August 15, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith agrees with the AP list that Tebow is the best College QB ever:
"I have not seen a better College QB at all levels of the game than Tim Tebow. He's got the resume, numbers, a statue because of the postgame speech he had that helped spur a National Title"
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to something we talked about a few minutes ago here, Mike.
You know, we had to play the day Ozzy Albi's
game winning hit for the Braves the Mets lose again.
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There wildcard lead is now down to a game over
the Reds. The Yankees lose their wild card lead is
down to a game. Yeah, Dodgers down lost last night.
They go into the biggest series of the year in
Major League Baseball tomorrow night, down a game to the Padres. Like,
I don't know when it's been as bad a time
baseball wise for the three highest market teams in baseball,
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the Dodgers, the Mets, and the Yankees. Nobody is happy
with the three biggest fan base systems and the three
biggest markets teams in the biggest markets in all of baseball.
Like they're all struggling so much. The Dodgers, as we
spent all this money and brought all these guys in,
and we're we're looking up at the Padres and the Mets,
like we went and gave Won Soto seven hundred and
sixty million dollars and we can't win.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And the Yankees are saying we were in the World Series.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And now we're struggling to say ahead of the Red
Sox who quit in the beginning of April. Like this
is a this is as bad as it's been for
those three teams all together in a long time.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Manoo well, and then you go and let's rope in
the North side of Chicago where things were great for
now Kyle Tucker, as people point out, he's got as
many RBIs in the month of August as you and
I do combined.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I think it's better than PCA stad.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, I think PCA has as many strikeouts in this
month as Kyle Tucker has RBIs.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Oh No, I was gonna I was going to get
to him, because I mean, we're talking about a guy
who hasn't hasn't done anything positive in a long time.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I mean, he's like, he's like eight for his last
one hundred and ninety like that bats like that's Pete
Crow Armstrong.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Pretty amazing for a guy that was second in MVP
ballading and odds for a good three months.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
They went from leading the NL Central and I thought
a little bit before the deadline, I would say not
quite at the deadline, But when we got to the
beginning of July, I thought, this lineup, they're gonna wind
up with the best record in Major League Baseball. They're
gonna best record because the look the Padres are really good.
The Giants are hanging around the Dodgers. You know, you
got a lot of games in division. The Diamondbacks are
still pretty good. Okay, Uh, they're gonna have a tough time,
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you know, getting the having the most wins, and it's
gonna be the Cubs. And now instead they're going into
this weekend series saying, hey, we could it could be
over after this because once a seven and a half
game lead for the Brewers now, so yeah, you want
to talk the top three men in the White Sox
Are the White Sox? Are you talking about the top
three markets in all of Major League Baseball?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It's bad. Man.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I still would rather be the Dodgers ahead of out
all of those because clearly the path to winning. The
Dodgers still have that great path because they're their team
is just so good it's too big to fail. But man,
I mean, I don't know what it's been this much
hitting the skids, how depressed a fan base is in
the top three markets in a while, because they all
had expectations. It's one thing to come into a season
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go oh, we stink we're not any good. Okay, no,
but you have expectations for the first two and a
half months and now suddenly it's what the hell has
happened to us?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well, but I mean, go through those four teams, the
only the only one that got active at the deadline
and it just hasn't worked was the Yankees. But he
else more or less stood pad on where they were,
particularly the Cubs. They brought in Soroka. Okay, great that
that did nothing, and then your offense went to hell
for the Dodgers. You know, they did all the off
season work and then it became a all right, everybody's
gonna get healthy and we're going to run through and look,
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now Mookie Bets is hit, and then that's great, but
it hasn't been able to offset some of the other fails.
And the bullpen with tired arms just go around into
all of these. Your guys with the Mets, You've been
joking about it for months, just saying, can we just
get somebody one more armed to spell one of these guys? So, yeah,
on fumes as we go through in the final six
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weeks originally, and look at the brus did all this
even with Churio uh and Miserowski on the IL.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, well, I mean Miserowski at least got a mega
charges ard. So there that's true that.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It was showing that you know, all those guys were living, right,
because even then he's buying boxes of cards and scoring.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I mean, it is just it is bleak for these teams.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
It is bleak when you think about going forward, Like
like watching some of these teams like that, it's not like, hey,
they've lost a couple of games and somebody's got hot.
It's it's been subpar play for months, right. It's the
Dodgers had a great record to start the last two months,
under five hundred. That's the same way, Yankees, the same way,
Cubs the same way. It's just for the Led to
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just hit the skids after all this expectation that that's
that's really difficult, man. I mean, bleak is a great word.
You know, we don't use bleak enough. I think bleak
is a really good word.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
No, that's good. I mean we've used peaky, but we
haven't used sure. I mean there is bleaker street. So
we talk horror movies, we get into that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But uh so, speaking of horror movies, no, no, we're
not gonna do that. Uh So I mentioned a few
minutes ago. Look, the big sports debate of the day,
the most fun debate. Uh, the Associated Press came out
with their All Ameria list of the best players to
ever play college football at every position. Right, so this
is basically the Associated Press put out, here's the best
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players in the history of college football. The first team.
The best quarterback is Tim Tebow. The best too, because
there's two wide receiver spots. It's Randy Moss and Larry Fitzgerald.
Bill Freelick is on the offensive line. And you see
some of the names and some of the legends, and
it's fun to sit here and go, wow, man, in
one hundred some odd years of college football, here's the
AP saying these are the best players, and it's an
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awesome list. And we talked about the quarterbacks a few
minutes ago, and you know, look the wide receivers. It's
hard to argue with Randy Moss and Larry Fitzgerald. Again,
recency bias, I understand. But when you get to the
running backs. The running backs again is where I say, yeah,
they got one really right and one really wrong, and
the one they got really right. I don't think there's
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anybody arguing with Barry Sanders having the greatest college football
season as a running back ever. I mean, I mean,
you're going back to nineteen eighty nine, which again is
in the middle of the modern era, which, if you
want to say, is late sixties to now. In college football,
there was nothing. There was nothing like Barry Sanders season.
It was jaw dropping, it was it was it was
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so impressive every single week, the sheer amount of yards
he put up. I mean, and look in a great
career as well, but when all of a sudden it became, boy,
this guy might be the best college running back we've
ever seen. I mean, even though you've had other guys
with great years. Reggie Bush had a great year winning
the Heisman Trophy. We'll get to other guys as well,
but I mean, I don't think you can question that
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Barry Sanders. You know, his nineteen eighty nine Yeah, that
puts him at the top.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Of that list.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, that eighty eight eighty nine run that he had
just absurd. Right, So he comes into the league on
eighty nine Heisman Trophy, twenty six twenty eight, thirty seven
touchdowns in eleven games. Yeah, I mean, that's just insane.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You think about the numbers he had, you know, averaging
averaging seven and a half yards of carry, like not
five yards of carry, not five and a half, seven and.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
A half yard money ball stats better in college.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I'll come money ball, Come moneyball, ron Dayne. Let's come on,
Let's get all those big Wisconsin backs Monty ball.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Wow, look up the scouts in college Monty ball. Now,
Monty Monty.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Ball had had had some great stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Was not Barry Sanders. He was not He was not
Barry Sanders. Now. I mean when Barry.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Said, because I remember when he came in, it was
it's kind of like when a when a new rock
band just shows up out of nowhere and you go,
oh my goodness, I didn't know anybody could be this good.
Like I didn't know anybody could move like Barry Sanders
and do that right, Because in the late eighties it
was still the big running backs in football were the
big bruisers that were. These are the guys you gave
the ball to thirty three, thirty five times a game,
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Guys like John Riggins.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The smaller guys.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, now they don't really get the ball quite as
much because they can't withstand the pounding. So yeah, they're
electric and they'll give you highlights, but they're not they're
not somebody can give the ball to a ton, they're
not going to take it to the house all the time.
But that's exactly what Barry Sanders did I mean, Barry Sanders,
I mean, come on, twenty seven hundred yards Heisman Trophy.
Moni Ball had a couple of years close to two thousand,
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but that's still you know, you're talking eight hundred yards.
Shy of Barry Sanders.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
All right, let's have some fun with numbers and history.
For Annie Ball, you're looking at a guy that got
to nineteen twenty three on the ground, three h six
in the air. Total of thirty nine touchdowns in twenty
eleven eighteen hundred thirty yards and twenty two touchdowns for
the encore. For me, I was tormented, you know in
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the post, and he was a little bit after my
run in terms of my school days, but I was
still spending a lot of time up in Evanston watching
ron Daye the ball carrier.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh sure where.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
His name was mentioned so often that you thought his
name was Dane the ballcarrier, like he was in you know,
the old English Times, you know whatever, your occupation was
added in the ballcarrier total of seven thy one hundred
yards for him seventy one touchdown in his career.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, look, he was terrific and a lot of that's
the offense. I remember seeing Rod Daine just get the
ball and be able to stop behind an offensive line
and put his hand on a guard and where to
push him because there's nobody there. Like the blocking scheme
they had in Wisconsin was fantastic. But look, look you're
splitting hairs as you talk about who the greatest of
all time is and the other running back on this list,
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because there's two running backs, right, Barry Sanders and herschel Walker,
who had three phenomenal years at Georgia, burst on the
scene as a freshman in nineteen eighty again someone we
hadn't seen.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
That power of speed and size and herschel Walker was tremendous.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, I'm not gonna go with herschel Walker because come
right after he left Mike Roziers nineteen eighty three with Nebraska,
the guy averaged eight yards of carry. He ran for
twenty six hundred yards like he was the entire Nebraska offense.
