.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You know, PICT's gota gonna buy people, Let's say tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Tomorrow, I'm gonna buy nothing else but a bunch of flatbread.
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, I know Frostburg that you know, you know Frostburg
is like in this situation where and again, to bring
you back into what we were talking about last night,
I bought food for for everybody and the crew, which
you know you do regularly. Tischer says, Hey, Jason, I
ordered that flatbread for us because you talked about wanting
to try it, so we'll try it. Great, Tyshert eats
the entire flatbread. I don't get to try anything. I
know Frostburg's innocent because of his cheese allergy that he's
(06:03):
Matt Damon in contagion.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Dude, I don't, I don't have it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I'm not gonna have flush neck brais for a flat bread.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I know you can't. I mean, I know, I know you.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
After all these years, that's what they lied to America,
and I never lied, just deliberately. Like you said, I
ate the whole uh oh sorry flatbread, which is true.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You ate almost all the flatbread now, except you gave
a piece to Martin Weiss for me.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, you didn't save a piece for me though.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
You didn't want one.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I came and got it after because you were eating it.
I ate my macaroni and cheese balls, and you decided
I'm gonna eat all of this now. I'm gonna eat
two full meals before a come Jason comes in to
get that.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Come on, Jason, I've had that happen before.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Tysger goes for two meals like, I don't know how
I'm tripping. It was an hour and a half. This
guy came in here three different breaks and never once
said anything, so like okay because he doesn't want any Well,
look one of Tysons.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
You think he was forgetting cheese bread. How does he
not ask for it?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
One of Tyshirt's meals was an entire uh uh box
of pills from GNC.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
That's the other meal with the flatbreads. That's not true us.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You should see it just chugging that and hisay, I
gotta have all these just chewing chewing the capsules from GNC.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
JA should understand this.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Is all bio.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
It was half a capsule bottle and it was from arijuana.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Okay, get it right. I thought I was gonna say, ayahuasca.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It was gonna be incredibly different.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So we are getting set. We got Rick Bucker coming
up in a few minutes for all the biggest news
in the NBA. We are getting set for the second
half ish of Major League Baseball to begin tomorrow. Uh
you know, like ninety ish games through the regular season
so far, coming off the All Star break, and there's
some bold predictions. We're gonna make the course the next
two nights. And the first one I'm gonna say is
this because I don't know how this.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Is going to get fixed.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
My level of concern and worry for the Dodgers is
out of ten.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Okay, this is I.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Mean, they're a team that came into this year and
you thought it was just gonna be and easy cruise
to the division title into the playoffs World Series.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And so far they've been hitting right. Otani's been great.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yes, Mookie Betts is injured, but Otani's been everything they wanted.
The rest of the order has done well, but their
pitching has been abysmal. The Dodgers have been five hundred
under five hundred since the middle of May, right, that's
I mean they started out great, Okay, Dodger They're gonna
wind up winning one hundred and fifteen games is gonna
be unbelievable. They have been five hundred now for the
better part of two months. The Mets have been better
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over the last two months than the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's pretty easy.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And the starting pitching for the Dodgers is just so dicey.
You are banking on a return from Kershaw from injury,
Walker Bueller from injury and ineffectiveness, Bobby Miller from ineffectiveness,
Yoshinoba Yamamoto from injury.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
You can't bank on that. You can't.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I mean, you're talking about, oh, we'll get Kershaw's thirty six.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
He's been out for a year.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Are you really think, oh, we're gonna get vintage Kershaw
right as going to happen. You had to send Walker
Bueller down to the miners because he's not been able
to be effective coming back from injury. Are we ever
gonna get the Walker Buehller that we had three years ago?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That guy's gone, right, other guys you were counting on.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You thought Miller was gonna be good, Yamamoto, you gave
three hundred million dollars too, and all of a sudden,
it's when's the guy gonna pitch again?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We have no idea. Right, hopefully it's soon. Hopefully he's effective.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But the reason this I'm so concern is, Okay, everybody's
got injuries, but the Dodgers have zero starting pitching. They've
not played well, and there's not a lot of guys
available to deadline. It's not like there's gonna be a
target rich environment of starting pitchers who were available. You've
seen the list John Paul Morosi talked us about a
couple of nights ago. There's there's no big names you're
gonna be able to say, hey, we're gonna go get
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this guy. I don't know anybody that's available for a
team that generally has the prospects to give up and
trades for what they need. The Dodgers have it, but
there's there's no guys I can see. Oh boy, so
and so is gonna cut bait on this. They're gonna
come ride to the rescue. The Dodgers need some kind
of starting pitching. They need at least two starters. They
don't just know what they need. At least two guys
can come in and give them innings. And I don't
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see it happening. My level of concern for the Dodgers
not about making the playoffs, but about, Hey, is this
gonna be a season ends in the World Series for them? No?
I'm I'm close to a ten for that because I
don't see how this gets solved, because I don't believe
in the suddenly, Hey, maybe all of these guys are
gonna get healthy all at once.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
That just doesn't happen. No, And that's it. In the
back end of your lineup hasn't hit for the balance
of the season as well, So you're still as much
as you're worried about the starting pitching, you gotta get
the totality of this squad, right, I mean as much
as the headlines are great for Sho Heeo Tani and
the heroics that he gives you on a nightly basis,
for the rest of it's got to flow through and
(10:43):
getting Mookie Betts back and reintegrated into the lineup and
getting a full run of health out of him down
the stretch imperative. Yeah, the starting pitching market is pretty slow, right.
A lot of folks are looking at Detroit. They've got
a couple of names. Google's the guy that goes to
the front of the line, and then you got Crochet
(11:03):
of the White Sox, where everybody is trying to assess,
all right, how deep do we want to invest in
bringing him in because he's just removed from injury and
he's already at an innings point where there's some nervousness.
Would you have to go to the bullpen for a while,
And maybe that's how he makes an impact, becomes a
bit of a longer reliever on occasion versus regular starts,
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and then maybe you know you have that lefty ace
in the hole down the stretch if he can continue
what he's done with the socks, of course, but also
with that innings restriction. But how much do you give
up how many prospects? What do you give that's major
league ready? Because I know, you know Baltimore is also
kicking the tires saying, well, we're finally relevant again and
having a run here and knowing that it's not so
(11:48):
easy to get back. Right, joking with the guys earlier today,
I think of cal Ripken, Right, you get that one
big season, never get back again. For the Dodgers, it's
been a tremendous run. How do you how do you
make a play? And knowing that you've got some other
contenders that are actually buyers for the first time and
may go at it a bit more aggressively because they
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don't have to sustained success that the Dodgers organization has
had these years. So yeah, it's it's a very curious time,
a little bit of unrest. Still a big lead in division,
but the way it's played out and the number of
walking wounded that you have because Yamamotos, they're saying mid August,
they literally just moved him to the sixty day last week.
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What does that mean? Does that mean he's coming back?
I don't know, but it's a lot of wishing and
hoping on guys to find former glory at this point.
Tough spot for our friends here in La. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I mean it's not to make the playoffs. Obviously, they're
good enough. They've been a good enough regular season team
for a decade. That's not changing. But this is a
World Series or bust year, right, Like, no, there's no
you go out and get show Heyo Tani and spend
three hundred million on Yamamoto.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
This is if we're not in the World Series.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
This season is a failure and they could be out
in the first round again, like they could be.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I could see them lose. Hey, they won.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Eight six, but then they lost seven to five, and
they lost nine to four, and they lose seven to
three and they're out.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Like that's what I can see for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
For them, I'm telling you, hey, hey, hey, we have
better starting pitch than you do. You would trade your
starting pitching for ours, sight unseen, I see you. You
would want you want Manea and Severino you want If
we give you, you can go get fat thor you
would take all our guys. You'd wind up being pretty good. Actually,
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you would get although none of them could go more
than five innings. You would love our guys. You would
take all our guys out. One of them absolute.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I'm looking done well.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
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Mike har Well dressed Tobo. Happy Thursday.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Mike Harmon back after his one day sojourned because he
had to go see the Rolling Stones and concert one
more time. Had to see eighty one year old Mick
Jagger on stage.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yeah, you traveled to go see the graveside of a
fictional character.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
So I did. I did do that.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Hey, Double Dore was like one hundred and eighty years old.
