January 16, 2026 • 40 mins
Jason Smith explains with every passing day the Vikings Sam Darnold decision worsens. There's no bigger epic fail in the NFL this year than Minnesota stubbornly biffing their QB situation. And Indiana Head Coach Curt Cignetti has the same Chipotle meal every day. Plus, the latest from the college basketball point shaving scandal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Like I told you last night, Mike Harmon, Kyle Tucker's
got a four year, two hundred million dollar contract on
the table from the Mets. The short term deal better
than anything you could possibly want. He's got a long
term deal on the table from the Blue Jays, maybe
up to ten years, three hundred and fifty three to
seventy five million. Yeah, not as much per year as
with the Mets, but almost double the money. Sure, you
(00:53):
had the short term deal you want, you have the
long term deal you want. What did I tell you
last night? He hasn't taken either. He doesn't want either
of these teams, and he wants the Dodgers, and he's
using these these offers his leverage to get what he wants. Tonight,
Kyle Tucker Dodgers four years, two hundred and forty million
dollars sixty million dollars a year for Kyle Tucker again,
(01:15):
I am the greatest baseball insider that ever lived.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I mean some of it was your fatalism as a
Mets fan.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Whatever he use, hey, whatever. Michael Jordan always used whatever
he needed to motivate him. Hey, I'll use whatever I
need to know.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
And that's it from the Kyle Tucker camp. It's never
fault a good strategy. You had nothing. You're not scheduled
to show up at spring training anytime. So sit and
play your video games, enjoy the NFL playoffs, maybe some
college hoops, enjoying all of the NBA action that we've
got in front of us on a Thursday, and just
sit around and wait. You can know your whole Cushman thing,
(01:51):
all right. You can just hang around shrumming a guitar,
waiting for things to go down.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I got cushlash Man, I got cushlash, cush lash, cush
lash lash goosh.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Waiting waiting for everybody to really talk about im and
get all excited about free agency. Because, let's face it,
there ain't been a lot of chatter except for the
last couple of days when these numbers started floating about
the Mets three years, fifty eight year, It's like.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
You think we need one more? Okay, add the fourth.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
So that was the rumor of two hundred the Blue
Jays with the funny money, uh three fifty three seventy
five due to your converter, and then the mystery team
ends up being the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And the thing is, I knew if you didn't know,
then Steve Cohen, Mets owner, put out a tweet a
few hours ago saying, let me know when the smoke
goes up, right and making a reference to what white
smoke comes out when when the pope is elected, black
smoke when they don't have.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
A pope like the white flag.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And when I saw it, dude, we got soda. I'll
see you in the NLCS again. It's fine, Nolan, except
now we're gonna have Nolan McLean making making three starts
in the NLCS. And John McLean well, hey, anybody you
mean the former Devil's guy barefoot? Oh okay, hey, if
that works, he'll be shoeless blood. John McLean h is
that he puts that tweet out there, and I know
(03:07):
people went rampant on social media. Oh he knows something,
he's saying, wait for it, and I go, no, that's
that's what I really officially knew.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
He's not going to be a long face and talking
about that tweet.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
This is Steve Cohen saying, hey, I don't know what's
going on. Let me know when the smoke gets up.
And the fact that Steve Cohen, who's the Mets owner
and has been really was really involved with the Kyle
Tucker negotiations, that's when I knew, Okay, if you thought
he's going someplace else, he's going, he's not. If the
owner doesn't know, and he's frustrated enough to put that
tweet out there, because you don't put a tweet out
(03:40):
there to maybe frustrate or upset the representation or the
player you're trying to get. Right, he's not putting that
out there for Kyle Tucker if if he wants him
to sign, or thinks he's going to sign, he's put
that out there because maybe Kyle Tucker's people blew him
off radio silence. We know he's going to another team,
and he's using the Mets' his leverage and the Blue Jays'
is left as well. So okay, like at that point, okay,
(04:03):
not getting him. He's gonna go to the Dodgers and
he's there. I mean it, I'm all these baseball insiders, man,
I mean, I told you last.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Night it was gonna happen. I said it was absolutely no,
I never did. I never Frostburg stopped when I'm right.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You text the prove I do not.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, let me see it. Let me see that text.
Let me see it. Show it to me, Show it
to me, Show it to me. WHOA, don't show me that.
Don't show me.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
That just incense.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Most of the tweets that are showing up in the
time related to Steve Cohen.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
It doesn't look.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It doesn't matter. I mean, like I said, Kyle Tucker
is a good player. I'm okay not paying sixty million
dollars a year for him. He's now a thumper bat
in the middle of the Dodger lineup, and the Dodgers
are gonna roll towards the NLCS again in the World Series.
That's just how it goes every year. That's the way
of the world.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
By the way, the tweet just it's it's just a
bad look like it looks like you're crying.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It looks like he's definitely someone who has shown his
frustration on social media before He's dialed back what he
does on social media probably could have done. But I
think that was maybe him trying to let everybody down easy, Hey,
just to get you prepared. We're not getting Kyle Tucker. Okay,
just so you know, I want to I want you
to be mentally ready because when the news comes out,
you're gonna be really mad. We're not getting Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I mean, what's even worse is your guy had you know,
a number one Mets fan out there that everybody chronicles.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I yeah, yeah, I worry for Frank the Tank. Yeah,
I'm worried about him.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah right right now, he's one of those that you're
waiting for.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I'm worried. I'm worried.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Uh swallow more on this story developing throughout the night.
Here Kyle Tucker to the Dodgers four years, two hundred
and forty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Now, and how is your day to steal from a
the colleague of ours. I told you, I'm okay with
not getting Kyle Tucker. There's other guys out there. He's
a he's a he's a good player. He's not a
make or break guy.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I am also okay, especially after seeing today the reaction
to the potential injury of Sam Arnold, who all of
a sudden popped up on the injury report this week
with an with an oblique injury where he said, listen
getting treatment for it. He said, you know nothing, Burger,
everything is fine. And judging by some of the doctors
that I follow on social media, Sports Dodgs, they listen,
(06:16):
this is doctor David Chau said, Look, I put this
injury for Sam Donald on a two on a scale
of one to ten, and you know he still has
a couple of days to go by to get treatment
for it. But just seeing the reaction of Seahawks fans
and people on social media, no, no, I can't believe this. No,
Sam Donald can't be hurt. I just I shook my
head and I said, man, I I this is this
(06:39):
is just something to see people reacting this way about
Sam Donald not playing that he's he's the end all
be all, He's the living end.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I'm going all grease on you now. He's the he
is it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
He is the alpha and omega. If he's hurt. We're
never gonna win. No one's ever said that about Sam
Donald before.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
And here he is.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And the first thing, I'm okay, I'm okay with Sam
Donald being the quarterback that he is playing as well
as he is. It's here at the Seahawks, who have
home field advantage all the red. He's stunk for three
other teams. He's been good with two teams, I'm okay.
If he's stunk with the Jets and when someplace else
became a star, I'd be really pissed. But other teams
(07:18):
showed you that, Hey, it's all about the right system,
and he was unfortunate to not be in the right
system for three teams, fortunate for two teams, including the Viking.
So I am okay with Sam Darnald being this guy
being good. I'm happy for him. I hope he does well.
It has no bear. My team's terrible. We don't have
a good we don't have good players, who don't have
a good coach.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
We have good anything.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It's fine. I have nothing to be crazy jealous for.
I'm happy for Sam Donald.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Yeah, that was a long way of saying he still
lives in your nightmare.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Aah.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Now remember the.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Class picture for the Panthers a couple of years ago
had Sam Donald and Baker Mayfield. Yeah, and they didn't
utilize either of them. How you doing Matt reels.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
That's more of a worse.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Fail than they The Jets just failed with one of
those guys.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well, but but you do them in sequence.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
They did it once and failed spectacularly with two guys
in the room.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You were just like, all right, we'll get that next guy.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Sure, yeah, wait, we changed out the GM and the
coach and everything else, and that guy failed and get.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Loan and get line and oh yeah, all those solid.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
But with this it's interesting because I was fully expecting
it to start going the other way. Of all the
excuses are built in if he doesn't perform well, that
it was going to become that narrative of oh look
at this, And the fact that there are well wishers
for Sam Darnold means we've really turned the corner and
we're trying to find some positivity in this world. This
(08:41):
is good. Go back to that Jacksonville reporter that everybody hated.
It was like, it's good to have a little feel
good every now and again, isn't it Once in a while.
Where you could just say, damn, I want to see
what this looks like. By the way, he has a
defense that swarms like things I watch on the Nature Channel. Yeah,
I mean, but where the hell that other jackals combined from?
(09:01):
That's that's the way the Seahawk defense rallies to the ball.