This is the This is the Nebraska team that went
to the National Championship and lost the big game against
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Miami when Nebraska went for two at the end and
and didn't get it and they would have won the
national title. But I remember Mike Rozier going, this guy
is meant against boys. This guy is gonna take I'm
even at you know, fourteen years however old I was, twelve, thirteen, forty.
Can't wait till this guy gets the NFL. He's gonna
be unreal. But I mean that that's the kind of
year that you look at numbers and see what Herschel Walker. Yeah,
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Herschal Walker's great, but go look at Mike Rozier.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I mean, the guy was. It was. It was just
like seeing a season with with.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Barry Sanders twenty six hundred yards seven and a half
yards ran for thirty seven touchdowns. I mean, I know
that they ran the ball a lot in Nebraska, but
thirty seven touchdowns. I mean that's a that's an that's
an un that's an unreal year for him.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I mean, this is this.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Is Mike Rosier with just a I mean I'm sorry,
seven point eight yards of carry that he had, Like
I said, we had eight yards of carry.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I mean that was I remember.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Watching him going, Nebraska, how are they ever gonna get
beat like Oklahoma Nebraska. I get that's the big game,
but how's Nebraska ever get beat with this guy where
every time he touches the football, it's it's just it's
like a it's like a video game.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
This is back in the mid eighties where it.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Happened about one more for the debate, Marcus Allen go
back to usc with Marcus Allen nineteen eighty one. Yeah,
twenty three forty two, twenty two touchdowns on the ground,
add another well, twenty nine catches to seventeen, so not huge,
but Heisman, Maxwell, you name it, all the awards. So yeah,
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this is fun going down memory lane because looking at
you know, Gail Sayers, because you know, trying to get
a little bit of me in there. But you've got
averaging six point five yards per carry, had all the
big big accolades, but total touchdowns just eighteen on the
ground in his three years in Kansas.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's it's the running backs are
a little bit more difficult because it was such a
run heavy game until you got to really really even
into into the nineties, it was still such a run
heavy game where quarterbacks that came into the NFL, hey
they were in some of the past happy offensive, but
they never put the number up. It was more what
they could project to be. In the NFL, most teams
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that won still were saying, we have a running back
to we give the football to thirty times a game, right,
this is how we're gonna win with defense.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
College football evolved.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Late and then when you got into the early two thousands,
where other teams that weren't as good as the Nebraska,
as the Oklahoma's, the Miamis, the Penn States, the Michigan
said Hey, what we're gonna do is we're gonna spread
the field, put out put out four or five receivers
and just spray the football. And we know the quarterback
is the guy we're going to build around, that's going
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to even the field with us. That really ushered in
the era, the modern era of the great college football
quarterback that you started to see the numbers explode. It
is a little bit more. It's a little bit easier
with quarterbacks because you're talking about you're only going back
like maybe twenty five years or thirty years with the
absolute greats because they were given more responsibility. The running
backs is as much harder because you go back to
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Archie Griffin, right like in the late sixties and back
to back Heisman trophies and say, yeah, well there's this
running back and this running back and this run back.
So it is much harder at running back than it
is a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So I would say this, while we're talking about the
change of game and we're talking eras in college football,
why is Joe Tiller not in the College Football Hall
of Fame?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Joe Tiller?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Well, maybe when Drew Brees gets in the Hall of Fame,
he'll say something and say, hey, Joe Tiller needs to
be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
But saying get it. You know, he's in the Indiana
Halls of Fame. But it's time to look at it
in terms of what he meant to changing. I mean,
certainly a conference, if not the game altogether with what
he instituted at Purdue.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Exit out about a Fresco exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith,
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Speaker 3 (14:38):
I will have more debate on this coming up. Again.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
This is a great list today to talk about the
a the best college football players of all time. I
feel like everybody seeing this is waxing nostalgic. I remember
this guy's career, Remember this guy or this guy? This
is just a fun, fun topic coming up next, Another
big breakout story today?
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. You know we'll get to that NBA
story coming up in a minute. But you know I
was thinking about this today. Right This college football list
comes out the Associated Press, the best college football players
of all time at each position. Right, Who the the
the first Team AP All American Team of All Time. Right,
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and you see some of the names on there. We've
talked about Tim Tebow's the Quarterbackry Sanders and Herschel Walker,
the running backs Larry Fitzgerald and Randy Moss, and the
wide receivers. You know, thinking about Barry Sanders and what
he did at Oklahoma State, which came out of nowhere
and dominated unlike anybody we've ever seen with his size before.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Is that you know?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I'm starting to think about now as we get ready
for the NFL season and we're waiting to see like
guys like Travis Hunter, right, is he gonna cut through
the clutter and we're going to see something we've never
seen before where a man, here's a guy playing eighty
percent of the downs on offense and eighty percent of
the downs on defense, right, Like as cam Ward really
gonna be great number one overall pick. Like, oh, we
wait for the new era of stars to come in.
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I gotta say, if we could have any one player's
career over again in the NFL, like we could see
this person from beginning to end again, I'd want to
see Barry Sanders career again because I can't it would be.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
If he came into the league now coming out of college.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Just think about the highlights that you see on Facebook
all the time, or what you see when people post
on social media. Kids don't understand that it's you know,
him turning around Harlan Barnett, you know for the Patriots,
or him just leaving John Lynch's jockstrap on the field
on a run. Like you remember what it was like
when Mahomes first came into the league and we said, Wow,
this guy can make throws and do things we've never seen.
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Some of the throws on the running makes he does
stuff with his left hand, like we would see the
wonder of what Barry Sanders could do. You'd see the
footwork that he had, his ability to change direction. We
had never seen a guy like that, Like I would,
I would. That's the guy. If we could have somebody's
career all over again, to see it from the start,
it would be Barry Sanders because he would be the
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number one story of the week every week in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It could be, Hey, did you see what happened this week?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh, Dak Prescott the Cowboys or no, no, no, yeah,
but dude, you see what Barry Sanders, did you had
twenty three carries for one hundred and seventy five yards.
His first eighteen carries went for twenty five yards. His
last five carries went for one hundred and thirty yards.
Like that's it would be. And see this one play.
Look what he does to this defensive back. Look he's
tackled here, how he jumps out of this tackle? Like again,
I still have never seen a running back like him.
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And if we could have one guy's career again, I'd
want it to be Barry Sanders.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Well, yeah, zero one negative three, one zero seventy five
to a touchdown. I mean it was great. And certainly
if you were on the wrong end if it bears,
you want to throw stuff at the television. The other
guy that do I get modern medicine. Maybe that can
help him a little bit. And that's Bo Jackson of
what it could have been.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean right.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
The thing is, I got some home runs with the
White Sox along the way, so I got some positive
got that All Star game. That'll always be there. But
you know, he was a guy that it was electric
and then just like that it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, I mean the thing is with him.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
At least we got to see some of it, right,
We got to see some of the electricity up, you know,
but obviously he got hurt. Like to try to play
it out to say, hey, we might have got something
even better. Yeah, no, that that's great. You know, I
can't you know, I can't say, mate, Maybe it would
have been great. Maybe would have got hurt again. The
fact that he had that hip injury after that tackle
against the Bengals that really ended things for him. Maybe
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it was too much for him playing both sports at once.
But just knowing that we saw had the entirety of
Barry sanders career, you know, plus.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Didn't get the entirety of Barry Sanders' career because we
didn't get our Andy Train letter writing campaign together, getting
two letters a day to convince him to keep playing.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, but to force his way out of Detroit.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, yeah, Like if you could have found a way
to say, I want Barry Sanders career, but I wanted
on the Cowboys, right, or I wanted on a team
where he's gonna enjoy coming back and playing every year
and not saying you know what, I've had it.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I've absolutely had it. Here to that end.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Let's take the wide receiver Calvin Johnson.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I mean, really his Barry sand Like when when he
first came up, I remember doing fantasy and it was, hey,
do you take Barry Sanders number one? Do you take
Terrell day Us number one? Because that was kind of
the debate there, and then Terrol Davis got hurt. You know,
he had four incredible years in the league. But Sanders
was just his entire career was a highlight reel and
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it was it really was every play you held your
breath because yeah, he could get stopped in the backfield
for a two to three yard loss or you take
it seventy five yards for a touchdown. Like every time
he touched the football was are we gonna see greatness?