Mick Jagger's only eighty one.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Come on, yeah yeah, Double Doore is one of the
greatest traders in villains and movie and book history.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I know't he was a trader revellain. I think it
was just Oh so his whole plan was to sacrifice
Harry Potter.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Oh wow, that doesn't make him a villain at all.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Oh okay, well no, sometimes that was kind of a
greater good thing, like you know, okay, well we got
to get rid of Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, you know, the poor little guy didn't know what
was going on there, that he was an unwinning pawn
to this father figure, grandpa figure, whatever you want to say.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I think that was more of a reveal than he
saw about his character than anything else.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh it's a.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Reveal, and you know, you know, I can't get Harry
was still so nice to him after reknew Oh yeah, hey, professor,
Hey we're here at King's Cross. Yeah, what's going on?
You were gonna kill me? What the hell is wrong
with you?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
What?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
You know what I'm gonna I'm gonna go to the
Quibbler and I'm gonna make sure they print a thing
about what you were really like. Dumbledore is ready to
sacrifice Potty. Uh Potter, story buys you know, Phellius love
good like?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, you don't speak ill of the dead or two
of them, I guess in dream sequences, you said Potty.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I said Pott. I meant to say Harry Potter. I
said Harry Potty. I did say Potty. Sometimes my dark poathway,
my mouth gets ahead of my head a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It happens once in a while. That happens. But let
me say, how did make move? Did he move?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Well? Was it a lot he's still dancing. It makes
my daughters very uncomfortable. It's really funny to watch when
he goes jetting out to the front of the stage
right because they've got the runway, and he does that
point thing where he's shaking his hip and doing his
like little back and forth. Uh tippy toe, tippy toe, tippytoe,
fast feet, fast feet ploom.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Madeline just gets uh so salty. And it was Eleanor's
first Stones experience, so she was just loving it. But yeah, again,
very lifeless crowd at times, you know, the geriatrics not
not getting up and dancing with Mick.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Well, he only does that because it's a hologram mic Jagger.
It's hologram.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
It's AI.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
He hasn't performed in years. It's been it's been hologram
AI Mick Jagger.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
If that's true, it's a he's a wise man, but
you know it always brings a little uh you get
at the wistful moment when there's the part in the
show where Keith Richard steps to the front and he
sings three songs and the crowd just absolutely uh adores
the man standing out That lasts like three minutes. He
gets all weepy, it's great ah, and then he sings,
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I better walk before they make me run?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Did they because they always pick one song? They let
the they let the fans pick. Yeah for last light,
Did sweet Virginia win?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
The people did?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
No? Boo, that's their best song is sweed Virginia Boom.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Far Away Eyes actually ended up being the winner, which
I would not expected out of the four that I
sent you as the potential winners there, Steve, Virginia is
one of their top three?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Are not their best? One of their top three songs?
How do they not do Sweet Virginia?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Now, before we move on, you know, we need to
pay an homage to an absolute legend we lost today.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Bob Newhart, Yeah, passing away.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
At the age of ninety four.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
One of the longest careers we've seen in Hollywood, from
the Bob Newhart Show in the seventies, the New Heart
Show in the eighties and nineties. And he was Papa
Elf in Elf and and just one of.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
The I know people.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You hear about his delivery and his timing, but his
dry wit and his comedic talent is almost unmatched.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I don't know anybody that I could watch just deliver.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay lines like and just good good, like you know,
the whole read the phone book thing. I know, there's
anybody that could make just the most innocent and innocuous
line laugh out loud funny better than Bob Newhart could.
He was just that talented a comedian where he would
just shrug his shoulders and start talking. It would make
you start laughing, like with him having to say anything,
just because his wit was so dry as a straight man,
(19:12):
and and and his delivery it was what you saw
him just getting ready to say something.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I knew I was gonna laugh.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And look, there's so many funny people that that are
able to entertain us over the course of our lives.
And you know, you look at you look at comedic
geniuses like Steve Carell and Will Ferrell and all of
these guys, and you watch Bob Newhart and go, that
guy can do something that I don't know anybody else
in the world can do.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And he just had.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
He was that kind of talented and can do that
and could and could work with anything over the course
of his career.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, Chicago guy Uh born in the same little part
of Illinois. I was in Oak Park. Uh and went
to the same high school. He is a Saint Ignacious
college prep grad out of Was his.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Picture up like would you pass it?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Every day? Absolutely a lot of tributes and certainly in
alumni magazines any time there was a reference a biography
made or you know, just anything made sure one of
the favorite sons. To your point about the comedic thing,
like he didn't have to go over the top, right,
you mentioned Will Ferrell. A lot of the comedy. I mean,
(20:14):
you got clips last week of you know, James Kahn
talking about the the late great James Khn but talking about,
you know, being on set with Elf and being like,
I don't know what the hell this guy's problem is,
and then seeing the movie and going, oh, that now
makes sense that you know, it's genius. But it was
all over the top for a guy who was a
you know, let's let's get to the method, let's get
(20:35):
get into the character. Let's go for Bob Newhart. A
lot of it was that understated delivery, the anticipation of
the smart ass line that was gonna come out, and
his eyes, like the expressiveness, like the big eyes, the
you know, furrowed brow, all of that, you know, clips
going all over the place today, the introduction of Larry.
You know this is Larry, my other brother, you know,
(20:57):
my brother Daryl and my other brother Daryl, and all
of those different clips. The Simpsons clip where he goes
and he's waiting on a memorial but it's Krusty's memorial
and goes up to say, it's like, well, I started
before him. I didn't learn anything, and it's just like
waiting for the next line. Overall, I don't know that
the actual words were terribly funny, but the directory, sure, I.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Mean, it's not like it's not like he reinvented the
wheel with some of the things he said, Like one
of the funniest things, like he did a sports one
once where he just said, you know, I played I
played football in college for a little while ago. Yeah,
oh yeah, yeah yeah, but I realized it wasn't for me.
I didn't like the hitting. And what do you mean
you liked it? Is well, I played running back and
every time I went into the hole after a fake,
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I would yell.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I don't have it like that was. It's like, I mean,
it's helf, it's not different.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But the way he delivered his fight. Now, to give
you a little bit of his delivery. We pulled some
of this for you.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Here.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
This is from the Dean Martin Roast of Don Rickles, okay,
in nineteen seventy four. So this is the heyday of
Bob Newhart. Some big stuff making the rounds as we
pay tribute to an absolute legend, the Dean Martin Roast
of Don Rickles. I mean, you know, forty years before
we had the Tom Brady one. So here it is
from seventy four. Here's a Bob Newhart.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Don is my best my best friend, which just give
you some idea of the difficulty I have in making things.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
As some of you may have already known.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Don's hotel room was recently robbed. The only thing that
was taken was the music to Don's act. So by
the Chicago police have picked up thirty three thousand people
who might have had a possible motive.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I said, his stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It's not like, oh my goodness, that's so brilliant, but
just the way he would deliver.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
You see people in the video, Jason and Mike, they're
they're slapping their knees.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
It was so funny.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's Bob Newhart. Man.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I'm telling you he was just so incredibly talented and
had that gift all the way through, even in Elf
when he's reading about Buddy Well and then Buddy had
this and all he's doing his reading and it's just
a bridge to get you from one scene to the next,
and it's like you're laughing, You're laughing hysterically.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
At Bob Newhart. Just an absolute legend.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Man ninety four, great run for him, Man, great run on.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Er as well.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I think he won an Emmy or was at least nominated, Like,
how was George clon Mike?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
That was? Go on, Mike, Sorry about that?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Go on, look at you going deep Gore on visits
there you go, everybody and look it up. Is he
even still acting? I don't even know. I know, but
I'm gonna look him up right now. Name dog. He
is fifty one years old. He did make a that
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original run was back at Practical Magic. Maybe shows up
for part two because they're talking about doing that again.
Let's see. He was in Vikings Valhalla as Eric the Red.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
That's a pretty time. That's the high profile Viking. Now.
I don't know Vikings all that great, but that's a
pretty high.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Down file like that.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, Eric the Red's the guy you heard Chuck Foreman
and Eric the Red. Those are the vikings you've heard
of growing up, all the stories about the page.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
And don't forget Eric. Eric the Red was the competitive eater.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
That's right. Yeahs the show there, it is exactly.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
He was in hell Raiser in twenty twenty two, showed
down a couple of episodes of This Is Us and then,
you know, nothing huge since a show called Timeless, which
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Mike Harmon is your man for Gorn visited trivia.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Hey, you brought him up. So now we got to
look at the CV and wonder what you asked the
rich somewhat rhetorical question, what the hell ever happened to?