But for Sam Donald, I like that there's a little
bit of positivity, And for you it took six degrees
of separation and a lot of miles in between. Maybe
some therapy, maybe an extra sandwich. I don't know, Sam,
You're better.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
He is on the list of he is like so
low on the list of things I'm upset about as
a jet fan, Like, I'm not even He's like, does
he make the top fifty? How don't you think, well,
maybe the top fifty. Maybe he makes the top fifty.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
There's so many.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
When I say the term running Man, do you think
of the movie with Glenn Powell or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I don't even think of Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
No.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I think more of the mc hammer dance and doing
the Running Man. You go back to that.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
By the way, you mentioned a couple of grease lines
tonight first ever drive in movie at the Santa Monica
Peer grease.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So now because we did have positivity there, we have
to we have to bout that was really good because
the Sam Darnald story, and I just love bringing this
up because it's just it just gets worse and worse.
Is that I really don't know at this point seeing this,
I don't know how Kevin O'Connell and Adel Famnsa still
have jobs in Minnesota. It is fireable to miss on
(10:11):
a quarterback this badly, Okay, because think about where Sam
Donald is right now.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Again, we know this, he was in the building.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
He had a Pro Bowl year, four thousand yards, thirty
five touchdowns. He had two downish games at the end
of the year. That used that to say, Nope, can't
have you. We're stuck with We're gonna go with JJ McCarthy,
even though we've never seen him play and he's been
injured all year. We found we figured out the most
important position and know we're gonna be stubborn as hell
and kick the other guy out. When we could have
(10:40):
kept Donald for one more year easily and gone to
Jay and figured out if JJ McCarthy was really any
good or he could have kept Sam Darnald and traded
JJ McCarthy and recouped a first round pick. Right, No
one cares if you're trading away a first round quarterback.
If you have the quarterback position solved, it doesn't matter.
But this now has become firable for the Vikings because
(11:01):
for you GM and your head coach, because this is
how bad you have biffed it. Now, the team that
he went to is the number one seed in the
NFC playoffs and is the favor to get to the
Super Bowl, and you blew it because you decided to
be so stupidly stubborn on a guy that Now at
the end of the season, the Viking said, we're bringing
in competition for JJ McCarthy next year.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
This is an.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Epic fail storyline that just gets worse and worse as
it goes on. All right, and think about it like this, right,
think about it like this. Let's this is decision nobody
would make in the world. Let's say you want to
sell your house. Okay, Let's say you're gonna sell Okay, Yeah,
you're gonna sell your house in a year. Right, Well,
I've got to sell my house in a year. I
got things going on in my life. Gonna sell my
house and you want to move whatever it is you're
(11:44):
gonna sell your house. There's two realtors that you can
have sell your house. You got Sam and you got JJ. Okay,
all right, great now, JJ, hey graduated from real estate college,
real estate school, took a class online, and he's got
all the Hey, he could be a great real estate agent.
Sam has shown you Egg, I've done it before in
the past. You know, maybe I'm not great, but who knows.
(12:05):
But these are the only two guys in town. Let's
just say for argument to say, only two guys in town.
So you got to pick one of them over the
course of the next year. Okay, well, great, So you're
getting your house ready, you figure that, and you watch
you watch realtor Sam start selling tons of houses. Everything's
going great. He's making a lot of money. Now he
has a little bit of a down month where maybe
he doesn't sell a couple of houses, but overall, it's
(12:26):
a great year.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
He's even being he's even.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Being named to Realtor of the Year lists across the country,
like he is on the national scale of one of
the best realtors in the country. Okay, meanwhile, JJ, well,
JJ was sick, he was hurt. Little carpal tunnel didn't
sell a house. Still learning, still going to class and
learning how to sell houses. Right understanding, Okay, we don't
(12:49):
say old, we say vintage. Got it, got it, got it? Okay, great, Okay,
So that year comes up and okay, you have to
pick a guy to sell your house. And the VIT's
like the Viking said, yeah, wow, that's Sam. We're going
with JJ because you know, he looks like I can't
miss guy, and we really like this guy. So you
want the guy that's never sold a house before. When
you have a guy right here that boys sold tons
(13:12):
of houses.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
You watched him do it.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You watched him do it in your town for the
entire year, you would no, no, no, still going with
that guy who has realtor JJ make that sale.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Nobody does? Nobody?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, I think you do if you start looking at
the dollars spent on Sam Donald relative to other pieces
of the roster puzzle.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
And this is.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Where you get to Kevin O'Connell and quarterback whisper talk,
et cetera. Right, and option number three was Daniel Jones,
but it was clear he wanted to start somewhere and
had the opportunity to go to Indianapolis, So that was
really a non starter.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
But for the Sam Donald, yeah, we always talked about it.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Right, do the dollar cost averaging first round quarterback, first
year of his d against a guy that has just
shown so well, you franchise him and then see what
you got, or make the trade of McCarthy. It makes sense, certainly,
But they were invested in McCarthy and decided that was
the way they were gonna go and be true to him,
(14:16):
that he wasn't gonna lose the job based on the injury.
It also pushed Sam Darnold out the door. Whether you
identified something in those final couple of games that you
didn't think was solvable, only they know in their clandestine
meetings with ownership and everything else. But certainly we expected
a regression this year, not to the level where justin
(14:38):
Jefferson's doing jumping jacks wishing for the football, telling you, man, that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Is the biggest epic fail in the NFL this year,
because you had all the information you needed.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
You had.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
It's not like all you had to tell the future. No,
you had all the information.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I'm not in a situation where the coaches and the
GM can say, well, we know more about football. No,
I watched Sam Donald play great and you still decided
to not JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
You know what's best.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You've ended up putting Sam Donald in a yellow jacket
in that analogy, and it was a century twenty one
like they used to give the gold jackets showing out.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I like, how about that exit out vouta Fresca exit
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Speaker 5 (16:59):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Sports Radio dot com. We'll have more from the National
title game coming up a minute. And again, I apologize
for picking Oregon to go all the way. That that
that's my fault. That's that's nothing I could say. I'm
just sorry about that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
What I mean, their failure got Dante More to go
back to school.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, okay, sure.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
So he's not a jet yeah yet, Well looks let'll
just be waiting for him for next year.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
All I do is all day today was just saying
to myself, going, rvel Reese, Michaeh Parsons. Rvel Reese is
Michah Parsons. He's Michauh. They say he's Michael Parsons, he says, Michael.
I'm finding I'm just finding places on the internet that
compare him to Micah Parsons.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
We're doing a drafts.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, I'm excited about that. Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
How many mock draft shows are we gonna do?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Uh? Mock draft with Jay Ryn hold mock draft. I
don't know. I'll do some mock drafts. At twenty two.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I think the Chiefs come in here and this is
where they decide we're gonna go get a tackle.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I usually get eight to ten ride a year. Let's
go come on.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Now, look, let me let me just say this for
for everybody across the country. Uh, before we get to
the National Championship game with this is this is a
great story, Dodgers. Yeah, if you're gonna sign Schooble and
bring Bellinger back, just do it tomorrow. Just do it
tomorrow so we can just just be done with it. Oh,
(18:19):
just do it tomorrow. Just if you're if that it's
gonna happen, No.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's Awards season.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
We don't even have the Oscar nominations are gonna be
announced next Thursday.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
If it's so like, drag it out. No, if it's
gonna happen, I don't want to sit here and go
through all of this. Oh, here's the offer for schoobl
from the Mets. Here's the offer for schoobl from the Yankees.
The Tigers are waiting, and all of a sudden, oh yeah,
they decide to say, oh we want Tyler glassno for
Tarik's school, but we'll just do that trade instead. If
that's gonna happen, and all of a sudden Cody Bellinger
(18:49):
is like, Hey, I'm coming home.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
I'm coming home. I'm coming home. I'm God. If that's gonna,
just do it tomorrow, just.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Just no, drag it out, have the fan fast, come
in and have a giant puff of smoke box deep
going and emerging from the the shadows and out of
the mists.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
There's schoobl Look, you don't want that. I don't want that.
Nobody wants I want that. No, but I want the diatrics.
I wanted to drag out. I wanted a rapid succession.
The off season's done, then it's over.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Just do it, just do it now.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
So what should we start crying already about who's not
going to get into the.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Next halls or fame or whatever?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
They come on, We have.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
The NBA trade deadline coming up. We have the rest
of the NFL playoffs, and we got stuff happy.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Trade deadline is gonna sock we did you see Trey
Young getting mocked for showing.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Up court side and their game goes.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I guarantee if this was in Salt Lake City, he
wouldn't be sitting courtside.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You just wait till Jannis and Lebron get traded the deadline,
then we'll see how bad that.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I like giannest I tell you I like that Giannis
and Wemby back and forth.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I would love to have been the you know, fly
on the shoulder.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Wait until that Warriors trade we talked about last hour
is going to be Zion for Kaminga and so first
round picks.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
You just wait, you just wait.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Well, don't want to talk about two guys that are disappointing,
can't stay on the court. And maybe it solved some issues,
except that Zion's already gotten his next contract, which complicates things.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
But yeah, it's it's fun theater. I just Dodgers. Just
do it now.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay, if you're gonna do that, If you're taking the
other two guys off that, just do it now.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Don't rip the band. No thought their team's hurt. No,
Steve Cohen cry on Twitter again.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Because I feel like it's more he din cry on Twitter.