Or if he's playing against you like he did play
against the Barris twice. Here was is he gonna go
all the way? Is he gonna he's gonna go all
the way? My man, come on, man, we can't have
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we had six guys around him. How does he get away?
It's like Spider Man with like six henchmen around him,
he finds a way to punch some guy and throw
a web up and leap over and outside from all
of those players.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Way to get Spider Man in the other thing with
Peterry Sanders is I mean as a man who is
well akin to a fire plug himself. I appreciated Barry
Sanders because I could look him in the eye when
I was interviewing him.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I just like you because you're as tall. How that hurt?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Boy and Kyler Murray are two of my favorite players.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Of all time.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
You're really strong. Wow, you hit me really hard in
the eye. I didn't like that. Ow that hurts?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I mean, I just think of the electricity of his
career and how we would break down video and say,
I don't know how Barry Sanders plants with his foot
here and then moves to the side here. I don't
understand how the defender is not able to get around.
I mean, even though defenders are faster and obviously they're bigger,
they're faster, and Barry Sanders played in the nineties, Yeah,
I still see him having those kind of days because
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no matter what, the defenders were not ready for anything
he had. Yeah, we're gonna put We're gonna put guys
around him. That's great, put guys around him. He still
found his way outside still found his way out. Yeah,
it was, it was, it was every single day. I
don't know that we kind of took him for granted,
but clearly the the attention that we spent on him,
because I remember, you know, back was back when I
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was ESPN and then segueing into being a radio and
TV personnel, like I remember the covering Barry Sanders's career
and was, wow, he's great, But yeah, there's other great
stories and the other teams are terrific and the lines
never win where it would be completely different now, how
completely different with how we covered and how we viewed
Barry Sanders, It would be this is the greatest running
back any of us have ever seen. There's no debate
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with him or Emmett Smith, and it doesn't matter. In
every single week he gives us something that physically we
didn't think was possible.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Well, and then we had the glory of having a
lot of those games called by the master of letting
a situation breathe, brevity, the soul of wit, Pat Summer,
All Sanders duking gone, Barry Sanders into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It's a seventy five yard touchdown run and some are
all uses three words Sanders, Oh touchdown.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Or no, No, I think it might have been.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It might have been Sanders still on his feet touchdown.
That's the He was always big for still on his
feet whenever stuff was happening and someone's making hers always
still on his feet touchdown, that's it. That would be
he would have that first. You'd have the first one percent. Uh.
We have that big NBA story coming up in ninety seconds.
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Jason Smith Mike Carmen live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
But time now to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. And someone who's been called the
Barry Sanders of Fox Sports Radio. Wow, you should see
her juke when there's a when there's a big pile.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Of fries to grab in the room, idea.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
She comes, gives you the spin move, grabs him, goes
over you swim.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Move and she is gone.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You would not know I even stopped by.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
It's man just going through. Yes, thank you for my
fries in the ranch.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Appreciate it. We want to talk about what happened, you know,
the joke off air? Yeah, yeah, yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Hold on now, I was calling Jason out on because
it was a funny joke, but it wasn't real.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
So I just wanted to be funny, but he got
me fries not real.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm getting Now you're back to plus one, negative three.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
But you fed me, so now you're plus one.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
So you're back in it.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You're back in it, and you keep keep.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
It up, you'll be plus two, which is what you want.
Our MLB games have all wrapped up, guys.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
The diamond Bats room, they did not, and we'll get there.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
We'll get there.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Diamondbacks was last game of the night in Colorado against
the Rockies Arizona one at eight to two. Labor Torres
was the one who hit the sack fly and the
eleventh innenas the Tigers edge the Twins four to three.
Braves defeated the Mets four to three Ozzie Alby's he
had a big knight head a home run, a total
of three rbi, including the go ahead RBI again four
to three, agains the Mets. Nationals edge of Phillies three
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to two. Phillies have lost three in a row. Guardians
defeated the Marlins nine to four. They are now half
a game back on the Yankees for the final wildcard
spot in the a L. Vladimir Guerrero Junior does it again,
What do I mean a home run?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
A two run shot.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Blue Jays defeated the Cubs two to one, and the
Royols hand did the Mariners another loss five to three
earlier today. So now Seattle is one and a half
games back of Houston in the Al West. In the NFL,
Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles said today that most starters
were going to play in their preseason game against the Steelers.
He even said Baker Mayfield was going to play, but
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he has said never mind, I looked at the tape.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
We're not going to have him play. Neither is wide
receiver Mike Evans or linebacker Levante David. You can expect
to see Justin Herbert play in the Chargers second preseason
game on Saturday against the Rams, his first career preseason appearance.
Joe Milton is going to start for the Cowboys on
Saturday against the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Sam Howell in.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
For the Vikings in their second preseason game against the Patriots.
Other NFL news, former Texas wide receiver Isaiah Bonn announced
he was signing with the Cleveland Browns. After a grand
jury in Colin County, Texas, declined to file chargers against
him after he was arrested on suspicion of sexual sexual
assault in April and subsequently was not selected in the
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NFL draft.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Is the thing? Mary Kay Cabot, who.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Covers the Browns, tweeted after this information that the Browns
are doing their due diligence on Isaiah Bond. He hasn't
signed yet and it's not happening today, but he did.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Make an announcement, but it's not real.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, I know he's he's going to the Browns.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
He's going to the Browns.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Not yet.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Yeah, really guaranteed contract, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I think that's where the Cleveland Browns are going. Oh
we sure, we want to do this so fast. Let's
wait and see what the reaction is going to be. Yes,
Let's see which way the wind blows before we say yeah,
we're gonna go down.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Wind was blowing the other way.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, okay, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Jason, back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Thanks a bunch of mons, says Jason Smith Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. So today in
the NBA, the schedule was released. Oh, by the way, Hey,
the schedule is released in the NBA today. This just
goes to show you that, Look, the NBA tries to
swing with the NFL and a lot of things, Like
the NFL schedule release day is a big deal.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
We see the games, we see where teams are playing.
It's a big thing. There's seventeen of them.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, NBA schedule release like the two big When the
second biggest headline of the NBA schedule release is Kevin
Durant's first game back in Phoenix, I mean, come on,
nobody cares when ken they saw that night.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I shook my head going, wow, we're really grasping straws here.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I don't think Kevin.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Durant cares when his first game back in Phoenix is now,
obviously Anthony Davis his first game back in LA. That's
a thing, right, potentially with Lebron and what happened after
the trade. No, that one hundred percent. But when it
was hey, NBA schedule released, Davis Durant return set, I'm like,
Durance really like when that's the second that's the second
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biggest thing we have to look at like, is it
really that big a deal. I think the NBA got
understand Hey, your your schedule release doesn't quite have the
romanticism of of of the NFL. It's almost like saying, hey,
the MLB has their schedule release out, Oh, well, when's
the first Dodgers Padre series.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
That's what I want to know.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I mean, really, it's a it's a tad bit above that,
but really not even close to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
But that's just it, right, I mean, when you're talking
about the NFL, it becomes all right, what which road
game are we going to travel to? Maybe you've made
it a tradition. Maybe you're looking at whether you're you're
included on the holidays, and that's part of this, right.
The Lakers Mavericks first matchup is part of the NBA Cup,
so you can get all excited about that. But otherwise
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it's it's eighty two games.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Man.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
It's like, I know, you didn't sit there and start
xing off, all right, win loss, win loss, I mean
that's yeah, Mike, he.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Was counting a lot of Knicks losses there, dude, this
is okay, of all my teams, the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
This is like, I'm all in on losses there.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
This is this is the year where it's finals or
bus forty losses.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
It's I stop, man, stop. The Knicks are going to
be great. This is it. It's finals are bus like
the Jets.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
You also thought about that about the Mets.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I mean that's are completely disappointing and falling apart in
front of my eyes. The Jets are building something, and
I'm excited at that, at that building and finally I
feel like we have it going. I'm okay with a
front with a new start this year building garbage. But
then stop with that, man, you just stop. You wait
till a year from now. You wait, you just wait, wait,
you wait till you need a favor from Ferris Bueller
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one day. Then where will you be?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But no, But the Knicks is like, okay, like this
is the champion that the finals are busted here for
the Necks, like this is it right here?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah, you're the second favorite in the conference. But I mean,
are you going through all eighty two? I mean you
might find one around when you might be traveling somewhere.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah, no, nobody cares cool.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
But it just doesn't have the same juice to like.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Even they try to make Christmas Day be a big thing,
and I'm like, okay, that's great, all right, it's great
to know the games on Christmas Day, Okay, but it.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Just doesn't one of the NFL games on Christmas Day. Yeah,
you're coming to.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Oh that's great. But if as long as the game,
as long as Christmas is on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Sunday or Monday, we're getting NFL game.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah, but that's all fine and good. But I mean, Chris,
Christmas Day this year is Lions, Vikings, Cowboys, Commanders, Froncos Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, nobody cares about you. Oh yeah, that's nice you
had that.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I mean that's like Opening Day, right, legitimately we're finally
hit that.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah, okay, that's great. Now I want we're watching over here.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I got a conspiracy theory question for you on because
I really wanted to happen.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
So now, obviously the NFL has evolved into more games
on different days. They're much more okay with playing on Friday,
They're okay with playing on Tuesday. Like after the pandemic,
things kind of loosened up a lot, right cause we
had game Tuesday. We had games on Tuesday at noon.