We leave no stone unturned and we get to the
bottom of what he's been up too lately.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
We'll have another big MLB second and a half prediction
coming up in ninety seconds, but first let's check it
with Martin Weis. Who's got what's trending in the wide
world of sports? No flat print tonight, Martin Weiss. But
thank you for coming in anyway.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Yeah, you know, somehow I was able to make it,
you know, just like Briannie James able to make a
three tonight even with Mike Harman here, Jacky, I mean,
who knows what happens next, but Lakers draft picks Brannie
James and Dalton Connects played well against the Cavaliers, as
James finished with thirteen points on five for ten shooting.
Connect finished with seven for I'm sorry seven for sixteen
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from the floor for twenty Woodgard's number two overall pick,
Alex Sar struggled. His don't really match up with the Kings.
He had two points on one for six from the floor.
He's made one shot in his last twenty one attempts.
Russell Westbrook has been traded from the Clippers second round
pick and a cash also going to the Utah Jazz
and the sign and trade for Chris Dunn. Westbrook expected
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to agree to a contract buyout with the Jazz and
sign with the Nuggets. Jacksonville Jaguar suit a meet Patel Stafford,
who stole twenty two million from the team in a
three and a half year period to payoff gambling debts
and fund a life of luxury. He's being two for
sixty six point six million dollars in damages in a
Florida State Court. University of Alabama plans to honor former
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head coach Nick Samon by naming his football playing field
for him at Bryant Denny Stadium. Daniel Brown's at six under.
He leads the first round of the open. Shane Lowry
five under, andrewscho Flay two under, Brooks Kopka and Scottie Scheffler.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Both won under.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
They're all in the mix right now, Tiger Woods eight over,
Roy McElroy seven over, in Bryson d. Chambeau five over.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
At the end of the first round.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
The Dolphins plays linebacker Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips on
the pup list, and the Saint Petersburg City Council approved
plans for the Rays new stadium. It'll be one point
three billion dollars to build for thirty thousand seats, a
fixed roof, and scheduled to be ready for opening day
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Jason and Mike back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Thanks bunch, Martin, so we gave you the big Dodgers
Bowl prediction. Second, my concern for them is about a
ten with their starting pitching difficulties.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But now let's go the different direction here.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
We are going to look back at the end of
the season and say that Aaron Judge had the best
season a hitter has had in fifteen years. You look
at where he's at right now. He already has numbers
over the course of the first half of the first
ninety games that are better than a couple of guys
that won MVP over the last decade, including Bryce Harper
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a couple of years ago. I mean, what he has
done so far in the first half has been unreal.
I know that Sodo got all the publicity early and
that was great. Hey obviously with with Sodo and the
guy he's been in the addition, but Judge is already
all right through ninety six games, thirty four homers, eighty
five RBI. He's hitting three to zero six. I mean,
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you got to go back to the to the to
the time when when Miguel Cabrera was Triple Crown winner
and a Rod went fifty to one point fifty to
find a better seat than Aaron Judge. He's gonna hit
sixty to sixty five home runs. He could drive in
one hundred and sixty runs. I mean, the guy eighty
five RBI in ninety six games.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
That's an unreal pace to keep up.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
His ops is is well over, well over one thousand,
it's one thousand and one. His war is at seven.
I mean, you're looking at an all time season from
Aaron Judge and he's and it feels like if he
stopped playing right now and these are his numbers, you
would say, hey, that's a pretty good season by Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
And we're through ninety six games.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I mean, we're gonna look back and say, when did
a hitter have this kind of season in the last
fifteen years. No, Aaron Judge is blown everybody away over
the course of the past fifteen.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I'm really upset that you got the in the last
fifteen years. In otherwise, I was gonna start signing guys
like Hack Wilson in Legends from Yester year and their
one hundred ninety RBI can't.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, hey, wait, there was that year where hack Wilson
had his RBI change from one ninety to one to
ninety one. The guy had been dead for fifty years
and knocked in an extra run. That's pretty big.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
I mean, everybody going back into the uh, your dad's.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
You're dead for fifty years and you get one more RBI.
So whoa whoa, whoa wa, how do you how do
you come back and knocking it?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
He did? Hey, all right, let's give that guy the MVP.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
I want to know how you know you came to
decide what was a genuine history and who's uh stat
keeping and scorecard that they brought to the ballyard meant
more than the others? No, that was wrong. It was
originally attributed to the guy named Rabbit. That was bad
ahead of it. Well, that was the thing of bet.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That was the whole plot behind mister three thousand, right someone, Yeah,
oh wait a minute, we gave Bernie Mack three more
hits than he had, so he's got to come back
and try to get these last three hits. Like, oh yeah,
we gave him six hits in the double header when
he shouldn't have had that.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Oh oh okay, all right, well all right, now you
go to gome back underrated movie, Great Chicago and Bernie
Mack except when he put that cub's uniform on. But
I guess if they asked me to throw out the
first pitch and sing the seventh inning stretch, I'd probably
take it too to try to get some heat.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Dude, you would wear a Rhine sand Bay they asked
you to do it, you would wear a Ryan Sandberg
jersey with Ernie Banks's socks.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Forget about it.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
You would go do that in a second.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Adam, I if I, if I was gonna do it
and they said, who do you want the jersey of
it would either have to be Grace or Rushell.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
They would say that's fine, whatever, whatever. Yeah, Bruce suitor,
would you throw this split finger fastball.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Before you'll try and then watch my shoulder go into
the third deck? For sure?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
You would so do that. You would say, look, I
would do it too.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
If the Phillies called me up and say coming up
throughout the first pitch, I dressed like Rob mclaney man
Philadelphia Union had give me a Phillies jersey, give me
Eagles pants, let me go, oh yeah, sixers, sixers shoes.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I'll do it, y'all'll throw out. I'll do whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna pay me and me throw
out the first pitch.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I'll go do it whatever you want. You know what,
uh you know, I'm gonna give you the bold one
thirteen wins at the break uh the All Star Games
started by Paul Skens, but Chris Sale on the comeback
trail for the Atlanta Brains. I'm gonna say he wins
twenty because it completes my season of misery.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It would it would really, it would be.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It would be a watch that pitch all those years
and then bounces around a little bit and then he
gets healthy with the Braves and goes in and dominates.
So yeah, that's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I'm with you there. Look, this is a guy in
Aaron Judge. When you talk about winning the Triple Crown. Yeah,
he's probably he has to pump up his average a
little bit. He's got a bunch of guys ahead him.
But he's first in home runs, he's first in RBI,
he's first in ops. I mean, he is just having
even a better season than two years Hell, have a
better season win two years ago when he went sixty
two and and and one thirty one. Like, if he
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knocks in one hundred and thirty one runs at this point,
that's a disappointment. That was Like, boy, Aaron Judge had
a really bad second half back he finished at one
thirty RBIs like he if he he could get to
one fifty five, one sixty, like that's the pace he
is at, Like that's where he could be. That's how
legendary of a season he's having. And if he finished
an ops of one point one or one point two
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where I mean that that's insane. I mean to see
what this guy is doing in this lineup when he's
protected by Jan Soda, which is great, He's definitely have
the lineup figured out the way they want to. But
still thirty four and eighty five. I mean, you go
look at at Bryce Harper's MVP from a couple of
years ago, somebody else who won, like in twenty sixteen,
twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I remember looking going.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
He's got better numbers in this guy after ninety six
games already, and this guy won the MVP. I mean,
that's the kind of year Aaron Judge is having. And
that and the numbers at the end aren't gonna seem real.
They're they're gonna be video game numbers. I would say
this the thing that also makes you jump off the chart.
And unless something happens to Kwan, you ain't catching him, right,
I mean, because let's let's face it, he is one
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of the he'sitting three to fifty, Yeah, nobody comes down.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Will he come down to about three thirty probably? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I mean, if you're keeping up three fifty is tough.
But will he come down? But you're Aaron Judge is
gonna go from three zero six to three thirty?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Yeah, even with the dip. But you know, he's one
of the throwbacks to what hitting was and I think
that's the larger point to celebrate what Judge is doing.
And you can find a few guys across Major League Baseball,
you know, to give the proverbial doffing of the cap.