He did, He kind of did. He just said we're
not he was his message to Mets fans that hey,
we're not getting we're not getting them, We're not getting them. Well,
put a picture of yourself turning out your pockets. Put
a picture of your face, face superposed over said smoking.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
In the halfway.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Isn't that the guy in the Monopoly money pay ten dollars?
He shows you's got no money. Yeah, it's Isaiah Whitlock
from the wire going I gotta I got nothing money.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Uh so if that happened, just just just do it now.
I mean really, just do it now. Okay, I'm I'm
Todd speaking for every baseball fan.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Just do it now so we can get you know,
Scott Boris, send them a note eli you. Meanwhile, this
has been the best story out of the week to
go of prep. Well, they're actually two great stories of
the week to go the prep before the National Championship
game between Indiana and Miami on Monday night. Okay, First,
(21:23):
we saw the story earlier today that to hand out
these those crappy rally towels, like the line on the
Indiana campus was a half mile long. They were giving tickets,
just free at tickets and rally towels like that line
is insane, right, Like I go. You know, when I
was twenty, there's stuff I would have done. But man
(21:44):
like I stood online for midnight madness for guns and
roses for use your illusion wasn't But if the line
was a half mile log. Dude, I'm gonna go at
eleven o'clock am the next day and get it. Okay,
I'm just gonna go the next morning and get it.
I've got a really good Snoop dog free.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
I don't need that bad. I can wait.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But this is my favorite because it comes out today.
Sporting News had this story that Indiana head coach Kurt
Signetti spends an unhealthy amount of money at track the.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Hey, there's coach boy. He's losing again.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
He's got his program rolled up, head down the stretch
they come.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
He spends. He spends all his money at the track. There,
he is dressed up, he's got the headset.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Honey here, just losing money and going.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Joggle me I win.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
He spends an unhealthy amount of money at chipotele. Okay, okay,
this is what according to according to uh Sporting News,
Wall Street Journal, he eats the same meal every single day,
a Chipotle burrito bowl with rice and beans, no extra toppings.
But we'll put a side of guacamole on it. And
(22:59):
I will tell you this, Chipotle best guacamole that you're
gonna get fast food is right. Best guacamole. It's so good.
I can't even tell you. My wife makes incredible guacamole.
But you can go to, you can go to you
can go here and get it and have to worry
about putting the the effort in on it. The guacamole
Chipotle is unbelievably outside.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I get ted, hadda. How about you ship some in.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I could just bring it next time. The order is
about eleven dollars, okay, okay, And it's become as much
a part of his daily schedule as looking at film practice.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Everything else is.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Him begging for free Chipotle. No, no, no, no, because
here's here's what it is. Jake McDonald is Indiana's assistant
director of Football Operations, and he has been Signetti's designated
burrito runner for the past two years. So to have
a title like assistant director of Football Operations sounds really
hoity toity. But part of your job is, yeah, you
gotta run to the store and get to neetty lunch.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Okay, maybe that maybe that's a title that sounds better
than it is. But Jake McDonald is the guy for
the last couple of years that's been the guy to
go pick up lunch for him. He's a very valuable
guy to the operation. At one point, McDonald because you
know he would pay for it. He had sixty four
thousand Chipotle points, which is the equivalent of sixty four
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hundred dollars in burrito bulls. That's how much money he had.
Many points he had because of Signetti's order every day.
Unfortunately he learned they expire at the Oh no, so
he lost out on.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
A lot of Chipotle money. Oh that's a lot of
free stuff.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Where does he sit right now? This is just January. Okay,
it's just January.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
He's got eighteen thousand points, which is basically eleven free burritos,
thirty seven free sides, fifty three bags of chips, and
two hundred tortillas. So he still has eighteen thousand chap
This is just in January. But he still has all
those points. He still has this money. This is Kurt
Signetti every day. This is what he eats every So.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I mean regimented man decided. We always talk about superstitions. Yeah, habits, Yeah,
forming good or bad habits? Right, It takes thirty days
to form a habit, right, they say, And you can
decide whether that's a good or a bad thing, Like
you go to the track thirty times, maybe that's bad.
So maybe it's better bringing up the track idiots bringing
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were you at the track today? I would like to
go though it's been a minute, but I'd like to
go to the track.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
But I'm going to the dog track today?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
You want to go in dog track is a very
interesting but deffort to gamble hot stuff. You can still
make money just the same, follow that little blinking rabbit.
But all of that to say, you form this habit,
you're winning and playing dominant football, why would you not?
Can he exchange this for tickets for somebody to the
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national title game? Because it's been a lot of hand
ringing and crying over what it costs for the national title.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, no, I don't think you can. I think the
Connor Stallions thing became one though. Well you know, we
don't want to give people tickets, but.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
We can give you chipotle.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Ah, that's that's a lot of points because I mean,
you break down if it's eleven dollars per meal, is
it a you fly I'll buy situation or is that
just part.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Of the expense account?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
I think, well I think.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Or do you just say, hey, coach, you're keeping us
all employed. So do you make them pay for anything?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Right now?
Speaker 7 (26:22):
No?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I don't think you do.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I think that comes out of the Hey we got
petty cash for Signetti's burit Chipotle. It's eleven dollars a day.
We can afford it. It's fine.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Who's this for?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
And then you just hold him a picture, this guy,
and then it becomes this grand event of your making
that burrito bowl for coach. Hey, hey, you've graduated.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
What do you know.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I'm normally just the person that ring. No, no, no,
you get to build the bowl today.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
You're the MVP. Make it good for coach. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I started thinking about this today after this, right, he
has this every day, and I thought, is there any
food that I could have every day? And my first
thought was pa, But I'm like, no, I'd have to
have the same pizza every day, and eventually I'd want
something different. I don't know how long I could go
with pizza every day because I'd want a different pizza. Oh,
this pizza is good, Like, am I gonna go for pizza?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Stuff? Cruss? Could I do it every single day?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I'd want something different after a while. But I really
I sat back and I said, yeah, no, this tracks
like I'm pretty sure every day I could have a
big macmeal with fries and a diet coke, and I
could make a great run at having that every single
day if I could, I think I'm pretty sure I
wouldn't be tied, wouldn't get tired of it. I could
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have it every day. I mean, I don't know how long,
but I can't see the end of it. That's how long, Like,
I don't know. I can't say, oh, it'd be a
week or two weeks, a month. Now, it's long enough
where I can't see the end of where I would
not have a big.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Mac meal every day.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I could absolutely go for that lunch one o'clock every day. Waken, Oh,
I got a big macmeal, great big mac and if
you wanted to go big mac, fries, die coke, three
chocolate chip cookies or amocha, like, if that's my order.
I really I think I could start every every day
with that for quite a long time. Yeah, I might
have a cal ripkenesque streak of having that every day.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Now it's brand not brand specific, but since I was
introduced to coffee when I broke my leg and was
fearful of the nerve endings being damaged.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
To where we were going to have emergency surgery.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
I think I've had coffee all but maybe two days
in my life in the time since.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
So oh, okay, you're gonna say, like when you're ten,
I'm having coffee.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Well, no, I was, what fourteen?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So you were like in the Simpsons when they gave
Lisa and Bart coffee for the from Granpa game when
he was they were.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Like, eight, Oh, what do you think about just boris
more coffee? Old man?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
No, I broke my back my leg playing basketball in
high school and they were so concerned because it was
all swollen and you know, like there might be nerve damage.
They were really concerned that we were gonna suddenly have
to go it. So I'm like, all right, well, i
gotta keep trying to wiggle my toes. I'll have one
of those cups of coffee that people you went from
a swollen leg to swollen dome' that's it. And I
(28:59):
never looked back. Okay, there you go, and if I
don't have.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
It, but that's to say, do you want the same
cup of coffee? I can actual yeah, okay, all right,
Like I don't go for the foo foo. I don't
need it.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Like it's a large black cup of coffee.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
No cream, no sugar, Hey uh so hey. Not nearly
as exciting as a Chipotle bowl. No no, no, the
dog crack ye or your big mac meal.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Try not to find out what's trending in the wide
world sports from special delivery Steve de Sager, who I
have seen Eda grape every day for the past four years.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
You got what's trending oranges tonight? Actually, but thank you.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
The Dodgers are signing right fielder Kyle Tucker, reportedly a
four year deal with an opt out after year two
and year three. Multiple reports say the Mets last offered
at Tucker was four years, two hundred and twenty million.
This is potentially four years at two forty to the Dodgers,
but again there are opt outs, there's a signing bonus involved.