How insane does that sound?
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Like I remember the Bills playing a game Tuesday at
twelve o'clock.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Right, Like that was right a right, but I had
the Wednesday afternoon game with the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, but the but for the longest time, the NBA
owned Christmas Day, right, and the NFL very rarely played
on Christmas Day.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You go back and look at in the annals of
the NFL before the but you know, before the pandemic,
it was, Yeah, there's just a handful of games. But
they they laid left Christmas Day to the NBA. Now
they never had to do that. Roger Goodell has always
been a ruthless businessman, Like I have to think, like
all of a sudden, now the NFL said we're playing
and having big slates on Christmas Day. Why do I
get the sense like at some kind of party that
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all the commissioners attended, Like at one point Adam Silver
said something uh uh to Roger Goodell or David Stert
at one point said something.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Where and you think you're so good?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You see us we own Christmas Day, Roger, Yeah, you
don't play on Christmas Daydell's like, yeah, okay, all right,
now I'm coming for you.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Now you call me on front of a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Now I'm coming for you, because now they're playing Christmas
Day when they could have played Christmas Day. For many years,
nothing was stopping them from doing this, but now all
of a sudden, it's yeah, we're gonna own Christmas Day
and you're gonna be a minor headline on I have
a feeling that somebody said something or there was some
message that was said and the NFL just didn't like it,
and they said.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Okay, we'll fix you. Now we're coming for Christmas Day.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah, what you have Saturday, Sunday and Monday until twenty nineteen,
and then in twenty twenty it's like, yeah, all right,
here we go. So yeah, it could have very well
been a chesty kind of thumb thumping thing Adam Silver
and Company, whether it's at a holiday party over some
cocktails or something silly in one of the memorandum that
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went out talking about ratings or something that they just said, well,
you know what, we can own that too. Not to
mention you get into all the broadcast rights and the
way things have changed up and so many different suitors
coming on board that it becomes a well, where do
we have a potential for a giant payday for the
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owners and for the players. Here we go, let's go
take it.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
You know, Silver was kind of chest and he took
my drink at that party. I'll fix it. We're gonna
play Christmas Day now.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
I put my beer down to take a bite of
my food, and he stole it right off the table.
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, how about you want you you want? You want
to chug a beer? How about you chug three NFL
games on Christmas Day? Try to put out a schedule?
How about that?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
That's just cruel?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Team excell.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
He's ready for.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
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Speaker 1 (34:42):
You would think giving away free Hamburgers because of a
baseball team's achievements would be an.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Easy thing to do.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
But no, no, no, As you'll hear, sometimes the greatest
intentions can absolutely fall apart. That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
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Speaker 1 (35:07):
I want a shot at redemption in a Mets graveyard,
bone digger boned. Okay, Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon Again. We told you last hour
tonight was going to be a look back at the
hits of the eighties, nineties, and today from Alex tie shirt,
thank you for smooth Jazz. Coming up at eleven, we've
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gone from Acon back to Paul Simon.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Simon. Now wait, so what's next? Yeah? Oh wait, let me.
Have you ever seen this video? No, really, have you
ever seen this video? Okay? Interesting? Okay, that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Some of the biggest stars in comedy history are in
this video. Okay, hold on, And for the longest time
people thought an actual comedian sang the song because Paul
Simon just plays the instruments. Stop and a well known
Comedi that you know him today lip sake the song
he was I didn't know that. So and so sang
that song. No it's not not Paul If I said
(36:06):
Chevy Silverado, Yes, Chevy Silver If I said Chevy or
Jamar Chase, yes, very good, here you go.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yes that's the case.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Not Jamar Chase, but Chevy Chase. Yeah, Chevy Chase sinks
the song and people I didn't know he sang that song.
Come on man, yeah this live a couple of weeks ago.
Oh yeah, came out whistle so Jason more stars in
that music video or Happy Go more to ooh oh
more and Happy Go moore to? Okay, yeah, yeah, well
they actually put the stars in because the movie I
(36:39):
heard is so bad that you had to put a
whole bunch of people in stars is debatable though, Oh really,
okay stars?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
So have you seen the movie Hapy Go More? I
mean bad bunny definition of a star?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
You know? Okay, exactly my point.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Mike taking time.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Taking ton uh proof that even the best of intentions
can really go sideways. So if you remember, the Brewers
made this guarantee come true with their twelfth win. Recently,
a local burger chain George Web Restaurants has good making
good on its promise of giving away free hamburgers as
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part of a long standing promotion to celebrate the Brewers
winning twelve straight games. Brews and twelve straight games, everybody
who lives in the city gets a free burger right now.
It's like, how do you really do this? They've done
it like three times in the last thirty years. Okay,
I kind of get it. That sounds great, but you know,
when you try to do something really good, you're gonna
get people that you know, we're gonna try to make
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it bad. And this story came out today that a
nine to one one call was made from one of
the George Web restaurants from someone who worked there because
a guy was getting a little unruly because he demanded
his free burger.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
And here's the catch. According to the call, he demanded
the burger while the twelfth game was still going on.
Well like the Brewers were winning big, so I get
where he thought it was gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
But supposely the guy walked in and said, yeah, we're
gonna win our twelfth to row. It's I want my
free burger now, and they wouldn't give it to him,
and I get it because, okay, we have to figure
out when we're gonna do this. And oh, by the way,
the game's not even over yet. This guy, I mean,
you've watched Mets games. No lead is safe. You could
wind up losing this thing. Sure, that's a lot of
guts to walk in and say I want my burger
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before the game is over.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Well, I mean, look, he was counting on the bullpen
to finish the job. I mean, We've got plenty of
those promotions. I mean I was actually just telling my
parents out here about one that the Dodgers have that
people are lamenting. They haven't been able to use for
a while because of the they haven't been winning. Right,
the meal deal that you can get at Panda Express.
(38:54):
But they got to win. But you get it the
day after, not the day of not immediacy. Yeah, hey,
you know there's fireworks in the sky as we celebrate
a win and they're heading back to the clubhouse. You
know that you immediately sprint over to your George Web
to get your freed burger.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I gotta works, gotta go. No, But isn't a thing
like hang on like Frostburg. When the Lakers when you
get the free tacos, like you can go that night, right.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
But they give you a voucher on the way out.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
But they but you can do it, right, It's not
like you have to wait a day. You can do
that like right away, right, you can go and just say, hey, no,
it's the day after the day after they're doing when
you leave.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
They used to smith.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Yeah, because you also have to make sure your supply
chains up. Like if you're at George Webb and suddenly
you're potentially on the hook for two hundred thousand burgers.
That's how many they gave out between you know, burgers
and vouchers the last time they did that. You know,
you got to make sure you got enough beef come
into town.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
It's like the Dodgers, Jason, if they get seven strikeouts,
you got jumbo jack.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It's the next day though.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Oh so I couldn't leave the game and go to
Jack in the Box and get my jumbo Jack.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I'd have to wait. You're gonna do that either.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Wait, they've struck out at least seven times in a
lot of these games. That's a lot of jump.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
That's not the promotion though.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
A well, just the way he said it.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
I mean, yeah, I mean because you're right, because I'm
not going to a burger place saying I'd like my
free burger jumbo jack. Oh, it's not till tomorrow. We'll
forget it. I'm pulling out. No, No, it's okay. Well
I'll just have the burger, I'll pay for now, and
I'll get my other burger tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
And then you'll come back or you won't.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Oh right, I would do that. I would do that
in a second.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Either way, you're gonna come back for that burger and
their whole The whole thing is they're banking on you
to buy a whole other satchel. Oh yeah, George w
will you know, here's my freebie, but I'm gonna get
that seven satchel for twenty dollars and thirteen cents.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
I mean, could I do that and say, hey, listen,
I want my free as part of my satchel, So
instead of seven for twenty bucks, I want my seven
for seventeen.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
No, they're not doing that, Ozzy math.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
That's not the same thing though, right A Burger's like
three fifty three, three thirty nine is.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Oh you said it?
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (40:50):
That George Web Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
I almost said it, George Wentz.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
No, George Wentz, it's going down norm shooting free burgers.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Man, I was kind of paying homage to him. Oh
an homage and George.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Web you can also get a voucher in case you
can't get the burger, you can get a voucher for
it as well.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
They're really taking care of the people.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
But man, I'll tell you that that one guy to
demand a burger before the game was even over, like
Mets fans could never do that. They Aha, I gotta wait.
Everything can change, but it's six nothing in the seventh inning.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
It can change the.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
Way to become a folk hero though
Speaker 3 (41:21):
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You know, we had to play the day Ozzy Albi's
game winning hit for the Braves the Mets lose again.