Is that in an age where, let's face it, it's
unwatchable at times, the efforts guys are putting up at
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the plate, right, there's a lot of bad swings, bad
eyes in terms of taking the call third strike and
whatever else. Situational baseball has gone out the window. So
and so many guys hitting at two twenty or less
but driving in runs, hitting home runs.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
So everybody gets excited.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
But a guy that's, you know, doing it all as
Judge is, it just means that much more in a
season that's a bit complicated by just the largesse of
ineptitude at the plate. How's that? Because I can't call
a dominant pitching. I just don't like the attitude guy
like and the and I agree with George Brett, the
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the strategies and the way guys are going up to
the plate. The lack of discipline is sickening at times.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Exit out about a fresca, Exit swollen dome. The Jason
Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. I will
have more base, more Big Bowl predictions coming up throughout
the show tonight. But straight ahead, an NFL starting quarterback,
admitted an interview today, I changed the course of history
by choosing one team over a team I could have
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gone to.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
What is it? Yeah it's t BO, Yeah it's right,
It's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
I'm gonna get to a flatbread pizza remix this Jason
not enough, Alex.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Tight Shirt ate my dinner last night now, and I'm
going to keep playing these songs you can't stand.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Okay, no, thanks, I appreciate whack.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Appreciate that eight.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
That's nice. Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
File this under the category of Hey, the best trades
are the best moves are always the ones you don't make, right,
whether it's fantasy or a deal, or or a trade
in sports one of your teams. Yes, can you make
a great deal once in a while, yeah, But generally,
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as I found over the course of my life, the
best trades that either I make in fantasy or that
my teams, you know, wind up are trades they don't make, like, oh,
could you imagine if they had did that trade?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
You imagine I did it?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Because very rarely are you able to trade somebody away
that means absolutely nothing to you and bring in something
that is an unbelievable upgrade. It just doesn't happen more
often than not. Because you get antsy about making a move,
you wind up making a decision that uh, okay, I
get a little too much, I gave up too much,
or I didn't think this through, and you wind up
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making a trade that doesn't work for you.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Happens in free agency as well, decisions. And I thought
about this today when I saw Derek Carr do a
podcast in which he talked about how he decided to
change the course of the NFL. Now, a little bit
of a Southern accent from from Derek Carr. Little bit
of one, not not the full bore, you know what
I said, Guy am Peppa on on got a little
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bit of Southern accent. But he talked about how close
he was to signing with the Jets because of Robert Sala.
He said, listen, when my free agency was going on,
I loved everything about the Jets. I'm like, I didn't
care about money. I just wanted to win load of
crap because he hung out for all the money with
the Saints. But whatever, the Jets, right, I want to win,
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but I love Sala. I wanted to do it, but
I just wanted to see what else is out there.
I didn't want to leave signing a contract, agreeing to
a contract and not knowing what else is out there.
Because he had other free agent visits set up, like
he was going to go to New Orleans other places.
So I didn't want to do it. But I was
really ready and I love the Jets, and he was like,
we want you, but we need a decision because at
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that point, the Jets didn't know if they were going
to get Aaron Rodgers because things were still kind of
going slow. Were they really going to get Rogers? Were
the packages going to drag their feet to not make
it happen? And he said, listen, the Jets were pretty
you know, they liked me and they wanted me, and
you know they said, well, we got to have a decision,
and I wanted to go and see other things, and
(37:20):
all of that is John, I don't doubt any of
that because that was the case. I remember the pursuit
of Rogers and what they were doing quarterback wise, It
definitely was, Hey, is Rogers really going to shake loots
when it comes down to it, Is it really going
to happen? Or is he a pipe dream? And when
you need a quarterback, we got to make sure we
get somebody that can at least, you know, have a
couple more touchdowns than Picks and not Zach Wilson. But wow,
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when I heard this, and I just said, this falls
under the category of the best moves of the ones
you don't make, because I can't even imagine what it
would be like with Derek Carr as disappointing as he
was in New Orleans last year. What it would be
like feeling that the Jets are hooked into him for
another three years and and and all the money what
he wound up getting with the Saints. You would have
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gone though last even though last year went the way
it did and Aaron Rodgers didn't play, and I had
to watch Zach Wilson all season long, and I had
to watch Tim Boyle, and I had to watch Peter Boyle,
and it was really I got to the point where
I was like, oh, this is unbelievable. I'm still glad
that we're not hooked into Derek Carr for all that money.
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I said it when it happened. I said it when
he signed with the Saints. I said it before they
got I am glad we lost out on Derek Carr.
I got it if they made the decision. But again,
this would have been one of those decisions they would
have gotten antsy on.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
We need a guy.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
He looks like the best guy available, so let's really
go overboard and get it. And they didn't go crazy
to make him an offer he couldn't refuse. They let
him go, and now look, he's a guy the Saints
want to get rid of, they want to move on
for him so big, and now I'm like, okay, And
now we're entering ear two of Aaron Rodgers. Even though
Rogers got hurt last year, Derek Carr is not coming
and taking this team anywhere. Would we have won one
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more game, maybe finished eight to nine? Okay, maybe, but
that's not the thirteen and four we're gonna be with Rogers.
It's not the super Bowl contender we are this year
with the roster that we have. So even though that happened,
I am still okay with this. Again, the best moves
are the ones you don't make.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Yeah, I think Derek Carr falls into the category of
players where you know, as you like to say, reading
the back of the basketball card football card in this case,
and the stats don't tell the full tale of the
tape what he did last year, because you look at
him last year he completed in over sixty eight percent
of his passes. But that you always been your past,
ye right, except for actually, I'm sorry Tide for second
(39:39):
best he had that year in twenty nineteen, but he
was also twenty five and eight with almost thirty nine
hundred passing yards. Yet he's a guy that you go, eh,
what's behind door number two? What do I got to
kind of push me over to that next step? So yeah,
for you, for Jets fandom, you're still wishing that Rogers
becomes that guy for you, and you firmly believe, even
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your heart of hearts, it's too now. The fact that
he was willing to hitch his wagons to Robert Salaz
some sort of genius. That's why you don't want Derek
Carr quarterback here. I mean, I just got blocked by
his entire fan.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
He did everything the last month of the season, had
a good last month. I'm not gonna say he didn't,
but that's where.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
He did everything.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
But by that point you're sitting there at five, set,
six and seven, six and eight, like, what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 4 (40:25):
I mean, come on, great last month. I'm still glad
we are.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
We are now so glad, exit out about a Fresca
exit swollen down the Jason Smith Show with my best
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Summer League update for you get into a couple of
big bold predictions for the second half of the MLB season.
Brownie James has hit us three. Yay, he did a
step back three. The Lakers lead Cleveland ninety one eighty
nine or now ninety two eighty nine, just a few
seconds left to go in the fourth quarter. Yeah, Lakers
look like they're going to win. Hey, let's hear the
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Bronnie James three Frostburg.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Oh we can't do that.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Why not? We did it last night? Why can't we
do it now?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, I do have the highlight, it's ready to go,
but Mike's here, so we can't play it.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, you know what.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Yeah, it's a clutch sports thing.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, yeah, you know. We gotta teach Michael Lesson. He
wants to take off the night that Bronnie James h's
his first three. He doesn't get to hear it the
second night. No, no, I agree with that. I'm on
board with that.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I'm gonna be okay. I really celebrated how his coach
was on the sideline, you know, not actually on the sideline.
He was in the stands with his kids being all
excited about it. So, you know, it's good to see
JJ Reddick, get to see him.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Knock that down, you know, just really quick.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
The more I keep seeing the games, right and the
more they keep cutting to JJ Reddick before I'm so
involved with everything going on in the summer, leave all
of this. Dude, coach the team. Coach that seriously, get
reps and coach the team. You have not coached a
game higher than a level of fourth grade.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And that's not a you found. No, that's absolutely correct.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I mean really, if you're here anyway and you're doing
just go coach a team.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It's just every time I see him, I go, this
is just stupid. He's not coaching the team.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
It really, it's just dumb, like if he needed time away,
if he needed to say, oh, you know, look, okay,
it's been a very big last few weeks and I
need some time to decompress. Because I did the NBA
Finals all the way through. I thought I was your guy.
Then you went after Danny Hurley. I understand. Now i'm
your guy.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You hire me.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I need some time way before I really get into
because it's gonna be you know, no holds, balld all gas,
no break all, Robert Salad all gas, no break That
I understand. But if you're there anyway and you hear
watching the games and you want to show yourself as
authority figure coach a team, I mean, really, go coach
a team. These are guys that maybe you're gonna be
coaching at some point. Don't you want to a feel
(03:00):
for Brownie James a little bit? Don't you want to
get a feel for adult connect these are guys. Come on, man,
if you're gonna sit here anyway, like, why are you
not doing it? That's what every time I see it,
it just doesn't make It makes less and less sense
that JJ Reddick did not find a way that, hey,
I'm gonna coach the Lakers in summer League.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
That really it doesn't make any sense. He just looks nonplus,
non stressed whatever. At some point, you got to immerse
yourself in that side of the game, right the headspace
of in game decisions, et cetera. And I get it,
it's summer league. It's not the same, but it's at
least a step towards it. Instead of sitting in the
crowd eating popcorn and whoever you're you know, sitting and
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chatting with on a game by game base. It just
it just leaves me wanting. I'm like, really, man, come on,
and good good for the kids. They got some bother time.