(29:58):
There's some deferrals as well. Star in year two, the
Reds toonight traded Gavin Lucks to Tampa Bay in a
three way deal. The Angels got outfielder Josh low the
Rockie so I did fielder Willie Castro and newly retired
pitcher Clayton Kershaw X of LA will be on Team
USA in March for the World Baseball Classic. The starting
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pitchers are due to be Paul Skans from the Pirates
and Trek Scoubel of the Tigers for the American team, and.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Nolan McLain, which means the Mets.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That means it, what's the guy they just signed from
the Yankees. He's also Clayton Kershaw is not going to pitch.
He'll be on the team, but he's not going they have.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
A twelve inning game.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
He's the guy who's walking in your mayor they run
out of pitchers because Will Klein is not being added
to this roster. We have Golden State leading the New
York Knicks seventy eight to seventy in the third quarter.
Knicks without Jalen Brunson tonight due to a sprained ankle.
At Dallas, Cooper Flag of the MAVs did not play
due to a sprained ankle, and yet Dallas beat up
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Utah one forty four to one Atlanta Leeds mid third
quarter at Portland seventy two sixty four halftime in La
Charlotte Hornets ahead of the Lakers sixty four to fifty five,
nineteen points in eighteen minutes on the court for Luka Doncic,
but the Lakers give up sixty four in the first half.
(31:18):
Victories for San Antonio and Boston. Wins for Detroit and
Oklahoma City, which is now thirty five and seven after
its fifth straight victory. OKAC one at Houston one eleven
ninety one. And there was an NBA game in Berlin today.
Orlando came back to beat Memphis one eighteen, one eleven.
This was the NBA's first ever regular season game in Germany.
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Franz Wagner eighteen points for the Magic, who had trailed
by twenty in the first half. These two teams will
play each other again on Sunday in London. In college hoops,
right now, ninth rank Gonzaga has pulled away sixty three
forty four ahead at Washington State eleven minutes to go.
Some college players were among dozens charged in a point
shaving scandal that includes Chinese basket as well. In women's hoops,
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tonight at number two South Carolina, the home team edge
Number four Texas sixty eight sixty five. Number one Yukon
dominated again ninety nine to fifty over Villanova, and number
five Vanderbilt won eighty nine eighty four at Mississippi State.
NHL wins for Boston and Winnipeg, Buffalo wins again five
to three over Montreal, and in progress a minute ago
(32:23):
at Utah Mammoth two to one over the Stars. Seahawks
quarterback Sam Darnold says he'll play Saturday night despite an
oblique injury. And in college hoops on the lady side
at the Dome at Syracuse, it was late in triple
overtime Nay Darius for three acc Network with the call.
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Syracuse women unranked but fifteen and three after the triple
overtime win against Cal ninety to eighty seven in front
of two thousand at the Dome back time.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
And that was Dominique Darius's son, a daughter former Syracuse
football legend Donovan Darius really who is a safety there
star for a long time. That's his daughter who made
that big three at the end in triple ot three
seconds left in the third overtime. Yeah, hey, listen, Syracuse
to make the NCAA tournament this year, I got to
go all in on the women's side, because that's happening
(33:18):
for the men, that's not happening. We got Mellow's kid
and Starling and it's it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Play cal tonight.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
They got Stanford next, you know, the traditional acc matchups.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
That's right here you go.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Thank you, Steve O, Jason Smith, Mike Carmon live from
the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
When a big story involving sports is bigger to people
that don't follow sports than the people who actually follow it. Okay,
that's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (33:55):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. We got more on Kyle Tucking to the
Dodgers coming up in about twelve minutes. I mean, maybe
the Dodge will trade for school in that time too.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
But it's so mad.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
File this.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
File this under the category of people care more about
this story, who are at sports fans than are sports fans,
which is weird. Okay, Right, Like, you wake up today
and you see the big story. It's it's plastered all
over all the big news sites college basketball point shaving scandal.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Whoa Okay, what are they found out?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
And it's all about gambling and players who obviously were
approached that had money paid to them for not performing
to their best level. This was an investigation that initially
began with investigation into the Chinese Basketball Association and then
has gone down into college basketball. So I'm reading the
story and look down and I go, here's the schools
(34:56):
that were named in the indictment. Schools that were affected
by this Christian Alabama State, Buffalo, Coppin State, de Paul.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Okay to Paul, this is nineteen seventy eight to be
a big deal. Yeah, Ray Meyron Company.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, Eastern Michigan, Fordham Kennesaw State, LaSalle, New Orleans, Nickel State,
North Carolina, A and T. Northwestern State not Northwestern, Long Ago,
Yes State, Robert Morris, which is a college, not a dude. Ye,
Saint Louis, Southern miss and two Lane. These are your schools,
(35:33):
some of them schools that basically just have a basketball
team because well, you know, people want to keep playing
in college.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
And if they're good enough.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
In high school but they can't play at a high level,
well we'll get you finished here, some lower level D
one schools. But this story, you could tell, this story
is put out by news agencies like wow, big look
at all these colleges, and they have no idea that
these colleges.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Are they good? Do they played it? When? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Last year Eastern Michigan played Buffalo for the national championship.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
It was fantastic. Josh Allen was great. Man.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
He scored like twenty points in the first half. Oh,
it's great this story for the most part for us,
for sports fans, Eh, you expect it to be at.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
The lower levels.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
It's easier to approach players at this point, it's easier
to affect games that aren't on the radar screen. And
what's going on is what is happening, is what should
be going on. Hey, investigation, it's found out and we
bust the ring wide open.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So it's good that we still see stories like this
because you want you know, Yes, is it a bad
headline that you see them, Yes, But it's also good
knowing that what they're doing is working and you are
busting whether it's prop bets or anything else. You're seeing this, right,
But is this really affecting college basketball?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
No? Not really.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
You need the bigger schools. You need the bigger schools
that we watch that are that would be a big thing.
Tournament games potentially were were fixed, you know, big conference
games that potentially.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
On the level.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But we don't have any of that, right because again
that's police at a really really high level. And now
that all that being said, like I could see where
news are, Oh it's big as big, No, it's really
not that big a deal. But if you want to
deal with it, and really it's it's quite simple. And
I don't know why the sides aren't working together, the
gamblers and the schools and everything else. Is that if
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you eliminated prop betting, you would eliminate eighty to eighty
five percent of all the problems going on with fixing games.
Because this is what's the easiest thing to do, not
the most complicate. The most complicated thing is to have
a guy go six or twenty four from the field
and be terrible and throw a game where you were
favored by twelve and you lost by three. That's a
really hard thing to do. For a guy to not
(37:42):
get three rebounds in a game, or you know, hey,
I'm hurt and I get it like, that's really what
eighty to eighty five percent of this is. If you
would just get rid of prop betting, that would these stories.
I mean it the vast majority, so much so like
eight out of every ten instances would not happen anymore.
And I don't know why the prop betting situation hasn't
(38:05):
been figured out, because that helps both sides. It helps
gamblers the illegal gambling that wants to move forward, and
it helps leagues, Hey, stay away from situations like.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Yeah, I'll tell you why, because that's where all these
companies make their money, is that you're chasing and prop
bets and parlays. Right, those are the two spots where
you're gonna make a ton of money.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Right, you can still have but you don't need to
have individual prop bets for low level college basketball. But
that's come on, I mean, that's something where it's like
you don't need to offer that.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Well, but it's the kind of an where if there's
a game, if there's an athletic competition.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Much my dog racing example.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Early, you really have been you really have been so
focused on the track and the dog track in the
last half, I'm worried for you.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
You added to it now.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
But you went right to the dog track though, Lord
did I do that for you?
Speaker 4 (38:57):
I went to the track, read signetti, the razors on
your dog's palm.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Hey, hey, little Mikey Harmon's got some fighting them.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
He's a Marvel superhero. But in this indictment, the funnier
thing to me, and we're trying to get Todd Furman
for a little later on in the show to talk
about this and the weekend ahead, is the idea that
you've got hundreds of thousands of dollars being bet on
these games. That's the thing that surprises me. I'm curious
as to the normal handle of say a Syracuse game
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on a Thursday line. Here we're talking four hundred, five
hundred thousand dollars moving on Towson State, five hundred thousand
dollars on some of these low level and never mind
the Chinese Basketball Association. I'm sure there's a big, big
investigation there. We'll see what kind of things come down.
But when you break it all down, parlays and prop
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bets is where you've got a lot of money flowing
in and for states that have had legalized gambling, I
don't know how what what real percentage is kind of
like state lotteries. What percentage actually go to schools, roads,
anti smoking campaigns, whatever.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
But it's greater than zero, which means you're gonna have
legislators that are gonna fight it. Uh, but your point
of if you eliminate it, then it's all to the better.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
I don't think I can argue that. Is it practical?