(01:11):
There wildcard lead is now down to a game over
the Reds. The Yankees lose their wild card lead is
down to a game. Yeah, Dodgers down lost last night.
They go into the biggest series of the year in
Major League Baseball tomorrow night, down a game to the Padres. Like,
I don't know when it's been as bad a time
baseball wise for the three highest market teams in baseball,
(01:36):
the Dodgers, the Mets, and the Yankees. Nobody is happy
with the three biggest fan base systems and the three
biggest markets teams in the biggest markets in all of baseball.
Like they're all struggling so much. The Dodgers, as we
spent all this money and brought all these guys in,
and we're we're looking up at the Padres and the Mets,
like we went and gave Won Soto seven hundred and
sixty million dollars and we can't win.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And the Yankees are saying we were in the World Series.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And now we're struggling to say ahead of the Red
Sox who quit in the beginning of April. Like this
is a this is as bad as it's been for
those three teams all together in a long time.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Manoo well, and then you go and let's rope in
the North side of Chicago where things were great for
now Kyle Tucker, as people point out, he's got as
many RBIs in the month of August as you and
I do combined.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I think it's better than PCA stad.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, I think PCA has as many strikeouts in this
month as Kyle Tucker has RBIs.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Oh No, I was gonna I was going to get
to him, because I mean, we're talking about a guy
who hasn't hasn't done anything positive in a long time.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I mean, he's like, he's like eight for his last
one hundred and ninety like that bats like that's Pete
Crow Armstrong.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Pretty amazing for a guy that was second in MVP
ballading and odds for a good three months.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
They went from leading the NL Central and I thought
a little bit before the deadline, I would say not
quite at the deadline, But when we got to the
beginning of July, I thought, this lineup, they're gonna wind
up with the best record in Major League Baseball. They're
gonna best record because the look the Padres are really good.
The Giants are hanging around the Dodgers. You know, you
got a lot of games in division. The Diamondbacks are
still pretty good. Okay, Uh, they're gonna have a tough time,
(03:14):
you know, getting the having the most wins, and it's
gonna be the Cubs. And now instead they're going into
this weekend series saying, hey, we could it could be
over after this because once a seven and a half
game lead for the Brewers now, so yeah, you want
to talk the top three men in the White Sox
Are the White Sox? Are you talking about the top
three markets in all of Major League Baseball?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It's bad. Man.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I still would rather be the Dodgers ahead of out
all of those because clearly the path to winning. The
Dodgers still have that great path because they're their team
is just so good it's too big to fail. But man,
I mean, I don't know what it's been this much
hitting the skids, how depressed a fan base is in
the top three markets in a while, because they all
had expectations. It's one thing to come into a season
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go oh, we stink we're not any good. Okay, no,
but you have expectations for the first two and a
half months and now suddenly it's what the hell has
happened to us?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Well, but I mean, go through those four teams, the
only the only one that got active at the deadline
and it just hasn't worked was the Yankees. But he
else more or less stood pad on where they were,
particularly the Cubs. They brought in Soroka. Okay, great that
that did nothing, and then your offense went to hell
for the Dodgers. You know, they did all the off
season work and then it became a all right, everybody's
gonna get healthy and we're going to run through and look,
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now Mookie Bets is hit, and then that's great, but
it hasn't been able to offset some of the other fails.
And the bullpen with tired arms just go around into
all of these. Your guys with the Mets, You've been
joking about it for months, just saying, can we just
get somebody one more armed to spell one of these guys? So, yeah,
on fumes as we go through in the final six
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weeks originally, and look at the brus did all this
even with Churio uh and Miserowski on the IL.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, well, I mean Miserowski at least got a mega
charges ard. So there that's true that.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
It was showing that you know, all those guys were living, right,
because even then he's buying boxes of cards and scoring.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I mean, it is just it is bleak for these teams.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
It is bleak when you think about going forward, Like
like watching some of these teams like that, it's not like, hey,
they've lost a couple of games and somebody's got hot.
It's it's been subpar play for months, right. It's the
Dodgers had a great record to start the last two months,
under five hundred. That's the same way, Yankees, the same way,
Cubs the same way. It's just for the Led to
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just hit the skids after all this expectation that that's
that's really difficult, man. I mean, bleak is a great word.
You know, we don't use bleak enough. I think bleak
is a really good word.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
No, that's good. I mean we've used peaky, but we
haven't used sure. I mean there is bleaker street. So
we talk horror movies, we get into that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But uh so, speaking of horror movies, no, no, we're
not gonna do that. Uh So I mentioned a few
minutes ago. Look, the big sports debate of the day,
the most fun debate. Uh, the Associated Press came out
with their All Ameria list of the best players to
ever play college football at every position. Right, so this
is basically the Associated Press put out, here's the best
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players in the history of college football. The first team.
The best quarterback is Tim Tebow. The best too, because
there's two wide receiver spots. It's Randy Moss and Larry Fitzgerald.
Bill Freelick is on the offensive line. And you see
some of the names and some of the legends, and
it's fun to sit here and go, wow, man, in
one hundred some odd years of college football, here's the
AP saying these are the best players, and it's an
(06:30):
awesome list. And we talked about the quarterbacks a few
minutes ago, and you know, look the wide receivers. It's
hard to argue with Randy Moss and Larry Fitzgerald. Again,
recency bias, I understand. But when you get to the
running backs. The running backs again is where I say, yeah,
they got one really right and one really wrong, and
the one they got really right. I don't think there's
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anybody arguing with Barry Sanders having the greatest college football
season as a running back ever. I mean, I mean,
you're going back to nineteen eighty nine, which again is
in the middle of the modern era, which, if you
want to say, is late sixties to now. In college football,
there was nothing. There was nothing like Barry Sanders season.
It was jaw dropping, it was it was it was
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so impressive every single week, the sheer amount of yards
he put up. I mean, and look in a great
career as well, but when all of a sudden it became, boy,
this guy might be the best college running back we've
ever seen. I mean, even though you've had other guys
with great years. Reggie Bush had a great year winning
the Heisman Trophy. We'll get to other guys as well,
but I mean, I don't think you can question that
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Barry Sanders. You know, his nineteen eighty nine Yeah, that
puts him at the top.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Of that list.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, that eighty eight eighty nine run that he had
just absurd. Right, So he comes into the league on
eighty nine Heisman Trophy, twenty six twenty eight, thirty seven
touchdowns in eleven games. Yeah, I mean, that's just insane.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You think about the numbers he had, you know, averaging
averaging seven and a half yards of carry, like not
five yards of carry, not five and a half, seven and.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
A half yard money ball stats better in college.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I'll come money ball, Come moneyball, ron Dayne. Let's come on,
Let's get all those big Wisconsin backs Monty ball.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Wow, look up the scouts in college Monty ball. Now,
Monty Monty.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Ball had had had some great stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Was not Barry Sanders. He was not He was not
Barry Sanders. Now. I mean when Barry.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Said, because I remember when he came in, it was
it's kind of like when a when a new rock
band just shows up out of nowhere and you go,
oh my goodness, I didn't know anybody could be this good.
Like I didn't know anybody could move like Barry Sanders
and do that right, Because in the late eighties it
was still the big running backs in football were the
big bruisers that were. These are the guys you gave
the ball to thirty three, thirty five times a game,
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Guys like John Riggins.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
The smaller guys.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, now they don't really get the ball quite as
much because they can't withstand the pounding. So yeah, they're
electric and they'll give you highlights, but they're not they're
not somebody can give the ball to a ton, they're
not going to take it to the house all the time.
But that's exactly what Barry Sanders did I mean, Barry Sanders,
I mean, come on, twenty seven hundred yards Heisman Trophy.
Moni Ball had a couple of years close to two thousand,
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but that's still you know, you're talking eight hundred yards.
Shy of Barry Sanders.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
All right, let's have some fun with numbers and history.
For Annie Ball, you're looking at a guy that got
to nineteen twenty three on the ground, three h six
in the air. Total of thirty nine touchdowns in twenty
eleven eighteen hundred thirty yards and twenty two touchdowns for
the encore. For me, I was tormented, you know in
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the post, and he was a little bit after my
run in terms of my school days, but I was
still spending a lot of time up in Evanston watching
ron Daye the ball carrier.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh sure where.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
His name was mentioned so often that you thought his
name was Dane the ballcarrier, like he was in you know,
the old English Times, you know whatever, your occupation was
added in the ballcarrier total of seven thy one hundred
yards for him seventy one touchdown in his career.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, look, he was terrific and a lot of that's
the offense. I remember seeing Rod Daine just get the
ball and be able to stop behind an offensive line
and put his hand on a guard and where to
push him because there's nobody there. Like the blocking scheme
they had in Wisconsin was fantastic. But look, look you're
splitting hairs as you talk about who the greatest of
all time is and the other running back on this list,
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because there's two running backs, right, Barry Sanders and herschel Walker,
who had three phenomenal years at Georgia, burst on the
scene as a freshman in nineteen eighty again someone we
hadn't seen.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
That power of speed and size and herschel Walker was tremendous.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, I'm not gonna go with herschel Walker because come
right after he left Mike Roziers nineteen eighty three with Nebraska,
the guy averaged eight yards of carry. He ran for
twenty six hundred yards like he was the entire Nebraska offense.