At least I assume that's that's his kids. I don't
know his family too terribly well here, but we'll we'll
learn as we go. But a couple of little kids,
and they were jacked up after Bronnie's three point shot,
which I watched. I watched it back just to make
(03:59):
sure I believe what I you know, I saw what
I think I saw, So yeah, good, good on him.
But yeah, jj reddick, it's leaving me with the eh.
You know, I don't get as excited about you know,
some call it the biggest Travis d ever what Lebron
James is in clutch have orchestrated there? I laugh and say,
(04:21):
y'all wouldn't do the same. You never call another person
on behalf of your kid, your friend down the blocks kid,
the guy from works kid, or anything else by you know,
never buy another Girl Scout cookie or anything else because
you're helping empower people. You're done. You're done. You just
have to be a selfish son of a gun going
forward and never help anybody. Never try.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I'm done empowering you.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Why because those Smores cookies were the wrong girl Scout ones.
I like the other Smores ones.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
The other Sores are better wrong ones.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Right, So I'm not gonna empower you anymore because you
screwed me. Because now these boxes are six bucks apiece
and not five because of inflation. So now go get
empowered someplace else. Can't I can't trust you there's like
six bags of cookies. You couldn't bring me the right one. No, go,
you need to go learn someplace else. I'm not gonna
support you anymore. Yeah, you gotta make sure you got
the proper supplier. Yeah right, And you gotta read the
(05:13):
labels like all of these things. You gotta read the
labels kind of like you know, also read the room
as to how fast the flatbread is disappearing.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yeah, all right, let's stop, got a flat bread?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Stop, stop all of you stop.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You know, PICT's gota gonna buy people, Let's say tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Tomorrow, I'm gonna buy nothing else but a bunch of flatbread.
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, I know Frostburg that you know, you know Frostburg
is like in this situation where and again, to bring
you back into what we were talking about last night,
I bought food for for everybody and the crew, which
you know you do regularly. Tischer says, Hey, Jason, I
ordered that flatbread for us because you talked about wanting
to try it, so we'll try it. Great, Tyshert eats
the entire flatbread. I don't get to try anything. I
know Frostburg's innocent because of his cheese allergy that he's
(06:03):
Matt Damon in contagion.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Dude, I don't, I don't have it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I'm not gonna have flush neck brais for a flat bread.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I know you can't. I mean, I know, I know you.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
After all these years, that's what they lied to America,
and I never lied, just deliberately. Like you said, I
ate the whole uh oh sorry flatbread, which is true.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
You ate almost all the flatbread now, except you gave
a piece to Martin Weiss for me.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, you didn't save a piece for me though.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
You didn't want one.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I came and got it after because you were eating it.
I ate my macaroni and cheese balls, and you decided
I'm gonna eat all of this now. I'm gonna eat
two full meals before a come Jason comes in to
get that.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Come on, Jason, I've had that happen before.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Tysger goes for two meals like, I don't know how
I'm tripping. It was an hour and a half. This
guy came in here three different breaks and never once
said anything, so like okay because he doesn't want any Well,
look one of Tysons.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
You think he was forgetting cheese bread. How does he
not ask for it?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
One of Tyshirt's meals was an entire uh uh box
of pills from GNC.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
That's the other meal with the flatbreads. That's not true us.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You should see it just chugging that and hisay, I
gotta have all these just chewing chewing the capsules from GNC.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
JA should understand this.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Is all bio.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
It was half a capsule bottle and it was from arijuana.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Okay, get it right. I thought I was gonna say, ayahuasca.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It was gonna be incredibly different.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So we are getting set. We got Rick Bucker coming
up in a few minutes for all the biggest news
in the NBA. We are getting set for the second
half ish of Major League Baseball to begin tomorrow. Uh
you know, like ninety ish games through the regular season
so far, coming off the All Star break, and there's
some bold predictions. We're gonna make the course the next
two nights. And the first one I'm gonna say is
this because I don't know how this.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Is going to get fixed.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
My level of concern and worry for the Dodgers is
out of ten.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Okay, this is I.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Mean, they're a team that came into this year and
you thought it was just gonna be and easy cruise
to the division title into the playoffs World Series.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And so far they've been hitting right. Otani's been great.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yes, Mookie Betts is injured, but Otani's been everything they wanted.
The rest of the order has done well, but their
pitching has been abysmal. The Dodgers have been five hundred
under five hundred since the middle of May, right, that's
I mean they started out great, Okay, Dodger They're gonna
wind up winning one hundred and fifteen games is gonna
be unbelievable. They have been five hundred now for the
better part of two months. The Mets have been better
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over the last two months than the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
It's pretty easy.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And the starting pitching for the Dodgers is just so dicey.
You are banking on a return from Kershaw from injury,
Walker Bueller from injury and ineffectiveness, Bobby Miller from ineffectiveness,
Yoshinoba Yamamoto from injury.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
You can't bank on that. You can't.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I mean, you're talking about, oh, we'll get Kershaw's thirty six.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
He's been out for a year.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Are you really think, oh, we're gonna get vintage Kershaw
right as going to happen. You had to send Walker
Bueller down to the miners because he's not been able
to be effective coming back from injury. Are we ever
gonna get the Walker Buehller that we had three years ago?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
That guy's gone, right, other guys you were counting on.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You thought Miller was gonna be good, Yamamoto, you gave
three hundred million dollars too, and all of a sudden,
it's when's the guy gonna pitch again?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We have no idea. Right, hopefully it's soon. Hopefully he's effective.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But the reason this I'm so concern is, Okay, everybody's
got injuries, but the Dodgers have zero starting pitching. They've
not played well, and there's not a lot of guys
available to deadline. It's not like there's gonna be a
target rich environment of starting pitchers who were available. You've
seen the list John Paul Morosi talked us about a
couple of nights ago. There's there's no big names you're
gonna be able to say, hey, we're gonna go get
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this guy. I don't know anybody that's available for a
team that generally has the prospects to give up and
trades for what they need. The Dodgers have it, but
there's there's no guys I can see. Oh boy, so
and so is gonna cut bait on this. They're gonna
come ride to the rescue. The Dodgers need some kind
of starting pitching. They need at least two starters. They
don't just know what they need. At least two guys
can come in and give them innings. And I don't
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see it happening. My level of concern for the Dodgers
not about making the playoffs, but about, Hey, is this
gonna be a season ends in the World Series for them? No?
I'm I'm close to a ten for that because I
don't see how this gets solved, because I don't believe
in the suddenly, Hey, maybe all of these guys are
gonna get healthy all at once.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
That just doesn't happen. No, And that's it. In the
back end of your lineup hasn't hit for the balance
of the season as well, So you're still as much
as you're worried about the starting pitching, you gotta get
the totality of this squad, right, I mean as much
as the headlines are great for Sho Heeo Tani and
the heroics that he gives you on a nightly basis,
for the rest of it's got to flow through and
(10:43):
getting Mookie Betts back and reintegrated into the lineup and
getting a full run of health out of him down
the stretch imperative. Yeah, the starting pitching market is pretty slow, right.
A lot of folks are looking at Detroit. They've got
a couple of names. Google's the guy that goes to
the front of the line, and then you got Crochet
(11:03):
of the White Sox, where everybody is trying to assess,
all right, how deep do we want to invest in
bringing him in because he's just removed from injury and
he's already at an innings point where there's some nervousness.
Would you have to go to the bullpen for a while,
And maybe that's how he makes an impact, becomes a
bit of a longer reliever on occasion versus regular starts,
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and then maybe you know you have that lefty ace
in the hole down the stretch if he can continue
what he's done with the socks, of course, but also
with that innings restriction. But how much do you give
up how many prospects? What do you give that's major
league ready? Because I know, you know Baltimore is also
kicking the tires saying, well, we're finally relevant again and
having a run here and knowing that it's not so
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easy to get back. Right, joking with the guys earlier today,
I think of cal Ripken, Right, you get that one
big season, never get back again. For the Dodgers, it's
been a tremendous run. How do you how do you
make a play? And knowing that you've got some other
contenders that are actually buyers for the first time and
may go at it a bit more aggressively because they
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don't have to sustained success that the Dodgers organization has
had these years. So yeah, it's it's a very curious time,
a little bit of unrest. Still a big lead in division,
but the way it's played out and the number of
walking wounded that you have because Yamamotos, they're saying mid August,
they literally just moved him to the sixty day last week.