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yeah, No, someone's making a dime, so there's gonna be
a fight.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
No, that would take care of it. You could, you
could do You could do prop bets for the high
level D one guys for point totals. You could still
have it out there. But stuff like this, like it's
easy to say, yeah, we're not gonna offer this.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
You can't bet on aplene Christian prop bets where they're starting. Oh,
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Like I told you last night, Mike Harmon, Kyle Tucker's
got a four year, two hundred million dollar contract on
the table from the Mets. The short term deal better
than anything you could possibly want. He's got a long
term deal on the table from the Blue Jays, maybe
up to ten years, three hundred and fifty three to
seventy five million. Yeah, not as much per year as
with the Mets, but almost double the money. Sure, you
(00:53):
had the short term deal you want, you have the
long term deal you want. What did I tell you
last night? He hasn't taken either. He doesn't want either
of these teams, and he wants the Dodgers, and he's
using these these offers his leverage to get what he wants. Tonight,
Kyle Tucker Dodgers four years, two hundred and forty million
dollars sixty million dollars a year for Kyle Tucker again,
(01:15):
I am the greatest baseball insider that ever lived.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I mean some of it was your fatalism as a
Mets fan.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Whatever he use, hey, whatever. Michael Jordan always used whatever
he needed to motivate him. Hey, I'll use whatever I
need to know.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
And that's it from the Kyle Tucker camp. It's never
fault a good strategy. You had nothing. You're not scheduled
to show up at spring training anytime. So sit and
play your video games, enjoy the NFL playoffs, maybe some
college hoops, enjoying all of the NBA action that we've
got in front of us on a Thursday, and just
sit around and wait. You can know your whole Cushman thing,
(01:51):
all right. You can just hang around shrumming a guitar,
waiting for things to go down.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I got cushlash Man, I got cushlash, cush lash, cush
lash lash goosh.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Waiting waiting for everybody to really talk about im and
get all excited about free agency. Because, let's face it,
there ain't been a lot of chatter except for the
last couple of days when these numbers started floating about
the Mets three years, fifty eight year, It's like.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
You think we need one more? Okay, add the fourth.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
So that was the rumor of two hundred the Blue
Jays with the funny money, uh three fifty three seventy
five due to your converter, and then the mystery team
ends up being the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And the thing is, I knew if you didn't know,
then Steve Cohen, Mets owner, put out a tweet a
few hours ago saying, let me know when the smoke
goes up, right and making a reference to what white
smoke comes out when when the pope is elected, black
smoke when they don't have.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
A pope like the white flag.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And when I saw it, dude, we got soda. I'll
see you in the NLCS again. It's fine, Nolan, except
now we're gonna have Nolan McLean making making three starts
in the NLCS. And John McLean well, hey, anybody you
mean the former Devil's guy barefoot? Oh okay, hey, if
that works, he'll be shoeless blood. John McLean h is
that he puts that tweet out there, and I know
(03:07):
people went rampant on social media. Oh he knows something,
he's saying, wait for it, and I go, no, that's
that's what I really officially knew.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
He's not going to be a long face and talking
about that tweet.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
This is Steve Cohen saying, hey, I don't know what's
going on. Let me know when the smoke gets up.
And the fact that Steve Cohen, who's the Mets owner
and has been really was really involved with the Kyle
Tucker negotiations, that's when I knew, Okay, if you thought
he's going someplace else, he's going, he's not. If the
owner doesn't know, and he's frustrated enough to put that
tweet out there, because you don't put a tweet out
(03:40):
there to maybe frustrate or upset the representation or the
player you're trying to get. Right, he's not putting that
out there for Kyle Tucker if if he wants him
to sign, or thinks he's going to sign, he's put
that out there because maybe Kyle Tucker's people blew him
off radio silence. We know he's going to another team,
and he's using the Mets' his leverage and the Blue Jays'
is left as well. So okay, like at that point, okay,
(04:03):
not getting him. He's gonna go to the Dodgers and
he's there. I mean it, I'm all these baseball insiders, man,
I mean, I told you last.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Night it was gonna happen. I said it was absolutely no,
I never did. I never Frostburg stopped when I'm right.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
You text the prove I do not.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, let me see it. Let me see that text.
Let me see it. Show it to me, Show it
to me, Show it to me. WHOA, don't show me that.
Don't show me.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
That just incense.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Most of the tweets that are showing up in the
time related to Steve Cohen.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
It doesn't look.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It doesn't matter. I mean, like I said, Kyle Tucker
is a good player. I'm okay not paying sixty million
dollars a year for him. He's now a thumper bat
in the middle of the Dodger lineup, and the Dodgers
are gonna roll towards the NLCS again in the World Series.
That's just how it goes every year. That's the way
of the world.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
By the way, the tweet just it's it's just a
bad look like it looks like you're crying.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It looks like he's definitely someone who has shown his
frustration on social media before He's dialed back what he
does on social media probably could have done. But I
think that was maybe him trying to let everybody down easy, Hey,
just to get you prepared. We're not getting Kyle Tucker. Okay,
just so you know, I want to I want you
to be mentally ready because when the news comes out,
you're gonna be really mad. We're not getting Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I mean, what's even worse is your guy had you know,
a number one Mets fan out there that everybody chronicles.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I yeah, yeah, I worry for Frank the Tank. Yeah,
I'm worried about him.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Yeah right right now, he's one of those that you're
waiting for.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I'm worried. I'm worried.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Uh swallow more on this story developing throughout the night.
Here Kyle Tucker to the Dodgers four years, two hundred
and forty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Now, and how is your day to steal from a
the colleague of ours. I told you, I'm okay with
not getting Kyle Tucker. There's other guys out there. He's
a he's a he's a good player. He's not a
make or break guy.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I am also okay, especially after seeing today the reaction
to the potential injury of Sam Arnold, who all of
a sudden popped up on the injury report this week
with an with an oblique injury where he said, listen
getting treatment for it. He said, you know nothing, Burger,
everything is fine. And judging by some of the doctors
that I follow on social media, Sports Dodgs, they listen,
(06:16):
this is doctor David Chau said, Look, I put this
injury for Sam Donald on a two on a scale
of one to ten, and you know he still has
a couple of days to go by to get treatment
for it. But just seeing the reaction of Seahawks fans
and people on social media, no, no, I can't believe this. No,
Sam Donald can't be hurt. I just I shook my
head and I said, man, I I this is this
(06:39):
is just something to see people reacting this way about
Sam Donald not playing that he's he's the end all
be all, He's the living end.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
I'm going all grease on you now. He's the he
is it.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
He is the alpha and omega. If he's hurt. We're
never gonna win. No one's ever said that about Sam
Donald before.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
And here he is.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And the first thing, I'm okay, I'm okay with Sam
Donald being the quarterback that he is playing as well
as he is. It's here at the Seahawks, who have
home field advantage all the red. He's stunk for three
other teams. He's been good with two teams, I'm okay.
If he's stunk with the Jets and when someplace else
became a star, I'd be really pissed. But other teams
(07:18):
showed you that, Hey, it's all about the right system,
and he was unfortunate to not be in the right
system for three teams, fortunate for two teams, including the Viking.
So I am okay with Sam Darnald being this guy
being good. I'm happy for him. I hope he does well.
It has no bear. My team's terrible. We don't have
a good we don't have good players, who don't have
a good coach.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
We have good anything.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It's fine. I have nothing to be crazy jealous for.
I'm happy for Sam Donald.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Yeah, that was a long way of saying he still
lives in your nightmare.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Aah.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Now remember the.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Class picture for the Panthers a couple of years ago
had Sam Donald and Baker Mayfield. Yeah, and they didn't
utilize either of them. How you doing Matt reels.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
That's more of a worse.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Fail than they The Jets just failed with one of
those guys.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well, but but you do them in sequence.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
They did it once and failed spectacularly with two guys
in the room.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
You were just like, all right, we'll get that next guy.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Sure, yeah, wait, we changed out the GM and the
coach and everything else, and that guy failed and get.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Loan and get line and oh yeah, all those solid.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
But with this it's interesting because I was fully expecting
it to start going the other way. Of all the
excuses are built in if he doesn't perform well, that
it was going to become that narrative of oh look
at this, And the fact that there are well wishers
for Sam Darnold means we've really turned the corner and
we're trying to find some positivity in this world. This
(08:41):
is good. Go back to that Jacksonville reporter that everybody hated.
It was like, it's good to have a little feel
good every now and again, isn't it Once in a while.
Where you could just say, damn, I want to see
what this looks like. By the way, he has a
defense that swarms like things I watch on the Nature Channel. Yeah,
I mean, but where the hell that other jackals combined from?
(09:01):
That's that's the way the Seahawk defense rallies to the ball.
But for Sam Donald, I like that there's a little
bit of positivity, And for you it took six degrees
of separation and a lot of miles in between. Maybe
some therapy, maybe an extra sandwich. I don't know, Sam,
You're better.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
He is on the list of he is like so
low on the list of things I'm upset about as
a jet fan, Like, I'm not even He's like, does
he make the top fifty? How don't you think, well,
maybe the top fifty. Maybe he makes the top fifty.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
There's so many.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
When I say the term running Man, do you think
of the movie with Glenn Powell or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I don't even think of Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
No.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
I think more of the mc hammer dance and doing
the Running Man. You go back to that.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
By the way, you mentioned a couple of grease lines
tonight first ever drive in movie at the Santa Monica
Peer grease.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
So now because we did have positivity there, we have
to we have to bout that was really good because
the Sam Darnald story, and I just love bringing this
up because it's just it just gets worse and worse.