This is the This is the Nebraska team that went
to the National Championship and lost the big game against
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Miami when Nebraska went for two at the end and
and didn't get it and they would have won the
national title. But I remember Mike Rozier going, this guy
is meant against boys. This guy is gonna take I'm
even at you know, fourteen years however old I was, twelve, thirteen, forty.
Can't wait till this guy gets the NFL. He's gonna
be unreal. But I mean that that's the kind of
year that you look at numbers and see what Herschel Walker. Yeah,
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Herschal Walker's great, but go look at Mike Rozier.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I mean, the guy was. It was. It was just
like seeing a season with with.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Barry Sanders twenty six hundred yards seven and a half
yards ran for thirty seven touchdowns. I mean, I know
that they ran the ball a lot in Nebraska, but
thirty seven touchdowns. I mean that's a that's an that's
an un that's an unreal year for him.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I mean, this is this.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Is Mike Rosier with just a I mean I'm sorry,
seven point eight yards of carry that he had, Like
I said, we had eight yards of carry.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I mean that was I remember.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Watching him going, Nebraska, how are they ever gonna get
beat like Oklahoma Nebraska. I get that's the big game,
but how's Nebraska ever get beat with this guy where
every time he touches the football, it's it's just it's
like a it's like a video game.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
This is back in the mid eighties where it.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Happened about one more for the debate, Marcus Allen go
back to usc with Marcus Allen nineteen eighty one. Yeah,
twenty three forty two, twenty two touchdowns on the ground,
add another well, twenty nine catches to seventeen, so not huge,
but Heisman, Maxwell, you name it, all the awards. So yeah,
(12:23):
this is fun going down memory lane because looking at
you know, Gail Sayers, because you know, trying to get
a little bit of me in there. But you've got
averaging six point five yards per carry, had all the
big big accolades, but total touchdowns just eighteen on the
ground in his three years in Kansas.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's it's the running backs are
a little bit more difficult because it was such a
run heavy game until you got to really really even
into into the nineties, it was still such a run
heavy game where quarterbacks that came into the NFL, hey
they were in some of the past happy offensive, but
they never put the number up. It was more what
they could project to be. In the NFL, most teams
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that won still were saying, we have a running back
to we give the football to thirty times a game, right,
this is how we're gonna win with defense.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
College football evolved.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Late and then when you got into the early two thousands,
where other teams that weren't as good as the Nebraska,
as the Oklahoma's, the Miamis, the Penn States, the Michigan
said Hey, what we're gonna do is we're gonna spread
the field, put out put out four or five receivers
and just spray the football. And we know the quarterback
is the guy we're going to build around, that's going
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to even the field with us. That really ushered in
the era, the modern era of the great college football
quarterback that you started to see the numbers explode. It
is a little bit more. It's a little bit easier
with quarterbacks because you're talking about you're only going back
like maybe twenty five years or thirty years with the
absolute greats because they were given more responsibility. The running
backs is as much harder because you go back to
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Archie Griffin, right like in the late sixties and back
to back Heisman trophies and say, yeah, well there's this
running back and this running back and this run back.
So it is much harder at running back than it
is a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
So I would say this, while we're talking about the
change of game and we're talking eras in college football,
why is Joe Tiller not in the College Football Hall
of Fame?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Joe Tiller?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Well, maybe when Drew Brees gets in the Hall of Fame,
he'll say something and say, hey, Joe Tiller needs to
be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
But saying get it. You know, he's in the Indiana
Halls of Fame. But it's time to look at it
in terms of what he meant to changing. I mean,
certainly a conference, if not the game altogether with what
he instituted at Purdue.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Exit out about a Fresco exit Swallen Dome, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I will have more debate on this coming up. Again.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
This is a great list today to talk about the
a the best college football players of all time. I
feel like everybody seeing this is waxing nostalgic. I remember
this guy's career, Remember this guy or this guy? This
is just a fun, fun topic coming up next, Another
big breakout story today?
Speaker 3 (14:56):
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. You know we'll get to that NBA
story coming up in a minute. But you know I
was thinking about this today. Right This college football list
comes out the Associated Press, the best college football players
of all time at each position. Right, Who the the
the first Team AP All American Team of All Time. Right,
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and you see some of the names on there. We've
talked about Tim Tebow's the Quarterbackry Sanders and Herschel Walker,
the running backs Larry Fitzgerald and Randy Moss, and the
wide receivers. You know, thinking about Barry Sanders and what
he did at Oklahoma State, which came out of nowhere
and dominated unlike anybody we've ever seen with his size before.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Is that you know?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I'm starting to think about now as we get ready
for the NFL season and we're waiting to see like
guys like Travis Hunter, right, is he gonna cut through
the clutter and we're going to see something we've never
seen before where a man, here's a guy playing eighty
percent of the downs on offense and eighty percent of
the downs on defense, right, Like as cam Ward really
gonna be great number one overall pick. Like, oh, we
wait for the new era of stars to come in.
(17:38):
I gotta say, if we could have any one player's
career over again in the NFL, like we could see
this person from beginning to end again, I'd want to
see Barry Sanders career again because I can't it would be.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
If he came into the league now coming out of college.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Just think about the highlights that you see on Facebook
all the time, or what you see when people post
on social media. Kids don't understand that it's you know,
him turning around Harlan Barnett, you know for the Patriots,
or him just leaving John Lynch's jockstrap on the field
on a run. Like you remember what it was like
when Mahomes first came into the league and we said, Wow,
this guy can make throws and do things we've never seen.
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Some of the throws on the running makes he does
stuff with his left hand, like we would see the
wonder of what Barry Sanders could do. You'd see the
footwork that he had, his ability to change direction. We
had never seen a guy like that, Like I would,
I would. That's the guy. If we could have somebody's
career all over again, to see it from the start,
it would be Barry Sanders because he would be the
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number one story of the week every week in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It could be, Hey, did you see what happened this week?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Oh, Dak Prescott the Cowboys or no, no, no, yeah,
but dude, you see what Barry Sanders, did you had
twenty three carries for one hundred and seventy five yards.
His first eighteen carries went for twenty five yards. His
last five carries went for one hundred and thirty yards.
Like that's it would be. And see this one play.
Look what he does to this defensive back. Look he's
tackled here, how he jumps out of this tackle? Like again,
I still have never seen a running back like him.
(19:09):
And if we could have one guy's career again, I'd
want it to be Barry Sanders.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Well, yeah, zero one negative three, one zero seventy five
to a touchdown. I mean it was great. And certainly
if you were on the wrong end if it bears,
you want to throw stuff at the television. The other
guy that do I get modern medicine. Maybe that can
help him a little bit. And that's Bo Jackson of
what it could have been.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean right.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
The thing is, I got some home runs with the
White Sox along the way, so I got some positive
got that All Star game. That'll always be there. But
you know, he was a guy that it was electric
and then just like that it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, I mean the thing is with him.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
At least we got to see some of it, right,
We got to see some of the electricity up, you know,
but obviously he got hurt. Like to try to play
it out to say, hey, we might have got something
even better. Yeah, no, that that's great. You know, I
can't you know, I can't say, mate, Maybe it would
have been great. Maybe would have got hurt again. The
fact that he had that hip injury after that tackle
against the Bengals that really ended things for him. Maybe
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it was too much for him playing both sports at once.
But just knowing that we saw had the entirety of
Barry sanders career, you know, plus.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Didn't get the entirety of Barry Sanders' career because we
didn't get our Andy Train letter writing campaign together, getting
two letters a day to convince him to keep playing.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, but to force his way out of Detroit.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, yeah, Like if you could have found a way
to say, I want Barry Sanders career, but I wanted
on the Cowboys, right, or I wanted on a team
where he's gonna enjoy coming back and playing every year
and not saying you know what, I've had it.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
I've absolutely had it. Here to that end.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Let's take the wide receiver Calvin Johnson.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I mean, really his Barry sand Like when when he
first came up, I remember doing fantasy and it was, hey,
do you take Barry Sanders number one? Do you take
Terrell day Us number one? Because that was kind of
the debate there, and then Terrol Davis got hurt. You know,
he had four incredible years in the league. But Sanders
was just his entire career was a highlight reel and
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it was it really was every play you held your
breath because yeah, he could get stopped in the backfield
for a two to three yard loss or you take
it seventy five yards for a touchdown. Like every time
he touched the football was are we gonna see greatness?
Or if he's playing against you like he did play
against the Barris twice. Here was is he gonna go
all the way? Is he gonna he's gonna go all
the way? My man, come on, man, we can't have
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we had six guys around him. How does he get away?