(12:29):
What does that mean? Does that mean he's coming back?
I don't know, but it's a lot of wishing and
hoping on guys to find former glory at this point.
Tough spot for our friends here in La. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I mean it's not to make the playoffs. Obviously, they're
good enough. They've been a good enough regular season team
for a decade. That's not changing. But this is a
World Series or bust year, right, Like, no, there's no
you go out and get show Heyo Tani and spend
three hundred million on Yamamoto.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
This is if we're not in the World Series.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
This season is a failure and they could be out
in the first round again, like they could be.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I could see them lose. Hey, they won.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Eight six, but then they lost seven to five, and
they lost nine to four, and they lose seven to
three and they're out.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Like that's what I can see for the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
For them, I'm telling you, hey, hey, hey, we have
better starting pitch than you do. You would trade your
starting pitching for ours, sight unseen, I see you. You
would want you want Manea and Severino you want If
we give you, you can go get fat thor you
would take all our guys. You'd wind up being pretty good. Actually,
(13:34):
you would get although none of them could go more
than five innings. You would love our guys. You would
take all our guys out. One of them absolute.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I'm looking done well.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Grimmace is not for sale. I'm sorry, No, there's no
grimas for sale. Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down.
The Jason Smith Show is my best friend Mike Carmon
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Speaker 4 (13:56):
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Speaker 1 (14:56):
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Speaker 3 (14:59):
Mike har Well dressed Tobo. Happy Thursday.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Mike Harmon back after his one day sojourned because he
had to go see the Rolling Stones and concert one
more time. Had to see eighty one year old Mick
Jagger on stage.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yeah, you traveled to go see the graveside of a
fictional character.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
So I did. I did do that.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Hey, Double Dore was like one hundred and eighty years old.
Mick Jagger's only eighty one.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Come on, yeah yeah, Double Doore is one of the
greatest traders in villains and movie and book history.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I know't he was a trader revellain. I think it
was just Oh so his whole plan was to sacrifice
Harry Potter.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Oh wow, that doesn't make him a villain at all.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Oh okay, well no, sometimes that was kind of a
greater good thing, like you know, okay, well we got
to get rid of Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, you know, the poor little guy didn't know what
was going on there, that he was an unwinning pawn
to this father figure, grandpa figure, whatever you want to say.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I think that was more of a reveal than he
saw about his character than anything else.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Oh it's a.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Reveal, and you know, you know, I can't get Harry
was still so nice to him after reknew Oh yeah, hey, professor,
Hey we're here at King's Cross. Yeah, what's going on?
You were gonna kill me? What the hell is wrong
with you?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
What?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
You know what I'm gonna I'm gonna go to the
Quibbler and I'm gonna make sure they print a thing
about what you were really like. Dumbledore is ready to
sacrifice Potty. Uh Potter, story buys you know, Phellius love
good like?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, you don't speak ill of the dead or two
of them, I guess in dream sequences, you said Potty.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I said Pott. I meant to say Harry Potter. I
said Harry Potty. I did say Potty. Sometimes my dark poathway,
my mouth gets ahead of my head a little bit.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
It happens once in a while. That happens. But let
me say, how did make move? Did he move?
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Well? Was it a lot he's still dancing. It makes
my daughters very uncomfortable. It's really funny to watch when
he goes jetting out to the front of the stage
right because they've got the runway, and he does that
point thing where he's shaking his hip and doing his
like little back and forth. Uh tippy toe, tippy toe, tippytoe,
fast feet, fast feet ploom.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Madeline just gets uh so salty. And it was Eleanor's
first Stones experience, so she was just loving it. But yeah, again,
very lifeless crowd at times, you know, the geriatrics not
not getting up and dancing with Mick.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Well, he only does that because it's a hologram mic Jagger.
It's hologram.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
It's AI.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
He hasn't performed in years. It's been it's been hologram
AI Mick Jagger.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
If that's true, it's a he's a wise man, but
you know it always brings a little uh you get
at the wistful moment when there's the part in the
show where Keith Richard steps to the front and he
sings three songs and the crowd just absolutely uh adores
the man standing out That lasts like three minutes. He
gets all weepy, it's great ah, and then he sings,
(17:40):
I better walk before they make me run?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Did they because they always pick one song? They let
the they let the fans pick. Yeah for last light,
Did sweet Virginia win?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
The people did?
Speaker 1 (17:52):
No? Boo, that's their best song is sweed Virginia Boom.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Far Away Eyes actually ended up being the winner, which
I would not expected out of the four that I
sent you as the potential winners there, Steve, Virginia is
one of their top three?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Are not their best? One of their top three songs?
How do they not do Sweet Virginia?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Now, before we move on, you know, we need to
pay an homage to an absolute legend we lost today.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Bob Newhart, Yeah, passing away.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
At the age of ninety four.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
One of the longest careers we've seen in Hollywood, from
the Bob Newhart Show in the seventies, the New Heart
Show in the eighties and nineties. And he was Papa
Elf in Elf and and just one of.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
The I know people.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You hear about his delivery and his timing, but his
dry wit and his comedic talent is almost unmatched.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I don't know anybody that I could watch just deliver.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Okay lines like and just good good, like you know,
the whole read the phone book thing. I know, there's
anybody that could make just the most innocent and innocuous
line laugh out loud funny better than Bob Newhart could.
He was just that talented a comedian where he would
just shrug his shoulders and start talking. It would make
you start laughing, like with him having to say anything,
just because his wit was so dry as a straight man,
(19:12):
and and and his delivery it was what you saw
him just getting ready to say something.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I knew I was gonna laugh.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And look, there's so many funny people that that are
able to entertain us over the course of our lives.
And you know, you look at you look at comedic
geniuses like Steve Carell and Will Ferrell and all of
these guys, and you watch Bob Newhart and go, that
guy can do something that I don't know anybody else
in the world can do.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And he just had.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
He was that kind of talented and can do that
and could and could work with anything over the course
of his career.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, Chicago guy Uh born in the same little part
of Illinois. I was in Oak Park. Uh and went
to the same high school. He is a Saint Ignacious
college prep grad out of Was his.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Picture up like would you pass it?
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Every day? Absolutely a lot of tributes and certainly in
alumni magazines any time there was a reference a biography
made or you know, just anything made sure one of
the favorite sons. To your point about the comedic thing,
like he didn't have to go over the top, right,
you mentioned Will Ferrell. A lot of the comedy. I mean,
(20:14):
you got clips last week of you know, James Kahn
talking about the the late great James Khn but talking about,
you know, being on set with Elf and being like,
I don't know what the hell this guy's problem is,
and then seeing the movie and going, oh, that now
makes sense that you know, it's genius. But it was
all over the top for a guy who was a
you know, let's let's get to the method, let's get
(20:35):
get into the character. Let's go for Bob Newhart. A
lot of it was that understated delivery, the anticipation of
the smart ass line that was gonna come out, and
his eyes, like the expressiveness, like the big eyes, the
you know, furrowed brow, all of that, you know, clips
going all over the place today, the introduction of Larry.
You know this is Larry, my other brother, you know,
(20:57):
my brother Daryl and my other brother Daryl, and all
of those different clips. The Simpsons clip where he goes
and he's waiting on a memorial but it's Krusty's memorial
and goes up to say, it's like, well, I started
before him. I didn't learn anything, and it's just like
waiting for the next line. Overall, I don't know that
the actual words were terribly funny, but the directory, sure, I.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Mean, it's not like it's not like he reinvented the
wheel with some of the things he said, Like one
of the funniest things, like he did a sports one
once where he just said, you know, I played I
played football in college for a little while ago. Yeah,
oh yeah, yeah yeah, but I realized it wasn't for me.