Is that I really don't know at this point seeing this,
I don't know how Kevin O'Connell and Adel Famnsa still
have jobs in Minnesota. It is fireable to miss on
(10:11):
a quarterback this badly, Okay, because think about where Sam
Donald is right now.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Again, we know this, he was in the building.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
He had a Pro Bowl year, four thousand yards, thirty
five touchdowns. He had two downish games at the end
of the year. That used that to say, Nope, can't
have you. We're stuck with We're gonna go with JJ McCarthy,
even though we've never seen him play and he's been
injured all year. We found we figured out the most
important position and know we're gonna be stubborn as hell
and kick the other guy out. When we could have
(10:40):
kept Donald for one more year easily and gone to
Jay and figured out if JJ McCarthy was really any
good or he could have kept Sam Darnald and traded
JJ McCarthy and recouped a first round pick. Right, No
one cares if you're trading away a first round quarterback.
If you have the quarterback position solved, it doesn't matter.
But this now has become firable for the Vikings because
(11:01):
for you GM and your head coach, because this is
how bad you have biffed it. Now, the team that
he went to is the number one seed in the
NFC playoffs and is the favor to get to the
Super Bowl, and you blew it because you decided to
be so stupidly stubborn on a guy that Now at
the end of the season, the Viking said, we're bringing
in competition for JJ McCarthy next year.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
This is an.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Epic fail storyline that just gets worse and worse as
it goes on. All right, and think about it like this, right,
think about it like this. Let's this is decision nobody
would make in the world. Let's say you want to
sell your house. Okay, Let's say you're gonna sell Okay, Yeah,
you're gonna sell your house in a year. Right, Well,
I've got to sell my house in a year. I
got things going on in my life. Gonna sell my
house and you want to move whatever it is you're
(11:44):
gonna sell your house. There's two realtors that you can
have sell your house. You got Sam and you got JJ. Okay,
all right, great now, JJ, hey graduated from real estate college,
real estate school, took a class online, and he's got
all the Hey, he could be a great real estate agent.
Sam has shown you Egg, I've done it before in
the past. You know, maybe I'm not great, but who knows.
(12:05):
But these are the only two guys in town. Let's
just say for argument to say, only two guys in town.
So you got to pick one of them over the
course of the next year. Okay, well, great, So you're
getting your house ready, you figure that, and you watch
you watch realtor Sam start selling tons of houses. Everything's
going great. He's making a lot of money. Now he
has a little bit of a down month where maybe
he doesn't sell a couple of houses, but overall, it's
(12:26):
a great year.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
He's even being he's even.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Being named to Realtor of the Year lists across the country,
like he is on the national scale of one of
the best realtors in the country. Okay, meanwhile, JJ, well,
JJ was sick, he was hurt. Little carpal tunnel didn't
sell a house. Still learning, still going to class and
learning how to sell houses. Right understanding, Okay, we don't
(12:49):
say old, we say vintage. Got it, got it, got it? Okay, great, Okay,
So that year comes up and okay, you have to
pick a guy to sell your house. And the VIT's
like the Viking said, yeah, wow, that's Sam. We're going
with JJ because you know, he looks like I can't
miss guy, and we really like this guy. So you
want the guy that's never sold a house before. When
you have a guy right here that boys sold tons
(13:12):
of houses.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
You watched him do it.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
You watched him do it in your town for the
entire year, you would no, no, no, still going with
that guy who has realtor JJ make that sale.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Nobody does? Nobody?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Well, I think you do if you start looking at
the dollars spent on Sam Donald relative to other pieces
of the roster puzzle.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
And this is.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Where you get to Kevin O'Connell and quarterback whisper talk,
et cetera. Right, and option number three was Daniel Jones,
but it was clear he wanted to start somewhere and
had the opportunity to go to Indianapolis, So that was
really a non starter.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
But for the Sam Donald, yeah, we always talked about it.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Right, do the dollar cost averaging first round quarterback, first
year of his d against a guy that has just
shown so well, you franchise him and then see what
you got, or make the trade of McCarthy. It makes sense, certainly,
But they were invested in McCarthy and decided that was
the way they were gonna go and be true to him,
(14:16):
that he wasn't gonna lose the job based on the injury.
It also pushed Sam Darnold out the door. Whether you
identified something in those final couple of games that you
didn't think was solvable, only they know in their clandestine
meetings with ownership and everything else. But certainly we expected
a regression this year, not to the level where justin
(14:38):
Jefferson's doing jumping jacks wishing for the football, telling you, man, that.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Is the biggest epic fail in the NFL this year,
because you had all the information you needed.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
You had.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
It's not like all you had to tell the future. No,
you had all the information.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I'm not in a situation where the coaches and the
GM can say, well, we know more about football. No,
I watched Sam Donald play great and you still decided
to not JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
You know what's best.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You've ended up putting Sam Donald in a yellow jacket
in that analogy, and it was a century twenty one
like they used to give the gold jackets showing out.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I like, how about that exit out vouta Fresca exit
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Speaker 5 (16:59):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Sports Radio dot com. We'll have more from the National
title game coming up a minute. And again, I apologize
for picking Oregon to go all the way. That that
that's my fault. That's that's nothing I could say. I'm
just sorry about that. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
What I mean, their failure got Dante More to go
back to school.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, okay, sure.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
So he's not a jet yeah yet, Well looks let'll
just be waiting for him for next year.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
All I do is all day today was just saying
to myself, going, rvel Reese, Michaeh Parsons. Rvel Reese is
Michah Parsons. He's Michauh. They say he's Michael Parsons, he says, Michael.
I'm finding I'm just finding places on the internet that
compare him to Micah Parsons.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
We're doing a drafts.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, I'm excited about that. Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
How many mock draft shows are we gonna do?
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Uh? Mock draft with Jay Ryn hold mock draft. I
don't know. I'll do some mock drafts. At twenty two.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
I think the Chiefs come in here and this is
where they decide we're gonna go get a tackle.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I usually get eight to ten ride a year. Let's
go come on.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Now, look, let me let me just say this for
for everybody across the country. Uh, before we get to
the National Championship game with this is this is a
great story, Dodgers. Yeah, if you're gonna sign Schooble and
bring Bellinger back, just do it tomorrow. Just do it
tomorrow so we can just just be done with it. Oh,
(18:19):
just do it tomorrow. Just if you're if that it's
gonna happen, No.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
It's Awards season.
Speaker 4 (18:23):
We don't even have the Oscar nominations are gonna be
announced next Thursday.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
If it's so like, drag it out. No, if it's
gonna happen, I don't want to sit here and go
through all of this. Oh, here's the offer for schoobl
from the Mets. Here's the offer for schoobl from the Yankees.
The Tigers are waiting, and all of a sudden, oh yeah,
they decide to say, oh we want Tyler glassno for
Tarik's school, but we'll just do that trade instead. If
that's gonna happen, and all of a sudden Cody Bellinger
(18:49):
is like, Hey, I'm coming home.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
I'm coming home. I'm coming home. I'm God. If that's gonna,
just do it tomorrow, just.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Just no, drag it out, have the fan fast, come
in and have a giant puff of smoke box deep
going and emerging from the the shadows and out of
the mists.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
There's schoobl Look, you don't want that. I don't want that.
Nobody wants I want that. No, but I want the diatrics.
I wanted to drag out. I wanted a rapid succession.
The off season's done, then it's over.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Just do it, just do it now.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
So what should we start crying already about who's not
going to get into the.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Next halls or fame or whatever?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
They come on, We have.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
The NBA trade deadline coming up. We have the rest
of the NFL playoffs, and we got stuff happy.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Trade deadline is gonna sock we did you see Trey
Young getting mocked for showing.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Up court side and their game goes.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
I guarantee if this was in Salt Lake City, he
wouldn't be sitting courtside.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You just wait till Jannis and Lebron get traded the deadline,
then we'll see how bad that.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I like giannest I tell you I like that Giannis
and Wemby back and forth.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I would love to have been the you know, fly
on the shoulder.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Wait until that Warriors trade we talked about last hour
is going to be Zion for Kaminga and so first
round picks.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
You just wait, you just wait.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Well, don't want to talk about two guys that are disappointing,
can't stay on the court. And maybe it solved some issues,
except that Zion's already gotten his next contract, which complicates things.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
But yeah, it's it's fun theater. I just Dodgers. Just
do it now.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay, if you're gonna do that, If you're taking the
other two guys off that, just do it now.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Don't rip the band. No thought their team's hurt. No,
Steve Cohen cry on Twitter again.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Because I feel like it's more he din cry on Twitter.