It's like Spider Man with like six henchmen around him,
he finds a way to punch some guy and throw
a web up and leap over and outside from all
of those players.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Way to get Spider Man in the other thing with
Peterry Sanders is I mean as a man who is
well akin to a fire plug himself. I appreciated Barry
Sanders because I could look him in the eye when
I was interviewing him.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I just like you because you're as tall. How that hurt?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Boy and Kyler Murray are two of my favorite players.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Of all time.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
You're really strong. Wow, you hit me really hard in
the eye. I didn't like that. Ow that hurts?
Speaker 5 (22:11):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
I mean, I just think of the electricity of his
career and how we would break down video and say,
I don't know how Barry Sanders plants with his foot
here and then moves to the side here. I don't
understand how the defender is not able to get around.
I mean, even though defenders are faster and obviously they're bigger,
they're faster, and Barry Sanders played in the nineties, Yeah,
I still see him having those kind of days because
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no matter what, the defenders were not ready for anything
he had. Yeah, we're gonna put We're gonna put guys
around him. That's great, put guys around him. He still
found his way outside still found his way out. Yeah,
it was, it was, it was every single day. I
don't know that we kind of took him for granted,
but clearly the the attention that we spent on him,
because I remember, you know, back was back when I
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was ESPN and then segueing into being a radio and
TV personnel, like I remember the covering Barry Sanders's career
and was, wow, he's great, But yeah, there's other great
stories and the other teams are terrific and the lines
never win where it would be completely different now, how
completely different with how we covered and how we viewed
Barry Sanders, It would be this is the greatest running
back any of us have ever seen. There's no debate
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with him or Emmett Smith, and it doesn't matter. In
every single week he gives us something that physically we
didn't think was possible.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Well, and then we had the glory of having a
lot of those games called by the master of letting
a situation breathe, brevity, the soul of wit, Pat Summer,
All Sanders duking gone, Barry Sanders into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It's a seventy five yard touchdown run and some are
all uses three words Sanders, Oh touchdown.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Or no, No, I think it might have been.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It might have been Sanders still on his feet touchdown.
That's the He was always big for still on his
feet whenever stuff was happening and someone's making hers always
still on his feet touchdown, that's it. That would be
he would have that first. You'd have the first one percent. Uh.
We have that big NBA story coming up in ninety seconds.
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Jason Smith Mike Carmen live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
But time now to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. And someone who's been called the
Barry Sanders of Fox Sports Radio. Wow, you should see
her juke when there's a when there's a big pile.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Of fries to grab in the room, idea.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
She comes, gives you the spin move, grabs him, goes
over you swim.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Move and she is gone.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You would not know I even stopped by.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
It's man just going through. Yes, thank you for my
fries in the ranch.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Appreciate it. We want to talk about what happened, you know,
the joke off air? Yeah, yeah, yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
Hold on now, I was calling Jason out on because
it was a funny joke, but it wasn't real.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
So I just wanted to be funny, but he got
me fries not real.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I'm getting Now you're back to plus one, negative three.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
But you fed me, so now you're plus one.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
So you're back in it.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
You're back in it, and you keep keep.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
It up, you'll be plus two, which is what you want.
Our MLB games have all wrapped up, guys.
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The diamond Bats room, they did not, and we'll get there.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
We'll get there.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Diamondbacks was last game of the night in Colorado against
the Rockies Arizona one at eight to two. Labor Torres
was the one who hit the sack fly and the
eleventh innenas the Tigers edge the Twins four to three.
Braves defeated the Mets four to three Ozzie Alby's he
had a big knight head a home run, a total
of three rbi, including the go ahead RBI again four
to three, agains the Mets. Nationals edge of Phillies three
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to two. Phillies have lost three in a row. Guardians
defeated the Marlins nine to four. They are now half
a game back on the Yankees for the final wildcard
spot in the a L. Vladimir Guerrero Junior does it again,
What do I mean a home run?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
A two run shot.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Blue Jays defeated the Cubs two to one, and the
Royols hand did the Mariners another loss five to three
earlier today. So now Seattle is one and a half
games back of Houston in the Al West. In the NFL,
Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles said today that most starters
were going to play in their preseason game against the Steelers.
He even said Baker Mayfield was going to play, but
(26:19):
he has said never mind, I looked at the tape.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
We're not going to have him play. Neither is wide
receiver Mike Evans or linebacker Levante David. You can expect
to see Justin Herbert play in the Chargers second preseason
game on Saturday against the Rams, his first career preseason appearance.
Joe Milton is going to start for the Cowboys on
Saturday against the Ravens.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Sam Howell in.
Speaker 7 (26:38):
For the Vikings in their second preseason game against the Patriots.
Other NFL news, former Texas wide receiver Isaiah Bonn announced
he was signing with the Cleveland Browns. After a grand
jury in Colin County, Texas, declined to file chargers against
him after he was arrested on suspicion of sexual sexual
assault in April and subsequently was not selected in the
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NFL draft.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Is the thing? Mary Kay Cabot, who.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
Covers the Browns, tweeted after this information that the Browns
are doing their due diligence on Isaiah Bond. He hasn't
signed yet and it's not happening today, but he did.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Make an announcement, but it's not real.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, I know he's he's going to the Browns.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
He's going to the Browns.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Not yet.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Yeah, really guaranteed contract, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I think that's where the Cleveland Browns are going. Oh
we sure, we want to do this so fast. Let's
wait and see what the reaction is going to be. Yes,
Let's see which way the wind blows before we say yeah,
we're gonna go down.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Wind was blowing the other way.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, okay, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Jason, back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Thanks a bunch of mons, says Jason Smith Mike Harmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. So today in
the NBA, the schedule was released. Oh, by the way, Hey,
the schedule is released in the NBA today. This just
goes to show you that, Look, the NBA tries to
swing with the NFL and a lot of things, Like
the NFL schedule release day is a big deal.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
We see the games, we see where teams are playing.
It's a big thing. There's seventeen of them.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, NBA schedule release like the two big When the
second biggest headline of the NBA schedule release is Kevin
Durant's first game back in Phoenix, I mean, come on,
nobody cares when ken they saw that night.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
I shook my head going, wow, we're really grasping straws here.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I don't think Kevin.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Durant cares when his first game back in Phoenix is now,
obviously Anthony Davis his first game back in LA. That's
a thing, right, potentially with Lebron and what happened after
the trade. No, that one hundred percent. But when it
was hey, NBA schedule released, Davis Durant return set, I'm like,
Durance really like when that's the second that's the second
(28:48):
biggest thing we have to look at like, is it
really that big a deal. I think the NBA got
understand Hey, your your schedule release doesn't quite have the
romanticism of of of the NFL. It's almost like saying, hey,
the MLB has their schedule release out, Oh, well, when's
the first Dodgers Padre series.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
That's what I want to know.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I mean, really, it's a it's a tad bit above that,
but really not even close to the NFL.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
But that's just it, right, I mean, when you're talking
about the NFL, it becomes all right, what which road
game are we going to travel to? Maybe you've made
it a tradition. Maybe you're looking at whether you're you're
included on the holidays, and that's part of this, right.
The Lakers Mavericks first matchup is part of the NBA Cup,
so you can get all excited about that. But otherwise
(29:32):
it's it's eighty two games.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Man.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
It's like, I know, you didn't sit there and start
xing off, all right, win loss, win loss, I mean
that's yeah, Mike, he.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Was counting a lot of Knicks losses there, dude, this
is okay, of all my teams, the Knicks.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
This is like, I'm all in on losses there.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
This is this is the year where it's finals or
bus forty losses.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
It's I stop, man, stop. The Knicks are going to
be great. This is it. It's finals are bus like
the Jets.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
You also thought about that about the Mets.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I mean that's are completely disappointing and falling apart in
front of my eyes. The Jets are building something, and
I'm excited at that, at that building and finally I
feel like we have it going. I'm okay with a
front with a new start this year building garbage. But
then stop with that, man, you just stop. You wait
till a year from now. You wait, you just wait, wait,
you wait till you need a favor from Ferris Bueller
(30:21):
one day. Then where will you be?
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But no, But the Knicks is like, okay, like this
is the champion that the finals are busted here for
the Necks, like this is it right here?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah, you're the second favorite in the conference. But I mean,
are you going through all eighty two? I mean you
might find one around when you might be traveling somewhere.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah, no, nobody cares cool.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
But it just doesn't have the same juice to like.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Even they try to make Christmas Day be a big thing,
and I'm like, okay, that's great, all right, it's great
to know the games on Christmas Day, Okay, but it.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Just doesn't one of the NFL games on Christmas Day. Yeah,
you're coming to.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Oh that's great. But if as long as the game,
as long as Christmas is on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Sunday or Monday, we're getting NFL game.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Yeah, but that's all fine and good. But I mean, Chris,
Christmas Day this year is Lions, Vikings, Cowboys, Commanders, Froncos Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yeah, nobody cares about you. Oh yeah, that's nice you
had that.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
I mean that's like Opening Day, right, legitimately we're finally
hit that.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah, okay, that's great. Now I want we're watching over here.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I got a conspiracy theory question for you on because
I really wanted to happen.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
So now, obviously the NFL has evolved into more games
on different days. They're much more okay with playing on Friday,
They're okay with playing on Tuesday. Like after the pandemic,
things kind of loosened up a lot, right cause we
had game Tuesday. We had games on Tuesday at noon.