I didn't like the hitting. And what do you mean
you liked it? Is well, I played running back and
every time I went into the hole after a fake,
(21:39):
I would yell.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I don't have it like that was. It's like, I mean,
it's helf, it's not different.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But the way he delivered his fight. Now, to give
you a little bit of his delivery. We pulled some
of this for you.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Here.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
This is from the Dean Martin Roast of Don Rickles, okay,
in nineteen seventy four. So this is the heyday of
Bob Newhart. Some big stuff making the rounds as we
pay tribute to an absolute legend, the Dean Martin Roast
of Don Rickles. I mean, you know, forty years before
we had the Tom Brady one. So here it is
from seventy four. Here's a Bob Newhart.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
Don is my best my best friend, which just give
you some idea of the difficulty I have in making things.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
As some of you may have already known.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Don's hotel room was recently robbed. The only thing that
was taken was the music to Don's act. So by
the Chicago police have picked up thirty three thousand people
who might have had a possible motive.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I said, his stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It's not like, oh my goodness, that's so brilliant, but
just the way he would deliver.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
You see people in the video, Jason and Mike, they're
they're slapping their knees.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
It was so funny.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's Bob Newhart. Man.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I'm telling you he was just so incredibly talented and
had that gift all the way through, even in Elf
when he's reading about Buddy Well and then Buddy had
this and all he's doing his reading and it's just
a bridge to get you from one scene to the next,
and it's like you're laughing, You're laughing hysterically.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
At Bob Newhart. Just an absolute legend.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Man ninety four, great run for him, Man, great run on.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Er as well.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
I think he won an Emmy or was at least nominated, Like,
how was George clon Mike?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
That was? Go on, Mike, Sorry about that?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Go on, look at you going deep Gore on visits
there you go, everybody and look it up. Is he
even still acting? I don't even know. I know, but
I'm gonna look him up right now. Name dog. He
is fifty one years old. He did make a that
(23:57):
original run was back at Practical Magic. Maybe shows up
for part two because they're talking about doing that again.
Let's see. He was in Vikings Valhalla as Eric the Red.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
That's a pretty time. That's the high profile Viking. Now.
I don't know Vikings all that great, but that's a
pretty high.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Down file like that.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Yeah, Eric the Red's the guy you heard Chuck Foreman
and Eric the Red. Those are the vikings you've heard
of growing up, all the stories about the page.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
And don't forget Eric. Eric the Red was the competitive eater.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
That's right. Yeahs the show there, it is exactly.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
He was in hell Raiser in twenty twenty two, showed
down a couple of episodes of This Is Us and then,
you know, nothing huge since a show called Timeless, which
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Mike Harmon is your man for Gorn visited trivia.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Hey, you brought him up. So now we got to
look at the CV and wonder what you asked the
rich somewhat rhetorical question, what the hell ever happened to?
We leave no stone unturned and we get to the
bottom of what he's been up too lately.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
We'll have another big MLB second and a half prediction
coming up in ninety seconds, but first let's check it
with Martin Weis. Who's got what's trending in the wide
world of sports? No flat print tonight, Martin Weiss. But
thank you for coming in anyway.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Yeah, you know, somehow I was able to make it,
you know, just like Briannie James able to make a
three tonight even with Mike Harman here, Jacky, I mean,
who knows what happens next, but Lakers draft picks Brannie
James and Dalton Connects played well against the Cavaliers, as
James finished with thirteen points on five for ten shooting.
Connect finished with seven for I'm sorry seven for sixteen
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from the floor for twenty Woodgard's number two overall pick,
Alex Sar struggled. His don't really match up with the Kings.
He had two points on one for six from the floor.
He's made one shot in his last twenty one attempts.
Russell Westbrook has been traded from the Clippers second round
pick and a cash also going to the Utah Jazz
and the sign and trade for Chris Dunn. Westbrook expected
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to agree to a contract buyout with the Jazz and
sign with the Nuggets. Jacksonville Jaguar suit a meet Patel Stafford,
who stole twenty two million from the team in a
three and a half year period to payoff gambling debts
and fund a life of luxury. He's being two for
sixty six point six million dollars in damages in a
Florida State Court. University of Alabama plans to honor former
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head coach Nick Samon by naming his football playing field
for him at Bryant Denny Stadium. Daniel Brown's at six under.
He leads the first round of the open. Shane Lowry
five under, andrewscho Flay two under, Brooks Kopka and Scottie Scheffler.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Both won under.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
They're all in the mix right now, Tiger Woods eight over,
Roy McElroy seven over, in Bryson d. Chambeau five over.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
At the end of the first round.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
The Dolphins plays linebacker Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips on
the pup list, and the Saint Petersburg City Council approved
plans for the Rays new stadium. It'll be one point
three billion dollars to build for thirty thousand seats, a
fixed roof, and scheduled to be ready for opening day
twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Jason and Mike back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Thanks bunch, Martin, so we gave you the big Dodgers
Bowl prediction. Second, my concern for them is about a
ten with their starting pitching difficulties.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
But now let's go the different direction here.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
We are going to look back at the end of
the season and say that Aaron Judge had the best
season a hitter has had in fifteen years. You look
at where he's at right now. He already has numbers
over the course of the first half of the first
ninety games that are better than a couple of guys
that won MVP over the last decade, including Bryce Harper
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a couple of years ago. I mean, what he has
done so far in the first half has been unreal.
I know that Sodo got all the publicity early and
that was great. Hey obviously with with Sodo and the
guy he's been in the addition, but Judge is already
all right through ninety six games, thirty four homers, eighty
five RBI. He's hitting three to zero six. I mean,
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you got to go back to the to the to
the time when when Miguel Cabrera was Triple Crown winner
and a Rod went fifty to one point fifty to
find a better seat than Aaron Judge. He's gonna hit
sixty to sixty five home runs. He could drive in
one hundred and sixty runs. I mean, the guy eighty
five RBI in ninety six games.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
That's an unreal pace to keep up.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
His ops is is well over, well over one thousand,
it's one thousand and one. His war is at seven.
I mean, you're looking at an all time season from
Aaron Judge and he's and it feels like if he
stopped playing right now and these are his numbers, you
would say, hey, that's a pretty good season by Aaron Judge.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
And we're through ninety six games.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I mean, we're gonna look back and say, when did
a hitter have this kind of season in the last
fifteen years. No, Aaron Judge is blown everybody away over
the course of the past fifteen.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
I'm really upset that you got the in the last
fifteen years. In otherwise, I was gonna start signing guys
like Hack Wilson in Legends from Yester year and their
one hundred ninety RBI can't.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well, hey, wait, there was that year where hack Wilson
had his RBI change from one ninety to one to
ninety one. The guy had been dead for fifty years
and knocked in an extra run. That's pretty big.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
I mean, everybody going back into the uh, your dad's.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
You're dead for fifty years and you get one more RBI.
So whoa whoa, whoa wa, how do you how do
you come back and knocking it?
Speaker 3 (29:10):
He did? Hey, all right, let's give that guy the MVP.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
I want to know how you know you came to
decide what was a genuine history and who's uh stat
keeping and scorecard that they brought to the ballyard meant
more than the others? No, that was wrong. It was
originally attributed to the guy named Rabbit. That was bad
ahead of it. Well, that was the thing of bet.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That was the whole plot behind mister three thousand, right someone, Yeah,
oh wait a minute, we gave Bernie Mack three more
hits than he had, so he's got to come back
and try to get these last three hits. Like, oh yeah,
we gave him six hits in the double header when
he shouldn't have had that.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Oh oh okay, all right, well all right, now you
go to gome back underrated movie, Great Chicago and Bernie
Mack except when he put that cub's uniform on. But
I guess if they asked me to throw out the
first pitch and sing the seventh inning stretch, I'd probably
take it too to try to get some heat.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Dude, you would wear a Rhine sand Bay they asked
you to do it, you would wear a Ryan Sandberg
jersey with Ernie Banks's socks.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Forget about it.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
You would go do that in a second.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Adam, I if I, if I was gonna do it
and they said, who do you want the jersey of
it would either have to be Grace or Rushell.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
They would say that's fine, whatever, whatever. Yeah, Bruce suitor,
would you throw this split finger fastball.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Before you'll try and then watch my shoulder go into
the third deck? For sure?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
You would so do that. You would say, look, I
would do it too.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
If the Phillies called me up and say coming up
throughout the first pitch, I dressed like Rob mclaney man
Philadelphia Union had give me a Phillies jersey, give me
Eagles pants, let me go, oh yeah, sixers, sixers shoes.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
I'll do it, y'all'll throw out. I'll do whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna pay me and me throw
out the first pitch.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
I'll go do it whatever you want. You know what,
uh you know, I'm gonna give you the bold one
thirteen wins at the break uh the All Star Games
started by Paul Skens, but Chris Sale on the comeback
trail for the Atlanta Brains. I'm gonna say he wins
twenty because it completes my season of misery.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
It would it would really, it would be.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It would be a watch that pitch all those years
and then bounces around a little bit and then he
gets healthy with the Braves and goes in and dominates.