He did, He kind of did. He just said we're
not he was his message to Mets fans that hey,
we're not getting we're not getting them, We're not getting them. Well,
put a picture of yourself turning out your pockets. Put
a picture of your face, face superposed over said smoking.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
In the halfway.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Isn't that the guy in the Monopoly money pay ten dollars?
He shows you's got no money. Yeah, it's Isaiah Whitlock
from the wire going I gotta I got nothing money.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Uh so if that happened, just just just do it now.
I mean really, just do it now. Okay, I'm I'm
Todd speaking for every baseball fan.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Just do it now so we can get you know,
Scott Boris, send them a note eli you. Meanwhile, this
has been the best story out of the week to
go of prep. Well, they're actually two great stories of
the week to go the prep before the National Championship
game between Indiana and Miami on Monday night. Okay, First,
(21:23):
we saw the story earlier today that to hand out
these those crappy rally towels, like the line on the
Indiana campus was a half mile long. They were giving tickets,
just free at tickets and rally towels like that line
is insane, right, Like I go. You know, when I
was twenty, there's stuff I would have done. But man
(21:44):
like I stood online for midnight madness for guns and
roses for use your illusion wasn't But if the line
was a half mile log. Dude, I'm gonna go at
eleven o'clock am the next day and get it. Okay,
I'm just gonna go the next morning and get it.
I've got a really good Snoop dog free.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
I don't need that bad. I can wait.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
But this is my favorite because it comes out today.
Sporting News had this story that Indiana head coach Kurt
Signetti spends an unhealthy amount of money at track the.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Hey, there's coach boy. He's losing again.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
He's got his program rolled up, head down the stretch
they come.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
He spends. He spends all his money at the track. There,
he is dressed up, he's got the headset.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Honey here, just losing money and going.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Joggle me I win.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
He spends an unhealthy amount of money at chipotele. Okay, okay,
this is what according to according to uh Sporting News,
Wall Street Journal, he eats the same meal every single day,
a Chipotle burrito bowl with rice and beans, no extra toppings.
But we'll put a side of guacamole on it. And
(22:59):
I will tell you this, Chipotle best guacamole that you're
gonna get fast food is right. Best guacamole. It's so good.
I can't even tell you. My wife makes incredible guacamole.
But you can go to, you can go to you
can go here and get it and have to worry
about putting the the effort in on it. The guacamole
Chipotle is unbelievably outside.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I get ted, hadda. How about you ship some in.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I could just bring it next time. The order is
about eleven dollars, okay, okay, And it's become as much
a part of his daily schedule as looking at film practice.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Everything else is.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Him begging for free Chipotle. No, no, no, no, because
here's here's what it is. Jake McDonald is Indiana's assistant
director of Football Operations, and he has been Signetti's designated
burrito runner for the past two years. So to have
a title like assistant director of Football Operations sounds really
hoity toity. But part of your job is, yeah, you
gotta run to the store and get to neetty lunch.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Okay, maybe that maybe that's a title that sounds better
than it is. But Jake McDonald is the guy for
the last couple of years that's been the guy to
go pick up lunch for him. He's a very valuable
guy to the operation. At one point, McDonald because you
know he would pay for it. He had sixty four
thousand Chipotle points, which is the equivalent of sixty four
(24:14):
hundred dollars in burrito bulls. That's how much money he had.
Many points he had because of Signetti's order every day.
Unfortunately he learned they expire at the Oh no, so
he lost out on.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
A lot of Chipotle money. Oh that's a lot of
free stuff.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Where does he sit right now? This is just January. Okay,
it's just January.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
He's got eighteen thousand points, which is basically eleven free burritos,
thirty seven free sides, fifty three bags of chips, and
two hundred tortillas. So he still has eighteen thousand chap
This is just in January. But he still has all
those points. He still has this money. This is Kurt
Signetti every day. This is what he eats every So.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I mean regimented man decided. We always talk about superstitions. Yeah, habits, Yeah,
forming good or bad habits? Right, It takes thirty days
to form a habit, right, they say, And you can
decide whether that's a good or a bad thing, Like
you go to the track thirty times, maybe that's bad.
So maybe it's better bringing up the track idiots bringing
(25:20):
were you at the track today? I would like to
go though it's been a minute, but I'd like to
go to the track.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
But I'm going to the dog track today?
Speaker 4 (25:30):
You want to go in dog track is a very
interesting but deffort to gamble hot stuff. You can still
make money just the same, follow that little blinking rabbit.
But all of that to say, you form this habit,
you're winning and playing dominant football, why would you not?
Can he exchange this for tickets for somebody to the
(25:51):
national title game? Because it's been a lot of hand
ringing and crying over what it costs for the national title.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, no, I don't think you can. I think the
Connor Stallions thing became one though. Well you know, we
don't want to give people tickets, but.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
We can give you chipotle.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Ah, that's that's a lot of points because I mean,
you break down if it's eleven dollars per meal, is
it a you fly I'll buy situation or is that
just part.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Of the expense account?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Well?
Speaker 5 (26:16):
I think, well I think.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Or do you just say, hey, coach, you're keeping us
all employed. So do you make them pay for anything?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Right now?
Speaker 7 (26:22):
No?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I don't think you do.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I think that comes out of the Hey we got
petty cash for Signetti's burit Chipotle. It's eleven dollars a day.
We can afford it. It's fine.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Who's this for?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
And then you just hold him a picture, this guy,
and then it becomes this grand event of your making
that burrito bowl for coach. Hey, hey, you've graduated.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
What do you know.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I'm normally just the person that ring. No, no, no,
you get to build the bowl today.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
You're the MVP. Make it good for coach. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I started thinking about this today after this, right, he
has this every day, and I thought, is there any
food that I could have every day? And my first
thought was pa, But I'm like, no, I'd have to
have the same pizza every day, and eventually I'd want
something different. I don't know how long I could go
with pizza every day because I'd want a different pizza. Oh,
this pizza is good, Like, am I gonna go for pizza?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Stuff? Cruss? Could I do it every single day?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I'd want something different after a while. But I really
I sat back and I said, yeah, no, this tracks
like I'm pretty sure every day I could have a
big macmeal with fries and a diet coke, and I
could make a great run at having that every single
day if I could, I think I'm pretty sure I
wouldn't be tied, wouldn't get tired of it. I could
(27:33):
have it every day. I mean, I don't know how long,
but I can't see the end of it. That's how long, Like,
I don't know. I can't say, oh, it'd be a
week or two weeks, a month. Now, it's long enough
where I can't see the end of where I would
not have a big.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Mac meal every day.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I could absolutely go for that lunch one o'clock every day. Waken, Oh,
I got a big macmeal, great big mac and if
you wanted to go big mac, fries, die coke, three
chocolate chip cookies or amocha, like, if that's my order.
I really I think I could start every every day
with that for quite a long time. Yeah, I might
have a cal ripkenesque streak of having that every day.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Now it's brand not brand specific, but since I was
introduced to coffee when I broke my leg and was
fearful of the nerve endings being damaged.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
To where we were going to have emergency surgery.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
I think I've had coffee all but maybe two days
in my life in the time since.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
So oh, okay, you're gonna say, like when you're ten,
I'm having coffee.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Well, no, I was, what fourteen?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So you were like in the Simpsons when they gave
Lisa and Bart coffee for the from Granpa game when
he was they were.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Like, eight, Oh, what do you think about just boris
more coffee? Old man?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
No, I broke my back my leg playing basketball in
high school and they were so concerned because it was
all swollen and you know, like there might be nerve damage.
They were really concerned that we were gonna suddenly have
to go it. So I'm like, all right, well, i
gotta keep trying to wiggle my toes. I'll have one
of those cups of coffee that people you went from
a swollen leg to swollen dome' that's it. And I
(28:59):
never looked back. Okay, there you go, and if I
don't have.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
It, but that's to say, do you want the same
cup of coffee? I can actual yeah, okay, all right,
Like I don't go for the foo foo. I don't
need it.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Like it's a large black cup of coffee.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
No cream, no sugar, Hey uh so hey. Not nearly
as exciting as a Chipotle bowl. No no, no, the
dog crack ye or your big mac meal.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Try not to find out what's trending in the wide
world sports from special delivery Steve de Sager, who I
have seen Eda grape every day for the past four years.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
You got what's trending oranges tonight? Actually, but thank you.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
The Dodgers are signing right fielder Kyle Tucker, reportedly a
four year deal with an opt out after year two
and year three. Multiple reports say the Mets last offered
at Tucker was four years, two hundred and twenty million.
This is potentially four years at two forty to the Dodgers,
but again there are opt outs, there's a signing bonus involved.
(29:58):
There's some deferrals as well. Star in year two, the
Reds toonight traded Gavin Lucks to Tampa Bay in a
three way deal. The Angels got outfielder Josh low the
Rockie so I did fielder Willie Castro and newly retired
pitcher Clayton Kershaw X of LA will be on Team
USA in March for the World Baseball Classic. The starting
(30:18):
pitchers are due to be Paul Skans from the Pirates
and Trek Scoubel of the Tigers for the American team, and.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Nolan McLain, which means the Mets.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
That means it, what's the guy they just signed from
the Yankees. He's also Clayton Kershaw is not going to pitch.