How insane does that sound?
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Now?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Like I remember the Bills playing a game Tuesday at
twelve o'clock.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Right, Like that was right a right, but I had
the Wednesday afternoon game with the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, but the but for the longest time, the NBA
owned Christmas Day, right, and the NFL very rarely played
on Christmas Day.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
You go back and look at in the annals of
the NFL before the but you know, before the pandemic,
it was, Yeah, there's just a handful of games. But
they they laid left Christmas Day to the NBA. Now
they never had to do that. Roger Goodell has always
been a ruthless businessman, Like I have to think, like
all of a sudden, now the NFL said we're playing
and having big slates on Christmas Day. Why do I
get the sense like at some kind of party that
(32:21):
all the commissioners attended, Like at one point Adam Silver
said something uh uh to Roger Goodell or David Stert
at one point said something.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Where and you think you're so good?
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You see us we own Christmas Day, Roger, Yeah, you
don't play on Christmas Daydell's like, yeah, okay, all right,
now I'm coming for you.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Now you call me on front of a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Now I'm coming for you, because now they're playing Christmas
Day when they could have played Christmas Day. For many years,
nothing was stopping them from doing this, but now all
of a sudden, it's yeah, we're gonna own Christmas Day
and you're gonna be a minor headline on I have
a feeling that somebody said something or there was some
message that was said and the NFL just didn't like it,
and they said.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Okay, we'll fix you. Now we're coming for Christmas Day.
Speaker 4 (33:02):
Yeah, what you have Saturday, Sunday and Monday until twenty nineteen,
and then in twenty twenty it's like, yeah, all right,
here we go. So yeah, it could have very well
been a chesty kind of thumb thumping thing Adam Silver
and Company, whether it's at a holiday party over some
cocktails or something silly in one of the memorandum that
(33:25):
went out talking about ratings or something that they just said, well,
you know what, we can own that too. Not to
mention you get into all the broadcast rights and the
way things have changed up and so many different suitors
coming on board that it becomes a well, where do
we have a potential for a giant payday for the
(33:45):
owners and for the players. Here we go, let's go
take it.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
You know, Silver was kind of chest and he took
my drink at that party. I'll fix it. We're gonna
play Christmas Day now.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
I put my beer down to take a bite of
my food, and he stole it right off the table.
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Yeah, how about you want you you want? You want
to chug a beer? How about you chug three NFL
games on Christmas Day? Try to put out a schedule?
How about that?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
That's just cruel?
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Team excell.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
He's ready for.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
That exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome Jason Smith,
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Speaker 1 (34:42):
You would think giving away free Hamburgers because of a
baseball team's achievements would be an.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Easy thing to do.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
But no, no, no, As you'll hear, sometimes the greatest
intentions can absolutely fall apart. That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I want a shot at redemption in a Mets graveyard,
bone digger boned. Okay, Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon Again. We told you last hour
tonight was going to be a look back at the
hits of the eighties, nineties, and today from Alex tie shirt,
thank you for smooth Jazz. Coming up at eleven, we've
(35:28):
gone from Acon back to Paul Simon.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Simon. Now wait, so what's next? Yeah? Oh wait, let me.
Have you ever seen this video? No, really, have you
ever seen this video? Okay? Interesting? Okay, that is interesting.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Some of the biggest stars in comedy history are in
this video. Okay, hold on, And for the longest time
people thought an actual comedian sang the song because Paul
Simon just plays the instruments. Stop and a well known
Comedi that you know him today lip sake the song
he was I didn't know that. So and so sang
that song. No it's not not Paul If I said
(36:06):
Chevy Silverado, Yes, Chevy Silver If I said Chevy or
Jamar Chase, yes, very good, here you go.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yes that's the case.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Not Jamar Chase, but Chevy Chase. Yeah, Chevy Chase sinks
the song and people I didn't know he sang that song.
Come on man, yeah this live a couple of weeks ago.
Oh yeah, came out whistle so Jason more stars in
that music video or Happy Go more to ooh oh
more and Happy Go moore to? Okay, yeah, yeah, well
they actually put the stars in because the movie I
(36:39):
heard is so bad that you had to put a
whole bunch of people in stars is debatable though, Oh really,
okay stars?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
So have you seen the movie Hapy Go More? I
mean bad bunny definition of a star?
Speaker 4 (36:50):
You know? Okay, exactly my point.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Mike taking time.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Taking ton uh proof that even the best of intentions
can really go sideways. So if you remember, the Brewers
made this guarantee come true with their twelfth win. Recently,
a local burger chain George Web Restaurants has good making
good on its promise of giving away free hamburgers as
(37:19):
part of a long standing promotion to celebrate the Brewers
winning twelve straight games. Brews and twelve straight games, everybody
who lives in the city gets a free burger right now.
It's like, how do you really do this? They've done
it like three times in the last thirty years. Okay,
I kind of get it. That sounds great, but you know,
when you try to do something really good, you're gonna
get people that you know, we're gonna try to make
(37:40):
it bad. And this story came out today that a
nine to one one call was made from one of
the George Web restaurants from someone who worked there because
a guy was getting a little unruly because he demanded
his free burger.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
And here's the catch. According to the call, he demanded
the burger while the twelfth game was still going on.
Well like the Brewers were winning big, so I get
where he thought it was gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
But supposely the guy walked in and said, yeah, we're
gonna win our twelfth to row. It's I want my
free burger now, and they wouldn't give it to him,
and I get it because, okay, we have to figure
out when we're gonna do this. And oh, by the way,
the game's not even over yet. This guy, I mean,
you've watched Mets games. No lead is safe. You could
wind up losing this thing. Sure, that's a lot of
guts to walk in and say I want my burger
(38:31):
before the game is over.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
Well, I mean, look, he was counting on the bullpen
to finish the job. I mean, We've got plenty of
those promotions. I mean I was actually just telling my
parents out here about one that the Dodgers have that
people are lamenting. They haven't been able to use for
a while because of the they haven't been winning. Right,
the meal deal that you can get at Panda Express.
(38:54):
But they got to win. But you get it the
day after, not the day of not immediacy. Yeah, hey,
you know there's fireworks in the sky as we celebrate
a win and they're heading back to the clubhouse. You
know that you immediately sprint over to your George Web
to get your freed burger.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I gotta works, gotta go. No, But isn't a thing
like hang on like Frostburg. When the Lakers when you
get the free tacos, like you can go that night, right.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
But they give you a voucher on the way out.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
But they but you can do it, right, It's not
like you have to wait a day. You can do
that like right away, right, you can go and just say, hey, no,
it's the day after the day after they're doing when
you leave.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
They used to smith.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Yeah, because you also have to make sure your supply
chains up. Like if you're at George Webb and suddenly
you're potentially on the hook for two hundred thousand burgers.
That's how many they gave out between you know, burgers
and vouchers the last time they did that. You know,
you got to make sure you got enough beef come
into town.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
It's like the Dodgers, Jason, if they get seven strikeouts,
you got jumbo jack.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It's the next day though.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Oh so I couldn't leave the game and go to
Jack in the Box and get my jumbo Jack.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
I'd have to wait. You're gonna do that either.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Wait, they've struck out at least seven times in a
lot of these games. That's a lot of jump.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
That's not the promotion though.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
A well, just the way he said it.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
I mean, yeah, I mean because you're right, because I'm
not going to a burger place saying I'd like my
free burger jumbo jack. Oh, it's not till tomorrow. We'll
forget it. I'm pulling out. No, No, it's okay. Well
I'll just have the burger, I'll pay for now, and
I'll get my other burger tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
And then you'll come back or you won't.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Oh right, I would do that. I would do that
in a second.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Either way, you're gonna come back for that burger and
their whole The whole thing is they're banking on you
to buy a whole other satchel. Oh yeah, George w
will you know, here's my freebie, but I'm gonna get
that seven satchel for twenty dollars and thirteen cents.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
I mean, could I do that and say, hey, listen,
I want my free as part of my satchel, So
instead of seven for twenty bucks, I want my seven
for seventeen.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
No, they're not doing that, Ozzy math.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
That's not the same thing though, right A Burger's like
three fifty three, three thirty nine is.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Oh you said it?
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (40:50):
That George Web Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
I almost said it, George Wentz.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
No, George Wentz, it's going down norm shooting free burgers.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Man, I was kind of paying homage to him. Oh
an homage and George.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Web you can also get a voucher in case you
can't get the burger, you can get a voucher for
it as well.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
They're really taking care of the people.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
But man, I'll tell you that that one guy to
demand a burger before the game was even over, like
Mets fans could never do that. They Aha, I gotta wait.
Everything can change, but it's six nothing in the seventh inning.
Speaker 6 (41:17):
It can change the.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
Way to become a folk hero though
Speaker 3 (41:21):
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