So yeah, that's where we're at.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I'm with you there. Look, this is a guy in
Aaron Judge. When you talk about winning the Triple Crown. Yeah,
he's probably he has to pump up his average a
little bit. He's got a bunch of guys ahead him.
But he's first in home runs, he's first in RBI,
he's first in ops. I mean, he is just having
even a better season than two years Hell, have a
better season win two years ago when he went sixty
two and and and one thirty one. Like, if he
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knocks in one hundred and thirty one runs at this point,
that's a disappointment. That was Like, boy, Aaron Judge had
a really bad second half back he finished at one
thirty RBIs like he if he he could get to
one fifty five, one sixty, like that's the pace he
is at, Like that's where he could be. That's how
legendary of a season he's having. And if he finished
an ops of one point one or one point two
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where I mean that that's insane. I mean to see
what this guy is doing in this lineup when he's
protected by Jan Soda, which is great, He's definitely have
the lineup figured out the way they want to. But
still thirty four and eighty five. I mean, you go
look at at Bryce Harper's MVP from a couple of
years ago, somebody else who won, like in twenty sixteen,
twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
I remember looking going.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
He's got better numbers in this guy after ninety six
games already, and this guy won the MVP. I mean,
that's the kind of year Aaron Judge is having. And
that and the numbers at the end aren't gonna seem real.
They're they're gonna be video game numbers. I would say
this the thing that also makes you jump off the chart.
And unless something happens to Kwan, you ain't catching him, right,
I mean, because let's let's face it, he is one
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of the he'sitting three to fifty, Yeah, nobody comes down.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Will he come down to about three thirty probably? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
I mean, if you're keeping up three fifty is tough.
But will he come down? But you're Aaron Judge is
gonna go from three zero six to three thirty?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Yeah, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Yeah, even with the dip. But you know, he's one
of the throwbacks to what hitting was and I think
that's the larger point to celebrate what Judge is doing.
And you can find a few guys across Major League Baseball,
you know, to give the proverbial doffing of the cap.
Is that in an age where, let's face it, it's
unwatchable at times, the efforts guys are putting up at
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the plate, right, there's a lot of bad swings, bad
eyes in terms of taking the call third strike and
whatever else. Situational baseball has gone out the window. So
and so many guys hitting at two twenty or less
but driving in runs, hitting home runs.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
So everybody gets excited.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
But a guy that's, you know, doing it all as
Judge is, it just means that much more in a
season that's a bit complicated by just the largesse of
ineptitude at the plate. How's that? Because I can't call
a dominant pitching. I just don't like the attitude guy
like and the and I agree with George Brett, the
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the strategies and the way guys are going up to
the plate. The lack of discipline is sickening at times.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Exit out about a fresca, Exit swollen dome. The Jason
Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. I will
have more base, more Big Bowl predictions coming up throughout
the show tonight. But straight ahead, an NFL starting quarterback,
admitted an interview today, I changed the course of history
by choosing one team over a team I could have
(34:23):
gone to.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
What is it? Yeah it's t BO, Yeah it's right,
It's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon.
Speaker 5 (34:43):
I'm gonna get to a flatbread pizza remix this Jason
not enough, Alex.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Tight Shirt ate my dinner last night now, and I'm
going to keep playing these songs you can't stand.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Okay, no, thanks, I appreciate whack.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Appreciate that eight.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
That's nice. Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
File this under the category of Hey, the best trades
are the best moves are always the ones you don't make, right,
whether it's fantasy or a deal, or or a trade
in sports one of your teams. Yes, can you make
a great deal once in a while, yeah, But generally,
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as I found over the course of my life, the
best trades that either I make in fantasy or that
my teams, you know, wind up are trades they don't make, like, oh,
could you imagine if they had did that trade?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
You imagine I did it?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Because very rarely are you able to trade somebody away
that means absolutely nothing to you and bring in something
that is an unbelievable upgrade. It just doesn't happen more
often than not. Because you get antsy about making a move,
you wind up making a decision that uh, okay, I
get a little too much, I gave up too much,
or I didn't think this through, and you wind up
(35:52):
making a trade that doesn't work for you.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Happens in free agency as well, decisions. And I thought
about this today when I saw Derek Carr do a
podcast in which he talked about how he decided to
change the course of the NFL. Now, a little bit
of a Southern accent from from Derek Carr. Little bit
of one, not not the full bore, you know what
I said, Guy am Peppa on on got a little
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bit of Southern accent. But he talked about how close
he was to signing with the Jets because of Robert Sala.
He said, listen, when my free agency was going on,
I loved everything about the Jets. I'm like, I didn't
care about money. I just wanted to win load of
crap because he hung out for all the money with
the Saints. But whatever, the Jets, right, I want to win,
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but I love Sala. I wanted to do it, but
I just wanted to see what else is out there.
I didn't want to leave signing a contract, agreeing to
a contract and not knowing what else is out there.
Because he had other free agent visits set up, like
he was going to go to New Orleans other places.
So I didn't want to do it. But I was
really ready and I love the Jets, and he was like,
we want you, but we need a decision because at
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that point, the Jets didn't know if they were going
to get Aaron Rodgers because things were still kind of
going slow. Were they really going to get Rogers? Were
the packages going to drag their feet to not make
it happen? And he said, listen, the Jets were pretty
you know, they liked me and they wanted me, and
you know they said, well, we got to have a decision,
and I wanted to go and see other things, and
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all of that is John, I don't doubt any of
that because that was the case. I remember the pursuit
of Rogers and what they were doing quarterback wise, It
definitely was, Hey, is Rogers really going to shake loots
when it comes down to it, Is it really going
to happen? Or is he a pipe dream? And when
you need a quarterback, we got to make sure we
get somebody that can at least, you know, have a
couple more touchdowns than Picks and not Zach Wilson. But wow,
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when I heard this, and I just said, this falls
under the category of the best moves of the ones
you don't make, because I can't even imagine what it
would be like with Derek Carr as disappointing as he
was in New Orleans last year. What it would be
like feeling that the Jets are hooked into him for
another three years and and and all the money what
he wound up getting with the Saints. You would have
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gone though last even though last year went the way
it did and Aaron Rodgers didn't play, and I had
to watch Zach Wilson all season long, and I had
to watch Tim Boyle, and I had to watch Peter Boyle,
and it was really I got to the point where
I was like, oh, this is unbelievable. I'm still glad
that we're not hooked into Derek Carr for all that money.
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I said it when it happened. I said it when
he signed with the Saints. I said it before they
got I am glad we lost out on Derek Carr.
I got it if they made the decision. But again,
this would have been one of those decisions they would
have gotten antsy on.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
We need a guy.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
He looks like the best guy available, so let's really
go overboard and get it. And they didn't go crazy
to make him an offer he couldn't refuse. They let
him go, and now look, he's a guy the Saints
want to get rid of, they want to move on
for him so big, and now I'm like, okay, And
now we're entering ear two of Aaron Rodgers. Even though
Rogers got hurt last year, Derek Carr is not coming
and taking this team anywhere. Would we have won one
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more game, maybe finished eight to nine? Okay, maybe, but
that's not the thirteen and four we're gonna be with Rogers.
It's not the super Bowl contender we are this year
with the roster that we have. So even though that happened,
I am still okay with this. Again, the best moves
are the ones you don't make.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Yeah, I think Derek Carr falls into the category of
players where you know, as you like to say, reading
the back of the basketball card football card in this case,
and the stats don't tell the full tale of the
tape what he did last year, because you look at
him last year he completed in over sixty eight percent
of his passes. But that you always been your past,
ye right, except for actually, I'm sorry Tide for second
(39:39):
best he had that year in twenty nineteen, but he
was also twenty five and eight with almost thirty nine
hundred passing yards. Yet he's a guy that you go, eh,
what's behind door number two? What do I got to
kind of push me over to that next step? So yeah,
for you, for Jets fandom, you're still wishing that Rogers
becomes that guy for you, and you firmly believe, even
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your heart of hearts, it's too now. The fact that
he was willing to hitch his wagons to Robert Salaz
some sort of genius. That's why you don't want Derek
Carr quarterback here. I mean, I just got blocked by
his entire fan.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
He did everything the last month of the season, had
a good last month. I'm not gonna say he didn't,
but that's where.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
He did everything.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
But by that point you're sitting there at five, set,
six and seven, six and eight, like, what are you
gonna do?
Speaker 4 (40:25):
I mean, come on, great last month. I'm still glad
we are.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
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