He'll be on the team, but he's not going they have.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
A twelve inning game.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
He's the guy who's walking in your mayor they run
out of pitchers because Will Klein is not being added
to this roster. We have Golden State leading the New
York Knicks seventy eight to seventy in the third quarter.
Knicks without Jalen Brunson tonight due to a sprained ankle.
At Dallas, Cooper Flag of the MAVs did not play
due to a sprained ankle, and yet Dallas beat up
(30:57):
Utah one forty four to one Atlanta Leeds mid third
quarter at Portland seventy two sixty four halftime in La
Charlotte Hornets ahead of the Lakers sixty four to fifty five,
nineteen points in eighteen minutes on the court for Luka Doncic,
but the Lakers give up sixty four in the first half.
(31:18):
Victories for San Antonio and Boston. Wins for Detroit and
Oklahoma City, which is now thirty five and seven after
its fifth straight victory. OKAC one at Houston one eleven
ninety one. And there was an NBA game in Berlin today.
Orlando came back to beat Memphis one eighteen, one eleven.
This was the NBA's first ever regular season game in Germany.
(31:38):
Franz Wagner eighteen points for the Magic, who had trailed
by twenty in the first half. These two teams will
play each other again on Sunday in London. In college hoops,
right now, ninth rank Gonzaga has pulled away sixty three
forty four ahead at Washington State eleven minutes to go.
Some college players were among dozens charged in a point
shaving scandal that includes Chinese basket as well. In women's hoops,
(32:01):
tonight at number two South Carolina, the home team edge
Number four Texas sixty eight sixty five. Number one Yukon
dominated again ninety nine to fifty over Villanova, and number
five Vanderbilt won eighty nine eighty four at Mississippi State.
NHL wins for Boston and Winnipeg, Buffalo wins again five
to three over Montreal, and in progress a minute ago
(32:23):
at Utah Mammoth two to one over the Stars. Seahawks
quarterback Sam Darnold says he'll play Saturday night despite an
oblique injury. And in college hoops on the lady side
at the Dome at Syracuse, it was late in triple
overtime Nay Darius for three acc Network with the call.
(32:46):
Syracuse women unranked but fifteen and three after the triple
overtime win against Cal ninety to eighty seven in front
of two thousand at the Dome back time.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
And that was Dominique Darius's son, a daughter former Syracuse
football legend Donovan Darius really who is a safety there
star for a long time. That's his daughter who made
that big three at the end in triple ot three
seconds left in the third overtime. Yeah, hey, listen, Syracuse
to make the NCAA tournament this year, I got to
go all in on the women's side, because that's happening
(33:18):
for the men, that's not happening. We got Mellow's kid
and Starling and it's it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Play cal tonight.
Speaker 7 (33:25):
They got Stanford next, you know, the traditional acc matchups.
Speaker 5 (33:28):
That's right here you go.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Thank you, Steve O, Jason Smith, Mike Carmon live from
the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
When a big story involving sports is bigger to people
that don't follow sports than the people who actually follow it. Okay,
that's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. We got more on Kyle Tucking to the
Dodgers coming up in about twelve minutes. I mean, maybe
the Dodge will trade for school in that time too.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
But it's so mad.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
File this.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
File this under the category of people care more about
this story, who are at sports fans than are sports fans,
which is weird. Okay, Right, Like, you wake up today
and you see the big story. It's it's plastered all
over all the big news sites college basketball point shaving scandal.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Whoa Okay, what are they found out?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
And it's all about gambling and players who obviously were
approached that had money paid to them for not performing
to their best level. This was an investigation that initially
began with investigation into the Chinese Basketball Association and then
has gone down into college basketball. So I'm reading the
story and look down and I go, here's the schools
(34:56):
that were named in the indictment. Schools that were affected
by this Christian Alabama State, Buffalo, Coppin State, de Paul.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Okay to Paul, this is nineteen seventy eight to be
a big deal. Yeah, Ray Meyron Company.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, Eastern Michigan, Fordham Kennesaw State, LaSalle, New Orleans, Nickel State,
North Carolina, A and T. Northwestern State not Northwestern, Long Ago,
Yes State, Robert Morris, which is a college, not a dude. Ye,
Saint Louis, Southern miss and two Lane. These are your schools,
(35:33):
some of them schools that basically just have a basketball
team because well, you know, people want to keep playing
in college.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
And if they're good enough.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
In high school but they can't play at a high level,
well we'll get you finished here, some lower level D
one schools. But this story, you could tell, this story
is put out by news agencies like wow, big look
at all these colleges, and they have no idea that
these colleges.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Are they good? Do they played it? When? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Last year Eastern Michigan played Buffalo for the national championship.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
It was fantastic. Josh Allen was great. Man.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
He scored like twenty points in the first half. Oh,
it's great this story for the most part for us,
for sports fans, Eh, you expect it to be at.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
The lower levels.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
It's easier to approach players at this point, it's easier
to affect games that aren't on the radar screen. And
what's going on is what is happening, is what should
be going on. Hey, investigation, it's found out and we
bust the ring wide open.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
So it's good that we still see stories like this
because you want you know, Yes, is it a bad
headline that you see them, Yes, But it's also good
knowing that what they're doing is working and you are
busting whether it's prop bets or anything else. You're seeing this, right,
But is this really affecting college basketball?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
No? Not really.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
You need the bigger schools. You need the bigger schools
that we watch that are that would be a big thing.
Tournament games potentially were were fixed, you know, big conference
games that potentially.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
On the level.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But we don't have any of that, right because again
that's police at a really really high level. And now
that all that being said, like I could see where
news are, Oh it's big as big, No, it's really
not that big a deal. But if you want to
deal with it, and really it's it's quite simple. And
I don't know why the sides aren't working together, the
gamblers and the schools and everything else. Is that if
(37:21):
you eliminated prop betting, you would eliminate eighty to eighty
five percent of all the problems going on with fixing games.
Because this is what's the easiest thing to do, not
the most complicate. The most complicated thing is to have
a guy go six or twenty four from the field
and be terrible and throw a game where you were
favored by twelve and you lost by three. That's a
really hard thing to do. For a guy to not
(37:42):
get three rebounds in a game, or you know, hey,
I'm hurt and I get it like, that's really what
eighty to eighty five percent of this is. If you
would just get rid of prop betting, that would these stories.
I mean it the vast majority, so much so like
eight out of every ten instances would not happen anymore.
And I don't know why the prop betting situation hasn't
(38:05):
been figured out, because that helps both sides. It helps
gamblers the illegal gambling that wants to move forward, and
it helps leagues, Hey, stay away from situations like.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
Yeah, I'll tell you why, because that's where all these
companies make their money, is that you're chasing and prop
bets and parlays. Right, those are the two spots where
you're gonna make a ton of money.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Right, you can still have but you don't need to
have individual prop bets for low level college basketball. But
that's come on, I mean, that's something where it's like
you don't need to offer that.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Well, but it's the kind of an where if there's
a game, if there's an athletic competition.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Much my dog racing example.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Early, you really have been you really have been so
focused on the track and the dog track in the
last half, I'm worried for you.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
You added to it now.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
But you went right to the dog track though, Lord
did I do that for you?
Speaker 4 (38:57):
I went to the track, read signetti, the razors on
your dog's palm.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Hey, hey, little Mikey Harmon's got some fighting them.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
He's a Marvel superhero. But in this indictment, the funnier
thing to me, and we're trying to get Todd Furman
for a little later on in the show to talk
about this and the weekend ahead, is the idea that
you've got hundreds of thousands of dollars being bet on
these games. That's the thing that surprises me. I'm curious
as to the normal handle of say a Syracuse game
(39:30):
on a Thursday line. Here we're talking four hundred, five
hundred thousand dollars moving on Towson State, five hundred thousand
dollars on some of these low level and never mind
the Chinese Basketball Association. I'm sure there's a big, big
investigation there. We'll see what kind of things come down.
But when you break it all down, parlays and prop
(39:52):
bets is where you've got a lot of money flowing
in and for states that have had legalized gambling, I
don't know how what what real percentage is kind of
like state lotteries. What percentage actually go to schools, roads,
anti smoking campaigns, whatever.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
But it's greater than zero, which means you're gonna have
legislators that are gonna fight it. Uh, but your point
of if you eliminate it, then it's all to the better.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
I don't think I can argue that. Is it practical?
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Yeah, No, someone's making a dime, so there's gonna be
a fight.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
No, that would take care of it. You could, you
could do You could do prop bets for the high
level D one guys for point totals. You could still
have it out there. But stuff like this, like it's
easy to say, yeah, we're not gonna offer this.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
You can't bet on aplene Christian prop bets where they're starting. Oh,
we get back into the biggest story in sports next
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